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Essential Feminist Quotes: ‘I’ve Gone Down and Dirty With Strangers’
Posted on | October 13, 2015 | 38 Comments
Left to right: bell hooks, Jaclyn Friedman, Heather Hlavka.
“Feminist movement to eradicate heterosexism — compulsory heterosexuality — is central to efforts to end sexual oppression. . . .
“Feminist movement to end female sexual oppression is linked to lesbian liberation. . . .
“Feminist efforts to develop a political theory of sexuality must continue if sexist oppression is to be eliminated.”
— bell hooks, Feminist Theory from Margin to Center (2000)
“I’ve gone home drunk with someone on the first date — scratch that, the first meeting — and f–ked sweaty until 2 a.m.
“I ‘lost’ my ‘virginity’ at age fifteen and haven’t had the decency to regret it. . . .
“I’ve gone down and dirty with strangers on a crowded dance floor. I’ve played quarters with the wrestling team. Once, I had sex with my girlfriend in a barely hidden doorway. . . .
“And I hereby declare my right to be wild and still maintain my bodily autonomy.”
— Jaclyn Friedman, “In Defense of Going Wild,” in Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, edited by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti (2008)
“Coming up against ‘the wall of patriarchy’ . . . early adolescence is a defining period for young women. Many regard harassment and violence to be a normal part of everyday life in middle and high schools . . . yet most of these crimes go unreported. . . .
“Feminist scholarship . . . consistently finds that traditional gender arrangements, beliefs and behaviors reinforce women’s sexual subordination to men. . . .
“Young women overwhelmingly depicted boys and men as natural sexual aggressors, pointing to one of the main tenets of compulsory heterosexuality. . . . Male power and privilege and female acquiescence were reified in descriptions of ‘routine’ and ‘normal’ sexualized interactions.”
— Heather R. Hlavka, “Normalizing Sexual Violence,” in Gender Through the Prism of Difference, edited by Maxine Baca Zinn, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Michael A. Messner and Amy M. Denissen (fifth edition, 2015)
Everything is connected in feminist theory, and who am I to question or criticize these eminent women? If feminists declare that heterosexuality is a synonym for oppression, and insist that “lesbian liberation” and “a political theory of sexuality” are central to their movement, I will simply take their word for it. If I am told that exercising a “right to be wild” is essential to feminism, I believe it. When feminists declare that middle-school boys are beneficiaries of male privilege, so that girls encounter “the wall of patriarchy” as soon as they get to sixth grade, I feel obligated to publicize this claim. Indeed, I want the whole world to know the whole truth about feminism’s “theory of sexuality,” because for too long the feminist movement has succeeded by exploiting a widespread ignorance of what feminism actually is, and what feminism actually demands.
Everything that most people consider normal, feminism condemns as wrong. To the feminist, “normal” is a synonym for “oppressive.” This is why, for example, Jaclyn Friedman uses quotation marks to signify her feminist belief that “virginity” is a patriarchal concept — a social construct which oppresses women — and that chastity is not a virtue, whereas going “down and dirty with strangers” should be celebrated as an expression of “female sexual power.” To disapprove of Friedman’s bisexual promiscuity is to oppress her because, as Heather Hlavka explains, “traditional gender arrangements, beliefs and behaviors reinforce women’s sexual subordination.” If you are a parent who wouldn’t want your daughter pursuing her “right to be wild” in this manner, then you are oppressing your daughter, infringing her “bodily autonomy,” and reinforcing her “sexual subordination to men.”
This is why I call feminism a War Against Human Nature. Once we get past the superficial rhetoric of “equality” and “progress” to examine what feminists actually believe — the movement’s esoteric doctrine — we recognize feminism as a sort of political bait-and-switch scam. The idea of feminism as a “mainstream” reform movement that everyone should support is impossible to reconcile with the radical program of social revolution that feminist theory envisions. Feminism requires eradicating “traditional gender arrangements” and constructing a sort of Brave New World in accordance with “a political theory of sexuality.”
When the average person sees pop singers like Beyoncé and movie stars like Emma Watson promoting feminism, of course it is not this radical ideology that comes to mind. The bizarre agenda envisioned by feminist theory is far beyond what the average person could possibly imagine, and yet this agenda is widely embraced by intellectuals within the academic Feminist-Industrial Complex of university Women’s Studies programs.
It is not just a few obscure “fringe” extremists who are promoting this ideology in our educational system. Thousands of Women’s Studies professors on hundreds of campuses are involved in teaching tens of thousands students annually. The book Feminist Theory From Margin to Center is an assigned reading in many courses, widely cited in feminist literature and excerpted in anthologies. The textbook Gender Through the Prism of Difference, published by prestigious Oxford University Press, is edited by four professors — Maxine Baca Zinn (Michigan State University), Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Michael A. Messner (University of Southern California) and Amy M. Denissen (California State University-Northridge). Professor Hlavka, who sees teenage girls victimized by “the wall of patriarchy,” is a professor of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University. And the anthology Yes Means Yes, in which Jaclyn Friedman celebrates going “down and dirty with strangers,” helped inaugurate the “rape culture” hysteria that has swept over college campuses. Jill Filipovic recently explained:
Friedman, Valenti and other feminist bloggers became regulars on the college speaking circuit, bringing feminist ideas about consent (among other issues) to campuses across the country. In the meantime, feminist blogs grew larger, and many feminist writers transitioned to larger, more mainstream outlets. Other large media platforms saw the popularity of feminist-minded content and were quick to either hire new writers or give the long-time feminists on staff — of which there were already many in media — more space to shine. The feminist pipeline began to pump further and further out, and it seemed like overnight the F-word was everywhere.
Promoted on campus and publicized by the media, radical feminism has gained “mainstream” status without much critical examination of what “the F-word” actually means. Does it mean “lesbian liberation”? Getting drunk and having sex with strangers? Eradicating “traditional gender arrangements”? All of the above? And what would the world transformed by feminist theory look like? We need not think of these questions as hypothetical speculation, if we follow the daily news:
In Michigan, soccer coach Lauren Hill, 26, was arrested in May for having sex with a teenage girl on her team.
In New Jersey, charter school teacher Lauren Mitchell, 32, was arrested in June for having sex with a 15-year-old girl.
In California, a choir teacher, Veronica Lopez, 44, was arrested Oct. 10 for “oral copulation” with a 17-year-old girl.
Well, not every teacher is having lesbian sex with her students, but if “early adolescence is a defining period for young women,” as Professor Hlavka says, and if “the F-word” is now everywhere, as Jill Filipovic says, what do we expect? If feminism aims to end the “sexist oppression” of women by “compulsory heterosexuality,” as bell hooks says, then doesn’t it make sense that “a political theory of sexuality” should be taught in public schools?
Last week, California became the first state in the nation to require lessons about sexual consent in high school sex education classes. The legislation mirrors laws passed last year mandating colleges and universities in both California and New York apply an “affirmative consent,” or “yes means yes” standard when investigating campus sexual assaults.
“California must continue to lead the nation in educating our young people — both women and men — about the importance of respect and maintaining healthy peer and dating relationships,” Assemblyman Rocky Chávez said. . . .
“We are very concerned that we are seeing a move toward consent being the arbiter of whether or not teen sex is appropriate,” said Valerie Huber, president of the National Abstinence Education Association. “We think that is a disservice to our teens and it also ignores all the scientific research showing young people are much better off both now and in the future if they don’t have sex.”
Yes, obviously, feminists want to teach sexual consent in high school because “yes means yes.” So your daughter can learn how to get “down and dirty with strangers.” Or maybe her teacher.
You can say what you want, but don’t say you weren’t warned.
38 Responses to “Essential Feminist Quotes: ‘I’ve Gone Down and Dirty With Strangers’”
CrustyB
Feminists are like homosexuals. They demand dignity for a behavior that is completely, utterly undignified. If you don’t agree to that then you’re the hater/bigot/big blue meanie, not them.
But remember: All those concerns about “grooming” of young children is just tea-bagging, Christianist crazy talk. All those click-bait apologies for pedophilia we’ve seen recently? No big deal. Battlefield preparation for the next step into the Abyss? You’re paranoid! Nothing to see here. Move along and shut up!
Joe Guelph
“bell hooks”.
Anyone other than e. e. cummings, who renders their full name in lowercase, deserves whatever happens to them.
“If you are a parent who wouldn’t want your daughter pursuing her “right to be wild” in this manner, then you are oppressing your daughter[.]” But I don’t want my son behaving in this manner either. So am I oppressing him? Or what…?
RKae
I don’t even want e.e. cummings rendered that way.
Grammar, like science and math, has correct and incorrect.
Again, I say, these damned fools never seem to notice that no one wants the bizarre world that they fantasize… so they’re going to have to impose it through force.
In other words: oppression.
Actually, some do want the bizarre world they imagine . . . at least while they’re in their twenties. Thing is, once they get into their thirties, they find themselves a lot less competitive in that arena. How many 36 year olds can play quarterbounce with the wrestling team or have sex with their girlfriends in a barely hidden doorway?
Miss Friedman said:
Really? Can you prove, then, that it was wholly consensual? After all, if you were intoxicated, could you consent? What about your partner in this?
Miss Hlavka wrote:
Young women overwhelmingly depicted boys and men as natural sexual aggressors, pointing to one of the main tenets of compulsory heterosexuality
Elliot Rodger agrees, and wishes that you had shown him some of that sexual aggression on your part.
Of course, the young women who are sexual initiators don’t normally make their moves on the Mr Rodgers of the world; they make their moves on the guys who are perfectly comfortable making the first move themselves.
I’d like to suggest that we start saying “accomplice” , rather than “partner”.
OrangeEnt
And you’re going to beat Islamic Rage Boy how?
October 13th, 2015 @ 12:27 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeNa69uyYW0 Ridin Dirty!
Southern Air Pirate
Men are evil and need to be destroyed. Oh and you can’t cause oppression on an enabled oppressor.
From across the pond http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11928533/Why-are-feminists-so-unpleasant-to-women.html
Remember those women that don’t believe in the cause are either abused to agree with the h8, not really women, or are enemies of the revolution.
“I’ve gone down and dirty with strangers on a crowded dance floor. I’ve played quarters with the wrestling team. Once, I had sex with my girlfriend in a barely hidden doorway. . . .“And I hereby declare my right to be wild and still maintain my bodily autonomy.”
She needs to check her white privilege. Women in other parts of the world can’t do those sorts of things without getting raped, so white women should be modest out of global female solidarity and to raise their own consciousness of how lucky they are live around all those self-restrained white men. /intersectionalism
ETA: I feel dirty now. One the one hand, I find it amusing to point out the inconsistencies in their “reasoning” by using it against them. On the other hand, it’s a poor rhetorical strategy since it reinforces their language.
Not only do they have Ugly Souls, theys just plain fugly.
I would say that straight feminists have a false consciousness that causes them to participate in the warping of their own nature, due to having been mentally colonized by the Lesbiarchy.
Arrgh! I did it again, using the language of the enemy in an ironic way, which actually just reinforces their language. It’s so hard to resist…
Anita Bryant was a prophet?
Looking at Miss Friedman’s picture, I’d say that he had to be drunk, blitzed, bombed out of his mind. She had to have raped him.
Do you s’pose that she played quarters with the wrestling team because she was on the wrestling team?
At 182 lb?
Please, someone denounce me for this!
You just have a way with words.
BTW, someone needs to explain to Ms. Friedman that Looking for Mr. Goodbar is not a “how to” manual.
Finrod Felagund
Or they’re schoolteachers that molest their students.
Durasim
Friedman was born in 1971. Yet that won’t stop her from trying to dress and talk like she is still a teenager. At least Norma Desmond stayed in her house.
Fail Burton
Who harasses people more than these daffy feminists?
Plus wasn’t a blimp.
Indeed…the way I used to have with women [when I was single].
Good point. People in other parts of the world die of painful, humiliating infections when they have wild sex.
Up until just a few decades ago, chastity was the only surefire way to avoid a gruesome death from conditions like tertiary syphilis — even in the industrialized world of white privilege.
Feminists are incorrigible science-deniers with a profound ignorance of biology and history.
NeoWayland
Trust me, you do not want an answer to that question.
LeeLee
I was recently hanging out a with a girl who insisted that I too identify myself as a feminist because feminism “just means you believe men and women are equal and should be treated equally”. So one would only resist the label if they believed women to be inferior to men. And who wants to be that girl?
It’s such a hungry, angry, demanding, shaming movement — it takes on the characteristics of broken, misdirected femininity itself.
Offering this weak definition — feminism “just means you believe men and women are equal and should be treated equally” — is a way to open the door to the kind of “consciousness-raising” that leads women to perceive patriarchal oppression everywhere. Once a woman buys into this typical feminist paranoia, it becomes impossible to see males as individuals, because each man is a beneficiary of, and participant in, the general system of “male supremacy” that oppresses her. She must always view males as her enemies, and takes pride in constantly accusing men of “sexism.” Confronted by her implacable hostility, men naturally feel insulted — what have they done to deserve her accusations? — and men’s negative reactions to her insults are interpreted by her as proof of their sexism, so that the feminist’s anti-male attitude becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Thus, we return to this definition of feminism as mere “equality.” The women who shout the loudest about “equality” are usually quite privileged, and their demand for “equality” (when examined objectively) turns out to be a demand that men treat them with deference, acknowledging the feminist as morally and intellectually superior.
Yeah. As if a man can’t recognize the smell of bullshit when he’s downwind of a pasture.
“I’m ready for my close-up now, Mr. Demille!”
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15 Moms on How They Finally Ended Screen-Time Battles
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I have two kids, two tablets, and have tried about a million strategies to figure out how to find balance with screen time. We've tried strict limits, we've tried no limits, and everything in between.
Part of our problem is that I have one kid who would be on a screen every single moment if we let him. The other kid will binge-watch kitten videos one day and then ignores screens the rest of the week. We've tried different rules for each kid but we still haven't found our sweet spot. We want the kids to get to play the apps they love but also don't want them to be zoned out all the time.
I know I'm not alone when it comes to trying to find balance with screen time -- most of the moms I know are trying to fight the exact same battle. Thankfully, I found 15 moms who've managed to find screen-time sanity. These are doable and smart solutions. Try one (or a few) to see what works at your home.
Give Them Choice
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"One of the things that bugs me about screen time is when my kids become passive consumers of media. I don't mind them doing apps, since most of the ones we have are fairly educational. But I hate seeing them sit and stare at a screen for an hour.
"So we made a rule: You get a choice of either 20 minutes for video watching or 40 minutes for active play per night. They still get to make a choice, but this encourages them to make a better one." -- Leslie W., Provo, Utah
Keep All the Screens at School
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"We stopped the screen-time battle by getting rid of the tablets at home. I originally got them because I wanted to make sure the kids were technically literate, but it just led to all sorts of meltdowns because my son was basically a little screen addict.
"My kids have tablets in their classes, so I got rid of the ones at home because I know they'll still have access to learn how to use them and develop those skills. Now we don't have the battles anymore. They were crazy mad at first but now it isn't a big deal at all." -- Brittany W., Walla Walla, Washington
Set No Limits At All
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"After trying a bunch of stuff, we just stopped with the rules. It turns out that for my daughter, having tight rules on screens made her kind of obsessed with them. Once we just started treating the screen like another toy, she went crazy with it for a few days and then got kind of bored. Now she plays with it sometimes and ignores it others, which feels like a comfortable balance." -- April L., Tubac, Arizona
Have Them Clean First
"The smartest screen-time rule I made was that you can't have a phone or device unless your room is totally cleaned up from other toys. I find that my son starts cleaning and then gets distracted by playing with his other toys and never actually makes it to the screen-time part of the playtime." -- Anne P., El Paso, Texas
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Let Outside Time Rule
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"When my husband and I talked about the rules for screens, we figured out that what we care about more than how much time our son spends online or playing with my phone is how much time he gets outside. Getting daily unstructured playtime outside is an important value for our family. So our screen-time rule is that there is no screen time until you've spent at least an hour outside." -- Tami S., Des Moines, Iowa
Set a 'Screens Off' Time
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"When my son got a laptop for school, we had to figure out some rules around it. After putting on some parental locks for online content, we decided that our rules would be no more than two hours per night and that it has to be turned off at least an hour before bedtime. We set a timer, and he knows when it goes off, so does his computer.
"I was concerned that screen time would mess with his sleep patterns, so I feel good about that rule." -- Donna M., Gary, Indiana
Create a Coupon System
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"We decided to use screen time as a way to help our kids learn about budgeting. First we had them help us make some coupons for time allotments from 15 minutes to 45 minutes. We laminated them, and each kid gets 200 minutes per week. They can spend their minutes however they want to; they just have to give us their coupons.
"One kid basically blows through all of her coupons on the first day, and one doles hers out in 15-minute chunks at a time. It works for us because they both know that when they are out of coupons, they are out of time." -- Jenn R., Saint Paul, Minnesota
No Screens During Short Rides
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"One of our biggest fights was about screen time in the car. The kids were always begging to have their games or videos in the car, even if it was just to drive to school. For me, the final straw was when it took 15 minutes of fighting to get them in the car for a five-minute drive to the store.
"We made a blanket rule: No screen time in the car unless the drive is longer than one hour. Period." -- Cynthia P., Duluth, Minnesota
Set Screen Time for Saturday Morning
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"We don't allow screen time during the week, so the kids are always happy to get access to the devices on Saturday morning. The bonus is that we leave the tablets out on the kitchen table along with some juice boxes and cereal bars, and they let us sleep in. We slept until 9:00 a.m. last Saturday. We are geniuses!" -- Shawnie D., Cleveland, Ohio
Take Screens Away as Punishment
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"Losing screen time is the consequence for fighting. I have no problems keeping screen time to a minimum because the only thing they like more than watching cat videos is fighting with each other. They haven't had screen time in two weeks." -- Hollie C., Davenport, Iowa
Stick to Paper Books
"One of our rules is that we don't read books on e-readers. I believe that learning to love to read requires actual paper books. I'm old-school.
"We also don't let them have screen time unless they've done 30 minutes of reading first. I want to raise readers, and I like when they get so into the book that they lose track of the time. It happens more than you might think." -- Andi W., Boise, Idaho
Make Screen Time into Family Time
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"My concern with screen time is that everyone retreats into their own rooms, and we aren't interacting at all. So we made a rule that we have screen time from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. but we do it together, around the table. We end up sharing funny videos, and I also know a lot more about what games they are into, which I think is good." -- Audrey V., Blaine, Minnesota
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Give Yourself Time to Cook in Peace
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"I swore that I wouldn't let my kids have screen time, including TV, until they were at least 4. But then my kid turned 2 and all hell broke loose, especially by the end of the day. My kid was driving me nuts when I was trying to make dinner every night. So I've decided that screen time is available every night when I'm making dinner. I can cook in peace, and he gets a cartoon fix. Screen time isn't bad if it keeps me from going nuts every night." -- Kelly S., Burlington, Vermont
Let Your Kid Code
"I think about screen time as either being active or passive. I hate the passive stuff, like the watching of Minecraft videos, but I don't mind the active stuff, like when she works on her girl coding club exercises or [is] actually playing Minecraft. I limit the passive stuff to no more than 30 minutes per day but the active stuff is unlimited. It works for us." -- Christy T., Jessup, Maryland
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"The hard truth about screen: I had to admit that I was setting a terrible example. I was on my phone all the time. Like, seriously, all the time. Of course the kids would want to be on a screen all the time too. So I made a rule for myself that I don't zone out on my phone while the kids are still up. All of us are more into doing other stuff when the phones are put away." -- Mandy B., Duluth, Minnesota
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J. Swift & Son, London, #14790
The Advanced Student's Petrological Microscope, c. 1908
Among the accessories are a single eyepiece, a 1-inch and 1/4-inch objective each with canister, a divisible substage condenser, and the polarizing Nicol prism in a rotating calibrated mount. The analyzer prism is within the tube held by a slide-in mounting. The Bertrand lens is accommodated within the tube using a focusing sliding-in mounting.
Extracted from the Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, 1907
This Microscope has recently been further improved from suggestions of J.S. Flett. The coarse adjustment is by means of patented spiral rack and pinion the slow focusing adjustment by a millimetre screw the milled head of which is divided to read to 1/120 mm The glass covered revolving stage has the edge divided to 360 reading to 5 by means of a vernier The polariser is fitted with divided flange and spring catch to indicate the crossing of the Nicol prisms and is made to throw out of the optic axis when required immediately above the polariser is fitted the convergent system of lenses The analysing prism is fitted in a metal box which slides into the optical tube below this is cut an opening for the introduction of a quartz wedge undulation plate or gypsum plate Above the analysing prism is fitted a Bertrand lens with telescopic adjustment by means of which the interference figures are perfectly shown in thick or thin crystals The tube of the cross webbed eye piece is provided with an opening to allow of the use of a quartz wedge or micrometer.
The following was extracted from the 1914 Swift catalog:
This is the most universally adopted Petrological Microscope manufactured. It is in use in the majority of Geological Surveys and has been supplied, generally in large numbers, to practically every University, University College, Museum and Technical Institute, etc., in the United Kingdom and the Colonics, as well as to many in America and other countries.
The Coarse Adjustment is by diagonal Rack and Pinion.
The Fine Adjustment is by a direct-acting Micrometer Screw the milled head of which is divided to read to .01 turn. A Differential Screw giving readings to .001 mm. can be lilted to order.
The Rotating Stage, which is covered with dull black glass, is divided on the edge to 360° and reads by a vernier to 5°. Centring adjustments can be fitted.
The Analyser is set in a brass box which slides in and out of the optic axis through the lower end of the body tube. The Prism can be made to rotate if desired.
The Polariser has a divided flange and a spring catch to indicate when the prisms are crossed. It is mounted on an arm so that it can be swung out of the optic axis when not required.
A Convergent System fits into a sleeve below the polariser. The top lens of this system may be removed if light of less convergence be desired. This optical system together with an Iris Diaphragm can be mounted independently on a swing-out Screw Focussing Adjustment.
A Slot, which has a dust-proof cover, is cut through the body tube just below the analyser at 45" to the webs in the ocular. This slot is for the insertion of Wedges, Plates and other Compensators. A similar slot is cut through the ocular for the Micrometer and Compensators.
A Bertrand Lens in a focussing mount is fitted through the upper end of the body. By this means the interference figures of crystals can be critically focussed and examined. When not required, the lens can be pushed out of the optic axis and the path of rays is left unobstructed. Immediately below the analyser is mounted another Bertrand lens which yields an extremely large interference figure; this lens also slides right out of the optic axis.
The Ocular, which is supplied with the instrument, is cross-webbed and has an adjustable eye-lens; it is slotted to take a Micrometer and Compensators.
Within the case is a typed paper label reading: "This Swift petrological microscope number 14790 with accessories in the case belongs to and is the property of Angus Campbell Fraser". It is signed by his son F. J. Fraser with the date January 16, 1965.
Frank Jardine Fraser was born in Wallasey, England on August 8, 1892. He was a geologist living in Ottowa, Canada and was the author of Geology of southern Saskatchewan, (Canada. Geological Survey. Memoir, 176), 1935. His father Angus, the original owner of the microscope, was born in Gairloch, Scotland on June 11, 1844.
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The Tandy family have lived all over the world, but the place they really feel at home is in WA’s south west in their Adrian Zorzi built home. Nik and Rachel Tandy had fulfilling careers with international companies in various parts of the world, but something called them back to WA to raise their three children. “Sooner or later, all of us feel a pull to the place in the world we really feel is home,” Rachel said. “For us, it’s the South West that ticks all the boxes.” Having renovated homes in the past, the Tandy’s eagerly stepped in to their first new home building experience with Adrian Zorzi. Rachel’s experience growing up around the building trade meant not just any builder would do. “What we wanted for our return to Australia was, first and foremost, a happy home,” she said. “But we had a strong idea of the type of builder we wanted to engage for our dream project.”
The Tandy family began planning their dream residence in advance of their actual return with the help of a long-standing local architect, Theo Matthews, and a respected local native landscaper, Sue Elscott. Adrian Zorzi was suggested to the Tandys by local friends. “After extensive research and review of local building styles, local builder-designers, plus research and discussions with a dozen local builders, we knew our best match was with Adrian,” Nik said. “Adrian showed us around his own Dunsborough home and we were thoroughly impressed with Adrian’s manner, his attention to detail, his use and selection of materials and his thoughtful and accomplished design.” “Adrian’s knowledge of local trades and tradesmen, and particularly his contacts and reputation amongst the materials suppliers that I was negotiating with, cemented his position,” Rachel said.
“Adrian Zorzi is set apart by his perfectionist nature, and his consistent performance in Western Australian buildings.” This, together with Adrian’s dedicated focus to single projects, meant the Tandys had confidence. “Unlike other builders and projects that we had seen locally, Adrian wouldn’t let attention drift nor the project slide from excellence,” Nik said.
“Adrian Zorzi is set apart by his perfectionist nature, and his consistent performance in Western Australian buildings.”
The Tandy’s sought wide, open spaces, areas that would cater to their love of entertaining and a home that would grow with their rapidly developing children. They had strict criteria for the living space, which was to have an open plan and a natural flow, while maintaining a clear delineation between the lounge and dining areas.
A carefully planned kids wing was to have a breakout area for play, so that bedrooms were kept just for downtime. A serene parent’s retreat with a separate bedroom and library area for Rachel and Nik makes the most of the view.
Architect Theo Matthews completed the building design process largely prior to engagement with Adrian. However, Rachel said she was guided to new ideas for finishes, fixtures and fittings by Adrian.
“Adrian and his team spent some time reviewing Theo’s design and immaculate drawings, and he had some unique views on how to improve certain aspects of the build,” Rachel said. “These were driven by Adrian’s cutting edge knowledge of window manufacturing, and so his suggestions dramatically improved certain aspects of the home and view, and fundamentally the overall openness of the home.”
The Tandy’s committed a great deal of trust in Adrian as the build was started and completed while they were still living and working overseas. “Adrian and the team made a great effort to concentrate the site communication times and give me their full attention when I flew in to review the crucial stages and discuss upcoming stages and material selections,” Rachel said. “Our confidence in Adrian was well rewarded with impeccable finishing and each of the stages was completed to the project plan scale and time schedule.”
The Tandy’s have recommended Adrian to other friends who have admired their home. “I think that seeing our home speaks volumes of Adrian’s dedication, attention to detail and level of finishing,” Rachel said.
The ultimate handover was concluded in time for them to move in for a true Aussie Christmas in their stylish new abode. “We love the ultimate flow of the home and the maximised aspect of the view from the show-stopper windows in both the living area and the parent’s wing,” Nik said. “Close behind would have to be the paramount entertaining kitchen with its perfectly twinned local Marri kitchen top and dining table, which tie the modern house to its inception in the love of the South West and its stunning landscape.”
Rachel said it is a home built for family life across all seasons. “In summer, as soon as the children step out from the car, there’s a separate wash area to leave the remnants of the beach outside and a shady place to hand those soggy wetsuits,” she said. “In winter the mud-room acts as a one-stop- drop to leave soccer, hockey and rugby kit in, with the washing machine directly opposite to stop those mucky uniforms from being trailed through the house.”
“It’s comforting in winter to have all three ovens and fire going and be surrounded by friends, letting all the kids toast marshmallows over the fire whilst the adults chill out,” Nik said.
The Tandy’s said their home not just met, but exceeded, their expectations for entertaining. “Our busiest, noisiest and happiest times are Christmas and Easter, when we have a home full of friends, and family fly in from around Australia and wherever they are over the world,” Nik said. “It’s not unusual to have a dozen kids to feed who then happily run around and play whilst we feed a score of adults around the main table.”
“In short, the home is paradise,” Rachel said. “Our home is loved, lived in and played in and around, just exactly in the way we hoped it would be.”
“Love, friendship, music and laughter surround our home and as our children get older and more independent, we hope those friendships and families grow,” she said. “We hope to build a lifetime of memories into the home that Adrian and his team have given us.”
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Build a Bundle: Where Friendships are Made
UPDATE AGAIN: Celestial Mechanica has been unlocked for everyone. I added in a bit about it at the bottom.
UPDATE: The missing games have been reviewed now that the downloading problems are solved. Check out Ubersoldier 2 and Dark Fall at the end of this post.
Have you ever bought an indie bundle with a game or two in it that you just don't want? Groupees has got your back. Their latest bundle steps away from the Be Mine moniker for the time being and offers up one of the most unique payment schemes for a bundle that I can remember. In the Build a Bundle, you can carefully pick and choose between twelve games, with both the minimum and recommended price set based on what you pick. It's a minimum of nine bucks for the whole deal, with twenty percent of every purchase going to save polar bears. Everyone knows polar bears are rad, so it's pretty win win.
Six of the games were previously featured in Be Mine 1. For those games, I'm just going to direct your attention to my Be Mine 1 write-up, as re-reviewing five extra games would be a lot of work and doesn't make a lot of sense. The only game in that write-up that isn't offered this time is Wasteland Angel. For Post Apocalyptic Mayhem, I'll be covering it here since I haven't written about it before because my copy of the Be Mine 1 had a fishy screensaver not that I'm bitter.
So that leaves seven unknown games for you to pick from. With the unique way of picking and choosing what you want, more than ever my game by game analysis should come in handy. Skip past the break and we'll begin.
Developed by The Farm 51/1C Company
Platforms: Windows, Steam, DRM-Free
Like many 1C games, NecroVisioN (which I will never type with the second N again) is a very mixed bag. It's got a neat concept, occasional moments of greatness and the holiest of FPS holy grails: a kick button. On the other hand it's badly optimized on modern computers, way too wordy in the frequent and poorly paced cutscenes and often nonsensically torn between whether or not it wants to be Call of Duty or Painkiller, settling on an uneven mixture of both.
The central premise of NecroVision is that you are an American soldier in a British battalion in the trenches of World War 1. Things go all terrible, your whole battalion dies and you're left to fight your way out from behind enemy lines. Pretty standard war game stuff, no? Oh, right, the collective forces of hell have been unleashed as well, which means hordes of undead to kill, demons to shoot and a weird floating head in the sky talking about how you are the chosen one. This is pretty much the only game I've played where a standard goal like "get to the roof of the bunker" is followed up by "kill the wizard".
Aside from the excruciating moments when the game tries to emulate the cover based Call of Duty shooting gallery style, the gameplay is pretty decent overall. The weapons are all semi-functional period weaponry that gets used in increasingly bizarre ways; dual heavy machineguns was a particularly neat example. The game also does some neat things with combos and melee; you can combo various melee attacks together with gunshots to make combo names appear and occasionally trigger very cool fatality animations. My favourite moment was running around with a bayonet in my left hand and a pistol in my right, cutting throats and kicking baddies while firing at the big bad in the sky. It felt unique, powerful and kind of awesome overall.
The problems simply lie with the quality and budget of the game. It's very badly optimized, triggering myriad crashes and fatal errors on my computer due to some issues with my screenshot tools and the Steam overlay. It had occasional sound issues and clipping problems, and also seemed very temperamental when played on any other resolution than the default 4:3 screen size. As for the game itself, the story and voice acting are incredibly dumb, but generally in an enjoyable way. Cutscenes often seem placed randomly and drag on while the accents are often stereotypically over the top; for example, a plot element that could be revealed in a single line drags on for two minutes so the actor can sprout every British slang word in existence. This is either going to be hilarious or grating for you. Even the main American character is subject to this due to his Southern accent and overly religious persona, with plenty of cringingly awful one-liners and bloodthirsty growling (in fact, several lines seem to randomly use a different actor, which is either a plot element or the weirdest bug).
As someone with so many games and so little time, I like to judge games based on whether or not they are worth the time you spend on them. While the price is definitely right for the game I have to say that, for most people, NecroVision isn't going to be a worthwhile endeavour to spend your time on. It's fun to play at certain points, and many of the flaws can be overlooked, but the bugs often keep it from being playable. For players looking for a new Painkiller, this is more akin to the quality of a Painkiller expansion pack. Fun, but with a ton of problems to consider.
Developed by Elecorn
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Steam, DRM-Free
Caster is a game that does some things really well, and some things really badly. It's a third person shooter in which you travel to large swaths of land to kill evil bug creatures and do some kind of goal pulled from a limited pool of objectives. There's multiple weapons, a non linear mission structure, plenty of upgrades to buy and a couple of neat gameplay systems at work. There's also terrible graphics, serious terrain issues and unbalanced dull gameplay to contend with as well. Let's elaborate.
Caster casts you in the role of a Caster, go figure. As far as I can tell, that means you're some kind of Mega Man Super Saiyan hybrid that gets sent in to fight off the invading bug things single handedly. Luckily, you're incredibly mobile and dexterous to even out the odds, using energy to travel faster than a speeding bullet or leap tall cliffs in a single bound. The mobility is fun to begin with and gets increasingly ludicrous as you unlock more upgrades, allowing you to fly ridiculous distances and causing massive craters to form wherever you land, which leads me to the other neat mechanic. The game features deformable terrain, which is always a fun concept. As you start to pack more firepower, your lasers will cause dents and craters in the landscape, while enemies will start to do the same. Some weapons can even cause the reverse effect, allowing you to carve out hills and such.
So it's fun blowing the landscape all to hell, and the upgrades get exponentially more insane as you increase your power level. The non-linear mission order is pretty neat as well, with two episodes of branching missions you can tackle as you please (and a possibly outdated promise for more). There's also mod support, though I only found one pack on the Elecorn site. Now it's time for
First up: those graphics. They're really bad, guys. You know how lots of games are built to look like they were NES games because, hey, nostalgia? This looks like it was designed to look like a Nintendo 64 game, complete with bad textures, blocky models and a pretty wretched draw distance with way too much "fog". The laser effects look nice and the here's-your-mission lady artwork is fine, but aside from that it looks like a N64 game for all the wrong reasons.
Another problem that was quite common on the N64 is lack of stuff. Many levels seem needlessly expansive and devoid of enemies. Often a level consists of running across a field, killing three bad guys, collecting the thing and then off to the next one. It feels like things need to either be a bit more enclosed, or the encounters at each MacGuffin need to be way more substantial. Like the fog, it feels like things are so spaced out for technical reasons, except there shouldn't be any technical reasons because hello, it came out in 2009.
So what's left is an overall mediocre game. It's not mediocre for lack of trying, as there are some neat ideas at work here and it's clear the developers poured a lot into many parts of the game. However, major issues like graphics and level design keep it from being any more than a novelty.
Diamond Dan
Developed by Grendel Games
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Steam
Diamond Dan is a pretty simple and single minded game, but what it sets out to do it does well. Technically speaking the game is a block based puzzle platformer, but in all honesty both of those elements get kind of shoved out of the way for pure arcade chaos. You need to explore a constantly shifting temple, shoving blocks back and forth to get treasure, find the map and reach the end of the level. Overall the effect is a bit like a ramped up Boulder Dash where everything wants to screw you over.
You can play as either the titular Dan or his partner Ann, both jetsetting explorers off to find things that belong in a museum. After the first few levels you can play as either character; Dan has access to a double jump and can shove blocks in any open direction, while Anne is unable to spit in the face of physics but does have a trusty pickaxe to Minecraft her way out of the temple.
Essentially every level is a journey to the bottom of the block based temples, except the temple seems to be actively taunting you. Blocks move around on their own, disappear, reappear, spew treasure, crumble, shoot out spikes and occasionally attempt to crush you, and this all happens very quickly and almost constantly. While it's easy enough to reach the bottom with some random block pushing, the lure of treasure and a sweet sweet high score is constantly tempting you into trap laden areas. When you finally make it to the bottom, a map to the next temple awaits you so long as you can escape the level once you disturb said map.
The chaotic nature of the game is definitely the most unique point, but it also kind of hurts the game as well. Every level is simply too random for any really clever level design, and the constant shifting makes it even less likely that you'll find a level memorable even minutes after you play it. There are 21 levels to explore, made up of four worlds, but the only real differences between levels is what traps you'll encounter and the actual visuals. But the semi-random levels do work to make the game a throwback to the older arcade puzzle classics, and the levels themselves are still quite a bit of fun. Overall Diamond Dan has a good cel shaded art style, a great soundtrack and fun gameplay that's just short enough to keep from overstaying its welcome. It's a great modern interpretation of solid arcade puzzle platformer.
Lightfish
Developed by Eclipse Games
Platforms: Steam
Hey, remember when I talked about Fortix, and how it was basically just Qix? Well, this is basically just Qix too, except even more distilled into its base arcade form. That's not a knock against it either, because Qix is a pretty excellent arcade game. I'm just saying that your desire for Lightfish is going to be directly connected to how pleased you would be with a great looking, fleshed out version of Qix.
For those wondering what exactly Qix is, it's that arcade game where you have to cordon off sections of the playing field without letting the bad guys hit your line before you finish it. It's also an incredibly resilient and popular style of gameplay that's been echoed throughout the years. Chances are you've probably tried a variation of it before. I've always thought of it as a fairly "smart" arcade game, since it's a very strategic and slower paced game where you need to balance cutting off huge swaths of the field with keeping yourself safe from the bad guys. It's tactical and it's a ton of fun.
Lightfish follows the same model except blown up in every way. There's a large variety of bad guys that are slowly introduced over the many levels, each of which cause problems for you in a large variety of ways. Also introduced are reefs, which can't be passed through and need to be encircled by your lightfish to destroy them. And like the arcade predecessor, there's a scoring system in place based on how well you perform. The nice modern twist to the scoring system is that each level is self contained, and at the end of each one you're given a good ol' star rating. The large volume of levels combined with the incentive to perfect each one means that Lightfish is certainly far more substantial than any other Qix-alike I've played.
I should mention the actual audiovisual design. The soundtrack is pretty great, suitably relaxing but with enough energy to carry the game. The art style is great as well, with a clean modern look that's a great update to the original concept. If you enjoy the fun basic gameplay Qix, you'll be pleased at how Lightfish robustly expands the formula.
Developed by Steel Monkeys
Platforms: Windows, Steam
I was unlucky enough to miss this in Be Mine 1, and for obvious reasons I haven't picked it up in any bundles since, but I've finally got my grimy hands on the wheel of Post Apocalyptic Mayhem. On one hand, I love car combat games. On the other, PAM has been thrashed around in the press and shunned by many gamers. So I didn't really know what to expect.Guess what? It's pretty great!
In PAM, you're given the keys to several different cars each equipped with a unique loadout, and then dropped into a post-apocalyptic speedway, supposedly to race. The catch is, racing isn't exactly the main focus. In fact, taking an obvious commanding lead will probably end with you losing the race, while sticking close to the middle of the pack is the best spot to find yourself in. You see, each race simply has a hard-coded time limit, and the winner is whoever has the most kills at the end of the round. You need to pick up weapons from around the track a la Mario Kart, and then explode everyone else before they explode you. The other big difference is that each car's weapons are unique; the power-ups are universal and activate your front, side and rear weapons, but what those weapons are varied on a car to car basis. Dropping a bunch of logs on the track? Spewing out stickybombs from the side? Firing a giant unicorn drill horn from the hood? It's fun to experiment, and easy to pick favourites that suit your style.
A common complaint about the game was amount of content, which has been somewhat rectified by now with some helpful DLC injections. The base game now includes six tracks and around nine cars, with three more purchasable for two bucks on Steam. It was definitely a much needed content boost from the pitiful amount of cars and tracks from before. The game could still certainly use a few more tracks, but as it stands there's enough content here to justify a purchase and the tracks are all very well designed, with plenty of secret routes, jumps and ambush locations.
There's only one race mode, but you can play either single player or multiplayer, and also choose to play one track at a time for high scores or enter a semi-persistant tournament across every one of the game's tracks. The AI is surprisingly competent for a racing game, but it's clear that multiplayer is the way to play the game, especially with a bunch of friends. It's not the sharpest or best racing game out there, but it is a lot of fun and full of crazy moments. You want realism? Go play something else. You want to shove a drill up your opponent's tailpipe? Well, maybe PAM has a place in your bundle.
Ubersoldier 2
Developed by Burut CT
Platforms: Windows, DRM-Free
In the beginning of Ubersoldier 2, you find yourself in the back of a Jeep, manning a machine gun while you try to escape some Nazis. At some points the chase is thrilling, like a very neat set piece in a sewer pipe and a particularly well timed explosive jump. But a lot of the time the Jeep is struggling to keep on going, stalling on a steep upward slope or getting stuck in the mud. This opening sequence is an unintentionally perfect metaphor to describe the entire game.
I'd like explain the premise of Ubersoldier 2: The Fall of Hitler, but I quite literally cannot. Indeed, unless Ubersoldier 1 was a narrative masterstroke, I doubt I would understand the plot even if I played the prequel. I do know that you are a soldier, presumably of the uber variety, and your name is Karl. There's a lot about gasses and science experiments that bring dead soldiers back to life, and there's a factory where they make kibble for these soldiers, and you have a lady friend, and that's pretty much the only solid facts I could drag out from the plot. I mean, I don't even know if Karl is with the Allies or the Rebels, or what these rebels are. All I know is that you're in the Nazi killing business, and business is decent, but a bit sluggish.
The gameplay is of the variety popularized by early Call of Duty titles, consisting of popping out of cover, dropping a couple of headshots, and then hiding again. Of course, you can also run in and stab everything with a knife, which turned out to be an awesome tactic. Then there are other various abilities that highly suggest Karl's got some Force powers, like stopping bullets with his mind. This would be all fine and dandy, except that the controls are just a little too sluggish, the enemies are just a little too stupid and the models just a little too outdated to make the FPS rise above a mediocre level.
If you like FPS games, this one is completely inoffensive and even gets to be a bit fun at times. The problem is that it's trying for an AAA experience, but simply cannot perform at an AAA level. The strongest point that an indie game has (and Ubersoldier 2 only barely technically qualifies for that label) is the ability to go in a completely different direction from the mainstream AAA titles. They can't really compete on a technical level, so smart developers know to come up with some kind of unique gameplay or clever story or distinct art style to avoid crushing comparisons to blockbuster titles. As it stands, Ubersoldier 2 doesn't manage to move beyond a somewhat nutty CoD emulator which brings up all sorts of nasty thoughts that you might as well be playing CoD instead.
The B-movie plot is just a little too incomprehensible to be fun, and the voices are bad enough to grate but not bad enough to enjoy ironically. But there are some neat elements like the arty cutscenes and the vague Inglourious Basterds overtones. Ubersoldier 2 is not a frustratingly or offensively bad game, and certainly hits most of the FPS beats well enough to be fun. It's just that most people aren't exactly lacking in options for military FPS games at this point, so why play it over a more polished option? Just a question to consider while building your package.
Dark Fall: Lost Souls
Developed by Darkling Room
Confession time! I am a massive weenie when it comes to horror games, especially at night, with the lights off and headphones on. With that in mind, at great personal risk and sacrifice, I booted up Dark Fall: Lost Souls to see what its deal was. Turns out its deal is ghosts and terror. Who knew?
Dark Fall: Lost Souls is the third in a series of horror adventure games from Darkling Room. All three games take place from a first person perspective, keep the plot and storytelling relatively low-key and have lots and lots of ghosts. Seriously, they're all over the place, and they're not so inclined to be friendly or helpful. Most of the time they just decide to be cryptic, transparent and really freaking creepy.
You are the Inspector, a mysterious gentleman who finds himself stuck in an abandoned train tunnel surrounded by artefacts from your greatest unsolved case: the murder of a seven year old girl. Who apparently is sticking around and watching us all from the trees while giggling. Sweet dreams.
I really must commend Darkling Room on doing such a good job on setting and atmosphere. The first person perspective helps, as does the minimalist story telling and increasingly cryptic text messages that seem to make a cheerful beep so very menacing. Indeed, they did such a great job I can barely play the game (again, weenie). Everything is dark, lights flicker, things jump out, children that aren't there giggle and mannequins. So many mannequins. Ye gods.
I probably should be talking about how it works as an adventure game. I honestly have no clue, as I was a bit distracted by jumping at everything. There's an awful lot of items to pick up and combine, but it does seem mostly logical. Pixel hunting is at a minimum, which is an improvement from the first game. Aside from that, it seemed like business as usual for European adventure game puzzles. You know, except terrifying.
Also included as an apology for a Steam key mix-up is a DRM-free copy of Dark Fall 2: Lights Out Director's Cut. Unlike the first and third games, this one opts for a slightly different setting spanning four eras of a creepy lighthouse. Graphically it's a bit rougher and the gameplay is a bit more hit and miss due to some interesting experiments in gameplay, but the atmosphere is similarly creepy. There's a bit more pixel hunting involved, but luckily the director's cut helps smooth out the roughest moments.
Unfortunately for me, I don't think I have the nerves to hunt ghosts without a proton pack strapped to my back. But if you're braver, both Dark Fall games are eerie and have more atmosphere than the average horror game. They are certainly both worth a look for any horror fan.
Celestial Mechanica
Developed by Roger Hicks and Paul Veer
Celestial Mechanica is, according to the site, a surprise team-up by Roger Hicks (rComplex) and Paul Veer (Super Crate Box). It tells the story of a robot from a group of celestial beings called the Mechanians, who is thrown off of his floating city down to Earth. Upon meeting a fellow exile, the robots decide to find a way back to the city and oust the tyrannical king from power. That's where you come in.
The journey back to Celestial Mechanica is a quest fraught with peril and Metroidvania elements, although I felt like the exploration was closer to a Zelda game than a Metroid one. In order to progress, you need to investigate shrines and collect the hidden upgrade in each one, which allows you to access the next shrine. It's not an unusual gameplay structure, but it's definitely a solid one.
Probably the best part of the game is the presentation, as Celestial Mechanica sports beautifully animated graphics and a downright fantastic soundtrack. I know terms like "fantastic soundtrack" get thrown around a lot, but it truly is one of the better ones I've heard, and also one that I definitely want to pick up.
Now, the platforming controls don't always handle as well as they should, and there's little difficulty due to respawning in the exact spot you died in. But the game is still quite a brilliant little collaboration, and it's added to each and every bundle that's built. It's definitely a sweet little bonus title that you should really check out.
Well, that's it (for now). Hopefully between these seven eight games and the five previously feature titles you can find something to tickle your fancy. Head over to the site to build a bundle for yourself.
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Posted by Colin Brown at 13:08
Labels: Groupees, Indie, Indie Bundles
ZAD-Man 24 May 2012 at 20:42
So I keep seeing your fish comments and that somehow preventing you from getting PAM, but what exactly happened? I haven't been able to find that...
Also, thanks for the review, this helps my selection quite a bit. :D
Colin Brown 24 May 2012 at 21:12
Well, in Be Mine 1, towards the end, you either got PAM or Dream Aquarium thrown into your bundle as a bonus, with a 50/50 chance of either one showing up. Unfortunately I wasn't so lucky and got the latter, which is literally just a fish screensaver.
Sjeng 3 June 2012 at 16:46
Heh, I bought 2 bundles and got 2 fishtanks... :(
But they made up for it, as I WON a full BaB from groupees :D
Colin Brown 4 June 2012 at 04:01
That's pretty awesome, and definitely makes up for the fishies.
(Although I have to admit, I still use my fishies as my screensaver. It's pretty nice!)
Hey. The one rule for comments is common sense. I'm pretty relaxed about it, so just be cool and polite. Cheers!
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Culture & Lifestyle | Insiders
Anzac Day: Should two-up be made illegal again?
Oliver Watts says yes
Site: Yeong Sassall
Image: Tourismster
Image: Royal Australia Mint
Oliver Watts
If I was Prime Minister for a day, in that primary school hypothetical, I would make two-up illegal again, says Oliver Watts
We lost a true act of remembrance when we smoothed over the edges and normalised the whole affair to just another form of gambling at the pub.
In the lead up to the centenary of Gallipoli we have instead been forced to search for less authentic ways to commemorate. There are endless new tele-dramas; Centennial Park is being reborn as Camp Gallipoli (camp under the stars to recreate the Anzac spirit of mateship!); and a number of new monuments are being laid. What all these new and inventive forms of remembrance show is that our memory for Gallipoli needs supplementing by more information (more historians, docos etc), more events and more sites of remembrance.
This anxiety or hysteria around memory reminds me of the work of Pierre Nora on national memory. Nora writes, "Memory is constantly on our lips because it no longer exists." What he suggests is that we need lieux de memoire (sites of memory) because we no longer have milieu de memoire (rituals of memory) that are truly embedded deeply in the society. For Nora what you get then is a proliferation of artificial and second order memory making (collecting, archiving, exhibiting) without the real social rituals of remembrance.
This came home strongly to me last time I visited the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. As we soberly came through the door to walk towards the The Hall of Memory past the Roll of Honour we were stopped by a guard's arm directing us towards the museum entrance. New rooms of collection and exhibition have supplemented the sacred nature of the memorial constantly since it was built. And I do not think without loss to the original nature of the beautiful memorial. This has happened too in Sydney at the Anzac Memorial in Hyde Park with the new extension to the museum. I am not sure whether the museums and collections would be better housed on another site altogether and if they must be on site then keep them secondary.
I feel that this is an architectural version of what happened to our beloved two-up. The move over the last few decades to legalise two-up was ill advised. Most of the States in one way or other have regulated for the legal acceptance of two-up on Anzac Day and in some cases other holidays. Queensland went last in 2012, but Victoria and NSW legalised two-up in the 90s. What most of us remember though, especially Queenslanders, is the way it used to be done; the powers that be, the police, the pub manager, would turn a blind eye to the game. If you set up a "Cockatoo" (two-up slang for a look out) it was only in jest because everyone knew that nothing was going to happen.
It might seem perverse but the illegal nature of the game was absolutely crucial to the symbolic power of the game. Two-up on Anzac Day used to be a perfect example of a rite beyond everyday legal constraints. It had a carnivalesque logic, where the illegal became for that day legal. In legal theory we would characterise the carnival (Mardi Gras and Saturnalia, and other tricky and topsy turvy inversions of law) as an anomic festival, that is outside the law. These festivals though are part of the cultural language of society.
Historically the carnival is anomic to more clearly delineate the legal. It is based on the logic that we "don't want a repeat of last night." You understand the law better by seeing what it is not. Perhaps Mad Monday every football season suggests this sort of release in the more focused world of elite football training.
The position of two-up as anomic act was more particular. It marked Anzac Day as a special day, a sacred day when "mateship" and memory overrode the everyday constraints of "insignificant" laws. By destroying the anomic quality of the game we have domesticated the ritual act until it is about as bona fide as Halloween in Australia.
The transgression of it also conjures up a wonderful image of the larrikin bronzed warrior/spinner. I imagine that the "tradition" of turning a blind eye was part of many of the original games and that illegality was a link across time.
The law was changed to "avoid confusion." There is something about people "breaking the law" that makes people nervous. But it is exactly this scenario that actually made two-up function. What brought the society together, on this important National Day, was the shared but secret (and unofficial) knowledge that you could gamble with impunity in this particular way. If you were a stranger in the land it would not make sense but to the local there was no real confusion at all, on the contrary there was a deep understanding.
More provocatively perhaps it was the way that we enjoyed the transgression that was also central. In 2012, Queenslanders said of two-up becoming legal that some of the "thrill" had gone. This "thrill" is worth looking at closely. We are held together by certain ties, like family and society, but we are equally held together as friends and "gangs" through transgression and fun. Drinking, mosh pits and illicit drug taking can all be linked to Nation, think of the crowds at the Big Day Out on Australia Day. Drinking, beer cup snakes and "illegal" mexican waves bring us together as a crowd of Australians at the cricket. Sharing the "thrill" of doing something a little naughty is one of the best ways to produce "mateship" and togetherness in a group (just don't mention it officially like Warney did recently at the post match interview at the World Cup).
By bureaucratically dotting the i's and crossing the t's we lost this quite unique custom. When it became legal the pubs knew then that they were allowed to advertise, loud and proud, and they have. Using hip Edwardian fonts two-up is proclaimed everywhere. There is still the power of the game to speak to the past as an artifact of the past but the very special functioning of the illegal two-up game on Anzac Day was given up without a fight.
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Last Call For The Extraordinary Opening of Palazzo Farnese, One of Rome’s Four Wonders
Art Exhibitions, By Night, New Museum Openings March 31, 2011 0 BuzzInRome
There is less than one month to see Palazzo Farnese, the most imposing Italian palace of the 16th century, now hosting the French Embassy (therefore, usually closed to the public). The new French ambassador decided to open the gates of this beautiful Renaissance building for a few months and wanted some of the best pieces of the original palace’s collections to be brought back for the occasion to show how Palazzo Farnese really was at the time. So hurry up and take advantage of this unique opportunity, as we did some weeks ago!
Not only French Ambassadors but also Italian kings (Francis II of the Two Sicilies) and popes (Paul III) stayed here during the centuries as the building was the Roman residence of one of the country’s most powerful families: the Farnese. A key building for Rome’s history, for its outstanding location in one of the city’s most beautiful squares and for the architectural and artistic value of the interiors and of the palace itself.
The ticket includes an audioguide (in Italian or English) and the visit starts from an enchanting, little green inner garden in stark contrast with the buildings, roads and fountains of the surrounding area. You then visit the perfect courtyard, co-designed and decorated by Michelangelo.
You then climb an impressive ring of stairs to finally enter the palace. Paintings by artists of the caliber of Tiziano, frescoes by Carracci, coins, tapestries and ancient Roman sculptures and colossal statues from the Archeological and Capodimonte Museums of Naples will please your eyes.
If you don’t want to book in advance, go during work-days but you won’t then see the most beautiful room of the Palazzo, the Ambassador’s office, overlooking the piazza. Otherwise, for the full tour, wait for the week-end but book first unless you are willing to wait in the line.
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The mission of the BOOST Film Festival is to support the work of talented and dedicated filmmakers and to share their work so that it may inspire, educate, and transform youth and professionals in the youth work field.
The BOOST Film Festival strand offers attendees the opportunity to view films highlighting relevant topics in the education field including issues relating to today’s youth. Many of the featured films offer supplemental materials, such as curriculum, to take back and implement at your school or program. When available, the BOOST Film Festival strand also offers the opportunity for post-film discussion with the filmmakers or representatives from the film company.
Screenagers Next Chapter: Uncovering Skills for Stress Resilience
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Filmmaker and physician Delaney Ruston uses a personal lens and professional eye to help us all flip the script on stress, anxiety, and depression. This film follows Delaney as she finds herself at a loss on how to help her own teens as they struggle with their emotional well-being. Ruston sets out to understand these challenges in our current screen-filled society, and how we as parents and schools empower teens to overcome mental health challenges and build emotional agility, communication savvy, and stress resilience.
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Bias challenges us to confront our hidden biases and understand what we risk when we follow our gut. Through exposing her own biases, award-winning documentary filmmaker Robin Hauser (CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap, Running for Jim) highlights the nature of implicit bias, the grip it holds on our social and professional lives, and what it will take to induce change.
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In Cracked Up we witness the effects adverse childhood experiences can have across a lifetime through the incredible story of actor, comedian, master impressionist, and Saturday Night Live veteran, Darrell Hammond. Behind the scenes, Darrell suffered from debilitating flashbacks, self-injury, addiction, and misdiagnosis, until the right doctor isolated the key to unlocking the memories his brain kept locked away for over 50 years. Cracked Up creates an inspiring balance between comedy and tragedy helping us understand the impact of toxic stress and childhood trauma in a new light, breaking down barriers of stigma and replacing shame with compassion and hope.
Watch the trailer: https://www.tugg.com/titles/cracked-up
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GIRLS + EDUCATION = increased economic growth, improved well-being of women, and extended life span. This one-hour Emmy award-winning documentary demonstrates how people of faith can positively impact the problem of educational gender disparity.
Watch the trailer: https://www.tugg.com/titles/beauty-of-their-dreams
Dawnland
For most of the 20th Century, government agents systematically forced Native American children from their homes and placed them with white families. As recently as the 1970’s, one in four Native children nationwide were living in non-Native foster care, adoptive homes, or boarding schools. Many children experienced devastating emotional and physical harm by adults who mistreated them and tried to erase their cultural identity. Now, for the first time, they are being asked to share their stories.
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Tre Maison Dasan is an intimate view of childhood through the eyes of three boys - Tre, Maison, and Dasan themselves - whose lives are complicated by having a parent in prison. Following their interweaving trajectories through boyhood, and directly through their perspectives, the film is an exploration of relationships and separation, masculinity, and coming of age when a parent is behind bars.
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20 Cases of Bean Dip
I don’t know if I’d call it the Class of 1965’s finest hour, but what happened during a Christmas food drive stuck out in some students’ memories 10 and 20 years later.
When it came to for people to come up with their memories of Central High School for the 10th reunion, Lee Dahringer listed “20 cases of bean dip.” Louie Ervin also listed the canned food drive (along with Twirp Week, baseball, football, student council and Tiger Den).
Treasure trove of 65 students
I’m assuming this is the infamous food drive because I don’t see anyone from the Class of 64, but there’s a smattering of the Class of ’66 lurking around.
I’m pretty sure that’s Joni Tickel in the dark sweater in the foregound (Wife Lila wasn’t quite as sure), with Carole Rapp behind her. I see Louie Ervin, Lonnie Blackwood, David Hahs, Betsy Ringland, Charlie Baldwin and Jackie Knehans among the group.
What was the story of the bean dip?
I don’t have first-hand knowledge of the whole story, but as I recall, there was a contest to see which class could bring in the most canned goods to distribute to the needy. Whoever set up the contest must have not thought about the devious devils in the Class of ’65 because the rules (if there were any) were extremely lax.
At the last minute, some folks showed up with 20 cases – 20 cases, not cans – of bean dip they had purchased cheaply. (Or knowing these guys, the cases may have fallen off a truck.)
That was more than enough to seal the deal for the Class of ’65. It wasn’t what I would consider a classy move since bean dip may not have been the highest priority for hungry families, but it won the contest.
I see Charlie Duncan, Jim Feldmier, Brad Wilson, Ron Marshall, Jim Lorberg, Walter Stafford and Tom Holt in the mix.
Halls were packed
The halls were packed. Faithful Reader Terry Hopkins, ’66, is more or less in the middle of the melee.
Ranked right up the with The Hearse
For the 20th reunion, Pat Sommers listed his CHS memories: “The Dances, Senior Skip Day, Wimpy’s, school plays, canned food drives, Debate trips, Mr. Chapman, Kennedy’s death, and the dress-up day when Randy, Mike, Paul David, Phil and I brought the Hearse to school!!”
I think I can pull Ken Trowbridge and Steven Crowe out of this crowd, along with Craig Brinkman.
Click on the photos to make them larger and add your own IDs, plus correct my errors.
1965 Graduation Party
From what I read in the paper, today’s graduation parties cost more than wedding did back in our day. Here are photos from the all-night graduation party held at the Arena Building for the Class of 1965.
It’s my blog, so I’ll cheat a little and post a photo of MY date for the night: the future Lila Perry Steinhoff, at right. She gained points because she didn’t try to put a funny hat on my head like Margaret Ritter is doing to John Ueleke.
Harold Payne, never absent or tardy
The caption on the Youth Page on June 12, 1965, said “Harold Payne, the only member of the class to go four years to Central High without missing a day or being tardy reached his breaking point at the all-night senior party last week.”
Peggy Estes looks at Girardot
“Classmate Miss Peggy Estes keep semi-awake by gazing at the class yearbook.”
Called an all-night binge
The Missourian story called the party an “all-night binge.” I’d hate to hear what they’d call today’s extravaganzas. I’ll set the official Missourian story in italics.
Central High School graduating seniors, treated to an all-night binge by their parents, danced their way from last Thursday night after graduation to breakfast at 4 Friday morning.
Danced through the night
Most of them danced through the entire night, according to Mrs. Gale Heise, one of the head chairmen for the affair. An annual event, this year’s party was the biggest ever. And, according to Mrs. Heise, the seniors can thank all the parents for their complete cooperation.
Door prizes sparked the dull moments when the band took a break. Local merchants donated 125 items for prizes. And a grand prize, a portable television, which Lee Dahringer won, was purchased with money donated by parents. Fifteen prizes, including the big one, were given out just before breakfast.
Made a beeline for Arena Building
Two bands were hired for the evening – the Goldtones, which played for the first half of the evening, and Willies Band [the microfilm was sketchy here, but that’s what it looked like] which played until the wee hours.
The graduates, some with underclassmen as dates – made a beeline for the Arena Building as soon as the graduation ceremonies were over. The underclassmen were allowed to stay until 1 Friday morning. Then they left and the seniors were given a half hour to run home to change into sports clothes for the remainder of the party. [I was given a little more leeway since I had to go home to process the photos for the paper.]
Food was plentiful
Food was plentiful and free. Parents did the decorating, which followed a Mardi Gras theme. [The rest of the paragraph couldn’t be read.]
Some of the graduates dozed off for awhile, but the dance floor, said Mrs. Heise, was still pretty full at 4.
Head chairmen for the party were Mr. and Mrs. Heise, Senator and Mrs. Albert Spradling, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Knehans and Mr. and Mrs. Charles House.
Graduation Party photo gallery
Click on any photo to make it larger, then click on the side to move through the gallery.
Tiger Business Managers
This photo of Tiger business managers ran in the 1965 Girardot. They are, from left to right, Steve Crowe, Al Spradling III., and Lee Dahringer. I mentioned them back when I was looking for someone to help me sell ads for this blog.
Mr. Wilferth caught us
I don’t know the exact circumstances of this photo. The guys are wearing the same clothes, so I suspect that we thought to ourselves, “Well, that didn’t take too long to shoot. We’re excused from class, so let’s jet out of here for the rest of the period.”(I apologize for the quality of the negative. Years of improper storage has not been kind to it.)
That’s probably when we ran into principal Fred Wilferth. He could have busted us, but his style was to clown around, standing on his tiptoes to show the disparity between his height and Al’s. Sort of, “I’ve got my eyes on you boys, but nothing’s going to come of it if you head on to your next class.”
Wayne Goddard, assistant principal, played “bad cop” to Mr. Wilferth’s “good cop.” Even though Mr. Goddard was the school’s disciplinarian, I never heard anyone speak ill of him.
Stories about Al, Steve and Lee
I had forgotten how many stories mentioned these guys
Lee Dahringer ties one on
Steve Crowe’s Corvette Stingray
Al Spradling Jr and III
All three were in Red Dagger plays
You can spot ’em in Jim Stone’s Shoebox Photos
Fred Wilferth built Jackson Roller Rink
Al was supposed to go to lunch with J. Fred Waltz and me, but ditched us. I made the mistake of dissing golfers in that account.
Okay, Who Did It?
I’ve already done a page on the Red Dagger’s My Sister Eileen and Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, so when I discovered these frames stuck in with a fire I shot in Ohio, I almost relabeled them and stuck them back in the file. Then I saw something that piqued my interest.
Whose car is this? Who did this nefarious deed? Their timing was good. I see one of the pages is from The Missourian’s Achievement Edition. That was usually the biggest paper of the year. Gaining entry to the car wouldn’t have been difficult. Most folks didn’t lock the doors and about half of them left the keys in the ignition.
Surely these guys didn’t do it
Principal Fred Wilferth and custodian James Criddle were on this roll of film, which means they were in the vicinity of the hooliganism, but they don’t have the guilty look of someone who has just stuffed someone’s car with a week’s worth of papers.
By the way, this film was in pretty bad shape, so I had a choice of spending hours spotting out all the flaws or pretending that the practice took place during a snow storm. I opted for the latter. In one frame there IS a cup flying through the air and water or some other liquid frozen by the strobe flash.
Gallery of the usual suspects
If I was a cop, I’d round up this gang of suspects from My Sister Eileen. I’m pretty sure that at least one of them would crack when you shined the bright light in their eyes. I bet you wouldn’t even have to bring out the rubber hoses. Click on any photo to make it larger, then click on the left or right side of the photo until you find the guilty person or persons.
Anola Gill Stowick was kind enough to provide a cast list when I ran the other story. I’m having the names run right now for wants and warrants. We should have this wrapped up in a matter of hours.
Chuck Dockins, Sally Wright, Sherry Harris, Larry Loos, Pat Sommers, Tom Spitzmiller, Steve Crowe, David Reimann, John Reimann, Rick Meinz, Jane Randol, Mike Daniels, Pam Parks, Mike Seabaugh, Steve Folsom, Anola Gill, Lee Dahringer, Don Mowery, John Magill, Preston Foster, Kenny Fischer, Vicky Roth, Jim Stone
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Indra’s Ratha in Melakkadambur, a Chola Masterpiece
This article was originally published on the international website Asian Art on September 22, 2009
It is one of the least known treasures of South Indian art. Hidden in the isolated village of Melakkadambur the Amritagateshvara temple is unique for its sculpture, its architecture and its astronomical significance. The shrine has been constructed as a ratha or chariot. In the tradition of the temple it is called Indra’s Vimana . It gives the impression it has just landed a moment ago carrying gods and sages. These are depicted on the walls that are covered with some of the most spectacular sculpture created by Chola artists (Figure1).
Melakkadambur is situated some 32 km. S.W. from Chidambaram and 4 km. from Kattumannargudi, in Cuddalore district, Tamil Nadu, near the southern tip of the Veeranam Eri, a large irrigation reservoir constructed by Chola kings . Two inscriptions engraved on the walls of the temple belonging to the 41st and the 43rd year of the reign of the Chola king Kulottunga I (1070-1120) indicate the temple existed in this form by the early 12th century . But three hymns dedicated to the deity of this temple from the Tevaram indicate it was already a renowned sacred place in the 7th century CE .
This temple is the earliest one known to have been built in the form of a chariot. The chariot form shrine or hall is distinctive for South Indian architecture. This architectural concept was applied in many temples constructed during the later phases of the Chola empire, and also by other South Indian dynasties. They were built during the time of the later Cholas, between 1100 and 1280. Horses (Figure 2), and sometimes also elephants, are depicted “drawing” the building which is given one or two pairs of wheels. Several of the chariot shrines and mandapas are famous for their great wealth in sculpture, such as the Nritta Sabha in the Shiva Nataraja temple in Chidambaram (Figure 3), the Mukha Mandapa of the Airavateshvara temple in Darasuram (Figure 4), and the Nataraja shrine of the Nageshvara temple in Kumbakonam (Figure 5). But the sculpture of the Amritagateshvara temple is truly magnificent and its architecture and iconography make it stand out even among these.
This shrine is hidden in more then one way. Driving to Melakkadambur takes about an hour from Chidambaram, crisscrossing small roads through villages and between paddy fields. Upon entering the courtyard the main shrine remains concealed behind a simple open pillared mandapa (Figure 5). This has possibly contributed to its pristine shape. Not one nose has been cut, damage often seen in temples in South India. Walking around the mandapa we happen upon the main shrine and its wealth of sculpture. There is so much to see and the first impression is so overwhelming, one cannot move one’s eyes. Within the context of this article we can only touch upon a few aspects (Figure 1).
The shrine is a dvitala or two-storied vimana, with an ardhamandapa or vestibule slightly narrower and directly attached to the garbhagriha or sanctum. The sanctum has four wheels, two on each side. The horses are positioned at the side and front of the ardhamandapa. In the center of the walls of the grabhagriha we find an elaborate niche or sub shrine which houses a murti or sculpture of a deity. Flanking these, figures of deities and sages are positioned directly on the wall, in between pilasters that form a kind of blind niche (Figure 7).
The base consists of a plain and straight upana (base). The adhisthana (sockle) consists of several mouldings which are (from the bottom upward) (Figure 8):
– a double layer of lotus petals
– jagati: straight and undecorated)
– kumuda: round and ribbed)
– kantha (neck): decorated with miniature freezes
– pattika: undecorated
– kantha (neck): decorated with miniature freezes and miniature panels under the pilasters
– vari
The kal or pilasters are composed of a square base with octagonal malasthana, kalasha, kumbha and kamala. The whole is capped with the usual square palagai (Figure 9). The podigai or corbel shows the typology of the transitional phase between the T-podigai of the Rajaraja period and the corbel of Later Chola architecture. Just under the roof and the kapota (cornice) where we typically would have found a bhutagana frieze showing frolicking dwarf-like followers of Shiva in an Early Chola temple (Figure 14), we find a frieze of sculptural panels. Its subject matter cannot be discerned as it is partly hidden behind the larger bracket figures of dancers and yalis or horned lions (Figure 10).
The second tala or storey is octagonal and has pañjaras with deities on the cardinal directions. Shiva Dakshinamurti is facing south, Vishnu facing west, and Brahma facing north (Figure 12). Miniature shrines positioned on the corners are replicas of ekatala (one-storey) temples and are much more elaborate than the karnakutis usually found on the corners of the roof of dvitala temples. They are square shrines with figures inside miniature pañjaras, flanked by pilasters and dancers on the corners. There are no shalas or barrel-roof rectangular miniature shrines at the center, which would have been the usual structural decoration in this place. The shalas have been replaced by the large kudus housing in their turn a pañjara with the sculpture of a deity. The griva or neck is round and has niches with seated figures capped with enlarged open kudus on the four directions. The round shikhara has large kudus and is capped with a metal stupa. The kapotas of this temple are ribbed. Each of the three walls of the vimana has uncommonly four levels of projecting bays with depictions of the deities conventional for the cardinal directions. All these aspects of the structure are highly unusual (Figure 11).
In front of the original shrine is a closed mukha mandapa, probably of a later date. And in front of this is a pillared mandapa that possibly dates to the 13th or 14th century. It is partially open to the East and the South, but is closed on the North. Projecting from the northern wall and facing south a subsidiary shrine for the consort of the presiding deity of the temple has been constructed, also probably at a later date (Figure 5).
The walls of the ardhamandapa have been used to house three deities on each side, while the sanctum has one main deity for each wall accompanied by two flanking figures. This creates a sculptural plan which is very elaborate and unusual. Altogether fifteen major figures are positioned on the walls of this relatively small shrine (Figure 13).
The way in which they have been accommodated is also unusual. The structures within which the six deities on the ardhamandapa and the central deities of the garbhagriha are housed are all pañjaras . The pañjara was already a feature of Pallava temple architecture, where it had the role of accommodating a murti on a temple wall or as abstract decoration on a roof . A pañjara is in a way a miniature shrine in two dimensions. Chola architects adopted the structure of the pañjara during the earlier phases of the Chola period (910 to 970) as a structure to fill the space of a vimana wall without using it to house sculptures of deities .
The structure preferred by Chola architects to accommodate sculptures of deities was the devakoshtha or niche . The most obvious differences between a devakoshtha and a pañjara are that the first is capped by a lintel and crowned with a makaratorana (Figure 14) , whereas the second is capped by a kapota or cornice crowned with a miniature ekatala or one-storied shrine (Figure 15) . After 970 pañjaras disappear from the walls of Chola temples . But by the end of the 11th century they have returned and have replaced the niche as the preferred structure in which to house the central murti on the walls of temples. Especially on larger structures we find combinations of pañjaras and niches applied to house murtis, as can be seen on the Airavateshvara temple in Darasuram and on the walls of the gopuras of the Shiva Nataraja temple in Chidambaram (Figure 16). The pañjaras of the later Chola period, especially the ones in a central position on a wall, distinguish themselves often by being capped with a shala or barrel shaped roof element, instead of a miniature ekatala (Figure 17).
But the pañjaras that accommodate murtis on the Amritagateshvara temple in Melakkadambur are unusual in several ways (Figure 18). They do not have a base of their own that would have made them project out from the temple wall, but are all situated on the base of the temple. At the same time each has a kind of ‘base’ structure positioned in front, creating the appearance of a projection. Each of the walls of the ardhamandapa and the grabhagriha has a central figure that is housed in an exceptional pañjara. These pañjaras are unusual in that they each have a pair of independent octagonal pillars with lions as caryatids supporting a roof that juts out from the wall and is sculpted with a ribbed kapota (cornice). The pañjaras of the sanctum are lower and jut out further than the central pañjaras of the ardhamandapa wall which are higher, but do not have the usual crowning feature above the kapota. The only other structure with similar pañjaras, as far as I know, is the Nritta Sabha, the ratha mandapa, in the Shiva Nataraja temple in Chidambaram, where Indian sphinxes or purushamriga occupy the place of caryatids (Figure 19).
The inside of the projecting roofs of the pañjaras have been sculpted giving the impression of a wooden roof with beams and connecting wooden structures. The sculptors have fashioned a replica in stone of a wooden structure, with all the detailed carving common for wood, a great achievement in a substance like granite (Figure 20 and 21).
The pañjaras that house the main deities of the sanctum wall are crowned with a very unusual, huge horse-shoe shaped feature, which is actually a larger version of the kudu that crowns many regular pañjaras. Inside this kudu is another pañjara in which we find also a sculptured figure. The miniature ekatala crowning this in its turn accommodates another, miniature, murti (Figure 22).
The neighboring pañjaras on the ardhamandapa wall are more standard. Two pilasters flank the niche space, which is capped with a kapota and crowned with an ekatala miniature shrine (Figure 18). Here it can be mentioned that the flanking pañjaras on the Southern ardhamandapa wall are much lower then the pañjaras on the northern wall (Figure 30). To adjust the wall space the ekatala shrines capping the pañjaras on the Southern wall are much taller. This kind of a-symmetry is again very unusual.
Attending figures flanking niches are quite common on Chola temples, but the major figures adorning the sanctum walls are remarkable. They have been given a pedestal and, although attendant on the deities in the main pañjaras, they are of the same size as the directional murtis, and are obviously not intended as diminutive secondary figures.
Altogether 15 major murtis decorate the walls of this shrine. The major sculptures are labeled in 12th century Tamil and Grantha (Sanskrit) script (Figure 24) and relate to the sthalapurana or foundation myth of this temple. Besides these main figures there are countless subsidiary niches, sculptures and decorations. The temple surface is decorated with exceptionally detailed miniatures, scrollwork, lions, dancers and musicians.
Going clockwise round the temple we find the following deities and sages placed in the pañjaras and on the temple wall in the following order (Figure 13).
On the south wall of the ardhamandapam:
(A) Ganapati
(B) Ardhanari
(C) Agastya
On the south wall of the sanctum:
(D) Indra
(E) Dakshinamurti
(F) Romasa Muni
On the west wall of the sanctum:
(G) Chandra
(H) Vishnu
(K) Surya
On the north wall:
(L) Parvataraja
(M) Brahma
(N) Patanjali
On the north wall of the ardhamandapa:
(O) Gangadhara
(P) Alinginamurti
(R) Durga
All these figures display interesting characteristics. In this article some of the more noteworthy aspects will be featured, although this temple has so much to offer the student of architecture, art and iconography, it could easily fill a book.
The sculptural plan as a whole is elaborate, and just as the use of pañjaras, could be interpreted as, in a way, archaic. Using the typology developed by Dr.Hoekveld-Meijer the ground plan and lay-out can be described as II-2-b , which means it is a building with two-stories, with one protruding section and six pilasters in each wall of the garbhagriha or sanctum. The lay-out of the ardhamandapa is type 1-A-3 , which indicates a slightly narrower ardhamandapa or vestibule directly connected to the garbhagriha, with one ‘niche’ in each garbhagriha wall, and three in each ardhamandapa wall.
The most common iconographical plan for a Chola temple is one niche on each of the ardhamandapa walls, and one in each of the sanctum walls. In the clock-wise order of the circumambulation the original arrangement was Ganesha (South ardhamandapa wall), Dakshinamurti (Shiva, South sanctum wall)), Vishnu (West sanctum wall), Brahma (North sanctum wall), and Durga (North ardhamandapa wall). This order for the directions reflects the earliest phase of a Chola lay-out. Vishnu was replaced early on by Ardhanari. Soon after Lingodbhavamurti became the standard West-facing deity. Three murtis on an ardhamandapa wall became quite common during the later part of the 10th century, especially under the influence of the Chola queen Sembyan Mahadevi. But with a different iconographical program, as Shiva Nataraja was the central deity on the southern ardhamandapa wall in most of the temples build in this period.
The three central deities on the sanctum wall in Melakkadambur are Dakshinamurti (seated facing South) (Figure 18), Vishnu (seated facing West) and Brahma (seated facing North) (Figure 11, 23). Dakshinamurti is flanked by Indra on the right and Romasa Maharishi on the left. Vishnu is flanked by Surya, the Sun, on the left, and Chandra, the Moon, on the right. Brahma is flanked by Parvataraja on the right and Patanjali Maharishi on the left. Each flanking figure is depicted as worshipping a small Linga sculpted as part of the pilaster in front of him. The pilasters form a kind of ‘blank niche’ around the figures.
Each of these attending figures is characterized by its own costume, jewelry and attributes. Unique is that each figure is also ‘crowned’ as it were, by a small sculpture on a block above its head which depicts a symbol characteristic for it.
Indra is beardless, wears a crown, is dressed with a draped full length dhoti and a jeweled belt, and wears elaborate necklaces and bracelets on his arms. He is depicted holding a rudraksha mala between his hands which are folded in Anjali mudra, the gesture of worship. The symbol above his head consist of six open spirals containing miniature depictions of his attributes (Figure 24).
Romasa Maharishi is bearded with a moustache and has his hair knotted on top of his head in the manner of a sage. He wears a sacred thread over his left shoulder. His hands are depicted as in the meditation, and his right hand holds a rudraksha mala. He wears a full-length dhoti. The symbol above his head is the cosmic tree. Romasa Maharishi is a mythological figure who is known as the author of an ancient astronomical work, the Romasa Siddhanta. He also plays a role in mythology as a figure with a life-span of astronomical proportions (Figure 25).
Chandra, the Moon is beardless, wears a short dhoti with drapes falling down the side of his legs and a jeweled belt. He wears jewelry on his arms and around his neck, and a crown. His hands are folded in anjali mudra and hold a rudraksha mala. The disk of the moon is depicted behind his head like a halo. The symbol above his head is a whitewater lily (Figure 26).
Surya, the Sun, is similar to Chandra, with a short dhoti and crown, hands folded in worship and holding a mala. The sun disk is shown around and behind his head. The symbol above his head is the lotus (Figure 23).
Parvataraja is the personification of the Himalaya Mountains and the father of the goddess Parvati. He wears a short dhoti and holds his hands folded in anjali mudra with a mala between them. His crown represents the Himalaya Mountains. The symbol above his head is the purushamriga or human-beast, the sphinx of the Indian tradition. Here the sphinx is depicted with a lion body and a human head surrounded by extended mane (Figure 27).
Patanjali is the composer of the Yoga Sutras and one of the founding sages of the Shiva Nataraja temple in nearby Chidambaram. He is depicted with the lower body of a snake and with a five-headed cobra crowning him, as he is the incarnation of the cosmic snake Shesha. His palms are folded together and hold the mala. The symbol above his head is appropriately Shiva Nataraja dancing under a miniature of the golden roof of the Chit Sabha of Chidambaram (Figure 28).
The central murti of the southern ardhamandapa wall is Ardhanari, flanked by Ganesha on the right and the sage Agastya on the left. Ardhanari is Shiva and Parvati together in one form, with Shiva as the male principle on the right side, and Parvati as the female on the left (Figure 29). This form of Shiva occupied the Western niche of Early Chola temples for a while, and was later found among the murtis depicted on the northern ardhamandapa wall during the Sembiyan Mahadevi phase in the later 10th century.
The northern ardhamandapa wall features Alinganamurti as the central figure, flanked by Gangadhara on the right and Durga on the left. Alinganamurti is a representation of Shiva and Parvati seated together. Durga used to be the deity of choice for the northern niche whenever an ardhamandapa had only one deity depicted, but here she holds the subordinate place.
The Gangavataranamurti shows Shiva with four arms attending on a slightly smaller Parvati, while he almost ‘catches’ the descending Ganga in the upper-left corner with his raised arm. A peculiar feature of this murti is the Apasmara, the dwarf figure under Shiva’s right foot. He is sitting in an upright position facing the viewer. This is characteristic for the Apasmara of the Pallava period (Figure 30). In the ekatala shrine crowning this pañjara we see a small figure of Shiva as mendicant or Bhikshatana.
The mythology of this temple explains that Indra worshipped Shiva here to obtain the amrita or ambrosia, the heavenly drink of immortality. The temple is also described as Karakkoil, which means ‘hidden temple’ or ‘temple with a hidden treasure’. The depiction of Parvataraja, Romasa Maharishi, Surya and Chandra indicate an astronomical significance. This is a subject for future research. As it has not been possible to trace a more complete version of the temple’s mythology which could throw a light on the meaning of this elaborate iconographical lay-out, it is not possible to draw any conclusions at this point.
Here ends our discussion of the iconographical plan and the characteristics of the main figures depicted around the temple wall. But these are only the most obvious sculptural features. There are miniatures on the kanthas of the base, on the pilasters, inside the kudus on the kapotas. There are dancers and prancing yalis or horned lions between the palagai and the roof. All the kapotas or cornices are ribbed. The base of the pilasters features scroll-work, within which again we find miniature figures. Many, especially on the kanthas, are narrative in nature.
Under the cornices we find in stone sculpture what would have been the elements of the roof structure had the temple been made of wood and brick. Also under the cornice of the roof and of the shikhara we see stone replicas of beams and connecting structures, as if the roof were made of wood (Figure 31, 20, 21).
The pilasters are octagonal with a square base. Ornamented with lions and opened lotus buds on the corners, scrollwork and dancers in the center. Miniatures are sculpted in great detail around the part called the malasthana (Figure 9).
Typically makara heads with warriors in their open mouths jut out from the corners of Chola temples (Figure 32). Here yalis with warriors on their back jump diagonally from the wall of the base (Figure 33, 34). The structure of the roof does have the makara heads on the corners (Figure 7, 11, 12).
Another feature of earlier Chola temples that is missing is the Bhutagana freeze. Instead we find a series of sculptural panels the details of which cannot be ascertained because it is hidden behind other sculpture (Figure 10).
Some of the most beautiful and interesting of the miniatures are the various forms of Dancing Shiva found on the pilasters. The most eye-catching miniature is of Shiva dancing the Ananda Tandava or Dance of Bliss depicted with his consort Parvati on the right and Brahma playing cymbals on the left (Figure 35). Around the corner, to the left of Brahma, goddess Kali is dancing, and in the next miniature the emaciated figure of Karaikal Ammayar, the female saint, is also playing cymbals. All are focused on Shiva’s Cosmic Dance (Figure 36). Other dancing forms of Shiva found among the sculpture are Gajantaka, Shiva dancing on the Elephant skull (on the pilaster to the right of Indra) (Figure 37) and Urddhva Tandava Murti (on the pilaster to the left of Surya) (Figure 38).
In striking contrast the lower most part of the base is completely bare and plain. And so are the stone wheels that make this shrine a chariot. Usually the wheels of ratha type structures are carved elaborately as for example in the Nageshvara temple in Kumbakonam (Figure 5). Also the positioning of the horses generates questions. The horses with their attendants are turned slightly diagonally away from the main wall (Figure 2). The stone beams that stick out from the wall of the ardhamandapa and seem to serve as yoke to the horse are also positioned in an unusual angle (Figure 18). Additionally this beam looks like it may have been intended originally as an axle to a stone chariot wheel . All this indicates the possibility that, at some time in the past, a renovation was carried out that changed this base.
Indra’s chariot in Melakkadambur is a true master piece in every way. Additionally several features indicate an even more exiting possibility. For example the iconographical lay-out (Vishnu facing West), the ground plan (II-2-b and 1-A-3), the use of pañjaras to house murtis, and some of the iconographical details (for example the upright Apasmara under the right foot of Gangadhara, and the rearing yali figures on the walls and as bracket figures), all point to the possibility we have here a temple that is a replica in stone of a much earlier temple. This may very well have been a temple of brick, wood and plaster, as would be suggested by the imitation of beams and other wooden features in the sculpted roofs and cornices. It could convince us to think it may even have been a temple originally constructed during the time when the Pallava dynasty ruled this part of Southern India. The three compositions found in the Tevaram illustrate this temple was renowned already in the 7th century. The composers of these three poems, the saint-poets Appar and Tirujñana Sambandhar, are known for their close relationship with Pallava kings .
Because it is generally assumed no architecture from the early periods made of brick and wood has survived, its existence is ignored by most studies of Indian architecture. But many early stone temples such as the Rathas in Mamallapuram and others show the sculptors initially often copied in stone what they were familiar with in wood and brick. These features could be studied to improve our understanding of the evolution of South Indian architecture.
The possibility that the Amritagatheshvara temple in Melakkadambur is a replica in stone of an earlier, possibly even a Pallava, temple is an exiting prospect. That this is not necessarily wishful thinking is confirmed by the fact that while speaking to an elderly person present at the time of my visit, I was told the oral tradition about this temple says it was first a chariot made of wood, later reconstructed in stone. We could imagine how difficult it must have been to build such a master piece of architecture and sculpture in brick and wood. How difficult it must have been for the architects and sculptors of the 11th century to execute a replica of such a master piece in a material like granite.
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(1) Ratha means chariot, especially the chariot of the Aryan warriors. A shrine is generally denoted with the word vimana. The word vimana literally means ‘measuring across’ and is used with the primary meaning of shrine but also signifies a flying chariot of the gods. The word is today used in Hindi and other Indian languages for airplane.
(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veeranam_Lake, retrieved on August 11 2009.
(3) Balasubrahmanyam, S.R. Later Chola Temples, Madras 1979, p. 118-125.
(4) The Tevaram is a body of devotional poetry dedicated to Shiva. It was composed by three poet-saints in the 7th and 8th CE and plays a major role in South Indian Shaivism. Each hymn contains 10 songs, thus 30 songs are dedicated to the Presiding deity of the Amritagathesvara temple in Melakkadambur.
(5) Digital Tevaram, Ed. V.M.Subrahmanya Ayer, Jean-Luc Chevillard, S.A.S.Sarma, Patikams 2.68, 5.19, 5.20; CD published by IFP and EFEO 2007.
(6) Hoekveld-Meijer, G. Koyils in the Colamandalam. Typology and Development of Early Cola temples. PhD thesis, Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1981, p.302-307.
(7) Hoekveld-Meijer 1981, p. 112. “A panjara is part of the vimana wall and consists of two pilasters supprting a kapota on which, in its turn, a replica of a small ekatala is placed. The whole stands either on the pattika of the vimana, or on an adhisthana of its own. Occasioanlly it even rests on an upana of its own.”
(7) Hoekveld-Meijer 1981, p. 111-117.
(8) Hoekveld-Meijer 1981, p. 113.
(9) Hoekveld-Meijer 1981, p. 98. “A niche is a rectangular recess in a wall, flanked by pilasters which are shorter than the others and coped by a lintel which rests on two short vira-kanthas. The floor of the niche coincides with the floor of the building, i.e. the pattika. The pilasters are also standing on this floor. The niche is crowned by a makaratorana, placed between the uttira and the lintel.”
(10) This is the northern devakoshtha featuring Brahma in the Shri Mihiraruneshvara temple in Tirumiyachchur. This temple is a Gajaprishtha or Elephant-back shrine.
(11) An ekatala shrine a temple built with one storey, that means it consists of a sanctum capped with a shikhara.
(12) Hoekveld-Meijer 1981, p. 149.
(14) Deekshithar, Raja. Sphinxes in Indian Art and Tradition, Asian Art, July 31, 2009. http://www.asianart.com/articles/sphinxes/index.html, retrieved on July 31 2009.
(15) Hoekveld-Meijer 1981.
(16) Hoekveld-Meijer 1981, p. 84-88.
(17) Hoekveld-Meijer 1981, p. 150-152.
(18) Sphinxes of India, http://www.sphinxofindia.rajadeekshithar.com, retrieved 11 August 2009.
(19) On other ratha type buildings from the same period the axle and the wheel are almost always separately sculpted entities, with even a separate axle-pin. The pin and wheel can be removed from the axle.
(20) Peterson, Indira Viswanathan, Poems to Siva, Delhi 1991, p. 9.
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Posted by Cristina on 4:37 PM
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Published August 30th, 2014 @ 4:37 PM
Post-punk/darkwavers Koban release glorious new EP 'VIDE'
Vancouver post-punk/darkwave duo Koban followed up its stellar full length album null with an equally glorious EP titled VIDE. The 6 song EP includes the single "401a," which premiered back in June, as well as the new single "Cool Wind." Like the band's previous output, the songs feature dark synth grooves and both male and female vocals (courtesy of Samuel Buss and Brittany West). Fans of Bauhaus, Siouxsie & the Banshees, the Cure, and A Place To Bury Strangers owe it to themselves to take a listen to VIDE. Highly recommended listening.
Stream a few tracks from VIDE below and purchase from Bandcamp. Catch up with Koban on the band's official Facebook page.
The Breeders will be heading back out on the road in North America in September for a handful of dates. When the band announced the tour earlier this year, they promised they would debut some new material. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Kim Deal confirmed they're still planning to perform at least a few new songs and they'll likely record them after the tour is over:
"Right now, five that we can play, three sound really good. One sounds OK and the other we could play if we had a gun to our heads. There are other ones we have not worked on, really pretty ones. We will play the new songs and then probably record them back in Chicago with Albini again."
As for the sound of the new record, Deal told Rolling Stone:
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Bob Mould played two songs on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night in support of his new album Beauty & Ruin. Mould's powerful live band usually features Jon Wurster and Jason Narducy, however last night special guest drummer Taylor Hawkins filled in behind the drum kit. Watch the stellar performance of "Hey Mr. Grey" and "The War" below.
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Published August 28th, 2014 @ 5:44 AM
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A book containing Ian Curtis' personal writings will be released through Faber & Faber this fall. So This Is Permanence is a 304 page book featuring lyrics and reproductions of previously unpublished pages of Curtis' notebooks along with a foreward by Deborah Curtis. From the listing:
"Edited by Jon Savage and with a foreword by Deborah Curtis, So This Is Permanence presents the intensely personal writings of one of the most enigmatic and influential songwriters and performers of the late twentieth century, Joy Division's Ian Curtis.
Interspersed with the lyrics are previously unpublished facsimile pages of Ian's notebooks, which throw his highly emotive lyrics into fascinating relief and cast light on the creative process of this singularly poetic songwriter."
A standard and limited edition version of So This Is Permanence will be released in the U.K. on October 2nd. The limited edition version includes a paper envelope containing a high-quality print reproduction of "She's Lost Control" lyrics and is signed by Deborah Curtis, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Jon Savage and Bernard Sumner. Only 200 copies of the limited edition version are available, so those interested are strongly encouraged to pre-order now through Faber & Faber.
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Published August 27th, 2014 @ 11:41 AM
Bob Mould is appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight (Wednesday, August 27th), so be sure to tune in to watch the legend in action!
Mould released his new album Beauty & Ruin in June and hits the road next month in support of the record. Don't miss him at the Magic Stick in Detroit on September 16th. The full North American tour itinerary is posted below.
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Posted August 27th, 2014 @ 11:29 AM
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Posted by Cristina on 12:30 PM
Interpol return with its new studio album El Pintor on September 9th. The full album is streaming ahead of its release over at NPR (through 8/31) and Amazon (through 9/8). Additionally Interpol will be performing songs from El Pintor at KCRW's Mack Sennett Studios in Los Angeles tonight. The band's performance will stream live tonight at 10pm ET as part of a First Listen Live video webcast (accessible through NPR and KCRW).
UPDATE (8/29): Watch the archive of Interpol's live performance here.
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Published August 26th, 2014 @ 12:30 PM
The Ramones aren't rubbish; Morrissey curates new Ramones collection
Morrissey revealed that by request of the Ramones' management he's curated a new Ramones greatest hits collection and selected the sleeve image for the release. The set is expected to be released by Sire/Rhino later this year, though an official street date has not yet been announced.
A young Morrissey famously wrote a letter titled "Ramones Are Rubbish," which was published in Melody Maker in 1976. The scathing correspondence concluded with:
"the Ramones have absolutely nothing to add that is of relevance or importance and should be rightly filed or forgotten."
Moz later regretted writing the letter and told Billboard in 2012, "three days after writing that Ramones piece, I realized that my love for the Ramones would outlive time itself."
Siouxsie & the Banshees reissues on the way + watch 1983 interview
The final four Siouxsie & the Banshees studio albums will be reissued as expanded sets by Universal Music on October 13th. The albums -- Through The Looking Glass, Peepshow, Superstition, and The Rapture -- have been remastered and include rare bonus and unreleased tracks, plus extensive liner notes. The tracklisting and pre-order information for the deluxe sets is expected to be announced in the coming weeks.
Meanwhile, a Siouxsie & the Banshees interview from 1983 recently appeared on You Tube. Take a look at the somewhat awkward video below (a brief discussion about Robert Smith starts ~ the 3 minute mark):
Published August 23rd, 2014 @ 6:56 PM
Echo & the Bunnymen appeared on Letterman last night and performed the new song "Holy Moses." Watch the performance below. "Holy Moses" appears on the band's album Meteorites, which was released in June.
Published August 22nd, 2014 @ 3:18 AM
Morrissey has even more to say about his label drama
Morrissey offered up a new statement regarding his label drama with Harvest. Among other things in the lengthy account, Morrissey believes his new album World Peace Is None Of Your Business will be pulled from iTunes. Read his full statement via True To You.
"In response to 77 million questions I can only say this much on the subject of the Harvest drama. It is quite true that Harvest initially appeared like a saintly beacon of light, and they instantly packed us off to France where we recorded World peace is none of your business. The universe was back in balance, and we all considered this to be the very best Morrissey recording ever, and even the boo-hoo-suck-it-off elements of the press appeared to want to agree. At last I am born.
It all seemed too good to be true. It was. I believed that the rich soil of the album had several strong hit singles. Frayed tempers began when Harvest arranged the 'spoken word' films, none of which gave any clue as to what World peace is none of your business intended to be, or is. The films were OK, but they went nowhere and stayed there.
With every nerve alert, we pushed the label for a proper video for Istanbul to precede the album, not least of all because a single ahead of the album release might inch the album to a higher chart position. The label backed off, even though Istanbul received 55 radio plays in just seven days on a major US station. Instead, the label requested a fifth spoken-word film, which naturally had me fumbling around for an axe: no independent thought required. The UK label, meanwhile, created a quite fantastic television advertisement to transmit during the week ahead of the album release. I could taste excitement once again. The TV ad never appeared and my hackles bristled as my bristles heckled. The label responded with frosty aloofness, and I suddenly realized that we were not, after all, of the same species. I ploughed into them insisting upon "proper band videos, where the band play and I sing" - an evidently confusing concept that required seven weeks of explanation, detailed graphs and several drawn up maps.
The label suggested I come to Los Angeles and read passages from Autobiography in front of selected audiences. As frightening as that idea was, I hung on, desperate to believe that Harvest were not as cheap as they now looked. I hope to finish this statement whilst I'm still clean-shaven, so I will jump to the final curtain: during the weeks of the album release, the label were minus one single structural idea, and it appeared evident that each member of the team was acting in separate rooms without doors or windows. Mutual mistrust exploded between Harvest and I, and with fashionable pessimism, the label boss yawned and ordered the surface smartness of dropping World peace is none of your business three weeks after its release. There, now! This would not have happened to the Teletubbies.
Sorrily botched the project may now be, but it's worth it to get Morrissey out of our Inbox. Yes, I can be intensely persistent, and I certainly have an over-active fantasy-life, but the Harvest experience tells us that despite the blinding flash of teeth and smiles, it doesn't take much for the coin to flip and suddenly we're all compromised and shattered. All you need to do is disagree with the vanity of the label boss and your beheading will be slotted in between bottles of the most average champagne on the market. Just one weak-chinned drone can assert the fist of injustice and all of our efforts are flushed away. And thus ... they were.
I might be wrong, but I think World peace is none of your business will instantly disappear from iTunes and record stores and every download-upload-offload outlet on the planet, because Harvest technically have no right to sell it.
Most of the Harvest team are very nice, and I sincerely thank them for trying and caring so much - even if their promotional duties were fully undertaken by the Morrissey audience themselves, whose You Tube videos for World peace is none of your business fully provide the art that the label could not muster. The listeners instantly understood how entertainment could also be art.
Staggeringly, I still believe that there's a label out there with my name on it, and one that will issue World peace is none of your business, and afford it the respect it deserves.
Thanks for reading this (rashly assuming that you have), and thanks once again to the Harvesters who tried.
We are boot-camp ready for Lisbon in October, so with the will of many gods, hopefully at least 38 of you will turn up."
Published August 21st, 2014 @ 6:46 AM
Swervedriver's Adam Franklin releases 'All Happening Now disc 3'
The third and final installment in Adam Franklin's All Happening Now series was released this week. All 36 songs in the collection were recorded in July 2013 as part of the Songs Project (fans who pre-ordered the limited edition version of Black Horses requested a song for Franklin to cover; Franklin recorded the cover songs over 30 days, then sent the fans a free download of all 36 songs). Due to popular demand, (and after a slight tweaking), Franklin decided to finally make the songs available for everyone to enjoy, as he explained on his website:
"The title 'All Happening Now' was suggested by Samuel Lapalme-Remis and it really was all happening last July - I didn't have too long to spend on each number and so the recordings had to be pretty spontaneous. I have allowed myself the luxury of re-mixing and retouching the tracks here and there in the interim, meaning that a certain number of the original recordings people received remain absolutely exclusive. There has been no additional recording however, just some drum tracks re-programmed and things nudged around."
Purchase All Happening Now on iTunes (disc 1, disc 2, disc 3), or Bandcamp and stream the full collection below:
All Happening Now (disc three) by Adam Franklin & Bolts of Melody
All Happening Now (disc two) by Adam Franklin & Bolts of Melody
All Happening Now (disc one) by Adam Franklin & Bolts of Melody
Four Rock & Roll Bastards Get Together To Fuck Shit Up
Sonny Vincent of Testors formed a new project with Rat Scabies (the Damned), Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols) and Steve Mackay (Stooges). Sonny Vincent & Spite promises to "fuck shit up" on its debut album Spiteful, which arrives on November 17th. Prepare yourself for rock & roll badassery by streaming snippets from the 14 track album in the trailer below. Pre-order Spiteful now through Still Unbeatable Records -- the limited edition release will be available orange vinyl (150 copies), black vinyl (300 copies), and on CD (500 copies).
01. Sidewalk Cracks
02. Wait
03. Bad Superstition
04. Beg For Love
05. Real Hard
06. Disinterested
08. Macon
09. Dog On The Subway
10. Not The Same
11. Borders
12. Inside Your Head
13. Now That I Have You
14. DTK
Video: Jack White & the Vescovo clinic for contagious disease
On July 2nd, Jack White played a unique show in London to promote his album Lazaretto. Drawing on the quarantine theme of Lazaretto, White, along with the help of the Punchdrunk Theatre Group, transformed a set of offices into a Vescovo & Co Clinic for Contagious Diseases and held a secret show. Upon entry, attendees were given masks and hospital gowns, and had to sign release forms to give away their organs. Fans were eventually treated to a live set by White, which ended with him collapsing, being strapped to a gurney, and transported to a hospital (all part of the performance). Third Man Records has uploaded some video from the event which can be viewed below. Pictures from the show are posted here.
Peter Buck follows up the release of I Am Back To Blow Your Mind Once Again with a new EP titled Opium Drivel on October 21st. The listing for the EP via Uncut is posted below. Pre-order the release here.
"Side A features two rockers - one being "Portrait Of A Sorry Man" in which Peter asks for forgiveness for all his sins and one being the classic rock thumper - "If This Is Love Give Me My Money Back". The other B side (did we mention this is a double B side?) is two raw stripped down demos played simply and beautifully by Peter and Scott McCaughey."
Take a listen to a few tracks from I Am Back To Blow Your Mind Once Again below:
Morrissey talks about his new record, health, autobiography, and more in a new exclusive interview with Hot Press. Some entertaining kernels of info from the interview: Morrissey was once offered a Rice Krispies & Kit Kat commercial; he and his band are obsessed with late cabaret star Mrs Shufflewick; a non-authorized Moz biopic titled Steven is in the works; and he's "never not sad." He also briefly mentioned Harvest Records' boss Steve Barnett made positive comments about World Peace Is None Of Your Business (interview likely took place before the acrimony between the label head and Morrissey & his lawyers). Read the interview here.
Dead Can Dance vocalist Lisa Gerrard releases new solo LP 'Twilight Kingdom'
Lisa Gerrard (Dead Can Dance) released her new solo album titled Twilight Kingdom last week in North America. The album includes guests Daniel Johns, Astrid Williamson, Patrick Cassidy, and Russell Crowe. Gerrard shared the official video for "Seven Seas" and posted a full stream of the album on her official site. The track "Seven Seas" is also available as a free download to those who sign up for Gerrard's mailing list.
James premieres video for "Curse Curse" + band lands AIM nomination
James released its new album Le Petite Mort in the U.K./Europe back in June and the album finally arrives in North America on September 16th. Today the band premiered the video for its latest single, "Curse Curse" which is available to view below. The video features footage of James performing live, and unlike the band's intense but remarkable video for previous single "Moving On," this one won't make you tear up at the end.
Pre-order Le Petite Mort through iTunes and Amazon.
Meanwhile, the aforementioned video for "Moving On" was nominated for Independent Video of the Year at the AIM awards. The 4th annual Association of Independent Music awards takes place in London on September 2nd.
Dinosaur Jr leader J Mascis returns with a new solo album titled Tied To A Star on August 25th. Mascis' new album highlights his strong songwriting skills and distinctive voice, but doesn't (and isn't supposed to) rock in the way Dinosaur Jr does. Stream the album in full ahead of its release this week over at NPR (those in U.K./Europe can access the stream here) and pre-order Tied To A Star from iTunes, Amazon, and Sub Pop.
Don't miss J Mascis on tour in North America. Dates listed below:
09/24 -- Hamden, CT @ The Ballroom at The Outer Space
09/25 -- Philadelphia, PA @ World Cafe Live
09/26 -- Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar
09/27 -- Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
09/28 -- Asheville, NC @ Grey Eagle
09/30 -- Birmingham, AL @ Bottletree
10/01 -- Nashville, TN @ Exit/IN
10/02 -- Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club
10/03 -- Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
10/04 -- Louisville, KY @ Zanzabar
10/05 -- St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway
10/07 -- Lawrence, KS @ Bottleneck
10/08 -- Omaha, NE @ Waiting Room
10/09 -- Minneapolis, MN @ Minneapolis Institute of Arts
10/10 -- Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon
10/11 -- Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
10/13 -- Ann Arbor, MI @ Blind Pig
10/14 -- Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
10/15 -- Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Cafe
10/16 -- Washington, DC @ Black Cat
10/18 -- Boston, MA @ Sinclair
11/07 -- Austin, TX @ Fun Fun Fun Fest (Dinosaur Jr)
11/09 -- Austin, TX @ Fun Fun Fun Fest (J Mascis solo)
11/11 -- Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
11/12 -- San Diego, CA @ Casbah
11/13 -- Long Beach, CA @ Alex's Bar
11/14 -- Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo
11/15 -- San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
11/16 -- Sonoma, CA @ Gundlach Bundschu
11/19 -- Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern
11/20 -- Portland, Or @ Dante's
11/21 -- Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
Johnny Marr stopped by BBC Radio 2 yesterday for a live radio session in promotion of his forthcoming album Playland. During the session Marr performed a new song titled "Candidate," plus performed the Smiths' classic "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before." Stream the interview and performance in full below.
["Candidate" begins ~ 09:00; "Stop Me" begins ~ 22:00]
Johnny Marr's new album Playland arrives on October 6th. The album's first single, "Easy Money" is available now as a digital download.
Published August 17th, 2014 @ 9:01
Echo & the Bunnymen wrap up their North American tour this week, but before returning home they'll perform on Letterman this Thursday, August 21st.
UPDATE (8/22 @ 06:50 AM): Watch the performance from Letterman below:
Take a look at an old clip of Echo performing "The Killing Moon" on late night tv below:
Morrissey rebuts Billboard report in latest round of record label drama
Last week Morrissey announced that he was once again in search for a new record label after Capitol/Harvest Records dropped him. The August 9th statement:
"Three weeks after the release of Morrissey's World Peace Is None Of Your Business (#2 UK, #14 US), Capitol Records/Harvest have ended their relationship with Morrissey, as directed by label boss Steve Barnett. Morrissey is once again in search of a record label."
But then on August 15th, Billboard reported that Morrissey's claim was false and he was indeed still signed and under the terms of the contract he still owes Capitol/Harvest one more album:
"Billboard has confirmed that Morrissey is still under contract with Harvest, the label behind his most recent album, World Peace Is None of Your Business.
A source close to the situation tells Billboard that Moz has not been dropped by Harvest/Capitol, and that his contract with the company calls for two releases, the first of which was World Peace."
Today, in round three of LabelGate, Morrissey affirms his previous statement and says Billboard's report is false:
"In response to Andrew Flanagan's incorrect report for Billboard online (15 August 2014), both Morrissey and Morrissey's lawyer are in possession of email correspondence from Steve Barnett (head of Capitol-Harvest Records), and also from Steve Barnett's personal assistant, both of whom confirm that Capitol-Harvest have ended their relationship with Morrissey. No recording Agreement with Capitol-Harvest was ever signed by Morrissey, and Morrissey retains full ownership of World Peace is None Of Your Business. Contrary to the assured Billboard report, Capitol-Harvest have very clearly stated that they would have no interest in licensing a second album by Morrissey. Russells (London), who represent Morrissey, are presently concluding Morrissey's relationship with Harvest Records. Once again, Morrissey is in search of a new label."
Morrissey no longer appears on the official Harvest Records' website.
Swervedriver's Adam Franklin is releasing a collection of 36 songs he recorded in 2013. All 36 songs in the set were recorded in 30 days as part of the Songs Project (fans requested songs for Franklin to record, which he then recorded and sent quickly sent back to the requester). A year later (and after a slight tweaking), Franklin has decided to release the entire collection as a three volume digital set, as he explained on his website:
The entire 36 song collection is broken down into three volumes, each containing 12 songs. The first set, All Happening Now disc 1, was released August 4th, and this week Franklin released volume 2. Both sets are available to purchase through iTunes and Bandcamp. The third and final disc in the series will be released on August 18th. Stream both sets of songs in full below:
Catch up with Adam Franklin on his official website, as well as Facebook and Twitter.
Midge Ure released his new solo album Fragile in the U.K. last month, and the record will finally be released in North America on August 19th. Stream the album in full below via Billboard.
Midge Ure will be on tour in North America over the next few weeks playing a few one-off solo shows and the Retro Futura tour. More solo shows are expected to be announced shortly.
08/19 -- New York, NY @ Iridium (solo show)
08/21 -- New York, NY @ Best Buy Theater
08/22 -- Glenside, PA @ Keswick Theatre
08/23 -- Brookhaven, NY @ Pennysaver Amphitheater
08/24 -- Boston, MA @ Wilbur Theatre
08/26 -- Toronto, ON @ Kool Haus
08/27 -- Chicago, IL @ Ravinia Festival
08/29 -- Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre
08/30 -- Saratoga, CA @ Mountain Winery
09/03 -- Tempe, AZ @ The Marquee
09/04 -- San Diego, CA @ Humphreys Concerts By the Bay
09/05 -- Las Vegas, NV @ Mandalay Bay
09/06 -- Sandy, UT @ Sandy Amphitheater
09/07 -- Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theater (solo show)
09/08 -- Grand Prarie, TX @ Verizon Theater
09/09 -- Denver, CO @ Soiled Dove Underground (solo show)
01/07 -- Seattle, WA @ Triple Door (solo show)
01/08 -- Portland, OR @ Fir Lounge (solo show)
Inspiral Carpets prep first new LP in 20 years; debut video for new single
Madchester faves The Inspiral Carpets return with their first studio album in twenty years. The new album, Inspiral Carpets, will be released through Cherry Red Records on September 29th and is available to pre-order digitally in the U.S. through iTunes and Amazon; physical versions are also available to pre-order through Amazon.
The album's first single "Spitfire" will be released digitally and as a 7" single on August 25th backed by the song "Controller." The Carpets shot the official video for "Spitfire" at the historic Gorton Monastery in Manchester. Take a look below.
Johnny Marr returns with his new solo album Playland on October 6th. Today he debuted the first single "Easy Money" on British radio and the official video is scheduled to debut later this morning. While you're waiting for the video, listen to this morning's interview with XFM plus take a look at the live version of "Easy Money," performed a few weeks ago at Marr's show in Portsmouth, England.
UPDATE: Marr's video for "Easy Money" is now streaming via Pitchfork.
Marr is also eventually planning to release his autobiography. He told Rolling Stone he began gathering stories and info for his book over the last year and a half and he'll begin writing it after the tour cycle for Playland is over. He also revealed that his memoir, "won't be any kind of response to anything," so don't expect any tit-for-tat in regards to Morrissey's best seller Autobiography from 2013.
Tony Wilson, founder of Factory Records and the Hacienda, died on this day in 2007. Take a look at some video clips of Wilson as well as the full documentary about Factory below.
Swervedriver's Adam Franklin releases 36 song set 'All Happening Now'
Last summer Swervedriver's Adam Franklin recorded 36 songs in 30 days for fans as part of the Songs Project (fans requested songs for Franklin to record, which he then recorded and sent quickly sent back to the requester). A year later (and after a slight tweaking), Franklin has decided to release the entire collection as a three volume digital set, as he explained on his website:
The entire 36 song collection is broken down into three volumes, each containing 12 songs. The first set, All Happening Now disc 1, was released this week and is available to purchase through iTunes and Bandcamp. The second volume will be released August 11th, and the final set arrives August 18th.
Stream All Happening Now Disc 1 below and catch up with Adam Franklin on his official website, as well as Facebook and Twitter.
Published August 6th, 2014 @ 8:04 PM
Pulp documentary PULP: A Film About Life, Death and Supermarkets will premiere this week in New York City, then will be screened in select cities in North America (including Detroit) starting November 19th. The film, directed by Florian Habicht, features the band's farewell show to hometown fans in Sheffield, England in 2012, plus includes interview with fans and the band. Take a look at the trailer for the film below along with the initial screening dates.
***Cinema Detroit will be screening the film November 19th through November 30th (no screenings on Thanksgiving Day).
08/06 -- New York, NY @ Film Society of Lincoln Center
08/07 -- Brooklyn, NY @ Rooftop Films
11/19 -- Detroit, MI @ Cinema Detroit
11/19 -- Boston, MA @ Brattle Theatre
11/19 -- Washington, DC @ Angelika Pop-Up
11/19 -- Fairfax, VA @ Angelika Mosaic
11/19 -- Columbus, OH @ Gateway Film Center
11/19 -- Seattle, WA @ Grand Illusion
11/19 -- Portland, OR @ Hollywood Theatre
11/19 -- Dallas, TX @ Angelika Dallas
11/19 -- Plano, TX @ Angelika Plano
11/19 -- San Diego, CA @ Reading Gaslamp
11/19 -- San Diego, CA @ Reading Town Square
11/19 -- Sacramento, CA @ Reading Tower
11/19 -- Honolulu, HI @ Reading Kahala
11/26 -- Los Angeles, CA @ Cinefamily
Post-punk band Protomartyr was featured in the latest issue of Spin. Leader Joe Casey talks in depth about the band as well as Detroit in the feature, which is available to read in full here.
If you like post-punk bands and have not yet heard the new album from Protomartyr, do yourself a favor and stream Under Color of Official Right below. The record is easily one of the best records of 2014.
Published August 5th, 2014 @ 10:36 PM
Morrissey issued a new press statement thanking fans for posting homemade videos to promote his new album World Peace Is None Of Your Business. In the statement he also sang the praises of social media, and lamented that not one television program has reached out to him for a promotional appearance:
"It is 30 years on since The Smiths album entered the UK chart at number 2 with zero airplay and zero promotion, and the struggle for the airwaves remains difficult. Yet, I am writing this to you now, and you are reading it.
In answer to many people who have asked, I should like to finally make it clear that I have not received any television invitations – worldwide! – to either discuss World peace is none of your business, or even to sing any songs from the album."
Morrissey also announced one live show scheduled for October 6th in Lisbon. Shows in Athens, Istanbul, Rome, and Ireland are expected to be announced shortly.
James release 'Le Petite Mort' in U.S. this fall + stream/download live session
James released its 13th studio album, Le Petite Mort, in the U.K./Europe in June and the album will finally be released in North America on September 16th. The album title translates to "the little death" and as one might expect, the subject of death is the theme of the record. Leader Tim Booth wrote the album after suffering the death of his mother, as well as the death of another close friend. Though the album deals with loss, it doesn't do so in a morbid, dark, or depressing way, instead it's a not a morbid or dark/depressing album.
Le Petite Mort is available to pre-order in North America through iTunes and Amazon (obviously fans who can't wait can purchase the import version of the album, though it costs a few dollars more as an import).
Stream highlights from a recent live session with James below -- it includes a few short interview segments plus the performance of six songs (old and new). The session is also available to download for free here for a limited time:
Watch the official video for "Moving On" below (and try not to tear up):
David Bowie exhibit & documentary 'David Bowie Is'
A David Bowie touring exhibition featuring over 300 costumes, photographs, album artwork, handwritten lyrics, and more from the official David Bowie Archive will be on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago from September 23rd through January 4th. Tickets and more info on attending the exhibit is posted here.
To celebrate the exhibition's arrival in the United States, a documentary tour of the ground breaking exhibition will be screened at select theaters nationwide on September 23rd. David Bowie Is was filmed on the closing night of the exhibition in London and was directed by Hamish Hamilton, the director of the Opening Ceremony at the London Olympic Games in 2012.
"The film takes the audience on an extraordinary journey through the David Bowie is exhibition with special guests including legendary Japanese fashion designer Kansai Yamamoto, Pulp front-man Jarvis Cocker, and other collaborators, to explore the stories behind some of the key objects that document Bowie’s artistic career. The exhibition curators, Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh, provide fascinating insight into the most memorable music videos and original costumes, as well as more personal items such as never-before-seen handwritten lyrics, album cover artwork, set designs and diary entries, which reveal the creativity and evolution of Bowie’s ideas."
View a listing of participating theaters* and trailer for David Bowie Is below. For more on the film visit the official site here.
All screenings one night only, September 23rd
Royal Oak, MI @ Main Art Theater
Grand Rapids, MI @ Urban Institute For Contemporary Arts
Phoenix, AZ @ Film Bar
Berkeley, CA @ Landmark Shattuck 10
Hollywood, CA @ Arclight Cinema
Los Angeles, CA @ Vintage Vista Theatre
Pasedena, CA @ Laemmle Playhouse
San Diego, CA @ Landmark Hillcrest 5
San Diego, CA @ Reading Town Square
San Diego, CA Reading Carmel Mountain
San Francisco, CA @ Landmark Embarcadero Centre
Denver, CO @ Landmark Mayan
Denver, CO @ SIE Denver Film Centre
Washington, DC @ Landmark E Street
Miami, FL @ MDC's Tower Theater
Atlanta, GA @ Landmark Midtown Art Cinema
O'Fallon, IL @ O'Fallon 15
Chicago, IL @ Landmark's Century Centre
Cambridge, MA @ Landmark Kendall Square 9
Chestnut Hill, MA @ Showcase Superlux
Revere, MA @ Showcase Revere 30
Baltimore, MD @ Landmark Harbor East
Minneapolis, MN @ Landmark Lagoon
St. Louis, MO @ Ronnies 20
St. Charles, MO @ St. Charles Stadium 18
Edgewater, NJ @ Showcase Edgewater
New York, NY @ Angelika New York
New York, NY @ Village East Cinema
New York, NY @ The Paris Theatre
Cincinnati, OH @ Showcase Springdale 18 with IMAX
Cleveland, OH @ Capitol Theater
Columbus, OH @ Gateway Film Center
Tulsa, OK @ Circle Cinema
Portland, OR @ Hollywood Theater
Philadelphia, PA @ Landmark Ritz Five
Bethlehem, PA @ ArtsQuest Centre
Pittsburgh, PA @ Southside Works Cinema
Dallas, TX @ Angelika Film Dallas
Plato, TX @ Angelika Film Plato
Houston, TX @ Landmark River Oak
Richmond, TX @ Santikos Palladium 22
Tomball, TX @ Santikos Silverado 19
Fairfax, VA @ Angelika Mosaic
Seattle, WA @ The Uptown (Seattle International Film Festival)
Milwaukee, WI @ Landmark Downer Theater
*More cities/theaters are being added, search the listings by zip code here.
Published August 2nd, 2014 @ 5:02 PM
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Newly industrializing nations have long been the source of low-priced, questionable quality merchandise—think Japanese goods in the 60s and 70s, or take a look at the “manufactured in”labels in the clothes we buy—the ones we need to be careful to wash separately so they don’t bleed their color, or wash by hand so the buttons don’t all fall off. To the casual observer it would seem to be a stage of global economic development, one nation serving as the cheap labor and manufacturing resource for another, whose population enjoys the ability to consume in heavy quantities. Ideally the symbiosis leads to true economic development on the one end, and no harm done on the other.
In recent years it has been China’s turn to experience astonishing export growth, as industrialized nations have jumped to take advantage of the opportunities in China. The country produces 80% of the world’s toys, according to the BBC, in over 10,000 factories. But, in 2007 nearly three-quarters of a million toys bearing such trusted and well-known names as Barbie, Big Bird, Elmo, Polly Pocket, SpongeBob SquarePants, Thomas the Tank Engine and Winnie the Pooh have been recalled. China’s reputation has been considerably damaged, as have the reputations of the brand-name manufacturers, the subcontractors, and even the stores that sell the products (JC Penney, Target, Toys R Us). How have we arrived at such a cross-cultural quagmire? Who is to blame? And, the purpose of this column, what role has culture played in this US-China interaction? China has a huge population that is very willing to work at very low-by-US-standards wages. The US has a huge hunger for the low-priced goods the Chinese labor force can produce. It would appear to be a match made in heaven. But it is also an unfortunate snapshot of what happens when capitalism runs wild.
During a recent training I conducted in Dallas, one of the participants, a Chinese national, told me his family’s story. His father is a company employee who has had a good, stable and lengthy career that provided his family comfort. The real financial success has been his mother. She started a bakery some years ago. The business grew, and it was her good fortune to get WalMart as one of her major clients. That enabled her son to attend a prestigious US engineering school and sign on with a top-tier multinational technology company. But his mother, a lifelong entrepreneur, closed her business last year and took a corporate job. WalMart’s demands for ever-lower prices had made it just too difficult for her to stay in business. She didn’t feel she could adequately pay her employees with such low profit margins, she couldn’t afford the maintenance of the facilities, and she knew she couldn’t skimp on product quality to meet the low price demands. She decided it was better to get out now and take a job where someone else had the headache.
So, what is happening here on a cross-cultural level? Well, Chinese and US Americans value monetary success, be it capitalism in the case of the US or prosperity in the case of China. Chinese generally find it difficult to say “no” to a customer; they are eager to work hard to maintain the relationship, and would hesitate to “argue” their case with a major customer. US customers have no such qualms. The objective is cheaper prices for consumers, and better profit margins for stockholders. Though both sides are driven by similar values, their differing communication styles create a potentially dangerous dynamic.
Another factor is the role that the law plays in society. US society is very rule-driven. It is assumed that laws exist to be obeyed (though of course such is not always the case)—FDA standards must be met, lead paint absolutely must not be used, if the rules are not followed there is risk of injury or death to the consumer. The average Chinese may have difficulty understanding such rigidity of the law, being more accustomed to managing their relationships with and thereby the capricious whims of local officials.
Such a focus on relationships can be clearly seen in the case of Lida Toy, the subcontractor to Mattel whose owner, Zhang Shuhong, hung himself in mid-August. Lida Toy factories have been abandoned, putting 5000 migrant workers from China’s poorest provinces out of jobs. The last thing Mr. Zhang did before killing himself was to make sure his employees received their final paychecks. Mr. Liu, a Lida manager, was quoted in Reuters as saying that Mr. Zhang’s best friend was the owner of the company that supplied the leaded paint to Lida.“Zhang was ruined by his evil-hearted best friend,” Liu said. I doubt many Americans would personalize business realities in such a manner.
The recalls themselves illustrate cultural factors as well. Mattel found the problems through their own internal testing (self-reliance), and revealed them in an attempt to be “open, honest and forthright with consumers.” They assumed responsibility by exercising control—they audited all their suppliers and began inspecting all toy shipments from China. Control is another core value in the US; we can see it reflected in the demands to bring outsourcing home, for increased controls and safeguards over imports, and in the demand for an “import czar.”
The Chinese responded to events by quickly revoking Lida’s manufacturing license. It took a bit longer for China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine to issue new toy recall rules, and they also appointed Vice Premier Wu Yi head of a 19-member committee to improve product security. These responses reflect the Chinese value on hierarchy, in this case the leadership of the central government. China also has quite loudly complained about the campaign to discredit its reputation, claiming it to be a form of protectionism, reflecting the importance of national pride.
Finally, in an interesting turn of events, in September the importance to the Chinese of saving face seemed to motivate Mattel to apologize for its over-zealous recall and for “Mattel’s design flaws, not manufacturing flaws in China’s factories” (Fox News, Sept. 21, 2007, quote attributed to Tom Debrowski, Executive Vice President for Worldwide Operations for Mattel). To me this is a terrific example of cross-cultural competence. Rather than blaming the other guy, Mattel stepped up to take its share of responsibility for the mishaps, realizing that its designs must explicitly include all minimum specifications. The Cultural Detective series emphasizes that strong and long lasting cultural bridges require two-way bridging. As long as Mattel follows its apology with improvements in its internal design processes and its communication with and management of vendors, I very much applaud their demonstration of cross-cultural competence in the face of such unfortunate recent events.
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Seven Questions In Heaven With Forget Me In Vegas
LINK | Posted by Chris on Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Today we're spending Seven Questions In Heaven with Forget Me In Vegas, who just made their latest EP, Coulda Shoulda, available for free over at Bandcamp.
Describe your music for our readers who may not be familiar with you.
Our music is generally the soundtrack of a wild Saturday night. We write our music about the craziest things that we go through and generally that happens when the party starts. We're young and pretty reckless at times and our music definitely captures that.
Who are your musical influences and idols?
As a group we look up to similar artists like Cash Cash, The Ready Set, Breathe Carolina and Forever the Sickest Kids but we all have our own individual musical heroes.
Chris Wurzburg: Jamie Okrzynski. That's all.
Jamie Okrzynski: Blink-182 is my biggest influence as a musician, I'm also a big fan of Elvis Costello and Sting and The Dangerous Summer.
Joe Raymond: I'd say bands like Panic! At the Disco, Cartel, and Say Anything are what inspires me in Forget Me In Vegas, but Anthony Green (Circa Survive) and The Dangerous Summer are what really lift my spirits lately.
Garrett Chamberlain: Fall Out Boy and Mayday Parade are both bands that have inspired my bass playing. Both bands have really strong bass players that go crazy on stage which is what I try to project with Forget Me In Vegas.
What was the first album, cassette, or CD you bought with your own money?
Chris: That Offspring album. You know what I'm talking about.
Jamie: The first album I ever bought with my own money was Cheshire Cat by Blink-182 because it had a cat on it and I was 6 or 7.
Joe: I bought a tape of Ma$e, Puff Daddy, and Notorious B.I.G from a record store in the mall when I was really little. I was a thuggin' little kid.
Garrett: Enema Of The State by Blink-182, I think. Either that or Three Days Grace.
Where did the name Forget Me In Vegas come from?
We used a band name generator to get a similar name and felt Forget Me in Vegas captured more of our musical personality.
What made you decide to give your latest EP, Coulda Shoulda, away for free?
We put a lot of heart and spent a lot of time writing and recording the album and want to put it in as many people's ears as possible. Our fans have been ridiculously supportive of everything we've done. We wanted to give them a gift while we record our next record. On top of that, we've been giving our first EP, Get Gone Stay Gone away for almost two years and that's whats brought in a lot of our die hard fans. With us diligently writing and working to get a new record out, we wanted to be able to bring in a new group of High Rollers.
2013 just started, but where do you hope to find Forget Me In Vegas at the end of 2013?
We're going to have a new record out for our fans so we'd love to see ourselves on some bigger tours. Last year and the year before we got to play our area's Warped Tour date and we also graced the pages of AP Magazine in 2012. Being able to repeat those milestones or build on them would be amazing.
Finally, Forget Me In Vegas is the opening act of a music festival. You can get any five artists, living or dead, to perform on the bill with you. Which five do you choose and what song do you all perform as the final jam?
Chris: I'd play an Ultra-like festival in Brazil with Atmosphere, 12th Planet, Jimi Fuckin' Hendrix... This is about to be the weirdest Ultra ever.
Joe: Circa Survive, Queen, Cartel, Paramore, Nirvana (mot with Paul McCartney) and I would want to jam "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen.
Garrett: Mayday Parade, Taking Back Sunday, Led Zepplin, A Day To Remember, and We Are The In Crowd and we'd play "If It Means A Lot To You."
Jamie: I'd play Sydney's Big Day Out in Australia and I would want to play with Blink-182, Elvis Costello, The Police, Snoop Dogg, and John Lennon. We'd cover "Stayin' Alive" by The Bee Gees.
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The Public Presents: The Vine Brothers, Smart House, and Strange Acres
by Cory Perla
[INDIE] For the first time as part of our series The Public Presents, we’re bringing in a band from out of town, a band we’re familiar with and have enjoyed as a staff: Brooklyn’s The Vine Brothers. They caught our attention when they played a charming and intimate set at small house show during last year’s Infringement Festival. The three piece band, Greg Bucking on guitar, Joe Credit III, and upright bassist Garrett Jones, may worship at the altar of Django Reinhardt—with their gypsy-jazz stringed attack—but hints of Neil Young and the Band burn like myrrh through their soulful, Americana chantry. They’ve even been known to play the occasional N’awlins-flavored cover of “Sing Sing Sing” by The King of the Swing, Louis Prima. Their latest album, The Devil and the Deep Black Sky ranges from a lazy float down the Mississippi on songs like “No Desire,” to ruckus, knee slapping fun on songs like “Tune to Go.” Don’t miss them this Saturday, April 11 at The Public Presents at Nietzsche’s with Smart House (see our feature on Smart House in this week’s issue) and Strange Acres.
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澳门真人ag娱乐视频网站宋国To better promote the educational exchanges, Cho and her husband founded the Handa Cultural Exchange Co in Hefei in 2006, with Cho as president
友美A photo taken on June 14, 2017 shows a poverty alleviation relocation site in Leibo county, Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture, Southwest China's Sichuan province流难-- Reuters: "China's ethnic Yi struggle against poverty" (Aug 10, 2017)China lifted 13
道坎China has set 2020 as the target year to complete the building of a "moderately prosperous society," which requires the eradication of poverty宋国About 775,000 officials have been sent to impoverished areas for poverty relief work, said the report友美91 million people out of poverty each year from 2012 to 2016, according to a report from the State Council on Tuesday流难To achieve the target, China needs to bring more than 10 million people out of poverty every year, meaning nearly one million people per month or 20 people per minute道坎9 million people out of poverty each year" (Aug 29, 2017)
宋国[Photo/Xinhua]Poverty reliefAn ambitious poverty reduction campaign is seeking to change this, ensuring by 2020 that no one is living in poverty - defined by the government as less than 2,300 yuan ($349) a year友美The 19th Communist Party of China National Congress will convene in Beijing on Oct 18流难In response to the Hatakaze's entry, the Chinese Jiangkai I-class frigate rushed into the waters, according to the Japanese weekly Nikkei Asian Review
道坎Hiding the first part of the episode, the white paper criticized China for its frigate's entry into Japan's "contiguous" zone near the disputed islets in the East China Sea宋国On June 8, three Russian naval ships entered the waters close to the Diaoyu Islands友美The defense legislation eliminates geographic constraints by substituting a situational threshold (situations that "gravely affect the peace and stability of Japan") rather than limiting support to "situations in areas surrounding Japan"流难Iowa's ties with China had already shown signs of increasing
Even though Iowa is best known for its agricultural products and services, Reynolds said that advanced manufacturing is "actually the largest sector of our GDPReynolds said last month when announcing the trip that "there is no better time than now to market and pitch our products in China
"We believe as a united Iowa agricultural delegation, we can find opportunities that are beneficial to both China and Iowa," Reynolds saidAccording to Allen Williams, the business development manager at the Iowa Economic Development Authority, the state has had more inquiries from China in recent months than in the previous two or three yearsOur relationship with the country is strong, and their growing middle class means increasing purchasing power, and Iowa stands to gain significantly as a resultUS beef had been banned from China since 2003 due to a mad cow disease scare
" When Branstad was receiving a Chinese trade delegation as Iowa governor in March, he remarked that he would like to be able to enjoy a bite of US beef at the US embassy in BeijingMeetings are planned for the delegation with Chinese government officials, industry partners and Branstad in Beijing, Shanghai and Xi'an, Shaanxi provinceIowa Governor Kim Reynolds is leading a trade mission to China that will feature officials from groups representing the state's major agricultural producersReynolds, who succeeded Terry Branstad as governor when he became the US ambassador to China on May 22, noted that agricultural "is the backbone of Iowa's economy and contributes about $112 billion to our economy annually"
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It detailed how one particular photograph in the series depicted the daughter of the famous Chinese statesman, Zeng GuofanThe story about a collection of rare photographs of Beijing from the late 1800s, on show in London's Chinatown, included a number of images from the exhibit - one of which set Watt back on his heelsThe article explained how British photographer, Thomas Child, who had moved to China as an engineer, captured marriage ceremonies during the late Qing dynasty - which spanned from 1644 to 1912"The display of Child's work at the China Exchange, an organization in London, was the first time US-based collector, Stephan Loewentheil, had shared the original images of life during the Qing dynasty in Peking, now known as Beijing"The family rose in importance in Shanghai from the late Qing dynasty into the twentieth century and went through more than 70 years of ups and downs until 1950," he saidWhile Watt's reaction to the never-before-seen photographs was by far the most compelling, the exhibition in Soho's Gerrard Street attracted worldwide attention, making headlines in the UK, the US, Europe and China
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The visit marks the first time the ship has visited West Africa, Xinhua said[Photo/Xinhua]The Chinese Navy's hospital ship Peace Ark is providing humanitarian medical services to the people of Sierra Leone during an ongoing port call in the West African nation, Chinese media reported
澳门真人ag娱乐视频网站The vessel arrived on Tuesday in Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital and largest city, which is a major port on the Atlantic OceanA nurse from China draws blood as part of an examination of a boy on the Peace Ark on Sept 21,2017
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Unemployment at highest level since Great Depression
Submitted by midtowng on November 7, 2009 - 2:12pm
The official number is still slightly lower than the brutal winter of 1982-83. But the broad unemployment number says otherwise.
For all the pain caused by the Great Recession, the job market still was not in as bad shape as it had been during the depths of the early 1980s recession — until now.
With the release of the jobs report on Friday, the broadest measure of unemployment and underemployment tracked by the Labor Department has reached its highest level in decades. If statistics went back so far, the measure would almost certainly be at its highest level since the Great Depression.
In all, more than one out of every six workers — 17.5 percent — were unemployed or underemployed in October. The previous recorded high was 17.1 percent, in December 1982.
This includes the officially unemployed, who have looked for work in the last four weeks. It also includes discouraged workers, who have looked in the past year, as well as millions of part-time workers who want to be working full time.
Officially, the Labor Department’s broad measure of unemployment goes back only to 1994. But early this year, with the help of economists at the department, The New York Times created a version that estimates it going back to 1970. If such a measure were available for the Depression, it probably would have exceeded 30 percent.
Compared with the early 1980s, a smaller share of workers today are officially unemployed and a smaller share are considered discouraged workers.
But there are many more people who would like to be working full time and have been able to find only part-time work, according to the government’s monthly survey of workers.
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U6 17.5%
Submitted by Robert Oak on November 7, 2009 - 2:46pm
For those who don't recall, the post is referring to U6, a broader measure of the unemployment rate.
Total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers.
Marginally attached workers are persons who currently are neither working nor looking for work but indicate that they want and are available for a job and have looked for work sometime in the recent past. Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached, have given a job-market related reason for not looking currently for a job. Persons employed part time for economic reasons are those who want and are available for full-time work but have had to settle for a part-time schedule.
U6 includes people with part-time jobs, but only those who cannot get full-time.
I think the real story on U6 is how corporations, companies now routinely refuse to give workers full-time jobs to avoid a host of additional costs, such as benefits. We even have many local, state, federal jobs doing this trick.
So, one ends up working 2,3 jobs, all with no benefits to get full-time wages. But it's never really full-time wages because one is being denied a host of benefits, including unemployment insurance potentially.
Another trick to avoid having to pay benefits and esp. any unemployment insurance is to claim people are contractors and small businesses. That makes the individual responsible for all benefits, taxes and most importantly, they cannot claim unemployment insurance since they are self-employed.
Obviously someone with one client, working for one client for a year or longer, at low hourly rates or even worse, per project (a trick often used on tech. workers to squeeze them even further), is not exactly a small business.
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And those 2, 3 jobs....
Submitted by James Woolley on November 7, 2009 - 3:30pm
...are counted as 2 and 3 individually employed people, again incorrectly skewing the numbers. (Great points, BTW!)
Our real unemployment, when figuring up the growth numbers in both poverty and homelessness, is in the vicinity of 32% to 36% unemployment. They have gamed far too many statistical indicators and provide far too many variances to believe otherwise.
really? have a reference?
We also have the lovely manipulated birth/death population model.
But this is the first I've heard of part-time being double, triple counted. Do you have a reference?
I know the BLS counts foreign guest workers in the occupational stats, which hides the use of these Visas to displace U.S. workers and artificially deflates the real unemployment rate in some occupations. STEM being the most notorious.
This article says if compared to the Great Depression, their U6 would have been 30%. But yeah, comparing Apples to Apples is very tough with these stats.
As it was I stopped writing up weekly initial unemployment claims because it was so obviously manipulated. they would revise upward the previous week report so the new one made it look like initial claims had dropped....every week.
Obviously with a 10.2% unemployment rate we are not creating new jobs and while the initial unemployment rate has dropped....that's in comparison to a tsunami from Q1 2009. If you compare it to any other recessionary time period, the numbers are still in recession turf for new unemployment claims.
The view from different parameters
You outstanding blog points out a common error that has been bugging the Hell out of me, and many others, forever. And thanks for the marvelous blog -- too many fall to the error of the apparent: the way they were measuring unemployment back in the '80s is different from today, just as the way the measured it back during the Great Depression is far different than the present.
During the Great Depression, they actually reported all the numbers as closely as possible (i.e., they didn't exempt temporaries, contractors, self-employed, etc., etc.).
The metrics (hate using the popular biz vernacular) back in the '80s are even different from today, a bit more efficient even back then -- until Reagan changed it.
This unemployment problem is
Submitted by Brandon Hansen (not verified) on November 7, 2009 - 8:01pm
This unemployment problem is very troubling. Why wasn't the stimulus money used to make more jobs?
Brandon Hansen
Just South of North
http://www.justsouthofnorth.com
Submitted by harleyj (not verified) on April 2, 2010 - 11:23am
Brandon, the Republicans fought a broad based infras-structure investment of stimulus funds because they knew it would put people to work and they wanted to make sure that anything Obama tried would fail in that regard. The Republicans have used every tactic available to them to keep unemployment high for strictly political reasons...REPUBLICANS RUN TO WIN, NOT GOVERN. WHEN THEY DO TRY TO GOVERN, THEY GOVERN ON BEHALF OF THOSE WHO DON'T NEED GOVERNMENT--THE OLIGARCHS, PLUTOCRATS AND CORPORATISTS--AT THE EXPENSE OF THOSE WHO NEED GOVERNMENT--THE TOO OLD, THE TOO YOUNG, THE TOO SICK, THE TOO POOR, THE WORKING POOR, THE MIDDLE CLASS, THE AIR, WATER, FLORA AND FAUNA. THAT IS THEIR HISTORY, THEIR PRESENT, THEIR FUTURE!
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Minister: Checks on leisure craft intensified this summer
Shipping Minister Yiannis Plakiotakis expressed his deep regret on Saturday over a boating accident on Friday that left two people dead and one seriously injured, noting that checks on speedboats and other leisure craft have intensified this summer.
He said that although checks take place throughout the year, they have intensified this summer due to an increase in traffic.
More specifically, he said that at least 10,696 checks took place within a two-month period this summer and that 836 infringements have been recorded so far.
The accident late Friday involved a collision between two boats near the popular tourist resort of Porto Heli in the Peloponnese, southern Greece.
According to the coast guard, a 10-meter inflatable speedboat carrying eight to 10 French nationals crashed into a 5-meter wooden boat with three Greek nationals on board.
The smaller boat sank and the two men who had been aboard were recovered dead.
The third Greek on the wooden boat was a woman, who was severely injured.
The 44-year-old speedboat driver appeared before port authority officials in Porto Heli with his lawyer later on Saturday morning after initially having fled the scene following the accident on Friday evening.
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DP FICTION #56A: “Tracing an Original Thought” by Novae Caelum
It’s like this: if the world has a food shortage, you eliminate hunger by leaving the planet, taking all your animals and plants in your genetic ark, and finding a new planet on which to grow and flourish.
It’s also like this: if the world has a distribution of wealth crisis, you eliminate poverty by never having elites in your new society. At least for a little while. At least, that was the plan.
And if the world has a gender crisis, an inability for equality, you eliminate gender.
You eliminate sex. The need for physical reproduction. Genetic disease. Gender politics.
You eliminate.
And then maybe you’d live in Arioth, city under the vast hanging visage of a ringed gas giant, black towers that reach for the stars, portal tubes flicking citizens from building top to street corner to corner office.
I’m not one of the elites. They lounge in their penthouses, looking down at their domains, moving the tides of originality. They own the artisans, the writers, the thinkers, the scientists—the hearts, the minds, the souls—all valuable trade commodities. Original thoughts, a groundbreaking currency. The first time you have an original thought, you’re a slave of the elites for life.
I decided long ago to never have an original thought. Which is why I became a tracer, hunting the original thinkers who have the very unoriginal idea of running away from their fates.
On a dingy street corner smelling of rotten garbage, where red marks mottled the concrete from the last clearing of a shack village, I pulled my phone out of my pocket, flipping up the eight-centimeter cylinder to activate the holographic display. It unfolded with a cheery chime and showed me a map of the city district in blue lines to the edge of the biodome, which was about a half kilometer from where I was standing.
It also showed me the path my target had taken, a haphazard red weave through streets and alleyways. Did they think they could lose me? Everyone in Arioth was genetically tagged since before emergence. Every child, traceable in every way since the time cells hit cells and became more cells, replicating in the gestation pods. You couldn’t run, not as a toddler, not as an adult. Tracers didn’t have to have original thoughts, because the most strenuous part about being a tracer was the violence, not the tracing itself.
I scrolled the holo to follow my target’s trail, but it went to a street corner in a particularly seedy district and stopped. I stared at the red dot on my display. It wasn’t blinking as it should have been. And it wasn’t white like it would have been if they’d died. Just solid red staring back at me, like they’d stopped themself somewhere between life and death. That little dot with the name “Emin 4892” beside it.
I’d been a tracer for six years, and I’d never seen a dot do that.
I slapped my phone against my neatly pressed jeans, hoping to jolt out any malfunction. The tracer department was not a department that had a lot of originality, and therefore not a lot of chance for technical upgrades. This phone was at least ten years old and buggy as hell.
The red dot remained, though.
I sighed, shoving down my growing unease. I’d have to investigate—following procedures, of course. Not with anything like original thought.
I had my personal numbers and stats in my vision at all times, eyes opened or closed. Everyone did. We saw our names—mine was “Gin 8381.” We saw our physical attributes—cropped brown hair, mid-brown skin, green eyes. Average height, below average weight. We saw our vitals—fit and healthy. We saw, when we were adults, when it was time to visit a clinic and let them harvest cells for the production of the next generation of creche children. We saw alerts from the elites. We saw traffic routing, job assignments based on genetics and aptitudes, and alerts on where to take our daily meals. Everything pertaining to personal, daily life.
And on the left side of my vision, always in movement, was the red to green bar of original thought.
The theory was that if you had an original thought, you would be elevated. You would have a chance, if the thought was original enough, and if you had enough of them, to become an elite. Or at least work under the elites, a few steps higher than you had been.
Some people strove for original thoughts. Their slavery was swift and usually unknowing. They’d lose themselves into their dream worlds and never know how many trade empires depended on their originality.
Some tried hard not to have original thoughts but had them accidentally. Those slaves went fighting and screaming into their elevated exiles.
But most people, from an early age, learned to manage the level of their originality bars. Keep it above red—where you’d be kicked to the streets as genetic chaff—but below yellow-green. If you could hold a steady yellow-orange, you’d have a nice, ordinary, productive life. No great upheavals. No great risks, no great rewards.
My originality bar was steady in its usual yellow-orange as I trekked through the litter-strewn streets. A rain had been scheduled for earlier that day, and my boots made soft splashes in black puddles. I’d known the rain was over when I’d come out, but I’d worn my brown duster with its weather-proof coating anyway, because I liked it.
There were no portal tubes in this district, and auto cabs wouldn’t come here, so I had to walk. People would strip both portals and cabs for the metals and resell the parts. That thought was hardly original.
I went through memorized procedures over and over in my mind, a numb and soothing counterpoint to a rising anxiety. My left hand played with the cool metal of my phone in my pocket, a nervous habit I’d never tried to break. I had a sour feeling in my stomach, something that rarely happened on a trace. Tracing was usually as simple as finding the target and bringing them in. Give or take a few bruises or tase gun singes.
But as I neared the place where my target had stopped and saw the sign above the grimy storefront glass, my unease grew.
It was a cuddle shop. There were hundreds of them around the city. If you didn’t have a domestic partner or two, or if you were desperate enough for human contact, you could find it here.
I’d been to some of the middle-class facilities—called Human Contact Therapy there—I wasn’t a recluse. But everyone who was sane stayed away from shops in districts like this. Places like this, people found ways to piece together originality without ever having a full original idea on their own. How to build illicit tech to simulate nerves and responses that were no longer in the human genetic code. Because humans had apparently not out-evolved the need for sex, despite the lack of equipment for it or the stability of a truly sexless society. Which was ridiculous. Genetics were more stable without the haphazard nature of biological reproduction. People didn’t go into hormonal rages like we learned about in ancient history. And there was far, far less abuse. Who could imagine a society so divided that one half subjugated the other purely based on genetics?
I pushed through the creaking door into the shop and had the thought I sometimes had, that maybe our society wasn’t so different from the old horrors in the history texts. That eliminating biological sex and gender had only transferred the problem to a different arena. Humans would always find a way to dominate others, and maybe that domination was still genetic. The bred thinkers vs. the bred non-thinkers. The elites vs. those in shacks on the streets. All watched, all pre-disposed to their lives, and if someone broke their prescribed mold, it was because they were supposed to. Genetic destiny, because the geneticists did not make mistakes. Everyone in their place.
The originality bar on the side of my vision hardly twitched. This thought I was having was not an original thought. Not for me, not for the millions of people monitored by the system.
“Can I help you?” A squat, older person with wild gray hair came toward me in the shop’s humid, off-white lobby.
I grimaced at the tang of sweat in the air. But I pulled out my phone, flipped open the holo, and showed a picture of my target. “I’m looking for this person. Have you seen them?”
“Oh,” the squat person said. “Oh, yeah. Yeah, they’re here.”
I tilted my head. “Still here? Still alive?” I flicked my phone’s holo back to the map. The red dot was solid, and close.
The person fidgeted, a sort of nervous dance. I focused on them, my tracer’s license giving me the ability to see their vitals, their originality bar. All were dangerously high. In a city that tried its best not to do anything out of the ordinary, fear was an original thought.
“Come with me,” the squat person—Dev 1126, the registered owner of this property—said, and led me into the back.
I passed steamy, translucent cubicles. I did not think about what was happening inside them, my lips tightening against the perversity. Human touch was fine. Benign affection was fine. More than that was dangerous.
The owner led me past all the cubicles to a room in the back, a room that had a sterile edge about it, with medical objects and tech on steel counters and an unoccupied medical table in the center.
“I don’t do anything here,” Dev 1126 said. “I just own the building.”
A standard excuse for one part of an original idea. Someone would own the place. Another would facilitate the tech parts, and a few more daring idiots would brush against fate by having just enough of an idea to spread it around. To build whatever they were building.
The room was empty. I checked my map again, and the red dot was centered just beyond this room. I reached into my right coat pocket for my tase gun.
“Hey,” the owner said, putting their hands up. “Hey, I didn’t do anything. Your target’s in there. Back through there.” They nodded at a back door.
Everything about this felt like a trap.
Fortunately, there were procedures for traps.
I shouted, “Emin 4892, come out peacefully, or I will use excessive force!”
I wasn’t expecting my target to come out so easily, and fully expected to have to turn my tase gun’s settings to demolition, but the door cracked, and a slim hand poked out and waved.
“I’m coming out,” a high-pitched voice said. Abnormally high. High with fear?
My brows knit and I hesitated, my aim wavering. Did I have the right person? There was something…off…about that voice. My originality bar jerked precariously upward, and I set my thoughts into reviewing the case file again. The voice did partially match the voiceprint on genetic file for Emin 4892. Thirty-three years of age. Food tester for a gourmet food chain. Nice job, don’t know why they left it. Don’t know why they wanted to have an original thought, if they wanted to at all.
The whole person came out through the doorway. Below average height and weight, bowl-cut black hair. They both were and were not my target. Cosmetic surgery had been involved, certainly. But had it healed this quickly? I’d only got the alert on my target that morning.
Emin 4892 wore a loose, surgical-type green gown and crossed their arms under…anatomy that should not be there.
We all knew what we came from. We all knew the barbaric forms our ancestors had been forced to live in for thousands of years before they were evolutionarily liberated. We knew the carnal drives that society insisted we were no longer slaves to but places like this insisted still lingered in our minds, like an itch that was never quite scratched.
I had never seen an actual throwback, a female, before. For a fleeting, dangerous moment, I wondered if I would feel something more than I should, if my thoughts would turn too original, but they didn’t. I guess I’d never had that itch.
But Emin 4892 apparently had.
They read my judgment, my horror, and their black eyes turned cold. They held their arms tighter around themself.
“That’s right, look at me,” they said. “This is who I am. You can’t take it from me.”
Emin 4892 and the people of this shop must have found a way to perform surgery—no, some kind of genetic splicing or modification—without scars and with rapid healing factor. That in itself was massive originality and an incredibly valuable commodity.
I stared at Emin 4892, and I couldn’t see their vitals. Their red locator dot still shone on my phone, but it hadn’t moved from the back room. Whatever had been done to them had been done there, and that’s where the dot had stopped. Where “they” had stopped and become “her.”
It was physiological, wasn’t it? Not just a cosmetic change. This person was actually female.
I tightened my grip on my tase gun. “Yes, I can take it away. Emin 4892, congratulations. You have had a highly original thought. You will be taken to originality processing where you will be given new accommodations to match your risen status.”
Emin 4892 flipped me the finger. But she didn’t try to bolt. She wasn’t going to run, was she?
“I’m original,” she said, voice tight and smug. “I’m original. I’m an artist, and this is my art.” She waved down at her body. “I decided to make a study of ancient human anatomy. That is an acceptable branch of study. I made an original breakthrough in the field of this art. Look at me—a living sculpture. You can’t destroy that, or return me to how I was. Destruction of originality is a capital crime, isn’t it?”
My thoughts jittered, following her logic. I tried to keep my thoughts in line, but my originality bar rose dangerously into yellow-green. My heart rate intensified.
“Yes, destruction of originality is a crime,” I gasped. I closed my eyes, still watching my originality bar, and ran backward through my most-used procedural manual.
My thoughts began to flow again. To slow. The originality bar went back to yellow-orange.
I exhaled and opened my eyes. I’d take my target in. They were not my problem—they were for someone much more original than I to deal with. It didn’t matter that my target had a point to make, or a sculpture to display, or whatever perversity they thought they were getting away with. It would all smooth out in the end. And it was not my problem.
Emin 4892 sensed their victory, whatever victory they thought they’d gained, and held out their arms. I slapped cuffs on their wrists and shuffled my target out of the shop. I flagged the shop for immediate lockdown and further investigation. It would be shut down, the valuable tech confiscated and taken to be studied by more original scientists. Those who’d built the tech would be traced and taken in, too. You couldn’t escape the fate of original thoughts.
Society would continue in its stability.
Or would it? I darted a glance at Emin 4892. Were they—I couldn’t use “she” without my originality bar climbing, and maybe it wasn’t even “she,” did I even have a right to determine that?—as deranged as our society dictated? Did they just want attention and infamy or did they seriously think that going back to humanity’s original evolutionary forms was a good thing? And if Emin 4892 had caused this much stir already, how could so much originality, so much chaos in concepts like gender or sex, possibly be good?
Emin 4892 walked beside me with a confidence, a carriage in their step I’d only seen in elites. And their eyes flashed with something beyond the defiance, their mouth tight with intense determination. This meant something to them. Something more than status, maybe even more than a statement.
My originality bar started to climb again, and I shunted my thoughts back to procedures, looking away.
Emin 4892 grinned. A sour, knowing grin.
And I hated myself for feeling the contempt in that grin and knowing that I maybe deserved it. That maybe we all did.
That was also not an original thought.
I escorted my willing target down the city blocks to the nearest portal tube, doing my best not to think of societies and change.
© 2019 by Novae Caelum
Author’s Note: Being queer and non-binary, one of the things I think about a lot is what a future society might look like where gender and sexuality aren’t an issue, and everyone freely expresses who they are. Usually, that feels like a big, happy world (or worlds!) to me, and I truly hope for that future. But this story was born out of what if that idea went horribly wrong and the concepts of gender and sexuality weren’t normalized but banned—what would that society look like? Turns out, pretty dark.
Novae Caelum is an author, illustrator, and designer with a love of spaceships and a tendency to quote Monty Python. Stars short fiction has appeared in Intergalactic Medicine Show, Escape Pod, Clockwork Phoenix 5, and Lambda Award winning Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction. Most days you can find star with digital pen in hand, crafting imaginary worlds. Or writing alien poetry. Or typing furiously away at stars serial genderfluid romance novels, with which star hopes to take over the world. At least, that’s the plan. You can find star online at novaecaelum.com.
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Finance case study: #TDThanksYou becomes Canada's biggest YouTube ad
TD Canada Trust created the country's most successful YouTube ad of 2014. As a result, it increased brand affinity and touched customers at home and abroad with a heartfelt campaign that is the envy of brand managers globally. What is the secret to the #TDThanksYou campaign success? This case study looks at how the bank won over customers by offering authenticity and genuine choice through a strong paid, owned and earned media strategy.
Case study summary
• Bank created heart-warming video of customers receiving unexpected gifts, combined with paid, owned and earned strategy to boost brand love.
• Paid Strategy used experiential marketing to create the content, then YouTube TrueView to seed it
• Earned Strategy encouraged and enabled social sharing to get the attention of mainstream media and trade PR
• Owned Strategy led customers to contribute and read the #TDThanksYou site
• Most watched video ad in Canada and one of the top in the US- generating media buzz around the world, with a brand affinity increase of 26%.
In summer 2014, TD Canada wanted to use a heartwarming video to share and heighten #TDThanksYou, an on-the-ground experiental campaign, to increase TD's brand affinity with consumers. But once you've successfully developed a creative ad, how do you get your audience to notice, and care?
The #TDThanksYou campaign used its annual Customer Appreciation Day as an opportunity to achieve this in a distinctly different way. The idea was to thank customers with very personal, very human gestures that underlined the special relationship and to capture these acts in a video for promotion and social sharing.
A key element was to promote the video in a way that was aligned with the central message of thoughtful engagement, so TD chose YouTube TrueView ads. Would the choice of skipping its ad result in fewer views or would this choice itself enhance its message and subsequently the perception of the TD brand?
TD worked with agencies Diamond Integrated Marketing and Leo Burnett to build a campaign that demonstrates TD is truly the bank of comfort. TD wanted to show that it's a bank that cares more about its customers than about their money. How did it do this? In four cities across Canada, it transformed ATMs into Automated Thanking Machines.
"We wanted to say thank you to our loyal customers," explained Chris Stamper, senior vice president of corporate marketing, community, and environment at TD Bank Group.
A four-minute video ad captured genuine, compelling emotion as pre-selected customers received personalized gifts that took both their breath and viewers' breath away.
Plane tickets for a mother to be with her sick daughter back home in Trinidad. A trip to Disney for a single mom and her two boys. A Blue Jays jersey and the opportunity to throw out the first pitch to José Bautista for a passionate baseball fan.
The #TDThanksYou campaign video shares authentic moments of surprise and heartfelt gratitude when real customers are presented with such special gifts.
"It showcased the personal and meaningful relationships between bank staff and its customers. It captured hearts because it was real," said David Diamond, managing partner at Diamond Integrated Marketing.
TD couldn't give every one of its clients a trip or a special memento, but it could invite a worldwide audience to be a part of someone else's stirring moment, an experience in itself.
From the outset, the strategy was not to create a viral video. It was to share and promote an authentic experience to a demographic that would appreciate and enjoy being part of that.
The campaign, embodied in the emotional video that said it all, was too special to leave to chance on a crowded internet.
TD worked with Google to implement a YouTube TrueView ad strategy that complemented and extended the reach of its campaign. The TrueView ad format offers the audience the choice to view or skip ads after five seconds. Given the authenticity of TD's story, this choice was well matched with the sincere, appreciative message of the creative and the results show that viewers let the gripping video continue.
And choice created goodwill, allowing the word "ad" to get out of the way for the user to enjoy an honest and moving online experience.
@thockey1 surprised visit @TD_Canada Yonge & Adelaide taking selfies! Staff and clients excited! #TDThanksYou pic.twitter.com/xDBSr6RbtS
— Al Ramsay (@AlRamsay_TD) July 25, 2014
Within a week, the video ad had been viewed 5.2 million times and was a social media darling. Instead of skipping it, Canadians watched it, liked it, shared it, and talked about it on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Ultimately, it captured the top spot on the July 2014 YouTube Canada Leaderboard as the most-watched video ad in Canada and one of the top in the U.S.
The campaign was featured on CTV, NBC, Today, CNN Money, and Mashable, among others, and has become a campaign that digital marketers around the world study and learn from.
To understand the post-campaign impact of the ad, TD ran a Google Consumer Survey to measure change in viewers' perception about the TD brand. A Google Consumer Survey is a powerful online tool that allows brands to gather fast and accurate market research.
Not surprisingly, TD brand affinity, a consumer's emotional connection with a brand, increased 26%. The survey also found that people who watched the video were twice as likely to feel positive about TD.
All because the authentic campaign was underpinned with a paid media strategy that engaged audiences at the right time in the right place and with true choice.
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Saleh returns to the country after the participation of Arab and Islamic groups in Mecca
by claud39 on Sat Jun 01, 2019 10:12 am
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The presidency announced on Saturday the return of President Barham Saleh to the country after the participation of the Arab and Islamic groups in Mecca.
"President Barham Saleh returned to the country on Saturday after a fruitful participation in the Arab emergency summit and the 14th summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in the holy city of Mecca," the office said in a statement received by Alsumaria News.
"The region needs stability based on a system of common security, based on respect for sovereignty, non-interference in internal affairs and renunciation of violence and extremism," Saleh said.
"Stabilizing stability in Iraq requires the cooperation and understanding of our brothers, neighbors and friends, which requires all our brothers to support us and stand by us, because Iraq is one of the most important pillars of the region."
"Any clash in our region will endanger the security of Iraq, and from this point of view, out of our interest in Iraq, and out of our keenness on the security of the region and on the basis of our concern for the security of our brothers and the Arab national security," he said. "Iraq will do its utmost to open the door to constructive dialogue. The need to adopt direct dialogue, and renounce violence and war. "
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The Islamic Summit hails Iraq's role in bringing peace and stability to the region
by claud39 on Sat Jun 01, 2019 1:14 pm
Information / Baghdad ..
The final communiqué of the 14th Islamic Summit Conference of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Saturday praised the role of Iraq in fighting terrorism and establishing peace and stability in the region. He affirmed his full support for the Iraqi government, condemned the crimes committed against Iraq 's cultural heritage.
"The conference expressed its full support for the Iraqi government in its efforts in the fight against terrorism, and the price of what has been achieved," said the final communiqué of the fourteenth session of the Islamic Summit Conference (Makkah Summit: Hand in Hand Towards the Future) held in Mecca. A comprehensive victory that enabled the liberation of Iraqi cities from the grip of the criminal entity and urged . "
The conference stressed its keenness on " Iraq's unity and territorial integrity," praising the "efforts of the Iraqi government to return the displaced people to their homes and the reconstruction of liberated areas, which enhances and supports community reconciliation and the restoration of these areas."
The final communiqué of the Mecca conference also stressed the "role of Iraq in combating terrorism and in bringing peace and stability in the region."
The Conference condemned "the severity of the crimes committed against the cultural heritage in all its forms, both material and intangible, in Syria, Iraq, Mali, Libya and other Member States." He called on ISESCO and IRISCA to "coordinate with Member States and all concerned partners at various levels to strengthen cooperation with relevant institutions In order to monitor the cultural, cultural and religious heritage in the Islamic world, and to participate in acts of destruction and destruction against heritage landmarks by establishing the OIC platform for the preservation of cultural heritage in the Islamic world and considering the possibility of establishing a To preserve heritage in the Muslim world. "
The conference reaffirmed the "centrality of the question of Palestine and the issue of Al-Quds Al-Sharif to the Islamic Ummah" and affirmed its "principled and continuing support at all levels to the Palestinian people for their inalienable national rights, including the right to self-determination and the establishment of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state on the 1967 borders. And the need to protect the right of return for refugees under Resolution 194 and to face any denial of these rights with all force. "
The Conference condemned "the most serious statement of any illegal and irresponsible decision that recognizes Jerusalem as the alleged capital of Israel, the occupying Power, as null and void and constitutes an attack on the historical, legal and national rights of the Palestinian people and the Islamic Ummah." He called on countries that moved their embassies or opened commercial offices in the city To "reverse this step as a serious violation of international law and international legitimacy and deliberate undermining of the future of the peace process in the Middle East and is in the interest of extremism and terrorism and threatens international peace and security." Ending / 25
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Deputy for Fateh: Saleh's position during the Mecca summit gives diplomacy an additional power
MP Mohammed al-Baldawi praised Saturday the position of President Barham Salih by rejecting the final communique of the Arab summit in Mecca, pointing out that the situation gave Iraqi diplomacy an additional force in the process of reconciliation among the countries of the region.
"President Barham Saleh added a strong impetus to Iraqi diplomacy by refusing to engage in any axis against Iran or any other country," al- Baladawi said in a statement .
He Albulada that "Saleh was part of a government plan to prevent Iraq sliding in any axis against other countries , " noting that " Iraq continues reconciliation efforts between the warring nations and prevent any aggression against the Iranian people or another country." Ending / 25 d
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Mohammed Salah tops the Africa digital football stars
Mohammed Salah has underlined his growing pedigree as Africa’s biggest Football star by winning both the Caf Africa Player of the year and the BBC Award but now also tops the Africa Digital Football Stars report released by German based research company, Result Sports.
Salah tops a list of 60 African Football Stars on social media with a digital community of 18, 107, 322 fans followed by Didier Drogba on 16, 306, 174 and Samuel Eto’O on 12, 871, 174.
The Liverpool Star has 7.6m fans on Facebook, 6.7m on Instagram and 3.7m on Twitter which gives him quite some reach and his fan base continues to grow.
Salah won the Africa Player of the year last Friday in Accra, Ghana pipping Liverpool team-mate, Sadio Mane and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang at a colourful ceremony at the Ghanian capital and his acceptance speech was full of appreciation to his team-mates and his fans:
"Winning this award is a dream come true – 2017 was an unbelievable year for me I had a fantastic time with the national team," said Salah after receiving the trophy.
"This is a big award for me, a special moment in my career. I would like to dedicate it to all the kids in Africa and Egypt.
"I want to tell them to never stop dreaming, never stop believing."
The report takes into consideration three of the most popular social media platforms on the African continent, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram as shown in the charts below.
Egyptian Football Legend, Mohammed Abou Trika surprisingly comes in at fourth with 11, 717, 497 fans
Borussia Dortmund and Gabon Star, Pierre- Emerick Aubameyang completes the top 5 with 7, 132, 216 fans.
Kevin-Prince Boateng, Mohammed E-Neny of Arsenal and Egypt, Ramadan Sobhi of Stoke City, Leicester and Algeria Star, Riyad mahrez and Eric Baily of Manchester United and Ivory Coast complete the top 10.
This is the first ever research into the size of the digital communities of Africa’s biggest Stars and this is a ground breaking report and it paints an interesting and surpriing picture given the big name players from Africa.
Mario Leo, CEO of Result Sports explained why they have extended their global eporting benchmarks to Africa in an chat with supersport.com :
“We are very proud and honoured to release for the first time ever the African Digital Football Player Analysis.”
“African players add great values to football teams around the world and contribute with their skills to championships. “
“It was important for us to consider past legends and current stars to enable a holistic view to digital sports media status quo in Africa! “
“We want to continue to evolve the digital possibilities for African Sports with our From Africa For Africa Digital Initiative!”
One key take away from the top 60 is the dominance of Egyptian Players with 17 players, 4 of them in the top 10.
17-Egypt
6 - Ghana , Morocco
5- Ivory Coast, Algeria
4- Senegal
3- Nigeria, South Africa
2 –Cameroon, Congo DR, Tunisia
1-Gabon, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia
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Irish Terrier Characteristics: The spirited and watchful Irish Terrier is a breed of medium sized dog, classified as a member of the Terrier Dog Group (AKC:1885). The Irish Terrier, is characterized by its athletic, wiry, reddish appearance with an intense, lively expression. Other characteristics include small, dark brown eyes; small, V-shaped ears; a rough, high set tail and a fluent, agile gait. The temperament of the Irish Terrier can be described as Protective, Lively, Dominant.
The coat type of the Irish Terrier is described as thick, rough, wiry coat in red, wheaten colors. Due to its characteristics and qualities, the Irish Terrier demonstrated the desired traits of a Watch dog and Hunting Dog and is known by its nick name the "Racy Runner". The origin of the Irish Terrier dog breed was in Ireland where it was developed in the 1700's.
Fast Facts about the Irish Terrier: The following facts provide fast information about the Irish Terrier breed. Size: Medium *** Breed Group: Terrier Dog Group (AKC:1885) *** Nick name: "Racy Runner" *** Origin: Ireland *** Male Height: 18 inches (43 cm) *** Female Height: Slightly Less *** Male Weight: 25 - 27 pounds (11 - 12 kg) *** Female Weight: Slightly Less *** Coat Type: thick, rough, wiry coat *** Coat Colors: red, wheaten colors *** Litter Size: 4-6 puppies *** Health Problems: Urolithiasis (Urinary Stones in the Kidney or Bladder) *** Lifespan: 12-15 years *** Hypoallergenic: Yes
Irish Terrier Breed Group and Dog Type - Terrier Dog Group (AKC:1885): The Irish Terrier is one of the many breeds of dogs that belong to the Terrier Dog Group (AKC:1885).
Other names for the Irish Terrier: The Irish Terrier is known by the nickname of the "Racy Runner". Other names for this breed of dog include the Irish Red Terrier and Country Cork Terrier. Its Irish Gaelic name is "Brocaire rua" meaning 'red terrier' due to its predominantly red coat colors.
Origin of the name: The dog is named after the country in which it was originally bred - County Cork in Ireland. The origin of the word 'terrier' is derived from the Latin word 'terra' meaning "earth" as so many of the terrier breeds were originally bred and trained as hunting dogs to pursue their prey, such as small game including rats, moles, foxes, squirrels and badgers and birds.
Irish Terrier History and Origin: The country of origin of the Irish Terrier breed was in Ireland during the 1700's, although its ancestors are believed to date back to the Roman Empire. The Irish Terrier also developed the hunting skills as bird setters and retrievers. As a retriever the dog was trained to pick up, or retrieve, prey and return the prey to the Hunter. As a setter the dog was also trained to crouch, or set, in front of game preventing the escape of the quarry. The Irish Terrier was an 'all-rounder' and an essential aid to the farmers and hunters if Ireland. The Irish Terrier was quoted as being a "poor man's sentinel, the farmer's friend and the gentleman's favourite".
The Irish Terrier achieved great popularity in the late 1800's and the breed was exported to the United States. The Irish Terrier was officially recognized by the American Kennel Club (AKC) in 1885. During the early 1900's its popularity surged when it became known that King Edward VII (1841 - 1910) owned an Irish Terrier called "Jack" who he referred to as "the best dog I ever had". Many present day dog lovers and owners of the Irish Terrier have echoed his words.
Irish Terrier Modern History: The modern history of the Irish Terrier moved on and the breed is now used as a delightful family pet can be trusted with children. A Irish Terrier called Prince, accompanied his master, Private James Brown, from England to the trenches in France. An Irish terrier features on the 'Animals in War' Memorial in Park Lane, London, a powerful and moving tribute to all the animals that served and died in the wars of the 20th century. The Animals in War Memorial was established in November 2004, the 90th anniversary of the start of WW1.
Irish Terrier Height: This famous Irish breed is classified as a medium sized dog. The height to the shoulder of a male dog is 18 inches (43 cm). The height to the shoulder of a female dog is slightly less.
Irish Terrier Weight: The weight of the male in this medium sized dog is 25 - 27 pounds (11 - 12 kg). The weight of the smaller female dog is slightly less than the male.
Irish Terrier Coat Type - LOW shedding coat: The coat type is described as thick, rough, wiry coat. The term "Wire" refers to coarse hair.
Irish Terrier Coat Colors: The colors of this Irish dog breed include Wheaten, Red and Red Wheaten colors. N.B. The term "Red" refers to reddish shades of orange, brown, and tan colors. The term 'Wheaten' refers to the color of wheat, especially a pale yellow-brown color.
Irish Terrier Grooming - MODERATE Grooming Needs: The dog grooming needs of the Irish Terrier is not extensive and therefore categorized as Moderate in order to maintain a healthy coat, reducing the risk of skin infections. The modest grooming needs of the Irish Terrier is considered to be mid-maintenance requiring weekly brushing and combing. Dog Grooming Requirements should include bathing the dog on a monthly basis and making regular inspections of the teeth, eyes, nails and ears.
Irish Terrier Litter Size: The litter size of this Irish dog breed ranges from 4-6 puppies. Irish Terrier puppies for sale can be obtained reputable breeders and from rescue centers. The cost of Irish Terrier puppies varies depending on location, pedigree history and the dog breeder.
Irish Terrier Temperament and personality: The temperament and personality of this popular dog breed is described as Spirited, Protective, Lively, Dominant and Watchful.
Irish Terrier Exercise Requirements: The exercise requirements of this Irish breed of dog is moderate. The Irish Terrier requires regular daily exercise consisting of about one hour every day. This medium sized dog has a fluent, agile, strident gait with strides of a moderate length requiring a steady walking or jogging speed by the owner to meet the dogs exercise requirements. If the dog has more energy than you do, then teach your dog to play ball in a chase and catch game.
Irish Terrier Diet: A fully grown Irish Terrier should be fed twice a day. A diet consisting of a premium dog food can be balanced with fresh food eaten by the family. The question is What Can Dogs Eat?. Check out our comprehensive list of what dogs can and what dogs cannot eat.
Irish Terrier Health Problems: Potential health problems of the Irish Terrier breed include Urolithiasis (Urinary Stones in the Kidney or Bladder) . Resolving health problems can prove to be expensive and it is always wise to obtain pet insurance or dog health insurance when buying a dog. Is the Irish Terrier dog breed said to be Hypoallergenic? Answer: Yes (Refer to Hypoallergenic Dogs).
Irish Terrier Lifespan: The life expectancy of dogs vary according to the size, breed of dog and any serious health problems. The typical lifespan of the Irish Terrier breed is 12-15 years.
Irish Terrier Male Dog Names: Male Dog names are most often chosen to reflect favorite names of the owner or the strength, size, coloring and country of origin of the Irish Terrier breed. To give you some inspiration regarding good male Irish Terrier names our small selection might be of help with naming boy dogs. Our top male Irish dog names are: Conaire *** Darry *** Blian *** Tyrell *** Finn *** Shann *** Lorcan *** Donal *** Egon *** Riley *** Colm.
Irish Terrier Female Dog Names: Female Dog names tend to be softer, prettier and reflect the temperament of the girl dog. Our top choice of good female Irish names are Ailin *** Briana *** Tegan *** Sorcha *** Tawny *** Dana *** Zaira *** Kerra *** Scota *** Maud.
Fast Facts about the Irish Terrier: The following facts provide fast information about the Irish Terrier breed. Scientific name: Canis lupus familiaris *** Dog Breed Group: Terrier Dog Group (AKC:1885) *** Size: Medium *** Country of Origin: Ireland *** History / Date: 1700's *** Male Irish Terrier Height: 18 inches (43 cm) *** Male Irish Terrier Weight: 25 - 27 pounds (11 - 12 kg) *** Coat Type: thick, rough, wiry coat *** Litter Size: 4-6 puppies *** Irish Terrier Health Problems: Hip dysplasia, thyroid, and joint problems *** Irish Terrier Lifespan: 12-15 years ***
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First Impressions: Come and Hug Me
posted by Debra.J on May 18, 2018 7 comments
A twisted and alluring story about love and psychos, Come and Hug Me premieres to give us a psychological rollercoaster of a ride.
Chae Do Jin (Jang Ki Yong) is a fresh Police Academy graduate and aspiring Detective in the hopes of atoning for his father's sins. Being the son of Psychotic serial killer Yoon Hee Jae (Heo Joon Ho) who possess a morbid affection for his two sons, Do Jin grows in the dark shadows of his father who expects his sons to understand his blood lust and twisted sense of love.
As a tenth grader, Do Jin meets Gil Nak Won, the new girl in town and daughter of a prominent actress who becomes a targeted victim of Yoon Hee Jae. Several years later, Nak Won (Kim Ki Joo) walks in her mother's footsteps to be a famed actress and celebrity but never being able to escape from her haunted past. She'll encounter Do Jin once again, trying to overcome tragic and horrifying memories.
What a premiere, and what a drama! Not only was this highly impressive in its execution but the actors and chemistry were simply phenomenal. I'm not a huge fan of backstories and childhood chapters but Come and Hug Me got incredibly lucky by casting Nam Da Reum and Ryu Han Bi. This is hands down one of the sweetest and heartbreaking first-love stories I've ever seen in a K-drama, discovering that child actors can deliver chemistry and undertones of deep friendship and romance extremely well. So I give credit where it's due, and that lies with our younger actors as they set the stage for what's to come.
And while I'm on the topic of casting, I am thrilled that Suzy and Nam Joo Hyuk turned down the lead roles. I know plenty of people who were hoping for the dreamy pairing to come true, but this isn't like anything Suzy or Nam Joo Hyuk have ever taken on. The drama is mature, has a melancholic feel to it like Just Between Lovers, but consists of darker aspects with it's subject matter. And some may argue that it's a similar genre to While You Were Sleeping, but this drama is far more complex as the characters are more emotionally wounded and has a higher level of intensity when it comes to the criminal and psychological elements.
So although people may think not having Hallyu stars as leads in the drama categorizes this as a B-list series, I think it's a blessing in disguise. Both Jang Ki Yong and Kim Ki Joo get to have their breakout leading roles in this and are without a doubt, a perfect fit. I hope this drama gets them the recognition they deserve, since they're both underrated and unknown to most. From the materials I've seen such as teasers and behind the scenes footage, the two make quite the pair so I anticipate great things for their chemistry and romance.
Yoon Hee Jae as a killer is probably one of the more terrifyingly fascinating characters in a Crime and Mystery drama out there in K-dramaland. We're so used to good guys hunting down an elusive killer that being presented with a man who's already established as being a killer but one with a family who are elemental in his life, leaves you feeling flabbergasted and kept at the edge of your seat.
As a psychopath, Yoon Hee Jae has a similar demeanour and onscreen presence as Dexter and seems like he stepped out of an Alfred Hitchcock film with his mannerisms and killing methodology, from the way he sets up his killing den to how he approaches his victims in a superficially charming way - it's abrupt and chilling. However, because there is family involved and a father with strong beliefs of fatherhood and lineage, it makes him a killer unlike any other. And he's well aware of Do Jin choosing a different path, walking away from him and it's something he refuses to acknowledge or allow because he's convinced that the love and affection he shows is the purest of all, creating a warped complex.
He wants to protect his sons from the world while Do Jin wants to protect the world from his father, leading to a cataclysm. And the turmoil the children go through may seem redundant to an audience unless they read into the deeper connotations because there is pain, agony, and hatred all there. At times it appears subtle, but the horror the children feel is conveyed in a realistic way.
More than anything, the drama has moments that simply creep up on you to deliver these emotionally provoking scenes that give the drama a mature quality to it, and I have nothing but praise for what its accomplished so far. For once, I'd say keep your expectations high because this drama truly delivers with its premiere.
Release Date: May 16, 2018 (Eng subs on Viki)
Labels: 2018 , Come and Hug Me , Crime , First Impressions , Heo Joon Ho , Jang Ki Yong , Kim Ki Joo , Korean Dramas , Mystery , Romance , Suspense Thriller
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Anne J May 18, 2018 at 9:46 AM
I don't know anyone in the cast and would have been guilty of calling it a B series but it seems really interesting. Love and psychos caught my attention, I must try this:)
Debra.J May 18, 2018 at 10:30 AM
Everything else about this is A-list worthy! And even if the actors aren't famous, a new face is always welcomed especially if a drama gives us actors who are good at their craft ;) Out of all the currently airing dramas and ones that came out this month, this one is at the top of the list <3
Arif May 18, 2018 at 11:04 PM
I hope the ending wont be like soredemo ikite yuku
Sunny May 22, 2018 at 5:21 PM
Thanks for the great review. It's made me want to watch! I have also heard good things about the drama after the premiere week.
Is a reason given for the terrible title? I found it a big turn-off and it doesn't give you any idea at all what the drama is about. I think the title might be alienating quite a few people from watching.
Anne J May 22, 2018 at 7:52 PM
I started watching too.. it's really good! lol, while watching, I felt like all the characters in the drama needed a hug except dad, who's crazy.
@ Anne J: Hahaha! Well I guess that's as good a reason as any for the title lol!
Debra.J May 23, 2018 at 9:21 AM
Probably a bad case of direct translation, I think the Korean connotation of it will probably sound better and make more sense but I gotta agree with Anne, everyone needs a hug xD
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Beverly Jackson, left, and Debbie Wilson hold holiday-themed gifts, including a vintage sled and a suitcase to hold Christmas ornaments.
Ernest Herndon | Enterprise-Journal
Unique Treasures really are unique
Ernest Herndon
The word “unique” means one of a kind, and that applies to many items at Unique Treasures in Summit.
“We like to keep this shop at least 85 percent vintage antiques and handcrafted, some repurposed, some from scratch,” said employee Debbie Wilson.
“One thing that makes us unique: We do not buy from markets. Most are one of a kind. When they’re sold, we can’t get another.”
She and owner Beverly Jackson opened the vendors’ mall at 814 Robb St. last year.
“I had booths at other places and I liked it and wanted to do my own store,” Beverly said.
She bought the store March 1, and she and Wilson opened the doors April 2. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays.
Debbie’s knack is decorating and designing. “She (Beverly) has a good eye for going and finding vintage antiques,” Debbie said.
“We have a lot of windows, which makes the store a lot of fun.”
Debbie decorates the windows by theme, dedicating at least one window to religious imagery. Most recently that has been Nativity scenes.
“The biggest seller this year has been vintage Nativity sets,” she said. “There are lots of people who collect Nativities.”
Another good seller is pottery by Stan Todd, who moved here from Florida and lives in Magnolia.
There’s also handcrafted jewelry, goat milk soap and lotions, antiques by Jeff Canton and a vast array of other antiques, art and knickknacks.
“We’ve even sold old issues of the Enterprise-Journal — really really old,” Debbie said.
The store also sells antique furniture like Hoosier cabinets, pie safes and work islands. There’s even a “time machine” with a purported $10,000 price tag.
“Most of all we just have fun,” said Debbie, a retired schoolteacher. “This is a fun, fun business.”
Sometimes customers request a particular item the store doesn’t have, and the women do their best to find it.
“It’s like we’re on a mission and we can go find this item,” Debbie said.
“We are scouring the countryside all the time looking for things.”
Occasionally homeowners give them the pick of a house’s contents instead of holding an estate sale.
Most vendors are local, but some are from as far off as Baton Rouge.
“We cannot reorder. We do not buy from markets. We go hunting stuff,” Debbie said. “We’re always looking for the unusual.”
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and the store has some repurposed items that might have gone into the garbage, like a pair of old plow points painted with Christmas imagery.
Some people come to the store to get ideas for their own arts or crafts. And parents bring their college-age kids in for good quality all-wood furniture at reasonable prices.
“We help people come up with ideas to fit their decorating need,” Debbie said. “We get a little funky with our ideas sometimes, but they’re functional.”
Antiques, such as old crockery or cast-iron ware, bring back memories for some customers.
“The older people who come in warm our hearts, because they see something their parents or grandparents had and it brings back memories,” Debbie said.
The store is vast, with lots to look at and plenty of room to maneuver. That makes it easy for people with wheelchairs, walkers or baby carriages.
“If you come in here, you’d better be ready to spend an hour,” Beverly said.
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Genre: Mystery & Suspense
Director: James Foley
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon, William Petersen, Amy Brenneman, Alyssa Milano
A film directed by James Foley, starring Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon, and William Petersen.
Last thirty minutes of the film into a bad, tasteless, and frightening horror flick.
Hollywood loves to remake popular shows. When it is too soon to do a remake, it likes to take a recent movie and reconstitute it with slightly different ingredients. In director James Foley's FEAR, not to be confused with Gregory Hoblit's excellent PRIMAL FEAR, writers Christopher Crowe and James Foley take FATAL ATTRACTION and repackage it with teenager lovers rather than adults and hope for an instant hit.
The romantic obsession part works marginally well, but the film's commentary on teenagers and their relationships with their parents is insightful and worth hearing. The huge downfall in the picture, is that the writers run out of ideas, so they transform the last thirty minutes of the film into a bad, tasteless, and frightening horror flick. Most horror pictures you can ignore because they are so hokey and unbelievable, but the tolerably good first part of the film sets you up to care about the people in FEAR so the ending is much more disturbing that any unrealistic blood and gore film would be.
As the film starts, beautiful 16-year old Nicole Walker (Reese Witherspoon) is leaving for school. Her dad, Steve (William Peterson from TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA and MANHUNTER), is concerned about her wearing a short miniskirt, a revealing low-cut top, and four gallons of make-up, but she tells him that it is none of his business. Thanks to peer pressure, she, her friend Margo Masse (Alyssa Milano), and others cut school go to a bar. While at the bar, Nicole sees a mysterious, but All-American looking older boy named David McCall (Mark Wahlberg). She sees him again that night at a rave. He is hanging out with some Hell's Angels rejects which should have been a give-away.
When Nicole sees David's Corvair she remarks, "Isn't this the car they stopped making because it blows up or something?" In a response that telegraphs his later actions, David's responds, "Guess that's why I got it." Her friend Margo, on the other hand, thinks Nicole should just go sleep with David since he has a good body and so tells her, "Do yourself a favor and don't think so much. It gives you premature wrinkles." The film does a good job of showing what can happen to a girl devoid of morals like Margo. Later when Nicole abandons Margo, she cries in an effective scene, "Please Nicole don't do this. I need you. You're my only friend." After hating this character, the audience suddenly realizes how lost she is and begins to empathize with her dilemma.
Nicole, lives with her dad, her stepmom, Laura (Amy Brenneman), and her younger stepbrother, Toby (Christopher Gray). The father is an architect, and although overworked, is devoted to his kids, and thinks David is bad news. He is either an overprotective father to be despised or one who is naturally concerned about his daughter at a vulnerable time in her life. The audience is provided with both views. Laura thinks he should lighten up and tells him, "What's the big deal?" Steve replies, "The big deal is the guy is crap, and girl is my daughter." Nicole doesn't trust her parents much and believes that "Everybody says one thing and does another."
One of main ingredients of the film is the massive musical overscoring by Carter Burwell. The film reminds you of those cars that drive down your street with zillion watt amps that rattle your prized china so that you think it will all break. The sound is so loud you almost need ear plugs and turning it down would not have been possible since other parts of the film are quite soft. Moreover, the music is so overly dramatic in parts as to be ridiculous.
FEAR runs 1:40. The film is correctly rated R for gory and frightening violence, animal mutilation, crack smoking, some bad language, a little sex, but no nudity. The horrific images are enough to give you nightmares for a week. On the good side, I must be honest that the movie does feature a genuinely erotic roller coaster ride. Given the threatening level of violence against teens and their parents I would recommend that no teenagers see this film although with the teen heartthrob stars in it, I am sure they will. There were certainly a lot of them in the audience. Based on the first part of the film I was leaning toward a mild thumbs up for what the movie said about the problems of teens and of relationships with their parents, but after the ending, I can not recommend it to anyone, and I wish I had never ever seen it. Disturbing. For the good first part, I am giving it overall a * 1/2.
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William Wynne
"The Corvair Authority"
5000-18 HWY 17 #247
Orange Park, FL 32003 USA
Corvair Powered Zenith 601/650
In terms of aircraft currently being completed, the Zenith 601/650 series aircraft is the most popular Corvair installation. In addition to meeting all the required specifications for the powerplant, the Corvair's inexpensive simplicity matches the mission of the airframe. Grace and I ordered our kit from Zenith in 2003. It was the first tailwheel XL model, and also the first 601 with dual sticks. A hundred days after getting down to serious work on it, our aircraft with its Corvair engine installation was complete. It made its public debut in the Zenith booth at Sun 'N Fun 2004. It was the first Corvair powered Zenith to fly.
Grace and I with our 601 XL at Sun 'N Fun 2006. In an industry dominated by here-today-gone-tomorrow limited liability corporations, our decades of service as homebuilders stands as a complete contrast.
Our crew did an immense amount of hard work to promote the combination and get a number of aircraft flying quickly. In short order, both HD and HDS models belonging to our customers were flying. In 2006, Phil Maxson's XL was completed in our shop and displayed at Sun 'N Fun. In 2007, Kit Planes writer Rick Lindstrom built the first XL Quick Build Kit in our shop and did a seven-part series on the construction. Our own aircraft logged more than 420 hours and provided more than 120 people with flight experience behind a Corvair.
An air to air photo we took of Phil Maxson's 601 XL over the Atlantic. In the years since 2006, Phil Maxson has logged a lot of time in the aircraft. He wrote a Chapter for us in our 2009 Operations Manual. It's easy for any company to secure a testimonial from a customer whose aircraft is still under construction; that is best understood as a hostage situation. The endorsements that really count come from the customers who remain impressed enough with your work to promote it years later.
Dozens of Zeniths have been completed with our Conversion and Installation Components: Prop Hub, Premium Starter Kit, Ignition System, Oil System and Oil Pan with Deep Sump Pickup, Intake Manifold, Exhaust System, Cowling, Nosebowl, Baffle Kit, Spinner Bulkhead, Warp Drive prop and Motor Mount. Their success stories are documented on our all-Zenith Web site, www.ZenVair.com. Our Zenith Installation Manual covers the installation and operation of Corvairs on Zenith aircraft.
We have extensively tested a number of Corvair combinations on the airframe. Our personal ownership of our test aircraft afforded us the ability to try any combination in pursuit of the flight tested knowledge to share with our builders. We were frequently told that our personal ownership of the same aircraft was the single defining characteristic that earned the trust of builders. All alternative engine providers claim that their engine is the perfect match for your airframe, but very few personally own and fly the combination they're willing to sell.
I stand with Chris Heintz, patriarch and designer of Zenith aircraft. Behind us is our Zenith 601 in their booth at Sun 'N Fun 2004. As an aeronautical engineering student at Embry Riddle 15 years earlier, I had read the design texts written by many of the greatest light plane designers. Chris' lecture series had been covered in EAA publications and represented some of the most clearcut and practical logic of any light aircraft designer. In 1989, it was hard to imagine that I would one day stand in the company of the man himself.
We have long enjoyed a close relationship with the Heintz family. Our aircraft appeared in their booth at every Oshkosh and Sun 'N Fun for five years in a row. We've held a Corvair College or Open House at every Zenith facility in North America. This is unprecedented cooperation between an alternative engine provider and major kit manufacturer. The Corvair is the second most popular engine choice on a 601. It is far more popular in the U.S. than a Rotax installation.
Our Products Page shows the wide variety of parts and components we developed for this installation. We have personally flight tested them all. We've personally flown behind displacements from 2,700 to 3,100 ccs, power outputs from 100 to 125 hp, and engines with and without fifth bearings. If you have questions about a specific combination, e-mail us.
In the photo above taken at Oshkosh 2004, I explain the details of our ignition system to the Vice President and Chief Technician of Falcon Insurance. Having the aircraft in the Zenith Aircraft Booth and being able to discuss every detail of the installation went a long way toward securing affordable insurance for Corvair powered aircraft. By continuously working with Falcon, we earned their trust and with follow on actions like the Installation Manual we have secured the coveted endorsement of Falcon as an insurable firewall forward package. Installations conforming to our guidelines secure the most favorable rates and easiest terms to meet. It comes as a surprise to many builders that very few alternative engines are insurable.
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Burlington - Ontario
Annual Events/Attractions - Brant Inn Compass - Burlington's History - Business Directory
Fire Hydrants - Historical Markers - Honour Roll of Trees - Magnetic Hill - Museums
Naval and War Memorials - Spencer Smith Park - Home - Contact
"Burlington's History, Cast in Bronze, Carved in Stone"
A collection of more than 300 plaques, markers, cornerstones, date stones and dates poured in concrete.
Burlington's History recorded in bronze, aluminum, cast iron, stone, wood, stained glass and painted plywood.
"The Navy Hymn".
Naval Ships' Memorial Monument. War Memorial
Remembrance Day Music: "O Canada". .Last Post. .Lament. .Reveille. ."God Save The Queen"
Naval Ships' Memorial Monument
Located on the Lake Ontario waterfront in a beautiful setting in Spencer Smith Park, Burlington, Ontario, the Naval Ship's Memorial Monument is the result of the tireless efforts of the Royal Canadian Naval Association Burlington Branch.
The monument was unveiled on May 14 1995, the 50th Anniversary of VE Day with approximately 5000 spectators including over 1000 veterans in attendance.
The cairn and ships remembrance wall is Cambrian Black granite with the names of the 527 warships that served during World War II, in the Royal Canadian Navy under the ensign, and the 360 ships that sailed under the Red Duster of the Canadian Merchant Navy. The ships names are in gold, the crests are carved and in full colour.
The memorial is dedicated to the memory of the 31 warships and the 2024 Naval Personnel of the ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY and the 75 ships and 1466 merchant seamen of the CANADIAN MERCHANT NAVY who were lost during World War II.
A six foot bronze statue of a seaman tops off the cairn. The Bell of H.M.C.S. Burlington is mounted atop the centre column of the ships remembrance wall. (see picture below)
H.M.C.S Burlington
HMCS Burlington was commissioned on
6 September 1941 as a Bangor Class minesweeper. A jack-stay transfer between J250 (HMCS
Burlington) and HMCS Gananoque.
The Royal Canadian Navy renewed its minesweeping force with these ships early in the war. Smaller than the corvettes, they were also able to be built on the Great Lakes. While several were present on D-Day to sweep the approaches to Normandy, most were used primarily as coastal escorts.
Type: Minesweeper Class: BANGOR Class (39-40 Programme)
Displacement: 672 tons Dimensions: 54.9 x 8.7 x 2.4 meters (180 x 28.5 x 8 feet)
Armament: 1-4" Gun, 1-3" Gun, 2-20mm Pendant (Hull Number): J250
Length: 180 ft Width: 28.5 ft. Draught: 8.3 ft. Top Speed: 16
# Officers: 6 # Crew: 77 .
Laid Down: 4-Jul-40 Launched: 23-Nov-40
Commissioned: 6-Sep-41 Paid Off: 30-Oct-45
Builder: Dufferin Shipbuilding Co. Toronto, Ont.
Remarks: Shortly are being commissioned the sleek new craft sailed into Burlington for a day of festivities before steaming off to server convoy escort and minesweeping duties on the Atlantic coast. The Burlington played an important role during the war and was paid off (decommissioned) on 30 October 1945. Shortly thereafter it was sold for scrap. The ship's engraved bell was retrieved and presented to the IRON DUKE Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps in trust for the city. It was moved to the Navel Ship Memorial Monument in 1995.
of the man of
Burlington and Nelson Township
who served in the great war
In honour of the men and woman of
who made the supreme sacrifice
in World War II
Passant Thelma
Breckon P.J.
Budgen J.E.C.
Chapman R.B.
Cooper D.
Cripps A.H.
Cupido A.
Curtis J.E.
Deforest W.C.
Forgett R.J.L.
French G.V.
Green E.S.
Griffith M.H.
Hedley W.J. Hooks J.
Johnson A.E
Kearse P.H.
Koropchuk G.
Kurtz D.
Langford G.
Maude F.
MacDonald A.R.
MacFarlane D.W.
McConachie R.J.
McCulloch D.M.
Mercer R.L.
Muddle L.R.
Peart D.R. Power N.F.
Reynolds H.G.
Rogers L.H.
Rutzki J.
Smith C.H.
Souvern G.B.
Stevens H.H.
Taylor N.A.
Toomer V.
Treversh J.
Tuck B.
Watson G.H.
Williamson J.W.
Wilson W.S.
Korean war 1950 - 1953
Burlington War Memorial
The Burlington Cenotaph* now stands in a small park on the north side of City Hall on Brant Street. It was dedicated in April 1922 by Lord Byng and was then located in Spencer Smith Park on the shore of Lake Ontario. It was moved to its present location after the construction of the new City Hall in 1962.
The Cenotaph is a ten foot column of grey stone on a two tier stone base. On the top of the column is a seven foot bronze statue of a Canadian soldier in WWI battle-dress.
More than 300 Burlington and Nelson Townshipmen answered the call of duty in 1914. Thirty eight never returned. Their names are engraved on both sides of the Cenotaph. On the back of the column are engraved the names of 17 key WWI Canadian battle locations such as Vimy Ridge, Arras, Mons, Ypres and the Somme.
On the front of the column is a large bronze plaque four feet by three feet in size, with the names inscribed of 43 service people from this area who died in WWII.
The Korean Vets are remembered by an engraving on the base of the column.
* A Cenotaph is a memorial marker erected in honour of a person, or persons, whose remains are elsewhere.
Text Compilation. Naval History Information Center. War Monuments in Canada "We Will Remember"
Music The Royal Canadian Legion
Ship pictures #1: The Canadian Navy, www.readyayeready.com/index.htm
#2: Haze Gray & Underway Naval History Information Center
Special thanks to Gord Condie and Bill Croshaw.
Monument Pictures All-Inspec Home Inspections Ltd.
Page sponsored by Burlington Business and Service Directory
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New Special Issue "Dimensions of Sino-Japanese Rivalry in a Global Context"
EVF project fellow Kai Schulze and GEAS director Verena Blechinger-Talcott present a Special Issue on Dimensions of Sino-Japanese Rivalry in a Global Context in The Pacific Review
Introduction special issue: dimensions of Sino–Japanese rivalry in a global context
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09512748.2019.1569116
Kai Schulze & Verena Blechinger-Talcott (2019): Introduction special issue: dimensions of Sino–Japanese rivalry in a global context, The Pacific Review, DOI: 10.1080/09512748.2019.1569116
Rivalry in the Middle East? Japan’s CEAPAD initiative and China’s rise
Kai Schulze (2019): Rivalry in the Middle East? Japan’s CEAPAD initiative and China’s rise, The Pacific Review, DOI: 10.1080/09512748.2019.1569114
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09512748.2019.1569114
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Schedule Summer 14
Economic Development of Mainland China
(14930-S14)
Yih-Chyi Chuang
Graduate School of East Asian Studies, Chinese Studies
Katrina Walsh, Catherine Ruth Levy
There are vacancies
Hittorfstr. 18 K 18 (Basement)
Bloc Seminar 28/29 June and 5/6 July, 10-17 hrs
MA and PhD Students
Dr. Chuang is a Distinguished Professor of the Department of Economics at National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. He currently serves as the Dean of College of Social Sciences and the Director of Taiwan Study Center at NCCU. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from University of Chicago in 1993. He was assistant research fellow at the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, from 1993 to 1994 and since August 1994 has taught at National Chengchi University, where he served as an associate professor at the Department of Economics from 1994 to 1998 and Chairman in 2010-2011. He was a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, USA, in 1999 and Fulbright Scholar at Fairbank Center for East Asian Research of Harvard University in 2003. During the summer term from 2005 to 2008, he was invited as a Guestprofessor at Free University-Berlin in Germany.
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy, and discusses several important aspects of the Chinese growth and development, including the major shifts in economic philosophy through time, the macroeconomic trends, agriculture and the rural industrialization, the economic development of urban areas, international l trade and foreign investment, as well as the challenges facing China
1. Introduction to the Course
2. Introduction to the Chinese Economy
The Chinese economy before 1949
The Socialist era 1949-1978
Market transition since 1978
The urban-rural divide.
3. Patterns of Growth and Development
Growth and structural change
Population growth and one-child policy
Labor and human capital
Incomes, inequality, and poverty
Macroeconomic Trends and Cycles
Rebalancing China's Economic Growth
4. The Rural and Urban Economy
Rural Agriculture
Rural industrialization
Urban ownership and governance
Urban structural change: industry, energy, and infrastructure
Technology policy and the knowledge-based economy
The Chinese financial system
5. China and the World Economy
International Trade
Foreign Investment
6. Contemporary Issues in China
A look at the future of the Chinese economy
Looking into the Chinese manufacturing competitiveness
The Chinese consumption pattern
The environmental cost of Chinese growth
Lectures and class discussion
Course Requirements/Grading Standards
In-lecture discussions 30%
Final term paper (presentation and essay) 70%
Textbooks & References
The main textbooks for this course are
Naughton, Barry (2007). The Chinese Economy: Transition and Growth. MIT Press.
Lardy, Nicholas (2012). Sustaining China's Economic Growth after the Global Financial Crisis. PIIE Press.
We may also discuss articles from Economist and Financial Times as well as some contemporary books on the Chinese economy
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FACING THE STORM
Source: Georgia Department of Agriculture
Hurricane Michael struck the heart of rural Georgia in early October. The storm's track took a staggering toll on agriculture, which is a $73.3 billion industry in Georgia, making it the No. 1 contributor to the state's economy. Damage estimates as of Oct. 25 exceed $2 billion. Cotton loss is $550 million; vegetables, $480 million; pecans, $560 million; poultry, $25 million; peanuts, $20 million; timber, $763 million; and the landscape and green industry, $13 million.
To learn about some of farmers who were impacted by the hurricane, check out the 'Facing The Storm' press release from the Georgia Department of Agriculture - SEE BELOW.
Georgia Peanut Farm Show set for Thursday, Jan. 16
Kelley Manufacturing Co. sponsors the Grand Door Prize
UGArden readying itself for its 10th year of growth and community
Student involvement, community outreach and adoption of sustainable practices are all products of the work of students and staff at the garden.
Agricultural Audits, LLC
Agricultural Audits, LLC provides GCIA's Good Agricultural Practices Program for Food Safety to verify that good agricultural practices were followed during production packing and shipping as well as GCIA's Organic Certification Program, committed to environmentally sound food production and healthy livestock and poultry production.
About GCIA
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Give Me My Remote > #1 featured > ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK: Netflix Orders Season 4
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK: Netflix Orders Season 4
April 15, 2015 by Marisa Roffman
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK will return for a fourth season, Netflix announced.
OITNB costar Uzo Aduba (Suzanne/Crazy Eyes) first shared the news during an interview Wednesday’s GOOD MORNING AMERICA. (She also shared that season 4 will start filming in June.)
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK season 3 launches on June 12th. Are you excited to know the show will continue on beyond that?
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One Response to “ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK: Netflix Orders Season 4”
Victor J. on June 17th, 2015 2:34 am
I am absolutely excited to see the series extend beyond season 3 even though I’m still in the middle of season 2. Absolutely cannot get enough of Jenji Kohan’s work. Absolutely brilliant writer.
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Values, Vision and Objectives
World War 1: Legacy 110 project
Glenwood PTA
Pupil Destinations
SEN Report
We have a very effective transition programme including strong links with local colleges to ensure our young people are able to move successfully from school and onto the next stage of their lives. As part of the Careers Education & Guidance programme, pupils visit most of the local colleges numerous times so by the time Year 11 is reached, they are familiar with the expectations of college, have met former pupils and, as the year progresses, become more confident about the transition.
Over the past six years, the average rate of success of pupils moving into Further Education or training is 95.4%. This equates to six pupils over the six years who were either NEET (not in education, employment or training) or had moved away and we lost contact. However, two of these young people subsequently enrolled at a local college the following year.
The local colleges, listed alphabetically, where our pupils have progressed onto are:
Chichester College, Chichester
Fareham College, Fareham
Havant & South Downs College, Waterlooville
Highbury College, Cosham
Portsmouth College, Portsmouth
Sparsholt College, Winchester
St. Vincent College, Gosport
Choosing the most suitable college is not straight-forward and pupils are encouraged to choose the college that is right for them, not necessarily because it is the most local college or because it is where their friends are going.
Whilst colleges have their Open Days and Events, parents / carers may like to visit during a normal working day to get a feel for the environment but please contact the college(s) beforehand to make an appointment.
At Glenwood School, the October Parents’ Evening includes representatives from the local colleges so there is the opportunity to find out what is on offer and the support available.
Pupils from 9 onwards meet with the Hampshire Futures’ careers advisor, who will be present at the Year 9 and Year 11 EHCPs, and some Year 10 EHCPs depending on the pupil’s needs. The transition to college will form a major part of the Year 9-11 EHCPs and will consider pupils’ predicted grades from the various accredited courses on offer at Glenwood School.
Applications to college are generally made at the Year 11 EHCP review. It is a good idea to apply to at least two colleges – occasionally pupils have applied to 3-4 colleges and 5-6 courses – and make a final decision in the summer term.
Please click on the link below for some questions you may find helpful when visiting college.
Questions you may want to ask when you visit college
Please click on the links below to learn more about the destinations of our Year 11 pupils.
Year 11 Destinations – September 2018
An important aspect of choosing a college is transport. For the majority of pupils HCC-provided transport is withdrawn at the end of Year 11 so it is important that as many pupils as possible can travel independently by the local bus service; a free Disabled Persons Concessionary Bus Pass is available whilst your child is still at school, allowing free bus travel to and from school and, in addition, it can also be used at weekends and holidays. The pattern for the number of pupils with a bus pass is fairly consistent with just one or two pupils in Year 9, rising rapidly to 30%+ in Year 10 and 50%+ in Year 11. Please ask the school office for more information and an application form. Please note that this scheme is not available to pupils who live in Emsworth, as they are not eligible for HCC-provided transport nor pupils who live in Portsmouth.
When issued with a bus pass, pupils usually practise at home, then use it to go home from school, and only when familiar with the route, use it to come into school as well. Given the number of pupils now using bus passes, most new users are likely to have a pupil nearby who can offer support. Once confident, and in agreement with parents / carers they will be removed from the list of pupils requiring HCC-provided transport. Transport to college / independent travel will feature in the Year 9,10 and 11 EHCPs.
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Schmitz Cargobull offers multifunctional logistics with optimised rigids
German OEM, Schmitz Cargobull, has released details on a high-volume rigid truck with drawbar trailer spec’d with a MEGA body system and Power Curtain tarpaulin.
The MEGA versions of the M.CS rigid truck curtainsider and Z.CS central axle curtainsider drawbar trailer are reported to offer up to 500 kilograms extra payload. In addition, the trailer is now also available with the lath-free Power Curtain tarpaulin. The through-loading trailer has also been optimised.
The M.CS/Z.CS rigid trucks and drawbar trailers offer an outstanding price/performance ratio, according to Schmitz Cargobull, as a result of the synergies generated from using numerous proven body components derived from the S.CS curtainsider semi-trailer. The new MEGA body also matches the curtainsider semi-trailer in appearance and the same spare parts can be used whenever they are needed.
“In the transport of palletised freight or packaged goods, the combination of M.CS and Z.CS impresses with a high loading volume, combined with manoeuvrability when operating on narrow roads and urban centres,” said Schmitz Cargobull. “Just like the curtainsider semi-trailer version, the truck body is equipped with a lifting roof with a manual stanchion lifter. The required body heights can be gradually adjusted easily. The simple and robust mechanism allows for light, safe and speedy handling. The required loading capacity can thus be adjusted as needed. The full-length lashing holes in the outer frame present various and flexible lashing options for every usage scenario. The proven Schmitz Cargobull safety roof is now also available on the M.CS/Z.CS. The fibre-reinforced roof tarpaulin does not need any reinforcing wire ropes or belt loops in the trailer interior.”
The high body strength has been certified as standard in accordance with DIN EN 12642 Code XL according to the OEM.
The high-volume rigid truck and drawbar trailer combination reportedly offers space for up to 38 Euro pallets. Its range of load securing options is demonstrated by the optional certificates available for Daimler 9.5, VDI 2700 (beverages) or tyre transportation.
The Power Curtain body by Schmitz Cargobull is reported to meet the requirements for efficiency and turnover speed. The certified structural rigidity (according to DIN EN 12642 Code XL) is achieved even without support laths due to vertical and horizontal reinforcements and a standard anti-theft protection fabric.
“Customers benefit from quicker loading and unloading without time-consuming handling and climbing to secure the load,” said Schmitz Cargobull. “Consequently, transport efficiency and occupational safety are increased, and the driver is able to continue their journey more quickly and further optimise the transport process.”
The OEM claims the new M.CS/Z.CS modular system is beneficial for customers who rely on rear-based loading and unloading processes.
“The through-loading width has been enhanced and the MEGA body system has been adjusted,” said Schmitz Cargobull.
“The internal spring-supported bridge spans almost the entire width of the body, which means unobstructed through-loading. Thanks to the bridge’s space-saving design, no pallet spaces are lost and all 38 are preserved in the complete road train.
“For several years now, Schmitz Cargobull’s portfolio has expanded to produce industry-specific solutions for use on chassis from all major truck manufacturers. Whereas in the past the focus was on semi-trailers for bulk material, temperature-controlled freight and palletised goods or packaged goods for long-distance haulage, now carefully planned body solutions for rigid trucks are also on offer. All bodies are manufactured in line with Schmitz Cargobull’s well-known strict industrial quality standards.”
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This webpage contains information on the involvement of Grand Riverkeeper, Labrador in the Muskrat Falls Inquiry and Forensic Audit.
The Inquiry Hearings started September 17, 2018. The final report of the Inquiry is due to be delivered to the Minister of Natural Resources on or before December 31, 2019. Commissioner LeBlanc will make findings and recommendations related to the Inquiry’s Terms of Reference (see links to documentation below) in the final report.
The Hearings are open to the public at the Lawrence O’Brien Art Centre in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. The updated Witness Hearing Schedule is available on the official Muskrat Falls Inquiry Site.
Public Notice – Call for Submissions
Submission by Grand Riverkeeper, Labrador Inc. and Labrador Land Protectors
Interpretation of the Terms of Reference
Application for Standing and Funding by Grand Riverkeeper, Labrador Inc. and Labrador Land Protectors
Decision on Application for Standing
Request to Expand Scope of the Standing by Grand Riverkeeper, Labrador Inc. and Labrador Land Protectors
Decision on Request to Expand Scope
Commissioner LeBlanc’s Recommendation on Application for Funding (refer p.4 #7)
Click here to access the website for the Commission of Inquiry Respecting the Muskrat Fall Project
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Full Documentation of my solo exhibition Umbel[bumble] at Leitrim sculpture centre as artist in residence 2017 coming soon..
Currently working in horticultural settings Lundy’s preoccupations with systems and spaces extends to the natural world in her multi-species collaboration with various plants, insects and human-made structures and systems of knowledge.
Weaving together a series of metaphorical meditations on the complex relations between humans and plant-life, including current environmental threats to the bee, Lundy’s exhibition activates an assemblage of everyday objects, moving images and the ephemeral performance of materials to challenge autonomy in the face of systemic and applied homogenization.
A personal testament to the fragile life-forms that co-habit nature Lundy’s work draws inspiration and incorporates elements from diverse sources and through a strong sense of the absurd the artist seeks to extend through this work an invitation to engage in alternative dialogues
extended exhibition text-Umble[bumble].pdf
'-The Snare-' audio/Visual installation at LSC as part of Umbel[bumble] 2017
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Role of imaging in Alzheimer's disease
Walaaeldin Elfaal
Thumbay Clinics, Ajman, United Arab Emirates
Date of Submission 29-May-2018
Date of Acceptance 29-May-2018
Date of Web Publication 23-Aug-2019
Thumbay Clinics, 4184 Ajman
DOI: 10.4103/HMJ.HMJ_44_18
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia and its prevalence is expected to increase in the coming years. Therefore, accurate diagnosis is crucial for patients. The emerging imaging techniques have provided important information for the clinical practice and management of the disease. Computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography, single-photon emission computed tomography and in vivo amyloid imaging are currently available for clinical use.
Keywords: Alzheimer disease, amyloid, imaging technics
Elfaal W. Role of imaging in Alzheimer's disease. Hamdan Med J 2019;12:106-10
Elfaal W. Role of imaging in Alzheimer's disease. Hamdan Med J [serial online] 2019 [cited 2020 Jan 19];12:106-10. Available from: http://www.hamdanjournal.org/text.asp?2019/12/3/106/246129
Aetiology and Epidemiology
Alzheimer disease (AD) was first described in 1907 by Alois Alzheimer. From its original status as a rare disease, AD has become one of the most common diseases in the aging population, ranking as the fourth most common cause of death. AD is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterised by the gradual onset of dementia. The pathologic hallmarks of the disease are amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques, neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) and reactive.[1]
Epidemiological Risk Factors
Epidemiological risk factors have been identified, including:[2]
Family history of dementia
Female gender
Apo-lipoprotein E ε4 allele carrier status
Mutations of amyloid precursor protein
Socio-economic factors such as:[3]
Fewer years of formal education
Lower income
Lower occupational status
Smaller social network/family support.
Traditionally, AD has been clinically characterised predominantly by memory deficits, at least in initial stages. It has become increasingly evident that in addition to the typical presentation, a number of atypical clinical patterns exist, which are nonetheless pathologically AD.
Typical Alzheimer disease
The typical patient with AD will present with:
Antegrade episodic memory deficits.[4] Over time (often years), the disease progresses, with eventual involvement of attentional and executive processes, semantic memory, praxis, and visuoperceptual abilities.[5] Neuropsychiatric symptoms are also common and eventually affect almost all patients. These include apathy, depression, anxiety, aggression/agitation, and psychosis (delusions and hallucinations).[6]
Atypical Alzheimer disease
These entities are characterised by slowly progressive focal cortical atrophy, with symptoms and signs matched to the affected area.[5] Examples include:
Posterior cortical atrophy
A frontal variant of AD
A minority of cases with predominant semantic dementia.
Radiological Features
Although computed tomography (CT) can demonstrate the characteristic patterns of cortical atrophy, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is more sensitive to these changes and better able to exclude other causes of dementia (e.g. multi-infarct dementia) and as such is the favoured modality[7] [Figure 1].
Figure 1: Non-contrast axial and coronal computed tomography of the brain revealed marked volume loss is seen involving both hippocampi and parahippocampal gyri, especially anteriorly, with relative sparing of the rest of the temporal lobe
Structural magnetic resonance imaging
Progressive cerebral atrophy is a characteristic feature of neurodegeneration that can be visualised in life with MRI [best with T1-weighted volumetric sequences; [Figure 2]]. The major contributors to atrophy are thought to be dendritic and neuronal losses. Studies of regional (e.g., hippocampal) MRI volumes have shown these are closely related to neuronal counts at autopsy.[8]
Figure 2: Coronal non-contrast T1 and T2 reveal that the sulci and ventricles are mildly more prominent than expected. The mesiotemporal structures, including the temporal horns of the lateral ventricles, are slightly more prominent, with bilateral hippocampi reduced volume
Other structures within the limbic lobe such as the posterior cingulate are also affected early on. These losses then spread to involve the temporal neocortex and then all neocortical association areas usually in a symmetrical fashion. This sequence of progression of atrophy on MRI most closely fits histopathological studies that have derived stages for the spread of NFTs.[9]
Limitations of structural magnetic resonance imaging in Alzheimer disease
Structural MRI lacks molecular specificity. It cannot directly detect the histopathological hallmarks of AD (amyloid plaques or NFTs) and as such it is downstream from the molecular pathology. Cerebral atrophy is a nonspecific result of neuronal damage and whereas certain patterns of loss are characteristic of different diseases, they are not entirely specific. Atrophy patterns overlap with other diseases and unusual forms of AD have atypical patterns of atrophy too.[10]
Functional MRI (fMRI) is being increasingly used to probe the functional integrity of brain networks supporting memory and other cognitive domains in aging and early AD. fMRI is a non-invasive imaging technique which provides an indirect measure of neuronal activity, inferred from measuring changes in blood oxygen level-dependent MR signal[11] which is considered to reflect the integrated synaptic activity of neurons via MRI signal changes because of changes in blood flow, blood volume, and the blood oxyhaemoglobin/deoxyhaemoglobin ratio[12] [Figure 3].
Figure 3: Increased functional magnetic resonance imaging activity in neocortical (a) and medial temporal (b) brain areas during processing of repeated face-name stimuli in patients with Alzheimer's disease (in red) relative to healthy older control subjects (in yellow). a: Crosshair is located in the right (R) prefrontal cortex, MNI coordinate: 40, 8, 50; b: Crosshair is located in the left (L) anterior hippocampus, MNI coordinate: -24, -4, -28[13]
Limitations of functional magnetic resonance imaging in Alzheimer's disease
There are multiple challenges in performing longitudinal fMRI studies in patients with neurodegenerative dementias. It is likely that fMRI will remain quite problematic in examining patients with more severe cognitive impairment, as these techniques are very sensitive to head motion. If the patients are not able to adequately perform the cognitive task, one of the major advantages of task fMRI activation studies is lost. Resting state fMRI may be more feasible in more severely impaired patients.[10]
Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in Alzheimer's disease
Brain fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET primarily indicates synaptic activity. Because the brain relies almost exclusively on glucose as its source of energy, the glucose analogue FDG is a suitable indicator of brain metabolism and when labelled with Fluorine-18 (half-life 110 min) is conveniently detected with PET. The brain's energy budget is overwhelmingly devoted to the maintenance of intrinsic, resting (task-independent) activity, which in cortex is largely maintained by glutamaturgic synaptic signalling.[14] FDG uptake strongly correlates at autopsy with levels of the synaptic vesicle protein synaptophysin.[15]
18 F-FDG PET typically shows bilateral temporoparietal, precuneus and posterior cingulate hypometabolism which is usually symmetric. Uptake may be asymmetric in the early stages. The anterior cingulate, visual cortex (eyes should be kept open while scanning to avoid the pitfall of hypometabolism in the visual cortex), basal ganglia, thalami, occipital lobes and cerebellum are usually spared. Frontal lobes may be involved in late stage[2] [Figure 4].[16]
Figure 4: (a) Transaxial fused F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography images in a case of mild cognitive impairment with mini mental state examination of 25 showing hypometabolism in the left parietal cortices (arrow). (b) Coronal fused fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography image showing hypometabolism in the left precuneus (arrow) and in the left parietal cortex. (c) Transaxial fused fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography images showing hypometabolism in the left mesial temporal cortices[16]
Limitations of fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in Alzheimer's disease
FDG PET is relatively expensive and like all PET techniques, has more limited availability, although its use in oncology has dramatically increased availability in the USA over the past decade. It requires intravenous access and involves exposure to radioactivity, although at levels well below significant known risk. Brain FDG retention is a non-specific indicator of metabolism that can be deranged for a variety of reasons (e.g., ischemia or inflammation) and may in certain individuals be irrelevant or only indirectly related to any AD-related process.[10]
Amyloid positron emission tomography in Alzheimer's disease
11 C-Pittsburgh compound B, as well as newer compounds such as 18F-florbetapir, 18F-flutemetamol, and 18F-florbetaben, are PET tracers that bind preferentially to beta-amyloid fibrils and thus may be able to improve the specificity of antemortem diagnosis,[17] although there is considerable overlap with normal controls.[6] With increased cerebral Aβ deposition, increased activity is demonstrated in the cortex. It is particularly useful in excluding AD as the cause of dementia, as a negative amyloid PET scan renders the diagnosis unlikely.[2]
Amyloid PET scanning makes amyloid plaques 'light up' on a brain PET scan [Figure 5], enabling, for the first time, accurate detection of plaques in living people. Before amyloid PET, these plaques could only be detected by examining the brain at autopsy.[18]
Figure 5: Axial, sagittal and coronal images of positron emission tomography amyloid scan show comparison between the normal and positive subjects
Limitations of amyloid positron emission tomography in Alzheimer's disease
Major deterrents to the widespread use of amyloid PET remain cost and availability.
Cost remains an issue, especially where CSF measurement of Aβ42 can provide very similar information when the question is simply the presence or absence of brain Aβ deposition. Being an early event in the pathogenesis of AD, amyloid PET is not a good surrogate marker of progression during the clinical stage of the disease.[19]
This role is filled much better by structural MRI and FDG PET.[20]
Treatment and prognosis
There is no cure for this disease; some drugs have been developed trying to improve symptoms or, at least, temporarily slow down their progression.[7]
Treatment options include:[21]
Drugs:
Cholinesterase inhibitors
Partial N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists.
Creating a safe and supportive environment
High-calorie, healthy shakes and smoothie
Partial NMDA receptor antagonists.
Vitamin E.
Medications for behavioural symptoms [7]
Antiparkinsonian (movement symptoms)
Anticonvulsants/sedatives (behavioural).
Neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease
The two primary cardinal lesions associated with AD are the NFT and the senile plaque [Figure 6]. The NFT consists of abnormal accumulations of abnormally phosphorylated tau within the perikaryal cytoplasm of certain neurons. The senile plaque consists of a central core of Aβ, a 4-kD peptide, surrounded by abnormally configured neuronal processes or neurites. Other neuropathological lesions are encountered in cases of AD, but the disease is defined and recognised by these two cardinal lesions.[22]
Figure 6: Photomicrograph of the temporal cortex of a patient with Alzheimer's disease (modified Bielschowsky stain; ×40). Numerous senile (neuritic) plaques (black arrow) and neurofibrillary tangles (red arrow) are shown
Imaging is playing and has played an essential role in the study of AD over the past four decades.
Initially, CT and then MRI used to rule out other causes of dementia. Recently, emerging imaging modalities including structural and functional MRI and PET studies of cerebral metabolism with FDG and amyloid tracers such as Pittsburgh Compound-B (PiB) have shown characteristic changes in the brains of patients with AD that can help rule in the AD pathophysiological process in earlier stages.
No single imaging modality can serve all purposes as each has unique strengths and weaknesses that set a challenge for the future to find an imaging biomarker that is efficient, available and economic for diagnosis, as well as staging of the disease, and most importantly, development of effective disease-modifying therapies.
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Posts Tagged ‘Islamic Center of Passaic County’
Democrats: Party of Treason
Democratic Party has become Party of Treason
Jihadi Hussein Obama is personally and directly responsible for Muslim savages’ massacres of kuffar Americans, a total of 85 deaths and 382 injured, many seriously, at Fort Hood, Texas; Chattanooga, Tennessee; San Bernardino, California; Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, Florida by having ordered the FBI to purge training materials, by having ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland security (DHS) to destroy detailed tracking records of Muslim terrorists under surveillance, by fostering the “see something, say nothing” political climate of pro-jihadists, pro-Islam, pro-Sharia, anti-American, anti-God, and anti-US Constitution.
Mr. Phillip Haney testifies against DHS where 876 documents related to Islam and Muslims were purged as ordered by Jihadi Hussein Obama, under the recommendation of of his homies the Muslim Brotherhood terrorists. June 28, 2016.
Senator Ted Cruz‘s Congressional hearing on Jihadi Obama’s intentionally making USA vulnerable to Islamic terrorism. Jun 29, 2016. Conclusion.
Jihadi Obama has twice purged mentions of ‘ISIS’ and ‘Islamic terrorism’ from highly significant public records—one involving French President Hollande’s remarks about the Paris terror attacks and the other involving the Muslim terrorist’s 911 call during the horrific Orlando attack to pledges of allegiance to ISIS. [he] was forced to abruptly reverse course when the public outcry became too great.
On November 5, 2009, at Fort Hood in Texas, an Army Major named Nidal Hasan gunned down 14 innocent persons—including an unborn child—while shouting ‘Allahu Akbar.’
Prior to this terror attack, federal officials were aware that Hasan had attempted to contact Al Qaeda and had exchanged numerous emails with the terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki. A self-professing ‘soldier of Allah,’ Hasan had also worried many colleagues with his promotion of an extreme or radical interpretation of Islam.
Jihadi Obama then classified these terrorist killings as mere ‘workplace violence.’ In January of 2010, the Department of Defense issued a report entitled ‘Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood.’ The report did not mention Hasan by name, nor did it use the terms ‘Islam’ or ‘jihad.’
Muslim terrorist Omar Mateen in Orlando had been interviewed 3 times by the FBI, and yet the terror attack was not prevented. Both members of the Obama administration John P. Carlin, an Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice’s National Security Division, and Michael B. Steinbach, the Executive Assistant Director for the FBI’s National Security Branch, refused to appear before Ted Cruz’s Senate hearing.
3 months after Fort Hood, in February 2010, the ‘Quadrennial Homeland Security Review’ made zero references to Islam—radical or otherwise.
In 2011, the group ‘Muslim Advocates’ sent a letter to the Obama administration claiming the federal government had somehow become infected with ‘false and highly offensive training materials about Muslims and Islam,’ and demanding that such ‘bigoted and distorted materials’ be ‘purge[d]’—I would note that was their word, not mine ‘purged’—and was also advocating for the creation of an interagency task force to address this problem.
In a lightning quick response, CIA director John Brennan (then Jihadi Ohama’s Homeland Security advisor) agreed to create such a task force, and claimed that the federal government had indeed produced ‘offensive training’ that urgently needed to be dealt with in order to ‘reflect the vision that the President has put forward.’
In November 2011, the Department of Homeland Security released its ‘Domestic Terrorism and Homegrown Extremism Lexicon.’ It made no reference to Islamic terrorism, despite being, on its face, an alleged ‘lexicon’ that included ‘anarchist extremists,’ ‘animal rights extremists,’ ‘environmental extremists,’ and ‘racist skinhead extremists.’ Yet somehow, ‘radical Islamic extremists’ were nowhere mentioned in the FBI’s supposed lexicon. Similarly, the FBI’s ‘Counterterrorism Analytical Lexicon’ makes no reference to ‘Islam,’ ‘radical Islam,’ ‘jihad,’ or any other such term. By way of comparison, the 9/11 Commission report, released in 2004, mentioned ‘jihad’ 126 times and ‘Islam’ 322 times.
In March 2012, under pressure from advocacy groups, the FBI purged 876 documents from its training materials at the behest of three unidentified ‘experts’, likely members of Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR terrorists, because it was ‘offensive’, according to the severely compromised FBI. One article was purged because it was ‘highly inflammatory’ and ‘inaccurately argues the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization.’
In 2014, Jihadi Hussein Obama stated that ISIL, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, was ‘not ‘Islamic’’—again, the Islamic State is somehow not Islamic—because, according to him, ‘[n]o religion condones the killing of innocents.’ Also in 2014, a former White House counterterrorism strategist claimed that the federal government ‘cannot directly address the warped religious interpretations of groups like ISIL because of the constitutional separation of church and state.’ U.S. officials, he argued, ‘are prohibited from engaging in debates about Islam.’
In 2016, Jihadi Hussein Obama Administration has twice purged mentions of ‘ISIS’ and ‘Islamic terrorism’ from highly significant public records—one involving French President Hollande’s remarks about the Paris terror attacks and the other involving the terrorist’s 911 call during the horrific Orlando attack. The Administration was forced to abruptly reverse course when the public outcry became too great. Around the same time, the Homeland Security Advisory Council was admonishing DHS personnel in a report about countering violent extremism to ‘reject religiously-charged terminology’ such as ‘jihad,’ ‘Sharia,’ ‘takfir,’ and ‘umma.’
Jihadi Hussein Obama purges the U.S. military of patriotic U.S. servicemen and servicewomen.
Jihadi Hussein Obama spends $770 millions of American taxpayers’ money on mosques building and restoration around the world, including those in Egypt, Tajikista, and Mali.
Jihadi Hussein Obama spends $770 millions of American taxpayers’ money on mosques around the world.
Jihadi Hussein Obama spends $150 billions of American taxpayers’ money on Iran Nuclear Deal, weakens America and empowers her enemies simultaneously.
Jihadi Hussein Obama spends $1.7 billions of American taxpayers’ money on ransom for U.S. sailors captured by Iran, weakens America and empowers her enemies simultaneously.
Jihadi Hussein Obama decides to flood USA with millions of Muslim savages, criminals, terrorists, and economic parasites under the guise of “Syrian refugees” after helping Muslim Brotherhood to dispose secular governments in Middle East (Libya, Syria) and creating ISIS.
Jihadi Hussein Obama blames Christians for Crusades that happened 500 years ago.
Jihadi Hussein Obama blames Christians for Crusades that happened 500 years ago while defending Islam death cult of which he is a follower. Breakfast Prayer Club. Feb 5, 2015.
He also taqiyya that Muslim terrorists hijack Islam death cult (while in fact, terrorism, or jihad against kuffar, is an integral part of Islam death cult, its 6th pillar), and that there is moral equivalency between Crusades by Christians 500 years ago to defend their territories is somehow equivalent to ongoing terrorist attacks by Muslim savages since the 7th century.
Jihadi Hussein Obama oversteps Federal laws, order FBI to take land away from Bundi ranchers
Jihadi Hussein Obama campaigns against Brexit
As a globalist puppet, Jihadi Obama continues his jihad duty, even after leaving POTUS Office, to fight the kuffar, protect the globalists’ scheme of Islamization of the Europe (along with the rest of the West) via the non-elected European Union (EU) controlled by the globalists.
Jihadi Obama warns U.K. will be punished, lined “at the back of the queue” for trading with USA if it votes for Brexit to leaves EU. Feeling insulted by Jihadi Obama, British citizens voted 51.9% to leave EU (June 23, 2016).
Jihadi Obama illegally pushes illegal aliens to vote for Hillary Clinton in Election 2016. His action is neither legal nor constitutional as only U.S. citizens are permitted to vote in U.S. Presidential Election. As a Kenya-born Muslim Brotherhood Member Emeritus, Jihadi Obama’s loyalty has always been with the Caliphate, and Koranic (Sharia or Islamic) Law, not with America nor the U.S. Constitution.
Jihadi Obama blatantly lies about his politically weaponized FBI & DOJ to illegally spy on Donald Trump in order to prevent and sabotage Trump Presidency. Apr 11, 2016.
Jihadi Hussein Obama campaigns for France’s globalist puppet Macron.
Jihadi Hussein Obama campaigns for France’s globalist puppet Emmanuel Macron. May 4, 2017.
Jihadi Hussein Obama sides with Black Lives Matter terrorists
Jihadi Hussein Obama invites Black Lives Matter terrorists to the White House and praises them for “outstanding work”.
Black Lives Matter terrorists organizes and incite riots by uneducated, violent blacks in Baltimore, Maryland.
Honest & inspiring black man destroys Soros-funded, Democrats-glorifying Black Lives Matter #BLM terrorists with one simple question.
Jihadi Hussein Obama meets with violence agitator and terrorist Robert Creamer 45 times out of his 340 visits to the Obama’s White House
BREAKING News: Bob Creamer, top @HillaryClinton campaign advisor, "STEPS DOWN" after today's video. Here is part of his statement.. pic.twitter.com/oH4VEVQS5c
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) October 18, 2016
Jihadi Hussein Obama goes on global apology tour.
1. Apology for America’s arrogance to France and Europe in the past “America Has Shown Arrogance”. Speech at Rhenus Sports Arena, Strasbourg, France, April 3, 2009.
2. Apology for America’s making mistakes to Muslim countries in the past “We Have Not Been Perfect”. Interview with Al Arabiya, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. January 27, 2009.
3. Apology for America’s acting unilaterally and breaking promises in partnerships with Central and South America in the past “At Times We Sought to Dictate Our Terms”. Summit of the Americas opening ceremony, Hyatt Regency, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, April 17, 2009.
4. Apology for America’s successful partnership with United Kingdom in the past “Some Restoration of America’s Standing in the World”. News conference at G-20 Summit of World Leaders, ExCel Center, London, United Kingdom, April 2, 2009.
5. Apology for America’s misdirection in the War on Terror and building prison to incarcerate Muslim terrorists, or Islamic enemy combatants, at Guantanamo Bay “We Went off Course”. Speech at the National Archives, Washington, D.C., May 21, 2009.
6. Apology for America’s building prison to incarcerate Muslim terrorists, or Islamic enemy combatants, at Guantanamo Bay “Sacrificing Your Values”. Speech at Rhenus Sports Arena, Strasbourg, France, April 3, 2009.
7. Apology for America’s slavery of blacks and mistreatment of native American Indians in the past “Our Own Darker Periods in Our History”. Speech to the Turkish Parliament, Ankara, Turkey, April 6, 2009.
8. Apology for U.S. Policy toward Central and South America in the past “The United States Has Not Pursued and Sustained Engagement with Our Neighbors”. Opinion editorial: “Choosing a Better Future in the Americas,” April 16, 2009.
9. Apology for America’s mistakes made by the CIA in the past “Potentially We’ve Made Some Mistakes”. Speech to CIA employees, CIA Headquarters, Langley, Virginia, April 20, 2009.
10. Apology for America’s building prison to incarcerate Muslim terrorists, or Islamic enemy combatants, at Guantanamo Bay “A Rallying Cry for Our Enemies”. Speech at the National Archives, Washington, D.C., May 21, 2009.
11. Apology for America’s not speaking out against human rights violation in the past “There’s been controversy about the policies of the United States early in those dark days”. Speech at wreath-laying ceremony to mark the 40th anniversary of the coup that brought the military to power. Parque de la Memoria. Buenos Aires. Agentina. Mar 24, 2016.
Jihadi Hussein Obama incites black violence against whites in his race-baiting, violence-inciting divisive speech rooting for blacks and Hispanic against white police, resulting in massive police casualties (5 Dallas cops, 3 Baton Rouge, )
Jihadi Hussein Obama order FBI director & corrupt dhimmi Robert Mueller to purge FBI training material of words like “jihad”, “Sharia”, “Muslim terrorism”, “Umah”, “taqiyya” to keep kuffar Americans in the dark about Islam death cult, hence less prepared and more conquerable.
Jihadi Hussein Obama purge US military, removing all American patriotic officers, leaving only dhimmi willing to accept his jihad agenda of weakening and destroying America from within.
Jihadi Obama purges U.S. Military by firing 200 patriotic, non-Sharia compliant top military officers. Nov 14, 2013.
Muslim Brotherhood Member Emeritus jihadi Obama surrenders kuffar America USA’s sovereignty to Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)-run United Nations (U.N.). Sep 20, 2016.
It is a widely known fact in Muslim countries that Barack Hussein Obama was and is a member of Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization. That’s why he invited his Muslim Brotherhood terrorist brothers to the front rows during his Cairo Speech in Jun 4, 2009. That’s why he’s been trying to destroy America from within by weakening her with admitted millions of Muslim savages and strengthening her enemies with damaging, anti-USA deals like the Iran Nuclear Deal, NAFTA, TPP, etc.
Jihadi Hussein Obama is pro-Sharia, pro-Islam, anti U.S. Constitution, anti-USA
U.S. under Obama’s administration has increasingly become more lawless (with 76 violations so far), and not just recently revealed by DNC emails from Wikileaks, under Hussein Obama’s regime, as the self-proclaimed Law and Order Candidate.
Constitutional lawyers blasts jihadist Hussein Obama’s regime of lawlessness.
Jihadi Hussein Obama weaponizes the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), run by corrupt traitor Lois Learner, to target Conservatives, including members of the Tea Party.
Jihadi Hussein Obama weaponizes the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), run by corrupt traitor James Comey, to target Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump and his campaign staffs, including General Flynn, by illegally introducing fake evidences Trump-Russia Dossier to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court Warrant to wiretap Trump Towers.
Jihadi Hussein Obama weaponizes the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), run by his holdovers, to sabotage Trump’s Presidency
Jihadi Hussein Obama weaponizes the U.S. Office of Personnel Management to block security clearances of Republican Donald Trump’s appointees, including many essential personnel in the Trump administration.
Jihadi Hussein Obama exchanged 5 high ranking Muslim terrorists from Guatanamo Bay prison for traitor U.S. Army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl.
Jihadi Hussein Obama let injured kuffar soldiers in U.S. military die while waiting for their treatment that never came.
Jihadi Hussein Obama orders U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release illegal aliens after they are captured, as part of his infamous “catch and release” program that jeopardizes countless lives of American citizens and those of LEGAL immigrants, such as Kate Steinle, Jamil Shore, and Angel Moms.
Saudi-puppet Hillary Clinton let 4 Americans die in Benghazi despite their repeated requests for reinforcement
Corrupt Saudi-puppet Hillary Clinton lies to the face of Patricia Smith, the mother of 1 of 4 Benghazi victims.
Corrupt Saudi-puppet Hillary Clinton lies that the Muslim terrorist attack spontaneously erupted and is incited by anti-Mohammed video, refuses to provide security backup despite repeated request for help from the victims, then accuses the victims’ family members of lying.
Corrupt traitor Susan Rice makes appearances in 5 shows 1 day to cover up for Benghazi in 2015, and unmasks Donald Trump’s staff ad supporters in 2016.
Democrats’ lies: Benghazi is caused by protest of an anti-Mohammed video.
Fact: There is no protest, and the attack is committed by AlQaeda Muslim terrorists.
Saudi-puppet Hillary Clinton invites Muslim terrorist to her campaign rallies in Election 2016
Saudi-puppet Hillary Clinton invites Muslim terrorist’s father (Seddique Mateen) to her campaign rallies in Florida. Aug 9, 2016.
Saudi-puppet Hillary Clinton enlists Muslim Brotherhood terrorist Huma Abedin to be her assistant and bisexual lover.
Huma Abedin worked at Muslim journal that opposed women’s rights. Alongside Huma Abedin on the editorial board also was Abdullah Omar Naseef, the founder of the Rabita Trust, a financial institution founded prior to 9/11 for the explicit purpose of funding Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida.
Godless Democrats engage in spirit-cooking and Satan worshiping
Hillary Clinton “Spirit Cooking” Satanic Ritual.
Satan-worshiping Maria Abramovic with “Spirit Cooking” ritual.
“Spirit Cooking” Guidebook http://archive.is/15yMm
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15893
Godless, spirit-cooking, Satan worshiping Democrat traitors can’t say “Under God” at Hillary Clinton rally, Camden County, New Jersey. Nov 1, 2016
Saudi-puppet Hillary Clinton says Muslims are peaceful people and Islam death cult has nothing to do with terrorism.
Saudi puppet Crooked Hillary Clinton wants to increase importing %550 more Muslim savages.
Corrupt Crooked Hillary panders to Muslims and terrorists-sponsoring, women-abusing Islamofascist countries to buy their votes and massive donations (more than $500 millions, part of $2 billions, for Clinton Foundation so far), respectively.
“Let’s be clear: Islam is not our adversary. Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.”
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 19, 2015
White Americans need to do a better job of listening when African Americans talk about the seen and unseen barriers you face every day.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 8, 2016
Globalist puppet & corrupt dhimmi traitor Crooked Hillary Clinton panders to blacks by blaming white Americans for being killed by Black Lives Matter (BLM) thugs and Nation of Islam domestic terrorists. 8 Police Officers, 5 in Dallas (Jul 7, 2016), 3 in Baton Rouge (jul 17, 2016), thanks to the War on Cops incited by jihadist Hussein Obama’s continued, calculated, divisive, violence-inciting rhetorics.
Saudi-puppet Hillary Clinton clamps on freedom of speech with Turkey’s Istanbul resolution, criminalizing critics of Islam
Saudi-puppet Hillary Clinton illegally received at least %20 campaign funding from Islamofascist Saudi Arabia for Election 2016, as it is illegal in the United States for foreign countries to try to influence the outcome of elections by funding candidates. The ban on political contributions and expenditures by foreign nationals was first enacted in 1966 as part of the amendments to the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
Saudi-puppet Hillary Clinton has been a career criminal, killing people left and right, with a growing list of victims. Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton paths to fame, power, and fortune have been filled with carcasses of their personal enemies.
DNC deputy chair and Democratic representative from Minnesota is Keith Ellison, a Muslim Brotherhood terrorist
The Deputy Chair of Democratic National Committee (DNC) Keith Ellison openly supports Antifa terrorist.
Muslim Brotherhood terrorist (D-MN) and current DNC Deputy-Chair Keith Ellison repeatedly meets Louis-Farrakhan, leader of black Muslim terrorist group Nation of Islam, and with fellow Muslim Brotherhood terrorists, such as Niwad Awad, current executive director of CAIR, a Muslim Brotherhood terrorist’s front terror group among many others, including SNA (Islamic Society of North America), NAIT (North American Islamic Trust), ICNA (Islamic Circle of North America), Students for Justice in Palestine (JSP), MSA (Muslim Student Association) with 700 chapters at at least 700 U.S. universities. Imagine Muslim terrorist organization masquerading as your local college club to radicalize and indoctrinate your kuffar kids in college to jihad for Islam death cult.
The Deputy Chair of Democratic National Committee (DNC) Keith Ellison blames Jews for September 11 attack by Muslim savages. Jul 8, 2007.
Muslim Brotherhood terrorist and Democrat congressman Keith Ellison (MN-D) comically fakes cries and drama show during Congressional hearing about Islamic Radicalization, bringing up Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attack in which a handful Muslims among 2,997 American civilians were massacred by Muslim savages. Mar 10, 2011.
Hamas/CAIR trying to shut me down in Oregon. Guess who is defending Hamas? The county dems here. No surprise. #CAIRisHamas Hey @jeffsessions anytime u want to indict CAIR would b great! @CAIRvGaubatz @DLoesch @AnnCoulter @AmyMek @jihadwatchRS @Liz_Wheeler @realDonaldTrump #MAGA pic.twitter.com/CtBZaZkeUl
— John Guandolo (@JohnGuandolo) February 20, 2018
Democratic representative from Indiana is Andre Carson, a Muslim Brotherhood terrorist
Muslim Brotherhood terrorists Keith Ellison and Andre Carson are exposed by Mr. Chris Gaubatz, an undercover agent. Jun 28, 2016.
18 Democrat mayors petition jihadi Hussein Obama to admit even more Muslim savages as refugees to Islamize America even more quickly
Former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz hire Pakistani Muslim terrorist spies, the Awan Brothers who work remotely from Pakistan, threatens policeman over missing laptop, assassinate lawyer
Corrupt Democrat & fired DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz threatens Police Chief to hand over the confiscated laptop from Pakistani-Intelligence officers & Muslim Brotherhood terrorists Awan Brothers.
Bad cop: Corrupt Democrat Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel hangs out with Democrats Hillary Clinton, Joel Biden, Bernie Sanders, Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Despite 39 “red flag” warnings to his police department about deranged shooter USA-born, Latino adoptee Nicholas Cruz, he did nothing. As a result of his inaction, 17 students and teachers from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, were massacred. Even worse, at least 3 armed deputies as school resources cowardly waited outside the school building and refused to come in until the shootings stop.
Democrat John Kerry illegally coaches Palestinian Muslim terrorist leader Abbas not to yield to U.S. President Trump
Top FBI investigator, Deputy Assistant Director of the Counterintelligence Division, Peter Strzok planned to organize coup to overthrow duly elected U.S. President Donald Trump, calling Trump
New York City Police Department (NYPD) and New Yorkers have no respect for corrupt dhimmi traitor Bill de Blasio, turns their backs on him at funeral of officer, killed by Muslim savages.
Thanks to corrupt dhimmi traitor Bill de Blasio’s pandering to Muslim savages by stopping the effective mosque surveillance program, Muslim terrorist attacks become more frequent, and casualties among NYPD officers climb to all-time high. Similar leftist agenda of pandering to Muslim savages for votes also seen in Crooked Hillary and jihadi Obama’s war on cops that cumulatively cause cops killing in Dallas, Ferguson.
Corrupt dhimmi traitor Bill de Blasio (D) wants New York City as sanctuary city, fights against President Trump’s order, vows to defed ad protect Muslim savages and illegal aliens over American citizens. Nov 21, 2016.
This traitorous lowlife was directly responsible for multiple Muslim terrorist attacks in New York City, including the machete attack and vehicle jihad attack, after he dismantled the effective Islamic mosque surveillance program set up by previous Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Angry Americans call for resignation of dhimmi #traitor Betsy Hodges Mayor of Minneapolis after her Somali Muslim savage cop shot dead Justine Damond, an Australian woman, for no reason. Jul 21, 2017.
Black Muslim Carolyn Walker-Diallo (D) swears in on Quran (instead of Bible) as Brooklyn Civil Court judge and makes a circus out of New York Civil Court. Dec 17, 2015.
Corrupt dhimmi traitor Philadelphia Mayor James Kenney denies Muslim terrorist attack in Philadelphia, in which the Muslim terrorist (Edward Archer) admitted to kill for Allah, has anything to do with Islam.
Democratic Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) has strong tie to Muslim terrorists in Virginia
Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Chair, John “Pizza” Podesta, engages in Spirit Cooking Santanic rituals.
Seth Rich murder points to highest level of Democrat National Committee (DNC)’s involvement.
Democratic Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA)’s son Linwood “Woody” Kaine, is a convicted Antifa terrorist
Corrupt Democratic Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi amass #200 million on $175,000 annual salary
Corrupt Democratic Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives Maxine Water amass #50 million on $175,000 annual salary
Democrats want gun grabbing or guns confiscation, destroying 2nd Amendment via monikers like “Commonsense Gun Legislature” or “Sensible Gun Laws”
“Sensible Gun Control” or “Common Sense Gun Legislation”.
“Commonsense gun legislation” is code word for guns grabbing, explains Hillary Clinton’s campaign staffer Mary Bayer.
Democrats Anti-USA Democrat traitors show their true color with their pathetic reactions
Angry-looking Democrat losers in Congressional Black Caucus refuse to stand or applaud at the mentioning of lowest black unemployment rate ever recorded in history. Likewise, Hispanic Democrat losers refuse to stand or applaud at the mentioning of near record low of Hispanic unemployment rate. One La Raza loser (Luis Gutierrez) even stormed out when the audience started chanting “USA”.
It is quite obvious that these Demo-rat traitors only care about the votes from their constituents (and illegal aliens) and not the constituents themselves.
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Chicago Sun Times ^ | December 28, 2009 | ABDON M. PALLASCH
U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk, the front-runner in the Republican primary election for U.S. Senate, finds himself the object of an unusual attack ad from one of his lesser-known opponents. Andy Martin, once known as Anthony Martin-Trigona, who has run for numerous elective offices over the last three decades in Illinois, Florida and Connecticut, taped a commercial questioning whether Kirk is gay.
Hawaii court is asked to expedite Obama birth certificate appeal
03/29/2009 6:02:38 AM PDT · by AJ in NYC · 145 replies · 4,355+ views
PR Inside ^ | 3/29/2009 | Andy Martin
The Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals is being asked to expedite an appeal seeking release of Barack Obamas original, typewritten 1961 birth certificate. Andy Martin says scholars have a right to access historic documents of the American presidency. The Hawaii Attorney General opposes release. Martin will convene a National Conference on Barack Obamas Missing Birth Certificate, in Washington April 3-4. See www.NationalConferenceOnObama.blogspot.com IN THE INTERMEDIATE COURT OF APPEALS OF HAWAII ICA DOCKET NUMBER: 29643 ANDY MARTIN, Appellant, HON. LINDA LINGLE, in her official capacity as Governor; DR. CHIYOME FUKINO, in her official capacity as Director of the Department of Health,...
Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says Barack Obama is a bogus Christian
01/18/2009 6:52:28 PM PST · by FreeAtlanta · 79 replies · 2,584+ views
PR Inside ^ | Andy Martin
Martin calls Obama's inaugural day "inclusiveness" nothing more than a "religious freak show." Martin says the Washington Post falsely portrayed Obama as a devout Christian during the campaign, and today is belatedly printing the truth: Obama does not even attend church. Why did the Washington Post suppress the truth about Obama's bogus religion? Why, indeed. Internet powerhouse Andy Martin says, "Barack Obama is a bogus Christian; he has sold people of faith a bill of goods" Andy says that Obama plans to present a "religious freak show" at the inauguration Barack Obama's "Christianity" is "not worth a warm pitcher of...
Writer Says Obama Not Who He Claims to Be
10/23/2008 6:31:16 AM PDT · by pissant · 9 replies · 904+ views
BobMccartywrites ^ | 10/23/08 | Bob McCArty
Andy Martin, the Chicago writer featured in two recent BMW posts here and here told a Honolulu news conference today that, after an intense international investigation, he is convinced that Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama is really the son of Obamas controversial mentor, Frank Marshall Davis. Martin waxed poetic about the conspiracy surrounding Obama and, as much as I had hoped Martin would produce something of value related to the the Illinois senators birth certificate controversy, it appears he has been chasing rabbits instead. In other words, it appears he has found nothing unless, that is,...
Andy Martin predicts John McCain will win the White House
10/30/2008 12:27:08 PM PDT · by Kukai · 18 replies · 1,855+ views
PR-inside ^ | October 30, 2008 | Andy Martine
"McCain has finally shown who he is," Martin says. "McCain took command." "Forty-two years of politics at the national and state level convince me John McCain is going to squeak in," Andy says. "McCain is a warrior, and warriors perform at their best with their backs to the wall. McCain's campaign-if it continues-has hit its stride at the opportune moment." Andy asks Sam Zell to order release of the secret L. A. Times tape. Martin predicts the Los Angeles Times' manipulation will backfire on Obama. (NEW YORK)(October 30, 2008) Let me make my prediction. John McCain wins the White House...
State of Hawaii Backs Andy Martin
11/01/2008 7:04:21 PM PDT · by MNConserv · 53 replies · 4,560+ views
RightSide News ^ | 11-1-08 | Chic
Martin won a stunning victory Friday afternoon (October 31st) when the State of Hawai'i backed his assertion that there was an original, "typewritten, 1961" birth certificate, called a "Certificate of Live Birth" or "COLB" in Hawai'i, that no one has previously seen. Hawai'i officials retrieved and examined the document after Martin filed a lawsuit seeking access to the historic 1961 original.
New COLB vid on Andy Martin just out by same guys who did the huge Berg vid
11/12/2008 5:11:26 PM PST · by BonRad · 6 replies · 711+ views
Nov 12 | BonRad
Obama and Hawaii : IITI (Ep. 11: His Father's Son) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZwON6dKHks Andy is getting very, very warm. This vid by same crew who did the monster Berg vid. http://contrariancommentary.wordpress.com/ http://www.trunews.com/listen_now.htm .....this site has audio interview from OCT 31
easily downloadable In it he states he thinks the fathers name slot blank on the COLB. You can hear in this interview he hasnt researched the Indonesian adoption bearing fully. For that I say go to Bergs Oct 5 Amended presentation http://www.obamacrimes.com/index.php/component/content/article/28 I think martin will find the Indonesian citizenship matter central as does: http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/
Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct Andy Martin's HI BC Case Updated 11/19
11/18/2008 11:12:48 PM PST · by erkyl · 33 replies · 1,429+ views
Contrarian Commentary ^ | 11/19/08 | Andy Martin
Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Hawaii judge conducts vigorous hearing on Obama birth certificate battle, reserves ruling Andy Martin will launch a National Conversation on the Future of America Wednesday evening in Honolulu (HONOLULU)(November 18, 2008) Aloha from Hawaii. A Honolulu circuit judge heard vigorous arguments in the lawsuit filed by Obama author Andy Martin. Martin is seeking access to Barack Obamas original, typewritten 1961 birth certificate. The judge reserved judgment. We had about a half-hour hearing, Martin states. Both the Attorney General and I vigorously presented our respective positions. The Court gave no indication of when...
Did Andy Martin get denied ? See links dated 11/17/2008
11/18/2008 8:36:24 PM PST · by rocco55 · 29 replies · 2,415+ views
It's 11/18 at 11:30 PM eastern standard time. Hawaii time is 5 hours behind EST. The links below do not appear to be on Andy Martin's web-site, but appear to be EMERGENCY motions that he filed on 11/17/2008. In these motions, he claims that he was denied access to Mr. Obama's birth cert ! Does this mean that his hearing did not go forward on 11/18/2008 as scheduled, or is this in anticipation of a court denial to access the BC ? Anyone know ? Let's pray for VICTORY ! Check it out ! Thx ! http://contrariancommentary.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/andy-martin-hawaii-lawsuit-2-emergency-motion/ Also see http://contrariancommentary.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/andy-martin-hawaii-lawsuit-1-complaint/
Andy Martin hopes to appeal Honolulu court decision on Obama birth certificate
11/23/2008 3:12:47 PM PST · by Red Steel · 20 replies · 1,794+ views
PR Inside ^ | 2008-11-22 08:29:54 | Andy Martin
"Another court, another cover-up," says Andy Martin. "What is wrong with our country when someone can be 'elected' without providing access to the original copy of their birth certificate? Something is drastically wrong with our democracy, and every American will pay the price. We will be issuing a fund raising appeal to continue this battle on appeal. The claim that a president's birth certificate is secret is complete nonsense." Andy Martin plans appeal of Honolulu court decision on Obama birth certificate, has not yet received a copy of the ruling
Insufficient public interest? (Certifigate)
11/24/2008 7:45:50 AM PST · by pissant · 72 replies · 2,615+ views
WND ^ | 11/24/08 | Joe Farah
Another lawsuit attempting to obtain a copy of Barack Obama's Hawaiian birth certificate was thrown out Friday by a judge who said there was "insufficient evidence to indicate that the public interest supports" the document's release. Judge Bert Ayabe upheld arguments from Republican Gov. Linda Lingle's office, which, inexplicably, has fought tooth and nail to protect the birth certificate from public scrutiny even though it remains the key to establishing whether the man elected to be the next president is actually eligible under the Constitution. Ayabe ruled that Andy Martin, the man who filed the suit, did not have standing...
First Court Hearing on Obama's Birth Certificate on Tuesday, Nov 18, 2008
11/17/2008 11:46:23 AM PST · by mgist · 115 replies · 5,718+ views
Right Side News ^ | 11/16/08
November 16, 2008 Right Side News Andy Martin is in Honolulu this weekend preparing for the first court hearing on the Obama birth certificate controversy. His press release is as follows: This will be the first court hearing anywhere on access to the original, 1961 certificate. The only state that has jurisdiction over such a lawsuit is Hawai'i, because Hawai'i officials are the custodians of the 1961 typewritten paperwork. Before we get to the back story, let me start with a disclaimer. I have no idea what the judge will do on Tuesday. I make no predictions, except one:...
Internet powerhouse Andy Martin set to slam "mainstream media" in New York news conference today
10/24/2008 1:06:18 PM PDT · by Calpernia · 69 replies · 3,110+ views
PR Inside ^ | October 24, 2008 | Andy Martin
Martin says broadcasters and newspapers are force-feeding American people "Barack Obama propaganda," says Colin Powell anti-McCain love-fest on NBC was disgraceful. "We are going to win this one for the Gipper," Martin says, predicting a McCain victory on November 4th. Martin says his investigation and disclosures about Barack Obama's "fantasy family" in Hawai'i have created a "rush to land" in Honolulu. Internet powerhouse Andy Martin lands in New York "Operation Aloha Obama" sets off "rush to land" in Hawaii Hawai'i investigation embarrasses mainstream media Andy says newspapers and broadcasters are betraying the American people and "force-feeding Americans Obama propaganda" ANDY...
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I guess I"m not really persuaded that media don't make people snap. Media make people do all sorts of things. If media didn't make people do things, the advertising industry would not exist. If media did not make people do things, gobsmacking amounts of money would not be spent on political campaigns to convince people that the other candidate is an un-American Muslim terrorist who was really born in Kenya and has a forged birth certificate. Given that the Supremes have given carte blanche to unlimited spending in political campaigns by shadowy sources, it is quite conceivable that Romney with the help of his plutocrats will buy the election because the media does influence behavior, tremendously so.
I agree that people snap because they are crazy, but it seems plausible that crazy people are even more susceptible to media suggestion than non-crazy people, and it should be clear by now that non-crazy people are tremendously influenced by the media. I don't see how a person being "shitty" makes him snap, though.
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And it seems plausible that media that relies so heavily on sensationalized, overplayed images of exciting crime scene footage, along with breathless commentary about how fascinating a mass murderer and his motivations are would serve to influence yet more dull, whiny manchildren to throw their own deadly temper tantrums to get the attention they want so badly.
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Nobody knows anything about the shooter at this point. He's not cooperating with police and they can't even search his apartment until they disable all his booby traps. If there's anything the media can be blamed for right now it's wallowing in fraught, groundless speculation.
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In this case, it appears that the news media is simply reporting what federal law enforcement officials told reporters: that the killer modeled himself after the Joker. Reporting on facts as best can be ascertained at the moment, from sources ostensibly in the know, is a proper and unavoidable function of the news media.
Draping it all in lurid sensationalism, as both New York tabs will do on Saturday morning, to take one example, is an entirely different matter. But then, of course, if we suspect that such luridness might influence other manchildren to act out murderously to get the attention that they crave, then we are saying straightforwardly that the media does influence people, and so it is not unreasonable to suppose that this person did what he did because he was influenced by a fictional portrayal of the Joker.
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I read some of your foolish scree, then just skimmed the rest.
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And then we have the Drudge Report. Nice, eh?
Originally Posted by davidm
In this case, it appears that the news media is simply reporting what federal law enforcement officials told reporters: that the killer modeled himself after the Joker.
Do you have a source for that? This article attributes the Joker claim to an anonymous law enforcement official who has been "briefed" on the killings. Since New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly made the claim publicly in his press conference announcing an increase of security at NYC movie theaters, I would not at all be surprised if he was the earlier anonymous source, not the feds, and I would take anything he said with a gigantic grain of salt.
Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates, who as far as I know is in charge of the investigation because the FBI isn't involved yet, would not comment on the Joker story except to say that it's not true that the suspect was wearing Joker makeup. All he would say about the suspect's look is that he was dressed in black, wearing a gas mask and copious body armour. None of the witness accounts I've read thus far have said he called himself the Joker or the enemy of Batman or anything at all, for that matter. It's not easy to be heard through a gas mask, after all, even less so when there's a hail of bullets going down both live and through an incredibly loud movie theater surround system.
It's a groundless allegation at this point, from what I can see.
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From NBCnws.com:
After he was arrested outside the theater, Holmes told police that he was the Joker, a reference to one of the most prominent villains in the Batman canon, a law enforcement official told NBC News on condition of anonymity.
This is consistent with a number of reports that have appeared, including in the New York Times.
I'm not sure what the issue is here. Law enforcement officials report, rightly or wrongly, that the guy modeled himself after the Joker. News media outlets report what these law enforcement officials say. That is what reporters and editors are paid to do. Of course, later on, the facts may prove to be much different. And, insofar as these facts may be discovered and understood, responsible news media outlets will report them as accurately as possible, without breathless fluff. So what is the problem here with the news media? If it turns out that the guy never said anything about mimicking the Joker, it was not the news media that said he did. It was the people allegedly in the know who told reporters that he said that. And the reporters reported it. That is their job.
Well, you first said the source was federal law enforcement official. It wasn't. Nor was it an official who was actually on the scene since the anonymous official was just "briefed" on the investigation, not personally party to it.
The problem is that a lot of people talk a lot of shit when this kind of chaotic event happens, including cops who heard something from another cop. It's a game of telephone. It may all turn out to be accurate, but for the moment I don't consider this a solidly sourced story.
ETA: CNN says their source of the Joker story was indeed a federal law enforcement official. I'm still reserving judgement on this angle until the officers to whom he supposedly said this come forward.
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Media influences everyone, and helps inform our brains which put it all into categories, which in turn forms our sort of collective imagery (describe the alien most often involved in abductions, we all know exactly what they look like).
The media however cannot cause a healthy person with adequate stress coping mechanisms to gear up for war and murder movie goers, walk into a college bar with an assault rifle and start shooting kids, or build bombs and booby traps to add more death to the aftermath.
There has to be something (rage, fear, power trip, attention seeking, insanity, something) already in that person's mind to fuel the fantasies, as well as a definitely pathological lack of mental filters and "stop" signals, for someone to actually decide "Yes, okay, I am going to murder a bunch of people today". How that act plays out in the details is how it looks like in that person's head, so of course includes imagery from the media.
The problem with even accurate reporting is that it adds more imagery to the violent fantasies of other people, some with a similar lack of filters and stop signals.
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Well, sure, but media exposure (like any kind of experience) can also fuel rage and fear, and can restructure "mental filters". The contrast between information inputs on one hand, and the internal structures/character/dispositions that handle that information on the other hand, is not a stable one.
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The media certainly fuels rage and fear in me, but I simply cannot imagine anything that would trigger me to mass murder random strangers in a public place. I have a very hard time accepting that the media culture can create the ability in someone to carry such acts out.
ETA: I found this from last year: Mass murderer psychology - The patterns of horror | Brain Blogger
As some of the literature points out to media influences on mass murderers, preeminently the influences cited by the murderers themselves (e.g. the movies Natural Born Killers (1994) and The Basketball Diaries (1995)), the implications of this type of obsessive and even video game-like coverage of the mass murders themselves can have a widespread influence on how both covert potential perpetrators of similar crimes and the public in general view and process this type of incidents.
If the media is turning violent-videogame influenced acts of horror into a highly entertaining pseudo-violent videogame, it seems that research should focus on this aspect extensively, besides the psychology and modus operandi of these yet puzzling crimes. In a way, a mass murderer in the making toying with the idea of killing people at random would see this videogame-type coverage as something positive: he will at last be the star of his own videogame, and, in his view, he will come out as the victor.
And this from last decade: Eye on Psi Chi: Fall 2000
What would it take for you to slide across it? We want to believe it is impermeable, with us here forever and them over there permanently, when in fact, that line is permeable--we good ones could become those bad ones.
My modest task is to outline some of the psychological processes that I believe are involved in human evil, more specifically, to share with you some ideas I have about the social psychological strategies and tactics that can facilitate the transformation of good, or at least ordinary, people into monsters, who are perpetrators of evil. I try to counteract the fundamental attribution error, the human tendency to overemphasize the dispositional while simultaneously underplaying the situational. I do so by demonstrating that seemingly trivial aspects of social situations can influence our behavior in profound ways, more so than we can imagine or give credit for--in the extreme--that can make us do the unimaginable.
I dunno, again I cannot even start to imagine killing random people, but I have a son to raise in this culture, and if media and social influences can actually give him the ability to push past compassion and empathy and instead indulge any rage or revenge....WTF? How do I handle that?
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I would argue that media is a social construct, and like many other influences can be positive or negative for kids. What other social constructs can lead to "push[ing] past compassion and instead indulg[ing] any rage or revenge" even taking murder out of the equation? Quite a lot of them actually.
For some it is a group of friends or a peer group. Gang culture is the most infamous example, but cliques and in groups can foster that kind of emotional response. For some it is churches or political organizations. Echo chambers which can plant the seeds of intolerance and reinforce negative emotions. This can extend all the way to hate groups and cults. For some it is more institutionalized. Our military and even our schools reinforce and reward that kind of thinking.
What can be done? You can limit their access to such groups and to media. Keeping kids from falling in with a "bad crowd" is as old as time. You can only see and referee so much of their lives, especially as they get older, and someday they will be on their own. They will have to navigate this world and society on their own and we all need tools for that.
I don't want to sound facile, like some freshman undergrad, but my mind goes to the Milgram and Zimbardo experiments in these situations. Milgram showed that a midwestern school teacher can behave like a Nazi presented with the wrong authority figure. Zimbardo showed how easy it is for us to BE that authority figure given a uniform and an environment that accepts it.
I think of the media as a social authority. It can be an even more dangerous than a despot in that it contains the wisdom of crowds, as well as a great deal of unconscious negative constructs. I believe that you need two things to counteract all these social influences, whether it is interpersonal or whether it is the more nebulous cultural kind. Sadly, these two things can be incompatible and it is a balancing act to keep them in check. Thankfully, I do believe it can be taught and that people are capable of learning this at any age.
A person needs a strong sense of self in order to question authority. Critical thinking, creative abstract thought, and an ability to see alternatives which may not be evident. But they also need to be able to question themselves in order to have self accountability. I think our culture currently pushes the first and ignores the second. Self accountability is vital so that you do not become part that negative authority, or reinforce it actively or tacitly.
I think lacking that second quality can be the element which makes people go mad. It wasn't Timothy McVeigh's political beliefs that made him dangerous. It was that he felt he had the authority to take people's lives in the name of that cause. I think most of these mass murders all have that in common.
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I have been reading Zimbardo all morning. And crying a little.
You've expressed some of his same thoughts
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At this point I have seen no speculation as to what mind or mood altering substances this murderer may have been using. Easy enough to speculate about the effects of culture on the human psyche, except that I consistently notice a tendency toward blindness regarding drug and alcohol abuse. It rarely enters the discussion, and even then, the focus tends to be on whether or not the murderer had been under psychiatric care and what prescription drugs they had been taking.
That said, humans don't necessarily need outside influences to be homicidal. It's in the nature of the beast.
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I really struggle with this issue. In me it plays out as a struggle between my undergraduate and graduate degrees. In undergrad I studied Social Psychology and was particularly focused on Social Learning Theory, the theory that produced the bobo doll studies that introduced the idea that media can induce violence in children. Naturally I believe those studies have validity. One of my professors even owned one of the original bobo dolls, a gift from the man who did the study.
In my professional work with the American Library Association I have focused on intellectual freedom. In fact, I just accepted a seat on the Reference and User Services Association intellectual freedom committee that I chaired for three years before timing out some years ago. As a librarian and intellectual freedom advocate I abhor the blaming of books, tv, music and films for acts of violence and any attempt to censor based on them. I always want to point to the thousands of people who watch the same thing and don't commit violent acts.
Honestly I have no answer to this question. I do believe that if you have no urge toward violence or healthy coping behaviors to deal with your urges you will not act out no matter what you watch. But I do believe we learn from watching other people, in person or through media. Hell, I'm the youngest of nine children, I live learning from others' mistakes. It's still one of my primary methods of learning and dealing with situations. So I just sit here and argue with myself and feel a bit helpless when these ideas come up.
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I don't mean this to sound smug or 'splainy, because I feel the pull in both directions as well. But reading it as you have it laid out here, Janet, it strikes me that the former is at least based on some evidence, while the latter is (in the absence of further elaboration) a principle or conviction without much to support it directly. (I think the empirical conjecture you offer on the latter side is analogous to the observation that some people smoke and never get cancer, or sleep around widely without using condoms but never get a STI.)
But I do think that part of the problem might be in assimilating blaming books to censoring them. I'm often frustrated when I hear arguments against censorship framed in terms of the causal inefficacy of the contested materials. An informed and honest public discussion about this issue, like the one you've sketched here, will have to come to terms with the idea that movies, books, tv and video games really can make people more dangerous, more violent. The question, IMO, is whether that's sufficient grounds to censor or regulate that material.
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Wait, what? The Basketball Diaries being blamed for violence? The story of a wanna be basketball player descending into heroine addiction?
Bizarre.
I think it's a question for statistics. If a very tiny percentage of people watching or reading something act out because of it, then the value probably outweighs the risk. For instance, the US gross for The Dark Knight is $533,345,358, assuming an average ticket price of $10, that 53,334,535. Let's assume many of those people saw it twice so say about 40,000,000 people saw it and 1 may have shot up a movie theater because of it. I say that's pretty good odds on the art not making anyone into a murderer. I imagine that's much better odds than smoking without getting lung cancer or avoiding STIs without a condom.
The Man (07-21-2012)
Agreed. I think the discussion has to be about cumulative effects of media types, not whether this asshole was somehow turned evil by a movie that he didn't watch.
livius, can we split off the media and societal connection to violence discussion
Clutch Munny (07-21-2012)
Originally Posted by Janet
40,000,000 people saw it and 1 may have shot up a movie theater because of it. I say that's pretty good odds on the art not making anyone into a murderer.
Important also to bear in mind that causes and effects here are likely to be both one-many and many-one. We don't think of the single cigarette that caused the individual tumor, etc.
Mass murders like this are not common. This is not a trend. We're still all probably going to die from heart disease or cancer. As far as we know at this point, nobody here was personally affected by this shooting. Twelve people died. You're more likely to know someone who died in a car accident that day, and you're also more likely to know someone who dies in a car accident in the future. Sensationalizing and dragging out coverage of incidents like this is nothing but pure, unadulterated tragiporn.
On its own, an incident like this is statistically insignificant. Shit like this has happened every now and again since forever. It's always been rare, but it's also always existed. Sometimes, for whatever stupid reason, some loose nut flips out and kills people.
Whether or not some outlier takes some inspiration for their manner of killing from popular fictional media is not a huge issue that the public needs to address or discuss, particularly not in the immediate aftermath of a mass killing. In fact, it's fucking gross. The victims haven't even all been identified yet, and a lot of families are waiting; and people are already engaging in sick speculative fan fic or some shit about who this mysterious and fascinating killer was and what motivated him.
If there is one clear and well-recognized trend that can be squeezed out from the rare cases like this, it's that killers are primarily motivated by the excitement and the expectation of attention just like this. Whether or not pop culture plays some role or not, we already know that sensationalistic media coverage is a huge motivating factor in copycat crimes.
Here's a pretty concise video where an actual, well respected criminal profiler briefly explains that in the aftermath of a well-publicized mass killing like this, we can expect to see copycats within a week or two:
Charlie Brooker's Newswipe 25/03/09 - YouTube
From here, with more links.
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I think it's a question for statistics. If a very tiny percentage of people watching or reading something act out because of it, then the value probably outweighs the risk.
I think that's a big issue when trying to figure out what causes things like this. No matter what the reasoning, those who mass murder are such a small percentage that any one cause will have thousands or millions of people who came out just fine. If anything I wonder if the cases of mass murders are a 'perfect storm' of conditions.
Take mental illness, millions of people with supposed dangerous illnesses live fine lives and don't kill anyone, and yet a few do. I keep thinking there's a mental illness component to this attack mostly because he is a male in his early 20 (a common sex and age for onset) who dropped out of society and away from any long term goals.
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Fringe Rewatch 406: And Those We've Left Behind
By Xindilini Email Post 12/30/2011 02:24:00 AM Categories: Fringe, Season 4, Winter Rewatch
Join us during the fall/winter break every Friday for our Fringe Winter Rewatch.
In my opinion, Fringe is a long-running mystery that will never give up it's secrets until the very end. It used to be a private escape. But today, it's very hard to throw away an episode after watching. I missed that a lot. So I appreciate the time taken to set up the season for all the players involved. From a storyteller's point of view, I need episodes like these to establish where the characters are. Here Peter is embarking on a journey all his own.
It is weird that much of what I imagined has come true. I am not referring to Olivia not knowing Peter. I have come up with that scenario myself in fan fiction. What I imagined was a train coming from nowhere, not so much from the past.
On with the episode. Is it a dream, or a memory? Part of the future vision Peter saw in season 3's The Day We Die. The perfect day in the park for Peter until Olivia tells him, "Too bad it has to end." Why? "You can't ignore the problem, Peter. Ignoring it won't make it go away." What's the problem? "You, Peter. You are the problem."
TVLine Readers Share Their 2012 Wish List
By fringeobsessed Email Post 12/29/2011 10:40:00 AM Categories: Fringe, TVLine
December 29, 2011 05:00 AM PST
TVLine Readers Share Their 2012 Wish List For Supernatural, Glee, NCIS, Gossip Girl and More!
by Team TVLine
And look who the #3 wishes are for:
“Finally an Emmy nomination for Anna Torv and John Noble – the most underrated actors on TV.” --Sabrina
“Renewal of Fringe for a fifth and final season (a la Chuck). That's it. I'd trade the future of all my other shows for one last season of Fringe. That's how good it is. It deserves a real ending.” --Jeff
Read the entire TVLINE article here.
Matt Roush's Top 10(And Then Some) of 2011
By fringeobsessed Email Post 12/27/2011 11:07:00 PM Categories: Announcement, Fringe, TV Guide
Matt Roush's Top 10 (And Then Some) of 2011
Dec 16, 2011 04:11 PM ET
by Matt Roush
8. FRINGE
Living on the fringe of the TV schedule and ratings, Fox's sci-fi/fantasy mind-blower just keeps expanding in its mystical complexity. As Peter Bishop plays peek-a-boo between warring universes, we're treated to cautionary Frankenstein parables of the dangers of playing God. A more than worthy successor to The X-Files.
Click here to read Matt's entire TV Guide article.
Press Release for 408-"Back To Where You've Never Been"
By fringeobsessed Email Post 12/26/2011 09:23:00 PM Categories: Announcement, Season 4
SpoilerTV has posted this press release for the upcoming January 13th episode, 408, titled, "Back To Where You've Never Been":
THE TIME HAS COME TO CHOOSE A SIDE ON AN ALL-NEW "FRINGE" FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, ON FOX
In an effort to find a way home, Peter journeys to the Other Side to confront Walternate. His venture proves more dangerous than expected. Meanwhile, Olivia receives a dire premonition from an Observer in the all-new "Back to Where You've Never Been" Winter Premiere episode of FRINGE airing Friday, Jan. 13 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (FR-408) (TV-14 L, V)
Cast: Anna Torv as Olivia Dunham; Joshua Jackson as Peter Bishop; John Noble as Walter Bishop; Lance Reddick as Phillip Broyles; Blair Brown as Nina Sharp; Jasika Nicole as Astrid Farnsworth; Seth Gabel as Lincoln Lee
Click here to see the original SpoilerTV post.
"Downhill Racers" Game On Official Fringe Website
By fringeobsessed Email Post 12/26/2011 09:18:00 PM Categories: Fox, Fringe, Promotional
Every year FOX Broadcasting has a cute little animated game for the holidays in which you can pick and use characters from your favorite FOX shows.
This year's game is called "Downhill Racers." You can use Astrid, Broyles, Lincoln, Nina, Olivia, Peter, and Walter from Fringe to earn your points.
Click here to get to the official FOX Fringe website and play "Downhill Racers."
"Fringe Binge" Begins 12/26:Are You In?
By fringeobsessed Email Post 12/25/2011 10:55:00 PM Categories: Announcement, Fringe, Promotional
Someone on Tumblr started this and I don't know who.
There is a worldwide appeal for people to start watching all 72 episodes of Fringe via DVD tomorrow, December 26th at 8AM EST.
The idea is for Fringe fans around the world to all watch our show at the same time.
Use the links below to check the viewing timetable for your country:
On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FringeBinge2011
On Tumblr: http://fringebinge.tumblr.com/
Also, the FringeBinge people on Twitter are asking if you participate to use the special #fringebinge hashtag.
You can also check into all 72 episodes at getglue.com.
Enjoy the FringeBinge. Don't forget to take some breaks!
Merry Fringemas from Fringe Television
By fringeobsessed Email Post 12/24/2011 09:48:00 AM Categories: Fox, Video
From all of us at Fringe Television to all of you, have a very Merry Fringemas!
(Although this mash-up video was made in 2009 by FOX Broadcasting it is still wonderful. Enjoy!)
Fringe Rewatch 405: Novation
By oranfly Email Post 12/23/2011 12:00:00 AM Categories: Fringe, Season 4, Winter Rewatch
Novation:
Law . the substitution of a new obligation for an old one,usually by the substitution of a new debtor or of a new creditor.
the introduction of something new; innovation.
Peter, though happy to be back clearly looks resigned to whatever Broyles has in mind for him and doesn’t even put up a good Bishop-fight over his newest living arrangements at the FBI headquarters.
Olivia discovers Walter hooked up to a machine that is beeping wildly and you can tell by the look on her face that she is having flashbacks to the lobotomizing incident prior to Peter’s return. When Walter abruptly wakes up, Olivia startles and he explains that this is the only way he can sleep since the “stranger” has come into their lives. A stranger that Broyles has denied him access to.
This is when Olivia informs Walter that not only does the stranger refuse to talk to anyone but Walter but he is claiming to be Walter’s long dead son, Peter Bishop. When I first imagined the scene of Walter finding out that the stranger is claiming to be his son, I expected a lot more emotion and I have to admit his look of mild shock was disappointing.
New Fringemas Songs from "The Fringemunks"
By fringeobsessed Email Post 12/19/2011 09:32:00 PM Categories: Fringe, Music, Promotional
While there may not be any new episodes of our beloved series right now, there is some new festive "Fringemas" music for you to enjoy.
David Wu, the very talented creator of "The Fringemunks," has released 2 new digital Fringemas songs sure to make your holiday more merry.
Click here to listen to David Wu's "Blight Christmas" and "12 Days Of Fringemas." Enjoy!
Composer Chris Tilton Adding Music To Fringe Fridays
By fringeobsessed Email Post 12/19/2011 09:00:00 PM Categories: Chris Tilton, Fringe Friday, Music
Gifted composer, Chris Tilton, who composes all of the music for the Fringe series, posted this on his Facebook page on December 02:
Chris Tilton
So there may be no more Fringe for 2011, but there will be music! Starting today I'm going to upload one cue every Friday for the rest of the year! The cues will be from ep. 408 the Spring Premiere (which was previously supposed to be the fall finale) and ep. 409. Titles will be kept secret to avoid hints and/or spoilers.
Connect to his Facebook profile here to hear his weekly Fringe Friday musical clip.
Ken Tucker's Top 5:The 10 Best Of 2011
By fringeobsessed Email Post 12/19/2011 08:59:00 PM Categories: Awards, Fringe, Season 4
by Ken Tucker
Completing my Best in TV list: Here are the Top 5 shows: Best of 2011 VIDEO
Here is the completion of my Top 10 list, the five shows I enjoyed most in 2011. “Enjoyed,” however, is short-hand for a finely tuned algorithm: The shows here gave me a lot of immediate, visceral pleasure; they were pleasant, and sometimes pleasantly knotty, to contemplate.
I take into account the balance between acting, writing, directing, and editing (I have to say, production values don’t matter much to me — a show can look like crap, like it was shot for $300 — and as long as it contains excellence in the other areas, it’s aces with me). As it happens, my number one choice this year is also one of the most beautiful-looking shows on TV, but that’s not all that makes it #1:
Click here to read the article and watch Ken's Top 5 Best TV Shows of 2011 Video(Pay attention to #3!)
So, that's the list. Yes, there were a lot of shows I had to lop off with a degree of pain. (Which means, yes, I'll be writing my annual Top 11-20 list to post next week.) But these shows were all superb at this moment in TV history. I hope you agree. And disagree. Because that's just inevitable. Pick up the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly for my full prose analysis of my Top 10.
NY Times' Mike Hale's 10 Favorite TV Shows of 2011
by Mike Hale
FROM the modest slice of the television pie that I found time to watch this past year here are 10 of my favorite shows, in alphabetical order.
‘FRINGE’ (Fox) Consider this a vote for the latter half of the show’s second season, which played out the dual-universe story in consistently surprising and moving ways. Season 3 has been a mixed bag so far, with the alternate-universe cast completely dropping out of sight at times. (It can’t be because the actors have other obligations, given that they’re the same ones who appear in the regular universe.) But it looks as if things will pick up again now that Peter Bishop has returned from electromagnetic limbo.
Read the rest of Mike Hale's New York Times article here.
SVT Best of 2011 TV Awards-The Winners Announced!
By fringeobsessed Email Post 12/17/2011 11:24:00 PM Categories: Awards, Fringe, John Noble, SpoilerTV
Well, sadly our beloved series did not win the best TV Drama category, and came in at #3.
BUT, I am happy to announce that John Noble ran away with the vote to win the "Most Overlooked" category by 25%.
Congratulations to John Noble, who is truly overlooked in all awards everywhere for his talent in portraying multiple versions of Dr. Walter Bishop.
Click here to read all the winners in SpoilerTV's Best of 2011 TV Awards.
FRINGE-Fans Ask:What Would Your Dream Episode Be?
By fringeobsessed Email Post 12/17/2011 07:45:00 PM Categories: Jasika Nicole, John Noble, Joshua Jackson, Lance Reddick, Season 4, Video
Here's a new installment of the popular "Fans Ask Fringe" video series, where a real fan question is answered by some of the cast.
This week's question:What would your dream episode be?
New Fringe Promo 408 Back To Where You've Never Been
By JuliDG Email Post 12/16/2011 12:26:00 PM Categories: Season 4, Video
Here's a brand new promo for episode 408. Fringe returns with new episodes, Friday January 13th on Fox.
Fringe Rewatch 404: Subject 9
By Unknown Email Post 12/16/2011 02:11:00 AM
The fourth episode of each Fringe season ( The Arrival - Momentum Deferred - Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep) has historically been a turning point. Each of these set the pace for the storyline of the first half of their respective seasons. The prior three episodes of the current season showed a world in which Peter Bishop died in both universes. The repercussions of the absence of the Peter we know were made evident. Walter is a wreck, barely able to function and constantly under the threat of being committed to the mental hospital again. Olivia is a bit more open in some ways, but she’s certainly hiding her fears and doubts about herself well. There’s been no son to take care of his father and work with him. For Olivia, there’s been no consultant that evolved to a friend, lover, and future husband.
Previously, Olivia revealed to Walter that she had seen the same man he was seeing - in her dreams.
Many times throughout the series, Olivia has been shown trying to sleep. She often had a difficult time resting, as many burdens weighed heavy on her mind. In this Amber-verse, Olivia is more able to let go. Maybe that it is because she killed her stepfather, or had an early exit from the Cortexiphan trials. Or some other reason. But this Olivia sleeps soundly at night - maybe even hoping to dream of the stranger that she and Walter discussed. Her nightstand is shown with a few objects: a picture of her sister and niece, keys, and other small personal effects.
Clocks and time are always of importance - even if shown merely in the background. Olivia’s digital alarm clock initially showed a time of 5:58 - very close to the 6:02 am, a time that most astute Fringe viewers instantly recognize as the time that the machine was activated by the red universe in the original time-line. The mysterious light that slowly shined upon Olivia’s unaware form added a great sense of suspense as the minutes ticked away. When this episode first aired, I only really cared and hoped that maybe Peter would show up in some form, perhaps the astral projection Peter we knew from season three. This second time around, I was able to just take in the scene and really get an idea of what it meant.
Just as her clock struck six, activating the alarm, a blue mass of energy hovered above Olivia, prompting her to make for her gun (conveniently in her nightstand, maybe with her copy of Advanced Forensics.) As scared Olivia looked on, the mass dissipated. Yet, the alarm on again displayed from 5:59 to 6:00 am prompting confused Olivia to look over her bed - the mass had indeed attracted the metallic objects to it, leaving Olivia looking bewildered at what had just occurred.
The next day at Walter’s lab, the unstable scientist, along with Astrid, used Matrix-style movie camera filming and peanuts to test a way to capture images of his unwanted, non-corporeal visitor. There is a joking terminology among some of the fans that have dubbed Walter as “Walnut,” and Peter as "Peanut." So this scene, very neat on its own, was especially funny to those in the online fandom.
Another Dome... hmm...
What wasn’t so funny was Olivia’s injury from having been touched by the energy mass, and her fears that she had something to do with its appearance - like “when she was a child and set fire to the room.” There were two of these incidents in the old-timeline. One occurred when she was three years old. The other when she was being tested in an effort to determine what made her able to cross over to the other universe, in the hopes of returning healed Peter to his family. Which was she referring to, and if it was the latter, why would Walter be trying to have her cross over if there wasn’t a Peter to return?
Walter’s witnessing of an event before it happened was a prelude to further time-slips later in the season. However, time inconsistencies may have occurred before. I had written previously about my thoughts concerning Olivia’s experiences in The Road Not Taken. I believe this season gives evidence to my feelings that Olivia was not experiencing the red universe, but another time-line. We could also point back to Peter’s assertion concerning déjà vu in White Tulip - “I read that déjà vu is fate's way of telling you that you're exactly where you're supposed to be. That's why you feel like you've been there before.” But the biggest concern about this occurence came from Sam Weiss in The Last Sam Weiss, when he remarked that time may be "course-correcting."
Mmmm... Delicious, Strawberry-flavored Death...
We know just how much of an effect that the revelation concerning her treatment with Cortexiphan had on Olivia in the prior time-line. It made her feel damaged, and it took a long time for her to embrace her abilities and just how “special” she was. The current Olivia did not seem to know much about the other Corexiphan subjects and her interactions with Cameron gave her the insight that she lacked. Cameron - like Nick Lane, James Heath, and Simon Phillips - conveyed to both Walter and Olivia how his life was altered by what the Cortexiphan trials did. He expressed hope at a normal life, and felt that he didn’t even receive a special power that could make him useful. It gave Olivia cause to reflect on her emotional capacity and ability to form bonds with other people. Walter earlier had reiterated William Bell’s words that Olivia was always the strongest. But strongest in what way? Is it in the ability to keep one’s emotions in check and be the stoic warrior for justice that defines Olivia Dunham?
Nina Sharp’s speech concerning technology and ethics piqued my interest. After all, Fringe is often a cautionary tale about the consequences of “crossing the line” and playing God.
“Nanotechnology -- the bloom is not off the rose. Because of the far-ranging claims that have been made about potential applications of nanotechnology, a number of serious concerns have been raised about how this will affect our society if realized and what actions, if any are deemed appropriate, might be needed to mitigate these risks. This is not Massive Dynamic's concern. We create technology. How it is used is not our concern. We just own the patents.”
Nina told Olivia in The Pilot: "We've reached a point where science and technology have advanced at an exponential rate for so long... that it may be far beyond our ability to regulate and control it."
The interesting thing about this is how I thought about the technology used to heal Captain Lincoln Lee from the alternate universe when he was burned to a crisp by Sally Clark on the bridge in Over There: Part One. Also, Nina would later discuss some similar technology in Those We Left Behind, and it was associated with the new human shape shifters.
Walter’s biggest fear was being returned to Saint Claire’s, just as it was in the old time-line. It was heartbreaking to watch him discover the letter addressed to Olivia, the woman who would be making the ultimate decision about his fate. When Olivia first entered the lab in this episode, Walter greets her with how happy he is that she is visiting. Olivia reminds him she is not “visiting” but is “working.”
After Olivia stopped Cameron from destroying the energy mass when she saw Peter’s face take form, Walter gave her something to chew on.
Walter: You acted against all reasonable agreements and expectations. You behaved irrationally with regard to only your intuition and instincts.
OLIVIA: I guess I did.
WALTER: When I do that, people say I'm crazy. I suppose I've learned that crazy is a lot more complicated than people think.
Even after Walter’s freak-out in the hotel room, Olivia came to see that Walter was not a threat, but like her, he needed to be trusted and feel valued. So her choice to give Walter a clean bill of sanity was a relief.
One other tidbit. Olivia remarked that Walter and Bell were testing children to see if one of their abilities was crossing to other universe - it seems this Olivia did not knowingly cross over.
Peter’s return via Reiden Lake was no surprise to me. In fact, I was counting on it. Ah, but what does the Observer think about this occurrence? This is still a mystery as we “calmly” await Fringe’s return January 13, with the episode Back to Where You Never Have Been.
Olivia’s reaction to seeing him still kills me. “Who are you?” Peter’s unbelieving and crushed face coupled with her stare of scared confusion caused the collective groan from Peter/Olivia shippers everywhere. Peter had come back from who-knows-where after making a choice to save the woman he loves from being murdered in the future, only to have her stand before him, frightened and with no memory of him.
But in my mind, Olivia’s question has relevance for the audience as well. Now that we know “Where is Peter Bishop,” the question we should be asking is:
“Who is Peter?”
Vote 'Fringe' for Tv.com's 'Best Overall Series of 2011'
By fringeobsessed Email Post 12/15/2011 10:28:00 AM Categories: Announcement, Promotional, Season 4, tv.com
It's that time of year.
Many websites are making nominee lists and checking them twice.
Tv.com is having a 'Best Of 2011' contest, and Fringe is a contestant for 'Best Overall Series of 2011.'
Click here to vote now. Voting ends January 02, 2012. Give Fringe your support!
'Fringe' is #2-Most Popular Shows on SpoilerTV for 2011
By fringeobsessed Email Post 12/14/2011 08:37:00 AM Categories: Announcement, Promotional, Season 4, SpoilerTV
On Monday SpoilerTV posted their Most Popular TV Show of 2011 table,
and it's wonderful to see that Fringe is at #2 of 25.
The popularity score is based on "a calculation of Page Views, Video Plays, Poll Votes, Comments, Facebook Likes, Google+1's and Tweets."
Click here to see the SpoilerTV Most Popular Shows of 2011 table, and to read the article.
Congratualtions to Fringe!
FRINGE - Fan's Ask: Anna Torv (Season 4)
By fringeobsessed Email Post 12/10/2011 09:27:00 PM Categories: Anna Torv, Interview, Season 4, Video
Here is the first of many new cast interview videos, According to Fringe media man, Ari Margolis.
Anna is wonderful, here, as always. Enjoy!
Fringe Rewatch 403: Alone in the World
By birdandbear Email Post 12/09/2011 11:29:00 PM
Episode three begins with Dr. Sumner interrogating Walter about his meds and hallucinations. It's clear he never approved of Walter's release and thinks the best thing for him would be recommittal. Poor Walter is in quite a state, terrified, “hallucinating,” desperate to appear sane, he tells Sumner that the hallucinations have stopped even as he struggles not to flinch at Peter's reflection in the back of his shiny clip board.
Pursued through Hyde Park by a pair of bullies, a small boy runs breathless down an isolated trail. Peeking behind him for the bigger boys, he flees into an abandoned service tunnel. Cornered, he's about to get a beating when one of the boys yelps that something touched him. The other barely has time to scoff before both tormenters are covered with some kind of sickly, immobilizing mold, allowing the frightened victim to escape.
Fans Ask Fringe-"I Wish..."
By fringeobsessed Email Post 12/09/2011 07:30:00 PM Categories: Fringe, Promotional, Season 4, Video
Here's a new installment of the popular FOX Braodcasting video series "Fans Ask Fringe."
Walter Named MTV's Top 50 TV Characters Of 2011
By Dennis Email Post 12/08/2011 11:16:00 AM Categories: Fringe
Fringe's Walter Bishop was ranked #20 in MTV's Top 50 TV Characters Of 2011:
20. Walter Bishop, "Fringe" If there's another television show featuring a mad scientist who achieves impossible feats of fringe-science lunacy while snacking on double-dipped beer-battered onion rings from Sully's in his Harvard laboratory (where the awesomely named Gene the cow lives), I'm not watching it. And frankly, I don't want to. Walter Bishop is the best man of science on TV since Jack Shephard, and I'm not just saying that because he reminds me way too much of my own weird dad. (Though, seriously, the similarities are eerie and I'm beginning to wonder whether I'm from a parallel universe. That's neither here nor there.) Walter is hilarious, heartbreaking and horrific all in one stroke, thanks to the unparalleled genius of John Noble and the "Fringe" writing staff, and the fact that Dr. Bishop isn't an Emmy-winning character is absolutely beyond me — but hey, he's solved weirder problems in the past. Give the man some time. - Josh Wigler
Head over to MTV's Best Of 2011 to see how other shows ranked.
The Real Secrets Of Fringe
By fringeobsessed Email Post 12/07/2011 08:24:00 PM Categories: Fringe, Promotional, Video
Here's a cute, new video that showed up on YouTube today. John Noble's reference to "Ari" is of course to Fringe media master, Ari Margolis, who, we thought(until now) was responsible for all those lovely Fringe promos. :)
Fringe Noble Intentions: Wallflower
By Dennis Email Post 12/02/2011 07:57:00 PM Categories: Fringe, Interview, John Noble, Noble Intentions, Video
John Noble discusses the Cortexiphan trails and Nina's "edge" in this latest episode of Noble Intentions, for the Fringe episode "Wallflower".
Fringe Rewatch 402:One Night In October
By fringeobsessed Email Post 12/02/2011 09:45:00 AM Categories: Fringe. Season 4, Winter Rewatch
Episode 402, titled 'One Night In October' is my favorite Season 4 episode to date.
Ironically, it aired on 09/30/11. (It would have been cute if it had aired on one night in October.)
The Importance Of A Second Episode
Season 4 starts off with a look into the new timeline (milestanfield, I hope you don't mind if I borrow your abbreviation of the 'new timeline,' 'NTL,' and use it here) through the Blue Universe's Lincoln Lee's eyes.
I remember commenting on episode 102, 'The Same Old Story,' this past summer how important a second episode is to a new series. Well, the same goes for Season 4, which executive producers Pinkner and Wyman have mentioned in an interview is like a new series, especially for new fans just tuning in for the first time.
Just like 102, episode 402, 'One Night In October' has the monumentous task of giving us new, critical insight into our beloved characters, and propeling the storyline in a forward direction. And while it is obvious within the first few minutes that 402 was not written by the Pinkner/Abrams/Kurtzman/Orci team, I do give writers Alison Schapker and Monica Owusu-Breen praise for writing this brilliant episode, and I may finally forgive them for writing that depressing, garden, P/O scene in 'Marionette.'
Fringe Episode Review - 4.07
By Old Darth Email Post 12/01/2011 01:19:00 PM Categories: Fringe review, Fringe. Season 4, Wallflower
The Need To Be Seen
“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.”
Timing is so important. One can take all the proper steps for THE big date; be dressed to the nines, bring a big bouquet of roses, and a box of chocolates but if you show up at the wrong time all your preparatory work can go for naught.
How many refills is this?
Such is the fate of, ‘Wallflower.’ It came on the heels of the previous fantastic installment, ‘And Those We’ve Left Behind.’ Tough enough. But then to become the unintentional Fall Finale, due to the pushing out of the airing schedule by one week because of baseball’s World Series, is truly a cruel twist of fate.
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Barrels/55-gallon drums (metal or plastic) should be rinsed clean. They should be cut in half, or tops and bottoms MUST be removed to show that there is nothing inside. 55- gallon metal drums with tops and bottoms removed can be placed in the metal bin, as long as they are NOT rusted out. Plastic drums should be disposed of as garbage.
Batteries - Household (Alkaline)
Only rechargeable batteries can be dropped off at the DSW Electronics Collection or transfer stations. Regular Alkaline Batteries (AAA, AA, C and D-cells) are considered as garbage.
Residents can bring rechargeable batteries (nickel/cadmium batteries) to any transfer station, where there is a special container to collect them.
Batteries - Vehicle
Are NOT allowed to be disposed of as garbage. A designated location is available at the transfer station, as these items are recycled. Residents should be encouraged to trade in their old battery, for a $5 rebate on the purchase of a new battery, wherever vehicle batteries are sold.
Bedsprings
Metal bed springs go in the metal bin. Fabric covered box springs go in the garbage hopper
Boats are NOT allowed in the garbage hoppers or metal bins at the transfer stations.
Residents should be encouraged to sell or give away an unwanted boat.
If it is in total disrepair, call the DSW to arrange for direct disposal and to get information on the current commercial refuse rate, (which will be charged by weight).
The rate is set yearly by the Board of Supervisors.
Soft cover books and phone books can be placed in recycling.
Hardcover books are NOT acceptable as recyclable, with covers intact.
Either remove the binding and recycle the paper, share books with others, check with your local library to see if they want it as a donation, or throw the entire book in the garbage.
Bulk Metals
Stoves, furnace/wood stoves, dishwashers, washers, dryers, hot water tanks, automobile doors, mufflers, aluminum chair frames, old pipe, etc. These go into bulk metal bins at transfer stations (resident must have valid permit). Items unacceptable as bulk metal include:
Tires (see Tires)
Large propane tanks (see Propane Tanks)
Paint cans (see Paint)
Cloth covered box springs (go in garbage)
Freon units (see Freon)
Engine parts, Car frames Gas tanks
Residents must bring all Freon containing units (refrigerator, freezer, dehumidifier, air conditioner) directly to the Dept. of Solid Waste, 847 Mud Road, Johnstown.
There is no charge. See also: “Appliances” page 1 and “Metal Bin” page 8.
Business / Commercial / Industrial / Institutional
Are NOT allowed to use the transfer stations.
Transfer stations are for RESIDENTIAL use only, as specified in the County’s Local Solid Waste Management Law, as well as contracts between municipalities and the County. Business and commercial entities should arrange for garbage disposal on their own, through a permit to use the Fulton County Landfill, or by hiring a private hauler, listed in the phone book under Rubbish & Garbage Removal.
Call the DSW at 736-5504 about the Small Business Recycling Program, which offers drop-off disposal of recyclables at no cost.
Cell phones may be dropped off at any Electronics Drop-off, located at all transfer stations.
Cement (Blocks)
Small quantities (under 100 lbs.- four blocks or less) may be accepted, however, it is preferred that residents find a clean-fill location to dispose of cement blocks.
This department does not make recommendations of any particular clean fill area, as residents must find these locations on their own.
Or they can call the DSW for rates and disposal at the Mud Road Facility.
Clean Wood Products
These special non-residential disposal categories for construction and demolition debris, as well as clean wood products, were established by the Fulton County Dept. of Solid Waste in 2010. It provides an alternate disposal to landfilling - and these categories qualify for LEED certification for recycling.
CATEGORIES CANNOT BE MIXED
Clean Wood Products will be processed and ground in the department’s tub grinder. The finished material will be used as mulch or compost.
Tree parts
Lumber - No paint (max length 8 ft.)
*NOT ACCEPTED AS CLEAN WOOD:
Wood treated with paint, adhesive, lacquer or other chemicals.
No Plywood.
Call 518-736-5501 for details
No plastic bags are allowed in recycling, with the exception of shredded paper (from a paper shredder) which should be in a clear plastic bag. This bag can be included in the singlestream recycling bin or set beside it if a large bag. Garbage should be disposed of in clear plastic bags.
Residents must be unloaded and out of the station by closing time.
This means they should allow enough time to unload their vehicles to exit at the scheduled closing time.
The attendant has the right to refuse to allow a resident to unload if it will prevent the station from closing at the assigned time.
Computers / Electronics
As of Jan. 1, 2015, all electronics are banned from landfill disposal, as per New York state law. The Department of Solid Waste offers Electronics Collection to all Fulton County residents, with drop-offs at all transfer stations (during the station’s regular hours).
There is no cost, and no transfer station sticker is needed to drop off: computer towers, monitors, keyboards, printers, computer peripherals, fax machines, cell phones and televisions.
(Small businesses and non-profits can use the Electronics Collection at the Department of Solid Waste, 847 Mud Road, Johnstown).
Construction & Demolition Debris will be crushed and used as alternate daily cover or as road base.
Concrete (no metal)
Asphalt pavement
Cooking-Oil
Should NOT be disposed of at a transfer station; it is liquid and NO liquid waste is accepted.
If this comes up for a business, direct them to contact the DSW directly at 518-736- 5504 for a listing of businesses that handle cooking oil disposal.
Covered Loads
Waste and recyclables must be contained when being brought to a transfer station.
Garbage and recyclables must be contained so that they do not create litter while being transported from a residence to the station.
Contained garbage is a state Department of Transportation Law!!
This can be accomplished in several ways – a tarp over loose garbage, or covers on containers such as garbage cans, or weighted down bags.
Curbside Recycling Service
Is available in 11 municipalities.
Check the recycling brochure for the pick up schedule.
All transfer stations have drop off of singlestream recycling, as well as the following recyclable items: used motor oil; vehicle batteries; rechargeable batteries; bulk metal items (excluding Freon units); electronics; and textile boxes
Are NOT allowed to be put in containers at transfer stations.
Medium to large animal carcasses (such as dead deer), are classified as Special Waste and can be disposed of directly at the Department of Solid Waste – call ahead for an appointment and a nominal fee will be assessed at the commercial rate.
Dirt and Rocks
Should NOT be coming into a transfer station.
Residents should dispose of them on their own property, or bring that material to a clean fill area. This department does not make recommendations of any particular clean fill area.
Disposal Fees
Year 2019 rates are $53/ton for the garbage containers hauled by the Department of Solid Waste to the landfill, which is charged back to the municipality.
Recycling (hauling) rates are $10.00/ton at transfer stations, so the more residents recycle, the more money they save.
Donut Tires
Can be disposed as a tire (off the rim), at the Solid Waste Department.
There is a $2.50 charge for donut tires.
Dump Trucks and Dump Trailers are NOT allowed at transfer stations, under any circumstance.
As of Jan. 1, 2015, all electronics are banned from landfill disposal, as per New York state law.
The Department of Solid Waste offers Electronics Collection to all Fulton County residents, with drop-offs at all transfer stations (during the station’s regular hours).
There is no cost, and no transfer station sticker is needed to drop off: computer towers, monitors, keyboards, printers, computer peripherals, fax machines, cell phones and televisions. (Small businesses and non-profits can use the Electronics Collection at the Department of Solid Waste, 847 Mud Road, Johnstown).
Residents should be encouraged to refill those that are refillable.
Empty fire extinguishers (with all contents discharged) can go in the bulk metal bin at transfer stations.
Fluorescent tubes and compact fluorescent light bulbs can be dropped off at the DSW Permanent Electronics Collection Trailer during regular hours (7:15 am-3 pm weekdays; 7:15-11:30 am Saturday), or they can be disposed of at the Household Hazardous Waste Day, time and date to be announced.
They can also be disposed of as garbage by residents.
Business disposal of fluorescent bulbs is handled differently; businesses should call the Recycling Info-Line direct at 518-736-5504 for alternate disposal options.
Freon Units
Refrigerators, freezers, dehumidifiers, or air conditioners go directly to the DSW, 847 Mud Road, Johnstown, for disposal.
This is the only site that accepts Freon containing units.
There is no charge, but residents must report to the scalehouse attendant, and show proof of county residency.
Remove doors and any food before disposing of refrigerators or freezers.
Helium Tanks / Oxygen Tanks
Helium tanks and oxygen tanks are NOT to be disposed of at transfer stations, either in the garbage or recyclable metal.
Attendants will advise residents to find alternate disposal options, such as returning them to the original place of purchase.
Hot Tubs / Spas
Residents should be encouraged to sell or give away an unwanted hot tub.
Station hours are posted on large signs at the front of each station.
Holiday closings are announced in the local newspapers, in the Recycling Calendar, and at the stations where a flier is posted.
Municipal clerks and officials are notified by letter through the Department of Solid Waste.
Household Hazardous Waste Drop Off Day
The Department of Solid Waste sponsors household hazardous wastes drop off on alternating years.
It is for residents only, by appointment, time and date to be announced.
There is no charge.
The following type of items are accepted at the Household Hazardous Waste Drop-Off event:
Pool Chemicals & Pool Chemical Bottles
Lawn Care Products (Pesticides, Fertilizers, Herbicides, Insecticides)
Oil Paint, Stains
Solvents, Degreasers
Automotive Fluids (anti-freeze, brake fluid etc.)
Home Maintenance Products (Thinner, Strippers, Varnish, )
The next county-wide Household Hazardous Waste Drop-off Day will be held the second Saturday of August, 2021.
Residents are advised to hold unsafe materials in a safe spot until the next HHW event (8/14/2021) – especially petroleum-based products, or items marked as poisonous, flammable or caustic.
Many items can be left in the original can and dried out (such as paint, roofing tar, or sheetrock and joint compound). Once completely hardened, the material can be disposed of in regular garbage, (NOT Recycling) with the lid clearly removed, so garbage crews can tell there is no liquid contained within. This is the best way to dispose of old/bad paint.
To dispose of good, reusable latex paint, the Solid Waste Department offers a Latex Paint Exchange every Saturday morning in June, July & August at the Landfill Transfer Station on Mud Road in Johnstown. There is no cost for Fulton County residents to dispose of (or take up to five gallons weekly of) latex paint. This program is intended as a reuse effort, so donated paint should be in a condition to be given away. Bad paint should be dried up in the can and disposed with garbage, as explained above.
For questions, call the Solid Waste Department’s Recycling Info-Line at (518) 736-5504.
Intended Use of Transfer Station
Transfer stations are open only to residents of the municipality for their regularly generated household garbage and small quantities of remodeling waste.
This is specified in both local County law and the contract between the municipality and County for the use of each station.
The rule of thumb for quantity allowed for remodeling waste is the equivalent of five pick up truckloads for any one project (except Northampton, which accepts only 3 loads of remodeling debris). If a resident says they will have more than this quantity, they should be advised to hire a private hauler to handle the job.
Small haulers are listed in the Yellow Pages under “Rubbish & Garbage Removal,” or call the Department of Solid Waste at 518-736-5501 for a list of permitted haulers in your area.
Are NOT allowed to use transfer stations to dispose of garbage from their tenants’ apartments; for clean-out of a dwelling when a tenant leaves; or in renovating an apartment house.
Landlords are considered to be businesses, since they earn revenue from renters. Therefore, a landlord should be advised to tell his or her tenants to utilize existing curbside garbage collection services in the municipality where they live.
The Landlord may hire a hauler to bring refuse directly to the Fulton County Landfill, or may open an account with the Department of Solid Waste.
Latex Paint Exchange
Runs at the Department of Solid Waste, 847 Mud Road, Johnstown, on Saturday mornings during June through August, (7:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.)
One, two, five gallon and quart containers of good latex paint can be dropped off (at no charge). Cans must be at least half full, rust free, with legible labels, and paint must be free of lumps (never frozen). Paint will be sorted by color and given out, at no cost, to the public.
Fulton County residents can take up to five gallons weekly (on a first come, first serve basis).
No transfer station permit is needed for the Latex Paint Exchange.
This program is for good, re-useable Latex Paint only – NO thinners, oil based paint, lacquers, aerosols, stains or drums of paint will be accepted.
To dispose of small quantities of bad latex, stain, oil, enamel, or any other kind of paint – see “Paint”.
Can be recycled in the bulk metal bin at transfer stations.
License plates are NOT accepted in curbside pick up programs.
Liquid Waste
Of any kind is NOT allowed to be disposed of at any Fulton County Solid Waste facility, including the transfer stations. (Used motor oil is considered a recyclable.)
Paint must be dried up by putting cat litter, dirt, sand or sawdust in the paint until it is no longer in liquid form.
Any good, reusable latex paint can be brought to the Latex Paint Exchange at the Department of Solid Waste, 847 Mud Road, Johnstown, from June through August.
See “Latex Paint Exchange”
Manure may not be disposed of at any Fulton County solid waste facility.
Manure generated by farm animals should be disposed of on site as a farm is considered a business and is not allowed the use of transfer stations.
Small quantities of animal waste can be disposed of at the transfer station, but it must be contained in a bag, or sealed in some manner
Mattresses (and cloth-covered box springs) can be disposed of as garbage. (Metal bedsprings go into metal bin).
Metal Bin
The following items may be deposited in the bulk metal bin at transfer stations for recycling:
Mufflers, Old pipe, Old wire
Car doors, hoods , license plates
Appliances (See “Appliances”)
Aluminum doors, aluminum chair frames Oil tanks (for furnaces) See Oil Tanks, for preparation instructions.
Metal 55-gallon drums w/tops & bottoms removed & crushed
Lawn mower engines with all fluids drained
UNACCEPTABLE
Car frames
Car/Truck Engine parts
Paint cans, propane tanks
Cloth covered box springs
Motor oil from lawn mowers and vehicles is acceptable for recycling at all transfer stations at no charge.
Oil must be placed in a translucent jug (See-through, such as a windshield washer container) with a screw-on cap, to keep it from spilling.
Used oil jugs should be handed to the attendant, who pours it into a 55-gallon drum.
It is the attendant’s responsibility to hold the oil for at least 24 hours to ensure that no contaminants are in the oil, before pouring it into the drum.
Residents are NOT allowed to pour oil directly into the drums!
Do NOT mix thinners, antifreeze or any other automotive fluids in with the oil.
Needle Disposal
See Sharps
There is no smoking allowed at the transfer stations, by the attendants, who are county employees.
Residents are prohibited from smoking while they dispose of garbage and recyclables and lit cigarette butts should NOT be thrown into the garbage hoppers, as there is danger of fire.
Oil tanks (fuel oil tanks for furnaces) must be empty and cut in half and flattened; or they can be drilled with numerous holes on all sides.
An alternative method of disposal is to take the tank to Bornt Waste & Metal, call 518-725-6227 for information on their hours and disposal requirements.
Paint – Latex & Oil Based Options
Residents are encouraged to use the Latex Paint Exchange to dispose of good, re -useable latex paint.
To dispose of small quantities of any kind of paint – either store these products until the Household Hazardous Waste Drop Off Day.
OR, completely dry up the liquid paint (in the can) and dispose of it with regular household garbage. Dry the paint by removing the lid and letting the can sit until it is hardened, then throw in the garbage WITH THE LID REMOVED.
You can also bulk up liquid paint with cat litter, sand, or sawdust, let it harden, then throw away in regular garbage, WITH THE LID REMOVED.
Do not recycle paint cans in household, curbside recycling.
Call the Recycling Line, 518-736-5504 with questions.
Permit Sales
Are the responsibility of the municipality served by the transfer station, per the contract between the municipality and the County.
The color of the permit sticker, timing of renewal and cost of sticker are determined by the municipality, which should notify this department of the new color, price, etc.
Municipalities are encouraged to ensure the permittee is the owner of a residence in that municipality, (meaning they have a residence, not just land with no structure on it,) and obtain their name, license plate number, make and model of vehicle, address and phone number.
This information assists this department in identifying anyone who abuses the station rules. It is Department of Solid Waste policy that transfer station permit stickers must be permanently affixed to the vehicle listed on the application.
Residents are NOT allowed to loan their sticker privileges to others.
Proper display of a valid sticker assists the station attendant to ensure the station is not being abused; assists them in performing their job, and assures the municipality isn’t paying for waste that doesn’t come from within their area or from businesses.
Permit Stickers, Revocation
The Director of the Department of Solid Waste through local solid waste management law, has the authority to revoke a user’s permit to utilize a transfer station for just cause. Typically, an attendant brings a problem of noncompliance, unauthorized business use, or non-resident use of a station to this department’s attention.
Transfer station attendants are advised to write down the permit sticker number, license plate number, make and model of the vehicle in case of a problem, so this department can match the permit sticker with the individual. Municipal clerks, who sell the stickers and keep records of permit numbers, are extremely helpful in identifying an abuser. Depending on the infraction, the Director may issue a warning, or revoke the permit immediately. Revocation is done via letter, with a copy to municipal clerks and transfer station attendants.
Revocation may be permanent, or for the remainder of the year. If someone whose permit has been revoked attempts to use a station, they are turned away. In extreme circumstances, the Sheriff’s Department may be called to escort a revokee out of the station. Anyone whose permit is revoked should hire a private hauler or utilize curbside garbage pick up if offered in the municipality.
Leftover or outdated prescription and over the-counter medicines should not be flushed down the toilet. Residents are encouraged to use the Prescription Drug Drop Box, located in the lobby of the Fulton County Sheriff’s Department on Rt. 29, Johnstown.
It is no cost and available 24 hours a day. (Controlled substances and veterinary medicine are also accepted. No liquids or sharps).
The Gloversville Police Department also has a drop-box in the lobby. Open 8 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays. Most pharmacies in Fulton County have mailback programs for old medicines.
An alternate disposal method is to mix the medicine with dirt, used kitty litter, or coffee grounds and put it into the regular garbage.
The empty pill bottles are also garbage (not recycling). Cross out all personal information first.
Pizza boxes, both corrugated and one-layer cardboard, are allowed in singlestream recycling. All food waste should be removed. Extremely greasy boxes must go in the garbage.
One use plastic grocery bags should be deposited at grocery and retail stores.
“Bags of plastic bags” (including bubble wrap and film wrap) go in specially marked bins at stores.
No loose bags or “bags full of bags” are allowed in singlestream recycling.
Prohibited Materials
The following materials are prohibited from disposal at all transfer stations:
HOT ASHES
EXPLOSIVE WASTE
(at DSW only)
SEPTAGE & SLUDGE
(Dispose at DSW only, No charge to residents. See “Freon”)
(Dispose at DSW only. Fees apply. See “Tires”)
20-lb propane tanks (barbeque grill size) are accepted at the DSW ONLY (next to Freon units). No Permit Needed. No Cost.
Small 1-lb propane tanks (size for a Coleman portable stove) can be disposed of as garbage as long as they are EMPTY.
Large propane tanks (such as 100 lb. residential tanks) have to go back to the dealer.
Quantities & Limitations
The transfer stations are designed to accept weekly generated household refuse, and SMALL QUANTITIES of remodeling debris.
Rule of thumb, is any one project is allowed the equivalent of five pick up truck loads. (Except Northampton, which allows only three loads).
If more than that quantity will be generated, residents should be advised to hire a hauler.
Small haulers are listed in the Yellow Pages under “Rubbish & Garbage Removal.”
Recyclables (at transfer stations)
Details are outlined in Department of Solid Waste brochures. Additional brochures available upon request by calling the DSW at 518-736-5504. All transfer stations accept singlestream recycling, as well as the following recyclables:
Singlestream Recycling
Bulk Metals – Stoves, dishwashers, dryers, etc. (see page 3). A transfer station permit is needed for metal disposal. Caroga residents must purchase a coupon from municipal clerk to dispose of an appliance (see page 1).
Electronics and televisions - see “Computers” page 4.
Textiles & Shoes - Put in textile collection boxes. See “Textiles” page 16 for expanded list.
Motor Oil – Put used motor oil in a translucent jug with a tight cap, hand to station attendant (Residents DO NOT pour the oil into the 55-gallon drums themselves).
Propane Tanks - 20-lb propane tanks are accepted at the Solid Waste Department ONLY. (Put next to Freon units). Small, empty 1-lb propane tanks are garbage.
Rechargeable Batteries - Residents can bring rechargeable batteries and button batteries and dispose of them in special containers at each transfer station. (in with electronics).
Vehicle Batteries – Place in designated location at each transfer station. Or encourage residents to turn in their batteries for the rebate at stores that sell vehicle batteries.
Perth residents are allowed use of the Broadalbin Transfer Station, 221 Union Mills Road, to drop off used motor oil, rechargeable batteries, vehicle batteries, electronics or textiles at no charge (and no sticker needed).
Recycling Law
“Source Separation” or recycling, has been mandatory in Fulton County since 1992.
This means that recyclables previously noted, CANNOT be included in with garbage. It is a Transfer Station Attendant’s job to look at both garbage bags and recyclables to ensure adherence to both recycling and garbage disposal guidelines.
The more residents recycle, the less they pay through their local taxes, and it lengthens the life of the Fulton County Landfill.
Freon containing units (refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners and dehumidifiers) are not accepted at transfer stations.
They may be disposed of only at the Fulton County Department of Solid Waste, 847 Mud Road, Johnstown.
There is no charge for residents.
See Freon, page 6.
Out of County waste is NOT permitted to come to the transfer stations.
Municipalities selling permit stickers should make every effort to ascertain that a permit applicant is a resident of their municipality (meaning they have a residence in that municipality, not just land with no structure on it.)
Scavenging Prohibited
Once deposited at a County owned facility such as the transfer station, all materials become the property of the County.
Residents are NOT allowed to take items from transfer stations, and are NOT allowed to climb into any container to retrieve anything.
ABSOLUTELY NO EXCEPTIONS!
County ownership is noted in the County’s local solid waste law, and there is liability on the part of the County if someone were to get hurt trying to retrieve an item out of any county container.
Sharps (Syringe & Needle Disposal)
There are several safe, approved methods of disposal for used needles, syringes and lancets. Palmer’s Pharmacy (2 E. Main Street, Johnstown) participates in the “Project Needle Smart” program.
A free 1 quart container or mini holder is given on request, and the store has an anonymous drop-off kiosk to deposit the container when filled. (Sharps disposal containers can also be purchased at all pharmacies).
Filled containers can also be dropped off at the Fulton Center for Rehabilitation and Health Care, 847 County Highway 122, Johnstown.
Call the facility at 518-773-3400 for drop-off information.
An alternate method is to place needles in a rigid plastic container, (such as a liquid laundry detergent bottle) and tape the top closed with duct tape and write "SHARPS" on the container. PUT IT IN THE GARBAGE.
A PLASTIC JUG WITH NEEDLES SHOULD NEVER GO IN WITH RECYCLABLES!
Can be disposed of at transfer stations, but refer to QUANTITY AND LIMITATIONS (page 12), for the equivalent of 5 pick-up truck loads (except Northampton, which allows 3 loads) for a home improvement project.
If the quantity will be greater than five loads worth, resident should be advised to hire a private hauler. Small haulers are listed under “Rubbish & Garbage Removal” in the phone book or call the Department of Solid Waste for a list of local permitted haulers.
Station attendants are within their job duties to request the loads be spaced out and not be brought on the same day, so the garbage hoppers do not become overfull.
Shredded paper (from a paper shredder) should go into a clear plastic bag. This bag should be included with (loose) singlestream recycling.
Put the bag (of shredded paper) into recycling containers at transfer stations.
For curbside recycling put the bag in the bin if it fits, or else set a larger bag on the ground, beside the recycling bin.
This should be the only item in plastic bags for singlestream recycling.
(all loose, no plastic bags)
Paper Products – Newspapers, color inserts, magazines, glossy ads, junk mail, phone books and soft cover books, pizza boxes, milk and juice cartons, and “grayboard” (one -layer cardboard, like cereal boxes or paper egg cartons).
Shredded paper (only) goes in a clear plastic bag.
NO hardcover books, carbon paper, tissues or paper napkins
Corrugated Cardboard – (three layers with a wavy inner layer). Flatten all cartons.
These go into single stream container at transfer stations.
For curbside recycling, corrugated cardboard can be set beside or under the bin (do not tie or put in a plastic bag).
Glass – Clear, brown & green bottles and jars, rinse clean. Labels and the caps DO NOT have to be removed.
Take deposit bottles back for 5 -cent refund.
Plastic – Food and beverage containers that resemble a bottle (screw top), milk jugs, and containers such as margarine tubs, yogurt cups (flexible plastics).
Caps and labels DO NOT have to be removed, but container should be rinsed. Take plastic deposit bottles back to the store for 5-cent refund.
NO: flowerpots, toys, Styrofoam, pool chemical bottles, pill bottles or motor oil bottles should be put into recycling.
Tin & Aluminum Cans – Rinse can, put lid inside can and crimp.
Labels DO NOT have to be removed.
Take aluminum deposit cans back to the store for 5 -cent refund.
Solicitation at Transfer Stations
is NOT allowed, by political candidates, non-profit organizations, businesses, etc., due to liability issues.
If a group or organization asks to sell something or distribute fliers or information at a station, the request will be denied.
Should be disposed of on -site, and generally are not allowed at transfer stations due to size and quantity.
Residents should hire a private hauler to dispose of stumps.
Styrofoam Peanuts
Are NOT recyclable in Fulton County’s recycling program.
Suggest reusing them for mailing fragile packages or donating them to commercial mailing centers.
Large blocks of Styrofoam packaging, as well as Styrofoam cups, plates, to-go containers or egg cartons, go in the garbage.
Residents can drop off televisions at ANY transfer station, (with electronics) during regular hours of operation, at no charge (no permit needed).
Small businesses and nonprofits must bring electronics directly to the Department of Solid Waste on Mud Road, Johnstown.
Containers are located at all transfer stations. These are for clothing, shoes, belts, hats, curtains, linens, blankets, towels and stuffed animals. Items should be placed inside a clear plastic bag that is tied.
Residents should be directed to the Salvation Army Thrift Store, 43 West Fulton St., Gloversville, or other second-hand stores, if they have miscellaneous household items such as lamps, small appliances, vases, knick knacks.
These (non-cloth) items should not be placed in the textile boxes.
Non-digital (mercury containing) thermostats can be dropped off year round at the Electronics Collection at the Department of Solid Waste.
There is no charge, and this program is open to residents, contractors and businesses.
Thermostats are also accepted at the HHW Drop-Off.
TIRES MUST BE OFF THE RIM. Residents can drop off tires only at the Fulton County Department of Solid Waste, 847 Mud Road, Johnstown. The charge per tire is:
$2.50 each for tires up to 16” (a typical car or pick up truck tire. This includes motorcycle and donut tires.)
$5.00 each for tires over 16.5” and up to 24”
Tires over 24” will be charged by weight ($250/ton)
Bulk Tires (over 19 tires) are charged by weight: $250/ton.
Residents must report tires to the scalehouse attendant, and provide proof they are a Fulton County resident.
Tires must be placed in a designated location at the DSW transfer station.
The attendant will direct residents to the appropriate spot.
Residents should also be encouraged to utilize disposal options offered wherever their new tires were purchased.
are allowed to use transfer stations, but only single axel, (2 wheel) non-dumping style, maximum size 5’ by 8’.
No exceptions. (All other larger trailers are considered commercial and owners must obtain a permit to use the Fulton County Landfill if so desired.)
U-Hauls
Are NOT allowed at transfer stations.
If a resident inquires about renting a U-Haul, have them call the DSW for approval and information on disposal rates and guidelines.
Vehicle-Batteries
Accepted at all stations (no permit needed).
Place in designated location.
Stores that sell vehicle batteries will give a $5 to $10 rebate when a new battery is bought.
When to Recommend Hiring a Private Hauler
If a resident intends to do a home improvement/remodeling project, or a huge clean out of a garage, attic, shed, etc., and the quantity will be more than the equivalent of five pick-up truck loads (three loads in Northampton), a private hauler should be recommended.
Several small haulers are listed under “Rubbish & Garbage Removal” in the telephone book Yellow Pages, or call the Department of Solid Waste (578-736-5501) for a list of permitted haulers in your area.
Wood Waste/Limbs/Branches
Limbs are acceptable, but only 3 feet in length maximum, and 6 inches in diameter.
If there is a large quantity, it is recommended that residents hire a private hauler.
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Interview with J. Lincoln Fenn
J. Lincoln Fenn began her horror career in the 7th grade when she entertained her friends at a sleepover by telling them the mysterious clanking noise (created by the baseboard heater) was in fact the ghost of a woman who had once lived in the farmhouse, forced to cannibalize her ten children during a particularly bad winter. Strangely, it was the last slumber party she was allowed to have. The author graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a degree in English, and lives on an island (not deserted) with her family.
Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?
I grew up in a very, very small, New England town, went to Catholic school for 13 years, but I was always looking for something else. I never really fit where I was. So when I graduated from college I packed my equally small car, drove across the country to Los Angeles, and started adventuring. I worked in the entertainment industry, took up ninjutsu, left that to go study at a Buddhist retreat center with my African American husband (my parents were aghast at both), and learned the hard lessons of what happens when you decide to make your own compass. It’s not always easy, but there’s a great amount of satisfaction in living your own life, not the one people wanted you to.
When did you get the writing bug?
I started writing in college—I was lucky to find a professor who liked my stuff, and then I went on to take classes from John Yount, who mentored John Irving, and Charles Simic. But it might be in the blood too. My biological grandmother was closely related to a poet/playwright who won two Pulitzer prizes and a Tony.
Were there any writers that inspired you?
Carolyn See. I was living in Los Angeles, she was giving a book reading and I somehow worked up the nerves to go. It was just around the time that Making History came out, and god, what a great story. The room was packed, and I was ready to bolt afterwards but my husband said no, I should go up and shake her hand or whatever. I don’t know if I’ve ever been so nervous.She was so nice to me though and really put me at ease. Later I saw she was teaching a class, and I took it. She was down to earth, put the whole writing thing in perspective but also was encouraging. I wrote a short story a couple of years later, sent it to her, and she wrote me back—said it was a great and I should submit it to literary journals. I nearly fell over. For years, whenever I felt frustrated, or that getting published was impossible, I’d pull out that letter. I owe her big time.
Can you tell us the first book you remember reading?
I think it was Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. I loved that story and starting closely examining pebbles, looking for one that could grant me that power. Never found it.
What’s on your TBR?
MaddAdam by Margaret Atwood, Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, An Awkward Age by Anna Starobinets and Night Film by Marisha Pessl. But I’m also re-reading classics like Frankenstein, Dracula, and I will finish A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I told myself that last year, but this year I mean it.
What is it about horror that appeals to you?
I think horror is where we can look at the dark and twisted things we don’t want to see. All that ‘death and dying’ stuff gets swept into a system that keeps it under the radar. That’s part of why I wrote Poe. It’s about real horror—Dimitri’s grief over the death of his parents—wrapped in a supernatural horror story. The supernatural horror gives it distance, and makes it ‘safe’ in a certain kind of way.
You were the winner of the 2013 Sixth Annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award in the Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror category for your novel Poe. Can you tell us what effect this has had on your career?
Yeah, it launched it. Seriously, I now have a literary agent and Poe was a #1 Kindle Bestseller in Ghost and Occult Fiction. The Publisher’s Weekly review was also key. Doesn’t hurt to be compared to Neil Gaiman, ever.
In Poe, your main character Dimitri is an obituary writer. You don’t hear about many people doing this. Did you already have an idea of what you wanted your character to be before you started writing or did this job come later to “fit” the story?
“There’s not a lot of opportunity to get creative with obituaries,” was the first line I wrote. His job was built into his character and journey from the beginning. Like Dimitri, I lost my parents young, and my mother, who’d been diagnosed with cancer planned her whole funeral, including writing her own obituary. I think that always haunted me.
With Poe being your first novel, what were some roadblocks that you hit?
Well, it’s a long story, but here’s the short(er) version. A few years back, St. Martin’s Press was holding a manuscript contest for a genre they were launching called ‘New Adult.’ I saw a posting about the contest on my Twitter feed. Seemed like a great opportunity, so that Sunday I wrote the first paragraph and a pitch, then submitted it.
Only problem was that I didn’t have the book written.
It made the first cut, and they asked for the first twenty pages. I wrote them as fast as I could. Then it made the next cut and they asked for fifty pages. Didn’t sleep for a couple weeks. It made the next cut, was one of five finalists, and they asked for the whole thing. I did nothing except go to work and write for a couple months. They passed on publishing, but gave me good feedback, and then I got to work on a revision and started submitting to agents.
Everyone loved the writing, but no one was interested in an unproven genre. That changed when New Adult took off, but then it was too ‘horror’ for NA which has pretty much focused on romance.
I’d had my eye on 47North as a possibility since they were publishing genre-bending books, and when I saw that a book deal was part of the ABNA prize, thought what the heck, I’ll submit it. At best, I was hoping it might make a couple cuts so when I queried them later, it’d be higher in the slush pile. I would not have guessed that entering a contest with 10,000 others would have been my path to publication. And I feel extraordinarily fortunate Poe landed with 47North. They’re not scared to try something different, and there was no pressure to make changes I didn’t agree with. The whole team is very supportive.
What’s your favorite line from Poe?
“Two weeks. Everything you love, own, and cherish, can be gone, liquidated, and lost forever in two weeks. Give or take a day.”
Sometimes a new writer likes to hear from other new or first-time published writers. What advice would you offer them?
Start. Don’t stop. Finish. Get better. Repeat.
When it comes to cinema, are you are also drawn to the horror genre? If so, what’s your favorite horror movie?
The Grudge really scared the sh*t out of me, but there will always be a special place in my heart for Carrie (the original). It still holds up and Sissy Spacek’s performance is so spot-on it’s crazy anyone thought they could remake it.
If you could experience/play the role of one actor/actress in a film, who would it be and in what movie?
I would be Keanu Reeves in The Matrix. Who wouldn’t?
Would you care to share with us one thing most folks don’t know about you?
I have, in my possession, a blown up poster of the cover for Poe signed by Jeff Bezos with the note ‘Authors Rule’. I think it has magic powers, because I haven’t run into writer’s block since.
Are you currently working on anything new?
A sequel to Poe, and I’ve also got a dark, sci-fi dystopian novel in the works.
Where can we find you?
Facebook: www.facebook.com/lincoln.fenn
Twitter: twitter.com/JLincolnFenn
Website: www.jlincolnfenn.com
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/JLincolnFennThank you for taking the time to chat with Ravenous Reads!
Be sure to check out her novel Poe. You can find it here >
Poe by J. Lincoln Fenn
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64 South Bay Accent PREVIOUS PAGE: HIRSHEIMER & HAMILTON; THIS PAGE: MICHAEL WOOLSEY PART OF THE ALLURE OF THE TOUR IS SEEING GOATS UP CLOSE—ALL RATHER CUTE IT MUST BE SAID—AS WELL AS HIKING THE PASTURES AND VISITING THE MILKING PARLOR AND CREAMERY. Americans love cheese, but we haven’t been very good to one of our favorite foods. While early European immigrants brought over native cheese-making techniques, these gave way decades ago to standardized mass-produced cheeses designed for national distribution. Aged, hard, low-moisture cheeses such as cheddar and Monterey Jack that are less susceptible to bacteria became the norm. “There’s been a resurgence of roots,” says Lynne Devereux, founding president of the California Artisan Cheese Guild and a lecturer at the Cheese School of San Francisco. “All of us are part of a renaissance of cheese-making in the U.S.” With its gentle climate and rolling hills, Marin has been home to dairies since the Gold Rush, and one producer, Marin French Cheese, holds the distinction of being America’s longest continually operating cheese company. Strong conservational efforts protect an impressive amount of the Marin landscape, and a new generation of artisans is arising to take advantage of Mother Nature’s bounty. A DISTINCTIVE LOCALE “There are just nuances here that can’t be duplicated,” says Francesca di Donato, Whole Foods Market Northern California regional cheese and housewares buyer. “The California—especially Marin County— terroir creates flavors that can’t necessarily be produced elsewhere. The cheeses are fresh and clean; buttery and grassy.” Just as terroir, or environment, affects wine grapes, so does what animals graze on before being milked. “The animals take in the grasses, the clovers, the alfalfas,” explains di Donato. “Since we’re coastal, the salt winds coat the grasses in salt that the animals eat.” Goat milk is particularly influenced by the animal’s diet, according to the National Cheese Institute. Goats are more willing than cows to eat bitter plants such as the thistle, which is prevalent in Marin, one reason for this area’s particularly distinctive goat cheese. Bay Area artisan cheeses will be unlike any you’ve ever had. “There’s a lot of adventuring happening out there right now,” remarks di Donato. Rather than trying to replicate Old World tastes, North Bay cheese makers are busy forging a new identity, often tossing aside standard labels. Raw, unpasteurized, rindless, mixed-milk—all are options up for grabs. “We’re trying to make American, Californian cheese that tastes this way because of the terroir,” says Tamara Hicks, coowner of Tomales Farmstead Creamery. “I was asked yesterday on a tour ‘Is this a Gouda?’ I said ‘No, this is a hard goat cheese from Marin County.’” So here is our guide to five interesting Marin cheese makers to visit on a daylong trip to the country. While sanitary regulations keep most food operations closed to the public, a few are opening their doors, often offering small-batch cheeses available only on-site. Check www.cheesetrail. org for a fuller list. Options vary from drop-in tasting rooms similar to those in Wine Country to full-scale farm tours where you might meet a goat, cow or perhaps even a water buffalo or two. Saanan kid goat gazes at visitors from a barn at Tomales Farmstead Creamery.
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April 5th, 2018 at 8:59 am
Breathtaking bamboo building withstands earthquakes and boasts a zero-carbon footprint
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Thailand’s eco-friendly Panyaden International School has added a stunning new sports hall to its campus that’s built entirely of bamboo and stays naturally cool year-round in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Designed by Chiangmai Life Construction, the Bamboo Sports Hall features a modern organic design that draws inspiration from the lotus flower. The large multipurpose facility was built to withstand local natural forces including high-speed winds and earthquakes, and it boasts a zero-carbon footprint.
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Completed this year, the Bamboo Sports Hall features a lotus-like organic shape in a nod to Panyaden International School’s use of Buddhist values in its academic curriculum. Its undulating shape also reflects the surrounding hilly topography. The 782-square-meter open-air building is supported with a series of arches and topped with three petal-like round roofs lifted up at the edges to let in natural ventilation and indirect light.
The multipurpose facility can accommodate 300 students and includes futsal, basketball, volleyball, and badminton courts, as well as a stage that can be lifted automatically, and storage room for sports and drama equipment. Viewing balconies flank the sporting area and stage.
Bamboo was selected as the primary building material to maintain Panyaden’s “Green School” mission of a low carbon footprint and to blend in with the school’s existing earth-and-bamboo buildings. “Panyaden’s Sports Hall’s carbon footprint is zero,” write the architects. “The bamboo used absorbed carbon to a much higher extent than the carbon emitted during treatment, transport and construction.” The large openings for natural ventilation, insulation, and use of bamboo help create a comfortable indoor climate year-round. No toxic chemicals were used to treat the bamboo, which has an expected lifespan of at least 50 years. The exposed prefabricated bamboo trusses span over 17 meters.
“Here we show how bamboo can create a space that is 15 meters wide and high without any steel reinforcements,” wrote the architects. “From the outside it looks like it has grown there or transformed from one of the rolling hills in the background to become a human artifice. As in fact the Panyaden International School Sports Hall is a combination of careful artistic design, beautiful detailed handicraft and major construction.”
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Aviva Health release 8 new plans on the 28th of June 2013
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The Pistons' draft problem
If all things hold, the Pistons will have the number 8 pick in the draft, a windfall that few expected the team to have prior to the season. With one of the deepest drafts in recent memory, the new Pistons GM will have an opportunity to make a big splash in his first offseason. Unfortunately, the 8th pick stands as one of the worst for the Pistons to have in this draft.
The team's needs are clear: athletic wing player who can space the floor and defend. With Drummond, Monroe, Smith, Jerebko, Harrellson, and Mitchell at the power forward and center positions, the team would be ill-advised to add another top-tier draftee to those ranks; at some point, that depth begins to stunt the growth of young players and fails to optimize their talents and potential. In the back court, Brandon Jennings, though coming off of a underperforming season, remains a young, talented point guard with ample backups (Will Bynum is an effective backup PG and Peyton Siva began showing signs of life late in the season). Kentavious Caldwell-Pope had a disappointing rookie season but one that showed potential, and Kyle Singler continues cementing himself as a solid rotation player. But the Pistons are bereft a true small forward.
The consensus top of the NBA lottery has two wing players: Jabari Parker and Andrew Wiggins. If the Pistons manage to win the lottery--let's be honest, this is never happening, but it's fun to dream--they'll have a decision to make that is nearly impossible to screw up. Unfortunately, beyond those two, most scouts have a bevy of power forwards and guards filling the draft boards: Julius Randle, Aaron Gordon, Noah Vonleh, Marcus Smart, Gary Harris, Tyler Ennis, Nik Stauskas, and Dario Saric. It isn't until the #13 player (Doug McDermott, who is not a player the Pistons want on their roster) on Chad Ford's Big Board that another small forward makes an appearance.
The falloff between the top-tier wing players in the draft and the mid-tier is severe. Reaching down draft boards to grab a position of need is both a risky proposition and against the traditional thinking most NBA GMs. With a new head of basketball operations in Detroit, it's unlikely he'll take a gamble on someone like James Young. This leaves the Pistons in quite a predicament in which they have, in my view three options.
Take the best available
Arms like wut?
If you follow ESPN mock drafts, this would be either Indiana PF Noah Vonleh (Chad Ford) or Syracuse PG Tyler Ennis (Jeff Goodman). Other players in that general range include Oklahoma State PG Marcus Smart, Arizona PF Aaron Gordon, and Michigan State SG Gary Harris. Noah and Gordon present roster-fit problems for the Pistons who do not need another power forward. Meanwhile, I'm not sold on Tyler Ennis as a top-10 pick and believe that Jennings can blossom into a more complete point guard if he has a coach that knows what he's doing.
Gary Harris, meanwhile, should blossom into a good shooting guard, but drafting him will signal an end to KCP's long-term future with the Pistons. I'm still bullish on KCP and believe that next season will see significant improvements in his finishing abilities, spot-up shooting, and ability to affect games. I don't believe Harris has a higher ceiling than KCP. Drafting him to replace the sophomore shooting guard would be premature and reactionary.
Though this option doesn't present any slam dunk options for the Pistons, I believe it's the path the team will take. Having a new GM complicates things here. Without previous experience with the franchise to afford some leniency, the safe move is probably the one that the team takes. Unfortunately, the safe move also means further overloading a position the Pistons are flush at. Barring some mid-season trades, this likely does not end well.
If the Pistons are going to reach down draft boards to select anyone, it should be Kentucky SF James Young. A native Michigander who went one-and-done with Kentucky, Young's upside has upside. Unfortunately, with the #8 pick, taking a player that will likely take a few years to develop (and who may not pan out) is a risk the Pistons do not want to take.
Other options here include Doug McDermott, Rodney Hood, or Nik Stauskas. I have serious questions about McDermott's ability to defend at an NBA level, and not in a Kyle Korver Can He Defend?-type of way. McDermott has an odd physical type that isn't suited to keeping up with the leaner wings in the NBA. Hood has endless range and the height to play SF in the NBA, but his age (21) and lack of defense and rebounding could be issues. Finally, Stauskas has tons of NBA potential (I've said for quite a while that he'll be Manu Ginobili) but drafting him would necessitate either a move of KCP to the small forward position or benching one of the two, neither of which is ideal.
I would not be opposed to the Pistons taking a flier on Young, but there's almost no way that they do unless he shows something in workouts that teams weren't expecting. He has range, size, and athleticism, all traits that would both help the Pistons in the short-term and have room for growth in the league. Again, a new GM is unlikely to make a move like this, though. Breaking NBA logic this drastically is a dicey proposition.
Trade down
Yes, another Trade Monroe screed, but this one comes with lots of upside. The Pistons have been not-so-quietly trying to trade Monroe and then Josh Smith and then Monroe and now Smith again since the Literal Big Three experiment flopped as hard as expected. With Smith an untradeable contract (albeit still a talented player), the Pistons may be able to bundle Monroe's upcoming max contract with the #8 pick to slide a few spots down the draft and secure future assets. Meanwhile, they'd be in prime position to select someone like James Young in a more appropriate value position. There a few teams that might be interested in this trade.
Minnesota Timberwolves (#13 pick). Sensing the impending loss of Kevin Love, the Timberwolves could be in the market for a power forward. Bringing in Monroe would allow the team to trade Love for the shooting they desperately need. Unfortunately, moving up in the draft doesn't really address many of the team's needs. The Ricky Rubio experiment is only occasionally successful, so signing one of the younger PGs in the draft (either Tyler Ennis or Marcus Smart should be available at #8) could be a viable path forward. The Wolves would have to send something back to match Monroe's salary, which they don't have much of (Chase Budinger sticks out as a possibility), as well as some future picks/assets.
Phoenix Suns (#14, #18, #27 picks). The Suns have three first round picks and are a year away from having a pretty clean salary cap situation. They'll have to sign Eric Bledsoe to a big contract in the offseason, but trading up in the draft may be a way to avoid that. With the #8 pick, the Suns could take Gary Harris and let Eric Bledsoe walk (or sign and trade for more assets). Getting significant value from rookie contracts is how good teams turn into contenders, and Harris should be NBA-ready and prepared to contribute. Monroe might be a tough fit for the run-and-gun Suns, but he's also been decent in transition and may give the team a post threat that they could take advantage of in the halfcourt. The Pistons could take James Young with the #14 pick. In reality, they teams could swap picks and players: Monroe/#8 for Bledsoe/#14. The Suns could also part with a few of their picks to entice the Pistons if they're set on keeping Bledsoe.
Orlando Magic (#11 pick). The Magic have the #3 overall pick and will likely take Dante Exum, creating a terrifying trio of Exum, Oladipo, and Afflalo. Trading up in the draft for the #8 pick and Monroe could turn the Magic into instant Eastern Conference contenders. If they're able to grab Aaron Gordon at #8 (or Noah Vonleh), a starting five of Exum, Oladipo, Afflalo, Gordon, and Monroe would be young, endlessly athletic, and League Pass darlings. Without significant resources to send in return, the Magic would need to send several future first round picks, of which they have a few.
The only other fringe trade candidate here would be the Denver Nuggets. Brian Shaw still needs a post player to run his triangle offense, but with $12 million tied up in JaVale McGee, bringing in Monroe would basically be impossible. For the Pistons, trading Monroe allows them to move Josh Smith to his natural power forward position, draft a wing player at the proper valuation, and acquire some future/young assets. Brandon Jennings, KCP, James Young, Josh Smith, and Andre Drummond makes a lot more sense than the current starting lineup.
The most likely situation is also the worst for the Pistons' current roster: taking the best player available and sort it out later. It is hard to justify the Pistons adding another front court player to this roster, but it may be the path they have to take. "Sorting it out later" will likely mean benching the new draft pick, keeping the same broken roster/rotation that failed the team this season, and eventually trading one of the team's young assets at lowered value. The trade scenarios, though logical ways of improving the team's current and future situations, are probably the least likely. The franchise seems intent on keeping Monroe, which means paying him more than he'll be worth. Depending on the new GM, reaching down the draft boards could be a possibility, but whoever the new executive is, he'll be staking his reputation and good will on the success of a lower-rated prospect.
Posted by Chris Gaerig at 1:04 PM
Labels: 2014 draft, Brandon Jennings, greg monroe, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
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Wasabi Stories vol.41: “Idea is not All to Write a Great Work”
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— ABOUT Wasabi Stories… —
“Idea is not All to Write a Great Work”
Today’s story teller is a Molecular biologist, Shinichi Fukuoka.
His topic was Michael Crichton (1942-2008), who is famous as the original writer of “Jurassic Park”.
The first Crichton’s book Fukuoka read was “The Andromeda Strain”.
A deadly plaque kills all the people in a small town but two survivors, an old man and a baby.
The story focuses on the scientists’ team that is assembled to cure.
Reading the work, Fukuoka dreamed to be a scientist like them.
The characteristics of Crichton’s works are the well researched materials and his novel aspects.
When he was asked some advices by a would-be writer, he said “If you have another skill, you’d better do that. Writer’s life is hard.”
He probably meant the writer’ peculiarity of silently working alone but according to Fukuoka, Crichton’s life style was regular and well controlled by his measure.
To another question “how do you get such abundant ideas?” he answered, “I want to know that too. — People put importance on idea of works but we can’t write with idea alone, and the idea changes as we write.”
Fukuoka’s word
“He passed away at age of 66. I never knew that he had been suffering cancer. The story depicts the future of transgenic “NEXT” is his posthumous work. ”
The NIKKEI Dec/4/2008 by Shinichi Fukuoka (Molecular biologist)
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(back row- from left to right) Sarah, Lindsey, and Tricia (front row- from left to right) Christy, Gail, Francyne and Jenny
Meet The Cowgirls of Jenner Family Beef
The Jenner Cowgirls are an eager and enthusiastic bunch. They bring to the business a wide variety of skills and experience. Meet them here: Francyne Jenner; Gail Jenner; Tricia Jenner Laustalot; Christy Jenner Bartneck; Jenny Jenner; Sarah Jenner; and Lindsey Jenner. Either born on the ranch or married into this historic ranching family, each woman represents the unique Jenner Family Beef business and its connection to the Jenner Ranching family. We love the country life; we love the ranch that sustains us and has provided for five + generations of the Jenner family.
Jenner Cowgirls can do almost anything!
Our jobs are as diverse as we are: we are often expected to jump in a truck or on a horse or tractor or asked to grab a rag or wrench to help repair ailing equipment. We are cooks and gardeners and can whip up a meal for crews of hungry men and hands without complaint -- or, at least, without much complaint! We can handle a fry pan while handling energetic kids; we can pull on our boots and jackets and lend a hand whenever required.
One of the most important roles each of us has come to understand is that ranch work, like housework, never ends; being available night and day is part of the job of being a ranching wife and cowgirl. Late nights, early mornings, cold days spent rounding up cattle or searching for a lost calf, and hot days spent driving an old hay truck are all part of the "ranching landscape." But we love it. We love the connection with animals, the connection to nature and the land, and the freedom to explore and be part of the cycle of life that characterizes the cattle business -- even when we suffer the heartbreak of losing an orphan calf or sick cow.
But don't be fooled by our country girl background! These progressive cowgirls are far from backwoods. As fashion-forward fashionistas, teachers, acclaimed author, nurse, CPA, & nutrition-seeking entrepreneurs, these Mommas wear many hats -- and the designer boots that go with 'em!
We feel blessed to be a part of the world of ranching and to be able to offer our children the opportunity to grow up in a business that is now moving into its sixth generation...
Meet The Cowboys of Jenner Cattle Co.
(from left to right) Frank, Jack, John, Matt, Doug, and Nick
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The risk of secondary cancer in pediatric medulloblastoma patients due to three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy and intensity-modulated radiotherapy
Reham S Sherif, Wael M Elshemey, Ehab M Attalla
October-December 2018, 55(4):372-376
DOI:10.4103/ijc.IJC_410_18 PMID:30829273
BACKGROUND: Craniospinal irradiation (CSI) is the standard radiation therapy treatment for medulloblastoma. The aim of this study was to estimate and compare the lifetime risk of radiation-induced secondary cancer in pediatric medulloblastoma patients using three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3D-CRT) and intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). MATERIALS AND METHODS: 3D-CRT and IMRT plans were performed for 10 CSI pediatric patients. The average absorbed doses for organs at risk (OARs) was calculated from dose-volume histograms on the treatment planning system. The average lifetime risk of radiation-induced secondary cancer was then calculated. RESULTS: Lifetime risk of secondary cancer for CSI pediatric patients treated using IMRT decreases in some OARs compared with those treated using 3D-CRT. This is attributable to the decrease in the average absorbed dose in some OARs when using IMRT technique. CONCLUSION: Follow-up of medulloblastoma pediatric patients should be performed after ending the treatment course in order to diagnose early secondary tumors. IMRT technique is substantially better than 3D-CRT in terms of lifetime risk of radiation-induced secondary cancer, probably due to reduced dose to OARs especially to the thyroid, which is the most sensitive organ to radiation.
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Examination of methylation changes of VIM, CXCR4, DOK7, and SPDEF genes in peripheral blood DNA in breast cancer patients
Atefeh Shirkavand, Zahra Niki Boroujeni, Seyed Ahmad Aleyasin
BACKGROUND: Studying whole blood DNA methylation as a risk marker has valuable applications in either diagnosis or staging of breast cancer. We investigated whole blood DNA methylation status of VIM, CXCR4, DOK7, and SPDEF genes in breast cancer patients in comparison to healthy control subjects. MATERIALS AND METHODS: 60 patients with breast cancer and 40 healthy controls were examined. Genomic DNA isolated from peripheral blood and restriction enzyme polymerase chain reaction (REP) method was applied for analysis. Real-time PCR was used to confirm methylation status of the aforementioned genes and therefore to find out the methylation differences between normal and breast cancer subjects. RESULTS: Level of DOK7 promoter hypomethylation in normal and breast cancer samples was significant (P-value = 0.001). The study, also, showed that hypomethylation of VIM and CXCR4 genes are significant in patients compared with normal cases (P-value < 0.05). Furthermore, SPDEF promoter hypomethylation was not significantly differed between normal and breast cancer samples (P-value = 0.2). CONCLUSIONS: Hypermethylation of DOK7 gene in DNA from patients affected with breast cancer offers a biomarker for diagnosis of the breast cancer. This study indicates that methylation status of VIM and CXCR4 genes changes in breast cancer; so, they can be used as molecular biomarkers in breast cancer prognosis.
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Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor gene polymorphism is not associated with tobacco-related oral squamous cell carcinoma
Deepa Rajesh, SM Azeem Mohiyuddin, Sharath Balakrishna, A V Moideen Kutty
BACKGROUND: Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor is implicated in carcinogenesis indirectly through increasing nicotine dependence and directly through its impact on cell-cycle regulation. Functional polymorphism in nicotinic acetylcholine receptor alpha-5 subunit gene (CHRNA5 c.1192G>A; rs16969968) is associated with nicotine dependence and risk of lung cancer. AIM: The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of CHRNA5 c.1192G>A polymorphism with the risk of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). SETTINGS AND DESIGN: This was a rural teaching hospital-based case-control study. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 100 histopathologically confirmed cases of OSCC patients and 100 age- and gender-matched healthy individuals were genotyped for CHRNA5 c.1192G>A polymorphism by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism method. Allele and genotype frequencies among case and control groups were compared by Chi-squared test (Fisher's exact). RESULTS: The frequency of CHRNA5 c.1192A allele was 22% in OSCC patients and 26% in control individuals. The difference in the distribution of alleles and genotypes between case and control groups was not significant (P > 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: CHRNA5 c.1192G>A polymorphism is not associated with the risk of developing OSCC.
Prevalence of oral mucosal lesions among smokeless tobacco usage: A cross-sectional study
Kaveri Hallikeri, Venktesh Naikmasur, Kruthika Guttal, Mangalore Shodan, Niranjan Kochli Chennappa
BACKGROUND: Tobacco use is one of the most prevalent forms of habit and associated with development of potential malignant disorders. The aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence and distribution of oral mucosal lesions (OMLs) among smokeless tobacco users. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is a hospital-based cross-sectional study. All the patients with the history of smokeless tobacco habit were included in the study. The patients were interviewed using the preformed questionnaire, including the patient's demographic details, the type of habit, duration, frequency, and the associated oral mucosal pathology. Further, patients were clinically examined and recorded on tobacco-related oral lesions. RESULTS: Prevalence of OML was 54.18%, and 91.50% being among male and with higher frequency at the age of second and fourth decade. The prevalence of oral submucous fibrosis, leukoplakia, carcinoma, lichen planus, and erythroplakia was 26.95, 10.35, 9.94, 5.5, and 0.66%, respectively. Smokeless tobacco habit was prevailing among males (98.79%) compared to females (9.37%). Frequency of habit-associated OML was statistically significant with odds ratio 0.24. CONCLUSION: The study proves a definite association between smokeless tobacco habit and OML. The data necessitate to correlate and follow up the individuals with smokeless form of tobacco habits to establish the definite correlation between the habit and oral mucosal lesions.
Clinico-pathological characteristics and treatment outcome in invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast: An Indian experience
Ajay Gogia, Vinod Raina, Surya Vansham Suryanarayan Deo, Nootan Kumar Shukla, Sandeep Mathur, Bidhu Kalyan Mohanti, Daya Nand Sharma
BACKGROUND: Invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) is the second most common histologic subtype of breast cancer and accounts for 10%–15% of all breast cancers in the west. There is a scarcity of data on ILC from the Indian subcontinent. This report intends to present the patterns of care, survival outcomes, and prognostic factors of ILC treated in a tertiary care institute. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This retrospective analysis included consecutive patients diagnosed with ILC and registered at our Institute between 2009 and 2016. RESULTS: We included 97 patients with a median age of 53 years (range 28–80). American Joint Committee on Cancer (7th edition) stage distribution was stage I-8.24%, stage II-45.36%, stage III- 34.10%, and stage IV-12.30%. Bilateral breast cancer was seen in 8 cases. Estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, and HER 2/neu positivity was 90%, 85%, and 9%, respectively. Triple-negative breast cancer constituted 5% of cases. Twenty-nine events were recorded (systemic and locoregional relapse) with a median follow-up of 3.5 years. Three years relapse-free survival (RFS) and overall survival were 80% and 60%, respectively. Bones were the most common site of metastasis. Age <45 years [HR-1.4 (0.8–2.1), P < 0.001] and advanced clinical tumor stage [T4, HR-2.1 (1.1–3.8), P = 0.001] were associated with poor RFS. CONCLUSION: ILC constituted 2.5% of breast cancer cases at our institute. Triple negativity and HER-2/neu positivity were seen in 9% and 5% of cases, respectively. Age <45 years and advanced clinical tumor stage were associated with poor RFS.
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Comparison of harmonic scalpel and conventional technique in the surgery for breast cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Zili Zhang, Lin Li, Yi Pang, Qi Li, Chunli Guo, Yongchao Wang, Chengpei Zhu, Xiangchao Meng
BACKGROUND: Harmonic scalpel is considered as a promising surgical tool for breast cancer, while its advantage over conventional approach is still controversial. Therefore, we performed this meta-analysis to compare the outcomes of harmonic scalpel and conventional tools in the surgery for breast cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Studies reporting the outcomes of harmonic scalpel and conventional technologies were systematically searched from online databases, PubMed and EMBASE up to April 30, 2018. Data were presented as odds ratio, risk ratio (RR), and mean difference (MD) with 95% confidence interval (CI). RESULTS: Intraoperative blood loss (I2 = 96%, P < 0.05, MD = −68.78, 95% CI −93.31 to −44.24), seroma (I2 = 3%, P = 0.41, RR = 0.63, 95% CI 0.46–0.86) and hematoma formation (I2 = 0%, P = 0.64, RR = 0.41, 95% CI 0.23–0.73), drainage volume (I2 = 89%, P < 0.05, MD = −105.33, 95% CI −161.33 to −49.33) and time (I2 = 93%, P < 0.05, MD = −2.18, 95% CI −3.75 to −0.61), necrosis (I2 = 35%, P = 0.20, RR = 0.37, 95% CI 0.16–0.86), surgical duration (I2 = 79%, P < 0.05, MD = −8.49, 95% CI −16.56 to −0.43), and hospital stay (I2 = 97%, P < 0.05, MD = −0.94, 95% CI −1.74 to −0.14) are significantly different between the two groups. CONCLUSIONS: Harmonic scalpel is superior to conventional tools in terms of decreasing intraoperative blood loss, seroma and hematoma formation, drainage volume and time, necrosis prevalence, surgical duration, and hospital stay, which should be strongly recommended in the surgery for breast cancer.
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Harmonic scalpel versus conventional diathermy: Is one really better than the other?
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Comparison of resection margins and cosmetic outcome following intraoperative ultrasound-guided excision versus conventional palpation-guided breast conservation surgery in breast cancer: A randomized controlled trial
Tejas Vispute, Suhani, V Seenu, Rajinder Parshad, Smriti Hari, Sanjay Thulkar, Sandeep Mathur
DOI:10.4103/ijc.IJC_2_18 PMID:30829271
INTRODUCTION: Use of intraoperative ultrasound (IOUS) has been shown to help achieve satisfactory cosmesis and negative margins in breast conserving surgery (BCS). This study has been done to compare the oncological and cosmetic outcomes following BCS using conventional palpatory method and IOUS. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is a prospective randomized controlled trial conducted at a tertiary care teaching and research institute in India. Patients with early operable breast cancer willing for BCS were included. Tumors were excised with 1 cm margin. In palpatory group, tumor was palpated and 1 cm margin was taken with a measuring scale while in the second group, IOUS was used to mark the margins. Histopathological evaluation was done to assess margins and cosmesis was assessed by patient, resident doctor, and nurse independently. RESULTS: Sixty patients were included, 32 in the ultrasonography-guided and 28 in palpation-guided wide local excision. The mean age of patients was 48.78 years. In both groups, mean tumor size was 3.18 cm. Margin thickness and positivity was higher in palpatory group (though P > 0.05). Most patients were satisfied with cosmesis. There was no significant difference in complications and specimen volume in both groups. Presence of ductal carcinoma in situ component and expression of Her2neu by tumor cells had a significant impact on margin positivity. CONCLUSIONS: Intraoperative use of ultrasound offers a real-time assessment of margin status and may reduce the margin positivity rate compared to conventional palpation-guided method.
A novel frameshift mutation in the MLH1 gene in a patient with Lynch syndrome
Arti S Pandey, Sudip Shrestha
A novel mutation in the MLH1 gene likely to be pathogenic for Lynch syndrome was discovered in a proband with a family history of colon cancer. Immunohistochemistry showed negative expression of PMS2 and MLH1 in the resected tumor sample. The mutation lies at the highly conserved C-terminus of the MLH1 protein, the region through which it dimerizes with PMS2 to carry out its mismatch repair function.
Creatinine kinase elevation and peripheral neuropathy during nivolumab treatment of a patient with metastatic renal cell carcinoma
Melih Simsek, Mehmet Bilici, Salim Basol Tekin
We report elevation of creatinine kinase (CK), which is an uncommon adverse event related to treatment with nivolumab. Nivolumab is a monoclonal antibody against programmed cell death-1 and an effective agent in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCCa). Here, we report a case of 58 year-old male receiving nivolumab as fourth-line treatment for metastatic RCCa. The patient was admitted to our clinic with pelvic pain and weakness in his legs. Elevated CK level was noted and he was hospitalized. About 1 mg/kg methylprednisolone was initiated and nivolumab was discontinued. On the second day of his hospitalization, left facial palsy occurred. After his neuropathy improved and CK level normalized, the patient was discharged. Neurological immune-related adverse events are very rare with nivolumab but can be serious.
Risk of second malignancy after modern conformal and proton beam radiotherapy-Minimizing risks, improving survivorshipInstructions to authors and other literary works of fiction
Srinivas Chilukuri, Rakesh Jalali
GYNEC CANCER
Barriers affecting uptake of cervical cancer screening in low and middle income countries: A systematic review
Pradeep Devarapalli, Satyanarayana Labani, Narayanasetti Nagarjuna, Poonam Panchal, Smita Asthana
BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer is the second-most common cancer among women in the developing world and approximately 500,000 cases are diagnosed each year. In developed countries, cervical cancer (CCa) accounts for only 3.6% of newly diagnosed cancers. OBJECTIVE: The present study aims to identify the most effective barriers associated with CCa screening uptake in low and middle-income countries (L and MICs) and aid to adopt effective measures to overcome prevailing barriers to the attainment of CCa uptake in the community. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Health sciences electronic databases like MEDLINE, PubMed, Cochrane library, and Google Scholar were searched for studies published until August 2017. Keywords used for the search were (“cervical cancer screening”), (“barriers”), AND (“low income countries” OR “Middle income countries”). Articles were reviewed and data were extracted by using Mendeley Desktop Software (V-1.17.10). Income-level classification of countries was done as per the World Bank 2017 report. Statistical software like SPSS-V.23 and Medical-V.14 were used for the statistical application. RESULTS: A total of 31 studies met the inclusion criteria with a total of 25,650 participants. The sample size of the included studies ranged from 97 to 5929 participants. Articles majorly reported data on participants from African region (51.6%) and minimally in the Western Pacific region (3.2%). Sampling methods among studies varied from convenience sampling-12 (39.7%) to consecutive sampling-1 (3.2%). Besides, two studies (6.5%) did not discuss their sampling procedures. It was observed that “Lack of information about CCa and its treatment” (Barrier of lack of knowledge and Awareness); “Embracement or shy” (Psychological Barrier); “Lack of time” (structural Barrier); and “Lack of family support” (Sociocultural and religious barrier) were the most commonly reported among all 22 barriers. CONCLUSION: There is a need of policies advancement of CCa screening programs by focusing on aspects of accessibility, affordability, CCa education, and the necessity of screening to improve screening uptake to control the CCa morbidity and mortality rate in L and MIC's.
A comparative analysis of quality of life after postoperative intensity-modulated radiotherapy or three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy for cervical cancer
Sarthak Kumar Mohanty, Supriya Chopra, Anisha Mudaliar, Sadhana Kannan, Umesh Mahantshetty, Reena Engineer, Jaya Ghosh, Jyoti Bajpai, Sudeep Gupta, Shyamkishore Shrivastava
AIMS: The aim of this study is to compare the quality of life (QOL) between adjuvant three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT) or intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) for cervical cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS: QOL assessment was done at the baseline and then longitudinally after completing (chemo) radiation. All patients completed EORTC QLQ-C30 and EORTC QLQ Cx-24 modules. Independent-sample t-test was used to compare the mean scores between the two groups. Analysis of variance was used to compare differences in QOL measures over the six time points (baseline, post-RT, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months after treatment) and between treatment groups (3DCRT vs. IMRT). Linear mixed model was also performed to account for attrition. RESULTS: Overall, 64 patients (image-guided IMRT, n = 40 and 3DCRT, n = 24) completed QOL assessment. The median age and follow-up period were 48 years and 15.5 months, respectively. General QOL domains such as emotional (at 12 months, P = 0.04) and social (at 3 months, P = 0.02 and 12 months, P = 0.03) were better with IMRT. Pain (12 months, P = 0.03); fatigue (12 months, P = 0.05); nausea and vomiting (12 months, P = 0.03); insomnia (post-RT, P = 0.05 and 12 months, P = 0.03); appetite loss (post-RT and 12 months, P = 0.04); and diarrhea (6 months, P = 0.02 and 12 months, P = 0.003) scores were significantly better with IMRT. On linear mixed model analysis, there was a significant interaction between treatment cohort and assessment intervals for physical, emotional, and social functioning, appetite loss, diarrhea, lymphedema, and menopausal symptom scores were significantly better with IMRT. CONCLUSIONS: Treatment technique (IMRT vs. 3DCRT) impacts early QOL in undergoing adjuvant radiation for cervical cancer.
Prevalence and nonsexual transmission of human papilloma virus (HPV) in the adolescence girls from rural area of Maharashtra state, India
Atul Budukh, Amita Maheshwari, Vrushali Palayekar, Sonali Bagal, Pallavi Purwar, Kedar Deodhar, Rajesh Dikshit, Rajendra Badwe
OBJECTIVE: To find out the prevalence of human papilloma virus (HPV) in adolescent girls and to access the nonsexual transmission of HPV from their mother by using the same old cloth used by their mother. METHOD: Menstrual pads were collected from the women of age group years to find out the presence of HPV and whether it can be used as a cervical cancer screening tool. The results of the said study have been published in the European Journal of Cancer Prevention. During this study, menstrual pads of the daughters of participating women were collected to see the nonsexual transmission of HPV. After conducting the health education and obtaining the informed consent, we interviewed 57 mothers (age group 30–50, married, sexually active) and daughters [age group 12–18, unmarried (not exposed to sex)] from the rural area of Pune district of Maharashtra state, India. The menstrual pads were collected and transported to Mumbai for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing. HPV testing was carried out by PCR. RESULTS: Out of 57, 28 (49%) daughters and 23 (40.4%) mothers provided menstrual pad. Out of 23 mothers, one was HPV positive [4.3%: 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.2–23.0] and out of 28 girls, 3 (10.7%: 95% CI 2.0–33.0) were HPV positive. The daughter, whose mother was HPV positive, had negative result for HPV. CONCLUSION: The HPV prevalence in adolescence girls was 10.7%. There may be other nonsexual medium that might have caused HPV in adolescence girls, which needs further research.
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HISTORY OF CANCER
A pituitary tumor turned-to-be a glioma: A surgical case from the Madras General Hospital 1928
Ramya Raman, Anantanarayanan Raman
DOI:10.4103/ijc.IJC_12_19 PMID:30829288
A three-page paper entitled “A case of glioma (embryonal neurocytoma) of the brain simulating pituitary tumour,” written by K. G. Pandalai, Surgeon at the Madras General Hospital, and T. B. Menon, Pathologist at the Madras Medical College, was published in the Indian Medical Gazette. This paper refers to an occasional finding of a brain tumor (a glioma), presurgically diagnosed as a pituitary tumor, in 1928. This was close to the period when surgeons across the developed world believed in that cancers were by no means common among the native people of India as it was in Europe. Leopold Rogers of the Bengal Medical Service, Calcutta, in 1925 refuted this belief indicating that malignant tumors were equally common in Bengal (India) and England. Nevertheless, this report by Pandalai and Menon strikes a unique chord since the tumor was subsequently determined as a glioma – an embryonal neurocytoma -– with adequate evidences drawn from the state-of-the-art volume “A classification of the tumors of the glioma group on a histogenetic basis with a correlated study of prognosis” by Percival Bailey and Harvey Cushing published in Philadelphia in 1926. This Pandalai-–Menon report impresses as pioneering and trailblazing, on a brain tumor detected in 1928, given that earliest exclusive departments of neurosurgery were established in Christian Medical College, Vellore, and Madras Medical College, Madras, by Jacob Chandy and Balasubramanian Ramamurthi, respectively, nearly two decades later.
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Trousseau's sign in the left internal jugular vein in gastric cancer
Dillibabu Ethiraj, Venkatraman Indiran, Kannan Kanakaraj, Prabakaran Madhuraimuthu
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Skin and mucosal ulcerations and acute kidney failure due to methotrexate toxicity in a patient with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
Xia Song, Yinyin Guo, Hui Zhao, Wenbiao Hu
Health and well-being of cancer caregivers in a changed role of breadwinners
Md Mahbub Hossain
Iatrogenic alkalosis during high-dose methotrexate therapy: An avertable cause
Kritika Agrawal, Satyajit Majhi, Nishkarsh Gupta, Rakesh Garg
Correlation between human leukocyte antigen-G expression and clinical parameters in oral squamous cell carcinoma
Xianjun Shen, Peng Wang, Panpan Dai, Bei Jin, Yongqing Tong, Haisheng Lin, Gengsheng Shi
BACKGROUND: Human leukocyte antigen-G (HLA-G) is a tumor-associated molecule, whose expression may help the cancer cells to escape the immune response. AIMS: The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic value of HLA-G level in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 52 patients who had definite pathological diagnosis and 20 cases of healthy controls were enrolled in this clinical trial. Immunohistochemisty (IHC) and quantitative real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis were considered for HLA-G identification and multilevel validations. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS and statistical significance was determined at P < 0.05. RESULTS: IHC results demonstrated that the expression of HLA-G in OSCC was strongly positive and the rate of positive expression was 55.77% (29/52), but the expression of HLA-G in healthy controls was negative (0/20). Furthermore, RT-PCR results showed that the positive expression rate of HLA-G messenger RNA was weak in healthy controls, but strong in OSCC. Besides, HLA-G expression in the tumors was significantly correlated with histological grade. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggested that HLA-G is associated with the prognosis of OSCC and may serve as a novel therapeutic target.
Jordanian physicians' perceived barriers and facilitators to patient participation in treatment decision-making: An exploratory study
Rana F Obeidat, Robin M Lally
BACKGROUND: Successful implementation of shared decision-making in clinical encounters is influenced by system, patient, and clinician factors that both facilitate and present barriers to patient-centered care. Little is known about which factors Jordanian physicians believe influence their ability to implement shared decision-making with cancer patients. AIMS: To determine Jordanian physicians' perceived barriers and facilitators to patient participation in treatment decision-making. SETTINGS AND DESIGN: A cross-sectional exploratory survey design was used in the study. A convenience sample of 86 Jordanian medical and radiation oncologists and surgeons was recruited. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A valid measure of physicians' views of shared decision-making was slightly modified from its original English and used to collect data. Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) for windows version 19.0 (SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). Descriptive and inferential statistics were carried as appropriate. RESULTS: Insufficient time to spend with the patient, patient expecting a certain treatment rather than a consultation, and the patient's family overriding the decision-making process were the most frequently reported barriers to patient participation in treatment decision-making. Physicians believed that patients trust in physicians and patient being accompanied at the consultation were important facilitators of patient participation in treatment decision-making. CONCLUSIONS: Jordanian physicians perceive multiple barriers to patient participation in treatment decision-making. Patient-related difficulties (e.g., indecision), and system-related difficulties, in particular, patient's family influence on the decision-making process are more prevalent among Jordanian physicians compared to Western physicians.
Effectiveness of two psychological intervention techniques for de-addiction among patients with addiction to tobacco and alcohol – A double-blind randomized control trial
Rahul Ganavadiya, B R Chandra Shekar, S Suma, Pallavi Singh, Ruchika Gupta, Poonam Tomar Rana, Shubham Jain
Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate effectiveness of two psychological intervention techniques (reading – writing therapy vs. games – narrative therapy) using motivational intervention alone as a control among tobacco addicts. Materials and Method: This randomized control trial was conducted over a period of 6 months from April to September 2013 at a de-addiction center in Madhya Pradesh, India. Patients with moderate-to-high levels of dependence as determined by Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND) admitted for treatment in a de-addiction center were recruited. A cluster randomization technique was used for allocation of participants to three different groups. Group allocation was concealed from investigator and done by coordinator. Three interventions were group A – motivational intervention alone, group B – games and story therapy along with motivational intervention, and group C – reading and writing therapy along with motivational intervention. Interventions were applied for 1 month. Two postintervention follow-ups (one at the time of discharge and one after 1 month following discharge) were done to assess level of dependence using FTND besides undertaking urine cotinine analysis among three randomly selected participants in each group. Results: A total of 82 participants (28 in group A, 27 each in groups B and C) completed the study. Eighty-one (98.8%) participants had complete abstinence at the end of 1 month with no significant difference in the success rate between different categories (P = 0.357). At the end of 1 month following discharge from center, only 7 participants (8.5%) had complete abstinence and 51 participants (62.2%) had partial reduction and remaining 24 participants (29.3%) were considered failures with no difference between three groups (P = 0.768). Conclusion: Although overall abstinence was low (8.5%), all intervention techniques were equally effective in at least reducing level of dependence with no significant difference in their efficacy.
Designing and validation of text messages for m-Health intervention for tobacco cessation and management
Puneet Chahar, Vikrant R Mohanty, YB Aswini
BACKGROUND: Tobacco is a growing epidemic and tobacco-related death results in health consequences and lost economic opportunities. Tobacco cessation efforts mandate the use of multiple strategies to bring about behaviour change. AIM: To develop and validate health promotive text messages using transtheoretical model and prospect theory for behaviour change. SETTINGS AND DESIGN: The present observational study was conducted in a tertiary care hospital, Delhi among patients reporting at Tobacco Cessation Centre (TCC). METHODS: The study was divided into two phases: first involved development of text messages in local language (Hindi) using a sound theoretical basis (TTM and prospect theory) and second phase dealt with validation of the developed text messages by patients and experts in the field of tobacco cessation. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: Descriptive statistics was obtained using the SPSS version 17. RESULTS: The sample comprised 20 males and 6 females. Average appeal score ranged from 6.1 to 9.6 (54 messages). Forty two messages out of a total of 54 messages were found to be appropriate after validation by the experts. Mean words of the final messages (42 messages) was 24.5 ± 1.3. Two hundred ninety one (90%) out of a total of 324 questionnaires showed adequate understanding of message as assessed by the reviewers. CONCLUSIONS: The current effort developed and validated health promotive text messages package to aid in tobacco cessation. The preventive text messages were grounded in evidence and sound theoretical basis and followed a standard validating procedure leading to satisfactory understanding and appeal in all domains.
The tobacco trade and trail in Karnataka
Punith Shetty, Roomani Srivastav, Arpan Debnath, R Murali, A Shamala
CONTEXT: Tobacco use is a major public health challenge in India with 275 million adults consuming different tobacco products. Despite innumerable laws, the overall picture of the current system is not clear and the menace of tobacco persists. What does it take to stop this menace? The present study made an attempt to throw some light on the prevailing discrepancy in the current system. AIMS: The aim of the study was to explore the knowledge and attitude of people involved in growth and sales of tobacco. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This qualitative research was aimed at farmers growing tobacco in Mysore district and vendors selling tobacco in Bangalore. Snowball sampling technique was used to select the farmers. Simple random sampling technique was used to shortlist vendors selling tobacco products in Bangalore. Data were collected using semistructured questionnaire through interviews which were recorded using an audio recorder. RESULTS: Inductive analysis was conducted for the present study and the responses were divided into three categories, that is, awareness of laws, compliance to laws, and opinion regarding banning tobacco. Ninety percent of the growers and all the tobacco vendors (100%) were aware of the laws governing them; however, the compliance was poor in both the populations (32% and 20%, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: Implementation of law is an area that needs to be strengthened. Violations of these laws are not adequately reported; this matter should be dealt with. It was seen that the system which creates the laws itself promotes the growth and thereby the distribution of the tobacco products.
Potential role of whole-body diffusion magnetic resonance imaging in tumor staging for pregnant patients with cancer
Abhishek Mahajan, GV Santhosh Kumar, Tanvi Vaidya, Meenakshi Thakur, Subhash Desai
Malignancy during pregnancy poses a serious threat to the growing fetus. In this special situation, the diagnostic procedures and treatment to cancer will be more damaging to the developing fetus than the cancer itself. However, to safeguard the health of the mother from cancer, appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic tools are to be used that would minimize risk to fetal health. Diffusion-weighted whole-body imaging with background body signal suppression has the potential to answer most of these diagnostic dilemmas in the case of malignancy in pregnancy. This is one of the first such reports highlighting the role of a noninvasive, nonionizing whole-body imaging technique which does not require external contrast injection and can also be used for monitoring treatment response.
Cancer has almost a similar psychosocial impact on family caregivers as those of the patients; but are we doing enough for them?
Sourav Goswami, Subodh Saran Gupta
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The CD starts out with "Night Life." It starts out with some nice bass riffs, and then takes a soft musical "pause" before kicking everything into full gear. The beat is fast, melodic, and lead by strong vocals. The band plays well off each other, and everything is nicely compiled for your listening pleasures. "Cross the Line" keeps everything lively. The backing vocals, which sometimes can bring a song to it's knees, add a different dimension to the song. The chorus hits you hard. It's not very infectious, but with the backing vocals the chorus carries its own wait and pulls the song up. The song takes a momentary breather as the vocals sing and talk over a lighter sound in the back. But then the band thrusts back into everything it loves, and you start back up your feet and jump, jump, jump! "Useless," "Know Yourself," "Reconstruction," and "Clone" bring you more speed, roughness, power, and everything you crave and need. The bass drives itself into an intense fury, while the guitars are thick and throw themselves around with ease. The drums act as binding, and glue itself to the music building a stronger, thicker, and more intense sound. Everything is blended and crafted carefully, and your immediate reaction is a smile.
Not the most original sound on planet Earth, but these guys sure can rock. And have fun doing it. And a good thing for the listener is that the music rubs off on you. You'll find yourself listening to this a few times, enjoying every moment. I'll give this CD a B.
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The nation’s rancorous debate over immigration policy has greatly diminished the chances of citizenship for a small group of people who have done a great service to the United States and are as deserving as anyone to make it their new home. They are the Afghan interpreters who, at considerable risk to their lives and families, worked for the American government during the war and who remain in mortal danger.
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Mr. McCain and Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, another key backer of the program, hope to keep it alive through one or another last-minute maneuver. When the House and Senate versions of the defense bill are reconciled, they hope to muster enough support to add a few thousand visa slots in the final draft. Alternatively, the program could be extended in an appropriations bill that Congress may put together later this year.
Failing to keep our promise to Afghans who risked life and limb in the battlefield would add a shameful chapter to the mixed legacy of America’s longest war.
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Grand Opening Salvo
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Siam Center ushers in a revolutionary retail concept: The Ideaopolis, with a glittering series of exciting grand opening activities.
By Percy Roxas.
Bangkok never ceases to amaze with its seemingly endless creative energy and imagination, and arguably, nothing in the city reflects this better than the major shopping malls, which have become veritable trendsetters in modern living, setting benchmark standards in our stylish urban lifestyle asprations. Take the grand opening last month of Siam Center, billed as “Asia’s most sensational event.” The shopping center re-opened with a revolutionary retail concept that is expected to amaze and inspire. It has been renamed as Siam Center: The Ideaopolis – a transformation that does not only represent a new chapter in the mall’s name, image and history but also is expected to boost further Bangkok’s climb as the undisputed “Shopping Capital” of the region.
Siam Center: The Ideaopolis represents a new concept in shopping landmarks in Bangkok indeed. It is more than just a lifestyle destination. It is a place, a center, a hub if you will, that espouses and encourages unlimited imagination, and houses creative initiatives in art, fashion, technology, and lifestyle.
“We have invested over Bt200-million to make Siam Center’s grand opening the ultimate event of the year,” says Chadatip Chutrakul, CEO of Siam Piwat Co., Ltd., owners of Siam Center: The Ideaopolis. “An array of surprises were lined up to amaze every visitor and reflect succinctly the center’s new cool vibe. Besides the completely new look and the outlets of famous brands (including those that have never had a presence anywhere else before), we have prepared a number of world-class highlights – the first of their kind in Thailand for Siam Center fans.”
What was dubbed as “the coolest party of the year” started on The Preview Day, Jan. 9 – when the center’s business partners, owners of famous international brands and local brands, VIPs, celebrities and Thailand’s industry leaders were given a chance of becoming the first to witness “a major chapter of history being rewritten.” The Preview Day was graced by Thailand’s hottest stars — such as red-hot Ken Phupoom and Davika Hoorne — as well as Hollywood and international megastars such as Oscar winner Adrien Brody of ‘The Pianist’ and Kim Bum, one of Korea’s F4 idols. And in addition, talented world-class R&B singer Keri Hilson and American rapper Taboo, one of the members of the hip-hop group Black Eyed Peas, performed in a special concert.
Indeed, every square meter of Siam Center was filled with fun and excitement on grand opening day. In the cool ambience of the 4th Floor (with its high open ceiling and a transparent glass top loop and site of chic restaurants) first-rate DJs, headed by DJ Soulflower, the up-and-coming German-Filipino DJ known for her love of different types of music kept the party alive.DJ Onra, another big name with a special taste for Asian and hip hop music, joined the Europe- and Japan-veteran DJ.
On Grand Opening Day itself – Jan. 11 – Siam Center started to show off its new look from 6 p.m. onwards. Visitors were met by Leighton Meester and Ed Westwick, the American superstars of the international hit series ‘The Gossip Girl,” and Taio Cruz, the chart-topping British recording artist, singer and songwriter. They walked the red carpet alongside some of Thailand’s brightest stars, including Araya A. Hargate, Nadech Kugimiya, Urassaya Sperbund, Pakorn Chatborirak, Pimchanok Luevisadpaibul, Laknara Piatha, and many more. The two world-renowned DJs were joined by a number of Thai DJs including Tul Waitunkiat and DJ Seed Norasate Mudkong. In the DJ Party. Then, Piyanat Chotisathien played guitar while Pisut Prateeppasen showed off his mastery of the saxophone.
An amazing highlight was the “The Illumination of Light” created by an award-winning lighting designer, which provided an unforgettable ambience for those around Siam Center. The public was amazed by a show of mixed media full of light, color, and sound, created by Jiro Endo, Japan’s veteran lighting designer who was behind many international art projects such as the SOI music project, Greyhound’s fashion show in the recent Fashion Week, as well as the Big Mountain Music Festival.
Endo made the atmosphere outside Siam Center’s building a true spectacle by working with KOB of Team Kor Bor Wor, a talented visual artist and motion graphic designer whose track record is guaranteed by a world-class mapping design award at the “Visual Jockey Contest 2011” in Switzerland. “The Illumination of Light was complemented by the music of Tul Waitunkiat, music curator in charge of all the music in the Grand Opening.
From the first floor onwards, Siam Center was geared in a glittering mood. The entire lobby walkway and other main areas such as Idea Avenue were set for top-tier and new generation artists from Thailand and elsewhere to exhibit without limit their ideas, imagination, and talent, under the supervision of an honorary board of advisors comprised of Sombat Tirasaroj, one of the most sought-after event organizers, Kittirat Kittipanich, Thailand Creative and Design Center (TCDC)’s Design advisory director, and Tassanai Yan-ubol, founder of The Embassy of Design Territory. During the unveiling, Idea Avenue carried the theme ‘Timeline Extendist’ using state-of-the-art technology to tell the story of Siam Center in three dimensions of time. And with the Digital Mirror Room, visitors enjoyed globetrotting in just five minutes.
One of the most special part of the grand opening program was the “Pop Culture Art Exhibition,” which showcased masterpieces from American pop icon Andy Warhol. “We brought the real work of the pop artist for Thai people to see up close and personal,” Chadatip said. Apart from Warhol’s master ouvre, genuine art pieces by another pop art icon, Roy Lichtenstein, were also displayed. The pop culture exhibition, which was designed to be interactive, was a new experience many visitors say they have never had before.
Another big highlight is the “Fashion Exhibition,” which showcased collections by Yohji Yamamoto, Comme des Garçons, and Issey Miyake. The collections were all of their ‘Archive’ level, which means they are as close to the brand signature as possible and are kept as precious treasures by private collectors. The items were put on show alongside those by Thailand’s leading designers such as Theatre, Playhound by Greyhound, and Wonder Anatomie.
Red-hot stylist Suriya Krutphan created the fashion exhibition while famous fashion photographer Pansiri Sirivejapan shot the trendy Black Garment collection. Editors-in-chief and fashion editors from top fashion magazines offered the exhibition their fashion insights.
And because Siam Center celebrating its 40th anniversary this year,an art design effort on the familiar “I Love Siam” mascot was organized with several important people from various circles joining in. The celebrities, including ‘Bird’ Thongchai McIntyre and ML Piyapat Bhirom Bhakdi,were divided into three groups under the theme “Be Amazed, Be Inspired, Be Revolutionary” and their creations were put on public display.
On the 3rd floor of Siam Center , an area called Fashion Visionary and housing the largest number of leading Thai designer brands in the country, more than 80 models flaunted the latest haute couture in a flash mob. The corridor was turned into a runway for the models to walk down. The fashion flash mob, which took place every 15 minutes, was a brainchild of Thailand’s leading stylist Araya Intra and Joy Ananda, a well-known stylist.
All in all, it was a glittering spectacle, an experience that lived up to its promise. The glitz and glamour were enhanced by the attendance of celebrities, important guests, as well as representatives of Thai and international media, including world-renowned fashion bloggers Bryan Boy and Lauren Kolodny, recognized by Fashion Bible and Women’s Wear Daily as one of the world’s 100 best stylists. The event drew massive coverage from various media people who attended.
“Siam Center’s grand opening was certainly a big success, one that will create a new industry benchmark as a global phenomenon to be remembered for years,” says Chadatip. “That’s more than a fitting reward for all of us who worked very hard to make it Siam Piwat’s most challenging masterpiece ever.”
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Bringing a Tired Brand To Life
Client: Cox’s Rd Mall
Cox’s Rd mall is a small, family-owned shopping centre. It has operated for more than 60 years.
Today, it lies approximately halfway between Top Ryde Shopping Centre and Macquarie Shopping Centre. Just this location alone explains many of the challenges they face.
Cox’s Rd in North Ryde was once a prominent retail precinct enjoying significant traffic to help generate trade. Over the years trade has been dropping and business is predominately supported by older loyal customers.
For a variety of reasons, the centre was not in the position for a full rebrand.
Cosmetically, the building looks a little old and tired but at the time refurbishment wasn’t an option.
Somehow, we needed to bring some personality and energy to the centre.
The Strengths:
It’s easy to focus on weaknesses but the centre did have some strengths.
It had a good mix of stores and was convenient for picking up everything you needed in one place.
It had a great sense of community and good and well-intentioned tenants who were close with many of their customers.
Our Approach:
We decided to build a character that played on the old-fashioned values and nature of the centre. However, we also wanted to create a ‘modern retro’ feel so the brand appealed to a wider audience.
We came up with a working persona of ‘Modern Millie.’ She was to be young and beautiful. We wanted her to look like she was from a different time but that she still represented style and fun.
Here are some samples of how we took a tired brand and by using Millie gave the brand new energy.
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How does Millie bring a tired brand to life?
By using Millie instead of the logo as the key element in the branding we were able to engineer an emotional response. We gave the centre a more human focus and something with which people could connect.
By simply adding a human element to the branding we were able to give an old and tired brand a whole new look and feel.
Follow up surveys show both customers and tenants have taken to the character as a true embodiment of what the centre stands for.
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Laser Time – Single Season Sensations
June 2, 2015 June 2, 2015 C.Ant
A tribute to all the beautiful TV shows that only lasted one season. Let us know what we missed…
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39 thoughts on “Laser Time – Single Season Sensations”
Zap Rowsdower says:
Yay! New Lasertime. Can’t wait to hear this tonight.
Obscure but I’m hoping to hear Boomtown and Undeclared on here.
moan4stalone says:
Boomtown was mad legit yo!
Rhys says:
Gross, you got Baldwin on my computer monitor.
ShrekItRalph says:
Trophy Wife was a very good recent one-season wonder that didn’t get the chance it deserved. Real shame it didn’t get more episodes.
I feel like I’m one of the few people who has seen Freaks and Geeks and didn’t really enjoy it. Did love Undeclared though.
WatershipDownSyndrome says:
I haven’t listened to the show yet, but I’d be surprised if they bring up Playmakers – part of ESPN’s early 2000s attempt at drama programming. It wasn’t perfect by a long shot (it tried WAY too hard to be edgy and controversial), but had a good cast that was fun to watch.
The NFL put pressure on ESPN to cancel the show (even though it was about a fictional football league), and by “pressure” I mean “We will not let you show NFL games on your channel if you keep this show.”
THIS! I feel terrible we didn’t bring this up. I definitely remember this, I believe it’s one of the highest-rated TV shows that’s ever been canceled. Perhaps we should do another show about shows that we canceled for reasons other than low ratings?!
Can you throw Boomtown staring Donnie Whalburgers in that episode as well? Thanks brotha and fan Zap Rowsdower gets full cred for reminding me of that short lived but Excelent cop drama.
Billy Dreamer says:
Yeah. Everything’s just fine!
Tranquilbez22 says:
I actually discovered Lucky Louie through a bio on Emma Stone. She played the bratty daughter of one of Louie’s friends and offers him a blowjob.
WaffleRobot says:
Diane was unsure if ‘eerie, Indiana’ had a second season, it kinda did but it was more of a spin-off.
Five years after the show had aired it got repeated on Fox and built cult following, So Fox decided to make ‘Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension’ which was two other kids in an alternative version of Eerie, Indiana. That show also lasted just one season.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eerie,_Indiana:_The_Other_Dimension
Great episode by the way! There were a couple of shows I’d never heard of before that I’m gonna check out. Thanks guys.
Carvington Von Twellingsworth III says:
I kind of liked Andy Richter Controls the Universe.
Ivanna Crapmypants says:
I think that lasted 2 seasons. The first one was like 6 episodes. Have the series on DVD. Its awesome
HitlerMeThisBatman says:
I hope they talk about Firefly.
Let’s see Greg the Bunny was an awesome show that only lasted one season. Anyone remember Norm McDonald’s Fox show “Minute with Stan Hooper”? My brother and I loved it but I don’t know if it was because we were early to mid teens when it hit and I haven’t seen it since it went off the air but it kinda just did a new take on Newhart where guy leaves the big city for a small town full of weirdos.
Speaking of sports the XFL lasted on season.
ClusterShart says:
Chris, can you please keep your politics out of LaserTime? We get it, you don’t like GamerGate/pseudo-autistic comments on the Internet. Bringing it up every episode just makes you sound like one of the GG trolls.
Also, why are you apologizing for finding something funny? There’s literally no reason to feel guilty, or have to distance yourself from a joke. Most children and some adults can separate fiction/jokes from reality.
Could you kindly elaborate on what the hell you’re talking about? Or is this one of those things were someone’s so sensitive they start hallucinating things that aren’t there?
scarlet spider says:
Tron: uprising.
Loved that show.
Since you were fawning over The State crew and lamenting the fact that their post-State endeavours have mostly flamed out, you guys should check 100% check out Childrens’ Hospital on Adult Swim. It stars Ken Marino, and David Wain is one of the key creative people + frequently acts in it. It’s a parody of medical dramas like Scrubs, but doubles down on the absurdism. It’s a beautiful show, probably my favourite comedy on air.
Mrswikiparaz says:
Children’s Hospital’s probably my favorite post-State project, even more than Wet Hot American Summer. Megan Mulally KILLS IT every show. And now every time I see Malin Akerman, I assume she’s Jon Hamm in drag.
hell yes Diana, you win for the CH love. Mulally certainly kills it (i mean Eva Longoria), although the ladies in general are all fantastic.
This week’s episode is probably the best of the season for me. It’s another great instance of them intentionally not giving a shit about canon and creating the most ridiculous origin story for the characters. Also it’s a Chance Briggs episode which means it’s great.
kijib says:
OMG, two of my favourite shows on the cover, best ep ever!
HeliumSpoon says:
Great episode, Dave. I love when you guys talk about old tv. I thought you forgot about the Lil’ Bush but it turns out that show ran for 2 seasons!?
Also surprised there was no mention of The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
That’s one I feel like I should give another try. I remember thinking it was dumb during its brief run, but that was 6,000 years ago and Bruce Campbell’s the man.
Supergiraffe says:
Which episode did you talk about Clone High on? Because I love Clone high, and I’d like to hear you guys talk about it.
DaverTime says:
I think it was discussed in the first Prime Time Animation ep, but was mistakenly put in the art for the second.
Flipside says:
Big Clone High fan here. I still put the theme song into my playlists. Quirky odd concept that they had fun with.
FlailingKermit says:
I would have certainly written an angry comment or two if someone didn’t mention Garfunkel & Oates. Saved it to the very end just to scare me, huh Dave?!
Only show that I’ll bring up that wasn’t talked about was Bo Burnham’s parody of MTV reality shows that was canceled after 1 season because it wasn’t your typical MTV reality show, Zack Stone is Gonna Be Famous. 100% Bo Burnham humor and it’s a shame that so many people didn’t get the joke.
Love Eureka
No one calls them millennials anymore, address them only as “Generation Ranch”.
antiAntag0nist says:
Great episode guys.
Regarding Donal Logue’s sitcom career, he was on a Fox show called Grounded for Life. It ran for a total of five whopping seasons(!) on Fox, then was picked up by the WB.
V22Dreamcast says:
Terriers was a great series on FX, which I watched live every week, and its cancellation still hurts me today. Same goes for Pushing Daisies and Terminator: SCC (although they were both two season shows).
Although, it’s nice that Bryan Fuller (Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me, Pushing Daisies, Mockingbird Lane) still has a show on the air, which will air its third season tomorrow. Looking forward to watching Hannibal tomorrow after the massive cliffhanger from season 2.
Adam Street says:
As a “Britto”, Brass Eye and Nathan Barley are must see television. The tramp/wino commentary on the Brass Eye DVD may be the best DVD extra of all time. Although I do feel bad laughing uncontrollably for half an hour on repeated viewings.
ObiSeanKenobi says:
My guilty pleasure was Fastlane on Fox. It was dumb and loud and you could basically watch the money burning on the screen but it was great shut off your brain after work on a Friday night entertainment.
Thanks for mentioning Wonderfalls. Loved that show but it came out during the time Fox was at it’s most show killing. They only aired a few episodes and I never could figure out what night it was on. Heard they had to go through hoops to get the last few episodes done for the DVDs.
The best part about the show isn’t that the lead character was getting signs that helped those in need, it was that she was having schizophrenic hallucinations that forced her to help people against her will. It was as if the universe was conspiring to break her 90’s girl over-educated apathy by manipulating coincidence just to show her that being nice to people isn’t a bad thing. It was a blast watching her rattle against the chains of fate that bound her.
Wish it had gone on longer since I heard they had some great ideas for the would’ve been seasons.
Dave, thank you for bringing that Garfunkel and Oates song to my attention. It is…inspirational as fuck.
Melokuyo says:
Great episode Dave! One of my favorite episodes in a long time. Have started watching a few of these shows, knowing that they are only one season makes me much more likely to watch them
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On Becoming a Mom
So, Henry turned ONE eight days ago. His birthday party was as adorable as he is. We were totally feeling the love with all of the family and friends who were there to join us. A cousin of Mark's once told me, "To love my child is to love me." So true, and I see it everyday.
It's funny though. I have a child who is one, but in that whole year I never really felt like a Mom. Of course there are all those Mom moments, the hard parts that no one really mentions, that should sort of let you know what you've gotten yourself into. The good FAR outweighs the bad, but the bad moments are tough.
For example, it's hard to ignore giving birth to a nearly 8 pounder when the epidural isn't working. These doctors went to school for like 30 years or something crazy but there doesn't seem to be a more reasonable explanation than, "sometimes it just stops working, we're not sure why." Umm, I'm going to have to request to see your medical degree.
Then there's that whole diaper change at 2a.m. when he's crying and you've maybe had two hours of sleep, where somehow the poop has managed to creep all the way up his back. How does that seriously happen? I've never been good with the whole physics thing, but I'm pretty sure "poop up the back" totally defies every rule there is.
There's that morning when you look in the mirror, and scare yourself. Who IS that woman? Hopefully that's the same week that your mother is in town so you can take a nap. It's the same morning you're sitting on the back porch getting a little fresh air, sucking down the coffee which you swore you wouldn't drink while breastfeedings, thinking, wow this is harder than I thought. I once read a blog, where the author was answering questions about becoming a mom. "What's the hardest part about giving birth?" she was asked. "Birth? Birth is a breeze compared to everything after." Spot on!
There's your baby's first fall while he's learning to sit up on his own, or his first head "bonk." His tears that just break your heart because you don't want him to feel any pain EVER in his entire life. Followed by a million other falls while he's figuring how to make his pudgy little ankles and feet do what he wants them to do.
And yes. There's that moment when he locks down on your nipple with his first little tooth that three days ago you thought was just the cutest thing in the world. You yelp and he just laughs. You tell yourself, at least he has a sense of humor.
All of those tough Mom moments in the first year and I still didn't really feel like I was a mom. I believe now that you don't just become a Mom the day your first baby is born. It's something you sort of grow into and figure out more every day. And it may not hit you to later, that holy cow I am someone's mother.
For me the moment came at about midnight a few nights before Henry's first birthday. I had been staying up late after everyone went to bed getting things ready for Henry's party. There was some major crafting going on: the balloon wreath, the pennant banner, the goody bags, the floating Henry party heads and the sock monkey craft.
I had just cut out about a bazillion pieces for the sock monkey paper bag puppet station, and I was tired. So tired. I was putting all the different pieces in neat little piles and putting them into neatly labeled plastic baggies. The kicker? I WAS LOVING IT. And that's when I knew.
Welcome to mommyhood, Lauren, I thought to myself. Enjoy the ride.
Photo credit: Kayla Westfall, Full Bloom Photo
I think you're right- sometimes you feel it immediately, and sometimes it comes later. There's certainly no question of your mom-ness that whole time, but it takes a while for everything to sink in.
And yea, that first tooth is killer. My girl loved the reaction it got out of me when she bit down and it was really hard to get her to stop!
Jenna February 7, 2014 at 4:00 PM
Yup, I can relate to this. I have four, and there are magic moments of gratefulness at being blessed by motherhood. I'm glad you could be present enough to recognize it and write about it! Visiting from CurvyBlogLove
Nearly One!
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Contingent Faculty Committee Blog LaborOnline Features
A Dirty DealSocial Dirt and the Adjunct Predicament
by Claire Raymond on June 11th, 2018
Claire Raymond
Claire Raymond is the author of several books on aesthetic theory and poetics. She publishes poetry and teaches as a non-tenure track Lecturer at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville.
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Although I’ve taught at the same university continuously since 2007, I’m still considered “temporary” faculty: a kind of intellectual migrant, shifting every year to a different office left open by whichever tenure-track faculty member is on leave that year. I keep two photographs and a small stack of books at the university, shifting camp each August. I’ve learned to keep it lean, not settle into any given office space. Each year I sign a contract granting one year of teaching employment. Each contract specifies that no matter how many consecutive years I teach for this same university I am guaranteed no further employment by said university. In other words, I am not recognized as part of the university community but instead am allocated a sojourner’s space.
None of this information, though, is available to the many undergraduates I teach. The university where I have taught since 2007 prides itself on combining teaching excellence with scholarly research. Students expect that their professors represent exemplary positions in the fields they teach. And I have, during my eleven years of teaching as an adjunct for this university, published five scholarly books, and four books of poetry. A student could be forgiven for thinking that I bring scholarly accomplishment to my role as “professor.”
But I am not a professor. Not in the sense of the word that most associate with the liberal project of sustaining a national (and international) scholarly community: professor as scholar and teacher supported financially and socially through some version of collegiality by the university where she teaches. Instead, I inhabit a kind of shadow world, in which as in a tilted holograph I appear at times to be a professor—give lectures, teach classes, assign grades to students, mentor and write letters of recommendation—and at other times do not appear to be a professor, in that I lack a stable contract with the university.
As is by now well known, the majority of American faculty in this second decade of the twenty-first century are non-tenure track. What does it mean to not have claim to inhabit that social space in which one labors; to be hired to teach but not allowed to have voice? Orlando Patterson’s theory of social death, Mary Douglas’s theory of dirt, and Arnold van Gennep’s theory of liminality, shed light on the shadowland that is adjunct employment. For adjunct labor is coded as social dirt: labor that is not connected with embodied dirtiness, but instead carries the stigma of social impurity, entirely through symbol. The reasons academia does not implement fair resolutions to the adjunct predicament, I suggest, have to do with this quality of social dirt, the unspoken premise that adjuncts are outside the bounds of the university’s proper circumference, symbolically unclean, and therefore not ultimately a group whose difficulties need to be resolved.
This kind of social dirt is not related to bodily performance or bodily style. Instead, it is adjuncts’ position within the university system that eludes social properness.1 Within the university, the adjunct’s expertise is curiously believed to exist only in the classroom, not outside of it. As Eric Fure-Slocum points out, many adjuncts survive by cobbling together a large array of courses taught at different universities.2 The force of the adjunct contract is clear: you are hired to teach this course, and only in this domain are you considered qualified. Hence, the adjunct in the social world of the university is an incomplete professor, with expertise that is considered by the university not to extend beyond the contained act of teaching a specific course for hire.
The adjunct’s social position abrades the definition of proper subject identity that tenure track faculty structure and occupy. In response to this abjection stems unvoiced but clear social pressure against rectifying injustices that face adjuncts. Instead, as the abject in the text of the university social world, the impetus is – just as Julia Kristeva states of all abject objects – to cast out the adjunct.3 The act of casting out takes the form of creating a “caste,” a social group that is always already considered not to exist even as it clearly exists. Adjuncts are just such a group: on temporary contracts, vulnerable to being expelled altogether from the university. Even when employment is retained this taint of what is improper to the professor hovers around the adjunct, creating a system wherein the fact of adjunct labor is kept behind doors of rhetoric, not included in university advertising and propaganda.
This sense of stain coexists with social invisibility. Orlando Patterson’s lengthy Slavery and Social Death yields a succinct definition of “social death:” the non né, the never born.4 Patterson, here, means he whose birth is not accorded social meaning as the birth of a socially generative person. While Patterson’s analysis speaks to power imbalances far direr than those found in the modern university, his insights are applicable to adjuncts’ challenges. To be clear: since adjuncts are not enslaved, an adjunct can leave her job. My point in discussing Patterson’s theory of social death, however, is to show that within that job the adjunct’s status is that of the socially dead person. Moreover, within the interlocking system of universities, leaving an adjunct job at one university is unlikely to lead to higher status at another potential university, as the adjunct is already marked by her previous job. Readers familiar with Patterson’s work will recall that his far-ranging study of slavery includes data on many cultures and histories. I draw from his work, here, in that spirit of far-reaching theoretical import.
The socially dead person, then, is he who cannot publicly claim an inheritance from his parents and cannot publicly bequeath to his children; he cannot be situated, publicly, in a lineage, not as scion nor progenitor.5 In the life-cycle of the university, mentorships of various kinds are parenting: adjunct faculty members are almost always those without publicly articulated university “parents.” The support afforded junior tenure track faculty is notably missing for entering adjuncts: no one is responsible for their professional success, because it is assumed they are temporary faculty. And yet, adjunctcy has become a bankrupt form of permanency, with adjuncts accepting the precarious terms of their employment for years and even decades. During my early years of adjuncting, I was advised by a well-meaning administrator to find a “parent,” to cozy up to my departmental chair, so as to be shifted to tenure track. The administrator stated that it didn’t matter what I published; it mattered that this chair like me. I could go deeper here into the questionable integrity of a system that values cozying up over and above scholarship—as it happened, I decided not to cozy up to the departmental chair, and hence the terms of my employment did not improve—but my point is the unparented status of the adjunct as one source of the social death experienced by adjuncts in the university system.
Just as the adjunct does not have parents in the university system—senior faculty members who implicitly allow the junior faculty member to draw from their collective departmental status as he builds his own work—the adjunct does not produce “children” in the scholarly world. Given the supposed impermanence of each adjunct’s contract, it is unusual for an adjunct to see a doctoral student through the process of earning her or his doctorate, as that student’s dissertation advisor. This structural impediment to the adjunct producing scholarly heirs seals the deal: the adjunct is, using Patterson’s definition, the socially dead person, in the context of the university community.
Social Dirt
To see the link between social death and social dirt, consider Mary Douglas’s symbolic definition of pollution and purity. I extend Douglas’s argument by defining as social dirt that which cannot make us physically sick, because it has no physical property whatsoever. Social dirt is all that we associate with powerlessness, the indigestible taint of non-being, the object that confuses social categories. Douglas, in Purity and Danger, shapes a cartography of the fear of contamination through social proximity.6 Douglas discerns that what is considered socially dangerous is not correlated with what is biologically risky. Instead, the category of social danger emerges from the fear of non-being at the boundary of the human; dirt is the object that blurs categories, the living and the dead, the human and the inhuman. Argues Douglas, “All margins are dangerous. If they are pulled this way or that the shape of fundamental experience is altered. Any structure of ideas is vulnerable at its margins.”7 Margins are a realm of social anxiety and variable social proscriptions and taboos.8 Douglas’s theory of “purity” shows that the pure and the sullied are ontologically fungible, categories structured through social process.
“Social dirt is all that we associate with powerlessness, the indigestible taint of non-being, the object that confuses social categories.”
But how are adjuncts “dirty”— even in the highly-symbolic sense that Douglas intends in her exploration of pollution? The physical act of teaching while an adjunct is indistinguishable from the physical act of teaching while on tenure track. And yet, within the university, and here I mean not only where one teaches but also one’s interface with all universities, through conferences, publications, job applications, the status of adjunct is a mark of social dirt. Adjunct teaching occupies the realm of social dirt in the university because it inhabits the margins of the university social body.9
Social dirt is marked as that which must be kept sequestered, at the boundary of social propriety.”10 Adjunct labor falls decidedly in this category of the boundary, at the pale, of social prestige, as universities rarely advertise their adjunct faculty. Students are not lured to the tier-one university where I teach with the promise of being educated by adjunct faculty who are paid less than a living wage for their labor. No. The adjunctification of the professoriate is kept quiet, a sign of the shamefulness of the condition.
One might imagine that the shamefulness reflects the university’s own shame for exploitative practices. But I don’t believe that’s the case. The shame instead devolves onto adjuncts. When, five years ago, I made a concerted effort to push against my situation, and spoke to an administrator in an informal complaint, I was told that adjuncts are exchangeable and that I could easily be exchanged for another adjunct. The condition for keeping my job, such as it was, was to accept my own exchangeable status. That condition could be exerted against my will because I was already positioned as exchangeable. This also is a marker of social dirt: that one’s identity, in one’s social world, is unbounded. Having no fixed identity—and this is the definition of being interchangeable with another—is a form of porous margins. The very premise of adjunct labor is this interchangeability.
I do not suggest that adjuncts are fakes in any deep ontological sense. Rather I mean that the sociality of the university world depicts the adjunct as the partial professor. While typically it is argued—and this designation holds at my university—that adjuncts and other non-tenure track faculty are “teaching faculty,” and tenure track faculty called “research faculty,” my own experience has been that even as I produce more scholarship than same-age “research faculty” in my department I continue to be called “teaching faculty” because I’m not tenure track. This use of euphemism signifies a terrain of social dirt: adjunct faculty should truthfully be called minimum-pay faculty.
Social dirt means hiding the nature of the work: Adjunct labor, though it occurs in the same physical realm as tenure track labor, is hidden by the language used to describe adjuncts, hidden by propaganda items that forward university goals without mentioning the often substantial role played by adjuncts in achieving those goals. The obscene (literally, off-scene) linguistic and symbolic positioning of adjunct labor signifies its status as social dirt. It haunts the margin of the social body of the university community, and as a source of anxiety at the margins of the body is handled with prohibition and taboo, as with all formations placed in the social realm of pollution, taboo.
The adjunct retains the place of the neophyte, the one in transition between completing a graduate degree and obtaining employment as a professor. Even as adjuncting has become the job situation for a majority of university faculty, it retains the taint of liminality: the one who has graduated from university, earned a doctorate, but has not yet secured the next level of status, tenure track appointment. Caught in a rite of passage that does not end, that has no ending in sight in the social world of the university, the adjunct persists as the initiate—a position that renders one outside the bounds of normal society, a permanently liminal figure. Often teaching a heavier course-load than his tenure track colleagues, the adjunct is somehow not there, subject to abrupt dismissal, without recourse if employment is terminated, a figure on the margins.
Douglas clarifies that margins are experienced as socially dangerous, subject to elaborate control of pollution and taboo. Adjuncts are not dangerous in any real sense—but the presence of adjuncts threatens on many levels the social perception of the project of university research and education. The presence of adjuncts draws into question the social status of the professoriate by tainting it with precarious, ill-paid, chronically disrespected workers. The boundary distinguishing the value of the professor from the devalued adjunct is nebulous in terms of the content of the job and its performance. Hence, it must be rigorously maintained, through a kind of caste system, in the university’s social world. Denied votes in departmental matters, the adjunct is there but not there, her speech constrained to the syllabus and the classroom. The social dirt that is adjunctcy is adroitly hidden by university propaganda: but only by attending to hierarchies of power and the way they enforce terms of social dirt in academia can we find remedies for the adjunct predicament.
1. Julia Kristeva defines abjection as that which is socially determined to be outside the boundary of the proper self. See Julia Kristeva, l’Abjecte (1980) Translated into English as Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, (Columbia University Press, 1982)
2. Eric Fure-Slocum, Precarious Academic Labor: Insecurity and Organization, Southern Labor Studies Association May 18, 2018
3. Kristeva, Powers of Horror, 6-8; see also, Rene Girard, The One By Whom Scandal Comes (Michigan State University, 2014).
4. Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study (Harvard University Press, 1982)
5. Ibid, 26-40
6. Mary Douglas Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (New York & London: Routledge, 2001), 123.
8. Ibid, 122
10. ibid 92
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Political and Economic Structures
Unit 1 Lessons
Purposes of Government
Forms of Government
Direct and Representative Democracies
Limited and Unlimited Governments
Government Decision Making
Types of Economies
Unit 1 Exam Review Materials
Unit One Overview (Adapted from the MSDE Web Based Course)
Rationale or Purpose for Teaching:
The purpose of this unit is to provide students with knowledge about the importance of government as an institution necessary to a civil society. Students begin by examining the need for government through an examination of the relevance that government has for their lives. As part of that examination, students will evaluate the effectiveness of various systems and types of government and determine whether those governments meet the needs of their citizens in a world that continues to grow into a global network. They will also compare political systems described as democratic (limited) or authoritarian (unlimited) based on these criteria:
the amount of civic participation in the governing process;
the authority of the government; and
the protection of individual liberties.
In addition, students will analyze how different forms of government—federal, unitary, or confederate—distribute power and authority. They will also be introduced to economic concepts fundamental to understanding the role that economics plays within a specific political system. Additionally, students will analyze a number of economic systems to determine how governments provide solutions to basic economic questions necessary for meeting the wants of their citizens.
Essential Concepts:
Governments provide a structure for making and enforcing decisions.
Governments establish power and authority.
The purposes of government include: protecting individual rights, maintaining order, providing public services and providing for economic security and the common defense.
Democratic governments address the balance between civil liberties and authority.
Power is distributed differently in the forms of government.
Governments make economic decisions based on the scarcity of resources.
Economic decisions made by governments directly affect our current and future daily life and standard of living.
A nation’s socio-economic goals drive economic decisions.
Essential Questions:
How does government affect the daily life of individuals?
What are the purposes of government?
How do governments address the degree to which their system is a limited government, and has rule of law, consent of the governed/popular sovereignty and majority rule?
What are the differences between the forms of government (Unitary, Federal, and Confederate)?
What are the different types of democracy (direct, representative, parliamentary and presidential)?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of limited and unlimited political systems?
What are the characteristics of limited and unlimited political systems?
What are the economic principles of opportunity cost and scarcity?
How do governments prioritize socio-economic goals in response to changing economic, social and political conditions?
How do economic systems (traditional, market and command) address the three economic questions?
--What to produce? --How to produce? --For whom to produce?
Why do governments organize their mixed economies using elements of traditional, market and command economic systems?
Essential Vocabulary:
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Gatineau Students Defy Injunction, Barricade Campus
by Andy Crosby
The Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) suspended classes on Monday, April 16, as students defied a court injunction and blocked access to the Alexandre-Taché campus building.
Last week, a small group of students opposed to the strike filed an injunction with the Quebec Superior Court to force classes to reopen in the wake of the Quebec-wide student strike.
Justice Suzanne Tessier, former coordinator and professor at the Police Foundation Program at La Cité Collégiale in Ottawa, granted a 10-day injunction forcing students back to class and banning pickets within 25 metres of the Alexandre-Taché and Lucien-Brault campuses in Gatineau.
Although disobeying the injunction carries harsh penalties – up to $50,000 fine and one year in jail according to the Quebec Civil Code – UQO students marched on the Taché campus and barricaded the doors, where they were joined by students from the city’s CÉGEPs.
CÉGEP students voted to go on strike on March 13 with UQO students joining them on March 26. Students in Québec have been striking for weeks against Premier Jean Charest’s announcement to raise tuition fees by $325 per year for five years beginning in 2012.
Following the announcement that classes were cancelled, the university administration asked everybody to leave and remove the barricades but students continued to occupy the campus demanding that the administration agree in writing to suspend classes until the next general assembly on Friday and guarantee students not be reprimanded for their actions.
Negotiations between the administration, police, professors, and students ended around 1:00 pm with police threatening to storm the building to dismantle the barricades if students remained.
An emergency general assembly on the inside determined the occupation would remain, while professors and students on the outside came together to block police access to the main entrance.
Students earlier reported that police prevented food from entering the building, made arrests, and inflicted an injury on one student trying to receive food. The student was taken to hospital.
The UQO administration was in court this afternoon to have the injunction lifted and police did not intervene during that time. The judge ruled to uphold the injunction despite its overwhelming opposition. The 52 students who originally filed the injunction want to see the administration held in contempt of court for cancelling classes today.
At around 4:15 pm, students removed the barricades and took over Taché Boulevard before marching to Moussette Park where a general assembly is expected to determine the next move.
According to La Coalition large de l’Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante (CLASSE), there are currently 184 student unions on strike representing 171,636 students.
Students have been holding near-daily demonstrations since the strike began weeks ago, including highway blockades and attacks on Charest’s office.
The first days of protest were met with police violence as one student lost an eye after being hit in the face with a stun grenade in Montreal. Police have also dispersed demonstrations using pepper spray, tear gas, and batons.
Numerous arrests have been made, including at a Montreal CÉGEP early this morning. Police are also looking to make arrests in relation to vandalism and alleged Molotov cocktail attacks on government offices and disruptions on metro lines in Montreal over the last twelve hours.
The Mobilization Committee of the UQO Professor’s Union held a press conference this afternoon condemning the injunction as well as the police for being uncooperative, intimidating, and injuring a student. They also accused the government, who is encouraging injunctions across Quebec, of using the judicial system as a weapon to end the strike.
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First United States Congress
Title: First United States Congress
Subject: United States presidential election, 1788–1789, Frederick Muhlenberg, Timeline of the American Revolution, Fisher Ames, Duxbury, Massachusetts, Philip Schuyler, James Gunn (senator), Timothy Bloodworth, Daniel Carroll, John Hathorn
1st United States Congress
Federal Hall, site of the first two sessions of this Congress (1789)
Duration: March 4, 1789 – March 4, 1791
Senate President:
Senate Pres. pro tem:
John Langdon
House Speaker:
21–26 Senators
59–65 Representatives
0 Non-voting members
Senate Majority:
Pro-Administration
House Majority:
1st: March 4, 1789 – September 29, 1789
2nd: January 4, 1790 – August 12, 1790
3rd: December 6, 1790 – March 3, 1791
<10th Confederation Congress 2nd>
"First Congress" redirects here. For the first seating of the Continental Congress, see First Continental Congress.
The 1st United States Congress, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives, met from March 4, 1789 to March 4, 1791, during the first two years of George Washington's presidency, first at Federal Hall in New York City and later at Congress Hall in Philadelphia. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the provisions of Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution. Both chambers had a Pro-Administration majority. This Congress passed the ten amendments now called the Bill of Rights.
1 Major events
2 Major legislation
2.1 Session 1
3 Constitutional amendments
4 States admitted and territories organized
5 Party summary
5.1 Senate
5.2 House of Representatives
6 Leadership
7.1.1 Connecticut
7.1.2 Delaware
7.1.3 Georgia
7.1.4 Maryland
7.1.5 Massachusetts
7.1.6 New Hampshire
7.1.7 New Jersey
7.1.8 New York
7.1.9 North Carolina
7.1.10 Pennsylvania
7.1.11 Rhode Island
7.1.12 South Carolina
7.1.13 Virginia
8 Changes in membership
Main articles: 1789, 1790 and 1791
April 1, 1789: House of Representatives first achieved a quorum and elected its officers
April 6, 1789: Senate first achieved a quorum and elected its officers.
April 6, 1789: The Electoral College ballots were counted and George Washington was unanimously elected President of the United States.[1]
April 30, 1789: George Washington was inaugurated at Federal Hall in New York City
January 8, 1790: President Washington gave the first State of the Union Address
June 20, 1790: Compromise of 1790: James Madison agreed to not be "strenuous" in opposition for the assumption of state debts by the federal government; Alexander Hamilton agreed to support the capital site being above the Potomac River.
Major legislation
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Public Acts of the First Congress
Private Acts of the First Congress
Main article: List of United States federal legislation § 1st United States Congress
Held March 4, 1789, through September 29, 1789, at Federal Hall in New York City
June 1, 1789: 23
July 4, 1789: 24
July 27, 1789: 28.
July 31, 1789. Regulation of the Collection of Duties on Tonnage and Merchandise, ch.5, 1 29.
August 7, 1789: 49.
September 2, 1789: 65
September 24, 1789: Attorney General
Held January 4, 1790, through August 12, 1790, at Federal Hall in New York City
March 1, 1790: Made provisions for the 101
March 26, 1790: 103
April 10, 1790: 109
April 30, 1790: Crimes Act of 1790, ch. 9, 1 112
May 31, 1790: 124
July 6, 1790: seat of government of the United States.
July 22, 1790: Indian Intercourse Act of 1790, ch. 33, 1 Indian tribes.
Held December 6, 1790, through March 3, 1791, at Congress Hall in Philadelphia
February 25, 1791: 191
March 3, 1791: Whiskey Rebellion
September 25, 1789: Twelve proposed amendments to the one still awaits ratification.
States admitted and territories organized
November 21, 1789: North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the United States Constitution and thereby joined the Union
May 26, 1790: Territory South of the River Ohio organized from land ceded by North Carolina
May 29, 1790: Rhode Island became the 13th state to ratify the United States Constitution and thereby joined the Union
Party summary
There were no political parties in this Congress. Members are informally grouped into factions of similar interest, based on an analysis of their voting record.[2]
Details on changes are shown below in the "Changes in membership" section.
During this congress, two Senate seats were added for North Carolina and Rhode Island when each ratified the Constitution. Template:USCongress Party summary
During this congress, five House seats were added for North Carolina and one House seat was added for Rhode Island when they ratified the Constitution. Template:USCongress Party summary
President: John Adams (P)
President pro tempore: John Langdon (P)
Speaker: Frederick Muhlenberg (P)
This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed in order of seniority, and Representatives are listed by district.
Senators were elected by the state legislatures every two years, with one-third beginning new six year terms with each Congress. Preceding the names in the list below are Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election. In this Congress, all Senators were newly elected, and Class 1 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1790; Class 2 meant their term ended with the next Congress, requiring reelection in 1792; and Class 3 meant their term lasted through the next two Congresses, requiring reelection in 1794.
1. Oliver Ellsworth (P)
3. William S. Johnson (P)
2. Richard Bassett (A)
1. George Read (P)
2. William Few (A)
3. James Gunn (A)
3. John Henry (P)
1. Charles Carroll (P)
1. Tristram Dalton (P)
2. Caleb Strong (P)
3. John Langdon (P)
2. Paine Wingate (A)
1. Jonathan Elmer (P)
2. William Paterson (P), until November 13, 1790
Philemon Dickinson (P), from November 13, 1790
3. Rufus King (P), from July 25, 1789
1. Philip Schuyler (P), from July 27, 1789
3. Benjamin Hawkins (P), from November 27, 1789
2. Samuel Johnston (P), from November 27, 1789
1. William Maclay (A)
3. Robert Morris (P)
1. Theodore Foster (P), from June 7, 1790
2. Joseph Stanton, Jr. (A), from June 7, 1790
2. Pierce Butler (P)
3. Ralph Izard (P)
1. William Grayson (A), until March 12, 1790
John Walker (P), March 31, 1790 – November 9, 1790
James Monroe (A), from November 9, 1790
2. Richard Henry Lee (A)
The names of members of the House of Representatives are listed by their districts.
All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
At-large. Benjamin Huntington (P)
At-large. Roger Sherman (P)
At-large. Jonathan Sturges (P)
At-large. Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. (P)
At-large. Jeremiah Wadsworth (P)
At-large. John Vining (P)
1. James Jackson (A)
2. Abraham Baldwin (A)
3. George Mathews (A)
1. Michael J. Stone (A)
2. Joshua Seney (A)
3. Benjamin Contee (A)
4. William Smith (A)
5. George Gale (P)
6. Daniel Carroll (P)
1. Fisher Ames (P)
2. Benjamin Goodhue (P)
3. Elbridge Gerry (A)
4. Theodore Sedgwick (P)
5. George Partridge (P), until August 14, 1790, vacant thereafter
6. George Thatcher (P)
7. George Leonard (P)
8. Jonathan Grout (A)
At-large. Abiel Foster (P)
At-large. Nicholas Gilman (P)
At-large. Samuel Livermore (A)
At-large. Elias Boudinot (P)
At-large. Lambert Cadwalader (P)
At-large. James Schureman (P)
At-large. Thomas Sinnickson (P)
1. William Floyd (A)
2. John Laurance (P)
3. Egbert Benson (P)
4. John Hathorn (A)
5. Peter Silvester (P)
6. Jeremiah Van Rensselaer (A)
1. John Baptista Ashe (A), from March 23, 1790
2. Hugh Williamson (A), from March 19, 1790
3. Timothy Bloodworth (A), from April 6, 1790
4. John Steele (P), from April 19, 1790
5. John Sevier (P), from June 16, 1790
At-large. George Clymer (P)
At-large. Thomas Fitzsimons (P)
At-large. Thomas Hartley (P)
At-large. Daniel Hiester (A)
At-large. Frederick Muhlenberg (P)
At-large. Peter Muhlenberg (A)
At-large. Thomas Scott (P)
At-large. Henry Wynkoop (P)
At-large. Benjamin Bourne (P), from December 17, 1790
1. William L. Smith (P)
2. Aedanus Burke (A)
3. Daniel Huger (P)
4. Thomas Sumter (A)
5. Thomas Tudor Tucker (A)
1. Alexander White (P)
2. John Brown (A)
3. Andrew Moore (A)
4. Richard Bland Lee (P)
5. James Madison (A)
6. Isaac Coles (A)
7. John Page (A)
8. Josiah Parker (A)
9. Theodorick Bland (A), until June 1, 1790
William B. Giles (A), from December 7, 1790
10. Samuel Griffin (P)
Changes in membership
New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island, were the last states to ratify the U.S. Constitution, and because of their late ratification, were unable to send full representation at the beginning of this Congress. Five Senators and nine Representatives were subsequently seated from these states during the sessions as noted.
There was 1 resignation, 1 death, 1 replacement of a temporary appointee, and 6 new seats. The Anti-Administration Senators picked up a 1 seat net gain and the Pro-Administration Senators picked up 4 seats. Template:Ordinal US Congress Senate |- | New York (3) | rowspan=4 | New seats | rowspan=2 style="font-size:80%" | State legislature failed to pick Senator until after Congress began. | style="background:#0EBFE9" | Rufus King (P) | July 25, 1789 |- | New York (1) | style="background:#0EBFE9" | Philip John Schuyler (P) | July 27, 1789 |- | North Carolina (3) | rowspan=2 style="font-size:80%" | North Carolina ratified the constitution on November 21, 1789. | style="background:#0EBFE9" | Benjamin Hawkins (P) | rowspan=2 | Elected November 27, 1789 |- | North Carolina (2) | style="background:#0EBFE9" | Samuel Johnston (P) |- | Virginia
(1) | style="background:Template:United States political party color" | William Grayson (A) | style="font-size:80%" | Died March 12, 1790. | style="background:#0EBFE9" | John Walker (P) | Appointed March 31, 1790 |- | Rhode Island (1) | rowspan=2 | New seats | rowspan=2 style="font-size:80%" | Rhode Island ratified the constitution on May 29, 1790. | style="background:#0EBFE9" | Theodore Foster (P) | rowspan=2 | Elected June 7, 1790 |- | Rhode Island (2) | style="background:Template:United States political party color" | Joseph Stanton, Jr. (A) |- | Virginia
(1) | style="background:#0EBFE9" | John Walker (P) | style="font-size:80%" | James Monroe was elected to the seat of Senator William Grayson. | style="background:Template:United States political party color" | James Monroe (A) | Elected November 9, 1790 |- | New Jersey (2) | style="background:#0EBFE9" | William Paterson (P) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned November 13, 1790,
having been elected Governor of New Jersey. | style="background:#0EBFE9" | Philemon Dickinson (P) | Elected November 23, 1790 |}
There was 1 resignation, 1 death, and 6 new seats. Anti-Administration members picked up 3 seats and Pro-Administration members picked up 2 seats. Template:Ordinal US Congress Rep |- | North Carolina 1st | rowspan=5 | New seats | rowspan=5 style="font-size:80%" | North Carolina ratified the constitution on November 21, 1789. | style="background:Template:United States political party color" | John Baptista Ashe (A) | March 24, 1790 |- | North Carolina 2nd | style="background:Template:United States political party color" | Hugh Williamson (A) | March 19, 1790 |- | North Carolina 3rd | style="background:Template:United States political party color" | Timothy Bloodworth (A) | April 6, 1790 |- | North Carolina 4th | style="background:#0EBFE9" | John Steele (P) | April 19, 1790 |- | North Carolina 5th | style="background:#0EBFE9" | John Sevier (P) | June 16, 1790 |- | Rhode Island At-large | New seat | style="font-size:80%" | Rhode Island ratified the constitution on May 29, 1790. | style="background:#0EBFE9" | Benjamin Bourne (P) | December 17, 1790 |- | Virginia
9th | style="background:Template:United States political party color" | Theodorick Bland (A) | style="font-size:80%" | Died June 1, 1790. | style="background:Template:United States political party color" | William B. Giles (A) | December 7, 1790 |- | Massachusetts 5th | style="background:#0EBFE9" | George Partridge (P) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned August 14, 1790. | colspan=2 | Remained vacant until next Congress |}
Secretary: Samuel A. Otis, elected April 8, 1789
Doorkeeper: James Mathers, elected April 7, 1789
Chaplain:
Samuel Provoost (Episcopalian), elected April 25, 1789
William White (Episcopalian), elected December 9, 1790
Clerk: John J. Beckley
Sergeant at Arms: Joseph Wheaton
Doorkeeper: Gifford Dalley
William Linn (Presbyterian), elected May 1, 1789
Samuel Blair (Presbyterian), elected January 4, 1790
Elections to this Congress:
United States Senate elections, 1788
United States House of Representatives elections, 1788
Elections during this Congress:
Public Acts of the 1st United States Congress
Private Acts of the 1st United States Congress
1st Federal Congress Project
Statutes at Large, 1789–1875
Senate Journal, First Forty-three Sessions of Congress
House Journal, First Forty-three Sessions of Congress
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
House History from the U.S. House of Representatives
Statistics & Lists from the U.S. Senate
United States Congresses (and years begun)
United States House of Representatives, Lutheranism, Pennsylvania's At-large congressional district, Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
American Revolutionary War, Charleston, South Carolina, Thirteen Colonies, North Carolina, Fort Ticonderoga
Fisher Ames
Massachusetts, John Quincy Adams, United States House of Representatives, Theodore Sedgwick, Law
Duxbury, Massachusetts
Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Boston, Marshfield, Massachusetts
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Uranus Entering Taurus on the New Moon Today!
Happy New Moon Everyone! And happy Uranus into Taurus day. Remember, there is still time to pick up a Uranus in Taurus mini-report. See below this post for details!
The New Moon in Taurus gets the day started today, but of course, the big highlight is the entrance of Uranus into Taurus, something that hasn't happened since 1934!
Meanwhile, in the next 24 hours, the planet Mars is going to square Uranus just as it enters Aquarius. These are some big league transits!
Things you might be feeling, noticing, experiencing:
* The time for change is now...no more dancing around it, it's time to make this happen
* Forceful change, a breakthrough, a discovery or insight, a flash of brilliance
* Sudden, disruptive events that shock or challenge the status quo
* The ground is moving, the basics are shifting, my basic needs are resurfacing or transforming
* You are ready to cut back, cut out, simplify, reduce and evolve
* You are ready to initiate a process of transformation, you know it will be a process, but you are ready to start
* It's a new day, a new dawn, and you're ready to get on the horse and go!
* You are feeling forceful, defiant, and ready to buck the trend or break the mold
* You can feel the moment of transformation is at hand, but you have absolutely no idea what is coming or what is about to change or shift
* You need to confront something, take a stand, rock the boat, challenge the tradition
* You are ready for a new mission
The Uranus/Mars/New Moon combination added to the Jupiter/Neptune trine that is perfecting right now is creating an aura of imagination, faith, hope, transformation, and confrontation, all at once. It's a beautiful moment so be sure to celebrate today by listening and watching, noticing where you are being led. Look at how far you've come, and look at where you are going. We live for new days, and though every day is new, we often forget how to act like it.
Prayer: Give us a bold new spirit. Fill us with the courage of your love, the boldness of your creation, and the happiness that comes when we find our most integral form of service in this world.
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A New Moon and the Power of Peace
The New Moon is in Taurus today, along with Venus and Mercury. Meanwhile Jupiter and Pluto are closely aligned, creating a grand earth trine. What does this mean?
Given the simultaneous fire and intensity of Mars and Saturn retrograde in Sagittarius, today's new moon has the feeling of an important genesis moment amidst an ongoing wild fire of destruction. For example, think of the new foundations being established by thousands of people who are fleeing the fires in Canada right now. Or think of the flood victims in the deep south. These collective images are also metaphors. Something is being refined. Impurities are being burnt away, but differences and divisions are also being amplified as refinement inevitably leads to essential and basic differences that are more resistant than ever to being unified. The feeling of a holy war or a growing spiritual malignancy is in the air right now, and yet today's new moon offers an olive branch. Set a new foundation. Start fresh. There is support available right now, and it's as simple as making small changes and sticking with them, starting today.
In my morning meditation I meditated on the agitating presence of Mars and Saturn in Sagittarius. These two planets act like a goad...a hot spike that can either propel us into the rapid refinement of our spiritual work, offering focus, purification, and discipline, or injure us due to overzealousness and anger or idleness and apathy.
As I meditated on these two planets amidst this Venusian themed new moon, I was also led to study several passages in the Bible. First I revisited a story about Saul from the 1st book of Samuel. As the story goes, Saul is being tormented by an evil spirit. The evil spirit is said to have been ordained by God to torture Saul, or it is implied that the spirit is under the command of God. Saul then sends for a young man named David to come into his court and play his harp for him so that the spirit might be soothed into submission.
The story is a foreshadowing of the fact that Saul is unfit to be King and will soon be losing his throne to David. The angry spirit is a reflection of Saul's inability to lead wisely, and David's harp playing is a symbol of the way in which the power of peace subdues the power of anger. The role of the "King" is undergoing a transformation in this important passage, from angry monarchical control hungry tyrant, who rules from fear and jealous power, to one whose power flows from peace, wisdom, and gentleness. In fact, this is really the first passage that foreshadows the coming of Jesus, a prophesied King (from the line of David), who was actually called a "prince of peace" rather than a King at all. Why this distinction? Because the only real King is God, from whom all blessings, goodness, and peace flow eternally. This is a big deal because it turns the notion of monarchical power on its head.
After this, I turned to the book of Ezra and re-read an important passage where the Jewish people are rebuilding the temple after the Babylonian exile. When the foundation of the temple is laid there is an enormous riot of both weeping, praising, and laughter that is described as one voice.
Finally I turned to the last chapter of 2nd Thessalonians, to a warning against idleness. In one particular line the apostle Paul writes, "We hear that some among you are idle. They are not busy; they are busy bodies." He goes on to urge people to work for their own food, so as not to be lazy or reliant upon the corruption of the world or the market place.
As usual, keep in mind that I am studying the bible from an ecumenical and universalist's mindset. From this perspective, I see within these passages several archetypal themes that pertain to our new moon today.
* Real power comes from peace
* Even the most destructive things we are faced with, whether they be inner demons, wild fires, floods, or the evil in the world, can be seen or understood as operating within the jurisdiction of divinity
* The best way to subdue the intensity or the "rulership" of destructive forces is to stay firmly but flexibly rooted in peace, love, and compassion
* Music helps to calm malefic spirits
* Rebuilding something or setting an important new foundation often involves both laughter and weeping, both joy and deep sorrow
* When faced with so much destruction, chaos, and overwhelm, it's easy to become idle, lazy, or apathetic, but our liberation is likened to growing our own food. Our will is best applied to the work of receiving what is always being freely given. This work also naturally feeds others.
Prayer: Comfort our spirits with the music of your love. Help us to establish powerful new foundations, rooted in your peace. Teach us how to receive what you give freely, so that we might give freely to others.
New Moon late tonight!
A new moon in the culminating degrees of Taurus opens our next moon cycle. Today is therefore a very lazy, dark moon kind of day. Here's a few things to watch for in the upcoming days as our cycle opens:
* Spring is shifting to summer here in the Northern Hemisphere, which means the weather will be vacillating and first summer storms will be coming through...the changeability in the air will be noticeable as Mercury is retrograde, Mars is in Gemini, and the Sun will be entering Gemini shortly
* Mercury retrograde in square to Neptune will highlight the changeability of the mind, the underlying ambivalence we might have about various people, projects, or ideas, and the susceptibility to confusion, illusion, or fuzzy thinking...the Mercury retrograde will also give our speech, words, and thoughts an other worldly or transcendental quality
* Mars in Gemini features the aggression of the mind, speech, and thoughts, as well as windy agitations, dryness, and mental fatigue or verbal explosiveness
* Venus opposing Pluto over the next week will feature passionate love affairs, bursting romantic escapades, implosions, conflicts, unconscious family material erupting, secrets, hidden longings, erotic fantasies, age or generation gaps in love and conflict, selfish needs, passive aggression, women's health issues, and gender roles or family lineage issues...
* Jupiter trine Uranus brings exciting, innovative, rebellious, individualistic, ego shining, celebrity like success or luck or confidence or inflation...sudden unexpected victories...flight and soaring...
* The T-Square between Sun/Mars/Mercury in Gemini, Saturn in Sagittarius and Neptune in Pisces brings a kind of philosophical transformation. A different way of seeing or thinking about something. Bridging worlds, walking our talk, transforming our points of view, and learning to deconstruct various ideologies as well...all part of a philosophical conversation, monologue, or debate...
These themes follow the trend of slowly but surely giving structure and clarity to the changes that began during eclipse season and through the last Uranus/Pluto square...little by little the changes that were initiated at the Spring Equinox are finding form and shape...right now it's as though a period of learning and fundamental change on a philosophical level must take place in order for the changes to find their perfect form...
Prayer: Thank you for another beautiful moon cycle. Alive on this mysterious, challenging, and beautiful planet...what more can I ask for?
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Nikkil Cinema Tamil Movie Infotainment Portal
தமிழ் செய்திகள்
Tamil Short Films
Avane Srimannarayana is a fantasy adventure comedy movie
AVANE SRIMANNARAYANA is a fantasy adventure comedy movie. It is a period movie based on the journey for the hunt of a treasure filled with plenteous mystery.
The movie shall be presented as a new genre by name – ‘SOUTHERN ODD FICTION’
In pursuit of solving a long held mystery in the town of Amaravati, centered on missing ‘loot’, NARAYANA – a quirky new cop in town, has to get past the much dreaded ‘JAIRAM’ – leader of the dacoit clan by name Abhiras and ‘TUKARAM’ – a cunning politician.
* RAKSHIT SHETTY – Plays NARAYANA, a cop.
* SHANVI SRIVATSAVA – LAKSHMI, A videographer.
* BALAJI MANOHAR – JAIRAM, leader of the dacoit clan ‘Abhiras’.
* PRAMOD SHETTY – TUKARAM, politician and the founder of ‘Shantipriya’ party.
* MADHUSUDAN RAO – RAMRAM, JAIRAM’s father and the original leader of the Abhiras.
* ACHYUT KUMAR – ACHYUTHANNA, head constable and sidekick of Narayana.
* GOPALAKRISHNA DESHPANDE – BANDMASTER, an unfortunate victim and a key to the mystery.
And a plethora of other characters like a TREASUR HUNTER, SUPARI FOUR, SECRET FOUR, GOONS OF AMARAVATI, PRESS REPORTER, etc.
WHY DID WE CHOOSE TO GO PAN INDIA?
The story and the screenplay that took 18 months of writing, has a universal appeal that can provide wholesome entertainment for audiences across demographics. The story packs enough chills, thrills and laughs for anyone to have a good time.
(need input)
WHAT IS THE EMOTIONAL CONNECT FOR PAN INDIA AUDIENCE WITH ASN?
– The story is set in the fictional town of ‘Amaravathi’ (a town with its own quirky sensibilities and a unique geography) makes it so that it can be a town set almost anywhere in India, making Narayana an Indian story rather than a story of a particular state.
– The protagonist is witty, funny and adventurous
– Dubbing in other languages have been carefully taken care of. Enough time has been spent on the writing and the dubbing process to ensure that each language version sounds as native as possible.
-Dubbing supervisors:
– HINDI: Sanjay Upadhyay, HUSSAIN HAIDRY(wrote the hindi dialogues. Is also the dialogue writer of the upcoming karanjohar movie ‘Taqht’)
– TAMIL: KN Vijay Kumar
– TELUGU: Rajesh Moorthy
– MALAYALAM: SatishMuthsukulam
WHAT IS THE USP OF THE FILM?
– The movie sets up a fantasy world that is as unique as it is lavish. The visual experience is as rich as the story.
– The movie has been mostly shot in dry lands and in sets comprising of ‘COWBOY PUB’, ‘FORT EXTERIORS’, ‘DUNGEONS’, ‘FORT HALLS’, ‘ FORT CHAMBERS’, ‘FOREST’, ‘TUNNEL’ etc..that gives the movie a ‘Western’ mix to a very Indian story. It shall be a unique movie viewing experience.
– Rakshit Shetty’s movies have always been lauded for being distinct and yet entertaining. He enjoys a great fan following amongst urban audiences for his new age filmmaking
TREATMENT OF THE FILM:
– METICULOUSLY DESIGNED AND EXECUTED ACTION SEQUENCES – VikramMor who had earlier won the National Award for his work in KGF. More than <40 days> of schedule went into shooting the fight sequenes.
– MUSIC – Two songs have been composed by AjaneeshLoknath and the other two by Charan Raj.
-VFX – Close to 2000 VFX shots that have been worked upon. The VFX studio is co-owned by Rakshit Shetty and PushkaraMallikarjunaiah. Along with directing, editing, S1achin headed the VFX department.
DURATION OF PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE CHALLENGES INVOLVED IN THE SAME:
200 Days of principal photography. (not sure about the challenges need to ask Sachin/Karam)
RAKSHIT’S INVOLVEMENT IN ALL ASSPECTS OF THE FILM:
Rakshit Shetty has had a hands on collaborative approach in the making of ASN. Right from the writing process to the direction and music, Rakshit always is ready to discuss with the writers and directors of the respective departments to make sure that only the best output can be obtained.
ASN’s ARRIVAL AS AN IDEA:
Even though fiction and fantasy are a huge part of Indian cinema, ASN jumps into a unique type of Fantasy Fiction, which is it’s take on the spaghetti western. We’ve always had gunslinger stories, cop stories, little town stories, ASN is a unique blend of all of these with an added flavor of its own, known as ‘Southern Odd Fiction’.
WRITERS: THE 7 ODDS- THE RESEARCH INVOLVED:
The writing process – More than 18 months have been spent on developing the script of ASN. ‘AvaneSrimannarayana’ movie was supposed to be shot even before Kirik Party. However, post Kirik Party, Rakshit teamed up with his writing group – ‘The seven odds’ and they together rewrote the entire script. Only primary character names and one scene was retained from the old script.
RAKSHIT SHETTY – Known for his block buster ‘KIRIK PARTY’ that was later remade into Telugu. Hindi remake of the same is under production
Critically acclaimed ‘ULIDAVARU KANDANTE’ which he directed and acted in. He won the state award for the best debut director. The movie was remade into Tamil by the name ‘RICHIE’ in which NivinPauly played the lead.
After KIRIK PARTY, he spent more than one and a half years on writing the screenplay along with his writers group – ‘THE SEVEN ODDS’
ChandrajithBelliappa
Abhijit Mahesh
Sachin (Director)
Nagarjun (lyricist)
AniruddhaKodgi
PUTTING A TEAM TOGETHER:
(Not sure)
(Need to get input from Sachin)
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Karam Chawla works magic with lights and the camera. Creating the storybook like atmosphere for ASN required a Cinematographer who was able to see the written words as the beautiful images they were meant to be, and Karam happened to be that person.
Ullas Hydoor and team have managed to create beautiful and intricate sets that seem more true to life than film sets. With immense attention given to details, the team has managed to bring the rich visual world of Amaravathi to life.
COSTUMES:
Arundati Anjanappa and her team were able to bring the fictional small town 80’s to life with their research and recreation period appropriate costumes as well as dwell into the fun fantasy side with the costumes they created (referenced by actual dacoit costumes of history) for the Abhiras to give them a true larger than life look.
MUSIC/ BACKGROUND SCORE:
Two songs have been composed by AjaneeshLoknath and the other two by Charan Raj.
– Ajaneesh has done the background score. There are close to 15 themes that have been composed for the movie and recording of most of these orchestra sessions were done in North Macedonia.
Sound Design is by RAJAKRISHNAN MR ( National Award winner 2018 for ‘Rangasthalam’)
CHOREOGRAPHY:
With the songs of Narayana leading mainly to further the story and add to the rich fantasy feel rather than be removed from the plot,Imran Sardariya had the task to manage to weave the story itself into his choreography, as task that he manages to do brilliantly, with leading a huge number of dancers in one voice.
VFX:
– Close to 2000 VFX shots that have been worked upon. The VFX studio is co-owned by Rakshit Shetty and PushkaraMallikarjunaiah. Along with directing, editing, Sachin headed the VFX department.
Pushkara Mallikarjunaiah:
Pushkara Mallikarjunaiah is a business entrepreneur from Tumkur, Karnataka. He completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical stream from MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology and pursued Masters in Automotive from University of Hertfordshire, London. He started his professional career with SAP as an IT professional for the span of one year. From the year 2008-2016, he was a pivotal businessman in the Stone mining industry. Passion towards cinema existed in him since a tender age. The undying love towards cinema lead to the establishment of Pushkar films in the year 2016. In a short time period, the firm has successfully produced 10 films, marking Pushkara Mallikarjunaiah as one among the few producers in the Kannada Film industry to have produced 10 films in a row. It is his motto to give top-notch quality content to the audience and all the movies released so far from his banner have received high accolade from the audience at the box office as well as critics. As another step towards realising his dream of foraying into all aspects of filmmaking, Pushkar Films Distribution Company was started in October 2019.
Pushkar Films and Pushkar Films Distribution:
Pushkar films is one of the leading production houses in the Kannada Film industry. The debut venture of it was Godhi Banna Sadharana Mykattu which gained unconditional appreciation from the audience. It was declared as a hit at the box office. Kirik Party starring Rakshit Shetty was their next venture which irrespective of age group among the audience, kept them completely entertained. It also holds the record of being one of the three highest earning films in the Kannada Film Industry. Following the stream of hits, the firm produced Humble Politician Nograj which was a laugh riot. Katheyondu Shuruvagide and Jeerjimbe followed the line. At present Avane Srimannarayana, our first Pan Indian project is all set to release in 5 languages worldwide. It is one of the most anticipated films in Kannada Film Industry. With this film, we also venture into distribution of movies with our own firm, Pushkar Films Distribution. Bheemasena Nalamaharaja, Avatar Purusha, Charlie 777 and yet to be titled Malayalam movie are going through the phase of production.
Rakshit Shetty-
Rakshit Shetty is one of the most dedicated Actor – Director in the Kannada Film Industry. With his first success in ‘Simpallag ondu love story’ he has got the title of ‘Simple Star’. He went through rapid transformations for his films to bring out the reality factor in his characters. The quirky characterization in his writing style is one of the reasons why his films are loved by the cult audience in and around Karnataka.
Rakshit Shetty was first introduced to Kannada audience in 2010 with ‘Nam Areal Ond Dina’, followed by ‘Tugluk’ in 2012. In 2013 Rakshit Shetty delivered the first hit of his career with ‘Simpallag Ond Love Story’. Later on he directed a cult classic ‘Ullidavru Kandante’ which fetched him a National Award for his debut direction. The movie was critically acclaimed and appreciated for its non linear storytelling and incredible characters. But ‘Kirik Party’ gave him a much needed breakthrough in 2016. This Rom-com was one of the highest grosser in Kannada Industry. Rakshit Shetty is now getting ready for his first out and out commercial action film ‘Avane Srimannarayana’ . For the first time Rakshit Shetty is portraying the role of smart yet witty police officer from the 80’s. Rakshit Shetty’s 10th movie as a lead actor is also set to release in 2020 titled as ‘777 charlie’. Rakshit Shetty’s range of story telling remains unparalleled and his ability to play different characters is unparalleled. Today he is recognized as one of the diversified storytellers as well as an actor with impeccable talent in the field of Cinema.
Sachin Ravi:
Sachin Ravi is making his directorial debut with Avane Srimannarayana. His intense passion towards Cinema from a very young age prompted him to enter the world of cinemas. He started working as an editor and DI with ‘Simpallag ond love story’. His next two projects, ‘Bahuparak’ and ‘Ulidavaru Kandante’ were slotted in same timeframe, which was a huge responsibility to successfully deliver. This earned him a dignitary status and Ulidavaru Kandante went on to become a cult classic. After doing a couple of movies as editor and colorist, he teamed up with Rakshit Shetty again for Godhi Banna Sadharana Mykattu as Colorist. This combination continued with the box office blockbuster KIRIK PARTY where Sachin worked as editor and colorist. His addiction towards bringing in perfection with every task he took gained him immense respect. Since his initial days in the industry, he has actively been a part of the directing team. He has dedicated 3 years to his first directorial venture Avane Srimannarayana. It is his 8th film as editor.
Avane Srimannarayana is not just a cinema for our team. It is a dream we have put our entire being into. A dream that will decide all our destinies.
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}}'''"The Fragile"''' is the sixth track—and the title track—on the Left disc of the 1999 double album ''[[The Fragile (halo)|The Fragile]].''
===Halos===
*''The Fragile''
*''[[The Fragile: Deviations 1]]''
*''[[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]] (Deluxe Edition)''
*''[[Still]]''
==Versions==
===The Fragile===
This is the original album version as it appears on ''The Fragile.'' Opening with a distant e-bow guitar drone from the end of "[[We're In This Together (song)|We're In This Together]]," the first verse soon enters, characterized by live drums incorporating the use of a floor tom with a tambourine on top, a simple bassline, and Reznor's soft vocals. The first chorus features merely the new bass riff and drum rhythm accompanied by sequenced synthesizer layers below Reznor's repetitions of the phrase, "I won't let you fall apart." The second verse returns bass riff and drum pattern return with new percussion loops underneath, soon giving way to the second chorus' loud guitars and shouted vocals. These all stop at the end of the phrase, interrupted by a staccato synthesizer melody that ushers in layers of strings and out of tune percussion under Reznor's quiet, desperate vocals. This bridge continues as Reznor repeats "and picking," fading out quietly as distorted guitars bring in the return of the chorus progression and drums beneath a guitar solo playing the same melody as the piano progression in "[[The Frail]]." This leads into a final repetition of the chorus, all the instruments and vocals stopping suddenly at the end of the phrase and leading into "[[Just Like You Imagined]]."
This is the original album version as it appears on ''The Fragile.'' Opening with a distant e-bow guitar drone from the end of "[[We're In This Together (song)|We're In This Together]]," the first verse soon enters, characterized by live drums incorporating the use of a floor tom with a tambourine on top, a simple bassline, and [[Trent Reznor]]'s soft vocals. The first chorus features merely the new bass riff and drum rhythm accompanied by sequenced synthesizer layers below Reznor's repetitions of the phrase, "I won't let you fall apart." The second verse returns bass riff and drum pattern return with new percussion loops underneath, soon giving way to the second chorus' loud guitars and shouted vocals. These all stop at the end of the phrase, interrupted by a staccato synthesizer melody that ushers in layers of strings, Mellotron, and out of tune percussion under Reznor's quiet, desperate vocals. This bridge continues as Reznor repeats "and picking," fading out quietly as distorted guitars bring in the return of the chorus progression and drums beneath a guitar solo playing the same melody as the piano progression in "[[The Frail]]." This leads into a final repetition of the chorus, all the instruments and vocals stopping suddenly at the end of the phrase and leading into "[[Just Like You Imagined]]."
===The Fragile (Instrumental)===
'''''Running Time: 4:48'''''
Released exclusively through Apple Music and later on ''The Fragile: Deviations 1''.
===The Fragile (Deconstructed)===
This is a remix by [[Keith Hillebrandt]] which was featured as a website-only download for a limited time on [[nin.com]] during ''The Fragile'' era, along with versions of "[[No, You Don't]]" and "[[La Mer]]." According to Reznor, its structure was the inspiration for "The Frail." The track is currently available for download at the [[remix.nin.com]] website.
This is a remix by [[Keith Hillebrandt]] which was featured as a website-only download for a limited time on [[nin.com]] during ''The Fragile'' era, along with versions of "[[No, You Don't]]" and "[[La Mer]]." When the track was posted to [[remix.nin.com]], the description stated that according to Reznor, its structure was the inspiration for "The Frail."
===The Fragile (''Still'')===
This stripped-down version is on ''Still,'' which was originally packaged with the Deluxe Edition CD of ''And All That Could Have Been'' and is curently available through NIN.com. It is performed mostly solo on a keyboard.
====Song Credits====
*Performance: [[Trent Reznor]], [[Jerome Dillon]]
*Performance: Trent Reznor, [[Jerome Dillon]]
*Mix engineering: [[Alan Moulder]]
*Engineering: Alan Moulder
==Live==
When played during the [[Fragility]] tours and the ''[[1999/09/09 New York, NY|1999 MTV Video Music Awards]],'' the song would remain very similar to the album version except somewhat louder. During the [[Performance 2007]] tour, a modified ''Still'' version of the song was played. The song returned to setlists during the [[Wave Goodbye Tour|NIN|JA 2009]] tour, once again performed similar to the version on ''[[The Fragile (halo)|The Fragile]]''.
"The Fragile" was a setlist rarity up to 2009. It made its debut appearance at the ''[[1999/09/09 New York, NY|1999 MTV Video Music Awards]]'', and appeared in encores four times on the [[Fragility]] tour. The song would remain very similar to the album version except somewhat louder.
"The Fragile" was not performed on the [[Live: With Teeth]] tour, but was performed by Trent Reznor solo at the 2006 Bridge School Benefit.
During the [[Performance 2007]] tour, a modified ''Still'' version of the song was played for the song's few performances on the European spring leg.
The song returned to setlists during the [[Wave Goodbye Tour|NIN|JA 2009]] tour, the only time it's been a setlist regular. Once again, it was performed similarly to the version on ''[[The Fragile (halo)|The Fragile]]''.
"The Fragile" has not been performed since August 2009.
== Lyrics ==
I was like you
*[http://remix.nin.com/play/mix?id=123 "The Fragile" (Deconstructed) at remix.nin.com]
*[http://archive.org/details/remix-nin-com-audio-00123 "The Fragile" (Deconstructed) at archive.org]
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"The Fragile"
The Fragile (Left)
The Fragile (Instrumental)
The Fragile (Deconstructed)
The Fragile (Still)
The Fragile (Bridge School Benefit)
Fragility v2.0
Performance 2007
"The Fragile" is the sixth track—and the title track—on the Left disc of the 1999 double album The Fragile.
1.1 Halos
1.2 Seeds
2.1 The Fragile
2.2 The Fragile (Instrumental)
2.3 The Fragile (Deconstructed)
2.4 The Fragile (Still)
2.4.1 Song Credits
2.5 The Fragile (Bridge School Benefit)
4 Lyrics
The Fragile: Deviations 1
And All That Could Have Been (Deluxe Edition)
The Definitive NIN - Deep Cuts
The Definitive NIN - Quiet Tracks
Bridge School Benefit Collection, Vol 4
This is the original album version as it appears on The Fragile. Opening with a distant e-bow guitar drone from the end of "We're In This Together," the first verse soon enters, characterized by live drums incorporating the use of a floor tom with a tambourine on top, a simple bassline, and Trent Reznor's soft vocals. The first chorus features merely the new bass riff and drum rhythm accompanied by sequenced synthesizer layers below Reznor's repetitions of the phrase, "I won't let you fall apart." The second verse returns bass riff and drum pattern return with new percussion loops underneath, soon giving way to the second chorus' loud guitars and shouted vocals. These all stop at the end of the phrase, interrupted by a staccato synthesizer melody that ushers in layers of strings, Mellotron, and out of tune percussion under Reznor's quiet, desperate vocals. This bridge continues as Reznor repeats "and picking," fading out quietly as distorted guitars bring in the return of the chorus progression and drums beneath a guitar solo playing the same melody as the piano progression in "The Frail." This leads into a final repetition of the chorus, all the instruments and vocals stopping suddenly at the end of the phrase and leading into "Just Like You Imagined."
Running Time: 4:48
Released exclusively through Apple Music and later on The Fragile: Deviations 1.
This is a remix by Keith Hillebrandt which was featured as a website-only download for a limited time on nin.com during The Fragile era, along with versions of "No, You Don't" and "La Mer." When the track was posted to remix.nin.com, the description stated that according to Reznor, its structure was the inspiration for "The Frail."
This stripped-down version is on Still, which was originally packaged with the Deluxe Edition CD of And All That Could Have Been and is curently available through NIN.com. It is performed mostly solo on a keyboard.
Song Credits
Performance: Trent Reznor, Jerome Dillon
Mix engineering: Alan Moulder
Engineering: Alan Moulder
Second Engineering: Leo Herrera
Programming: Keith Hillebrandt
In 2006 Reznor played his only full solo performances at Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit. In this performance Reznor played piano but was backed by a string quartet. This version is similar to the Still version of the song. This version was released on the digital-only album The Bridge School Collection, Vol. 4.
"The Fragile" was a setlist rarity up to 2009. It made its debut appearance at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards, and appeared in encores four times on the Fragility tour. The song would remain very similar to the album version except somewhat louder.
"The Fragile" was not performed on the Live: With Teeth tour, but was performed by Trent Reznor solo at the 2006 Bridge School Benefit.
During the Performance 2007 tour, a modified Still version of the song was played for the song's few performances on the European spring leg.
The song returned to setlists during the NIN|JA 2009 tour, the only time it's been a setlist regular. Once again, it was performed similarly to the version on The Fragile.
She shines
In a world full of ugliness
She matters
When everything is meaningless
She doesn't see her beauty
She tries to get away
It's just that nothing seems worth saving
I can't watch her slip away
I won't let you fall apart
She reads the minds of all the people as they pass her by
Hoping someone can see
If I could fix myself I'd—
But it's too late for me
We'll find the perfect place to go where we can run and hide
We'll build a wall and we can keep them on the other side
…But they keep waiting
…And picking…
It's something I have to do
I was there, too
Before everything else
"The Fragile" (Deconstructed) at archive.org
Previous track - "We're In This Together" Track 6 from The Fragile Left (CD), Side B (Vinyl) Next track - "Just Like You Imagined"
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Pain, cancer, death: Michigan families devastated by toxic chemicals in their water
Residents had actually for years been consuming water polluted by unsafe PFAS chemicals and the effect has actually been ruthless
I n the years prior to 2017, Sandy Wynn-Stelt and her hubby had suspicions about the water they drew from a well on their House Street home in the Michigan town of Belmont. She associated the bad taste to it being well water, however the “odd movie” on their early morning coffee was challenging to describe.
By June 2017, state authorities signaled her that PFAS from a close-by, decades-old dump coming from Wolverine World Wide, a shoe giant best understood for the Hush Puppy brand name, had actually infected their well.
Tests discovered stunning levels. The Environmental Protection Agency’s PFAS advisory water limitation is 70 parts per trillion (ppt). Health authorities discovered levels in the well as high as 90,000 ppt.
Wynn-Stelt informed the Guardian she now thinks the PFAS-laden item Wolverine utilizes to make its shoes water and stain resistant lagged that unusual movie.
“I now understand it was most likely Scotchgard,” she stated.
Wynn-Stelt and her next-door neighbors in this little west Michigan neighborhood are amongst the PFAS crisis’s human toll– those suffering the scaries that wait for human beings with excessive of the poisonous chemical in their bodies.
PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl compounds, are a class of about 5,000 fluorinated substances called “permanently chemicals” since they do not naturally break down and there’s no recognized method to damage them. They’re discovered in whatever from food product packaging to clothes to eye liner to firefighting foam. The chemicals are likewise highly connected to cancer, low birth weight, autoimmune conditions, thyroid problems, and a series of other major illness.
By the time Wynn-Stelt discovered of the contamination, it was far too late. She and her spouse, Joe Stelt, had actually been consuming unsafe levels of PFAS for several years, and Stelt had actually passed away from liver cancer in March 2016. The level of PFAS in Wynn-Stelt’s blood skyrocketed to 750 times that of the nationwide average. She now struggles with frequent thyroid issues and established gout, and more major problems are most likely. She has actually been left “frightened to death” and overwhelmed.
“I’m sitting here loaded with this things and not understanding what it’s going to do to me 5 years, 10 years from now,” she stated. “I lost my spouse, my house deserves absolutely nothing. I could not provide it away this near a harmful dump … or after they disposed harmful waste on my land.”
As the chemicals collect around the world, public health authorities have actually discovered more than 700 polluted websites and waterways around the nation, and the PFAS crisis’s breadth is entering into focus. Scientist just recently determined unsafe levels in rain , and locations around military bases are frequently infected . By some price quotes, 21 million Americans are consuming PFAS-contaminated water– in the fall, an ecological group discovered the chemicals in California and Kentucky’s water products.
However, no state has more infected websites than Michigan, although authorities state that’s since the state is performing more tests to search for PFAS. Biosolids infected with it were found 2 years earlier in Lapeer, where a chrome plating center released the chemicals into the Flint River. A couple of hours north in Oscoda, the flying force is declining to tidy up contamination from a shuttered base , while authorities have actually discovered infected wells at schools and day care centers throughout the state.
Still, PFAS production and usage is unabated in the state as Republicans in Michigan , Congress and the White House have effectively obstructed more stringent guidelines.
Meanwhile, those coping with the contamination call life an “outright headache”. Wynn-Stelt stated next-door neighbors have actually dealt with cancer, miscarriages, autoimmune conditions and other health concerns. That consists of Jen Carney, whose kids, ages 15 and 11, are amongst 22 kids living near your house Street dump.
The household’s well evaluated as high as 600 ppt while a next-door neighbors’ hit 11,000 ppt. The Carneys all have raised PFAS levels in their blood, and in the years prior to the discovery, Carney and next-door neighbors struggled with inexplicable twitching, eye discomfort, migraines, distorted vision and numb limbs.
“I was, at the time, 38, and I was believing, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to remain in a wheelchair quickly,'” Carney stated.
Once the household changed from PFAS-contaminated water to tidy water, the problems disappeared. Carney’s kid, nevertheless, hasn’t been so lucky. He withstands serious intestinal issues that required him to miss out on a lot school that Carney now homeschools him. She stated she hopes time will ease his signs.
Though it’s apparent to households in the location that PFAS lag their disorders, the chemicals have not been clinically shown to trigger them, so their health problems can’t be utilized in the claim that regional households have submitted versus Wolverine.
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“I understand in my heart that it’s linked, and my medical care medical professional thinks it’s linked, however we need to have it clinically linked,” Carney stated. “Unfortunately, up until we do that, we can’t hold the polluters responsible.”
The 76-acre House Street land fill most just recently functioned as a Christmas tree farm, and community locals didn’t understand Wolverine had actually formerly utilized it to discard hazardous animal hides treated with 3M’s Scotchgard at its tannery in neighboring Rockford.
The chemicals not just streamed a couple of hundred feet to House Street’s wells, however far beyond. That plume and 6 others from close-by Wolverine garbage dumps now stretch 25 miles and have actually brought PFAS to the state’s waterways. The EPA, state and Wolverine are carrying out a huge clean-up effort. Far, the business has actually set up about 700 whole-home filters and excavated loads of soil in the location. As part of a settlement in a suit coming from the contamination, Wolverine will pay $69.5 m to extend community water service to those around House Street who have personal wells.
“Wolverine will likewise continue the clean-up and removal efforts it started [last] fall around its previous tannery and House Street websites in cooperation with the EPA,” the business stated in a declaration. It’s likewise taking legal action against 3M for presumably hiding Scotchgard’s threats from it and other consumers.
The clean-up effort reaches locations outside Wolverine’s previous garbage dump where it unlawfully discarded. Home Street resident Meaghan Schweinzger’s kids utilized to camp out, sled, and have bonfires in a cleaning at the edge of the woods behind their house. In 2017, Schweinzger was frightened to find that Wolverine had actually likewise left barrels loaded with harmful waste and PFAS-laden animal conceals now camouflaged with moss in the brush simply a couple of feet from where her kids played.
Schweinzger, Wynn-Stelt, and others aren’t taking it resting. They’ve appeared in front of the Michigan legislature, Congress, and spoken at a variety of occasions and conferences to assist put a face on the crisis and share the upsetting unpredictability. Wynn-Stelt stated she believes during the night about Joel Stelt’s bout with cancer, and how she faces what might be a tough health problem without him.
“To understand how agonizing that was for him, and how I actually needed to bring him to the restroom, and how I could not leave his side– it was dreadful to see, and now I believe, ‘Who’s going to do that for me'”? she stated.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/10/toxic-chemicals-michigan-wolverine-chemicals-pfas
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FDA approves new drug for migraine sufferers
(CNN) The United States Food and Drug Administration on Monday revealed the approval of a drug called ubrogepant for the intense treatment of migraine, which might be a brand-new choice for individuals who can’t take or do not react to migraine medications presently on the marketplace.
“Ubrelvy represents an essential brand-new choice for the intense treatment of migraine in grownups, as it is the very first drug in its class authorized for this sign,” Dr. Billy Dunn, acting director of the Office of Neuroscience in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, stated in a declaration Monday.
In a research study released last month , the drug revealed higher rates of discomfort and sign remedy for migraine compared to a placebo, with more than 19% of individuals provided the drug reporting to be pain-free within 2 hours and almost 40% relieved of the most annoying signs connected to migraine, that include light and sound level of sensitivity. This is compared to approximately 12% and 28%, respectively, from the placebo. Queasiness, drowsiness and dry mouth were the most frequently reported negative effects.
Some migraines can be treated with over the counter medications such as aspirin, ibuprofen or acetaminophen, if taken at the very first indications of a migraine taking place. When these aren’t efficient, the most frequently recommended treatment is a class of drugs called triptans, which are thought about more reliable than ubrogepant however have a catch: They work by restricting capillary around the brain to stop the discomfort, so they are ruled out safe for usage by individuals at threat of heart disease and stroke. The recently authorized drug, on the other hand, has a various molecular target– a protein associated with the transmission of discomfort.
An approximated 40 million Americans and 1 billion individuals around the world struggle with migraines. The condition impacts one in 5 ladies and one in 16 guys, according to the American Migraine Foundation.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/23/health/new-migraine-drug-fda-approval/index.html
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Did a ‘soap spill’ really divert a flight?
Image caption American Airlines flight 729 bound for Philadelphia was diverted to Dublin
Documents seen by the BBC called into question a claim by American Airlines that an “smell” on a flight, which caused 2 cabin team falling unconscious, was because of “a spilled cleansing option”.
The occurrence caused the diversion of a Heathrow to Philadelphia flight, and a traveler being sent out to medical facility.
Records reveal part of the airplane had actually been dripping oil previous to the flight.
BBC sources state it is most likely the leakage triggered hazardous fumes to go into the cabin. American Airlines rejects that.
‘Inconceivable’
One assertion made in an internal American Airlines report on the event on 21 October does protrude.
It mentions that “meal soap in a bottle triggered 2 flight attendants to get medical attention and one guest”. Meal soap is the American term for washing-up liquid.
An American Airlines expert, who is not authorised to talk to the media, stated it was “impossible” that meal soap, or any other cleansing item authorized for usage on airplane, might trigger 2 individuals to lose consciousness.
So far, American Airlines has actually not reacted to the BBC’s inquiry on this particular point.
In public declarations the business has actually not utilized the term “meal soap”, rather explaining it as a “cleansing option”.
It states the airplane included was “completely checked” after the event by its “highly-skilled” upkeep group who carry out “an extensive examination … whenever a cabin smell occasion is reported.”
American Airlines states: “Cabin smells are a top priority for American’s management group at the greatest level of the organisation”, and firmly insists the occurrence was brought on by a cleaner which spilled mid-flight.
‘Overpowering’ odor
However, BBC News has actually seen and heard proof that calls into question that claim.
Firstly, we’ve been informed that an unusual “metal” smell was spotted on the very same airplane prior to the cleansing service spilled.
The “overwhelming” odor was spotted on the previous flight, when the aircraft was taking a trip in the opposite instructions from Philadelphia to Heathrow.
We’ve likewise found that there was an oil leakage on part of the airplane days prior to the occurrence, which might have been the cause.
The part of the airplane that was dripping oil is called the Auxiliary Power Unit, or APU. When the primary engines are not running, #peeee
The APU supplies power to begin up the engines and to run the electrics on the airplane.
Three days prior to the airplane was diverted to Dublin, an engineering upkeep report mentioned that its APU revealed a “high oil intake”.
The leakage implied it had actually guzzled an abnormally big quantity of oil, 31.75 pints, in the previous 2 weeks.
Another American Airlines upkeep file specified that the APU was unusable, and identified that it must be fixed in the coming days.
A “poisonous smell” which led to “eye and throat inflammation” was likewise tape-recorded on the very same aircraft on 23 October, 2 days after the flight from Heathrow was diverted to Dublin.
In another report from the exact same day, the APU on the airplane is then referred to as “damp with oil”.
American Airlines declares the smell, which triggered 2 cabin team to lose consciousness, “was not associated with the APU” since the Auxiliary Power Unit was “not functional throughout this time duration and did not run throughout this flight.”
However, a file composed by airplane maker Airbus plainly mentions that an APU, which has actually dripped oil, can infect the air supply in the cabin, even when the system is turned off.
The Airbus file, entitled “APU bleed air oil contamination”, mentions that “oil odor or smoke in the cabin arising from APU oil contamination can happen at nearly at any time and not always when the APU is running”. Due to the fact that if oil leakages from the APU it can spill into the ducting of the airplane’s air conditioning system, #peeee
That’s.
Fume occasions
“If an APU leakages oil then it enters into the ducting”, stated Captain Tristan Loraine, a previous British Airways pilot.
“So these men have an APU dripping oil. They can repair the APU however they can’t repair the contamination of the ducting.”
Captain Loraine has actually invested years raising awareness about so-called “fume occasions”, where oil or other fluids leakage and possibly pollute the air supply in the cabin mid-flight.
The airline company market is normally unwilling to speak about the issue, and it is by no implies a problem which specifies to American Airlines.
The 2 cabin team members who lost consciousness on the flight from Heathrow are not authorised to talk to the BBC.
However, we comprehend that almost a month on from the occurrence, among them is experiencing heavy migraines. Formerly that individual did not experience routine headaches.
American Airlines stated: “It can not be stressed enough that the health and well-being of our consumers and teams continues to be our leading concern.
“However, when it comes to the diversion and this airplane to Dublin, there is no connection to the APU or bleed air from the APU.”
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An MRI scan reveals what I thought was a migraine to be something darker
My signs of lightheadedness, headaches, lightheadedness and confusion, which I have actually constantly thought about part of my migraines, are a sign of something more threatening, states Eva Wiseman
T he method to make a scary movie frightening is to keep the beast concealed, and this is how I’ve begun to feel about my brain. Considering that I was a teen my migraines have actually started in the very same method, with a white mark on my vision, as if I’ve looked too long at the sun. The mark grows up until I can hardly see, and after that the headache comes, and after that, well. In June, I woke with the familiar blind area, however that afternoon it had not altered, nor had it vanished a week later on, or a month. Ultimately I had an MRI. Prior to I cruised into the area tube, I selected the Beach Boys to play through the earphones; as I closed my eyes to prevent the claustrophobia, the opening notes of In My Room, the noise of an ancient broadband connection simply behind it. The next day I got a call from the neurologist. Instead of a migraine, he stated, with unknown graveness, I ‘d had a series of mini-strokes. When whatever feels alright, #peeee
It’s odd to be revealed proof that something’s incorrect with you. The sensation advised me of a comparable unlikeliness 5 years earlier– when all proof stated I was pregnant, however up until the kid really showed up in blood and drama, the medical diagnosis stayed to me a kindly theory. This time the oddness is a various shape to that growing bump– ghostly, uncertain. I’m composing this with one eye shut, as the blind area stays, exposed now to be where the capillary to the eye has actually been completely harmed. I am seeing the scar of a stroke, its stain. A tired dribbling moose if I focus I can make out its shape. Because very first telephone call I asked the medical professional, if I had not understood I ‘d had these strokes, how would I understand if I was having another? Well, he stated, you may feel … and after that he calmly rattled a list of signs– lightheadedness, headaches, lightheadedness, confusion– which all explained the information of my every day life and a number of the qualities that keep me charming.
So my daily has actually ended up being a BBC drama, where every episode is weighted with the possibility of murder, however there is no body. And though the skyrocketing shots of cliffs and sea appear threatening, it’s simply landscape and weather condition– if you turn the colour up it might be a postcard from the past, and if you had not check out the sneak peek in the paper, you would not understand there was any death at all. My cliffhangers are the weekly medical facility tests to find why something like this is taking place to somebody like me, in order to avoid another stroke that may be less small, and every one features its own kindly physician and a brand-new understanding of a part of my body I ‘d considered approved.
My heart, for instance, which I’ve primarily trusted for pounding and love, has actually collected ominous brand-new significance. In a dark space a cardiologist spoons me and, together in a type of love, we see his screen to see if the organ consists of holes. My brain, previously a helpful and benign good friend, a mate, seems like a slipping existence. It provided the blind area like a ransom note in the post, a hazard and a tip of the power it wields. What could it shut off next? My capability to smell urine from a hundred rates? My choice for a dark chocolate biscuit? A discomfort that will alter me?
It’s tough to exercise how to process this news, both for me and my pals. It’s bad, isn’t it, however okay bad. It’s like I’ve been shot, however someplace ridiculous, like in the earlobe or little toe. It would be simpler for them if there was an apparent injury, a cast they might sign. It would be simpler if it was something that was taking place today, present tense, instead of something that has actually occurred, past, just selecting to expose itself now. If I, it would be much easier. felt something. I have headaches, however I constantly have headaches. I am exhausted, however I’m constantly tired. All of a sudden I am being dealt with the method I was born to be dealt with– my partner provides a dressing dress to me on the stroke of 7, putting a cool hand on my head. At a current health center visit he raised me on to the bed when I passed out, and later on at my demand did an impression of the method my face went right before. As I approach completion of my 30s, I discover my last vice is severe compassion.
My concerns about what takes place next are less technical more existential, as I think about a future of never ever rather understanding. Like a moms and dad that moves their household out of the city after bingeing on stories of stabbings, am I predestined for a bubble-like life, where every headache sends me spiralling into the web? As somebody who has actually constantly taken care to acknowledge, for worry of falling under those ancient holes of diet plans and remorse, that we ought to live quietly inside our altering bodies, I am now struck daily by the detach. In between what my brain informs me and what it actually indicates. In between what I see and what I can’t, and in between the method I feel and the method I am.
Email Eva at e.wiseman@observer.co.uk or follow her on Twitter @EvaWiseman
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/nov/03/an-mri-scan-reveals-what-i-thought-was-a-migraine-to-be-something-darker
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The Keto Diet – What It Is & Who’s Doing It! – Perez Hilton
Keto curious?
We’re here to address concerns about the ketogenic diet plan kraze, including what it is, what you can actually consume, and who’s following it!
Read on for whatever keto:
=”toc_number”toc_depth_1″> 1 What Is Keto?
> 2 What Can You Eat?
3 What To Avoid Eating
4 Who’s Eating Keto?
What Is Keto?
A ketogenic (AKA keto)diet plan is a high-fat, low-carb way of life which has actually ended up being progressively popular in the previous a number of years. This design of consuming has actually been revealed to provide fast weight-loss results, with lots of research studies showing it to be useful when it pertains to various health conditions such as epilepsy, and is presently being studied to see the impact on other brain conditions consisting of Alzheimer’ s and Parkinson ’ s illness.
The absence of carbohydrates in your body puts you into a metabolic state (ketosis). When this takes place, your body has the ability to burn fat more effectively, and turns fat into ketones in the liver which acts as included brain fuel. Aside from that, the keto way of life has actually been revealed as a reliable method to reduce your aspects for illness, triglycerides, and your high blood pressure.
What Can You Eat?
The diet plan is in fact a lot more than simply consuming great deals of avocados and avoiding the pasta. Here are some keto staples you’ll wish to have on hand at all times:
Meat: Go insane with all meats!Fatty fish: Fish works too! Attempt tuna, trout, mackerel, and salmon Eggs: Cook ’em any method
you ‘d like. Keep an eye out for omega-3 entire eggs at the store.Cheese: Unprocessed to prevent any unneeded ingredients(cheddar, cream, blue, goat, mozzarella)Butter and Cream: Noticing a pattern? Fats are great! Try to find grass-fed when
possible.Avocados: Because who does not like avocados? Low-carb veggies are excellent, too.Nuts &Seeds: Almonds, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, flax seeds, chia seeds
What To Avoid Eating
And here’s what to prevent:
Grains &Starches: All wheat-based items(pasta, rice, cereal, and so on)disappear Beans &Legumes: Say farewell to chickpeas, lentils, peas, etc.Fruit: With the exception of little parts of berries Root Veggies: Potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, and so on
Additionally, you’ll wish to bear in mind the majority of low-fat, sugar-free, and diet plan items. A lot of these are greatly processed
and high in sly carbs, along with unhealthy
fats.
Who’s Eating Keto?
So who’s following a keto diet plan? Most especially, Vinny Guadagnino of Jersey Shore popularity has actually spun his weight-loss success into a keto way of life brand name: Keto Guido, total with a book and popular Instagram account where he shares a lot of diet plan hacks:
Tonight I made my meatballs from the #KetoGuidoCookBook with a twist. The base dish are pork meatballs however I wished to make a meat mix so I did and doubled the dish 1/2 pork 1/2 80 %fat beef. I likewise prepared them in the air fryer and no joke these are the very best BALLS I ’ VE EVER HAD IN MY MOUTH.
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Lena Dunham says she has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Here’s what it is
(CNN) Responding to a paparazzi picture that recorded her strolling with her walking cane, Lena Dunham described she has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome– a group of conditions impacting the joints and skin.
Last month, vocalist Sia and “The Good Place” starlet Jameela Jamil tweeted that they have EDS.
They’re not alone. The syndrome is unusual, however integrated, its kinds impact a minimum of 1 in 5,000 throughout the world, the United States National Library of Medicine states. And it’s absolutely nothing brand-new. Some declare the very first description of the syndrome was by the Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates in 400 BC.
Other types– like the vascular type– can trigger capillary to burst and might have lethal problems, the National Library of Medicine states.
More extreme types might trigger curving of the spinal column, which can make breathing harder, or other problems of the skeleton, teeth, muscles and gums.
Some types can even trigger pregnancy problems.
What triggers it?
The conditions are brought on by gene anomalies and typically acquired , according to the National Institutes of Health.
“Each typeof EDS is an unique condition that ‘runs real’ in a household,” the Ehlers-Danlos National Foundation states . “This implies that a private with Vascular Type EDS will not typically have a kid with Classical Type EDS.”
There are some other cases, the National Institutes of Health state, where brand-new anomalies in genes might happen in an individual, even with no household history of the syndrome.
What’s the danger age?
EDS can be present in individuals of any ages.
The National Center for Biotechnology Information states babies with a few of the condition types can take a longer time to sit, stroll and stand.
“Those loose signs up with are susceptible and unsteady to dislocation and persistent discomfort,” the center states.
Another type might trigger hip dislocation in babies at birth, according to the.
How do I understand if I have it?
When it concerns this syndrome, there’s a great deal of screening that enters into making certain you’re properly detected.
But there are indications that ought to get you considering getting examined. Those consist of skin that contusions quickly, regular dislocations, persistent discomfort in addition to versatile joints that appear to harm quickly.
“Not just does this medical diagnosis represent my clumsiness and much of the physical damage I have actually accumulated for many years, it likewise assists describe a few of my migraines and the regular rashes on my skin, the difficulty I have managing my body temperature level, and my bowel and bladder issues,” Kiesel composed for Harvard.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/04/health/what-is-ehlers-danlos-syndrome-trnd/index.html
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FDA Keeps Brand-Name Drugs on a Fast Path to Market Despite Manufacturing Concerns
By Sydney Lupkin | Kaiser Health News
After all voting to suggest an amazing liver disease C drug for approval in 2013, a panel of specialists encouraging the Food and Drug Administration gushed about what they ‘d achieved.
“I voted ‘yes’ because, rather merely, this is a video game changer,” National Institutes of Health hepatologist Dr. Marc Ghany stated of Sovaldi, Gilead Science’s brand-new tablet developed to treat most cases of liver disease C within 12 weeks.
Dr. Lawrence Friedman, a teacher at Harvard Medical School, called it his “preferred vote” as an FDA customer, according to the records .
What the panelists didn’t understand was that the FDA’s drug quality inspectors had actually advised versus approval.
They provided a scathing 15-item disciplinary report after discovering numerous infractions at Gilead’s primary U.S. drug screening lab, down the roadway from its head office in Foster City, Calif. Their findings slammed elements of the quality assurance procedure from start to end up: Samples were poorly saved and catalogued; failures were not sufficiently examined; and outcomes were susceptible to tampering that might conceal issues.
Gilead Foster City does not produce drugs. Its task is to evaluate samples from drug batches to guarantee the tablets do not consist of or fall apart mold, glass or germs, or have insufficient of an active antiviral active ingredient.
Recent report have actually focused spotlight on bad quality control and contamination in the production of inexpensive generic drugs, especially those made overseas. Even some of the latest, most costly brand-name medications have actually been afflicted by quality and security issues throughout production, a Kaiser Health News analysis programs.
More troubling, even when FDA inspectors flagged the prospective risk and raised warnings internally, those issues were fixed with the company in trick– without a follow-up evaluation– and the drugs were authorized for sale.
Erin Fox, who buys medications for University of Utah Health medical facilities, stated she was stunned to speak with KHN about making issues revealed by authorities at the centers that make brand-name items. “Either you’re following the guidelines or you’re not following the guidelines,” Fox stated. “Maybe it’s simply as bad for top quality drugs.”
The pressure to get ingenious drugs like Sovaldi into usage is significant, both due to the fact that they use brand-new treatments for desperate clients and since the medications are extremely rewarding.
Against that background, the FDA has actually consistently discovered a method to authorize brand-name drugs in spite of security issues at producing centers that had actually triggered inspectors to press to turn down those drugs’ approval, a continuous KHN examination programs. This occurred in 2018 with drugs for cancer, migraines, HIV and an unusual illness, and 10 other times in current years, federal records reveal. In such cases, how these problems were talked about, worked out and eventually solved is not public record.
For example, inspectors discovered that centers making immunotherapies and migraine treatments didn’t follow up when drug items revealed proof of germs, glass or other impurities. At a Chinese plant making the brand-new HIV drug Trogarzo, workers dismissed “black residue” discovered to be “non-dissolvable metal oxides,” presuming it “did not posture a substantial threat,” federal records reveal.
Without a follow-up assessment to validate drugmakers fixed the issues inspectors discovered, these medications became authorized for sale, and at market price as high as $189,000 a month for a typical client, according to health information company Connecture. The cancer drug Lutathera was at first declined over production issues at 3 plants however was authorized a year later on without a fresh evaluation and was priced at $57,000 per vial.
John Avellanet, a specialist on FDA compliance, stated information stability issues, like those at Gilead’s laboratory in Foster City, need to have triggered even more examination, since they raise the possibility of “much deeper problems.”
Dr. Janet Woodcock, the director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, stated an inspector’s suggestion to keep approval can be “handled” without a follow-up. Woodcock stated the firm can’t discuss specifics, and business hesitate to discuss them due to the fact that the information of the resolution are safeguarded as a business trade trick.
“That does not suggest that there’s anything incorrect with the drug,” Woodcock stated.
Dinesh Thakur, a previous drug-quality staff member turned whistleblower, called the secrecy a “warning.” A follow-up evaluation is important, he stated: “I’ve seen sometimes paper dedications are made however never ever followed through.”
What frets Fox is that a defective drug might make it through and no one would understand.
“In basic, extremely couple of individuals think that their medication is the issue or their medication is not working,” Fox stated. “Unless you see black shavings or something terrible in the item itself, the drug is nearly the last thing that would be suspect.”
The Market Beckons
If the FDA discovers issues at preapproval assessments for generics, the firm is most likely to reject approval and postpone the drug’s launch till the next year’s evaluation cycle, according to market and company professionals.
In truth, simply 12% of generics were authorized the very first time their sponsors sent applications from 2015 through 2017.
The calculus appears various for declared brand-new treatments like Sovaldi. In 2018, 95% of unique drugs — the most recent of the brand-new– were authorized on the very first shot, the FDA stated.
Woodcock stated the firm has “the very same requirements for all drugs,” however she stressed that much of the producing concerns “are rather subjective.”
For brand-new brand-name drugs, she stated, the FDA “will work really carefully with the business to … bring the producing up to snuff.”
The producer devotes and sends written reactions to deal with quality issues, however the information are kept personal.
An approximated 2.4 million Americans have liver disease C and, prior to Sovaldi, treatment featured unpleasant negative effects and a strong opportunity it would not work. Sovaldi assured as much as a 90% remedy rate , though it featured an eye-popping $84,000 price for a 12-week course, putting it out of reach for many clients and healthcare systems.
But business pressure to get such treatments into the market is likewise substantial.
Pharmaceutical companies pay large charges for FDA evaluation and lobby the firm to speed items to market. For Gilead, time lost is cash.
“If approval of sofosbuvir were postponed, our expected incomes and our stock rate would be negatively impacted,” Gilead composed in an SEC file filed Oct. 31, 2013, utilizing the generic name for Sovaldi.
Since its launching in 2013, Sovaldi has actually been extensively slammed for its rate however acknowledged as a medical development. Gilead has actually never ever remembered it.
However, numerous clients who have actually taken the drug have actually willingly reported cancer or other problems to the FDA’s “negative occasion” reporting database, consisting of issues that the treatment does not constantly work. One in 5 Sovaldi clients and healthcare experts who reported severe issues to federal regulators stated the drug didn’t treat the clients’ liver disease C.
“The FDA authorized these items after a strenuous examination procedure, and we are positive in the quality/compliance of these items,” Gilead spokesperson Sonia Choi stated.
Problems at Foster City
Gilead’s Foster City center has actually been mentioned for a selection of issues throughout the years. In 2012, FDA inspectors stated the center had actually stopped working to correctly evaluate how the HIV drugs Truvada and Atripla ended up being polluted with “blue glass” particles; a few of that polluted batch was dispersed. The business “made no effort to recuperate” the polluted drugs, according to FDA examination records. When FDA inspectors showed up at Foster City for an unassociated examination in April 2013, #peeee
Gilead had actually simply submitted its application for Sovaldi’s approval. Inspectors slapped the center with 9 infractions in what’s called a 483 file and stated that the dependability of the website’s approaches for screening things like pureness were unverified which its records were chaotic and insufficient, according to FDA assessment files.
As an outcome, the FDA at first declined 2 HIV drugs, Vitekta and Tybost. Gilead needed to resubmit those applications, and it would take 18 months prior to the FDA authorized them in late 2014.
On Sept. 19, 2013, FDA authorities satisfied to go over Sovaldi with Woodcock, firm records reveal. Satisfying minutes reveal inspectors suggested striking Gilead Foster City with an official caution letter based upon the April assessment. (A caution letter is a disciplinary action from the FDA that generally consists of a hazard to keep brand-new approvals or position a foreign center on import alert and contradict its items for sale in the U.S.)
At the exact same conference, FDA inspectors stated their suggestion to authorize Sovaldi would be “based upon” getting rid of an unnamed drug active ingredient producer from the application and “a decision that Gilead Foster City has an appropriate cGMP [present excellent production practices] status.”When Foster City failed its evaluation, #peeee
Records reveal the FDA didn’t provide a caution letter or otherwise postpone the approval procedure.
Instead, the Sovaldi preapproval assessment began 4 days later on and lasted 2 weeks. At the end, inspectors released Foster City another 483, this time with 15 infractions, officially detailing issues and needing a composed strategy to repair them. Inspectors stated they could not advise Sovaldi’s approval.
FDA authorities provided Gilead 2 alternatives throughout an Oct. 29 teleconference: Remove Foster City, a “significant screening website” for Sovaldi, from the application, and utilize a third-party professional rather; or utilize Foster City however work with another company to sign and keep an eye on the website off on its screening work.
Gilead was positive. “Based on current interactions with the FDA, we do not anticipate these [examination] observations to postpone approval of sofosbuvir,” the business stated in its Oct. 31 SEC filing.
Gilead selected to change the Foster City plant with an agreement screening website, federal records reveal. By December, Sovaldi was authorized for circulation, and the business quickly revealed its $1,000-per-pill price.
Not Just Generics
Recent media reports, and the continuous recall of the commonly utilized high blood pressure medication valsartan, have actually led customers– and members of Congress — to question whether generics are produced securely. Valsartan tablets made in China and India were discovered to include cancer-causing pollutants.
Branded-drug quality, in big part, has actually been spared from congressional examination. Numerous factories– abroad and in the U.S.– make branded and generic drugs.
In January 2018, FDA inspectors struck a Korean factory that makes Ajovy, a migraine drug, with a caution letter. With the issues still unsolved in April, a company customer advised withholding approval. When they returned in July, inspectors wished to provide the plant the worst possible category: “Official Actions Indicated.” To name a few issues, inspectors discovered that glass vials often broke throughout the production procedure which the center did not have procedures to avoid the particles from entering into drug items. The FDA’s Office of Manufacturing Quality ultimately reduced the examination to simply “Voluntary Actions Indicated.”
The drug was authorized in September 2018 and priced at $690 a month. FDA records suggest no additional disciplinary action was taken. Teva, the maker of Ajovy, did not react to ask for remark.
Similarly, when FDA inspectors checked out an agreement production center in Indiana utilized to make Revcovi, which deals with an autoimmune illness, they kept in mind that a redacted drug lot had actually stopped working a sterility test since the vials checked favorable for a germs called Delftia acidovorans, which can be harmful even in individuals with healthy body immune systems, research studies reveal . The drug-filling maker remained in usage after the pollutant was found, the FDA figured out. Inspectors advised withholding approval.
The drug was authorized in October 2018 even after another examination showed up issues, with a sticker price of $95,000 to $189,000 monthly for a typical client, according to healthcare information company Connecture.
Revcovi’s producer, Leadiant Biosciences, stated through an outdoors public relations company that its agreement producer’s written actions to the FDA observations were thought about “sufficient” by 2 FDA workplaces, including, “We do not have anymore details to show you at this time as pharmaceutical production procedures are personal.”
Problems with drugs can take years to find– and after that just after clients are hurt. Lots of health scientists state, more care is called for.
“They’re doing so few of these [FDA] examinations pre-market,” stated Diana Zuckerman, president of the not-for-profit National Center for Health Research. “The least they can do is listen to the ones they’re doing.”
Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a not-for-profit news service covering health problems. It is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation that is not connected with Kaiser Permanente.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/fda-keeps-brand-name-drugs-on-a-fast-path-to-market-despite-manufacturing-concerns
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To Myself: Im Sorry For Not Loving You Enough
By Brielle Sparacino Updated October 7, 2019
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I’ m actually sorry I put on ’ t love you enough, that I sanctuary ’ t enjoyed you enough.
You’ ve been through a lot. I understand that. You’ ve been injured your entire life, and a great deal of the time that hurt has actually eclipsed any love you’ ve gotten. I ’ m sorry it ’ s gotten to you in this manner.
It ’ s simply that hurt is among the most paradoxical things, you understand? Nobody wishes to be injured. It harms to injure. Whatever you are grieving the loss of- a fan, a buddy, a variation of yourself you never ever wished to end up being- it’ s draining pipes. It begins as a psychological injury and after that ends up being physical.
This is when you stop consuming since if you even think of it, you wish to toss up. Or you consume to cope, to handle the tension of whatever. This is when your heart in fact feels in discomfort; it’ s not simply a fluke. You begin getting migraines from sobbing so hard. Your body is so exhausted from just living and it’ s the saddest thing you might ever see.
So yeah, that hurt takes you over. It utilizes your feelings as a reason to host itself within you, to grow, to consume your soul and turn it into something you put on’ t acknowledge.
But when that hurt is gone you nearly miss it, like a phantom limb. Like the last genuine summertime day, where the sun and moon can still slip glimpses at each other in the exact same sky prior to one leaves and the other gets here.
It harms to harm, and yet, it likewise harms not to.
But I desire you to understand that from now on I’ m going to attempt more difficult, to be more powerful. To stop discovering faults, to safeguard you from harming without concealing. To improve at being alone, due to the fact that the business I actually ought to be looking for today is my own.
I hope one day you’ re happy with me. I wear’ t wish to let you down any longer. I enjoy you, constantly.
The Best Revenge Is Self-Love
I’m Slowly Learning To Reject Anything That’s Forced And Anyone Who Doesn’t Value Me
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Philippines leader Rodrigo Duterte says he has autoimmune disease
Rodrigo Duterte revealed he struggles with myasthenia gravis, a year after recommending he might have cancer
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has actually revealed that he experiences an autoimmune illness that can possibly have severe issues, the most recent condition for a leader whose health has actually undergone speculation.
Duterte, 74, was the earliest individual to be chosen president of the nation and concerns about his health have actually swirled considering that taking workplace in 2016, with speculation driven by the president periodically avoiding conferences and occasions, in addition to discussing his health .
Duterte exposed the condition, myasthenia gravis, at a look prior to the Philippine neighborhood late Saturday throughout a see to Russia.
“One of my eyes is smaller sized. It strolls by itself,” he stated, according to a records launched Sunday by his workplace.
“That’s myasthenia gravis. It’s a nerve breakdown. I got it from my grandpa.”
The condition triggers muscle weak point, and can lead to sagging of eyelids, blurred vision in addition to weak point in one’s extremities, according to the United States National Institutes of Health.
The condition can normally be handled with treatment, however approximately 20% of individuals who have the illness experience a minimum of one “crisis” that needs them to utilize a ventilator to assist breathe, the NIH stated.
Duterte offered no sign regarding whether he has actually had any major occurrences as an outcome of the illness.
His administration offers extremely little info about his health and regularly states the president remains in good condition.
Duterte himself, nevertheless, has actually discussed his disorders in his regular, rambling speeches. In October 2018 he informed an audience how he was waiting for the outcomes of a cancer screening.
“I do not understand where I’m now physically, however I need to wait on that,” Duterte stated last October. “But, I will inform you if its cancer, it’s cancer. No more treatment if it’s 3rd phase. I will not lengthen the pain in this workplace or anywhere.”
His remarks triggered instant issue and speculation, however days later on he stated the tests had actually returned unfavorable.
Duterte has actually likewise stated formerly that he struggles with everyday migraines and conditions consisting of Buerger’s illness, a disease that impacts the veins and the arteries of the limbs, and is typically due to smoking cigarettes.
He has actually mentioned his disease as the factor for avoiding occasions throughout tops abroad.
The president, understood for his fatal crackdown on drugs , likewise exposed in 2016 that he utilized to take fentanyl, an effective pain reliever, since of a back injury from bike mishaps.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/07/philippines-leader-rodrigo-duterte-autoimmune-disease-myasthenia-gravis
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How the LRAD Went From a Pirate Deterrent to a Cop Crowd-Control Tool
Originally established to fend off pirates at sea, one effective military-grade gadget has actually ended up being a preferred tool for U.S. police. With no guidance to speak of, these off-label usages are producing debate and wreaking havoc on the health of those unfortunate sufficient to be within earshot.
The LRAD (normally noticable “L-rad,” brief for Long Range Acoustic Device) is a brand-name targeted speaker that sends out clear statements and cautions as far as 5,500 meters– about the width of the Hudson River plus Manhattan in some locations.
For the U.S. Army, this is an advantage to interaction in the field. Others concern it as an unsafe sonic weapon.
According to Steve Elliott, task officer of Combat Armaments and Protection Systems of the U.S. Army, soldiers can utilize LRADs to caution individuals far from base boundaries in Afghanistan, or to fend off possible vehicle bombers in Iraq. Throughout Haiti’s 2010 earthquake-relief efforts, LRADs were utilized to direct ships in and out of the primary port, stated Jeff Drobik, engineering group lead at the Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command Armament.
“The huge ability is … interaction at some standoff range where neither side– neither the Army nor individuals they’re attempting to interact with– seem like they provide an increased risk to one another,” Elliott stated in an interview with The Daily Beast.
The Army is a repeat client of the San Diego-based LRAD Corp. In August, Elliott’s group put in a $14.8 million agreement for gadgets, which is the business’s biggest domestic order considering that the system was developed in 2003. By next year, the Army is wanting to send out 2,434 LRADs abroad, according to Elliott. The gadgets begin at $30,000 each for smaller sized designs.
“The Army would like us to provide them faster than we can purchase them,” stated Elliott.
MILITARY ROOTS
LRAD Corp.’s other customers consist of the U.S. Navy, the National Guard, and the U.S. Air Force. When utilized the gadget throughout a facilities task, FEMA. Miners have actually utilized the caution system to prevent birds from threatening themselves on work websites. In Mill Valley, California, the fire chief just recently set up LRADs and a cloud-based software application system so that in case of a catastrophe, cautions will not depend upon basic interaction lines.
Yet, as LRADs flood the marketplace and drip below the U.S. Army to community law-enforcement companies throughout the nation, they’ve made headings as gadgets utilized to manage individuals– an usage case that can feature some hazardous adverse effects.
Much to its developer’s shame, the media created the term “sound cannon” to catch the gadget’s non-military applications. Regardless of guarantees from its developer and authorities departments that the LRAD is not a weapon, misusing these gadgets can lead to major hearing damage — and there is absolutely nothing stopping police in lots of towns from doing so.
The LRAD– which appears like a speaker normally installed on an armored lorry– directs acoustic energy towards a target. According to the maker’s white paper , noise is released in a cone-shaped field originating from the gadget, and is enhanced to the 1 to 5 kHz variety, where human hearing is most delicate. As soon as you’re within the cone of noise, the closer you get to the gadget, the louder and more harmful the circumstance ends up being, according to independent research studies and claims .
“We offer [soldiers] publications, running handbooks, and training products and ensure they comprehend the threats,” stated Elliott. “We do not permit anybody to come within 75 meters of the ‘red zone.’ We define when to use hearing defense, which behind the speaker you’re in the green zone– we validate those efficiency attributes through particular security screening and procedure versus released Army requirements for sound direct exposure … [soldiers] are not indiscriminately exposing onlookers. They point it at the designated audience.”
Users can engage 2 primary modes on the LRAD: the “voice” function, which enables speakers to interact at 20-30 decibels greater than a typical speaker, and the “alert” function, which discharges high-decibel, extremely focused, narrow frequency chirping noises. LRADs cut through background sound of 88 decibels, according to the producer site, which has to do with the volume of a freight train 15 meters away.
“The caution tones are really attention-getting,” stated Elliott. “If you get close enough at the best volume level, you will certainly feel it. It will make you choose and stop what you wish to do next.”
According to LRAD’s site: “In unpredictable or intensified public security scenarios, LRAD fills the important space in between the restricted variety and bad intelligibility of bullhorns and automobile P.A. systems, and kinetic steps consisting of tear gas projectiles, rubber bullets, pepper balls, Tasers, and flash bang grenades.” Composed in vibrant: “LRAD is not a weapon; LRAD is an extremely intelligible long-range interaction system and a more secure option to kinetic or non-lethal force.”
‘INTENSE PAIN’
The New York Police Department, which was the very first recognized PD to release LRADs for crowd-control in 2004, concurred with LRAD’s tenets in a declaration to The Daily Beast.
“A specific system in the NYPD utilizes this gadget in accordance with producer’s specs throughout emergency situation evacuations, and for the function of crowd-control,” stated Sgt. Jessica McRorie, public details representative for the NYPD. “This is a efficient and safe interaction tool.”
The NYPD is being took legal action against by 6 complainants who declare they were attacked by an LRAD throughout a 2014 demonstration in Manhattan in assistance of Eric Garner. In the claim, the complainants declare that 2 officers sustained the “deterrent” or “alert” mode constantly for 15 to 20 minutes on targets who were within 10 feet of the gadget.
According to the match, the complainants suffered extreme discomfort, long-term ringing in the ears, migraines, vertigo, lightheadedness, and confusion. One complainant declared that he was briefly blinded from the officers’ pepper spray, rendering him defenseless to avoid the LRAD. The sonic pressure from the gadget pressed a bone in his ear inward, harming a nerve and affecting in his ear, according to the suit.
“It’s midtown Manhattan. There are a great deal of individuals not even always taking part in the demonstration,” stated the complainants’ legal representative Gideon Oliver in an interview with The Daily Beast. “… [The NYPD is regularly demanded extreme force … Unfortunately this is not an aberration. These claims constantly shine a light on what sort of policies cops departments need to have in location. For LRADs the NYPD position is: You utilize them like bullhorns, so you can’t harm anybody with them.”
Some complainants declared they had problem operating in their particular occupations, consisting of photojournalism in congested locations, considering that the occurrence, according to the suit. The case remains in discovery through next spring, when it will exist in district court.
LRAD’s site condemns “incorrect reports” that recommend the gadget might trigger “queasiness or disorientation.”
NO OVERSIGHT
Unlike within the military, there are no overarching standards on LRAD use for cops departments in the U.S., and no meaningful federal records on cops purchases, training, and use. The LRAD “alert” mode has actually been released in whatever from crowd control throughout the Ferguson riots to hindering speeding chauffeurs by blasting them with sound to the Dakota Access Pipeline demonstrations , where a Lakota grandma reported irreparable hearing damage amongst the senior population.
Uses of the LRAD differ. In North Carolina, the Greensboro Police Department informed The Daily Beast that officers prevent the alert mode completely, and just utilize LRADs to reveal themselves prior to carrying out a search warrant, or to call out to a barricaded person or suspect.
“The sound journeys in a forward instructions instead of 360 degrees, making it more effective to get the attention of the suspect, particularly if they remain in a bigger or much deeper structure,” stated Ronald Glenn, public details officer at the Greensboro PD. “Because of our restricted usage of the gadget, we do not have a policy or standard for utilizing it since it is generally a PA system. It does have the ability for noises and tones, however we do not utilize them.”
LRADs were created in 2003 as a U.S. military interaction gadget in reaction to the terrorist attack on the USS Cole in Yemen. Elliott stated the Army’s boat fleet has actually utilized LRADs to interact with other boats, and to alert off pirates.
The NYPD initially got them through the 1033 program, which permits towns to buy unused federal military products– whatever from toilet tissue to ammo. The very first recognized public U.S. look of an LRAD was throughout the 2004 Republican National Convention, when the NYPD bought 2 systems at $35,000 each.
In 2009, Karen Piper was a checking out teacher at Carnegie Mellon University when she dropped in a demonstration of the G-20 top out of interest. According to Piper, the Pittsburgh Police Department blasted an LRAD at close quarters from an armored vehicle for 3 minutes directly. She stated she could not flee since she was stuck in the crowd.
“It actually harms your ears,” stated Piper throughout an interview with The Daily Beast. “I felt sort of sick and deafened. I believed I had actually burst an eardrum due to the fact that of just how much it harmed in one ear.”
Piper took legal action against the Pittsburgh Police Department and got a $72,000 settlement, according to the main arrangement. The department likewise accepted instate standards for LRAD usage. A handful of cops departments did the same by setting up standards of their own, consisting of Massachusetts State Police and the Chicago PD. According to files gotten by Oliver’s group by means of a FOIA demand, the NYPD created some LRAD training products after the 2014 demonstration event, however an NYPD representative did not react when asked to elaborate on the training procedures.
Since the Pittsburgh demonstration, Piper states she’s still not able to hear specific frequencies.
“I ‘d state I’m delighted with the settlement, however I ‘d rather have my hearing back,” Piper stated. “People must take legal action against anytime they utilize that thing on them … they must simply get that yelling function that ruins individuals’s hearing.”
“I'&#x 27;d state I’m pleased with the settlement, however I ‘d rather have my hearing back.”
— Karen Piper
In 2010, an independent research study by Canada’s Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services validated that LRADs threaten when misused. The research study’s suggestions consisted of a stringent system of minimum ranges from targets, in addition to regimented training for licensed users, and lessening the “alert” mode. The Mounties just utilize LRADs for marine functions , not for crowd-control, while the Vancouver Police have actually prohibited the “alert” mode entirely. To this day, the Canadian research study is the just extensive, independent, openly offered evaluation of LRADs.
Stateside, it is unidentified how often LRADs are being utilized, for what factor, and the number of are flowing U.S. cops departments. To obtain this details, one would need to send a Freedom of Information demand to every private cops department in the nation– and hope that they’ve kept records.
“This is all more assistance for the apparent reality that if you’re going to provide the cops these sort of resources and toys, you need to train them and monitor them,” stated Oliver, who has actually sent numerous FOIA demands to the NYPD relating to LRAD usage. When asked how lots of LRADs were bought from the 1033 program in between 2003 and 2019, #peeee
The Defense Logistics Agency did not react to a FOIA demand. Those outcomes would just be a portion of the LRAD purchases being made by towns. Departments can utilize federal grants and structure presents as resources, or LRADs can be bought straight from the producer. In 2015, MuckRock asked for LRAD info from 6 cops departments consisting of Las Vegas, Charlotte, Houston, and more. All of the cities had actually bought LRADs, and nearly none had standards or records on use.
“They’re being released at demonstrations really often if not regularly by the NYPD, however it’s difficult for us individuals, who are not the police officers, to monitor it,” Oliver informed The Daily Beast.
“They’re releasing them a lot and they’re utilizing them, however there’s no public accounting of when and how.”
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-lrad-went-from-a-pirate-deterrent-to-a-police-crowd-control-tool
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swishtz replied to ASLayerAODsk's topic in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS
We are here..
So how comes tribute bands like this pile of dog excrement can stay up when the music isn't theirs ? I love how the Jerry Sadowitz look alike on guitar is playing a different song to everyone else half the time and the fake USA accent of the singer, oh my days all
Pulse ps fucking appropriate track for this thread LOL
GNRCentral is getting worse. Can we ban it?
swishtz replied to Live Like a Suicide's topic in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS
Dreadful site that's gone down the tubes with its negativity and click baiting to try fill the gaps. A band doesn't have daily news like a news network would have so I guess they are click baiting to stay in $$. Have tried to block it coming up on Google for myself and YouTube but that's easier said than done just to not have to look at the rubbish they write/say, look forward to the day it's gone. ps If you are watching GnR Central, go find something better to do.
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swishtz replied to papashaun's topic in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS
Vengeance, danger etc the guy is an idiot not a rampaging psycopath they need to pander too because they are scared of him , oh my days, so much drama 🤣
Not a bizarre statement at all...
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Madagascar is great as is Better especially with the Slash twist. No way is he managing Eden or Don't Damn Me live !!!!!!!
Sales data matey. Facts not opinions. We are so off track here, bottom line, that stuff was not Rick or anyone elses to leak. They knew exactly what they were doing. The band should not now have to do anything in response in terms of music release. This is exactly the same as movies leaking. If a band chooses to do a release campaign that looks like leaks or similar, that's a whole other ball game
Back onto the topic of the attention seeking guy, not only does he rustle up $15k for music , drive 19 hours (none of this smacks of innocent behaviour) when challenged, rather than be concerned or eat a bit of humble pie, he baits the band and runs around self promoting what a big shot he is. I dont know whether he leaked anything or not, but he doesn't seem innocent and if he keeps prodding he may find himself having to explain himself in court.
They embrace the internet within the parameters they should, not in a manner where bootlegs of private material get leaked by chancers, that's not the internet that's the wild west. Why do you think Apple Music/Spotify all exist and the artists now make fuck all on record sales ? I came from the 80's so i know all about standing in line to buy a new record, recording off thee radio, all that stuff. The artist absolutely was the victim of Napster, A&R is now fucked, record label investment in artist development is now fucked, a #1 record meaning anything like it used to is now fucked. Everything is about a quick buck, low spend, look at music videos these days vs what used to be the norm, money got sucked out of the industry, it has been redistributed to the elite through touring and merchandising, VIP' tours, meet & greets etc etc. Oh i know what i am talking about because this is my industry. And who do i know still downloading things illegally ? Ever heard of torrents ? Your generalisations are incredulous. Entire albums shit, no one downloading illegally, artists not suffering from people stealing their work, please do your research before interjecting . https://ibb.co/C9XMVHr https://www.visualcapitalist.com/music-industry-sales/ https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/09/more-than-one-third-global-music-consumers-pirate-music https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/11/17963804/music-modernization-act-mma-copyright-law-bill-labels-congress https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-200-best-albums-of-the-1980s/ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/100-best-albums-of-the-90s-152425/
This isn't embracing the internet, embracing the internet doesn't mean ignoring the rule of law, taking someone elses unfinished IP and deciding to distribute it because you want to, without the consent of the creator is just outrageous. Remember what Napster did to the music industry and revenues on music sales, then you all bitch why music on the most part is so absolute shit these days and concert tickets so high, why there are merch grabs everywhere too..... There are repercussions to these types of thoughts.
Yeah now you're showing ID , RFID tracking as you go from section to section, places like Coachella all are doing this already, Download to name a few. Even cashless festivals using RFID and linked to your own festival profile are all the rage these days. This kinda stuff https://musicfestivalsrfid.com/
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6 Convenient Foods For Muscle Growth
On-the-Go Meals for Gains
Who has time to cook a few extra chicken breasts every few days? Who has time to make a big pot of rice or potatoes? Someone should invent a kitchen appliance where you just throw the meat and starches in overnight and BAM, cooked food for the week.
That would be amazing. That's a zillion dollar idea. If only someone would do that...
Since no one has created such a machine (sarcasm) then you've gotta get creative. And it's not that hard. The truth is, you can still grab some really convenient foods that require nothing more than a fork, shaker bottle, or microwave.
Here are some food selections that don't require a macro calculator (you know, because of packaging and stuff) that'll be good to go while you're on the go.
1 – Smoked Salmon
It's probably the single best muscle-building food on the planet. That includes red meat, despite its reputation as a magical muscle builder.
Salmon is chock-full of anti-inflammatory omega-3's and the antioxidant astaxanthin, the king of carotenoids. Along with its ability to fight inflammation, it's been shown to improve cognition, improve immune function, and reduce oxidative stress (1).
Salmon is a can't-miss food, especially the smoked kind, which is great by itself or perfect with a couple of eggs.
There's some debate over wild caught or farm raised when it comes to nutritional value. Wild caught salmon has a better nutritional profile than farm raised salmon if you're basing it off the omega-3 to omega-6 ratio, but people who get overly emotional about this topic are being drama queens.
Farm-raised salmon typically has more 3's than wild caught does; it's just that it packs more of the omega 6's too. If you're singling out salmon based on this factor alone then you're throwing the salmon out with the farm water. It's mostly irrelevant.
The real issue with farm raised is that it often contains high concentrations of organochlorine compounds such as PCBs, dioxins, and chlorinated pesticides. But that can vary wildly based on the geographical area where the salmon came from (2).
If you're one of those "I only eat organic, grass fed, wheat germ, non-GMO, gluten free" people, then get the wild caught salmon, you diva. If not, just get some packaged smoked salmon regardless of whether it's wild caught or farm raised and enjoy your life.
For your value, I picked up both kinds to look at the labels. Here are the macros per 4 ounces:
Ducktrap Sockeye Wild Salmon
Calories: 180
Protein: 26 grams
Carbs: 0 grams
Fats: 8 grams
Whole Catch Cold Smoked Atlantic Salmon (farm raised)
Fats: 16 grams
2 – English Muffin Breakfast Sandwiches with Egg Whites
These are not only solid on the macro count, but also taste amazing. Like ridiculously amazing. I ate six one night without thinking about it. You should too.
If you down one of these puppies here's what you'll be getting.
Jimmy Dean Delight Egg White, Turkey Sausage and Cheese
Carbs: 32 grams
I really like these macros for pre-workout. In fact, it's just a couple of digits off what I consider the ideal ratio of a pre-workout meal (20 grams protein, 30 grams carbs, 10 grams fat).
One of these would work well 60-90 minutes prior to training, but they go down the hatch practically any time of the day.
3 – Instant Jasmine Rice
Jasmine rice has been my staple carb source for years. And unlike normal white rice, which gets hard and crusty in the fridge, it tends to keep well. You can cook a lot of it and reheat it later in case you actually do that whole meal-prep thing.
Unlike brown rice, no one seems to have digestive issues with jasmine or white rice. But for convenience, good ol' Uncle Ben has some handy dandy jasmine rice that comes in a pouch or a little cup. Just throw it in the microwave for 60 seconds and you're good to go.
There's a slight amount of sunflower oil added to it which is why there are a few grams of fat in there. Clearly not enough to be bothered with. Servings come in one-cup measurements.
Uncle Ben's Ready Jasmine Rice
Protein: 5 grams
Fats: 3.5 grams
Metabolic Drive
4 – Metabolic Drive® Protein
Protein is king when it comes to both muscle building and fat loss, because it's the one thing outside of calories that has to be accounted for when accurately comparing the efficiency of a nutritional protocol. That's why when protein and calories are matched, there's no diet out there that works better than the other.
And protein powder has come a long way. Guys who didn't start picking up heavy things until after the internet was invented have no idea about the suffering we went through. Young guys never opened a giant jug of smelly Weider Mega Mass 2000, which contained a scoop the size of a rhinoceros horn.
Thankfully, we have access to protein powders these days that taste downright amazing. And I put Metabolic Drive® Protein at the top of that list. In fact, the first time I shook some up in water and hit it, I thought, "Well, this is some bullshit. There's no way this is protein powder. It has to be some derivative of Swiss Miss." It's THAT good.
And since we're talking about convenience here, what's more convenient than a high-quality protein powder? Really think about it. You can pound down as much protein that's in eight ounces of chicken in one minute. And you can put two scoops in a zip-lock bag and tote it around in a side pocket of your jacket or cargo shorts. Try doing that with a chicken breast. It's weird.
Here's what you're getting from two scoops:
Metabolic Drive® Protein
A lot of folks don't think about the flexibility of it either. Need to keep your appetite in check? Add it to the blender with ice and water, blend it longer, and the additional air volume will fill you up more. Drink it this way before meals and you'll end up eating less food, which means fewer total calories.
Need more calories? You can shake it up, stick it in the fridge for a few hours, and let it it settle so that it has less volume. Then drink it AFTER a meal for additional protein and calories, but without taking up much space in your stomach.
If you're going on a business trip, protein powder is probably one of the easiest ways to make sure you don't go off the rails. People who travel for work should be carrying protein powder with them. It makes dietary compliance easier.
5 – Sorbet
The carbs in different sorbets can vary quite a bit so check the nutrition label. Sorbet is carb-heavy, so you probably want to reserve it for after a high-volume leg or back training session. Especially if you're going to have the whole thing. If you're a psychopath, then I suppose you could eat half of it.
Sorbet is made of fruit puree and a sweetener like honey or sugar, but it's devoid of dairy. So if you're lactose intolerant you're good to go. Because it's absent of fat and protein and is such a simple carb source, it has a very high glycemic load. It's going to get through the digestive tract very quickly, which means it's a great source for fast glycogen replenishment post-workout.
If you eat the whole pint, here's what you'll be getting...
Häagen-Dazs Lemon Sorbet
Calories: 420 calories
Carbs: 109 grams
6 – Walnuts
Pretty much all nut varieties fall under what the general population considers a "health food." Nuts are often packed full of good fats, aren't carb heavy, and have a little bit of protein.
They're a fat source, which means there's a lot of calories. If you're not careful it's really easy to eat a metric butt-ton of calories from nuts. So you actually have to be a bit careful with them.
It's hard to beat almonds and walnuts as a fat source. Especially walnuts if we're talking about increasing alpha-linolenic acid intake, which has been linked to reducing the chances for myocardial infarction and stroke (3,4).
Here's what you'll get in 1/4 cup:
Adding a high-quality fat source like walnuts will also slow down the digestive rate of the accompanying foods, and help with satiety. Satiety is often one of the biggest factors in terms of achieving a high degree of adherence to a nutritional plan.
Just make sure to actually measure out the nuts and don't try to wing it. That's a great way to accidentally wolf down an extra 500-800 calories without even realizing it.
Related: 4 More Convenient Foods You Should Be Eating
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300 Christmas songs: a Julian Anderson premier by the Arditti Quartet
Labels: by Hilary Glover, concert review, Wigmore Hall
Arditti Quartet - Photo credit: Astrid Karger
Julian Anderson 300 Christmas songs: Arditti Quartet: Wigmore Hall
Reviewed by Hilary Glover on May 15 2014
Challenging programme of contemporary quartets from the brilliant Arditti Quartet
Julian Anderson (1967-) is the Wigmore Hall's composer in residence (as well as at the Guildhall School of Music and the London Philharmonic Orchestra) and tonight (Thursday 15 May 2014) he curated a concert at the Wigmore Hall including the world premier of his new work for the Arditti Quartet, String Quartet no. 2 '300 Weihnachtslieder'.
The Arditti Quartet has been termed 'single most important ensemble in the history of late-20th and early-21st-century music' by the Guardian's Tom Service. Set up in 1974 by Irvine Arditti, an East End lad, the Arditti Quartet has worked with major composers such as Harrison Birtwistle, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Brian Ferneyhough, Sofia Gubaidulina, Mauricio Kagel, György Ligeti, Conlon Nancarrow, Wolfgang Rihm, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Iannis Xenakis. They have won awards ranging from best contemporary CD (1984) for their RCA red seal recording of quartets by Carter, Ferneyhough and Harvey to the Académie Charles Cros Honorary Coup de Coeur (2004). Back in 1999 the Arditti Quartet won the 'lifetime achievement' Ernst von Siemens Music Prize for music. But the 'lifetime' achievement may have been presumptuous, as fifteen years later they are still performing - challenging composers and audiences alike.
The current line up includes Irvine Arditti and Ashot Sarkissjan (since 2005) on violin, Ralf Ehlers (since 2003) on viola, and Lucas Fels (since 2006) playing cello. All four pieces played were explorations of quality of sound rather than melody. Each had their own tuning – Irvine Arditti explained that they needed to use a different instrument for each work – and ran out of violins. Presumably there was hurried retuning in the interval.
Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988) was interested in music emanating from a single note and how that experience can be changed by technique (bowing pressure, sul ponticello, sul tasto, pizzicato, trills, tremolandos) and by subtle (and not subtle) changes in pitch leading to dissonance and harmonic relations.
His String Quartet no. 4 (1964) is scored separately for each string – Anderson explained that Scelsi never actually notated his own music, relying on his assistant to transcribe him playing on a keyboard. In a blog on Scelsi Alex Ross talks about the controversy which ensued when this assistant, a fellow-composer, Vieri Tosatti, claimed that the music was actually his and not Scelsi's at all. Nevertheless this does bring up an interesting question about why it is scored for 16 strings and not four instruments, and whose idea this was.
String Quartet no. 4 was expressively played. As a newcomer to Scelsi I was impressed with the range of sounds the Arditti Quartet was able to make and just how evocative this music was. From the opening drone and occasional pizzicato we were presented with one tone, ever changing, sliding upwards and changing in register. From the wind rustling around a stone monument on a moor, it became ever louder and malevolent, reaching a sudden silence and ending with a few bars of stillness with whistling harmonics.
Helmut Lachenmann's (1935-) String Quartet no.2 'Reigen seliger Geister' was written in 1989 and named after the 'Dance of the blessed spirits' in 'Orfeo ed Euridice' (1762) by Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787). Similarly to the Scelsi, this was all about technique and sound quality. It was, in the main, quiet and airy. The performers were required to bow at various places on their instruments, including the wrong side of the bridge or at the nut, and some of the pizzicato sounds were achieved by strumming using a plectrum or similar instrument. While very self assured and technically interesting I felt that it went on just a little too long for me and that it was probably more fun to play than to listen to.
In contrast 'Officium breve' Op. 28 (1988-89) by György Kurtág (1926-) was more conventional and accessible in harmony, technique, and melody whilst still retaining the style of the first two pieces. It was included in the concert because it references one of Anderson's favourite pieces of music - the final movement of Anton Webern's (1883-1945) 'Second Cantata' – and what is the point of curating a concert if you cannot indulge yourself? When the tune arrived, with its elements of counterpoint and cannon, it was liquidly poignant in a way that it might not have been if the introduction has been less fragmented.
Julian Anderson. Photo credit: Maurice Foxall
Julian Anderson's String Quartet no. 2 '300 Weihnachtslieder' was last on the bill. Anderson explained that although this and his first string quartet had been written for the Arditti Quartet, who he described as 'Gods', he only attempted writing the second after the first was premiered in 2013 (29 years after it was written). '300 Weihnachtslieder' takes as it source material 16th to 18th century German Christmas songs, and the spectra of church bells from the same period. In it Anderson used non-standard intervals, usually slightly more than a semitone which gave it an Eastern European or oriental flavour in parts, and he described it as 'the most complicated piece I have ever written'.
Each of the seven sections, the last three forming one large finale, has a festive name - 'von Himmel', 'resonet', 'schön leuchtet', 'ein Kind geboren', 'O Engel, kommt!, 'Gaudete!' and finally, with reference to his friends the Arditt Quartet, 'Leiblichm freundlich'. The endings of each were demarked by a few seconds of airy tremolando. While it did not sound festive it was evocative. A lovely watery effect was created by using pencils as bows, and bits of tunes floated here and there on the surface.
The remarkable Arditti Quartet took each of these works in their stride, bringing to each something different, and more than coping with the difficulties each piece presented, whether that was technique or tuning. They have been doing something right for the last 40 years – long may it continue.
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Moya Angela joins Karen Man and Marisha Wallace as Effie White in DREAMGIRLS
American star Moya Angela joins the London cast of Dreamgirls as Effie White with Karen Mav and Marisha Wallace, who already star in the London production alongside original London Effie, Amber Riley. They will be sharing the role of Effie from November 20 2017.
Amber Riley will play her last performance on 18th November 2017.
The show has also announced that it is extending booking until June 2018.
Electric vocalist Moya Angela has been a respected musical theatre actress in the US for many years, receiving great acclaim playing Effie White in the North American revival tour of Dreamgirls, touring with Disney’s The Lion King and being part of the original Broadway casts of Ghost the Musical and most recently In Transit. She wowed judges and audiences when she auditioned for the 2016 series of America’s Got Talent, reaching the quarterfinal stages.
Established star of Broadway Marisha Wallace joined the London cast of Dreamgirls earlier this year having received rave reviews in the role of Effie White in the Dallas Theater Centre production. On Broadway, she has originated roles in Disney’s Aladdin and Something Rotten! and toured the US in The Book of Mormon.
Karen Mav has been delighting audiences in Dreamgirls since making her professional stage debut in the production last year. She quickly made a name for herself on ITVs The X Factor, successfully making it through to the notorious Six Chair Challenge before going onto release an original Christmas single in 2015.
Asmeret Ghebremichael will continue to play Lorrell Robinson, with Joe Aaron Reid continuing in the role of Curtis Taylor Jr. Joining them will be Broadway actress Brennyn Lark as Deena Jones, Tosh Wanogho-Maud as Jimmy Early, Durone Stokes as C.C. White, Delroy Brown as Marty and Kimmy Edwards as Michelle Morris.
The cast of Dreamgirls will also include Michael Afemaré, Callum Aylott, Georgia Bradshaw, Jabari Braham, Ashford Campbell, Sanchia Amber Clarke, Nicole Raquel Dennis, Nicole Deon, Rhiane Drummond, Ashlee Irish, Emma Louise Jones, Ashley Luke Lloyd, Samira Mighty, Jayde Nelson, Aston New, Sean Parkins, Kirk Patterson, Rohan Pinnock-Hamilton, Ryan Reid, Rohan Richards and Joshua Robinson.
Sonia Friedman, Producer said ‘The thrill of Dreamgirls is to experience the brilliance of the human voice. Effie White is arguably the biggest sing in musical theatre history, which is why we have cast three extraordinary vocalists to play this iconic role. Audiences experience goosebumps and tingles when they hear the fantastic songs in this show, sung by the very greatest singers on this planet, and each of these three actresses put goosebumps on top of goosebumps - London theatregoers are extremely lucky and privileged to have the chance to witness their rare and awe inspiring talents.’
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Tuska Fest, Helsinki
I haven't been to Finland for a long time. Actually that's not true, I passed through Helsinki airport on the way to Thailand a couple of years ago. We spent four hours here on our way out and about twenty minutes on the way back. Neither of those occasions were particularly fun. Hanging out at an airport is quite a boring way to spend four hours. On the way back, we'd been forced to run from one plane to the other and is if that wasn't stressful enough, I'd ran in to a bald giant of a border cop, he looked like Zangief the Street Fighter character, and he seemed to be angry at the world and wanted to take it out on me. As he held me up at the passport queue he made it abundantly clear he didn't give a fuck if I made my flight or not.
The last time I was on Finnish soil proper though was actually the first time too. The first show we'd ever played outside of the UK with Speedhorn was in Helsinki, in 2000. We'd driven all the way from the UK, a journey which took two days. By the time we got to the venue we were all a little dazed since the last leg of that journey was spent on the overnight ferry crossing from Stockholm. It had been quite a night. Within an hour of being on the boat we clocked on to the fact that the place was actually a giant, floating nightclub, full of pissed up Scandinavians. We of course, duly joined them. We were on tour with Biohazard and this being the first show of the tour, we'd never met them, but just as we did, they stuck out like a sore thumb on the boat and we soon found each other. A few beers at the bar around five pm quickly escalated into drunken karaoke, in-band fighting, sleeping in corridors unable to find allocated cabins, a puking incident involving our merch guy and a bottle of Jack Daniels and our tour manager being locked up in boat jail having gotten into a fight with the Norwegian rally team. I didn't even know that such a thing as boat jail existed.
On that occasion all I'd managed was a quick stroll around the harbour in Helsinki, since the venue was right next to it. Today should provide ample opportunity to make up for that. I usually hate getting up early, hate it. But even though I'd risen with the cockerel's crow this morning, well I would have if there were any cockerels in Sumpan, I was in good spirits. Getting out of bed at five am is certainly made easier by the sun shining brightly through the bedroom window...
I'd sat on the sofa watching the early CNN bulletin on tv, debating with myself whether I had time to put the kettle on and make a cuppa, when my phone beeped at the incoming of a text message from Andy. “Oi Brit, put down your cup of tea and make your way outside, we'll be there in two minutes”. It's almost as if the big bastard had read my mind.
The flight from Arlanda to Helsinki only takes forty-five minutes. You literally take off, get up to cruising height and then come back down again. One big arch over the water. Despite only having slept for five hours, I felt pretty good. Well, awake anyway. My back felt far from good. The night before, as in any other night that precedes and early rise, I had a hard time getting to sleep. I'd lay on the sofa until half past midnight, nursing a glass of single malt and watching the film on tv, the Forty Year Old Virgin with Steve Carrell. I lay they wondering if Johan was doing the same thing, since he's the same as me when it comes to both rising early and stupid films. I asked him this morning what time he went to bed last night, he smirked and told me he'd been watching the film.
Whether it's a lack of sleep, a hangover or any other shit circumstance, I always feel better knowing there's someone in my company that's feeling worse. Today, as is often the case, that someone is Jon. When I'd awoken this morning at five am, Jon was already in the middle of an epic night. In fact, it's been a bit of an epic week for the poor bastard. After playing with Victims at Strand on Wednesday, he then travelled up to play the Peace and Love Festival with Nasum on the Thursday before flying down to Leipzig on the Friday to play the Full Force Festival. Nasum were on stage at the un-Godly time of two-thirty am, as in this morning. They'd played the show and then Jon and Keijo, along with Hannes and Antti, their two Finish sound crew, had taken a festival shuttle to Berlin for an eight am flight to Helsinki to meet up with us again and play tonight's show at the Tuska Festival. Just thinking about that lot makes me fucking snoozy. I have no idea how he's coping. I remember going through a couple of festival seasons in Europe with Speedhorn, and as much as the shows were often big and a lot of fun, everything else around it was a fucking drag. It didn't take me long to become disillusioned with festival touring.
It's just past nine am by the time we touch down. Jon is still in the air and won't land for another hour. An old friend of the band, Petri, is working for the festival this weekend and he's here to pick us up and take us to the hotel. Petri managed a tour that had a line up of Victims, Rotten Sound, Trap Them and The Ocean a few years back, shortly before I joined the band. He's going to be out with Nasum on their European club tour at the end of the summer, which will be the very final leg of their mammoth round the world trek, ending sometime in early October. After greeting Petri he asks us if we want to stick around and grab a coffee at the airport whilst waiting for Jon, of if we'd rather he took us to the hotel directly. Apparently most of the bands are staying at a hotel near the airport but for some reason we've been moved to one right in the middle of the city. We unanimously decide that we'll meet Jonny boy later. With that we head off.
Petri swings by the festival site before dropping us off at the hotel. There we leave our merch with the festival sellers and obtain a brief look around the place. Unlike Hellfest, Tuska is bang in the middle of town, set up on large asphalted parking lot. It reminds me a little of Maryland Death Fest in Baltimore, only on a larger scale. Two main, outdoor stages stand side by side at the far end of the compound. Flanking them to the left is the merchandise area, to the right, a little further back, the bar area. The bar area, which is fenced off, creating a barrier between those old enough to drink and those who are not, is almost as large as the crowd standing space in front of the two stages. Andy laughs at the thought of bands playing on the main stage, across a barren no-mans-land to the bar area on the other side.
There is a smaller tented stage which lies opposite the bar area and then further back still, to the immediate left of the entrance is the building that houses the stage where we're playing tonight. The warehouse like building has a large stage and it's own little, cordoned off bar area in the far left hand corner. I wonder if this building is a venue in itself during non-festival times...
I have no idea how the show will be tonight, if it rains I guess we'll be in luck. The line up is a veritable hotch-potch of Finnish goth and war metal, along with some international acts like Megadeth and Ministry as well as the odd hardcore band like ourselves and Napalm Death. We'll see. I'm glad for the asphalt though, much more civilised than the muddy bog of Hellfest.
Petri drops us off at the hotel a little after ten am.
My back has now become completely rigid, so that I'm walking around as if I have a broomstick stuffed down the back of my shirt and jeans. I can't even be bothered thinking about how I'm going to manage the show later. I console myself with the fact that it's the last show for a while, after which I'll be able to get it sorted. We dump our bags in the rooms, nice hotel by the look of it, and walk about the city centre looking for some coffee and a spot of lunch. I need a pharmacy, but I need coffee and food first.
We end up walking about a large shopping centre in vain search of something decent to eat. The options are looking slim. We spot an Irish pub and decide that some pub grub could probably do the trick. We walk in and pick up a menu that is stood on the bar. The menu only has beer in it though. We laugh, making stereotypical jokes about Finish people and alcohol. I wonder aloud if they have the same laws concerning alcohol here as they do in Sweden, as in, you can't sell booze without serving grub. I doubt it somehow. Johan assures me that they must have food in this pub though, picking up a different menu a little further down the bar. This menu only has cider on it. Four pages with nothing but cider. “Fucking Finns!”, Johan chortles as we exit, continuing on with our search.
Our ambitions for lunch slowly quashed, we settle for one of the shopping center cafés. Although the queuing system seems a bit fucked, with disgruntled locals pushing in from all angles, the menu offers a few decent looking veggie options. I order a brie and mango bagel with a cappuccino to accompany it. Unfortunately the picture on the menu in no way represents the food on my plate. The chunks of mango in the picture are in reality a sugary mango flavoured jam. As my dad would say, “It's probably never seen a mango!” The cappuccino is all fluffy milk and no coffee.
Not entirely satisfied, we eat up and leave in search of a pharmacy. The pharmacy has far more to offer than the café and I come away with an assorted bag full of salvas and pain killers for my back. I imagine this is how it feels to be Jon.
It's around noon by the time we arrive back at the hotel. With nothing to do between now and four pm, when Petri will come back and transport us to the festival site, we decide to retire to our rooms and relax. I would like to explore Helsinki a little more, maybe check out Janne's Combat Rock record store, but I'm tired and the store moved to the other side of the city a couple of years ago and the hotel bed is calling me to it. I leave Andy and Johan and head to the room I'm sharing with Jon. I find him fast asleep on his bed, that awful Nicolas Cage film National Treasure playing at low volume on the tv set. I crawl into the twin bed beside his and watch the rest of the film, my eyes fading into shallow sleep every now and then. Has Cage done a decent film since Wild At Heart?
Petri arrives at four pm as planned and we head off to the festival. Hannes, one of Nasum's crew is in the van with us along with Petri's girlfriend and another friend of hers. Hannes is going to do monitors for us tonight. Antti, Nasum's sound man, will be doing our front of house. We'll meet him there later. We chat away amongst ourselves as we tour the streets of Helsinki. We're planning to come back here in January and play some shows with Rotten Sound. I really do hope to get a better look around the place then.
We arrive at the festival a few hours before our stage time. We load out the gear into the back stage area of the warehouse building. It's a simple set up. Behind the stage is a large black curtain, behind that a couple of sofas, a table with a few bags of crisps spread about it and a couple of fridge's with beer for the various bands playing. We'd loaded in through an adjacent room where five or six people were sat washing used plastic beer glasses from the festival bars with water hoses. It's a pretty depressing scene. By their expression on their faces I'd guess they've already been here a while. The room is decked out in beige tiles, there is a drain in the floor, although it doesn't seem to be doing much of a job given the pool of water we have to walk through whilst loading in the gear, and there is a large, stainless steel table where plastic bins full of dirty plastic glasses are awaiting a hosing. The whole scene reminds me from Solway Foods back in the day. I hope these guys are being well paid.
We drop of the gear beside the stage, meet the stage manager, who immediately asks us if we want a bottle of booze, I don't remember it's name but Jon excitedly gives me the lo-down on it. A genuine Finnish treat apparently. Johan politely declines his offer and tells him we'll take it later. Along with Avgrund, who play before us on the same stage, Napalm Death are the only other band I'm interested in watching today, and they're about to start. Some of us are hungry though so we decide to cash in our meal tickets and grab some scran and then catch the second half of the Napalm set.
I myself am not that hungry in truth and I'm only eating now for the sake of time. It's no idea playing a show on a full stomach... When I view the food on offer my appetite recoils further, like a scared dog backing into it's kennel. The vegetarian option is a lasagne based on pickled beetroot. I kid you not! I'm far from being a picky eater, in fact I'll eat almost anything that didn't once have a conscience, but pickled beetroot is where I draw the line. I've had a phobia of it since my days at infant school, where on one nightmare inducing occasion we were forced to eat a dinner consisting of: one hard boiled egg, one mound of grated, tasteless white cheese accompanied by a side ration of pickled beetroot. Everything on the plate stained like a disease by the beetroot's purple juice. I've never been able to eat it since. In fact, for a while there I refused to go to school, for fear of that disgusting so called meal. My parents were even brought in for a talk with the teachers who were concerned that I was being bullied, such was my depressed disposition. Up until about a year ago, I couldn't even eat fresh beetroot, but Jenny taught me, or actually, went on a mission to convince me, that fresh beetroot was a whole other thing. She was right about that, and for her efforts I'm grateful. There is, however, no fucking way I'm touching this pickled beetroot lasagne. What the fuck is that all about?
Johan has a theory that the Finns take the same approach to food as they do to music, in that they throw any old combination into the pot. Like techno and death metal, or symphonic synth and math metal, lasagne and pickled beetroot. He also asserts that they never put salt on anything.
Anyway, I end up with a plate of sauce-less white rice, a few leaves of lettuce and a few fallafels. No sauce on them either. Hardly the finest meal I've ever eaten. We're soon done with it and we head off to watch Napalm. The sun is shining on the boys as they power through their set, playing the same mix of old and new they had a couple of months ago when we played with them in Antwerp. I always enjoy watching Barney perform. I have to laugh though, as Andy had indeed predicted, there are just as many people stood way back in the beer area watching them as there are down in front of the stage. All the same, there are still a lot of people watching and despite the sound being the typical crap outdoor festival fare, it's still a good show.
We don't have much to do but wait around for another few hours until it's time for us to play. I string my guitar again. Getting to be a regular occurrence these days. An hour or so before show time I douse my lower back in Tiger Balm and crack open a can of Kharu beer. It tastes better than I remember it tasting at Carmen, where it's still the beer of the week, same as it has been since I moved to Stockholm. I have another as I watch the Avgrund set right before ours.
From what I can hear from the side of the stage, the monitors are more than up to the job. It sounds great from where I'm standing. There doesn't seem to be a lot of people watching them although to be fair to the guys, they put on a really energetic show. I'm not the biggest grindcore fan but if it's done well, like it is here, it's a lot of fun to watch. It all stems from punk at the end of the day anyway. I can't help thinking as I watch the Avgrund set that it's too bad the Hellfest show wasn't our farewell show for the year. I soon put the thought out of mind though. As long as my back holds up, I'm going to enjoy this show as much as any other.
It started well enough. For a kick off, the room was almost full. There must be about eight hundred people in here. I figure it must be raining outside. The sound on stage is perfect and for the first few songs the energy alone carries me along like a surfer on the crest of a wave. The crowd are going for it and we're playing full throttle. And then about five songs in, it starts to really fucking pound in my back. At the Strand show the other day I hadn't thought about the pain until after we'd come off stage, when the adrenalin had died down. As great as this show was turning out to be though, adrenalin wasn't enough. This has happened to me once before, years ago on tour with Speedhorn. On that occasion we were on a twenty date tour of the UK and I'd pulled my back somewhere in the middle of it. It all came to a head at a show in Brighton and I was forced to play most of the gig sat on a monitor, almost paralysed from the pain. Tonight wasn't as bad as that, but I could barely do more than stand still in one position and nod my head to the beat from Andy's snare.
Even so, the gig was still a lot of fun. There was a full on pit for This is the End and I hadn't even noticed that we were running short on time. The stage manager appeared by Jon's side and was telling him we only had three minutes left. I was actually disappointed because we'd been planning to play For We Are Dead, a song we don't often play these days. But in the end we had to cut that and abruptly finish with Circles/Scars. I almost didn't want the gig to end because I knew the pain in my back was only going to get worse once we came off stage.
Pissing with sweat under the heavy stage lights, packing my gear up as rapidly as I could manage, I heard someone shouting my name. I look into the crowd and see a face I haven't seen in a long time. It's a girl called Chrissy who toured with us in the States back in 2005, when Speedhorn played a doomed tour with Nile and a bunch of other metal bands. Chrissy sold merch for Decapitated and Hypocrisy for those seven weeks and we'd all became good friends. I'd forgotten that she'd left the States and moved to Finland. I jump down from the stage to give her a sweat-drenched hug and chat for a few seconds. I have to get sorted but we agree to meet up at the VIP bar later. Before I can jump back on stage some crazy old punk, who looks like one of the alkies that hang out by S-Grillen in Sumpan, starts shouting at me in some weird mix of Finnish/Swedish/English. He's waving a cd of our Killer album, and I realise he wants the band to sign it. I try to explain to him that I have to pack up first and then I'll get it sorted, the rest of the guys by now have long since packed up and left the stage, but he doesn't seem to understand. He just keeps waving the cd in the air and shouting “Please! Please!” This goes on for the next five minutes whilst I pack down my gear, and after offering the odd apologetic shrug of the shoulders his way, begin to find the whole thing funny and it ends up with me and the festival stage hands all laughing. Crazy Punk doesn't give a piss though, he just keeps on waving the cd. I finally get packed down, take his cd, go back stage and get it signed and then take it back to him. “Thank you please!” he rejoices whilst kissing my hand. Chuffed, he stoats off.
My back is really fucking killing me now and the Tiger Balm and pain killers I bought earlier aren't up to the job any more. I take another beer and a few swigs of that booze we'd been offered earlier, Jon had now been given the green light to go and retrieve it, and Johan asks me if I want some of his special shit, being a fellow sufferer he has such things. I rub in a load of this special balsam and within five minutes I'm pissing sweat like I've just gnashed down a Bradford vindaloo. It does the job though, even if it is a little uncomfortable.
There isn't a whole load more to see at the festival. Sabaton are amusing for about two minutes but that's about it. The joke soon wears thin. I catch up with Chrissy and her Finnish husband Ossie over a beer at the VIP bar, it's good to see her and Ossie seems like a really nice guy. We say something about meeting up again in January, if we come over and play those Rotten Sound shows, and then I catch up with the rest of the guys. We're all in the mood for a beer to celebrate the last show of the year. Weird being that it's only June. After a beer in the wooden shed that is the VIP bar we contact Petri and ask him to come get us.
After settling with the merch people we head back to the hotel and drop our gear off before heading down to Tavasti, a great music venue that has a decent restaurant beside it. We sit down to a meal of veggie burgers and fries, the burger is awesome by the way, made of chickpea and mint with a tzatziki sauce, before settling into a few pints of beer, the odd Jack and Coke and even a Balvenie 12 year old single malt. We pay for the night with the merch money. There is a festival-after-party going on at a bar near the hotel but this is far better, just sitting down with the boys at a restaurant, chilling out over a few drinks and shooting the breeze.
It's must be one am by the time we leave and we're all getting a little sauced up, although in a very low-key manner. We decide to pop into that bar with the after party on the way back anyway, since it is literally only a block down from the hotel. It's a small bar with a dance floor in the cellar and it's absolutely packed. We get a round of beers in. They have Brooklyn Summer Ale by the bottle which turns out to be the only good thing the place has going for it. Compared to the chilled out atmosphere of the restaurant this feels like Bips Nightclub in Corby. We drink a couple anyway, the four of us stood tight up against the back wall. At some point, it's getting a bit hazy by now, some young girl who has been sat next to us, chatting with a friend, looks at me and says hello. In English of course. I say hello back and she asks how long we're in Helsinki for. She then asks me if I want to go and dance downstairs. I barely manage a reply, just kind of carry on talking to the boys, a little embarrassed. The girl is obviously hitting on me and I'm absolutely useless in such situations. I'd never make it in the singles world. Or, more like, if I was ever plunged back into the singles world I'd probably stay there for the rest of my days.
We call it a night shortly afterwards. Well, all except Jon, who decides to stay on and hang out with Hannes. I barely remember crawling into bed and I'm not woken by Jon whenever he returns. I hadn't felt that drunk until we'd left the place, but then instead of going straight to my room I'd tagged along with Johan and Andy to there's, devouring the peanuts from their mini bar and opening a bottle of Lapin Kulta, although I barely drank a drop. Goodnight boys, their mini bar ravaged I fuck off to bed.
I wake up around seven am, dying for a cack and with an agonising pain in my back. I make it to the toilet and carefully lower myself on to the seat. When I'm done the realisation hits me that my back is so fucked I can barely reach around to wipe my arse. In a brief moment of panic I think about calling through to Jon to help me, but quickly reconsider it. I get the job done eventually but it's fucking excruciating and I have to hold on to the sink for support. I finally drag myself up and crawl back into bed, the only consolation to this horrid state of affairs being that check-out is not until noon...
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I left work at four pm. and for a split second or two I was thinking about heading home. Thinking about what to have for dinner tonight, what was on the box, just the usual stuff. I was also thinking that I should really book an appointment with the chiropractor again. I'd woken this morning with my back feeling as stiff as an oak door and then, during a particularly heavy beer delivery at work this afternoon something had gone “ping” in the lower part of my spine. I've just been through a load of sessions for a twinge in my neck which has been causing me pain in my left arm, fucking typical that as soon as that starts clearing up my lower back hops on the bandwagon. I guess I've been taking these deliveries for the past three years now...but in all likelihood it's got more to do with all the touring over the past fifteen..well, not so much the touring as the years of neglect. I've never been one for doing stretch routines before a show. Stupid really. I guess the reality is that my body is getting older and if I don't start to look after it then I'm soon going to regret it. I'll book an appointment for next week. And with that thought I came back to the present. We're playing tonight...
We're in a strange period with Victims right now. Strange in that we seem to be playing Stockholm a lot. We rarely play Sweden never mind Stockholm, but tonight's show will be the third in six months. Must be some sort of record. I guess the first of the three was our own release party and so therefore not really a “real” show. But then we'd been offered this gig tonight playing with Poison Idea and Bombus, something which at the time, felt like too much fun to turn down, and with it being six months after the release party it wasn't much of an issue. Of course then the Black Breath tour came along and we didn't feel like we could say no to playing for three weeks with our good friends either, but of course, the last show of that tour was in Stockholm. I don't have anything against playing our home town but it's starting to feel like we're in danger of getting on people's tits if we keep appearing at this rate. I'm pretty sure tonight will be the last Stockholm show for quite some time though.
It's weird being sat at work all day and then instead of going home you're going to play a gig. Fuck knows if anyone can be bothered watching us tonight. I'm personally just looking forward to watching Bombus. The last time I saw Poison Idea was about ten years ago, when we played Full Force Fest in Germany with Speedhorn. I went to watch them playing really late in one of the tents. I was hungover to piss but even then, in truth, they were pretty cack. Maybe it was just an off night though, it was about two in the morning after all. Still, I wish I'd got to see them when Pig was still in the band.
I turn up at Strand around four-thirty. First time I've played this venue. Last time I was here was the Sleep show, which, in my case at least, was a complete fucking waste of time. I got stranded at the back of the crowd behind one of the huge concrete pillars that hold the roof up and the sound was shite.
I'm surprised by the size of the stage. From only ever having a spectators viewpoint I'd always thought the stage to be pretty big but in actual fact it's quite intimate. Always prefer it that way. I'm the first of us to arrive, but old Bengtsson is stood outside hanging around, waiting for the PI guys. He's known them since way back. Actually, he's known everyone since way back. Andy soon turns up and three of us hang out in the sunshine, chatting with Greken who is organising the show tonight. My back is really fucking hurting but I'm doing my best to get on with things. The trouble is that I can't really bend over, so lifting gear is going to be interesting. Fuck, I really do need to get this checked out. We've only got tonight and then a festival in Finland at the weekend, after that we've got nothing booked so hopefully I can get it sorted then.
Johan and Jon turn up in Johan's work van soon after. Jon is pretty fucked off since on his flight back from Germany with Nasum he'd managed to lose his Iphone and crash his computer in one foul swoop. His mood is not helped by Bengtsson, who is straight on his case, leaning through the van window taking the utter piss out of him. Jon refuses to even lift his head, he just sits there muttering to himself as Bengtsson continues his tirade of abuse. Bengtsson is of course pissing himself laughing, fully amused with himself.
On a less amusing note, Johan has with him some bad news. When they'd turned up at the rehearsal space to pick up some gear for tonight they'd found the place a few inches deep in water, with a couple of boxes merch upside down, floating about the place like rafts without paddles. There'd been a lot of rain over the weekend and our room, which has an escape shaft in the corner with a ladder leading up to street level, had flooded. All the other rooms were fine but ours had taken a hit. Luckily the only damage seems to be a couple of lp's that we're lying on the floor in a cardboard box, but we'll have to wait until further inspection until we know the full scale of it. Whatever the case the rehearsal space is out of use for a few weeks.
In the throes of panic the guys had forgotten my lead and pedal case, but luckily the guys from Bombus were cool with lending me their stuff. Once packed in we set up and sound checked since the Poison Idea guys hadn't arrived yet. They'd been delayed flying into Prague yesterday, meaning they missed their connecting flight to Sweden and their first show, which should have been Linköping. Shit start to the tour for them.
Sound check goes well enough, apart from my back throbbing every time I moved. How the fuck I'm going to get through the show tonight I don't know. I'm hoping adrenalin will kick in and carry me through. By the time we’re done checking the PI guys arrive. Their manager Jay, introduces himself to us. Seems like a really nice guy. Andy knows him of course and they're soon chatting away. Apparently Jay had put out a compilation of Swedish punk stuff a while back and V5 had featured on it.
We grab some food and hang out for a while, chatting with Jay and the Bombus guys. Johan goes home for a while after dinner, but Andy and I head for the terrace outside the bar and take a deck chair each, cold beer in hand. I'll have to be careful with the beer though since it's Kronenbourg 1664, which just happens to be my loopy juice. I don't particularly like it that much, it's a little sweet for my taste, but since it's what's in the fridge in the dressing room it will have to do. I've had a cautious respect for the old 1664 since I'd got pissed out my box on it at an Iron Monkey show in 98'. I'd only drank four pints of the stuff but that was enough to send me over the edge. I guess there had to be some other evil at play, it can't just have been the beer. Either way, I'd made a complete tit out of myself in front of the Monkey guys and then spent the entire journey home from Milton Keynes, puking out the window of Tony Speedhorn's mum's car, leaving a trail of vomit all over the car's exterior... Bad times.
I hold myself to just a couple of bottles before the show.
Andy and I sit there in the sun talking about the next Victims record. Fuck knows when that will be. There's no rush I suppose. In all likelihood we won't really get around to it until Jon is finished up with the Nasum touring later this autumn. Good to hear Andy is thinking that far ahead though. It's always a good sign when Andy starts to get enthused about writing again. He's got another baby coming in August though so we'll just have to see what spare time we can allocate. After this weekend I'll be concentrating on the new bang I've got going with Viktor, Lucas and Kev for a while. Good to have something on whilst Victims takes a break.
It's a few hours until the doors open but time flies by soon enough. I put a new set of strings on my Tele, vainly hoping that that will mean I'll get through the show without having to change guitar. One by one, friends of ours start to arrive at the venue. The doors are at eight, and we're on at half past so I haven't really been expecting much of a crowd for our set. It's pretty empty at quarter past. .. I really don't mind tonight though. I'm just hoping to get through the set without my back completely giving up. Christoffer, who is playing records tonight, has just put a Citizen's Arrest song on. Nice one buddy.
We were planning on on putting on the intro track from A Dissident tonight, before we go out on stage. But I convince Johan that with most of what crowd there is hanging out in the back bar, we'd be better off just going up and making a load of feedback, just to let anybody who cares know that we're starting. He agrees with me and we scrap the intro idea. Those things only really work when you're playing a big festival stage or a packed out club that you're headlining. We tried a few different intros with Speedhorn back in the day but it never really worked out, mainly because we always used to balls it up, we could never get ourselves together enough to all come in on time and we'd stand around looking like a bunch of cunts more often than not. What finally worked for us was turning the amps on with the guitars leaning up against them, about five minutes before we'd go on, leaving the venue soaked in a wall of feedback before finally taking the stage. It worked a treat.
I'm genuinely surprised that when we take to the stage tonight the place is looking pretty busy. Way more people than I'd counted on. We blast in to Theft and things are up and running. I have a bit of trouble hearing the drums at first but Martin, our friend doing the sound, soon gets it sorted and then things are feeling pretty good. As I'd hoped adrenalin has indeed kicked in and I'm not really feeling my back any more. It occurs to me that I'll probably pay for it threefold in the morning but I'll just have to take that then.
The set seems to fly by. Even though the show at Debaser with Black Breath a couple of months ago had been fun, there had been a lot of pressure at the show. I don't know why really, probably had to do with the fact that we were playing at the venue Johan and I worked at for so long. Tonight was just a lot of fun, pure and simple. I didn't notice it at the time but according to some friends of mine, Jon had at some point, puked up on stage in the middle of a song, without even missing a chord. He just leant his head to the side and let it out. I can't say I smelt anything on the way off stage. Jon tells us all the time that he pukes on stage but nobody ever really believes him. I guess maybe it's true after all. He wasn't even drunk tonight and for that matter didn't seem particularly hungover. I don't know what that says for the state of his health..
The show is a success anyway, and I even get through it without breaking a string. After cooling off backstage I head out to meet up with Jen and some other friends before grabbing a beer and taking a place in the crowd to watch Bombus. At first I'm stood a few meters back and the sound is fucking terrible. It's just so quiet. Unfortunately this venue just doesn’t have a good sound. What sound there is from stage just goes straight up into the roof and disappears. Only a few meters back you can talk to the person stood beside you without having to shout. It shouldn't be like that. I move a bit closer, to listen to what is basically the sound on stage and it's way better. After that I enjoy, along with everybody else, thirty minutes of Bombus. Without a doubt one of Sweden's best live bands. Fucking magic. Jon is side stage singing his heart out!
The sound is so cack for Poison Idea that I can't even be bothered. Stood at the merch stall with Jon's girlfriend Ana, what must be six or seven meters back from the stage, we can talk like we're sat on the bud or something. The music from the stage is barely background at best. To be fair, the sight of the Jerry stood on stage, mic in his hand, looking more like he's calling out the bingo at the Silver Band Club than singing a punk set, hardly inspires me to go up front and watch them. Nice guys, great band back in the day, but they just don't do it for me any more
Instead I retreat to the back room bar, along with a lot of other people, and watch what's left of the semi-final between Spain and Portugal. My back is feeling pretty fucking bad again. The game is shite too, eventually being decided on penalties in favour of the Spanish.
Jen and I decide to call in the night early. I'm working in the bar tomorrow and then the office on Friday before heading off to Finland on Saturday for what will be Victims last show for the year. Andy and Jon have had a few and they're more than happy to stick around and take care of the merch. So that's the last Stockholm gig for a while, over and done with. Weird. Instead of hanging out at the venue, drinking beer and hanging out, most likely sleeping in some back room a la tour, I'm off home for a cup of tea and an episode of the Wire before bed.
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Last weekend I was sat at Helsinki Airport, nursing an arse of a hangover, waiting to board a flight home to Stockholm. We'd played the Tuska Festival the night before and it being the last Victims show for a while, the night had been a wet one.
To compound the cack feeling ravaging my body, but also to put it into perspective, I received a text message from Gordon Speedhorn that brought with it some tragic news. Our old touring buddy Jamie “Jammer” Airns had passed away.
Now anyone who knew Jammer would attest to the fact that he was a BIG man. My immediate, natural reaction,apart from one of shock, was to ask if it was a heart attack. It wasn't. He'd died due to injuries sustained from a car wreck. The rumours are that a lorry had jack-knifed into his car. For some reason, that just seemed to make things even worse. That life canend so fucking suddenly, so violently. But then again, maybe it was better to go that way, if it spared him any suffering. Jammer never came to after the wreck so I guess we'll never know. One can only hope that it was so.
I first met Jammer when Speedhorn toured with his band, Medulla Nocte. It was one of Speedhorn's first nationwide tours. The shows weren't always greatly attended but fuck did we have a blast! I'd first seen Jammer in action when the Nocte played Channel 2 in Corby, and like I say, he was a big man and it was hard not to notice him. The stage in Channel 2 was pretty small and that night they just built the drum kit around him as he sat on his stool, and there he sat until the show was over. The amazing thing about Jammer is that despite his size, he could trash the fuck out of his kit for hours on end. He was a hell of a hitter.
During the Speedhorn/Nocte tour we became good friends, all of us did. Our paths crossed countless times since then, notably when the guys started Murder One and John Speedhorn took over from the late, great Johnny Morrow on vocals. Just writing that makes me realise how fucked up it is that two of the original five from Murder One have now left us... It's hard to believe that Johnny has already been gone so long.
I have some great memories of that tour we went out on back in 2000 or whenever it was, and a couple of them make me smile to this day. I remember the show in Chelmsford when, after a string of poorly attended gigs, we finally thought we were onto a good night when an hour before doors, the car park outside the pub was already full of metallers, seemingly waiting to come into our show. “More fucking like it boys, should be a tidy show tonight!” Jammer and the Nocte guys always said “tidy”, it used to crack us up. Low and fucking behold though, by the time we'd finished sound checking, a big coach turns up and whisks the crowd away. It turns out they were all off to a gig in London to watch a big local band who had a gig there. Gutted for a moment, my gaze immediately caught Jammer, who was sat there with a big smile across his face. He could see the humour in it. That taught me a lot right there and then. We ended up salvaging that night by giving John Speedhorn a Mr. T hair cut, using gaffer tape to make a template to shave around.. John thought it was funny until the hair clippers ran out of battery and he had to walk around for a few hours looking like a right knob whilst the battery charged. I think that's how it happened anyway.. He had the do for a few hours in any case..
Another night we were in Yeovil, and being the young tearaway's that we were, someone had invited some girls backstage. Everyone was pretty drunk and sure enough before long the letches were out in full force. We were stood hanging out with this one girl when for some unknown reason, she suddenly flashes us her left tit. We all stand there shocked for a split second, but like a fucking flash out of the blue, Jammer has appeared beside her and has his lips around her nipple! She of course screams, “Ergh get off me ya dirty bastard!”. Jammer just stood there smiling, looking like a cheeky puppy, totally chuffed with himself. We all pissed ourselves laughing, as did the girl in fairness to her.
My favourite memory of Jammer though has to be at a show in Brighton, at the infamous Free Butt pub. We had so many good shows at that tiny venue down the years and the show with Nocte was one of the best. It only took about seventy people to pack it out and this night there must have been one hundred in there. Anyway, there was this sofa that was parked up against the back wall of the venue and on this particular occasion, Frank Speedhorn was sat there drinking a beer and doing his best, as usual, to take the piss out of everyone around him. Jammer walked by him and said something to him, taking the piss back no doubt, Frank then retorts with something along the lines of, “Shut it ya big bastit!”, all in good spirits of course. Jammer stops in his tracks, turns around and then parks his arse on him. You could barely see Frank, you could only hear him wheezing for air as Jammer sat on him, laughing his tits off.
I'm gutted to hear that he's gone. I'm gutted for his best mate, Cat, who played with him for so many years in both Nocte and Murder One. They really were like brothers, and they fought as much as they laughed with each other, but like brothers, they were always there for each other. When I think of Jammer, I will always think of him sat on top of Regan with that cheeky schoolboy grin spread widely across his face.
Rest in Peace Big Man.
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Hellfest - Part Two
I met the guys for breakfast down in the lobby of the hotel. It was the usual fare of bitter, black coffee, white bread rolls and tasteless cheese. Today was going to be a long one. We were to be at the festival grounds for ten thirty am for an appointed stage slot at five past three. All very specific, all very professionally ran. With Tragedy playing last at around one in the morning, and with us all wanting to see their set, we were due to catch a shuttle back to the hotel at two am.
Johan had arrived with Stachel and the Swarm/Doomriders guys around one am. They'd got lost looking for the hotel in this industrial estate due to a poorly updated GPS system they had with them. Fucking last thing they needed after a non-stop thirty hour drive.. Mackan and Uffe from Swarm had went ahead with the Doomriders guys to another hotel nearer the festival site since they had load in this morning at nine. Doomriders are on stage at eleven thirty am... I'm guessing they're all feeling pretty fucked right now. I tuck in to my tasteless cheese and bitter, black coffee and feel a sense of gratuity for the eight hours of sound sleep last night, the only slight disturbance being Andy singing in his sleep this morning...
Johan looked surprisingly fit at breakfast, considering the journey they'd made. Apparently Mackan had driven twenty one of the thirty hours. One band, three guys, two band papa’s. Uffe must be chuffed. Anyway, less healthy looking this morning was Jon. Stachel had shared a room with him and had mentioned that he'd been woken up by a bang in the middle of the night, a bang he assumed was Jon stumbling around the room in a state of inebriation. All becomes clear when Jon, supping on a cup of the black stuff, proudly announces he'd spent a few hours at the bar with Corpse Grinder from Cannibal Corpse. He shows us the photos as way of proof, totally chuffed.
We're picked up by the shuttle at nine forty five and briskly whisked off to the festival. I say briskly, I mean in actual fact, driven at breakneck speed by a kid that seemingly had a death wish for he and all around him, including us. It was the same guy who'd driven me and the From Ashes boys yesterday. You know when everyone in the back of the van is a little nervous when the conversation peters out into silence and all eyes turn to the road ahead as the driver darts between lanes, cutting fellow motorists up with brazen abandon, playing chicken with the roundabouts, seemingly refusing to break for them until the very last second, as if he actually expects the roundabout to jump out of the way for him. Thankfully we make it in one piece to the festival site around twenty minutes later.
It hits me as I gratefully jump out the back of the van that this festival is a big fucking deal, the likes of which I haven't played since the Speedhorn hey day. It's a rumbling hive of production. We're dropped off at the “artist reception area”. A young girl shows us to our dressing room before giving us a tour of the backstage area. It's pretty insane. There is a full on canteen, artist bar, massage area, a hair dresser, even a backstage tattooist. Fucking nuts. Victims have played festivals like Fluff Fest and Obscene Extreme, even Hultsfred, but this really was a whole other league. It felt like we didn't belong here.
Despite the huge production staff, or maybe more like due to it, they'd managed to make a fuck up with the passes. Arvid, who is doing the sound for us today, had picked up a pass yesterday since he'd been here hanging out. Now we arrive and there isn't a pass left for Jen, who is arriving in a few hours time. Luckily Stachel, being a man with many fingers in many pies, has passes available to him in both the Victims and From Ashes camps, so he's able to sort the situation out and I leave him to keep a hold of Jen's pass since ironically she's arriving roundabout the time we finish our set. I was sweating for a minute there though, would have been a bit shit to have to tell the wife that she'll have to spend the night on her own at the hotel in Nantes.
So, stress over, we head over to the stage where Doomriders are playing. Mackan and Uffe look pretty fucked it has to be said. The Doomriders guys don't look much better themselves having made an epic journey to get here. Despite this, they put on a great show and even though it's only eleven thirty in the morning, the tent they're playing in is packed out. They blast through the first couple of songs before Nate addresses the crowd, “Hello Fest!” It's a simple joke. I have to giggle. The simple ones are always the best. Standing side stage watching the Doomriders set really gets me in the mood to play. Is it too early for a drink? Actually fuck that, it is too early.
After their set there isn't really much to do except hang out by the van. There aren't a whole lot of bands I want to see at the festival and we still have a few hours until we play. It's been raining for a few days and the ground is pretty soggy but thankfully the sun is shining at the moment. I hope it stays that way. Festivals really haven't been my bag since I was a teenager and standing in the mud at them even less so. I used to love them when I was a kid, my whole summer was based around saving money to go to the Reading Festival. I went to that festival every year between 94' and 98' and I had some of the best times of my teenage years there. But it's like Jon said as we stood by that van waiting, “Festival's are so 90's!”. He's so right.
After a while we decide to take a walk back to the artist area. As we do so I notice that the festival site is surrounded by vineyards Stachel tells me that the festival actually harvests and bottles wine from these very grapes and then sells it to the hard rocking public here. I have to laugh as shortly after telling me this we pass some pissed up metal-head taking a leak on a grapevine, right behind one of the tents where they're selling the stuff. I make a metal note to myself to stick to the beer..
The situation back at the artist area is pretty much the same as everywhere else. We hang out for while, but we have nothing to do. Stachel has booked himself a massage. Apparently a couple of years ago when Disfear had played here Tompa had got himself a haircut. I feel neither in need of a trim or a massage, having only been to the chiropractor last week. As it is, I remember that my guitar needs re-stringing. It's normally a tedious job, but with nothing to do between now and Vitamin X's set, who play on the same stage right before us, for once it doesn't seem like such a task.
Just as it had been for Doomriders over on their stage, this place is packed out for our Dutch friends. I'm now starting to appreciate exactly what Hellfest are doing here. Even though there are twenty thousand people here, the majority of which belonging to the hard rock crowd, the smaller stages that are a bit away from the two main ones are almost set up like their own little mini festivals. I say mini, but there must be fifteen hundred people watching Vitamin X. They put on a great show as always, treating the crowd as if it were any other small, sweaty punk show. It's great fun standing to the side of the stage, watching them blast through their set of old school hardcore. With the crowd going wild and the atmosphere absolutely buzzing in this big dome of a tent, it seemingly all bodes well for our set to follow.
The last show we played was the final date of the Black Breath tour in Stockholm. That night there had been around three hundred at Debaser and mainly due to Johan and his tense vibe, I'd been pretty nervous. It's not something I'm used to. Of the eight hundred odd shows I've played since I was sixteen years old, I think I've been nervous maybe two or three times. Walking out on to the stage at Hellfest, welcomed by the friendly roar of fifteen hundred punks I felt nothing but an excited buzz. Not the slightest trace of nerves. It felt good to be back to normal. Although the tent was pretty huge, the stage was surprisingly compact, which allowed a feeling of comfort. I was ready for this. Theft starts the set as has been the case since we released the last record...
Although the stage is a good size, the sound isn't quite right. The guitars are blasting in the monitors, especially Jon's, and they're just swallowing up the drums. I have a hard time without the snare and bass drum. I get through the first three songs on instinct alone, but the atmosphere is so good that it doesn't really matter.
The communication with the guy doing monitors is not all that great and although I keep motioning to him for more snare, it's slow coming my way. Broken Bones completely loses me and I play most of the song clueless as to where I am. I position myself in front of Andy's kit in the faint hope of trying to synch myself back in with the rest of the guys but before I know it the song has reached it's one minute-twenty second conclusion, with me still chasing it like a dog does it's tail. I glance over at the rest of the guys and try to gage whether they've noticed..
The rest of the set goes pretty well, although instead of being able to fully enjoy it I have to keep my ears sharp and really concentrate on the songs, which always takes a little away from the fun of playing. I like to play without thinking about what I'm doing, just really letting go. The crowd seem to be enjoying things though, and by that I mean they're happily kicking the fuck out of each other. I spot a couple of familiar faces in amongst the melee, faces from the last tour. There is the bartender from the Heretic Club in Bordeaux, who had kept us waiting all morning the day after since he was home sleeping off a hangover. He's right in the middle of the pit with the same His Hero Is Gone t-shirt that he had last time our paths crossed. There is the singer in the first band from that played the squat with us in Groningen, the little guy with the blond mullet who can't be older than seventeen. I even spot Boulty, who had done us the service of sorting us out with a great show at his rehearsal space in Nottingham, in fairness he's not that hard to spot since he's about seven foot tall with a smile almost as wide. “Alright Boulty?” I shout to him between a block of songs. As he gives me a wave I can't help thinking what a weird contrast it is between this and the floor show he'd arranged for us a couple of months ago. I honestly don't know which of the two I think is more fun. It's a close call.
We conclude the set with Circles and Scars, though not before Nate from Doomriders gets up and sings along to We're Fucked. I always get a buzz out of friends getting up and singing with us. We even throw in For We Are Dead, which is a bit of a rarity these days, mainly because Andy doesn't like it. Fuck knows why, I think it's a great song, but then when it comes to the early Victims albums, I'm still viewing them from the fan's perspective. I've been trying to get the boys to play Moments from the From Ashes split for fuck knows how long but it's not happening.. They just laugh at me when I suggest we play something new/old. I guess they've played those songs a few times down the years though... I can imagine if when Kev joined Speedhorn he'd wanted to play Necrophiliac Gluesniffer we would have pissed ourselves laughing. Funnily enough, he didn't...
I get a text from Jen shortly after we're finished packing down, telling me she's here. Talk about bad timing, although I think she's actually more concerned with seeing Big Business tomorrow than seeing us for the twentieth time. Since we're travelling up to Paris for a few days the day after tomorrow, she's got a large suitcase with her, so I don't want to leave her stranded for too long. Stachel and I go off in search of her, doing our best to work out where she is from what she's telling us she can see around her. This festival is fucking huge and it isn't the easiest job getting to her. The fact that there is barely any phone reception does not make things any easier. We mistakenly think at first that she's by the artist entrance but it turns out she right over the other side f the festival. After about twenty minutes of fucking about I'm starting to get stressed out, but luckily I've got Stachel with me, and he's far better than I at keeping a level head. We finally track Jen down to where the festival shuttle has dropped her off, funnily enough by the main entrance. I spot her on the other side of the turnstiles with the big case. I wave to her and start to make my way through, only to be stopped by some kid with a badge on telling me I can't go out that way. I try to explain to him that I just want to give my wife, who is standing no more than ten meters away, her pass so she can come in. No can do apparently. I ask the guy if he's fucking joking. He's not. I could understand if the area was packed but it's deserted, there is barely a trickle of people coming through the turnstiles by this point, everybody is already inside. I continue trying to explain the situation to him but the prick keeps cutting me off. He tells me he doesn't care if my wife is just there, we can't go out this way, we have to go back and walk around. I'm getting close to chinning the twat by this point. I know he's only doing his job but this fucking ridiculous. I call to Jen sarcastically, telling her to wait whilst we walk around to the “exit” over on the other side and come back to get her. Jobsworth sheepishly says “Thanks” as I walk off in a huff, to which I reply “Thanks for fuck all!” Temper disperses immediately and I feel guilty for arguing with him when he's only doing his job..
After a lot of fucking about, we finally make it to Jen and give her her pass. Now to enjoy the rest of the day...
There are a few bands to watch at this shin-dig... Discharge are awful it has to be said. It's not even a nostalgia trip, it's just cack. I wish it wasn't but it is. GBH on the other hand put on a great show. There is just something a bit more genuine about them and their set. It's really weird seeing my old mate Tony Sylvester from Dukes of Nothing, now up on the main stage as singer of Turbonegro. Fucking trip seeing him up there in make-up. I'm really happy for him though, getting to play in front of thousands of people with one of his favourite bands. He does a great job too. Any nerves he must have had for his first show with them in Hamburg seem to have disappeared by now.
If it's weird seeing Sylvester singing with Turbonegro then it's positively mind blowing watching Jon perform with Nasum. Last time I saw Nasum was at Kafe 44 with about a hundred other people, today they're playing in a tent that holds around six thousand people and it's fucking packed! Adding to the weirdness is obviously the gaping hole where Mieszko once stood, I can tell it must be pretty fucked up for Johan and Andy watching, being that they were close with him. But the guys put on an awesome show, Keijo doing a great job on vocals. It's great to see Jeppe back up on stage going mental too, I'd almost forgotten what a great stage presence he has. I have to say I'm surprised by Jon though. I love him dearly, even though he's off his tits a lot of the time, but as nuts as he can sometimes be, up on stage he's an absolute star! It's been a long time since I've watched him from this viewpoint. I stand in the middle of the crowd watching him up there on that big stage, giving it everything he's got, knowing that he's wondering if we're out there watching, and I feel huge love for the guy. It really is pretty touching. We leave right before the end of their set to avoid the crush getting out of the tent. As we're leaving, our backs to the stage, I hear Jon speaking into the mic for what is the first time of their whole set, weird since he's pretty much the voice of Victims during our shows. “Ingen krångel!”. I crack up as I squeeze my way through the crowd.
I catch up with Jon back at the artist area a while later and tell him that I loved the show. He looks like he's ready to cry as he gives me a huge hug. Johan admits to the guys that it was pretty weird seeing Nasum up on stage without Mieszko, Ubbe nods his head in sombre agreement, and says it feels weird for them too. With that we make our way to the bar.
Stachel is looking chuffed after his massage, although now he's back in tour manager mode, it comes automatically to him, and he's busy trying to help the From Ashes guys find equipment they can play on. Their gear is still missing. John lends my guitar since it's really not looking likely that his will show up before they go on stage tonight.
It's still only eight pm, yet it feels like we've already been here a whole weekend. From Ashes are playing in a few hours time, so there's really nothing to do but grab a beer and head over to the VIP bar where they're showing the England-Sweden game in the European Championships. We say goodbye to Jon and the Nasum guys who are travelling up to Paris tonight to catch an early flight for a festival in Gothenburg tomorrow.
Johan, Jen and I manage to get seats right in front of the big screen tv that is showing the game. To be honest, I haven't give a fuck about international football, or at least the England team, for a long time. As the game kicks off I'm inundated with text messages from friends back home, most of them saying something along the lines of, “Woah, split allegiances tonight eh?”, or “Who are you supporting?”. The truth is, I'd be happier if Sweden won. Even if Stevie G is the captain, the team is still littered with scum like Terry, Cole and Rooney. How the fuck can I possibly get behind that lot? As if to confound the matter, we're surrounded by drunken English football slobs, the type that make you cringe when you're unlucky enough to come across them abroad, don't get me wrong, Swedes abroad are every bit as bad, screaming at the tv in that pathetically overdone cockney accent, the one that literally has me struggling to keep my dinner in my stomach, “Inger-lund, Inger-lund, Inger-lund...” Fuck off. One young skinhead in particular is getting right on my tits, as he slurs out this chant for the best part of the next ninety minutes, occasionally mixing it up with God Save The Queen. I sit there, hoping for someone in a yellow shirt to bang in a goal, privately thinking fuck the Queen, and fuck you.
At half time I go to the porta cabin toilets in need of a piss. There is of course a huge cue which I'm hoping suggests that the quality of these backstage toilets are better than those out on the festival grounds. It turns out that they are, although as I'm standing there taking a piss in one of the cubicles I notice some cunt has taken a shit on the fucking floor. I had thought it a little odd that the relatively clean toilet had such a rank smell, but then I noticed a fat, brown log, lying on the floor behind the porcelain throne, proud as you fucking like. I stand there pissing, eyes transfixed on it, wondering who had made the effort to place it there..
Back to the second half and for a while it's looking good, as Sweden score two quick goals to turn around a one-nil deficit. It doesn't last though and England finally win three-two. That being that we shuffle off out the VIP bar, Jen and Johan gutted. I'm glad I don't really care about international football, supporting Liverpool gives me all the heartache I can handle..
When we get back to the backstage bar, Andy is showing the tell tale signs of having drank a few. It's the eyes with him, you can always see it in his eyes. The night is now getting on and this has really been a mammoth day. We walk back to the stage we played earlier to watch the From Ashes set, stopping briefly on the way to watch a bit of King Diamond on the main stage. Andy loves it, although if I'm honest I find the whole thing a bit silly. To be fair, the stage set is pretty fucking cool, but Diamond's vocals are a bit nonsense aren't they? Andy stays behind for a while to watch them as the rest of us head off to see one of the best punk bands of the last ten years. As we walk down the by now dirt track behind the stages, trying our best to stay out of the worst of the gloopy, muddy pools that have built up due to the constant drizzle, Johan and I look back and notice Andy way behind us, taking a piss in the bushes, swaying back and forth. He stands there for over a minute, pissing like a fucking horse. “Piss Andy,” Johan laughs to himself. This will become our name for his drunk alter-ego from here on in..
Of course, the tent is packed for From Ashes, just as it has been the whole day. As usual, they play a blinding set, and I must admit, in a teenage kind of way, it's pretty cool having John play my guitar. It looks good on him. There is a gang of us watching from the side of the stage, drinking beer and sharing a bottle of the Hellfest wine, I try to block out the image of the metaller pissing on the grapes, generally having a great time.
Jenny reminds me of the last time I drank wine from a bottle at a festival, namely when Victims played Hultsfred and I got so drunk that I puked all over my Langos and then had to be helped back to the van to sleep it off, but I assure her that won't be happening tonight. In fact, I haven't had the slightest buzz all day and I'm not getting one now. Andy on the other hand is buzzed off his tits. I notice him sort of bouncing around between the From Ashes and Tragedy sets, talking at people instead of too them. Right before Tragedy go on I see him stood behind Billy, looking like he's thinking of something to say. He ends up grabbing him from behind and when Billy turns around to face him, Andy just kind of belches a few syllables at him. “Whoa dude!” Billy says before heading off to play the show. I'm now starting to worry about getting Andy from here to our two am. shuttle since I know I'm going to have to get him to leave a little before the Tragedy set is done..
Tragedy as always, are fucking solid. I really like the new album, I think it's cool that they've done something new, slowed it all down a bit, I mean Tragedy putting out a record with hardly any d-beat whatsoever on it is pretty gutsy. It's fun seeing them play a few songs from that record live. They of course still play a load of songs from Vengeance, which keeps everyone happy. Starting to panic about this two am. shuttle, the time now being one-fifty, I start to tug at Andy's arm in an attempt to get him to come along with us. For a minute it looks like it's going to be a futile effort as all I get from him is a confused mumble, but eventually he follows. Johan and the rest of the guys are leaving at eight am. for what will be a long drive to Bruges, so they're staying together at another hotel. We wish them a good tour and head off back to the artist area.
Finding the person who is driving our shuttle back to the hotel is surprisingly hassle free. But then as I'm throwing our bags in the boot, some drunken idiot, turns out to be Swedish, starts putting his bags in the back too. “Who are you?” he grunts at me. “Hello, I'm Gareth, and who sir, are you?” I reply. He just sort of stands there, swaying a bit. I inform the girl who is driving the van that there are some confused people out back who are under the impression that this is a public taxi. Thankfully it gets sorted quickly and at long last we're on our way. It has been a hell of a long day!
Unfortunately things don't go as smoothly as I'd hoped for on the way back to the hotel. Due to the festival, a lot of the country roads surrounding the site have been blocked and for the next half hour the girl drives around lost, hopelessly following her phone's GPS system. It takes us the best part of an hour to get back, with her turning back on herself three of four times. I'm sat up front trying not to lose my rag as Jen (sober) and Andy (boats) are in the back chirping like robins, completely oblivious to what is going on. It's not the young girls fault though, and by the time we finally arrive back at the hotel I'm just grateful to her for bringing us back.
Andy is off home in the morning. We bid him goodnight and I go to bed looking forward to seeing his hangover in a few hours. Jen and I are going to hang out with Stachel and the From Ashes guys for the day tomorrow, looking forward to seeing Big Business. After that we're off to Paris for a few days holiday. What the hell, if the festival is paying for the flights then I may as well make the most of it. Besides, I really need a holiday.
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News Even More Sony Bigwigs Spotted in San Francisco as PS5 Reveal Nears
All good in the neighbourhood
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Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 307
Mid-January blues
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PS5 price, reveal event, games, and more
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Majin Buu hoo
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Kicked in the head cha-la
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Tourists in Trouble
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Guide Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot Dragon Balls - How to Get Dragon Balls and How Dragon Balls Work
How to summon Shenron
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Gridlock on the broken road
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How to race
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Breathe a sigh of relief
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News Voting Is Now Open for Dreams' Community Driven Impy Awards Show
Trophy unlocked
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Thursday16th Jan 2020
Guide Mortal Kombat 11 - How to Perform All Fatalities
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News Final Fantasy VII Remake Delayed to 10th April
The reunion can wait
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Also nerfs Photo Mode
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order developer Respawn Entertainment has done its community a solid by unlocking all the pre-order bonuses the game shipped with upon its November 2019 launch for free. You can get your hands on all those cosmetics right now by downloading patch 1.07 on PlayStation 4, but that's not all the update has...
News PS5 Fans Are Having Fun Imagining the Console's Box Art
There’s a lot of chatter about what the PlayStation 5’s cases will look like. We’ve already done our own set of mock-ups, inspired by the PlayStation 4’s box art. Our theory is that Sony will want something that matches current retail displays but sets it next-gen system apart. Others believe the Japanese giant may opt for...
News PS5 Controller Will Work With PS4, According to PlayStation France
And it's called the DualShock 5
PlayStation France may have just given us some (admittedly unsurprising) PlayStation 5 details. More specifically, details about the next-gen console's controller. On the official PlayStation France support site, there's a page that lists the differences between available PlayStation 4 models. One column shows...
News Cyberpunk 2077 Receives Hefty 5 Month Delay
Now arrives in September
Well, there it is folks. We had a feeling in the pit of our collective stomachs that Cyberpunk 2077 would be delayed, and now we have confirmation. CD Projekt Red is pushing the game back a whole five months. Originally set to release on the 16th April, it'll now launch on the 17th September. That's a hefty delay. The...
News PS4 Exclusive Horizon: Zero Dawn Will Come to PC in 2020, Says Report
Get Aloy of this
Horizon: Zero Dawn, the open world PlayStation 4 exclusive from Sony first-party studio Guerrilla Games, could be coming to PC at some point this year. This is according to a new report from Kotaku, which cites "three people familiar with Sony’s plans". Sony has placed exclusives games on PC before, of course. The likes of...
News Ni no Kuni Animated Movie Is Available on Netflix Right Now
Very tidy
Heads up Ni no Kuni fans: the franchise's animated movie can be streamed on Netflix starting today. The film is available at the time of writing on the UK and US versions of the service, following a set of new characters on a journey within the same universe as the two games. Ni no Kuni comes with an English dub and tells the story of two...
Reminder Last Chance to Save Big on PS4 Games in Massive PS Store Sales
What're yer buyin'?
Just a heads up: this is your last opportunity to save big on Sony’s gigantic January sale on the PlayStation Store. Offers will run through 16th January in North America, and will end at 11:59AM on 17th January in Europe, meaning your shopping time is coming to a close. If you’d like to pick up any of the promoted titles,...
News Hunt: Showdown Finally Comes to PS4 on 18th February
The PlayStation 4 version of Hunt: Showdown really has been a long time coming. Announced for Sony's console back in June 2019, it has spent a number of years in early access on PC where it harboured a community in love with the tense co-op dealings of having to track down monsters using clues while watching your back for other...
News Dreams Sounds Like the Next PC-Bound PS4 Exclusive
Let 'em Dream
It makes more sense than perhaps any other game in Sony’s portfolio, but it’s starting to sound like Dreams could be the next PlayStation 4 exclusive to make its way to the PC. Reports today emerged that Guerrilla Games’ epic open world opus Horizon: Zero Dawn would be making the jump to Steam and the Epic Games Store, and now...
News Detroit: Become Human Dev Quantic Dream Has 'a Lot of Surprises' Planned for 2020
Be deviant
French studio Quantic Dream has spread its wings beyond Sony platforms in the past couple of years -- bringing its titles to PC after their PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 releases. Detroit: Become Human, the developer's flagship PS4 game, even made its way to the Epic Games Store recently. However, it looks like the team has even bigger...
News You've Got to See the Joker's Fatality in Mortal Kombat 11
Dead good
NetherRealm Studios may have its own DC Universe-inspired brawler in the form of Injustice 2, but that’s not stopping Batman’s arch-nemesis the Joker from popping up in Mortal Kombat 11. Due out on 28th January in Early Access and 4th February for everyone else, the maniacal clown is at his brutal best, as he cracks skulls with his...
News Latest Nioh 2 Screenshots Debut New Character and Guardian Spirits
New info every week
In the lead up to the game's PlayStation 4 release on 13th March, Nioh 2 will be revealing new information every single week. That's seven lots of content coming our way, and it all starts today with a new batch of screenshots which show off a new character and more Guardian Spirits. As you can see in a selection of the images...
Wednesday15th Jan 2020
Guide Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Remastered PS4 - Where to Find All 61 Treasures
Strange relics
Where do you find all 61 treasures in Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Remastered on the PS4? Nathan Drake may also be a comedian and serial killer, but he's a treasure hunter at heart. There are a whopping 61 treasures for you to find in Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, and with Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection renewing interest in the...
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News PlayStation 2019 Wrap-Up Provides a Brilliant Breakdown of Your PS4 Gaming Stats
Plus some cool freebies
We all want our PlayStation 4 consoles to track all our statistics, but until then, Sony has a treat in store. For both North America and Europe, the platform holder has created a brilliant webpage that will tell you all about your gaming habits in 2019. Called the PlayStation 2019 Wrap-Up, you can finally get a glimpse at...
News E3 Organiser Reacts to Sony's Absence with Empty Words
Not much of anything
Sony announced this week that it won't be attending E3 2020, marking the second year in a row that the hardware manufacturer has decided to skip the convention. In response to the move, the ESA -- the company known as The Entertainment Software Association which runs E3 -- has published a rather empty statement which doesn't...
Gallery Check Out the Free PlayStation 2019 Wrap-Up PS4 Dynamic Theme
Here's what your PS4 playtime gets you
Yesterday, Sony grabbed everyone's attention with a nifty look back at your PlayStation 4 stats for 2019. To recap: if you visit the website -- here for US and here for Europe -- and sign into your PSN account, you'll get a detailed breakdown of your gaming habits from last year
Guide Best Uncharted Games Ranked
Drake believe
Uncharted is now over ten years old, and in that time series protagonist Nathan Drake has climbed his way up the gaming recognition ladder, from plucky pretender to PlayStation superstar. Starting life on the PlayStation 3 all the way back in 2007, Naughty Dog’s daring action adventure franchise has fast become one of Sony’s most...
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News Sony Scraps Annual Destination PlayStation Trade Event with PS5 Reveal Looming
Distributor will host instead
It sounds like Sony has scrapped plans to host its annual behind-closed-doors trade event Destination PlayStation, with speculation suggesting that its eyes are firmly focused on the PlayStation 5’s reveal event instead. According to journalist Mike Futter, the manufacturer will allow a “major distributor” to take...
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News Control DLC Is Heavily Discounted Before Any Content Is Released
A steal?
Control launched all the way back in August of 2019, and a couple of weeks after the fact, developer Remedy announced a Season Pass. This is relatively normal practice these days; a lot of games grow and change way beyond their initial state upon release. One interesting wrinkle, however, seems like it could put early buyers at a...
News Rustland Grand Prix Brings Mad Max Vibes to Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled on PS4
Oh what a lovely day
We must say, the post-launch support for Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled is pretty great. Every month since it drifted onto PlayStation 4, the game has had new tracks, characters, vehicles, and more added into the fold. We hope it'll continue, as these Grand Prix events give everyone a reason to hop back into the driver's seat...
Feature Dreaming Up Sony's Own PlayStation Theme Park
For the thrill seekers
Nintendo recently revealed its very own theme park area to the world, dubbed Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan. And, while Push Square is quite clearly a website focused on all things PlayStation, we'd be lying if we said we didn't want to go. In fact, we sort of desperately want to join our friends at Nintendo...
News Top Fortnite Streamer Ninja Gets His Own Character Skin in Epic's Battle Royale Shooter
Epic Games has filled its battle royale shooter phenomenon, Fortnite, with tons of cosmetic goodies. You don't need to spend any money in order to play the 100-player deathmatch, but all kinds of outfits, character skins, and more are readily available if you want to look good on the battlefield. The game has crossed paths with licensed...
Deal Read The Witcher Novels with The Last Wish at a Low Price
Here we go, Yen
Well, you can’t say Amazon doesn’t have its head screwed on. The juggernaut retailer has reduced the price of the first The Witcher novel to just £3.00 in the UK, making it an impulse purchase for those looking to get into author Andrzej Sapkowski's fantasy fiction. <products id="11646" style="list"> The Last Wish is a...
News Shenmue III Battle Rally DLC Turns Ryo Hazuki Into a Sprinter
When we heard that Shenmue III would be getting multiple pieces of DLC after its November 2019 launch, this isn't exactly what we had in mind. The game's first slice of downloadable content comes to PlayStation 4 next week on Tuesday 21st January, and it literally has protagonist Ryo Hazuki competing in races. Announced on Twitter, the Battle...
News Dreams Creator Releases Entire Album of Music Made in the Game on Spotify
Now that's impressive
Dreams is now less than a month away from its official launch on PlayStation 4, but the creations made in early access keep on coming -- continually impressing and astounding us here at Push Square. Yesterday, one creator on Twitter named @Byvsen revealed that they will be releasing a complete album of music they made in the...
News New Zombie Army 4: Dead War Trailer Is a Thorough Overview of the Undead
"In 1945, Hitler summoned a Nazi zombie army and left Europe in ruins. He was defeated by the resistance and cast into the fires of hell." Yeah, that most certainly is Zombie Army 4: Dead War. The next co-op focused shooter from Rebellion is out on PlayStation 4 in just a few weeks, and this new trailer will give you a comprehensive...
Tuesday14th Jan 2020
News Sony and PlayStation Will Not Be at E3 2020
Second year in a row
Sony and PlayStation will not attend E3 2020, the company has confirmed to GamesIndustry. The annual convention, which will take place this summer, has been the biggest event in gaming for decades -- but there's no question that its influence has waned over recent years. Indeed, you may recall that Sony skipped the show in 2019...
Round Up PS4 Back Button Attachment Reviews Are Incredibly Positive
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The PlayStation 4's back button attachment doesn't release to the public for another couple of weeks, but it looks like certain outlets have already gotten the go-ahead on posting their impressions to the internet. Reviews are popping up all over the place, and the feedback generally seems to be overwhelmingly positive. The device...
News PS Vita Remains a Viable Platform in 2020
People like to make the PS Vita means life gag, but it’s seemingly true as the portable seems poised to secure more support moving into 2020. Despite the device being over eight years old and purportedly discontinued, there are new titles for the system launching on the PlayStation Store this week – as there are virtually every...
Deal Make the Most of PS Store's January Sale with Cut-Price PSN Vouchers
Save big on digital credit
Hundreds of games are currently discounted on the PlayStation Store, with Sony’s big New Year bonanza entering its final few days. The savings are already impressive, with huge titles like Judgment and Shadow of the Tomb Raider available for less than £20. But what if you want to compound the deals? Shop To has you...
Feature 10 Under-the-Radar PS4 Games to Look Out for in 2020
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Cyberpunk 2077. Final Fantasy VII Remake. Ghost of Tsushima. The Last of Us: Part II. 2020 could be the best year of the PlayStation 4 generation thanks to those four games, but the best thing about the next set of 12 months is that there is so, so much more to be excited about. The battle for
News It's Pretty Obvious PlayStation Has Beef with E3's Organisers
Not seeing eye to eye
Sony will not be at E3 2020 in any capacity, but it will still attend hundreds of gaming conventions around the globe. Plans are currently underway for its presence at Taipei Game Show, while you can expect to find the platform holder present in some capacity at the likes of Paris Games Week, EGX,
Gallery Latest Resident Evil 3 PS4 Screenshots Are a Sight to Behold
Get a good look at Nemesis
Resident Evil 3 is just three months away, and it's looking better and better with every piece of media that's released. The follow-up to Push Square's Game of the Year for 2019 is another remake of a PSone classic -- this time focusing on Jill Valentine's attempted escape of Raccoon City. Another batch of fantastic...
News Sony Suggests E3 2020 Is Not the Right Venue for PS5
Still has great respect for organisers
Ever since ex-PlayStation boss Shawn Layden went hard on E3 a few years ago, Sony’s seemed to be dead against the convention. Now it’s pulled out of the show entirely for a second year running, the platform holder is beginning to twist the knife on organisers, the ESA. It’s unclear exactly what the issue...
News Battle Royale Game Show Darwin Project Is Out Now on PS4
It's free-to-play too
The 2020 release schedule is looking slightly dry for January on PlayStation 4, so we're never going to say no to a shadow drop. Darwin Project is available right now on the PlayStation Store, a free-to-play battle royale shooter which comes with an interesting twist. Rather than reaching the triple digits, the game from...
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Talking Point Is Sony Right to Skip E3 2020?
Jumping ship
Is Sony right to miss out on E3 for the second year in a row? The Japanese giant announced overnight that it won't be attending E3 2020, saying that the Los Angeles event simply isn't the right venue for PlayStation 5. The company's statement comes across as somewhat prickly, but it's been reasonably clear for a while now that there's...
News Ahead of PS5's Launch, Sony Is Looking Forward to Celebrating with Fans
But not at E3 2020
Sony will not be at E3 2020, but it’s still looking forward to celebrating the impending launch of the PlayStation 5 with its fans. Speaking as part of a statement on the organisation’s stance, a spokesperson said: “Our focus is on making sure fans feel part of the PlayStation family and have access to play their favourite...
News Square Enix Delays Marvel's Avengers to September 2020
Just before the PS5
It's a double whammy of delays all of a sudden -- Japanese publisher Square Enix has announced that it is delaying Marvel's Avengers to September 2020 on PlayStation 4 along with pushing back Final Fantasy VII Remake by a month. The Crystal Dynamics developed title will now release on 4th September, assumedly just a few months...
News Microsoft Confirms E3 2020 Attendance for Xbox After Sony Exit
Sony has confirmed that it once again will not be attending E3, but you can still look forward to a show put on by the team in green. Xbox head Phil Spencer took to Twitter to put minds at rest by staying that Microsoft will be attending E3 2020. It's business as usual for the Redmond-based company then this June, assumedly joined by...
News New Resident Evil 3 Trailer Equips Nemesis with a Flamethrower
STTAAARRSSS
Resident Evil 3 sure is shaping up nicely and this latest trailer for the PlayStation 4 remake is proof of that. We get a proper look at Nemesis in the footage above as well as tons of gameplay clips featured alongside cutscenes. It's well worth checking out. Hunters also put in an appearance midway through while Carlos Oliveira...
Review Atelier Dusk Trilogy Deluxe Pack - New Year, Same Old Alchemists
Another trip into the delightful Atelier back catalogue
The Atelier Dusk Trilogy Deluxe Pack consists of three RPGs: Atelier Ayesha, Atelier Escha & Logy, and Atelier Shallie. This is a re-release of the ‘Plus’ version of these games but with a few improvements. As well as improved graphics there are some quality of life improvements such as...
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News DOOM Eternal Rips and Tears Its Way to a New Trailer
The Doomslayer is back
Bethesda teased that it would be releasing an all-new DOOM Eternal trailer today, and of course, the publisher has delivered. The folks at id Software look set to launch one of 2020's most frantic, hellish, and downright fantastic experiences on PlayStation 4, so the latest footage showcased above is well worth checking out...
News UK Sales Charts: FIFA 20 Takes Charge as January Sales Shake Up a Stagnant Top 10
Tekken a look at the bargains
We were more than ready to roll our eyes at yet another copy paste chart, but there are some interesting additions to the latest UK physical top 10. FIFA 20 scores a number one, while Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order also swap seats on the podium. However, a little further down is when we...
Mini Review Super Mega Space Blaster Special Turbo – A Sufficient, if Forgettable, Shoot 'Em Up
The little space ship that could
While a fairly pedestrian shmup, Super Mega Space Blaster Special Turbo does have a couple of features that make it worth a quick look. It doesn’t hurt that the title's price -- $4.99 at launch -- is rather low, too. The most unique aspect of the game is by far the weapon system. Shmups are generally focused around...
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Monday13th Jan 2020
Guide Best PS4 Racing Games
Which PS4 driving games are on the podium?
It's no secret that the PlayStation 4 doesn't have the greatest selection of driving games ever seen. Arcade racing games especially have vanished from the earth, leaving PS4 owners with little choice when they want to put the pedal to the metal. Having said that, we've still been able to rustle up a list...
Best PS4 Racing Games
Guide Best PS4 Sports Games
The best sports games on the PlayStation 4
What are the best sports games on the PS4? Whether you’re a die-hard footie aficionado or a casual basketball watcher, there’s no question that sports games are among the most popular on consoles these days. Whether it’s hardcore simulations or more arcade-like adaptations, we’ve compiled the very...
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News PS5 Will Have Exclusive Games You Can't Play Anywhere Else
As you'd expect
We’ve posted about this before, but in light of Microsoft’s recent comments regarding the Xbox Series X, it perhaps bears repeating that the PlayStation 5 will have exclusive games at launch. This is according to reliable Kotaku scribe Jason Schreier, speaking on the publication's
Guide All Sony First-Party Studios and What They're Working On
Every PlayStation exclusive project
What first-party studios does Sony own? And what exclusive games are PlayStation’s developers working on? In this Worldwide Studios guide, we’re going to list all of the Japanese giant’s subsidiary game makers, along with their current projects. We’ll be updating this article regularly, as new titles are...
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Rumour Sony to Announce PS5, E3 2020 Plans Very Soon
Update: Unfortunately, whatever this was doesn't seem to be happening today after all. That said, Ahmad is known to be a very reliable source. At this point we assume that something is coming very soon -- the timing of the rumour has just been a little off. We'll certainly be keeping our eyes peeled over the next few days. Original...
News 'Experience PlayStation' Event Taking Place as PS5 Reveal Rumours Heat Up
Will it coincide with PS5 event?
This is rather curious. On the quiet, Sony seems to have scheduled in an interesting event in New York City named Experience PlayStation. Taking place between 14th January and 16th February 2020, the event will allow fans to "Celebrate 25 Years of Play with a collection of titles on PS4 and PS VR". It's taking place...
News Reliable Source Rips Up Recent Assassin's Creed Ragnarok Rumours
"It's not even called Ragnarok"
Over the last couple of weeks or so, numerous rumours have popped up around the web with regards to the next Assassin's Creed. The majority of these rumours have lacked any kind of concrete evidence but most of them have at least sounded reasonable, and so they've been the source of much speculation. Enter ZhugeEX --...
News Latest PS5 Fanmade Design Is the Best One Yet
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News Microsoft Says Sony Is Doing a 'Fantastic Job' with PlayStation
Xbox tries to avoid head-to-head bouts
Microsoft’s public relations has changed significantly from the Xbox 360 generation, and it’s not afraid to compliment its competitor anymore. Chatting with MCV as part of a wide-ranging interview, Xbox Game Studios boss Matt Booty said that PlayStation’s doing a “fantastic job” and that he tries to...
News Sony Fails to Infiltrate a Single Spot in Japanese Sales Charts
Nintendo Switch domination
Sony’s suggested that it will not delay the PlayStation 5 in Japan like it did the PlayStation 4, but it’s clear that the company’s going to have its work cut out as it plans to introduce a new stationary home console in a region that’s clearly moving away from them. Case in point: the latest Japanese software...
Soapbox Sony Is Not Anti-Consumer for Making PS5 Exclusives
But do you agree?
There will be games that you can only play on the PlayStation 5 when Sony’s next-gen system launches this holiday, and that’s anti-consumer according to some enthusiasts. While the Japanese giant is merely following the natural order of all hardware transitions, Microsoft has thrown a spanner in the works by revealing that it...
Feature Push Square Readers' Top 10 Most Anticipated PS4 Games of 2020
Voted for by you
Following the incredibly successful community vote for Push Square Readers' Game of the Year 2019, we're back once again to look at the year ahead. It's been said time and time again, but 2020 truly is shaping up to be quite the year for PlayStation 4 thanks to a number of hotly anticipated games launching before the arrival of...
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One aspect of Dreams that's incredibly impressive but also hard to convey is how diverse the things you make can be. Media Molecule's PlayStation 4 exclusive game about creation has such a flexible engine that you'll easily be able to find a ridiculously wide range of visual styles. You can swing all the way from photo-realistic...
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Thirty Seconds to Bars
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Days Gone, Concrete Genie also present
For a game that’s apparently quite divisive, Death Stranding sure has been scooping up plenty of awards nominations. The console exclusive Kojima Productions developed transportation simulation has topped the number of nods for the 23rd annual DICE awards, sharing the acclaim with Remedy’s third-person...
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Looking cool, Joker
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Lao Tzu – Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Lao Tzu (Old Master) was a philosopher and one of the most influential spiritual sages of ancient China. He is best known as the author of the ancient Chinese text Tao Te Ching and the father of Taoism, although it is disputed he ever lived at all.
He was contemporary with another great Chinese philosopher, Confucius, who admired him very much and compared him to a dragon that rises to the sky, riding on the winds and clouds. Yet Lao Tzu blamed Confucius for his pride, ambition and exploiting traditional beliefs for personal gains.
Lao Tzu’s Life
Little is known about Lao Tzu’s life. According to the legend, about 6th century B.C.E. Lao Tzu was working as an archivist at the emperor court. Tired and saddened by the court decline and the evil of men, he decided to leave human society and pursue a life of contemplation as a hermit in the wilderness. He was traveling West on a buffalo when he came to the border of the empire. But the gatekeeper, which had always been impressed with Lao Tzu’s teachings, refused to let him exit the gate until he had written down the principles of his philosophy.
The result was the eighty-one sayings of the TaoTe Ching, one of the most influential books in the history of humanity and one of the world’s most translated classics next to the Bible. Legend has it that the Lao Tzu climbed down from his buffalo and immediately wrote Tao Te Ching, entrusted it to the gatekeeper and then left the empire never to appear again in the human society.
The Teachings of Lao Tzu
The writings attributed to Lao Tzu comprise the beliefs of Taoism, which is devoted to the state of inner calm, nonaggressive approach to life, stoical indifference, purity of the mind and being in harmony with the universe. Tao Te Ching, undoubtedly one of the most spiritual books ever written, also teaches us how to be good citizens and leaders and achieve self-mastery. In Lao Tzu quotes one can not only find classic manual on the art of living, but also a great food for thought and practical guidance, perfect for those who want to cope with the confusing perplexities of life. The style of this profoundly wise poems is impeccable, readers simply get mesmerized by its lyrical brevity and purity of thought.
Inspirational Lao Tzu Quotes
When Amazon.com asked famous author Michael Crichton what book he would take with him on a desert island, his answer was – Tao Te Ching. During his life, Lao Tzu inspired many people, but today his teachings are more popular than ever. That is why we gathered this collection of 30 Inspirational Lao Tzu Quotes that will show you that his words know no time or boundaries and are as much as alive and true today as they were many centuries ago.
30 Lao Tzu Quotes to Live By
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. Lao Tzu
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. Lao Tzu
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Lao Tzu
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained. Lao Tzu
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. Lao Tzu
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. Lao Tzu
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. Lao Tzu
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.Lao Tzu
9. At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. Lao Tzu
By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning. Lao Tzu
To lead people walk behind them. Lao Tzu
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Lao Tzu
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Lao Tzu
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. Lao Tzu
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve. Lao Tzu
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own. Lao Tzu
The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete. Lao Tzu
18. To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. Lao Tzu
He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty. Lao Tzu
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions. Lao Tzu
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. Lao Tzu
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox. Lao Tzu
The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‘We did it ourselves.’ Lao Tzu
It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins. Lao Tzu
One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others. Lao Tzu
26. Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. Lao Tzu
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. Lao Tzu
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. Lao Tzu
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Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it. – Candace Bushnell
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Karma Mayet Johnson, Conjure Woman
Get a bowl. Throw in a few spectral handfuls of Spanish moss, a generous slice of cornbread, and a dash of funk. Add a don’t-be-shy amount of molasses. And don’t forget to put in a pinch or two of glitter, and then run away, giggling like conspiracy. This is the recipe, more or less, that will conjure up Karma Mayet Johnson, a woman of many métiers and magicks. She is a multi-disciplinary performer, poet, educator, and composer. Karma composed Indigo, a Blues opera, billed as a “music and dance-infused story of love and liberation, via Lesbians on the Underground Railroad.” And the music video for her “September Song” seems to be the daughter of the opera, reasserting that erotic love between black women is a radical act of great beauty.
She has performed domestically (the Apollo, the Blue Note, The Juilliard School, Columbia University, Lincoln Center) and internationally (the Melbourne International Arts Festival and in Paris, at Sons d’Hiver). Karma has combined her talents with the Albany Symphony Orchestra, Meshell Ndegeocello, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Bill T. Jones, Antibalas, and The Roots. And here: a random page from her book of spells….
How is “erotic love a site of resistance” (to use your words) in Indigo, a Blues Opera and in general?
To claim sovereignty over the experience of our minds, our bodies, our pleasure is to know Freedom. In the context of the Blues opera, Indigo, the protagonists (our ancestors) were subject to a legal and economic system (as are the women of our contemporary moment–albeit in slightly different form) that cast them as commodity, incapable of sovereignty or of legitimate desire.
The act of celebrating oneself
is f r e e i n g,
is a way of locating Power
within.
That power fuels decision, risk, self-care, intellectual curiosity–
in short,
it fuels our life force, in other words— to bring it full circle. Life itself, after all, comes
from sex.
What fertilizes the roots of the rootwoman? What inspires you as you walk on your art road?
Oxygen.
The faces of human beings all twisted by the lives they lead.
The sounds inside my memory wanting release.
Ancestral music and the architecture
it gives us for compassion.
Communion with my sistren and brethren. And deeply, deeply, the love of my Family above all,
and of the Earth and the One/Zero/Om/Allah/Great Mother/Goddess.
I’m so lucky to come from a family who have always recognized me as a messenger child since I was born, and who celebrate me every step of the way. This is why I love myself, because they taught me how — and so I am brave enough to try this artist life because they told me I cannot fail if I am true. And I believe what they say because they are Black people and if they can have faith, then who am I not to say yes to life?
What artists, living or dead, would you dream of gathering together for an inter/cross-disciplinary collaboration?
Well, I have been so amazingly fortunate to collaborate with an awe-inspiring array of magnificent creative beings…so I would say ooooooweeee
if I could have anybody/everybody I wished for in one place,
it would be in the unity of creation where there is a oneness of time and space,
where Alice Coltrane lives next door to Prince and they go to Chaka Khan’s house
where I am in the kitchen helping chop tomatoes and humming
as Jimi strumming
and then Buika changes everything
by showing how the Black Atlantic is a hard bop…
and Frankie Knuckles brings the dawn with Fela
and Memphis Minnie jammin out to Ali Farka Touré on some Cassandra Wilson-laced zydeco
with bubbles for all…and that’s just breakfast….
Anything else you’re burning to say?
I am working with all my heart toward producing an album of exquisite music that I’m calling ROOTWOMAN! The work of making this medicine called music can get expensive when it’s done using the spaces and equipment and world-class personnel I will have access to –and I want to make a record that will have a classic value, to feed the folks sonic nutrition and nurture the soul. I will be making swampy acoustic versions and house versions of several cuts, from original tunes of mine like “Cool Yo Tongue” to re-interpretations, including Dolly Parton’s “Little Sparrow.”
Learn more about Karma at her website. Line breaks added by Almah LaVon Rice.
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Home > Research > Researchers > Professor Christian Holscher > Publications
Professor Christian Holscher
Formerly at Lancaster University
DA-JC1 improves learning and memory by antagonizing Aβ31-35-induced circadian rhythm disorder
Wang, L., Zhang, R., Hou, X., Wang, C., Guo, S., Ning, N., Sun, C., Yuan, Y., Li, L., Hölscher, C. & Wang, X., 11/02/2019, In : Molecular Brain. 12, 1, 14 p., 12.
Liraglutide and a lipidized analog of prolactin-releasing peptide show neuroprotective effects in a mouse model of β-amyloid pathology
Holubová, M., Hrubá, L., Popelová, A., Bencze, M., Pražienková, V., Gengler, S., Kratochvílová, H., Haluzík, M., Železná, B., Kuneš, J., Hölscher, C. & Maletínská, L., 01/2019, In : Neuropharmacology. 144, p. 377-387 11 p.
Prolonged Drug-Releasing Fibers Attenuate Alzheimer's Disease-like Pathogenesis
Salles, G. N., Calió, M. L., Afewerki, S., Pacheco-Soares, C., Porcionatto, M., Hölscher, C. & Lobo, A. O., 31/10/2018, In : ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. 10, 43, p. 36693-36702 10 p.
The Novel DA-CH3 Dual Incretin Restores Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Autophagy Impairments to Attenuate Alzheimer-Like Pathology and Cognitive Decrements in the APPSWE/PS1ΔE9 Mouse Model
Panagaki, T., Gengler, S. & Hölscher, C., 16/10/2018, In : Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. 66, 1, p. 195-218 24 p.
Neuroprotective effects of the novel GLP-1 long acting analogue semaglutide in the MPTP Parkinson's disease mouse model
Zhang, L., Zhang, L., Li, L. & Hölscher, C., 10/2018, In : Neuropeptides. 71, p. 70-80 11 p.
Liraglutide Attenuates the Depressive- and Anxiety-like Behaviour in the Corticosterone Induced Depression Model Via Improving Hippocampal Neural Plasticity
Weina, H., Yuhu, N., Hölscher, C., Birong, L., Feiyu, S. & Le, W., 1/09/2018, In : Brain Research. 1694, p. 55-62 8 p.
Are Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders caused by impaired signalling of insulin and other hormones?
Hölscher, C., De Felice, F. G., Greig, N. & Ferreira, S. T., 1/07/2018, In : Neuropharmacology. 136, Part B, p. 159 1 p.
Novel dual GLP-1/GIP receptor agonists show neuroprotective effects in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease models
Hölscher, C., 1/07/2018, In : Neuropharmacology. 136, Part B, p. 251-259 9 p.
DA5-CH, a novel GLP-1/GIP dual agonist, effectively ameliorates the cognitive impairments and pathology in the APP/PS1 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease
Cao, Y., Hölscher, C., Hu, M-M., Wang, T., Zhao, F., Bai, Y., Zhang, J., Wu, M-N. & Qi, J-S., 15/05/2018, In : European Journal of Pharmacology. 827, p. 215-226 12 p.
Two novel dual GLP-1/GIP receptor agonists are neuroprotective in the MPTP mouse model of Parkinson's disease
Feng, P., Zhang, X., Li, D., Ji, C., Yuan, Z., Wang, R., Xue, G., Li, G. & Hölscher, C., 1/05/2018, In : Neuropharmacology. 133, p. 385-394 10 p.
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BODY COUNT (featuring Ice-T) inks world-wide deal with Century Media Records
The highly controversial and iconic, BODY COUNT (featuring Ice-T on vocals), has officially inked a world-wide deal with Century Media Records and will begin tracking their highly anticipated new, full-length offering with Will Putney (Miss May I, Upon A Burning Body). Putney also tracked the group’s last effort, Manslaughter, which caught the entire genre’s immediate attention with its sheer abrasiveness and unabashed brutality.
Ice- T states: "It’s cool to be a member of The Century Label Group alongside such a lot of well-established metal artists. With our last album Manslaughter, we tested the waters and got a great response from the fans and critics. Now it’s time to go kill it and make a more aggressive album and keep the BODY COUNT style intact. Producer, Will Putney (Miss May I, Upon A Burning Body), is like a member of the band and has an excellent ear. He’s a great producer because he captures the true essence of our band’s sound. Once we are done writing the song it’s his job to step in and make it sound better. He helps move the record in the right direction, were anticipating working with him again. “Once the records done, were going to shoot a lot of music videos and perform spot-dates on certain tests, etc.”
This is the group that dropped hip-hop attitude into heavy metal and hard rock music before Rage Against The Machine, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park and Hollywood Undead made records, despite nary an ounce of rapping over their mosh-pit inducing songs. Body Count is a full on metal band, fronted by a legendary rapper who drops knowledge, violent stories and verbal middle fingers, with a bellowing growl descended from some of punk rock’s most pissed off screamers.
Ice-T and cofounder/lead guitarist Ernie C have perfected their mix of thrash, punk and bottom heavy doom across five albums, hitting a zenith with the unstoppable Manslaughter, backed by bassist/songwriter Vincent Price (with Body Count now for nearly 15 years), drummer Ill Will (joined in 2009) and new guitarist Juan Garcia of EVILDEAD. They embody the monumental Southern California tradition of street born punk bands like Suicidal Tendencies combined with the aggressive aural napalm of Slayer. From the punk bite of their gold debut through the metallic triumph of Born Dead (1994), Violent Demise: The Last Days (1997) and Murder 4 Hire (2006), to the all encompassing Body Count vibe of Manslaughter, which merges the strengths of the band’s entire catalogue.
Driven by the same iconoclastic, antiauthoritarian and pimp-turned-poet mentality that made Ice-T a gangster rap pioneer, a platinum artist from the streets and a household name in film and television before “rapper/actor” was a commonly used term, Body Count flipped the script with the same tenacity when they bumrushed heavy metal. The first rumblings of Body Count were heard in the eponymous song unleashed on Ice-T’s gigantic O.G.: Original Gangster album in 1991, which hit stores just two months after Ice’s first major movie role in the modern crime classic, “New Jack City.” The fierce thrash of the “Body Count” anthem put people on notice that the Megadeth cap Ice-T wore on MTV wasn’t for show: aggressive heavy metal and hardcore is in his blood.
BODY COUNT line-up:
Ice-T – vocals
Ernie C – guitars
Juan Garcia – guitars
Vincent Price – bass
Ill Will – drums
BODY COUNT discography:
Body Count (1992)
Born Dead (1994)
Violent Demise: The Last Days (1997)
Murder 4 Hire (2006)
Manslaughter (2014)
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Youanmi, Western Australia
Confirmed Mineral Resource Estimate of 1.19Moz Au
Database of circa 550,000m of drilling has been analysed and confirmed
Database indicates significant opportunities that are to be followed up in upcoming drilling program
The Youanmi Gold Mine
The Youanmi Gold Mine is located 480 km to the northeast of Perth, Western Australia.
The area has produced an estimated 667,000 oz of gold (at 5.47 g/t Au) since discovery in 1901 with most of the gold produced from the Youanmi Mine with additional gold sourced from Youangarra, Penny West, Columbia – Magenta and Currans.
Rox, through two additional joint ventures holds large landholdings throughout the Youanmi Mining Centre.
A joint venture with Oz Youanmi Pty Ltd (“OYG”), covering 65km2, and ~ 10km x 7km wide, and surrounds the Youanmi Gold Mine and nearby extensions.
A joint venture with Venus Metals Corporation (“VMC”), which covers 302km2. The Youanmi joint venture covers 270km2 of this venture, which includes 40km of strike along the Youanmi Shear Zone.
The project is situated in the Youanmi Greenstone Belt, within the Southern Cross Province of the Archaean Yilgarn Craton in Western Australia. The structure of the Youanmi Project is dominated by the north-trending Youanmi Fault Zone, which traverses the eastern margin of all Project tenements and locally separates the greenstone stratigraphy to the west from the basement granitoids and gneisses to the east.
Most of the gold mineralisation seen at the project is hosted within north-northwest splays off the north-northeast trending Youanmi Fault. The splays diverge from the Youanmi Fault to the south of the informally named Youanmi Granite and trend sub-parallel with the granite-greenstone contact (Figure 1).
Locally near the Youanmi Mine, gold mineralisation occurs within lode structures contained by shears in close proximity to the greenstone-granite contact. Gold is distributed within these lodes in a series of steeply plunging shoots. Away from the contact gold mineralisation also occurs within structures in granite, basalt-BIF sequences and felsic volcanic rocks.
The project comes complete with comprehensive site infrastructure including a CIP process plant (requiring significant refurbishment) which was designed to treat 600,000tpa of oxide ore, a tailings disposal facility, mine offices, combined core shed and workshop, mine village, access roads and airstrip.
Facilities at the village will ultimately require varying degrees of refurbishment to accommodate a full-time work force. However, for the purposes of exploration crews, the village is well equipped.
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New Trials of Mana Trailer Released
Get a closer look at Duran and Angela's origins!
The highly anticipated Trials of Mana remake is right around the corner, which means Square Enix has started releasing brand new trailers featuring the games main cast! Recently, we revealed some brand new artwork showing off the party and their upgraded classes, and now we get the chance to see them in action! Today we'll be taking a look at Duran, a young soldier from the kingdom of Valsena, and Angela, the rebellious princess of Altena. Check out the trailer below!
Square Enix has plans to release even more trailers in the future, featuring even more of the playable cast, so stay tuned for updates in the near future! If you're a new fan of the Mana series, or a veteran player, this will be one game not to miss out on!
Trials of Mana is set to release on April 24th, 2020 for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and PC via Steam. Those who purchase the game before May 21st will also be entitled to a free download for a Rabite Adornment, which will increase XP gain up to level 10! PS4 owners will also receive a free assortment of PlayStation avatars, while Steam owners will receive an exclusive wallpaper!
Trials of Mana Screenshots
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Infamous quotes by Sheriff Kuntz
UPDATE: We have one anonymous person who is continually trying to get us to stop writing about the infamous Sheriff Kuntz.
Our reply is that he had every opportunity to be an honorable
Article Continued Read More »
Screech owls in rehab
These three adorable screech owls were found in
the Santa Monica Mountains and are now in rehab
Labels: Fun
Butte Fire Victim: "WHERE WAS THE AIR SUPPORT??"
After many months of pussyfooting around, afraid to upset the firefighters who tried to battle a hopeless cause, the public is speaking out more and more.
One man who stated he was burned out like it was a "Terrorist Attack"
Another vehicle chase and CRASH
According to the Calaveras Sheriff's Office, on January 28, 2016 around 3:25 PM, a Calaveras County deputy observed a white van parked at Froggy's Auto Wash
Angels Camp Police release info on Bret Harte threat
According to Angels Camp Police on January 29, 2016 at approximately 9:20 AM, they received information from Bret Harte High School staff regarding a possible threat to shoot
Kool and the Gang refuse GOP invitation
Shocking! Just shocking! Disco singing group Kool and the Gang have refused an invitation to entertain Republicans at their coming convention.
We just can't understand it. Can you??
Labels: Entertainment, Politics
Calaveras Community Foundation deadline nears
The deadline for applying for grants from Calaveras Community Foundation for 2016 is February 15, 2016.
Forms and information is available at www.calaverascommunityfoundation.org.
Labels: Community
Bicyclist killed on Farmington Road
Early in the morning of January 29, 2016 a bicyclist was reported dead at the scene of an apparent vehicle hit and run on Farmington Road near Hwy 99 in Stockton.
Authorities are investigating the case, and are asking if there are any possible witnesses.
Overturned car on Obyrnes Ferry Road
January 29, 2016 at 10 AM: A traffic collision has been reported on Obyrnes Ferry Road, near the bridge on the Tuolumne County side.
One vehicle has overturned and is blocking the roadway. No injuries have been indicated.
Traffic collision in Tuolumne
January 29, 2016 at 9:45 AM: A traffic collision has been reported on Yosemite Drive in Tuolumne.
It isn't yet known if there are injuries. CHP is en route to the scene.
Police called to Bret Harte High School
UPDATE: Apparently, we have learned that it was reported a student had a gun at Bret Harte High School so the Calaveras Sheriff went into a wild spin.
Rain, Rain, please wash the...
...dirty racist cops, KKK's and crazy gun lunatics out
of Calaveras!
UPDATE: This collision has now been cleared.
Tribute to Tim Russert
Morning Joe just did a short tribute to Tim Russert, the much loved and respected Meet the Press host who died a few years ago.
We well remember the shock and sadness of that day. There is no one can take his place. Joe Scarborough credits Russert with making Morning Joe famous. Really nice tribute.
Calaveras Sheriff: Flash Flood Watch
The Calaveras Sheriff's Office is warning Calaveras County residents, especially those in the Butte Fire area, that tomorrow, January 29, 2016 could be a day of Flash Flood Warnings.
Use caution if traveling in the burned areas to avoid being subjected to a flash flood.
Calaveras Sheriff's Office Volunteer vs. sign in Copperopolis
January 28, 2016 at 2:45 PM: A collision has been reported on Obyrnes Ferry Road and Spangler Lane in Copperopolis where a Calaveras Sheriff's Office Volunteer deputy has hit a sign.
CHP is at the scene. No injuries have been indicated.
"NO" Parking by Bret Harte High--Tryon Park Contract
The Angels Camp City Council will meet at the Firehouse on February 2, 2016 for a regular meeting.
On the agenda is banning parking
Early morning chase and crash in San Andreas
Per CHP on January 28, 2016 at 3:30 AM David Hunter (55) of Pleasanton was driving a 1992 Ford Econoline southbound on Hwy 49 south of Red Hill Road in San Andreas at approximately 60 MPH while fleeing
James Woodson of Valley Springs
James Arthur Woodson, born September 6, 1949 in Stockton, made his home in Valley Springs for the past 33 years. On January 26, 2016 he died at home of natural causes at age 66.
Labels: obituaries
Head-on Collision in Railroad Flat
According to the CHP report, David Williams (44) of Railroad Flat was driving a 1990 Dodge Dakota eastbound on Railroad Flat Road west of Buchanan Way at an unknown speed.
You have a Neighbor from Hell if......# 15
If your neighbors owe you money, never paid for anything, even a court ordered payment and continue to steal, live their racist, no-good lives as if it just doesn't matter...
You have "Neighbors from Hell"!! Lazy,
Gorgeous Sea Turtle
We must make sure these fantastic creatures survive!
Calaveras KKK Project - Where is Rachel Maddow??
What Calaveras County needs now is ... love, sweet love! Well, true, but we're not going to get it with the racists that have permeated out county and are poisoning our government.
Addicted to "Breaking Bad"??
On Wednesday evenings the Sundance Channel is running back to back episodes of "Breaking Bad" and it seems many just can't get enough of this quality series, even in re-runs.
Last night it was season 2 and those who had missed some episodes were extremely happy. In the final episode of the night was the two jets colliding in the air and the stuffed animal falling into the pool.
The Three Tea Potties can do it all in Calaveras County
We thought it was perfect when Calaveras Supervisor (Freaky Pastor) Edson got upset that the Three Tea Potties are now running all Commissions and Committees, at their own insistence.
Two arrested at Turner Park
On January 27, 2016 the Calaveras Sheriff's Office arrested Christina Michelle Sharrah (25) of San Andreas around 12:45 AM at Turner Park.
Sharrah was booked into the Calaveras County Jail
Cow on Olive Orchard Road
January 28, 2016 at 8:10 AM: Animal control has been notified about a cow out on Olive Orchard Road and Pleasant Oaks Road in Rancho Calaveras.
Be extra careful if headed in that direction until roadway is clear.
Collision on Hwy 4 at Obyrnes Ferry Road
January 28, 2016 at 8 AM: CHP are in the process of clearing a traffic collision that occurred at Hwy 4 and Obyrnes Ferry Road in Copperopolis.
Two tow trucks were required. Minor injuries were reported. Use extra caution until the roadway is clear.
Cow on Hwy 108
January 28, 2016 at 6:30 AM: A cow has been reported on Hwy 108 near Tulloch Dam Road.
CHP is en route, but use caution if in that area.
A Custom Entry can change everything....
Call ALCAL Door & Trim at
or email alcal@goldrush.com
January 27, 2016 at 2:45 PM: A traffic collision has been reported on northbound Hwy 99 at Lathrop Road in Lathrop.
Two tow trucks are en route to the scene. It isn't yet known if there are any injuries.
AnimalScapes Artist Winner
Wendy Rogers of Amador County won 1st place in the
AnimalScapes Painting category at Ironstone Vineyards
with "Black Bear-Colorful Woods".
January 27, 2016 at 12:40 PM: A vehicle collision has been reported on Hwy 88 at Cotton Street in Lockeford.
Tow truck are en route to the scene. No injuries have been indicated.
Vehicle vs tree in San Andreas
UPDATE per CHP: No pedestrian involved. Vehicle vs. tree with no injuries.
If you choose to live in the boondocks of D2?
Tonja Dausend was one of many taxpayers who spoke about the Calaveras Transit expense, due to low ridership. Supervisor Wright was visibly upset that D2 was being cut to two trips a week.
Which Tea Potty person is Supervisor (Gun Lunatic) Oliveira campaigning for???
Joining Oliveira on the Tea Potty is
Dennis Mills, running against
Supervisor Debbie Ponte???
At every Calaveras Supervisor's meeting Supervisor (Gun Lunatic) Michael Oliveira finds something to pick on Debbie Ponte for. Why???
Dog at Hwy 26 in Rancho Calaveras
January 27, 2016 at 9 AM: A large dog was reported at Hwy 26 and Dove Creek Lane in Rancho Calaveras that appeared injured.
CHP did not find an injury, but transported the dog to Animal Services in San Andreas. If you are missing your dog, go to the Calaveras County pound.
Many millennials love Socialism.....
As we have seen lately, Bernie Sanders, a self-proclaimed Socialist, has gained in popularity due to the young voters, mostly due to the Great Recession.
The millennials, who virtually grew up since December of '07, watched their parents struggle to keep a job, lose their investments and even their homes. Therefore Democratic Socialism looks good to them and crony Capitalism. bad.
Abe Vigoda "Fish" died
Abe Vigoda was 94 years old when he died in his sleep last night, according to his family.
He was a character actor who played "Fish" in the Barney Miller TV show and was in the Godfather, acting well into his 80's.
No "kindness" from Calaveras Supervisors
Nearly the second the photo op for "kindness" was over, the public came forward to slam the Chair of the Calaveras Supervisors for his lack of "kindness". And "Freaky Pastor) Edson dares to be running for re-election??
Cliff (Freaky Pastor) Edson, a close friend of racist Franklin Graham of Samaritan's Purse, has bullied his way through the past year as Chair and continues to bully everyone who attempts to object to his bad policies.
Bundy gang arrested--Blue Tarp man killed
Lavoy Finicum was interviewed
from beneath his blue tarp, known as
Blue Tarp Man! He is now dead!
The FBI took down the Bundy gang while they were driving to a meeting yesterday. The man known as the Blue Tarp Man, was Lavoy Finicum, and is now dead.
It has been reported that Amon Bundy is in custody. They had illegally occupied federal land in Oregon for nearly a month.
Calaveras Elected officials are never made LIABLE
The problem with government is that, like in the case of Flint, Michigan's water poisoning, the elected officials responsible, are never financially or criminally
Car Fire in Patterson
January 26, 2016 at 3:30 PM: A car fire has been reported at Del Puerto Canyon Road and Diablo Grande Road in Patterson.
Fire personnel are en route to the scene. Use caution if in the area.
Threat with tire iron after Hit and Run?
January 26, 2016 at 1:30 PM: A hit and run was reported on Hwy 108 and Kennedy Road in Oakdale when a vehicle was sideswiped.
Finally both vehicles stopped on Kennedy Road and the suspect apparently got out of his vehicle with a tire iron, but then laid it down. CHP is at the scene.
Cow out on Hwy 26
January 26, 2016 at 10:45 AM: A cow has been reported out on Olive Orchard Drive and Hwy 26.
CHP has notified the owner, who is en route to the scene. Be careful if in that area.
Traffic collision in Riverbank
January 26, 2016 at 8:15 AM: A traffic collision has been reported at Claribel and Coffee Road in the Riverbank area.
An ambulance is en route to the scene. Be extra careful if in the vicinity.
UPDATE: Holly gets a home!! Hooray!! --(Holly needs a home.....)
Holly is ready for adoption at the Calaveras Animal Shelter
in San Andreas. Come and visit her!
Orphaned...due to hunting, some of it poaching
Orphaned infant elephants that are found are taken to
a refuge center and nursed by hand. Many of them
die anyway due to shock and stress.
Car Fire in Twain Harte
January 25, 2016 at 3 PM: A car fire has been reported on Hwy 108 and Twain Harte Drive in Twain Harte.
Emergency personnel are en route to the scene. Use extra caution if in this area.
Traffic Collision on Hwy 4
According to CHP on January 23, 2016 around 11 PM Karen Gomez (18) of Turlock was traveling westbound on Hwy 4 west of Pool Station Road below Angels Camp, in a 2006 Hyundai
Horse on Crows Landing Road
January 25, 2016 at 1 PM: A horse has been reported at Fink and Crows Landing Road in Crows Landing.
Be careful if headed that way.
Another FAKE kindness week at Calaveras County
At the January 26, 2016 Calaveras Supervisor meeting, our three vicious, mean, bully Supervisors plan to announce that the current week is "kindness" week.
As we all know, every year they play this game; the presenter leaves the room and they all return to their true personalities, anything but kind. What a joke!!!
Wells discussed at Amador County Land Use Committee
On January 27, 2016 at 2 PM the Amador County Land Use Committee will meet to discuss water wells.
The meeting will be held in conference room C at the Admin building on Court Street in Jackson. Supervisors Boitano and Forster serve on this committee.
January 25, 2016 at 9:15 AM: A traffic collision has been reported at Hwy 12 and Hwy 26 in Valley Springs.
Be cautious if in that area until CHP can clear the vehicles. An ambulance is en route to the scene.
January 25, 2016 at 8:15 AM: A collision was reported on Hwy 99 at the Hwy 4 Crosstown Freeway in Stockton.
Be cautious in that area. No injuries were reported, but tow trucks may be loading vehicles.
In case you missed it....
In case you weren't able to stay awake for SNL, the skit of Trump and Palin was absolutely terrific.
Hilarious! You can see it on YouTube.
Fog in the Valley
January 25, 2016 at 7:10 AM: Be extra cautious is headed for the valley areas today.
There is heavy fog on many of the roadways.
Volunteer deputies help with Copper Run
On January 23, 2016 the Calaveras Sheriff Volunteer deputies provided traffic control during the Annual Copper run.
This is the annual fundraising event for the Copperopolis Fire Department. There was a good turnout and the weather was cool and clear.
Broncos going to SuperBowl
The Denver Broncos defense held on to win the game against the Patriots and head for Santa Clara and the SuperBowl.
Peyton Manning, in what may be his final year of play for the NFL, will lead the Broncos against whoever wins the next game.
Labels: sports
Forty illegally parked vehicles
January 24, 2016 at 1:20 PM: CHP just received a report that around 40 vehicles are illegally parked on Hwy 108 at Little Sweden.
CHP is en route to the area. Be cautious if headed that way.
The General Grant...at night!
Photo by Christian Loya..one of the
Giant Sequoias, the
Sentinels of our California forests
Tree down on Hwy 26
January 24, 2016 at 7:50 AM: A tree has been reported down on Hwy 26 at Flying Dove Lane in Glencoe.
Be extra careful in that area until a crew can remove it.
Mudslide on Murphys Grade Road
January 24, 2016 at 7:45 AM: A mud and rock slide has been reported on the Murphys Grade Road, just outside Angels Camp.
A county road crew is being dispatched to clean it up, but be careful in that area until it is completed.
Two escape from police, then call police for help
El Dorado County Sheriff
Two men who were pulled over on Hwy 50 near Kyburz Friday night, ran into the forest, crossing the river to escape capture.
Early Saturday morning, however, they called the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office for help. They were freezing to death. Both men suffered from hypothermia and frostbite and were taken to a hospital for treatment, where they were arrested.
State of Jefferson in Calaveras County???
As usual our Calaveras Supervisors had a long discussion about the Tea Potty's State of Jefferson bunch making a presentation in Calaveras County.
They requested 3 hours at the Board of Supervisors. What difference does it make? Governor Brown would veto any idiotic idea like this anyway? Get a grip, Supervisors!!
Chain Control on Hwy 4
January 24, 2016: Caltrans has posted chain control at Camp Connell on Hwy 4 in Calaveras County.
NFL Playoffs today
On January 24, 2016 the Broncos face the Patriots at 12 Noon and the Cardinals face off against the Panthers at 3:30 PM.
Winners play in the Super Bowl!
Cliff Edson's Scheme of Clear-cutting for Water
Calaveras Supervisor (Freaky Pastor) Edson has been on a grand slam bullying scheme to clear-cut Calaveras County to give more water to Los Angeles.
The Governor is encouraging him
Woman booked for 21 misdemeanors
On January 22, 2016 the Calaveras County Superior Court ordered Angela Rose Lindow (30) of Valley Springs remanded to the Calaveras County Jail.
Lindow was booked into the jail for 7 separate outstanding Warrants for 21 separate offenses, including alleged Drug Possession, Possession of Switchblade, Resisting arrest, Violation of Probation, etc., all misdemeanors.
Big rig with petroleum stuck on Hwy 88
January 23, 2016 at 9:40 AM: A big rig full of petroleum is chained up but can't get up Hwy 88 at Carson Spur due to the roads being icy.
CHP has called for a big rig tow and Caltrans to sand the roadway. Be extra careful in that area.
How do bisons survive in Yellowstone?
Amazing! Bison take turns plowing a path
in deep snow in Yellowstone National Park!
Traffic collision in Clements
January 23, 2016 at 9:25 AM: A traffic collision at Liberty Road and Mackville Road in Clements has the roadway blocked.
An ambulance is en route due to injuries. Use extra caution if headed that way.
Today is National Pie Day!
Vicki Hollars of Angels Camp
Vicki Rea Hollars passed peacefully on January 16, 2016, surrounded by family and loved ones at her home in Angels Camp. She was 58.
Born in San Fernando on October 18, 1957 to Verna & Clee Scott, the family moved to Angels Camp
North HIghlands gone to the DOGS???
On January 21, 2016 there were two fires reported at homes in the North Highlands area of Sacramento.
Firemen reported having to save 14 dogs from one house and 17 dogs from the other house (and not puppies). What we'd like to know is, WHO has to clean up all that dog poop??
Collision in Arnold
January 22, 2016 at 9:50 AM: A traffic collision has been reported on Longmans Lane in Arnold.
No injuries have been indicated. Be careful if in the area.
Who wants to buy Playboy Mansion??
As most everyone now knows, the Playboy Mansion is up for sale. The asking price is $200 million and that includes Hugh Heffner.
Now it is rumored that Larry Flynt, owner of Hustler Magazine, wants to buy the mansion, but minus Heffner. Funny....
New gas station in Burson? 24,000 gallons fuel storage??
On January 28, 2016 the Calaveras Planning Commission will hold a hearing for the Burson Market, who is requesting to add a gas station to the property on Hwy 12.
Two 12,000 gallon above ground storage tanks are part of the request. A Conditional Use Permit is required by code, but we understand that Supervisor Edson (this is District 1) wants to waive that, as he and Supervisor Kearney did for the asphalt plant in Rancho Calaveras.
300 Truckloads of shredded wood coming to Butte Fire
BLM just announced that Mountain West Helicopters of Alpine, Utah got the contract to dump wood shreds on the Butte Fire.
35,000 cubic yards will be dumped on around 1400 acres in the Jesus Maria Creek fire area.
As expected: Ducks endorse quacks!
It's true! The Ducks of Duck Dynasty have endorsed Donald Trump and Sarah Palin for President.
No surprises here! Ducks always endorse quacks!!
Angels Camp City Council rejects marijuana ban - Good Decision!!
After reviewing the January 19, 2016 City Council meeting discussion and vote, we want to credit the four councilmembers who voted AGAINST staff's recommendation to ban marijuana cultivation within the City limits.
Bears in the pool....
A mama a 5 cubs getting cool...in a backyard pool!!
Stanislaus National Forest Vista: RIM FIRE of the World - WHEN??
I just had the need to look at the location of the Stanislaus National Forest Vista: Rim of the World, and now I know why I will not
Caltrans called for Ice on Hwy 88
After a couple of minor collisions in the Truckee area, CHP requested that Caltrans sand Hwy 88 for ice.
It isn't raining or snowing, but people don't seem to slow down and when they hit a patch of ice, oops!
Animal hazard on Hwy 4 iin Copperopolis
UPDATE: CHP has cleared the hazard without saying what it was.
Featured art at San Andreas gallery
On January 30, 2016 and through February, the Calaveras Arts Council gallery in San Andreas will showcase the art of Terri Wilson of Murphys.
A reception will be held beginning at 3 PM at the gallery. This sea turtle is an example of her work.
Phillip J. Langston, Ironworker
Phillip J. Langston passed away on January 16, 2016 in Lodi. He was 77 years old.
Born April 8, 1938 in Ravia,
Butte Fire big rig backs into parked car
January 21, 2016 at 8:55 AM: CHP received a report that a Butte Fire clean-up big rig has backed into a parked car at Hawver Road and Jesus Maria Road in Mokelumne Hill.
The crew of the big rig has now been called into the SDS office. Uh-oh!! No one was hurt in the collision, but safety is supposed to be their number 1 cause.
Starving baby seal found in Hayward
Photo by Hayward Police
How it got there no one seems to know for sure, but the Sausalito Marine Mammal Center pickup up this baby seal from a business area in Hayward and hope to save it and return it to the wild.
At first no one knew what it was, but Hayward Police were called and when they identified it as a baby seal, they notified the rescue center right away.
John Michael Stark, Calaveras Sheriff's deputy
John Michael Stark passed away Sunday, January 17, 2016 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Stockton, from complications of emphysema. His family was at his bedside.
John was born
Sarah Palin: President Obama's fault son arrested
Sarah Palin addressed the arrest of her son during a speech for Trump yesterday by blaming President Obama for his violence since returning home. He also was apparently in possession of a gun while intoxicated.
She says her son came home from the military a changed person, and that he would have been okay if President Obama had allowed them to go "....kick ISIS's ASS!" We can find no MUG SHOT!
Supervisor (Freaky Pastor) Edson agrees with racist Graham sermon?
We do not believe that Supervisor (Freaky Pastor) Edson realized the Sierra Sentinel was in the chain of emails that sent him a copy of the racist sermon of Franklin Graham; the one that complained the legacy of white Christian males
Governor of Michigan apology enough??
During his State of the State address Governor Snyder of Michigan fervently apologized to the residents of Flint for the poisoning of their water.
Will it be enough to keep him in office. Not likely. He also blamed the Federal Government, since apparently the EPA knew.
It was the Cookie Monster's fault!
Sonora Police photo
It turned out that a cookie caused the collision at the Inns of California Hotel on Washington Street in Sonora on January 20, 2016.
Apparently, according to Sonora Police, Steven Cook (39) of Jamesstown, choked on a cookie and smashed into the support beam at the hotel. No one was hurt.
Calaveras Supervisor Edson: How wonderful is racist Franklin Graham of Samaritan's Purse???
"We love you, racist Franklin
Graham, and your
Samaritan's Purse"
Things seem to be going from bad to worse in Calaveras County with the election of Tea Party wackos Supervisor (Freaky Pastor) Edson and his buds (Gun lunatic) Oliveira and (Ass-Phalt) Kearney!!
Car stuck in mud at Hogan
January 20, 2016 at 4 PM: CHP and a tow truck are working to retrieve a car that is stuck in the mud over 100' off Hogan Dam Road near Whiskey Creek in the Hogan Dam area.
Be extra careful if in the area.
Traffic Collision in Standard area
January 20, 2016 at 1:10 PM: A traffic collision has been reported at Hwy 108 and Peaceful Oak Drive in the Standard area.
Emergency personnel are en route to the scene. Use extra caution if in that area.
The son of Billy Graham???? Samaritan's Purse???
We recently received a copy of a sermon that Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham and leader of Samaritan's Purse gave at the First Baptist Church
January 20, 2016 at 12:50 PM: A traffic collision has been reported on Mono Way in Sonora.
CHP and an ambulance have been dispatched to the scene. Use care if in that area.
Injured fawn on Parrotts Ferry Road
January 20, 2016 at 12:30 PM: An injured fawn has been reported on Parrotts Ferry Road at Porcina Way in Columbia.
CHP has been notified. Use extra caution if headed in that direction.
House fire in Arnold
UPDATE at 10:15 AM: This fire has apparently been contained to the woodstove and flue in the house. Lots of nervous people in the area. Whew!
Say Cheese!!!!!
Today is National Cheese Lovers Day! YUMMMMMM...
Horse near Hwy 49 in Columbia
January 20, 2016 at 9:20 AM: A horse has been reported grazing right next to Rawhide and Hwy 49 in Columbia.
CHP is en route but be extra cautious if headed that way until they can locate the owner.
Heavy Fog causes big rig rollover
January 20, 2016 at 9 AM: CHP has requested Caltrans to post for heavy fog on Hwy 99 after a big rig crashed and rolled over at the Jahant Road onramp in Acampo.
CHP is at the scene. A heavy duty tow truck is en route to upright the truck. Be careful everywhere in the valley as the fog is heavy.
Public Intoxication complaint at Claussen's--arrest
A complaint was received by the Angels Camp Police of Public Intoxication at Claussen's Corner in downtown Angels Camp.
Claussen's insists they have not served the man, but
Angels Camp man arrested
On January 19, 2016 Angels Camp Police arrested Randall Patrick Hagaman (30) of Angels Camp in the McDonald's parking lot on Hwy 49.
Hagaman was booked into the Calaveras County Jail for alleged Felony Infliction of Corporal Injury on a Spouse.
January 20, 2016 at 6:30 AM: A traffic collision has been reported on Hwy 88 at Newby Road between Stockton and Waterloo.
Minor injuries are indicated. A tow truck is en route to pull one vehicle out of a ditch.
Deer on Hwy 12
January 20, 2016 at 5 AM: A deer has been struck by a car on Hwy 12 at Southworth in Burson.
CHP has been dispatched as the deer is still in the roadway. Be careful if in the area.
Mama and baby....
Protective mama and baby black bear
in the Blue Ridge National Park
Sacramento City website crashes
Early this morning the City of Sacramento lost its website, a week after "Anonymous" threatened the act if they didn't allow the homeless to camp.
It is now back up and administrators said it is totally normal again. Was it the "anonymous" people who caused it?
Scoundrels and crooks DO win elections!!
Calaveras Supervisor (Freaky Pastor) Edson keeps trying to tell the public that he is making the Sheriff position appointment difficult to make sure that the best person wins. He stated that the Sheriff is he "example", the person that sets "policy" in the Sheriff's department. HUH??
He knows as well as the rest of us that there are "Scoundrels and Crooks" who win elections and that Calaveras Sheriff Kuntz was anything but a good example for his deputies, so SHUT UP, Edson!!
Large boulder on Hwy 26
January 19, 2016 at 2:55 PM: A large boulder has been reported on Hwy 26 near Woodhouse Mine Road between Glencoe and West Point.
Caltrans crews are en route to the scene. Be careful until they can clear the roadway.
Vehicle rolls on Burson Road
January 19, 2016 at 2:35 PM: CHP was called to Mark Twain Hospital where a young driver had been taken by her family after rolling a vehicle on Burson Road near Hwy 12.
The vehicle landed on its wheels and was driven to another location. The driver suffered minor injuries.
Tea Party Sweetheart endorses....
Known by many as the sweetheart or darling of the Tea Party, Sarah Palin has decided to endorse Donald Trump for President.
We don't know if Ted Cruz is upset or not. Seems that the biggest wackos follow the biggest wackos! Democrats are also cheering for Trump to win the nomination.
Amador LAFCo to meet
On January 21, 2016 the Amador County Local Area Formation Commission will meet at the Board of Supervisors Chambers in Jackson.
The meeting begins at 6 PM and the Jackson Valley Irrigation District and the Jackson Rancheria are both on the agenda, along with the election of 2016 officers.
Traffic collision on Hwy 108
January 19, 2016 at 11:45 AM: A traffic collision has been reported on Hwy 108 and Soulsbyville Drive in Soulsbyville.
It isn't yet known if there are injuries. Be extra cautious if headed that way.
Power poles down in Oakdale
January 19, 2016 at 11;40 AM: Power poles are reportedly down on Hwy 120 near Valley Home Road in Oakdale.
CHP is at the scene. PG&E has been notified. Avoid the area if possible until cleared.
Three trees down in Escalon
January 19, 2016 at 11:35 AM: Three trees are now reportedly down on Lone Tree Road near Escalon Bellota Road in Escalon.
Be extra careful if headed that way.
Lines down in Linden area
January 19, 2016 at 11:30 AM: Line have been reported down on Fine Road at Milton Road near Linden.
PG&E has been notified. Use extra caution if headed that direction.
Hwy 12 flooding in Lockeford
January 19, 2016 at 11:15 AM: CHP received a report that it appears a resident on Hwy 12 in Lockeford is pumping water out of their yard and onto the roadway.
CHP is en route to the scene. Be cautious if in that area.
Hwy 26 flooded in Rancho Calaveras
January 19, 2016 at 11:10 AM: Hwy 26 has been reported flooded at Lucas Lane in Rancho Calaveras.
Calaveras County road crews are being kept busy today. Be careful in that area.
Tree down on Burson Road
January 19, 2016 at 11:05 AM: A tree is reportedly down on Burson Road at Southworth Drive in Burson.
Be careful if headed in that direction. A county road crew will be sent to clear the roadway.
Mudslide on Obyrnes Ferry Road
UPDATE: Per CHP most of the roadway is now clear and passable.
Glen Jordan of White Pines
Glenwood (Glen) Lorin Jordan of White Pines passed away peacefully at his home surrounded by family on January 13, 2016. He was 92.
Glen was born on May 11, 1923 to parents Andrew F. and Kate (Reister) Jordan of Melones.
Multiple vehicle collision on Hwy 99
January 19, 2016 at 8:10 AM: A multiple vehicle (at least 5) collision has been reported as now blocking the fast lane on Hwy 99 near Hwy 12 in Lodi.
Tow trucks and CHP are en route to the scene. Avoid the area if possible until cleared.
2015 Audubon Photo Award Winner
Wow! Winner of the National Audubon Bird Photo of the
Year for 2015 - A Great Egret by Melissa Groo
Collision on Obyrnes Ferry Road
January 19, 2016 at 8:05 AM: A car reportedly left the road and hit the embankment at Obyrnes Ferry Road between the prison and the bridge at Lake Tulloch.
CHP is en route to the scene. No injuries have been indicated. Watch for emergency vehicles in the area.
January 19, 2016 at 8 AM: Chains are required on Hwy 4 at Camp Connell this morning. Drive carefully.
Chains are required at Ham's Station on Hwy 88 and east of Long Barn on Hwy 108.
On January 11, 2016 Sandra S. Jiminez passed away in Calaveras County. She was 55 years old.
Glenwood L. Jordan passed away on January 13, 2016 in Calaveras County. He was 92 years old.
"Eagles" Glenn Frey dies
It was announced earlier today that one of the founding members of the "Eagles" has died. "Hotel California" will be played a lot tonight.
Glenn Frey was 67 and had been suffering from complications of several conditions. Originally from Indiana, he moved to California, where he fell in with Don Henley and the rest is history.
Critics Choice Awards Show weird
Don't know what else to say about the format, host and content of the Critic's Choice Award Show on A&E last night:
Weird, weird, weird!!! Doesn't much matter who won, it was so weird!
Alan H. Corell of Angels Camp
Alan H. Corell July 4, 1936 - January 14, 2016
Alan H. Corell passed away January 14, 2016 at his home in Angels Camp surrounded by his family. He was 79.
A native of Angels Camp,
January 18, 2016 at 10:20 AM: A traffic collision has been reported on Hwy 88 at Carson Spur on the pass.
CHP is en route to the scene. It hasn't been indicated if there are any injuries.
Dear Editor: Questions about RCD??
Dear Editor: I've been reading here and in other places about Mr. Edson pushing a Resource Conservation District in Calaveras County.
Over the weekend I saw a man who works for CCWD,
Labels: Opinion
Flying vehicle tire hits house window in Jamestown
January 18, 2016 at 9:50 AM: Apparently a tire came off of a car on Main Street near Hwy 108 in Jamestown and flew into a window of a house.
CHP and other emergency vehicles are en route to the scene. Be careful if headed that way.
On Sunday January 24, 2016 the Patriots will play the Broncos and then the Cardinals will play the Panthers.
The winner of each game will play in the Superbowl at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara on Sunday February 7, 2016.
Mudslide in Waterford
January 18, 2016 at 9:20 AM: A mudslide has been reported on Hwy 132 and Roberts Ferry Road in Waterford.
A road crew has been dispatched to clean the roadway. Be cautious until they can complete the work.
"I have a dream..."
Parked pickup struck in Long Barn
January 16, 2016 at 9:15 AM: A pickup that had been parked sticking out on Hwy 108 at Snowwhite in Long Barn has been struck by another vehicle.
CHP and a tow truck are now en route to the scene. Use extra caution if in that area.
Car hits stop sign on Hwy 26
UPDATE: Traffic is now being directed at this intersection. Watch for officer when in the area.
January 18, 2016 at 7:45 AM: A car has hit a stop sign at Hwy 26 and Jack Tone Road in the Linden area.
CHP is en route. It isn't yet known if there are injuries. Use extra caution on all roadways this morning.
Hwy 12 flooding in Valley Springs
UPDATE; Several locations are now reported flooded. Watch for water in intersections as you go out on the roadways this morning.
Vehicle hits gate in Clements
January 18, 2016 at 7:30 AM: A vehicle hit the gate of a winery at Clements and Harney in the Clements area and left the scene.
CHP is en route to the scene.
Carolina beats Seattle
The Carolina Panthers held on to beat the Seattle Seahawks 31-24.
The Panthers didn't score in the 2nd half, but the Seahawks just didn't have time to come back from a 31-0 1st half.
This glorious elephant......
....appears to have been baiting by food and tortured
and killed for fun by SCUMBAGS who actually
posed as if they should be proud!!
Vehicle fire on Mountain Ranch Road
January 17, 2016 at 10:50 AM: A Chevy Impala has been reported on fire and moving on Mountain Ranch Road near 3M lane in Mountain Ranch.
Fire personnel are responding to the scene.
Calves on Sutter Creek Road
January 17, 2016 at 10:30 AM: Calves are reportedly on Sutter Creek Road in Sutter Creek, but don't tell the TROLL!
CHP is en route to the scene and will locate the owners.
On Saturday January 16, 2016 the Patriots beat the Chiefs and the Cardinals beat the Packers in their playoff games.
Today January 17, 2016 the Seahawks play the Panthers at 10AM and the Steelers play the Broncos at 1:30 PM.
Car hits two trees and sign
January 17, 2016 at 8:45 AM: A car has reportedly run off Hwy 99 and hit two trees and a sign near Hammer Lane in Stockton.
Use extra caution if in that area. CHP is en route to the scene.
Friends of the Fair meets at Camps
On January 20, 2016 the Friends of the Calaveras County Fair will meet at Camps Restaurant in Greenhorn Creek.
The meeting will begin at 6 PM. The public is invited to attend.
Vehicle fire in San Andreas
UPDATE: This fire was extinguished quickly by the first engine on the scene.
National Parks free on MLK Day
On Monday January 18, 2016 all parks and national public lands are free to access for everyone.
Go enjoy your favorite park on your day off! Take the kids!
Carmichael man wins $600,000 in Powerball
Albert Graham, a 79-year-old retired concrete worker won over $600,000 in the Powerball drawing this week.
He had all 5 numbers, but was missing the Powerball number. The ticket was bought in the Santa Cruz area.
Burglary in Angels Camp
On January 15, 2016 a resident on Chestnut Way in Angels Camp reported a burglary to the Calaveras Sheriff's Office.
The Sheriff's Office took a report of the incident. No other details are available at this time.
Head-on collision on Hwy 88
January 16, 2016 at 10:15 AM: A head-on collision has been reported on Hwy 88 at the Carson Spur, not far from Kirkwood Ski Resort.
An ambulance and other emergency personnel are en route to the scene. Please be extra careful if in that area.
Walmart closing 154 stores
Walmart announced late yesterday that they will be closing 154 stores in the US due to lagging sales at those locations.
K-Mart has also announced closing some retail stores.
Kudos to President Obama
In a prisoner sway earlier today, Iran released 4 people, 2 of them journalists who had been detained last year.
This is proof that diplomacy; NOT WAR, works and President Obama, along with Secretary of State Kerry and Hillary Clinton get the praise and credit for this.
NO MORE WARS, Republicans!!
If you are against Marijuana.....
This plant can help end
addiction to big pharma drugs
and alcohol, save lives!!
....you are living in the age of the 1920's and Prohibition! It also means that you like what BOOZE does to people's livers and kidneys, not to mention the killings by drunks
Union Public Utility District meets in Murphys
On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 7 PM the Union Public Utility District meets in Murphys for their regular Board meeting on Main Street.
On the agenda is 2015 finances, appointment and swearing in of new Director and election of officers for 2016.
Caltrans work on Hwy 26
Beginning on January 18, 2016 and continuing through January 23, 2016 Caltrans crews have scheduled work on Hwy 26 between Happy Valley Road in Mokelumne Hill and Lower Dorray Road in Glencoe.
Be careful if you must travel in that area during the week. One-way traffic and 15 minute delays.
Dodge pickup crashes into embankment
UPDATE: Fortunately injuries were considered minor in this crash.
DOW down another 400 points
The stock market took another plunge into the depths of despair today, dumping nearly 400 points in addition to the earlier losses this week.
January 2016 could set a record for losses in January. The NASDAQ and S & P also had big losses.
"Grizzly Adams" star dies
Dan Haggerty, who starred in the "Life and Times of Grizzly Adams" in 1977 has died, we just learned.
He was 74 and had been suffering from spinal cancer.
49ers hire Chip Kelly
Less than 11 days after firing Jim Tomsula, the Santa Clara 49ers have hired Chip Kelly to a 4 year contract as coach.
Kelly was fired from the Eagles in December. Looks like Colin Kaepernick may be back in as QB.
Overturned car off Hwy 4 at Big Trees
UPDATE at 11:05 AM: One way traffic control is in effect.
Republican Debate another Circus
As usual the FOX Business Channel (it was hard to find it) tried to run the first 2016 Republican Presidential debate last night. Of course the 'birther' issue came up!
It turned into a battle between Trump and Cruz, with the little guy Rubio trying to get into the fray, Ben Carson complaining of no time and Bush sliding further into the
abyss of non-candidacy.
Angels Camp City Council meets-Ban Marijuana???
On Tuesday, January 19, 2016 the Angels Camp City Council will meet at the Angels Firehouse at 6 PM.
On the agenda is increasing the cost
Red Foxes playing
These two beautiful young red foxes were
photographed this week at the Alaska
Peninsula Wildlife Refuge
January 15, 2016 at 8:20 AM: A traffic collision has been reported on Buena Vista Ave. at Hwy 88 in the Clements area.
No injuries have been indicated, but use caution as emergency vehicles will be in the area.
Injured deer on Obyrnes Ferry Road
January 15, 2016 at 8:15 AM: An injured deer has been reported trying to drag itself down Obyrnes Ferry Road at Conner Estates Drive in Copperopolis.
CHP is en route to the scene. Use extra caution if in that area.
Collision following honking and tailgaiting
January 15, 2016 at 6:55 AM: A collision has been reported on Hwy 49 near the bridge overpass, following honking and tailgating.
CHP and other emergency crews are en route to the scene. Drive carefully and watch for vehicles in that area.
Crash on Mountain Ranch Road
January 15, 2016 at 6:40 AM: A vehicle crash has been reported on Mountain Ranch Road near Rocky Road in the San Andreas area.
Emergency personnel is en route to the scene. Use caution if headed that way.
Calaveras County will accept outside Sheriff applicants
At the Calaveras Board of Supervisors meeting on January 12, 2016 direction was given to staff of Human Resources to allow applicants from outside the Sheriff's Office to apply for the position of
Traffic collision in Bear Valley
January 14, 2016 at 3:50 PM: A traffic collision has been reported on Hwy 4 at Bear Valley Road in Bear Valley.
It isn't known if there are any injuries. CHP has been dispatched to the scene. Be careful if in that area.
Motorhome stuck on Old Priest Grade
January 16, 2016 at 3:45 PM: A motorhome is reportedly stuck on Old Priest Grade not far from Groveland.
CHP and a tow truck are en route to the scene. Use extra caution if headed that way.
Car vs tree in Glencoe area
January 14, 2016 at 12:50 PM: A car reportedly hit a tree at Hwy 26 and Deardorf Road in the Glencoe area.
No injuries were indicated, but be cautious if headed that way.
Four vehicle crash in San Andreas
January 14, 2016 at 11:30 AM: Two vehicles are in the ditch and four vehicles were involved in a crash at Hwy 12 and Hwy 49 in San Andreas.
CHP is at the scene. Use caution if in that area. No injuries were indicated. One pickup was apparently pulling a trailer. One witness thought one driver was driving recklessly.
Calaveras Developer given million dollar GIFT by Tea Potty three
"We can't get up yet. We have
more to dump on residents
of Calaveras County!!"
At the Calaveras Supervisors meeting on Tuesday January 12, 2016 the big developer in Valley Springs, Ryan Voorhees, was given a special gift by Supervisor (Freaky Pastor) Edson,
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Root canal morphology of human primary maxillary molars in Indian population using spiral computed tomography scan: An in vitro study
Rajendran Vijayakumar1, Haridoss Selvakumar1, Kavitha Swaminathan2, Eapen Thomas3, Rajendran Ganesh1, Senthikumar Palanimuthu4,
1 Department of Pedodontics, SRM Dental College, SRM University, Chennai, India
2 Department of Pedodontics, Faculty of Dental Sciences, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, India
3 Specialist Pedodontist, Sunny Dental Centre, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
4 Department of Pedodontics, Vinayaka Mission's Sankarachariyar Dental College and Hospital, Vinayaka Missions Deemed University, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India
Haridoss Selvakumar
AG1 Guru Royal Palace, Rayala Nagar 1st Main Road, Ramapuram, Chennai - 600 089, Tamil Nadu
Aim: The aim of the study was to evaluate the root canal morphology of primary maxillary molars in Indian population using spiral computed tomography (SCT). Materials and Methods: The 30 extracted primary maxillary molars were collected. The teeth were scanned using SCT. The scanned data was then transferred to image analysis software and evaluated for the following: Distance between the central fissure to furcation, distance between the central fissure to the floor of the pulp chamber, height of the pulp chamber (roof-floor), distance between the floor of the pulp chamber to the furcation and number of canals. Results: The results of this study shows that the average mean distance from the central fissure to the floor of the pulp chamber is 5.02 mm and 5.32 mm in first maxillary primary molar and second maxillary primary molar. Conclusion: Knowledge of the root canal morphology and anatomical landmarks of the primary maxillary molar might be a very helpful indicator to the dentist during access opening.
Vijayakumar R, Selvakumar H, Swaminathan K, Thomas E, Ganesh R, Palanimuthu S. Root canal morphology of human primary maxillary molars in Indian population using spiral computed tomography scan: An in vitro study.SRM J Res Dent Sci 2013;4:139-142
Vijayakumar R, Selvakumar H, Swaminathan K, Thomas E, Ganesh R, Palanimuthu S. Root canal morphology of human primary maxillary molars in Indian population using spiral computed tomography scan: An in vitro study. SRM J Res Dent Sci [serial online] 2013 [cited 2020 Jan 19 ];4:139-142
Available from: http://www.srmjrds.in/text.asp?2013/4/4/139/125587
Knowledge of the size, morphology and disparity of the root canals of primary teeth are helpful in visualizing the pulp cavity during treatment. Since primary teeth exhibit morphologic differences from the permanent teeth both in size, external and internal morphology. [1] Successful endodontic treatment lies in understanding the complex root canal system. Many of the errors occur during the access cavity preparation or when locating the canals orifices, which is dependent on the dentists tactile perception and knowledge of the dental anatomy. [2]
The use of computed tomography (CT) to evaluate the quality of root canal preparation has been reported to provide better results than other methods such as radiographic imaging, cross-sectioning and longitudinal cleavage. [3]
There is a lack of literature regarding the pulpal measurements in primary teeth. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the root canal morphology of primary maxillary molars in Indian population using spiral computed tomography (SCT).
A total of 30 extracted human primary maxillary molars were collected. The teeth were divided into two groups. Group I - maxillary primary first molar-15, Group II - maxillary primary second molar-15. The extracted teeth were collected from the Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry from various Dental Colleges in Chennai. Teeth that were badly mutilated, severely attrited, endodontically treated, or restored with glass ionomer cement or stainless steel crown were excluded. The age, gender and systemic condition of the patient were unknown. The teeth were stored in formalin and any attached soft-tissue and calculus were removed with an ultrasonic scaler.
Scanning Procedure
The teeth were mounted horizontally on a modeling wax sheet and scanned using a Light Speed Plus CT Scanner (GE Electricals, Milwaukee, USA). They were then viewed both cross-sectionally and longitudinally with a constant thickness of 0.65 mm/slice and a constant spiral or table speed of 0.75 and 120 kVp. The scanned data was then transferred to Advantage windows workstation (GE Systems, Milwaukee, WI) image analysis and evaluated for the following:
Distance between the central fissure to furcation, Distance between the central fissure to the floor of the pulp chamber, Height of the pulp chamber (roof-floor), Distance between the floor of the pulp chamber to the furcation, Number of canals.
For evaluating pulp chamber morphology, the centermost CT scan slice of each tooth in the longitudinal section was taken and all the measurements were taken from the central fissure.
For finding out the number of root canals present, the cross-sectional view was used. Data were collected and the results were statistically analyzed.
Distance between the central fissure to furcation:
The mean distance between the central fissure to furcation was found to be 7.13 (12.5%) in first primary maxillary molars, 7.38 (33%) in second primary maxillary molars.[Figure 1]Distance between the central fissure to the floor of the pulp chamber:
The mean distance between the central fissure to the floor of the pulp chamber was found to be 5.02 (25%) in first primary maxillary molars, 5.32 (25%) in second primary maxillary molars.[Figure 2]Height of the pulp chamber (roof-floor):
The height of the pulp chamber was found to be 1.6 (25%) in first primary maxillary molars, 1.71 (28.57%) in second primary maxillary molars.Distance between the floor of the pulp chamber to the furcation:
The mean distance between the floor of the pulp chamber to furcation was found to be 2.03 (25%) in first primary maxillary molars, 1.73 (28.57%) in second primary maxillary molars.Number of root canals:
In Group I (first primary maxillary molars), 2 of the samples had 2 canals both distobuccal and palatal root canals are fused and in 13 of the samples had 3 canals (mesiobuccal, distobuccaland palatal). In Group II (second primary maxillary molars), 2 of the samples had 4 canals (mesiobuccal, distobuccal and 2 palatal canals) [Figure 3] [Table 1].{Figure 1}{Figure 2}{Figure 3}{Table 1}
Understanding the depth of the pulp chamber will be a first step for precise access cavity preparation in primary multirooted teeth. An attempt was made to understand the pulpal chamber better to reduce the common errors like perforation in primary maxillary molars.
Earlier studies on root canal anatomy were performed using demineralizing and injecting a dye technique. However, this technique had the disadvantage of producing irreversible changes to the studied sample. Few studies have used radiographs as the methodology to evaluate root canal morphology. [4] The radiographs produce only a two-dimensional image of a three-dimensional object and can lead to superimposition of the root canals (i.e., they tend to lie one behind the other in the buccolingual plane and can easily go undetected). [5] SCT is being used in the treatment planning for dental implants, management of maxillofacial trauma and assessment of unusual root canal morphology. [6]
Tachibana and Matsumoto in their study concluded that CT scans allowed the observation of the morphology of the root canals, the roots and the appearance of the tooth in every direction and it also permits its three-dimensional reconstruction. [7] Hence, in our study we used SCT to assess the root canal morphology of primary maxillary molars.
In the present study, average distance between the central fissure to the floor first primary maxillary molar-5.02 mm, second primary maxillary molar-5.32 mm. We chose the central fissure as the reference point because this is the point at which the access cavity preparation is usually initiated. In our study, it was observed that all deciduous maxillary and mandibular molars had minor variations in pulpal morphology. Similar observations were made by Edwin and Ralph. [8]
In the present study Group I, 2 (13%) of the samples had 2 canals both distobuccal and palatal root canals are fused and in 13 (87%) of the samples had 3 canals (mesiobuccal, distobuccal and palatal). Sarkar and Rao in their study on maxillary primary first molars 50% of tooth sample had fused distobuccal and palatal canals. [9] Zoremchhingi et al. reported 8 samples had fused distobuccal and palatal canals. [1] Variations in root canal anatomy are so common that many authors now consider it as a normal phenomenon. [10]
In Group II, 2 (13%) of the samples had 4 canals (mesiobucaal, distobuccal and 2 palatal canals). Sarkar and Rao in their study on maxillary second molars 2 (22.2%) of tooth sample had 4 canals. [9] Zoremchhingi et al. reported 4 (26.6%) samples had 4 canals. [1] A search of the literature also reveals that very few studies have been performed on root canal morphology of primary teeth in Indian population.
From the results presented it can be concluded that the maximum depth to which a bur can go during access opening without violating the furcation is 5.02 mm in first primary maxillary molar and 5.32 mm in second primary maxillary molar. Whereas, having measurement markings in access opening burs might be a very helpful indicator to the dentist during access opening.
We would like to thank Dr. Joseph Reuben, MDS for his support.
1 Zoremchhingi, Joseph T, Varma B, Mungara J. A study of root canal morphology of human primary molars using computerised tomography: An in vitro study. J Indian Soc Pedod Prev Dent 2005;23:7-12.
2 Velmurugan N, Venkateshbabu N, Abarajithan M, Kandaswamy D. Evaluation of the pulp chamber size of human maxillary first molars: An institution based in vitro study. Indian J Dent Res 2008;19:92-4.
3 Kummer TR, Calvo MC, Cordeiro MM, de Sousa Vieira R, de Carvalho Rocha MJ. Ex vivo study of manual and rotary instrumentation techniques in human primary teeth. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod 2008;105:e84-92.
4 Sert S, Bayirli GS. Evaluation of the root canal configurations of the mandibular and maxillary permanent teeth by gender in the Turkish population. J Endod 2004;30:391-8.
5 Gupta D, Grewal N. Root canal configuration of deciduous mandibular first molars - An in vitro study. J Indian Soc Pedod Prev Dent 2005;23:134-7.
6 Alder ME, Deahl ST, Matteson SR. Clinical usefulness of two-dimensional reformatted and three-dimensionally rendered computerized tomographic images: Literature review and a survey of surgeons′ opinions. J Oral Maxillofac Surg 1995;53:375-86.
7 Tachibana H, Matsumoto K. Applicability of X-ray computerized tomography in endodontics. Endod Dent Traumatol 1990;6:16-20.
8 Edwin DH, Ralph L. Morphology of root canal of the primary molar teeth. J Dental child. 1957;24:250-257
9 Sarkar S, Rao AP. Number of root canals, their shape, configuration, accessory root canals in radicular pulp morphology. A preliminary study. J Indian Soc Pedod Prev Dent 2002;20:93-7.
10 Reuben J, Velmurugan N, Kandaswamy D. The evaluation of root canal morphology of the mandibular first molar in an Indian population using spiral computed tomography scan: An in vitro study. J Endod 2008;34:212-5.
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More than 100 arrested in Super Bowl stings
Human trafficking and counterfeiting were curtailed by multiple-agency sweeps.
By Rilyn Eischens Star Tribune
February 20, 2018 — 11:26pm
Human trafficking and counterfeit stings yielded more than 110 arrests ahead of the Super Bowl, officials announced Tuesday.
A human trafficking operation succeeded in arresting 94 perpetrators, officials said. Counterfeiting sweeps led to the seizure of more than a half-million dollars in fake merchandise.
The trafficking sting, called Operation Guardian Angel, included federal agents, local police departments and advocacy groups, among others that spent several years preparing for Super Bowl LII.
Data from the effort contradict the idea that the Super Bowl is the nation’s largest sex trafficking event, said Minneapolis Police Sgt. Grant Snyder.
Research suggests that events like the state’s fishing season opener or deer hunting opener increase human trafficking regionally more than large events like the Super Bowl.
Operation Guardian Angel received 1,560 individual responses to decoy ads over the 11-day period.
More than half those arrested were people of color, while in the past those arrested were primarily white, Snyder said. This could mean that the anti-sex trafficking campaigns — primarily aimed at Minnesota’s white, suburban residents — are not serving communities of color, he said.
Most of the men arrested had no criminal history, Snyder said. This came as a surprise.
“We thought we were going to be arresting the worst of the worst — the sociopaths, the sex addicts, past [criminal] sex convictions and things like that,” Snyder said.
Officials also made contact with 28 potential victims ages 17-49. Of those women, six admitted they were trafficked or likely were being trafficked. The victims were disproportionately Asian women, Snyder said, which matches regional sex trafficking trends.
The teams involved will evaluate how to continue the operation’s work, officials said. Operation Guardian Angel, formed in 2014, has been copied by several states.
“We’re not going to stop working on this issue. The biggest takeaway is that not one agency can do this,” said Plymouth Sgt. Erik Fadden.
Minneapolis police Lt. Kim Lund said the fake tickets were the best she’s seen in 20 years of work.
More than 150 fake tickets were confiscated and 19 people were arrested, officials said, but that’s small consolation to people who bought the counterfeits.
Officials say they recovered about $520,000 worth of counterfeit items in sweeps as far north as St. Cloud and as far south as Rochester. Not all of the businesses that sold fake tickets and items did so knowingly.
The counterfeit tickets sold for between $400 and $5,000, Lund said.
No money lost to counterfeiters has been recovered yet, but there may be federal indictments coming in some cases, said Homeland Security Public Affairs Officer Shawn Neudauer.
Neudauer said he worked with one family that drove nine hours only to discover that their tickets were fake.
Among others swindled on Super Bowl Sunday were a Chicago resident who unknowingly bought a $1,500 counterfeit ticket outside of U.S. Bank Stadium and a Pennsylvania resident who spent $3,000 on a fake, according to police.
“We do everything we can to prosecute … but it’ll never be the same [for victims],” Neudauer said.
Rilyn Eischens is a University of Minnesota student on assignment for the Star Tribune.
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Legends Of The Dancefloor - A Piece Of Paradise
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01 20110717 (6M)
20190601 (6M)
Eddie Gordon celebrates the influence of the Paradise Garage nightclub, which operated from 1976 to 1987 in New York and was the base for DJ Larry Levan.
The series considers how the combined force of the club and DJ Larry Levan changed the music business and provided the inspiration for many of today's global nightclub brands. It includes interviews with Michael Linder, Vince Aletti, Nicky Siano, Judy Weinstein and Tom Moulton, five voices who saw the beginning from the floor up, created change and rode with the wave through the disco daze.
Eddie Gordon celebrates the influence of the Paradise Garage nightclub.
Reflections on New York city dance culture.
02 Episode 2: Two Towers 20110718 (6M)
Interviews from the movers and shakers of Manhattan during those halcyon days of the 70s.
03 Episode 3: 57th Heaven 20110719 (6M)
The story of the Paradise Garage Nightclub continues with episode three, 57th Heaven. It features interviews with DJ Victor Rosado, singer Taana Gardner and DJ David Depino, three people who worked with Larry Levan closely.
One of Larry's career highlights in his short 38 years was his remix of Gwen Guthrie's song Seventh Heaven for Island Records. Tonight we are given a close perspective of Larry from two of his co-DJs and the artist whose record Levan remixed to success.
This episode first broadcast in July 2011.
Featuring interviews with DJ Victor Rosado, singer Taana Gardner and DJ David Depino.
04 Episode 4: 3500 Miles From Paradise 20110720 (6M)
How Paul Oakenfold and DJs Harvey, Heidi and Justin Berkman were inspired by Larry Levan.
05 Episode 5: Thank Larry It's Friday 20110721 (6M)
Four interviews from people close to Larry Levan, including Manny Lehmann.
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nato il 18.8.1940 a Hnojník, Cechia
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Adam Makowicz born Adam Matyszkowicz (August 18, 1940 in Hnojník, during World War II) is a Polish-Canadian pianist and composer living in Toronto.[1] He performs jazz and classical piano pieces, as well as his own compositions. Besides playing solo, he has worked with such musicians as Micha Urbaniak, Tomasz Stanko and Leszek Moder, as well as with the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington DC, at the Kennedy Centre, at the Carnegie Hall, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, and other major orchestras at concert halls in Americas and in Europe. His technical skills as jazz pianist have been compared to that of Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, and Erroll Garner among others. His specialty in classical piano since his studies in the 1950s has been the music of Chopin.
Adam Makowicz was born into a family of ethnic Poles in Gnojnik (now in the Czech Republic), in an area annexed by Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II (see also: Polish minority in Czechoslovakia).[2][3] After the war, he was raised in Poland. He studied classical music at the Chopin Conservatory of Music in Kraków. Overcoming cultural restrictions under communism, he developed a passion for modern jazz. At the time, freedom and improvisation were disapproved by the pro-Soviet authorities. Nonetheless, he embarked on a new professional life by switching from the career of a classical pianist to that of a touring jazz pianist. After years of hardship, Makowicz got a regular gig at a small jazz club in a cellar of a house in Kraków. By the mid-1970s, Makowicz established himself as one of the leading pianists in Europe. He was named the "Best jazz pianist" by the readers of "Jazz Forum" magazine, and was awarded a gold medal for his contribution to the arts.
In 1977 Makowicz made a 10-week concert tour of the United States, produced by John Hammond. At that time he recorded a solo album titled "Adam" on CBS. In 1978 he settled in New York. Makowicz was banned from Poland during the 1980s after the Polish regime imposed martial law to crush the Solidarity movement. At that time he took part in Ronald Reagan's initiative called "Let Poland Be Poland," joining many artists and public figures.
During the 2000s, he moved to Toronto, Canada, and continued his career as a concert pianist and recording artist. In the course of his career spanning 40-years, Makowicz performed with major symphony orchestras, such as the National Symphony Orchestra, at the Carnegie Hall, at the Kennedy Centre, and other major concert halls in Americas and in Europe. Eventually he recorded over 30 albums of jazz, popular, and classical music, with his own arrangements of pieces by Chopin, Gershwin, Berlin, Kern, Porter, Rogers, and other composers. Makowicz also wrote and recorded his own compositions for piano.[4][5]
Makowicz has been building bridges between cultures by his numerous concerts performance and recordings of cross-cultural and cross-style compositions. He performed and recorded music by Chopin and Gershwin with the Warsaw Philharmonic, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, National Symphony in Washington, London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and other internationally recognized companies. In 1999, in commemoration of 150th anniversary of Chopin's death, Adam Makowicz played his piano tribute to Chopin at the French Embassy in Washington. His interpretations of classical pieces by Chopin and Gershwin are marked by finesse, inventiveness, and extraordinary technical virtuosity.[6]
Bösendorfer pianos - some live performances in the 1990s and 2000s, some recordings
Steinway & Sons pianos - most stage performances with symphony orchestras, and solo from 1950s through the 2000s, some recordings
Baldwin pianos - some performances in the USA
C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik pianos - live performances and some recordings in Europe
Bluthner pianos - some performances in Europe
Fazioli pianos - some performances
Rhodes electric piano - live recording in Europe
Yamaha pianos - some performances and studio recordings
Selected discography
1965 AM trio with Novi Singers Exlibris GC, Zurich Switzerland
1968 Novi in Wonderland Saba SB. West Germany
1968 New Faces in Polish Jazz. Muza. Poland
1973 "Adam Makowicz Unit" Polish Jazz, Vol. 35 Muza. Poland
1975 Live Embers - Adam Makowicz, Piano Muza SX 1218. Poland
1975 Tomasz Stanko & Adam Makowicz Unit JG Records. West Germany
1977 "Adam" CBS Columbia
1983 "The Name is Makowicz" live at Sheffield Lab with Phil Woods, Marc Johnson, Bill Goodwin, and Gene Estes
1986 "Moonray"
1987 "Interface"
1993 The Music of Jerome Kern Concord / Bellaphon, Germany
1993 Live at Maybeck Recital Hall Concord / Bellaphon, Germany
1994 My Favorite Things: The Music of Richard Rodgers ) Concord
1997 A Tribute to Art Tatum VWC Records
1998 Gershwin Bank Slaski. Poland
2000 "Reflections on Chopin" AM Records
2000 Adam Makowicz plays Duke Ellington Musicians Showcase Records. USA
2003 Songs for Manhattan Adam Makowicz, solo piano. USA
2003 "A Tribute to George Gershwin" with the Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana. (DVD) Image Entertainment
2004 Makowich vs Mozdzer at Carnegie Hall Pomaton. EMI.
2006 "From My Field" Classical music of Chopin, and jazz themes of Gershwin, Berlin, Kern, and Porter.
2007 "Indigo Bliss" Jaymz Bee / Universal Music Canada
Info: the 2007 Jazz Lives Concert held in Toronto, May 3, 2007.
Richard Cook, Jazz Encyclopedia. London 2007 ISBN 978-0-14-102646-6
Hnojník (Gnojnik) village lies in Zaolzie. This territory, which belonged from 1920 to Czechoslovakia, was annexed in 1938 by Poland, and after the 1939 German Invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany. After World War II it became again a part of Czechoslovakia.
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Ice age constraints on climate sensitivity
— group @ 28 November 2011
There is a new paper on Science Express that examines the constraints on climate sensitivity from looking at the last glacial maximum (LGM), around 21,000 years ago (Schmittner et al, 2011) (SEA). The headline number (2.3ºC) is a little lower than IPCC’s “best estimate” of 3ºC global warming for a doubling of CO2, but within the likely range (2-4.5ºC) of the last IPCC report. However, there are reasons to think that the result may well be biased low, and stated with rather more confidence than is warranted given the limitations of the study.
Climate sensitivity is a key characteristic of the climate system, since it tells us how much global warming to expect for a given forcing. It usually refers to how much surface warming would result from a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere, but is actually a more general metric that gives a good indication of what any radiative forcing (from the sun, a change in surface albedo, aerosols etc.) would do to surface temperatures at equilibrium. It is something we have discussed a lot here (see here for a selection of posts).
Climate models inherently predict climate sensitivity, which results from the basic Planck feedback (the increase of infrared cooling with temperature) modified by various other feedbacks (mainly the water vapor, lapse rate, cloud and albedo feedbacks). But observational data can reveal how the climate system has responded to known forcings in the past, and hence give constraints on climate sensitivity. The IPCC AR4 (9.6: Observational Constraints on Climate Sensitivity) lists 13 studies (Table 9.3) that constrain climate sensitivity using various types of data, including two using LGM data. More have appeared since.
It is important to regard the LGM studies as just one set of points in the cloud yielded by other climate sensitivity estimates, but the LGM has been a frequent target because it was a period for which there is a lot of data from varied sources, climate was significantly different from today, and we have considerable information about the important drivers – like CO2, CH4, ice sheet extent, vegetation changes etc. Even as far back as Lorius et al (1990), estimates of the mean temperature change and the net forcing, were combined to give estimates of sensitivity of about 3ºC. More recently Köhler et al (2010) (KEA), used estimates of all the LGM forcings, and an estimate of the global mean temperature change, to constrain the sensitivity to 1.4-5.2ºC (5–95%), with a mean value of 2.4ºC. Another study, using a joint model-data approach, (Schneider von Deimling et al, 2006b), derived a range of 1.2 – 4.3ºC (5-95%). The SEA paper, with its range of 1.4 – 2.8ºC (5-95%), is merely the latest in a series of these studies.
Definitions of sensitivity
The standard definition of climate sensitivity comes from the Charney report in 1979, where the response was defined as that of an atmospheric model with fixed boundary conditions (ice sheets, vegetation, atmospheric composition) but variable ocean temperatures, to 2xCO2. This has become a standard model metric (because it is relatively easy to calculate. It is not however the same thing as what would really happen to the climate with 2xCO2, because of course, those ‘fixed’ factors would not stay fixed.
Note then, that the SEA definition of sensitivity includes feedbacks associated with vegetation, which was considered a forcing in the standard Charney definition. Thus for the sensitivity determined by SEA to be comparable to the others, one would need to know the forcing due to the modelled vegetation change. KEA estimated that LGM vegetation forcing was around -1.1+/-0.6 W/m2 (because of the loss of trees in polar latitudes, replacement of forests by savannah etc.), and if that was similar to the SEA modelled impact, their Charney sensitivity would be closer to 2ºC (down from 2.3ºC).
Other studies have also expanded the scope of the sensitivity definition to include even more factors, a definition different enough to have its own name: the Earth System Sensitivity. Notably, both the Pliocene warm climate (Lunt et al., 2010), and the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (Pagani et al., 2006), tend to support Earth System sensitivities higher than the Charney sensitivity.
Is sensitivity symmetric?
The first thing that must be recognized regarding all studies of this type is that it is unclear to what extent behavior in the LGM is a reliable guide to how much it will warm when CO2 is increased from its pre-industrial value. The LGM was a very different world than the present, involving considerable expansions of sea ice, massive Northern Hemisphere land ice sheets, geographically inhomogeneous dust radiative forcing, and a different ocean circulation. The relative contributions of the various feedbacks that make up climate sensitivity need not be the same going back to the LGM as in a world warming relative to the pre-industrial climate. The analysis in Crucifix (2006) indicates that there is not a good correlation between sensitivity on the LGM side and sensitivity to 2XCO2 in the selection of models he looked at.
There has been some other work to suggest that overall sensitivity to a cooling is a little less (80-90%) than sensitivity to a warming, for instance Hargreaves and Annan (2007), so the numbers of Schmittner et al. are less different from the “3ºC” number than they might at first appear. The factors that determine this asymmetry are various, involving ice albedo feedbacks, cloud feedbacks and other atmospheric processes, e.g., water vapor content increases approximately exponentially with temperature (Clausius-Clapeyron equation) so that the water vapor feedback gets stronger the warmer it is. In reality, the strength of feedbacks changes with temperature. Thus the complexity of the model being used needs to be assessed to see whether it is capable of addressing this.
Does the model used adequately represent key climate feedbacks?
Typically, LGM constraints on climate sensitivity are obtained by producing a large ensemble of climate model versions where uncertain parameters are systematically varied, and then comparing the LGM simulations of all these models with “observed” LGM data, i.e. proxy data, by applying statistical approach of one sort or another. It is noteworthy that very different models have been used for this: Annan et al. (2005) used an atmospheric GCM with a simple slab ocean, Schneider et al. (2006) the intermediate-complexity model CLIMBER-2 (with both ocean and atmosphere of intermediate complexity), while the new Schmittner et al. study uses an oceanic GCM coupled to a simple energy-balance atmosphere (UVic).
These models all suggest potentially serious limitations for this kind of study: UVic does not simulate the atmospheric feedbacks that determine climate sensitivity in more realistic models, but rather fixes the atmospheric part of the climate sensitivity as a prescribed model parameter (surface albedo, however, is internally computed). Hence, the dominant part of climate sensitivity remains the same, whether looking at 3ºC cooling or 3ºC warming. Slab oceans on the other hand, do not allow for variations in ocean circulation, which was certainly important for the LGM, and other intermediate models have all made key assumptions that may impact these feedbacks. However, in view of the fact that cloud feedbacks are the dominant contribution to uncertainty in climate sensitivity, the fact that the energy balance model used by Schmittner et al cannot compute changes in cloud radiative forcing is particularly serious.
Uncertainties in LGM proxy data
Perhaps the key difference of Schmittner et al. to some previous studies is their use of all available proxy data for the LGM, whilst other studies have selected a subset of proxy data that they deemed particularly reliable (e.g., in Schneider et al. SST data from the tropical Atlantic, Greenland and Antarctic ice cores and some tropical land temperatures). Uncertainties of the proxy data (and the question of knowing what these uncertainties are) are crucial in this kind of study. A well-known issue with LGM proxies is that the most abundant type of proxy data, using the species composition of tiny marine organisms called foraminifera, probably underestimates sea surface cooling over vast stretches of the tropical oceans; other methods like alkenone and Mg/Ca ratios give colder temperatures (but aren’t all coherent either). It is clear that this data issue makes a large difference in the sensitivity obtained.
The Schneider et al. ensemble constrained by their selection of LGM data gives a global-mean cooling range during the LGM of 5.8 +/- 1.4ºC (Schnieder Von Deimling et al, 2006), while the best fit from the UVic model used in the new paper has 3.5ºC cooling, well outside this range (weighted average calculated from the online data, a slightly different number is stated in Nathan Urban’s interview – not sure why).
Curiously, the mean SEA estimate (2.4ºC) is identical to the mean KEA number, but there is a big difference in what they concluded the mean temperature at the LGM was, and a small difference in how they defined sensitivity. Thus the estimates of the forcings must be proportionately less as well. The differences are that the UVic model has a smaller forcing from the ice sheets, possibly because of an insufficiently steep lapse rate (5ºC/km instead of a steeper value that would be more typical of dryer polar regions), and also a smaller change from increased dust.
Model-data comparisons
So there is a significant difference in the headline results from SEA compared to previous results. As we mentioned above though, there are reasons to think that their result is biased low. There are two main issues here. First, the constraint to a lower sensitivity is dominated by the ocean data – if the fit is made to the land data alone, the sensitivity would be substantially higher (though with higher uncertainty). The best fit for all the data underpredicts the land temperatures significantly.
Match of model results against proxy data (Fig 2 of SEA). Black line is zonal mean of the proxy data, colored lines are means over the location from different models. Note that the values are the mean changes of SAT over land, and SST over ocean.
However, even in the ocean the fit to the data is not that good in many regions – particular the southern oceans and Antarctica, but also in the Northern mid-latitudes. This occurs because the tropical ocean data are weighing more heavily in the assessment than the sparser and possibly less accurate polar and mid-latitude data. Thus there is a mismatch between the pattern of cooling produced by the model, and the pattern inferred from the real world. This could be because of the structural deficiency of the model, or because of errors in the data, but the (hard to characterise) uncertainty in the former is not being carried into final uncertainty estimate. None of the different model versions here seem to get the large polar amplification of change seen in the data for instance.
Response and media coverage
All in all, this is an interesting paper and methodology, though we think it slightly underestimates the most likely sensitivity, and rather more seriously underestimates the chances that the sensitivity lies at the upper end of the IPCC range. Some other commentaries have come to similar conclusions: James Annan (here and here), and there is an excellent interview with Nathan Urban here, which discusses the caveats clearly. The perspective piece from Gabi Hegerl is also worth reading.
Unfortunately, the media coverage has not been very good. Partly, this is related to some ambiguous statements by the authors, and partly because media discussions of climate sensitivity have a history of being poorly done. The dominant frame was set by the press release which made a point of suggesting that this result made “extreme predictions” unlikely. This is fair enough, but had already been clear from the previous work discussed above. This was transformed into “Climate sensitivity was ‘overestimated'” by the BBC (not really a valid statement about the state of the science), compounded by the quote that Andreas Schmittner gave that “this implies that the effect of CO2 on climate is less than previously thought”. Who had previously thought what was left to the readers’ imagination. Indeed, the latter quote also prompted the predictably loony IBD editorial board to declare that this result proves that climate science is a fraud (though this is not Schmittner’s fault – they conclude the same thing every other Tuesday).
The Schmittner et al. analysis marks the insensitive end of the spectrum of climate sensitivity estimates based on LGM data, in large measure because it used a data set and a weighting that may well be biased toward insufficient cooling. Unfortunately, in reporting new scientific studies a common fallacy is to implicitly assume a new study is automatically “better” than previous work and supersedes this. In this case one can’t blame the media, since the authors’ press release cites Schmittner saying that “the effect of CO2 on climate is less than previously thought”. It would have been more appropriate to say something like “our estimate of the effect is less than many previous estimates”.
It is not all that earthshaking that the numbers in Schmittner et al come in a little low: the 2.3ºC is well within previously accepted uncertainty, and three of the IPCC AR4 models used for future projections have a climate sensitivity of 2.3ºC or lower, so that the range of IPCC projections already encompasses this possibility. (Hence there would be very little policy relevance to this result even if it were true, though note the small difference in definitions of sensitivity mentioned above).
What is more surprising is the small uncertainty interval given by this paper, and this is probably simply due to the fact that not all relevant uncertainties in the forcing, the proxy temperatures and the model have been included here. In view of these shortcomings, the confidence with which the authors essentially rule out the upper end of the IPCC sensitivity range is, in our view, unwarranted.
Be that as it may, all these studies, despite the large variety in data used, model structure and approach, have one thing in common: without the role of CO2 as a greenhouse gas, i.e. the cooling effect of the lower glacial CO2 concentration, the ice age climate cannot be explained. The result — in common with many previous studies — actually goes considerably further than that. The LGM cooling is plainly incompatible with the existence of a strongly stabilizing feedback such as the oft-quoted Lindzen’s Iris mechanism. It is even incompatible with the low climate sensitivities you would get in a so-called ‘no-feedback’ response (i.e just the Planck feedback – apologies for the terminological confusion).
It bears noting that even if the SEA mean estimate were correct, it still lies well above the ever-more implausible estimates of those that wish the climate sensitivity were negligible. And that means that the implications for policy remain the same as they always were. Indeed, if one accepts a very liberal risk level of 50% for mean global warming of 2°C (the guiderail widely adopted) since the start of the industrial age, then under midrange IPCC climate sensitivity estimates, then we have around 30 years before the risk level is exceeded. Specifically, to reach that probability level, we can burn a total of about one trillion metric tonnes of carbon. That gives us about 24 years at current growth rates (about 3%/year). Since warming is proportional to cumulative carbon, if the climate sensitivity were really as low as Schmittner et al. estimate, then another 500 GT would take us to the same risk level, some 11 years later.
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156 Responses to “Ice age constraints on climate sensitivity”
Thanks for this article. I agree on the risk being only a little postponed if Schmittner is right. The risk is still there.
Nathan Urban says:
“the best fit from the UVic model used in the new paper has 3.5ºC cooling, well outside this range (weighted average calculated from the online data, a slightly different number is stated in Nathan Urban’s interview – not sure why)”
This is a typo in the published paper. An earlier version of our analysis found a different best-fit ECS (2.5 ºC, I think), with a LGM SAT cooling of 3.6 ºC. The published version of our analysis has a slightly lower ECS and less LGM cooling, but we neglected to update the manuscript.
Also, I think our supplemental material says our best fitting model is 2.4 ºC, which is also from an earlier version of the analysis. For the final analysis, I didn’t actually calculate the posterior mode (the “best fit”), just the mean and median.
The 3.3 ºC LGM cooling I quote in my interview is for the 2.35 ºC ECS UVic run, close to our median ECS estimate of 2.25 ºC. I haven’t computed the LGM cooling directly at the median estimate, which doesn’t correspond to any of our UVic runs. (I’d have to train an emulator on the full model output instead of just the data-present grid cells. This is possible, but I haven’t done it yet.)
[Response: Thanks. But the sat_sst_aice_2.35.dat file in the SI has -3.5 deg C cooling in SAT (assuming I didn’t mess up the area weighting). Can you check? – gavin]
Silk says:
As stated, it doesn’t really buy us much breathing space. At 2.3, the 2 degree limit is exceeded when CO2e reaches 550ppm. Does anyone thing the world is going to get serious about mitigation, quickly enough, to stablilise below 550ppm?
We still hear talk of stablising GHG concentrations at 450ppm CO2e. The only emissions scenarios the IPCC reported in AR4 that stablised at 450ppm or lower saw global emissions PEAK in 2015. The big emitters in Durban, so the BBC tells me, aren’t even thinking of a DEAL before 2015, far less emissions peaking.
So 450ppm WILL be exceeded, the policy-makers seem to have decided. How long before the window to stablisation at or below 500ppm is exceed? (The scenarios in AR4 suggest that if CO2 emissions peak after 2020)
Anyone want to take a bet on when CO2 emissions are going to peak?
John McCormick says:
Group: the following excerpt sums the Schmittner Report for me:
“The first thing that must be recognized regarding all studies of this type is that it is unclear to what extent behavior in the LGM is a reliable guide to how much it will warm when CO2 is increased from its pre-industrial value.”
It is all about time lengths and CO2 concentration increases.
A drag racer can go from 0 to 150 in three minutes without much noticeable change save for the vehicle speed.
That can can go to 120 in seven seconds and the effects are dramatic. The car vibrates heavily. Great clouds of smoke pour from the burning rubber. The car is never really in control during that time.
I see the LGM as the former and the industrial world’s contribution to global warming as the latter. A simplistic opiniin but I only know what I read.
Xref – some discussion of paper (with links to more at SKS (Schmittner comment), Planet3.0 interview, Tamino’s Open Thead) here at Tamino’s (link)
You’re right. For the 2.35 ºC ECS run the area-weighted SAT cooling is 3.5 ºC. The value 3.3 ºC comes from the 2.22 ºC ECS run. This latter run is actually closest to our posterior median ECS of 2.25 ºC, so 3.3 ºC is probably closer to our “best” estimate of LGM cooling.
[Response: Thanks. – gavin]
ccpo says:
I agree with the critiques of this paper, so far as I can clearly understand them, and had hoped there would be a response here when I came across it yesterday.
An additional critique that may be inherent in your comments, but missed by me (or be so much dreck), is that the glacial maximum seems an odd place to start from. Climate sensitivity is important for the range and rate of change more so than what the ultimate change is. It’s the part between the peaks and valleys in the record that is interesting. We know pretty well the long-period cycles that trigger the glacial/interglacial cycle, after all. We also know humans were pretty much only in Africa for most of the glacial cycles and was highly mobile during the most recent. There is literally almost nothing analogous to the current climate system and our response to it.
Climate sensitivity is always stated as a range, but we tend to want, with our human brains, to think of it as a number, say, 2.4C. We like averages and means because they give us a comfortable place to think from. But climate does not appear to be this simple. Earth System Sensitivity, as noted, is the key, but for me it’s not a “maybe” or a “perhaps”, but is definitive.
I think of it this way, the potential change is the high end while the minimum change is the low end, right? At any given point in time climate sensitivity is dependent on which, if any, tipping points have been breached. If we approach a tipping point without passing it, the swing in response will be a given amplitude from which it will recover toward the center. If a given tipping point is breached, a greater amplitude follows.
The risk assessment must be based on every tipping point being breached, so for all intents and purposes, climate sensitivity is unconstrained. The worst it can get is the sensitivity we must do our risk assessment for because it is, in this case, a/an societal/existential threat. What happens if burn another trillion barrels of oil/oil equivalents and/or the methane in the permafrost and clathrates goes kablooey?
Most, if not all, posting here are well aware rate of change is perhaps more important than total change. Adapting to 2C over 1,000 years was probably easily done. Adjusting to it over 250 years, particularly with most of it coming in the latter 3/5 of the time period, is a different matter altogether. Adjusting t o 3 – 6C over the same time frames is a joke.
Rapid change acts as a multiplier because events that can be mitigated at one time scale may not be at another. Yet, there is no rate of change factor in climate sensitivity, but perhaps should be so the references for public consumption are more easily digested.
As a non-scientist, I am constantly tracking in my head that which I can understand clearly and usefully, and what I see is a planet that is responding at a rate and extent greater than any but our most pessimistic models suggest. Ipso facto, climate sensitivity is at the high end, so discussions of anything else are so much number-crunching. Valuable, useful and needed number-crunching, but number-crunching all the same so long as the work continues to trail the observed.
What is also not commonly discussed as being part of the models is the effect of having diminished the ability of the ecosystem to respond to stress because we have altered the entire system. In previous eras some key change/tipping point would trigger others in a cascade, but each of those triggers was hit by a change that preceded it so the rate of change was slowed by the magnitude of change needed to cause the change. I don’t mean to imply this is a purely linear process, but we have created a preexisting condition where every element of the climate system is already sensitive to change due to already having been altered before the tipping point that would have triggered it arrives. ALL of them have already been diminished.
Forest ecosystems will decline faster because there are far fewer of them than would be the case from purely natural change. Oceans are already altered in terms of oxygen-depleted zones, pollution, depleted populations, erosion and eradication of coastal ecosystems, etc.
There is no analog for climate change as humans have triggered it, so our sensitivities are even less sure than the science suggests, even with Earth System Sensitivity since it also presumably doesn’t account for rate of change nor the preconditioning the human presence has resulted in.
The risks are far greater than ever before, imho, and any implication otherwise is a dangerous message.
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Steve Easterbrook says:
Re: It would have been more appropriate to say something like “our estimate of the effect is less than many previous estimates”.
I can’t see how that re-wording would make any difference to the press coverage. Remember that the media responds to this very differently from how scientists respond. Journalists know that the vast majority of their readers will never read the original paper, and don’t care about what this study actually did and how it might compare to previous studies. Their readers just want a sound bite, along the lines of “can we stop worrying about it” or “should we worry about it more than we did?”. As “less than” tends towards the former, and as journalists have to sex up the story to win eyeballs, the result is inevitable. The further downmarket you go in the media industry, the more “sexing up” there will be.
One of the things we scientists and academics have to keep reminding ourselves is that many of the people outside the science community who write about this don’t regard it as their job to educate people. Their salaries depend on selling copy, which usually means telling people what they want to hear. In that situation, how likely is it that they will ever do a good job of placing this paper within it’s scientific context?
rjt says:
There may be a bias in the SST estimates used in this (and other LGM-sensitivity papers). Many of the SST estimates are derived from planktonic foraminifera community composition, calibrated against 10m water depth SST. However, much of the foram community lives at much greater depths. This discrepancy between the depths at which foraminifera live and the depth at which they are calibrated to SST could introduce a bias if the thermocline structure has changed (i.e. steeper or shallower temperature gradients over the top 100 or so metres). I’m currently working to determine how large this bias is (probably small) and in which direction.
This may not be the Hegerl & Russon Perspective linked above but it is a pretty good substitute.
Christopher Hogan says:
I read the popular summaries of this as something of a good-news/bad-news story. If true, the good news is that global temperature appears modestly less sensitive to C02 forcing than the IPCC mean sensitivity suggests. (Though this posting presents a clear description of the caveats.) The bad news is that habitability of the earth’s surface appears more sensitive to temperature change than had been previously thought. The hostile environment of the glacial maximum was produced by just ~3.5C cooling. That’s part and parcel of the low sensitivity estimate. Since I care about the habitability of the surface, not temperature per se, I don’t see the results as reassuring in the least.
Lennart van der Linde says:
How does this paper relate to the recent draft paper by Hansen et al on Energy Imbalance:
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2011/20110826_EnergyImbalancePaper.pdf
And to Hansen and Sato’s paper on Paleoclimate Implication
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2011/20110720_PaleoPaper.pdf
Climate or Earth System Sensitivity, however defined and at whatever geological period (see the discussion in de Energy Imbalance draft), is one thing, but polar amplification is another, it seems to me. Hansen and others now argue that that the Eemian was probably less warm globally than previously thought (so lower sensitivity?), but polar amplification was therefore higher, and the risk of sea level rise as well.
What’s the merit in this argument, if any, and how does it relate to the climate sensitivity discussion?
Walt Bennett says:
Someone please tell me the relevance anymore of man’s continued contribution to atmospheric CO2 levels, when enough momentum has already been unleashed to begin the thaw of the permafrost region, which of course contains an immense self-feeding mechanism.
Are rational people still discussing the possibility of stopping or limiting the thaw?
for Walt Bennett
You are assuming the worst is unavoidable and that we can’t make it any worse — or better — by managing what we can manage.
There’s no science supporting that conclusion.
further for Walt Bennett:
Earth-Science Reviews
Volume 107, Issues 3-4, August 2011, Pages 423-442
doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.04.006
Atmospheric methane from organic carbon mobilization in sedimentary basins — The sleeping giant?
Lennart van der Linde (apologies for comment length),
You’re right that “climate sensitivity” and “polar amplification” refer to two different things, though there is some overlap.
Climate sensitivity, in the context of this post, refers to a globally averaged quantity. Specifically, it refers to the ratio of the global temperature change to the radiative perturbation that causes it (and thus has units of degrees C per Watts per square meter, for example).
Polar amplification, on the other hand, relates to the fact that the high latitudes typically exhibit a larger temperature change to a given perturbation than does low, equatorial latitudes (or for that matter, the global mean).
You could think of the polar regions as having a higher climate sensitivity than the low latitudes, but in the context of the Schmittner paper, they are only talking about a single globally-averaged number for sensitivity. Ideally, that would include the amplified polar regions (assuming you have good contribution of data from those areas).
As for the Hansen and Sato (2011) paper, they use a different methodology to diagnose sensitivity than the Schmittner paper, though both Hansen and the Schmittner paper are focusing on the same overall issue and like to use the LGM as a good target for tackling the problem.
In many of Hansen’s papers, he uses data for the global temperature change during a specific period (such as the LGM) compared to modern. He then uses what information is available to quantify (in Watts per square meter) what radiative terms drive that temperature change (for the LGM this is primarily increased surface albedo from more ice/snow cover, and also changes in greenhouse gases…the former is treated as a forcing, not a feedback; also, the orbital variations which technically drive the process are rather small in the global mean). Then, he takes the ratio of the temperature change to the total forcing and defines this as the sensitivity. This method tries to maximize using pure observations to find the temperature change and the forcing (you might need a model to constrain some of the forcings, but there’s a lot of uncertainty about how the surface and atmospheric albedo changed during glacial times…a lot of studies only look at dust and not other aerosols, there is a lot of uncertainty about vegetation change, etc).
Sometimes various factors like aerosols or vegetation change aren’t considered, and thus whatever effect they might have would just be lumped into the value of climate sensitivity value that emerges from this method.
Hansen also extends this analysis further (see also his 2008 Target CO2 paper for a lot of the methodology). He takes the climate sensitivity value derived from the LGM, based on the above methodology (about 3 C per doubling of CO2), treats that as a constant, and then applies it to the whole 800,000 yr ice core record. In order to establish a time series of global radiative forcing over the whole record he needs to assume a particular relationship between sea level/temperature records and the extent of the ice sheets over the last 800,000 years, which in turn defines the albedo forcing. Since there is no time-series of global temperature change, he also needs to assume a particular relationship between Antarctica temperature change (or the deep-sea change) and the global mean, and that the relationship always holds (probably untrue). He gets a good fit to the calculated temperature reconstruction when he uses the fixed climate sensitivity multiplied by the time series of radiative forcing.
In contrast to this observational approach, Schmittner (as well as a number of other papers, like reference #4 in this post) take advantage of both models and observations, and try to use the observations to constrain which feedback parameters in the model are consistent (e.g., an overly sensitive model with the same forcings as another model will produce too big of a temperature change than observations allow). There are different ways to weight the ensemble members, such as by assuming a Gaussian distribution in the paleo-data, or by brackering the “acceptance limit” of an ensemble member at the 1σ limit of the paleo-data. Note that the observational approach needs to assume a constant climate sensitivity between different states, whereas perturbed physics ensembles don’t (though you still need to understand what feedback processes are important between different climate states to have confidence in the results).
> planktonic foraminifera
Lots out there. Calibration is always an issue — the BEST folks will have to discuss these questions when looking at sea temps.
A high-school science exercise:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/Olson3.html
“… the deepest dwelling forms represent the true water-depth…. foraminifera will be found there which preferred to live in that environment as well as foraminifera which were brought in from shallower water by downslope processes (i.e., the Amazon Fan moves sediment, including foraminifera, in a downslope direction off of Brazil).”
Core drilling reports:
Deep Sea Drilling Project Initial Reports Volume 47 Part 1
http://www.deepseadrilling.org/47_1/volume/dsdp47pt1_36.pdf
GF Lutze – Cited by 23 – Related articles
… both benthic and planktonic foraminifers follow the surface-water oxygen-isotope curve, which served to calibrate the benthic foraminiferal record …
Correlations:
On the fidelity of shell-derived δ18Oseawater estimates
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~peter/site/…/Arbuszewski.etal.2010.pdf
Jan Galkowski says:
My interest is not in a “best fit” point estimate, but in their characterization of the distribution of possible fits. I had a quick look at their paper and I worry about the possibility of statistical misspecification they raise (page 3 of SCIENCE EXPRESS article). In particular, although they have considered spatial dependencies in their covariance (Supporting Online Material or “SOM”, section 6.3), they do insist upon a Gaussian shape. There’s no reason why that should be the case. Also troubling in their report in the SOM that the marginal distribution for ECS2xC is strongly multimodal (see their Figure S13) for which they have no real explanation, although they offer possibilities.
I’m willing to buy their “best fit” point estimate. As a result of this look, I’m far more skeptical of the accuracy of their tight bound on its range. It’ll come out in the wash. I’m sure there’ll be many remarks on this paper and its methods.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v470/n7333/full/nature09751.html
Corrected online 14 April 2011
Erratum (April, 2011)
“… results, based on TEX86 sea surface temperature (SST) proxy evidence from a marine sediment core …”
and (for calibration, this sort of work will be useful for ‘et al. and Robert Rohde’ for sea surface reconstructions)
doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.08.014
The effect of sea surface properties on shell morphology and size of the planktonic foraminifer Neogloboquadrina pachyderma in the North Atlantic
Tobias Moller, Hartmut Schulza, Michal Kuceraa
Received 14 February 2011; revised 27 June 2011; Accepted 8 July 2011. Available online 3 September 2011.
“The variability in size and shape of shells of the polar planktonic foraminifer Neogloboquadrina pachyderma have been quantified in 33 recent surface sediment samples …. shell size showed a strong correlation with sea surface temperature. …”
18 Jan Galkowski: Roger that. I think you are too young to remember when the wheels fell off of certain cars. [1968] Other things fell off of the same cars. The statistician at that company assumed that all distributions were Gaussian. I was taking a statistics course from the Army Management Engineering Training Agency at the time.
The shape of the distribution of climate sensitivities is definitely a critical issue and it has been discussed recently at RealClimate.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2011/10/unforced-variations-nov-2011/comment-page-7/#comments
Is the climate sensitivities distribution possibly 2 humped? The second hump being the methane hydrate gun? The fat right tail is a big question. The distributions I have seen recently look like a lot needs to be researched. No criticism of the science that has been done.
Jan Galkowski (#18),
Re: Gaussianity, see Figure S10 of the SOM. The residual errors around the best fit (posterior mean) appear somewhat non-Gaussian, but this appears to be due to the land and ocean data not centering on the same ECS value. If you separate them into land errors and ocean errors (as our analysis does), there doesn’t appear to be strong evidence of non-Gaussianity. Nevertheless, we also tested one non-Gaussian assumption, using a Student-t distribution with heavier tails (figures S14 and S15). It doesn’t change the result much.
If there is statistical misspecification, I think it’s probably in regional biases or nonstationary covariances, not in non-Gaussianity. Either one could make the uncertainty interval too narrow (or too wide, I suppose, but it usually winds up the other way around).
Re: multimodality, we haven’t proven a cause. But I suspect it is mostly an artifact of interpolation (though maybe a bit physical), as we discuss. I don’t think it has much to do with the width of our uncertainty interval.
Edward Greisch (#20):
I think you may be conflating two separate concepts. Jan is talking about non-Gaussian errors in the data-model residuals. You appear to be talking about non-Gaussian distributions of climate sensitivity.
Sou says:
Thank you for the article. One thing I picked up on is your closing paragraph indicating how much time we have. You’ve estimated 24 years to eat up the emissions budget for reaching 2 degree rise based on current IPCC estimates, or 35 years if the Schmittner estimate were closer to the mark – assuming the current rate of growth of emissions (3%/year).
If both are too low then we have even less time to act.
Numbers like this should bring it home to more people just how urgent it is to reduce emissions – (to those over 40 who probably have a different perspective on time than many of those under 30).
Eric Swanson says:
When I read the Schmittner et al. paper, I was taken aback by the fact that the SOM contained important information which I might expect to see in the main paper. There are two rather different issues mixed together. First is the temperature re-construction for the LGM and the comparison between the LGM and present temperatures. Second is the use of a computer model to compare the change between the LGM and the present, then extrapolate this comparison to assess the effect of 2x pre-industrial CO2 relative to our recent climate.
The first finding, the lessened change in temperature between LGM and the present, is an important issue in itself and suggests to me that the climate may be more sensitive to a perturbation than previously suspected. Also, the first effort shows that during the LGM, some areas may have been warmer than present, such as over the Nordic Seas and northwestern Pacific. We now see a world in which Siberia is considered to be the coldest area during NH winters, yet, Siberia appears to have been free of glaciers during the LGM from what little I’ve seen. Given the various sources of uncertainty mentioned in other posts, the temperature reconstruction is the first question that needs to be studied.
The second issue is the modeling effort, which uses the UVic model of “intermediate complexity”. I think this work may be seriously flawed for several reasons, many of which are acknowledged in the SOM, but not the main paper. The simple energy balance model of the atmosphere does not include a term for the fourth power of temperature. Given that all energy leaving the TOA is IR, which is a function of T^4 at some effective elevation in the atmosphere, surely this should be included. The original polynomial model was published in a by Thompson and Warren in 1982 at a time when GCM development was still primitive. I think that much has been learned since then. The ocean model does not include any flow between the North Pacific and the Arctic Ocean via the Bering Strait, which would be appropriate during the LGM when sea level was lower, but not for today’s climate and into the expected warmer future. The atmospheric model uses prescribed wind stresses on the ocean and sea-ice, with variations for the LGM using anomalies calculated from a GCM, which produces a stronger AMOC than that found in the GCM. Clouds are not calculated, but set by climatology. Finally, the authors excluded cases where the AMOC collapsed during LGM, noting that these cases would imply a larger climate sensitivity than that presented in their report (SOM, section 5 & 7.5).
These questions would not be so serious, except that the paper is to appear in SCIENCE and thus will be taken as evidence against the prospect of dangerous climate change. As noted above, there are already commentaries claiming this report shows little need for concern over future climate changes.
[Response: I agree that there are serious problems with the representation of atmospheric feedbacks in the model, but the lack of a fourth-power dependence in infrared emission vs T is not the key one them. Over ranges of temperature of a few degrees, you can linearize sigma*T^4 about the base temperature T0 with little loss of accuracy. Moreover, for temperatures similar to the present global mean, water vapor feedback actually cancels out some of the positive curvature from the fourth-power law (see Chapter 4 of my book, Principles of Planetary Climate). So it’s not a manifestly fatal flaw to have a linearized emission representation. It is true that the linearization does substantially misrepresent some aspects of the north-south gradient in temperature, given that over the temperature difference between tropics and Antarctic winter the nonlinearity becomes significant. What is more severe, in my view, is that the energy balance model cannot represent the geographic distribution of lapse rate, relative humidity or clouds. In the interview over on Planet 3, Nathan Urban clearly doesn’t understand the full limitations of the model even though he is one of the authors of the paper. It’s more than just failing to represent the albedo effects of clouds — the model doesn’t represent the geographical variation of cloud infrared effects either, or the way these change with climate. Given that clouds are known to be the primary source of uncertainty in climate sensitivity, how much confidence can you place in a study based on a model that doesn’t even attempt to simulate clouds? –raypierre]
William P says:
This discussion reminds me of philosophers of the Middle Ages debating how many angels could stand on the head of a pin.
Another analogy might be a group of naval ship designers on the Titanic discussing, while the ship slowly fills with water, technical detail about the hull steel plates size, the number of water tight compartments, the angle of the iceberg strike, etc.
Gentlemen – the last ten years are the hottest on historical record. We are now at nearly 400 parts per million CO2 in our atmosphere. Carbon in our atmosphere increased by an estimated huge 6% just last year, crops were wiped out all across the US south by what many see as a clear global warming event. It goes on and on.
Don’t we have more urgent business than to measure the rapidity and other obscure scientific details of how our Titanic is doing and the number of seconds or hours it will take before it sinks?
Talk about Nero fiddling while Rome burns. We are fiddling with scientific minutia while the world burns.
Isotopious says:
“Be that as it may, all these studies, despite the large variety in data used, model structure and approach, have one thing in common: without the role of CO2 as a greenhouse gas, i.e. the cooling effect of the lower glacial CO2 concentration, the ice age climate cannot be explained…”
Indeed, the ice age cycles cannot be explained without lower glacial CO2 concentration if a positive feedback is involved.
I guess all these studies have one thing in common (positive feedback), so have all reached similar conclusions (CO2 is a major factor).
I’m really surprised at the result, despite the fact you have reached similar conclusions without really changing anything that would significantly change the outcome.
Informative & critical review; thank you.
In the response by raypierre- I agree about the problems with simple energy balance model and its lack of spatial representation, but it’s tough to fault the authors for the lack of cloud detail, since the science is not up to the task of solving that problem (and doing so would be outside the scope of the paper; very few paleoclimate papers that tackle the sensitivity issue do much with clouds).
The paper states that “Non-linear cloud feedbacks in different complex models make the relation between LGM and 2×CO2 derived climate sensitivity more ambiguous than apparent in our simplified model ensemble” so they do recognize this (it is of course hand-waving, but fair hand-waving). Absent understanding of cloud feedback processes, the best you can really do is mesh it into the definition of the emergent climate sensitivity, but I think probing (at least some of) the uncertainties in effects like this is one of the whole points of these ensemble-based studies.
[Response: Chris, you are way off the mark here. The lack of certainty in our knowledge of cloud behavior is no excuse for leaving it out of a model entirely. GCM’s vary in their could effects — that’s one of the things one should be trying to test against the LGM. But they do at least have certain basic physical principles in their cloud representations — clouds over ice have less albedo effect than clouds over water, you don’t get high clouds in regions of subsidence, stable boundary layers lead to marine stratus, etc. These are all things that are crucial in determining the relation between LGM behavior of a model and 2xCO2 behavior. To make such strong claims about climate sensitivity based on a model that represents none of this verges on irresponsibility. Yes, I fault them. –raypierre]
Eric Swanson (#23),
Science has severe length constraints on what can go into the main body of the paper, hence the SOM. And no, we didn’t exclude AMOC collapsed cases. The main result includes all the data, but in the SOM we tested the exclusion of data from the AMOC collapsed region. We also tested the sensitivity to stronger or weaker wind stresses (though with the same spatial pattern).
raypierre (#23),
I don’t really feel it’s necessary here to use phrases like “clearly doesn’t understand”. I am fully aware that UVic doesn’t explicitly resolve the longwave physics of clouds (nor the shortwave physics), and nothing in my interview states otherwise. Perhaps you overlooked “e.g.”.
[Response: No, Nathan, I didn’t overlook the e.g. Your remark in the interview clearly implied that it was only the shortwave effect of the clouds that was excluded. If you meant to say that the model flat out doesn’t compute clouds at all, why not come right out and say so? –raypierre]
skywatcher says:
An interesting paper, and thanks for the review of it. I’m still finding it quite hard to see where the cause for optimism comes from given the results presented. Notably, the last line of the abstract: ” [with caveats] … these results imply lower probability of imminent extreme climatic change than previously thought.”
Media articles jumped on this I think, not least the BBC, yet I don’t see the justification for this statement. The paper seems to support a climate in which you get more bang for your buck, or more “change” (however you quantify it) for every degree Celsius warming.
We may not know exactly how many degrees Celsius we’ll get for each doubling of atmospheric CO2, but we do know that the world was a helluva lot different at the LGM compared to now. Schmittner et al hints that a comparable change will not take too many degrees Celsius, as the temperature difference to LGM is smaller than in other estimates. At our present rate of warming, this smaller change will come about quicker than previously suggested, not slower. Thus we’ll effect the equivalent of an LGM-Holocene change really quite fast. Climate may be less sensitive to CO2 change according to the paper, but it is more sensitive to each degree Celsius temperature change – this, to me, is saying that we should be more worried, not less worried based on these results.
If I’m off the mark here, that’s good, but can anyone clarify this point?
DrTskoul says:
Your understanding is correct skywatcher. No reason for optimism.
Steve R says:
While not a climate scientist, I am an active experimental atomic physicist, with decades of experience in data analysis and uncertainty analysis. I am disturbed with the quoted uncertainty in the Schmittner paper, in light of the significant discrepancies between the sensitivity extracted from the ocean and the land data (their figure 3). Their quoted 95% result of 2.8C is in contradiction with at least half of their sensitivity range as measured from the land data. The discrepancy between the land and ocean results clearly point to a serious problem – whether in the data or model. But given that, I do not see how one can make any combined statistical prediction – the discrepancies point to a clearly systematic problem.
I can point to numerous cases in precision measurements in my field where improved results are many sigma different than previous results – precisely because systematic effects were underestimated or not even known. But here we have a clear demonstration of a dramatic systematic effect, and yet it is treated as statistical in nature. I would much prefer the results to be reported as a sensitivity of 2.4K extracted from ocean data and 3.4K as extracted from land data.
I can certainly tell you that it would not be acceptable to report such a narrow combined uncertainty in a physics measurement (where uncertainties are much more under control) if the result of two measurements showed such discrepancies.
My remark in the interview was not intended to imply any such thing. I’m sorry if you read it that way. I gave one example of longwave feedbacks (water vapor) and one example of shortwave feedbacks (clouds). Those were not intended to be exclusive or exhaustive examples, hence the “e.g.” I know we both know what an energy-balance atmosphere model is. If you want to assume otherwise, I can’t really help that, and I don’t see any point arguing about it. However, I do appreciate your remarks concerning the importance of resolving cloud physics.
[Response: Here is the exact quote from the interview: “One limitation of our study is that we assume that the physical feedbacks affecting climate sensitivity occur through changes in outgoing infrared radiation (e.g., through the greenhouse effect of water vapor). In reality, feedbacks affecting reflected visible light are also important (e.g., cloud behavior). Our study did not account for these feedbacks explicitly. Also, as I mentioned earlier, our simplified atmospheric model does not represent these feedbacks in a fully physical manner. ” I’ll leave it for people to judge for themselves what this is supposed to mean. I can’t make much sense myself of what you are trying to say about water vapor feedback here. But as you say, there’s no point in arguing about it. The important thing is that we all understand that with regard to clouds it’s not just that they’re not represented “in a fully physical manner.” How about,like, not in any physical manner at all? –raypierre]
Isotopious @25 — Please first study Ray Pierrehumbert’s “Principles of Planetary Climate” after reading “The Discovery of Global Warming” by Spencer Weart:
http://www.aip.org/history/climate/index.html
The effects of atmospheric CO2 were completely worked out by 1979, at the latest.
[Response: And for a historical perspective don’t forget The Warming Papers, by Dave Archer and myself. –raypierre]
Steve R @31 — That the climate sensitivity of oceans and land surfaces are quite different comes as no surprise.
[Response: Actually, the issue regarding land vs. ocean in the Schmittner et al paper is more perplexing than just that. Warming over land is amplified relative to global mean by a model-dependent amount that is often around 50%. The Schmittner et al result does not simply say that land is more sensitive than ocean. Rather, their analysis shows that if you compare the LGM land cooling with the model land cooling, then the model that fits the land best has much higher GLOBAL climate sensitivity than you get for best fit if you use ocean data. As stated in the paper, that could reflect an error in the land temperature reconstruction (too cold), an error in the ocean reconstruction (not cold enough) or an error in the models land/ocean ratio. It has been argued that the land amplification is associated with lapse rate changes (not represented in the UVic model), and it is certain that drying of the land can play a role (not reliable in the UVic model since diffusing water vapor gives you a crummy hydrological cycle, especially over land). To his credit, Nathan Urban flagged the land-ocean mismatch as one of the caveats in the study indicating all is not right. That makes it particularly egregious that Pat Michaels erased the land curve from the sensitivity histogram in his World Climate Report piece (see Nathan’s interview at Planet 3). I just wish the paper and especially the press release had been as up front about the study’s shortcomings as Nathan’s interview. –raypierre]
Patrick “halfgraph” Michaels strikes again.
That aside, what would be a good model to use in this study?
[Response: The right way to do this would be to use a perturbed physics GCM ensemble akin to ClimatePrediction.net. Even better to do it with perturbed physics ensembles from several different models. It’s clear this is very computationally intensive, and one can’t fault the authors for beginning with a study that is less ambitious. Still, in my view it would have been far better if the authors had presented their study as a “proof of concept” with some intriguing speculative results, rather than making the exaggerated (and insufficiently caveated) claims made in the paper, and more especially the press release. –raypierre]
Daniel J. Andrews says:
And for a historical perspective don’t forget The Warming Papers, by Dave Archer and myself. –raypierre
I don’t suppose that will be coming out in e-book form? Too many diagrams, equations, which don’t render well in e-readers? I’m just a bit reluctant to spend nearly $90 CND on another book when I still have another climate book (Principles of Planetary Climate :) I’m struggling through in my spare time.
[Response: I don’t think the publishers have immediate plans for an e-book edition. It wouldn’t work on a Kindle or Nook, but it would do fine on an iPad, but I don’t think our publishers are set up for that yet. But the main thing is that the price for an ebook wouldn’t be significantly less, since almost all of the price is due to the extortionate copyright fees the publisher had to pay to the journals for permission to reprint. The only thing that would bring that down would be selling LOT’s and LOT’s of copies. Hope that happens eventually :) . Meanwhile the best bet would be to persuade your local public library to buy it, or maybe form a little reading group and chip in $10 each then share it. I really do regret the price. –raypierre]
[raypierre response @ 33] — Right, also The Warming Papers.
Thanks also for the addional comment regarding the Schmittner et al paper [which I found certainly helpful]. My lack of surprise regarding solely the ‘actual’ difference in the ocean and land sensitivities is motivated by this LGM vegetation map:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/pubs/ray2001/ray_adams_2001.pdf
which certainly suggests it was quite dry during LGM. My amateur understanding is that this should affect the averaged land temperature more than the averaged ocean temperature.
“… the average turnover time of phytoplankton carbon in the ocean is on the order of a week or less, total and export production are extremely sensitive to external forcing and consequently are seldom in steady state. … oceanic biota responded to and affected natural climatic variability in the geological past, and will respond to anthropogenically influenced changes in coming decades.”
Science Volume: 281, Issue: 5374, Pages: 200-206, DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5374.200
“Recently, unprecedented time-series studies conducted over the past two decades in the North Pacific and the North Atlantic at >4,000-m depth have revealed unexpectedly large changes in deep-ocean ecosystems significantly correlated to climate-driven changes in the surface ocean that can impact the global carbon cycle. Climate-driven variation affects oceanic communities from surface waters to the much-overlooked deep sea ….”
http://www.pnas.org/content/106/46/19211.abstract
Low-oxygen and low-pH events are an increasing concern and threat in the Eastern Pacific coastal waters, and can be lethal for benthic and demersal organisms on the continental shelf. The normal seasonal cycle includes uplifting of isopycnals during upwelling in spring, which brings low-oxygen and low-pH water onto the shelf. Five years of continuous observations of subsurface dissolved oxygen off Southern California, reveal large additional oxygen deficiencies relative to the seasonal cycle during the latest La Niña event…. the observed oxygen changes are 2–3 times larger …. the additional oxygen decrease beyond that is strongly correlated with decreased subsurface primary production and strengthened poleward flows by the California Undercurrent. The combined actions of these three processes created a La Niña-caused oxygen decrease as large and as long as the normal seasonal minimum during upwelling period in spring, but later in the year. With a different timing of a La Niña, the seasonal oxygen minimum and the La Niña anomaly could overlap to potentially create hypoxic events of previously not observed magnitudes…..”
Nam S., Kim H.-J., & Send U., 2011. Amplification of hypoxic and acidic events by La Niña conditions on the continental shelf off California. Geophysical Research Letters 38: L22602.
Rate of change, rate of change, rate of change
David Benson,
Actually the issue of different sensitivity between land and ocean is not immediately obvious, and has been the subject of various papers in recent years. The larger thermal inertia of the ocean is important, but the higher sensitivity over land than in the ocean is also seen in equilibrium simulations when the ocean has had time to “catch up,” so that argument doesn’t hold as equilibrium is approached. As raypierre mentioned, the amplification of land:ocean is about 1.5 (see Sutton et al., 2007, GRL). There are some various proposed mechanisms to explain this that involve the surface energy balance (e.g., less coupling between the ground temperature and lower air temperature over land because of less potential for evaporation), and also lapse rate differences over ocean and land (see Joshi et al 2008, Climate Dynamics), as well as vegetation or cloud changes.
In any case, there’s been a surprisingly large number of people that have (incorrectly) interpreted the figure in Dr. Urban’s interview as just meaning a higher land sensitivity than ocean sensitivity. You can certainly define land vs. ocean sensitivity meaningfully, but then you can also talk about polar vs tropical sensitivity too (which probably has a much higher ratio than land:ocean), or whatever else you feel like calculating. But the Schmittner paper is only focused on a global climate sensitivity, and that’s what they calculate and report. It’s important to understand that the method used in the paper involves using observations to constrain which model version (of 47 ensemble members that range from a sensitivity of 0.3 to 8.3 K/2xCO2) are compatible with the obs. The different sensitivities are made possible by tweaking a parameter that relates temperature to OLR (a weaker slope of OLR vs. T implies a higher sensitivity).
Thus, the interpretation of the figure is that the ocean SST data favor a lower global climate sensitivity value than the land SAT data, which is why people suspect the results are not robust (and probably that the temperature anomaly of the LGM-modern is too low).
RichardC says:
Quoting the two sets of median values given above, if a 55% increase in CO2 from LGM to pre-industrial caused a 3.3-5.8C warming, how does one calculate a 2.3-3C doubling sensitivity?
We’re told that in the depths of an ice age orbital changes provide a small forcing which warms the planet a tad, causing natural systems to release a small amount of CO2. This causes a warming/CO2 feedback loop and we end up perhaps 5C warmer in an interglacial. Now, isn’t that entire 5C the natural response to the small orbital forcing? Assuming the current anthropogenic CO2 forcing is larger than orbital forcings, shouldn’t we expect more than 5C warming as an ultimate result? It seems that current sensitivity estimates ignore feedback CO2 for the modern era. This might work in the short term, as feedback CO2 takes a long time to show up (the 400-800 year lag problem), but ultimately, isn’t this wrong? Instead, isn’t the scenario: we inject CO2 into the atmosphere, causing a spike. This forcing CO2 gets spread around the planetary system over hundreds of years, which mitigates the increase in the atmosphere. Meanwhile, over thousands of years feedback and re-feedback CO2 enters the atmosphere, and we’re at a supercharged version of emerging from an ice age. However, the orbital signal will still be pointed at “cooling”, so perhaps that will save the day.
Thanks in advance for clearing up my confusion!
Very informative post and a really good discussion thread. Thanks to all, and especially to Nathan Urban for joining in.
[Response: I, too appreciate Nathan having joined us, as well as Andreas Schmittner (see comment below). –raypierre]
Comment by Sou — 28 Nov 2011 @ 7:47 PM
This is why I have encouraged everyone – literally – to take a true systems approach to these issues. Climate divorced from energy divorced from how long it takes to cycle through infrastructure minus embedded energy of infrastructure minus EROEI…. and on and on…. is meaningless.
The IEA’s annual World Energy Report (WEO) stressed that by 2017 we will have built the infrastructure that will carry us to 450 ppm CO2.
And some are expecting an ice-free Arctic by 2016.
And others believe clathrates of a whatever kind are already accelerating in their melt rates (which, paradoxically may show up better in atmospheric CO2 than methane since a recent study said 50% of methane is converted to CO2 via methanogenesis, perhaps helping with the accounting re: last year’s massive increase)…
David Benson. Thanks for the advice. A positive feedback works well for some of the ice age climate, just not all of it (specifically the ‘cycle’ part). I understand the boom part of it, just not the bust. What is the bust, or switch, or tipping point that turns off, or (dare I say it) ‘negates’ the positive feedback?
A made up example…..
Let’s say there is an initial change of 1 deg C.
Which causes a change in CO2 giving 0.75 deg C,
Which both causes a change in water vapour giving a total of 6 deg C.
This is now what you call a changed ‘state’. It’s completely different from the initial conditions.
In fact, now that the positive feedback has been ‘kick started’, the initial mechanism which began the whole positive feedback is no longer of prime importance. Taking it away will not reverse the effect of the positive feedback. Sure, there will be a change if you take away the initial forcing, but it will be relative to the new state of 6 deg C.
It will still be 5 deg C. And sure, I know what others think. Take away the forcing and the water vapour will follow. And to an extent, that will happen. But that’s the problem with a positive feedback loop that is dependent on temperature change.
It is the temperature that the system is dependent on. Once the state has changed, that’s it, it a new state. The feedback loop doesn’t care how it got there.
[Response: The loop doesn’t, but the thing that starts the loop can change direction and as long as the entire feedback loop is not unstable, you simply have an amplified response to the drivers (in this case, orbital forcing). – gavin]
@16 Chris Colose and 40 RichardC:
That certainly helps, although it leaves me wondering what climate sensitivity we should use in our collective risk assessment, both for mitigation and adaptation? Hansen looks at both faster and slower feedbacks, but how slow are the slower feedbacks is uncertain. So how much time do we have for an overshoot and to how much warming are we committed in the longer term of several centuries? It seems to me we should use the higher values for climate sensitivity, including the slower feedbacks, for a complete assessment of risks upto the seventh generation, so to speak. All this discussion of the Schmittner et al paper should not distract from the point that Hansen and others (including RichardC in #40 and William P in #24) try to make: that there seems to be a significant risk that climate sensitivity could be on the higher end of the various ranges, especially if we include the slower feedbacks and take into account that these could kick in faster than generally assumed.
Paul S says:
Chris Colose – I was looking at Sutton et al. 2007 with regards to this paper on SkS a couple of days ago. The mean and median of the equilibrium land-ocean warming contrast (using a slab ocean) in the GCMs considered is ~1.3 (with a spread of about 1.2-1.5). To properly interpret the Schmittner et al. paper on this point wouldn’t we need to know the equilibrium land-ocean warming contrast inherent in the model used? Tom Curtis at SkS reports a warming ratio of about 1.7 in Schmittner et al., though I don’t know if this derives from the model or the data (I confess I haven’t read the paper).
Raypierre, regarding missing cloud effects. Wouldn’t including cloud changes simply alter the effect of their parameterisation tweaks for each run – they would simply use different values to get a spread of sensitivities. The probability distribution will likely be different but presumably their best fit ECS to the data would remain at about 2.3-2.4?
[Response: Computed cloud feedbacks would mainly have the potential to affect the results by changing the asymmetry between the climate sensitivity going into the LGM vs. going into a 2xCO2 world. –raypierre]
Andreas Schmittner says:
Hi guys, (I don’t know exactly who you are so I hope you forgive me that I call you guys)
thanks for the criticism of our paper. (Nothing new for me there, though, since we already discuss all these points explicitly in the paper).
I’d just like to quickly comment on a few incorrect statements:
1. In the main article you state “the fact that the energy balance model used by Schmittner et al cannot compute cloud radiative forcing is particularly serious.”
2. Raypierre (#23, thanks for identifying yourself), you state “how much confidence can you place in a study based on a model that doesn’t even attempt to simulate clouds?”
3. Raypierre (#32) ‘The important thing is that we all understand that with regard to clouds it’s not just that they’re not represented “in a fully physical manner.” How about,like, not in any physical manner at all?’
All three of these statements are incorrect. The UVic model computes cloud radiative effects. The effect of clouds on the longwave radiation is included in the Thompson and Warren (1982) parameterization. The radiative effect of clouds on the shortwave fluxes is computed as a seasonally varying (but fixed from one year to the next) and spatially varying atmospheric albedo.
Since we vary the Thompson & Warren parameterization we do implicitly take into account the uncertainty of clouds on the longwave fluxes. And as Nathan correctly states, and as we have already pointed out in our paper, we do not take into account the uncertainty of clouds on shortwave fluxes (atmospheric albedo was not varied).
[Response: Hi Andreas, thanks for stopping by. I think the actual point that we were making was that the cloud feedback (how clouds change as a function of the temperature, circulation, humidity etc., and how that impacts the radiative balance) is not being calculated here. I’ve edited the main article to make that clearer. – gavin]
[Response: Yes, that is indeed the point I was making. A model without any dynamics in the atmosphere doesn’t even have the right information in it to even have a chance of doing cloud feedbacks correctly. But regarding missing cloud effects, I do think the one emphasized by Nathan in his Planet 3 interview is probably the key one. Bony et. al find that the spread in 2xCO2 climate sensitivity among CMIP GCM’s is largely due to differences in low cloud behavior, and that’s primarily an albedo effect. –raypierre]
Can someone point me to how the Icesheet and Vegetation forcing is simulated. I’m looking for something fairly detailed.
Nathan Urban (#21),
Thanks, Professor Urban, for your explanation.
Regarding “Re: multimodality, we haven’t proven a cause. But I suspect it is mostly an artifact of interpolation (though maybe a bit physical), as we discuss. I don’t think it has much to do with the width of our uncertainty interval”, while the main probability mass is in the range advertised, and I certainly understand the convention of coming out with a point estimate and estimate of dispersion, the multimodality, taken at face value, suggests such a single point estimate may be inappropriate. The paper does present the entire density, and that’s great, and lines up components.
Regarding the Gibbs-like towers on the density (S13, and main paper, Figure 3), if there’s some way of gauging the uncertainty in the density itself, perhaps using bootstrap resampling, perhaps the bumps might be seen to be not statistically significant, and so the question would go away.
Steinar Midtskogen says:
William P (#24),
Are you suggesting that all scientist should stop studying the climate? That’s a bold statement on a site about “climate science from climate scientists”.
At first glance the SEA sensitivity result is largely a consequence of the LGM data set they used. But as the top post here says
Curiously, the mean SEA estimate (2.4ºC) is identical to the mean KEA number, but there is a big difference in what they concluded the mean temperature at the LGM was,….
It’s hard to say what KEA conclude about the LGM temperature:
The temperature on Earth varied largely in the Pleistocene from cold glacials to interglacials of different warmths. To contribute to an understanding of the underlying causes of these changes we compile various environmental records (and model-based interpretations of some of them) in order to calculate
the direct effect of various processes on Earth’s radiative budget and, thus, on global annual mean surface temperature over the last 800,000 years. The importance of orbital variations, of the greenhouse gases
CO2, CH4 and N2O, of the albedo of land ice sheets, annual mean snow cover, sea ice area and vegetation, and of the radiative perturbation of mineral dust in the atmosphere are investigated. Altogether we can explain with these processes a global cooling of 3.9 +/- 0.8 K in the equilibrium temperature for the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) directly from the radiative budget using only the Planck feedback that parameterises the direct effect on the radiative balance, but neglecting other feedbacks such as water vapour, cloud cover, and lapse rate. The unaccounted feedbacks and related uncertainties would, if taken at present day feedback strengths, decrease the global temperature at the LGM by -8.0+/- 1.6 K….
But returning to what I started quoting from the top post here:
Perhaps these latter points can be checked with the UVic model itself. Ideally we might prefer a full Earth Systems Sensitivity approach with the computationally expensive modeling that has evidently been deemed too expensive to date. But are more extensive and less uncertain LGM data needed to justify this? And meanwhile is Hansen’s approach the best?
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