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Circus Quirkus 2015
THE Albury Entertainment Centre was packed for two exciting performances of Circus Quirkus 2015.
The shows, features acts from many countries, raised money for volunteer organisations.
The shows are a treat for people with special needs with businesses buying all the tickets for them.
“It is a fantastic thing to do,” producer Chris Price said.
“Part of the ticket price goes to service organisations, including the PCYC and Lions Clubs.
“It’s hugely popular.”
The audience enjoys acrobatics, juggling, and clowning by an experienced cast of 10.
Rotary Club of Albury co-ordinator Jan Marshall said businesses from the region have supported the event to give so many people “a really good day out”.
“The money flows back to charities supporting children, youth, women’s refuge services and mental health,” she said.
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The USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a mysterious new enemy who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test.
Director: Douglas Plasse, Justin Lin, Misha Bukowski, Nick Satriano, Valeria Migliassi Collins
Actors: Anton Yelchin, Chris Pine, Idris Elba, Joe Taslim, John Cho, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Sofia Boutella, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana
Country: USA, China, United Arab Emirates, Canada
Keywords:Anton Yelchin Chris Pine Free Idris Elba Joe Taslim John Cho Karl Urban Simon Pegg sitename Sofia Boutella Star Trek Beyond Online Watch Star Trek Beyond Zachary Quinto Zoe Saldana
After she delivers her child in an ambulance, alien Eve is killed by a half-breed. Fortunately, Dr. Abbot scoops up the baby alien and escapes. In time, the baby grows…
Genre: Action, Horror, Science Fiction
When an attack on the Kingsman headquarters takes place and a new villain rises, Eggsy and Merlin are forced to work together with the American agency known as the Statesman…
A mysterious warrior teams up with the daughter and son of a deposed Chinese Emperor to defeat their cruel Uncle, who seeks their deaths.
Country: Canada, China, USA, France
After a mysterious malfunction sends their small plane climbing out of control, a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends find themselves trapped in a deadly showdown with a supernatural…
Genre: Action, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
An official adaptation of 2014 Korean film, ‘Ode to My Father’.
Genre: Action, Drama
Four young outsiders teleport to a dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities…
Country: USA, Germany, UK
In the coastal town of Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I….
Country: Japan, USA
When the moral values of a longtime wetwork black ops agent is tested during his last operation, he receives an unfavorable psych evaluation. Now he is given a break and…
Country: UK, Belgium, USA
Goyo: The Boy General
With this film (the second war trilogy set during the Filipino-American war in the early 1900s), the revolution marches on against the Americans after the bloody death of General Antonio…
Genre: Action, History, War
Kabir Singh, a short-tempered house surgeon gets used to drugs and drinks when his girlfriend is forced to marry the other person.
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched to free her. In some of the world’s…
Genre: Action, Drama, War
A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals,…
Trailer: Star Trek Beyond
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Report: Google Insider Gives 950 Pages of Documents to DOJ
August 14, 2019 By 21wire Leave a Comment
Many people are not aware that back in April of 2017, tech giant Google embarked on massive effort to ‘cleanse’ their search engines of content which Google’s executives believe should not be widely seen or read by billions of viewers across the globe.
However, Google’s censorship was not limited to ‘right wing’ or ‘pro-Trump’ information as has been widely reported by numerous conservative outlets. Google’s political censorship program has also buried content and redirected internet searches away from left-wing, progressive and anti-war websites, cutting the search traffic of leading alternative news outlets by well over 50 percent since they implemented their corporate information purge in April 2017. In some instances, website traffic from Google searches dropped more than 70%.
This political lustration by the Silicon Valley conglomerate has had a devastating effect of independent media outlets worldwide, as Google continually works to control the public information space.
But their gross manipulation is now beginning to be exposed.
Journalist Sara Carter reports…
A former Google insider claiming the company created algorithms to hide its political bias within artificial intelligence platforms – in effect targeting particular words, phrases and contexts to promote, alter, reference or manipulate perceptions of Internet content – delivered roughly 950 pages of documents to the Department of Justice’s Antitrust division Friday.
The former Google insider, who has already spoken in to the nonprofit organization Project Veritas, met with SaraACarter.com on several occasions last week. He was interviewed in silhouette, to conceal his identity, in group’s latest film, which they say exposes bias inside the social media platform.
Several weeks prior, the insider mailed a laptop to the DOJ containing the same information delivered on Friday, they said. The former insider is choosing to remain anonymous until Project Verita’s James O’Keefe reveals his identity tomorrow (Wednesday).
He told this reporter on his recent trip to Washington D.C. that the documents he turned over to the Justice Department will provide proof that Google has been manipulating the algorithms and the evidence of how it was done, the insider said.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai told the House Judiciary Committee in December, 2018, that the search engine was not biased against conservatives. Pichai explained what algorithm’s are said Google’s algorithm was not offensive to conservatives because its artificial intelligence does not operate in that manner. He told lawmakers, “things like relevance, freshness, popularity, how other people are using it” are what drives the search results. Pichai said even if his programmers were anti-Republican, the process is so intricate that the artificial intelligence could not be manipulated and it was to complicated to train the algorithm to fit their bias.
Google did not immediately respond for comment on the insider’s claims, however, this story will be updated if comment is provided.
The insider says Google is aware most people are unaware or not knowledgeable about these advanced IT systems and therefore unable to determine who is telling the truth.
“I honestly think that a free market can fix this issue,” he told this reporter at a meeting in Washington D.C. “The issue is that the free market has been distorted and what’s happened is that the distortion is so grotesque and the engineering is so repulsive, all we need to do is just expose what’s going on. People can hear that it is bad but that can be bias. But when they see what Google has actually written with the documents, this will actually be taught in universities of what totalitarian states can do with this type of capability.”
Continue this story at Sara Carter
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Sunday Praise & Worship | John P Kee
Posted on June 11, 2017 by SouthernGirl2
Pastor John P Kee (born John Prince Kee on June 4, 1962) is an American gospel singer and pastor.
John P. Kee was born the 15th out of 16 children in Durham, North Carolina. At an early age he began to develop his musical talent both instrumentally and vocally. He attended the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem and at 14, he and his brothers Wayne and Al moved to California where he began attending the Yuba College Conservatory School of Music in Marysville, CA. During this time, he began playing with various groups such as Cameo and Donald Byrd and the Blackbyrds. After having a hard time adjusting in California, he left and moved to Charlotte, North Carolina only to find himself living in a part of the city known for its violence and drug activities. After watching one of his friends being murdered in a drug deal gone bad, he rededicated his life back to God during a visitation to a revival meeting.
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A Native Texan who adores baby kittens, loves horses, rodeos, pomegranates, & collect Eagles. Enjoys politics, games shows, & dancing to all types of music. Loves discussing and learning about different cultures. A Phi Theta Kappa lifetime member with a passion for Social & Civil Justice.
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35 Responses to Sunday Praise & Worship | John P Kee
eliihass says:
Perfect…sums up my loooonnng epistle..
True or false? #TeamDL
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Ametia says:
Tony Awards. BORING!!!!
SouthernGirl2 says:
Jeff Sessions Scheme Backfires As Senate May Force Him To Testify In Public https://t.co/tuttHNrFhO #TheResistance #MAGA #tcot #Russia #P2
— R Joseph (@rjoseph7777) June 12, 2017
BEGOE, CaC!!!!
vitaminlover says:
Does he not look like the Gerber baby with glasses? (smirk)
You’re too kind..
LOL Now why you gone insult the Gerber baby, Vitamin?
Tee hee!!
Look at this ISH, y’all. This is too much. It’s the craziest ISH I’ve ever seen. White people stop it!
White ppl go out of their way to bother us. This man came to their house over BBQ smoke to tell them to keep it contained to their property😭 pic.twitter.com/BYbLI0f7lU
— Ky 🌍 (@Kythatsall) June 10, 2017
yahtzeebutterfly says:
Ridiculous!
They’ve all lost their goddamned minds..
This is going to get seriously out of hand really soon..
Insanity..
Geez! So fragile. Always copying.
When you finally see the new Black Panther trailer and there are no white people in Wakanda. pic.twitter.com/Vg05rzPCBN
— Black Aziz Ansari 👏 (@Freeyourmindkid) June 11, 2017
This is the real personification of fragile deplorable snowflakes..
Sweet Love! pic.twitter.com/YtgFYxXm7a
— 3ChicsPolitico (@3ChicsPolitico) June 11, 2017
But Mr. Garrow – the greasy, lip-smacking, thinks he’s so slick with his desperate and dubious appropriation of phony, dubious ‘knowledge’ of and ‘more than a passing familiarity’ with ‘civil rights’ and ‘leaders of the movement’ bonafides,.. and the ingratiation and cultivation of all manner of dubious, envious, hostile, petty, aggrieved folk, most nursing all manner of grievances, and many telling all manner of uncorroborated, one-sided, skewed ‘perspectives’ of long ago events…this malevolent ‘academic’ and his equally malevolent, spiteful, passive-aggressive, ‘shouldabeenme’ accomplice -shameless Sheila whatshername, insist it’s really all for show and political expedience …no love…just calculation and political opportunism designed entirely to cultivate and win over the support and votes of silly black people …
We’ll have to wait and see now won’t we …
As my wise mother has said, desperate people looking to be seen as relevant to and in another’s story, will stoop to any level to forcibly insert themselves into it…No matter who they hurt, and how much damage they inflict in the process…But that is precisely the entire point of this disrespectful and salacious assertion based on events from over 30 years ago …to hurt, inflict pain, chip away, discredit and permanently damage…And one wonders what sort of 53 year old woman – married with kids herself, not only disrespects the wife of 25 years of an ex she rendezvoused with way back when they were all in their early twenties, but now shamelessly disrespects her own military-man husband…gleefully and publicly over-sharing for posterity, sleazy tidbits of sexual romps from over 30 years ago, including the very sly bit specifically targeted at the black wife of 25 years…talking about still sleeping with the now long-married public figure – even after he first started dating the ‘politically expedient’ black woman he went on to marry and have children with..
This woman, a supposed associate professor at a college FLOTUS delivered a commencent speech at a couple of years ago, proudly and very cockily – and with no ounce of shame or embarrassment…even though she glibly insists she ‘felt bad about it’, 🙄,…she declares that he told her all about the black woman…while the black woman was kept in the dark and remained completely unaware of the secret gleeful romper and the shenanigans being orchestrated behind her back in Boston as she toiled away at her law firm in Chicago …because had she known, we all know that the very proud, self-respecting young black woman with self-worth in spades, would have had absolutely none of it…And would have immediately kicked him to the curb…While Ms. Sheila assumed it was somehow a feather in her cap, and something to tout and be much proud of, to be sleeping with a man who was now seriously courting another woman – and telling her all about it too…😏And gleefully sharing all about it 30 years later…
The goal is as yarns like these go, publicly spun and preserved in so-called ‘biographies’ for eternity, have the potential to not only distort and devalue, but wreak havoc and do real long-term damage…if not now, later – and even more so when everyone is dead and gone…And especially if there has not been any formal and categorical rebuttal on record – preferably by, and directly from the main subject himself…Nothing more outrageous and disheartening and damaging than to have folks hijack and distort not just one’s high-point career legacy, but most importantly, one’s marriage and family…colluding with others to disrespect and essentially devalue one’s proud black wife – and reducing and dismissing her not only merely as incidental and future collateral damage – after all’s said and done – but as some inferior consolation prize – only calculatingly ‘picked and tolerated’ entirely for ‘political expediency’…
So many of us would sooner ignore it all- or pretend not to notice or care, but for what it’s worth, others are paying close attention and taking it all in…And there are those who are delighted and gleefully clinging tightly to the story that the black wife was after all, not only not the ‘first choice’ as they’d all previously resignedly assumed to their chagrin,..but now they find out she was only a mere politically expedient ‘pick’…After the ‘callous, calculating, ambitious’ future politician ‘coldly’ ‘sacrificed’ his ‘true emotional’ choice and damned his deepest emotional needs and sexual desires, ‘dumped’ his ‘real love’, his ‘passionate and most important relationship’, to go with some random black woman he didn’t really love, but who would make him appear more ‘black’ than he really ever felt or was…and ultimately make it ‘easier’ for him to be accepted by the black community he needed to get ahead …and who otherwise would never have embraced or supported him politically..
I, like so many people I know, have no intention of buying the book…I have however read snippets when I see them…I’ve pretty much read quite a bit …and frankly, as much as I care to…But I’ve carefully followed, and watched/listened to just about every discussion about this…including every interview with the greasy lip-smacker himself …I always want to know and put a face to every player and their various roles, views etc – for now and the future….What stands out mostly is how all anyone is really interested in the book, is this ‘relationship’ bit…And what especially stands out is the fact that folks are not so much interested in or even care that the main subject of the book supposedly ‘callously and calculatingly ditched’ ‘the woman he really loved’…they are quite content with the ‘winning’ ‘idea’ and the whole white is superior ideal that they are delighted to find the one ‘real love’ was in the end, white after all – or some version of it…They all universally seem to have until now, struggled to reconcile or embrace the ‘anomaly’ of a well-loved black wife beside and on the arms of a now successful man …It appears to have bothered a whole lot of folks for a very long time it seems…and you could see most of them breathe a sigh of relief…All was well with the world again now that they were told that it wasn’t so…But most importantly, they are all thrilled that the black wife is not really ‘loved’, but merely a politically expedient ‘arrangement’…and thrilled too that she’s surely been humiliated by this public disclosure by her husband’s ‘white’ ‘true love’ …Quite something to see how a book that set about mostly to ‘expose’ and take the shine off an elected politician, became for most of those interested in it, entirely gratifying only for the nugget told by a ‘white’ ex-girlfriend from his 20’s, that his unelected black wife of 25 years and mother of his children, was merely a cold-blooded calculation and ‘political expedience’ on his part…and they’re not at all mad at him, but completely thrilled that his black wife is officially demoted in the hierarchy of who he ‘actually loves’…and has been thoroughly humiliated..
For 9 years the dehumanizing attacks on this same black wife went completely unanswered…and the hurtful and harmful slanderous narratives began to take hold over time…And not once was she ever formally – or even in passing, defended – or the damaging narratives pushed back against…Instead we keep getting supposedly ‘endearing’ descriptives of her cast not in tender, sweet words, but in mostly bizarrely violent and negative and unflattering terms and adjectives…And now, even some black kids and folks from as far away as other continents, believe, cling to and spread some of the same hurtful, slanderous fake narratives about her as ‘true’..
For far too long, attacks on her have been ignored or dismissed because she’s supposedly ‘strong and tough and can handle it’…No damsel in distress rescues happening…as other women are quickly rallied around, defended and protected…This cannot be easy for her having people publicly diminish her relationship and 25 year old marriage…publicly speculating about whether her husband truly loved or loves her – or only used her to advance his political ambitions…and frustratingly ‘stuck’ with her now that it’s all over..
As some wise person said, at what point will her feelings, burdens, contributions, sacrifices, scars and losses, ever be fully acknowledged and not denigrated or cast as irrelevant or incidental..?
Shame on us for allowing them do this to her…disrespecting and denigrating this historic first black FLOTUS in ways most of us would never tolerate in our own marriages and relationships..
For what it’s worth, my wise mother insists, and I wholeheartedly agree, that it’ll be pertinent to publicly correct the record on this one…especially in what’s inherent in the vile insinuation asserted by this ex..and gleefully recorded for posterity…For a wife’s honor, and for their 2 daughters who will carry a humiliating burden of uncertainty otherwise, one must correct the record. As a wise person noted, a presumption that one’s wife privately knows the truth is simply not enough in this case. These are both historic figures and it’s important that their journey together – for which she’s made and continues to make untold enormous sacrifices and invaluable contributions, must not be hijacked, negatively distorted, irreversibly diminished and substantially devalued, courtesy of thirsty ex-girlfriends from one’s youth.
Exes from one’s youth cannot be given the unfettered power to distort, tarnish and devalue one’s wife…and by extension, one’s 25 years and counting, marriage and 2 daughters, as mere political expediences.
If categorically left unanswered, long after everyone’s dead and gone, there will be those touting these preferred innuendos; And the unsettling, easily malleable narratives will be twisted to further the dubious agenda of others.
If this black wife of 25 years is truly loved, honored and valued….and not some political expedience that’s ‘stuck’ and ‘stuck around’, categorically declare it then…Nip this crazy in the bud once and for all. Ex-girlfriend accounts and “love Letters” must not be used to distort future historical accounts – to advance false, obnoxious narratives of relevance by exes, and ultimately, to humiliate, demean, dismiss and permanently devalue this historic first black FLOTUS…a favorite sport of those who gleefully embrace said tales –and clearly, the m.o of spiteful exes from over 31 years ago, who now seek to very aggressively and publicly insert themselves and assert their relevance atop perch a now historic figure’s story. As one smart person said, how can anyone allow a ghost from the past maliciously intrude upon one’s marriage and family?
The entire world is watching. It shouldn’t be hard to shut down all speculation about what the wife one married 25 years ago, and has walked this historic journey with, means to one. This is not the time for niceties, or to be mealy-mouthed or to parse things …and only to still assuage/placate and impress and remain in the good graces of malevolent exes from one’s youth, and random malevolent others – and only to be thought of as ‘nice’ and a ‘gentleman’, but entirely at one’s humiliated wife’s expense. One’s wife and her feelings…that’s all that matters now…She’s the only woman who counts and whose feelings must be considered and assuaged and placated .. All the other folks from one’s previous life have been more than indulged for far too long…Enough already..
This is very much a wife’s journey too now…28+ of the prime years of her life….And 2 impressionable daughters will be watching along with the rest of the world to see how and if this disrespect of their mother is nipped once and for all…BOLDLY. .And not merely in some coy way…
It might appear not to matter too much right now, but it certainly will in the future when folks try to come again and again for their black mother in a country that gleefully denigrates and devalues black women, and takes extra pleasure in seeing them cut down and hurt…again and again…A country that takes even more pleasure in especially seeing this particular black woman, humiliated, broken and cut down to size..
Hope everyone’s having a lovely Sunday…
This was so funny, I had to share…and I apologize for posting the entire thing..
“…And it came to pass, in the land of Britain, that the High Priestess went unto the people and said, Behold, I bring ye tidings of great joy. For on the eighth day of the sixth month there shall be a general election.
And the people said, Not another one.
And they waxed wroth against the High Priestess and said, Didst thou not sware, even unto seven times, that thou wouldst not call a snap election?
And the High Priestess said, I know, I know. But Brexit is come upon us, and I must go into battle against the tribes of France, Germany, and sundry other holiday destinations. And I must put on the armor of a strong majority in the people’s house. Therefore go ye out and vote.
And there came from the temple pollsters, who said, Surely this woman will flourish. For her enemy is as grass; she cutteth him down. He is as straw in the wind, and he will blow away. And the trumpet of her triumph shall sound in all the land.
And the High Priestess said, Piece of cake.
And there came from the same country a prophet, whose name was Jeremy. His beard was as the pelt of beasts, and his raiments were not of the finest. And he cried aloud in the wilderness and said, Behold, I bring you hope.
And suddenly there was with him a host of young people. And he said unto them, Ye shall study and grow wise in all things, and I shall not ask ye for gold. And the sick shall be made well, and they also will heal freely. And he promised unto them all manner of goodly things.
And the young people said unto him, How shall these things be rendered, seeing that thou hast no money in thy purse?
And he spake unto them in a voice of sounding brass and said, Soak the rich. And again, Pull down the mighty from their seats.
And the young people went absolutely nuts.
And they hearkened unto the word of Jeremy, and believed. For they said unto themselves, Lo, he bringeth unto us the desire of our hearts. He cometh by bicycle, with a helmet upon his head. And he eateth neither flesh nor fowl, according to the Scriptures. For man cannot live by bread alone, but hummus is quite another matter.
And the High Priestess saw all these things and was sore. And she gathered unto her the chief scribes and the Pharisees and said unto them, What the hell is going on?
And they said unto her, It is a blip, as if it were a rough place upon the road.
But they said unto themselves, When the government was upon her shoulders, this woman was mighty. But now that she has gone abroad unto every corner of the land, she stumbleth. For surely it is written that ruling and campaigning are as oil and water, and there shall be no concord betwixt them.
And the chief scribes wrote upon tablets, saying, Jeremy is false of tongue. He hideth wickedness in his heart. And his sums do not add up.
And nobody paid any attention.
And the elders rose up and said to the young people, If ye choose Jeremy, he will bring distress in your toils and wailing upon your streets. Do ye not remember the nineteen-seventies?
And the young people said, The what?
And the elders spake again, and said to the young people, Beware, for he gave succor in days of yore to the I.R.A.
And the young people said, Jeremy shall bring peace unto all nations, for he hateth the engines of war that take wing across the heavens. And he showeth respect for all peoples, even unto the transgender community.
And the elders said, The what?
And it came to pass that the heathen of this land came among the people, with fire and sword, and slew many among the faithful. And great was the lamentation.
And the High Priestess waxed exceeding wroth and said to the people, Fear not. For I shall bind your wounds and give ye shelter from the heathen, and shall take up the sword against them.
And there came again pollsters from the temple, who said, Will the people not vote for her in this hour of need?
And it came to the vote.
And the elders went up to vote, and the young people. And the young people were as a multitude. And in the hours of darkness there was much counting. And the young people watched by night, and the elders went to bed.
And there came in the morning news that the High Priestess had vanquished the prophet Jeremy. But the triumph of the High Priestess was as the width of a nail. And she was vexed.
And the elders and the chief scribes and the Pharisees spoke among themselves, yea, even in the corners of their houses.
And there was great rejoicing amidst the multitude of the young. And they took strong wine, and did feast among themselves. And there were twelve baskets left over.
And of the pollsters there was no sign.
And the people saw Jeremy and said, Surely this man has won? Doth he not skip in gladness like a young hart upon the hills?
And there was great murmuring among the elders. And they said unto themselves, Weep not. For the High Priestess doth but prepare the way. Cometh there not one who is greater than she?
And they said, Behold, for the hour of the redeemer is upon us. And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Prince of Peace. And they cried in one voice, Boris.
And the young people said, Oh, shit.
And the people gave tongue, and made supplication unto the Lord, saying, Lord, let our cry come unto thee.
And the Lord thought the whole thing was absolutely hilarious.
And then the people said, Lord, what shall we do regarding Brexit? For henceforth the High Priestess shall be as weak as a newborn lamb. How shall we hope for continued access to the single market?
And the Lord said, The what?
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-book-of-jeremy-corbyn/amp
LOL OH SNAP!!
This is what happens when THOUST HOLDS SNAP ELECTIONS, PM MAY
Republicans secretly appealing to Mitt Romney to save them from Trump: report https://t.co/h2TNQjl8l8 pic.twitter.com/0H5e3185T8
— Raw Story (@RawStory) June 11, 2017
When things are so bad that even Willard suddenly looks like a ‘great’ Statesman..
majiir says:
The problem for the GOP is that even if Romney decides to campaign on behalf of GOPers seeking re-election to Congress, most voters will know that even if they win those elections, little/nothing will change in D.C. because Orange Trumpet will still be POTUS.
DR Congo jailbreak frees 900 inmates https://t.co/TQ2u1hpcYD
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 11, 2017
BRAZEN DEMONS…
Police in Jackson, Mississippi, found a severed head on the front porch of a home Saturday morning. https://t.co/6IIY1LQpV7
— KCEN News (@KCENNews) June 11, 2017
Evil..
Pure unadulterated evil..
Racist Terrorism: Black Man's head found on a porch in Mississippi. #SundayMorning #Blacklivesmatter #amjoy https://t.co/6Dh8MISpUP
— TrueBlackResist (@trueblackresist) June 11, 2017
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha…GOOD LUCK WITH THAT!
President Trump to Theresa May in a phone call: No state visit to Britain until the British public supports it. https://t.co/9KlPtmRqHu
— Jenna Johnson (@wpjenna) June 11, 2017
They’re denying this report, SG…but it’s said that a date has still not been set..
The truth is that Theresa May should never have strong-armed Buckingham Palace into fêting this impostor..
Besides, this was entirely way too premature, even under the best of circumstances..
I also can’t forget how often those who flocked to his campaign events last year described him as being “a strong leader.” He’s not, and he never was. If he were a strong leader, he’d go to the UK and take his lumps, but he won’t. As SG 2 mentioned below, “Good luck with that,” especially if he’s waiting for the time when he won’t be met by thousands of protesters in London when AF1 touches down at Heathrow. He can count on that happening no matter when he schedules the visit. When he was in Europe last month, pulled his pants down, bent over, and told European leaders to kiss his butt. No right-minded person would expect to be welcomed with open arms in someone’s home after pulling a stunt like that.
Trump cancels trip to Britain to avoid ‘large scale protests’: report https://t.co/baBhzWHHC3 pic.twitter.com/gKpztei4BZ
FUCKING coward
They don’t want your ass there…
#BREAKING: Trump visit to Britain put on hold over lack of public support: report https://t.co/H5yxZRiyN0 pic.twitter.com/iWRT0M2d9x
— The Hill (@thehill) June 11, 2017
They make a better couple than Trump and Melania.
THIS WaPo LEDE, RIGHT HERE?!!
https://t.co/Xy0OaW76f3
WaPo is so full of ISH. How can Comey “leak” his own non classified personal recollections? They were his own recollections, they were not classified and he wasn’t FBI director because Trump had FIRED him.
rikyrah says:
Good Morning Everyone 😐😐😐
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ADios Momo / Good-Bye Momo
Obdulio, an 11-year-old Afro-Uruguayan boy, can neither read nor write and lives with his sisters and grandmother and helps support them by selling newspapers - One evening, he discovers that the night watchman at the newspaper is a magical Maestro, who introduces him to the power of literacy and the...
Afro-Brazilian Leaders - Abdias do Nascimento and Natal da Portela
NATAL DA PORTELA Revealing films about two very important Afro-Brazilian figures:* Abdias do Nascimento (March 14, 1914 – May 23, 2011) was an outspoken and vibrant defender of Afro-Brazilian civil rights.* Natalino José do Nacimento, better known as Natal Da Portela (July 31, 1905- April 5, 1975) was one of...
Afro-Cuba: Yesterday & Today - 2 disc set
Two exciting, colorful films spotlight the African roots of Cuba's culture by focusing on two legendary artists -- Rumbero Papa Montero and Filmmaker Sara Gomez -- in this unique box set. THE LAST RUMBA OF PAPA MONTERO / LA ULTIMA RUMBA DE PAPA MONTERO Get ready to rumba! The life...
Black Mexicans / La Negrada & The Valley Of The Black Descendants / El Valle De Los Negros
BLACK MEXICANS / LA NEGRADA Black Mexicans (La Negrada) is the first Mexican feature film about the Afro-Mexican community, filmed entirely with people from different towns around the Costa Chica in Oaxaca.Neri, a fisherman, splits his time between two women: his wife Juanita with whom he has a daughter and...
BLACKS IN LATIN AMERICA is a 2-DVD set featuringTango Negro: The African Roots of Tango (Argentina and Uruguay) a revealing documentary that traces the origins of tango back to the slave trade between Africa and South America and explains how the music and dance evolved into a Latin American form with myriad styles...
DANY LAFERRIERE: Films from a Poet’s Imagination
The mystery and wonder of modern-day Haiti come alive in this two-film set based on the work of writer-director Dany Laferriere with the two films How to Conquer America in One Night (96 mins) and On the Verge of a Fever (88 mins). HOW TO CONQUER AMERICA IN...
Race and History in Brazil
RACE AND HISTORY IN BRAZIL Race and its impact on the art and history of Brazil are highlighted in this two-disc set with Joel Zito Araujo's documentary Denying Brazil (A Negacao do Brasil, 92 mins) and Geraldo Santos Pereira's Aleijadinho: Passion, Glory and Torment (Aleijadinho: Paixao, Gloria e Suplicio, 100...
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This Month in Anesthesiology | July 2003
THIS MONTH IN ANESTHESIOLOGY
Gretchen Henkel
Anesthesiology 7 2003, Vol.99, 5A-6A. doi:https://doi.org/
Effects of Sevoflurane Preconditioning on Human Myocardium Investigated. Yvon et al. (page 27)
To examine the effects of sevoflurane preconditioning on isolated human myocardium challenged with simulated ischemia–reperfusion, Yvon et al. obtained 69 samples of right atrial trabeculae from 59 patients who underwent routine coronary artery bypass surgery or aortic valve replacement. For purposes of the experiments, the muscle tissues were suspended between an isometric force transducer and a stationary stainless clip in a 200-ml jacketed reservoir filled with Tyrode modified solution maintained at 34°C. Trabeculae were stimulated at a frequency of 1 Hz and were equilibrated for 60–90 min to allow stabilization of their optimal mechanical performance.
In all groups, a 30-min hypoxic period was followed by 60 min of reoxygenation. One group was exposed to hypoxic preconditioning, accomplished by inducing a 4-min hypoxic period, followed by a 7-min reoxygenation period before the simulated ischemia challenge. In the sevoflurane treatment groups, preconditioning was achieved by delivering 1%, 2%, or 3% sevoflurane via vaporizer to the tissue bath for 15 min. Following a 7-min washout period, the muscles were then subjected to ischemic–reperfusion challenge. Time to recovery of force contractions was then compared between groups.
In other experiments, the team exposed tissue to preconditioning with 2% sevoflurane for 15 min following 10 min of pretreatment with several selective antagonists: 10 mm HMR 1098, a sarcolemmal adenosine triphosphate-sensitive potassium channel antagonist; 800 mm 5-hydroxy-decanoate, a mitochondrial adenosine triphosphate-sensitive potassium channel antagonist; and 100 mm 8-cyclopentyl-1,3-depropylxanthine, the adenosine A1 receptor antagonist.
The authors found that both hypoxic preconditioning and brief exposure of the muscles to 1%, 2%, and 3% of sevoflurane enhanced recovery of isometric contractions after 60 min of reoxygenation. This effect was abolished in the presence of 5-hydroxy-decanoate and 8-cyclopentyl-1,3-depropylxanthine, but it was attenuated in the presence of HMR 1098. The results suggest that a 5-hydroxy-decanoate–dependent mechanism (such as opening of Katp channels and stimulation of adenosine A1 receptors) may be involved in the sevoflurane-induced preconditioning of human heart muscle against ischemic insult.
Anatomic Changes Associated with Application of Cricoid Pressure. Smith et al. (page 60)
In 22 healthy volunteers, Smith et al. obtained baseline sagittal and axial views of the neck using magnetic resonance imaging. A single investigator applied cricoid pressure (CP), and additional magnetic resonance scans were taken of the subjects’ necks. The applied force was standardized. With each subject's head positioned neutrally in the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine coil on the magnetic resonance imaging table, spatial limitations necessitated using a two-handed technique to apply CP.
All magnetic resonance images were presented to two radiologists blinded as to the CP technique used. Measurements were taken from the most cephalad image in which the esophagus was seen clearly. Each radiologist read all images independently. A 25% disagreement occurred on images with CP, and 50% disagreement between radiologists occurred on the images taken before CP was applied. The esophagus was displaced relative to the midline of the vertebral body in 10 of 19 subjects without CP and in 19 of 21 with CP. The airway was displaced relative to the midline of the vertebral body in 7 of 21 subjects without CP and in 14 of 21 with CP.
Although the two-handed technique does not represent standard clinical practice, it should have theoretically resulted in less lateral displacement than with a single-handed technique, according to the investigators. That is because symmetrical pressure was confirmed with the study subjects, who were awake, prior to imaging. Despite these measures, CP was asymmetrically applied with greater pressure on the right in 50% of subjects. These results suggest that CP is unreliable at producing midline esophageal compression without distorting airway anatomy.
Do Caspase Inhibitors Provide Neuronal Protection after Cardiac Arrest and Cerebral Ischemia? Vogel et al. (page 112)
Might inhibition of caspases and/or apoptosis constitute viable neuroprotective strategies during cerebral ischemia? Vogel et al. generated a line of transgenic rats expressing baculovirus p35 (a broad-spectrum caspase inhibitor). During experimental protocols, the team then subjected both the transgenic rats (n = 13) and their nontransgenic littermates (n = 25) to cardiac arrest induced by electrical stimulation.
At 6 min after cardiac arrest, cardiopulmonary resuscitation procedures (comprised of mechanical ventilation, closed chest cardiac massage, and administration of epinephrine) were instituted by an investigator blinded to experimental group assignment. After restoration of spontaneous circulation, the animals were monitored for 7 days. Neurologic deficit scores were obtained on days 1, 3, and 7 after cardiac arrest. The neurologic deficit scores included five parameters: general behavior, cranial nerve function, motor function, sensory function, and coordination. At the end of the monitoring period, the animals were killed and their brains were removed for later histologic evaluation.
More of the transgenic rats survived after cardiac arrest, suggesting a role of the antiapoptotic protein p35 in postischemic recovery. Interestingly, neither histopathologic evidence (number of in situ DNA nick end labeling–positive cells or viable neurons in cornu Ammonis 1) nor neurologic deficit scores demonstrated any differences in response to cardiac arrest between transgenic and nontransgenic littermates. These findings suggest that another cascade of apoptotic events different from the activation of caspases is activated after global cerebral ischemia.
Morphine Requirements Studied in Elderly Patients following Total Hip Replacement. Aubrun et al. (page 160)
Should dosages of postoperative opioids be decreased in elderly patients because of age-related changes in pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics? To address this question, Aubrun et al. prospectively studied two groups of patients undergoing total hip replacement at their institution. Of the 329 patients included in the study, 224 (68%) were considered young (≤69 yr old) and 105 (32%) were elderly (≥70 yr old). On extubation in the PACU, all patients were questioned about the presence of pain and were asked to rate their pain intensity using a visual analogue scale (VAS; 0 to 100, hand slide-rule type). When pain increased to a VAS score greater than 30, intravenous morphine was titrated every 5 min by 3-mg increments until pain relief (≤30) was attained. According to pain management protocol at the authors’ institution, morphine titration was stopped if the patient had a respiratory rate less than 12 breaths per min, and/or a value of oxygen saturation measured by pulse oximetry lower than 95%, and/or a serious adverse reaction to the morphine. Subcutaneous morphine could be started 2 h after the end of intravenous morphine titration, either in the PACU or the ward, and was administered every 4 h, with doses adjusted according to the patient's weight and VAS score.
The team tracked the intravenous boluses of morphine, interval between boluses, patients’ VAS score, and doses of subcutaneous morphine administered, if any. They found that acute administration of morphine, i.e. , postoperative titration of intravenous morphine in the PACU, did not significantly differ between the young and elderly patients. However, in the subacute setting, patients with more severe pain (VAS score ≥70) and a higher duration of surgery required more subcutaneous administration of morphine. The authors note that the PACU nurses were not blinded to patient age, and that the elderly patients might have been using other analgesics before surgery that interacted with the study drugs. Further study in this area will be needed to understand differences in pain requirements.
Gretchen Henkel; THIS MONTH IN ANESTHESIOLOGY. Anesthesiology 2003;99(1):5A-6A. doi: https://doi.org/.
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Communication toolkit to promote prudent antibiotic use aimed at general public
communication toolkit
The toolkit offers template materials and advice on how campaign organisers could engage with the general public so as to promote appropriate and responsible use of antibiotics. The template materials include key messages and slogans, logos and visuals as well as suggested materials for use by health authorities in member states.
The template materials have been developed with a view of capturing the basic messages that should be directed towards the general public on this occasion, with a view to resonating in particular with parents and carers of young children, due to the fact that antibiotic consumption in young children is generally high. The materials can be used in a number of communication tools aimed at the general public: posters, advertisements in newspapers, letters, postcards.
A key multiplier of these messages are school doctors/nurses and general practitioners, who can disseminate the information and help educating the general public about the proper use of antibiotics and the importance of keeping them effective.
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Take care, not antibiotics
The over-use and misuse of antibiotics leads to antimicrobial resistance. If you have a cold or flu, take care, not antibiotics. European Antibiotics Awareness Day, a European Health Initiative. More information at: www.antibiotic.ecdc.europa.eu
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In these visuals, the hedgehog’s posture suggests taking care of himself in the recommended way: drinking liquids, keeping warm and resting.
Campaign visuals - Kicking hedgehog, Straight-faced
Two different versions of the kicking hedgehog were drawn: the first in which the hedgehog is slightly smiling despite looking obviously ill, and the second in which the hedgehog has a straight face - to provide a choice between happier messages and more serious ones.
Campaign visuals - Kicking hedgehog/Smiling
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Trope, Sequential Art, Media,
Before the Internet and Web Comics, the only place to find daily, serialized comic strips was (and for many people, still is) the back page of your local mainstream or alternative newspaper.
Comic strips can cover a wide range of formats, topics, characters and artistic styles. The Far Side and The Family Circus are one-panel gag strips. Bloom County and Pogo, while light-hearted on the surface, were thick with Story Arcs and political commentary. Other strips, like Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes, delightfully portray the experiences of childhood, and thus have broad, long-term appeal. There have been countless serialized adventure strips like The Phantom, Flash Gordon, Prince Valiant and Dick Tracy; soap opera/slice-of-life strips like Gasoline Alley and Rex Morgan M.D., and strips that fall in between, like Little Orphan Annie.
Compared to other media, newspaper comics can have incredibly long tenures. New Peanuts strips appeared daily for over 49 years. Doonesbury has been running for 40 years and Garfield has been coming out for over 30 years. Neither show any signs of stopping. Even more impressively, Blondie has run for well over 75 years, Gasoline Alley has run over 90 years, and most impressively of all The Katzenjammer Kids has been running since 1897! A 10-year run is considered tremendous for a television show, but when Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side and Bloom County each ended production after a decade, it seemed far too soon.
On the flip side, one of the reasons why Web Comics are 5-10 years ahead of Web-based indie music distribution (and 15-20 years ahead of non-corporate Web movies) is that "making it big" in sequential art has been traditionally defined as "being able to support a middle-class lifestyle without a day job". Only about 10 people in the whole 20th century got seriously stinking rich drawing Newspaper Comics, and of those only two or three achieved actual stardom.
The downside is that many newspaper comics have a reputation for not being funny anymore and the Long Runners often derisively described as "zombie strips". This is because, as far as a newspaper is concerned, comic strips are just advertising: they're there to lure in readers and make them more willing to fork over some subscription money. They're Fan Service, basically. And the last thing you want to do with fanservice is serve up something that doesn't actually please the fans. As such, Darker and Edgier humor, political- and/or current-events-based humor must be handled carefully, lest they cost the newspaper (or the artist!) more subscriptions than they gain. Even worse, newspaper strips are written anywhere from six weeks to ten months in advance of print date, which doesn't help topical humor. Newspapers have also been cutting down on the amount of space that comic strip artists are given in which to practice their visual, art-based medium, resulting in Bowdlerized art and abbreviated storytelling.[1] And the newspaper itself has become a victim of the Information Age; not only can consumers get the news online, they can get comics online too. So newspapers have to play it safe, and they do so by angling for broad, non-offensive humor with a wide appeal, often by recycling tired jokes and premises that sitcoms put to pasture years ago.
Successful newspaper comics usually find their way into other media, but are most fondly remembered as simple pen-and-ink drawings on cheap newsprint.
Sometimes you'll hear the term "Underground Comix"; in the USA, at least, this term refers to pen-and-ink comics not distributed by a syndicate and normally published in "alternative" papers, 'zines, etc. Web Comics and the consolidation of the supposedly "Alternative" newsweekly industry have put a dint in their circulation, but Cerebus and American Elf among others started out this way, and the latter still appears in alternative weeklies, or at least the one in the author's hometown.
Also, these have a very high chance of Breaking the Fourth Wall, but only when they do a very common "look at the reader at some other person's comedy or comedy failure".
Newspaper Comics that have wiki pages:
Born in the Funny Papers
- tropes inspired by newspaper comics
Military and Warfare Comics
Nine Chickweed Lane
The Adventures of Jeremiah
Barney and Clyde
Beau Peep
Beetle Bailey
Bloom County
Brewster Rockit Space Guy
Bringing Up Father
Carl Giles
Chelsea Boys
The Cursing Hedgehog
Deflocked
Dennis the Menace US
Dykes to Watch Out For
The Family Circus
The Family Upstairs
Fleep
Footrot Flats
Frazz
Funky Winkerbean
Gallos Humor
Get Fuzzy
Hagar the Horrible
Heathcliff
Hi and Lois
Judge Parker
The Katzenjammer Kids
Krazy Kat
Life in Hell
Lil Abner
Little Orphan Annie
The Lockhorns
Mafalda, see also Quino
Mandrake the Magician
Mark Trail
Mary Worth
Minimum Security
My Cage
Off the Mark
On the Fastrack
The Outbursts of Everett True
The Perishers
Piet Pienter En Bert Bibber
Pooch Cafe
Prickly City
PVT Murphy's Law
Rex Morgan MD
Rip Haywire (Webcomic parody of a newspaper comic strip.)
Robotman and Monty
Rose Is Rose
Rupert Bear
Sally Forth Howard
Sally Forth Wood
Sams Strip
Slylock Fox
Snuffy Smith
Terry and the Pirates
Tom Poes
US Acres
Wash Tubbs
What's New with Phil and Dixie
What the Duck
The Wizard of Id
The World of Lily Wong
Yenny
↑ As Bill Watterson of Calvin and Hobbes fame said of the space restrictions way back in 1989: "A beautiful strip like Pogo would be impossible to read at today's sizes." Of course it only got worse, and ultimately this was one of the factors that led to Watterson's decision to stop doing the strip. Along with a lot of the other stuff mentioned here.
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Coming up: My MSC Mediterranean cruise on the Splendida
May 20, 2014 May 6, 2014 by Julie Hatfield
It’s been a dream of mine for the many years I’ve been a travel writer – getting to the fabled isle of Capri.
Next week I will embark on a cruise from Barcelona to Marseilles, Genoa, Messina, La Goulette (Tunisia) and Naples – with a side trip, at last, to Capri.
The trip, on the MSC Splendida, one of 12 in the Italian family-owned fleet, third largest cruise line in the world, departs from Barcelona on May 16.
The enormous Splendida, at 1,094 feet able to accommodate 4,000 guests, has 18 different decks, six restaurants, 13 indoor bars and lounges, theaters, card rooms, an aqua park, a Zen area, even a Formula 1 simulator. There’s a teen disco, a squash court, jogging track and spa.
The line is known for its Mediterranean glamor and style, meaning that in seven nights of dinners, only two are casual dress, three are dressier and two are formal. Sophia Loren is the fleet’s godmother. The byword of the company is Life should be measured in moments not minutes – and each of these moments should be savored.”
Barcelona, our first stop, is known for its distinctive architecture and La Rambla, a lively street which is home to restaurants, clubs, street theater, the city market and Barcelona’s oldest buildings and monuments. But Barcelona has more, including the Montjuic Cable Car which takes visitors up the hillside to Montjuic Castle. On the way down, get off at Mirador and make the short walk down to La Rambla. After 9 p.m. in spring and summer, the “Magic Fountain” on the mountain comes to life with water displays arranged to music and changing lights. Back down in the city, children will love the Museu de la Xocolata, showing the history of chocolate here and an opportunity to paint with chocolate as well.
Our first stop will be Marseilles, oldest city in France and with a climate blessed by the gods, with 300 days of sunshine each year. It is the largest yachting center in France and the second largest in Europe. All water sports have their place here, from sailing to kayaking, diving sports and board sports. It is the most filmed city in France after Paris.
Our second stop is Genoa, Italy, the capital of Liguria. When I was last there, on a Cinque de Terre walking tour, I discovered that there is a subculture of basil growing in this area, with so many different kinds of basil that the locals can tell the difference in taste when basil touches their tongues, and pesto is a highly developed art form. The birthplace of Christopher Columbus, the city’s rich art, music, gastronomy, architecture and history caused it to become the European Capital of Culture in 2004. Columbus donated one-tenth of his income from the discovery of the Americas for Spain to the Bank of Saint George in Genoa for the relief of taxation on foods.
At the time of Genoa’s peak in the 16th Century, the city attracted many artists, including Rubens, Caravaggio and Van Dyck. The plague killed as many as half of the inhabitants of Genoa in 1656 and 1657.
Our next stop will be La Goulette, also called Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. The northernmost country in Africa, the city feels neither Arab nor African but in both architecture and way of life, Moorish and French, ancient and modern. Some of the city looks its 3,000-year age, some looks 2014. Rarely does an American cruise ship stop in this exotic Mediterranean port and that’s why we’re happy we’re on an Italian ship. The souk is worth visiting, with camel skin shoes, silver jewelry, spices, rugs and antiques, but be sure to haggle for prices. The Ruins of Ancient Carthage may not be as complete as those in Ephesus, but fascinating nevertheless, and it’s in a lovely neighborhood with lush gardens and expensive homes.
The village of Sidi Bou Said has been described as a Tunisian Santorini, clinging as it does to the hillside above the sea, with white-washed and blue-shingled houses, an inspiration to poets and artists such as French novelist Colette and Swiss painter Paul Klee.
Messina, third largest city on the island of Sicily, will be our Sicilian stop. This is where drivers from the mainland of Italy take the ferry to Sicily and its busy port. It has a beautiful Cathedral of Norman and Gothic architecture and much history. Plutarch set his “The Life of Pompey” in Messina.
We will stop in Naples, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and the most bombed Italian city during World War II. Much of the city’s 20th-Century periphery was constructed under Benito Mussonlini’s fascist government and during reconstruction efforts after World War II. Naples’ historic city center is the largest in Europe and is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
Pizza originated in Naples and Neapolitan music has influenced the world. But the reason I’m excited to go to Naples is that the Splendida has a special excursion from Naples to Capri, that gorgeous island which I’ve been hoping to visit ever since I saw it in the distance years ago, from the Amalfi Drive on the mainland.
We will take a boat from our port in Naples to Capri and spend five hours touring that island. I can’t wait.
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The Lancet, the leading medical journal, says a third of world’s population obese or overweight. Asian Lite, newspaper for NRIs and Indian diaspora regularly publishes health related articles.
Revealing how the obesity epidemic has spread globally, an alarming study has said that 2.1 billion – nearly 30 percent of the world’s population – people are either obese or overweight.
India comes a shocking third in the top-10 country club that has over 50 percent of the world’s 671 million obese.
Looking at individual countries, the highest proportion of the world’s obese people – 13 percent – live in the US.
China and India together represent 15 percent of the world’s obese population.
The study found that the number of overweight and obese individuals globally increased from 857 million in 1980 to 2.1 billion in 2013.
“In the last three decades, not one country has achieved success in reducing obesity rates. We expect obesity to rise steadily as incomes rise in low- and middle-income countries in particular, unless urgent steps are taken to address this public health crisis,” warned Christopher Murray, director of Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at University of Washington.
In a first-of-its-kind analysis of trend data from 188 countries, the study, published in The Lancet, claimed that the rise in global obesity rates over the last three decades has been substantial and widespread – presenting a major public health epidemic in both the developed and the developing world.
In developed countries, men had higher rates of overweight and obesity while women in developing countries exhibited higher rates.
Also in developed countries, the peak of obesity rates is moving to younger ages.
Between 1980 and 2013, the prevalence of overweight or obese children and adolescents increased by nearly 50 percent.
In 2013, more than 22 percent of girls and nearly 24 percent of boys living in developed countries were found to be overweight or obese.
“We know that there are severe downstream health effects from childhood obesity, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and many cancers. We need to be thinking now about how to turn this trend around,” said Marie Ng, an assistant professor of global health at IHME.
More than 50 percent of the world’s 671 million obese live in 10 countries – US, China, India, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, Egypt, Germany, Pakistan, and Indonesia – the study noted.
Over the 33-year period of research, several countries in the Middle East showed the largest increase in obesity globally. These countries include Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Kuwait.
Overweight is defined as having a Body Mass Index (BMI), or weight-to-height ratio, greater than or equal to 25 and lower than 30, while obesity is defined as having a BMI equal to or greater than 30.
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Peripheral deletion of mature CD8+ antigen-specific T cells after in vivo exposure to male antigen
Li Zhang, Diego R Martin, Wai Ping Fung-Leung, Hung Sia Teh, Richard G. Miller
It has been well established that T cell tolerance to self Ag occurs primarily via clonal deletion of immature thymocytes in the thymus. Evidence also exists that there are additional mechanisms operative on mature T cells for establishing and maintaining tolerance in the periphery. To follow the fate of mature Ag-specific T cells in vivo, we used female transgenic mice, which contain a large population of male H-Y Ag-specific T cells that can be identified by immunostaining with mAb directed against CDS and the transgenic TCR. H-Y Ag was introduced into these mice by injecting Ag-bearing male lymphocytes using conditions known to induce CTL precursor response reduction. The number of Ag-reactive CD8+ transgenic T cells in the periphery started to decrease after 2 days of in vivo exposure to male Ag. Decline was maximum (up to 80% of total) by 7 days, and stayed at this level for at least 6 wk. CD4+ cells and those CD8+ cells that did not carry the transgenic TCR were not affected. Most or all of the remaining Ag-reactive CD8+ cells in the periphery were fully responsive when stimulated by male Ag in vitro. Maturation of transgenic T cells in the thymus of injected mice remained the same as that of control animals. Our data provide direct evidence that mature Ag-reactive CD8+ cells are susceptible to clonal deletion in the periphery when exposed to the Ag in vivo. These findings suggest the presence of two types of APC in the periphery: stimulatory APC (e.g., macrophages and dendritic cells) required for initiating an active immune response; and functionally deleting APC (or veto cells) capable of deleting mature T lymphocytes that recognize Ag presented on their surface. Functionally deleting APC that present self Ag to peripheral T cells may provide a fail-safe mechanism against autoreactive cells that escaped deletion during differentiation in the thymus.
Published - Jun 15 1992
CD8 Antigens
Clonal Deletion
Active Immunity
Thymocytes
Zhang, L., Martin, D. R., Fung-Leung, W. P., Teh, H. S., & Miller, R. G. (1992). Peripheral deletion of mature CD8+ antigen-specific T cells after in vivo exposure to male antigen. Journal of Immunology, 148(12), 3740-3745.
Peripheral deletion of mature CD8+ antigen-specific T cells after in vivo exposure to male antigen. / Zhang, Li; Martin, Diego R; Fung-Leung, Wai Ping; Teh, Hung Sia; Miller, Richard G.
In: Journal of Immunology, Vol. 148, No. 12, 15.06.1992, p. 3740-3745.
Zhang, L, Martin, DR, Fung-Leung, WP, Teh, HS & Miller, RG 1992, 'Peripheral deletion of mature CD8+ antigen-specific T cells after in vivo exposure to male antigen', Journal of Immunology, vol. 148, no. 12, pp. 3740-3745.
Zhang L, Martin DR, Fung-Leung WP, Teh HS, Miller RG. Peripheral deletion of mature CD8+ antigen-specific T cells after in vivo exposure to male antigen. Journal of Immunology. 1992 Jun 15;148(12):3740-3745.
Zhang, Li ; Martin, Diego R ; Fung-Leung, Wai Ping ; Teh, Hung Sia ; Miller, Richard G. / Peripheral deletion of mature CD8+ antigen-specific T cells after in vivo exposure to male antigen. In: Journal of Immunology. 1992 ; Vol. 148, No. 12. pp. 3740-3745.
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Lyonizing Word: Some Favorite Features from Editor’s ToolKit Plus 2018
Filed under: Contributor Article,Editorial Matters,Lyonizing Word — Rich Adin @ 12:14 am
Tags: "maggie" a document, 2018, comments, Editor's Toolkit Plus, Editorium, efficient, endnotes, FileCleaner, footers, footnotes, headers, Jack Lyon, Macintosh, macors, MacroVault, Maggie, Maggie Secara, main text, new, NoteStripper, PC, power, pseudo-VBA, revolutionary, speed, text boxes, VBA, Word 2016
Jack Lyon
Making new macros with powerful features!
Bright-colored icons for all happy creatures!
Searching for typos with fresh wildcard strings!
These are a few of my favorite things.
(Apologies to Rodgers and Hammerstein.)
The new Editor’s ToolKit Plus 2018 has a wealth of new features, but I’d like to alert you to a few of my favorites, some of which are not immediately obvious but can be enormously useful.
Title-case all headings
If I had to pick a favorite out of all the new features, it would be this one. The previous version of Editor’s ToolKit Plus made it possible to select a heading, press a key (or click the mouse), and properly title-case the selected text. For example, a heading like this one—
THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE
or this one (Word’s default)—
instantly became capitalized like this—
with commonly used articles, prepositions, and conjunctions lowercased. That was great as far as it went, but why not make it possible to properly title-case all of a document’s headings without having to select them? That’s what this new feature does, for any text formatted with a heading style (Heading 1, Heading 2, and so on—or your own custom heading styles).
But this feature takes things even a step further, allowing you to automatically title-case headings in the active document, all open documents, or all documents in a folder — your choice. Now, rather than painstakingly capping and lowercasing by hand, you can have this feature do it for you, in seconds rather than hours.
But wait — there’s more, as they say on TV. This feature references a list of words so it knows what to lowercase, and you can edit that list to fit your needs. Obviously you’re going to want such words as and, the, of, and an, but what about beyond? How about through? Add or remove words to meet your own editorial style.
In addition, you can add text that you want to remain in all caps: USA, NASA, AARP, and so on.
Finally, you can even specify mixed case, with words like QuarkXPress and InDesign.
In my opinion, this feature alone is worth the price of admission. It will save you many an hour of editorial drudgery.
AutoMaggie
As you almost certainly know from hard experience, sometimes Microsoft Word documents become corrupted. (The technical term for this is wonky.) The standard fix, known as a “Maggie” (for tech writer/editor Maggie Secara, who has made it widely known to colleagues, although she did not invent the technique), is to select all of a document’s text except for the final paragraph mark (which holds the corruption), copy the text, and paste the text into a new document, which should then be free of wonkiness.
That’s simple enough, but section breaks can also hold corruption, so if your document has several of those, you have to maggie each section separately. Paragraph breaks also can become corrupt, in which case they need to be replaced with shiny new ones. The AutoMaggie feature in Editor’s ToolKit Plus takes care of all this automatically.
MacroVault batch processing
If you’re fond of using macros that you’ve recorded yourself or captured online, you’ll find MacroVault a truly revolutionary feature of the new Editor’s ToolKit Plus 2018. It was included with the previous version of the program as a way to easily access the macros you use the most, including automatically set keyboard shortcuts to run those macros. Now it takes your macro use to the next level, allowing you to run any of your macros on the active document, all open documents, or all documents in a folder.
Not only that, but you can specify which parts of a document you want to use — the main text, text boxes, footnotes, endnotes, headers, footers, and comments. This brings enormous power and flexibility to your macro collection.
FileCleaner saved settings
FileCleaner has lots of new (and useful!) cleanup options — so many, in fact, that I’ve had to put each kind of option on its own tab, one for each of the following:
Breaks, Returns, Spaces, Tabs
But I think the slickest new feature in FileCleaner is the ability to save entire sets of options for future use.
Just enter a name for a set of options (for a certain client, a certain kind of manuscript, or whatever). Then click OK to clean up those options. The next time you use FileCleaner, you can activate that set of options again by clicking the drop-down arrow on the right. When you do, all of the options for that saved setting will become selected. You can save up to 20 different sets of options.
My final favorite thing isn’t actually a feature. Instead, it’s the speed of nearly all the features in Editor’s ToolKit Plus 2018.
I originally wrote many of my programs back in the 1990s, using the clunky, old-fashioned WordBasic language. When Microsoft Word 97 was released, it featured a new language — VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), but it would also convert WordBasic macros into pseudo-VBA so the macros would continue to work in the new software. That pseudo-VBA has been the basis for my original programs ever since.
Now, in Editor’s ToolKit Plus 2018, I’ve rewritten most of the code from the ground up in native VBA. It took a long time to do that (nearly 28,000 lines of code!), but the resulting software is fast. NoteStripper, for example, used to strip notes to text by selecting, copying, and pasting each note. It worked, but if a document had lots of notes, it took a long time. Now, NoteStripper strips notes to text without selecting, copying, or pasting anything. Everything is done using the built-in text ranges of the notes and the document itself, and wow, what a difference!
For purposes of comparison, I just used NoteStripper on a document with 100 notes. The old version took 25 seconds — not bad. The new version took 2 seconds — making it more than 10 times faster than the old one. If you’re working on a big book with a short deadline, that kind of speed can make a real difference in your ability to get the job done.
I hope you’ll try the new Editor’s ToolKit Plus 2018 (which runs in Word 2016 on Macintosh, and in Word 2010, 2013, and 2016 on PCs), and that it will become one of your favorite things! If there are any features you particularly like, I’d love to hear what they are. If there are any features you would like to work differently, I’d love to hear about that as well.
Finally, if there are any features you think needed to be added, please let me know. I’d like to make Editor’s ToolKit Plus as useful as possible.
By the way, I continue to make improvements to the program almost daily. For that reason, if you’ve already installed Editor’s ToolKit Plus 2018, I strongly recommend that you download and install the most-recent version. You can download it here.
The Business of Editing: Keeping Reference Callouts in Number Order
Filed under: Business of Editing,Computers and Software,Editing Tools,Editorial Matters,Financial Matters — Rich Adin @ 4:00 am
Tags: EditTools, macros, profitability, Ref # Order Check, Reference # Order Check, Reference Number Order Check, speed
One of the most tedious and troublesome tasks for me when I edit is making sure that references are called out in number order in the text. In past years, I used a pen-and-paper system. I wasted a lot of paper and — much more importantly to my editing business — I wasted a lot of time having to move my hand from my mouse or keyboard to take up the pen-and-paper number order checking system material.
Because I tend to work on long documents, many with a large number of references, the time the pen-and-paper system took really added up. With the Reference # Order Check macro I have been able to reduce the time significantly, as well as increase accuracy.
Reference # Order Check is found on the EditTools ribbon in the References (A) submenu (B), where it is listed as Ref # Order Check (#2).
Reference # Order Check on the EditTools Ribbon
Clicking on Ref # Order Check (B) brings up the dialog for the macro, shown here:
The Reference # Order Check dialog
If you work on multiple projects concurrently, you can track the references in each project by saving each project’s reference number list to its own file and then opening that file when you next work on the specific project (#1).
To populate Reference # Order Check, you enter the last reference number in a document in the # of references field (#2) and click Update List (#3). For example, if your document lists the last reference number as 123, you would type 123 in the # of references field (#2) and then Update the List (#3). The numbers 1 through 123 will appear in the display field (#4).
If your document has “a,b” references (e.g., 57a, 62a, 62b, 62c), you can add them to the list using the Insert feature (#5). You would enter the “a,b” value to be inserted in the Value to insert field, then indicate either the number it should be inserted before (Insert before field) or the number it should be inserted after (Insert after field) in the list. The “a,b” number will then appear in the list. For example, to insert 62b, you would type 62b in the Value to insert field and then type either 62c in the Insert before field or 63 in the Insert after field — assuming you had already entered 62a but not 62c in the list. To enter the number, click Insert (#5).
The Count (#6) gives you a total count of the number of references and, as with other EditTools macros, you have the option to Save, Save & Close, or Close (#7) the dialog.
Let’s assume that in our sample document there are 117 references. We would click on Ref # Order Check (B above) to open our dialog in which we would type 117 (#8) and click Update List (#9).
Setting for 117 references
Clicking Update List populates the reference number list field (#9).
Populating Reference # Order Check
If the reference list also has a reference numbered 102a, that number would be added to the list by typing the number in the Value to insert (#10) and typing either 103 in the Insert before (#11) field or typing 102 in the Insert after (#12) field and then clicking Insert (#13).
Insert before
As shown here, the number 102a is automatically entered (arrow). Clicking Save & Close (#14) saves the number list.
102a inserted
When Reference # Order Check is reopened, the saved number list appears (as demonstrated by the inclusion of 102a in our example [#15]) and the count now displays the total number of reference numbers as 118 (#16), which is our original 117 plus the addition of 102a.
In the excerpt from our sample document, the reference callouts have been highlighted. The first called out reference is 1 (#17), which we long ago came across; the next is 43 (#17).
Reference callouts in text
A look at the Reference # Order Check dialog tells us that 43 is the next reference number that should be called out (#20), so we single-click on number 43 in the number field (#20) to remove it from the list. That will move the number 44 to the top of the list (#21), indicating that it is the next expected-to-be-found-in-the-document number.
Next reference number is 43
After removing 43
However, the next reference number in our document is 47 (see #18 above), not the expected 44 (#21). This tells us that reference callouts 44, 45, and 46 are not called out in number order or may not be called out in the document at all. As editors, we would take the next necessary steps to deal with this problem.
Some other points: Using our example, if you Save & Close Reference # Order Check at this point (after having had 43 deleted from the number field) and reopen Reference # Order Check, your number list still begins with 44 as the first number (#22) but your count (#23) now indicates the number of numbers remaining in the number list. If you just Save, then the file is saved but the count (#23) does not change. The count changes when the file is refreshed as a result of its being closed and reopened.
After reopening the Reference # Order Check dialog
Finally, numbers can be removed from the number field in any order; just click on a number. If you accidentally delete a number, reinsert it using the procedure outlined above for inserting a number (#10 to #14).
Reference # Order Check replaces the pen-and-paper method of tracking reference callouts. It is a more efficient method and allows me to keep my hand on my mouse, thereby reducing the time necessary to track the references. Like other EditTools macros, Reference # Order Check saves me time each time I use it, thereby increasing my profits. Reference # Order Check is one of the three macros I keep open on my desktop as I edit, the other two being Bookmarks and Click List.
Related An American Editor essays are:
The Business of Editing: Correcting “Errors”
The Business of Editing: Journals, References, & Dollars
The Business of Editing: Making Search & Replace Efficient & Profitable
The Business of Editing: Coding for Profit
The Business of Editing: Using & Managing Bookmarks
The Business of Editing: Managing Comments with Comment Editor
The Business of Editing: Clicking for Profit with Click List
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New Federal Overtime Rule Is on the Books
Get ready, employers. After two years of grim anticipation, worry, and debate, the new federal overtime rules are on the books as of May 23, 2016. Softening the blow is that the Department of Labor has made a few compromises after listening to employers’ concerns, and has extended the final compliance date to December 1, 2016.
In any case, the new overtime regulations will have a marked effect on the hospitality industry, which has the lion’s share of jobs affected by this overtime rule. After December 1, the minimum $23,660 yearly salary ($455 a week) for exempted employees will double.
Provisions of the new overtime rule
What got hospitality industry leaders’ attention was the original DOL proposal was to raise the salary threshold to $50,440 to exempt an employee from overtime pay. After some geographical percentile tweaking, the DOL lowered the threshold somewhat to $47,476 ($913 a week). Automatic salary updates will occur every three years, which will most likely extend the threshold to beyond $50,000.
The biggest concession for hospitality industry employers concerns bonuses and other incentives, including commissions. The new overtime rule permits employers to include up to 10 percent of the $47,476 salary level as part of the employee’s overall compensation. Thus, those incentives could bump the employee into overtime-exempt status.
It all goes back to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which, effective July 24, 2009, established a federal minimum wage of not less than $7.25 per hour. Overtime pay for non-exempt employees must be at a rate of not less than 1.5 times the regular rate of pay after 40 hours of work in the workweek. Typical exemptions to the law are executive, administrative, professional, and outside sales employees, and a variety of other categories recognized by the DOL.
Again, the hospitality industry appears to have been a major target of the new rule. For example, a fast food restaurant assistant manager paid $455 a week could spend 60 to 70 hours a week on the job. Duties could include supervisory and managerial work, along with the same work as other hourly employees. Divide the assistant manager’s salary by the number of actual hours, and that employee might not average much more than an hourly worker.
What hospitality industry employers need to do now
Effective December 1, 2016, employees receiving less than $913 per week are considered non-exempt from the overtime rule. Those receiving at least that amount, and who fall within the approved DOL categories, may be classified as exempt. Formerly exempt employees who do not meet the new salary and category criteria must be reclassified and be paid for their overtime work.
The next step for employers is to compare the costs of raising employee salaries to meet the higher exemption criteria against the cost of just paying them overtime. So, it boils down to two options:
1. Raise currently exempt employees’ salaries so they keep their exempt status. Along with this option, it would be wise to review the employees’ duties to ensure they qualify for continuing exemptions.
2. Reclassify existing exempt employees to non-exempt. When an employee’s salary level does not meet the new exempt requirement, follow this advice and reclassify the employee as non-exempt.
Caution: For option number 2, overtime payment rules will kick in, and the employer has the onus to ensure the employee never voluntarily or involuntarily works past the 40-hour limit without overtime pay. Read more on the law’s provision and how to avoid federal sanctions on the DOL elaws Employment Law Guide web page.
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How To Party Like A Noble
How many people did you invite to your most recent party?
On July 2, 1897, the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire invited seven hundred people to climb the famous “crystal staircase” of Devonshire House and join a costume ball that was destined to become legendary. The Countess of Westmoreland arrived with a stuffed eagle on her shoulder. Lady Ronalds wore a lit lyre on her head. Winston Churchill’s mother, Lady Randolph Churchill (the former Jennie Jerome) came as Empress Theodora in a gown designed by the couturier Jean Worth of Paris. The hostess, the Duchess of Devonshire, arrived as Queen Zenobia carried in a sedan chair by costumed footmen. High Society absolutely sparkled.
Despite Queen Victoria’s preference for unassuming behavior, the upper class enjoyed their wealth. What evolved for them was a series of exclusive social events together dubbed “The Season.” One writer would observe that “it seemed as if ‘a race of gods and goddesses descended from Olympus upon England in June and July.’”**
The Season began with intense preparations to present to the King and Queen the young titled women seeking official acceptance into elite society. Then, the golden circle of the wealthy began their social schedule with a glittering fortnight of celebrations bracketed by The Derby and Royal Ascot races. During July they moved to seaside resorts such as Brighton, followed by a foray down to Cowes for a week of yacht-racing. After Cowes, they shifted to Scotland to begin shooting grouse on the “Glorious 12th” of August. In 1911, the Tatler magazine reported that $65 billion was spent on shooting alone.*** The speed with which servants could re-load guns allowed the group with Lord Burnham and George V to bag a record of nearly 4,000 grouse in one day in 1913.* They pushed on to fox hunting in Oxfordshire, the Henley Regatta, and the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition. Horse races at Goodwood in late August marked the conclusion of The Season, and the elite then dispersed “to their country estates for hunting, Christmas and to await the coming of spring.”^ It was a glorious time.
Hidden among all of this partying, though, was a secret hunt that determined the future happiness and financial security of many a young woman.
Next Time: Social Landmines of Debutantes
Photo credit of Windsor Castle: Nancy Parrish
*Aslet, Clive. The Last Country Houses. New Haven and London: Yale University
Press, 1982; p.71.
^Taggart, Caroline. Her Ladyship’s Guide To the British Season. London: National Trust Books, 2013; pp. 13, 17.
**Tuchman, Barbara. The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War,
1890-1914. The Library of America, 1962; 2012; p. 582.
***Warwick, Sarah. Upstairs and Downstairs. London: Carlton Publishing Group, 2011;
2016 conversion; p. 82.
Author Nancy ParrishPosted on April 24, 2018 December 1, 2018 Tags Aristocrats
6 thoughts on “How To Party Like A Noble”
Liz Addison says:
The photo is stunning. Were you in a ballon?
Nancy Parrish says:
No. Windsor Castle has what is called the Long Walk–a road leading to a hill overlooking Windsor Great Park. At this far end of the Long Walk is The Copper Horse, a statue with George III surveying all. Pretty elegant view.
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Do these pictures open for you?
This Long Walk view became pretty timely with the recent royal wedding.
Trisha Hines says:
I am loving this blog!
We’re just beginning. I hope you’ll find more to love!
Alicia Nevins says:
Was that the same party where one amorous noble jumped into someone else’s bed calling “Here I Am!” only to find it was the wrong bed? I cannot imagine wearing a lit lyre as a headpiece – yikes!
Thank you for this blog. I always find something fun to read!
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Rally brings out former foster kids in support of human rights tribunal on child welfare
National News | November 25, 2019 by Tina House Attributed to: | 0 Comments
Tina House
Nearly 200 people turned out for a rally in downtown Vancouver in support of a human rights tribunal order that will see First Nations children who apprehended by the state receive compensation.
Many people here were in foster care including Jaye Simpson.
“I was in British Columbia for 16 years,” said Simpson. “I was apprehended when I was three years old. I moved to the Downtown Eastside with my mother where she spent the rest of her life before she died down here.”
Some in the crowd are still grieving the loss of loved ones that died after aging out of care.
Quentin Reece, 29, died recently after struggling with addictions.
His friend Dawn Johnson, who also grew up in care, spoke ahead of the rally.
“Quentin changed my life,” she said. “He had this really powerful energy this really bright light within him. Then he struggled with things but you didn’t see that part of him you saw this love and this energy and this ability to connect people and even now that’s what he’s doing he’s connecting all of us.”
Robin Raweater, an inter-generational residential school survivor and is now a mother herself, also spoke ahead of the march.
“Children are suffering every single day children are dying in the child welfare system nobody is being held accountable,” she said.
Starting Monday in Ottawa, the court will hear arguments on the government’s application to have the ruling from the tribunal to pay First Nations children $40,000 if they were apprehended on reserve, set aside.
In January 2016, the tribunal ruled that Canada discriminated against First Nations children.
Again, in September 2019, the tribunal released its compensation ruling saying that the discrimination was “wilful” and “reckless.”
The government says it acknowledges it discriminated against First Nations children by underfunding the child welfare system on reserve but says the tribunal has over stepped its bounds by announcing across the board compensation.
Some in Vancouver weren’t buying it.
“The Trudeau government challenging this is also an act of genocide,” said Simpson. “This is an act of destruction of culture language and life he thinks he can spend billions of dollars taking these children to court what is reconciliation if he keeps on taking these children to court.”
Cree Justice Paul Favel is overseeing the hearings in Ottawa.
The Tribunal gave the government and the parties involved in the hearings until Dec. 10 to work out a plan to notify the people who would be eligible for compensation.
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Somebody Tell the Dark Den to Stop!! (Unless I'm Wrong)
Discussion in 'Tarantula Chat' started by Liquifin, Dec 10, 2018.
Dec 14, 2018 #141
Nonnack Arachnoknight
But you know there are hundreds or thousands of breeders who doesn't have youtube channel .?
antinous Pamphopharaoh
Nonnack said: ↑
Yes, we do know. But are they making videos that new hobbyists see? No. What you do behind closed doors is your own problem. Making videos and showing it to people on the internet for people to mimic and trying to justify yourself is a complete different story.
dangerforceidle Arachnodemon Active Member
I really don't understand this thread. Guy just have a entertaining youtube channel about something we like. But no, he have to do thing like this, not like that. Omg if you don't like it just don't watch it. And don't worry, you will not get his sling in US.
It's one thing to care for an animal with methods different from the 'accepted' methods within this community, so long as the animal stays healthy. It's also one thing to create entertaining videos for viewers where you manipulate the animal in such a way that allows you to record better footage. However, it's another to do things that put animals in unnecessary risk, or knowingly create hybridized animals. To then film those things and release the footage to an audience the size of his following is plain irresponsible. A lot of his viewers do not even keep tarantulas, they simply like his content. He is essentially misinforming people beyond the bounds of other tarantula keepers.
As stated, I will no longer watch his content. I didn't comment on his videos with a rant about why I don't like how he has changed, I didn't "dislike" any of the content on youtube. I simply unsubscribed from his channel and won't watch any more. His desire for new viewers has begun to cross lines for me personally.
He can be entertaining without knowingly hybridizing animals in order to breed successfully, or allowing them to run around the desk while rehousing, or handling them. He states he does not condone handling or won't normally, but in nearly every video with tarantulas lately he has handled at least one, and the most recent he even puts it in the title. Actions speak louder than words.
basin79 said: ↑
I've been supping. What would you like know?
Just keep doing you and release about 1000% more videos.
Spiderlife Arachnopeon
korlash091 said: ↑
One of the reasons i started in this hobby a year ago were his videos, i found them funny and he seemed to know what he was doing, but i have to be honest, since he moved to the new place, it looks like he just makes videos for the likes and to get more subscribers, handles a lot, and does a lot of stuff that if find weird, or just plain bad for the Ts.
Pd:sorry for my english
This is exactly how I feel.
I LOVED this channel when it was a guy looking after his inverts, showing us his upkeep, feeding and projects, building etc. He had principles, he even did a video about his views on handling etc.
But now...? He says he's not doing weds videos because their lack of interest isn't bringing in enough subscribers?
He's holding inverts in nearly every video? He's even going to create hybrids?????
Ugh, I'm so so disappointed. I really wanted this guy to succeed but he's forgotten why he started all this.
Vanessa Grammostola Groupie Arachnosupporter
Liquifin said: ↑
Got a New Reply from him, He states:
Oh I stated in multiple videos that I'm strongly against hybrids, will of course talk about this in the breeding video ^^
So, he says that he is 'strongly against' creating hybrids, but he is going to go ahead and do it anyway? Why does anyone need any more reasons than this to not support, or defend, him? Why does saying that he is a poor example of tarantula keeping create so much backlash when he displays that complete lack of good judgement when it comes to these animals and the hobby? Why is he not embarrassed? Does doing stupid things that you think is wrong on YouTube pass for transparency nowadays?
"I know it's wrong, but I'm going to go ahead and do it anyway and I am going to share my hypocrisy and poor judgement with as many people as I can on social media."... good grief.
Love x 1
FrmDaLeftCoast Arachnosquire
antinous said: ↑
I’m not sure what you’re not understanding? It’s mentioned multiple times that people will copy what they see, especially if it’s from their ‘idol’. Sure he’s not doing it in the US, but that doesn’t mean people in the US (or anywhere for that matter) won’t copy him. I’m not going to repeat everything I said before because I’m sure everyone understands it, but disclaimers are necessary to make sure people understand what he’s doing isn’t always ‘right’.
I think you should give newbies more credit than what I've been reading. To believe we would ignore everything we've learned from from the likes of Tom Moran and forums like this one, is somewhat absurd. Perhaps your giving Dark Den way too much credit. He has some legit videos, but no one sees him as an idol. At least not in the states...
Plus even if someone like Tom Moran posted a video on how he's realized all tarantulas can and should be handled. Do you think we would go ahead and do as told? That's a negative...and this is coming from a newbie.
Optimistic x 1
FrmDaLeftCoast said: ↑
Have you read some of the comments on his videos? I'm not bashing every new person in the hobby and not every new person in the hobby is like you. From my experience posting something on his videos, as well as other replies posted on @Liquifin's comments, I don't think I am. Sure there are a good amount of people who will do the research before getting one, but just like in any other hobby, there are others that won't.
What video was that? I watch all of his videos, and he didn't say that all can be handled, he said some are more than others, but he doesn't speak on the matter really.
Have you read some of the comments on his videos? I'm not bashing every new person in the hobby and not every new person in the hobby is like you. From my experience posting something on his videos, as well as other replies posted on @Liquifin
Let me clarify this...Tom Moran has never ever said anything of that nature. If you read my comment you will notice I wrote "If" before I made that statement. It was given as an hypothetical example.
Whoops, my apologies, read through that too fast. I blame the coffee...
But, just want to add, it sounds like I'm attacking new owners, which I'm really not. I've just spent many years in the reptile hobby, plant hobby, and now the invert hobby and it's pretty much the same story over and over. A good deal of new hobbyists do their research, while others 'impulse' buy, do a quick YouTube search and gather all their info from their.
Minty @londontarantulas
I think a lot of the people who jump to his defence without question, will likely be very young, probably 14 and under.
Minty said: ↑
The comments I got were apparently from people older than 'I've been alive' apparently. Also on groups, it's a mix of teens and adults. Which was quite shocking to me, as I thought the same as you.
The Seraph Arachnolord
I cannot understand people who blindly follow others without question. The word of one person is not divine scripture, so don't treat it as such. It is much more logical to follow many sources and find the better solution through analysis.
EulersK Arachnonomicon Staff Member
Mojave Desert, US
It seems that he doesn't understand that this actually is a hybridization...
petkokc Arachnosquire
My general idea was, B. albopilosum "hobby form" is already messed up and impure so there is not much damage it can be done as long as they are labeled as such.
But after rethinking it long and hard I decided not to do it and to try and get true Nicaragua female instead. Thanks everyone for the input.
To everyone mad at me over this or any other reason, I NEVER claimed in ANY of my videos that I'm an expert. In fact, I often mention it in my videos, that I'm just a regular keeper with exception of knowing how to make funny and entertaining videos. Just because others put me on the pedestal, it doesn't give anyone the right to degrade me. Instead, try being nicer and teach others the right way.
If someone really loves my videos, can you blame them for being defensive if you open with "he is a moron", even if I do something stupid.
I also always point people to this forum for any information they need, I really don't want to change that.
Zevil Arachnosquire
Problem solved I guess?
Heh, sooner or later there will be another thread like this. Because there will be something not professional in Dark Den video, how could he show it to ppl, they will blindly follow him. XD
Face Palm x 2
Meh x 1
Dennis Nedry Arachnodemon
petkokc said: ↑
Well the good thing about that is if you get a true Nicaraguan female and pair her you’d be able to sell the true Nicaraguan slings for a lot more than if you were to sell the mutt slings under the hobby form name.
Also glad that you actually reply to others rather than ignoring it or doing something ridiculous like crying on camera about the haters and abuse you get for views (looking at a certain big snake youtuber)
Potatatas Arachnoknight
I think the main worry would be that you end up with 100s (no idea how many eggs are in a sac) of Nicaragaun looking slings and you'd have to make it clear to everyone you give them to that these are definitely not the pure Nicaraguan. Now, out of the 100s of people you give slings to I'm sure there would be a small few that still insist they are pure Nicaraguan because they are more sought after than "hobby forms".
Kudos to you for taking onboard people's concerns though. I'm sure you've been here long enough to know that a lot of members hearts are in the right place and care a lot about the tarantula hobby but care much less about the keepers feelings and will tell you bluntly what you're doing wrong. I've experienced this a lot as a newbie to the hobby and it always bruises the ego to be told I'm doing something wrong especially when you've put a lot of thought into something. But in the end the members are usually right and just want every T to get a safe home.
Good for you! Best of luck with finding and breeding a Nicaragua variant female.
Chris LXXIX ArachnoGod Active Member
A same statement was made (altough not in the 'virtual' world) "eons" ago here in Europe, and, in result of this, we had an helluva of Hysterocrates specimens kinda 'mutt'
Glad you changed your mind, man.
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Hope, Theodore Cracraft, and Charles Shepherd. Photograph VII. Pillars in the North-East Corner of the Colonnade In The Architecture of Ancient Delhi: Especially the Buildings Around the Kutb Minar. Arundel Society, 1872.
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"Note that the U.S. Navy Bureau of Ordnance definition of an "Assembly" at this time was a specific complete ordnance installation (e.g., a gun mount or turret) having the stated list of specific component items of equipment, identical in all respects. Such a specific Assembly by number might be replicated in several installations on board an individual ship. In other cases, an individual ship might have four different "Assemblies" on board that each had the same gun type and operational performance but that varied according to certain aspects of placement, such as broadside battery orientation or deck level location. Attention to the specific components comprising a specific Assembly number was essential in ensuring that each installation performed as intended. Assembly numbers were totally unrelated to the parallel process of assignment of production serial numbers to individual component items such as guns or gun mounts." Chris Wright, 2008
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RESTRICTED ORDNANCE PAMPHLET 60
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INDEX OF ASSEMBLIES
U. S. NAVY MOUNTS AND TURRETS
Includes Guns, Caliber 20-mm. to 16-inch
This publication is RESTRICTED and will be handled in accordance with Article 76, United States Naval Regulations, 1920
NAVY DEPARTMENT
BUREAU OF ORDNANCE
WASHINGTON, D. C.
ORDNANCE PAMPHLET 60 (5th Revision)
INDEX OF ASSEMBLIES FOR U. S. NAVY MOUNTS AND TURRETS
(Includes Guns Caliber 20-mm to 16-Inch)
1. Ordnance Pamphlet 60 is an index for use by the Naval Service in identifying mount and turret assemblies. It indicates further mount or turret components which can be assembled with other components to form an assembly. Any assembly given does not necessarily mean that that combination exists in fact, as many possible assemblies are also included.
2. Ordnance Pamphlet 60 does not include all items in an assembly that carry a Mark and Modification. Before it is used, careful study of the General Notes (Chapter I) should be made in order to determine which assemblies are complete and which are not. A further revision is planned to include all components. Until such time as it is available, the latest revisions of the sketch lists given should be used to check the components not included in this pamphlet.
3. Ordnance Pamphlet 60 (5th Revision) supersedes Ordnance Pamphlet 60 (4th Revision), which should be destroyed.
4. This publication is RESTRICTED and should he handled in accordance with the provisions of Article 76, U. S. Navy Regulations, 1920.
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CHAPTER I Page
General notes 1
CHAPTER II 6
Assembly Number Index (Arranged within calibers by assembly numbers):
1" 10 10
1-pounder (1-PD) 13
3-inch 17
CHAPTER III 75
Mount Index (Arranged within calibers by mount Mark and Modification):
6-inch 116
(For 6", 8", 12", 14", and 16" turret assemblies see Chapter II and V)
CHAPTER IV 120
Gun Barrel Index (Arranged within calibers by gun barrel Mark and Modification):
20 mm (See Mount Index)
1" 10 (See Mount Index)
1-pounder (1-PD) 121
12-inch 177
CHAPTER V 183
Ship-Assembly Cross-Reference Index 183
(This index includes only those ships arranged alphabetically that have mount or turret assemblies which do not carry identifying Marks and Modifications.)
1. Ordnance Pamphlet 60 has not only been revised and brought up to date, but it has also been expanded to cover 20 mm, 1".10, and 40 mm mount assemblies as well as 8", 12", 14", and 16" turret assemblies. The assemblies for the 3" field and landing guns and the 8" howitzers with 4" mounts have been omitted from this revision. This pamphlet includes three different arrangements of the assemblies rather than two as given in the 4th Revision. An arrangement by assembly numbers has been added and is called the "Assembly Number Index" (Chapter II). Another change was made in the Gun Index (Chapter IV). Here, the information is complete and it is not necessary to refer to the Mount Index (Chapter III) for full information as was necessary in the last revision. In order that ordnance pamphlet 60 may be used to its maximum advantage, certain explanatory notes concerning its use and interpretation are presented in the paragraphs that follow.
2. Explanation of Certain Column Headings in Chapters II, III, and IV.
(a) Caliber: The caliber of a gun is the diameter of its bore, measuring to the tops of the lands. Caliber is usually expressed in inches or in millimeters, however, some of the smaller guns of older types are described by the weight of the projectile they shoot rather than by the size of the bore. Examples of the latter are the 1-pounder, 3-pounder, and 6-pounder guns. In this pamphlet they are abbreviated in the following manner: 1-PD, 3-PD, and 6-PD.
(b) Length in Calibers: For all guns of caliber 3-inch and above the length of the bore plus the length of the chamber in inches divided by the diameter of the bore (caliber) in inches is used to express the length of the gun barrel. Thus a 3"/50 gun barrel has a caliber of 3 inches and is 50 calibers long or 150 inches. Guns of caliber less than 3 inches are not usually expressed as being so many calibers in length. Therefore, the length in caliber column has been used to complete the abbreviations of caliber for all guns with calibers under 3 inches.
(c) Mount Type: In this column, three characteristics are shown.
(1) If a "W" appears in the column, a wet mount for use on a submarine is indicated.
(2) A numerical entry in the column indicates the number of guns in the mount or turret except that in the case of single mounts no numerical entry is made.
(3) If an "S" appears in the column, it means that the possible gun elevation is 45 degrees or less. If a "D" appears, it means that the possible gun elevation is over 45 degrees.
(d) Mount Mark and Modification: (Ship Type and Number) :
(1) If an assembly has a mount Mark and Modification, the Mark and Modification will appear in this column. In the case of 6", 8", 12", 14", and 16" turret assemblies where there are no Marks and Modifications to identify types of assemblies, the type-and number has been substituted.
(2) Mount Marks and Modifications have traditionally been determined by the Marks and Modifications of certain major components as the carriage, slide, and stand or their equivalent. This is true for the 1-PD, 3-PD, 6-PD, 3", 4", 5", 6", and 7" mounts.
(3) Certain deviations from this method of assigning Marks and Modifications to mounts have arisen owing to structural differences. Those mounts having deck
lugs which take the place of both the carriage and the stand have their Marks and Modifications determined by the deck lugs and slides only. In the 20 mm, and 1".10 mounts the Marks and Modifications are determined by the carriage, cradle, and stand. The cradle performs some of the functions performed by the slide of larger caliber guns. In the 40 mm mounts the Marks and Modifications are determined by only two components, the carriage and stand, there being no slide as such in the assemblies.
(e) Gun Barrel: The Marks and Modifications of gun barrels are assigned without breech mechanisms, housings, machine gun mechanisms, or yokes being included.
(f) Breech Mechanism, Housing, or (Machine) Gun Mechanism. The letter in the preceding column indicates whether the Mark and Modification in this column is for a breech mechanism (B), a housing (H), or a machine gun mechanism (M).
(g) Carriage, Platform, and Deck Lug: The letter in the preceding column indicates whether the Mark and Modification in this column is for a carriage (C), platform (P), or deck lug (L). It is possible in 5" mounts to have both a carriage and a platform. In such cases the platform will appear underneath the carriage Mark and Modification and in the same column.
(h) Powder Hoists: The Marks and Modifications given are for the upper powder hoists only. The lower and auxiliary powder hoists are not shown.
(i) Projectile Hoists: The Marks and Modifications given are for the upper projectile hoists only. The lower and auxiliary projectile hoists are not shown.
(j) Sketch List Number: The sketch numbers given are for the list of drawings. When checking an assembly by its sketch, care should be taken to use the latest revision of that sketch.
(k) Assembly Number:
(1) From the standpoint of record keeping and maintenance, the assembly numbers are the best source of information of Marks and Modifications for components of any mount. If an assembly number is properly assigned (this can be checked by comparison with the sketch list), only reference to the caliber and assembly number in correspondence is required in order to determine the Marks and Modifications of all the components of a mount. However, if in reporting a casualty or in commenting about a mount, only the Mark and Modification of the mount is stated, then only the Marks and Modifications of the carriage, slide, and stand can be determined. The caliber and correct assembly number are more informative than the Mark and Modification of the mount.
(2) Because of the increased decentralization in the work of installing and modifying mounts by Ordnance Alterations (Ordalts), some assemblies have been changed and new assembly numbers not assigned. In some cases as a matter of expediency alternate components in certain assemblies were specified as in certain 5" assemblies either a 5" Housing Mark 1 Mod. 4 or Mark 1 Mod. 8 is possible. This situation is in the process of correction but until assembly numbers are assigned to eliminate the alternate equipment possibility, it will be necessary to note which alternative is on a particular mount.
(3) If the assembly number of a mount does not check with its sketch list, then the Bureau of Ordnance should be notified immediately in one of the following two ways:
(a) Report the mount number, caliber, and assembly number as then assigned, giving the deviations from the list of drawings sketch, or:
(b) Report the mount number, caliber, and assembly number as then assigned and give a complete listing of all the components bearing Marks and Modifications on the mount.
(4) A turret when installed is assigned its individual assembly number which distinguishes it from any other turret of the same caliber. For turrets, the assembly number assignment is permanent, in that although the components of a turret may be changed the assembly number remains the same. Changes in turret assemblies are noted either by revising the existing sketch lists or by preparing new sketch lists if changes are extensive.
3. Brief Description of Chapters II, III, and IV.
(a) Chapter II (Assembly Number Index)
(1) This chapter is arranged by caliber. Within each caliber the arrangement is by assembly number. Each caliber has or has had at one time, assembly numbers starting at one. In certain cases where assemblies are no longer in existence, possibly through scrapping of obsolete mounts, or for other reasons, assembly numbers have been omitted from this pamphlet..
(b) Chapter III (Mount index)
(1) This chapter is also arranged by caliber. However, within each caliber the arrangement is by mount Mark and Modification. Within each mount Mark and Modification group the assemblies are further subdivided and arranged by gun barrel Mark and Modification.
(2) All 6", 8", 12", 14", and 16" turret assemblies have been omitted from this chapter since these assemblies do not have identifying Marks and Modifications. By using Chapter V the caliber, turret number, and assembly number of each turret for all ships carrying guns of such caliber can be determined. When the caliber and assembly numbers are known, the additional information concerning any particular turret can be found in the Assembly Number index (Chapter II).
(c) Chapter IV (Gun Barrel Index)
(1) This chapter is likewise arranged by caliber, but within each caliber the arrange-mint is by gun barrel Mark and Modification. Within each gun barrel Mark and Modification group the assemblies are subdivided and arranged by mount Mark and Modification.
(2) When a mount or turret assembly has two or more gun barrels, the barrels sometimes have different Marks or Modifications. Thus, when the arrangement by gun barrel Mark and Modification is made, the barrels of such assemblies will not fall together but will be listed with the barrels of the same Mark and Modification. This means that an assembly may have its gun barrels in two or three different parts of the Gun Barrel Index if they bear different Marks or Modifications. In such cases it is necessary to refer to the Assembly Number Index (Chapter II) for complete information on the particular caliber and assembly.
(3) The 20 mm, 1".110, or 40 mm assemblies are not included in the Gun Barrel Index, as they would be identical with the Mount Index, since all of the gun barrels within each caliber are the same.
4. Special Comments:
(a) Notes Throughout. Indexes: Numerous special mounts have been made from time to time for ammunition test purposes and for mount construction tests. Some of these mounts were made up of components from mounts of different calibers. Wherever this situation arises in this pamphlet, the Mark and Modification is not given as this would confuse calibers. Only the caliber of the component is given. Information concerning these special mounts can be obtained by reference to their sketch lists. The status of certain
turrets and mounts are noted by short comments as to whether they are in service, removed, cancelled, stored, etc.
(b) 20 mm Gun Barrels: Only the Gun Barrel Mark 4 Mod. 1 which is currently under production, is shown in this pamphlet as being a part of the 20 mm assemblies, however, it is also possible to use the Gun Barrels Mark 2, 3, and 4 Mod. 0 in either of the Machine Gun Mechanisms Mark 2 Mod. 0 or Mark 4 Mod. 0.
(c) 40 mm Machine Gun Mechanisms: 40 mm machine gun mechanisms for the twin and quadruple mounts are assembled in pairs composed of a left-hand and right-hand mechanism for the twin and two left-hand and two right-hand mechanism for the quadruple. The left-hand mechanisms are designated Mark 1 Mods. 0 and 1. The right-hand mechanisms are designated Mark 2 Mods. 0 and 1. As units the Modifications of Machine Gun Mechanisms Mk. 1 and 2 are interchangeable. However, an effort has been made to keep all of the mechanisms on board one ship either Mark 1 Mod. 0 and Mark 2 Mod. 0 or Mark 1 Mod. 1, and Mark 2 Mod. 1. If this is not done, the spare parts situation is complicated since the essential difference between the Mod. 0 and Mod. 1 mechanisms is that certain parts are not interchangeable. In this pamphlet if right-hand Machine Gun Mechanisms Mark 2 Mod. 1 are specified in an assembly, then the Machine Gun Mechanisms Mark 1 Mod. 1. will be the corresponding left-hand mechanisms. If the right-hand Machine Gun Mechanisms Mark 2 Mod. 0 are specified, then the left-hand Machine, Gun Mechanisms Mark 1 Mod. 0 will be used.
(d) How to Determine Quantities in the Indexes: If there are three gun barrels in an assembly which all bear Marks and Modifications, each gun barrel's Mark and Modification is repeated. The quantities of all items except deck lugs can be so determined. The number of times a Mark is listed under a particular component's column heading shows the quantity of that component in the assembly. In the case of deck lugs each Mark and Modification is listed but once. Thus, if there are two deck lugs of the same Mark and Modification, only one is shown.
(e) Completeness of Assemblies:
(1) The 20 mm, 40 mm, 1-PD., 3-PD. and 6-PD. mount assemblies are all complete. All components of the assemblies are given.
(2) The 3" mount assemblies are complete except for Telescopes, Telescope Holders, Sight Angle Receivers, Sight Deflection Receivers, and Muzzle Covers.
(3) The 4" mount assemblies are complete except for Telescopes, Telescope Holders, Director Gears, and Muzzle Covers.
(4) The 5" mount assemblies are not complete. Some of the items omitted in this pamphlet are Firing and Lighting Circuits, Telescopes, Telescope Holders, Gas Ejectors, Firing Locks, Muzzle Covers, Fuze Setters, Gun Train Indicators and Indicator Regulators, Gun Elevation Indicators and Indicator Regulators, Fuze Setting Indicator Regulators, Gun Battle Order Indicators, Window Wiper Attachments, Sight Setter's Indicators, Elevation Receivers, and Training Receivers.
(5) The 6" mount assemblies are not complete. Some of the omitted components are Gas Ejectors, Firing Locks, Firing and Lighting Circuits, Muzzle Covers, Telescopes, Telescope Holders, Elevation Receivers, Training Receivers, Gun Train Indicators, Gun Elevation Indicators, Sprinkler Systems, Erosion and Parallax Adjusters, and Gun Battle Order Indicators.
(6) The 7" mount assemblies are complete except for Telescopes.
(7) The 6", 8", 12", 14", and 16" turret assemblies are not complete. Some of the omitted components are Gas Ejectors, Rammers, Firing and Lighting Circuits, Firing Circuits, Lighting Circuits, Case Ejectors, Rangefinder Stands, Auxiliary
Powder and Projectile Hoists, Lower Powder and Projectile Hoists, Parbuckling Gear, Projectile Rings, Firing Locks, Sprinkler Systems, Ventilation Systems, Voice Tubes, Ammunition Cars, Periscopes, and Periscope Mounts.
(f) Use of Mark and Mark, Mod. 0: Bureau of Ordnance Circular Letter X6-44 states the following:
"1. It has long been the Bureau's custom to designate the first piece of equipment of any particular type by the use of a Mark. Subsequent minor changes in the type have been designated by the addition of a Modification, with an appropriate number. At the same time there has grown up the custom of designating all equipment of a particular type by the use of the Mark which applies strictly only to the first of the group.
"2. In order to eliminate confusion between the type as a whole and the first equipment of the type, such first model will hereafter be designated by Mark and Modification 0.
"3. It will not be necessary to change existing designations."
In order to make this publication more legible, zeros (0) have been omitted from the Modification columns. Nevertheless, wherever Modification numbers have been omitted it can be assumed, that Mod. 0 is applicable. The operating forces are urged to carry out the above circular letter by stating specific Modifications (Mod. 0, etc.) when speaking or corresponding about a specific piece of ordnance equipment.
(g) Reporting Errors: Every effort has been made to avoid errors in preparation of these assembly sheets. However, errors and omissions may be discovered in their use. Activities concerned are requested as stated in paragraph 2k (3) of this chapter to inform the Bureau of Ordnance promptly of such errors so that they may be corrected.
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The drones will be used in the fight against malaria in Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania. Remote piloted aircraft will spray a silicone-based gel on the rice fields, on the large expanses of stagnant water where the disease-carrying insects lay their eggs. In the hope that this will significantly decrease the number of anopheles in the area, the substance will prevent the hatching of the eggs and the larvae will remain trapped: without the fluid they would become malarial vectors.
"Our goal is to reduce the incidence of this disease to zero by 2023", said Abdullah Suleiman Ali, head of the "Malaria Elimination Program" in Africa.
"Drone pest control is a relatively inexpensive way to prevent mosquitoes from reproducing", said Bart Knols, a medical entomologist and researcher of the program. He added: "The liquid that will be used has been tested internationally and it is harmless for other organisms and without toxicity".
In the last 10 years Zanzibar, with a population of 1.2 million people, has undertaken various methods to fight malaria: thousands of mosquito nets and insecticides were distributed.
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Reign of Ahaz
28 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord, like his father David, 2 but walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. He even made molten images for the Ba′als; 3 and he burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his sons as an offering, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. 4 And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
Aram and Israel Defeat Judah
5 Therefore the Lord his God gave him into the hand of the king of Syria, who defeated him and took captive a great number of his people and brought them to Damascus. He was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who defeated him with great slaughter. 6 For Pekah the son of Remali′ah slew a hundred and twenty thousand in Judah in one day, all of them men of valor, because they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers. 7 And Zichri, a mighty man of E′phraim, slew Ma-asei′ah the king’s son and Azri′kam the commander of the palace and Elka′nah the next in authority to the king.
Intervention of Oded
8 The men of Israel took captive two hundred thousand of their kinsfolk, women, sons, and daughters; they also took much spoil from them and brought the spoil to Samar′ia. 9 But a prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came to Samar′ia, and said to them, “Behold, because the Lord, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand, but you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven. 10 And now you intend to subjugate the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, as your slaves. Have you not sins of your own against the Lord your God? 11 Now hear me, and send back the captives from your kinsfolk whom you have taken, for the fierce wrath of the Lord is upon you.” 12 Certain chiefs also of the men of E′phraim, Azari′ah the son of Joha′nan, Berechi′ah the son of Meshil′lemoth, Jehizki′ah the son of Shallum, and Ama′sa the son of Hadlai, stood up against those who were coming from the war, 13 and said to them, “You shall not bring the captives in here, for you propose to bring upon us guilt against the Lord in addition to our present sins and guilt. For our guilt is already great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.” 14 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly. 15 And the men who have been mentioned by name rose and took the captives, and with the spoil they clothed all that were naked among them; they clothed them, gave them sandals, provided them with food and drink, and anointed them; and carrying all the feeble among them on asses, they brought them to their kinsfolk at Jericho, the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Samar′ia.
Assyria Refuses to Help Judah
16 At that time King Ahaz sent to the king[a] of Assyria for help. 17 For the E′domites had again invaded and defeated Judah, and carried away captives. 18 And the Philistines had made raids on the cities in the Shephe′lah and the Negeb of Judah, and had taken Beth-she′mesh, Ai′jalon, Gede′roth, Soco with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages; and they settled there. 19 For the Lord brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had dealt wantonly in Judah and had been faithless to the Lord. 20 So Til′gath-pilne′ser king of Assyria came against him, and afflicted him instead of strengthening him. 21 For Ahaz took from the house of the Lord and the house of the king and of the princes, and gave tribute to the king of Assyria; but it did not help him.
Apostasy and Death of Ahaz
22 In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the Lord—this same King Ahaz. 23 For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him, and said, “Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel. 24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and he shut up the doors of the house of the Lord; and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem. 25 In every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, provoking to anger the Lord, the God of his fathers. 26 Now the rest of his acts and all his ways, from first to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. 27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel. And Hezeki′ah his son reigned in his stead.
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When Badin High School sophomore Stephanie Hartkemeyer was in the midst of working with a children’s group making blankets, she was reminded of another opportunity – making blankets for military veterans.
She thought it was a good idea, and started considering fundraising opportunities to get the material.
Enter her friend, fellow Badin sophomore Elizabeth Kreimer, and Elizabeth’s mother, Corrine.
Stephanie and Elizabeth thought that Halloween “Boo-grams” might be a way to make money, at $1 apiece at Badin -- quick notes of “hello” from one student to another, attached to a sucker. Those were a big hit -- and raised some $350 at Badin.
Mrs. Kreimer put the idea up on social media … and it went “viral.” By the time Halloween had come and gone, the girls had raised some $1,500 for blanket material!
“I never expected anything like this!” Stephanie said. “It’s great. I’m waiting for 65 yards of material to come in, and then we’ll have so many more blankets!”
So far, the girls have made 75 blankets using the military-themed blanket material. They’ll double that number once the additional material arrives.
“We need a little more help making the blankets,” Hartkemeyer laughed. “But we’re excited to do this.”
Hartkemeyer, a graduate of Sacred Heart School in Fairfield, and Kreimer, from Harrison Junior High, said the goal is to have as many blankets as possible ready for an Honor Flight leaving from Dayton in April. Honor Flights take military veterans and chaperones to Washington D.C. to see the various memorials at no cost to the veteran involved.
Contact: Dirk Q. Allen, (513) 869-4490; Dallen@BadinHS.org
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Lights, Camera, Conversation… “Different strokes, different folks”
The reasons that drive people to dislike a piece of art are sometimes those that you cannot think of in a hundred million years.
I was speaking, recently, to a young filmmaker. The conversation was initiated with single-minded purpose – he wanted to pick my brains about something (I still don’t know how much I was able to help him with what he wanted) – but it gradually expanded to include anything and everything. We spoke about the nature and the purpose of criticism. We spoke about the tendency of people in the film industry to gloat over the failure of their peers. (You haven’t seen Schadenfreude, first hand, until you’ve watched the glee spread like sunshine over the faces of industry folk when a much-lauded director lays an egg; it’s chilling.) And we spoke about the humbling nature of audience response. Each of us had experienced this in different ways – he through the people who have seen his work, and I through those who have read my work. And funnily enough, both of us produced an anecdote about Mani Ratnam to illustrate our experiences.
K’s story revolved around Kannathil Muthamittal, which (in case you don’t know) is about a little girl who’s told by her father that she’s adopted, and that her birth mother is from Sri Lanka. This becomes the impetus for the family to journey to the island, where they are trapped in the midst of war – not just in the general disruptions to normal life caused by a long-running civil war (which makes it difficult for them to make enquiries about people and travel from place to place), but also in the gunfire that erupts around them when they are seated in a park. And K said that a friend of his who worked in advertising didn’t care for the film at all. I thought that maybe the subject was too grim for her. Or maybe, like those who worked in the adoption circles, she felt that the way the child had been apprised of her reality was very cinematic, and this killed the film’s premise for her.
But no. K told me that his friend’s reason for disliking the film was that there was no duet. I said, “Surely you’re not serious.” And he smiled and said he was. The friend’s logic was simply this: How can you have Madhavan and Simran in a movie and not have a romantic song picturised on them? The slight issue of where this duet could have been incorporated into a movie about a couple worrying that they may lose their child did not seem to bother this friend. Seen one way, this is not a completely unreasonable expectation. Such a song probably could have been included in the flashback that details the couple’s courtship, which is better described as a somewhat accidental getting together. This flashback does have a number that plays in the background, Sattena nanaindhadhu nenjam – but it’s not a full-fledged song, and it’s not exactly capital-R romantic. And this absence was enough of a deal-breaker that all the other wonderful things about this movie paled into insignificance. The film, in the friend’s eyes, was a dud.
My story is slightly more bizarre. I was invited, some time ago, to a radio station to talk about the Oscars. Usually, these things are done over the phone, but this time, for whatever reason, they wanted me there. So I went. The person hosting the show was seated opposite me in a sound-proof booth, and as a warm-up to the conversation (the headphones and the volume levels take a bit of getting used to), she began to talk about reviewing. She asked me what I thought of Raavan. I said that I’d found it intriguing, and even if it wasn’t a consistently successful film, there were a lot of fascinating things in it. She asked me why people seemed to dislike the film so much. I said I didn’t know – who can really say why someone doesn’t like something? And then she said she’d hated the film – not because of the story or the performances, but because there was too much moisture.
At first I didn’t understand. What did she mean by “too much moisture”? She explained that the film looked too wet, that it was always raining, that there was… too much moisture. I didn’t what to say. That humbling moment, to me, was a revelation, my Bodhi-tree burst of enlightenment. You can pour blood, sweat and tears into making a movie or writing something or putting up a painting or composing a piece of music, and then someone will come along and dislike it because it’s six in the evening. I wrote, last week, about people who undertake a profession in the public eye – I said that they needed to equip themselves with mental armour. They also need to equip themselves with a mental sieve, to separate the criticism that is informed and well-judged from that which is just a visceral reaction. The former, at least, you can do something with. The latter is nothing more than an affirmation that you can never please all the people all the time.
Lights, Camera, Conversation… is a weekly dose of cud-chewing over what Satyajit Ray called Our Films Their Films. An edited version of this piece can be found here.
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I remember this Ravi K Chandran’s interview where he said they actually shot Sattena nanaindhadhu nenjam into a full song in Dhanushkodi and removed it the last min when Sreekar and Mani thought it was disturbing the flow.
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Voila , one of my friend told me the same thing abt Kannathil . A group of friends from college went to the movie expecting great romance between Madhavan and Simran, something in the lines of Alaipayuthey and only to be disappointed that they actually left the movie by first half 🙂
Too much moisture – i would hazard that she meant too glossy – The film did look too glossy for its subject matter, its not Agni Natchathiram, That is a valid criticism.
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“You can pour blood, sweat and tears into making a movie or writing something or putting up a painting or composing a piece of music, and then someone will come along and dislike it because it’s six in the evening.”
Mmm…just because a film has taken a lot of hard work and creativity to make, it does not put the audience under the obligation to like the film. Now whether that “too much moisture” comment was made in flippant vein or genuinely said, cannot be determined. But an old, and somewhat reliable yardstick of a filmmaker’s success has been ‘like-ability’. The number of people liking the film has to be at least equal to or more than number of people who dislike the film. Otherwise, a film becomes a thing of vanity, a showboating hobby, something that one indulges in only if it is high on the esoteric quotient. True, some great films have been panned by critics and audiences alike, but you cannot separate the audience from the film–without the audience, there’d be no film. That is one hard fact of life filmmakers have to live with.
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Lol. Mental sieve and mental armour, indeed. Nice read. Reminded me of an old friend who hated 12 Angry Men simply because we don’t find out the identify of the actual killer. He considered sticking with the film a fruitless errand.
To be honest, my problem is also the same. The promos of Raavan completely put me off because of too much of water and moist atmosphere. I don’t why i hate such atmosphere, it is kind of depressing.
Which is why we have perspectives.. And sometime no matter how hard we try our reviews and opinions don’t stand on neutral ground instead tilt favorably 😀
Kishor: Amazing. Thanks for sharing. BTW, someone read the piece and said it looked like I was mocking this person. That wasn’t it, really. I was just amazed that such a thing could be a turnoff, that’s all.
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what i understand is that it is individual intrest in making film. your choice…what u want to make or convey. when u start a film u would want it be sucessful, but what does sucess means to an individual; it is something different. Did you wanted to earn money, appreciation, cood review, critic award, national award or to be nominated for oscars……sucess has differnt definitions……….what i understand when u make a film…u should ask urself…are u happy? are u satisfied?
Kannathil M.I. worked for me ONLY because it wasn’t about the man and woman; I loved it because it was about the father-daughter, mother-daughter, and just a little bit daughter-biological mother. And yet – despite everything – the ONE vivid moment I still remember from the movie (saw it when it came out) is when Nandita Das’s husband smears the mud of Lanka on her face. That one sensual moment is seared in my memory… that, to me, was what the movie was all about – a handful of mud, land, that causes all that trauma. As for Raavan, haven’t watched the movie, but from the songs and snippets I’ve seen, I think the love and hate between the characters seems so intense *only* because its shot in that kind of a setting. Then again, I love moisture. So, how can I comment, huh? 🙂
BR, check out the AMC series “The Killing” if you can. Its well directed and acted – people hated it for many different reasons. One reason ,of course , is that it always keeps raining. The story is based in Seattle where apparently such weather is normal. I can understand that sentiment – though it did not affect me in that way.
dheepthamohan
Considering the atmosphere of a movie to liking it or disliking it is silly. When people look for videos on war it will be a macabre experience and you got to accept that. In Kannathil, Mani Ratnam’s focus was about the war that’s happening in Lanka. He said it through a child’s eyes, who actually belongs there. Movies like Alaipayuthey are his comfortable genre, that is romance. His actual passion is to bring out social issues to the spotlight. And I find it amazing when he lives up to his passion. Others who don’t are just missing out good cinema.
shelu
i don’t find the critique of ‘too much moisture’ surprising at all.
aesthetics are essential in films, whether one has a trained eye or a casual one. i don’t like films which are too dark, lighting-wise, or when the camera moves for too much for no seeming reason. to me, it is distracting.
i am guessing most filmmakers (i have written and produced films…) know which choices they make which may put some people off.
i don’t agree that one must try to make a film to please more people than not. if filmmaker has a clear vision of what they are trying to accomplish, go for it! don’t let the idea of a perceived audience taint your vision. doing so dilutes your focus and makes films feel wishy-washy rather than true to themselves. with the exception of a rajni or salman khan film, films which stick with their own cinematic vision and intention anyway tend to grab viewers better than those which jam in songs for the sake of it.
if mani ratnam had put in a duet for simran and madhavan, he may have own over a few people but ultimately he likely would have compromised the integrity of kannathil muthamittal which made it such a wonderful film.
(Putting my over analysis cap on) Consider this, rain is an aspect of nature that is almost animistic, the most man can do is predict it- it comes and goes as it pleases. Same can be said of Raavan, or the anti-hero. So I can understand why it may make people uneasy. Its a sign of nature to the civilized man that you are not in control. Rain\Ravan can strike as they please.
Come to think of it. there is probably a reverse aspect of rain, that is empowering to the individual in a cinematic sense, it being used to project the mood of a character to the surroundings, as in, everything around is getting tainted with the dominant mood – physically and metaphorically. If I remember correctly, I felt the same while watching Batman Begins – the rain falling all over Gotham City and the feeling that, not just the inhabitants, but the city was also criminalized.
Oh my god! A friend recently mentioned that she didn’t like Raavan because “it’s rainy and wet all the time in the movie. It’s irritating, and distracting”. And all I could think of was that it seemed such a strange reason to dislike a movie. But clearly, it looks like there are a lot of people out there who disliked the movie because it has too much moisture/rain/water.
On the other side, a lot of people I know have claimed to like a movie ONLY because the lead actor danced really well in the movie. Which was also very puzzling to me. Though this was always in the context of Telugu movies, so maybe it’s also because beggars can’t be choosers.
i dont know about the movie , but the song i saw was captured in rains . nevertheless just because it was raining or wet you cannot hate a movie . god she dint file a case in the court for the downpour now .
Govardhan Giridass
It’s a well known fact that Santosh Sivan is obsessed with shooting water. (not to be confused with Shooting Water, Deepa Mehta’s daughter’s book on, well, shooting Water)
Have all these people seen Eeram yet? 🙂
Utkal Mohanty
“And then she said she’d hated the film – not because of the story or the performances, but because there was too much moisture.” Someone might as well have said that. But it does not have to be dignified by writing a piece around it.
I mean tomorrow some one could say, ” I did not like the film because the heroine wore mostly blue sarees.’ Sure. He or she would have a right to that opinion. But should we pay any heed?
Rahul Tyagi
I am amazed at how common this moisture complaint is! Someone said the same thing about Raavan to me, and I remember feeling perplexed about it. But I had no idea that so many people feel exactly the same!
JPhilip
To unite both points,notice the moisture on Keerthana in the pic above ??!!!:-)
films are visually aesthetic objects. hence all the above reasons for liking or not liking a film are not only valid, they are central to the medium itself. as filmmakers, it is our job to make conscious choices as such. knowing we cannot please all the people all the time liberates us to make choices suitable to our own visions.
thundadome21
You sound like one of those Rotten Tomatoes crowd. How does the number of people “liking” a movie has to do with the quality of the movie?? Some movies aren’t just meant for everyone. Even if its true that without audience there can never be a film, that is just a capitalistic point of view. Many great movies have gone unnoticed simply because it was not popular. Plus audiences’ taste is a fickle thing, changes on a whim. A good marketing strategy could do wonders to a movie.
Utkal Ranjan Mohanty
It would be quite instructive to do a survey find out how many film-goers disliked Lawrence of Arabia because it was too ‘dry’. I am dying to know.
As an aside, waiting for your take on Barfi…
Bette Jones
“I wrote, last week, about people who undertake a profession in the public eye – I said that they needed to equip themselves with mental armour. They also need to equip themselves with a mental sieve, to separate the criticism that is informed and well-judged from that which is just a visceral reaction. The former, at least, you can do something with. The latter is nothing more than an affirmation that you can never please all the people all the time.”
-A comment that cuts to the chase; you must have laced your keyboard with truth serum …. I hope those who are listening are grateful , for where would cinema today be without critics?
or Perumazhakkalam? A superb film that was set around the monsoon season in Kerala.
Good sir, I am not aware of the moisture bothering me but I can offer reasons on why Raavan (and for that matter, Guru) is unnervingly out of lieu compared to other Mani Ratnam offerings. I’ll go point wise here-
1) Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachhan. I swear they can’t act. I watched Raavanan the day after I watched Raavan and I found myself raving at Vikram’s performance (not a fan otherwise). Something similar has to be said of Madhavan’s role in Ayudha Eluthu. And Guru of course didn’t unfortunately have a tamil alternative but it might have been perhaps more engaging if some other actor had donned the role (Boman Irani comes to my mind but I fear I’ll be laughed at)
2) Mani Ratnam was never strong at social comment without appearing naive. In all his much feted cinema, we are mostly overlooking the naivete of ideology as we wish to adore and admire the extremely sensitive and touching human interactions he weaves into his script.
3) One really can’t care for Aishwarya Rai in the forest. The willing suspension of disbelief does not occur and I was always convinced she was all right and cuddling up in the night with her more incompetent husband.
4) The Rama Raavanan analogy where Ratnam attempted establishing shades of grey went to the other extreme and suddenly Rama is the villain. It just killed the whole ‘let’s be sensible and re-evaluate our mythology’.
In sum, incompetent acting, my personal lack of empathy for the damsel in distress, inability to express awe over lead role, unwillingness to completely vilify Dev did it for me.
P.S – Not to mention, the sacrosanct Rahman-Ratnam combination seemed very compromised to me.
Very true. Number of people liking the film has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of the film. I haven’t said that anyway.
Just like films, comments/opinions are subject to personal interpretation. As far as the crowd of Rotten Tomatoes is concerned, some of the best critics are found there (and yes, like films, critics too might be unknown, and under-appreciated), so when you say that I sound like “one of those”, I’ll take it as a compliment.
Karikala Cholan
So this is your definition of good cinema. I have a different notion of “good cinema”. “Others who don’t are just missing out good cinema.” – This smacks of arrogance. You define what’s good to yourself, don’t push that on others. “Considering the atmosphere of a movie to liking it or disliking it is silly.” – For whom? Silly to you does not mean the world will look at it the same way, silly!
Kutty
Rangan – Going through a mid-career crisis? Almost every second post seems to have something defending the critic or obsessing over criticism. Critiquing the criticism is not what a top critic like you is expected to do so consistently. Of course, we can critique you for overdoing your critique on criticism because you have taken up a career which puts you in the public spotlight.
Enga aal ku oru aal irukaan boss.. avanuku oru boss irukaan.. anda aaluku oru aalu irukaan boss.. anda aal kitta namba aal oda photo kaamcha..
In short, sutthi sutthi why the same point?
Perspectives as I have realized can be more visceral than informed;
vinjk
may be you’re not used to it. the film was shot by santosh sivan (i think) who hails kerala and the movie was set in western ghats which is a wet place
The subject matter and visual aesthetic married together excellently in Fincher’s Seven. That movie needs dread and foreboding – and hence the rain makes sense. Raavan not so much.
I remember watching Sarkar Raj in a cinema hall in Bahrain. There was a Tamil couple in the row behind me. Halfway into the movie I heard the man complain to his wife that there were no songs/romance and they left after sometime. People have strange reasons for hating a movie.
Hermoine Granger
Seen this yet? Dreamum Wakeupum: Rani’s answer to Vidya Balan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkHcbsXfCF8
TheKomentor
The comment by the FM jockey that she didn’t like Raavanan because of the moisture in it can be safely dismissed as an attempt to grab “earballs” than anything worthy of analysis.
I’m sorry you didn’t get that. I meant people are missing a good cinema not the one and only good cinema of them all. I never expressed only Mani Ratnam makes good films either. It might have sounded arrogant, but it was pure disappointment.
… unless it was a private conversation between the two of you, which seems to be the case when I reread that part.
TheKomentor: That was exactly my take on this ‘ moist’ comment. Even in private conversation, people speak this way at times just for effect. Certainly not worth any serious analysis. AS i said it would be as relevant or insightful or worthy of discussion if someone said I did not like the film because the heroine wore cotton sarees throughout the film. Certainly it is an aesthetic facet of the film. but come on….
Well said on point 4. This is what i felt after watching the movie – (penned it down in posterous)
” I was wondering if someone who never knew/read Ramayana would be able to enjoy the movie. No, they can’t. The anger one feels at the end of the movie is against Lord Rama. My mind was filled with questions like – How does a whole nation pray to Rama who dared to doubt his chaste wife ? Why is he revered as God when he acted as we mere mortals would ? Is Raavanan way better than Rama when it came to treating woman ? Raavanan, the movie, was only an excuse for these questions to crop up in my mind. The movie made me revisit the epic and find answers to the questions. If Mani wanted to kindle angst at Rama through the movie’s climax, he has succeeded.”
Unlikely. We can only hypothesise what went through his mind. However, from what I gather, it was an attempt to re-evaluate the villain (it was titled ‘Villain’ in telugu). But he ended up making yet another hero/villain pair if only with a switch. I mean, I wish he attacked the epic on the good-bad polarisation instead of plainly Raavanan’s moral low ground.
Utkal Mohanty: This was not meant to be serious analysis of a comment, but yes, I did take the comment seriously because it’s a timely (and, frankly, quite humbling) reminder that we’re all slaves of our inner circuitry. I think it’s a very important component of any appreciation of art.
I was reminded of this post today (in 2016!) when i read the following in the New York Times about how people hate the word ‘moist’ in a visceral way:
http://nyti.ms/26ZKQNP
Not the same thing at all, I know. But I found i intriguing nonetheless that both the thing (moisture) and the word (moist) seem to put people off.
asmamasood
“You can pour blood, sweat and tears into making a movie or writing something or putting up a painting or composing a piece of music, and then someone will come along and dislike it because it’s six in the evening.”… Thank you for that piece of wisdom.
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PSA: ACLU, Other Groups File Suit Against Proposition 8
ACLU/Lambda/NCLR press release:
Legal Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Proposition 8, Should It Pass (11/5/2008)
Legal Papers Claim Initiative Procedure Cannot Be Used To Undermine the Constitution’s Core Commitment To Equality For Everyone
CONTACT: media@aclu.org
SAN FRANCISCO – The American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal and the National Center for Lesbian Rights filed a writ petition before the California Supreme Court today urging the court to invalidate Proposition 8 if it passes. The petition charges that Proposition 8 is invalid because the initiative process was improperly used in an attempt to undo the constitution’s core commitment to equality for everyone by eliminating a fundamental right from just one group – lesbian and gay Californians. Proposition 8 also improperly attempts to prevent the courts from exercising their essential constitutional role of protecting the equal protection rights of minorities. According to the California Constitution, such radical changes to the organizing principles of state government cannot be made by simple majority vote through the initiative process, but instead must, at a minimum, go through the state legislature first.
The California Constitution itself sets out two ways to alter the document that sets the most basic rules about how state government works. Through the initiative process, voters can make relatively small changes to the constitution. But any measure that would change the underlying principles of the constitution must first be approved by the legislature before being submitted to the voters. That didn’t happen with Proposition 8, and that’s why it’s invalid.
“If the voters approved an initiative that took the right to free speech away from women, but not from men, everyone would agree that such a measure conflicts with the basic ideals of equality enshrined in our constitution. Proposition 8 suffers from the same flaw – it removes a protected constitutional right – here, the right to marry – not from all Californians, but just from one group of us,” said Jenny Pizer, a staff attorney with Lambda Legal. “That’s too big a change in the principles of our constitution to be made just by a bare majority of voters.”
“A major purpose of the constitution is to protect minorities from majorities. Because changing that principle is a fundamental change to the organizing principles of the constitution itself, only the legislature can initiate such revisions to the constitution,” added Elizabeth Gill, a staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California.
The groups filed the lawsuit today in the California Supreme Court on behalf of Equality California and 6 same-sex couples who did not marry before Tuesday’s election but would like to be able to marry now.
The groups filed a writ petition in the California Supreme Court before the elections presenting similar arguments because they believed the initiative should not have appeared on the ballot, but the court dismissed that petition without addressing its merits. That earlier order is not precedent here.
“Historically, courts are reluctant to get involved in disputes if they can avoid doing so,” said Shannon Minter, Legal Director of NCLR. “It is not uncommon for the court to wait to see what happens at the polls before considering these legal arguments. However, now that Proposition 8 may pass, the courts will have to weigh in and we believe they will agree that Proposition 8 should never have been on the ballot in the first place.”
This would not be the first time the court has struck down an improper voter initiative. In 1990, the court stuck down an initiative that would have added a provision to the California Constitution stating that the “Constitution shall not be construed by the courts to afford greater rights to criminal defendants than those afforded by the Constitution of the United States.” That measure was invalid because it improperly attempted to strip California’s courts of their role as independent interpreters of the state’s constitution.
In a statement issued earlier today, the groups stated their conviction, which is shared by the California Attorney General, that the state must continue to honor the marriages of the 18,000 lesbian and gay couples who have already married in California. A copy of the statement as well as the writ petition filed today is available at: www.aclu.org/lgbt, www.lambdalegal.org, and www.nclrights.org.
In addition to the ACLU, Lambda Legal and NCLR, the legal team bringing the writ also includes the Law Office of David C. Codell; Munger Tolles & Olson, LLP; and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP.
h/t DKos (by way of pale via IM).
More from Digby (h/t Paul the Spud) , Faith @ Shakesville, Ta-Nehisi Coates (h/t Sebastian) Amp, Mandolin, The Girl Detective, Jeff Fecke, Thomas @ Feministe, VivirLatino, Kyle @ Right Wing Watch, Bil Browning, Darkrose and Pam Spaulding
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“In Solidarity For Equality”
Via Marti Abernathey: Donna Rose – the first and only openly transgender member of the Board of Directors of the Human Rights Campaign; national co-chair for Diversity; co-chair appointee-elect for the Business Council.
Donna Rose – Choosing solidarity for equality:
I hereby submit my resignation from my post on the Board of the Human Rights Campaign effective Monday Oct. 8, 2007. I call on other like-minded board members, steering committee leaders, donors, corporate sponsors, and volunteers to think long and hard about whether this organization still stands for your values and to take decisive action as well. More than simply a question of organization policy, this is a test of principle and integrity and although it pains me greatly to see what has happened it is clear to me that there can only be one path. Character is not for compromise. I cannot align myself with an organization that I can’t trust to stand-up for all of us. More than that, I cannot give half-hearted support to an organization that has now chosen to forsake the tenets that have guided my efforts from day one.
To quote Populuxe in ObWi comments, “trans people were on the front lines of the fight for queer rights first. Abandoning them now is like pissing on Sylvia Rivera‘s grave.”
Related: Barney Frank responds to Lambda Legal’s analysis of the SPLENDA bill:
“…the one change that is made substantively from the old bill to the new one that I reintroduced is to drop gender identity.” No words have been added or subtracted that make it easier to fire a gay man because of some effort to transform homophobia into dislike of effeminacy and I believe the law continues to be a strong bulwark against that.
Well, isn’t that a relief – it’s only transpeople who’re getting fucked over by the cowards in Congress. That certainly changes everything *exhales*. Tracy Baim doesn’t think much of Frank’s perversion of pragmatism:
Rep. Frank’s rationale for these maneuvers sounds good on paper, but does not represent the reality for our community. We cannot ever justify exclusion as a course of action. To sever a significant part of our community would be wrong. If it takes losing “T” to get our rights, none of us should want those rights.
Speaking of spineless CongressCritters, Jerame Davis calls out three Democratic holdouts on the inclusive ENDA bill:
Baron Hill of Indiana’s 9th District, Joe Donnelly of Indiana’s 2nd District, and Brad Ellsworth of Indiana’s 8th District are three of the House Democrats holding out on HB 2015, the original – and trans-inclusive – ENDA legislation.
What the hell? Every time there is a queer issue that gets shot down, one or more of these three Indiana Democrats have their name attached to the controversy. And it’s usually not on the side of inclusion, equality, or progressive values.
Indiana residents click through to find contact information for each Representative.
Also: 24 hrs after stabbing its transgender constituency in the back, HRC tries to staunch the bleeding; Rebecca Juro continues her righteous assault on Joe and Co:
Proven liars, proven sellouts, proven panderers to the unreasonable fears of cowardly politicians, the Human Rights Campaign can no longer be credibly considered community leaders by anyone in our community who truly believes that we are, in fact, one community, and that this community defines political success as succeeding together, leaving no one behind.
More on HRC’s latest maneuver (and Barney Frank’s bullshit) from Pam Spaulding (make sure to read the comments; eastsidekate= pure WIN: “Barney Frank supports the right of Barney Frank to not be discriminated against for being Barney Frank. How generous.”)
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Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten 2017 Debuts I’m Excited For
Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. They created the meme because they love lists. Who doesn’t love lists? They wanted to share these list with fellow book lovers and ask that we share in return to connect with our fellow book lovers. To learn more about participating in the challenge, stop by their page dedicated to it and dive in!
This week’s topic: Top Ten 2017 Debuts I’m Excited For
Mogsy’s Picks
Discovering new books is always fun but it’s even more exciting when they’re debut novels, so let’s give them some love!
The Empire’s Ghost by Isabelle Steiger
The empire of Elesthene once spanned a continent, but its rise heralded the death of magic. It tore itself apart from within, leaving behind a patchwork of kingdoms struggling to rebuild. But when a new dictator, the ambitious and enigmatic Imperator Elgar, seizes power in the old capital and seeks to recreate the lost empire anew, the other kingdoms have little hope of stopping him. Prince Kelken of Reglay finds himself at odds with his father at his country’s darkest hour; the marquise of Esthrades is unmatched in politics and strategy, but she sits at a staggering military disadvantage. And Issamira, the most powerful of the free countries, has shut itself off from the conflict, thrown into confusion by the disappearance of its crown prince and the ensuing struggle for succession.
Everything seems aligned in Elgar’s favor, but when he presses a band of insignificant but skilled alley-dwellers into his service for a mission of the greatest secrecy, they find an unexpected opportunity to alter the balance of power in the war. Through their actions and those of the remaining royals, they may uncover not just a way to defeat Elgar, but also a deeper truth about their world’s lost history.
Borrowed Souls by Chelsea Mueller
Callie Delgado always puts family first, and unfortunately her brother knows it. She’s emptied her savings, lost work, and spilled countless tears trying to keep him out of trouble, but now he’s in deeper than ever, and his debt is on Callie’s head. She’s given a choice: do some dirty work for the mob, or have her brother returned to her in tiny pieces.
Renting souls is big business for the religious population of Gem City. Those looking to take part in immoral—or even illegal—activity can borrow someone else’s soul, for a price, and sin without consequence.
To save her brother, Callie needs a borrowed soul, but she doesn’t have anywhere near the money to pay for it. The slimy Soul Charmer is willing to barter, but accepting his offer will force Callie into a dangerous world of magic she isn’t ready for.
With the help of the guarded but undeniably attractive Derek—whose allegiance to the Charmer wavers as his connection to Callie grows—she’ll have to walk a tight line, avoid pissing off the bad guys, all while struggling to determine what her loyalty to her family’s really worth.
Losing her brother isn’t an option. Losing her soul? Maybe.
Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza
Rhee, also known as Crown Princess Rhiannon Ta’an, is the sole surviving heir to a powerful dynasty. She’ll stop at nothing to avenge her family and claim her throne.
Aly has risen above his war refugee origins to find fame as the dashing star of a DroneVision show. But when he’s falsely accused of killing Rhee, he’s forced to prove his innocence to save his reputation – and his life.
With planets on the brink of war, Rhee and Aly are thrown together to confront a ruthless evil that threatens the fate of the entire galaxy.
A saga of vengeance, warfare, and the true meaning of legacy.
The Waking Land by Callie Bates
Lady Elanna Valtai is fiercely devoted to the King who raised her like a daughter. But when he dies under mysterious circumstances, Elanna is accused of his murder and must flee for her life.
Returning to the homeland of magical legends she has forsaken, Elanna is forced to reckon with her despised, estranged father, branded a traitor long ago. Feeling a strange, deep connection to the natural world, she also must face the truth about the forces she has always denied or disdained as superstition powers that suddenly stir within her.
But an all-too-human threat is drawing near, determined to exact vengeance. Now Elanna has no choice but to lead a rebellion against the kingdom to which she once gave her allegiance. Trapped between divided loyalties, she must summon the courage to confront a destiny that could tear her apart.
Soleri by Michael Johnston
The ruling family of the Soleri Empire has been in power longer than even the calendars that stretch back 2,826 years. Those records tell a history of conquest and domination by a people descended from gods, older than anything in the known world. No living person has seen them for centuries, yet their grip on their four subjugate kingdoms remains tighter than ever.
On the day of the annual eclipse, the Harkan king, Arko-Hark Wadi, sets off on a hunt and shirks his duty rather than bow to the emperor. Ren, his son and heir, is a prisoner in the capital, while his daughters struggle against their own chains. Merit, the eldest, has found a way to stand against imperial law and marry the man she desires, but needs her sister’s help, and Kepi has her own ideas.
Meanwhile, Sarra Amunet, Mother Priestess of the sun god’s cult, holds the keys to the end of an empire and a past betrayal that could shatter her family.
Detailed and historical, vast in scope and intricate in conception, Soleri bristles with primal magic and unexpected violence. It is a world of ancient and elaborate rites, of unseen power and kingdoms ravaged by war, where victory comes with a price, and every truth conceals a deeper secret.
Gilded Cage by Vic James
Not all are free. Not all are equal. Not all will be saved.
Our world belongs to the Equals — aristocrats with magical gifts — and all commoners must serve them for ten years. But behind the gates of England’s grandest estate lies a power that could break the world.
Abi is a servant to England’s most powerful family, but her spirit is free. So when she falls for one of the noble-born sons, Abi faces a terrible choice. Uncovering the family’s secrets might win her liberty, but will her heart pay the price?
Abi’s brother, Luke, is enslaved in a brutal factory town. Far from his family and cruelly oppressed, he makes friends whose ideals could cost him everything. Now Luke has discovered there may be a power even greater than magic: revolution.
Caraval by Stephanie Garber
Welcome, welcome to Caraval―Stephanie Garber’s sweeping tale of two sisters who escape their ruthless father when they enter the dangerous intrigue of a legendary game.
Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their powerful, and cruel, father. Now Scarlett’s father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the far-away, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over.
But this year, Scarlett’s long-dreamt of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor, Tella whisks Scarlett away to the show. Only, as soon as they arrive, Tella is kidnapped by Caraval’s mastermind organizer, Legend. It turns out that this season’s Caraval revolves around Tella, and whoever finds her first is the winner.
Scarlett has been told that everything that happens during Caraval is only an elaborate performance. But she nevertheless becomes enmeshed in a game of love, heartbreak, and magic with the other players in the game. And whether Caraval is real or not, she must find Tella before the five nights of the game are over, a dangerous domino effect of consequences is set off, and her sister disappears forever.
Crossroads of Canopy by Thoraiya Dyer
At the highest level of a giant forest, thirteen kingdoms fit seamlessly together to form the great city of Canopy. Thirteen goddesses and gods rule this realm and are continuously reincarnated into human bodies. Canopy’s position in the sun, however, is not without its dark side. The nation’s opulence comes from the labor of slaves, and below its fruitful boughs are two other realms: Understorey and Floor, whose deprived citizens yearn for Canopy’s splendor.
Unar, a determined but destitute young woman, escapes her parents’ plot to sell her into slavery by being selected to serve in the Garden under the goddess Audblayin, ruler of growth and fertility. As a Gardener, she yearns to become Audblayin’s next Bodyguard while also growing sympathetic towards Canopy’s slaves.
When Audblayin dies, Unar sees her opportunity for glory – at the risk of descending into the unknown dangers of Understorey to look for a newborn god. In its depths, she discovers new forms of magic, lost family connections, and murmurs of a revolution that could cost Unar her chance…or grant it by destroying the home she loves.
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn’t mind—she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse’s fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. Wise Russians fear him, her nurse says, and honor the spirits of house and yard and forest that protect their homes from evil.
After Vasilisa’s mother dies, her father goes to Moscow and brings home a new wife. Fiercely devout, city-bred, Vasilisa’s new stepmother forbids her family from honoring the household spirits. The family acquiesces, but Vasilisa is frightened, sensing that more hinges upon their rituals than anyone knows.
And indeed, crops begin to fail, evil creatures of the forest creep nearer, and misfortune stalks the village. All the while, Vasilisa’s stepmother grows ever harsher in her determination to groom her rebellious stepdaughter for either marriage or confinement in a convent.
As danger circles, Vasilisa must defy even the people she loves and call on dangerous gifts she has long concealed—this, in order to protect her family from a threat that seems to have stepped from her nurse’s most frightening tales.
Graveyard Shift by Michael F. Haspil
Alex Menkaure, former pharaoh and mummy, and his vampire partner, Marcus, who was born in ancient Rome, once hunted evil vampires for UMBRA, a super-secret unit of the NSA. That was before the discovery of a blood substitute and a Supreme Court ruling allowed thousands of vampires to integrate into society.
Now, Alex and Marcus are vice cops in a special police unit. They fight to keep the streets safe from criminal vampires, shape-shifters, blood-dealers, and anti-vampire vigilantes.
When someone starts poisoning the artificial blood, race relations between vampires and humans deteriorate to the brink of anarchy. While the city threatens to tear itself apart, Alex and Marcus must form an unnatural alliance with a vigilante gang and a shape-shifter woman in a desperate battle against an ancient vampire conspiracy.
If they succeed, they’ll be pariahs, hunted by everyone. If they fail, the result will be a race-war bloodierthan any the world has ever seen.
Category: Top Ten (10...) Tags: Borrowed Souls, Callie Bates, Caraval, Chelsea Mueller, Crossroads of Canopy, Empress of a Thousand Skies, Gilded Cage, Graveyard Shift, Isabelle Steiger, Katherine Arden, Michael F. Haspil, Michael Johnston, Rhoda Belleza, Soleri, Stephanie Garber, The Bear and the Nightingale, The Empire's Ghost, The Waking Land, Thoraiya Dyer, Vic James
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45 Comments on “Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten 2017 Debuts I’m Excited For”
nikihawkes Jan 3, 2017 at 00:04 am
Wow! So many compelling titles and gorgeous covers!! Thanks for putting them on my radar. ::adds several to tbr::
Mogsy @ BiblioSanctum Jan 10, 2017 at 00:51 am
I always love hearing others discover new books!
nikihawkes Jan 10, 2017 at 13:06 pm
By the way, I just realized we are also friends on GR. I’m pretty sure I followed your blog independently of that lol. I guess it proves I like your taste in books.
Mogsy @ BiblioSanctum Jan 10, 2017 at 13:26 pm
That is awesome! Didn’t realize that either, I just went and added your site to my reader! 🙂
Oh thanks!! I promise I wasn’t trying to prompt lol. It just blew my mind to read the same review in two different places before realized what happened haha. Major sense of deja vu. Anyways, love your content! xx
No, I’m glad you said something! I often fail in making those connections too 🙂
chucklesthescot Jan 3, 2017 at 05:41 am
Graveyard Shift sounds interesting! I might keep an eye out for that one. I’ll be seeing what everyone thinks of Caraval before I decide on that one. Borrowed Souls sounds interesting but the romance element has me doubting if it would be my thing or not. Nice list!
Yeah, something tells me Borrowed Souls might have a strong romantic element. But I don’t mind 🙂
Jessica @ a GREAT read Jan 3, 2017 at 06:36 am
Ooh nice! Lots of people excited about Caraval! For some reason when it comes to debuts, I don’t hear about them really until reviews trickle in. Can’t even get excited about them really until then! Publishers need to do more pre-advertising I think! LOL!
It’s hard to know whether a book is a debut or not sometimes, so yeah I had to do a little research too.
thebrightspark Jan 3, 2017 at 06:55 am
Oooh, yay! I’m really bad at keeping up with stuff like debut books due out, so I was hoping someone I trust would be doing a good summary, heh. Thank you!
You’re welcome, though there’s definitely more out there! I’m especially bad at keeping track of YA debuts!
Barb (boxermommyreads) Jan 3, 2017 at 08:42 am
I realize I’m wishing away half of 2017 but I can’t wait to get my hands on Graveyard Shift. I have The Bear and the Nightingale to read this month as well as Gilded Cage. Once again, I can’t keep up with all the good looking books and it’s only January 3rd!
I know, I can’t believe it’s only January and my reading schedule is already packed for the next few months 🙂
saraletourneau Jan 3, 2017 at 08:57 am
I think I’m getting picky with debut novels / authors, because now I won’t buy debut novels unless the reviews I read from bloggers and people I trust recommend it highly. That being said, a few of the books on this list had caught my eye, like The Bear & The Nightingale, Crossroads of Canopy, and Soleri. And maybe Caraval, too.
That’s probably a good idea! Debuts are complete unknown quantities after all, so waiting for reviews is smart. Definitely some of them sound too good to resist though!
Tammy Jan 3, 2017 at 09:26 am
For some reason I had a hard time with this list, but luckily I’m getting ideas from everyone else! I’m definitely looking forward to Graveyard Shift and The Waking Land.
Debut lists are tricky. There are always lists for YA debuts, but finding one for adult SFF is hard!
maddalena@spaceandsorcery Jan 3, 2017 at 12:56 pm
Both “Empress of a Thousand Skies” and “Gilded Cage” have come to my attention and I look forward to reading them, but this is the first I’ve heard of “Graveyard Shift” and I’m curious… Thanks for sharing!
Doesn’t Graveyard Shift sound amazing? I’m glad it’s getting some love 🙂
blodeuedd Jan 3, 2017 at 16:11 pm
That first one sounds really good
That’s one I’m really curious about!
Lisa (@TenaciousReader) Jan 3, 2017 at 16:42 pm
A number of these were on my list too! 🙂 Really curious about The Empire’s Ghost 🙂
Yeah, haven’t heard much about it so far, so I’m intrigued!
Lekeisha The Booknerd Jan 3, 2017 at 20:22 pm
I’m very much looking forward to Caraval and Gilded Cage!
Me too, i’m hoping to fit those in soon 🙂
DJ (@MyLifeMyBooksMyEscape) Jan 3, 2017 at 21:21 pm
Very eager for Crossroads of Canopy by Thoraiya Dyer, and I was just reading about Soleri last week on Goodreads 🙂
Both of those sound so good. Soleri especially is right up my alley!
Greg Jan 3, 2017 at 21:44 pm
Ooh some new ones here! I love the look and sound of Soleri, it just looks intricate plot-wise, and Borrowed Souls has a unique premise, like the sound of that one too. Haven’t heard of that one but it looks like it could be an outstanding UF! And I wonder about Empress too…
They all sound delicious, don’t they? Here’s hoping they will be good 🙂
Jolien @ The Fictional Reader Jan 4, 2017 at 04:15 am
What a great list! I only recognized a few, but that made me even more excited. All of the others sound like books I’d absolutely love, and so they’re all going on my to-read list. Soleri, The Empire’s Ghost, Crossroads of Canopy… They all sound so good. Thanks!
Glad to be spreading the debut love!
imyril Jan 4, 2017 at 05:57 am
*admires the wishlist as it shoots up a bit higher* 😉
Haha, and this is me –> *crushed under an avalanche on Mt. TBR*
imyril Jan 10, 2017 at 02:56 am
But dying happy, right? 😉
Lorraine Jan 4, 2017 at 20:39 pm
I can’t even deal with the blurb for Graveyard Shift! Is it going to be awesome or terrible? I’m definitely hoping for awesome!
I guess we’ll have to see! I’m hoping it will be good. Can’t wait to find out…
Danya @ Fine Print Jan 5, 2017 at 10:41 am
I’m SO excited for Borrowed Souls, it’s really cool to think that Chelsea (who’s blog I read on the regular because she’s a UF junkie like me) has written a book!
That’s so awesome that you follow her blog and now she has a debut out! Exciting!
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@lynnsbooks Jan 6, 2017 at 15:37 pm
I’ve read a couple of these and looking forward to Caraval – hopefully starting that one tomorrow.
I love the sound of the Waking Land and spotted that one on NG so put in a request – fingers crossed!
I’m also waiting for Waking Land to shift from “wish for it!” to “request”. 😀
Christy Luis Jan 8, 2017 at 13:18 pm
Several of these are on my TBR, but I had completely forgotten about Soleri! Thanks for the reminder. Sounds pretty sweet.
It does…that mix of fantasy and history is right up my alley!
Miss Mimz Jan 11, 2017 at 12:36 pm
I’ve heard wonderful things about Carnival so hopefully it’ll deliver for you 🙂 Oh and I already have another tab opened up with your review for The Bear and the Nightingale so I’m excited to read your thoughts there XD
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Cover Reveal: Collateral Damage (Owned by the Mob) by Paige Warren and Harley Wylde #mafia #MafiaRomance #RomanceBooks #badboys @AuthorPaigeW @HarleyW_Writer
Posted on November 4, 2019 by jessicacoultersmith
Cerys: Blind since birth, I’ve learned the hard way I can’t rely on my father. When he gets in too deep with the wrong sort of people, I find myself the property of Viktor. I’ve heard whispers of the mob and what they’re capable of and know I should be terrified, but it doesn’t take much for me to fall for Viktor. I see a side of him he seems to show only to me. His kisses make my knees weak, and just one touch makes me dream of forever. He makes me feel… special. Precious. Important. But what would a man like him want with collateral damage? He can have any woman he wants, and probably has. I don’t see a happily-ever-after in our future, no matter how much I might want one.
Viktor: Death and destruction cling to me, blood and violence just a way of life. I didn’t climb my way toward the top of the Bratva by being a saint. I may be gruff and dangerous, take what I want when I want, but when it comes to Cerys, I find that I can’t be harsh with her. She’s gentle. Sweet. An angel. My myshka. She’s the light to my darkness. Now that I have her, I know that I can’t let her go. I’ll make her mine in every way possible. Only one problem. Artur Orlov. He wants me to marry his daughter, but I won’t. I didn’t count on him retaliating by taking my myshka from me. I’ll get her back, and if she’s been harmed in any way, I won’t stop until every last man responsible has breathed their last.
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A Changeling for All Seasons #1 – multi-author #UrbanFantasy #PNR #Christmas
Ten unforgettable Erotic Tales to warm your nights and keep you in holiday spirits all year long!
Angela Knight – A Vampire Christmas
Sahara Kelly – A Christmas Pageant
Judy Mays – Jingle Balls
Marteeka Karland – Sealed With A Kiss
Kate Douglas – My Valentine
Shelby Morgen – Changeling
Willa Okati – Elven Enchantment
Kate Hill – Jolene’s Pooka
Lacey Savage – Chemistry to Burn
Shelby Morgen – Troll Under The Bridge
Filled with the unexpected, A Changeling For All Seasons offers something to savor for every palate. From humorous to magical, from Christmas to St. Patrick’s Day to the 4th of July, these stories are alight with unbridled lust, sensuous passion, and hot, hot sex, guaranteed to entangle your senses and leave you breathless.
Excerpt from A Vampire Christmas
Angela Knight
Copyright ©2010 by Angela Knight
Amelia Patton clattered up the beige stairs of the apartment complex, the plastic dress bag hooked over one shoulder. It had been a long shift at the hospital, but the prospect of showing David her purchase had put a bounce back in her step. The gown was every little girl’s fairytale dream — seed pearls, white lace, and yards and yards of satin skirt, with a train that would reach halfway down the church aisle. The lace veil alone had her inner eight-year-old sighing in bliss.
Clutching her precious dress with one hand, she juggled the keys until she found the right one and inserted it into the lock. The door swung open, revealing the living room that had made real strides in livability over the past two months. When she’d first moved in, David’s furniture had consisted of a couch he’d bought at Goodwill and a really tacky table made from a cable spool. The big screen television and entertainment center were worth more than all the rest of the furniture in the apartment. God love the man, he was too butch for taste.
Amelia had coaxed him into replacing the castoffs with a lovely cream living room set, colorful pastel sketches, and a pretty floor lamp with a stained glass shade. She made good money as a nurse, she argued. They could afford it.
“Honey, I’m home!” God, she loved saying that.
No answer. She frowned. It was well after midnight; David would be home from his shift with the Atlanta Police. Unless something had happened… A frisson of fear slid up her spine, but she forced it away. “Hey, Dave! I went by the mall on my dinner break and picked up that gown I told you about. Wait ’til you see it…”
The bedsprings creaked from the next room. “Amelia.” His voice sounded hoarse.
“Hey, babe, you okay? Did you get into another fight?” That was how they’d met. David had come by the ER after a drug dealer resisted arrest with a little too much enthusiasm. She’d been smearing antibiotic cream across those sculpted ribs when he’d asked her to dinner. Amelia had looked into those crystalline blue eyes, and fallen helplessly in lust. She hadn’t been able to say no to him since.
A year later, she still lusted for him — but she’d also come to know and love his wicked sense of humor, strong character, and clever mind.
“Come here.” David normally reserved that cold, demanding tone for the prisoners he brought to the hospital after they’d tried to bust his head. He’d never before used it with her.
“David, what’s wrong?” Worried, Amelia hurried into the bedroom, the dress slung over her shoulder.
They’d bought the massive iron bedstead in an antique store when she’d moved in with him. David had teased her that its tall, ornate posts were perfect for bondage.
She’d still never expected to find him naked and shackled spread-eagle to it like a beefcake buffet.
Praise for The Vampire Christmas“Angela Knight’s The Vampire Christmas is an exceptional book. I could not put it down.”
— Tewanda, Fallen Angel Reviews
Praise for A Christmas Pageant
“Ms. Kelly is a very talented author who has written a heart-warming story of two lonely individuals finding love during the holiday season. Most definitely a keeper!”
— Susan White, Coffee Time Romance
Praise for Jingle Balls
“[Judy Mays’s] witty dialogue will have you laughing out loud.”
Praise for Sealed With a Kiss
“Sealed with a Kiss is a great story with humor, conflict and hot sex. I hope Marteeka Karland revisits Marie and Daxon in a future book.”
— Coffee Time Romance
Praise for My Valentine
“Easily the most emotional, beautiful and unforgettable novella I’ve read this year, My Valentine is simply breathtaking.”
— Ayden Delacroix, In the Library Review
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“The reader will fall in love with Michael and Arien, who is a delight. Destined to be a St. Patrick’s Day classic.”
— Candy, Coffee Time Romance
Praise for Elven Enchantment
“This book enthralled me from beginning to end and I loved it.”
— Sheryl, Coffee Time Romance
Praise for Jolene’s Pooka
“There is enough unbridled passion between the sheets of this book to leave you breathless.”
— Janean Sparks, Romance Junkies
Praise for Chemistry to Burn
“This short story absolutely rocks!”
— Francesca Hayne, Just Erotic Romance Reviews
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“A thoroughly engaging tale full of humor and the unexpected…an erotic fairy tale sure to please.”
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Seducing Destiny/Dark Kisses Duet by Anne Kane #ActionAdventure #PNR #shifters #werewolves @annekane
Posted on October 25, 2019 by jessicacoultersmith
Cover Artist: Angela Knight
Seducing Destiny: Jack, the alpha of the North Rockies pack, knows Destiny needs some time to come to grips with her werewolf heritage before he springs the whole mated for life thing on her, but when a band of rogue werewolves move into the area, Jack can’t afford to have his attention divided. It’s time to convince Destiny she belongs in his pack — and in his bed.
Dark Kisses: Kidnapped and dumped in unfamiliar territory, Katie has no idea where she is or why the geriatric old fool chose the Northern Rockies Pack territory to dump her, bound hand and foot. The fact that she’s just come into heat doesn’t help matters either. When Jeff finds her, his mere presence sends flames of liquid lust sizzling through her veins. Can she resist the dark wolf, or will she succumb to his wildly sexy dark kisses?
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“I loved how chocolate plays into this storyline. Ms. Kane leaves no doubt in the reader’s mind that sex and chocolate are the perfect combination.”
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Excerpt from Seducing Destiny
Destiny stared in dismay at the box in the middle of her kitchen table. Her stomach lurched, a ball of anxiety settling in the very middle of it. Gold gilt covered the small box, giving it an exotic look. An artfully tied crimson bow surrounded by curls of white lace sat cheerfully atop it, adding to the air of decadent luxury.
She knew who’d put it there, and she knew why. Jack. The Alpha of the Northern Rockies werewolf pack. The man who made her knees feel weak whenever she glimpsed him walking down the main street, or lounging at a local coffee shop. The man who’d made it plain that he intended to be her mate. The absolute last man on the face of the planet that she intended to get serious about.
No point in putting this off. Her sensitive nose could smell Jack all over the damn box. She caught the trailing lace between a thumb and forefinger and gently undid the bow, dropping the cheerful piece of ribbon on the table. Taking a deep breath, she plucked the lid off.
Her breath caught in her throat. An exquisitely detailed chocolate wolf nestled in a cushion of crushed white velvet. Every detail from the tip of its muzzle to the dominant curve of its tail was perfect. Jack had reproduced himself exactly. She knew if she turned the little wolf over, she’d find a jagged scar running along its left flank.
“I suppose I could always bite your head off.” Destiny felt a wry smile tug the sides of her mouth. She jumped, startled by the sound of a loud knock on her front door. Quentin must have gotten out of court early. She hadn’t expected him to show up for at least another four hours. Sweeping the ribbon up off the table, she stuffed the box and ribbon into a drawer and slammed it shut.
“Come on in, the door’s open.” She hoped Quentin couldn’t hear the guilt in her voice. Not that she had anything to feel guilty about. Damn Jack and his fancy little chocolate creatures! She smoothed her hands down her skirt and tried to look calm.
“I know, I was just being polite.” Jack strode into the room, a crooked smile on his rugged face. “You’re not usually this happy to see me.”
“I thought you were my boyfriend.” She looked pointedly behind him as if she expected Quentin to materialize any second. “I’m expecting him to drop in after court today.”
Jack ignored her reference to Quentin and gave her a toothy grin. “I intend to be a lot more than a friend, and it’s been a long time since anyone referred to me as a boy.” He advanced, his eyes sparkling. “Glad to hear you finally think of me that way, though, because unless my nose is deceiving me, you’re going to be begging for my attention shortly.”
Destiny felt a surge of color flood her cheeks and she turned away so he couldn’t see her face. It mortified her to know he could smell her eagerness. “You wish.” Now that was lame!
He took her by the shoulders and turned her around to face him, his touch surprisingly gentle for such a large man. “No, I know. The full moon is on Saturday. You haven’t slept with that wimpy boyfriend of yours, and you’re not going to if you want him to live to see Monday. A human male can’t begin to satisfy your needs. I wouldn’t have to lift a paw; you’d tear him apart yourself. Your frustration level is about to escalate to hellish proportions.” A devilishly wicked smile curved the corner of his mouth. “Fortunately, I can help you deal with that.”
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Anne Kane lives in the beautiful Okanagan Valley with a bouncy little rescue dog whose breed defies description, a cantankerous Himalayan cat, and too many fish to count. She spent many years trying to fit in and act normal, but finally gave up the effort. She started writing romance in 2008, and her fate was sealed when she won a publishing contract with Red Sage Publishing and just a month later Changeling Press accepted her first submission. Since then she has published more than thirty stories in a variety of sub-genres, all with a happily ever after.
She has two handsome sons and six adorable grandchildren and enjoys spending time with them whenever she can. Her hobbies, when she’s not playing with the characters in her head, include kayaking, hiking, swimming, playing guitar, singing and of course, reading.
Website: http://www.annekane.com/
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A Shot of J&B by Lou Sylvre #BDSM #GayRomance #interraciallove #NewRelease @Sylvre
When Brian Harrison first met Jackie Vasquez at a Hawaiian wedding, Jackie was sixteen and troubled. Six years later they meet again; Brian’s career at Scotland Yard is budding with promise, while Jackie’s student days at the University of Nebraska are rolling toward a strong finish. Magnetic mutual attraction pulls them insistently toward one another, but the ocean separating their lives makes for a simmering romance.
When the waiting ends and they get together for a weekend in Denver, Dom Brian and sub Jackie both know they’ve tapped into something scalding hot, and much deeper than sharing an artful session. Shibari, lust, and love are all on the agenda — but for Brian, so is his police career, and a strange series of crimes seems poised to threaten their romance — and maybe their lives.
Copyright ©2019 Lou Sylvre
Port Clifton’s shops yielded gifts for Brian’s hosts: a huge bouquet of red and white lilies accented with ferns, salal, and baby’s breath; a six-pack of Full Sail Amber Ale; a bottle of 2009 La Lagune, Haut-Médoc — a fine cabernet from France, the merchant said — and Batdorf and Bronson’s Sulawesi Toraja coffee, which the label promised to be earthy and sweet with hints of pineapple and black pepper. He hadn’t planned on so much, but he hadn’t been able to decide if Sonny would love the rich colors of the flowers more, or his favorite ale, or if Luki would get more pleasure out of the fine French wine or a special coffee. He knew it could be seen as an embarrassment of riches, so to speak, but he hoped his friends would understand.
As he approached the door, he faced the more immediate problem of how to knock while juggling it all, but he needn’t have worried. Sonny must have seen him stumbling from his car, and he swung the door wide just as Brian arrived.
“Come in,” Sonny said, and calmly unburdened him, laying the presents carefully aside so he could wrap his long arms around Brian in an enthusiastic hug, which he obviously considered a proper greeting. He let go and backed away a step. “Good to see you!”
The wonderful thing about Sonny, Brian thought, was that he never would have said such a thing if he didn’t really mean it. Brian’s own smile grew, and he nodded. “You too,” he said. “I brought you flowers and beer.”
“Thank you!” Sonny laughed. “Such wisdom in one so young.”
“And coffee and wine for Luki,” Brian added, having no idea what else to say or why he was stating the obvious.
Luki strode up just then, apron clad, and chestnut curls — sprinkled now with silver, Brian noticed — in disarray. “Perfect,” he said. “What Sonny said — wisdom!”
Luki’s face seemed so familiar yet transformed somehow. He didn’t grin, but he smiled a little, and joy fairly danced in the pale eyes that most often used to seem so cold. Brian knew Luki had survived a nearly fatal bout with lung cancer — in remission less than a year — and he thought maybe that had given him some gift of contentment. But after Luki thanked him and gave him a quick hug, Brian saw his gaze settle on Sonny, and he recognized that the true source of Luki’s joy was his husband, and the love that had deepened through the years they’d spent together.
Distracted by the familiar wave of envy he always felt in the presence of this couple, wishing he could somehow express it, Brian missed much of what Sonny said as he followed them to the kitchen. He tried to marshal his attention back to the present, and caught Sonny saying he didn’t think he’d ever seen lilies so red. Brian nodded, and murmured agreement, but then he caught movement out of the corner of his eye.
He turned toward the motion, and there stood Jackie Vasquez. All grown up — and apparently fresh from a shower. December sun poured through a window at his left, and it lit the red in his hair, making it smolder despite being darkened with damp. Brian hadn’t noticed before that Jackie’s gray eyes were like a warmer version of Luki’s blue, very pale, and similar in size and shape. Perhaps it was a trait traceable to Luki’s father — Jackie’s grandfather. But there the similarity stopped. While Luki’s pale eyes shone in contrast to his brown skin, Jackie’s somehow harmonized with his pale, dark-haired, dark-freckled coloring. The effect, though, seemed to Brian no less singular.
After a few seconds, Brian realized that while he had been standing there silently analyzing the evidence of a common gene pool between the two remarkable-looking men, Jackie had actually been speaking to him.
“Jackie,” Brian said, then thought to add, “Um, it’s good to see you again.”
“You seem surprised.” Jackie absentmindedly scratched at the center of his chest, which was bare and still damp, and where fine russet hairs formed a diamond between healthy, smooth pecs that clearly belonged to a man. Nothing boyish remained in Jackie’s physique, though he still had what might be called a boyish smile, or youthful, at least.
“Yes,” Brian nodded. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to be rude. I had no idea you would be here.”
Luki spoke up. “We didn’t expect him to be here, Brian, or I would probably have mentioned it on the phone. He was supposed to fly out yesterday.”
“I got bumped,” Jackie explained, and shook his head, apparently unhappy with the airline. “So the uncles agreed to put up with me for another day, and Sonny said he’d drive me to the airport tonight.”
Brian felt a little tongue-tied, which wasn’t a familiar feeling at all. He nodded.
Jackie squinted and cocked his head to the side. “I mean it, though, Brian. I’m glad to have a chance to talk to you. I… I don’t remember things clearly from… but I know you did a lot, and I’ve always wanted to thank you in person.”
That shook Brian’s tongue loose, and he said, “Jackie, there is nothing at all for you to thank me for. I’m glad I was there and was some help. I’m grateful you came through okay.”
Brian saw color rise in the pale skin between the freckles of Jackie’s cheeks. Jackie bit his bottom lip — very reminiscent of his Uncle Luki — and then looked away. He glanced back, said, “Well, I’d better put clothes on… I mean, a shirt… You know.”
Brian heard Sonny giggling. A delightful and always unexpected sound.
“Hurry up, Jackie,” Luki said. “Food’s on the table.”
More from Lou at Changeling Press …
Lou Sylvre loves romance with all its ups and downs, and likes to conjure it into books. The sweethearts on her pages are men who end up loving each other — and usually saving each other from unspeakable danger. It’s all pretty crazy and very, very sexy. As if you’d want to know more, she’ll happily tell you that she is a proudly bisexual woman — a mother, grandmother, lover of languages, and cat-herder — of mixed cultural heritage. She works closely with lead cat and writing assistant, the (male) Queen of Budapest, Boudreau St. Clair. She lives in the rainy part of the Pacific Northwest, and hearing from a reader infallibly brightens the dreary weather. Find her through her links listed here, or drop her a line at lou.sylvre@gmail.com.
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SPOTLIGHT: Trash & Treasure by Mikala Ash #futuristic #scifi #LGBTQ #multiplepartners #RomanceBooks @changelingpress
Award-winning reporter for the Adana Observer Holly Barberossa finds herself once again in her natural environment: hot water.
Antagonizing the Dollavera “brothers,” a family of clones who run the Amalgamated Spaceport Guild of Scavengers, with a series of damaging exposés was bound to drop her into a cauldron of trouble but when a dismembered body, an abused robot and a scared alien entity are thrown into the mix then Holly is really in the soup.
Then there’s Maxim Dollavera who, she hopes, is not like his “brothers.” A man with his smoldering good looks just can’t be a bad guy, can he? Trying for a surprise interview Holly walks in on him and his male lover, Felis Panthera, a randy Leonine with equally attractive attributes. Forget the story, she hopes there’s room for one more in Maxim’s erotic world.
But she can’t forget a story, that’s her problem, and her greatest strength. Will Maxim’s brothers allow Holly to walk all over them in the media without retribution? Will Maxim welcome her into his world when she is trying to destroy his brothers? And just who are the bad guys, really?
These and other questions boil over in Spaceport: Trash & Treasure, a Holly Barberossa erotic adventure.
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Praise for Trash & Treasure
“I loved the futuristic and paranormal backdrop to this tale, which added to the fascination of the plot. I look forward to reading the other stories from a variety of different authors of the Spaceport series.”
4 Stars! — Tallyn Porter, JERR
“The addition of a good mystery and intrigue to the plot make Spaceport: Trash & Treasure a fine addition to the Spaceport series.”
4 Angels! — Hayley, Fallen Angels Reviews
Copyright ©2008, 2019 Mikala Ash
I need a beer.
With an emphatic click, Holly Barberossa snapped off her smartcam while K. Dollavera was still flapping his jaws, the bombastic Guild executive ever eager to have the last word. Asshole!
It had been a helluva day. She’d lost her cool and she knew it. Vinnie would gripe about it in the morning, give her the old lecture about getting more with sugar than… hell, she couldn’t remember how that homily ended even though she’d heard it a thousand times.
The Haze was only ten minutes away. She could almost taste the amber fluid, not to mention the plate of ribs she’d have to go along with it. The image of her favorite meal, dripping with that mouth watering Altaran sauce the cook at the Haze used, filled her mind and worked its magic on her salivary glands. Her empty stomach gave a sustained and hopeful cheer.
She hadn’t stopped for lunch, running from one end of Adana to the other; interviewing idiots and assholes, fending off the groping hands of hopeful pedestrians trying to cop a feel, being kidnapped and fucking led around blindfolded by amateurs on the run (as if they really thought I couldn’t figure out where they took me, geeze! ), gassed by a flatulent Fedoran, given the cold shoulder by the fucking head of ‘Port Security (I’ll put her on a fucking spit and roast her slow), and to top it off that fucking asshole Dollavera trying to wheedle out of not spilling the beans about the gang war brewing right under his and his goddamn brothers’ fucking noses (brothers, there’s a misnomer for you, fucking brothers my ass, fucking clones).
Clones. She took a deep and sustained breath. Good looking clones, sexy clones who boiled her juices every time she was within ten meters of their athletic bulk. Bastards.
She ordered her thoughts and skipped through the interview with Riz Gitto, the retired head of ‘Port Security and CEO of Adana’s newest private security firm. She could tell he wanted her badly, his pale gray eyes undressing her six times during the five minutes she talked to him. He wasn’t bad looking for an old guy and would be a useful contact, so she’d fluttered her dark lashes back at him and deflected his request for a date with the usual stop kidding around, I’m working line and jumped into the interview with that asshole K. Dollavera. At least Riz hadn’t made a grab for her tits.
Exactly why she let Dollavera get under her skin she couldn’t fathom. It wasn’t just that he was a slimy asshole. No doubt it had something to do with the fact that she’d dated (a couple of times) his “brother” Zweep, the Sentient Resources Controller of the family monopoly, the Amalgamated Spaceport Guild of Scavengers. She’d dumped Zweep at the first inkling of his suspicious business dealings. No way could she compromise her journalistic standards by seeing the man at the center of what could be the biggest scandal in Adana history. The fact that she let him go not ten minutes after she met their “brother” Maxim might, she conceded, have had something more to do with it other than being a breathtaking coincidence.
Maxim, the New Year’s Eve hero who had risked his life to save others from a terrible disaster, was something special. There was a guy who knew how to boil the juices, and what made him yummier was that he didn’t even know he did it.
The thought of Maxim being caught up in a shady family business was giving her sleepless nights. He’d been away, supposedly scavenging, for the last month, more likely avoiding the hundreds of fans attracted to his celebrity, so she hadn’t been able to talk to him about it. Not that they were on speaking terms yet; he probably didn’t know she even existed.
I’ll have to change that little detail.
If nothing else, her publicly nailing his two brothers would bring her into his orbit soon enough. What worried her was that Maxim seemed smarter than his “brothers,” and even in the brief moments she saw them interact, they seemed to defer to him. Her worst fear was that he was actually in charge of the operation while posing as a loner, supposedly scavenging the asteroid belt for junk. It would be the perfect cover, playing the dirt smeared grunt collecting trash while secretly pulling the strings behind the ‘Port Authority.
There was a tug at her trouser leg. A grubby face with enormous eyes and a mess of yellow hair looked up and gave her a gap toothed smile.
“Hello, sweetie,” Holly said. “Got something for me?”
The little angel, one of Adana’s many corridor kids, nodded and cupped a tiny hand near her mouth. Holly knelt down beside her and turned her head, brushing aside her raven hair so the little girl could whisper in her ear.
Holly’s heart jumped at the message. “Thank you, sweetie,” she said. “How much?”
The girl put up three fingers, indicating there were two others involved in the chain of observers that had brought her this longed-for news. Holly dropped four credits into her small palm and was rewarded with openmouthed astonishment. She always paid more than the going rate. It guaranteed preferment in the Adana rumor mill.
So, Maxim Dollavera had returned. He was in customs at this very moment and if she hurried she’d catch him.
And then what? She bit her bottom lip and snapped shut her oversized equipment bag. I have no idea, but I’ll think of something. I always do.
More from Mikala at Changeling Press …
Aussie Mikala Ash lives a hectic double life, mild-mannered training & development consultant by day… wild sci-fi and paranormal adventure writer by night. “For me, burning the candle at both ends is not such a terrible problem; I’m having too much fun!”
Catch up with Mikala on Facebook: www.facebook.com/mikala.ash#!/mikala.ash.9.
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Protecting Joyce by Cameron Allie #NewAdult #ContemporaryRomance #RomanceBooks @CamAllieErotica @changelingpress
After Alex saves her from being assaulted on the side of the road next to her broken down car, Joyce quickly discovers the only way she feels safe is by sleeping in his arms. But despite the security he gives her, there are questions about Alex that Joyce can’t seem to bring herself to ask. Will he ever want a commitment? What does he feel for the woman who used to have a “friends with benefits” relationship with him for over a decade? More importantly, can he ever love Joyce with the same intensity she feels for him?
Alex has never met a woman more perfect than Joyce. Her innocent sensuality delivers a hard kick to his gut. She’s sweet and talented and brave. She’s more than he could have ever dreamed of, and their relationship seems, at times, to be too good to be true. So what’s keeping him from saying those three little words he longs to say?
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Copyright ©2019 Cameron Allie
The sound of his cell phone woke him.
Rapidly sitting up, he searched for the TV remote, dropping his iPad onto the floor as he did so. When he finally found the remote, wedged between two couch cushions, he muted the TV. He wasn’t even sure what program was playing anymore.
How long had he been asleep?
He dug his phone out of his pocket. Unknown number. It was nearly eleven o’clock at night. Who would be calling now?
He answered anyway. “Hello?”
“Alex?”
Running a hand through his hair he frowned. “Yeah. Who’s this?”
“It’s Joyce.”
“Oh.” Settling back into the sofa, he couldn’t help but smile. Thoughts of Joyce had been tangling him up this past week. Sometimes he was worried about her.
Sometimes he remembered the attack she’d suffered, but most often it was some sort of sexual fantasy she starred in. He felt guilty thinking about her that way, but he couldn’t help it. She was pretty and sweet and he couldn’t help the direction his mind wandered to when he thought about her.
“I’m sorry, did I wake you?”
“No,” he lied. “Well, yeah, but I hadn’t gone to bed yet. Seems I passed out on the couch.” He was still in his dress clothes from work. It had been a long day. “What’s up?”
“This is going to sound like an odd request, but can I come over?”
“Come over?” His cock jumped at the idea. He sent his lap a stern glare. He doubted sex was what she meant.
“Yes. Well, you see, I haven’t really been able to sleep, and I was hoping…” she trailed off.
He knew a good cure for insomnia. Something that would wear them both out.
Alex got up from the couch and headed to the kitchen for a glass of cold water. Maybe that would help get his sex drive under control.
The water didn’t help, but when he heard her sniffle through the phone, that doused his fire. She was crying. Or almost crying. Great. He didn’t hesitate. “Yeah, you can come over.”
“I really wouldn’t bother you.” She sniffed again. “But it’s been days. I can’t sleep, and I was thinking because you were there, maybe seeing you would help.”
He didn’t know how he could help, but she was welcome to come cry on his shoulder. “I already agreed, babe.”
“Oh, right. I’m not thinking clearly. Where do you live?”
After he offered to come get her, he gave her the address. Not ten minutes passed before she was at his door. He’d barely had enough time to put away his take-out container from dinner and tidy up a few things.
His smile was wide when he opened door, but it quickly vanished. She was a mess. More correctly, she was a wilted, tired shell of herself. Sure, her hair was combed, she had a bit of makeup on, slightly smudged beneath her eyes, and her clothing looked fresh, though perhaps a little stained from working in the kitchen that night. But the big dark circles under her eyes showed her exhaustion. She hadn’t been lying. She looked ready to fall through the doorframe and sleep where she fell on the floor.
When was the last time she’d had a decent night’s rest? He ushered her inside.
“I’m so sorry to do this to you.” She wrung her hands as she spoke. “I hate to disrupt your life.” Her eyes widened. “I didn’t even think! Is anyone else living here? You’re not married or something are you? I don’t want to interrupt –”
Alex cut her off. “I live alone. No interruption. Don’t worry.”
“Come. Have a seat.” He directed her to the living room. She perched on the edge of his couch. He pointed to her gauze wrapped finger. “What happened there?”
She glanced down at her left pointer finger. “I sliced it at work. Four stitches.”
He winced. “Oh, got it good.”
“I’m really tired, and made a mistake. My hand slipped. My dad was mad. He thinks I should be taking a few days off.”
“Why don’t you?”
She looked up at him, tears in her eyes. “What good will that do me? I can’t seem to sleep anyway. What would being at home worrying help?”
He supposed that was true. Wanting to put his arm around her, he took a seat next to her, but didn’t dare touch her. How bad was her PTSD after the attack? Would the touch of a man, even a compassionate touch, send her spiraling?
“Look, I know this is an imposition, and will sound like an odd request, but can I sleep here tonight?”
Here? He supposed she could. He could sleep on the couch. He’d been doing that before she called. “I guess so. If you think being in a house with another person will help.”
She shook her head. “No, you misunderstand. I’ve been staying at my parents’ place the last few days. Being with others doesn’t help. I think I need you.” She let out a shuddering breath. “I think I need to be close to you to sleep. It’s odd, I’m sure, but I feel safe when you’re around.”
He supposed that made sense. Seeing as he was the first man she saw after the attack.
“So can I sleep here tonight? Like, I mean, in your bed?”
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Romance author Cameron Allie grew up in a small town north of Toronto. As a child she loved stories, and after reading her first romance novel at age fifteen, her dreams of writing became singularly focused on love stories. She is currently living in Ontario with her husband, their baby girl, and their cat, who is constantly trying to interrupt the writing process.
Website: http://cameronallie.com
Blog: https://www.cameronallie.com/category/blog/
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Practical Difficulties by Emily Carrington #PNR #UrbanFantasy #transgender #RomanceBooks #LGBTQ @CarringtonEmily @changelingpress
Maxine, a trans male-to-female werewolf, is struggling to get beyond her grief over the losses she suffered in her past. Now her mate, Sonya, is pregnant. When Maxine’s ghosts rise to break the new lovers apart, they have more help than they need from her pack.
Sonya’s starting to wonder whether Maxine’s loyalties lie with the wolf pack she’s been with for decades, or with her new mate. It’s beginning to look like sabotage from all quarters. How can a new couple stay together, especially with pups on the way?
Copyright ©2019 Emily Carrington
Sonya Johnson stared at her clean pad, scowling at its whiteness against the cocoa dark of her thigh and the pale mauve of her panties. Her period should have started four days ago. Granted, she’d stopped taking her birth control after she’d forgotten to take it for three days back in late September. But was it too much to ask that her slip wouldn’t bring on pregnancy? She was a damned doctoral student and working a full-time job.
“Please, God,” she whispered. “Let it just be late. I do not have time for this right now.”
She shivered as a blast of air conditioning rushed across the back of her neck. Maybe it was time to grow her hair out and screw the cuteness of her current kinky-haired bob.
I’m a medical technician. I know enough about the human body to get this message: either stress is delaying my menstrual cycle, or I’m pregnant.
She cursed her mate before she could stop herself.
Sonya sighed, flushed the toilet, and pulled up her panties and shorts. It wasn’t Maxine’s fault, even if she was a trans werewolf and still had a dick. They’d both thought Sonya’s pill would take care of things. They’d briefly discussed using condoms too, but Sonya privately thought at the time that that was overkill. Maxine liked teasing herself with a condom now and then, but as a form of birth control, they were weren’t all that reliable.
They only succeed sixty percent of the time… but maybe I should have banked on that extra sixty percent.
She made an exasperated noise, very quietly.
The only thing that is Maxine’s fault, partially at least, is how infrequently I see her.
She’d long ago stopped tripping over the idea of calling Maxine, a male-to-female transgender werewolf, “she.” Not even thinking of her mate’s cock, as she did often while masturbating, could cause her confusion. Maxine was so utterly female, mind and spirit, that male genitals couldn’t change her essential nature.
Sonya walked into the bedroom she and her mate shared and went to her side of the wall-length closet. She took off the striped shirt she’d been wearing and put on a sweater with a cowl neck. It was a soft orange that complemented her medium brown skin tone and had the added bonus of clinging to her curves in all the right places.
Too bad Maxine isn’t here to appreciate it. She sighed noisily and then covered her mouth and glanced around, almost expecting half a dozen werewolves to pop out of the woodwork and ask her what was wrong. She kept her SearchLight-won shields in place most of the time, and her lips shut almost as much, but she still felt as if the whole darn pack could read her like a book.
Those shields were something she’d picked up at the academy in DC, learning them from the parapsychology teacher. She didn’t use them much at work, at least not when she was relaxed and in her own domain — the medtech department. But with all the psychic powers boasted by the members of her new eros pack, she felt on edge if her mind wasn’t guarded.
Shaking her head, grimacing as she thought of how paranoid she’d gotten over the past two weeks, Sonya headed into the living room to sit at the desk Maxine had bought her as a mating ceremony present back in late September. It was now the first week of October and she did not need to be worrying about pregnancy when her first dissertation defense was happening in less than seven days and she hadn’t seen her mate for more than a few minutes at a time since they consummated their relationship.
And while that was the worst of it, not being with her mate, her third problem was almost as pressing: three of the werewolves in her new pack were openly hostile toward her. Oh, not where Maxine, who outranked all of them, could see, but whenever they caught Sonya alone…
Oh, stop thinking about it all in such negative terms. They’re just pests. And as for Maxine, she sleeps here every night she’s in town, doesn’t she? You’ve made love four times so far. That’s good for two weeks’ worth of living together, isn’t it?
Well, actually, no. Sonya had gotten the impression from listening to her friend, Luke, talk about his early relationship with his husband that sex every day wasn’t uncommon. In fact, the only time her genie and dragon friends hadn’t managed sex at least three or four times a week was when Mark, the dragon half of the pairing, was in crisis.
Was Maxine in crisis?
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Emily Carrington is a multipublished author of male/male and transgender erotica. Seeking a world made of equality, she created SearchLight to live out her dreams. But even SearchLight has its problems, and Emily is looking forward to working all of these out with a host of characters from dragons and genies to psychic vampires.
Website: http://emilycarrington.com
Blog: http://goodreads.com/author/show/4619715.Emily_Carrington
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Series: sequel to Coveted
Publication: November 27th 2012
Title: Desire The Night
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Publication: September 25th 2012
Title: Starling
Series: Starling #1
Publication: August 15th 2012
"Love is just the beginning… of the end."
Mason Starling is a champion fencer for Gosforth Academy, but she’s never had to fight for her life. Until now. When a ferocious storm rips through Manhattan and unleashes terrifying creatures onto Gosforth’s campus, Mason barely escapes alive. Without help from the mysterious stranger who appeared in the midst of the storm, she might not have made it at all. But now, in the aftermath, Mason’s life begins to spin dramatically, mystically out of control, and the only one who seems able to help her is the stranger who can remember nothing but his name: Fennrys Wolf.
As Mason and Fenn uncover more about Fenn’s past and the strange events that surround them, they realize that Mason’s family — and its dark allegiance to the ancient Norse gods — is at the center of everything. A predetermined fate seems to be closing in on Mason, but is it possible to change one’s destiny?
Readers who fell in love with Lesley Livingston’s Wondrous Strange trilogy and those who love Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments series will be captivated by the sweeping romance and pulse-pounding action of Starling.
Title: Riveted
Series: Iron Seas #3
A century after a devastating volcanic eruption forced Iceland’s inhabitants to abandon its shores, the island has become enshrouded in legend. But the truth behind the legends is mechanical, not magical—and the mystery of the island a matter of life and death for a community of women who once spilled noble blood to secure their freedom.
Five years ago, Annika unwittingly endangered that secret, but her sister Källa took the blame and was exiled. Now Annika serves on an airship, searching for her sister and longing to return home. But that home is threatened when scientific expedition leader David Kentewess comes aboard, looking to expose Annika’s secrets. Then disaster strikes, leaving David and Annika stranded on a glacier and pursued by a madman, with their very survival depending on keeping the heat rising between them—and generating lots of steam.
Title: Wicked Whispers
Series: Castle of Dark Dreams #6
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The Autopsy of Jane Doe – Red Band Trailer
By K.A. Bergman
I think that this red band trailer for the upcoming movie, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, gives a thrilling and eerie impression. I like the subtle feeling of confinement, and that the story is shown close to the characters. The unnerving theme helps too.
The story takes place in a morgue, where a father and son are working. One night an unidentified woman, victim of a mysterious homicide, lands on their table. As they go ahead with their post-mortem examination of the woman, strange events start to manifest, with clues to who their Jane Doe is and how she got there.
André Øvredal, the Norwegian behind Trollhunter (2010) has directed the movie. Ophelia Lovibond, who did a great job as Kitty Winter in Elementary, plays the part of Jane Doe, while Brian Cox, who won an Emmy award for Nuremberg (2000), plays the father and Emile Hirsch, from Into the Wild and Lone Survivor, plays the son.
You can step into the morgue on the movie’s limited release on December 21, but before that you can catch the trailer below and see what you think about it.
Red Band Trailer for The Autopsy of Jane Doe on TrailerAddict.
Split – Movie Poster
Pet – Official Trailer looks Thrilling
The Awakening – Retro Horror from the ’80s
International Trailer for The Hitman’s Bodyguard
47 Meters Down – Killer sharks in the depths
Micro – Another Crichton Adaptation
Incarnate Opens on December 2
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" Thousands of CA Presidential Primary Votes 'Saved' by Citizen Observer in L.A. County: 'BradCast' 6/28/2016 "
Thousands of CA Presidential Primary Votes 'Saved' by Citizen Observer in L.A. County: 'BradCast' 6/28/2016
Guest: Julie Tyler, filmmaker, 'Ballots for Bernie' vote count observer...
More than half a million ballots remain to be processed and tallied from California's June 7th Presidential Primary, and thousands of those votes have just been saved. On today's BradCast we speak to a citizen vote count observer in Los Angeles County who, through her diligence, just days ago, helped change L.A.'s process for determining which provisional ballots will be tallied, potentially saving tens of thousands of Democratic votes from being tossed in the bargain. [Audio link to complete show posted at bottom of this article.]
First today, the latest on the breaking news out of Turkey where an apparent terror attack had killed at least 28 people by air time today. Then, U.S. House Republicans release their final Benghazi report, for what it's worth, and Donald Trump continues to plummet in national polls, even as he remains quite competitive with Hillary Clinton in swing states.
Then, I'm joined by Julie Tyler, Los Angeles filmmaker and citizen vote count observer with Ballots for Bernie, to discuss how her oversight of on-going Provisional Ballot processing in L.A. has resulted in thousands of Democratic Primary votes cast by "No Party Preference" (NPP) voters being included in the tally, instead of being tossed out, as originally planned by election officials.
Indeed, The BRAD BLOG confirmed late last week with L.A. County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan that the County changed its process for determining voter intent after Tyler noticed that some provisional votes cast on Democratic ballot cards (instead of NPP-Democratic "cross over" cards) were being discarded under Logan's original process.
"I have further reviewed that category of provisional ballots," Logan said in a statement he sent via email, "and I am in agreement that the ballot card itself is sufficient to indicate voter intent to participate in the Democratic primary under the liberal construction clause of Elections Code 14312; therefore canvass staff has been instructed to process all such ballots as NPP-DEM cross over ballots and to prepare them for tabulation in subsequent updates as scheduled."
He went on to explain that, "while there is no process for a challenge to the determination of voter intent on provisional ballots, the election official does have to authority to identify the need for and to take corrective action during the canvass period. I am exercising that authority with regard to any provisional ballots processed and counted prior to the clarification listed above. Those ballots are being identified and will be re-processed as NPP-DEM cross over ballots and will reflect a vote cast in the Presidential contest, if any." Logan told me that some 2,801 ballots processed under the original interpretation of the rules were reprocessed under the new ones, and the more than 100,000 still-unprocessed provisionals in L.A. County will be verified and tallied under the new interpretation of the rules as well.
Tyler and others observers estimate some 60,000 votes may have been otherwise tossed, and tells me (though I haven't confirmed this part) that the CA Secretary of State is instructing other counties to similarly review their procedures for the inclusion of provisional Presidential votes from the June Democratic Primary, which Clinton still leads over Sanders, with the statewide margin very slowly narrowing and more than half a million ballots still untallied statewide as of today, in advance of the July 8 state certification deadline.
"It's our democracy, and it doesn't happen in a vacuum," Tyler tells me on today's show, while explaining how she noticed the problem initially and brought it to the attention of election officials, emphasizing "how important it is for observers to be on hand when these tallies are being done, for this very reason."
"It's not something that those people do over there. We have to take part. Frankly, I found the whole thing fascinating," she says, urging others to participate in this crucial aspect of our elections and noting "how empowering [it is] to know that, simply being there and observing, you can find errors and weigh in...Everybody has that power." Thank you, Julie! Couldn't agree more!
Finally today, we finish with our latest Green News Report on Volkswagen's $15 billion settlement with U.S. customers, as part of their emissions cheating scandal, Transcanada's $15 billion NAFTA complaint over U.S. rejection of the KeystoneXL pipeline, and much more...
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... Bob Young said on 6/29/2016 @ 1:25 am PT...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5ugmNoanx8
At the about the 10;30 point in the above documentary the Secretary of State Poll Workers Guide states that NPP voters should be given provisional ballots unless they ask for Democratic crossover ballots. That is likely why Logan had to deal with so many provisional ballots cast by NPP voters. The problem is likely state wide given its source.
My link at #1 does not work for me. The documentary is "UNCOUNTED: The true story of the California primary".
[Ed Note: Fixed that link for ya, Bob. - BF]
... Larry Bergan said on 6/29/2016 @ 6:29 pm PT...
Bob Young:
Your link is missing an 8 on the end. Interesting video.
UNCOUNTED: The true story of the California primary
Wow, Good for Julie Tyler! That's really heartening to me. I don't see how that couldn't result in more votes for my guy, Bernie Sanders.
I sure hope her discovery results in counting reforms in San Diego where our good friend (sarcasm) Michael Vu is an election official. As we know Michael probably has a little too much experience in American elections.
... Bev said on 6/29/2016 @ 7:20 pm PT...
Important update on RICO lawsuit and results of exit polling and auditing efforts:
via email from http://trustvote.org
An update on the lawsuit…
Thanks for the connection. Cliff Arnebeck is still filing the lawsuit, so while the delay is understandably of concern to all of us, do remain hopeful! We will be releasing breaking news including timely evidence from poll analyst, John Rice, who will give millions of people the assurance they need to know that Bernie has, in fact, won the Presidential Primary, at our event (details below), this coming Thursday.
We would love to meet you, but if you can’t attend in person, please view the live stream at the following web address: www.Facebook.com/BERN4Revolution or live.trustvote.tv
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: The 2016 California Primary: A Disturbing Situation
Come join us at the Corte Madera Best Western: 56 Madera Blvd, Corte Madera, CA 94925 for an update on the condition of the California Primary.
Event begins at 6:30 pm, Thursday, June 30th with attorneys at law Bill Simpich and Ida Martinac, San Diego election confusion witness, Marie Johnson, poll analyst, John Rice and election integrity activists, Lori Grace and Emily Levy.
Please check Sunrisecenter.org for a complete description of the event and register on the Sunrise Center site so we can be sure to save you a seat. Please also sign up to our Sunrise Center mailing list so that you can be sure to receive future announcements regarding the issue of election integrity.
TrustVote.org
... Larry Bergan said on 6/29/2016 @ 10:15 pm PT...
Thank you Bev!
When you commented here about this lawsuit last time, I made up a little flyer, put on my Bernie T-shirt and handed out 70 of them in two days. When I would ask people if they were Sanders supporters, their eyes lit up and I was so happy to give them hope.
With this new information, I'm going to be going into overdrive as soon as they make up the flyer that Summer Rose talked about in the video.
Wow! Sanders doesn't even NEED the super delegates. That is huge! I mean, I'll believe it when I see it, but this might actually be the year we get our elections back.
... Bev said on 6/30/2016 @ 8:52 am PT...
Dear Larry,
What an inspiration you are. And, we may all need to do as you have done, because when I googled the sentence above about Bernie has, in fact, won the Presidential Primary, there are only a few listings of the number of sites that I posted such good information, even Brad's site here.
Hopefully, that improves so that we can distribute widely. Else wise, your idea is excellent. Thanks Larry.
Bev:
I wouldn't know about this lawsuit if it weren't for you commenting on BradBlog. Just in case you're interested, here's what my small flyer looks like. I thought it was effective enough. I hope the one they make is a bit fancier.
Hope you didn't miss my short Bernie Sanders rally video here in Salt Lake. I posted it here a while ago. Got over 1000 views! Lot's of happy people.
Just finished watching the California forum on the lawsuit. Started out slow to say the least.
The explosion came later, and lasted over two hours. WOW!
... Bev said on 7/2/2016 @ 9:13 am PT...
Hi Larry, Yes technical issues hopefully worked out by today's new meeting:
http://trustvote.org/
The 2016 California Primary: A Disturbing Story w/Bill Simpich, Lori Grace
This event is Saturday July 2, 2016 from 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM PDT. Come join us at Sunrise Center, 645 Tamalpais, Corte Madera, CA 94925 for an update on the condition of the California Primary.
http://sourceplanet.net/...s-to-help-recount-votes/
TrustVote.org Is Seeking Volunteers To Help Recount Votes
We recently were contacted by a staff member of TrustVote.org named Steve Enzer. He asked if our team wanted to help with any video editing or webdesign as he is the only “tech” member working for TrustVote.
I agreed to help anyway I could, recently I was able to have a long phone conversation with Lori Grace and Cliff Arnebeck. While I can’t disclose the entire conversation, I can say the lawsuit will be filed very soon with a extremely high probability of success.
One issue we talked about was the fact TrustVote still needs volunteers to help recount and photograph each ballot. This alone in Ohio (The first state they will be filling in) will take 100s of volunteers.
I asked if they wanted us to help set up a social platform to gather volunteers? With a ecstatic YES from both Lori & Cliff, our team and Steve Enzer went to work building a site called TeamBernie.net. While TrustVote as an entity can’t endorse the site Lori & Cliff, both personally think it’s a great platform to organize teams in each state who want to participate in recounting the votes.
We must start recruiting people, in my conversation with Cliff, he said his game plan as of today is to file in 11 states, but that may grow to 49 states because even in states where Bernie won he may have won by a greater margin. Cliff also strongly believes after the recount is finished Bernie will not need to worry about Super Delegates because he will have enough Delegates to claim the nomination. The only way this recount can be conducted in a timely manner is if we get 1000s of volunteers so please signup at TeamBernie.net
If you don’t want to help recount the ballots you can still help the cause in many different ways.
• Donate to TrustVote.org.
• Share TeamBernie.net with your friends.
• Run for your local office.
• Create flyers/mailers (as Larry has done) so people who don’t get their news online know about TrustVote’s recount.
• Join Journey For Bernie (A Cross Country Caravan To The DNC)
This recount needs to be one of the most important agendas for every person who wants to see Bernie win. Just picture Hillary’s reaction when she finds out all her Super Delegates will not effect the election, because Bernie already won.
http://teambernie.net/
This site was created to organize people who want to help TrustVote.org recount the votes.
TrustVote is in desperate need of 1000s of volunteers. If your state is not currently being sued please still signup and be on standby in case TrustVote files.
Please sign up and join the Revolution.
... Larry Bergan said on 7/2/2016 @ 11:29 am PT...
A new meeting today. GREAT! The last one was super interesting once it got going. I was impressed that there weren't any pauses in the feed. I don't have a very fast broadband.
I guess there won't be any recounts in Utah since we used hand counted ballots in the primary and it sure showed up in the result, but I will be working the streets and trying to get people informed.
I very much want to see the look on corporate faces if this happens. That will make this long election battle more then worth it!
... Bev said on 7/2/2016 @ 12:47 pm PT...
Larry, it took me a while to find the site:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P-jIC4ZZN8
Saturday TrustVote Update
TrustVote.TV
... Larry Bergan said on 7/2/2016 @ 5:44 pm PT...
Bev, I watched the whole thing. Very interesting and long discussion.
Election activism is filled with paranoia, believe me, I know. Summer obviously has some BIG problems with teambernie.net. I might too, considering he is the tech guy for these forums. The streams are very impressive, and this was better then last time, but if there are questions about the organization that's going to be recruiting volunteers, I'm glad she brought it up.
You can't be too careful when voting is involved.
Dear Delegates, Save Democracy:
https://electionfraud201...be-filed-by-end-of-week/
Cliff Arnebeck Open Letter To Bernie Sanders: Election Lawsuit to be Filed by End of Week
Posted on July 12, 2016 by truthfirst12013
ARNEBECK LAW OFFICE
Clifford O. Arnebeck, Jr.
1021 East Broad Street
clifford.arnebeck@gmail.com
Senator Bernie Sanders
Via electronic mail
Dear President-Elect Sanders,
Congratulations on winning the overwhelming support of the American people for your candidacy to be President - not for you, but for them.
If the pressures of these past two weeks compel you to say that you give up, it is understandable. As our expert researcher and your fellow whistleblower, Dana Jill Simpson, said at the Columbus, Ohio Broad Street Presbyterian Church last Sunday, “We crucify whistleblowers in this country.”
However, whatever you may say in the face of the ordeal you now suffer, you have been elected to serve us. No one --- especially not the king of Saudi Arabia or the highest lord of finance and media in the world --- can coronate someone to reign over us.
Exit polls are the international gold standard for measuring the integrity of election results. However, in the United States such exit polls have to be adjusted not once, but twice --- before and after being taken --- to compensate for the fraudulent manipulation of votes that regularly takes place. In the 2016 Democratic primary in Ohio, the end of day exit poll result showed you winning 10% more than the result recorded on our vulnerable voting machines. However, one must add back the 6% of your vote that was deducted in anticipation of fraud before the poll was taken. Thus, our experts will testify that you won, not only 10% more delegates than recorded, but the majority of the actual votes of Ohioans. And, as Ohio goes, so goes the nation.
We will be filing suit later this week to prove in court the extent of Karl Rove’s skillful manipulation of our votes. But, more importantly in relation to the fast approaching Democratic Convention, we will be presenting to delegates and to all the people the evidence of your victory. We will be doing so over the Website “Justice Served. org,” ( http://justiceserved.org/ ) coordinated by Summer Rose who also grew up in Brooklyn.
Because of the importance of your election to all the people of the United States and the world, I am publishing this as an open letter. I hope that all of your supporters --- Democrats, Republicans and Independents will let their voices be heard over the propaganda of the multi-millionaires and billionaires.
/s/ Clifford O. Arnebeck, Jr.
The Institute for American Democracy & Election Integrity
Breaking News: First Ohio Election Integrity Lawsuit filed…
http://electionnightmares.com/archives/576
Bob Fitrakis Interview: Lawsuit Filed in Ohio Against Exit Polling Company Edison Research
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODw4Gyr_W4s
http://blackboxvoting.org/fraction-magic-1/
Fraction Magic – Part 1: Votes are being counted as fractions instead of as whole numbers
By Bev Harris May 12, 2016
1 – Summary –
This report summarizes the results of our review of the GEMS election management system, which counts approximately 25 percent of all votes in the United States. The results of this study demonstrate that a fractional vote feature is embedded in each GEMS application which can be used to invisibly, yet radically, alter election outcomes by pre-setting desired vote percentages to redistribute votes. This tampering is not visible to election observers, even if they are standing in the room and watching the computer. Use of the decimalized vote feature is unlikely to be detected by auditing or canvass procedures, and can be applied across large jurisdictions in less than 60 seconds.
GEMS vote-counting systems are and have been operated under five trade names: Global Election Systems, Diebold Election Systems, Premier Election Systems, Dominion Voting Systems, and Election Systems & Software, in addition to a number of private regional subcontractors. At the time of this writing, this system is used statewide in Alaska, Connecticut, Georgia, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Utah and Vermont, and for counties in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming. It is also used in Canada.
Fractionalized vote:
Instead of “1” the vote is allowed to be 1/2, or 1+7/8, or any other value that is not a whole number.
What fractionalized votes can do:
They allow “weighting” of races. Weighting a race removes the principle of “one person-one vote” to allow some votes to be counted as less than one or more than one. Regardless of what the real votes are, candidates can receive a set percentage of votes. Results can be controlled. For example, Candidate A can be assigned 44% of the votes, Candidate B 51%, and Candidate C the rest.
GEMS fractionalizes votes in three places:
The “Summary” vote tally, which provides overall election totals for each race on Election Night
The “Statement of Votes Cast”, which provides detailed results by precinct and voting method (ie. Polling, absentee, early, provisional)
The “undervote” count
Fractions in results reports are not visible. Votes containing decimals are reported as whole numbers unless specifically instructed to reveal decimals (which is not the default setting). All evidence that fractional values ever existed can be removed instantly even from the underlying database using a setting in the GEMS data tables, in which case even instructing GEMS to show the decimals will fail to reveal they were used.
Source code: Instructions to treat votes as decimal values instead of whole numbers are inserted multiple times in the GEMS source code itself; thus, this feature cannot have been created by accident.
Fractionalizing the votes which create the Summary Results allows alteration of Election Night Web results and results sent to the Secretary of State, as well as results available at and local election officials.
Fractionalizing the “Statement of Votes Cast” allows an extraordinary amount of precision, enabling alteration of results by specific voting machine, absentee batch, or precinct. Vote results can be altered for polling places in predominantly Black neighborhoods, and can parse out precincts within a mixed batch of early or absentee votes.
Fractionalizing the undervote category allows reallocation of valid votes into undervotes.
Voting rights abomination
According to programmer notes, a weighted race feature was designed which not only gives some votes more weight than others, but does so based on the voter’s identity. Ballots are connected to voters, weights are assigned to each voter per race, stored in an external table not visible in GEMS. Our testing shows that one vote can be counted 25 times, another only one one-thousandth of a time, effectively converting some votes to zero.
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Epilepsy Award - 2009
Dr Kee Meng Tan was the recipient of Brain Foundation grant funding in 2009
Epilepsy Award
HLA type and temporal lobe epilepsy.
Dr Kee Meng Tan
Department of Neurology, Royal Melbourne Hospital
Funded By Michael Rogers Stirling Estate
Co-Investigators : Professor Terence O'Brien and Dr Brian Tait
Epilepsy Award funded by Michael Rogers Stirling Estate
Co-Investigators: Professor Terence O’Brien and Dr Brian Tait
The epilepsies are a heterogeneous group of disorders, some inherited and some acquired. The pathogenesis of acquired epilepsies is likely to involve environmental factors and genetic susceptibility. This study forms part of a cluster of projects examining genetic influences on acquired epilepsies. These projects will test the hypothesis that variations in the immune/inflammatory response determine whether or not a patient will subsequently develop epilepsy following cerebral insult such as head injury or childhood febrile seizures. Variations in human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing have been shown in a Turkish study to correlate with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy, and the Brain Foundation grant will allow similar testing to be performed on a larger scale in an ethnically different population.
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Economics Issues
Demand Curves
Between 1991 and 1994, Apple Computer engaged in a holding action in the desktop market dominated by PCs using Intel chips and running Microsoft's operating systems. In 1994, Apple's flagship model, the Power Mac, sold roughly 10,000 units per month at an average price of $3000 per unit. AT the time, Apple claimed about a 9% market share of the desktop market (down from greater than 15% in the 1980s).
By the end of 1995, Apple had witnessed a dramatic shift in the competitive environment. In the preceding 18 months, Intel had cut the prices of its top-performing Pentium chip by some 40%. Consequently, Apple's tow largest competitors, Compaq and IBM, reduced average PC prices by 15%. Mail- order retailers Dell continued to gain market share via aggressive pricing. At the same time, Microsoft introduced Windows 95, finally offering the PC world the look and feel of the Mac interface. Many software developers began producing applications only for the Windows operating system or delaying development of Macintosh applications units months after Windows versions had been shipped. Overall, fewer users were switching from PCs to Macs.
Apple's top managers grappled with the appropriate pricing response to these competitive events. Driven by the speedy new PowerPC chip, the Power Mac offered capabilities and a user-interface that compared favorably to those of PCs. Analysts expected that Apple could stay competitive by matching its rivals' price cuts. However, John Sulley, Apple's CEO, was adamant about retaining a 50% gross profit margin and maintaining premium prices. He was confident that Apple would remain strong in the key market segments- the home PC market, the education market, and desktop publishing.
1. What effect (if any) did the events of 1995 have on the demand curve for Power Macs? Should Apple preserve its profit margins or instead cut its prices?
2. In 1994, the marginal cost of producing the Power Mac was about $1500 per unit, and a rough estimate of the monthly demand curve was: P= 4,500-.15Q. At the time, what was Apple's optimal output and pricing policy?
3. By the end of 1995, some analysts estimated that the Power Mac's user value (relative to rival PCs) had fallen by as much as $600 per unit. What does this mean for Apple's new demand curve at the end of 1995? How much would sales fall if Apple held to its 1994 price? Assuming a marginal cost reduction of $1,350 per unit, what output and price policy should Apple now Adopt?
https://brainmass.com/economics/environment/demand-curves-124828
Answer 1:
The effects of 1995 reduced the demand for Apple's products. Thus the competitive reactions shifted Apple's demand curve to the left thereby reducing demand at each price level. The decision to preserve profit margins or cut prices depends on the price elasticity of Apple's products. If Apple's products have an elastic demand (which seems to be the true from the case), then apple should follow suit and cut prices. ...
The solution goes into a lot of detail about the Power Macs and explains several economic concepts using the scenario given below. It does a great job of answering all the questions below.
Movement shifts demand curve, changes supply/demand
Economics: Demand curve, supply curve etc
Supply and Demand Curve Analysis
Oligopoly: Price cut and kinked demand curve
Demand Curve Questions
Demand & Supply Curves, Analysis, Comparative Statics & Quantity
Deriving IS, LM and aggregate demand curves
Supply/demand curve
derivation a demand curve
The demand curve
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From Amazon to Apple, here's why the world's top companies are learning Hinglish
Amazon has worked with third-party developers who have built more than 10,000 extensions for Alexa- from summoning cabs through Ola to recommending Deepika Padukone movies
Updated: October 31, 2017, 14:55 IST
By Saritha Rai
The US e-commerce company is beginning to ship Echo speakers in India this week, about a year after bringing them to foreign markets like the UK and Germany. In that time, teams of linguists, speech scientists, developers and engineers have given a decidedly local makeover to the Alexa virtual assistant that powers the speakers.
This Alexa uses a blend of Hindi and English and speaks with an unmistakably Indian accent. She knows Independence Day is August 15th, not July 4th, and wishes listeners “Happy Diwali and a prosperous New Year!" She also refers to the living room as ‘drawing room’ and can add jeera (cumin), haldi (turmeric) and atta (flour) to your shopping list. Then there are her cricket jokes. (Don't ask.)
“We wanted our devices to talk, walk and feel Indian," said Parag Gupta, head of product management for Amazon Devices in India. “Alexa is not a visiting American, she has a very Indian personality."
Amazon isn’t alone. Technology giants from Apple Inc to Google are targeting this nation of 1.3 billion people by training virtual assistants in the heterogeneity of its languages and subcultures. Though many people understand American or British English, they’re more comfortable with assistants who sound more like them.
Hinglish borrows parts of both languages, including the grammar. In some cases words are fused together to mean something different. The key is for the digital assistant to understand a sentence using a mixture of both, yet grasp what they mean and their context.
Hinglish is particularly important as technology spreads beyond major cities to India’s hinterland, where declining prices are fueling adoption of smartphones and the internet. Many users are first-generation literates obsessed with Bollywood movies and cricket games who are just starting to use digital payments, e-commerce and social networks. Flawless English just won’t cut it.
“Global companies realize that India has several populations, each the size of entire countries in Europe, that can’t be cracked open with American English," said Ravi Gururaj, a Bangalore-based entrepreneur and co-founder of Harvard Angels India. “They have to adapt with Hinglish."
Alphabet Inc. has introduced a Hinglish-speaking Google Assistant that powers its instant messaging app Allo. Apple began advertising last year to hire native Hindi/Indian English speakers to help evolve and enrich Siri by crafting “culturally appropriate dialog for India.” And the latest operating system pre-loaded into this year’s iPhone 8, as well as the newest iPhone X, allows Siri users to set its keyboard to Hinglish.
Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive officer, told an Indian newspaper that his company is thinking through “every single way” to make the Siri experience better for Indian consumers.
“Voice-based interfaces are fast emerging and given that Amazon, Apple, Google and others are using them to increase reach and convenience, Hinglish is the way to achieve that," said MS Krishnan, professor of technology and operations at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. “It is a trend."
Amazon is sparing no expense. CEO Jeff Bezos has pledged to invest $5 billion in India as he battles local rival Flipkart Online Services Pvt. for supremacy in e-commerce, with part of the money going into thousands of hours of work to conquer the language barrier. The accent has been an “incredibly hard skill to develop," said Amazon’s Gupta.
Amazon incorporated Indian intonations, pauses and even local humor in its Echo devices. Alexa responds to Hinglish questions such as “What is your good name?" and fields a query of “Alexa, should I carry an umbrella today?" by instantly providing the weather forecast. The voice assistant can fetch music from the Bollywood blockbuster film “Dil Chahta Hai” and recount stories from the ancient Panchatantra children’s fables.
“We don’t want local customers to have to change their behavior to use our devices," Gupta said. “We want to learn and get better over time."
For the Indian market, Amazon has slashed 30 percent off the price tag of its devices.
Amazon has also worked with third-party developers who have built more than 10,000 extensions for Alexa -- from summoning cabs through Ola to recommending Deepika Padukone movies to finding the perfect recipe for Hyderabad biryani. For contrast, Amazon began selling Echo devices in the US three years ago with a mere 13 skills.
Local knowledge is only growing more important. A Google KPMG report from April said the country’s 234 million Indian language users have already overtaken its 175 English internet users, and a large chunk of these prefer to speak rather than type. The study projects the Indian language user base will grow to 534 million in the next four years and Hindi-speaking users alone will overtake English speakers on the internet.
“If a virtual assistant sounds local, natural and personal, users will gravitate toward it giving companies the competitive edge," said Gururaj, the technology investor. "Sounding like an American robot or chatbot can never work. It will be lost in translation."
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Facebook Relevance Score is Dead. Here’s What You Need to Care About Now
By: Katie Sehl
The Facebook Relevance score is no more. In March 2019, the social media company announced plans to abandon the single-score approach and replace it with three new and improved metrics.
These “more granular relevance diagnostics” are already being phased in, and will be firmly in place by April 30, 2019.
Is this change applicable to you? If you advertise on Facebook, the answer is yes. Besides, it’s in every advertiser’s best interest to reach their target market.
Here’s how to stay relevant with Facebook ad now.
Bonus: Download a free guide that teaches you how to turn Facebook traffic into sales in four simple steps using Hootsuite.
What was the Facebook Relevance Score?
The original intent behind the Facebook Relevance Score was to assess the relevancy of advertiser content with its target audience. Facebook rated ads on a 1-10 scale, with 10 being positive and one negative. The higher the score, the more likely Facebook was to show your ad in users’ feeds.
Relevant ads are a win-win-win. Facebook, advertisers, and customers all benefit when ads are targeted effectively.
But there was some confusion behind the relevance score. Many marketers were uncertain of how much importance to ascribe to it, and what to do if it was low.
Facebook’s switch to three metrics instead of one is likely aimed at addressing this ambiguity. As the announcement explains, “We think that this level of granularity will offer reporting that’s more actionable for businesses.”
What are the new Facebook relevance metrics?
Instead of one all-round score, Facebook’s new diagnostics dive further into relevancy details. Think itemized report card versus GPA.
These new rankings aim to help advertisers pinpoint where they can improve.
Quality ranking
This metric represents how Facebook perceives your ad quality when compared with ads targeting the same audience.
Engagement rate ranking
This ranking measures how your ad’s anticipated engagement rate compares with ads targeting the same audience.
Conversion rate ranking
This diagnostic rates your ad’s expected conversion rate against competing ads that target the same audience.
9 tips for achieving a high Facebook relevance score
It’s still early days for Facebook’s new relevance metrics, but these are some tried and true ways to keep your Facebook ad content relevant.
1. Serve quality content
Facebook wants to deliver a good ad experience for advertisers and audiences. That means if your ad is low quality, it will likely show it to fewer people.
Here are a few tips to up the quality of your ads:
Use high quality visuals. Skip low res, blurry, stock-quality images.
Keep copy direct. Short and sweet copy is always best.
Limit text in visuals. Use Facebook’s Image Text Check tool to ensure your image passes the test.
Optimize for mobile. 88 percent of people use Facebook on mobile.
2. Choose the appropriate Facebook ad format
There are countless Facebook ad formats, and each one is tailored to specific needs. Some formats may be better suited to different campaign objectives, so choosing the right one and optimizing content accordingly will definitely help improve your score.
3. Encourage actions and engagements
Positive interactions are a key factor in earning a high relevance score. Create an ad that has a clear call-to-action so that the audience knows how to engage, whether that’s liking, commenting, or clicking through your ad. Where relevant, ask a question that can be answered with a like or comment.
4. Consider trying video ads
People linger over a video post five times longer than at a static post. Video is not only good at capturing attention, it’s better at inspiring action, too.
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A question of hunting
I hate death. I hate that people I love have died. I hate that animals I love have died. I hate that everyone I know will one day be dead. I hate that animal life takes its energy from death. The extinguished lives that sustain animals are sometimes plant, sometimes animal, and sometimes both, but the bottom line is always death. On this planet, even the most exquisite orchids take root in the foul putrescence of decay. The only animals that don't sap energy from dead bodies are parasites who sap energy from living ones, often killing them in the process.
The reason I hate death so much is that I love life so much. And herein lies the contradiction. I love the gentle goldfinch who lives almost entirely on seeds. From the perspective of the animal kingdom, this vegan lifestyle seems blameless. But from the perspective of the plant kingdom, the goldfinch is a ruthless abortionist untimely ripping tiny embryos from their flowery womb, denying them their birthright, ensuring that they will never feel the sun's life-sustaining rays. I love the soft-spoken nighthawk and bluebird, though tiny insects consider both to be vicious serial killers.
Every creature on this planet exists at the expense of others. Turkey vultures and carrion beetles and many maggots politely wait for animals to die of other causes before they partake of their bodies, but most animals are too vulnerable to disease organisms to risk scavenging except on fresh roadkills. Most meat-eaters do their own killing. A few steal fresh carcasses, or chunks of them, from predators, and many humans and ants appoint farmers and butchers from within our ranks to do our dirty work, but no matter what our station in life, from aphids to peregrine falcons, earthworms to human beings, the price of sustaining a body on this lovely planet is to leach the energy from other bodies, be they cauliflower or cattle.
I'm a scavenger. I limit my killing to mosquitoes and wood ticks--every other unwelcome visitor to my house or my skin, from spiders to deer mice, gets shooed away or tenderly taken outdoors and released. I understand the fact of death and derive my physical being from it, but it's too sad for me to look directly at it.
For me, predators are the most magnificently tragic heroes in earth's living drama. Of all the creatures on earth, they are the ones who face death with eyes wide open, killing with claw and teeth or talon and beak to maintain their life force. They don't celebrate death, they thrive on it until they succumb to it. They didn't choose their fate, and they don't shrink from it. Hawks and owls grab their vital vittles at high velocity, plunging talons into a still-beating heart and tasting blood before it even slows its course through veins and arteries, risking the probability that their quarry will fight back. They grab life with grace and gusto and guts, and seemingly take pleasure from outwitting, out-lasting, and out-fighting their prey. During migration, merlins and sharp-shinned hawks even dive-bomb enormous eagles and red-tails, playfully reducing grim life-and-death struggles into a game.
We humans can't remove ourselves from death, but we do our best to harness the risks of life. I pick up my chicken carcasses at Loop SuperValu, where they are fresh and guaranteed not to fight back. My brother hunts waterfowl, pheasants, and big game. But he isn't much more at risk in the vast Dakota back country where he spends weeks each autumn than I am in a busy Superior Street parking lot. Ironically, the two greatest dangers my brother faces while hunting are from his own heart seizing up or from other human hunters. He has a comfortable truck with a topper that shelters him from the elements, and he stands a safe distance from his quarry when he fires his shotgun. No way would, or indeed could, he bring down a deer with his teeth and nails, risking a kick in the spleen or to the skull. If he were quick enough and smart enough to grab a wild wood duck with his bare hands, I'm not sure he'd have the heart to break its neck. That gun holds him at a safe distance emotionally as well as physically.
At the end of the day, whether he's bagged his limit or come up dry, my brother stops at a grocery store or restaurant for dinner. He's hardly hunting to sustain his own life. Dead ducks are too messy to deal with at a campsite so he pops them in a cooler to deal with later, and he wouldn't dream of eating a deer until a butcher converted it into tasty sausages and parasite-free steaks. Since he doesn't particularly like venison, he gives most away, sometimes keeping the head to hang up as a wall ornament. His house is decorated with stuffed duck carcasses, too--a nuisance for his wife to dust, but beautiful in a Norman Bates kind of way. Unlike Norman Bates, my brother is not psychotic, nor is he fascinated with death and decay. He's simply a hunter--hardly a natural predator with his state-of-the-art weapons and clothing, but somehow responding to an urge as natural and as deep in his bones as the hunting urge of a hawk or owl. Can I claim moral superiority as a scavenger and quasi-vegetarian? Nope. We're simply two different kinds of creatures with different approaches to the life-and-death struggle that is demanded of every life on earth. We're all in this together.
Federal and state governments regulate hunting both to ensure that vulnerable wildlife populations will thrive for future generations and to protect species that hold unique and special places in our collective hearts and imaginations. That is the compelling reason why Minnesota and Wisconsin currently prohibit hunting of birds of prey, sandhill cranes, mourning doves, hummingbirds, songbirds, etc. Even with these safeguards I will never hunt, just as I'll never chop off a chicken's head. It's not in my nature. But I don't begrudge my brother the thrill and joy he takes from pretending he's a natural predator, as long as he limits his hunting to legal game species, treats their bodies with respect, and consumes or uses their bodies to support his own well-being. His desire to hunt is based on emotions as powerful and deeply-felt as my desire to avoid hunting, and I can hardly deny him the same thrills and pleasures I accept and even affirm in a peregrine falcon.
Are hunters capable of compassion? When food is scarce, a mother hawk or owl will sit by placidly as her bigger young kill and eat the smallest. Life or death are the alternatives, and the tiniest body may well provide the nourishment her larger ones need to stave off their own deaths. Yet that same mother, in the face of her own hunger, feeds and preens her tiniest, weakest babies with a tenderness that mirrors the gentlest, most nurturing human mothers.
In a well-documented case in 1922, a screech owl who twice lost her own brood in a single season adopted a nestful of baby flickers, and even tried to feed them pieces of a bird. She frequently incubated them, gently sharing her vital warmth with creatures that would normally be her prey. This ruthless predator allowed their real parents to care for them too, unmolested and without harassment. What, if anything, passed through her mind? Perhaps the same thing that would pass through my brother's mind if he suddenly found himself eye-to-eye with an orphaned fawn. I know my brother. I know that this SWAT-trained former Vietnam soldier, who has probably killed more deer than I've seen in my life, would bottle-feed a fawn with the same tenderness that I would, nurturing it until it was capable of living on its own, and then he would release it in a refuge where it could live out its days safe from hunting. A contradiction? Of course. That's life.
(From A Question of Hunting, copyright 1999 by Laura L. Erickson)
Posted by Laura Erickson at 12:12 AM
RuthieJ August 20, 2007 at 8:57 PM
As a bowhunter myself, I want to thank you for not condemning all hunters. My husband and I both hunt and it's to stock our freezer with good meat that we live off for the entire year. The time we spend in the woods waiting for the deer or turkey to come by is very precious to us as we have seen many wonderful sights of birds and wildlife that many people never get the chance to enjoy.
I disagree with some of the decisions the MN DNR has made because they DO now have a mourning dove season and also two crow seasons. I can't see shooting anything just for sport (doves) and West Nile Virus seems to be keeping our crow population in check.
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January 13, 2020 by Sujay Seetharaman
(originally posted in Pipecandy Newsletter #93)
Amazon is responsible for 50% of all US eCommerce…BEEP! A popular research firm sounded that buzzer on Amazon’s market share earlier this year only to slash its estimate from 50% to 38%. The forecast was revised after disclosure in Bezos’s annual shareholder letter in April 2019.
Amazon is big. Is it bigly big or just big?
Amazon would not like you (or the antitrust hawks) to realize that the US’ single largest eCommerce entity is its third-party Marketplace. It accounts for about 31% of all US eCommerce (that’s a chunky $162B!). Its first-party sales meanwhile pale in comparison at $90B. Take a look at the top 10 marketplaces’ sales and you’ll see that Amazon is not just the biggest of them all, but it is bigger than the other 9 marketplaces (eBay, Etsy, Best Buy, Walmart, etc.) combined. It’s the same story when you pit Amazon against the top 10 retailers. Not one major retailer – except Amazon – makes hundreds of billions of dollars in eCommerce sales. To put that into perspective, Amazon’s eCommerce is bigger than those of Walmart, Target, Apple, Kroger, and eBay combined.
So are we heading towards a monopoly, at least when it comes to the US online retail? IMO, its a bit of a non-issue like Amazon would like to point out. Amazon has spent much of the last several months frequently commenting in public that the majority of America’s retail spending takes place in brick-and-mortar stores and that Amazon’s total share of U.S. retail sales is a mere 4%.
They are right (unlike Zuckyberg who tried to convince AOC with his all soothing expressions that facebook is all about free speech. Boy, his haircut is better than mine!). Sorry for the digression. Back to Amazon’s defense. Consumers have a choice of channels to access the same goods and services. eCommerce is but a channel. The operating word here is ‘the same goods and services’. About 6 million sellers make up Amazon’s marketplace and they sell everything from home decor to general merchandise to coffins! However, fewer than 40% (or 2.5 million sellers) are currently active, and >99% of those making less than a million dollars in sales, reflecting just how long-tailed the marketplace is. The longtail is not selling artisanal products like you find it Etsy. Most of them are buying off of Alibaba or the drab factory-politan cities in China. If any of them become successful, Amazon steps in with its private labels to snatch that lunch, because they are a retailer as well!
Even if Amazon has a monopoly over online retail, is it sustainable. Could it be challenged? We have been fixated on Walmart for far too long – a company that still loses billions in eCommerce every year and is busy selling its once-storied eCommerce acquisitions. Shopify is the real challenger if there could ever be one.
Let’s compare some numbers.
Amazon Sellers: 6 Million
Shopify Sellers: 1 Million
Amazon sellers that have money to pay kids’ tuition & US Healthcare (aka $1M): 25,000 (Source: Amazon)
Shopify sellers that have money to pay kids’ tuition & US Healthcare: 13,000 (Source: PipeCandy’s own number-crunching)
Amazon sellers making enough money to afford a home in San Francisco: 900
Shopify sellers making enough money to afford a home in San Francisco: (aka most of Shopify Plus users that aren’t using it to sell media subscriptions): ~2000
Ease of selling on Amazon: Looks easy but LOL. No support eco-system.
Ease of selling via Shopify: Hard. You are on your own, with some help from 2500 app vendors. But at least you know it and you are not elbow-kissing a lookalike.
Ease of storage and shipping on Amazon: Duh!
Ease of storage and shipping on Shopify: $1B check written to build a fulfillment network
Comparing the two platforms, I can say this – if you are selling diapers with Chinese panda pictures on it go to Amazon but if you are building a brand, go to Shopify. Yes, ‘Direct to consumer’ brands are launching through Shopify but the real deal is established CPG brands taking their D2C plunge with Shopify. They have the money unlike the D2C emperors with no clothes. Shopify’s investment in fulfillment centers is not just to help our moms with their basement businesses but to assure to ShopifyPlus customers that they are beyond just an online storefront. And above all, Shopify won’t launch its own private label batteries.
Shopify’s subscription business is an acquisition channel for discovering and nurturing brands that are likely to grow and become a customer for all of Shopify’s other services (Retail, Capital, Fulfillment, etc.). The real businesses that make money in eCommerce are the businesses that Shopify is going after. So Amazon’s billion merchants don’t matter. Amazon knows it. Amazon has 6 times more sellers than Shopify and yet only 2 times more millionaire sellers than Shopify. Shopify already has more $10M+ run-rate sellers than Amazon!
Both the companies have kept the ‘top of the funnel’ wide open for any business to set up eCommerce presence. Amazon’s Achilles heel is that it has to make sense as a ‘sales channel’ for these merchants. It cannot and so it has brilliantly made it its existential purpose to be the earth’s most customer-centric company. So, customers (who don’t care much about wading through 10,000 diaper brands) come!
Shopify though does not have to be the sales channel. It is an enabler. The more it makes the seller better at selling their unique brand, the more it helps the seller tell their stories, the more successful it becomes.
I wager my bet that in 2020, Shopify will announce a complete marketing automation stack, again to help fast-growing and old-money brands master the D2C game and tell the story better. I am also counting on Shopify to launch a ‘brand discovery’ portal (if not a marketplace) within the next 3 years.
Until the skirmishes from the likes of Square and Mailchimp become full-blown offensives, Shopify has the best tools in the box to be the ‘other’ platform for eCommerce.
But being an alternative does not mean that Amazon and Shopify will have to compete. The worlds of utilitarian products and brand-driven products are big enough to support the duopoly.
Should Walmart acquire Shopify?
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Proposition 63: Surrendering Gun Magazines
Last November, Californians voted on a number of important pieces of legislation, many of which passed. But while many throughout the state have been focused on Proposition 64, which legalized marijuana for adult recreational use, there were a few other important measures that passed which gained far less attention. One such bill was Proposition 63, which banned the ownership of gun magazines that hold more than 10 ammunition rounds and requires background checks for buying ammunition.
By and large, California is a progressive state and, as such, has a reputation for being so. To be sure, coastal California are bastions of liberalism, rural parts of the state our quite the opposite. And as you can probably imagine, Prop. 63 did not receive much support in those necks of the woods.
July 1, 2017, marked the deadline for those owning (with very few exceptions) high-volume firearm magazines to dispose of them. Being caught with such magazines could carry jail-time, but there are some concerns that few California gun owners will comply.
Armed Resistance
With some 6 million legal gun owners across the state, it is probably safe to bet that not everyone is going to comply with a law that is not easy to enforce. It is not as if authorities are going to conduct property searches looking for such ammunition. Additionally, many gun owners take a “don’t tread on me" approach to their gun rights, so the likelihood of people driving down to their local police station to surrender their magazines is undoubtedly, slim.
Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko says that not a single gun owner in the county has surrendered one, The Sacramento Bee reports. And he has no intention of ordering his deputies to hunt for magazines that can hold over 10 rounds. “We’re not going to be knocking on anybody’s door looking for them,” Bosenko said. “We’re essentially making law-abiding citizens into criminals with this new law.”
For those gun owners who wish to abide by the law, you have a few options, including:
Moving them out of state.
Surrendering them into law enforcement.
Selling them to a licensed dealer
Destroying the magazines.
Does Magazine Size Matter
A supporter of Proposition 63, Ari Freilich (staff attorney for the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence), argues that high-volume magazines have been linked to both mass-shootings and those who wish to attack law enforcement. “They do not have legitimate self-defense value.”
On the other side, however, Chuck Michel, a gun-rights attorney in Long Beach, writes:
“The reason for the popularity of these magazines is straightforward: In a confrontation with a violent attacker, having enough ammunition can be the difference between life and death. Banning magazines over ten rounds is no more likely to reduce criminal abuse of guns than banning high horsepower engines is likely to reduce criminal abuse of automobiles.”
Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Proposition 63
According to the Los Angeles Times, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction for enforcement of Proposition 63, on June 29, 2017. You can read the full article here. We will continue to follow this story line.
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Update: TRS now open to agents
Update: 19 October
HMRC has asked us to disseminate the following:
‘The new TRS is now available for agents to use. As part of this online process, agents will be taken through the steps to create an Agent Services account before they can register on behalf of trustees.
Agents use the link from www.gov.uk/trusts-taxes/trustees-tax-responsibilities to register a trust. As part of that journey, the agent will be asked to create an Agent Services account, and the agents will be directed to request access to the Trust Registration Service by email. The agent will receive a response from HMRC giving them access to Agent Services and some guidance on what to do next. Once they have created an Agent Services account they will be directed to the Trusts Registration iform.
In registering for an Agent Services Account they will have been identified as seeking to access the TRS, and will not be offered the option of linking existing government gateway IDs and client relationships. This is only undertaken by agents participating in the controlled go live of MTDfB.’
We are aware, however, that there are reports that Agent Services – and, therefore, TRS – will not be fully live for agents until the end of October or the beginning of November, though this may be subject to change. We will update members as and when we get more information. In the meantime, we have reported on the TRS issues in today’s Industry News: UK Online Trust Registration Service now available to agents.
HMRC has confirmed that, from last night (17 October), the Trust Registration Service (TRS) is now available to agents filing on behalf of trustees. This follows last week’s announcement, that due to technical errors, there were delays in allowing agents access to the system.
HMRC has also confirmed that there will be no penalty imposed where registration is completed after 5 October 2017 but before 5 December 2017. STEP has inquired with HMRC whether there is any potential flexibility in that deadline, and we will update members on the outcome of those discussions. However, at the time of writing, the deadline of 5 December remains.
HMRC’s statement in full:
‘From today, the Trust Registration Service (TRS) is available to agents filing on behalf of trustees. Please see the following link for further details on how to gain access to the TRS: www.gov.uk/trusts-taxes/trustees-tax-responsibilities.
The new TRS allows agents, acting on behalf of trustees, to register trusts and complex estates online and to provide information on the beneficial owners of those trusts or complex estates. The new service, which was launched in July 2017 for lead trustees, replaces the 41G (Trust) paper form, which was withdrawn at the end of April 2017. This is now the only way that trusts and complex estates can obtain their SA Unique Taxpayer Reference. As part of this online process, agents will be taken through the steps to create an Agent Services account before they can register on behalf of trustees.
In this first year of TRS, to allow sufficient time to complete the registration of a trust or complex estate for SA and provide beneficial ownership information, there will be no penalty imposed where registration is completed after 5 October 2017 but before 5 December 2017.
For both UK and non-UK express trusts which are either already registered for SA or do not require SA registration, but incur a liability to relevant UK taxes, the trustees are required to provide beneficial ownership information about the trust, using the TRS, by 31 January following the end of tax year. This means, if the trustees of a UK or non-UK express trust incurred a liability to any of the relevant UK taxes in tax year 2016-17, in relation to trust income or assets, then the trustees or their agent need to register that trust on TRS by no later than 31 January 2018.
The relevant taxes are:
• income tax
• capital gains tax
• inheritance tax
• stamp duty land tax
• stamp duty reserve tax
• land and buildings transaction tax (Scotland).
The new service will provide a single online service for trusts to comply with their registration obligations. This will improve the processes for the administration of trusts and allow HMRC to collect, hold and retrieve information in a central electronic register.
More information is available in HMRC’s September Trusts & Estates Newsletter.
Finally, on Monday 9 October we published our guidance in the form of an FAQ note to help our customers understand the TRS requirements.’
Simon Hodges is Director of Policy at STEP.
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Live from TED2017 TED Conferences
“Machines have objectivity, humans have passion”: Garry Kasparov speaks at TED2017
Posted by: Daryl Chen
In 1997, Garry Kasparov was the greatest chess player in the world — but he lost a match to an IBM supercomputer. Now, he muses on our fears of growing computer intelligence. Kasparov speaks at TED2017, April 24, 2017, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Photo: Marla Aufmuth / TED
As people worry about the growing power of computers, the first soldier in the human-machine battle is here with a reassuring message: “This is excellent, excellent news,” says Garry Kasparov, regarded by many as the greatest chess player in history. In 1997, Kasparov very memorably lost a match to IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue. (“Nobody remembers that I won the first match,” Kasparov wryly points out.) “When I sat down at the chess board across from Deep Blue, I immediately sensed something new, something unsettling,” he recalls. “I couldn’t be sure what it was capable of. I couldn’t help wondering, Was it invincible? Was my beloved game of chess over? These were human doubts and human fears — and the only thing I knew for sure was Deep Blue had no such worries at all.”
Instead of worrying about what our machines can do, he believes humans should worry about what they still cannot do. So we must set aside their anxieties, concentrating on “more difficult, more uncertain challenges” to conquer and devising solutions to them enabled and empowered by technology.
More important, if machines replace us at tasks they can do better and faster, it gives us the opportunity to focus on what makes us human. He explains, “Machines have calculations; humans have understanding. Machines have instructions; we have purpose. Machines have objectivity; we have passion.” He adds, “We will need intelligent machines to help us turn our grandest dreams into reality.”
Kasparov concludes, “If we fail, it will not be because our machines were too intelligent or not intelligent enough. If we fail, it’s because we grew complacent and limited our ambition. There’s one thing only humans can do, and that’s dream — so let us dream big.”
After the talk, TED curator Chris Anderson steps onstage to ask Kasparov about the chess master’s longtime opposition to Vladimir Putin and whether he was surprised about the Russian leader’s interference with the US presidential election. Like his early contest with Deep Blue, Kasparov points out his mistrust of Putin has also been prescient – he wrote his first anti-Putin article in 2001. “I’ve been saying for a long time that [Putin] will go out of our country after running out of enemies in Russia,” he says. “The question was not if but when.” Kasparov recalls that two years ago, he appeared on Bill Maher’s TV show and raised the alarm against Putin. Maher was “tired and not interested. He said, Wake me when he invades Poland.” As Kasparov put it, in 2016 “Putin decided to skip Poland and go straight to Wisconsin.”
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The first day of TED2017 brought two sessions of talks from TED Fellows and an opening session broadcast live in movie theaters. Below, some of the themes heard today that we just can’t get out of our minds. A closer look at our relationship to technology. Huang Yi danced with a robot. Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov […]
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Church Nightmares: We need a Gordon Ramsay style reconstruction in the church
By John Burton | April 19, 2011 | 0
Examine ten clear points the church must consider as we prepare for Kingdom advance.
The prophet comes to set up that which is upset. His work is to call into line those who are out of line!~Leonard Ravenhill
I always feel a bit strange when I cry most every time I watch the TV show Kitchen Nightmares. Then, the light came on. Gordon Ramsay is a prophet in waiting, a man who, in the natural, brings order to disorder in dying restaurants. He is doing in secular culture what prophets are called to do in the spiritual. He is doing what Leonard Ravenhill is talking about in the business realm and its time for us to see it in the church realm. That prophetic reality results in tears for me—and a yearning for action—now!
I’d encourage you to watch the entire teaching on this topic (it was a spontaneous prophetic message that God rocked me with Sunday night during worship as I was getting ready to preach).
I‘d recommend reading a similar article: 10 Threats to Revival.
CHURCH NIGHTMARES
A CRY FOR HELP—Historically, when a cry for help sounded God sent a prophet. Judges 6:7-8 (ESV) 7 When the people of Israel cried out to the LORD on account of the Midianites, 8 the LORD sent a prophet to the people of Israel.
In Kitchen Nightmares, the restaurant owner is usually in a very desperate situation so Gordon Ramsay is summoned to help.
THE ANALYSIS—In every episode I’ve seen, the restaurant owner is convinced that they are on the right track, and simply need some expert guidance and a little enhancement to see things turn around. For those who watch the show, you know that this is the place where things get ugly. On the first day of a several day process, Gordon Ramsay enters the restaurant, meets the owner and then sits down to order a meal. Without fail, the owner and the chef are absolutely convinced that the food they are serving is wonderful. At least an 8 on a scale of 1 to 10.Without fail, Gordon Ramsay samples the food and is horrified. His unique and expert perspective grants him the ability to immediately determine whether the food is good or bad—an analysis that is contrary to the analysis of the owner and the chef. It’s immediately clear, after just a few moments, to Gordon Ramsay why the restaurant is failing, though the ownership, after hours, days and years of analysis is confused and clueless.
OFFENSE & CONFLICT—Gordon Ramsay then goes directly to the kitchen and shocks the staff with his brash and direct approach. He is often extremely upset that he was served food of such a low caliber. He has accused them of lying to to the patrons by offering one thing on the menu and delivering something totally different on the plate. People’s faces show shock and anger as Gordon attacks ‘their baby’…their food, their dream, their way of doing things. Similarly, prophets, who are called to analyze situations and sound alarms for radical change, are often resisted vehemently when they touch the dreams and efforts of pastors and people in the church. Offense can spike and division can come if honesty and humility don’t reign. The prophet in his day is fully accepted of God and totally rejected by men. He is unquestionably controversial and unpardonably hostile.~Leonard Ravenhill
On the show, at this point of the process, people are radically offended, often in tears, shocked beyond measure and second guessing their choice to invite Gordon to help. They usually want him gone—and fast.
THIS IS NOT AN ENHANCEMENT—As I stated previously, the restaurant owners on the show, and also pastors and leaders in the church, are expecting their endeavors to be affirmed and then enhanced so as to yield a better result. The reality? The mission of Gordon Ramsay and the mission of prophets in the church is not one of enhancement. It’s near total deconstruction and complete reformation—or nothing. What is presumed to be untouchable is touched—and torn down—without apology by Gordon. Staff is fired, food that has been served for years is removed from the menu, the owners are rebuked for their poor leadership, and on and on.In less than a week, Gordon Ramsay comes in and enhances nothing, but reforms everything. The décor is modernized, old equipment is replaced with new equipment, staff is reassigned to new, better suited duties and everything becomes instantly better.In the church we see the same issues. Leaders are often so set on the way they are doing things, on the vision of yesteryear, that they simply want their comfort zone of ministry to be affirmed and enhanced. Churches open their doors wide to consultants but slam the door hard to prophets. One brings enhancement and affirmation while the other shuts everything down in favor of developing a brand new wine skin.
EXTREME MEASURES—More than once Gordon Ramsay has shut down the dinner service with a full house of hungry customers. He had the staff send them home due to breakdowns in the restaurant. The staff is usually embarrassed and furious. The risk of losing people through such a method is extremely high. They usually feel that Gordon, at that point, actually destroyed their business instead of helping it.What the owners determined was an acceptable way to run a business was actually so below the bar that Gordon Ramsay closed the restaurant for the safety of the patrons.I believe it’s critical to allow God to shut down programs and even entire churches, at least for a season, for the sake of a full deconstruction and reconstruction of systems, policies, functions and vision. Yes, many people will leave, but the resulting structure will be able to fulfill its mission.
NEW IDENTITY—One of the most powerful moments comes when Gordon’s crew spends the entire night ripping out the old décor and refurbishing the entire restaurant. Everything changes. Gordon has gone as far as changing the name of the restaurant and hanging a new sign outside! He changed the restaurant from specializing on one type of food (sea food, for example) to another (burgers and shakes). The reformation went as deep as the very core of the vision that the restaurant was initially developed from. The prophet breathes the rarefied air of inspiration. He is a “seer” who comes to lead the blind.~Leonard Ravenhill
NEW ASSIGNMENTS—Gordon Ramsay is an expert at analyzing people’s strengths and weaknesses. He reassigns people according to their passions and abilities. The chef may become a bus boy. A waitress may become the manager. The owner may be asked to stay out of the way and let more gifted people lead.We must see this happen in the church as well. Prophets and apostles are experts at bringing order to disorder. The pastor or leader of a church or ministry may not be gifted with this level of revelation, and it will make sense for them to give way to those who do.
SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT—Gordon, when he arrives, assumes control to an offensive degree. But, he also invests himself, his time and his money. Thousands of dollars are put into new equipment, the new branding, food, remodeling, etc. More than once he has actually hired a world renowned chef for thirty days to help the restaurant stay on track after he leaves.We can expect this in the church as well. Prophets and apostles are often willing to cancel other appointments and ministry assignments to come to a city to help with the reconstruction.
HUGS, TEARS AND THANKS—Every single time owners and staff—that absolutely hated Gordon and wanted him to leave almost before he arrived—end up thanking him passionately, usually with tears in their eyes. Gordon did what they could not do because of his unique calling and gift mix.Gordon Ramsay has such a tender heart and desires deeply that every restaurant owner would be prosperous and successful. You see him truly developing real friendships with people who once despised him.If pastors will trust the offensive and threatening process that prophets and apostles will call for, at the end of the day, they will thank them. Proverbs 16:7 When a man's ways please the Lord,
he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Years back, Dr. Gregory Mantle was right when he said, “No man can be fully accepted until he is totally rejected.” The prophet of the Lord is aware of both these experiences. They are his “brand name.” ~Leonard Ravenhill
The prophet is the villain of today and the hero of tomorrow.~Leonard Ravenhill
RETURNING TO OLD PATTERNS—Time and again it’s proven that those who revert to their old ways, and forget everything that Gordon Ramsay set into motion, end up failing. Some of the shows are devoted to visiting restaurants that Gordon had been in previously. Often, he’ll find the restaurants closed and the reports from the old employees he tracks down are always the same—the owner reverted back to their old way of doing things.On the other hand, those who stuck with the new menu, who embraced the rebranding, who fired employees who should not be there, and who ensured the employees who remained stayed in their newly assigned roles reported great financial gain and and a restaurant that’s packed every night. Philippians 3:13-14 (ESV) 13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
I’ve stated many times in recent years, and have written in my book 20 Elements of Revival, that the reformation that’s coming to the church is going to be extreme and everything we hold dear is at risk.
Another key point to understand is that every church in the nation is included in this massive reform. It’s easy to think that God is referring to the dead, dry, religious churches when he speaks of reformation. The reality? The most Spirit-filled, fiery churches are those who must be reformed first, so they can move ahead in the spirit of a forerunner and model the extreme change that’s coming to the rest of the church world.
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Home » Middle East » Turkey deports US national as it starts returning ISIL fighters
Turkey deports US national as it starts returning ISIL fighters
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Turkish official says seven German nationals will be returned on November 14, according to state media.
Turkey has deported a US national who is a member of ISIL, according to a Turkish official, as Ankara said it started repatriating captured fighters belonging to the armed group.
In comments carried on Monday by Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency, interior ministry spokesperson Ismail Catakli said seven German nationals would be returned on November 14.
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Cataki did not immediately provide further information on the suspected members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) armed group but said they were being held in deportation centres.
“A foreign terrorist fighter from the United States has been deported from Turkey after the procedures were completed,” Anadolu quoted Catakli as saying.
“Travel plans for seven foreign terrorist fighters of German origin at deportation centres have been completed, they will be deported on November 14,” he added.
There was no immediate comment by the US or Germany.
On October 9, Turkey launched a military operation across its border into northeast Syria, securing control of a large swath of territory in the region.
Ankara said the offensive was aimed at removing Kurdish fighters it considers “terrorists” from the border region and establishing a safe zone to resettle some of the 3.6 million refugees it hosts on its soil.
In recent weeks, Turkey has criticised Western nations, including the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, for refusing to take back their nationals who had joined ISIL and promised to send back the armed group’s fighters – even if their citizenship has been revoked.
Several European countries have stripped ISIL fighters of their nationalities to prevent their return.
Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said last week Ankara would begin repatriating those held by Turkey as of Monday.
Soylu did not provide any numbers or say which countries they would be sent back to.
He said about 1,200 foreign ISIL fighters were in Turkish prisons and 287 members, including women and children, were recaptured during Turkey’s military offensive into northeast Syria last month.
Turkey’s move to transfer ISIL’s foreign fighters comes amid Turkish frustration with Western nations that have refused to back Ankara’s offensive against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), seen as a “terrorist group” by Ankara over its ties with outlawed Kurdish fighters on its soil, is the main element of the SDF, which was a leading US ally in beating back ISIL in the region.
The SDF kept thousands of ISIL members in jails across northeast Syria.
Many countries have expressed concerns that the Turkish operation would lead to a resurgence of ISIL. Turkey has rejected those concerns and promised to combat ISIL, which, at its peak, controlled a vast swath of territory across Iraq and Syria, with its allies.
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Home Fan Fiction The Originals/Twilight Divine Happenstance Chapter 22
Bella awoke with her teeth sunk into someone’s neck. She loved the taste of blood, to hear the life slowly leave her victim’s body. Bella found this strange; this immense like of blood. It wasn’t merely a like, it felt like a need, almost as if she needed more to prevent herself from dying.
“Kol, are you quite done?”
Bella sighed exasperatedly, wondering why she was being referred to as Kol. She released her meal and sat up, looking up at Elijah, who was wearing the funniest of clothes. “Oh, bother, Elijah! Is this truly necessary?” It was as if she didn’t have any control over her actions but as if she was in someone else’s body – Kol’s. What was going on?
“Brother, the road is a major thoroughfare- if the bodies are found, word of our presence will spread to Mikael,” Elijah sounded spooked and impatient. Come to think of it, there was a feeling of fear inside of her – Kol – , as well.
“We have run through autumn and winter, through sleet and snow… Are we cursed to forever live in fear of our father?” Rebekah was fed up.
“I should say yes, sadly.” Bella found it humorous that Finn sounded like a boring stick in the mud even back then, nothing had changed. She nearly applauded when Elijah pointed at Finn in annoyance. The pointing thing hadn’t disappeared at all. Deciding to ignore the rest of the siblings, Bella could feel her move back to drinking the man Kol had been feeding off of.
“Finn, please. Niklaus-” Elijah looked back at his brother who was petting the horse, trying to find some backup in the argument he was having with his siblings.
“Do we have any idea where we’re running to next?”
Once the man was fully drained of his blood, the body was dropped on the floor and Bella could feel herself standing up and walking towards the rest of the Mikaelsons, letting out a deep sigh. “Why not just do what we’ve all thought of doing? Split up!”
“We swore a vow!”
“Your vows haunt me more than Father himself, Nik! At least he can’t chase us all. I say we take our chances.” Kol felt alone, even with his siblings. Finn, Rebekah and Elijah did everything in their power to protect their brother Nik and Kol hated that. What about him? He didn’t want to do everything in his power to protect Nik as he was more than capable of doing himself. Nobody listened to him anyway. What was his role in this family?
“Perhaps Kol is right-”
Really? Finn stood up for him? Oh, he was hopeful now. “Thank you, Finn! Yeah, I’ve always said, ‘Oldest is the most intelligent-‘”
“Stop talking.”
The rejection hit hard. Bella could tell this wasn’t the first time Kol had felt rejected by his family, but this broke her heart. Finn was a jerk and he made her angry. And hungry. Oh, maybe there was a dead body left with some blood in them.
What happened next was she was hit by rejection upon rejection upon rejection in the various moments of Kol’s life, all the way to France, where they hid as nobility, to Italy, where they lived together for awhile. She loved how Kol felt when he was alone with Klaus; causing chaos and mayhem all over, feeding indiscreetly and partying as if they had nothing to lose. Elijah was often the one reminding them to be more careful, but Kol always managed to pull Klaus along with him.
To stave off boredom, and to protect themselves from the so-called “Five”, they pretended to be mortals and Kol grew incredibly bored. It was no fun to play hide and seek with his victims and the many whores he bedded weren’t enough either. Oh, he was a gluttonous pig, alright, but at least his temporary bedmates gave him the attention he so desperately craved from his siblings.
After being daggered the first time by a member of the Five and thankfully rescued by his brothers, Kol decided he had had enough and left his family behind. What followed were years of fun, enlightenment and intelligence; soaking up all the information of the witches; learning from them and teaching others.
Revisiting their Viking roots, he joined his siblings in Copenhagen for awhile before following them to Spain, despite being hit again and again by rejection and pain. Kol drew comfort from the fact that at least Finn was still daggered and unable to pester him.
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“Wow, I had no idea that it would actually work,” Kol said surprised. “I mean, traditional magic didn’t work, but dark objects?”
“Well, you’ve been contemplating on it for the last two years on how to bring her down,” Damon shot at Kol. “Now you’ve got your answers. Congratulations,” he added sarcastically. “And you had to use me, seriously? Dude, she’s going to be so mightily pissed with you.”
“You were the only one who could get close enough and you haven’t been back on vervain due to your vacation to that prison world so,” Kol shrugged. “Means to an end.”
“Oh, I could get close,” Klaus said casually. “But I refused. I prefer to stay on her good side.”
“So, where do you think she is now?”
Kol looked at Damon and shrugged. “Could be Copenhagen… could be Spain… or somewhere in between.”
“I still think it’s appalling that you created a dark object to put us through your misery, Kol,” Elijah said disapprovingly as he watched the last compelled waiter take away the extra chairs and tables they had used for their dinner surprise. “If anything, you made your own life miserable.”
“Sure, Elijah, remind me to use it on you next, then,” Kol retorted angrily. “Because admit it, the only reason I’m currently still out of my box is because of her, and because of the spell that was put upon us.”
“He has a point,” Rebekah said from her spot in one of the comfortable chairs Bella’s room offered. “Maybe forcing her to live through Kol’s misery isn’t the best solution to our problems, but it’s all we’ve got. It likely won’t fix anything.”
Kol toyed with Bella’s hair to stop himself from lashing out. “Probably not, but she needed the time out before she’d do something stupid. She may not like us very much for our betrayal, but there was no point reasoning with her.”
“Yeah, she pretty much wants your balls on a silver platter,” Damon snorted.
“That’s only because she’s inside her head. She’s good at making the decision to listen to her head or her heart instead of having them work in harmony. She’s done this before,” Myriam took a sip of her glass of wine. “But it wasn’t as bad as this and we could talk her out of it all. Perhaps learning a bit more about the history of the Mikaelsons will jolt her back to using both.” She let out a breath then and took another sip. “Her heart got broken, maybe seeing Kol persevere through his misery and achieve things will warm her heart a little and coax it to mend itself a little.”
“Wouldn’t it be simpler to call out to Hades and have him instruct her again?” Elijah asked, but already knew the answer when Kol, Myriam and Damon narrowed their eyes on him in anger.
“You would like that, wouldn’t you?” Kol snapped. “If it were possible, you would run off to Hades or any Greek God and tell them about Bella and how she’s misbehaving. That she’s wrong. There’s nothing more that you want. You want them to take her away from us. From me.”
“She doesn’t even want you anymore, Kol.”
“Because I wronged her!”
“Oh, that gives me a shot, doesn’t it?” Damon smirked as he sat down on the floor. “Oh, me and Bella, the possibilities…”
“Hardly, mate,” Klaus finally spoke up, an amused smile on his face. “Bella’s biological father was Zach Salvatore.”
“Then again,” Myriam added playfully. “She’s a demi-goddess of the Greek variety, the gods are known to sleep with their relatives.”
“Oh, no. No, no, no, no,” Damon shook his head. “You’re messing with me!” Oh god, what if somehow Zach’s baby with Gail survived all these years ago and grew up to be Bella? Talk about epic guilt trip.
“Ask her yourself when she comes to,” Klaus laughed and looked over to his brother, who still had his eyes firmly fixed on his other brother. “Kol,” he warned him.
“Do you still carry a dagger on you, Nik?” Kol questioned, slowly rising to his feet. “Because I’m just itching to put one into Elijah.”
Elijah blinked as he got his handkerchief and started to toy with it. “What did I do?”
“Your suggestion of returning her to Hades doesn’t sit well with me, brother,” Kol could feel his anger echo through his body, he needed to kill something or dagger his brother, or likely both. “Because if you’ve been paying attention, that would mean she won’t ever return at all.”
“Would her absence be such a bad thing?”
He lunged at Elijah then, wanting to throttle him, but Klaus interjected and blocked Kol’s path to his brother. “Nik!”
“As much as I would like to kill our brother for that remark, let’s not,” Klaus said calmly, pushing his younger brother away from their oldest. “Need I to remind you he’s still spelled?”
“Spelled or not, he’s never liked her,” Kol said, venom dripping from his words. “But even Rebekah wouldn’t go as far as wanting Bella to permanently leave!”
Elijah huffed as he tucked away his handkerchief. “Very well, then allow me to finish what she started. I shall go to the Regent and broker a deal with her so she’ll leave us, and Bella, alone.”
Damon objected. “I don’t think that’s a good idea.”
“Stay out of this, Damon, you’re not part of this.”
“You made me a part of this! You compelled me to be all buddy buddy with Bella and give her that stupid stone and thus I should have a say in things. You don’t want to interfere with Bella’s plans when it comes to the Regent. Trust her.”
“That’s the problem, he doesn’t,” Rebekah replied, bored. “Fact of the matter is that I don’t, either, but she seems to be able to work miracles. If Elijah wishes to speak to the Regent, who are we to stop him? He always gets results.”
“You people are unbelievable,” Damon threw his hands up in defeat.
Oh, Kol sensed the arrival of his brothers long before they started to shout his name to come forward and have a ‘chat’. He’d seen the fires of Cadiz, it wasn’t his problem. Kol was bored and had thrown himself a party. He could only imagine the look on his siblings’ faces once they’d enter the cottage. Elijah would be severely appalled and disgusted, and Nik would be somewhere between amused and disgusted, unless there was something else going on. Then Nik would be absolutely pissed off.
Kol wasn’t scared of Nik. Or Elijah.
“All of my efforts to keep this family concealed, yet debauchery like this has led Father directly to us,” Elijah sounded aggravated, just as Kol had suspected. The high and mighty Elijah didn’t like baby brother making a mess.
“Kol! Show yourself! This is no time for games!” Klaus shouted at nothing in particular.
Oh, perhaps it was time to see what his brothers wanted from him. Dragging the woman he was feeding of with him, he stumbled back into the cottage for the shock effect and it worked. Draining the woman to death, he dropped her to the floor and smiled widely at his siblings. “Come, come, brother! It’s always time for games!” He reached for the nearest mug filled with alcohol and lifted it towards Klaus in a toast.
“We must leave. Mikael is very nearly upon us.”
Sighing, Kol sat down and put his feet on the table, relaxing in his seat. “Elijah, if Mikael were upon us, I imagine Niklaus would be quite dead.”
“I barely escaped! Father left the head of my horse on a pike in the town square!”
“Aw, he killed poor Theo? What a beast! But then, Father’s always hated you most. Surely he’ll chase you if you flee, leaving me here. Perhaps I’ll make myself mayor?”
“Rebekah and Finn have already boarded the ship. It is imperative we remain together.”
Bella could already see the rest of the scene unfold; Kol was going to be even more uncooperative and his brothers would dagger him. It was his biggest fear. He wasn’t afraid of his siblings; he was afraid of the dagger.
“No! I swear to you, the day will come when I’m not so easily subdued! And on that day, I will make you suffer!” Kol objected as he struggled against Elijah’s hold on him.
“Perhaps! But, today is not that day,” Klaus replied as he shoved the dagger into Kol’s heart. The pain of the dagger entering his body, piercing his skin, flesh and bones and his heart was too much. Then the desiccation began; his skin contracting and drying out, freezing him in place. It didn’t feel as bad as when he was daggered by one of the Five. No, this was worse. Elijah and Klaus manhandled him, throwing him over a horse so they could ride to safety; there was no doubt another coffin was waiting for him at the ship. With every bump, it felt as if the dagger slipped in further and further. It felt as if his veins were breaking and anything else in his body shifting from one side to the other. The motion made him sick.
Bella wanted to scream but couldn’t. As she had already proven once, being desiccated didn’t mean you didn’t feel, hear, anything anymore. Kol heard and felt everything. The motion of the ship. The rats scurrying around in the hold over his coffin. The feeling of fire underneath his skin, slowly burning and never gaining intensity.
It seemed like an eternity until Kol felt hope again from being daggered. Klaus’ voice was faint, but getting closer by the second. “If only there was someone with whom I could share a bit of roguery. Oh, yes! That’s right! There is!” Kol could feel how Klaus pulled the dagger from his chest and for the first time in a very long time, Kol’s body slowly returned back to normal and he was freaking hungry.
Elijah sounded horrified. “You didn’t!” Kol couldn’t find himself to care for poor Elijah, he was thankful Nik allowed him his freedom, but where were they? As his brother laughed like a madman and ran off to distract Elijah, Kol willed himself to wake up fully and stumble out of the coffin, looking for blood.
Kol applauded his brother for having such nice tasting servants and clapped after he finished the last one. “Bravo! That was delectable. But make no mistake, Nik- I’m still cross that you daggered me. But, as far as apologies go, it’s a start!”
“So, this is your idea of fun?” Elijah was angry with Nik. This was fascinating.
“Well, you and Marcellus have grown thick as thieves… why should I be alone?”
A flash of regret washed over him before he quickly dismissed it. If he had to believe Nik’s words, and his own feelings, it meant that the only reason Kol was out of the box was that his brother was bored. Who was this Marcellus, anyway? Where were they on the planet? What year was it? How long had he been out for?
Over the course of a couple of days, Kol discovered who Marcellus truly was; some slave boy Nik had saved from his masters and wanted to raise as his own. Great, one more person to fight for for attention. Apparently, Elijah had stepped in at some point and the boy had now become Elijah’s little toy.
New Orleans was a blast; having fun with Nik was just amazing. Especially when they went to that tenement building and slaughtered all those people. Because it was fun and because they could. Elijah, of course, wasn’t happy. He was going off again about keeping a low profile and Niklaus being amused by the fact that Elijah had time to keep an eye on his younger brothers seeing as he was taking care of Marcellus all the time.
Kol should have listened to his own fears. Disappointment and rejection were once again the main feelings he was having right now; and hunger. He always got hungry when getting too emotional about stuff.
“You would punish the boy for Kol’s antics? I would just as soon put him in a box!”
Oh, for fuck’s sake. “You’d choose that little whelp over your own family?” That was offensive. That is offensive. Kol was offended. Just as he thought, he was going to have to fight this little whelp for his brother’s attention.
“That “little whelp” is our family!”
That was it. The boy, family? Very well. Kol was going to teach the boy something of his own; what it’s like to be a vampire, what things you’d do as a vampire. He was going to scare the boy shitless and perhaps the boy would run away. For good. Out of their lives. The easier thing would just to kill him, but that was the easy way out.
Wasn’t Elijah teaching him Hamlet? Oh, he knew that there was a daggering hanging over his head, why not go out with a little bit more fun?
As expected, his real life teachings of Hamlet to Marcellus was perhaps a little bit too much fun, but he got his revenge on his brothers in the end despite being daggered. Oh, Kol had plans, and he was going to make them all come true once Nik would undagger him again.
Kol wasn’t Finn. Kol was fun and smart and someone his brother Niklaus occasionally liked to have fun with. Kol wasn’t going to be daggered for long, he knew that now. He wasn’t happy about it and one day he wasn’t going to be daggered anymore. No, it would be Niklaus who would be in this situation.
Kemiya taught him to make Dark Objects. If only he could find a couple of witches to work with him…
It took eighty long years for Nik to finally undagger him again, with a request for help. Seeing as Kol liked the witches so much, maybe he could help bring some sort of balance in the supernatural community of New Orleans. Kol was surprised they were still in New Orleans. His family must truly like it here.
Instead of acting out, Kol went to work like the good little drone that he was, hopefully gaining the respect of his siblings, some inclusion, but he was kept out of the holy trinity, as always. He kept his head down and occasion acted out, but nothing that would warrant another daggering. No, he needed to bide his time to construct a weapon that would subdue his brother.
Funnily enough, the first task he had his witches do was to make a Dark Object filled with his suffering, a means to show his brothers how badly they’ve treated him. It was a simple rock, but oh so much more. Once he was certain his witches were ready for more, he taught them everything he knew and made sure they worked round the clock as they also tried to figure out a way to have a weapon against Niklaus.
He feared he was going to be daggered after the glorious mass murder at St. Anne’s Church where Kol used a Dark Object to kill Dowager Fauline so he could gain access to her home. Presumably, she was in possession of a diamond that could help Kol and his witches construct that weapon – now a dagger – a lot faster and make it a lot more powerful. They got caught, obviously, and Klaus had his witches spell the cottage to lock up Kol’s witches.
And there wasn’t a dagger for him. Citing that it was nearly Christmas, Elijah and Niklaus told him it was an early Christmas present; to allow him to walk among the living. Kol, believing every word they said, loved Christmas and hoped that the spirit of forgiveness would stay around a bit longer.
At their annual Christmas party, Kol told Rebekah about his plans against his brother, despite their supposed peace treaty, and later that evening, he regretted that decision. The always ever so loyal Rebekah betrayed him and Kol found himself daggered yet again. This time in front of a party full of witnesses.
So much rage and anger. It only seemed to grow over the years. It broke Bella’s heart to know Kol had suffered so much at the hands of his family, that they rejected him time and again. That they never took him seriously, that he was always looking in from the outside.
The rage and anger reminded her of her own, but then magnified by the vampire senses and magnified by years and years of being treated like shit.
And then, she heard her own voice, and Kol’s anger and rage quieted down, listening intently to the words spoken to him. How her voice and her words warmed his soul and how much he wanted to be undaggered so he could meet her.
But Bella was still raging. If this experience had been the result of Kol’s Dark Object – which it likely was seeing as Damon gave her a stone – he did the one thing to her that he hated himself; giving her a timeout. The thing he had spoken to ‘Davina’ about, something that had been two years in the making and she felt betrayed. Again.
When she finally snapped out of the hold the Dark Object had on her, she flung everyone away from her but Klaus as she sat up with a scowl on her face. Pulling Klaus down to her level, she snapped his neck and retrieved the dagger he kept on him at all times before using her gift to drive it through Kol’s heart, causing him to collapse onto the floor.
“Uhoh,” Damon said in a singsong voice. “Someone’s in trouble…”
“Shut up,” Bella growled. “Shut up! How long have I been out for?”
Damon shrugged.
“Damon!”
“What? You told me to shut up!” Damon retorted as he blinked at her. “Fine, you were out for a week.”
“I was out for a week!” Bella was clearly annoyed as she started to pace around the room. “I was out for a fucking week?! How dare you do that to me!”
“Well, you were kinda difficult to reason with…” Damon shrugged.
“Oh, that’s the solution to everything, isn’t it? Snap necks, daggering, oh, and dark objects! Just use ’em whenever someone becomes too difficult!” She fumed. “I wasn’t difficult to reason with, I have every right to feel what I’m feeling and for refusing their help or attentions. You’re all a bunch of stupid assholes!”
“Hey, they thought you were out of control, alright?”
“I am not!” Bella growled. “I’m fucking pissed off now. I didn’t need to know what Kol’s been through with the multiple daggerings, with the adjusting to new situations every time he woke up. I didn’t need to be given a fucking time out!”
“Alright, potty mouth, go rinse your mouth with soap!”
“Fuck you, Damon.”
Damon groaned as he shifted uncomfortably, moving his hands to his groin area as he was still up against the wall. “You really need to stop swearing because damn, I’m so turned on right now.”
Bella dropped him to the floor in disgust. “Ew!” Seeing as it was just her, Damon, Klaus and Kol in the room at the moment, Bella went to her clothes and grabbed a clean pair – although she was certain someone had redressed her at least a couple of times during her week of Kol’s life – before heading into the bathroom and locking herself in.
She had every right to be angry with the Mikaelsons and with the Ancestors. Every fucking right. However, she had the idea that even in her hotel room, she wasn’t safe from the Ancestors despite Hades’ gift and needed to fix this mess and disappear.
She only hoped Elijah hadn’t gone to the Regent himself as that might have complicated things.
Oh, she wanted to go back to being normal. Look at things from the outside, but this was a mess that was related to her and she couldn’t back down. Bella also needed to make sure Hades didn’t have to intervene anymore. Just the sheer thought of having only one more chance to prove herself not to fuck up was anxiety inducing. Didn’t Helios tell her that Psyche thought she was a good egg? What was up Hades’ ass to think differently?
By the time she was done soaking in the bath, she could hear people shuffling around on the other side of the door. She figured that Klaus wouldn’t stay down that long, and hell was going to be paid if he’d undaggered Kol. Bella got dressed and pulled her damp hair back into a ponytail before leaving the room. Myriam had returned and Klaus was looking severely annoyed, but at least Kol was still daggered, now resting comfortably on the bed in the space she had just vacated. “Sup?”
“You better explain yourself,” Klaus shot at her. “Daggering my brother?”
“Oh, so now it’s an issue?” Bella retorted, raising an eyebrow before moving to the mini fridge in the hotel room to find herself something to snack on. “You haven’t had any problems with him daggered in the past.”
“That’s irrelevant!” Klaus huffed, crossing his arms over his chest.
Bella settled for a chocolate bar and turned to face him. “The way I see it, you daggered him as soon as he became a handful. Even chose that kid over him, your own flesh and blood. Now, I daggered him out of retaliation for having spent the last two years thinking of ways to neutralize me. He knows what it’s like, he should have known better. I daggered him because he compelled Damon to give me that Dark Object. I daggered him because I really don’t want to deal with him right now because I have other things to think about.” Sitting down next to Kol on the bed, she gently poked his cheek. “And seeing that I know he hears everything, he’ll agree that this is the right thing to do. Eye for an eye and all that.”
“You’re such a Mikaelson,” Myriam laughed.
“He doesn’t like me very much right now,” Bella said as she pushed Kol’s hair out of his face. “Already thinking of ways to get even with me, but let me tell you something, we’re far from being even. Despite your shitty relationship with Klaus in the past, it doesn’t make up for the fact you rejected me and broke my heart by not waiting for me. So, suck it up, cupcake. You’re mine now.”
Klaus sucked in a breath as he uncomfortably balanced on his feet. “Love, if you wish for Kol to remain daggered, I’d appreciate it if he’d come home with me, in his coffin.”
“The hell he is,” Bella retorted angrily. “He doesn’t like the coffin and I’m not that cruel. He’s going to stay in this bed for as long as I see fit. Nice and comfortable.”
“What about house keeping?”
Rolling her eyes at the hybrid, she got off the bed, grabbed the ‘do not disturb’ sign and hung it outside the door. “Fixed. What else?”
“Why won’t you come back and stay with us at the compound?”
“It’s not safe,” Bella replied as she took a bite off her chocolate bar. “For any of us but I don’t want you to stay here either. Kol stays. You go,” she continued before realizing something. “Please tell me you haven’t gone to the Regent.”
“Elijah paid her a visit and it was all courteous,” Klaus replied as he watched Bella munch on her chocolate. “Perhaps you should have some proper food, love.”
“Later,” she replied. “Courteous, you say? Are you sure they haven’t done anything else? Like… used more spells but not the one that tells you to hate me?”
“We wouldn’t know, love, Myriam still carries around that coin and I seem to be left alone,” Klaus replied truthfully. “Whenever someone came to watch over you, we made sure they’d touch your arm or hand before being left alone with you. Hopefully to cleanse them of new things.”
Bella hummed as she made her way over to Damon. “Do you dislike me?”
“No, I like you very much. Very grateful you didn’t snap my neck after you woke up.”
“Feeling extra hungry lately?”
“Yes. And Kol’s been worse. Rebekah and Elijah have resorted to blood bags but they’re running out.”
“As it happens, the hospitals and blood banks in New Orleans had to destroy the entire lot for all the batches were infected with something,” Myriam offered worriedly.
“What about the other vampires in town?”
“You don’t think that the Ancestors would play with the lives of innocent humans or their own witches, do you?” Klaus said shocked. “Deliberately have vampires draw attention to themselves?”
“Chaos, mayhem. Of course. They want you to keep busy to control your vampires so you’re not with me,” Bella ruffled Damon’s hair and saw the black halo around his head disappear before she hopped back onto the bed with Kol, his desiccated body bouncing on the mattress. Sighing, she settled against the headrest and felt an uneasiness creep over her. “This room used to be safe, but I have a feeling it’s no longer that way due to whatever the Ancestors have been doing. Go home, take Damon with you. Kol’s safe with me.”
“I’m not going anywhere without my brother,” Klaus pointed out.
“Yeah and I’m not leaving you,” Damon added defiantly.
Bella looked at Damon, Klaus and eventually settled on Myriam, who now also had her arms crossed over each other. Bella knew she was trying to fight a losing battle. “Fine. You guys stay here. I’m heading out.”
“Good, where we going?” Damon rose to his feet as Bella got off the bed.
“Damon.”
“Bella,” he replied in the same tone of voice she’d used. “I was obviously brought here for a reason and if that reason is to die with you, so be it. I’m going where you’re going and no turning me into an animal shenanigans; I’ll shut up and be the muscle.”
“I don’t need a babysitter.”
“Yes you do. You’ve always have and you always will, so, let’s go sweet cheeks,” Damon winked at her.
Bella scowled and looked at Kol’s dessicated body on the bed. A feeling of regret and guilt washed over her and she just couldn’t leave him like this. Kol hated to be daggered and she had promised she’d never allow him to be daggered ever again. On the other hand, he deserved it for betraying her, not once, but twice. Then again, she couldn’t blame him for the betrayal and she feared that if she was going to hold on to that anger, it would only grow and grow until it spiralled out of control.
Just like it had. She could still feel it bubble underneath her skin, her own, but also his, as the memories put in that Dark Object were still fresh in the back of her mind. She had to control her anger, because she could damage so many people with it – she had to find a way to deal with it, later. For now, she just had to ignore it.
Climbing back onto the bed, she cupped Kol’s chin. “Listen to me,” she said sternly. “I am sorry for daggering you and I will remove it, but don’t think for one second that it means there’s nothing wrong between us. We’re broken and I don’t even know if I want it fixed yet. Got it?” When she felt something positive return from him, Bella let out a breath. “Again, I am so sorry I broke my word about the dagger. It won’t happen again.”
Pulling the dagger out of Kol’s body was harder than she thought. Granted, she had used her powers to get it inside in the first place, but it had pierced his sternum and it felt like it had gotten stuck. She didn’t want to hurt him as she tugged on it.
“Allow me,” Klaus offered as he stood next to the bed.
“No,” Bella replied as she imagined the dagger easing out of Kol’s chest before it actually did that. Grabbing it after it had gotten free, she put it in her bag and headed out the door with Damon, carrying the bag with her.
micca2
Really truly love this story! It always brightens my day when I see an update 🙂 Awesome as always!
damonslady
Well my thoughts were close lol i had a feeling she was experiencing a dream of the kols past or something like that lol and oh yes damon is very lucky she idnd’t snap his neck along with nik. lol. Kol got what he deserved for doing that too her and using damon to do it too. Update again soon should interesting to see kols reaction and to see what Elijah did with the head Regent.
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The fallout of favouritism
“…favoritism is contrary to the ideals of the Federal merit systems.”
— U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board report
The merit principle is, of course, a critical component of public service organizations across Canada. A report from the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board discusses the phenomenon of favouritism, noting that the perception of it is almost as serious as the offence itself.
The report says that personal favouritism occurs when “a supervisor or selecting official grants an advantage to one employee or applicant but not another similarly situated employee or applicant based on friendship or other affinity rather than a legitimate merit-based reason.”
The report found that 25% of employees believed their boss practised favouritism. The boss could do so through social interactions (27% believed that happened), desirable work assignments (26%), and performance appraisals (21%), to name three areas.
The report notes that these numbers could reflect intentional favouritism, unintentional favouritism or employee misperception. Regardless, the results are a dispirited and unproductive workplace.
The authors suggest that leaders strongly and openly support the principles of merit and hire managers who can “manage employees fairly and effectively.” They should be held accountable for their actions in this area.
Managers themselves are encouraged to focus on competencies, provide ongoing feedback to all employees, be open and transparent in order to avoid the perception of favouritism, and, in sum, treat “all employees with respect.”
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Born in Sardinia in 1949, before moving to the UK briefly as a young boy, Calzaghe spent a number of years travelling around Europe with a dream of making it big as a musician.
When a musical breakthrough looked increasingly unlikely, fortune saw him end up in Cardiff, where he found work in a local branch of Wimpy, and married one of the waitresses, with whom he later had three children. Hardly a conventional route to sporting glory, but what lay ahead for Calzaghe would change British boxing forever.
Whilst growing up in Newbridge, Enzo became involved in the local gym, and when his son Joe became the target of bullying, he was encouraged to bring him along to try boxing by trainer Paul Williams.
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By Jorge Cuartas Art, Caribbean, Puerto Rico
Dramatic Expressionism
The paintings of Arnaldo Roche Rabell, born in 1955 in Puerto Rico, are best described as huge and dramatic. He uses enormous canvases, bright colors and a pallet knife. He covers his live models in the raw canvas and then rubs the paint on to get a silhouette of their bodies and faces. After their picture is impregnated in the fabric, Roche Rachell keeps putting layer upon layer of paint until a complex expressionistic character arises. Watch how he works in this video.
His technique and execution have earned him numerous awards and critical recognition. His work is found around the world in international collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Museum of Fine Arts in Venezuela; and the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
‘Give him Wheels and he will Run’ (2013), Arnaldo Roche Rabell, oil on canvas
‘You have to Dream in Blue‘ (1986), Arnaldo Roche Rabell
‘Self-portrait’ (1990), Arnaldo Roche Rabell, oil on canvas
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Bangladesh’s Sheikh Hasina knows the art of compassion
September 29, 2017 Nida Sohail Leave a comment
By Allan Jacob
We should have featured Sheikh Hasina on these pages earlier, before despots, tyrants, shamed gurus, and other wannabe nobodies who became somebodies. But it’s always nice to look at issues and personalities in hindsight, as is my wont. Let me also confess here that my original idea for this week’s column revolved around a South Indian actor and his opportunistic pitch at political stardom, but I shifted gears when I realised the Bangladeshi Prime Minister was the new star of the East. Expressions has no better hero than her this week — for her compassion and empathy in opening the border to save thousands of fleeing Rohingya.Yes, we missed this noble trait as the media was distracted by a Nobel peace laureate’s fading charm in Myanmar. I too bear the burden of guilt for ignoring Hasina’s humane approach to an unfolding catastrophe though I intently listened to her speak last week during the UN General Assembly summit. “It broke my heart,” she said.
With leaders like the Bangladeshi PM at the helm, there remains hope in a world that is suffering from migration fatigue. Her actions seemed faint at first, but when Khaleej Times sent a reporter to the centre of the crisis on Bangladesh’s border with Myanmar where thousands of hungry people scrounge for a meal, live in ramshackle dwellings amid the dirt, grime and filth, the gravity of the problem came to light. It hit us hard and it hurt.
I realise journalism is a collaborative effort, where ideas, people and their feelings come together for the right Expressions — and a universal cause. It’s okay to disrupt some ideas for a creative and emotional process that rattles and shakes you out of your comfort zone.
World media are guilty of reporting the exodus through the eyes of Suu Kyi, who appears helpless to save the Rohingya after they were driven out by the Myanmar army from Rakhine, a state in the country. Many do not realise that the junta still wields real power in the country though her party, the National Front for Democracy, won the polls two years ago.
For Suu Kyi, it is about surviving her electoral gains — or should I say spoils of the ballot — than preventing a mass of people from being thrown out of the country. She is a refugee of her personal political struggle that has not found its social and human voice. She’s entrenched and struggling to break free from the trappings of power and the paraphernalia of being First Counsellor, as her military resorts to ethnic cleansing. Indeed, she has dug herself into a hole and has become a symbolic leader who is devoid of emotion when talking of human suffering — she looked pale, a shade of her former activist self when she defended the purge.
I have scant sympathy for the so-called icon as her voice failed her when she needed it most. If democracy is for the chosen majority, it becomes flawed and dangerous. And it’s easier striking deals with juntas and despots. Suu Kyi’s cultivated silence here has been deafening. I said so in one of our Editorials. I will say it again — I dislike the sound of silence when one should shout out for humanity.
Suu Kyi may have lost her voice but it’s a great relief that Sheikh Hasina has found hers. Both Suu Kyi and Hasina are daughters of freedom fighters. They have witnessed tragedy at close quarters and remain true dynasts — South Asia has a thing for family politics. The difference though, is stark. One chose to be a spectator while the other displayed gentle mercy when lives were literally on the line.
Hasina’s small country of 163 million took in 430,000 Rohingya in one go. Two weeks to be precise. The flow has trickled according to the latest reports. I’m reminded of an interview she gave during her visit to New York for the UN summit. “We already have 300,000 refugees but we have a large heart to take more, despite the difficulties of space.” It was not just an act of compassion, it showed courage during tragic circumstances. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was brave to allow 1.2 million refugees from war-torn countries, but Bangladesh is different, its resources are limited. This was an influx not of its making but the PM did not walk away from her human side.
The total number of these migrants has crossed 800,000. Hasina has put forward a five-point plan to solve the issue that has religious, economic and social undertones.
What makes her special is that she’s not asking for funds from the developed world. She wants us to show our collective mercy, our concern, and our commitment through deeds. If Bangladesh with its myriad issues, (it’s growing at 7 per cent) can do it, what’s stopping the richer countries from stepping out of their comfort zones?
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Delayed antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections: protocol of an individual patient data meta-analysis
Beth Stuart1,
Hilda Hounkpatin1,
Taeko Becque1,
Guiqing Yao2,
Shihua Zhu1,
Pablo Alonso-Coello3,
Attila Altiner4,
Bruce Arroll5,
Dankmar Böhning6,
Jennifer Bostock7,
Heiner C C Bucher8,
Mariam de la Poza9,
Nick A Francis10,
David Gillespie11,
Alastair D Hay12,
Timothy Kenealy5,
Christin Löffler13,
Gemma Mas-Dalmau14,
Laura Muñoz15,
Kirsty Samuel16,
Michael Moore1,
Paul Little1
1 Academic Unit of Primary Care and Population Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
2 Biostatistics Research Group, Department of Health Sciences, College of Life Sciences, University of Leicester, Leiceister, UK
3 Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health, Biomedical Research Institute Sant Pau (IIB Sant Pau), Barcelona, Spain
4 Office for Educational Affairs, Department of General Medicine, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
5 Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
6 Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
7 Divison of Health and Social Care Research, King’s College London, London, UK
8 Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CEB), University Hospital Basel and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
9 Institut Català de la Salut, CAP Doctor Carles Ribas, Barcelona, Spain
10 Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
11 Centre for Trials Research, College of Biomedical & Life Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
12 Centre for Academic Primary Care, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
13 Institute of General Practice, Rostock University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany
14 Knowledge and Research Management Unit, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
15 Agència de Qualitat i Avaluació Sanitàries de Catalunya (AQuAS), Barcelona, Spain
16 ASPIRE PPI Panel, Leeds, Institute for Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Correspondence to Dr Beth Stuart; bls1{at}soton.ac.uk
Introduction Delayed prescribing can be a useful strategy to reduce antibiotic prescribing, but it is not clear for whom delayed prescribing might be effective. This protocol outlines an individual patient data (IPD) meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and observational cohort studies to explore the overall effect of delayed prescribing and identify key patient characteristics that are associated with efficacy of delayed prescribing.
Methods and analysis A systematic search of the databases Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid Embase, EBSCO CINAHL Plus and Web of Science was conducted to identify relevant studies from inception to October 2017. Outcomes of interest include duration of illness, severity of illness, complication, reconsultation and patient satisfaction. Study authors of eligible papers will be contacted and invited to contribute raw IPD data. IPD data will be checked against published data, harmonised and aggregated to create one large IPD database. Multilevel regression will be performed to explore interaction effects between treatment allocation and patient characteristics. The economic evaluation will be conducted based on IPD from the combined trial and observational studies to estimate the differences in costs and effectiveness for delayed prescribing compared with normal practice. A decision model will be developed to assess potential savings and cost-effectiveness in terms of reduced antibiotic usage of delayed prescribing and quality-adjusted life years.
Ethics and dissemination Ethical approval was obtained from the University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine Research Ethics Committee (Reference number: 30068). Findings of this study will be published in peer-reviewed academic journals as well as General Practice trade journals and will be presented at national and international conferences. The results will have important public health implications, shaping the way in which antibiotics are prescribed in the future and to whom delayed prescriptions are issued.
PROSPERO registration number CRD42018079400.
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This study uses individual patient data (IPD) from randomised controlled trials and observational studies to investigate the clinical effectiveness and potential cost-savings of a delayed antibiotic prescribing, both overall and for key subgroups of people.
IPD provides sufficient statistical power to explore interactions between treatment groups and patient characteristics.
The IPD will only include data from studies for which the data are available.
Observational studies will use propensity score approach to adjust for confounding by indication on measured covariates.
Findings from this study may inform GPs decisions on prescribing and increase use of appropriate delayed prescribing which in turn can help to reduce antibiotic consumption and antimicrobial resistance.
Antimicrobial resistance is a cause for great concern prompting calls for action at the local, national and international level to prevent ‘overuse, misuse and abuse’ of antibiotics,1 particularly in primary care where antibiotics are most prescribed.2 About 60% of antibiotics prescribed in primary care are for respiratory tract infections (RTIs).3 However, most infections are self-limiting, symptomatic benefit from antibiotics is modest4–6 and patients prescribed antibiotics for RTIs are more likely to carry antibiotic resistant commensal bacteria and develop resistant infections.7
The Standing Medical Advisory Committee report recommends that the fewest number of antibiotic courses should be prescribed for the shortest period possible.8 However, in a primary care context, it can be difficult to tell whether antibiotics are appropriate for an individual patient. It is not always clear which patients are at risk of prolonged illness or developing complications nor whether the RTI is bacterial or viral in nature. Point of care tests such as C reactive protein and clinical scores both show promise in helping to guide GP management decisions.9–12 Delayed prescribing is a useful strategy that may be used on its own or in conjunction with clinical scores and point of care testing. It allows the patient to collect a prescription to be taken if their symptoms do not start to improve within a specific duration of their initial consultation, providing a potential aid to negotiating treatment acceptable to the patient and provider while reducing inappropriate prescribing.13 14 Delayed prescribing is recognised as part of the toolkit available to GPs to help reduce antibiotic use, especially in the context of consultations where patients expect to receive an antibiotic prescription and is part of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines.3 A recent large prospective primary care cohort (MRC DESCARTE) demonstrated that delayed prescription was likely to be as effective as immediate antibiotic in reducing complications and more effective at reducing reconsultations.4
While in some situations delayed antibiotic prescribing is appropriate, for other patients it may be unsuitable and controversial.15 It is important to understand which subgroups of patients may require immediate antibiotics to avoid complications and which patients might benefit from a delayed or no prescribing strategy.4 A 2013 Cochrane review16 of 10 trials found that a delayed prescribing strategy was not significantly different to immediate prescribing in terms of clinical outcomes for cough and cold. In patients with acute otitis media and sore throat immediate antibiotics were more effective than delayed for reducing fever, pain and malaise in some studies. However, the review noted a high level of heterogeneity between studies made combining them in a traditional meta-analysis difficult and did not allow sufficient power for the examination of subgroups or complications either in meta-analysis or in meta-regression.
Where aggregation is possible, a traditional meta-analysis or even meta-regression can be used to determine the overall main effect of delayed antibiotic prescription. Although such techniques can also be used to explore how effect varies across study characteristics, these techniques lack statistical power and are prone to confounding as patient-level characteristics are not taken into account.17 An individual patient data (IPD) meta-analysis is considered the gold standard for meta-analyses and can overcome the limitations of meta-analysis of aggregate data. In an IPD meta-analysis, original data for all participants in each study are obtained and synthesised. This allows sufficient statistical power18 to explore interactions between treatment groups and patient characteristics. This would allow us to identify key groups in which delayed prescribing or no prescribing might be inadvisable due to longer durations of illness, greater severity of illness or higher risk of complications/reconsultation. These findings may inform GPs decisions on prescribing and increase use of appropriate delayed prescribing which in turn can help to reduce antibiotic consumption and antimicrobial resistance.
This protocol describes an IPD meta-analysis of both randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and observational cohort studies of delayed antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory infections. Although RCTs represent the ‘gold standard’ design for assessing the impact of an intervention, the participants in these studies may differ systematically from the patients encountered in everyday clinical practice due to the inclusion criteria. By including observational studies in a meta-analysis, with suitable techniques to control for potential confounding by indication, it may be possible to obtain better estimates of the effect of delayed prescribing in routine practice.
This IPD study will investigate the clinical effectiveness and potential cost-savings of a delayed antibiotic prescribing approach, both overall and for key subgroups of patients. The study started in October 2017 and is due to be completed in September 2020.
The objectives of this study are as follows:
To achieve more accurate estimates of the clinical effectiveness of a delayed prescribing strategy on the primary outcome, symptom severity, by harmonising the outcomes from all trials and observational studies which have included this strategy.
To estimate the clinical effectiveness of delayed prescribing for secondary outcomes: duration of illness, development of complications, reconsultation and patient satisfaction.
To explore whether there are key subgroups (informed by the literature and described below) for whom delayed antibiotic prescribing may or may not be beneficial. Subgroups will be: prior duration of illness (above/below median for the condition), age (under 16 years, 16–64 years, age over 65 years), fever at baseline consultation (>37.5°C), comorbid conditions including lung comorbidity such as asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and severity of symptoms at baseline consultation. The effectiveness of delayed antibiotic prescribing for subgroups of symptom complexes such as cough (acute bronchitis), pharyngitis or otitis media will also be explored.
To investigate whether symptom trajectories are influenced by antibiotic prescribing/consumption.
To estimate the costs of treatment of patients with RTIs (from the UK National Health Service (NHS) and Personal Social Services (PSS) perspective data) and investigate any potential cost-savings and cost-effectiveness in terms of antibiotic usage of delayed antibiotic prescriptions compared with antibiotic use.
To identify priorities for future delayed prescribing research.
Study approach
A full systematic review will be conducted to identify and select eligible papers. Study authors of eligible papers will be contacted and invited to contribute raw data.
Systematic review to identify eligible papers
Design: RCTs or eligible observational cohort studies.
Population: all patients attending primary, ambulatory or acute care settings with a RTI.
Intervention: delayed antibiotic prescription.
Comparator: immediate antibiotic prescription or no antibiotic prescription.
Outcomes: severity of illness (symptom severity), duration of illness, complication, reconsultation, patient satisfaction, costs and quality of life.
Studies on antibiotic prescribing that are not an RCT or observational cohort (eg, survey or cross-sectional studies and case–control studies) will be excluded. Studies of hospital inpatients are also excluded.
Search strategy for identification of studies
A systematic search of the databases Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid Embase, EBSCO CINAHL Plus and Web of Science will be conducted to identify relevant papers published from inception to October 2017. The search strategy will be based on criteria set out by the Cochrane Collaboration in a recently published systematic review and is available in the online supplementary appendix.19 The International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number Registry, a primary clinical trial registry recognised by WHO and ICMJE that accepts and records all clinical research studies in order to improve the publicly available information about clinical studies, will also be searched for any relevant trials. Literature search results will be exported to EndNote and then uploaded to COVIDENCE, a web-based software that facilitates collaboration among reviewers during the study selection process. Full-text articles will be uploaded to COVIDENCE. Two reviewers (HH and TB) will independently assess articles to determine eligibility for inclusion and any discrepancies will be resolved by discussion or referred to a third reviewer (BS). Reference lists of included articles will be reviewed to identify other potential papers not retrieved in the initial search. Contributing authors and content experts will be asked if they have, or are aware of, any additional studies (published or unpublished).
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Risk of bias assessment and certainty of evidence assessment
Two reviewers will independently assess the risk of bias of each included study. RCTs will be assessed using the Cochrane risk of bias tool that includes items on allocation bias (random sequence generation, allocation concealment, baseline imbalance), departures from intended interventions (participant and study personnel blinding, deviations from intended interventions and analysis in groups to which they were randomised), attrition bias and appropriate methods to account for missing data, detection bias (blinding of outcome assessors) and selective outcome reporting.20 21 The “Risk Of Bias In Non-randomised Studies - of Interventions” (ROBINS-I) tool will be used to assess quality of each observational study. The ROBINS-I tool contains items on bias due to confounding, selection bias, bias due to deviations from intended intervention, bias due to missing data and selective reporting.22 We will use GRADE to rate the overall certainty (quality) of evidence that includes the evaluation of risk of bias, inconsistency, indirectness, imprecision and publication factors.23
Data extraction and database creation
Authors of eligible trials and observational studies will be contacted via an email, or where this is not possible by a letter, outlining the study aims. They will be invited to collaborate and share their data in a format of their choice. A data sharing agreement may be provided on request. A complete database (containing data on all available measures) rather than key variables used in the publication will be requested. If resource usage and quality of life data were collected in separate forms, such information should be provided too. This will allow us to recalculate the primary outcomes where necessary to ensure a consistent approach has been used across studies with the aim of reducing the level of between-study heterogeneity. Collaborators will be able to provide the data in a format of their choice. Study data will be considered unavailable in the event that none of the authors have responded to multiple contact attempts or if all contacted study authors indicate they no longer have access to the data.
Data will be checked by comparing key variables (eg, size of sample, descriptive statistics of demographic and outcome measures) with published data. We will aim to reproduce individual study results to ensure the current analysis is consistent with what has been done in each study. Collaborators will be contacted if important discrepancies are identified and asked for clarification. The level of missing data within each included study will be assessed and discussed with study collaborators. If less than 5% of data is found to be missing on key baseline characteristics and outcome measures, the data will be analysed on a complete cases basis. However, if there is substantial missing data, the pattern and nature of the missingness will be explored and multiple imputation by chained equations will be used if appropriate.
A copy of the data to be included in the IPD meta-analysis will be converted for analysis in STATA V.14 or above. A database will be created containing study ID, patient ID, outcomes measures, subgroups of interest, antibiotic prescribing approach and propensity scores, where necessary. Outcome measures from the different studies will be harmonised once data from all study authors have been received. In the case that coding for an outcome in a study differs greatly from other studies, it may be possible to simplify measures to allow the study to contribute data or exclude the study from certain analyses. Any difficulties with harmonisation will be discussed with the full collaborators group to decide on the most meaningful approach. Harmonised data from the different studies will be aggregated (using STATA) into a single large IPD database, with an indicator variable to identify patients from the same trial. The IPD database will be rechecked for accuracy.
The key resource information on medication, primary care consultation, hospital inpatients, hospital day cases, outpatient visits, accident and emergency (A&E) attendance from individual studies will be recorded if such information were collected and length of usage and frequency of attendance will be adjusted to the same time periods. We will use the UK national published tariff (British National Formulary (BNF), national reference cost and PSS Research Unit (PSSRU)) to cost-associated resource usage.
Study and patient level characteristics will be described for all studies that contribute IPD. Characteristics of any studies that declined or were unable to provide data will be considered in order to determine the extent to which the included studies are a representative sample. A traditional meta-analysis may be performed, using data from published papers, to test for differences between studies included in the IPD meta-analysis and those that could not provide data.24
Heterogeneity of eligible studies will be summarised using an I2 statistic (tested by Higgins I2 test). A substantial statistical heterogeneity will be considered if I² statistic is >50%.21 Sources of heterogeneity will be explored and reported and a random effects model will be used for all analyses.
IPD meta-analysis
IPD meta-analysis will be conducted using a one-stage approach. The one-stage approach combines all the data in a single meta-analysis based on a regression model stratified by study.25 One-stage analysis is often more appropriate for exploring treatment-covariate interactions as it has increased power and is less likely to suffer from aggregation bias.26 The aggregated IPD will be examined using multilevel regressions clustering on the individual study level to take into account any heterogeneity between studies. Using the aggregated IPD dataset, we will calculate the key outcome measures on a consistent basis. The model selected will be one that is appropriate to the outcome measure of interest. For example, assuming the underlying assumptions of the model are met, a linear regression will be used to model the severity of symptoms, a proportional-hazards model will be used to assess the duration of illness, or a suitable count model where time to event data is not available, and logistic regression models will be used for the complications/reconsultation outcome, side effects and patient satisfaction. All models will control for baseline severity of illness and all individuals will be included on a modified intention to treat (ITT) basis (ie, as randomised).27
To explore whether there are differences in treatment effects for certain sub-groups, we will consider five prespecified subgroups which have been identified as potential effect modifiers by previous research: prior duration of illness (above/below median for the condition), age (under 16 years, 16–64 years, age over 65 years), fever at baseline consultation (>37.5°C), comorbid condition including lung comorbidity such as asthma or COPD, and severity of symptoms at baseline consultation. We will also explore differences according to the diagnostic group (acute sore throat, cough/chest infection, otalgia/otitis media, upper RTI). The analyses described above will be repeated, testing for interactions between treatment allocation and sub-group characteristic.
Symptom trajectories in patients who do not take antibiotics will also be explored. For symptoms recorded in symptom diaries, we will calculate the median and IQR of the reported time until all symptoms have settled completely, in those patients who did not receive an antibiotic prescription or who received a delayed prescription but did not fill it (where these data are available). As sensitivity analyses, we will also explore duration of moderately severe of symptoms. It is possible that the use of multiple outcomes (symptom severity, development of complications, patient satisfaction) to determine clinical effectiveness may result in varying conclusions. We will report the results for each outcome, though the discussion and recommendations will be based primarily on the primary outcome– symptom severity.
Work on cross design synthesis by the Program and Methodology Division of the US General Accounting Office (1992) has provided a theoretical framework for combining database data and RCT data. Drawing on this work, the current review will apply a similar approach to the synthesis of observational cohort and RCT data.28 Synthesis of observational studies will additionally use inverse probability weighting by propensity score analysis to adjust for confounding by indication on measured covariates. This serves to balance observational studies on key covariates) so that the distribution of baseline covariates is similar between treated and untreated subjects, making observational studies more like those in a RCT.29 30 Potential covariates to be included in the propensity score include: demographic factors (eg, age, sex), comorbid health conditions and signs and symptoms at baseline consultation. Observational studies after this adjustment for potential confounding variables will be included in the main analysis if appropriate. However, sensitivity analyses will explore whether the estimates from observational cohort studies differ from those found in the RCTs. If there is evidence of substantial differences, data from observational studies and RCTs will not be pooled in a single meta-analysis, and reasons for these differences will be explored narratively.
The economic evaluation will be taken from the NHS and PSS perspective, as most of the studies in this area have collected such data. The NHS and PSS perspective is the most commonly used approach to economic evaluations conducted in the UK. It covers medication, primary care consultation, walking in centre, NHS telephone service, outpatient attendance, A&E visit and hospital admission. Outcomes will be differences in cost, costs per antibiotic prescription avoided and costs per quality of life gained. Individual patient resource usage data such as medication use, GP consultations, outpatient visits, A&E attendance and use of secondary care service from each individual trial or observational study will be costed using UK published data sources (BNF, national reference costs and PSSRU). Total costs for individual patients during study periods will be calculated. We will also take a societal perspective by including the societal cost of antimicrobial resistance and time of work due to illness in our modelling and sensitivity analyses.
A decision analytical model will be developed to project the potential saving (due to reduced antibiotic usage, and reduced frequency of attending primary care consultation) and cost-effectiveness in terms of reduced antibiotic usage, and quality-adjusted life years (QALY) gained of delayed antibiotics. The model will consider reinfection and present the results at different time lengths, up to a maximum of 5 years. The model will be an individual-based micro-simulation taking into account individual risk profiles with associated risk equations. The model will simulate individual treatment pathways with defined baseline characteristics and will capture the time spent at different levels of disease severity, time to recovery and recurrence rates. The probabilities of staying or transitioning to another state will be derived from the statistical analyses. The clinical analyses based on all data will provide more robust estimates to populate the input values for the data. The costs and cost-effectiveness of subgroups will be explored in the decision model.
Quality of life questionnaire will be translated into utility scores based on the UK tariff appropriate to the instruments used in each study. The different instruments (such as EQ5D, SF6D or Health Utilities Index (HUI)) will be recorded and weighted in the aggregated analyses. Utility scores at each measurement point will be estimated, and a mean utility score for symptom severity will be calculated. For studies where no quality of life data were collected, we will apply the utility scores estimated from the other studies according to symptom severity. QALYs will be calculated based on an area under the curve approach. Due to the potentially skewed distribution in costs, a generalised linear mixed model will be employed to analyse costs and QALYs, controlling for baseline patient characteristics, length of follow-up and disease severity. The data will be hierarchical, with individual patients nested within studies, with study modelled as a random effect. Incremental costs and cost-effectiveness and associated CIs will be estimated by bootstrapping. The economic analyses will follow the same approach as the statistical analyses with calculations undertaken using a one-stage approach.
Sensitivity analyses
All analyses will be repeated using a two-step approach. The two-stage approach involves calculating the effect for each study separately and then combining the results using traditional meta-analysis techniques. Results using the one-stage and two-stage approach will be compared and any discrepancies explored. This will also allow us to include and explore the impact of the aggregate results from trials for which we are unable to obtain data, as aggregate results can only be included in a two-step approach. Aggregated data from observational studies will not be included because in the absence of full data, it will not be possible to control for confounding by indication.
Sensitivity analysis will explore whether there are differences in inferences based on differences in the approach taken to delayed prescribing and whether there are any differences if studies at high risk of bias are excluded. We will also consider a higher cut-off for presence of fever informed by the literature.
Given the potential long-term problem of antibiotic resistance, a sensitivity analysis will performed to incorporate the costs of antibiotic resistance in the economic analyses. However, given the difficulty previous researchers31 32 have had in estimating such costs we will vary the assumptions about the likely cost to see whether the inferences are modified.
The study has two patient and public involvement (PPI) team members who have been actively involved in shaping the research questions and will continue to contribute to all stages of the research. Specifically, they will contribute to data harmonisation, providing advice to ensure the result will yield useful outcomes for patients and members of the public, interpretation of study findings and what they might mean for patients and the public, dissemination at relevant conferences/meetings and how best to disseminate findings to key patient and public groups. In return for their time, PPI representatives will be reimbursed in line with INVOLVE recommendations33 and will be recognised as co-authors on research outputs.
Ethics and dissemination
There will be no identifiable patient data in any of the datasets, and data will be stored in a password-restricted folder on the university server. This protocol has been prepared in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Protocol guidelines.34
The results of this work will provide the best possible evidence regarding when and for whom delayed prescribing is appropriate. The results, disseminated through academic and trade journals, as well as conferences, should help GPs in their decision-making about prescribing during consultations. The results will also be shared with patients and members of the public through our PPI collaborations. There is potential for PPI to help address the issue of patients seeking antibiotics inappropriately which may help reduce unnecessary prescribing and in turn, antimicrobial resistance.
IPD meta-analysis is more appropriate and has higher statistical power than traditional meta-analysis to identify which key subgroups or patient characteristics may or may not benefit from delayed prescribing. Another advantage of IPD is that some of the biases in studies can be explored more fully than in aggregate data meta-analysis. For example, it is possible to check the randomisation integrity and to perform a full ITT analysis to minimise attrition bias, even if this was not performed for the original publication. Furthermore, with the collaboration and communication required for a successful IPD, it should be possible to obtain information from the original study authors about potential sources of bias. A further advantage of IPD meta-analysis is that it allows study outcomes to be calculated in the same way and the models adjusted for similar confounders which can reduce heterogeneity across studies.
However, there are some challenges associated with IPD meta-analysis.35 The key risk is not obtaining all the relevant data and failure to do so can result in biased results. It may be particularly difficult to obtain data for older studies, as the data may have been lost or destroyed or the lead researcher may have retired or changed field. We therefore plan to undertake a sensitivity analysis using a two-step approach which will allow us to incorporate the published estimates from any trials for which we are unable to obtain IPD into a meta-analysis. Although IPD offers the ability to conduct additional and more accurate and appropriate analyses, in many cases similar results and conclusions can be drawn from IPD and standard meta-analysis.35 It is also possible that the outcome measures may not be sufficiently similar to harmonise. An initial scoping review suggests that almost all studies have collected the key outcome measures in a similar way. However, if it is deemed impossible to perform a meta-analysis with the data; a narrative review will be undertaken instead. We hope the results of the study will help GPs to communicate more effectively with patients about the normal course of illness, which patients are likely to benefit from a delayed prescribing approach, the costs of antibiotic use for RTIs and help the general public to feel more confident about waiting to see whether their illness settles before visiting their GP.
We would like to thank the following collaborators which assisted us by allowing us to use the data from their studies: Dr Jennifer Chao, Dr David McCormick,
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Patient consent for publication Not required.
BS and HH contributed equally.
Contributors BS is the guarantor. BS conceived the original study concept and design and obtained funding from the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) Programme. BS and HH wrote the first draft of the manuscript. GY and SZ contributed to the section on health economics. BS, HH, TB, GY, SZ, PA-C, AA, BA, DB, JB, HCCB, MdlP, NAF, DG, ADH, TK, CL, GM-D, LM, KS, MM and PL contributed to the concept and design of the study and manuscript editing, read, provided feedback and approved the final manuscript.
Funding This paper presents independent research funded by theNational Institute for Health Research (NIHR) under its Research for PatientBenefit (RfPB) Programme (Grant Reference Number PB-PG-0416-20005). The viewsexpressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, theNIHR or the Department of Health & Social Care.
Disclaimer The NIHR RfPB is not involved in any other aspect of the project, such as the design of the project’s protocol and analysis plan, the collection and analyses. The funder will have no input on the interpretation or publication of the study results.
Ethics approval University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine Research Ethics Committee (Reference number: 30068).
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Branding nation, the world is just one big offfice!
IT’S ALIVE | Dynamic Identities
The world is always evolving, and it’s evolving fast!
For the branding industry, only brands the can change and adapt will stand out and live, because the human mind is wired to notice only the different amongst the normals & standards. While identities are becoming platforms & a total experience rather than static logos, the need for them to become alive requires a system that can be customised and personalise to the brand’s audience, a dynamic identity is the answer.
Technology has given identities the chance to act as living organisms, with a voice and a character presented in various social media platforms and all over the internet, such evolution needs a dynamic & variable system to build identities according to. So how can you build a dynamic identity?
A brand identity is
A Brand is all of these…. And then some.
A brand is tangible; you can see it, touch it, hold it, hear it, watch it move.it takes disparate elements and unifies them into a whole system.
A dynamic identity system consists of 6 components & its connections to
create that system. Variables create the dynamics while one component would be constant in shape and placement and that would be the main logo, for the purpose of maintaining recognition of the brand, so when other variables keep changing such as colour or imagery, people can still recognise the brand’s identity.
This crucial constant element is called the CONTAINER, were other variables are placed in it, on it, behind it or emerging from it.
City of Milbourne identity is a great example of a dynamic identity:
“The challenge was to reflect City of Melbourne’s cool sophistication on the world stage, capture the passion of its people, and provide the city with a unified, flexible, and future-focused image. The new identity needed to overcome political complexities, improve the cost-effectiveness of managing the brand, and unite the disparate range of entities (including the council, City of Melbourne’s destination brand, and an ever-growing portfolio of different initiatives, programs, services, events, and activities). We built the branding program based on the results of a thorough audit of City of Melbourne’s various identities and its long-term sustainability and strategic plans.”
Designed at: Landor Associates.
Another direction of a dynamic identity design would include the main logo (container) having a wallpaper behind it. The shapes may vary but the impression suggests the same identity of that brand.
A perfect example of using wallpapers behind the main logo is AOL:
Description: People use AOL ostensibly as a search engine, to find all sorts of things, so this identity leverages that multiplicity with a wide variety of supporting images.
Designed at: Wolff Olins
Some examples on using wallpapers with the main logo which acts as a frame also for the wallpapers. Taking into consideration that wallpapers can be treated in a certain way that reflects the design so whatever wallpaper design is added the outcome is similar and the logo is identifiable.
Main logo (container)
Added various but unified wallpapers
Implementing the identity
Another direction for implementing a dynamic identity is using a Formula.
This direction lets the system be the constant such as using grids or creating a language from shapes and colours then use them as the variable elements of the identity.
Here in this example, Wolff Olins created the identity for new museum in way that it has a certain formula and language:
“In an exciting collaboration with the museum, we created a visual expression that features a spectrum of color and language, and a logo that literally moves and flexes to welcome new artists and audiences and to announce new art and the new museum. The mantra “open, fearless and alive” quickly became an invaluable tool for internal decision making.”
My personal favorite direction of using a dynamic identity is the customisable identity, where the main logo acts as a container for customisable elements that vary a lot but creates a personalised emotional experience for the targeted audience where they can interact and be part of the brand.
It makes the client the owner of the brand as stated by Irene van Nes in her publication ”Dynamic identities: How to create a living brand”;
OCAD University, Canada’s pre-eminent art and design school, is now accredited to confer degrees. It is an inclusive, vibrant and vital institution built on creativity, risk and
innovation. It needs a new identity reflecting that status. Bruce Mau Design questioned whether the visual identity could reveal the extraordinary creative energy that lives at OCAD U. Inspired by the iconic Alsop-designed building, they created a base of black-and-white pixel ‘windows’ – modular frames to hold actual student art and design. The logo literally becomes the display window for the students.
Another brilliant example on using windows and frames as the container of the logo is Autisitc Art:
“We wanted to build the identity around a symbol that refers both to the autistic people and the foundation who are behind the whole concept. This symbol has become the window – a bridge between the inner World of our beneficiaries and their environment (including the foundation and the consumer of the branded products).
We were determined to use this symbol in the way autistic people would like it the most: severely and clear-out.”
Other examples using the customised window container doesn’t have to include art pieces rather than relative icons, such as the identity of Public Space by Sulliwan Studio:
Some more examples:
A unique example here is pixus, where they used a combination between wallpaper and customised directions to build their dynamic identity:
Studying dynamic identities, I found it to be the best direction for our growing community of designers; Designers Union, where the need for a variable and adaptable logo emerged to cover all of the Union’s activities and aspirations.
“Designers Union is the largest gathering for designers of all fields, introducing truly beneficial content, discussions, challenges where designers come to learn, share their work, ask, help each other, participate in design contests and challenges, attend seminars, workshops & design conferences, create regulations to help advance the business of design not only as individuals but also as one union.”
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How to create a living brand by Irene van Nes
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What is the rarest color in sports?
By Quillz, October 15, 2018 in Sports Logo General Discussion
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On 10/15/2018 at 7:55 AM, Quillz said:
How rare are green and orange? I feel like I've seen a lot of international teams using green. Even orange isn't as rare as I once thought.
mets, ducks, oliers, flyers, broncos, bc loins, ock thunders, astros all organge
for green. A's, stars, eagles, celtics, packers, Eskimos, london kinghts
cream color would be rare
On 10/15/2018 at 5:05 PM, CaliforniaGlowin said:
Neon colors are also rare, unfortunately.
not for goalies in soccer. and some soccer teams
Mint is also very rare.
Old School Fool 3,182
On 10/15/2018 at 9:59 AM, monkeypower said:
This is a throwback alternate and I'm of half a mind to want them to go to this full time.
I really don't know why they strayed away from pink and black. The team was named after a guy who wore pink and black so it stands to reason those should be the team colors for life.
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2 hours ago, Old School Fool said:
The switch was made for the 1998-99 season, the year after the Flames bought the team in June 1997 from the original ownership group which included Bret Hart, Theo Fleury and then-Hitmen coach and GM Graham James, who had resigned unexpectedly early in the 1996-97 season. If you know anything about James, you know why he resigned and subsequently a likely reason the team was sold to the Flames due to his connection to the ownership group. (If not, just google him)
The Hitmen Wikipedia page is full of dead links to old news articles, but it says there was talk of the Flames changing the name including potentially to the Jr. Flames (yikes), but instead they just changed the colours and the jerseys.
Joe Sakic was also part of the original ownership group so this is a picture that exists, though there a couple differences between these jerseys and the ones the team actually wore.
There's also a few pictures out there of Bret Hart wearing Hitmen jerseys while in the WWE (or whatever he was in at the time, I don't know really know wrestling).
There's also a fun story about the Hitmen and their original logo not being the one the team wore for their first year of existence, but that's probably for another thread,
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Slightly off-topic, but - my son's baseball team in the BC Premier Baseball League wore purple, but in my opinion not enough. I campaigned for a purple hat but was rebuffed every time. The story their longtime coach used to tell was that most of the players really didn't like the uni's when they first came to the team, but by the time they finished the color was a staple. He said that if you could look in the drawers of all the former players you would likely find at least one pair of purple socks. In fact I still see those purple socks around on the diamonds of Vancouver Island from time-to-time in men's baseball, softball and slo-pitch leagues. I always ask the wearer if he had played for the Parksville Royals. The answer is always yes.
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Not a lot of chartreuse out there
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Location:South Windsor, NSW, Australia
Charcoal and orange for the GWS Giants of the Australian Football League:
bosrs1 1,195
Location:San Diego
I was thinking purple, too. But you've got the Rockies, the Lakers, the Vikings, the Kings (for a time). It's rare, but still seen across many of the big leagues.
Purple seems pretty common to me. Lakers, Sacramento Kings, Rockies, Vikings, K State.
Pink is your likely winner. Brown is also pretty rare.
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In the Australian Football League, Green has been very rarely worn. The Fremantle Dockers are the only club in the league that has ever used green as one of their colors.
NoE38 1,253
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6 minutes ago, Discrimihater said:
Thank God they got rid of it. Purple-Red-Green can work, but not like this.
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Yea copper is an awesome underused color
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Location:Eugene, OR
28 minutes ago, CaliforniaGlowin said:
But notice that it's primarily helmets. Because we can get a metallic sheen on a hard plastic surface that mimics the actual metal.
Copper colored jerseys are just a poopy shade of brown.
Ark 2,161
Is this the pinkest uniform ever?
Because I love these.
2 hours ago, Ark said:
I like the color scheme, but the collar and sleeve stripes seem too jam-packed to me. Wish they were maybe just teal and white.
THRILLHO 294
On 10/15/2018 at 10:02 AM, DC in Da House w/o a Doubt said:
I agree with this. I think the colors below look great on a baseball uniform:
Also these
It's cool but the white one is still my favorite.
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Location:New Orleans
Favourite Logos:Pelicans
I think currently in the nba the pelicans are the only team that has gold (actual gold, not in dandelion “gold” as people call it for the lakers)
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My Favourite Films of the Last Decade
Movies meant a lot to me in the 2010s. These are the fifty that meant the most.
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If there’s one constant across the Coens’ intimidating filmography, it’s the brothers’ affection for cinema in all its forms. Right from their debut, Blood Simple – an intricately-plotted neo-noir – they’ve paid homage to Hollywood history, whether aping noir aesthetics (in both Blood Simple and The Man Who Wasn’t There) or gently parodying noir conventions…
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Critical Dissent: Debating Mommy with Kyle Turner
It’s fair to say that I walked into Mommy with high expectations. Xavier Dolan is an incredibly talented young director, and his third film, Laurence Anyways, is an all-time classic in my personal pantheon. Pretty much every Australian critic I know caught his latest at the Melbourne International Film Festival last year, and the responses…
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“Times have changed.” So says Zero Moustafa (F. Murray Abraham) to Young Writer (Jude Law) as he luxuriates in the baths of the Grand Budapest Hotel. Except luxury is now in short supply; once a thriving symbol of opulence, the Grand Budapest Hotel is no longer so grand (and it’s not even in Budapest; the…
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Both Sides Of The Sky presents 13 studio recordings including 10 which have never before been released. All but two of these studio recordings were made during a fertile period between January 1968 and 1970. Jimi's mastery and use of the studio as a proving ground for new songs resulted in a growing collection of extraordinary material. This album completes a trilogy of albums [with Valleys Of Neptune and People, Hell & Angels] presenting the best and most significant unissued studio recordings remaining in the Hendrix archive. The songs include fascinating alternate versions of "Stepping Stone," "Lover Man" and "Hear My Train A Comin'" as well as recordings where Jimi is joined by special guests Johnny Winter and Stephen Stills. Both Sides Of The Sky was mixed by Eddie Kramer, the engineer for all of Hendrix's albums throughout the guitarist's lifetime, and produced by Janie Hendrix, Kramer and John McDermott.
Both Sides Of The Sky
Artist: Jimi Hendrix
1. Mannish Boy
2. Lover Man
3. Stepping Stone
4. $20 Fine
5. Power Of Soul
6. Jungle
7. Things I Used To Do
8. Georgia Blues
9. Sweet Angel
10. Woodstock
11. Send My Love To Linda
12. Cherokee Mist
Mannish Boy - The first ever studio session by the group Hendrix would christen as his Band Of Gypsys. Hendrix, Cox & Miles shared a love for the blues as this driving, uptempo reworking of "Mannish Boy" by Muddy Waters makes clear.
Lover Man - Just two weeks before their triumphant New Year's concerts at the Fillmore East in NYC [yielding both 1970's Band Of Gypsys and 2016's sequel Machine Gun], Hendrix gathered with Cox and Miles to cut this dynamic rendition of what had become a favorite concert staple.
Stepping Stone - A totally unique take on this Hendrix favorite, with Jimi showcasing both blues and country styled licks atop a relentless, galloping beat.
$20 Fine -Stephen Stills joined Jimi, Mitch Mitchell and Buddy Miles Express keyboardist Duane Hitchings at this September 1969 session. With Stephen handling lead vocals and organ, Jimi added multiple guitar parts to this rollicking Stills original.
Power Of Soul - This 1970 studio session came three weeks after the Band Of Gypsys concerts at the Fillmore East. While a live version remains one of the highpoints of Band Of Gypsys, Jimi never released a studio version during his lifetime. For this album, we present the mix that Hendrix and Kramer prepared of the complete song at Electric Lady on August 22, 1970.
Jungle - The influence of Curtis Mayfield can be heard here as Jimi expands on the "Villanova Junction Blues" theme he made famous by its inclusion in the 1970 Woodstock documentary.
Things I Used To Do - Jimi is joined for this rendition of Guitar Slim's blues classic by Johnny Winter. Jimi's trademark guitar work and Winter's deft slide playing weaves in and around the foundation set by bassist Billy Cox and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young drummer Dallas Taylor.
Georgia Blues - Jimi reunited with some old friends from his pre-Experience days. Lonnie Youngblood, with whom Hendrix played in R&B groups like Curtis Knight & The Squires, voiced this superb twelve bar blues neatly underpinned by Hendrix's sublime rhythm and lead guitar work.
Sweet Angel - With Axis: Bold As Love only just released, Jimi immediately turned his focus to recording what would become Electric Ladyland. This gorgeous, instrumental reading of "Angel,", features Jimi on guitar, bass and vibraphone joined by Mitch Mitchell.
Woodstock - Stephen Stills came to this session fresh from having visited Joni Mitchell, who had a new song that Stills was excited to try and record. Long before CSNY's version, Stephen, Jimi and Buddy Miles recorded this amazing rendition.
Send My Love To Linda - A superb new Hendrix original composition recorded with Cox and Miles in the aftermath of their successful Band Of Gypsys performances at the Fillmore East.
Cherokee Mist - Together with drummer Mitch Mitchell, Jimi created this moody, evocative original complete with his playing of a sitar to complement his traditional electric guitar.
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Egyptian Start-up, VRapeutic is Addressing Learning Challenges with Virtual Reality
by David Okelezo
Technology is evolving at an exponential and with this massive growth comes more applicative avenue.
Exploiting the power of technology to help mankind is VRapeutic. A startup based in Egypt that uses virtual reality (VR) technology to help treat learning difficulties and developmental disorders.
VRapeutic is not planning on stopping in Egypt, it recently unveils plans on taking its solution globally in the next 18 months.
The start-up was launched in 2017 by Ahmad Al-Kabbany and the idea of the start-up came to him while he was doing his research ON VR for his Ph.D. in electrical engineering.
VRapeutic designs 3D virtual environments that are specially programmed to instill different life skills and experience in children, including social, cognitive, motor, and academic skills.
The startup distributes VR software modules, installed on VR headsets, to therapy centres. Children are then matched with a particular module dependent on the therapy plan set by the child’s therapist.
VRapeutic offers unique cloud accounts for every therapist/doctor and child, where the performance data are collated and the request modules for every child can be accessed easily.
“I launched VRapeutic in a bid to cut down on the costs and inefficiencies inherent in traditional approaches to dealing with learning disabilities and developmental disorders such as dyslexia, autism, and cerebral palsy.” Ahmad Al-Kabbany Founder VRapeutic.
“We develop our own curricula for essential life skills, featuring unique technical features, customisability, and a design centered around widely-adopted assessment tools,” he said.
He further stated that “We are pioneering the integration between virtual environments, bio-sensors, and machine intelligence to enrich the interactions inside the environments.”
VRapeutic is a kind of a B2B business model that sees it license its software modules to therapy centers, clinics, and hospitals is currently operating in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
The startup recently generated US$30,000 in revenues in the last nine months.
However, Al-Kabbany considers this to have been slow progress
“We have approached from a research-oriented angle, in which every product is developed and validated under the strict supervision of highly placed and renowned professionals. Hence, we know that the first stage has been time demanding, before we can scale up sales, which establishes our long-term scientific credibility,” Al-Kabbany stressed.
The dream is huge, the road is far, and it has been a long one, but he said every difficulty has encountered has had a positive impact on the product VRapeutic which is now ready to scale internationally.
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Seeing with “Vampire Eyes” in New Orleans at Five A.M.
Filed under: American culture,Uncategorized — annebabson @ 8:30 pm
Tags: American Experience, Anne Babson, Anne Rice, Aporia, cats, dogs, insects, Interview with a Vampire, Lestat, literature, Louisiana, Magical Realism, Mississippi, New Orleans, Night, nightlife, nighttime, southern culture, southern living, Southern writers, the New South, United States, walking
For her extraordinarily popular book Interview with a Vampire, Anne Rice imagines a man in colonial Louisiana just outside New Orleans converting from human being into an elegant vampire. His converter warns him to go outside as he changes but not to “fall so madly with the night that you lose your ways.”
Of course, the new vampire in the book does lose his way to the beauty of the night. He says, “When I saw the moon on the flagstones, I became so enamored with it that I must have spent an hour there….Standing among the cottonwood and oaks, I heard the night as if it were a chorus of whispering women, all beckoning me to their breasts.”
“When I saw the moon on the flagstones, I became so enamored with it that I must have spent an hour there.” — Anne Rice
I am gradually learning that nothing in New Orleans is entirely what it seems, and yet nothing at all is purely fictional. Writers here, Anne Rice and others like me, don’t need to make anything up, really, so much as press record like the interviewer in Interview with a Vampire. New Orleans provides enough vivacity to transform us all, not necessarily into vampires but certainly into raconteurs. Our old limitations die in the elevated graveyards, but our new eyes as writers in this nearly mythic town — a place of real magical realism — fall so in love with the night that we indeed risk losing our ways.
So it is with me at five a.m. when I walk my dogs around the block. I choose this time because I leave for work quite early, and my dogs have fewer people to bark at or to try to sniff. That said, I was astonished when first I walked them around the block about a half hour before sunrise. It wasn’t Lestat who had given me new eyes. It was New Orleans.
At that hour, even at that hour, it has been well above eighty degrees outside most mornings, and the town glows despite the lights being off. Even when I walked around the block during a power outage, the town still glowed. How? The moon hangs low in the sky, a glass of milk seen from above, and the sky is not so black as it is royal blue with a widow’s veil hanging over it.
The cars are distant as my dogs and I circle the block, but the end of night is noisy. Before the birds are up, a timpany chorus of insects click and chatter in what perhaps Anne Rice meant when she said her newly minted vampire heard a “metallic laughter” in the air. It is a cocktail party of bugs held before the curtain of a big show, the chatter of socialites in a treble staccato — and it is intoxicating to hear! Occasionally, we hear the lone voice of an insomniac bird, too early even to catch the worm, but more often than not we hear only the arias of the insects in the trees.
We encounter a few mammals other than ourselves, and they, too, take on mythical qualities. Once, I crossed paths with a woman in yoga pants with a blue tooth in her ear, negotiating an international deal with the Pacific Rim in Vietnamese, but I have not seen her since. I saw an illicit lover dart out of a door once and hide when he realized the dogs and I saw him. Usually, though, the only mammal we encounter is a single neighborhood cat, gray in the way that the French mean when they say, “La nuit, tous les chat sont gris,” and long-haired. That long hair stands on end as the creature arches as tall as he can as my bigger dog spots him — I am having trouble convincing that dog that we are not on a hunt and that the neighbor’s cat is not our quarry. Most mornings, though, it is just us, no other creature with hair on its head or body. We are not hunting for prey, neither like a dog nor like a vampire. We are just walking, losing our ways in the lovely late night.
We walk along the still-unrepaired undulations of the sidewalk caused by Katrina. After a rainy night, we have to avoid deep puddles still caused by the aftermath of that now-old storm that rippled the roads around here as if they were tresses that might frizz in Category-5 humidity. Our feet get muddy in certain ruts. The dogs sniff the ground and read the route’s olfactory braille with their wet noses. What they read there, I cannot say, but the ineffable language of the smells of this route excites them, sometimes appearing to cause debate between them. It is a lively hunt for the maker of smells, the walk, the quarrry not so much being the steak as much as the sizzle-sound of the bugs and the smoke of the frying meat they find the trace of in our tracks. We are not vampires on the prowl, but some of us smell blood.
When we return home, the night’s magic dissipates. We enter the house as a few neighbors begin to stir, switch on lights. When I unhook the leashes of my companions, we are all covered in sweat. The night’s passions are sultry. We catch our breath in the air conditioning. We have had a close encounter — with what? Not Anne Rice’s vampires, perhaps, but with her vampires’ New Orleans nights, heady and astonishingly beautiful. Over and over again Anne Rice’s interviewed vampire expresses frustration at his inability to explain an experience to the interviewer. He laments, “How pathetic it is to describe these things that can’t truly be described.” He is right, Rice is right — a night in New Orleans contains a kind of mystery that only beckons one toward meaning, a seduction not quite achieved, a new vision through a glass darkly, and the aporia is a dark river, perhaps the Mississippi at night, perhaps the Styx, that beckons us deeper but offers us no promise we can ever again pop our heads up into a rational sunlight. We are not vampires, but in this, the night of New Orleans is vampiric.
Queen Bey’s New Orleans of the Mind
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Tags: African American, Algiers, Anne Babson, Bey, Beyonce, cultural diversity, culture shock, diversity, feminism, Formation, Garden District, Jay-Z, Lemonade, Louisiana, midlife, Mississippi, New Orleans, New York, Porticoes, racism, southern culture, southern living, spanish moss, the New South, Trayvon Martin, United States, whiteness, Women
In January 2016, Beyoncé and Jay-Z, her husband and collaborator, moved the discourse of their art from New York down South. In “Formation,” Beyoncé sets her video in New Orleans, on porticoed porches, in tough neighborhoods with post-Katrina housing, and in the cuisine, even, of the town — she tells us she carries hot sauce in her bag, a particularly Cajun/creole gesture. Her new release, the remarkable and deeply poignant Lemonade, is set in a place ill identified, a Gothic Southern space, at some moments surrealistic — like a night bus filled with women dancing while painted like West African ghosts, while Bey sings about how her man isn’t on her mind — and we do not believe her in this haunted vehicle. Other houses catch fire, and they look like they are from the Garden district. Bey gyrates in the flames. She exits a public building with a flood following her in her saffron dress as she smashes car window after car window with a baseball bat. A group of smiling young African-American marching band members and pep squad members march down a street still damaged from storms — an image typical of my neighborhood in the Algiers section of town. We aren’t in New York, the New York Jay-Z has rapped about for decades, where the famous couple has held court for quite some time. We are not quite in a New Orleans that we know by a skyline or a landmark — some songs are sung in basement parking garages, others in private rooms. We are sitting with the aristocrats of American culture in a New Orleans of the mind.
The psychology of New York is gritty, but it is never so permanently bleak that one cannot find a boat ride, even the Staten Island Ferry for free, to get a little perspective, a breath of fresh air, a breeze off the Atlantic, a panoply of sky scrapers. One’s problems seem insignificant in the aspirational spikes of concrete that make shadowy canyons. One believes in New York City that opportunity is around the corner, even if one circles the block for hours like a cab waiting for a fare. New Orleans, unlike New York City, is permanently haunted. The dead cannot quite get buried there — they abide above ground, boxed in just barely by cement and marble. The legacy of slavery is palpable; it is a town that never entered the mainstream of America, much like New York, which is situated on islands off the coast of the mainland. No melting pot, it is a town where cultures do not so much intersect and blend than they remain distinct and dynamically intermingled. New Orleans is as African a town as it is European in many ways. The coexistent diversity of cultures in that town, one which might alarm some people in a place like Mississippi, is the strength of the odd survival of the place. One doesn’t overcome one’s problems in New Orleans. They do not vanish into the mud, six feet under. One stuffs and mounts one’s problems. One repurposes one’s griefs into useful household objects. One doesn’t get over. One lives with despite.
In Lemonade, the film, New Orleans serves as a backdrop to this kind of thinking about betrayal and loss. No group has been more repeatedly and unapologetically betrayed in this country than women of color, and how are they to bear all of it — all the dishonor thrust upon them? Forgetting seems in this film not to be a real option, any more than it is for New Orleans to make evidence of the dead to disappear. One must live with the evidence, the scars, the memories, the voids, and one must find a way to remain hopeful. One must live with the past despite its ongoing bitterness and overcome despite all rational calls to lie down and die.
This is the abiding mood of Lemonade, and it is perhaps a cogent cue to the entire American culture about how we might deal with the tragedies of our day. The betrayal within one marriage is not a national tragedy, but the killing of Trayvon Martin is. Trayvon’s mother is in the film Lemonade, and she, too, must abide in the bitter memory of a dead son and an acquitted Zimmerman. She, too, must survive despite all. We are anxious in white America to forget past injustices committed by people who look like us. We feel uncomfortable by association, don’t want to take responsibility for what we did not personally do. But it is unreasonable of us to expect people chanting “black lives matter” to pause and acknowledge that all lives matter, which of course they do. We must do as Beyoncé and Jay-Z have done with their enduring marriage — acknowledge all the ugly hurts, seek reconciliation that honors the total experience of that pain, and move forward with that knowledge still present but not explosive. A truth untold is explosive. A city dishonored erupts into riots. New Orleans has found a distinctly American wisdom that makes room for a syncopation of now with then, of group with group, that gives space for multiple potentially dissonant experiences rendered a space for solo, then folded into the jazz that ultimately finds a harmony.
America needs such a strategy. We cannot pretend the past did not happen. That would be a form of lunacy and a continued dishonoring of the dead. We cannot pretend we are not all implicated in a culture where brutality exists against the politically and economically vulnerable. We cannot bury the dead, because until we fully acknowledge the enormity of the problem, the dead cannot die but haunt us. We can move past, perhaps trailed in the shadows by an ugly legacy, but we can improve, if we allow each trumpet its solo, each sax its wail. We need a New Orleans of the American mind, an imperfect landscape ravaged but rebuilding, a diversity that includes all of us and might just get along. The cultural conversation has moved South, as have I. Will you start driving South on the Interstate until you can see the Spanish moss hanging from the trees?
A Candlelight Vigil for the Slaves at Ole Miss
Tags: African-American history, Anne Babson, Black History, Black Lives Matter, candlelight, Confederacy, Confederate history month, Discrimination laws, historical revisionism, homophobia, Mississippi, NAACP, Ole Miss, Oxford Mississippi, Phil Bryant, racism, slavery, southern culture, southern living, the New South, United States, University of Mississippi, vigil, whiteness
Governor Phil Bryant, as he resists the inevitable wave of change in his own state by legalizing cake discrimination, defending the inclusion of the stars and bars in the Mississippi flag, and general attempts at revisionism, declared this month Confederate History Month in Mississippi. The Confederate dead have long be mourned in greater pomp than the dead of any other war in this state, but the story told about the South at reenactments and here, on the Oxford campus of the University of Mississippi, where a costumed annual wreath-laying takes place in the Confederate cemetery behind the old basketball stadium, is generally false. It’s not that people fought without gallantry in grey uniforms, they did. It’s not that they were mean to family members or small puppy dogs. But there still abides a myth that says, 1) The Civil War was not a war fought primarily over slavery (the statements of Confederates as they declared war belie this idea), 2) Those who were slaves were generally happy, and 3) The Yankees ruined a really good thing by ending slavery and thereby effectively ending Plantation culture as it had previously existed down South. To all this, the University of Mississippi chapter of the NAACP chants, “Hell you talmbout.”
Though not a particularly politically minded campus, compared to, say, UC Berkeley, Ole Miss has a Black Lives Matter movement, and happily, there are white people on campus who agree that black lives do indeed matter, and all people deserve respect. Last year, despite Phil Bryant’s advocacy for a Confederate-ish state flag, the student body of Ole Miss overwhelmingly voted to remove the state flag from the campus until such time as the image changes to something less offensive to African-American students, whose families were terrorized under that symbol. The white students are generally unwilling to be chained to the ugliness of past genocide, generally unwilling to manufacture or perpetuate myth in order to cover up ugliness that they do not claim as their own present-tense sentiments toward people of color. It’s not a perfect campus — the statue of James Meredith got lynched by one student, who was expelled and charged with vandalism, and his conspiring fraternity was unhoused from the campus by the governing body of that frat’s national Greek organization. But it is not a campus like the one James Meredith walked onto when first he desegregated this institution with its Grecian columns and shuttered colonnades. Then, he got shot at and shouted at. Today, most students just want to get to class before they get marked absent.
People of multiple races participated in a candlelight vigil to remember during this so-called Confederate History month the lives ruined by slavery on this very campus, individuals who built buildings on the campus and were owned by the plantation scions who did things in some instances like rape or put out cigars on the skin of these slaves. We cannot walk into the Lyceum, the administrative building, without seeing the work of their hands. They did not come to learn. They came only to survive, but the students of color who have followed James Meredith here and those of us who are fortunate enough to study with them have a moral obligation to commemorate them. If we are going to remember the Confederacy, then let us really remember it. Not just the wasted young lives shot up at Shiloh, hospitalized here, then buried, but those who had no choice in their comings or goings and who suffered under the oppression of the wealthiest families of the Confederacy, whose sons attended this school with an entourage of slaves. Let us remember how we who are free and of multiple classes and genders, the rich white boys who came here would have scoffed at all of us who aspire to live a life of the mind alien to their own idea of world order. Let us remember, really remember all of it.
We gathered, held candles in plastic cups, and sang spirituals sung by slaves in order to remain hopeful of freedom in this life of the next, recited their names, where we even have their names. Mostly we do not have their names, not even their names.
Here, though, I write the names of the ones who ended up in court records, bequests, arrests, seizures — recorded as livestock might have been recorded, not the way citizens were ever discussed, but this is all we have to witness them — these kinds of records, no parentage, no address, no testimony of likes or dislikes, no images, no words that quote them at all — just these names or fragments of names. Here they are:
E.M. Farill
Lou Farill
Ann Thompson
Ema Jones
Frank Watson
Seth Brown
Clarecy Brown
Frank O’Brian
Tom Goodey
Jeff Profit
James Kerr
Peter Kenshaw
Callie Pillar
A. Nelson
Mary Nelson
And the others, the many whose names are lost to history, Confederate or Union.
Say their names and remember. Don’t lay a wreath for them wearing a hoop skirt. Rather, come as you are, free as you are. Sing about freedom. Carry a light. Bless them.
Shouldering the Dangers of the Pentacostal Church
Filed under: American culture,Ladies,Mississippi,Southern blog posts,Uncategorized — annebabson @ 9:19 pm
Tags: American Experience, Anne Babson, church, church culture, Crucifixion, Genesis 24, humor, Isaiah 22, Job 31, midlife, Mississippi, shoulder injuries, shoulder surgery, southern culture, southern living, the New South, United States, whiteness
“Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.” — Job 31:22
Beloved readers of this blog, I write to warn you of hazards you may not have considered in choosing whether or not to attend church. It’s true that a good church shepherds the lost soul to paradise, but have you considered all the dangers of worship, particularly if the church you attend is loving or expressive? I have survived a serious, nay, let me call it a medieval danger, and I am barely unraptured enough to have both feet on Earth to tell you about it.
To be fair to the church I attend, I was already in danger when I arrived. You see, there is a doctor in town who has told me that I could qualify through my insurance to let him cut off my right arm and reattach it with a titanium shoulder joint. I have been apparently sleepwalking. Moved with unconscious piety, like Rebekah in Genesis 24, I have been (sleep) walking to the well and filling a large jar of water, balancing it on my shoulder, which has become for NO OTHER discernible reason arthritic. The doctor is almost gleeful when he tells me he can perform this monstrosity on me, that I will only need half a year to recover from this Frankenshoulder operation, and that after this, the mild chronic pain I have will be gone, gone after half a year of medieval torture pain and immobility.
A couple of weeks ago at church, a young man of Christian character shook my hand vigorously, glad to see me. He’s strong, stronger than he knows, and when I smiled and took a seat, I realized that for the next hours I would need to pray for healing. I raised my hands to heaven as we praised the Lord, and I realized I would need that healing now. In Bible study, I could fully recognize the truth of Isaihah 22:22, “And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.” Because I, for one, couldn’t imagine twisting my hand on a door knob that would either open or shut whatever it was that Jesus locked or unlocked with that shoulder key. I knew I didn’t want to push, or pull, or twist, or mangle anything. If that wasn’t evidence of my faith, I don’t know what is.
Crucifixion can’t be good for one’s shoulders.
The truth is, it’s not just shaking hands at the church door that’s a danger. It’s not just lifting one’s hands to praise the Lord. There are all kinds of secret dangers hidden in church, including:
Tambourine accidents — Musical enthusiasm could rip a rotator cuff if the believer is not careful.
Starbucks-Venti-sized portions at coffee hour — One bucket-sized drink hoisted too high could tear a tendon.
Emphatic gestures in theological debate — Zeal is fine in moderation, but no one should slap a pulpit in rebuke if the fire and brimstone get too hot or stinky.
Choir robe malfunctions — Tripping on the way to the back row of the choir loft could make an alto bump into the organ.
Hugging like a muthah — Someone might love the brethren just a little too much, squeeze like a boa constrictor.
Hat accidents, or “haccidents.” — Ladies still wear big hats in some churches, laden with fruit and plumage, netting and holy mysteries. It just takes one low-flying bird out on the church steps to snag that tower of rattan and turn it into a neck and shoulder disaster.
The clap (to the music) — Proclaiming a little too much victory might sprain into defeat.
Volunteering — That heavy punch bowl one might carry into the reception hall, that Wreath that needs one to glitter spray it and add more plastic begonias to it (I did say I was talking about pentacostal churches, didn’t I?) are shoulder tragedies waiting for a women’s fellowship workday to happen.
There are surely other shoulder hazards at church, but because Jesus endured the ultimate shoulder hazard — crucifixion, which is very painful to the shoulders with the rest of the upper body — I attend despite the risk. The physical therapist is sticking electrified needles in me, not nails, and she is having me shrug Talmudically, releasing certain tense muscles and conveying a resignation that the paradox of faith is that God answers Job’s questions about hardships (like shoulder injury) with other questions. Why ask why? I give the burden of the ineffable to Christ to shoulder.
Beads: What New Orleans Puts its Mojo On
Tags: Algiers, American Experience, Anne Babson, Ash Wedesday, Barnum, Breakfast at Tiffany's, culture shock, Fat Tuesday, Holidays, Holly Golightly, Jazz, Kardashian, Krewe, Langston Hughes, Louboutin, Louisiana, Mardi Gras, midlife, Mississippi, New Orleans, Ole Miss, Pancake Tuesday, Parade Queen, Phyllis Wheatley, southern culture, Southern Writing, Tall Tales, the New South, Truman Capote, United States, University of Mississippi, West Bank
I went to my first actual neighborhood Mardi Gras in my new town of New Orleans this Saturday. I saw the Algiers Krewe, its many floats, the Langston Hughes High School and Phyllis Wheatley Middle School Marching Bands — two schools named for great poets, and I was thoroughly entertained.
The False Thunder God’s false king is throwing false (plastic) beads at the crowd.
I saw floats attributed to inscrutable false deities, with plastic-masked kings and queens, standing within the embrace of plaster-of-Paris angels and in floral-bedecked rigs. I had never liked Mardi Gras beads before, but something about them being thrown at me from a parade float made me want to wear them. Why did they suddenly have value?
I am reminded that native Americans traded Manhattan away for glass beads, or so I was told. I realize that this celebration — Fat Tuesday, come on a Saturday — is allegedly Christian but in fact only represents false deities and powerless powers, but the bands play, and we have fun.
The band leader jumps in the air in front of the gas station in Algiers.
It was delightful to watch teenagers in sequins wave flags and batons, to watch a woman run up and grab a tulle-decked plunger from a clown’s hands off a float. The beads, the tulle, the sequins added a holy mystery to things as banal as sweaty adolescence, plunging, and clowning around. It is the delightful American habit to put lipstick on a pig and to call it a beauty. Plastic beads are not a trip to Tiffany and Company, not even breakfast in front of Tiffany’s shop windows, especially not with Audrey Hepburn. So why do they delight? Is there a link between Mardi Gras beads, and Breakfast at Tiffany’s, which Truman Capote might have thought about while he lived in New Orleans’ Hotel Monteleone? Is Holly Golightly a Mardi Gras float queen morphed into the guise of a New York party girl?
Is this merely a Mardi Gras shoe float, or are we looking at a Louboutin float?
Fashion performs all kinds of acrobatics, I realize, of the plastic bead variety. A pair of black pumps is garden variety, unless its soles are dyed cinnabar red, in which case they are Louboutins. Plastic beads are tacky, unless they fly off a float into your face, in which case — well — perhaps they do remain tacky, but they mark an occasion. Festivals, pancakes for pancake Tuesdays, boiled eggs for Easter, Twigs wrapped with red ribbon for Christmas — all these things take on an air of occasion because of their timing and placement within a rite.
The beads may be cheap and tawdry, but they make me happy, anyway.
I found myself decking myself with plastic beads shamelessly. I was having a marvelous time, in fact. I feel that beading myself with these plastic trinkets marks the occasion of my assimilation into the West Bank of New Orleans, a place that seems to value poets, diversity, jazz and tall tales. By the end of the parade, I had eighteen strands of them in all. I looked at them in my room at home and realized they were utterly useless around my neck. They were no more appropriate for non-Mardi-Gras wear than it would be for me to try to incorporate Christmas tree ornaments into my wardrobe.
But I did find a use for the beads, after all. I am teaching a public speaking course at the University of Mississippi, and we are discussing ways of keeping calm while addressing a crowd. I decided to imbue each strand of plastic baubles with talismanic power. I got my students to agree that since fear of public speaking is irrational — unless, of course, someone doing the public speaking is about to face a firing squad — an irrational response might calm the irrational fear. Without claiming magical powers of any kind on my own, I gave my students each a strand of plastic from the Algiers Krewe parade with a blessing on it that it would give the possessor of it ease while addressing a crowd. One student said it helped her when she had it on for her presentation later in the class.
See, America, glass beads can get you an island. Red-soled shoes can make you chic. Pastry eaten in front of a jewelry shop seems to burn fat cells off of Audrey Hepburn’s waist. Plastic beads, tossed into an American crowd, make a town a tourist attraction, and recycled, they become a tool for orators, the tellers of Louisiana tall tales. We are less the land of Goshen than the land of Barnum. Kardashians prance on our screens like royal Lipizzaner horses, and we buy false eyelashes to flutter at others. Plastic beads are the family jewels. The king is king of burgers. The queen is queen of the parade. The emperor has no clothes, but in New Orleans, when our neighbors parade around naked, we don’t stand in judgment, as long as it happens before Ash Wednesday.
The South Comes North, Conquers and Desegregates: Anne Babson and Caroline Randall Williams read tonight in Pittsburgh
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Tags: African-American Experience, African-American poetry, American culture, American Poetry, Anne Babson, Caroline Randall-Williams, Classical Literature, Confederacy, Derrida, East End Book Exchange, Greek Myths, Iambic Drawl, literary theory, Lucy Negro Redux, Pittsburgh, poetry, Post-Post Modernism, racism, Richard Howard, Robert E. Lee, Shakespeare, Southern Writing, The American Experience, the New South, the white trash pantheon, white privilege, whiteness
Oh, readers of this blog,whom I adore — please come revel with me tonight. I am not inviting you to meet me in a wheat field under the full moon with a blanket. I am not inviting you to look for me hiding in a cave on the edge of Hannibal, Missouri, so we can sneak in the church balcony and watch our own funeral. I am not inviting you to slip out of the governor’s ball so we can elope in my mother’s buggy. No, none of these. I am asking you to escape with me North.
Come see me tonight at 7 pm at East End Book Exchange in Pittsburgh
I am reading tonight (October 24) in Pittsburgh at East End Book Exchange, 4754 Liberty Avenue, in the Little Italy section of town known as Bloomfield, at 7 pm. The reading is called “Iambic Drawl.” With me will be the brilliant and lovely Caroline Randall Williams. Caroline Randall Williams is a poet from Tennessee who has done something really radical — she has written a book of poetry, Lucy Negro Redux, in which she reclaims (and repurposes) Shakespeare for African-American Southern women, who have often had complicated and rather painful relationships with older white men. She talks about it, really talks about it in her very clever book, a book so clever it hurts my feelings that I have never thought of anything so clever to write myself.
I will read selections and delicatessen cuts from my collection The White Trash Pantheon, which resets the ancient Greek myths in the Deep South. In it, as many of you know, I write about white privilege, although I do so with a lot of humor, as this allows white folks like me to examine our pretensions and reject them. I also write about idolatry, as myths about white people in the South have engendered false gods that some have actually revered.
Together, Miz Caroline and I are busting a few myths, including, but not limited to:
White people have a unified and illustrious heritage.
Black people do not.
White people have some kind of a corner on the market for heroism.
Black people are merely victims in society, not participants, not contributors.
White women are the only women who are really beautiful and elegant.
Black women are the only women who are really drudges.
Old books have nothing fresh to say to new people.
New people have nothing fresh to say to old books.
We are going to tear down these walls and others and dance around linguistically.You should come out and hear us!
In high-falluting literary and scholarly circles, there is an abiding tendency to see African-American writers as operating in some sort of a cloister wholly separate in their influences and their production of poetry, and if white folks should read that poetry, it is because we are committed to being somehow politically correct. Paris Review poetry editor Richard Howard once remarked that black poets would only be great writers when they stopped writing about race all the time. What Mr. Howard failed to realize was that he was writing about his own race all the time, too, the presumptuous
privilege of belonging to a dominant racial group that has believed that its culture was THE culture and that African-American culture was merely multiculture. The work of Caroline Randall-Williams belies this notion, as I hope does my own. Mr. Howard’s idea is wrong, and it ought to be obvious to all — African-American culture is at the center of all cultural achievements in America, not a parenthetical influence at all. We should not read African-American poets’ work because we are being democratic. We should read African-American poets’ work because much of it is good, some of it great.
This woman is on her way to greatness!
I am reading, then, with Caroline Randall-Williams because I actually get to — she is a good poet on her way very possibly to being a great poet. If you meet her tonight, which I hope you will, you will almost instantly realize she is ten times smarter than the rest of us. She is also delightful and gorgeous. Her career is a freight train barreling down the track, and we can get out of the way or get on board, because she is part of the next big thing, as I hope to be right with her. She likes what I do to old books in my writing, because she likes to mess with old books, too. Call it quilting or decoupage if you like, but we have been calling it post-post modernism. We deride the Derridian idea that text has no inherent meaning. We just think that we get to couple authorial intentions of old to our own; we write back. We also write around. We write beneath and above. We believe in capital-T-truths, but you’ll have to ask us nicely if you want to hear which ones.
So come out to East End Book Exchange tonight at 7 pm. We are going to be post-post. We are going to be the Confederacy’s worst nightmare. The South rises again tonight and wins Pennsylvania, only it’s not as General Lee imagined it, not at all.
The New Magnolia State in Bloom — Mississippi Wakes Up a Little Freer Today
Tags: American culture, American Experience, Anne Babson, magnolias, Mississippi, Mississippi politics, Mississippi River, Ole Miss, Oxford Mississippi, racism, southern culture, Southern Heritage, Southern Hospitality, Southern manners, The Magnolia State, the New South, The University of Mississippi, University of Mississippi, Vicksburg, white privilege, whiteness
It is with great delight that I declare a symbolic victory in this blog space, a victory for the New South over the Old. Symbolic victories are not the same as sea shifts. Rather, symbolic victories signal a long-fomenting sea shift, one that may have gone unnoticed. It’s a bit like the blooming of magnolias.
Ancient trees like this one got chewed by brontosaurus jaws.
Let me explain. My Vicksburg home was mid-century, not one of those antebellum mansions (alas) for which the city is so rightly famous. But we had one venerable piece of Mississippi heritage right in our front yard — a large magnolia tree. That tree had probably stood there while non-reenacting Civil War-era beseigers and defenders of Vicksburg sniped at one another through bull rushes and barley fields. It had probably stood there when Native American tribes trudged through the marshes to gaze over the Mississippi River over the bluff, on the lookout for good places to camp for the night. It had stood there before North was North and South was South, before slaves arrived in shackles and before cotton got picked in nearby areas. That tree was a kind of deep-rooted truth about the region even before it was a State, a Mesozoic veracity, something subtle but undeniable.
During winter in Mississippi, things freeze over. Often farmers burn the cotton plants, already harvested, into cinders so that the crops can get rotated next year. The earth is partly scorched. The trees are mostly bare. The Earth is grey and brown. Then, as the first harbinger of thaw, one sees buds forming on all the dusty-green-leaved trees, buds that grow the size of outrageous mangoes, already tropical before they even open. Then one morning, people wake up and find that the entire state’s magnolias have exploded open. They preen like debutantes making a fine entrance in white ballgowns into an exclusive cotillion. They waft in the ruffles of their petals a vaguely citrus-y and honeyed smell, gentle except for the enormity and large number of the flowers; one magnolia smells like almost nothing, but an avenue of magnolias? It is a time machine back into our prehistoric selves, the waking of pterodactyls and dragonflies to buzz overhead, the invitation to even volcanic things to return to life and to thrive. The season has changed, even though the week before it seemed like nothing was going on, nothing, that the dead things were always there, it seemed, and nothing was ever going to change. It turns out, every year, that this is a myth we told ourselves in our gloom. The renewal of the magnolia — this is the true thing we forgot.
Blooms like this are heady.
Magnolias announce the start of a new season of growth. The tree grows slowly but surely. When the blooms appear, everything starts to buzz.
The University of Mississippi campus has an avenue of magnolia trees planted decades ago by women alumnae. When it blooms, it is heady. It is a fair walk from the Confederate cemetery on campus, where the only blooms that one sees are in the form of wreaths left to remember very dead soldiers who died defeated. The magnolias, on the other hand, they win every year, which is (alas) more than the football team of the university can say, despite its fans’ adoration.
The ASB (that’s student council, for you Yankees) of Ole Miss voted last night overwhelmingly to take down the Mississippi State Flag from the campus until there is no trace in that flag of a Confederate symbol, and they urged the state’s legislature (among whom are counted many Ole Miss alumni) to hurry the process by which they alter the flag to reflect the dignity of all Mississippians, black and white. The pretty young Southerners blooming on that campus today have decided overwhelmingly that they don’t stand with the boy who got expelled for lynching the James Meredith statue a couple of years ago, with the Klan protesters, with old messages of hatred, the dead and killing things that made the South decay for years after the Civil War.
This flag would represent Mississippi heritage without representing Mississippi hatred.
But those dead things, those decaying things, it turns out — those things constituted a myth people told themselves. The truth of Mississippi is that it is The Magnolia State, a venerable thing that thrives indiscriminately when it blooms. The truth of Mississippi today is that young Mississippians plan to live an integrated and dignified life. They respect their ancestors but intend to live together hospitably and equitably in the present, not the past. They intend to be polite to others, those who share their ethnicity, and those who don’t. It doesn’t mean they have figured it all out — racism (alas) did not die last night on the Ole Miss campus. However, a sea shift many did not see happening was happening slowly and surely, like the growth of the magnolia tree, and now we see the blooming, inhale the fragrance of it, and it is heady and invigorating.
I congratulate my colleagues and students at the University of Mississippi for being harbingers of meaningful change.
The Open Chiffarobe: The Uncloseted Closet of the South
Tags: A Streetcar Named Desire, Alice Walker, Allan Gurganus, American Experience, Anne Babson, Bill Clinton, Billy Joe McAllister, Blanche DuBois, carpetbaggers, church, civil rights, closet, culture shock, faggot, family values, gay, Gay marriage, Georgia queer, homophobia, Jennifer FLowers, Junior League, Kroger's, ladies, lesbian, LGBTQ, literature, Men, Mississippi, Monica Lewinsky, Music for Chameleons, NASCAR, queer, queer studies, Rita Mae Brown, Rosemary Daniell, Rubyfruit Jungle, sex, Shonee's, Sleeping with Soldiers, slut, Southern communities, southern culture, Southern Life, Southern Literature, southern living, Southern Politics, Southern sex life, Southern writers, Southern Writing, Stanley Kowalski, STD rates, Stella Kowalski, Tallahassee Bridge, Tallahatchie, Tennessee Williams, The Color Purple, the New South, the South, Truman Capote, Vicksburg, Yankees
Down the street from my house in Vicksburg, Mississippi, when I would take walks at 5 am in July before the day got really hot, I would often see a couple of elderly gentleman on a stroll together. These men lived down the street from me, and they looked like any other pair of men one might see at a VFW barbecue — golf caps, t-shirts with brand names on them that might endorse a NASCAR car, jorts, sneakers with gym socks. But these men strolled close to one another, not holding hands, but close enough to murmur secrets to one another in hushed voices. They had lived together for decades in a house down the street from mine, only theirs had an impeccably manicured garden that they lovingly tended together. They would often sit on the front porch together, talking. They waved at neighbors who had known them for years. Everyone was polite, though the men generally kept their own close counsel.
No one ever referred to these men as a gay couple in my presence, though I have trouble imagining that their relationship could have ever been construed as anything else. Without benefit of the right to marry legally, they had nevertheless constructed a permanent relationship together that had a quiet warmth, the way I hope my husband and I share a warmth in our golden years, only nobody ever officially acknowledged this couple’s relationship out loud.
In Vicksburg, it was entirely possible to imagine someone shouting the word “faggot” at someone else, with all the bitterness and hatred the word contains. There wasn’t a pulpit in town from which one might not hear a sermon that decried same-sex relationships as unnatural. And yet, in a town of about sixty thousand people, there were a number of such couples. At Shonee’s, I would often see a younger pair of men, stylishly dressed quietly enjoying a meal together. I would on occasion see a pair of women with matching short haircuts and tattoos at Kroger’s buying organic vegetables. But nobody quite acknowledged the presence of these relationships before their eyes. One lesbian couple I know would go home for Christmas every year, and under the tree would be two presents waiting for them, one labeled “Teresa,” the daughter of the family, and another one labeled “Teresa’s friend,” although Teresa had brought home for Christmas the same “friend” for over fifteen years. The gifts were carefully chosen for both specific recipients in mind, but the family, who knew these women slept in the same bed, needed to live with a pretense that this relationship was the same as if one’s college roommate invited one to visit home over holiday break because one had no other fixed plans.
This is the strange system by which the South can exist in a schizophrenic denial and in a deep division regarding their own LGBTQ communities. In Southern red states, a great many people honestly believe they have no personal acquaintances who are non-heterosexual because they have accepted a form of omerta regarding these entirely visible relationships around them. As a result, they are able to believe the idea that Christian marriage is specifically under attack from radical Yankee queers in a manner that would limit their own civil rights. The civil right that many heterosexual conservatives seem to cling to in this instance is the ability to deny what is in fact really none of their business. I think only a few people in the South still think that gay is contagious, that proximity to someone who loves people from his or her own sex will make others do the same. Most people have understood that it would be a wider-spread phenomenon were that true. But they feel that openness and officially acknowledging these relationships would destabilize their basic ideas about how relationships work. This in fact may be true, but they have willfully missed the obvious for so long now they have been living a longstanding lie.
Let’s get real. There is so much queer life in the South, they have a postage stamp that commemorates it!
The irony is that the South not only has a longstanding public LGBTQ populaiton, although its communities tend, as they do in the North, to concentrate in urban areas, the South has produced the most notable gay and lesbian writers in American literature. What are the seminal works of queer literature in America? The first ones that come to my mind are Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote, Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown, Every single Tennessee Williams play, so rich in queer subtext, the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker — and all of these works are by Southern writers. Being queer is not only a thing that happens in the South; it may be that the South actually has more people born here who want to have sex with same-sex partners than people born in the North, given the literary production of the South on the topic is so rich and diverse. It’s hard to know, though, as this firm commitment by the South to silence on this topic masks the real statistics.
Gay Southern writer Allan Gurganus once remarked that one reason why many Southerners used to be so blind to the sons and daughters of Dixie who were gay and lesbian was that a lot of those people left town the second they could. The story people told at the church picnic about these absent relatives was that George had moved to Chicago because he got a fantastic career and loved his life as a playboy bachelor surrounded by pretty ladies. Harriet went North to teach at a girl’s school in New Hampshire, and bless her heart, she just couldn’t seem to meet the right man. The AIDS epidemic of the 1980s made many Southern families confront the reality of certain male relatives’ lives because cousins and brothers came home to die from the disease, and this meant beyond any doubt that confirmed bachelors were not out looking to meet ladies in bars, though they might have met gentlemen in bars quite regularly. The suffering and death of these men brought many instances of acknowledgement in private and forgiveness of past offenses, but few families declared the reasons for these deaths in public forums. Things went along in communities the same as if these successful, beautiful sons had died of cancer, not a disease spread by sex.
I think that one of the reasons the South has resisted a closer examination in all frankness of its LGBTQ community is that the straight community would also be up for scrutiny if this ever happened. Southern straight men cheat with comparative impunity (think of Bill Clinton’s rather prolific track record, and I am not just talking about Monica Lewinsky and Jennifer Flowers), and Southern women, while not all as committed to promiscuity as Rosemary Daniell is in her still-astonishingly-honest memoir Sleeping with Soldiers, nevertheless have a lot more extramarital sex than the Junior League is ready to announce in its monthly newsletter. There’s a reason why STD rates are so high in Mississippi, and it’s not just because people don’t use condoms as often as they ought; people in Mississippi screw around at least as much, possibly more, than people in the North do. But after the debauchery of Saturday night, people around here go to church on Sunday morning, where the pastor tells them that Christians don’t act like they actually did the night before.
This lack of openness about people’s actual choices in the South has led to a mismeasurement of Southern life as it is actually lived. This mismeasurement has led sinners to feel isolated rather than forgiven. It has led to many Billy Joe McAllisters jumping off of many Tallahatchie Bridges. It leads certain others, almost as an overcompensation for their own transgressions, to vote for people who condemn their own behavior during election cycles. The rhetoric of the South does not match the life of the South, and as a result, a kind of Blanche-DuBois-like unwillingness to stand under direct light for examination can explain some of the Southern politics that Northerners find so confounding. It’s the whole South’s sex life that is really in the closet, not just the non-heterosexual sex, but any sex that isn’t fully sanctioned by marriage within the limits set by old anti-sodomy statutes. The South wants to pretend there are more virgins on wedding nights than there really are. The South wants to pretend that marriages are more faithful than they really are. They want to pretend there are fewer sluts, male and female, than there really are. And they want to pretend they don’t know any queers, unless you mean Georgia queer — a guy who likes women better than football.
I acknowledge that my Stanley-Kowalski-like desire to rip the paper lantern off the light bulb here in the South and expose the raw truths of its existence is a Yankee impulse if ever there were one. I admit this very blog would like to wrap its arms around the South, smother its neck with kisses, and say to it, “I pulled you down off them columns, and how you loved it having them colored lights going.” Given my many Southern readers, I have to believe that like Stanley does for Stella and Blanche, my frankness at once horrifies and fascinates. All I can say to the South, as I lift it up in my brutal, sensual arms, is that we’ve had this date from the beginning.
The White Trash Pantheon on Hottytoddy.com
Tags: Anne Babson, AVant-Garde, Louis Bourgeois, Oxford, poetry, southern culture, Southern Literature, Southern Writing, The MoonShine Cotillion, the New South, the white trash pantheon, Vox Press
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VOX PRESS Publishes Award-Winning Southern Writing By Carpetbagger
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Vox Press, a publisher of avant-garde poetry committed to the publishing of the South’s outsider voices, will host a book party on Monday, April 20, at 7 p.m., at the Powerhouse in Oxford, for a book from the ultimate outsider voice in Southern literature – that of the Carpetbagger.
Anne Babson, a native of Brooklyn who moved to Mississippi a few years ago, won the Colby H. Kullman prize at the 2014 Southern Writers Southern Writing Conference – an award that honors not only excellence in literature but inherent Southern qualities within literature – with her collection of poetry entitled The White Trash Pantheon, which sets the ancient Greek myths in the deep South.
Many of these poems are written in a specifically Southern voice. The ancient God of wine, Dionysius, becomes a moonshiner who explains the magic of his drink to readers. Persephone is not so much a spring goddess as a teenage Southern belle whose mother could never accept her boyfriend, the god of the underworld. It comments on writers like Faulkner and Capote, and it borrows richly from the sermonizing-disguised-as-humor present in Twain’s prose. Though only of brief residence below the Mason-Dixon Line, Ms. Babson nevertheless garnered the prize generally given for that work thought to be most authentically Southern.
Louis Bourgeois, Vox’s Publisher, explains the appeal of such a work to the press: “Surely no one in the South is more generally despised than a carpetbagger, and Anne writes a blog called The Carpetbagger’s Journal about her culture shock moving South. She isn’t a Southern person, but her writing is in fact Southern. The White Trash Pantheon doesn’t mock the South, but it examines the South with the clear vision an outsider’s eyes bring, and it does it with wit.”
Celebrating this publication, Vox will host on Monday, April 20, at 7 p.m. a book party it is calling a “moonshine cotillion,” because the press hopes to attract an audience for this poetry outside of academic classrooms.
Mr. Bourgeois says, “Vox is interested in reaching a wider audience with this poetry than the narrow one that the academy generally tries to impress. This poetry uplifts ordinary American lives in a vernacular that would make many elitists feel uncomfortable. We thought we would invite people to a word party, not a dry, academic reading.”
The moonshine cotillion in celebration of the publication of Anne Babson’s The White Trash Pantheon begins at 7 p.m., with doors opening at a later time. There is a five-dollar suggested donation, but all are welcome. Refreshments and down-home snacks will be available, as will copies of the book.
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1 Downside School students Matthew Walters, Olii Neilson and Tristan van Laar have received Oxbridge offers.
2 Paul Maynard, a former pupil at St Ambrose College in Hale Barns, Altrincham, has been promoted by Theresa May from under secretary for transport to the Whips’ Office. He is pictured with new Education Secretary Damian Hinds, who attended St Ambrose from 1979 to 1986.
3 The Mayor of Derby, Councillor John Whitby, is guest of honour at a presentation evening at Saint Benedict Catholic Voluntary Academy.
4 Reuben Litherland, a Year 9 student at Saint Benedict Catholic Voluntary Academy, has been appointed to the Youth Deaf Advisory Board for the National Deaf Children’s Society.
5 Pupils from The Laurels School in Clapham, south London, attend the inaugural Guildford High School Model United Nations Conference.
6 Bishop Declan Lang of Clifton celebrates Mass in the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre during the bishops of the Holy Land Co-ordination’s annual visit to the region (photo: Mazur/catholicchurch.org.uk).
7 Ordinariate leader Mgr Keith Newton celebrates Mass at the rededication of St Margaret Mary, Birmingham, following redecoration and the restoration of the church’s original bell.
8 The Young Shakespeare Company performs The Tempest with children aged seven to nine at St Benedict’s School, Ealing, in west London.
9 Katherine and Isabella, Year 6 pupils at The Marist School in Sunninghill, Berkshire, have qualified for the TCS University of Oxford Computing Challenge.
10 Joseph Riley, a Year 7 pupil at St Ambrose College, has appeared as a contestant on the CBBC television show The Dog Ate My Homework.
11 Students from Saint Paul’s Catholic High School in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, attend a Christmas market in Lille.
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CREDtalks (Columbia Region Ecological Discussions)
Start Date: January 16, 2020
End Date: February 06, 2020
City: Revelstoke BC
Venue: Revelstoke Community Centre
The Columbia Region Ecological Discussions include speakers addressing a diversity of topics such as science communication, active ecological management, citizen science, research skills and techniques, and applied ecological research projects. See below for a list of upcoming talks as well as past CREDtalks.
Talk recordings are posted on this web page and available on our YouTube channel here.
CMI would like to thank the Columbia Basin Trust for sponsoring the 2019/2020 season of CREDtalks.
CREDtalks: season 4
Ancient Inland Temperate Rainforest in the Monashee Mountains
Thu, Nov 7, 2019. 12pm. Revelstoke Community Centre, MacPherson Room
Presenter: Amber Peters, BSc, staff biologist for the Valhalla Wilderness Society.
In 2018 the Valhalla Wilderness Society sponsored a scientific expedition into the largest of two contiguous valleys to record an ecological inventory of plant, macrofungi and lichen species using standard sampling and photodocumentation methods. Biologists Toby Spribille, Curtis Björk, Wayne McCrory, Tyson Ehlers and Amber Peters conducted exploratory research to determine the ecological and inland rainforest values of the newly discovered wilderness. An impressive diversity of rare habitats and species were discovered, including abundant growth of oceanic lichen species indicative of a true rainforest ecosystem. Researchers have since concluded that the Rainbow-Jordan Wilderness harbours stands of some of the richest Inland Temperate Rainforest yet found in the province, making the unroaded and unlogged wilderness a valuable refuge for wildlife and sensitive plant communities. The presentation will include a summary of rare and at-risk species that have been inventoried to date, as well as photography by the researchers and by well-known professional photographer Douglas Noblet.
The Valhalla Wilderness Society have submitted a proposal for this area of land to be included in a protected areas proposal currently under review with the province of British Columbia and the Federal government.IMAGE: Douglas Noblet
A recording of this talk can be found here.
Songbirds of Mount Revelstoke and Glacier National Parks
Thu, Nov 28, 2019. 12pm. Revelstoke Community Centre, Boulder Room
Presenter: Lisa Larson, MSc., Ecologist Team Lead, Mount Revelstoke and Glacier National Park, Parks Canada
Lisa will provide an overview of the Ecological Integrity Monitoring program for Mount Revelstoke and Glacier National Park and highlight how songbirds fit into this program. She will also share bird monitoring results locally and more generally for the whole of the Mountain National Parks. IMAGE: Perisoreus canadensis, Parks Canada
What’s up with Wolverines? 10 years (and counting) of Wolverine Research in the Columbia Region
Thu, Jan 16, 2020. 12pm. Revelstoke Community Centre, MacPherson Room
Presenter: Mirjam Barrueto, PhD (candidate), University of Calgary
Wolverines are rare but insanely cool animals found in Canada’s north, but they also haunt the remote mountains of southern British Columbia. All recent research suggests that their populations throughout Canada are under pressure because of habitat fragmentation, habitat degradation, and locally high harvest rates. Let’s say we decide that we don’t want them to disappear from our mountains: Do we have the information we need to make a plan? What can we do to prevent them going the way of the caribou? IMAGE: Matt Kynoch
Wildlife Mitigations and Highway Improvements
Presenter: Danielle Backman, Environmental Assessment Scientist,
Mount Revelstoke and Glacier National Parks
In 2015, Parks Canada launched a significant infrastructure investment program. In Glacier National Park, through these investments and the environmental review process, several wildlife mitigations were recommended and included in project work. By the end of the 2019 construction season completed projects will include amphibian crossings, animal ramps off the snowsheds, concrete barriers to help keep goats off they highway, a wildlife underpass created from an existing large steel culvert, and several hundreds of thousands of dollars in investments to improve aquatic ecology (culvert improvements). These initiatives are novel, based on emerging science and represent significant environmental gains – while improving park roads and assets. IMAGE: Parks Canada
Pity the Analyst: Designing Camera Trap Software for Efficient Image Inspection
Thu, Feb 6, 2020. 12pm. Revelstoke Community Centre, MacPherson Room
Presenter: Saul Greenberg, Emeritus Professor, University of Calgary
This talk describes and explains design patterns for software that supports how analysts can efficiently inspect camera trap images and encode its data. Broadly speaking, a design pattern identifies a commonly occurring problem and a general, reusable design approach to solving that problem. A developer can then use that design approach to create a specific software solution appropriate to the particular situation under consideration. In particular, design patterns for camera trap image analysis address solutions to commonly occurring problems faced by analysts when inspecting a large number of images and entering data describing those images. We base our design patterns on our understanding of what analysts do, acquired over eight years developing and iteratively refining the freely-available Timelapse image analysis system. For each design pattern presented, we describe the problem, the design approach that solves that problem, followed by a concrete example of how Timelapse realizes that design pattern in practice. These design patterns can be used to inform the design of camera trap systems, or to help project managers decide between competing software products by considering if their interfaces include design pattern solutions relevant to the project.
Saul will also describe our work with Microsoft, where Timelapse incorporates image recognition data. In particular, I explain how practitioners have altered their workflow to dramatically speed up data encoding of massive image numbers, primarily by filtering out unwanted images.
Native Bee Fauna of the Columbia Mountains
Tue, June 18, 2019. 7pm. Revelstoke Community Centre – MacPherson Room
Presenter: Lincoln Best, Taxonomist with the Oregan Bee Project and Atlas at the Oregon State University, Corvallis in partnership with the Oregon Department of Agriculture. He instructs the Oregon Bee School, a course in taxonomy, and many other short courses and field courses. He spends his winters at University of Calgary where he is the pollinator taxonomist for the Ecologics Lab, generating biodiversity data for Landscape Ecology projects. Lincoln provides support to a large network of diverse clients in Canada and abroad.
Lincoln Best will introduce the native bee fauna of the Columbia Mountains and discuss their relation to regional flora, interesting species, and how we can enhance habitat to preserve them. This talk is co-hosted with the Revelstoke Local Food Initiative. IMAGE: Lincoln Best
Alternative Forest Harvesting Practices in Revelstoke
Wed, November 28, 2018. 12pm. Revelstoke Community Centre – MacPherson Room
Presenter: Kevin Bollefer, RPF, Revelstoke Community Forest Corporation, Revelstoke, British Columbia.
The Revelstoke Community Forest Corporation (RCFC) is a forest company owned by the City of Revelstoke. RCFC owns and operates a 120,000 hectare Tree Farm Licence (TFL 56) north of Revelstoke. Through a series of photos and a discussion, Kevin will talk about the trials and tribulations of alternative harvesting practices on TFL 56, looking at suitability, successes and lessons learned in partial cutting. IMAGE: Kevin Bollefer
This talk was recorded and can be found here.
50 Years of Habitat Change in the Revelstoke Reach
Wed, December 12, 2018. 12pm. Revelstoke Community Centre – MacPherson Room
Presenter: Ryan Gill, RPBio, Wildlife Biologist
With the construction of the Hugh Keenleyside dam in Castlegar, 200km of
the Columbia river, and the Arrow lakes was inundated. Prior to
inundation, the valley bottom was a matrix of riverine, riparian habitat,
and rural development. Since impoundment, this landscape has gone
through significant changes, with subsequent changes to the wildlife
using habitat in the drawdown zone. There have been several studies on
almost all aspects of the effects of reservoir operation on the natural
environment of the Revelstoke Reach, this talk will be a high level view of those changes between 1969 and 2018. IMAGE: Harry van Oort
NOTE: Unfortunately the recording of this presentation did not work due to faulty equipment. You can access Ryan’s power point presentation HERE. Additional documents that may be of interest include the Arrow Lakes Reservoir Mid-Evaluation Scenarios Report, the feedback to this report, an updated report from June 2017, and an addendum to scenario 3.
Keeping Toads off Roads: Western Toad Ecology and Hwy 31A mortality at Fish & Bear Lakes
Wed, January 9, 2019. 12pm. Revelstoke Community Centre – MacPherson Room
Presenter: Marcy Mahr, MSc, Senior Research Biologist, Valhalla Wilderness Society
Western toads by their very nature and lifecycle require both terrestrial hibernating and aquatic breeding habitats. Consequently, a highway running between these habitats can result in a lot of dead toads on the road during annual migrations. Marcy’s presentation will discuss how in a remote, mountain pass between Kaslo and New Denver in the south Selkirk Mountains, a population of western toads are getting some assistance from the Valhalla Wilderness Society to cross Highway 31A, a popular route for summer tourists. Over the past 4 years, researchers and volunteer Toad Ambassadors have been keeping thousands of adult toads and baby toadlets out of harm’s way while identifying highway crossing hotspots where toad underpasses and directional fencing could be installed. IMAGE: Marcy Mahr
Using eBird and DNA Analysis to Track the Evolution of BC’s “Whiskyjacks”
Wed, February 20, 2019. 12pm. Revelstoke Community Centre – MacPherson Room
Presenter: Dr. John Woods, zoologist in Revelstoke
Biodiversity in British Columbia is nothing short of spectacular. Our latitudinal stretch, convoluted topography, medley of climates, and perch on the western rim of the continent, have given rise to a variety of species unparalleled within Canada. In this presentation, we’ll look at the intraspecific evolution and post-glacial dispersal of Canada Jays and find that our province is even more wonderful than we thought! IMAGE: Canada Jay, John G. Woods
CRED talks: season 2
The Columbia River Treaty and Options for Arrow Lakes Reservoir
Thu, November 16, 2017. 12pm. Revelstoke Community Centre – MacPherson Room
Presenter: Alan Thomson, MRM P.Eng. Water Resources Consultant, Mountain Station Consultants, Nelson, British Columbia.
In preparation for negotiations concerning the Columbia River Treaty with the United States, Alan and a team of Canadian Columbia River basin experts have studied Arrow Lakes Reservoir literature, data and operations to explore and develop alternative reservoir operation scenarios that may enhance ecosystem function while maintaining power generation and flood risk management functions. Their report is found on the provincial CRT blog site here.
Alan’s presentation will introduce the Columbia River Treaty, some of the environmental and other impacts due to operation on the Arrow reservoir for primarily hydrogenation and flood control purposes, and then summarize one Arrow Lakes reservoir operational scenario that shows promise for addressing some known environmental impact concerns in the reservoir. IMAGE: Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program
Why Invasives Matter – to all of us
Tue, November 21, 12:15pm. Revelstoke Community Centre – MacPherson Room
Presenter: Sue Davies, Columbia Shuswap Invasive Species Society, Program Coordinator.
Invasive species invade. Their invasion into new territory often creates negative impacts on the environment and those who live in it. So why should you care about invasives? Invasives can destroy habitat for native flora and fauna, but they can also damage our economy, disrupt tourism and recreation, and send our energy and utility costs soaring. Reducing the spread of invasives is in all of our best interests, and if we take some simple steps, we can often prevent the spread of these harmful invaders. IMAGE COLLAGE: Sue Davies
Mending the Meadows: Restoration on the Summit of Mount Revelstoke
Tue, November 28, 12pm. Revelstoke Community Centre – MacPherson Room
Presenter: Mindy Skinner, Parks Canada Resource Management Officer
Visitors from around the world are drawn to the summit of Mount Revelstoke every summer for the vibrant and colourful displays of subalpine wildflowers. Over the past 100 years, this influx of people has impacted the very thing they come to see. Through on-going restoration and monitoring, Parks Canada is protecting this incredible landscape for both the wildflowers and the people. The talk will provide an overview of the history of human impact on the summit, including more recent monitoring and future restoration efforts that are planned. IMAGE: Parks Canada
Ungulate Population Management, Value or Science Based?
Tue, December 5, 2017. 12pm Revelstoke Community Centre, MacPherson Room.
Presenter: Meghan Anderson, Wildlife Infometrics Inc.
Ungulates have important hunting and wildlife viewing values. We also value them for the ecological role they play. With caribou and moose populations declining across BC reflecting on historic population data to inform our opinions is a germane topic. IMAGE: Moose calves in Goldstream, Saakja Hazenburg
This talk was recorded can be found here.
One Fish, Two Fish: Living like a Kokanee in our Reservoirs
Tue, January 16, 12:15pm.
Revelstoke Community Centre, MacPherson Room.
Presenter: Karen Bray, BC Hydro Natural Resource Specialist
The appearance of bright red fish in late summer signals the much anticipated and welcome start of the annual kokanee spawning run in streams around us. The abundance of this adaptable species is linked to the creation of large reservoirs and their life history can provide us valuable means to monitor changes in productivity that could influence both aquatic and terrestrial environments. IMAGE: Ben Meunier, FWCP
Nesting success of Breeding Birds within the Arrow Lakes and Kinbasket Drawdown Zones
Tue, January 23, 12pm. Revelstoke Community Centre, MacPherson Room.
Presenter: Catherine Craig, Wildlife Biologist with Cooper Beauchesne and Associates
Since 2008, Cooper Beauchesne and Associates Ltd. has monitored the habitat use and success of breeding birds nesting within the Arrow Lakes and Kinbasket drawdown zones. The fluctuating water levels within these reservoirs have the potential to impact the nest and post-fledging survival of birds nesting within them. This talk will provide an overview of the results so far, with a focus on recent research on the survival of juvenile Savannah Sparrows. IMAGE: Devon Anderson
The talk was recorded and can be found here.
Annual and seasonal survival of Yellow Warbler – Which Stages of the Annual Cycle are Most Costly?
Presenter: Michal Pavlik, PhD candidate with Simon Fraser University, Wildlife Biologist with Cooper Beauchesne and Associates
Yellow Warbler is a small passerine that visits British Columbia annually for about three months of the year. A small breeding population of these warblers which nest in the drawdown zone of Arrow Lake reservoir near Revelstoke has been monitored since 2004. While a lot of information has been acquired about their local breeding ecology, relatively little is known about how these birds survive the remaining 9 months of the year. As long-distance migrants, they face many challenges on both their breeding and wintering grounds, as well as during migration. In this talk, Michal will present part of his PhD thesis and talk about the annual and seasonal survival of Yellow Warbler with a focus on identifying stages of the annual cycle when mortality of these birds is the highest. IMAGE: Michal Pavlik
Water Monitoring & Climate Change
Friday May 12, 2017. 7-8pm. Revelstoke Community Centre
Dr. Martin Carver will be presenting Columbia Basin Trust’s “Water Monitoring and Climate Change Report.” Water monitoring is particularly relevant to higher-volume water users such as communities, hydropower operators, agricultural producers, industrial operations and snowmaking at ski resorts, and can also benefit commercial and private recreational users.
The report provides a snapshot of current scientific knowledge about water resources within the Basin. It outlines:
– the state of water monitoring efforts
– how climate change is projected to affect various types of water resources such as snowfall, glaciers, rivers and lakes
– opportunities to strengthen understanding of water resources in the future.
For more information on the report, see here
This presentation was complimentary event to the “One River. Ethics Matter.” conference, taking place at the Revelstoke Recreation Centre on Saturday, May 13th, 9am – 4pm. For more information on the conference, see here IMAGE: Harry van Oort
KONELINE: Our Land Beautiful – Film Screening & Discussion with the film’s producer Nettie Wild.
Thursday March 9, 2017. 6:30pm. Roxie Theatre, Revelstoke
Koneline: Our Land Beautiful, is a compelling art film which tells the story of the many different people who wander, work, dream, create, and conserve throughout Northwestern British Columbia and celebrates their common love and respect for the land. Set deep in the traditional lands of the Tahltan First Nation, Koneline (pronounced kona-leena) captures the beauty of the land while the wilderness undergoes irrevocable change. The film shares with it’s audience a different, non-lecturing, way of seeing and being – from hunters to miners, and guide outfitters to elders of the Tahltan First Nation, Koneline shares their stories of politics, drama, and humour displayed in a visually stunning and poetic presentation. The film smashes stereotypes of the people who work and live in the region: white hunters carry bows and arrows while members of the Tahltan First Nation hunt out of the back of a pickup truck with high powered rifles, both Native and caucasian diamond drillers reporting to work while elders blockade them, young Natives struggling to preserve their dying language and older white men sing to their stuffed moose. Although the film is set in a region outside of Revelstoke, the stories there reflect a common thread throughout BC – mixing resource extraction, with wilderness preservation, and an adventurous way of life.
The award winning film creates an experience full of complexity which parks all assumptions, shows the stories of the land from several perspectives, and compels the audience to look at their own journeys as a mutual project, working with everyone to create a sustainable planet – socially, economically, and environmentally.
Join us, along with our co-hosts: Revelstoke Community Forest Corporation, Revelstoke Snowmobile Club, and Monashee Outfitting Ltd on Thursday, March 9th at the Roxy Theatre Revelstoke, doors at 6:30pm. There will be a Q&A session with the film’s director, Nettie Wild, after the screening.
Advance tickets will be available at Valhalla Pure and Rough Country for $10 ($12 at the door).
Discovering Endangered Bat Species in the Nakimu Cave System, Glacier National Park B.C
Wednesday March 8, 2017. 12pm. Revelstoke Community Centre
Parks Ecologist Sarah Boyle from Mount Revelstoke and Glacier National Parks will present a 20 minute lively talk to highlight the history of the Nakimu Cave System and the recent discovery of the bat species that call it home. IMAGE: B. Fenton
Whitebark Pine Restoration in Mount Revelstoke and Glacier National Parks BC
Wedndesday Feb 22, 2017. 12pm. Revelstoke Community Centre
Natalie Stafl, Parks Canada Resource Management Officer will present an update on Whitebark Pine Restoration in Mount Revelstoke and Glacier National Park.
Whitebark pine is a keystone sub-alpine species that is federally listed as Endangered under the Species at Risk Act. Come learn about the on-going initiatives in Mount Revelstoke and Glacier National Park to protect, restore and enhance whitebark pine and associated habitat. Park staff will highlight elements of their whitebark pine conservation program including cone collection, disease resistance trials, prescribed fire and targeted planting in the parks. IMAGE: Parks Canada
The Western Painted Turtle: Revelstoke’s Resilient Reptile
Thursday November 3, 2016. 7pm. Revelstoke Community Centre
We welcome Dr. Karl Larsen who will tell us about the Western Painted Turtle – a fascinating animal, which has adapted to tolerate harsh conditions. Because of its resilience, this species of turtle has managed to survive further north than any other turtle in North Ameica, with the population in Revelstoke representing one of the more extreme northern points in its range. The painted turtle population which inhabit the Arrow Lakes Reservoir are of particular interest since they are able to tolerate the climate of the area but can also the dynamics of the reservoir. Through partnerships between BC Hydro, LGL Ltd., the Okanagan Nation Alliance, and Thompson Rivers University (TRU), intense research on these animals has been brought to bear since 2010. Dr. Karl Larsen of TRU will provide an overview of this work, particularly that which was conducted by graduate students to improve our understanding of the Revelstoke turtle population, including their relationship to their environment and the potential threats to their long-term perseverance. This work shows the amazing resilience of these animals, and although certain knowledge gaps need to be filled, the animals appear to be handling life in the reservoir fairly successfully. Dr. Larsen’s presentation will also include a brief overview of how amphibians and reptiles deal with northern environments.
Karl Larsen grew up in Revelstoke, where he developed a life-long interest in wildlife. After graduating from Revelstoke Secondary School, he went on to compete BSc, MSc and PhD degrees at the University of Victoria and the University of Alberta. Along with the graduate students in his lab, he has studied a variety of animals, including snakes, badgers, spadefoot toads, mice, goshawks, pikas, pillbugs and squirrels. He currently teaches senior-level courses in wildlife conservation and management in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops. IMAGE: Karl Larsen
Dr. Alan Burger, Renown Photographer and BC Nature President
Monday October 3, 2016. 7pm. Revelstoke Community Centre
To help kick off our series, we invite you to join recently retired seabird biologist, university professor, and BC Nature President Dr. Alan Burger, as he discusses his personal experiences aboard small adventure-tourism vessels to the Antarctic and Arctic as a naturalist and lecturer. His talk will focus on Global climate change and its unexpected effects on these polar regions and their wildlife, while touching on the impacts of climate change in BC.
Enjoy his photos of wildlife and spectacular scenery and learn how our activities affect life at the extremes of the earth.
As the President of of BC Nature, the federation of naturalist clubs in BC, he will discuss the possibilities of a Naturalist Club in Revelstoke supported by BC Nature. IMAGE: Alan Burger
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Oscar Vault Monday – In the Name of the Father, 1993 (dir. Jim Sheridan)
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In The Name of the Father was Jim Sheridan’s second film, his first being 1989’s My Left Foot, which itself was nominated for several Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director (it won for Best Actor, Daniel Day-Lewis and Best Supporting Actress, Brenda Fricker). This film was a slightly fictionalized account of the Guildford Four, who were falsely convicted of an IRA pub bombing in 1974. They weren’t proven innocent until 1989. I don’t really want to get further into their story, as that would spoil the film entirely. In The Name of the Father was nominated for seven Academy Awards, although it failed to win a single category: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Supporting Actress Emma Thompson, Best Supporting Actor Pete Postlethwaite, Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis, Best Director and Best Picture. It is currently #226 on IMDb’s Top 250 user-generated list. The other films nominated for Best Picture that year were: The Fugitive, The Piano, The Remains of the Day and winner Schindler’s List.
I love both this film and Sheridan’s debut film My Left Foot. I also quite enjoyed Brothers (though I know many who had issues with it). Unfortunately, the only other film of his I’ve seen is Dream House, which was a giant mess of a film. I’m told both In America and The Boxer are great and I plan to see those sooner rather than later. I’m not going to go into the plot of the film too much because I don’t want to spoil anything, since part of the what makes the film great is how you see things that don’t really make sense until later and when they do you go, “ah!”
What can you even say about Daniel Day-Lewis? He made 9 movies in the 80s, 5 in the 90s and only 4 in the 00s. If Spielberg’s Lincoln is the only movie he makes this decade I will cry. He is always good. ALWAYS. I’ve seen 11 of his films, so I guess I need to hurry up and see the other seven. I think few would argue that he is one of the greatest actors of his generation (ever maybe?). He’s got such a passion and such a talent for disappearing into his characters. He’s such an ass at the beginning of this film and then gradually goes through such a transformation, that only an actor of his calibre could really pull off. He lost the Oscar to Tom Hanks in Philadelphia and I can’t really blame the Academy for that decision. I’m just glad I didn’t have to make that choice. I mean, Liam Neeson in Schindler’s List was in that mix, too!
Pete Postlethwaite was one of those “oh, yeah, that guy!” kind of actors, who was always so good (I mean, Lost World: Jurassic Park, amirite?), but most people probably never knew his name. It’s such a shame. He is so incredibly brilliant in this film and most deservedly received an Oscar nomination. He lost to Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive and I’m still trying to figure out why. Really, I’ve never understood The Fugitive’s Best Picture nomination, let alone Jones’s win. Actually, I’d’ve given that award to any of the other nominees. Ralph Fiennes in Schindler’s List, Leonardo DiCaprio in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape and John Malkovich in In The Line of Fire rounded out that category; none of which have managed to snag that illusive Oscar gold.
Emma Thompson is a flawless goddess and deserves all the awards. Coming off of a Best Actress win 1992’s Howards End (her 5th film), she was nominated not once, but twice in 1993: in the Best Actress category for The Remains of the Day and the Best Supporting Actress category for this film (both were Best Picture contenders). She lost in both categories to Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin in The Piano. In 1995 she won a bajillion awards for her screenplay for Sense and Sensibility (including the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar) and was also nominated for Best Actress for that film. In this film she plays a tough as nails attorney who takes the case of the Guildford Four and despite the odds, comes out on top.
Lastly, I have to mention John Lynch a bit. Partially because of his ridiculous hair in the film and also because I really love him in Sliding Doors. Although he’s been active in films and television on both sides of the pond since the 1980s, he’s never really made much of a splash in either country. I’m not sure why, but I always have my fingers crossed that he will.
If you are interested in watching this film and are a Netflix subscriber, you are in luck as they currently have in available to stream!
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Posted on September 16, 2012, in Oscar Vault Monday and tagged 1993, Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, In the Name of the Father, Jim Sheridan, John Lynch, Pete Postlethwaite. Bookmark the permalink. 5 Comments.
kungfumom | September 17, 2012 at 9:02 am
What a wonderful film this is. I too do not even begin to get why The Fugitive was so elevated unless it was linked to the Love for the TV Series. And Fiennes!?! what a performance!!!!! Oh well. With In the Name of the Father I was holding my breath the whole time.
T think Daniel Day-Lewis is one of those once in a generation actors.
Kurtis | April 22, 2013 at 12:58 am
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Tina | April 24, 2013 at 8:20 am
I found absolutely no fault in any of the performances in this film…it’s a very well told story and it’s gut-wrenching every time I see it. I agree with the commenter who said that Daniel Day-Lewis is a once-in-a-generation type of talent.
Re: John Lynch: I thought his screen time, scarce as it was, was superb in this film, and his very believable performance is what made me look him up and find another that I was able to share with my family, “The Secret of Roan Inish”. As for his hair….the majority of the film was set in 1974, making his hairstyle quite common and therefore not ridiculous at all for that time period. I guess you had to be there. 🙂
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Mechanic Alludu
Posted on August 31, 2019 by Temple Connolly
There is nothing new in B. Gopal’s film, but we all know that Chiranjeevi and ANR are the drawcard.
Parvathi (Shubha) gives birth to a baby boy in the home of a stranger, Mahalakshmi (Sharada). She’s on the run from goon and soon afterwards she takes little Ravi and leaves town. Many years later Ravi (Chiranjeevi) ends up working for Jagannatham (Akkineni Nageshwara Rao) at his garage. He also pesters Jagannatham’s daughter Chitti (Vijayashanti) and of course, despite his appalling ideas of what constitutes “wooing”, she falls for him too. But there can be no mass film without birth secrets and fateful coincidence! Parvathi comes for the engagement and shock horror, she is Jagannatham’s estranged sister. And Ravi’s father is Bad News. It turns out that Ravi’s father Narayana framed Jagannatham for murder. So Ravi and Chitti both impersonate illegitimate children of Narayana and move into the big house to get their revenge. How will true love win? Was Brahmi necessary? Will Sharada come back at the end of the film to make a very important decision? Will Ravi reunite the good bits of the family?
It’s a good thing I could have answered all of those questions without seeing the film as I watched this on Youtube without subtitles. Subtlety and nuance would have been quite trying. And a big sarcastic thank you to people who add huge ugly watermarks to their video uploads.
Chiru is in his mass element here, but he doesn’t phone it in. He gets an excellent and surprisingly low key entrance via a bank of TV screens, but that quickly turns into Ravi being thrown through a window and into an adjoining body building gym for the fight part deux. He’s an atypical hero in some ways because the bad guys actually land a few punches. After being sacked for destroying his employer’s TV shop, Ravi saves Jagnnatham from a runaway car and scores himself a new job.
Chiru’s chemistry with ANR is delightful. It’s not often you see the Megastar consciously making room for his co-stars, or a co-star that takes it right up to the Megastar. Jagannatham spots Ravi moping, draped across his car bonnet, and decides to coach him in the ways of being a man – specifically drinking, dancing and romancing.
In the ebullient Guruva Guruva, you can see Chiru watching ANR, one of the original Telugu dancing heroes, and make small changes to his own timing and movement to keep in synch with his sprightly 70 year old partner. It’s always a bit disconcerting seeing fine actors with nothing much to do, but both deliver good solid performances despite the lacklustre material. Their scenes when Jagannatham refuses to accept Ravi have a bit of cheese and a bit of real pathos, as though neither could help themselves and had to add some quality emoting.
Poor Vijayashanti. Ravi’s approach to Chitti was of the treat them mean and they’ll find you irresistible school of thought. The same school that turned out generations of sex pests. Luckily Ravi is coached in the ways of over acting by Jagannatham. Although since Chitti was only written into the film to be his True Love and dance partner when ANR wasn’t available, did it make a real difference? Chitti does fight back in doomed attempts to free herself of Ravi’s presence, and those scenes at least give Vijayshanti something to do other than squeal and/or giggle. Once Chitti succumbs to Ravi’s advances, she is allowed into songs. She comes into her own for the dances although there she has to battle the wardrobe department.
I enjoyed the song picturisations a lot. They really play up to the Megastar image, as well as giving Chiru a range of choreographic and costume styles to showcase his charms. And he did solve the vexing question of how to manage many costume changes efficiently by having his backing dancers tear layer after layer of clothing off him.
The action scenes are varied. The intro fight incorporated a wide range of gym apparatus. I liked the longwinded rickshaw chase. Ravi fights on and off and under the rickshaw as the baddies keep coming and show how bad they are by not respecting a ma in mid cardiac arrest. Or maybe the quarry scene which kept me wondering “who, apart from antlions, buries themselves under a mound of gravel and waits for their prey to stroll by?” The comedy fight to impress Chitti was less delightful. I did kind of like the bit where Ravi throws Babji (Brahmi) on to a passing car to cause an accident. That’s a whole lot of confidence and a cavalier attitude to your friends on display right there. And I hope it hurt Brahmi as much as having to watch his shenanigans hurt me.
Apart from the usual comedy uncles (Ali is the least annoying), the supporting actors are underutilised. I got my hopes up when I saw Sharada in the opening scenes but she disappears until almost the end. She does play an important part in the final conflict but it wasn’t a satisfying role. Shubha is more present but also mostly silent. Satyanarayana and Kota Srinivasa Rao are the baddies, one calculative and one more bumbling.
See this for ANR with Chiru, and the songs. Everything else is OK but not amazing. 3 ½ stars!
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Posted in Tollywood | Tagged Adventures without subtitles, Akkineni Nageshwara Rao, ANR, Brahmi!, Chiranjeevi, Chiranjeevi in a cape, Chiru, Megabirthday 2019, Sharada, Shubha, Vijayashanti | 1 Comment
Nagara Haavu (1972)
Posted on April 14, 2017 by Heather Wilson
Nagara Haavu is a classic film from Kannada cinema featuring Vishnuvardhan in his first lead role. Director Puttanna Kanagal based his 1972 screenplay on three novels by T.R. Subba Rao, telling the story of an angry young man, his love affairs and his relationship with his old primary school teacher, who seems to be the only one who has any patience with his outbursts. The film is set in the 1950’s and although many of the social conventions are now outdated, there are some that still apply to-day; while Ramachari’s struggle against conformity continues to be a popular theme in modern cinema. At almost 3 hours Nagara Haavu is a bit of an epic, but it’s an interesting film to watch and essential viewing to anyone interested in the evolution of cinema in Bangalore.
The film begins and ends with the same images of rocks and the sun viewed through a red filter, presumably an indication that despite the tumultuous events portrayed, by the end nothing has actually changed. The young Ramachari of the opening scene is a rude and angry child with terrible hair, who grows into a rude and angry young man, still with a terrible haircut. This time perhaps he has reason for his anger since his teacher instructs him to remove his trousers when he is caught cheating at college. It seems rather extreme, but Ramachari (Vishnuvardhan) has a reputation as being a bad student and his reaction is even more over the top. He decides that if he is considered to be villainous, then he will become villainous, going to his professor’s house and smashing the windows. Not content with this wilful destruction of property, Ramachari then ties Shyamrao (Lokanath) to a lamppost and leaves him there overnight to the horror of Tungamma (Leelavathi), Ramachari’s old schoolteacher’s wife. And me! How he avoids being arrested is baffling!
Ramachari seems to be angry with everyone and everything, but the reason for his apparently all-consuming rage is never fully explained. It may be partly due to frustration with his religious parents who revere God above all else, and seem to have little time for their son. Possibly his anger is a reaction to being forced to study when he clearly has no interest or aptitude, but whatever the reason, Ramachari has a well-deserved reputation for belligerence in his home town.
The only person who seems to have any time for Ramachari is his old schoolteacher Chamiah (K.S. Ashwath) who has practically adopted Ramachari and considers him to be his son. His wife Tungamma also has a soft spot for the troubled youth and between them they act as mentors and advisors whenever Ramachari finds himself (yet again) in trouble. The relationship between Ramachari and Chamiah is well written and excellently portrayed by Vishnuvardhan and K.S. Ashwath through both the good and the bad times. There is real warmth between them, and Vishnuvardhan does an excellent job of capturing the respect and love that Ramachari feels for his mentor. For his part, K.S. Ashwath is compassionate and stern as required while making it clear that he can see beneath the surface anger to the possibility that Ramachari represents. The dialogues between the two are the best parts of the film, as Chamiah tries to instruct Ramachari how he should behave in society, while Ramachari does his best to point out the double standards and hypocrisy that make him rebel against convention.
Ramachari’s best mate is Varadha (Shivaram), a man who knows the value of product, and who happens to have a beautiful sister Alamelu (Aarathi). When Alamelu is harassed by local sleaze Jaleel (Ambareesh) her brother is too much of a wimp to do anything, so he recruits Ramachari to deal with the problem. Ramachari has seen Alamelu, so his price for helping her dissuade her unwelcome suitor is to marry her himself. Neither Varadha nor Alamelu have any problem with this plan but it’s a different story for Alamelu’s parents who have no desire to marry their daughter to the local rowdy.
There is much drama when Alamelu steals away to tell Ramachari of her impending marriage to someone else and it’s up to Chamaiah to persuade Ramachari that Alamelu’s parents should decide her fate. After much emoting, Ramachari is eventually persuaded that sacrificing his love is the noble thing to do although it’s clear that Chamaiah doesn’t believe this at all and is simply bowing to conventional wisdom and the presumed dictates of society.
This has serious consequences for Ramachari’s relationship with Chamaiah when he later discovers that instead of living in luxury, Alamelu has been forced into a life of prostitution. This could have been one of those terribly over-dramatic scenes so common in seventies Bollywood, with Alamelu dying rather than continue to live in shame, but instead Puttanna Kanagal gives her a beautiful song and impassioned speech where she says that she wants to live! OK, she’s not happy, but it’s better than the usual attempt at suicide at least. There is also a lovely moment of symmetry too when this time it’s Alamelu who walks away from Ramachari and sacrifices her love for his sake. It’s all wonderfully melodramatic as Alamelu recites her story to Ramachari beside a red-lit fountain.
After Alamelu is married, Ramachari is pursued by Margaret (Shubha), a girl from his class in college who is determined that he should fall in love with her. She is portrayed as being more modern, chasing after Ramachari shamelessly, wearing Western clothes and declaring her love quite openly. Margaret seems to get away with all this because she is Christian and the daughter of a single mother – which is apparently all we need to know to realise that she is no better than she should be. Once again Chamaiah is recruited to break up the relationship as Margaret’s mother Mary (M.N. Lakshmi Devi) has much bigger plans for her daughter while Ramachari’s parents are mortally offended at the idea that their son would marry a Christian. The question is, will Ramachari listen to his long-time mentor or has he lost faith after what happened to Alamelu?
There is plenty of over-the-top drama in Nagara Haavu and some of the best ‘death stares’ I’ve seen for a long time. Everyone overacts like crazy, Ramachari throws chickens at Margaret after she teases him in class, her mother accuses him of rape, while Chamaiah clambers over rocks trying to find Ramachari to drag him off to apologise to the latest person he has offended. All apparently part of a normal day in downtown Chitradurga!
As well as showing the relationship between a troubled youth and his kindly teacher, the film paints a picture of a dysfunctional society where appearances and prestige matter more than love and happiness. Chamaiah believes that Ramachari just needs time to mature and indeed he becomes a more responsible person when he is allowed to leave college and work for a wage. The rest of the town however brand him a troublemaker and don’t allow him the opportunity to ever become anything else. No matter how much Chamaiah tries to fit Ramachari into the role that society demands, he is never going to conform, particularly when Chamaiah realises just how shallow and self-centred society has become.
Nagara Haavu is deservedly classed as a classic film with good performances, a well-written story and engaging music from Vijaya Bhaskar. Despite the length, the film doesn’t drag and is a fascinating look at times past, society attitudes (and fashions!) and family dynamics of the time. Some thing have changed, but many of these issues are still a concern even now, making the film relevant and not as outdated as it first appears. The dialogues might seem stilted, but the ideas behind them are valid and used to good effect. I enjoyed Nagara Haavu and recommended watching it for Visnuvardhan, Aarathi and K.S. Ashwath, the excellent screenplay plus beautiful shots of Chitradurga and countryside. 4 stars.
Posted in Sandalwood | Tagged Aarathi, Ambareesh, K.S. Ashwath, Kannada, Leelavathi, Lokanath, M.N. Lakshmi Devi, Naagara Haavu, Nagara Haavu, Puttanna Kanagal, Shivaram, Shubha, Vijaya Bhaskar, Vishnuvardhan | 5 Comments
Gharana Mogudu (1992)
Posted on August 23, 2014 by Heather Wilson
Gharana Mogudu is a step back in time to the Nineties, although it seems more like the Eighties considering the costumes and general shenanigans. The songs deliver the costumes and as for general shenanigans, there is Uma Devi (Nagma) – a boss from hell who plots a marriage with her factory’s union leader to get her revenge for his popularity and force him to fall into line. Naturally since the union leader is Chiranjeevi, Uma Devi’s plans are never going to work out the way she wants, but there is a lot of entertainment in watching her attempts. Nagma is wonderfully arrogant and egotistic in a role that lets her be as nasty as possible, but still look stunning as she efficiently crushes anyone who dares to oppose her management style. Chiranjeevi’s Raju is naturally the complete opposite, kind-hearted and generous, but just as stubborn and quite determined to stand up for his rights and those of his fellow workers. Of course he also dances up a storm and dishooms when and where required making Gharana Mogudu an excellent celebration of all things Megastar and perfect for this year’s Megabirthday celebrations.
Before we can get to Uma Devi and her hazardous factory in Hyderabad, Raju is introduced as the dock worker to turn to in a crisis – even if that crisis is getting beaten up at an illegal fight betting ring. Naturally Raju wins the subsequent show-down but finds that the money he won has vanished – cue the excellent Bangaru Kodi Petta (which was remixed and re-imagined for Rajamouli’s awesome Magadheera ) with Disco Shanti running off with the betting money.
When his mother (Shubha) has a stroke, Raju leaves Vizag and the joys of waterfront employment and heads home to Hyderabad. After arriving in the city, Raju fortuitously saves local businessman Bapineedu (Raogopal Rao), from a gang of thugs and as a reward is given the opportunity to work in his family factory. This sounds too good to be true, and of course it is, since Bapineedu and the family business are both actually run by his daughter – the boss from hell. Uma Devi has no interest in her workers except as a means to increase profit and make her the top tax payer in India (her ultimate ambition apparently). She has the union rep firmly under her thumb to ensure that there are no strikes despite her heavy handed treatment and is prone to petulant displays of temper if her will is crossed. I’m not sure if it’s one of her petty cruelties to make her secretary Bhavani (Vani Viswanath) wear such odd outfits to work but in her own time Bhavani looks much more appropriately dressed, so I have my suspicions, particularly when Uma Devi appears so co-ordinated.
Uma Devi is just as bad at dealing with people on a personal level and the thugs who attacked her father were actually sent by Ranganayakulu (Kaikala Satyanarayana) after Uma Devi turned down a marriage proposal from his son (Sharat Saxena). Ranganayakulu and his son are the main villains of the piece and while their response to a marriage refusal may seem a little over the top, to be fair Uma Devi is annoying enough that wiping her from the face of the planet doesn’t seem all that unreasonable.
Uma Devi’s plan to marry Raju also disrupts the course of true love as Raju and Bhavani embark on an office romance after they meet each other on the way to work. A bicycle ride in the rain leads to this excellent song, with Vani Viswanath keeping up with Chiranjeevi in the dance stakes despite his tendency to attack her with a bicycle – I really did want Bhavanai to dispose of Uma Devi and run away with Raju after this song!
Sadly Bhavani is much too sweet to be a murderer, so Uma Devi goes ahead with her plan and Raju ends up moving into Bapineedu’s massive mansion with his new bride. The house is incredible, with statuary everywhere and a huge central imposing staircase, but none of that fazes Raju who continues to work on the shop floor and fight for workers’ rights.
Now at this point you might think that Raju’s morals and basic decency might start to have an effect on Uma Devi and make her realise the error of her ways, but she’s still just as unpleasant as ever and it takes a drunken night and a lungi dance before she even begins to appear remotely bearable. Before then there are plenty of great confrontations between Uma Devi and Raju, shifty scheming from Ranganayakulu and Uma Devi’s manager Sarangapani (Ahuti Prasad) and plenty of those fantastic costumes to enjoy.
Chiru is dashing and very much the mega star as he mixes romance, compassion, ethical principles and his stance on workers’ rights with great dancing and action sequences. Pretty much everything gets mixed into the film and Chiranjeevi really is awesome no matter what he is doing! Nagma is delightfully vile and holds her own against Chiru keeping the focus of the film on Uma Devi and her machinations, while the plots of Ranganayakulu etc are totally overshadowed by her stormy relationship with Raju. She’s almost the classic Disney villainess and it seems obligatory to boo and hiss whenever she appears and naturally cheer for Chiranjeevi and Bhavani. Yes, even when watching on DVD in the comfort of your own living room.
Along with all the drama there is room for some comedy too – Brahmi pops up but unfortunately makes little impression without the benefit of subtitles. However the rest of the humour is based on interactions between Raju and the other characters, and being more situational comes across better. It’s a true masala film and although the plot is ridiculous and the characterisations over the top, Gharana Mogudu is still completely entertaining. Excellent performances, great songs and plenty of Megastar style make this definitely one to watch. 4 stars.
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Citizens for Sustainability asked the mayoral and city council candidates six questions about their ideas for advancing sustainability within St. Anthony. Their responses will be posted as they are received.
Candidate Sustainability Q&A: Randy Stille
November 2, 2019 Governmentelection, mayorDan Kunitz
Note: The general election is November 5, 2019 and St. Anthony polls are open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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Citizens for Sustainability asked the 2020 mayoral and city council candidates six questions about their ideas for advancing sustainability within St. Anthony. Their responses will be posted as they are received.
1. What does Sustainability mean to you (as it pertains to St. Anthony)?
Good questions were asked as a part of this exercise. It is important to be reminded that no one person can implement a program or practice. However, the mayor can be a conduit to bring people together and encourage creativity both from residents and staff, as we evaluate sustainable opportunities of all kinds that will make St. Anthony an even better place to live.
A little background about sustainability in St. Anthony may be helpful to know. As a city council, we have encouraged the use of the three “E’s”, as it pertains to sustainability: economic, equity, and environmental. Economic sustainability simply means that we need to have our house in order financially into the future, which provides the groundwork to invest in our community. Equity sustainability means that we foster an environment where all people have equal opportunities at succeeding within our city. Environmental sustainability means that we are stewards of our resources, making sure that we can sustain into the future.
With this as a backdrop, the word “sustainability” was added to our mission statement in 2012. Relating to environmental sustainability, St. Anthony has embraced the MPCA’s Greenstep program, being among the first cities in the state to reach Greenstep level 5, the highest designation. The efforts that staff and council have put in to sustainability efforts are vast. From our water reuse facility, our storm water filtration project, ongoing street sweeping program, solar initiatives, organized garbage collection, and more, we have been recognized by our peers as being a leader in sustainability efforts (2016 Sustainable City Award winner).
2. What initiatives in the city’s Comprehensive Plan would you prioritize to create greater resilience and sustainability?
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3. How would you build on recent additions in the Parks & Environmental Commission duties to advance environmental goals in the Comprehensive Plan?
4. What “win-win” opportunities do you see in supporting existing and future sustainability initiatives?
Looking forward, we have great opportunities to build on our strengths and what has already been accomplished. We need to do this as a community, and education will be paramount as we evaluate sustainability-based opportunities and initiatives. A mayor can have all of the best ideas, but if the residents are not along for the ride, the ideas will fall flat. Some sustainability initiatives may be controversial and we need to listen, gauge, and balance the communities wants and needs, evaluating both positive and negative impacts. This may mean more task forces, open houses, or public meetings that can be used to bring sustainability initiatives forward.
Another critical element to success is leadership. It is necessary for your mayor and council to have a stewardship mentality as they govern, leading by example. Over the years, St. Anthony has developed a culture of sustainability, starting at leadership, which has permeated its way to staff and residents. Sustainability has been fostered because of trust. A trusting staff will spur creativity. It will encourage staff to hire the next GreenCorp member, to figure out the next step in organics recycling, or electric-vehicle stations, or bike path expansion. Conversely, lack of trust will quash innovation.
5. What would you do to address residents’ concerns about pedestrian and bicycle safety and increase access to metro bikeways?
6. What are steps you would support to expand on the success of St. Anthony’s organics drop-off collection?
In conclusion, thank you for the opportunity you have given me to weigh in on the vital role of sustainability in St. Anthony. We are caretakers of this earth and I am thankful that St. Anthony has taken this responsibility seriously. This will continue to take a communal effort and I wholeheartedly plan to foster creativity and innovation both from residents and city staff.
Candidate Sustainability Q&A: Nancy Robinett
October 22, 2019 Governmentelection, mayorDan Kunitz
Sustainability in St. Anthony means reducing our carbon footprint as a city – reducing consumption of resources such as water and electricity, supporting efficient waste management (which includes reducing, recycling and reusing), and promoting green buildings which are increasingly energy efficient. I would like to work on promoting alternative transportation to single-car – including biking and walking which includes better and safer bike paths and integrating more sidewalks where we can.
Immediate actions: 1) Implement strategic planning around electric vehicle readiness; 2) Implement strategic planning for alternative energy production (such as solar and potentially wind) for city facilities; 3) Promote safety and connectivity of bike and pedestrian infrastructure by negotiating with the Minneapolis Parks & Recreation Board (MPRB) to join the Grand Rounds; 4) Promote ongoing and increased sustainable landscaping in city parks and other municipal landscaped areas.
I would encourage and facilitate greater community involvement and grassroots activism through the St. Anthony Parks & Environmental Commission (PEC). I would encourage the PEC to meet more than once a quarter and I would advocate for more community membership in subcommittees within the PEC.
I would seek to build in more transparent pathways for the mayor and council to understand and participate in the community engagement and community ideas that come from the PEC and community members working with the PEC on their related projects. This should streamline and make decision-making easier for the city around PEC projects.
Sustainability initiatives create a new baseline for additional sustainability initiatives. As sustainable initiatives get cheaper, more residents see the benefit of investing in a culture that promotes sustainability.
An example: A few weeks ago, I met a row of several houses in SOSA (“South St. Anthony” – the area east of St. Charles church) who were doing long-term planning over several houses to convert their front yardscapes to sustainable, non-turf landscaping as a planned unit. The win-win there: community cohesion, less community aversion to giving up traditional turf grass yard, a much bigger demonstration project for sustainable landscaping, cheaper costs, and shared labor and creativity – all to the benefit of the neighborhood.
I would suggest traffic studies to examine how to increase pedestrian safety at Silver Lake Road and what it might cost to implement kid-safe paths to Silverwood Park. We should negotiate with the MPRB for the Grand Rounds missing bike link connection. Pushing for more bike racks at shopping areas is a relatively easy inquiry – we should ask where needed and try to coordinate responses with commercial resources. I support more bike lanes and sidewalks in general – we should implement where and when we can.
We should coordinate with Ramsey County to make sure we have enough compost buckets to support and encourage community use so we aren’t running out. That is a simple fix.
I’d also like to ensure we aren’t overflowing our current site and if we are, discuss ways to mitigate. There was early discussion, before settling on the city hall organics drop-off location, about organics drop-off at other locations. If we have increasing community participation in organics waste, we should again consider more than one drop-off location within St. Anthony, prior to curb-side collection.
I understand that implementing curb-side organic waste collection requires start-up infrastructure and I’d like to explore how this can be accelerated. We should also be mindful of the need to push community participation, so that curb-side collection is successful if and when it launches.
Candidate Sustainability Q&A: Bernard Walker
October 22, 2019 Governmentcity council, electionDan Kunitz
At its base, sustainability is essentially about the necessary and sufficient conditions for surviving into the future. Sustainability is a duty we humans have and is not, therefore, a responsibility for other forms of life on earth.
Now what survives into the future specifically would be (1) humans, (2) the earth and her natural resources, and (3) other forms of life on earth. The standard way of talking about sustainability has been to shift the emphasis and concern about “survival” to humans and, consequently, to the impact the survival of humans has on other forms of life and earth herself. This standard way of talking focuses on the following three divisions of sustainability:
Social sustainability: ensuring that the physical, political, educational, and psychological well-being of humans is secured without (1) compromising the same well-being of future human generations, (2) compromising the survival of other forms of life, or (3) depleting earth resources or earth’s life sustaining conditions (e.g., healthy climate conditions with controlled CO2 levels.
Economic sustainability: controlling expenditures and increasing or maintaining revenue and the production of finished goods and services so that humans can survive into the future without compromising the financial wellbeing of future human societies, without compromising the survival of other forms of life or the depletion of earth resources or earth’s life sustaining conditions (e.g., healthy climate conditions with controlled CO2 levels.)
Environmental sustainability: this is essentially a matter of (1) ensuring that current natural resources or non-human life forms are used in such a way that they are not over used/depleted for future use or (2) ensuring that the byproducts we make natural resources do not detrimentally affect or harm currently existing life and consequently jeopardize the possibility of a future eco-system for human and non-human life.
While a person can be concerned about and do work in any one of these three sectors, at the exclusion of the other two, the person would fall short of manifesting justice. From what I see on CFS website, its focus is foundationally environmental. Pace CFS, sustainability rooted in justice is focused on both the rights of human and the duties to non-human animals (that exist in present and future communities).
First of all, I am still learning a lot about sustainability. I see the city with the help of CFS are already doing a lot. So this means I am open to being influenced on these matters. I am pro-sustainability, but I am still gaining on-the-ground knowledge of the cities projects, commitments and opportunities.
I would prioritize reducing facility emissions and city-wide emissions. I would also support converting government vehicles to electric, (which will call for more electricity, but which will save money on fuel). Perhaps the SAVPD could convert its cars to electric or hybrid. Various small maintenance vehicles can most easily be converted, which may have already been done. Plug-in hybrids might be appropriate for some larger vehicles.
St. Anthony has a deal with a couple of solar farms to get enough power to supply 25% of government building usage. That leaves the other 75% to come from the regular Xcel power grid. However, Xcel has programs where St. Anthony could sign up to pay slightly extra to have solar or wind power contributed to the grid in its name, in proportion to its power usage. In this sense, St Anthony would virtually be getting its electricity from the wind/solar source (even though it is all in one non-separable grid system). So I am suggesting that the SAV could sign up for this for its government buildings.
I would also look into subsidizing home visits by power companies and third parties to assess and assist with heating efficiency. They can check for insulation quality, window leaks, furnace efficiency and the like, and the city can help people get this assistance with an on-going program. Ultimately, our homes need to be heated by electric systems, and maybe the city can help speed that up.
I support a zoning change for ADUs. People who may have once needed a large home–e.g. parents whose children have moved out–can move into the ADU and rent out the main home. This is great for creating a secondary rental income and thus allows older residents to sustain residency in their current home.
To sustain existing persons of color and to social sustain their well-being, we could recruit new non-traditional businesses, e.g., a food coop, ethnic restaurants and ethnic grocery.
Finally I love non-human animals and would push to establish a dog park. Yes a dog park. A dog park allows us to convene together for our social well-being as we share stories about our dogs. I would include the requirement for a permit for non-residents to use the park to generate small money for SAV.
I would look for good candidate streets to add sidewalks where there is none. I would also look for more key places to add crosswalks with the flashing lights you can turn on with a button and maybe there needs to be a couple more stop lights on silver lake road, which might have heavy reliance on pedestrians pushing the button, to keep traffic moving when no one is there waiting.
I obviously support curb-side organics pick-up, which could be combined with yard waste. Maybe people have to pay an extra $5-10 per month for this, on an opt-in basis, but offering the service seems like a good deal.
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CS19 St. Anthony Village City Hall
Candidate Sustainability Q&A: Randy Stille November 2, 2019
CFS 2020 Goals October 29, 2019
Candidate Sustainability Q&A: Nancy Robinett October 22, 2019
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Aug. 13 MLB Preview –Houston Astros (77-41) at Chicago White Sox (52-64)
(Zack Greinke photo courtesy John Glaser/USA TODAY Sports)
Ed’s Note — This game was originally scheduled for Monday, Aug. 12, and is now the first game of an Aug. 13 doubleheader.
This is the full preview(s) as seen on the Winners and Whiners and Stat Salt websites. The confidence rating for all picks on a scale from 1 to 5 is in parentheses.
Note: The 5/5 does NOT represent the best overall pick of the day’s games when there are multiple games, simply the best pick(s) from each individual game.
When and Where: Tuesday, Aug. 13, Guaranteed Rate Field, Chicago, Ill., 4:40 p.m. EDT.
With the nervousness of pitching for a new team out of the way, Zack Greinke looks to be more effective Tuesday when he makes his second start for the Houston Astros in the first game of a doubleheader with the offensively challenged Chicago White Sox.
Greinke looks to make it 2-0 with Astros
Greinke (1-0, 7.50 ERA) cruised through his first three innings in his debut with the Astros, then ran into trouble in the fourth and sixth innings. In the latter, he gave up a three-run homer, and finished with five runs allowed in six innings.
Zack Greinke 1st K on the Astros. pic.twitter.com/HN3o4ILyfP
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) August 7, 2019
Though the five runs matched the combined total he yielded in his final three starts with Arizona, the Astros nearly matched the eight runs of support he got in those no-decisions by plating seven for him en route to an 11-6 victory Tuesday night.
“I was telling [catcher Martin Maldonado] that it kind of reminds me when I was back in Milwaukee and it seemed like we scored, like, 10 runs a game,” Greinke told Houston’s official website. “It’s a good offense, and it’s fun to pitch with that going on.”
The right-hander has faced the White Sox just once in the last seven seasons, coming one out shy of a complete game while striking out 12 in a 5-1 victory in May 2017. Greinke, though, has seen plenty of Chicago pitching as a former division rival with Kansas City and is 8-10 with a 4.17 ERA in 24 career starts.
The South Side of Chicago, though, was not kind to him as he enters this game 2-7 with a 6.16 ERA in 10 starts there. Greinke lost his first six road starts against the White Sox and is facing them on the road for the first time since 2012.
The Astros had their eight-game winning streak snapped with an 8-7 defeat at Baltimore on Sunday. Houston nearly completed a sweep of the Orioles after rallying with three ninth-inning runs, but closer Roberto Osuna served up a two-run walkoff homer in blowing his fifth save in 31 opportunities.
Yordan Alvarez, who followed up his three-homer game Saturday by going 2 for 5, is 17 for 37 (.459) with five homers and three doubles during a nine-game hitting streak. Alvarez has six multihit games and 17 homers in 46 games since being promoted.
Pale Hose look to spark listless offense
The White Sox suffered a pair of shutout defeats in dropping a three-game series with the Oakland Athletics after losing Sunday’s rubber match 2-0. It was the fourth time in 11 games Chicago was blanked at home, and Rick Renteria’s team has played only 18 runs in those contests.
Giolito strikes out 13, but #WhiteSox bats silent again in 2-0 loss to Oakland. @scotgregor has the story. #MLB https://t.co/eT8VXmoGC9
— Daily Herald (@dailyherald) August 11, 2019
Dylan Cease (2-4, 6.00) hopes the offense perks up as the rookie tries to win back-to-back starts for the first time. The right-hander snapped a four-start losing streak Tuesday night in Detroit, holding the Tigers to two runs in five innings of a 5-3 victory.
Cease also got four runs of support, which was like an offensive outburst considering the White Sox provided him with only two in his four losses — and failed to score for him in three of those outings.
“It seems as the way it’s going, early in the game I kind of feel my way through it a little bit,” Cease told the club’s official website. “Then I get locked in and I start being a little more aggressive. (Renteria) was just talking about having that intent from the beginning, just trusting it from the beginning.”
The next challenge for the 23-year-old is to beat someone other than the worst team in the majors as both his wins have come against Detroit. Cease is 1-2 with a 6.35 ERA in three home starts and facing the Astros for the first time.
Notable Trends
The White Sox are:
1-5 in their last six home games.
17-35 in their last 52 games vs. AL West teams.
2-9 in their last 11 games vs. the Astros.
The Astros are:
6-1 in their last seven road games vs. right-handed starters.
47-14 in their last 61 games vs. sub-.500 teams.
38-13 in their last 51 during game 1 of a series.
*****5-Star Pick*****
Astros -1.5 runs first 5 innings (-121)
Again seeking out an alternate line for a better rate of return, and the Astros are worth the pick here as well. Houston is 9-2 at the five-inning mark in its last 11 road games and led by two or more runs on six occasions in that span. One of those six was in Greinke’s start, and the right-hander helped Arizona to a 7-1-2 record at the midway point in his last 10 starts before being dealt.
Cease’s success in the first five innings mirrors his overall success — both leads came against Detroit, and the White Sox trailed by two or more runs in three of the other four starts and failed to score in the first five innings in three of the other four starts.
****4-Star Picks****
Astros -2.5 runs (-136)
Given Chicago’s struggles offensively — especially at home — and the expectation the Astros will not lost back-to-back games for the first time since July 15 and 16, the alternate line offered by PointsBet.com is worth a play.
Greinke should be able to avoid the one bad inning that plagued him versus Colorado and should handle a White Sox lineup having trouble scratching out runs.
Astros OVER 1.5 runs first 3 innings (-125)
The Astros have plated at least two runs in the first three frames in their last five contests and eight of their last 10 overall. The other number to consider here is 15.00, which is Cease’s ERA in the second inning as teams begin to face him for a second time.
The rookie has yielded 10 second-inning runs in his six starts, with opponents taking him deep three times and batting .407. Cease has yielded two or more runs in the first three innings in four of his six starts, and Houston’s hot bats make the over a solid play.
UNDER 9.5 runs (-121)
The under has trended on the South Side with these teams, going 11-5-1 in the last 17 in Chicago. It is also 4-1 in the last five overall between the teams after hitting three times in a four-game series in Houston in May.
The under has also delivered in Cease’s last four starts and is currently on a five-game run at home with the White Sox. The under is 6-2 in Houston’s last eight games versus AL Central rivals and 8-2-1 in Greinke’s last 11 road starts.
The hook has been restored with the extra day, which offers confidence in the under hitting with the expectation of Greinke pitching better than he did last outing.
***3-Star Picks***
Astros OVER 6 runs (-105)
Cease’s 1.55 WHIP in his 33 innings of work play into this pick as much as Houston averaging 9.67 runs in its last nine games. Even taking out the 23-2 pummeling of Baltimore on Saturday, the Astros have averaged 8.0 runs in the other eight contests. Opponents are hitting .294 and .327, respectively, in their first two times in the lineup facing Cease, which also lends confidence to Houston piling up runs.
This is threading the needle with taking the under for the game, but the Astros offense makes this a worthwhile play,
UNDER 5 runs first 5 innings (-121)
A confidence pick in Greinke and against the White Sox offense, which has scored three runs total in the first five innings of its last seven home games. Cease has also pitched better early of late, yielding three runs combined in his last two outings. While there is no hook, the belief is Greinke is successful doing most of the heavy lifting for this pick.
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Beyond the Bailout
Are limits on executive compensation for banks that accept federal funds just the first wave in a future sea of pay measures?
CFO MagazineRisk & ComplianceRisk Management
Alix Stuart
The juggernaut that is executive pay seemingly hit a roadblock when Congress wrote compensation limits into the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act. As regulators wrangle over how to enforce these boundaries at banks, a bigger question looms: What do they mean for everyone else?
Not much, say some. "What we have is a symbolic gesture," since none of the measures are new and most have big loopholes, says Paul Hodgson, senior research associate with The Corporate Library, an independent corporate governance research firm. "I can't see it having a wider effect."
Others, though, view the limits as a small first step toward a much broader array of corporate-governance measures designed to give shareholders more power over executive pay. "We're fully expecting some form of shareholder bill of rights to come out within the first 100 days of Obama's Administration," says Patrick McGurn, special counsel to proxy advisory firm Riskmetrics. A mandatory shareholder vote on executive compensation (or "say on pay") is a given for that bill, he says, with strong support from House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank (D–Mass.), but other measures, like proxy access and limits on golden-parachute severance packages, could be addressed as well.
Steve van Putten, a practice leader at Watson Wyatt Worldwide, pegs the current $500,000 cap on the tax deductibility of exec-comp packages as likely to be targeted. "It could be a big revenue-raiser for the government," since many companies will ignore the cap and simply pay the higher taxes, he says. Already, banks are barely blinking at it. "I thought it would be a show-stopper, but our clients are saying it doesn't matter," says James Bristol, a partner at Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis specializing in executive compensation.
To be sure, some companies have taken a proactive approach. JCPenney, among others, recently announced plans to lower severance multiples in future executive contracts. Provisions to claw back performance-based pay are also increasing: they are in effect at 64 percent of Fortune 100 companies, according to Equilar, up from 42 percent last year. Still, "you can't pay less than a competitive wage," says van Putten. He expects little change to base salaries or bonuses for CFOs in particular, as they have become "even more important" in the current environment.
Bailout vs. Payouts
According to new rules, firms receiving federal bailout funds must:
1) Ban golden parachutes in any future contracts
2) Take back bonuses based on any earnings that later prove inaccurate
3) Scrutinize incentives to make sure they do not encourage "excessive or unnecessary risk-taking"
4) Accept a corporate tax deduction capped at $500,000 per executive, including performance-based compensation
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At Cook County Jail, Inmates Relax Their Minds, Bodies With Yoga
By Lauren Victory May 30, 2019 at 8:27 am
Filed Under:Cook County Jail, yoga classes
CHICAGO (CBS) — Convicted felons sentenced in Cook County Jail face day-after-day of a military type schedule.
So, the jail is now offering ways for the inmates to relax their minds as well has their bodies–with yoga classes.
The participants are in the Vocational Rehabilitation Impact Center and find the sessions a welcome release.
“Just kind of let all those bottled up emotions, and it’s positive, and you can let it go,” said inmate Cliff Manning. “I was thinking [yoga] was something girls just do.”
The program is called Prison Yoga Chicago. Instructors guide the men though a “trauma-informed” approach, which includes sitting in a circle instead of traditional prison-style rows. The participants are encouraged to be loud and allow them to release any frustrations.
“We do that really to humanize ourselves and remind the students that we are equal to them,” said Sasha Papazafeiropoulos, president of Prison Yoga.
The classes also avoid poses with hands behind the back, which could stir up memories of being handcuffed.
“They try to avoid certain things,” said sheriff Tom Dart. “Things that might have a really bad connotation to it for this individual.”
Dart firmly believes in inmate vocation training but years ago approved classes for the mind and body, too.
“You can teach anybody a certain skill level,” he said. “If they have anger issues, if they have an inability to concentrate, things like that- nothing is going to change.”
“I knew what yoga was,but I never ever thought about even closing my eyes and any type of meditations,” said inmate Jose Martinez. After he is released he says, he will “take a moment, take a deep breath before making a bad decision.”
There really isn’t a way to measure the impact of yoga after men and women get on the other side of the barbed wire. Dart said he’s seen less fighting inside Cook County Jail since yoga started.
The men locked up in the vocational center are serving six-month sentences. Then, they will be on electronic monitoring for another six months.
Lauren Victory
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Disney Pushing Avengers: Endgame for Several Academy Awards, Including Best Picture
By Charlie Ridgely - October 3, 2019 11:36 am EDT
It took longer than some fans may have expected, but Marvel Studios' Avengers: Endgame eventually passed Avatar to become the biggest movie in box office history. The film has cemented its place in the record books but Disney is also hoping to have its prized Marvel outing make a splash during the upcoming awards season. Black Panther took home a couple of awards last year -- Best Original Score, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design -- and was nominated for several more, including Best Picture. The House of Mouse will try to repeat that success this year with Endgame.
This week, Disney launched its Awards Consideration list for Avengers: Endgame online, showing exactly which Oscars it's gunning for come February. As expected, it's quite a long list, and it includes Best Picture.
Here's the full list of awards that Disney is pushing Avengers: Endgame for:
Best Picture - Kevin Feige
Best Director - Anthony and Joe Russo
Best Adapted Screenplay - Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely
Best Cinematography - Trent Opaloch
Best Film Editing - Jeffrey Ford, Matthew Schmidt
Best Production Design - Charles Wood (Production Designer), Tonja Schurmann (Set Decorator)
Best Costume Design - Judianna Makovsky
Best Makeup & Hairstyling - John Blake, Janine Thompson, Brian Sipe
Best Sound Mixing - Tom Johnson, Juan Peralta, John Pritchett
Best Sound Editing - Shannon Mills, Daniel Laurie
Best Visual Effects - Dan Deleeuw, Matt Aitken, Russell Earl, Dan Sudick
Best Original Score - Alan Silvestri
Will Avengers: Endgame win best picture? Probably not. But it's one of the few comic book movies over the years that actually makes a case to be nominated. It was critically acclaimed upon its released and a technical triumph. It wouldn't be the most surprising thing in the world to see it take home at least a couple of the technical awards like Best Visual Effects of Best Sound Editing. Silvestri could also make a strong case for Best Original Score, especially considering how beloved the "Portals" track has become since the film's release.
Do you think Avengers: Endgame will win any Academy Awards this year? Could it be nominated for Best Picture? Let us know in the comments!
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Behind the Scenes of Grey-Headed Albatross Tracking – Filling Knowledge Gaps - Albatross stories - Get involved - The RSPB Community
Albatross stories Behind the Scenes of Grey-Headed Albatross Tracking – Filling Knowledge Gaps
Behind the Scenes of Grey-Headed Albatross Tracking – Filling Knowledge Gaps
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Bird Island. An exposed, raw, isolated island in South Georgia. Although only under 5km in length and reaching 800m at its widest point, this island gets its name for a reason. Bird Island is home to four of the world’s 22 albatross species so you can see why this tiny area of land is a hot spot for scientific research. Similarly, the nickname of ‘Ocean Wanderers’ describes albatrosses perfectly. They spend up to 90% of their life out at sea, and some reach 65 or more years of age; you can see why land based monitoring can only get you so far when trying to understand and mitigate their decline.
The grey-headed albatross is one of the mid-sized albatrosses although with a wingspan of over two meters. Like all albatrosses, their long, narrow wings are expertly suited for gliding, making soaring over the 40ft waves of the South Pacific high seas look like our Saturday morning walk to the coffee shop. Their elegant black and yellow bill, and a gentle white highlight beneath the eye infers a placid disposition. However, their commitment to parental care, raising just one chick every two years, and the lengths to which they will go in order to find enough food to get this chick through its first five months, is in stark contrast to their tranquil appearance. Once their chick has fledged, the parents can “relax”. The pair will spend the next 16 months apart, navigating the southern oceans alone. Nonbreeding adults have been tracked previously using geolocators; these are tiny loggers which record light levels, which are used to determine sunset and sunrise times, and hence latitude and longitude. These show that although adults mainly use remote feeding grounds, they also come closer to land on the Patagonian Shelf off Argentina, and where the cold Humboldt Current meets the Chilean Coast, both regions renowned for their rich wildlife.
Steph Prince (RSPB) says
“The life of the juveniles, is poorly known. Post-fledging there is no parental guidance. The naïve youngsters have to negotiate these wild waters having never flown before; they must find food for the first time and, importantly, avoid potential predators such as giant petrels, relying on whatever they can find in their internal library (otherwise known as DNA). This, unfortunately, may lead them into trouble. With 700,000 seabirds - many of them albatrosses - caught incidentally on fishing lines or injured in collisions with trawl-net cables, it is critical that we understand where grey-headed juveniles venture in their first few months and years at sea.”
The IUCN have recently ‘uplisted’ the status of the grey-headed albatross from Vulnerable to Endangered, and over the past decade, the species has declined by 5% a year. For an animal that can only raise one chick every two years, that is a significant and worrying decline. Recent analyses have indicated that the survival rate of juvenile grey-heads is lower than expected, but we know little about their distribution or behaviour at sea.
In collaboration with RSPB and BirdLife International, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) are bridging this gap in knowledge, by investigating their movements during this early stage. Professor Richard Phillips (BAS) commented
“Tracking individual grey-headed albatross fledglings using satellites has revealed a wealth of new, and fine-scale information on their distribution, and how different it is from that of adult birds. By mapping this in relation to seasonal changes in the locations of fishing vessels, we can greatly improve our understanding of this threat, and help mitigate the further loss of these magnificent birds”.
You can follow the progress of the grey-headed albatross juveniles from Bird Island, South Georgia, here: https://www.bas.ac.uk/project/grey-headed-albatross-juvenile-tracking/
Observers on fishing vessels report immature grey-heads caught in longline fisheries in areas rarely used by adult birds. Predatory giant petrels also pose a big threat, particularly around the time the young birds leave the colony. BAS have attached satellite tags to a total of 32 chicks prior to fledging in May 2018 and 2019. Tagging is essential to understand their movements; with over a million years of ancestry, albatrosses are masters of effortless flight and can travel hundreds of kilometres every day, so you can understand how following them by any other means can be tricky! Initial analysis of the 2018 tracking data by Frankish et al, have found juvenile grey-heads initially heading north-east across the central South Atlantic. Matching this with fishing data shows an apparent overlap with Japanese longline fishing fleets in the southeast Atlantic. This hotspot corroborates captures of grey-headed albatrosses reported by fisheries observers in what appears to be an area of high bycatch risk. Later in the year, many juveniles head further east, some past South Africa and across the Indian Ocean towards the Pacific (one recently reached Australia and New Zealand after travelling 39,000 km since May!), encountering numerous other challenges along the way.
If you have been keeping up with our Albatross Stories campaign, you may remember our charismatic young grey-headed albatross, Bobby, the chick of Skylander! We were able to follow his journey from egg to first flight, Bobby was even involved in the BAS tracking study; he and 15 grey-headed ‘colony-mates’ were fitted with satellite tags. Albatross Stories have been following along ever since, with some of the trackers still sending signals, providing us with a window into their adventures, updates of which can be seen on the Albatross Stories Instagram page. Follow along to witness the new season kick into gear, as adults return to colonies fresh from their winter travels ready for the long breeding-season ahead.
This is an exciting, yet critical time of discovery. This tracking study of juvenile grey-headed albatrosses is shining critical new light on unknown bycatch hotspots and helping direct mitigation efforts. With our teams working across the globe to reduce seabird bycatch, and some fantastic success stories already emerging, this could be one of the missing puzzle pieces to help us understand grey-headed albatross decline. The South Atlantic between latitudes 30°S and 60°S is a highway for circumnavigating seabirds of many species. Discovering threats posed for the grey-headed albatross, can help us protect other graceful giants of the high seas.
Funding for this project was kindly provided by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the South Georgia Heritage Trust, and the Friends of South Georgia Island.
Photos by Derren Fox with thanks.
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Contacting AirBnB
Submitted by Mike77 on 07-29-2016 10:52 AM
Status changed to: Launched
There should be links on the community pages, on the listing pages, on every page of the web site, that lead to a page that shows the multiple ways to contact AirBnB.
AirBnB must make it easy to contact them!
Response from Airbnb
Making sure you have the tools to reach Airbnb when you need to is important to us. We’ve just introduced a new feature that will help hosts and guests reach our Customer Experience team during and 48 hours on either side of a trip. We’re also piloting a new way for you to connect quickly with Airbnb beyond just phone and email. Learn more about how we’re making it easier to find our phone number and additional contact information.
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Andrea9 in
For a website that uses Trust&Safety as a motto because guests and hosts are so important to them, finding the contact nos. is like going on a scavenger hunt without the fun.
Maria-Lurdes0 in
They don't want to make it easy! There is not enough support staff for all the potential queries. It's much easier to frustrate people and have them give up, or even worse have them come to the forum for guest/reservation specific help where a*&holes like me reply sarcastically.
David74 in
I need to contact Airbnb about a review by a person that did not stay at my property after checking it out but gave no reason.
If I can not contact a real live person to have the review that I can not even see deleted before the 14 day period I will have no option but delete my listing on Airbnb hey there is always VRBO and booking.com that gives me way more guests than Airbnb.
David Hawke
Mike77 in
David, I hope you're joking.
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Linda108 in
I agree that navigation for contacting Air BNB and getting started could be better. Also the navigation of the community discussions could be streamlined as well.
If you agree that there should be much easier ways to contact AirBnB give this topic a thumb up.
Fairlight0 in
Look, Airbnb. I play the game. I read the rules. I follow directions- you've made it really easy, and that's great. But you've made a mistake, that makes me look bad as host, and I cannot fix it myself, and I cannot contact you to fix it, or tell me what to change so it works. Wish I could tell you what it is- but I cannot for the life of me, find a way to reach you! It's infuriating.
Every other company that I work with, or exchange business or money with, where I cannot reach a human being to resolve an issue. Go Daddy makes a lot less money off of me, and there is someone to talk to 24 hours a day.
"David, I hope you're joking." No Mike I am not joking.
BTW I found a way to get hold of a real live person, go to Airbnb's Facebook page and say you're having a problem, they responded with a phone number and a link to the Airbnb Twitter account @AirbnbHelp I left a tweet and they replied on FB that the message was received and I would an email response, waiting to see what happens.
This is a real chickensh*t way to do business IMO
The less they have to deal with hosts or renters the better they like it.
The more that the hosts do to keep renters off AirBnB's backs, the better they like it.
It really makes no sense to me to help in the forum because that only reinforces / props up AirBnB's shoddy customer service.
Victoria57 in
Strathpeffer, United Kingdom
Your last paragraph @Mike77 probably explains why your responses in the community centre recently have been so unhelpful and downright nasty some of the time.
But I do agree that AirBnB should be putting MUCH more effort into making it easy for hosts and guests to contact them. At the moment they are being slopy-shouldered and clearly don't want anyone to contact them or even find out how to. Really poor!
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When we think of San Antonio, we often imagine a great city rich with culture and history; our focus is on the city as a destination. However, for the last 15 years, this south central Texas hub has been the site for some of the most dangerous roads in America.
The problem is currently being addressed by the Texas Department of Transportation via their #EndTheStreak campaign. This campaign alerts the public about dangerous driving habits and areas where accidents are highly concentrated. The campaign posted a public service announcement stating that since November of 2000 there have been deaths on Texas roads each and every day. Many of these fatalities were due to preventable causes (like alcohol use, not wearing seatbelts, or speeding), and these accidents have led to 50,000 deaths over 15 years.
Bexar County: 3rd Most Dangerous Roads in All of Texas
This campaign is a poignant reminder to San Antonio, as data from 2014 revealed that Bexar County has the 3rd deadliest roads in all of Texas. Between January of 2013 to December of 2015 more than 28% of fatal accidents were caused by alcohol across Texas; however, over 32% of fatal car crashes in Bexar County were caused by alcohol, which is almost 16% higher than the state average. Though it may be tempting to assume these accidents primarily occurred on interstate 10 or interstate 35, many of the accidents have actually happened on roads in San Antonio.
Some of the most active streets for car accidents are Blanco Road, Culebra Road, and Military Drive. According to KSAT news and their Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), between 2012 and 2014 Culebra Road was the deadliest in San Antonio. Next was Military Drive. The highest concentration of accidents in that timeframe occurred just outside the center of the city, primarily in northwestern San Antonio.
Stay Safe: Ways to Prevent Car Accidents
The #EndTheStreak campaign has made headway by informing drivers and pedestrians throughout the state and in San Antonio about ways to prevent fatal car accidents:
Drivers and passengers must always remember to buckle up. Seatbelts prevent horrible bodily injury and save lives, even in seemingly minor traffic accidents.
Never under any circumstances should a driver get behind the wheel after drinking. As stated above, drunk drivers have caused more than a quarter of fatal accidents throughout the state and nearly a third of fatal accidents in Bexar County.
Avoid any forms of distracted driving at all costs. This includes using devices (like your phone) or even eating while driving.
Please remember to follow posted speed limits. Speeding increases your risk for being in an accident and increases the damage and severity of car wrecks that do occur.
Crosley Law Firm: Helping Car Accident Victims
As you can see from the data above, even if you take precautions and drive safely, there’s no accounting for the carelessness of other drivers. If you have been injured or lost a loved one in a car crash that someone else caused, contact the attorneys at Crosley Law Firm. We aggressively pursue justice and compensation for the victims of car accidents, especially if a drunk driver is involved. Call our offices today at (210) 354-4500 or fill out our convenient online contact form so we can schedule your free consultation. We’ll listen to the details of your story and help you decide what your best course of action is.
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Eudaily, C. (2014, December 4). The 8 deadliest roads in Bexar County. MySA. Retrieved from http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/The-eight-deadliest-roads-in-Bexar-County-5914301.php
Marquez, R. (2016, June 10). 10 deadliest stretches of road in San Antonio. KSAT. Retrieved from http://www.ksat.com/news/10-deadliest-stretches-of-road-in-san-antonio
Salinas, R. (2016, July 7). Deadliest roads in Bexar County from January 2013-December 2015. MySA. Retrieved from http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Deadliest-roads-in-Bexar-County-2013-through-2015-8343762.php
White, T. (2015, January 7). Bexar County roads third most deadly in Texas in 2014. MySA. Retrieved from http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Bexar-County-roadways-third-deadliest-in-state-5999814.php
White, T. (2015, November 6). Someone has died on Texas roads every day for the last 15 years, TXDoT says. MySA. Retrieved from http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/TxDOT-wants-to-end-15-year-streak-of-daily-deaths-6615056.php
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We’ve been busy with two very important things this week: random match events and improved environmental detail. Firstly, with regards to random events during matches, a number have been introduced to offer some additional visual depth or affect gameplay in a fun way. This can be a cosmetic effect like the wind blowing, which causes leaves to blow across the field (and doesn’t affect gameplay much), or you might be able to interact with these fine gents (affecting gameplay somewhat).
2 foremen + 1 road worker = perfect team!
Events during matches
These road workers may come out and paint the road in the corner of a parking lot where your match is taking place. If the ball flies in their direction, they will kick it back.
There is also another event where grandpa Herb is trying to park his car. He’ll drive through the match field and park at one of the corners. If the ball hits his car, he’ll quickly leave the field to protect his beloved metal baby. Would you like to use one of his watermelons as a ball?
More elaborate events may include a changing field size, a time-of-day system, or other occurrences that can greatly affect how matches take place. We want to mix the formula up a bit and make your experience far more enjoyable.
When it comes to the map, we have added far more environmental detail in the form of animations and moving parts. A wind effect now sweeps across buildings and really makes the world feel more alive. Once we put everything together, the map will look the best it ever has!
Do not forget to wishlist the game on Steam and subscribe to receive news updates about our progress or early testing opportunities. See ya in the next post!
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A satellite image of the storm system at around 8 p.m. Saturday, April 20. Photo Credit: National Weather Service
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A storm system is bringing heavy downpours that are causing flooding and travel issues in some spots of the area at the start of the holiday weekend.
More thunderstorms are possible, mainly in the morning, Saturday, April 20.
A Flash Flood Watch is in effect until 2 p.m. Saturday. Flooding will be most likely on streams, creeks and rivers through Saturday afternoon. There will also be minor flooding in low lying areas and poor drainage spots.
Look for showers in the afternoon and through the early evening. The high temperature will be in the mid 60s.
Up to 2 inches of precipitation is possible through Saturday night, with locally higher amounts possible. (See second image above.)
Easter Sunday, April 21 will be partly sunny with a high temperature in the mid 60s. There's a chance for some pop-up showers after 11 a.m.
Monday, April 22 will be mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and a high in the upper 60s.
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Cyber Offense, Defense, and Economics
AdamElkus September 7, 2012
The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)–known for its assessments of the precision-strike revolution and work on Air Sea Battle–is tackling the intellectual challenge of cyber strategy. Its new report, Cyber Warfare: A ‘Nuclear’ Option? has not gotten much play in the blogosphere but has a number of interesting ideas. CSBA challenges dogmas on both sides of the cyber debate while retaining a welcome sense of humility about its ability to predict the future.
The report’s author, Andrew Krepinevich, was one of the people in the early 90s that explicitly predicted cyber operations and tactics as a precursor to and element of major war. In his late Cold War work on the military-technical revolution (MTR), Krepinevich predicted that future conventional wars might start with an effort by both sides to use information warfare to suppress each other’s systems. So his thoughts on the cyber weapon are definitely of interest to policymakers and enterprise CTOs. Having read a lot of dreck lately on all things cyber strategic-related, I was pleasantly surprised to find a historically informed argument that stakes a middle path between endemic cyber hype and underestimating the threat of state and non state cyber operations.
First, Krepinevech takes a fairly nuanced view of strategic bombing in World War II. While infrastructure attacks were not sufficient to break the will of the enemy in the European Theater of Operations, they did impose massive costs on the Germans. From the sheer density of air defense personnel tasked to the damage inflicted on crucial industries, strategic bombing did achieve effects–albeit at a high cost. Still, German forces had to be ground down the old-fashioned way, and at the time of surrender large combat units still remained in the field. The ability to realize prompt destruction only arrived with the atomic bomb, but its use as a battlefield weapon was at best ambiguous after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Though the United States always planned to deploy nuclear weapons to stop the Soviet hordes should they break through its defenses, it used nuclear weapons primarily to advance its position in a bipolar international system.
Instead of raising the specter of a catastrophic “Cyber Pearl Harbor,” the report raises the possibility of cost-imposing infrastructure attacks that progressively raise the financial losses involved in patching vulnerabilities and adapting to compromises with wide-ranging implications. Thus, while a countervalue cyber attack may not cause a societal collapse it could nonetheless cause problems that would advance an attacker’s political objective. Infrastructure failures that mesh with features of modern society such as the dependence on electricity for refrigerated food would represent formidable advantages for the defender if coordinated together. Krepinevech, echoing Sam Liles’ recent work on the evolution of cyber weapons, suggests that future weapons might not necessarily depend on exploits as we currently understand them. With a large enough botnet, an attacker could potentially crack even secure codes and enable attacker control. The CSBA report notes that officials are right to be concerned about vulnerabilities, but need to understand the distinct features of the weapons at hand. While not absolute weapons, the risks are real.
Much of the report rehashes vulnerability assessments and incidents (Aurora, Operation Shady RAT) that cyber observers will be well-familiar with. But James Hasik picks up some of the report’s implications for the defense industrial complex:
As we saw in the Stuxnet case, cyber weapons can, with enough information, be targeted at individual pieces of equipment within individual facilities. And as we also saw, those things can escape into the wild, given just “one idiot with a thumb drive” (as I read the line once on Ars Technica). It’s also notable that the surgicality is likely inversely related to the cost of the weapon: the more targeted, the more expensive (see below for more on costs). This is mostly the reverse from physical weapons—guided bombs and missiles, for example, are more expensive by the round, but by saving on all those unguided rounds that would go astray, and the extra aircraft to deliver them, they actually turn out to be more economical than dumb bombs. It’s not necessarily that way with cyber weapons. … As frequently as computer operating systems are updated, money sunk into developing a cyber weapon should show a high depreciation rate. That rate can even go stepwise as major desktop and industrial operating system upgrades roll out. Some military aircraft and ships may last for decades, but cyber weapons will likely have much shorter shelf-lives.
The costs of offense, when measured against the combined costs of defense and consequence management reveal some unique tradeoffs. On one hand, attackers seeking to cause damages that will generate strategic effect will require a substantial monetary investment in intelligence, targeting, and testing. But the weapon’s shelf-life will be short. But defenders still face formidable costs in protecting infrastructure and conducting consequence management across interagency boundaries. Hence, while it is true that offense still is dominant in one side of the equation, the operational value of weapons are also complicated by their relatively short shelf lives and some of the uncertainties involved in whether or not they achieve desired effects on the target. Krepinevech’s comments on the latter are also thought-provoking, if disturbing:
It may, therefore, be difficult for the leadership of one cyber power to determine when, in the mind of its enemy, it has crossed the line between cyber operations that are “acceptable” and those that will trigger a major escalation in the intensity of cyber activity that could lead to catastrophic attacks.
He concludes with a sensible call by the strategic studies community to examine cyber warfare with the same intensity it examined nuclear warfare during the Cold War. The community of analysts with a background in strategy and war studies looking at the issue is fairly small—but is nonetheless steadily growing. I will look forward to any future insights Krepinevech has on the subject.
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Adam Elkus is a PhD student in Computational Social Science at George Mason University. He writes on national security, technology, and strategy at oodaloop.com for OODA, War on the Rocks, and his own blog Rethinking Security. His work has been published in The Atlantic, Journal of Military Operations Foreign Policy, West Point Counterterrorism Center Sentinel, and other publications.
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Home Digitalisation The missing link in vessel performance
The missing link in vessel performance
The shipping industry has stepped up its investment in digital tools and technologies to optimise ship performance, cut costs, and tackle shipping’s contribution to global climate change, but CEO of Norwegian technology company Miros believes some companies are missing an important trick.
“We see a lot of investment in equipment like propellers and coatings, better drive trains, propulsion systems, even kites and sails,” Andreas Brekke, CEO of Miros, told delegates attending VPO Global’s forum held late last year in Copenhagen. “Companies are also spending a lot of money on sensors to monitor equipment they have invested in to improve performance.”
Speaking at the forum, Mr Brekke explained that while he believes this demonstrates a widespread commitment to improving vessel performance and efficiency, there is a missing ingredient when it comes to optimising and assessing new technologies. “How do we assess the effect of new technologies?” he asked.
An important parameter in order to be able to compare new equipment is to establish baselines, or comparable situations. This includes removing a major influence on vessel performance – the weather. “Everything that you are trying optimise will be influenced by weather,” he said, “You always need to take weather out of the equation to really understand how and why something is working in terms of performance optimisation.”
One way of understanding the impact weather has on vessel performance and gaining insight into the true effect a technology or method has on this performance is by creating an accurate speed through water (STW) measurement. “This can be difficult as STW will constantly vary thanks to local environmental conditions and will make a lot of the optimisation that you are trying to achieve even more difficult,” Mr Brekke explained.
Using hull performance as one example, greater accuracy can be determined by eliminating the weather factor. Measuring hull degradation requires measuring fouling over time, but the weather needs to be removed from the equation to get a true view of performance.
“We always see chartering contracts being quite weather orientated in their structure, but without really having the tools in place to monitor or follow up on the parameters stipulated in those very contracts. With onboard weather instrumentation, coupled with accurate STW measurements and fuel metres, the parties can efficiently monitor the performance of the contract.
“The more relevant and accurate data you have, the more confidently you can go into any type of charter party negotiation and talk about how your ship has performed and will perform.”
Optimising the speed-fuel curve
A new functionality from Miros designed to provide accurate STW measurements can be used to help optimise the speed fuel curve in real time. “When we measure STW on a moving vessel, we use the X-band navigation radar as our sensor, measuring the ocean surface in front of the vessel – the body of water being moved into, which is yet undisturbed by the vessel itself.
“We measure current speed, direction and course, and with specific algorithms we calculate STW very accurately. Wave and other sea state parameters can also be determined. This is all based on real-time measurements viewed from the ship in the ocean, with data pushed to the Cloud.”
One of the key challenges Miros observes in the maritime industry is the lack of understanding around which problem a company is trying to solve. “This is very important for digitalisation efforts, as the problem you are trying to solve needs to be clearly defined. You need a platform to aggregate all data and you need access to the right data which will help solve the problem at hand.
“We believe that some of the platforms available in the maritime industry today gather and display too many data points. If you’re trying to fix the speed-fuel curve, what you need is a flow metre, a torque metre and draught, and then you need accurate weather data. The combination of these three or four parameters gives you the first step towards truly optimising fuel consumption.”
The problems with current STW measurement
While there are a number of traditional methods to measure STW, according to Mr Brekke, there are some issues:
Speed logs – these can be acoustic or electromagnetic and can work well for certain purposes. However, the data is influenced by noise and systematic errors caused by air bubbles, turbulence, inhomogeneous hydrodynamics, fouling, and inadequate calibration. There are many operational issues, beyond maintenance, due to the nature of putting a sensor on the hull and trying to measure STW acoustically.
Models – model data generally suffers from a lack of local accuracy. Model data is best suited to explaining tidal parameters and periods of stable conditions. They deliver insufficient granularity in time and space.
How Miros solves the STW measurement issue
Over the last 6 months, Miros has tested and compared the effects of the company’s own STW technology, Miros Speed Through Water – a functionality of Miros’ Wavex Virtual Sensor – against a traditional speed log, as well as against model data (see figure 1.) As shown below, the longitudinal current components in metres per second varies between the Wavex data, the speed log data, and the model data.
Figure 2 illustrates the variations between different measurement principles further. The offset between Wavex and the speed log indicates that it would be difficult to adjust for the differences
“For this project that we conducted over a period of 6 months, we saw a variable offset of between 0.3 and 0.8 metres/s. That is a lot when this speed log is certified to measure at 0.1 metres/second.”
“The weather data from weather forecast providers is directionally in line with the Wavex data and shows that on a less granular level it coincides very well with both sensors.”
Figure 2 also illustrates that the offset is decreasing over time and then suddenly increasing again, which indicates some of the challenges with the offset of the speed log.
“Weather forecast providers do a great job with their models and can deliver the bigger picture, but one of the challenges is that the distance from the centre of the grid to certain measurement points in a weather model can be up to 25km, which is great on a weather routing application, but trying to provide a current measurement at the right time and the right place for it to be relevant for the exact location of your ship is by nature difficult for these kinds of data sets.”
According to the above data, Miros’ radar-based STW solution provides significantly less noise and more accuracy when it comes to measuring STW compared with traditional speed logs. Accurate STW data enables vessel owners and operators to make better decisions, specifically related to hull and propeller performance, weather claims, and speed optimisation.
For three years, Miros has been piloting its STW technology with several shipping companies including Höegh LNG and BW Dry Cargo providing verification of the accuracy of the Miros technology.
Miros CEO, Andreas Brekke, presented during VPO Global’s forum on ship performance and optimisation held in Copenhagen on October 22. 2019. Download his presentation here.
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Hong Kong office workers begin week of lunchtime protests
December 02 2019 01:18 PM
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Anti-government demonstrators gather for a lunchtime protest at Chater Garden in Hong Kong
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Hundreds of office workers in Hong Kong's business district gathered on Monday for the first in a week of lunchtime protests backing the pro-democracy movement after its resounding victory in district polls last month in the Chinese-ruled city.
A day earlier police again fired tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters as they marched past the city's Kowloon waterfront, after first going to the US consulate on Hong Kong island to show gratitude for Washington's support.
There was no such confrontation at the two-hour rally in the central business district on Monday, as some people went back to their offices after their demonstration of solidarity. Others said they would be striking for the full five days.
The gathering in Chater Garden probably drew Hong Kong's best-dressed protesters, and organisers have called on them to come out every day this week.
Protests over the last six months have drawn a wide swathe of Hong Kong society - from students to pensioners. Even white-collar professionals, like those in Chater park, have sometimes blocked roads in recent weeks, leading to face-offs with police.
Monday's rally appeared aimed specifically at bringing in more workers from advertising agencies to help build publicity.
Fred, a 24-year-old advertising professional, said he and his colleagues had helped create promotional materials in their own time for the so-called "yellow economy", the businesses seen as supporting the pro-democracy movement.
Many pro-democracy protesters have adopted the colour yellow and yellow balloons have been seen at rallies.
"From the advertising perspective, we can help promote the brands that speak out for Hong Kong," said Fred.
Another protester in the park said his advertising agency had closed for the week in solidarity, and hoped other agencies would do likewise.
"We are trying to come out and be the first industry to come out and stop working for five days," said 28-year-old Ryan.
"We are just stopping work for companies. But the advertising talent will keep advertising for the movement, designing posters and leaflets."
During Sunday's protest police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of anti-government protesters, some of whom chanted "revolution of our time" and "liberate Hong Kong". That followed a period of relative calm after Nov. 24 district elections delivered an overwhelming victory to pro-democracy candidates.
Police on Sunday used tear gas after protesters threw bricks and glass bottles, and ignored warnings, Kwok Ka-chuen, a senior police official, told a news conference.
Fity-eight people were arrested over the weekend, bring the total number of arrests since early June to 5,947, police said.
The protest in the busy shopping district of Tsim Sha Tsui followed a "Thanksgiving" march by hundreds to the US consulate.
The protesters' demands include an end to Beijing's alleged meddling in the freedoms promised to the former British colony when it returned to Chinese rule in 1997, universal suffrage and an inquiry into police use of force.
The unrest since June has at times forced the closure of government offices, businesses, schools and the international airport, helping drive the city into recession for the first time in a decade in the third quarter.
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GLAAD Media Awards New York Winners List: ‘Call Me By Your Name’, Samira Wiley, Ava DuVernay Among Honorees
The 29th Annual GLAAD Media Awards revealed the remainder of this year’s winners in New York at a ceremony hosted Ross Mathews. The Academy Award-winning Call Me By Your Name won Outstanding Film while Handmaid’s Tale actress Samira Wiley was honored with the Vito Russo Award and trailblazing filmmaker Ava DuVernay received the Excellence in Media Award.
The Special Recognition Award was given to Gloria Carter, the mother of Jay Z, for the rapper’s song “Smile,” a groundbreaking track where she came out as a lesbian. Other winners of the evening included Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as well as the documentary Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric.
This year’s ceremony kicked off with a performance of new rendition of “I’m the Only One” from Melissa Etheridge and Adam Lambert to celebrate the 25 year anniversary of Etheridge’s breakthrough album Yes I Am.
GLAAD Media Awards Honors 'This Is Us' As Outstanding Drama Series
The announcement of the awards comes after the first wave of honorees were handed out in April during the Los Angeles ceremony. The New York event continued GLAAD’s Together movement with celebrities and attendees donning blue “&” pins, which represents the organization’s work on intersectional issues including immigration, racial justice, women’s rights, and LGBTQ acceptance. This subtle yet powerful symbol represents the power of solidarity and great accomplishments that occur when marginalized community groups – including women, Muslims, immigrants, and LGBTQ people – resist together.
Excellence in Media Award: Ava DuVernay (presented by: Senator Cory Booker)
Vito Russo Award: Samira Wiley (presented by Alexis Bledel)
Special Recognition Award: “Smile” by Jay-Z featuring Gloria Carter, 4:44 (accepted by Ms. Gloria Carter)
Outstanding Film – Wide Release: Call Me By Your Name (accepted by Academy Award-winning screenwriter James Ivory and producer Peter Spears)
Outstanding Documentary: Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric (National Geographic)
Outstanding Music Artist: Halsey, Hopeless Fountain Kingdom
Outstanding Talk Show Episode: “Australian Marriage Equality” Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Outstanding TV Journalism – Newsmagazine: “The Pulse of Orlando: Terror at the Nightclub” Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
Outstanding TV Journalism Segment: “Murders Raise Alarm for Transgender Community” NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (NBC)
Outstanding Newspaper Article: “The Silent Epidemic: Black Gay Men and HIV” by Gracie Bonds Staples (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Outstanding Magazine Article: “Forbidden Lives: The Gay Men Who Fled Chechnya’s Purge” by Masha Gessen (The New Yorker)
Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage: Billboard
Outstanding Digital Journalism – Multimedia: “’This Is How We Win’: Inside Danica Roem’s Historic Victory” by Diana Tourjée (Broadly.Vice.com)
Spanish-Language Winners:
Outstanding TV Journalism – Newsmagazine: “Pulse, Huellas de la Masacre” Docufilms (CNN en Español)
Outstanding TV Journalism Segment: “Comunidad LGBTQ Vulnerable Bajo Nuevo Gobierno” Perspectiva Nacional (Entravision)
GLAAD previously announced that the short animated short film In A Heartbeat would receive a Special Recognition Award.
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Eurosatory 2018: the best of the tech
Military technology specialists descended on the outskirts of Paris over 11-15 June to showcase their latest wares at the Eurosatory defence and security event. Berenice Baker reports on a selection of eye-catching technology that was on show.
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Eurosatory, which calls itself the international land and air-land defence and security exhibition, was founded in its current format in 1967 and takes place every two years, alternating with DSEI in London. The 2018 event saw 1,802 exhibitors from 63 countries present their innovations to 57,056 visitors from 153 countries at a venue covering several hectares, indoors and out.
Given these numbers and the show’s 600-plus page doorstop of a catalogue, a comprehensive exhibit overview would be impossible, so we have identified some key themes and picked out stand-out innovations.
Armoured vehicles roar onto the scene: KDNS Group, Project Scorpion, and BAE’s CV90
With the focus on land warfare, it was no surprise that several manufacturers used Eurosatory to showcase their latest armoured vehicles.
French-German KNDS Group (Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Nexter Defense Systems) unveiled the European Main Battle Tank (EMBT) technology demonstrator, which consists of the KMW Leopard 2A7 MBT platform fitted with the Nexter Leclerc MBT turret. According to KDNS, "the EMBT is a short-term response to the operational need of the market for high-intensity battle tanks".
The key vehicle constituents of France’s Project Scorpion vehicle fleet modernisation programme also took the stand. The Véhicule Blindé Multi-Rôles (VBMR) Griffon is a multi-role armoured vehicle destined to replace the French Army’s ageing fleet of Véhicule de l’Avant Blindé (VAB) 4×4 armoured personnel carriers. Built by Thales, Nexter and Arquus (formerly Renault Trucks Defense), Griffon variants will include 81mm mortar carrier, ambulance, APC, artillery observation, command post, Missile Moyenne Portée (MMP) carrier, engineering, repair, and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) support.
The other key Scorpion armoured vehicle at the show was a prototype of the Jaguar Engin Blindé de Reconnaissance et de Combat 6x6 combat and reconnaissance vehicle.
“The European Main Battle Tank is a short-term response to the operational need of the market for high-intensity battle tanks.”
BAE Systems displayed the MkIV iteration of its CV90 Infantry Fighting Vehicle integrated with iFighting, which the company says fuses together data from different systems within the vehicle to filter through and prioritise the most critical information.
Read next month’s Global Defence Technology for a full write-up of all the major Eurosatory armoured vehicle news.
Concept vehicles get quirky: Mantis and Viséo
Jostling for space alongside the vehicles that have already been (or will soon be) fielded were a number of concept vehicles that would not have looked out of place in a near-future sci-fi drama like The Martian. Generally lightweight, angular and somewhat insectoid monocoque designs with a wide field of view, they claim to have been built from the ground up around the combatant to optimise survivability, lethality and mobility.
One example from Israel’s Carmor was the Mantis Tactical Armoured Fighting Vehicle (AFV), a lightweight all-terrain platform that comes in four variants: a double cabin pick-up with five seats, a single-cabin with three seas and more pickup capacity, an enclosed capsule with eight seats and an open buggy.
“We decided to put together what we believe a customer needs instead of what they say they want.”
CEO Eitan Zait explained the vehicle’s raison d'être, saying: “AFVs are usually built to a customer requirement in response to an RFI [request for information]. We decided to put together what we believe they need instead of what they say they want. We started with a team of experts including designer Amos Boaz and built it around human engineering and facilitation of operation.”
The Mantis already has its first customer, with another 20 under construction; the first step towards Zait’s modest ambition – he says he wants to replace all HMMVs in the world.
It was far from the only eye-popping design at the show - the giraffe-like UMS Viséo surveillance vehicle from Iris France stood literally head and shoulders above the competition.
Carmor’s Mantis Tactical Armoured Fighting Vehicle is a lightweight all-terrain platform designed around the combatant. Video courtesy of Carmor
Live demonstrations: drone surveillance, armed robots and bomb disposal
Eurosatory’s live demonstrations took place this year at a new purpose-built external obstacle track, and for the first time included the French security forces RAID, GIGN, Prefecture of Police, Special Forces and Special Ground Forces. To a background of a thumping soundtrack reminiscent of TV’s Ultimate Force, different scenarios played out, such asterrorists taking hostages on a bus and refugees being intercepted by bandits.
"Armed robots barked warnings at suspects before shooting them."
In each case aerial or land drones would carry out surveillance before armoured or civil defence vehicles thundered on scene down unnecessarily precarious outcrops, occasionally soaking the front few rows with super-powered fire hoses, or armed robots barked warnings at suspects before shooting them. At one point, a section of the audience was moved while security experts and a bomb disposal robot investigated a ‘suspect package’ under a seat. While an entertaining spectacle, whether they swayed any potential purchasers was unclear.
Vehicles taking part included the Mercedes-Benz 4x4 & G Wagon, the Arquus - formerly Renault Trucks Defense - Dagger 4x4 LPPV, FN Herstal deFNder medium remote weapon station and the Streit Group’s SHERP all-terrain vehicle.
A camp of Rapidly Deployable System buildings taking shape. Image: World Housing Solutions
Eurosatory LAB offers SMEs airtime
For the first time, Eurosatory unveiled an area dedicated to 70 ground-breaking international start-ups in the defence and security domain. As well as taking part in daily Dragon’s Den style pitch sessions, researchers who would not normally have access to defence markets had the opportunity to showcase their wares.
Among these, French start-up Go Touch VR and American company FlyInside demonstrated how their combined haptic and virtual reality technology could revolutionise simulation solutions. Go Touch’s patented product, the VRtouch, is a haptic device that clips over a finger and transcribes the sense of touch when interacting with virtual environments, such as flicking a switch or pushing a button in a cockpit, making the experience more immersive.
“Our technology can be used everywhere and reprogrammed for any aircraft or helicopter.”
Touch VR marketing executive Charly Lacoume said: “Haptic feedback helps build muscle memory in a way VR alone can’t. While this could be achieved with a dummy cockpit, these are expensive. Our technology can be used everywhere and reprogrammed for any aircraft or helicopter.”
Go Touch VR and FlyInside demonstrated virtual reality technology combined with the VRtouch haptic device. Video courtesy of FlyInside
Cobham’s VigilOX pilot breathing sensors
Still on the theme of aerial innovation, Cobham debuted its VigilOX pilot breathing sensor system, the first pilot-worn sensing system to comprehensively capture real-time physiological, breathing gas, and cockpit environmental data during flight. Based on earlier technology known as AMPSS, it is designed to help inform conditions around unexplained physiological episodes – such as losing consciousness during certain manoeuvres - in a way that monitoring just input gases could not.
"VigilOX recently flew three test flights on US Navy F-18 and T-45 aircraft."
VigilOX recently flew three test flights on US Navy F-18 and T-45 aircraft, and Cobham is working with the navy to review the post-flight data, which will be correlated to reported hypoxia-like symptoms. This data will form the basis of a predictive algorithm that will inform the development of oxygen equipment to automatically adjust oxygen dosage as needed to protect the pilot.
VigilOX is designed to help inform conditions around unexplained physiological episodes. Image courtesy of Cobham
General Robotics – DOGO the gun-toting anti-terror robot
What happens when you give a robot a handgun? In the case of General Robotics’ DOGO ultra-light hand-held anti-terror robot, it could help resolve a hostage incident without putting human negotiators at risk. It features a locked carbon-fibre compartment where a small pistol, such as a Glock 26 or Sig Sauer P320SC, can be clicked into place. Despite being a low to the ground tracked vehicle, thanks to rear extenders it can climb stairs as easily as a flat surface.
“If there is a dangerous place, instead of sending people to check out what’s going on, we send a robot.”
Narrating a dramatic on-stand demonstration, General Robotics CEO Shahar Gal said: “Now we’re ready to engage. If we see a target or a terrorist, we can talk with him through an onboard speaker: ‘Drop your weapon’, and if he doesn’t listen to us, we can point a gun at him with point-and-shoot technology.
“All I have to do is click on the target on the video display and the gun will automatically aim. If we want to fire, we take the safety precaution down, and, as another precaution, press both buttons at the same time, and it fires. If there is a dangerous place, instead of sending people to check out what’s going on, we send a robot.”
DOGO also comes in a non-lethal variant with a pepper spray module and a launcher for tear gas, smoke or stun grenades.
General Robotics’ DOGO counter-terror robot can shoot a target with a Glock pistol. Video courtesy of General Robotics
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Amandla Stenberg: Don’t Cash Crop On My Cornrows Raising Awareness Through Media Hype Hair Magazine Public English 2015 Civic and Political Engagement Content Production, Information Quality, Positive / Respectful Behavior https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1KJRRSB_XA Video
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Born Digital: How Children Grow Up in a Digital Age: Privacy Chapter Introduction to Privacy John Palfrey and Urs Gasser Academia English 2016 Privacy and Reputation Identity Exploration and Formation, Information Quality https://books.google.com/books/about/Born_Digital.html?id=hH-0CwAAQBAJ Text
Born Digital: Privacy Introduction to Privacy Berkman Klein Center's Youth and Media Academia English 2010 Privacy and Reputation Identity Exploration and Formation, Information Quality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0E4mVdMpcM Video
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Monsanto EPA Collusion?
Is there Monsanto EPA collusion? Even before industry was invited to regulate itself by Donald Trump’s billionaire businessmen appointments, multi-national corporations have long enjoyed cozy relationships with American “regulators.” Monsanto, of course, is no exception. Everyone knows Monsanto and the FDA have enjoyed revolving-door relations for years, but recent discoveries now show possible collusion between between Monsanto and the EPA.
Related: Monsanto Roundup Cancer Lawsuit
Roundup / Glyophosate Cancer Link
Glyphosate – the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup and other herbicides – is the most widely used agricultural chemical in the world. Testing shows a huge portion of the global population is contaminated with glyphosate, which several organizations not aligned with Monsanto have termed “probably carcinogenic.”
According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a research arm of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the “gold standard” in carcinogenicity research, glyphosate is a “probable human carcinogen.”
Monsanto knows Glyphosate-Cancer Linked
Research scientist Anthony Samsel has reported evidence shows Monsanto has known since 1981 that glyphosate promotes cancer.
Monsanto has insisted publicly that glyphosate is harmless to both environmental and human health. However, recent revelations are starting to show the chemical company’s carefully orchestrated plan to deceive the public. Newly uncovered evidence suggests the U.S. EPA has colluded with Monsanto to protect corporate interests. Monsanto and the EPA have manipulated and prevented key investigations into the glyphosate cancer link. It appears the EPA has used taxpayer money to help keep us in the dark about Roundup health risks, shield companies from liability, obstruct people’s ability to prove damages in Monsanto Lawsuits.
Environmental Protection Agency Accused of Colluding With Monsanto
After the IARC classified glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) also declared glyphosate a carcinogen, under Proposition 65. That means all products containing glyphosate must carry a cancer warning. Monsanto tried to overturn the OEHHA’s decision; however, Fresno County Superior Court Judge Kristi Kapetan ruled against Monsanto.
Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Cancer Link
More than 700 plaintiffs are now suing Monsanto for a glyphosate cancer link. All claim Roundup caused or contributed to their non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Some of the plaintiffs are dead from lymphoma. Some have lost sensation in their fingers and jaws due to nerve damage.
EPA / Monsanto Man Jess Rowland
Monsanto has defended Roundup’s safety in court. The company leans heavily on a 2016 EPA report that found glyphosate is “not likely to be carcinogenic.” At that time, Jess Rowland was associate director of the EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs, Health Effects Division. Mr. Rowland was a key author of that report; his participation is especially troubling for Monsanto defenders.
Mr. Rowland was in charge of evaluating the cancer risk of Monsanto’s Roundup. He allegedly bragged to a company executive that he deserved a medal if he could kill another government agency’s investigation into Roundup’s key chemical, glyphosate.
Mr. Rowland made his boast in an April 2015 phone call, according to farmers and others who say they’ve been sickened by Roundup. After leaving his job as a manager in the EPA’s pesticide division last year, Jess Rowland will, if justice prevails, likely become a central figure in the more than 700 Monsanto lawsuits now filed in the U.S. All of the Roundup lawsuits accuse Monsanto of failing to warn consumers and regulators that glyphosate-based herbicide can cause non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Monsanto, EPA Cozy Relationships
“If I can kill this I should get a medal,” the EPA’s Mr. Rowland told a Monsanto regulatory affairs manager who recounted the conversation in an email to colleagues. That’s according to a court filing made public last month. Monsanto sought Mr. Rowland’s help in stopping an investigation of glyphosate by a separate office, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. That agency is part of the U.S. Health and Human Service Department.
Highly Suspicious Relationship
A federal judge overseeing the glyphosate litigation in San Francisco said last month that he’s inclined to order Mr. Rowland to submit to questioning by lawyers for the plaintiffs. They contend he had a “highly suspicious” relationship with Monsanto. Mr. Rowland oversaw a committee that found insufficient evidence to conclude glyphosate causes cancer. He quit last year shortly after his report was leaked to the press.
The EPA’s conclusion, which exonerates glyphosate and contradicts the IARC’s determination, met with so much criticism that a scientific advisory panel was recently convened to evaluate the EPA’s decision. According to some panel members, the EPA appears to have violated its own guidelines by discounting and downplaying data from studies linking glyphosate to cancer.
Glyphosate Causes Cancer, says EPA Scientist
Attorneys for people suing Monsanto also found email correspondence between EPA toxicologist Marion Copley and Mr. Rowland. Those emails suggested he may have colluded with Monsanto to falsely declare glyphosate non-carcinogenic. In one email, Ms. Copley cites evidence showing glyphosate is toxic to animals. She wrote: “It is essentially certain that glyphosate causes cancer.” She then accuses Mr. Rowland of playing “political conniving games with the science” to help Monsanto and other pesticide makers.
Court records also show that Mr. Rowland warned Monsanto of the IARC’s determination months before it was made public. That gave Monsanto time to plan its defense strategy and its ongoing disinformation campaign.
Evidence EPA Monsanto Colluded to cover up Cancer Link
Roundup Cancer Lawsuit
Monsanto Lawsuit
Monsanto sued for False Advertising
Monsanto sued for Water Contamination
Monsanto secretly attacks anti-GMO Activists
Monsanto earns Monsatan Moniker
by Matthews & Associates
IVC Filter Lawsuit filed in Dallas
Invokana Amputation Warning
Monsanto fined $10 Million for spraying banned Pesticide December 20, 2019
Bayer’s Home Country plans Glyphosate Ban October 22, 2019
Monsanto hides behind Bayer Name October 15, 2019
Final Monsanto Roundup Trial of 2019 delayed October 8, 2019
Emails reveal Monsanto Manipulation, Intimidation of Cancer Researchers September 19, 2019
Monsanto-paid Scientists lied about Financial Ties September 6, 2019
EPA vs. IARC fight proves EPA captured September 4, 2019
Republicans help Monsanto August 27, 2019
Bayer CEO may drive Monsanto Roundup Settlement August 6, 2019
Costco quits selling Roundup July 22, 2019
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Ajyal Film Festival 2019
Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2017
Doha Tribecca Film Festival 2012
Official Rules and Regulations – Programming Submissions
1. About the Ajyal Film Festival
This November 18 to 23, the annual Ajyal Film Festival (the “Festival”) returns for its seventh edition—building on the Doha Film Institute’s (the “Institute”) history of community-based film programming, the success of the Festival’s previous editions, as well as a year-round screening series. Feature-length and short films from around the world will inspire cultural dialogue among young audiences in Qatar. The six-day Festival will bridge gaps and bring generations together (‘Ajyal’ is Arabic for ‘generations’) through activities and events designed to inspire creative interaction among the various sectors of the regional community.
The Festival format includes the Ajyal Competition, as well as the Made in Qatar section. Alongside the official film programme, the Festival also features Special Screenings, Thematic Tributes, Cinema Under the Stars and the Creativity Hub., The Ajyal Competition, described below, is the core component of the Festival and presents hundreds of young people from around the world with the opportunity to sit on the juries that decide the Festival’s competition winners.
The Festival is designed to enhance and encourage regional film-related education programmes, making it an engaging, fun experience for families and educators through collective and individual interaction with the medium of cinema. At the same time, the Festival provides an open forum for dialogue and discourse among its many participants, where the full scope of complex issues facing today’s youth can be discussed. This not only empowers the next generation of storytellers, but also gives them a secure platform from which their voices can be heard.
2. Official Film Programme 2019
Please note: All submissions are subject to the eligibility criteria set out in Article 5 in these Rules and Regulations. All programming decisions and exceptions are made at the sole discretion of the Festival.
A. The Ajyal Competition – The official selection for the Ajyal Competition is divided into two (2) categories:
A. The Feature Film Competition showcases a selection of narrative and documentary films from around the world, for or about youth; and
B. The Short Film Competition features short narrative and documentary films from around the world, for or about youth.
B. Ajyal Competition Sections 2019
Mohaq (New Moon)
For jurors 8 to 12 years of age. A Feature and Short Film Competition (documentary and narrative).
Hilal (Crescent)
For jurors 13 to 17 years of age. A Feature and Short Film Competition (documentary and narrative).
Bader (Full Moon)
C. Made in Qatar
A showcase of films shot in Qatar or made by individuals of any nationality who currently reside in Qatar.
D. Bariq (Sparkle)
For jurors-in-training (aged 4 to 7) and their families. A short film programme dedicated to our youngest audience members.
E. Special Screenings
A selection of diverse films including Opening Night, Tributes, Cinema Under the Stars and Themed Screenings.
3. Festival Awards 2019
Winners are awarded a film development award through the Ajyal Film Fund. All development awards are open to documentary and narrative films.
Development Awards:
A. Mohaq (New Moon) Short Film Competition
Mohaq Best Short Film Award: USD 5,000
B. Mohaq (New Moon) Feature Film Competition
Mohaq Best Feature Film Award: USD 15,000
C. Hilal (Crescent) Short Film Competition
Hilal Best Short Film Award: USD 5,000
D. Hilal (Crescent) Feature Film Competition
Hilal Best Feature Film Award: USD 15,000
E. Bader (Full Moon) Short Film Competition
Bader Best Short Film Award: USD 5,000
F. Bader (Full Moon) Feature Film Competition
Bader Best Feature Film Award: USD 15,000
G. Made in Qatar
Best Narrative Award: 5,000.00 USD
Best Documentary Award: 5,000.00 USD
Special Jury Award: 3,000.00 USD
Best Performance Award: 3,000.00 USD
H. Ajyal Audience Award
Ajyal Audience Award: Ajyal Audience Award Trophy and Diploma
4. Key Dates
13 June, 2019 – Festival submissions open
10th August, 2019 – Ajyal Competition submissions close
7th September, 2019 – Made in Qatar submissions close
First week of October, 2019 – applicants are advised of the status of their entry
18 November – 23 November, 2019 – Ajyal Film Festival takes place
5. Eligibility for Entry – Terms and Conditions
A. Prior Release and Broadcast
A. Films submitted to the Festival should not have been released or publicly exhibited in the State of Qatar prior to the Festival’s 2019 edition. Exceptions shall be determined by the Festival at its sole discretion;
B. Films submitted to the Festival should not have been publicly broadcast prior to the final date of the Festival’s 2019 edition (via television, Internet, video on demand, in-flight entertainment or otherwise). Films may have been publicly broadcast prior to the Festival’s 2019 edition on a non-commercial websites only and for a limited period (e.g. as part of an online-only film festival). Exceptions shall be determined by the Festival at its sole discretion.
B. Ajyal Competition
Submissions to the Ajyal Competition are open to short films only. An Arab director must be attached to the film (includes Arab diaspora). “Arab nationality” shall mean people from any of Algeria, Bahrain, the Comoros Islands, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates or Yemen.
Feature films shall be selected for the Festival by invitation only. Exceptions shall be determined by the Festival at its sole discretion.
C. Age-Appropriateness
Age-appropriateness is based on a film’s subject matter and content, not on the age of the filmmaker(s) and/or cast. Films submitted to the Festival shall be selected for the appropriate section(s) at the Festival’s sole discretion.
A. Mohaq – jurors 8 to 12 years of age
B. Hilal – Jurors 13 to 17 years of age
C. Bader – Jurors 18 to 21 years of age
D. Bariq – Jurors 4 to 7 years of age
D. Made in Qatar
A. The Made in Qatar section is open to narrative or documentary films of any length
B. The writer, director or producer must be a Qatari national or other holding a valid residence permit in Qatar; or
C. The majority of the film must be shot in Qatar; or
D. The film’s story must revolve around Qatar.
E. Compliance with Entry Rules & Regulations and Release & Agreement
A. To be eligible for consideration, all entrants must comply fully with these Entry Rules & Regulations, including deadline(s) and submission of entry material and selected film requirements.
B. Entrants are required to execute a release and agreement which will (among other things):
Permit the Festival (and the Institute) to screen the film during the Festival;
Accept responsibility for obtaining any and all clearances necessary to exhibit the film at the Festival;
Warrant that the entrant has the rights necessary to exhibit the film at the Festival; and
Indemnify the Institute and its affiliates against any claim arising out of the exhibition of the film during the Festival.
F. English-Language Dialogue or Subtitles
To be eligible for consideration, all non-English-language works must have English-language subtitles and be accompanied by an industry standard time-coded English-language dialogue list.
G. Running Time
Feature films must have a running time of no less than 60 minutes. Short films must have a running time of no more than 20 minutes. Exceptions shall be made at the sole discretion of the Festival.
H. Audience Award
The Audience Award is open to narrative or documentary feature films that have not been publicly exhibited in Qatar prior to the current Festival edition. Short films will not be considered for the Audience Award. Exceptions shall be made at the sole discretion of the Festival.
6. Juries – Decisions and Awards
A. All awards will be awarded by a jury, the composition of which will be at the sole discretion of the Festival; and
B. The Ajyal Competition juries are comprised of young men and women 8 to 21 years of age; and
C. The Made in Qatar jury is comprised of industry professionals;
D. The Audience Award will be determined by tallying popular ballots;
E. Eligibility for the Audience Award: All feature films selected in Ajyal 2019 Official Film Programme with the exception of the Opening Night film, the Kids Red Carpet film and films screened as part of the Cinema Under the Stars section are eligible for the Audience Award.
F. Audience Award ballots are distributed to audiences at the public screening of each eligible film. Ballots request that audiences rate the film out of five. Cumulative ballots for all eligible titles are then collected and counted;
G. The decisions of the juries and public are final;
H. All Festival awards are presented to the winning film’s director, who accepts the award on behalf of the film.
7. Selection Procedure
The Institute will solely appoint a selection committee to review submitted films. The committee decides the official selection of films to be screened during the Festival and in which section each film will be screened.
A. No entry fee is required to submit a film to the Festival.
B. Entries to the Ajyal Film Competition must be submitted and film copies must be sent on or before 10 August, 2019, and entries to the Made in Qatar section must be submitted and film copies must be sent on or before 7 September, 2019, by completing the entry form and adding a link with password for the film.
C. Film copies must be sent on or before the deadlines noted in ‘B’, above. Film copies must be sent by private link either for streaming or download. (There is a dedicated space for this information in the submission form)
D. Rough cuts or works-in-progress may be submitted to the Made in Qatar section ONLY. The film MUST BE identified as such on the entry form. If selected, confirmation must be received no later than 7 September, 2019, that the film will be complete with appropriate subtitles no later than 10 October, 2019.
E. All submissions must include a private link to the film and English subtitles must appear on non-English language films.
F. Submission of a film for selection implies unconditional acceptance of these Rules & Regulations.
9. Invited Works
A. Festival programmers select and invite all films presented at the Ajyal Film Festival. Invited filmmakers will be notified by first week of October. Most correspondence will be sent via email.
B. Requirements and Information for Selected Films: The rights holder must fulfill the following requirements by the date(s) designated by the Festival upon acceptance of the Festival’s official invitation:
A. Execute a release and agreement wherein the rights holder:
• Permits the Festival (and the Institute) to exhibit the film during the Festival;
• Accepts responsibility for obtaining any and all necessary clearances to exhibit the film during the Festival;
• Warrants that the rights holder holds the rights necessary to exhibit the film at the Festival; and
• Indemnifies the Doha Film Institute and its affiliates against any claim arising out of the exhibition of the film during the Festival.
B. Once invited, submitted works may not be re-edited or changed significantly without explicit discourse between the submitter and the Festival. Should work be altered in any major way (length, overall narrative and subject matter etc.) without prior notification and/or approvals, the Festival reserves the right to pull said work from the programme.
C. Arrange for delivery of the exhibition copy of the invited work in one of the exhibition formats specified below to the address designated by the Festival. The Festival arranges and covers the costs for one-way shipping of the print or video. The Institute recommends shipment via courier in order to permit tracking of the film.
• Permitted feature film exhibition formats are 35mm, DCP on CRU drive and HDCAM
• Permitted short film exhibition formats are DCP and Apple Pro Res 422
• The Festival does not accept digital files such as H.264or .mov files or DVD as exhibition formats under any circumstances
• Films in competition may be required to provide a second exhibition copy to accommodate jury screenings
• The Festival may request additional exhibition copies to allow for multiple screenings at more than one venue
• Back-up exhibition copies must also be in a permitted exhibition formats. Other formats cannot be accepted
D. Provide a properly completed and signed official Festival “Film Information Form”, as well as all press and publication assets as specified in the “Materials Checklist”.
E. Provide at least one copy of the finalised and completed film for the Festival’s archive.
Film submissions now closed.
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Them Crooked Vultures sets date for debut
Just in time for Turkey Day!
Well, the time has come… Them Crooked Vultures have finally set a date for their highly anticipated debut album… November 17th will be the day and DGC/Interscope Records will be the label with the honors. Self-produced by the three (you know, Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, and John Paul Jones), Them Crooked Vultures will feature 13 original tracks, most of which has been previewed on the road for the past two months.
What’s more, fans can expect an onslaught of tour dates to support the release in the coming months, including December dates in the UK and Europe and a January trip to Australia and New Zealand. No word yet for the Americas (after all, they were just here), but stay tuned.
In the meantime, mark those calendars, folks.
Them Crooked Vultures tracklist:
01. No One Loves Me & Neither Do I
02. Mind Eraser, No Chaser
03. New Fang
04. Dead End Friends
05. Elephants
06. Scumbag Blues
07. Bandoliers
08. Reptiles
09. Interlude With Ludes
10. Warsaw or The First Breath You Take After You Give Up
11. Caligulove
12. Gunman
13. Spinning In Daffodils
Them Crooked Vultures 2009 Tour Dates:
12/10 – Plymouth, UK @ Pavilions
12/11 – Portsmouth, UK @ Guildhall
12/13 – Blackpool, UK @ Empress Ballroom
12/14 – Birmingham, UK @ O2 Academy
12/15 – Edinburgh, UK @ O2 Academy
12/17 – London, UK @ HMV Hammersmith Apollo
Woodhands prepares second album, tours with Junior Boys
On Sale: October 23, 2009
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Julian Lynch
Inn of Court: Gray’s Inn
Memberships: Criminal Bar Association
CPS Panels/ Grade: Grade 3
Public Access Accredited
Julian Lynch completed his Pupillage at 13 Kings’ Bench Walk before moving to Cornwall Street Chambers. He studied history at Corpus Christi College, Oxford before retraining for the Bar. His employment background before coming to the law involved stints as a civil servant and working for the University of Oxford’s social sciences department.
General Crime
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Julian Lynch has a busy criminal practice in the Crown Courts, primarily in the South Eastern and Midlands circuits. He also has appellate experience and appears in appropriate Youth and Magistrates’ Court matters. He has experience of working for the Probation Service and in prosecuting on behalf of local councils.
He has successfully represented clients in taxi licensing appeals and has some experience of Courts Martial and private prosecutions. He has been described as ‘very calm and sensible’ by clients. He has particular experience in:
Cases involving allegations of domestic violence, both prosecuting and defending
Road traffic offences
Sexual Offences Prevention Orders
Offences of violence
Drugs offences, including supply of Class A drugs
Julian is available to be instructed on a Public Access basis in suitable cases.
Julian is a member of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) and South-Eastern Circuit.
R v Ka [2019] – Defending client accused of murder as part of a gang attack on a rival drug dealer. Client acquitted of murder.
R v K [2019] – Defending lead defendant in alleged multi-handed conspiracy to bring illegal immigrants into the UK for cash
R v M [2018] – Defending Defendant accused of armed robbery of a bike shop. Raised issues in respect of reliability of forensic evidence.
R v Bieliki [2018] – Prosecuting a case where a brawl between rival groups resulted in the production and discharge of an air weapon (Oxford Mail)
R v Edward Vines [2016 and 2018] – Prosecuting on two occasions the stalker of Newsnight presenter Emily Maitliss. The cases attracted significant press attention. (BBC) (The Independent)
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Here’s a useful list of places to go if you are a country fan looking for ways to fill time before your next gig.
Rolling Stone Country: interviews, reviews and commentary.
The Country Show with Bob Harris: sessions, new music, the Whisperer himself on Radio 2.
Country Hits Radio: Launched in April 2019, this is the first fully national country station. DJs include Baylen Leonard, recipient of the CMA International Broadcaster of the Year 2019.
Chris Country Radio: The ‘Original Gangsta’ of country broadcasting in the UK, with a weekday breakfast show hosted by Chris Stevens and a drivetime show hosted by John Collins.
Your Life in a Song: Dan Wharton chats to country stars, and there are also reviews of great new albums.
Lyric Magazine: A portal of discovery, with playlists, interviews and coverage of all sorts of country music.
Buckle & Boots: The official website of the country festival, returning in 2020 for a fifth year.
The Long Road: The official website of the country festival, taking place on September 6-8 at Stanford Hall.
w21Music.com: Reviews of music and gigs.
Entertainment Focus on Country: Interviews, reviews and news.
Belles & Gals: Now branching out into gig promotion, the focus here is on the females in country music.
Saving Country Music: The man called Trigger spotlights undersung talents, thinks critically about commercial country and offers balanced criticism.
Grady Smith on Country: ‘I listen to country and whatever else I want to!’ says the journalist-turned-commentator whose video on the snap track, ‘This Beat is Killing Country Music’, has taken his Youtube channel to 50,000 subscribers.
Country Music USA: I can lend you my copy of a book which originally came out in 1968 but has been updated to tell the complete story of country music as social history.
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2014 has been a year of growing awareness in the media of the dangers posed by civil drones, while the drone lobby and entrepreneurs on both sides of the Atlantic continue to push regulators to relax current restrictions. It is likely that push will come to shove in 2015.
Throughout the year the use of small drones by individuals and small companies has continued to increase. The Guardian reported in October that in the UK – where companies can apply for permission to fly drones for commercial purpose albeit with restrictions – the number of permits granted since the beginning of the year has increased by 80%. In the US, although there continues to be a de facto ban on the use of drones for commercial purposes, many private individuals are flying drones. In January the US Air Line Pilots Association expressed concerns about the use of drones in civil airspace after a US Predator drone being operated by US Customs crashed while on patrol. An American Airlines pilot coming into land in Florida reported a near miss with a drone in March, while UK pilots reported that a drone deliberately buzzed their aircraft in Essex resulting in the British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) joined their US colleagues in warning of the dangers of the growing use of drones in civil airspace. By the end of the year, the Federal Aviation Authority reported a surge in such near misses
While military and civil drones continue to crash at an alarming rate (see our Drone Crash Database), safety is not the only worry, with many expressing concern about the impact on privacy. In the US, the Wall Street Journal reported Supreme Court Judge Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaking out about the invasion of privacy by civil drones:
“There are drones flying over the air randomly that are recording everything that’s happening on what we consider our private property. That type of technology has to stimulate us to think about what is it that we cherish in privacy and how far we want to protect it and from whom. Because people think that it should be protected just against government intrusion, but I don’t like the fact that someone I don’t know…can pick up, if they’re a private citizen, one of these drones and fly it over my property.”
Technological advances make it possible for devices to “listen to your conversations from miles away and through your walls,” Justice Sotomayor said. “We are in that brave new world, and we are capable of being in that Orwellian world, too.” Elsewhere a New York Times editorial called for legislation to protect the public’s privacy from drones. In the UK the Information Commissioner included new guidance on the use of drones in their the Code on the use of CCTV. The Code warns that the public must be given notice of the use of cameras. As Lewis Silkin comments:
“Although it is easy enough to stick a notice outside a building, the code highlights the problems that users of drones will face in providing information to those on the ground who may be within camera shot. Having identified the challenge, the code then suggests drone users come up with “innovative ways” of providing the information. Although the ICO offers some suggestions, one senses that drone technology has outpaced thinking on data protection compliance.”
Also in the UK the House of Lords began an inquiry into the civil use of drones which is ongoing at the end of the year. The European Commission said in April that it would set ‘tough new rules’ for the operation of civil drones although little detail has emerged.
Meanwhile, the civil use of drones continues to take off and drone operators are beginning to be arrested for dangerous and illegal use of drones. In the UK the first arrest and conviction took place when an operator flew a drone over BAE Systems nuclear submarine facility. Further prosecutions have taken place including one for flying a drone over Alton Towers theme park and another for flying a drone over a football ground. In the US two men were arrested when the drones they were flying came close to a police helicopter in New York while another was arrested for flying his drone over a traffic accident where a medical helicopter was trying to land. In France drone operators have been arrested for flying drones near the Eiffel Tower and for hampering relief efforts as a cargo ship floundered.
No one, however has so far been prosecuted for the two most serious breaches of safety in relation to the use of drone this year. In October a drone was flown into the middle of an international football match between Serbia and Albanian. The drone, which carried a banner with provocative flag and nationalist slogan, sparked a brawl among the players and fighting on the terraces and eventually led to the match being abandoned. More seriously, in France 13 out of 19 nuclear power facilities have been breached by drones in a seemingly coordinated campaign over the past few months. Anti-nuclear campaigners deny responsibility and while amateur drone pilots have been arrested, they have been cleared of involvement. Ministers have now given French police authority to shoot down the drones if they return.
Despite these safety and privacy fears, drone lobbyists and companies continues to press governments and regulators to relax restrictions. Amazon, for example, one of the corporate big guns wanting to use drones, have been pressurising the FAA by telling them they will take their research overseas if they are not allowed to fly drones in the US soon. In the UK drone lobby group ASTRAEA, which is backed by large defence companies, has been briefing behind the scenes that the technology to allow drones to fly safely in all airspace is ready and all that is needed is approval from regulators. This however is far from the case and other European drone stakeholders have attacked ASTRAEA’s, err, optimism.
Despite the hype, drones pose significant danger to the public safety and to privacy. However drone lobbyists and companies will continue to dangle over-inflated figures for supposed economic benefit before governments in the hope this will persuade them to relax the controls. Without huge improvements however, regulators must resist these changes.
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Miriam Kolko
Professor with special responsibilities, Clinical Associate Professor
miriamk@sund.ku.dk
Department of Clinical Medicine
Rigshospitalet - HovedOrtoCentret - Glostrup, Nordre Ringvej 75, 2600 Glostrup
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Human secretory phospholipase A(2), group IB in normal eyes and in eye diseases
Kolko, M., Prause, J. U., Bazan, N. G., Heegaard, Steffen & Kolko, Miriam, May 2007, In : Acta Ophthalmologica. 85, 3, p. 317-23 7 p.
Mulig terapeutisk intervention med haemmere og fremmere af fosfolipase A 2 -subtyper
Kolko, M., Zhan, C., Andreasen, J. R., Prause, J. U., Heegaard, Steffen & Kolko, Miriam, 8 Jan 2007, In : Ugeskrift for Laeger. 169, 2, p. 115-9 5 p.
Characterization and location of secretory phospholipase A2 groups IIE, V, and X in the rat brain
Kolko, Miriam, Christoffersen, N. R., Barreiro, S. G., Miller, M. L., Pizza, A. J. & Bazan, N. G., 2006, In : Journal of Neuroscience Research. 83, 5, p. 874-882 8 p.
Expression and induction of secretory phospholipase A2 group IB in brain
Kolko, Miriam, Christoffersen, N. R., Varoqui, H. & Bazan, N. G., Nov 2005, In : Cellular & Molecular Neurobiology. 25, 7, p. 1107-22 16 p.
Expression and location of mRNAs encoding multiple forms of secretory phospholipase A2 in the rat retina
Kolko, M., Christoffersen, N. R., Barreiro, S. G., Bazan, N. G. & Kolko, Miriam, 15 Aug 2004, In : Journal of Neuroscience Research. 77, 4, p. 517-24 8 p.
Neuronal damage by secretory phospholipase A2: modulation by cytosolic phospholipase A2, platelet-activating factor, and cyclooxygenase-2 in neuronal cells in culture
Kolko, M., Rodriguez de Turco, E. B., Diemer, N. H., Bazan, N. G. & Kolko, Miriam, 27 Feb 2003, In : Neuroscience Letters. 338, 2, p. 164-8 5 p.
Secretory phospholipase A2-mediated neuronal cell death involves glutamate ionotropic receptors
Kolko, M., de Turco, E. B., Diemer, N. H., Bazan, N. G. & Kolko, Miriam, 28 Oct 2002, In : NeuroReport. 13, 15, p. 1963-6 4 p.
Secretory phospholipase A(2) induces delayed neuronal COX-2 expression compared with glutamate
Kolko, M., Nielsen, M., Bazan, N. G., Diemer, N. H. & Kolko, Miriam, 15 Jul 2002, In : Journal of Neuroscience Research. 69, 2, p. 169-77 9 p.
Glutamate signalling and secretory phospholipase A2 modulate the release of arachidonic acid from neuronal membranes
Rodriguez De Turco, E. B., Jackson, F. R., DeCoster, M. A., Kolko, M., Bazan, N. G. & Kolko, Miriam, 1 Jun 2002, In : Journal of Neuroscience Research. 68, 5, p. 558-67 10 p.
Secretory phospholipase A2 potentiates glutamate-induced rat striatal neuronal cell death in vivo
Kolko, Miriam, Bruhn, T., Christensen, Thomas, Lazdunski, M., Lambeau, G., Bazan, N. G. & Diemer, N. H., 1999, In : Neuroscience Letters. 274, 3, p. 167-170 4 p.
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Intervening in the lives of truant children by jailing parents
One of the mantras of this blog is that education is a partnership between the student, parent(s) or guardian(s), teacher(s), and the school. All parts of the partnership must be involved. The question is how does society handle parents who are abusive, negligent, and often MIA. Christine Mac Donald reported in the 2010 Detroit News, Worthy Proposes jail For Parents Who Skip Kids’ Conferences
Detroit — Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy is pushing for a law that calls for jail time for parents who skip parent-teacher conferences, a plan some call inspired and others consider the nanny state run amok.
Worthy pitched her plan Tuesday to the Detroit City Council and is shopping it to the Wayne County Commission and state Legislature. Drawing a link between parental involvement and youth crime, Worthy wants a sponsor to guide the idea to law.
Her plan would require parents to attend at least one conference per year or face three days in jail. Parents of those excelling in school would be exempt, as would those whose health issues make travel difficult and those “actively engaged” with teachers through e-mail, phone calls or letters.
“We have to find any means necessary to get parents involved,” Worthy told the council. “We have to start talking about prevention.
“Some children don’t have a chance the day they are born.”
Worthy staffers said the proposed law would be the first in the nation. She said she prefers a statewide law, but would start with a city or countywide one.
No legislation is pending in the state House, county commission or council, but the proposal is generating plenty of talk — and controversy.
Wayne County Commissioner Laura Cox, R-Livonia, said Worthy’s intentions are admirable but the prospect of jailing parents is “inappropriate on a lot of levels.” A colleague, Kevin McNamara, D-Canton Township, said he feared a law would become a “tattletale version of pin the tail on the bad parent.”
“The question is, ‘How much government do I want in my life?'” McNamara said. “The reality is it would be an unenforceable mandate that we don’t have time to do.”
Daniel Lessard, a Livonia Public Schools board member, called the plan “the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard in my life.”
“You can’t legislate parental involvement,” he said. “If the law forces parents to go, what will it do other than fill up a room with parents who don’t want to be there?”
This next comment is in no way PC. Prosecutor Worthy is correct that parents MUST be involved in the lives of their children. Problem is, jailing them will not force the majority of them into meaningful involvement and interaction with their child. Society has a couple of options to counter the this it’s my life and I’ll do what I want philosophy. The first is discouraging and condemning out-of –wedlock births, particularly among low-income women. Too bad the First Lady doesn’t want to take this one on. The second thing is to intervene early and terminate the rights of negligent and abusive parents, freeing children up for adoption earlier. Finally, this society needs to support adoptive parents with financial and counseling resources. Not PC, but there it is. California has a law which jails parents of truant children.
Nina Golgowski reported in the Daily Mail article, California mom jailed for 180 days over children’s chronic truancy setting example as one of the firsts in the state:
A California mother has been jailed for 180 days after her two children missed more than 10 per cent of last year’s school year, setting an example as one of the firsts by a new state law.
Lorraine Cuevas, 34, was arrested after school officials said her second and third grader at Monroe Elementary School in Hanford together missed 116 days of school.
The school board says the mother had plenty of warning of the new state law combating chronic truancy with a number of phone calls and letters sent to her home that they said went ignored.
ollectively missed 160 days of last year’s school year
‘It’s a process that takes months to get to this point. On average we’re making 15-20 calls in dealing with these issues,’ Superintendent Tim Bowers of Kings County Schools told KMPH.
Pleading guilty to her crime, Cuevas is one of the first to be convicted under the state’s law and the second to be jailed in the county this year. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2212623/Lorraine-Cuevas-California-mom-bars-180-days-elementary-school-childrens-chronic-truancy.html#ixzz28ermPpgN
It is going to take coordination between not only education institutions, but a strong social support system to get many of these children through school. This does not mean a large program directed from Washington. But, more resources at the local school level which allow discretion with accountability. For example, if I child is not coming to school because they have no shoes or winter coat, then the child gets new shoes and/or a coat. School breakfast and lunch programs must be supported and if necessary, expanded. Unfortunately, schools are now the early warning system for many families in crisis.
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Posts Tagged ‘Big 4 Record Companies’
Building Bridges: Music, Methods and Madness
May 12, 2011 Dwayne Winseck's Media Blog 2 comments
Hmmm, I’ve been beavering away on my next column for the Globe and Mail. Sheesh, it wasn’t suppose to be this way; the ideas are just supposed to flow.
But I digress. And the article is on a touchy and touchy-feely topic, music, the music business and copyright.
Everybody loves a song and deep down fashions themselves a singer of at least something. At least I do. While the love and art of music may be alive and well, maybe even flourishing, by most lights the business side of things is, well, a bit of a trainwreck.
‘Record sales’, they say, are in a death spiral. Indeed, Google the phrase “death of music industry” and you get 14,600,000 hits. Based on ‘Google Hits’, the “death of music industry” mantra is about one third as popular as Lady Gaga, who clocked in today with 42,700,000 ‘Google Hits’ (GH, here on out).
Some of the big 4 major labels — Warner, EMI, Universal and Sony — have roots going back to the very early days of the 20th century, and to the mid-19th if we count bible publisher-come-music and media conglomerate Bertelsmann. Today they appear to be tearing themselves to pieces.
Bertelsmann ditched its half stake in Sony BMG in 2008, but kept its ‘music publishing rights’ line (a point whose significance will become apparent below). EMI is locked in a nasty turf war between scrubby private equity firm Terra Firma Capital (it appears it is anything but ‘firm soil’) and one of the planet’s big four bankers, the Citigroup (see here).
Music and money seems to be a constant theme here. Citigroup has also put the venerable Warner Music up for auction, after its former parent company, Time Warner, cast off the company in 2005. Universal remains part of Vivendi, the French industrial-media conglomerate that has its own fair share of trouble in many quarters (i.e. a lot of fraud convictions), if not so evidently in the music business.
Big global concert and merchandising promoters like Live Nation and AEG are having their own share of woes as well, it would seem. The concert and live entertainment/merchandising side of the industry has gone boffo, but the two biggest players have blown up their balance sheets through a wave of consolidation. If anyone ever wants to see what happens when the money guys and marketers get a full grip on culture, or music, than have a good luck at the last half dozen Annual Reports from Live Nation, for example. It’s a disaster.
Even Google seems unable to find a steady place amongst the turbulent waters that constitute the music industry.
All of which is to say that the evidence seems overwhelming that the music industry is in crisis. Umm, I’m not so sure, but I’ll leave the particulars to that for early next week in my Globe column.
Here, I want to focus on two other things that I think are helpful.
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What a moment! These viral photos defined Rio 2016
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South Korean gymnast Lee Eun-ju takes a selfie with North Korean gymnast Hong Un-jong during training on Thursday, August 4. Relations have been frosty between the North and South since its division following the end of World War II, but geopolitics were put to the side as the two Olympians came together. DYLAN MARTINEZ/REUTERS/Newscom
Abbey D'Agostino of the United States leaves the track on a wheelchair after twisting her ankle in the 5000-meter semifinal on Tuesday, August 16. D'Agostino and New Zealand's Nikki Hamblin, right, collided during the race but helped each other up and managed to make it to the finish line. OLIVIER MORIN/AFP/Getty Images
Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas dives over the finish line to win gold in the 400 meters on Monday, August 15. She edged out American Allyson Felix by .07 seconds. Matt Slocum/AP
David Katoatau of Kiribati dances during the 105-kilogram (231-pound) weightlifting final on Monday, August 15. He finished sixth overall. Tom Pennington/Getty Images
China's Qin Kai proposes to fellow diver He Zi after she received silver in the 3-meter springboard on Sunday, August 14. CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP/Getty Images
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt looks back at his competitors during a 100-meter semifinal on Sunday, August 14. Bolt won the final a short time later, becoming the first man in history to win the 100 meters at three straight Olympic Games. Cameron Spencer/Getty Images
South Africa's Chad Le Clos, right, looks over at U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps during the 200-meter butterfly final on Tuesday, August 9. Ahead of their semifinal, the two were seen on camera as Le Clos shadowboxed while Phelps just watched. Adam Pretty/Getty Images
The diving pool, right, is seen on Tuesday, August 9. The pool had turned from blue to green since Monday.
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Rugby player Isadora Cerullo of Brazil, left, kisses Marjorie Enya, a volunteer at the Games, on Monday, August 8. Enya proposed to Cerullo after the rugby sevens match between Australia and New Zealand. Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images South America/Getty Images
U.S. fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad celebrates after defeating Ukraine's Olena Kravatska in the individual sabre competition on Monday, August 8. Muhammad is the first U.S. Olympian to compete in hijab. Patrick Smith/Getty Images
A cell phone falls out of the pocket of French fencer Enzo Lefort as he competes against Germany's Peter Joppich on Sunday, August 7. KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images
U.S swimmer Michael Phelps competes in the 4x100-meter freestyle relay on Sunday, August 7. The red marks on his body are the result of cupping -- an ancient therapy that has mostly been used in Middle Eastern and Asian countries, especially China. Ryan Pierse/Getty Images
U.S. swimmer Lilly King reacts after winning the 100-meter breaststroke semifinal on Sunday, August 7. King beat Russia's Yulia Efimova in both their semifinal and final faceoff after what had been billed as an Olympic grudge race. GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images
Yusra Mardini, a swimmer for the Refugee Olympic team, competes in a 100-meter butterfly heat on Saturday, August 6. The Syrian native and her teammates have had a remarkable journey to the Games. Michael Sohn/AP
Silver medalist Yang Sun of China and gold medalist Mack Horton of Australia shake hands after the 400-meter swimming freestyle on Saturday, August 6. The Australian had opened up a war of words against his Chinese opponent in the buildup to the final, saying: "I don't have time or respect for drug cheats." Clive Rose/Getty Images South America/Getty Images
Samir Ait Said of France receives medical attention after breaking his leg on the vault during the artistic gymnastics team qualification round on Saturday, August 6. Scott Halleran/Getty Images
Fireworks explode over the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janiero at the end of the Olympic Games' opening ceremony on Friday, August 5. Francois-Xavier Marit/AFP/Getty images
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The Conductor
Context: This is chapter 1 (or at least the beginning of chapter 1, of a YA novel I want to write. River, who just turned 16, and her family are touring Westminster Abbey when she faints due to a special power that manifests at age 16 that she doesn’t know about. Her parents, who were wandering the abbey separately, have disappeared. At the end here, Thomas tries to tell River something extremely important that will be revealed in the next chapter.
Here is the text so far:
I awoke to find Shakespeare staring down at me with great disapproval. Elbow on a stack of books, chin resting on his hand, cape flapping behind him in marble waves, he mocked me: Who dares faint in this great edifice? O thou, great clutz. I stared right back as the scene around him rippled and contorted, and I heard the faint cry of my little brother as he shook my shoulder.
“River, are you ok? Can you get up?” His words were long, like a movie in slow motion, yet tinged with desperation. Shakespeare swirled and electric pain shot through my skull as other voices hammered my brain.
“Let’s get her up.”
“Careful now, love. There’s a good girl.”
“Medics are on the way.”
Why is water always a thing for a damsel in distress? Going into labor? Give her water. Recently broken up and bawling her eyes out? She must need water. Smacked her head on the floor of Westminster Abbey in front of a small country’s worth of people? Water’s the ticket.
It was coming back now. We were in London touring Westminster Abbey—Termite and me and our parents. I was sitting up now and someone threw a blanket around me. The black-and-white tiled floor, a giant chess board, seemed familiar; we’d been here many times. Our parents were archeologists; Mom’s focus was Stonehenge and similar sites, while Dad studied ancient Egypt. Because of their profession, we traveled constantly and took many side trips to famous places like the pyramids at Giza, Royal Mile in Edinburgh, the Parthenon, and of course, Westminster Abbey. I loved the Abbey, but castles were my thing. I was awestruck by their longevity, by their stark solid power as military fortresses, by their romance and mystery as palatial homes. At sixteen, I’d proudly tell anyone, I’d been to 59 castles in seven countries, including Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany, the model for the Sleeping Beauty castle at Disneyland.
Suddenly I was enveloped in warmth with a cold brass badge pressed to my cheek.
“River! Good heavens, dear! Are you alright?” Gerry, a guard with whom my family was friends, hugged me with his mountainous frame. He was a jolly Scotsman with thick wavy hair so white it nearly glowed. Dad and Gerry played golf together whenever they could, although Gerry always told Dad it was pointless to try to beat a man at golf who was from the country where golf was invented. Gerry’s wife Molly, who was English, made the best roast beef pasties in all of London. In all of England, probably. Gerry and Molly were childless, so they doted on Termite and me a little too liberally whenever we visited, showering us with toys and games. Gerry had taught Termite to bowl and claimed that bowling, too, was invented in Scotland, but Dad had found primitive bowling balls and pins in digs in Egypt.
“I’m…where’s…Termite?”
“Right here, Rivs.” His freckled face was suddenly an inch from mine, his haphazard brown locks nearly poking my pupils. “Hey listen, I need to tell you…Wait. Do you have a concussion? There’s a bit of blood on the tile. I hope you don’t exsanguinate.”
Okay, what eight-year old says “concussion” for “head injury” and “exsanguinate” for “bleed out”? Termite, that’s who. I continue to marvel at his vocabulary, this eight-year-old child who routinely foregoes the likes of Captain Underpants in favor of random selections from the Encyclopedia Britannica set in Dad’s study. His given name is Thomas, but we call him Termite because, like the insects that devour wood, he devours books. Mom sometimes calls him Isaac Newton, Jr., to which he replies, “That’s Sir Isaac Newton, Jr., to you,” and indeed, Sir Isaac Newton’s tomb is his favorite spot in the Abbey.
“No, I’m…I don’t know. Could I have a…where’s…” And then someone—or two or three someones—scooped me up and placed me on a stretcher. I lay back, the scenery still swimming. In my mind I waved goodbye to Uncle Will, who still stared at me disdainfully, as if I’d thwarted the crowd’s admiration of him that day.
“Take care, dear,” I heard Gerry call as the fanned ceiling flew by above me. I closed my eyes to stave off nausea. “I’ll try to find your parents.”
Oh right. Parents. I had them. Where were they? I grabbed Termite’s hand as he trotted alongside my stretcher.
“’Mite, where are Mom and Dad?” But nausea knotted my belly just then and I lost my lunch over the side of the stretcher. That was it; that took it out of me. I fainted once more.
When I awoke this time, a ginger-haired doctor with thick black-rimmed glasses was staring down at me.
“I’m Dr. Chambers. What’s your name, dear?”
“Um…dear.” That wasn’t it. “R-River.”
“River, do you know what happened to you?”
“I fainted. Twice in one day. And I threw up in between.”
“Okay. Let’s get a shot of your head, and then we’ll talk some more.”
“What? You’re going to shoot my head?”
“An x-ray, dear. The orderly will take you now.” Termite jumped up onto the gurney and lay next to me as the man wheeled us down the hall.
“River, listen. I need to tell you something. Right before you passed out the first time, you—”
“Thomas! River! Oh thank Heaven,” Gerry, huffing and puffing, lumbered over to us as quickly as his thick body could carry him. “Dears, listen. I asked everyone I could find. I asked the other guards. I asked the tourists and the gift shop girl and the cafeteria cashier and the tour guide. I asked—”
“Gerry, what’s going on? What did you ask them?” Termite had a way of being the calm in the storm.
“I asked them where your parents were. I told them what they looked like and I asked them where they were and had they seen them. Oh, no. It’s awful. I’m so sorry,” he stammered, shaken. “It seems, dears, that your parents are…missing.”
4 thoughts on “The Conductor”
I like the tone and style of your writing. I already feel connected to each of the characters and feel like I know them and understand their background. You’ve accomplished a lot with a small amount of words.
I did feel like some portions came across as though you were trying too hard in the beginning. What does marble waves mean? Your descriptions were very visual, but some places you threw in a couple more descriptive words than necessary.
I am still confused about Shakespeare looking down at River. At first I wondered if she was in a play and had passed out with a guy dressed as Shakespeare annoyed she’d ruined his performance. Now I’m wondering if it was a statue?? Maybe that’s what the marble waves meant?
I was a little lost as to the time period, but was pretty certain it was current, given the use of the word clutz. This was confirmed when you mentioned Disneyland.
I loved the end of the chapter and all of the confusion. I also loved the way you described her view of the world rippling around her.
You could create even more of a cliffhanger I’d you waited to add the line about her parents missing to the beginning of the next chapter. Honestly, I was really drawn in until it mentioned they were missing, which didn’t seem like a big deal yet. By removing that last paragraph, you draw the readers into your next chapter’s
Love this so far.
Hi, Nikki,
Thanks so much. You’re right: “marble waves” might be a bit much. I was trying to show that Shakespeare was indeed a statue.
I see what you mean about her missing parents not being a big deal yet. I did feel like that timing of that was off–something more needs to go on to show that her missing parents is really shocking. I will absolutely consider putting that at the beginning of the next chapter. Thanks again!
jmpayer says:
Looks like a good start. My only thought was that maybe this should be Chapter 2. You could have a first chapter that explained a little bit about where they were, the family dynamic, etc. That saves watering down this section with backstory and when the parents go missing it has more impact. For all we know she doesn’t like her parents.
Okay, I lied, two more thoughts. Whenever I see a female character named River I flash to Firefly. Maybe that’s just me. And I thought Termite might be a family nickname, or her term for her brother, but if she’s named after a river then maybe that’s his real name? If so, it’s an… interesting choice their parents made.
Hi, JMPayer,
Good point about River potentially not liking her parents…I do think I need to establish the relationship better, because her missing parents is really a catastrophe that helps drive everything else, and it’s a source of great fear for River because of how her power can manifest and affect the situation.
What’s Firefly? I named her River because I dig the name (my kids had a good friend growing up named River, and we called her Rivs), but also because her parents met and fell in love on the Thames River, so they named their daughter River and their son Thomas (because naming him Thames would garner him teasing for life). That might be silly…but that’s how it worked out in my brain.
Thanks for these comments, for making me think about and address these issues. I appreciate it!
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November 2019 Howlin’ at the moon. News & Features…ellisctaylor.com
WELCOME to this edition of Howlin’ at the Moon:
From today I’m trying another format for Howlin’. Posts will be as they have been, as frequent I am able, but will all be posted on one monthly page. This one is for November and this month’s Howlin’ at the Moon posts from now on will be on this page.
Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On (Official Video 2019)…..
Babylon…..Broken Home…Life Album…..
COPPA Will End YouTube As We Know It & Protect Pedophiles *LANGUAGE WARNING*…..
A murmuration of starlings: Is it a flock of millions, or a single organism?…..
Truly Outlandish Encounters with Reptilian Humanoids…..
Ellis Taylor ‘Don’t mention the reptilians’…..
Witches, Demons, and the Bizarre Assassination Attempt on George Harrison…..
Men in Black: Demonically Possessed and Controlled?…..
The Contract on Corbyn…..
Maggie May’s last day out: Heartbroken dog owner takes her dying Alaskan Malamute to the Cairngorms so she could play in the snow for one last time before being put to sleep…..
Mystery Religion at Lake Titicaca Pre-Dated The Incas by 500 Years…..
Misty…..
How Australia didn’t see the Chinese security threat coming until it was too late because it was blinded by billions of dollars flowing from trade and investment…..
Bases Lectures 2019 Jane Shattock……
Fishermen charge across a beach to rescue a seal with plastic wrapped around its neck…..
Moment US mother sees her baby’s ‘Batman mask’ birthmark vanishing from her forehead after the first round of pioneering procedure in Russia …..
Emotional moment frantic dog owner is reunited with his Jack Russell Mitzi THREE DAYS after she fell down a foxhole…..
The Host and the Parasite…..
Area 51 Pilot supports Lazar…..
Women married to monsters blindsided by their disturbing crimes…..
Interview 1497 – Catherine Austin Fitts on Where the Missing Trillions Are Going…..
ADP: Col. Charles Halt (Retired USAF) – Rendelsham Forest Incident…..
Man Claims ETs “Turn Off Our Nuclear Weapons” To Show How “Useless” They Are…..
The Cure for Gentlemen…..
Richie Reviews The UK Papers – Tuesday November 26th 2019…..
Colin & Ben chats on Conference 2019 Review…..
‘Cherry of Zennor’- a fairy adventure considered…..
‘Mealy-mouthed bunch of bulls**t’: Waters decries hypocrisy of Swedish prosecutors, says no evidence Assange EVER injured anybody…..
‘Sacred right to suck up to power’: Pilger blasts ‘cruel’ media coverage of Julian Assange…..
The Highs and Lows of Flat Earth: Observations of a Dallas Gathering…..
New River Head and London’s Water Industry…..
Sumatran rhinoceros becomes EXTINCT in Malaysia after last of the species in the country dies of cancer…..
New sexed-up dossier furore: Explosive leaked email claims that UN watchdog’s report into alleged poison gas attack by Assad was doctored – so was it to justify British and American missile strikes on Syria?…..
How to keep laptop batteries working for 7 YEARS… **WOW**…..
The Fixers Using Recycled Laptop Batteries to Power Their Homes…..
3000 at DC Mall for Vaccine Injury Awareness…..
Harvard Immunologist to Legislators: Unvaccinated Children Pose ZERO Risk to Anyone…..
Further Observations – ‘Kinetica’ (Third Instalment)…..
Purple Rain…..
Australia acknowledges potential survival of thylacines…..
Scientist finds evidence that humans are ‘alien race’ and not from Earth…..
Paracelsus, Nature Spirits and Faeries…..
The Complicated and Disturbing Life of King Henry VIII…..
The Ancient Book of Deer, Oldest Known Gaelic Text in Existence…..
Search for Long-Lost Monastery Linked with the Medieval ‘Book of Deer’ May Be Over…..
Aleister Crowley and the Loch Ness Monster: The Great Beast’s Own Words…..
Prince Performs “Purple Rain” During Downpour | Super Bowl XLI Halftime Show | NFL…..
Prince Super Bowl Halftime Performance – Purple Rain (2007)…..
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Canon Kenneth Kearon elected as bishop of Limerick and Killaloe
[Church of Ireland press release] The Episcopal Electoral College for Limerick & Killaloe, meeting in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, has elected the Rev. Canon Kenneth Kearon as the new bishop of Limerick and Killaloe. He succeeds the Rt. Rev. Trevor Williams who retired at the end of...
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Jamie L. Hamilton named rector of All Saints, Peterborough, NH
The All Saints’ Episcopal Church Vestry, through Bishop Rob Hirschfeld, has issued a Call to the Reverend Jamie L. Hamilton to be their next rector, and the Rev. Hamilton has accepted the Call. She was presented to the congregation by Senior Warden Pam Everson, who said, “Those among us who...
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41 St. Paul’s students earned AP Scholar Awards
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Renowned organist and choir director Diane Meredith Belcher will lead the parish music program at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Hanover, NH.
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7 Tips for Helping Your Child Manage Stress
Like adults, kids also struggle with stress. Too many commitments, conflict in their families and problems with peers are all stressors that overwhelm children.
Of course, “a certain amount of stress is normal,” said Lynn Lyons, LICSW, a psychotherapist who specializes in treating anxious families and co-author of the book Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents: 7 Ways to Stop the Worry Cycle and Raise Courageous and Independent Children with anxiety expert Reid Wilson, Ph.D. It’s normal to feel stressed about starting middle school or taking a big test, she said.
The key to helping kids manage stress is teaching them to problem-solve, plan and know when to say yes and no to activities and commitments, she said. It isn’t to “make everything smooth and comfortable.”
“If you don’t teach [your kids] how to manage stress, they will self-medicate with food, drugs and alcohol.” In other words, kids will reach for something to make them feel better right away, and usually it won’t be something healthy, she said.
Here’s how you can help your kids manage stress successfully.
1. Stop overscheduling.
One of the biggest stressors for kids is being overscheduled, Lyons said. And yet, today, kids are expected to pay attention and perform in school for seven hours, excel at extracurricular activities, come home, finish homework, and go to bed just to do it all over again the next day. As Lyons said, “Where’s the downtime?”
Kids need downtime to rejuvenate. Their brains and bodies need to rest. And they might not realize this by themselves. So knowing when your child is overscheduled is important.
Lyons suggested looking at your kids’ schedules over the course of a week and making sure that there’s enough downtime — “when you’re not watching the clock.” Are there several hours on the weekend or a few nights during the week when your child can simply kick back and relax?
Also, “pay attention to how your family is eating their meals. Is everybody eating on the run, in the car, grabbing and going? That’s an indicator that too much is going on.”
2. Make time for play.
Lyons emphasized the importance of “play that isn’t pressured.” There’s no lesson, competition or end goal, she said. Younger kids will do this naturally. But older kids may forget how to simply play.
Combine play with physical activity, which is critical for well-being. Some ideas include: riding your bikes, throwing around the baseball and hiking, she said.
3. Make sleep a priority.
Sleep is vital for everything from minimizing stress to boosting mood to improving school performance, Lyons said. If your child isn’t getting enough sleep, that’s another red flag that they’re overscheduled, she said.
Again, reducing commitments helps. Also helpful is stressing the importance of sleep, and creating an environment that facilitates it. For instance, keep TV – and other electronics – out of your child’s bedroom. (“There’s no research that says TV is good for kids.”)
4. Teach your kids to listen to their bodies.
Teach your kids “to understand their own bodies and the physiology of stress,” Lyons said. For instance, sit in the car with your child, and press the gas and brake, and listen to the engine revving. Explain that “our body just revs and revs, and then it wears out and says ‘enough.’”
Encourage them to listen to what their bodies are saying. While it’s normal for a child’s stomach to feel jumpy on the first day of school, leaving class because their stomach hurts or waking up repeatedly with a headache is a sign there’s too much going on, she said.
5. Manage your own stress.
“Stress is really contagious,” Lyons said. “When parents are stressed out, kids are stressed out. If you’re living in an environment with one thing after another, your kid is going to pick up on that.”
She underscored the importance of showing your kids how to relax and effectively deal with stress. “They have to see you slowing down.”
6. Make mornings calmer.
A disorganized home is another stressful trigger for kids, and this is especially evident in the mornings. Lyons suggested making mornings smoother, because this “sets the tone for the day.” This piece has specific suggestions.
7. Prepare your kids to deal with mistakes.
For kids a lot of stress comes from the fear of making mistakes, Lyons said. Remind them that they’re not supposed to know “how to do everything or do everything right.”
Also, while making good decisions is an important skill to learn, the skill that might be even more important is learning how to recover from a bad decision, Lyons said.
”We can really stress out our kids by not helping them understand that screwing up is part of the process.” Help your child learn to figure out the next steps after a bad decision or mistake. Help them figure out how to fix it, make amends, learn the lesson and move on, she said.
Overall, Lyons suggested parents look at the bigger picture. “You can’t live a stressful life and then teach stress management.”
Source:https://psychcentral.com
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New Visions/New Voices
For registration information to attend the conference portion of New Visions/New Voices 2020
This year, New Visions/New Voices will partner with Theatre for Young Audiences/USA, the national organization for TYA in the United States, amplifying the impact of the event by co-hosting the 2020 TYA/USA National Festival and Conference. This landmark event will add full performances, keynote speakers, breakout sessions, and other special events to the New Visions/New Voices programming (details to be announced in the coming months). The partnership marks the 20-year anniversary of the joint festival presented at the Kennedy Center in 2000, which was arguably the most significant gathering of the TYA field in a generation.
The New Visions/New Voices 2020 festival and joint conference with TYA/USA will begin on Thursday, May 14, 2020 at the Kennedy Center and will conclude in the early afternoon of Sunday, May 17, 2020.
Registration for New Visions/New Voices 2020 festival and joint conference with TYA/USA is now live!
Registration is open now.
Early bird registration rates are available now through January 28 for current TYA/USA members only.
New Visions/New Voices 2020
THE BOY WHO KISSED THE SKY
Seattle Children’s Theatre, Seattle, WA
This highly theatrical play by Idris Goodwin amplifies the extraordinary young life of Jimi Hendrix, one of the most influential artists of all time. Shaped by his Seattle community, young Jimi conjures creativity in the most surprising of places. Directed by Tim Bond, this story told through music, daring imagination, and a smattering of science fiction, asks us dream louder when it matters most.
FAREWELL OPPORTUNITY
Filament Theatre, Chicago, IL
In June 2018, Halley visits the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab and meets the Opportunity Mars rover. The two have something in common: a curious spirit and a shortened life-expectancy. Halley and the NASA scientist in charge of the Mars mission find themselves transformed by an unlikely friendship—with each other, and with a rolling robot millions of miles away. With poetic language and magical realism, playwright Georgette Kelly explores the question “How do you keep on roving when you—or someone you love—faces a dust storm that threatens to block out the sun?” Directed by Julie Ritchey, Farewell Opportunity is being developed in partnership with staff and families at the Crescent Cove Respite and Hospice Center for Kids.
INEŻ KIENET PERF(ETTA) [INEŻ WAS PERF(ECT)]
The Translation Project, Malta
Ineż is fourteen. A Perf ... short for “perfect”: the ultimate label to aspire to. If you’re fourteen, that is. Ineż is popular, beautiful, sassy, rebellious, a saint, a social media queen.
Ineż goes missing.
Everyone in her small community becomes judge and jury. And while she certainly wasn’t perfect ... everyone wanted her to be, in one way or another, their own definition of perfection. Written by Simone Spiteri and directed by Karin Serres, the play asks: what happens when being nothing but perfect is the only option and expectation?
ONLY ONE DAY A YEAR
The Coterie Theatre, Kansas City, MO
During the Jim Crow era of racial segregation, it was perfectly legal for Kansas City, Missouri’s most popular amusement park to limit admission to black patrons to only one day a year. In this play, we see teenage Rose James, in the early 1960s, use smarts, determination, and a little bit of magic to try to defeat this policy, plus fight to grant her little brother’s wish of getting to ride the Fairyland Park rollercoaster on his actual birthday. In contemporary times, we see Rose’s teenage granddaughter Ella use her spirited nature, talent, and inherited magic to stand up to bullies at the school administration level. Written by Michelle Tyrene Johnson and directed by Nedra Dixon, the play offers the invitation to see how, regardless of time or outcome, discrimination can be battled by tapping into love, a sense of empowerment, and actual black girl magic.
SELENA MARIA SINGS
Childsplay, Tempe, AZ
Selena Maria is a fourteen-year-old indie songwriter. With a unique style and a sophisticated fusion of sounds, she composes music on her laptop wherever and whenever she finds inspiration. But Selena Maria lives in the shadow of a big legacy: her namesake and her mother’s favorite superstar Tejana singer, Selena Quintanilla. When tragedy strikes her family, taking away the one person who truly appreciates her musical voice, Selena Maria must learn to navigate a new town, a newly evolving relationship with her grief-stricken mother, and a new and rising fear: what if her true self isn’t enough? Written by Miriam Gonzales with original music by Daniel French and directed by Melissa Crespo, this vibrant and deeply moving play takes us on a journey of loss, perseverance, and love.
this is what I chose no I'm not sorry and yes if you'd ask I'd do it again
Jackalope Theatre Company, Chicago, IL
Even after William’s death, high school life has trudged on. But when Sara starts planning an “Alive Together” assembly to honor William, his sister Vivian finally takes a stand and ask-demands Sara to cancel the event. Does it matter that William and Sara were “a thing” or that Sara may also use the event on her college applications? With the piece's narrative changing based on the audience's choices, Will Kiley directs Daria Miyeko Marinelli's modular play which explores: who has ownership over a tragedy? And what course of action is best in the aftermath?
UNITED WE SHOUT: QUEER YOUTH REVOLUTION!
Project Pride Players, Omaha, NE and Kansas City, MO
This Project Pride and Pride Players joint production is a collaboration between queer youth theatre troupes in Omaha, NE and Kansas City, MO. Both troupes give voice to their LGBTQ and straight allied teens by creating annual shows through improv, dance, poetry, and visual art in order to open lines of communication between races, genders, and generations. This brand-new production, directed by Brian Guehring/Carina DuMarce (Omaha) and Amanda Kibler/Aniseto Herrera (Kansas City) will interweave a mash-up of scenes from the shows created by each company and will be performed by teens from both troupes. United We Shout will reflect the activism, diversity, humor, intelligence, and empathy that these inspiring young people hope to see in the world.
WHAT DO YOU DO WITH AN IDEA, THE MUSICAL
Bay Area Children’s Theatre, Oakland, CA
Yumi is BORED. The kind of bored where everything loses its color, that just lasts forever....UNTIL...an idea pops into Yumi's life. At first Yumi doesn't know what to do with Idea. Yumi tries to hide Idea in the forest. Yumi takes Idea home and feeds it. Idea grows. But, the World Famous Critic has nothing nice to say about Idea. And Yumi is convinced that maybe Critic is correct and his idea isn't any good. But through the power of play and imagination, Yumi and Idea find their voices and grow in ways they could never have imagined. With book and lyrics by Adam Tobin, music by Deborah Wicks La Puma, and direction by Nina Meehan, this musical adaptation of the book by Kobi Yamada will delight dreamers and skeptics alike.
THE GIRL WHO BECAME LEGEND
Zach Theatre, Austin, TX
Script by Sarah Saltwick; conceived by Nat Miller and Sarah Saltwick; lyrics by Nat Miller Amanda Serra, Will Clifton, and Sarah Saltwick.
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About New Visions/New Voices
New Visions/New Voices is a week-long biennial workshop/festival for playwrights and theaters to stimulate and support the creation of new plays and musicals for young audiences and families. The next New Visions/New Voices will be May 14-17 2020.
Since its inception in 1991 through the upcoming 2020 festival, the program has assisted in the development of 119 new plays, musicals, and operas from 102 playwrights and 39 composers, working with 64 U.S. and 13 international theater companies, and has received awards for exemplary service to the field from both the American Alliance for Theater and Education and the Children's Theatre Foundation of America.
Has there been a past participant from your home state or country?
While at the Kennedy Center, selected playwrights, directors, music directors, composers, and actors work collaboratively in a weeklong rehearsal setting to further develop their projects. After revisions, rewrites, and rehearsals of the new plays and musicals, the works are presented as rehearsed readings during a three-day national festival for theater professionals, educators, and others interested in the field.
Apply to be an NV/NV 2020 TYA Festival and Conference Intern
Interns will work alongside TYA/USA staff and Kennedy Center Theater Education to produce this dynamic event. Current and recent undergraduates local to the Washington D.C. area are invited to apply.
New Visions, Voices, and Perspectives in Theatre for Young Audiences – Howlround
For more information on New Visions/New Voices, please contact us at:
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A celebration of our 25th Anniversary in 2016, now available for purchase, is our two volume anthology, New Visions/New Voices: 25 years/25 plays, available for purchase through Dramatic Publishing.
We are looking forward to another 25 years!
Bank of America is the Presenting Sponsor of Performances for Young Audiences.
Additional support for New Visions/New Voices is provided by A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation; The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation; Paul M. Angell Family Foundation; Anne and Chris Reyes; and the U.S. Department of Education.
Funding for Access and Accommodation Programs at the Kennedy Center is provided by the U.S. Department of Education.
Major support for educational programs at the Kennedy Center is provided by David M. Rubenstein through the Rubenstein Arts Access Program.
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East European Genealogical Society Inc. membership supports a registered non-profit organization identifying and marshalling genealogical resources for east European research. We invite membership from all persons interested in east European genealogy including all ethnic groups and religions. Members are encouraged to submit information about any resources which they have discovered to be of help to their research.
Most popular EEGS current areas: Galicia including east Galicia (Ukraine) and west Galicia (Poland) followed by Volhynia and Bukovina.
Popular EEGS pre-WWI areas: Austro-Hungarian Empire (Bohemia, Bukovina, Galicia, Hungary, Moravia), German Empire (East Prussia, Posen, Silesia, West Prussia), Russian Empire (Bessarabia, Congress Poland, Ekaterinoslav, Grodno, Kherson, Kiev, Volhynia), and Romania.
Popular EEGS Current countries: Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine.
Popular EEGS Ethnic groups: German, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech, Slovakian, Jewish, Mennonite, Romanian.
Popular EEGS Religions: Roman and Greek Catholic, Lutheran, Judaic, Mennonite, Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox, Bohemian / Moravian Brethren.
The roots of the East European Genealogical Society Inc. began in 1989, when an informal group of researchers with varied interests in East European family history and genealogy met on a monthly basis. The researchers felt a need to develop and share genealogical knowledge about eastern Europe. The group became the East European Branch of the Manitoba Genealogical Society and held its first meeting on January 16, 1990. The East European Branch grew steadily over the next 6 years. As a result, the East European Genealogical Society Inc. was formed and held its first official meeting on March 13, 1996. The East European Genealogical Society assumed the activities previously offered by the East European Branch. For a complete and detailed Timeline of the Society: EEGS TIMELINE
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Society info. and voice mail: (204) 989-3292
email: info@eegsociety.org
This site was last revised on November 10, 2019.
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