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OWN Sets Two-Night Premiere for Ava DuVernay’s ‘Cherish the Day’ – Watch the First Trailer (Video)
Tim Baysinger
OWN announced the premiere date for “Cherish the Day,” its second series from Ava DuVernay, and released the first trailer which you can watch above.
The series will have a two-night premiere on Feb. 11 and Feb. 12, and air on Wednesdays going forward.
Each season of the drama will chronicle the stirring romance of one couple, with each episode spanning a single day. The first season stars Xosha Roquemore and Alano Miller as a couple that meets in Los Angeles, with the full season spanning five years. Additional cast includes Cicely Tyson, Michael Beach, Anne-Marie Johnson and Kellee Stewart.
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Directors for the series are Tanya Hamilton, Blitz Bazawule, Aurora Guerrero and Deborah Kampmeier.
DuVernay created and is executive producing the anthology, which received a straight-to-series order, from Warner Horizon Scripted Television as part of her recently announced overall deal with the studio.
She executive produces along with Paul Garnes (“Queen Sugar”), Tanya Hamilton (“Queen Sugar,” “Night Catches Us”), and Oprah Winfrey. Filmmaker Tanya Hamilton (“Queen Sugar,” “Night Catches Us”) will direct the series premiere, which was written by DuVernay.
“Cherish the Day” is produced for OWN by Array Filmworks and Harpo Films in association with Warner Horizon Scripted Television.
The show is DuVernay’s second at OWN, which airs also her drama “Queen Sugar.”
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Structures Burn as Gospers Mountain Fire Flares in New South Wales
Fire crews worked through the night into Sunday, December 15, to build containment lines around the giant Gospers Mountain blaze, which had been burning in the Hawkesbury region north-west of Sydney for more than a month.
On Sunday afternoon, authorities warned residents remaining in Mount Wilson, Mount Irvine, Mount Tomah, Berambing, and Bilpin that it was “too late to leave” as the fire continued to grow, crossing a creek and breaking containment.
A number of structures burned as the fire spread, with 7News Sydney reporting some of the buildings were believed to be homes.
More than 700 homes had been destroyed across New South Wales during the bushfire season before Saturday morning. Credit: NSW RFS via Storyful
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Suspect Sets Car, and Self, Alight Outside Parisian Steakhouse
A man was caught on camera setting a car, and his own feet, on fire outside a restaurant in a Paris suburb in the early hours of Sunday, December 15.
The clumsy suspect, along with another individual, drove a Renault Clio in front of the Beefcut steakhouse in Courbevoie before dousing it with fuel, Le Parisien said. Video shows the suspect literally hot footing it away when, after igniting the blaze, his own feet also catch fire.
This footage was taken by Belguidoum Abdelrahman, who said that he called the fire department and spoke with emergency services at the scene.
The restaurant reopened on Sunday evening, despite the facade being damaged in the incident, according to local press and the restaurant’s Instagram.
Police were investigating. Credit: Belguidoum Abdelrahman via Storyful
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2017 REVIEW ROUND-UP’S PART THREE: THE CELTIC NATIONS- BIBLE CODE SUNDAYS, THE DECLINE!, BRUTUS’ DAUGHTERS, REAL McKENZIES, VINCE CAYO, THE BOTTLERS
Album Review, Americana, Australia, Bagpipes, Brittany, Canada, Country, England, Folk, Folk-Punk, France, Ireland, London, Scotland, Yorkshire January 4, 2018 Leave a comment
So welcome to 2018 and the first post of the year and the last of our round-ups from 2017. We simply could not keep up with the volume of releases we keep receiving so rather than completely neglect them here’s some much shorter reviews that will at least give you a taste of what they are about. We much prefer to do really detailed reviews but these are still worthy of your time so go ahead and check them out and apologies to the band’s concerned that we had to squeeze them in. This week we concentrate on bands hailing from the Celtic nations or the Celtic diaspora. You can still catch up with our North America (here) and European (here) round-up’s.
BIBLE CODE SUNDAYS- ‘Walk Like Kings’ (Buy)
Described by the band as being made by accident we, and they, should be thankful for such unexpected delights. This is an album of thirteen glorious tracks covering themes of loss and longing and hope that show the Bhoys reaching new heights, musically and lyrically. Tracks, such as the fun filled ska beat ‘Disorganised Crime’ leap out of the speakers in a joyous racket that simply defies not being danced to and then there’s ‘Stand Up And Fight’, a collaboration with New Yorks finest Da Ded Rabbits, that punches it’s way through in a hard hitting pounding track that will be a surprise to some fans. Never fear the Bible Code sound is still evident as are other influences including an Oasis tinged ‘You Got Me On The Run’ but the title track, ‘Walk Like King’s’, is pure Bible Codes, a majestic thumping track full of defiance and pride for 2nd and 3rd generation Irish immigrants who weren’t born with silver spoons in their mouths. Guests abound on this release – Elvis Costello, Matt McManamon, Brian Kelly… All adding to an eclectic mix of an album on which every track is worthy of your attention, be it the ethereal ‘America’
“Why we leave behind family, to a foreign land for to roam”
or the haunting beauty of ‘Snow Falling On Fire Escapes’ or the MacManus family collaboration ‘Willie Redmonds Volunteers’ all the tracks show a band at the top of their game and this is one that all London Celtic Punkers will want to check out. It has been a tough year for the band but this album is one thing that they can look look back on with fond memories and pride, let’s hope for more, someone once sang ‘accidents can happen, but only once…’ may the Bible Code Sundays fall into more.
“We face out, chest proud, In this town we walk like kings”
RIP Carlton.
THE DECLINE!- ‘Heroes On Empty Streets’ (Buy)
More celtic-punk for you now but in the sense that this is a punk and from the Celtic nation of Brittany! The music scene in Brittany is very strong and is reflected in the growth of ‘Celticness’ and the resurgence in the Breton language. The Decline! are a five piece punk rock band from Rennes who formed in 2009. Their first EP, ‘An Old Indian Cemetery’, was released in the middle of 2010, and showed what proper genuine music today should be all about. They followed this up with their debut album ‘Broken Hymns For Beating Hearts’ the following year and was a mix of punk rock and acoustic folk tunes. 2014 saw the release of ’12a Calgary Road’ which saw the and branching out into celtic melodies but ploughing much the same furrow while taking on varying tempos with ease. This new album released in May may not have the asolute urgency of previous releases but more than makes up for it with it’s catchy singalonga punk rock. Kevin’s strong and distinctive voice and rumbling rhythm section certainly gets your blood pumping and while ‘Someday Somehow’ could pass for bleak post-punk maybe even Gothic in places the following track ‘Joyfull Thrill’ would make the early Dropkicks jealous.
We have to wait till track seven for the first signs of anything acoustic and it’s well worth the wait ‘We Love Our Scars’ hits the spot both lyrically and musically too. Its all very well done and very well produced too and while it may be possible to mistake this for an American punk release The Decline! are proud members of the Breton music scene. If catchy as feck melodic punk rock is yer thing then here’s the band for you.
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BRUTUS’ DAUGHTERS- ‘Hueso y Madera’ (Free Download)
Formed in November 2008 in Carabanchel, a suburb of Madrid as a straight forward punk rock band before they added Asturian bagpipe and fiddle and one of the most original bands in celtic-punk was born. This is the bands third album and, as usual, comes with songs written in Castilian, English and Asturian. As one of only a tiny handful of bands in the scene with female vocals they certainly stand out and with a defiantly anti-fascist message to boot. The music is fast and loud and punky but there is an undeniable hardcore traditional folk edge to it as well. Elements of their own countries as well as Celtic are merged together very successfully. As said I don’t understand much of the album but the sleeve notes speak of the endangered languages of the Celts, Celtic mythology and defending the underprivileged. The punk side of this reminds me of the Spanish punk music I use to hear in Hackney squats over the years but the folk influence is strong and comes out in reels and jigs throughout the album.
Only nine songs and twenty-eight minutes long but played at breakneck speed from the opening bars of the instrumental punky trad folk of ‘De Hueso Y Madera’ to the English language ‘Brazen’, the album moves at a great pace and its them pipes that really dominate here, holding it all altogether. Vocals are shared around the band and the standard gang chorus works very well especially on tracks like ‘Carretera’, for me the high point here with its catchy chorus while ‘Unidad’ is bass heavy and rumbles along nicely while the fiddle and pipes work overtime. ‘Carcel’ is another high energy number that offers up more of the same. Here’s a real Celtic band that is something quite apart from the herd. Alex voice is harsh and strong and fits the music perfectly. They are a lyrics heavy band so it’s a shame I can’t catch most of it as I am sure they have something important to say. Here’s a proper punk band playing proper punk rock songs that are littered with jigs and reels and a sea shanty about to break out at any moment. The hidden song here is the real folk gem though proving they can really play their instruments and you can find out yourselves for *FREE* yes you read that correct the album is available for sweet F.A from the link above.
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THE REAL McKENZIES- ‘Two Devils Will Talk’ (Canada / RestOfTheWorld )
Well what to say about Two Devils Will Talk? How it managed to escape a decent review is beyond me seeing how popular this awesome and is. Up there with The Mollys and the Murphs the Real McKenzies have been going an amazing 25 years and this, their tenth, is up there with the est I kid you not. I wasn’t overly enamoured with 2015’s Rats In The Burlap but here they have returned with fourteen rousing tracks of pure, unabashed Canadian-Scots celtic-punk mayhem. From the opening anthemic ‘Due West’ to a fantastic re-working of early McK song ‘Scots Wha Ha’e’ its absolutely brilliant. Once again they missed out of playing here so we never got to see them live but we can’t wait till they do darken these shores again. Punk, folk, acoustic, electric with pipes throughout weaving in the Celtic influence for which the band is best known. ‘Seafarers’ is one hell of a stand out tune. You can’t change how the waves roll only how you roll through them. The sense of humour they are famous for is riddled throughout the album and nowhere better than on the laugh out loud ‘Fuck The Real McKenzies’ where the band take the piss out of themselves, and everyone else too! They find room for a cover of Stan Rogers ‘Northwest Passage’ that only adds to this great song. Originally sang as an acapella song the McKenzies do it justice as you would expect. The album ends with my favourite McK song of all and plenty of rebellious, Scottish charm and wit here on an album that shows a band who are still capable of hitting the high notes even after a quarter of a century. A defiant return to form for one of the Premier League bands of celtic-punk.
The Real McKenzies on 25 years of Canadian Celtic punk rock here.
VINCE CAYO- ‘Bound For Glory’ (Buy)
This debut album from talented multi-instrumentalist Vince Cayo has been bouncing around London Celtic Punks towers for a good six months now without making much of an impact until I decided to revisit a few albums for these round-ups and I can only think I didn’t listen to it properly as it is absolutely fecking brilliant. Not so much celtic-punk but def in the country-punk realm of things and Vince has a very strong voice that growls out at you like Tom Waits lashing it up with McGowan backed by The Street Dogs. Opening track ‘Wasteland Blues’ is a great start to proceedings with fast rock’n’roll country and harmonica shining out and Vince putting McGowan to shame! Vince says his influences range from the cream the celtic-punk but most importantly Flogging Molly, and the title track takes this adulteration to epic proportions, alongside such luminaries as Social Distortion, Billy Bragg, The Gits, Tim Barry, Bob and Dylan and they are all in there but with a bit of good auld Yorkshire grit and determination.
Not afraid to take a risk either with the epic ‘Folk The World’ seven+ minutes of heavy and hard hitting folk music that builds up and up into a real anthem of a tune with fiddle and mandolin taking it recklessly close to celtic-punk territory Vince! ‘Turn It Up’ is classic catchy punk rock that doesn’t seem out of place here at all and in fact slots in nicely among the folkier tunes. ON hearing this properly I though I could imagine him sharing a stage with the likes of Matilda’s Scoundrels so was no surprise to read after that he already had done. When I hear album’s like this I wonder if this is the start of something new. Well I say new but what I mean is a resurgence of folk and country music but with a modern interpretation. The album’s dozen songs wraps up the absolutely awesome country rock’n’roller ‘The Garbageman’ and ‘You Wont Be Marching Alone’. Great songs and a great production make Bound For Glory as good a debut album I heard in 2017 and I will be looking him up for any London dates I can tell you.
THE BOTTLERS- ‘The Bottlers’ EP (Buy)
Our final review comes from the land of Oz. A place I am constantly telling you and telling you is where the best Celtic-punk scene is and where the best Celtic-punk bands hail from. Why this is so is anyone’s guess. Perhaps one of these great Aussie bands would like to give us over here on the other side of the world a bit of an insight? The Bottlers come from that world and are a hard playing, nine piece (yes, nine!) celtic-punk band hailing from the capital city, Sydney. They may be city dwellers but you get the feel of the country off these Bhoys and Ghirl. Kicking off with ‘Hades Way’ its a rollicking good stroll through Irish folk-punk as filtered through the Aussie experience. Drawing from not only the vast rural reaches of the Australian nation but also the city and suburban streets with a solid tip of the hat to the folk, punk and folk punk pioneers that have traipsed and trekked the trails well before them.
This is both Australiana AND celtic-punk so intertwined are the two. ‘Take Back The Streets’ is a call to arms to the nations poor in a swirling waltz of anger and beauty. Only three songs on this EP and the curtain comes down with ‘Up She Rises’ and The Bottlers go out with a song that has a nod toward to 70’s English folk-rock in there somewhere amongst the rabble.
“The Bottlers believe folk based music should progressively speak of the times it exists in whilst hearkening back to it’s past, to the true heart of folk music, people. Because you truly can’t get where you’re going till you know where you’ve been”
and you can’t get better than that. In fact we may put it on a London Celtic Punk sticker.
yeah yeah I been reliably informed that Canberra is indeed the capital city not Sydney so congrats to Celtic Punkcast for spotting out deliberate mistake! Australia’s finest celtic-punk podcast. Check them out here or here.
So ends Part 3 and our final part of the 2017 Round-Up’s. Again apologies to all the bands as each and every release fully deserved that full London Celtic Punks treatment. We have still probably missed some fantastic music so all the more reason to send in your stuff to us to review. We are always looking for people to join the reviews team so don’t be shy if you fancy giving it a go. If you don’t want to miss any of our posts then you can follow us by simply filling in your e-mail address in the box that is either below or to the left depending how you are viewing and you will receive every post to your in-box.
COMING SOON- THE BEST OF 2017! What we thought were the best releases of the year covering Albums, EP’s, Celtic/Folk-Punk, Traditional and more.
Tagged: Bible Code Sundays, Brutus Daughter, Real McKenzies, The Bottlers, The Decline!, Vince Cayo
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Longarm's Locker
Category Archives: Elvis Costello
longarmslocker 11:53 pm on November 4, 2016
Tags: Elvis Costello, IbMePdErRoIoAmL, Warner Theatre, Washington DC ( 2 )
Elvis Costello Welcomes One And All Into His Imperial Bedroom [Warner Theatre; Washington DC 11.03.16]
Sometimes artists record albums to make a cohesive, singular statement. Sometimes, the LP is simply a collection of what the writer has laying around that he hasn’t used yet, but, for the most part, when an album is released, unless it is a ‘concept album’ like The Who’s ‘Quadrophenia’ or Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’, the artist never intends to perform the entire record in front of a live audience. In early 2016, Bruce Springsteen embarked on ‘The River Tour’ in which he played his entire two-record set from start to finish. By the time the second leg of the tour finished, that idea was abandoned, simply because the pacing of a record does not always make for great pacing in a live setting.
Which brings us to Elvis Costello’s latest US tour, which stopped in DC last night; entitled ‘Imperial Bedroom and other Chambers’, Elvis and his band The Imposters promised to play the entire ‘Imperial Bedroom’ album, along with other songs from all eras of his career. And, the first thing Elvis got right that The Boss did not is, he chose not to play the songs in running order, which would have made for a very strange live show. Knowing before the show began that I would hear ‘You Little Fool’ and ‘Man Out of Time’, two of my all-time favorite Costello songs, I was extremely excited to see what the evening would bring as my friend Dana and I made our way inside the beautiful Warner Theatre.
Elvis kicked things off with a very deep cut, and a song not from ‘Imperial Bedroom’. Instead he started the evening with ‘Town Where Time Stood Still’ from the ‘Punch the Clock’ album. I admit, it was one I did not immediately recognize until the chorus showed up, and even then, the initial sound mix made the lyrics a bit hard to understand. If the audience wasn’t really sure what to make of the opener, that was soon corrected when drummer extraordinaire Pete Thomas launched into ‘Lipstick Vogue’, played at breakneck speed.
Before launching into the first ‘Imperial Bedroom’ selection of the night, ‘The Loved Ones’ Elvis asked the crowd ‘Are we sick of this yet?’ The audience seemed perplexed, as the show was just getting started. ‘I don’t mean the show, you know what I mean! Are we sick of this yet?!’ he clarified, to which the crowd roared their approval.
Photo by Dana Kiser
A word about the album ‘Imperial Bedroom’: It was released in July 1982, only eight months after Elvis had released an album made up entirely of covers of classic country music, which puzzled many of his fans, who expected the ‘Angry Young Man’ of ‘Armed Forces’ or ‘This Year’s Model’. ‘Imperial Bedroom’ is not for everyone, and it doesn’t have many instantly recognizable radio hits that the casual fan would recognize. For all that the album may not be, it does in fact contain Costello’s strongest lyrics to date, perhaps ever. Here is one example, from the standout track ‘Man Out of Time”:
There`s a tuppeny hapenny millionaire
Looking for a fourpenny one
With a tight grip on the short hairs
Of the public imagination
But for his private wife and kids somehow
Real life becomes a rumour
Days of dutch courage
Just three French letters and a German sense of humour
He`s got a mind like a sewer and a heart like a fridge
He stands to be insulted and he pays for the privilege
Almost every track on the album demonstrates Costello’s lyrical acumen, and if the public at large weren’t ready to follow him, he didn’t care. Thankfully the record has been repackaged and rereleased several times over the last twenty years, allowing fans to rediscover and appreciate it, and I think today the album, rightfully so, is considered one of the best in Elvis’ 40+ year career. Playing all of the songs live was no small feat, but for those lucky 1400 fans in attendance, it made for a very memorable evening.
Here’s the setlist, then some thoughts:
The Town Where Time Stood Still
Lipstick Vogue
On Your Way Down
Accidents Will Happen
You’ll Never Be a Man
Tears Before Bedtime
Moods for Moderns
This House Is Empty Now
Shabby Doll
Human Hands
Watching the Detectives
The Long Honeymoon
Pills and Soap
You Little Fool
Shot With His Own Gun
Kid About It
…And in Every Home
Encore 2:
Town Cryer
Blood & Hot Sauce
American Mirror
(I Don’t Want to Go to) Chelsea
(What’s So Funny ’bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
Photo by the author
Mid-set, hearing, in this order ‘Pills and Soap’ (again, a song that is an acquired taste), ‘Hand In Hand’, ‘Hi Fidelity’ and ‘You Little Fool’ was the portion of the show that seemed to be directed right at me! Hearing those songs all in a row, almost without even a break to differentiate where one ended and the next began, was a wonderful moment for this longtime fan.
While the set mostly consisted of material originally performed by Elvis & The Attractions, along with one of his collaborations with Burt Bacharach, the evening wasn’t completely about nostalgia. Costello is working on a musical adaptation of the 1957 film ‘A Face in the Crowd’ which starred Andy Griffith as a man who rises from the gutter to the halls of power. (If you’ve never seen the film, I highly recommend it). Elvis showcased three songs from the production, which definitely gave the proceedings a political undertone.
A shout out to the mad musical genius that is piano/keyboard player Steve Nieve. His showcase piece of the evening was a charged and tense rendition of “Shot With His Own Gun”. Thomas, Nieve and bass player Davey Faragher (the “new guy” who’s been with the others for about fifteen years) were on point throughout the night, helping to keep things moving.
The second to last song of the night was the crowd pleaser ‘Pump It Up’ which had everyone dancing, regardless of their politics and then he closed the night with a song written by Nick Lowe and recorded by Elvis in 1978. The song of course was ‘(What’s So Funny ‘bout) Peace Love & Understanding’ and, I cannot think of a more appropriate song (or question for that matter) given the current climate. It’s quite a feat when a song originally written in 1974 is now, forty-two years later, even more frighteningly relevant than I think its author or the evening’s performer could have ever possibly imagined.
As I walk on through this wicked world,
Searching for light in the darkness of insanity,
I ask myself, Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain, and hatred, and misery?
And each time I feel like this inside,
There’s one thing I wanna know,
What’s so funny ’bout peace, love, and understanding?
Thanks as always to Dana for attending this show with me, and thank you very much for reading.
longarmslocker 4:53 am on April 23, 2010
Odds and Sods [Thoughts on ‘Tommy’, Taylor and Elvis, Part 1]
It’s been a while since I posted on the blog, so I thought I would take a moment to talk about this past weekend’s activities and look forward to what promises to be a phenomenal show this Saturday at The National.
Let’s start with last Saturday [04.17]: VCU Theatre’s production of ‘The Who’s Tommy’ at The Raymond Hodges Theatre.
You’re either a fan of The Who, or your not. No production of Tommy will persuade you to like The Who, nor will the ‘normal’ Who fans seek out other musical productions after seeing ‘Tommy.’ People go see this show to hear the songs live, hoping they sound somewhat similar to the double-album they already know.
It’s hard to believe that this ‘rock opera’ is now over forty years of age. Most of it has worn well, and this production brought home the point that, as a story, ‘Tommy’ is still as sick, as twisted and as sadistic as it was in 1969. Moments still make me cringe [the whole ‘Uncle Ernie/Cousin Kevin bit] but, this is a good thing. It’s a heavy play that doesn’t flinch from subject matter that was very taboo back then and doesn’t get discussed often now. And, don’t forget, at its core, it rocks.
This production, done ‘in the round’ is very fluid and never slows down. The performers that stood out to me were Eric Stallings as the teen-aged Tommy, Malorie Mackey as the ever-optimistic believer Sally Simpson, and young Cooper Timberline as the young Tommy. Stallings and Timberline did a masterful job of remaining in character, in the required catatonic state of Tommy, while being poked, prodded, carried and pushed. It really was a wonder to watch these two actors embody this singular character.
Lastly, the band is top-notch. Yes, there was only one foursome that had the bombast of The Who, but these local musicians do a great job staying true to the soundtrack, even playing ‘The Underture’ in Act One, which I fully expected to see cut from the show.
The show is playing this weekend and closes Sunday. Go to Theatre VCU for details. Tickets are $25 for the public with discounts for VCU students, alumni and staff. If you’re a fan of The Who, go support local theatre and check out this ambitious production.
Sunday 04.18 – The ACM Awards
Just a brief note about Sunday’s ACM awards, since I had some new readers ask why I hadn’t written anything about it on Monday. Taylor Swift may not have walked away with any awards this time [which, even though I am a big fan, I kind of expected, seeing as how the album has been out for a long time], but she had one of the most memorable performances of the evening that should, once and for all put to an end the notion that she can’t sing live. This was an appearance where her voice sounded as strong as it did a month ago when I saw her live show in Charlottesville. If ya missed it, here it is, via the wonder that is YouTube.
Taylor at The 2010 ACMs — Change
Congrats to Lady Antebellum and Miranda Lambert on their wins and performances. Miranda’s performance of ‘The House That Built Me’ was a great showcase for her, showing that she can sing the quiet song, not always having to be the ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’.
And finally, I look forward to Saturday night when none other than Elvis Costello performs at The National – right here in Richmond!! I’ve seen Elvis twice before, and I can’t wait to see and hear what this show will be like in this amazing venue. His last album, 2009’s ‘Secret, Profane and Sugarcane’ has a country/bluegrass flavor to it, so I am hopeful that we’ll hear some rare songs from his catalog. A dream set list for me would include:
Anything from his country covers album, ‘Almost Blue’ but especially Good Year For The Roses
Stranger In My House
Cheap Reward [which was sung wonderfully by Stephen Colbert in November, with Elvis on guitar on ‘The Colbert Report’
Motel Matches
And, of course, my dream setlist isn’t complete without the inclusion of I Hope You’re Happy Now.
I will be happy with whatever is played. But if any one of the above songs is heard, I’ll be ecstatic. Thanks again to The National for really putting Richmond on the music scene map for the first time in a very long time. It’s so nice to have a club that bands want to play!
Full review of Elvis Costello at The National will be posted by Monday night. If you have tickets to that show, see you there. If you don’t, go see Tommy at VCU.
More shows and reviews coming soon…including Jonathan Coulton at The Hat Factory May 13, Carrie Underwood this Tuesday at the Coliseum, and a full recap of the madness that is NASCAR on May First.
Thanks for reading, and stay tuned!
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Superellips of revolution scattering patterns
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Herewith a small program I wrote a while ago and some documentation on how it’s built up.
The Matlab program can calculate the scattering pattern of a superellips of revolution. I hope it is of some use to some of you, if only for satisfying curiosity. The program runs in Matlab, opens a GUI, which requires the input of five variables.
The first two dictate the limits in q that one is interested in. The minimum q value determines the maximum size of the real-space box, and the distance between the minimum q and the maximum q determines the pixel resolution in real space. Good values for these are, for example, 0.01 for the minimum q and 2 for the maximum q.
The three other variables determine the size and shape of the superellips-of-revolution. The superellips is generated with width a (in Angstrom), height b, and curvature r. The ellips is then revolved around the vertical axis to generate the ellips-of-revolution. A nice value for these are, for example, a=20, b=100, r=4.
Please see the attached documentation and have fun running the program. The program is distributed under the GPL V3 license. geomsuperell.pdfsuperellips-of-revolution scattering pattern simulator
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A Message From Green Ronin Leadership
November 8, 2017 /in The Lost Citadel /by Evan Sass
By Nicole Lindroos, Hal Mangold, and Chris Pramas
Recently a contractor that we’ve been working with, CA Suleiman, was accused of sexual harassment. We were in the midst of an internal investigation and had decided nothing as yet when this was taken to the court of public opinion. There is a lot we could say about the events of the last few days and the recklessness with which people who have no connection to the incident or even the game industry have acted, and perhaps later we will, but here is the point. Green Ronin is a progressive company, full stop, and loudly so. One need look no further than our games or the causes we support through charitable giving to see that this is so. If someone brings allegations of sexual harassment to our doorstep, you’d better believe we take it seriously. In light of these accusations, we have made some decisions.
CA Suleiman has been working with us on a single project. The Lost Citadel was a Kickstarter we ran earlier this year and we will be publishing it, as we have an obligation to the backers. We will be assigning someone else to oversee the project moving ahead, however, and we will not be working with CA on any future projects.
As a point of clarification, CA was never in charge of the talent search for women and non-binary writers that we ran earlier this year. That was a company effort, spearheaded by co-owner Nicole Lindroos.
The leadership of Green Ronin will be meeting off site over the next few days to discuss these matters. If you have any relevant information you think we should know, please send it to custserv@greenronin.com. Thank you.
Evan Sass
Evan got his start in the hobby game industry in 1995, as a co-founder of Rubicon Games. Among other games, he has worked on Cranium, Cranium Hullabaloo, and the Pokémon trading card game. RPGs he has edited for include Everway, Ork! The Roleplaying Game, Spaceship Zero, Warhammer Fantasy 2e, the d20 System, A Song of Ice and Fire, Mutants & Masterminds, Dragon Age, Fantasy AGE, Pathfinder, and Critical Role (5e). He has been managing our web sites since about 2002. He co-designed Walk the Plank, our card game of piratical trick taking.
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Teaching Trusts & Estate as Critical Wealth Genealogy
October 16, 2019 By Allison Tait in 1LPE Tags: capital coding, genealogy, trusts and estates, wealth inequality 1 Comment
Allison Tait–
Step into a Trusts & Estates classroom and you’ll find the first thing most students learn is that the guiding principle in U.S. wealth transfer law is freedom of disposition. As the Restatement (Third) of Property tells us: “The organizing principle of the American law of donative transfers is freedom of disposition. Property owners have the nearly unrestricted right to dispose of their property as they please.” From the very beginning, students are trained to understand that wealth transfer law is designed to facilitate testator intent, which is the lodestar of both rulemaking and interpretation.
Teaching Trusts & Estates from a perspective of critique, accordingly, starts with an inquiry into the foundations of this core principle and an excavation of its genealogy, as defined through critical theory. Focusing on the critical genealogy of unrestricted property disposition rather than the principle itself requires that we identify not the “origins” of inheritance practices but “the accidents, the minute deviations—or conversely, the complete reversals—the errors, the false appraisals, and the faulty calculations that gave birth to those things that continue to exist and have value for us.” (Foucault, Nietzsche, Genealogy, History)
Consequently, in the classroom we not only inquire into the contingencies of history and the social practices that have shaped and reshaped the doctrine; we also focus on outcomes, rules, and reversals that deviate from and push against the principle of freedom of disposition. And indeed, from this perspective, we can glimpse several ways in which freedom of disposition is not all-encompassing but, rather, bounded. Freedom of disposition is bounded for individual testators by the norms of family formation and freedom of disposition is bounded for certain groups by the lack of material resources that would allow them to benefit from rules designed for families with income and wealth. These forms of boundedness, unearthed through critical genealogy, reveal a more nuanced conception of testamentary freedom while underscoring the substantial privileges that come with both family status and wealth.
Teaching Penal Abolition
July 15, 2019 By Amna Akbar in 1LPE, Criminal Justice Reform, Racial Capitalism, Social Movements & Activism Tags: abolitionism
Amna Akbar –
In April, the New York Times ran a profile on abolitionist visionary and scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and the Harvard Law Review published an entire issue on prison abolition. This fall, the University of Texas Law School Human Rights Center is hosting a conference on abolition. The new journalistic outlet The Appeal runs abolitionist pieces as a matter of course, and outlets like Rolling Stone, The Nation, and Jacobin have too. Podcasts like Chris Hayes’s Why Is This Happening, The Appeal’s Justice in America, and Beyond Prisons have featured probing conversations on abolition with leading organizer-intellectuals Rachel Herzing and Mariame Kaba. And behind it all is a growing movement of abolitionist organizing and campaigns, calling to defund and delegitimize police and prisons, shift resources towards the social wage, and build alternative methods to dealing with the pains and crises of capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy that prisons and police now deflect and exacerbate: Critical Resistance, BYP100, No New Jails Seattle, Mijente, Survived and Punished, INCITE, and more.
Like the movements abolitionist ideas emerge from and are circulating in, abolitionist praxis is shaping the urgency and discourse around criminal law reform. A primary difference between abolitionists and mainstream reformers is the end goal: Abolitionists work toward eliminating prisons and police, and building an alternate and varied set of political, economic, and social arrangements or institutions to respond to many of the social ills to which prison and police now respond. Importantly, abolitionists see their struggle as part of the unfinished work of transforming the afterlives of slavery in economic, political, and social life.
Abolitionist thinking is central to contemporary debates over how to interpret the meaning of the criminal law and our criminal processes and enforcement mechanisms: it is literally part of the subject of “criminal law” today. We should teach it that way. More broadly law scholars teaching any course touching on criminal law and procedure, police and prisons, borders and border enforcement, should teach abolition. I have written before, including with Jocelyn Simonson, about how to teach criminal law differently, in this movement moment, and attune to the centrality of racialized and anti-black violence to our criminal legal system. Here, I share some notes and resources on teaching abolition. In my experience, teaching abolition requires study, but the study and teaching are more fruitful than I can say in this brief post. Teaching and learning abolition has deepened my study of the history of the United States and the unfinished social movements that define its shape, expanded my imagination of the future, and profoundly reshaped my sense of the work ahead.
Against the Economic Pie: How “Redistribution” Limits Political Economic Analysis
March 27, 2019 By Martha McCluskey in 1LPE Tags: legal theory
Martha T. McCluskey –
What gets lost when we describe social or environmental justice as redistribution? This retrenches a fundamental binary—maximization versus distribution—in which maximizing logically comes first. By initially producing a bigger “economic pie,” law will be able to provide more generous slices to those who currently receive too little.
The term “re-distribution” makes explicit the hierarchical, temporal ordering of this binary. As part of a framing dualism, the term leads us to imagine that law sets up an essential baseline distribution, which afterward may be modified to advance contingent and secondary concerns about fairness, equality, or a healthy and stable environment. This presumed secondary and supplemental position leads to the common conclusion that these justice-oriented goals are best addressed not by substantive legal change disrupting the baseline order, but instead through a second-order, ancillary process of government taxation and spending.
Against the Economic Pie: How Economic “Maximizing” Skews Legal Analysis
Should law maximize or divide the “economic pie”? Law students learn that smart thinking begins by asking this question. But this question skews legal analysis against a political economy perspective. It implicitly presumes a hierarchy where an abstract idea of economic gain normally stands above and beyond political and moral concerns, bigger in size and first in order.
A recent New York Times commentary by pundit Thomas L. Friedman exemplifies the ideological work of this binary. Friedman contrasts the “redivide-the-pie” political left with various “grow-the-pie” political visions grounded in what he presents as the more realistic understanding that private economic power, not egalitarian democracy, is the foundation of good jobs and general prosperity. Similarly, legal academics often use terms like “economic efficiency” or “economic welfare” to define the optimal legal order as a matter of maximizing economic gain aside from fairness or the well-being of particular persons. For example, students learn to use efficiency to rationalize tort law limits on corporate liability for consumers’ injuries from risky products, or to justify contract law rules upholding agreements that produce harsh or exploitative results.
This first of two posts on this framing question challenges the implicit spatial metaphor embedded in the distinction between maximizing and dividing the economic pie. By definition, the whole is always greater than any particular part. We skip over many hard and important questions when we imagine the societal “whole” as a maximum “pie,” that can then be sliced and distributed for particular interests. The efficiency-distribution binary distorts legal analysis in three ways. First, the image of “maximizing” emphasizes quantity, rather than quality; second, it presumes economic gains normally and objectively expand rather than tightens the boundaries of prosperity and well-being; and third, it represents gain as a sum of separable parts, rather than as an interdependent system.
Contextualizing Contract Law: An LPE 101 Reading List
February 28, 2019 By Luke Herrine in 1LPE Tags: contract, legal theory, Progressive Era, Racial Capitalism
Luke Herrine—
Contract is, of course, part of the core legal infrastructure that makes markets possible. But it is more than that. As an ideal type, it is at the core of all individualist social, moral, and political theories that seek to account for human sociality while avoiding social structure. Contract represents the ideal of being able to choose how to calibrate others’ demands with one’s own life plan. It presents the possibility of a social obligation that is not imposed upon one from the outside—by family or tradition or etiquette or the state. The rational choice theories that form the basis for neoliberal economic thought do not just understand chosen obligation as an ideal or a possibility: it is how they model all social institutions, even highly complex ones. No wonder “social contract” has been such an enduring model of the legitimate exercise of state power in the liberal tradition.
Theories based on the contractual ideal have proven especially useful for justifications of capitalist ordering. When the law has taken such theories too seriously, it has found it easy to endorse and even mandate all sorts of market-mediated exploitation as necessary to a free society. Lochner and its ilk were supposed to protect freedom of contract, after all.
The contractual ideal and the promissory morality that comes with it is part of our culture, and not just our legal culture. Even those of us who have been on the business end of exploitative contracts—for debt, for labor, for rent, for whatever else–have a hard time shaking the notion that we are obligated to do what we said we would (even if we didn’t know what we “said we would” via the fine print): that we chose, and therefore have responsibility for, the rules imposed upon us.
Thinking about—and teaching—contract from an LPE perspective requires denaturalizing with this tendency of thought and the forms of moral, political, and legal justification that have grown out of it. And doing that requires dealing with contracts not as the shadows of an ideal Form but as institutions shaped by socio-legal context. It requires dealing with the law of contract not as a self-contained and coherent body of judge-made doctrine but as an overlapping set of rules that deal with different contractual forms in different contexts. And it requires highlighting how the decontextualized contractual ideal can serve ideological functions when used as a map for this complex terrain.
Labor Relationships & and the Legal Vision of 1L Contracts
February 27, 2019 By Sanjukta Paul in 1LPE Tags: contract, economic power, employment law, freedom, history of capitalism
Sanjukta Paul—
Contracts is more than an area of law; it is a key piece of the vision we lawyers bring to many other areas of law. The 1L Contracts course supplies a foundation-stone of the “pre-analytic vision” with which lawyers will eventually think about many other things, including labor relationships. Labor regulation as such is addressed only in the optional upper-level curriculum, and it is relatively marginalized even there. As a result, many lawyers, notably in the commercial and business sphere, will bring to their dealings with labor issues the contracts “vision.” That vision ultimately tends to erase the law’s deep involvement in constituting labor relationships. It thus tends to furnish apparent justification for the exercise of power by the already-powerful, in pursuit of private ends rather than the public interest, on the stage created and sustained by law.
The specific pre-analytic vision transmitted by the conventional Contracts curriculum is of atomistic individuals contracting at arms’ length. In this vision, any pre-contracting power differentials, including those power differentials that are created or sustained by law, are rendered invisible. In our historical imagination this vision is symbolized by ‘the Lochner Era,’ which was characterized by the frequent judicial invocation of contract principles to either invalidate or undermine democratic attempts to structure labor relations and markets more generally.
But apart from ignoring, for example, “the background distribution of property rights,” this vision also sits uneasily with the present-time legal constitution of labor relationships. Moreover, perhaps because of its foundation in the pre-analytic vision of contracts, commercial law is generally selective about when it chooses to treat labor contracts as “special” on the one hand, or as instances of a more general type on the other. Continue reading →
The Public Law of Private Promising, And Not Even That: LPE 101 for Contracts
February 26, 2019 By Noah Zatz in 1LPE Tags: contract, economic power, family, freedom, pedagogy 1 Comment
What would a 1L Contracts course look like from a law and political economy perspective? I can’t claim to have designed my course from the ground up to answer that question—and indeed I am intentionally more eclectic than that. Nonetheless, several of my choices—about how to thematize the material and what to include at all—clearly reflect an LPE approach.
From start to finish, I present Contracts—perhaps the quintessential “private law” topic—as a study in public power. That is among the main reasons to start with remedies (as many Contracts professors do). Ultimately, the question is whether a government institution (a court) will render a judgment and back it up with the threat of publicly authorized violence: seizing property to satisfy a judgment or throwing someone in jail for contemptuously defying a court order. I underline this point on the first day of class by assigning a recent ACLU report on incarceration for nonpayment of private consumer debt. This reading also challenges conventional field boundaries, enabling students to follow a thread of debt and poverty that connects their Contracts class to Ferguson and racialized mass incarceration.
The publicness of Contracts goes beyond the brute fact that it is law. Rather, the field reflects policy judgments about when to make the force of law available to private parties. Although invocations of party intent typically submerge this point, it actually appears on the surface of the most conventional place to start Contracts: the very first section of the Restatement (Second) of Contracts. “A contract is a promise or a set of promises for the breach of which the law gives a remedy, or the performance of which the law in some way recognizes as a duty.” Well then, when and how does “the law” (speaking for we, the people) choose to transform private promises into legal duties? Continue reading →
It’s Mine, and Yours
February 8, 2019 By Rashmi Dyal-Chand in 1LPE Tags: property
Rashmi Dyal-Chand –
I teach in a law school where most students and faculty pride themselves on falling somewhere along a spectrum of progressive, extremely progressive, socialist, and left anarchist. Thus, every year, usually within the first month of starting my first-semester property law course, I find myself surprised that the vast majority of my students appear to be intuitively and deeply committed to the idea that property ownership is and should be fundamentally about exclusion. Many of the same students who demonstrate depth of understanding about issues of discrimination, inequality, and power, voice the intuition that exclusion is somehow essential to those of us in the 99% (including their family and friends) without really considering the ways in which exclusion produces and maintains maldistribution.
Regularly, the first instance when students voice this commitment during class is when we discuss Jacque v. Steenberg Homes, in which an elderly couple sued a manufacturer of mobile homes for trespass when the defendant crossed an unused portion of their land for the purpose of delivering a mobile home to their neighbors. I have long used Joe Singer’s casebook, and I start my course with a unit on trespass that begins with State v. Shack. Thanks to Singer’s pioneering analysis of public accommodations law as central to understanding the principle of access in property law, I spend much of the trespass unit discussing the balance in trespass law between exclusion and access. Yet when we get to Jacque v. Steenberg Homes, students voice their intuition that the Jacques had the right to exclude the mobile home company from their property. “Why?” I ask, “Their property was in no way harmed by the defendant’s use of it.” They typically answer with some version of: “Because the defendant is a big corporate entity and the Jacques have very little power. The only power they have is over their property. We can’t take that power away.” “Well,” I ask, “what about the fact that mobile homes are a major source of affordable housing in this country? What if the company was doing its best to limit the costs of installing affordable housing on the neighboring property in order to avoid transferring those costs to the Jacques’ neighbors, who may not have been able to afford those costs?” For years, when we had this conversation, the students remained resolute. They said, for example, that the larger point still remained that corporations have too much power in this country and that property rights are our defense to such power.
The Racial Wealth Gap and the Question of Time Zero
February 7, 2019 By Michelle Wilde Anderson in 1LPE, Racial Capitalism Tags: housing, local government, property, Racial Capitalism 1 Comment
Michelle Wilde Anderson
Each year teaching Property Law, I have taught many of the big cases and topics on race and property law, such as M’Intosh and Dred Scott; segregationist turbulence in rights of reasonable access; public accommodations law; racially restrictive covenants; the Fair Housing Act. I never quite had a cohesive idea about this—they each seemed formative.
Meanwhile, evolving case law and politics have made it clear that we still have a basic disagreement at the heart of American law and politics, and my students carry that question with them into class: On matters of race, did we reset the playing field of property to start a merit system where fair access to markets would govern? Did we create a new Time Zero—for instance, when LBJ signed the Fair Housing Act as a gesture of solace and appeasement seven days after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination?
Property Law as Poverty Law
February 6, 2019 By Michelle Wilde Anderson in 1LPE Tags: housing, local government, property 2 Comments
Michelle Wilde Anderson –
I recently interviewed a man in a weakened rural town who makes sausages for a local meat packing business on the 3am shift. He told me about a homeless woman who had come to the meat shop one dark morning with blood-soaked hands. Delirious with cold and exhaustion, she had punched in the glass on an abandoned burrito shack to shelter from the cold rain overnight.
For her, housing and land still matter. The forces of weather and gravity mean that 100% of people need shelter, with a patch of dirt for it to stand on. More than ever, it seems that housing and land matter most for understanding poverty and rising inequality. An average of more than 550,000 people were homeless each night in 2017, and 6,300 people are evicted in the US every single day. I live in San Francisco, where just yesterday I passed by 40 or so tent shelters on sidewalks, plus two Lamborghinis worth at least $250,000. I’ll guess that those cars don’t spend their nights outside.
The 1L introductory Property Law course isn’t usually about how law helps protect money and drive poverty, but I think it could be. Teaching it as a class mostly centered on land helps it get there.
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Roger Nielsen appointed President and CEO of Daimler Trucks North America
Stuttgart / Portland, Oregon, Mar 22, 2017 - Roger Nielsen (56) has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) and its affiliated companies Freightliner Trucks, Western Star Trucks, Thomas Built Buses, Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation and Detroit Diesel Corporation effective as of April 1, 2017.
Supervisory Board appoints Martin Daum as Member of the Board of Management for Daimler Trucks & Buses
Feb 27, 2017 - In a meeting held today, the Supervisory Board of Daimler AG appointed Martin Daum (57) as the Member of the Board of Management with responsibility for the Daimler Trucks and Daimler Buses divisions effective as of March 1, 2017.
Daimler rewards employees for successful business year 2016
Stuttgart, Feb 2, 2017 - Under the company's profit-sharing scheme, Daimler employees receive up to 5.400 euros each for their contribution to the successful business year of 2016.
Olaf Schick appointed new Chief Compliance Officer at Daimler
Stuttgart, Dec 8, 2016 - Olaf Schick has been appointed as the new Chief Compliance Officer at Daimler as of March 1, 2017 and thus will also head Group Compliance. He succeeds to Dr. Wolfgang Herb, who will retire on December 31, 2016 after more than 25 years in the company.
Dr Clemens Börsig standing for re-election to Daimler Supervisory Board
Stuttgart, Germany, Dec 8, 2016 - The Supervisory Board of Daimler AG has nominated Dr Clemens Börsig for re-election as a shareholder representative on the Supervisory Board. His election for a further term of office spanning five years is to be proposed at the Annual General Meeting in Berlin on March 29, 2017.
Daimler celebrates 10 Years of Vocational Training in China
Peking, Nov 10, 2016 - The tenth anniversary of Daimler’s vocational training in China was celebrated today at the Beijing Polytechnic School with the participation of teachers and students, as well as representatives from the Chinese Ministry of Education.
Board of Management of Daimler AG appoints Gorden Wagener as Chief Design Officer
Stuttgart, Nov 9, 2016 - The Daimler AG Board of Management has approved the creation of the position of Chief Design Officer with effect from 1 November 2016. At the same time the Board appointed the Head of Design, Gorden Wagener, as Chief Design Officer at Executive Vice President level.
Lehrkräfte informieren sich über Elektromotor und Brennstoffzelle
Leipzig, Sep 28, 2016 - Die Bildungsinitiative ‘Genius – die junge WissensCommunity von Daimler‘ hat rund 100 Lehrerinnen und Lehrern in Leipzig die Unterrichtseinheit ‘Antriebstechnik – Verbrennungsmotor, Elektroantrieb, Brennstoffzelle‘ vorgestellt.
Sibylle Wankel succeeds Dr. Sabine Maaßen on the Daimler Supervisory Board
Stuttgart, Germany, Sep 22, 2016 - With effect from 25 August 2016, Sibylle Wankel (born in 1964) has been appointed to the Daimler AG Supervisory Board as an employee representative. She studied law at the universities in Berlin and Freiburg. Sibylle Wankel has been active in trade unions since 1991 and has worked for IG Metall since 1997. iIn May 2016, she became General Counsel of the IG Metall Board of Management in Frankfurt.
Daimler holds first Hackathon in China
Beijing, Sep 5, 2016 - Daimler held its first China Hackathon in Beijing on September 3rd and 4th. A total of 75 participants were invited to develop creative ideas and code prototypes related to automotive e-commerce within a given timeframe of 26 hours.
Daimler ermöglicht Mitarbeitern mehr Freiraum beim mobilen Arbeiten
Stuttgart, Jul 28, 2016 - Daimler stärkt die Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Privatleben seiner Beschäftigten mit einer neuen erweiterten Regelung zum mobilen Arbeiten.
More than 100 new jobs for the customer approach of tomorrow: Best Customer Experience: Mercedes-Benz is investing massively in digital experts
Stuttgart, Jul 13, 2016 - On the successful road to the future, Mercedes-Benz is investing massively in the development of its digital competence as part of its "Best Customer Experience" sales and marketing initiative.
Neuer Antrieb im Klassenzimmer: Lehrkräfte informieren sich über Elektromotor und Brennstoffzelle
Bremen, Apr 25, 2016 - Am 27. und 28. April hat die Bildungsinitiative „Genius – die junge WissensCommunity von Daimler“ 130 Lehrerinnen und Lehrern im Mercedes-Benz Werk Bremen die Unterrichtseinheit „Antriebstechnik – Verbrennungsmotor, Elektroantrieb, Brennstoffzelle“ vorgestellt. Die Fortbildung richtete sich zum ersten Mal an Lehrkräfte aus der Hansestadt Bremen und Niedersachsen, die in Grundschulen und der Sekundarstufe I (Klassen fünf bis zehn) in den sogenannten „MINT“-Fächern unterrichten. „MINT“ steht für die Disziplinen Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaft und Technik.
Sechs Flüchtlinge starten Brückenpraktikum im Mercedes-Benz Werk Kassel
Kassel, Apr 18, 2016 - Am 18. April beginnen sechs Flüchtlinge und Asylbewerber ein sogenanntes Brückenpraktikum im Mercedes-Benz Werk Kassel. Die Teilnehmer wurden von der Bundesagentur für Arbeit und dem Jobcenter Kassel ausgewählt. Sie stammen aus Syrien und dem Irak und sind zwischen 21 und 36 Jahre alt. Neben einem praktischen Teil in der Ausbildungswerkstatt, der mechanischen Fertigung und Montage sowie der Logistik besuchen die Praktikanten täglich einen Deutschkurs. Ziel ist, die Teilnehmer nach dem Brückenpraktikum an Unternehmen, Zeitarbeitsfirmen oder in eine Berufsausbildung zu vermitteln.
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November 12, 2016 Industrial history, psychogeography, Spotswood, West Gate Bridge, WilliamstownFishermans Bendnickgadd
After two and a half years of circumnavigating the city, and more than 60 walks through more than 40 suburbs, we have reached the final walk, and today we are completing the circle. Beginning at Westgate Park, just below the West Gate Bridge, we are going for one final stroll around Port Melbourne and Fishermans Bend before jumping on the Punt back to the western side of the bay and returning to the point where the circle began in 2014.
This part of the city, on the south bank of the Yarra, bisected since the 1970 by the freeway leading to the West Gate Bridge, is very much in transition. Besides the docks, there used to be car and aircraft makers here, and all kinds of other manufacturers; but most of them have left, or are leaving soon, and the land has been rezoned for housing, or is awaiting transformation into what the state government says will be a techno-science-manufacturing hub, or something like that. In a few years, when someone walks along here, the streetscape will have changed totally. In many parts of Melbourne there is a strong sense of the past but here, walking along the long wide streets between low industrial buildings and empty blocks, I have a sense of the future waiting to happen.
Walking south down Todd Road on a shared bike/walking trail (which ultimately leads to a nice lookout over the bay, but we didn’t get that far), we came to this big red barrier. I’m not sure what the point of it is. It can’t be meant to keep people out, Donald Trump style, because there’s a path that leads straight through. If anything, it fills you with a sense of intrigue about what is on the other side.
But once you walk through, it’s not exactly pedestrian friendly. There’s a long straight road, Webb Dock Drive, that takes you towards the river, with freight yards on one side and car compounds on the other. It’s a functional space, not recreational. It was Sunday so not much was going on, and few people were around to observe the odd sight of us taking our afternoon stroll beside the docks.
It had that other-worldly feeling that normally busy places sometimes have on a Sunday, and in places the grey concrete, orange posts and painted arrows give it the feel of a painting by Jeffrey Smart, the great artist of industrial landscapes.
‘Study for car park at night’ by Jeffrey Smart
Fishermans Bend has a history of car manufacturing. But all that is changing. GM Holden has been in the suburb since 1936, but is ceasing manufacturing in 2017, and has sold off its land to the Victorian Government. As far as we could see, the thousands of cars lined up in the compounds were imported vehicles – Nissans and Renaults.
We turned back and headed back north up Todd Road again, making our way on foot across the busy intersection under the West Gate Bridge, where there have been plantings of native species, adding a welcome splash of green to the streetscape.
Then we heard the buzz and whine of giant insects. On our right was the Go Kart Club of Victoria, where an event was in progress. We wandered in and watched for a while. A highly competitive juniors race was going on while all around the track people were tinkering with their go karts. It did look like a lot of fun.
Racing at the Go Kart Club of Victoria
Overall, though, there’s a forlornness about this part of town which comes from knowing that many of the industries here are either on the verge of closing or have an uncertain future. There’s a big Herald and Weekly Times plant, for example – but who knows how long newspapers will survive? There are rusty, overgrown railway tracks, dating from I don’t know when.
But there’s also a sense of the next generation of business and industry getting ready to move in. Vacant blocks are adorned with placards trumpeting the forthcoming opportunities. In the middle of one of these lots we spotted a tangled pile of fence poles and wire mesh, twisted together into a rough sculpture, like a relic of a cult.
Wandering along the south bank of the Yarra River we found ourselves underneath the Bolte Bridge, looking north. I’ve driven over it many times but never seen it from the underside. Jeffrey Smart came to mind again – in fact there are many locations around here that would have suited him.
Where the Bolte Bridge crosses the Yarra
Underside of the Bolte Bridge.
One of Jeffrey Smart’s many paintings of bridges.
Beside the Bolte on South Wharf are some sheds that have been preserved, and perhaps these too will experience some kind of future repurposing.
We turned back west along Lorimer Street, passing big cranes and more Smart-like architecture.
Cement silo, Lorimer Street
This suburb has an important place in aviation history, and Boeing still has a building on Lorimer Street, on the side of which a plane like a blue whale is taking off.
But our mode of transport was more humble. The Punt runs frequently every day between Port Melbourne and Spotswood. It’s a short trip across the river, under the West Gate Bridge, delivering you to a jetty just opposite the old pumping station (now Scienceworks). The punt is popular with cyclists and walkers who find it a convenient way to connect up with bike and walking tracks on either side.
The Punt runs daily between Spotswood and Port Melbourne
Skipper at the wheel.
I’ve crossed the river over the West Gate Bridge many times, but this is the first time I’ve done so under it. After our big clockwise loop around the north and east of the city, we made landfall in the western suburbs again. There in our wake were the suburbs we have spent the last few months walking through.
And ahead of us the superb architecture of the Spotswood pumping station, built in the 1890s as part of the Melbourne Sewerage Scheme – one of those great civic improvement schemes that the Victorians seemed to manage a lot better than we do.
From there it was just a short walk back to Williamstown, where we began from Gem Pier more than two years ago. The circle was complete.
As I stood on Gem Pier, savouring the feeling of completion, a restored sailing ship came in, looking anachronistic among the yachts and powerboats, symbolic perhaps of the way that in Melbourne you can’t miss the presence of different time zones alongside each other.
And nothing stays the same for long. I headed up the road a little way to see what had become of the historic Victorian pub that used to stand on the corner of Nelson Place and Ann Street until a couple of years ago. Back then, when I passed it on my first walk in July 2014, there was a fight going on to save it; today it’s a construction site. It’s the story of Melbourne in miniature, played out in thousands of locations all over the suburbs.
A bit later on, when I’ve had time to think about it, I’ll reflect on what I’ve learned from this whole journey around the Melbourne suburbs. But for now I’m just glad to have completed the circle – and glad that I live in a city whose suburbs are a source of such variety, intrigue and beauty.
All the walks on Melbourne Circle: stories by suburb
← Dream houses past and present
justjimwilldo says:
Wonderful! Congratulations on completing both the physical encirclement of Melbourne and this great series of essays thereon. It has been a joy and a delight to have accompanied you on the way.
nickgadd says:
Cheers Jim, thanks for coming along for the ride!
Dana Tymms says:
Congratulations – a great achievement and inspiration!
Thank you Dana!
Margaret Hardy says:
Congratulations on completing the journey, although I wish it could continue for a long time. Have enjoyed your posts and images so much and will miss them!
Thank you Margaret! There will be future projects, so keep your eye out for them.
Edwin Day says:
Nick, well done and thanks what a wonderful trip it has been for the both of us. Your walk revived, in me, memories, in some cases nearly eighty years old,, oh so joyful memories some not so joyful, never the less beautiful journeys revived and retravelled. Has it been two years? Oh my I have so loved your posts I can’t thank you enough, please turn it all into book form.
Regards Edwin
Thank you very much Edwin, I am so glad you’ve joined me on the journey!
Well, Nick, what can one say? Are your feet okay? Will you walk a circle another day? Time to put away, briefly, the pen and the pad and the camera. As a former campaigner for the Punt, close to 10 years ago, I was chuffed that it formed part of your final walk. I’ve used it many times, of course. For a few years I commuted via the Punt and those roads you trod: Todd, Lorimer, etc. I’d pedal parallel to that old train track, with trucks rushing by and think, That’d make a good pedestrian/bike path. Maybe, eventually, with the Fishermans Bend makeover.
You’ve taken ghost-signs, and walking, and reflecting to another level.Melbourne, Mildura, maybe further afield. Meanwhile, I’ll keep an eye out for the odd sign here and there, especially at the Bristol Pub just around the corner, as it transform into four storeys of apartments.
Thanks Vin. Yes I remember your articles about the Punt, it was good to ride it at last.
jjohnston17blog says:
Thanks Nick for documenting the psychogeography of Melbourne’s inner suburbs. Your blogs have been wonderfully nostalgic. I believe that the wall put up by Melbourne Port Authority is supposed to reduce noise pollution for Garden City residents who expressed concerns about the 24hr activity at Webb dock. We do hear the occasional container drop that sounds like a bomb going off.
Ah that makes sense. Thanks for reading!
David Finkelstein says:
Nick, coming to your concluding tale rather late in the day, but nice to see the accomplishment and well done in offering such insights ‘from below’ of a city in constant reinvention and change.
Alex Cochrane says:
Hope you achieved the sense of completion and achievement of your explorations. It sounds like a fascinating area to both start and finish two years of walking. The sense of change and reinvention, of an area waiting for the future to arrive whilst its past fades away. Great work! What’s the next project?
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Raingarden Care: Growing Need for Sustainable Landcare Skills
Posted on 09/16/2019 in News & Events
More and more, people understand the value of a raingarden as a green solution to preventing runoff that leads to water pollution and downstream flooding. At Metro Blooms, we are delighted to see raingardens becoming more common. Unfortunately, we see many raingardens — including ones that we designed and installed — in need of some TLC. Left to their own devices, neglected raingardens quickly become unattractive weed beds; moreover, they can stop functioning to divert and soak in stormwater.
“A lot of stormwater infiltration practices have been installed because people want to do the right thing. But they don’t necessarily know how to maintain them,” says Metro Blooms Landscape Designer Tara Hanlon-Nevins. She theorizes that many people are hesitant to weed a raingarden because they aren’t sure what to remove, and consequently may not weed at all.
Showing how water flows in a crumpled paper watershed
Tara manages a new Blue Thumb training program intended to meet this challenge. The goal is to teach participants — many of them youth and young adults in underserved communities — employable skills in inspecting and caring for raingardens and other green infrastructure, all within a framework of eco-friendly landscaping practices. People who take part in the three-session program receive a Sustainable Landcare Certificate, making them more attractive to potential employers in the growing green economy. Private landscaping businesses and maintenance staff for cities, parks, school districts and others need these skills.
Participants in the program first receive Stormwater Basics, learning about watersheds and how water travels in our urban environment. They also learn how raingardens are built, how they work, and how to inspect them to ensure they function properly. An important part of the program is identifying weeds, a major culprit of dysfunctional raingardens, and then choosing a way to manage them (without chemicals, if possible).
Funding from the Hennepin County Green Partners program and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency supported the program this year. Other partners have also helped us launch the program. Our first participants came through the Mississippi River Green Team, Conservation Corps MN & Iowa and the Minneapolis-based StepUp internship program. In all, Tara estimates giving out 35 certificates in the program’s inaugural season.
Our landcare crew, the day recipients received their certificates. Left: manager Tara Hanlon-Nevins
Elements of the program have been adapted in other work we do. We teach raingarden installation and maintenance to small contractors we work with in North Minneapolis. We also give the stormwater workshop to residents in affordable housing communities who serve with us as stewards in our collaborative work with them to redesign their outdoor spaces.
Tara looks forward to developing the program further once she receives feedback from this season. In the future, she sees potential to offer training in other markets, including landscaping businesses, maintenance staff, even individuals who simply want guidance for their own raingardens or for volunteering in the community.
But one thing she is sure about is the need for more people to learn these skills. “This is an essential and emerging field within the world of green infrastructure,” Tara says.” We want to support the value raingardens provide to us by maintaining these environmental investments with sustainable and proper care.”
For more information about the program: tara@metroblooms.org
— Aleli Balagtas, Metro Blooms Reporter, aleli@metroblooms.org
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Janitors call on Kohl’s to meet, apologize for attack on demonstrators
Video courtesy of CTUL
Members of a Minneapolis-based worker center are calling on the management of Kohl’s department stores to meet about a Responsible Contractor Policy – and to apologize for the behavior of a security officer at Eden Prairie Mall.
Retail janitors organizing with CTUL, Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha/Center of Workers United in Struggle; and community allies demonstrated at the Kohl’s store in the mall Tuesday as part of a national day of action for a $15 minimum wage.
The janitors are calling on Kohl’s to adopt a Responsible Contractor Policy that would require the retailer to contract with cleaning companies that treat workers fairly and respect their right to join a union. Target, Best Buy and other retailers have adopted the policy, which has led to higher wages, better working conditions and unionization.
“A Responsible Contractor Policy would allow us the opportunity to organize for a union without retaliation,” said Luciano Balbuena, a CTUL member and retail janitor. “This would allow us the opportunity to make better wages and have the benefits we need to take care of our families. This is my Christmas wish.”
At Tuesday’s demonstration, janitors and their supporters walked through the mall in Santa Claus hats, singing Christmas carols. When they approached the Kohl’s store, however, they encountered a security officer.
“Shortly after entering the mall, the security officer began assaulting us, pushing people across the hallway, swinging around a drumstick taken from drummers amongst the carolers, and using the stick to hit carolers and jabbed it into my ribs,” said Veronica Mendez-Moore, co-director of CTUL.
“We were singing songs and walking through the mall and he began to get very aggressive. He was obviously not in the holiday spirit. Eventually the police came and escorted him to a back room and allowed us to finish our caroling as we exited, but not before the security officer pushed several members of our group and even punched someone.”
The confrontation was captured on video that has been posted on CTUL's YouTube and Facebook sites.
The worker center is seeking an apology from Kohl’s and renewing its call for Kohl’s to meet to discuss a Responsible Contractor Policy.
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Leland & Gray Middle High School hosted BV Long Trail School during a boys’ varsity basketball game on Monday, Jan. 13, 2020.
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Leland & Gray’s Matt Emerson takes an attempt at the basket during a boys’ varsity basketball game against BV Long Trail School on Monday, Jan. 13, 2020.
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Abolitionism
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From early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ramifying social movement. In this succinct narrative, Richard S. Newman examines the key people, themes, and ideas that animated abolitionism in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries in the United States and internationally. Filled with portraits of key abolitionists-including Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Anthony Benezet, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Elizabeth Heyrick, Richard Allen, and Angelina Grimke-the book highlights abolitionists' focus on social and political action. From the Underground Railroad and legal aid for oppressed people to legislative lobbying and military service, abolitionists employed every conceivable means to attack slavery and racial injustice. Their collective struggles helped bring down slavery-the most powerful economic and political institution of the age-across the Atlantic world and inspired generations of reformers.
Sharply written and highly engrossing, Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction offers an inspiring portrait of the men and women who dedicated their lives to fighting racial oppression.
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Your Weekly Round Up: Women in Business Edition
Who run the world? Regrettably, not girls.
A recent tally revealed that just 6.2 percent of Fortune 500 companies have a female CEO at the helm. In 2015, there were fewer large companies run by women than by men named John.
Sure, we have seen signs of progress. If current patterns hold, that 6.2 percent is projected to grow to 50 percent by 2056. But economists and business leaders agree – progress isn’t happening fast enough, nor does it come close to the rate at which women are starting businesses.
Today, we’re sharing what is and can be done to recognize, reward and ready women as leaders in their industries. We hope you’ll read on, spread the word and take action.
First, a celebration. The H&M Foundation recently released a list of 500 female entrepreneurs from around the world that will make your jaw drop. The Foundation 500, a counter to the Fortune 500, honors and shares the stories of business women of color from rural or developing areas. In addition to running successful companies, the women improve their communities through education, employment and the advancement of equal opportunity. Explore the list.
From Dakar to D.C., female entrepreneurs face unique challenges when starting their own businesses – access to affordable child care, male-dominated culture, and lack of seed funding to name a few. But some cities are better than others when it comes to supporting the growth of women-owned businesses.
Dell, in partnership with the Women Entrepreneur Cities Index (WE Cities), recently evaluated a how well cities across the globe attract and foster female entrepreneurship, ranking the top 50. Live in New York City? You’re in luck! It’s the best city in the world to be a woman business owner. Take a look the other top cities.
Did you see that six of the top 10 cities are in the U.S.? It’s encouraging – especially considering the role women-owned businesses have played in our latest economic recovery. Since 2007, women have started businesses at a rate five times faster than men – despite the fact that female entrepreneurs are awarded just 2.19 percent of venture capital funding (read: big investment).
How can women overcome funding obstacles when starting a new businesses? Consider crowdfunding. News broke last week that women have better success than their male counterparts when seeding their company via crowdfunding – 32 percent more successful to be exact. And the results hold true across all industries, even among those traditionally dominated by men.
We’re thrilled to see fellow female entrepreneurs capitalizing on the power of community through crowdfunding. But how can we support female entrepreneurs and future business women in other ways?
As with all meaningful progress, change must come from within. A fellow agency pro dishes out five pieces of actionable advice for improving the workplace for ourselves and other women. We also suggest the following:
Create a collaborative environment that fosters growth for all employees;
Take on opportunities for mentorship, both as a mentor of young women and as mentee;
Introduce female leaders to helpful networks and resources;
Invest in women-owned businesses you believe in.
Perhaps through these and other actions, we’ll have as many CEOs named Janae as we currently do John before 2056.
Empowering women and other ambitious professionals is central to our purpose here at Montage. Are you interested in learning more opportunities for mentorship, internship or employment? Contact us.
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Meek Mill and Jay-Z Urge Travis Scott to Back Out of 2019 Super Bowl Halftime Show
AceShowbiz –Maroon 5 has finally found a guest performer to join them at the upcoming Super Bowl LIII halftime show. It has been reported that Travis Scott (II) will join the seven-piece band at the event on Sunday, February 3 at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. The rapper will also take the stage at Pepsi’s pre-Super Bowl concert on February 1.
Travis allegedly will not be the only act to accompany Maroon 5 during the gig, as the Adam Levine-fronted band is currently “in talks” with Cardi B and Big Boi to perform too. Reps for Travis, Maroon 5 and NFL didn’t immediately respond to request for comment, but a source reported that an announcement would be coming soon.
The report apparently did not sit well with his fellow rappers, considering the treatment NFL gives to former San Fransisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. As a reminder, the athlete has not been offered a job since he opted out of his contract following the 2016 season, when he began protesting racial injustice and police violence during the national anthem.
Among those who didn’t take the news well was Meek Mill, who dissed NFL on his song “Trauma”. Linking a tweet to the report, he wrote along with it, “For what????” He added in another tweet, “He don’t need that he on fire already! Stay strong in this s**t!” Jay-Z, who has been highly critical of the NFL over its treatment to Colin, is also reportedly attempting to talk the “Sicko Mode” hitmaker out of performing.
Report that Maroon 5 will be headlining the annual game’s halftime show began in September, though NFL played coy when asked about the rumor. “It’s a Super Bowl tradition to speculate about the performers for the Pepsi Halftime Show,” so the organization said in a statement. “We are continuing to work with [longtime sponsor] Pepsi on our plans but do not have any announcements to make on what will be another epic show.”
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Rolling with the Skateboarding Dog
Tyson is a bulldog that has learned to roll on a skateboard. His owner, Jim Blauvelt, says that the dog was self-taught, starting in Huntington Beach, California in 2001.[1] Tyson became well-known when videos of his abilities were posted on YouTube. Since then, he's appeared on television, including The Oprah Winfrey Show.
The Muppets poked fun at Tyson's success with two viral videos in 2008, "Rolling with the Skateboarding Dog" and "The Skateboarding Dog Gets Served". In the Muppet videos, Fozzie Bear is admiring Tyson's action on the boardwalk, and Gonzo and Rizzo encourage Rowlf the Dog to make his own canine skateboarding video.
Tyson's official site
Tyson on YouTube
↑ Skateboarding Dog To Wow Crowds At Calif. Festival April 28, 2007. CBS Broadcasting.
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Geographic variation in use of laparoscopic colectomy for colon cancer
Bradley N. Reames, Kyle H. Sheetz, Seth A. Waits, Justin B. Dimick, Scott E. Regenbogen
Surgical Oncology, Nebraska Medicine
Interprofessional Academy of Educators
Purpose Emerging evidence supporting the use of laparoscopic colectomy in patients with cancer has led to dramatic increases in utilization. Though certain patient and hospital characteristics may be associated with the use of laparoscopy, the influence of geography is poorly understood.
Methods We used national Medicare claims data from 2009 and 2010 to examine geographic variation in utilization of laparoscopic colectomy for patients with colon cancer. Patients were assigned to hospital referral regions (HRRs) where they were treated. Multivariable logistic regression was used to generate age, sex, and race-adjusted rates of laparoscopic colectomy for each HRR. Patient quintiles of adjusted HRR utilization were used to evaluate differences in patient and hospital characteristics across low and high-utilizing HRRs.
Results A total of 93,786 patients underwent colon resections at 3,476 hospitals during the study period, of which 30,502 (32.5%) were performed laparoscopically. Differences in patient characteristics between the lowest and highest quintiles of HRR utilization were negligible, and there was no difference in the availability of laparoscopic technology. Yet adjusted rates of laparoscopic colectomy utilization varied from 0% to 66.8% across 306 HRRs in the United States.
Conclusion There is wide geographic variation in the utilization of laparoscopic colectomy for Medicare patients with colon cancer, suggesting treatment location may substantially influence a patient's options for surgical approach. Future efforts to reduce variation will require increased dissemination of training techniques, novel opportunities for learning among surgeons, and enhanced educational resources for patients.
https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.2014.57.1588
Referral and Consultation
Reames, B. N., Sheetz, K. H., Waits, S. A., Dimick, J. B., & Regenbogen, S. E. (2014). Geographic variation in use of laparoscopic colectomy for colon cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 32(32), 3667-3672. https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.2014.57.1588
Geographic variation in use of laparoscopic colectomy for colon cancer. / Reames, Bradley N.; Sheetz, Kyle H.; Waits, Seth A.; Dimick, Justin B.; Regenbogen, Scott E.
In: Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol. 32, No. 32, 10.11.2014, p. 3667-3672.
Reames, BN, Sheetz, KH, Waits, SA, Dimick, JB & Regenbogen, SE 2014, 'Geographic variation in use of laparoscopic colectomy for colon cancer', Journal of Clinical Oncology, vol. 32, no. 32, pp. 3667-3672. https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.2014.57.1588
Reames BN, Sheetz KH, Waits SA, Dimick JB, Regenbogen SE. Geographic variation in use of laparoscopic colectomy for colon cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2014 Nov 10;32(32):3667-3672. https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.2014.57.1588
Reames, Bradley N. ; Sheetz, Kyle H. ; Waits, Seth A. ; Dimick, Justin B. ; Regenbogen, Scott E. / Geographic variation in use of laparoscopic colectomy for colon cancer. In: Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2014 ; Vol. 32, No. 32. pp. 3667-3672.
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EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Cory Booker, Benjamin Crump & Marilyn Mosby Talk Black Lives, Criminal Justice At CBCF ALC 15
Written By: Christina Coleman
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While the first days of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s (CBCF) 45th Annual Legislative Conference 2015 were chock-full of a number of panels discussing economic empowerment, diversity in technology, the future of the Voting Rights Act, and the school-to-prison pipeline, the common thread of Black Lives Matter was hard to miss — the visibility serving as proof that the largest freedom movement in recent decades is both effective and catching fire.
In a town hall meeting to kick off CBC Week, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) spoke to a crowded room about the power of the Black Lives Matter Network, urging both policymakers and the community to join in an effort to combat issues that disproportionately affect Black communities. Challenging critics of the movement who blame violence against police on members of the network, Lee made it clear that caring for Black lives and considering the lives of those in blue were not mutually exclusive.
“We all mourn when a law enforcement officer falls in the line of duty,” Rep. Lee said. “And that’s why I stand for Black Lives Matter. They never would step in the line of arguing for any violence. So let’s make that a point for our community. You call 911 still, do you not?”
Just two days later, President Obama echoed Lee’s statements when he addressed a full ballroom at the CBCF Phoenix Awards with a moving address focused on empowering Black women.
“There is no contradiction between us caring about our law enforcement officers and also making sure that our laws are applied fairly,” Obama said. “Do not make this as an either/or proposition. This is a both/and proposition. We want to protect our police officers. We’ll do a better job doing it if our communities can feel confident that they are being treated fairly. I hope I’m making that clear.”
The comments from both Lee and President Obama were fitting given the main focus of the CBCF panels — criminal justice reform.
NewsOne caught up with Sen. Cory Booker, who was on hand to discuss the school-to-prison pipeline and the policy his team is currently pushing to curb an influx of students from falling through the cracks.
“We’re losing too much of our valuable natural resource,” Booker told NewsOne. “It isn’t oil or gas. It’s our children.”
Benjamin Crump, attorney for the families of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Tamir Rice, reiterated the need to protect young Black girls and boys, posing this question to NewsOne in an exclusive interview:
“What is it about our children that draws the gauge of suspicion, that draws the perception that they’re up to no good?”
One way to combat the disenfranchisement of our children, Natalie Madeira Cofield, founder of Walkers Legacy, told NewsOne, is economic empowerment.
“I think it’s important that we build business for 2016 and beyond, and that people see successful Black entrepreneurs in every fabric of every city of this country,” she said at an IMPACT Emerging Leaders Town Hall.
Check out NewsOne’s recap of CBC Week in the video and catch exclusive interviews with Carmen Perez (Justice League NYC), Glenn Martin of JustLeadership USA, Cory Booker, Benjamin Crump, and more.
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Gladue Hearings: Systemic or Background Factors
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When sentencing an Aboriginal offender, courts must consider:
(1) The unique systemic or background factors which may have played a part in bringing the particular aboriginal offender before the courts.
To do this courts are to take judicial notice of such matters as the history of colonialism, displacement, and residential schools and how that history continues to translate into lower educational attainment, lower incomes, higher unemployment, higher rates of substance abuse and suicide, and higher levels of incarceration for Aboriginal peoples. These matters provide the necessary context for understanding and evaluating the case‑specific information presented by counsel.
(2) The types of sentencing procedures and sanctions which may be appropriate in the circumstances for the offender because of his or her particular Aboriginal heritage or connection.
R. v. Gladue, 1999 CanLII 679 (SCC), at para. 66.
Aboriginal Offender not required to establish causal connection
It is an error in principle for a sentencing judge, in assessing the first branch of the Gladue framework, to require an offender to establish a causal link between systemic and background factors and the commission of the offence.
R. v. Ipeelee, 2012 SCC 13, [2012] 1 S.C.R. 433.
R. v. F.H.L.,2018 ONCA 83, at para. 32;
R. v. Collins, 2011 ONCA 182, 104 O.R. (3d) 241, at paras. 32-33;
R. v. Kreko, 2016 ONCA 367, at paras. 20-21.
Such a requirement displays an inadequate understanding of the devastating intergenerational effects of the collective experiences of Aboriginal peoples and imposes an evidentiary burden on offenders that was not intended by Gladue.
Ipeelee, at para. 82.
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“For The GOP, It’s Always A Base Election”: Only Change Is The Idea Of How To Give The Base What It Wants
I wonder if anyone has come up with workable definition of a base election. The idea is simple enough. Some elections are won not by winning an argument with the other side and persuading swing voters or independents or undecideds, but by doing a better job than your opponents in convincing your core voters to turn out to vote.
It seems to me that this is roughly how the Republicans won the 2004 presidential election, and also probably how they won the 2002 midterms. It’s definitely how they won the midterms in 2010 and 2014. On the other hand, I think the Democrats were successful in 2006 and 2008 precisely because they convinced people in the middle (and even many Republicans) to come over to their side. I think you can probably make the same case for 2012, although that seems to have been more of a hybrid of the two.
In any case, it seems to me that the Republicans last won a presidential election using a base mobilization strategy in 2004, and we shouldn’t forget how close of a call that was. When the polls closed, most people looking at the exit polls thought that John Kerry had won. And he would have won if Bush hadn’t done such a great job getting out his base in Ohio. Yes, there were also shenanigans in Ohio that may have changed the outcome, but it’s definite that the red parts of Ohio turned out in huge numbers, largely motivated by their opposition to gay marriage.
So, 2004 is a fairly recent example that shows that the Republicans could theoretically win a base election. It won’t be easy to replicate, though. First, demographic changes since 2004 have made it harder for the Republicans to win a base election because their base is now smaller and the Democrats’ base is now larger. Second, it helped Bush a lot that he was the incumbent and could direct media coverage and attention at will. It also helped that he had a willing partner in shenanigans in then-Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell.
Since 2004, the Republicans have tried and failed twice to win an election by pandering to their base rather than pursuing voters in the middle. All the proof you need of that is that Sarah Palin and Paul Ryan were chosen as running mates, both of whom were supposed to please the mouth-breathers and rally them to the cause.
After the Republicans lost in 2012, the RNC’s after-report was clear about the futility of trying to win a base election again in 2016. Yet, the idea seems more popular right now than it was in the last two cycles. Perhaps the only thing that’s changed is the idea of how to give the base what it wants. Does it want someone who is frothing at the mouth about immigration even if they’re pretty inconsistent as a conservative on many other issues? Or, are they looking for the most hated man in Washington, DC, just because they hate Washington, DC so very much?
That’s really the choice they have between Trump and Cruz, although Trump promises to at least change the shape of the Republican base. That doesn’t mean he will enlarge it though.
This is admittedly a weird election season and unpredictable, but I think a base election is close to unwinnable for the Republican Party in a presidential year. If they win, I don’t think it will be because their base turned out and the Democrats’ base did not. If they win it will because the persuadable voters liked their candidate better than the Democratic candidate. And the more their candidate panders to the base, the less likely that the persuadable voters will like them better.
By: Martin Longman, Political Animal Blog, The Washington Monthly, January 13, 2016
January 14, 2016 Posted by raemd95 | Base Elections, GOP Base, Independents, Swing Voters | Demographics, Election 2016, Gay Marriage, Immigration, John Kerry, Ken Blackwell, Paul Ryan, Sarah Palin | Leave a comment
“Fire One, Fire Two, Fire Three”: GOP Circular Firing Squad Locked And Loaded
Apparently, it’s Republican circular firing squad week here in Washington. Item 1: David Corn of Mother Jones got hold of the proceedings of a secret group of conservatives scheming to take hold of American politics and shove it where it needs to go:
Dubbed Groundswell, this coalition convenes weekly in the offices of Judicial Watch, the conservative legal watchdog group. During these hush-hush sessions and through a Google group, the members of Groundswell—including aides to congressional Republicans—cook up battle plans for their ongoing fights against the Obama administration, congressional Democrats, progressive outfits, and the Republican establishment and “clueless” GOP congressional leaders. They devise strategies for killing immigration reform, hyping the Benghazi controversy, and countering the impression that the GOP exploits racism. And the Groundswell gang is mounting a behind-the-scenes organized effort to eradicate the outsize influence of GOP über-strategist/pundit Karl Rove within Republican and conservative ranks.
I have to commend Corn for getting these documents, but unfortunately, Groundswell isn’t exactly the right-wing A-Team. It’s more like the C-Team. Members include Ginny Thomas, wife of Clarence Thomas; anti-Muslim zealot Frank Gaffney; religious nutball and former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell; and some reporters from the Washington Examiner and Breitbart.com. Nevertheless, despite their lack of actual influence, it’s interesting just to see what these kinds of folks do when they get together and try to conspire.
And the answer is, pretty much exactly what liberals do when they try the same thing. They complain about their enemies. Everyone offers their own brilliant messaging ideas, few of which anyone ever uses. They say, “If I were making a 30-second ad, this is how it would go…” They begin with a sense of urgency that gradually fades. And eventually, attendance at the meetings declines, people stop bothering to contribute as much to the email lists, and it just peters out.
In my previous work as a partisan, I was part of some efforts that were similar to Groundswell, though none of them had such a snappy name. Some consisted of nothing more than a monthly meeting of various liberals to share gripes and toss around ideas, few of which were ever implemented. Others were a little better-organized, meaning they produced—prepare yourself—the occasional memo. None resulted in dramatic political change.
So if this is the group that’s gunning for Karl Rove — which apparently is their main focus—I don’t think he has much to worry about. Rove may be overrated, but he’s still a professional, and these people are amateurs.
On to item 2: According to Politico, there’s a feud a-brewin’ between, on one side, congressional Republicans who hate Obamacare so much they want to cry, and on the other side, congressional Republicans who hate Obamacare so much they want to stamp their feet. The strategic question at play has to do with the fact that in order for the government to keep functioning, Congress is going to have to pass a continuing resolution in September. A CR is what you do when you haven’t passed an actual budget; it says that funding for everything will continue at its current level. Congress passes CRs all the time, because if you don’t, it’s kind of disastrous. But where you and I see disaster, someone like Marco Rubio, desperate to restore his Tea Party cred in the wake of immigration reform apparently failing, sees an opportunity. So he and a few other GOP senators like Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are pushing their colleagues to make this threat: They’ll block the CR and thus shut down the government unless Congress votes (and President Obama agrees!) to defund the Affordable Care Act, for all intents and purposes repealing it.
So threatening to shut down the government has become the all-purpose means by which some Republicans believe they can achieve almost any policy goal. Can’t cut food stamps? Shut down the government! Can’t repeal Obamacare? Shut down the government! “Mr. Chairman, if our proposal to declare August to be National Ted Nugent Appreciation Month is not passed by this body, we will have no choice but to shut down the government!”
Fortunately, many Republican senators are sane enough to realize that shutting down the government in an attempt to stop Obamacare would be a political catastrophe for the GOP, so they’re not going to let it happen. But the whole thing is sure to breed plenty of displeasure and resentment. Just what the party needs.
By: Paul Waldman, Contributing Editor, The American Prospect, July 26, 2013
July 27, 2013 Posted by raemd95 | GOP | Conservatives, Federal Budget, Ginny Thomas, Government Shutdown, Groundswell, Karl Rove, Ken Blackwell, Marco Rubio, ObamaCare | Leave a comment
“Facing A Groundswell”: The Plotting And Scheming Of An Assorted Cast Of Cringe Worthy Conservative Clowns
If you’ve ever found it curious that far-right media activists all seem to say the same thing at the same time about the same issues, it’s not your imagination. David Corn offers an explanation.
Believing they are losing the messaging war with progressives, a group of prominent conservatives in Washington — including the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and journalists from Breitbart News and the Washington Examiner — has been meeting privately since early this year to concoct talking points, coordinate messaging, and hatch plans for “a 30 front war seeking to fundamentally transform the nation,” according to documents obtained by Mother Jones.
Dubbed Groundswell, this coalition convenes weekly in the offices of Judicial Watch, the conservative legal watchdog group. During these hush-hush sessions and through a Google group, the members of Groundswell — including aides to congressional Republicans — cook up battle plans for their ongoing fights against the Obama administration, congressional Democrats, progressive outfits, and the Republican establishment and “clueless” GOP congressional leaders.
There’s quite a bit to Corn’s scoop, including the fact that Groundswell really has no use for Karl Rove’s effort to protect more electable Republicans in GOP primaries.
There’s also quite a cast of characters at play, led in part by Ginni Thomas, and including an ignominious assortment of cringe-worthy clowns, including former ambassador John Bolton, former Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), Ken Blackwell, Frank Gaffney, Jerry Boykin, and Capitol Hill staffers, including a top aide to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
Groundswell has collaborated with conservative GOPers on Capitol Hill, including Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and Cruz and Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.), a leading tea partier. At its weekly meetings, the group aims to strengthen the right’s messaging by crafting Twitter hashtags; plotting strategy on in-the-headlines issues such as voter ID, immigration reform, and the sequester; promoting politically useful scandals; and developing “action items.”
That may make Groundswell sound kind of scary, but there’s reason to believe these right-wing activists — surprise, surprise — aren’t especially sharp.
Notes from a February 28 Groundswell gathering reflected both their collective sense of pessimism and desire for aggressive tactics: “We are failing the propaganda battle with minorities. Terms like, ‘GOP,’ ‘Tea Party,’ ‘Conservative’ communicate ‘racism.'” The Groundswellers proposed an alternative: “Fredrick Douglas Republican,” a phrase, the memo noted, that “changes minds.” (His name is actually spelled “Frederick Douglass.”) The meeting notes also stated that an “active radical left is dedicated to destroy [sic] those who oppose them” with “vicious and unprecedented tactics. We are in a real war; most conservatives are not prepared to fight.”
The right’s preoccupation with manufactured fake scandals, however, is coming into sharper focus.
The notes from the March 20 meeting summed up Groundswell griping: “Conservatives are so busy dealing with issues like immigration, gay marriage and boy scouts there is little time left to focus on other issues. These are the very issues the Left wants to avoid but we need to magnify. R’s cannot beat Obama at his own game but need to go on the offense and define the issues.” The group’s proposed offensive would include hyping the Fast and Furious gun-trafficking controversy, slamming Obama’s record, and touting Benghazi as a full-fledged scandal.
To be sure, there’s nothing illegal or necessarily untoward about this kind of coordination, but the fact that these folks feel the need to get together to plot and scheme, as part of their perceived “war” with the left, explains quite a bit about the problems with much of the political discourse.
By: Steve Benen, The Maddow Blog, July 25, 2013
July 26, 2013 Posted by raemd95 | Politics | Ginni Thomas, Groundswell, Jeff Sessions, Journalists, Karl Rove, Ken Blackwell, Republicans, Right Wing Media, Ted Cruz | 2 Comments
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At 88 Years Old, Julio Le Parc Gets First Museum Survey and Two Incredible Solo Shows
The octogenarian artist finally gets his day in the sun.
Sarah Cascone, November 16, 2016
Julio Le ParcQuatre positions en bois (Four Positions in Wood), 1971. Courtesy the artistJulio Le Parc © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo: André Morin.
It’s been a long road for Julio Le Parc, who at 88 is celebrating his first-ever US museum survey, at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). He also has his first solo shows in New York since 1973, with dueling exhibitions at Galeria Nara Roesler and Galerie Perrotin.
Born in 1928 in Mendoza, Argentina, Le Parc has lived in Paris since 1958. As a pioneer of the Kinetic and Op Art movements in the 1960s, he has close ties to numerous artist groups (Germany’s Zero Group, Yugoslavia’s Nouvelle Tendance, Argentina’s Tucumán Arde artist’s movement, and Paris’s Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel, which he co-founded).
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Today, Le Parc’s practice remains as vibrant as ever, half a century after he began his art career.
Julio Le Parc. Archival image courtesy of PAMM.
“Le Parc championed theories of immediacy and spectatorship as a vehicle for social and political change,” Estrellita B. Brodsky, guest curator of Le Parc’s PAMM show, told artnet News in an email. The artist, she added, “has long challenged the idea of the fixed work of art, favoring collaborative experimentation and the idea of artist as instigator.”
At Perrotin, the gallery’s main floor is mostly dedicated to a series of new, large-scale paintings called “Alchimies.” Since 1959, Le Parc has organized his paintings within in a strict scale of 14 colors. The new works, with bold dots of color creating circular designs on a black canvas, are imbued with a strange, otherworldly beauty.
Installation view of Julio Le Parc 1959 – 1970. Exhibition at Galeria Nara Roesler, New York. Photo by Adam Reich, Courtesy Galeria Nara Roesler.
“One thing would lead to another, from the yellow to the green to the blue,” said Le Parc of his unique process in an interview with artnet News. “In those multiple sequences and in that experimentation, there were any number of possibilities that were opened up.”
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The paintings are paired with a large captivating mobile of sorts, an over seven-foot in diameter sphere formed from translucent blue Plexiglas squares hanging in the air, a shimmering mass of light and movement titled Sphère bleu fluo (Fluorescent blue sphere) (2001/2016). The sculpture is reflective of Le Parc’s interest in notions of perception.
One of Julio Le Parc’s “Alchemies” and Sphère bleu fluo (Fluorescent blue sphere) in his exhibition at Galerie Perrotin. Courtesy of Yamil Le Parc.
Downstairs, a darkened room is illuminated by two ingeniously-constructed motorized light installations, Continuel-lumière avec 49 cylindres (1967/2016) and Lumières alternées (1993/2011). Together, they cast striking, patterned shadows across the space.
It’s the last exhibition for the gallery at this location, ahead of its impending move to the Lower East Side, and it makes a big impact. It also pairs nicely with the artist’s other current New York show, a presentation of a select group of early works at the Chelsea outpost of Brazil’s Nara Roesler.
Julio Le Parc, Continuous light cylinder of the Enlightenment Series, 1962 / 2012. Julio Le Parc. © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo by Everton Ballardin, © Galeria Nara Roesler.
There, Mobile rouge sur blanc, a 1960 piece from Le Parc’s early “Contineuls-Mobiles” series, is a clear ancestor to Sphère bleu fluo, with transparent red acrylic squares hung against the wall from nylon threads. There is less dimensionality, but the focus on movement and light is a through-line across the decades.
“It’s not really a premeditated approach to light,” explained Le Parc of his work. “It’s rather coming and discovering the different possibilities as I work and I begin to incorporate different materials… one thing leads to another in the process.”
Julio Le Parc, Martha Le Parc with Lunettes pour une vision autre (Eyeglasses for Another Vision),1965. Julio Le Parc © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo by Julio Le Parc / Atelier Le Parc.
Another piece from that series will likely be a standout at PAMM, where visitors to the exhibition will be greeted by a “Continuel-mobile” from 1963 that made its debut at the Museé d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris during the third Paris Biennale. “The title of the work addresses the constantly transforming compositions the piece generates through movement and the refraction of light,” said Brodsky.
The artist “works indefatigably and obsessively, making thousands of drawings, sketches, and exploring ideas throughout long series,” she added. “In some way, recent museum attention has allowed him to go back to some of his unrealized ideas and expand the scale of his work, and he is obviously excited about this.”
Installation view of Julio Le Parc 1959 – 1970. Exhibition at Galeria Nara Roesler, New York, Photo by Adam Reich, Courtesy Galeria Nara Roesler.
If Le Parc’s American museum debut seems overdue, Brodsky has an explanation for that: “Only recently has there been a broadened appreciation of artists outside the North American canon, especially on artists who are from Latin America and politically engaged.”
At the Perez, over 100 works, both visually and physically captivating, will be on view. “It has been an extremely complicated exhibition to put together, with major light installations, labyrinths, game rooms, and historical works on paper and canvas,” said Brodsky.
Julio Le Parc at Galerie Perrotin. Courtesy of Galerie Perrotin.
It may seem like a widely disparate body of work, but for Le Parc, “there’s always the same principle of searching.” Approaching his 90s, he remains busy, employing just one or two assistants in his studio, where he lives. On doctor’s orders, Le Parc takes a nap each afternoon, but the bulk of his day is still devoted to art.
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With each new idea, the artist is looking to the future, noting eagerly that “every new place brings in new experiences, new reflections.”
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7 Rising Stars to Watch at the 2018 Armory Show
From a sensation in the photography world to a up-and-coming Senegalese painter, here are a few names you should know from the fair.
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Simphiwe Ndzube, On the Unknown Mountain (2018). Courtesy the artist and Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles.
Out of all the fairs taking place this week, the Armory Show is the premier arena for blue-chip art and work by the world’s most established artists. But there are also many fresh discoveries that can be made for those willing to take a closer look. Here are seven artists showing at the fair who we think you’ll be hearing a lot more from in the future.
Omar Ba
Omar Ba, Combat de Pachyderme 1 et 2 (2017). Courtesy of Galerie Templon.
The first thing that Galerie Templon sold at the Armory Show preview was a $50,000 diptych on cardboard by the Senegalese artist Omar Ba—”within the first 10 minutes,” according to director Mathieu Templon. “No one knew him three years ago,” Templon said, but now Ba, who splits his time between Dakar and Geneva, is in high demand: The gallery sold one of the artist’s works to the Fondation Louis Vuitton in early 2017 and two others to the Louvre Abu Dhabi this past November. In September, Ba will have a solo show at Templon’s new Paris gallery in the Marais.
Deana Lawson
Deana Lawson, Wanda and Daughters (2009). Courtesy of the artist and Rhona Hoffman Gallery.
The artist and Princeton University professor has been the source of much buzz since several of her forceful photographs appeared in the 2017 Whitney Biennial, in a gallery that the New York Times‘s Roberta Smith called “one of the show’s best.” Last week, Sikkema Jenkins announced that it had begun representing Lawson, and her work is currently on view at the gallery through April 7. She will also have a show at the Carnegie Museum of Art, opening March 15. Chicago’s Rhona Hoffman Gallery had two photographs by the artists on offer at the Armory Show for $22,500 each.
Farley Aguilar
Within hours on opening day, the New York gallery Lyles & King had sold five of the six paintings they brought by the Nicaraguan-born artist Aguilar, a self-taught painter who sources imagery from vintage photos, at prices ranging from $10,000 to $22,000. The sixth work was on reserve for a museum.
“We’ve had a tremendous response to his work from collectors in New York and Europe as well as American curators,” said gallery co-founder Isaac Lyles. “We’re thrilled.” Aguilar, who lives in Miami (where he won the $20,000 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art in 2015), is now due to have a solo show at the gallery in spring 2019, and he is currently in discussion with several European gallery about representation and shows there too.
Simphiwe Ndzube
Artist Simphiwe Ndzube with his paintings at Nicodim Gallery. Photo: Henri Neuendorf.
South African artist Simphiwe Ndzube, a Los Angeles transplant by way of Cape Town, was an instant and visually compelling Armory Show draw. Ndzube’s work is inspired by the South African working-class black men’s tradition of “swenking,” the term for informal competitions that are part fashion show and part dance-off.
At the solo presentation of Los Angeles gallery Nicodim Gallery in the main section of the fair, Ndzube’s figurative paintings were showcased alongside sculptures made of thrift-store garments and found objects that he stitched together into abstract bodies. The booth sold out within the first hour of the fair’s VIP opening, at prices ranging from $20,000 for sculpture to $50,000 for a large diptych. The gallery also sold a few additional pieces produced for the fair that were left behind in LA, according to gallery director Benjamin Lee.
Ndzube has a piece in a group show next month at the Cc Foundation in Shanghai, a project at Harper’s Books in the Hamptons in July, and a solo exhibition at The Rubell Family Collection in Miami this December.
Tabita Rezaire
Tabita Rezaire, Inner Fire: Shadelicious (2016). Courtesy the artist and Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg and Cape Town.
French Guyanese new media artist Tabita Rezaire, who currently resides in Johannesburg, is laser-focused on the concept of healing. Goodman Gallery’s solo booth at Focus is a tightly curated presentation of her work, including large-scale photos and a bright-pink gynecological exam table titled Sugar Walls Teardom (2016), Rezaire herself figures prominently as a “digital shaman” in the wildly colorful and psychedelic videos and prints.
Rezaire’s most recent solo exhibition, “Ultra Wet-Recapitulation,” just wrapped at the Royal Standard in Liverpool in mid February. Other solo shows last year included “Interlude Cum (Union) Territory” at School, in Vienna; and “Exotic Trade” at Goodman Gallery’s Johannesburg space. Her work is part of numerous group exhibitions and festivals in Europe and Australia in 2018 including: “MILF Plateaux” at Espace Témoin, in Geneva; “Play” at Blindside in Melbourne; Feminist Art Fest, at LAB, in Amsterdam, and “Future Love. Desire and Kinship” at Hypernature in Basel.
Vanessa Baird
Vanessa Baird’s installation at solo presentation booth by OSL Contemporary, Norway. Photo by Eileen Kinsella.
The immersive floor-to-ceiling installation that fills the entire booth of Oslo’s OSL Contemporary space, reflects the artist’s preoccupation with current global crises, in particular those involving refugees, womens’ issues, and personal trauma. The multiple panels of draped work invite careful study, and quick realization that the artist’s use of whimsical and fairy-tale imagery hint at far darker themes. A similar body of work was recently presented at the Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo. Baird has upcoming shows at KODE Museum, in Bergen and another at OSL contemporary. The asking price for her works ranges from $250,000 to $280,000.
Claire Tabouret
Claire Tabouret at Night Gallery in the Armory Show’s Focus section.
Photo by Eileen Kinsella
Without a doubt one of the buzziest booths at today’s VIP opening of the Armory show was Los Angeles hotspot Night Gallery’s presentation of work by French artist Claire Tabouret, featuring ominously clothed, yet oddly elegant, female figures sporting rubberized “fetish” clothing and gas masks. Gallerist Alexis Rose told artnet News that this body of work references an earlier series where the artist was interested in bondage and latex, not just as a fetish but as a “masking of the body” and references to a post-apocalyptic or future vision. Prices range from $42,000 to $47,000 for the paintings and $5,750 for the works on paper.
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Libya facing ‘serious crisis’ fueled by outsiders bent on dividing the county, UN Assembly told
Faiez Mustafa Serraj, President of the Presidency Council of the Government of National Accord of the State of Libya, addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly’s General Debate. (25 September 2019)
Libya is experiencing “a serious crisis because of negative foreign interference,” Faiez Mustafa Sarraj told the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday evening.
With “external financial and military support,” the President of the Presidency Council of the Government of National Accord told delegations that a military assault against the capital, Tripoli, has “led to institutional and political division” and impacted the peace and security of the citizens.
“It is no exaggeration to say that the stability and civilian nature of Libya is a critical matter, not only for Libya…but for the region and the world”, he lamented.
Mr. Sarraj recalled that this past April when the UN Secretary-General was visiting Tripoli and the country was preparing excitedly and hopefully to hold a national inclusive conference and “the criminal [self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) of commander] Khalifa Haftar” had attempted a coup, which, like his 2014 attempt, failed.
“Repeating once again his desperate attempt to militarize the country and to block our path toward a modern civilian State,” he said that outside support had enabled the “bloody criminal seeking power” to wage the aggression.
He criticized United Arab Emirates media for providing Haftar with a forum for his hate speech and incitement.
Denouncing “efforts that support the war criminal and… coup-plotters in violation of UN Security Council resolutions”, Mr. Sarraj said Libya considers thos supporters “morally and legally responsible”.
Extrajudicial killings and aggression
Mr. Sarraj cited extrajudicial killings and enforced displacement as two examples of widespread human rights violations that have left some 3,000 causalities and hundreds of thousands displaced.
Moreover, Mr. Sarraj maintained that Mr. Haftar has committed war crimes, including randomly bombing civilian neighbourhoods, airports, hospitals and ambulances as well as recruiting children.
“We ask the ICC [International Criminal Court] told hold the responsible criminals accountable” and for the UN to “quickly send a fact-finding mission” and for the ICC prosecutor to begin its investigation, he said.
“Haftar is trying to promote a war between east and west Libya”, he underscored, saying that “the truth is it’s between a military State and a civilian State.”
The President of the Presidency Council said Libya is “keen to prevent the bloodshed of all Libyans” and called upon its youth to “return securely and safely to their nation”.
Irregular and illegal migration
Mr. Sarraj pointed out that amid this crisis, Libya was facing another, that of irregular and illegal migration.
The flow of migrants entering Libya on their way to Europe has affected its economy and society, he said.
“The aggression has exacerbated this situation”, he said, adding that migrants have become “easy prey for terrorist organizations”.
Against the backdrop of what he called “international silence”, Mr. Sarraj maintained, “we are victims of this migration and the cause”.
He affirmed his continued cooperation with the target States of migrants and welcomed the cooperation of organizations to address the situation.
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Laura Waters September 9, 2019
Education Week’s Research Center just issued the final portion of its 2019 Quality Counts annual report, which rates each state’s education system. Guess what? New Jersey rocked it, for the first time beating Massachusetts, long-heralded for its high-achieving schools, and achieving #1 status as the top-performing school system in the nation. Two points jump out at me, one on our upswing in student proficiency in math and reading and the other on school spending and equity. Today we’ll look at the first and, in the next day or two, the second.
A brief look at the way EdWeek calculates scores; you can see a more thorough explanation of the methodology here. The Research Center uses three indices to gauge overall state school system quality: The “Chance for Success Index” looks at the quality and number of “education-related opportunities throughout an individual’s lifetime from cradle to career”; the “K-12 Achievement Index” looks at student proficiency based on the “gold standard” National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores; the “School Finance Index” looks at per-pupil spending and how equitably that money is allocated. States are graded using 13 indicators for each Index. From the report: “Four of them deal with conditions related to early childhood that can make a big difference in the years before formal schooling. Six others focus on formal education from preschool through the college years. And another three offer a snapshot of adult outcomes, completing the cradle-to-career trajectory.”
Then the researchers average all the scores — each state can get up to 100 points on each Index — into one grade, A-F.
EdWeek’s research results are apolitical, uninfluenced by groups pushing for artificially-inflated grades to make lobbying groups and politicians look good. There’s no agenda, just unembellished data.
So let’s look at the data in the first two Indexes, “Chance for Success” and “K-12 Achievement.” Nationally, the U.S. got a “C+” for the first and a “C” in the second. New Jersey got a “B+” in “Chance for Success” and a “B” in “K-12 Achievement.” Okay, we didn’t beat Massachusetts in those two Indexes. But we still did really well. From the report: “New Jersey, the top-ranked overall state in 2019, is 17th for improvement in its K-12 Achievement score from 2008 to 2019 with a solid gain of 4.5 points.”
What’s changed? How did we improve our student achievement so significantly in the last nine years?
Answer: In 2010 we raised our standards for coursework by adopting the Common Core (now called NJ Student Learning Standards) and then, as required by federal law, we put teeth into the higher expectations by adopting end-of-year assessments that are aligned with those standards. And you know what? Our kids, teachers, administrators, and school boards rose to the occasion! We nailed it! We expected more and we got more.
Look, course content and a Metrocard will get you a trip on the subway. Course content and meaningful assessments that hold districts accountable for sticking to the standards? That’s a trip to the top of the pack.
However, all that progress may be transitory (as I discussed late last week, here and here). Gov. Phil Murphy ran on an NJEA-endorsed platform of “getting rid of PARCC on Day 1.” His appointed Commissioner Lamont Repollet undermines aligned assessments every chance he gets, hurling uncertainty about so that students don’t even know what tests they have to take to graduate. This is at least part of the reason why our student achievement flattened out this past Spring, and in some cases declined. Why take assessments seriously if they’re maligned by our top officials?
If I were a conspiracy-theorist (I’m not, by the way), I might think this was a case of sabotage, partly because the alternatives — utter incompetence or rank racism — are worse. (I guess that’s debatable.) After all, Repollet, while superintendent at Asbury Park Public Schools, instituted a system called “The 64 Floor” (you can read about it here) that makes it impossible for the district’s 99% Black and Latinx enrollment to fail courses. When students can’t fail courses, everyone gets a high school diploma. Murphy fell for the scheme and said that’s why he appointed Repollet as Commissioner. (Due diligence, anyone?) Repollet confirmed the 64 Floor before a legislative committee (see here) and explained that giving everyone a diploma is an example of “equity.”
No, Commissioner, that’s a perversion of equity: Parents cheer while their children collect diplomas in Asbury Park that signify not learning but seat-time. (Actually, sometimes not even that: Asbury Park has a “credit retrieval” system for chronically absent students that allows them to get credits through activities that don’t involve academics.)
Repollet said from the start that he would fulfill the Governor’s promise to NJEA to “eliminate PARCC Day 1” because aligned tests give families and schools honest information about student achievement and, hey, we can’t have that. We’re the state that likes to claim that 90% of our students are proficient in reading and math (as long as we ignore the NAEP scores, which are similar to PARCC results). Okay, it’s taking longer than Murphy/Repollet/NJEA thought, at least another two years. So here’s the new goal: We’ll replace PARCC on Day 1,460 with obsolete assessments that artificially inflate student proficiency.
Here’s the point: By continually undermining tests aligned with course content, Repollet and Murphy tell students, parents, teachers, and administrators that the tests don’t matter. We keep the content but remove accountability. Here’s your Metrocard.
Remember, the EdWeek report doesn’t include last Spring’s scores; if they did, we wouldn’t have gotten a “B” in the “K-12 Achievement Index.” Until last Spring we’d been trending upwards — our children’s proficiency was improving each year — and EdWeek’s calculations captured that. But when Quality Counts 2020 comes out, researchers will include this past year’s drops in 5th, 6th, and 7th grade proficiency rates, as well as our three-point drop in Algebra 1 from school years 2017-18 to 2018-2019. Most likely we’ll hand in the gold medal.
In an email sent to DOE staffers today (see below for the full text) Repollet brags on the EdWeek results. But if he, Murphy, and the State Board of Education are really committed to improving the quality of our state school system — heck, even just maintaining it — they will think long and hard about their plans to lower requirements for a high school diploma and create new assessments that lie to families.
Sure, one test can’t calculate a single student’s true proficiency in math and ELA — such a red herring! — but our district-by-district averages on standardized tests give us information about school quality. They tell us — parents, teachers, administrators, districts, the DOE — how well or poorly we work with English Language Learners and children with disabilities. They tell us where our weak spots are so districts can focus professional development most effectively. They tell us what we’re doing well. They help parents exercise wise choices in choosing districts and schools. If we follow the current plan — revert to something like our old ASK and HSPA tests which deceived residents into believing that 90% of our kids are ready for college — then we’re back to that perversion of equity.
And this, by all accounts, is the goal of the Murphy Administration.
Here’s the email from Repollet:
From: communications
Subject: A message from Dr. Repollet
Dear Fellow NJDOE Employees,
The start of a new school year is always a joyous occasion, but this year in particular we have a great reason to celebrate: New Jersey schools<https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2019/09/04/new-jersey-tops-national-ranking-of-schools.html> rank number one in the nation, thanks in part to our commitment to funding education and to our push for educational equity for all students.
According to Education Week’s newly released “Quality Counts 2019,” their annual report of state education systems, “New Jersey has an advantage over Massachusetts in both spending and equity. It ranks sixth for per-pupil expenditures at $16,543, while Massachusetts is 13th at $14,529 once figures are adjusted for regional cost differences.”
Statistics show that not only do we devote 4.8 percent of our tax dollars to education, the report also found we ensure funding is more evenly distributed between wealthy and economically disadvantaged school districts.
This great news is a testament to the work we do each day to ensure our 1.4 million students come first. Our ranking is also a testament to how incredible and resilient each of our students are, and to the teachers, school counselors, support staff, principals, superintendents and others who shape the minds of our children daily: leading them to a love of learning and exposing students to opportunities for post-secondary success.
I’m proud of our commitment to uplift each child – from preschool to 12th grade. This news underscores the importance of equity in education to ensure all students have equitable access to resources and quality educational programming.
Another factor in our success as a department is that fact that we devote time and resources to help our staff thrive. We are investing in professional development opportunities to enhance personal and professional growth, which will ultimately benefit the 1.4 million children in the State of New Jersey that we serve. Governor Murphy has prioritized reigniting the innovation economy, and further, developing the talent pipeline to support it. Our work is focused on creating and providing these opportunities for students, but it is important that we too, are positioned to provide the guidance and leadership necessary to ensure their success. The policy on this opportunity will be available on our Intranet next Wednesday.
Our No. 1 ranking sets the tone for the school year, but it’s only the start of the great things we can accomplish together on behalf of New Jersey’s children. Again, thank you for all that you do for NJDOE.
Dr. Lamont O. Repollet
Commissioner of Education
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The best graphics cards 2019: all the top GPUs for gaming
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The search for the best graphics cards has never been more exciting, with AMD recently unleashing its next generation AMD Navi GPUs and Nvidia releasing its Nvidia Turing cards like the all-powerful RTX 2080 Ti and the new Super RTX cards. The race is on, and it’s closer than ever before, which only benefits us as prices start to drop. And, that’s without mentioning Intel throwing its hat in the ring with its Intel Xe graphics.
Of course, different users have different needs. Hardcore gamers might be willing to drop a significant chunk of change on a flagship GPU, while others might want the best budget option, like the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660. Content creators, on the other hand, might want a GPU with serious VRAM and excellent multi-threaded performance.
Regardless of what your needs might be, the best graphics cards are capable of running the best PC games like Rage 2 and the newly released Control, as well as the most demanding applications for video editing and design. Since the graphics cards market is saturated with options, we handpicked the best of the best for you and rounded them up on this list. We’ve thoroughly tested every single one of our picks and can attest to each of them. So, dig into our list and let us guide you to the best graphics cards for your needs.
Best graphics cards at a glance
AMD Radeon RX 5700
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Super
AMD Radeon VII
Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Mini
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 OC 6G
PNY GeForce GTX 1660 Ti XLR8 Gaming OC
For what it offers and how much it costs, the AMD Radeon RX 5700 well-deserving as the best graphics card of 2019.
This absolute behemoth of a graphics card is still basically brand new, and it’s already topping our list of the best graphics cards, booting former reigning champion and its direct rival, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060, off the top spot. At $349, this powerful mid-range card brings 1440p gaming at Ultra or Max settings to the masses, making it affordable and accessible to everyone. At that price point, it doesn’t need to be perfect – those looking for ray tracing will have to wait. But, for what it offers and how much it costs, it’s well-deserving of its title as the best graphics card of 2019 for most people.
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The Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is the most formidable graphics card short of getting a professional graphics solution.
If you need the best graphics card, and you don’t want to settle, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti may be one of the best graphics cards for you. This is the most formidable graphics card you can buy without jumping for a professional graphics solution. And, now that games like Battlefield V, Metro Exodus and Shadow of the Tomb Raider actually implement the RTX features, there’s never been a better time to jump on the ray tracing bandwagon. Just prepare yourself for that sky-high price.
Read the full review: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super offering exceptional 1440p gaming.
The souped up Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super isn’t just remarkable because it’s a supercharged version of the very popular RTX 2070, offering exceptional 1440p gaming. It’s also striking because it offers all that power at a very reasonable price, making it a compelling buy for most users, even for those on a budget. Plus, if you’re wondering about ray tracing, here’s the best card to jump in – you don’t have to break open that piggy bank for the RTX 2080 or RTX 2080 Ti anymore.
Read the full review: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super
We've gone hands-on with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super
The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Super is a bit faster than the GTX 1660, but only ten bucks or quid more.
When Nvidia put out the GTX 1660 and the GTX 1660 Ti, they excelled at Full HD gaming at a price that wouldn't make you wince. And, now that the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Super is here, both of those cards are practically irrelevant. This new graphics card is just a bit faster than the GTX 1660, but is only ten bucks or quid more, while it reaches the same level as the GTX 1660 Ti while being significantly cheaper. If you're looking for a graphics card for Full HD gameplay, you really should take a look at the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Super – it really is one of the best graphics cards out there.
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With the AMD Radeon VII, Team Red has attempted to reclaim a piece of the high-end graphics market.
We’ve been longing for a new top-of-the-line graphics card from AMD since 2017’s Radeon Vega 64, but things have drastically changed in the graphics market since then – most notably Nvidia Turing. With the AMD Radeon VII from the Vega II lineup, Team Red has attempted to reclaim a piece of the high-end graphics market, and it largely triumphed. The AMD Radeon VII holds its own in 4K gaming, but it particularly excels in content creation. Packed with 16GB of HBM2 memory, the AMD Radeon VII can keep up with much more expensive creative-focused competitors, making it one of the best graphics cards 2019 has on offer.
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The Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super is the best graphics card for VR gaming.
If you’re all about the best VR games, you’re going to need the best graphics cards to do that job. And, nowadays, that honor goes to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super. VR-ready and filled with the latest Turing architecture, you won’t have to worry about a rough VR experience that will make you sick. Outside of VR, it should also be able to handle all your favorite PC games at 1440p and 4K without any issue. The best part might just be that it’s a lot cheaper than the RTX 2080, offering a much better value.
The Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Mini is among the best graphics cards to power your microATX.
Looking to put together a microATX or a mini-ITX gaming PC? You shouldn’t need to settle for a low-end GPU. Take a look at mini graphics cards like the Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Mini instead. It’s not the latest and greatest GPU out there now, but the 1080 Ti still has a lot of juice, and it’s among the best graphics cards to power your microATX. And, when you can get that power in a card that’s only 211 x 125 x 41mm, the tiny loss in performance is absolutely worth the beautiful mini PC you’ll get.
With the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 OC 6G, you’re getting a healthy factory overclock and all the outputs you’ll ever need.
With all those fancy (read: expensive) graphics cards cornering the market, the budget-friendlier ones sometimes fly under the radar. That’s unfortunate, particularly since cards like the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 deserve a spot in the limelight for delivering excellent 1080p performance at a very affordable price. With the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 OC 6G, you’re also getting a healthy factory overclock and all the outputs you’ll ever need, so you can play all your favorite games with several monitors attached. We’d call that a bargain, maybe even the best we’ve ever had, and it certainly warrants a spot in our best graphics cards list.
Read the full review: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 OC 6G
The PNY GeForce GTX 1660 Ti XLR8 Gaming OC made next-generation performance become accessible to everyone.
When Nvidia first revealed its Turing lineup, it was hard to find a model that didn’t cost an arm and a leg. Nonetheless, with the launch of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti – especially the PNY XLR8 Gaming OC model – next-generation performance became accessible to everyone. You won’t have access to 4K 60 fps gaming with this card, but it’s one of the best graphics cards for anyone still using a 1080p display, and it can handle most esports games well above 60fps. At that resolution, you’ll have trouble running into any title that it can’t handle.
Read the full review: PNY GeForce GTX 1660 Ti XLR8 Gaming OC
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PHT Morning Skate: Fighting Bob Probert; What’s wrong with Red Wings?
By Joey AlfieriNov 4, 2019, 8:15 AM EST
Welcome to the PHT Morning Skate, a collection of links from around the hockey world. Have a link you want to submit? Email us at phtblog@nbcsports.com.
• Gritty made a special birthday wish come true for a young fan battling cancer. (ESPN)
• The Penguins will be without Patric Hornqvist for the foreseeable future as he hits IR. (Pensburgh)
• 10 former NHLers shared stories about fighting Bob Probert. (The Hockey News)
• It’s time for the San Jose Sharks to start looking in the mirror. (NBC Sports Bay Area)
• The Canadiens have recalled top prospect Ryan Poehling from the minors and they’ve placed Jesperi Kotkaniemi on IR. (TSN)
• Former NBA commissioner David Stern said Alex Ovechkin‘s contract is the dumbest thing he’s ever seen. (NBC Sports Washington)
• Here are seven keys for the Capitals in order for them to win another Stanley Cup. (Nova Caps)
• Subpar refereeing is hurting the NHL’s image and credibility. (Sinbin.Vegas)
• In former NHLer news, Scott Darling has signed with HC Innsbruck of the Austrian league. [HC Innsbruck]
• And Scottie Upshall has signed a one-year deal in Switzerland with HC Ambri-Piotta. [Swiss Hockey News]
• Oilers Nation breaks down Edmonton’s last seven-game segment. (Oilers Nation)
• Should the Islanders keep rolling Derick Brassard out on the wing? (The Sports Daily)
• The Kings aren’t very good right now, but here are six reasons to keep watching their games. (Jewels from the Crown)
• The Red Wings have a lack of talent and they have coaching issues too. That’s not a good combination. (MLive)
• Panthers owner Vinnie Viola is co-owner of Vino Rosso, the horse who won the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic on Saturday. [America’s Best Racing]
Joey Alfieri is a writer for Pro Hockey Talk on NBC Sports. Drop him a line at phtblog@nbcsports.com or follow him on Twitter @joeyalfieri.
Tags: Bob Probert, Derick Brassard, Detroit Red Wings, Edmonton Oilers, Gritty, Los Angeles Kings, New York Islanders, Patric Hornqvist, Pittsburgh Penguins, San Jose Sharks, Scott Darling
“Goon” is cinema’s love letter to hockey enforcers
By Joe YerdonFeb 29, 2012, 12:46 PM EST
Hockey movies fall into two categories generally, they either go down as iconic (“Slap Shot” “Miracle”) or they go down in flames (“The Love Guru”). You can chalk up “Goon” as being an iconic film of its own.
One of the stars of the movie is Liev Schreiber, who plays the movie’s antagonist Ross “The Boss” Rhea, says it’s hard to do a hockey movie the right way and to do something no one’s seen before.
“How do you do a hockey movie fresh? How do you add anything to the anthology of hockey movies? One thing that Jay [Baruchel] really defines this movie with is the heart. That’s the one thing people don’t often talk about when they talk about hockey,” says Schreiber.
“I think it’s also something that defines hockey players. There’s a very strict code, especially among enforcers, of how you treat each other and you leave it all on the ice. Respect.”
Schreiber’s character Rhea plays the foil to Seann William Scott’s Doug Glatt and while you might be able to say that Rhea is the villain, that’s not the way Schreiber sees it.
“I, personally, would disagree highly in saying Ross is a villain,” Schreiber says with a laugh.
“Guys like Probert, Georges Laraque, Donald Brashear, Dave Schultz… It was impactful to read about these guys’ lives and the misperception of them both as not hockey players and as goons. I think that’s part of what hurts for those guys.
“They give so much of their bodies and their lives to the game… I don’t know how many of them want to be remembered as purely enforcers or goons. I think a lot of those guys were great hockey players and that’s how they should be remembered.”
If it sounds like big talk for what’s a comedic movie, you’d be missing the point. “Goon” is a funny and violent film with enough bad language to make a sailor proud, but what’s hockey without all that?
“Goon” is a movie made by hockey fans (Director Michael Dowse and writer/co-star Jay Baruchel) with a metric ton of heart and it shows in how it plays out. Passing on watching this one would be a mistake.
“Goon” is currently available on Video On Demand and will hit theaters on March 30.
Tags: Bob Probert, Dave Schultz, Donald Brashear, Georges Laraque, Jay Baruchel, Liev Schreiber, Michael Dowse, Seann William Scott
Family has “no plans” to donate Gordie Howe’s brain for concussion research
By James O'BrienFeb 10, 2012, 8:30 AM EST
The Canadian Press caused quite a stir when they supposedly made too-big a story out of Gordie Howe’s “mild cognitive impairment,” indicating that Mr. Hockey is fighting dementia.
With all that discussion about Howe’s cognitive functions, perhaps it only makes sense that some are asking if his family will donate the legend’s brain to concussion researchers once he dies – much like Bob Probert and other deceased players’ loved ones opted to do. Marty Howe told The Globe & Mail’s David Shoalts that the family hasn’t had that discussion, but his “opinion is it probably wouldn’t happen.”
Marty Howe didn’t really expand on that, but it’s ultimately the family’s choice. Interestingly enough, Howe did say that he believes concussions have contributed to his father’s condition – whatever you want to call it – so perhaps that stance might change with time.
Tags: Bob Probert, concussion research, donating brain, Gordie Howe, Marty Howe
Report: Derek Boogaard dealt with issues related to Alzheimer’s disease
By James O'BrienDec 5, 2011, 11:05 PM EST
A sad and stunning New York Times report reveals that studies of Derek Boogaard’s brain provided evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. CTE is described as “a degenerative brain ailment related to Alzheimer’s disease that is caused by repeated blows to the head.”
One of the report’s most disturbing findings was that the disease was more pronounced in Boogaard (who died at age 28 and played in parts of six NHL seasons) than Bob Probert (who died at age 45 and played in parts of 16 NHL seasons). Dr. Ann McKee – one of the leading researchers – had this to say after studying Boogaard’s brain.
“To see this amount? That’s a ‘wow’ moment,” McKee said. “This is all going bad.”
It’s tough to argue with that point.
Tags: Alzheimer's, Bob Probert, CTE, Derek Boogaard
Versus crew slams Buffalo’s response to hit on Miller
By James O'BrienNov 14, 2011, 8:42 PM EST
Brendan Shanahan voiced his disapproval of the Buffalo Sabres’ verbal response to Milan Lucic’s hit on Ryan Miller, but what about the lack of in-game reaction? Keith Jones and Mike Milbury were all over the Sabres for their tepid response to a run on their goalie, both immediately after the check and as the game goes along.
If you ask me, the most interesting part of the video is the old footage, though. Jones rolls a clip that stretches back to 1987, when the (gasp) Sabres angrily responded to Bob Probert taking a shot at Tom Barrasso. A lot has been made about Buffalo’s lack of “personnel” to bring “justice” to Lucic, but the clip features an ingenious response to that line of reasoning. After all, Probert ranks as one of the most featured enforcers of all-time, so if you can respond to him, couldn’t you do the same to Lucic?
(Not saying it’s the exact same situation, but this is interesting food for thought …)
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Tags: Bob Probert, Keith Jones, Mike Milbury, Milan Lucic, Ryan Miller, Tom Barrasso
PHT Morning Skate: Fighting Bob Probert; What’s wrong with Red Wings? November 4, 2019 8:15 am EST “Goon” is cinema’s love letter to hockey enforcers February 29, 2012 12:46 pm EST Family has “no plans” to donate Gordie Howe’s brain for concussion research February 10, 2012 8:30 am EST Report: Derek Boogaard dealt with issues related to Alzheimer’s disease December 5, 2011 11:05 pm EST Versus crew slams Buffalo’s response to hit on Miller November 14, 2011 8:42 pm EST Add former Flames brawler Jim Peplinski to the anti-fighting camp September 4, 2011 9:38 pm EDT Hockey’s summer of tragedy turns debate towards whether to keep fighting in the game September 3, 2011 9:30 am EDT Boston University concussion researchers are currently studying Derek Boogaard’s brain September 2, 2011 3:47 pm EDT Derek Boogaard’s family will donate his brain to science to study concussion effects May 14, 2011 11:11 pm EDT New York Rangers enforcer Derek Boogaard found dead tonight May 13, 2011 11:14 pm EDT Bob Probert discovered to have had degenerative brain disease March 3, 2011 12:59 am EST Will there be mixed feelings for Blackhawks fans during Chris Chelios Heritage Night? December 17, 2010 3:15 pm EST
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Manny Malhotra
Habs cutting ties with Gonchar, Malhotra, Weaver
By Mike HalfordMay 15, 2015, 2:55 PM EDT
Three of the oldest players on the Montreal roster are on their way out.
Manny Malhotra, Mike Weaver and Sergei Gonchar — the Habs’ elder statesman this year, at 41 — won’t be brought back for next season, GM Marc Bergevin confirmed during Friday’s end-of-season presser.
The moves don’t come as a huge surprise, given all were pending UFAs and none played in the playoffs. Malhotra had the biggest role on the team during the regular season, appearing in 58 games, and Gonchar did provide some offense on the back end, racking up 13 points in 45 games.
Weaver, a renowned shot-blocker that played regularly in last year’s run to the Eastern Conference Final, was largely a spare part this season and appeared in just 31 games, one of the lowest totals of his career.
It’ll be interesting to see what each player does next. The 34-year-old Malhotra, the youngest of the three, said he wants to keep playing; Weaver, who just turned 37, has played for six different teams over the last 13 years and always seems to find somewhere to sign. Gonchar could very well be done.
Finally, it’s worth noting that over $7 million comes off the books with Gonchar, Weaver and Malhotra leaving town. Important, because the club has said that re-signing pending UFA d-man Jeff Petry is a priority, and Petry isn’t going to come cheap.
Tags: Jeff Petry, Manny Malhotra, Mike Weaver, Montreal Canadiens, Sergei Gonchar
Habs add forward depth, acquire Flynn from Sabres
By Mike HalfordMar 2, 2015, 10:51 AM EST
The Montreal Canadiens stayed busy after acquiring d-man Jeff Petry this morning, picking up forward Brian Flynn from Buffalo.
In exchange, the Sabres will receive a fifth-round pick at the 2016 NHL Entry Draft, per TSN.
Flynn, 26, has enjoyed a relatively successful campaign with the Sabres, scoring five goals and a career-high 17 points in 54 games played. A former University of Maine standout, Flynn has spent his entire professional career with the Buffalo organization, playing two years in AHL Rochester before becoming a full-time NHLer last season (in 79 games, he had six goals and 13 points).
In Montreal, Flynn — who’s in the last of a two-year, $1.275M deal with a $637,500 cap hit — will challenge for minutes at the center position. He played there regularly for the Sabres (was fourth on the team in faceoffs) and will now be in the mix for bottom-six minutes along with rookie Jacob De La Rose and Manny Malhotra.
Tags: Brian Flynn, Buffalo Sabres, Edmonton Oilers, Jeff Petry, Manny Malhotra, Montreal Canadiens
Bournival to make season debut, KHL team acquires Sekac’s rights
By Mike HalfordNov 4, 2014, 10:52 AM EST
The Montreal Canadiens say they aren’t panicking after Sunday’s blowout home loss to Calgary — but they are making a change.
Sophomore Michael Bournival will make his season debut tonight against Chicago, the club has announced, while TVA reports that KHL Club AK Bars Kazan has acquired the rights to rookie forward Jiri Sekac… who’s been a healthy scratch for the last six games.
Jiri Sekac is still with the @CanadiensMTL but Kazan is just getting ready in case the situation change.
— Renaud Lavoie (@renlavoietva) November 4, 2014
Sekac, an undrafted free agent that signed with Montreal after good success in the KHL, was a lineup presence early in the season, getting a career-high 15:23 TOI against Philly on Oct. 11 before scoring his first NHL goal in a 6-4 win over Boston five nights later.
Bournival, who had a breakout rookie campaign last year by scoring seven goals and 14 points in 60 games, has also had a tough time cracking the lineup this season. He’s expected to play on the fourth line tonight with Brandon Prust and Manny Malhotra, which will likely send Travis Moen to the press box (where he’ll sit with Sekac).
Tags: Brandon Prust, Jiri Sekac, Manny Malhotra, Michael Bournival, Montreal Canadiens, Travis Moen
Bieksa’s eye injury not ‘as serious as what people think it is’
By Jason BroughNov 3, 2014, 1:33 PM EST
From the Vancouver Sun’s Elliott Pap, after Canucks defensemen Kevin Bieksa left last night’s game versus Nashville with an apparent eye injury:
Nux GM Jim Benning on Kevin Bieksa's eye injury: "I don't think it's as serious as what people think it is." #Canucks
— Elliott Pap (@ElliottPap) November 3, 2014
You’ll forgive Canucks fans for fearing the worst. This is an organization, after all, that’s had to deal with two serious eye injuries, to Mattias Ohlund in 1999 and to Manny Malhotra in 2011.
Bieksa will apparently join the Canucks on their upcoming road trip, though he’s questionable for Tuesday’s game in Denver. If he can’t play, expect Ryan Stanton to take his spot.
Also expect rookie Bo Horvat to make his NHL debut versus the Avs, in place of injured forward Tom Sestito.
Tags: Kevin Bieksa, Manny Malhotra, Mattias Ohlund, Montreal Canadiens, Ryan Stanton, Tampa Bay Lightning, Tom Sestito, Vancouver Canucks
Workhorse goalies, forwards from last season
By James O'BrienSep 1, 2014, 6:05 PM EDT
It’s Labor Day, so this seems like an appropriate time to consider hard work in hockey.
Sure, these players are all well-compensated for their efforts, but perhaps this will provide a little thematic entertainment. We took a look at the “hardest working” defensemen in this post, but now let’s consider goalies and forwards.
A few ground rules before you get too angry on your day off:
1. This is based on 2013-14 stats.
2. Quantity generally beats out quality in many cases, so players who logged 70+ games have a much better chance than someone who was injured but faced tough assignments when healthy.
3. By no means is this a comprehensive list and this isn’t meant to judge subjective things like “effort.” It’s mainly based on how a player was deployed. In other words, team styles and coaching in general made a big impact.
Got it? Let’s roll:
At this point, leaving the Los Angeles Kings’ center off any “best forward in hockey” discussion is foolish. SB Nation’s Adam Gretz does a great job summarizing his all-around brilliance:
Since the start of the 2011-12 season with Kopitar on the ice at even-strength, the Kings have attempted 60 percent of the shot attempts (the third best mark in the NHL, behind only Kopitar’s teammate Justin Williams and Bergeron) and scored more than 61 percent of the goals. He’s also averaged more than two minutes of shorthanded ice-time per game over that stretch (tops among Kings forwards) and has 53 power play points.
Much like overall shorthanded time leader Braydon Coburn, playing for the league’s most penalized team probably inflates Philadelphia Flyers center Sean Couturier’s PK numbers … but they still tower above other forwards expected to chip in at least some offense (sorry Manny Malhotra). Couturier’s only competition in total penalty killing time among forwards was Jay McClement, but Couturier logged more than four minutes of total ice time per game than the former Toronto Maple Leafs defensive specialist, giving him more all-around duties.
(Flyers fans are justified in smiling at the fact that his cap hit will only be $1.75 million for the next two seasons.)
Tomas Plekanec
It’s tempting to place Patrice Bergeron here being that he’s arguably the best two-way forward in the NHL (with a handful of others making a strong argument). Just look at this chart, which is one way of showing much opposing shooters struggle to score when Bergeron’s on the ice:
Now just for reference – here is Patrice Bergeron – best defensive C in the NHL – look at all that BLUE! pic.twitter.com/yAUCztEgsi
— Stephen Burtch (@SteveBurtch) August 31, 2014
So consider that a mention of sorts, but the Boston Bruins probably share the defensive burden better than most (Bergeron averaged just under two minutes of shorthanded time per game, a healthy but not outrageous average). One might look to Boston’s hated rivals in Montreal for a guy who carries a remarkable workload for a quality scorer.
Tomas Plekanec wasn’t all that great at draws, yet he won the most shorthanded faceoffs in the league for a good reason: he was on PK duty a lot. Plekanec averaged 2:57 shorthanded time per game, not all that short of Couturier’s daunting 3:25 average. On top of that, Plekanec began only 38 percent of his shifts in the offensive zone, which essentially places him alongside “defensive specialists.”
His offensive output of 20 goals and 43 points looks pretty solid considering all of that heavy lifting.
Sidney Crosby, Claude Giroux, Ryan Getzlaf and other scorers under pressure
While Erik Karlsson carries a staggering amount of offensive responsibilities in Ottawa, there are plenty of forwards who are expected to score on a nightly basis. Sidney Crosby was involved in 42.9 percent of the Pittsburgh Penguins 242 goals while Claude Giroux (36.9 of Philadelphia’s tallies) and Ryan Getzlaf (33 percent of Anaheim Ducks’ 263 goals) weren’t far behind. Getzlaf boasted one of the better alternate Hart arguments when you consider his 2:07 shorthanded time per game combined with his second-best scoring output.
Semyon Varlamov
It’s easy to see why the Colorado Avalanche’s No. 1 goalie pushed Tuukka Rask in the Vezina voting, as Varlamov was crucial to his team’s surprising season.
Varlamov easily topped all goalies in save attempts (2,013) and saves (1,867) as Kari Lehtonen came in distant second with 1,888 attempts and 1,735 saves. Varlamov’s 63 games played wasn’t short of the largest workload, finishing just two contests behind Lehtonen. All things considered, it’s really impressive that Varlamov topped all goalies with 41 wins while generating an impressive .927 save percentage.
(In case you’re wondering, Rask made 1,568 saves with an outstanding .930 save percentage.)
With a nod to Ryan Miller absorbing buckets of shots in Buffalo, it’s hard to make an argument for any goalie’s job being tougher than Varlamov’s last season. Should the Avs be worried about the goaltending equivalent of the NFL running back “Curse of 370,” then?
Maybe even more than the defensemen list, omissions are likely here in part for space reasons (Ryan Kesler’s an honorable mention, for one). Feel free to add some names to consider in the comments, then.
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Tags: Anaheim Ducks, Anze Kopitar, Boston Bruins, Braydon Coburn, Carolina Hurricanes, Claude Giroux, Colorado Avalanche, Dallas Stars, Erik Karlsson, Jay McClement, Justin Williams, Kari Lehtonen, Los Angeles Kings, Manny Malhotra, Montreal Canadiens, Ottawa Senators, Patrice Bergeron, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Ryan Getzlaf, Ryan Kesler, Ryan Miller, Sean Couturier, Semyon Varlamov, Sidney Crosby, Tomas Plekanec, Tuukka Rask, Vancouver Canucks
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Home Featured News Ciara Mageean named Northern Ireland team captain for Commonwealth Games 2018!
Ciara Mageean named Northern Ireland team captain for Commonwealth Games 2018!
Ciara Mageean named Northern Ireland team captain for Commonwealth Games 2018 (by Athletics NI):
Ciara Mageean has issued a rallying cry for the Commonwealth Games after being named as captain of Northern Ireland’s athletics team for Gold Coast 2018.
The 2016 European Championships 1500 metres bronze medallist was confirmed in the role on Monday evening on the 13-strong squad’s final night at their holding camp at Somerset College before they move into the Athletes Village today (Tuesday).
And the 26-year-old, who is set to double up in the 800 and 1500m Down Under, admits she is honoured to lead the grouping into the track and field competition which begins this coming weekend.
“It is such a huge honour to be captain of such a fantastic group of athletes,” Mageean said.
“The atmosphere so far in our holding camp has been brilliant and the whole Athletics Northern Ireland team, both athletes and coaches, have worked brilliantly together to help each and every one of us best prepare for the Games ahead.
“We are all excited to step out with our Northern Ireland vests on our backs and give our best for our wee country.”
Mageean’s leadership skills made her the natural choice for the role, admits Athletics NI team lead Jackie Newton. And the move to the Village will set everyone up for deliver their best performance after a build-up that has left the grouping well-prepared for the Games.
“Somerset College has provided the perfect environment for training and we couldn’t have found anywhere better than Royal Pines for comfort, recovery and team bonding,” Newton said.
“We have also had good access to physiotherapy through the Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games Council. Training has gone very well for all and the support that the athletes are giving each other is tremendous – a superb team spirit has been fostered. We are ready now to move to the Athletes Village where we will put the finishing touches to the preparation.”
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Alterations in Gene Expression of Components of the Renin-Angiotensin System and Its Related Enzymes in Lung Cancer.
Malav Trivedi, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Robert C Speth, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
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Lung Cancer International
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
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Objectives. The study assessed the existence and significance of associations between the expression of fifteen renin-angiotensin system component genes and lung adenocarcinoma. Materials and Methods. NCBI’s built-in statistical tool, GEO2R, was used to calculate Student’s -tests for the associations found in a DNA expression study of adenocarcinoma and matched healthy lung tissue samples. The raw data was processed with GeneSpring™ and then used to generate figures with and without Sidak’s multiple comparison correction. Results. Ten genes were found to be significantly associated with adenocarcinoma. Seven of these associations remained statistically significant after correction for multiple comparisons. Notably, AGTR2, which encodes the AT2 angiotensin II receptor subtype, was significantly underexpressed in adenocarcinoma tissue (). AGTR1, ACE, ENPEP, MME, and PRCP, which encode the AT1 angiotensin II receptor, angiotensin-converting enzyme, aminopeptidase N, neprilysin, and prolylcarboxypeptidase, respectively, were also underexpressed. AGT, which encodes angiotensinogen, the angiotensin peptide precursor, was overexpressed in adenocarcinoma tissue. Conclusion. The results suggest an association between the expression of the genes for renin-angiotensin system-related proteins and adenocarcinoma. While further research is necessary to conclusively demonstrate a link between the renin-angiotensin system and lung cancers, the results suggest that the renin-angiotensin system plays a role in the pathology of adenocarcinoma.
Medicine and Health Sciences | Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
enzymes, gene alteration, renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system
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Does nitric oxide play a critical role in viral infections?
Carol Shoshkes Reiss, Takashi Komatsu
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Reiss, C. S., & Komatsu, T. (1998). Does nitric oxide play a critical role in viral infections? Journal of Virology, 72(6), 4547-4551.
Does nitric oxide play a critical role in viral infections? / Reiss, Carol Shoshkes; Komatsu, Takashi.
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by Silke Hartung
NewTracks New Artist: JSH
Among the stand out new artists featured on NZ On Air‘s latest NewTracks compilation is North Shore MC JSH. Signed with Tyree Tautogia and Deach Fa’afou‘s Empire Records, you might have come across the melodic rhymes of his debut single Lemme Just on the radio over the last few weeks. NZM got in touch to learn some more and JSH kindly obliged. If you’ve got a new song you think radio stations across the country might be into, you can submit it for the next NewTracks by February 16.
What’s the background story of how you became a solo MC?
I first started out making music with a crew called notmuch which was fun. There were three of us. I branched off from the group in 2016 creating my solo venture JSH. I get my productions from local producers, friends, networking with people in the industry.
It started from me jamming with my boy Thomas Rose and we’d make heaps of new music all the time. We started doing these mixtapes once a month in 2017 and I got some good looks from local radio stations like George FM and some gig opportunities through We Mouve. Once that stuck, it was inevitable that this JSH thing was becoming a real brand for myself. Now I’m just running it straight with how serious I’m taking it, haha.
So can you tell us what JSH stands for?
My name is Josh Grace, so it’s literally just Josh without the O, haha. I really like the way it looks on paper and reads… JSH. It took me a while to come up with a name for my solo project and this seemed the most appropriate.
What makes Lemme Just stand out for you as a single?
It was first released on one of my mixtapes I made last year, and it got the most heat in terms of plays and favourites up on Soundcloud and Facebook. Everyone I showed it to just felt it was a really nice song to listen to and it’s got that laid-back R&B, lazy rap vocal feel. It’s definitely one of my favourite songs I’ve ever made, the best is so smooth and the hook way too catchy.
Is there a story behind Lemme Just?
It’s mainly about the initial attraction between man and woman, trying to be that cool guy in the corner of the club and spotting someone who’s easy on the eye, haha. I write a lot about love and lust, but Lemme Just sits a lot more in the category of lust, and that honeymoon phase of a relationship.
What’s your favourite moment, musical or lyrical, in the single?
Damn, nice question. I’m big on representing where I’m from and my city. So I love the opening line, “I just got my city on my back, that’s a day one.” I’m always referencing and shouting out to Auckland, and my day ones haha. But in terms of the musical moment, it would have to be the pre-chorus at the end of each verse where I take my vocal up a key. I just think it’s got that nice feel to it, probably where my voice sounds the nicest, smooth toned and all!
Who did you mainly work on that single with?
My man’s DJ Grumble, out of New York – has some of the tastiest beats out there. I originally just ripped the beat off Soundcloud and wrote Lemme Just to it. Put it out on my mixtape and he said he was “flames”, gave it a re-post. When recording it, I did that with my main man Tom Lee who’s my engineer. Him and Thomas Rose were in the studio at the time and I just went in and laid it out in one take because I’d been singing it every day since I’d written it. I had it on lock – I liked it that much! After the take I could just hear them both laughing in the studio and clapping their hands, speaking back to me in the booth saying, “Bruv, this is a tune, straight up!” That was a good feeling and from then I knew this had to go down as a single, so I hit up DJ Grumble for the stems, and the rest is history.
Describe in one sentence what you want listeners to take away from this song.
I think I just want people to vibe with it, the same way me and the boys did when I recorded it. Turn it up in the car, wind the windows down on a sunny day and just roll with it. There’s certainly messages in there about love and risk-taking but it’s more about the feel of the song than the lyrical messages.
In general, how do you work out what song would make a good single?
The reaction of people when I show them a track, straight up. I can vibe out to a song I’ve written all day long, but it’s not until I see someone’s reaction that I know if it’s fitted to be a single or not.
Any other projects you’ve got on that we should keep an eye out for?
I’m working on my debut album. A couple more singles will be out before that, one later this month, and another next month. Then I’ll drop the album, no date set yet. But it’s sounding nice, it’s all written and recorded, has some dope local producers with their name on it. I’m excited.
Can you please give us three other local tunes that should be on a playlist alongside your song.
I’m big on looking out for my boys, so I’d have to say Nothing To Lose by Lee Mvtthews and Hunnid On The Drop by Montell 2099. They’re the homies and are both doing big things so it would always be good to have Lemme Just sit beside them on a playlist. For a third song, I’m big on supporting SWIDT. Their whole album was straight fire, but that All Night track is one of my favourites. The beat goes so hard, and their songwriting is always unique and vibrant.
Was there any NZOA criteria you struggled with in the application? How did you work it out in the end?
I haven’t got the biggest following as of yet, only one song on all platforms. But I’m hoping this year’s plans can change that, and I owe a lot to my label Empire Records who put on for ya boy. The following of JSH is probably the hardest criterion to cover, but trust in me, that’ll change.
Shout out to NZ Musician for noticing, and big love to everyone out here in NZ keeping their movement going. Keep an eye out for ya boy JSH over the year and I can’t wait to get this album out to you all.
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In The Studio with Lydia Johnson Dance
Kokyat and I recently spent a couple of hours in a fifth-floor walk-up studio down below Canal Street where choreographer Lydia Johnson was working with her dancers in preparation for her upcoming performances at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55th Street from July 16th - 18th. Pictured above: Jessica Sand, Kerry Shea and Eric Vlach in LAMENT.
I first saw Lydia Johnson Dance in a works-in-process studio presentation at City Center earlier this year. At that time I was very much taken both with her dancers and with what she was having them do. I got in touch with her and she very kindly arranged for Kokyat and me to come and watch her rehearsal and see how things have progressed.
The studio (Battery Dance) where we watched Lydia's dancers at work has beautiful late-afternoon light pouring in. Above, John-Mark Owen and Kerry Shea rehearsing a duet from IN CONVERSATION set to music of Philip Glass. In this work, two couples dance each within their own sphere while the music keeps them subtly connected; midway thru, Kerry let her hair down producing a beautifully vulnerable effect...and effect amplified by John-Mark's quiet power.
John-Mark and Kerry in a contemplative moment; their duet has a balletic quality which is underscored by their height and contemporary elegance.
Jessica Sand and Robert Robinson are the other couple in IN CONVERSATION. These two dancers had so impressed me at the studio-showcase earlier not only with their dancing but with the calm poetry of their personalities. The Glass Violin Concerto, possibly the composer's most luminous work, draws an individual but cohesive response from each of the four dancers.
The works of Henryk Gorecki seem to have a special appeal for Lydia; she is drawing on his music for two works to be presented at her upcoming performances: LAMENT and the newly-created DUSK. Above, Eric Vlach is borne aloft by the other dancers in a particularly moving motif from LAMENT which is repeated to each corner of the stage.
Jeremy Smith and Jessica Sand in a passage from LAMENT; Jeremy is re-creating a role which was made on him in this work. A program note:
"LAMENT (2008) is a work that evolved from Ms. Johnson's deep involvement with the music of Henryk Gorecki. Sections of discordant music are reflected in intense passages of group floor work and in several pas de deux for the central character, danced this season by the hauntingly expressive Jeremy Smith, with both men and women. The work concludes with a sorrowful and redemptive Amen section."
Robert Robinson in one of the solo passages that are woven into the ensemble. Lydia is fortunate to have a well-contrasted quintet of male dancers in her upcoming performances.
Our time at the studio flew by; the atmosphere was both purposeful and relaxed, with Lydia's obvious affection for and understanding of her dancers as individuals always shining thru. The studio itself, a bit dilapidated but so redolent of the dancers' world - a place where athleticism meets artistry, drenched in perspiration - again made me regret that I am only part of that world in the most peripheral sense.
The photos will expand if clicked on. More of Kokyat's photos from this rehearsal will appear here over the next few days.
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I always love photos of dancers in the studio setting. These are really nice, and I like the light.
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Protection of the Theotokos Monastery (Weaverville, North Carolina)
Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos Monastery
Jurisdiction Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Primatial
Type Male Monastery
Superior Archimandrite Gregory (Wendt)
Approx. size 6 monks
Location Weaverville, North Carolina
Liturgical language(s) English
Music used Russian Chant
Calendar Revised Julian
Feastdays celebrated 2 Feb
Protection of the Theotokos Monastery is a monastic community for men under the omophorion of the Primate of the Orthodox Church in America, presently Metropolitan Tikhon of Washington and New York. It is located in the rural mountains of Weaverville in western North Carolina.
The community was founded in 1982 in Miami, Florida, and was received into the Orthodox Church in America in October 2003.
Currently, the community has two hieromonks (including the abbot), one hierodeacon, two monks and one novice in residence.
The community consists of men living the monastic tradition of a Christ-centered prayer life.
In February 2012, the Orthodox Church in America announced the transfer of brotherhood of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos Monastery, Weaverville, N. C. from the omophorion of Metropolitan Tikhon and the Orthodox Church in America to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the omophorion Metropolitan Vladimir, effective October 25, 2011.
In Feburary 2012 Holy Synod of the UOC-MP blessed the opening in the Vorocheva village in the Transcarpathian region of the Holy Protection Monastery, appointing as its head Archimandrite Gregory [Wendt][1].
The Orthodox Church in America, Pastoral Changes, Official No. 535 • February 2012
Unofficial Monastery Background
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Certification standards authored and maintained by work with respected authors, educators, and select committees that include hiring managers and thought-leaders from Google, Dell, Microsoft (Bing), P&G, Home Depot, and many others.
The following OMCP committees maintain the standards for online marketing training providers and standardized testing, and guide outreach and advocacy efforts.
Standards Committee Members
Avinash Kaushik– Avinash is the Digital Marketing Evangelist for Google, author of Web Analytics 2.0 and Web Analytics an Hour a Day, and one of the founders of Market Motive. He is a respected keynote speaker at industry conferences around the world, and works with such recognized names as Unilever, Dell, Time Warner, Vanguard, Porsche, and IBM. He has also taught at University of California Los Angeles, Stanford University, and University of Virginia. LinkedIn | Twitter
Matt Bailey – Matt is a the founder and President of SiteLogic and author of Internet Marketing an Hour a Day. With over a decade of experience he specializes in creating strategies that improve marketing presence and conversions. Matt also serves on the Advisory Board for Incisive Media’s Search Engine Strategies Conferences. As one of the conference’s highest-rated speakers, he presents at the Search Engine Strategies Conferences around the world. LinkedIn | Twitter
Brad Geddes – Brad is the author of “Advanced Google Adwords”, and founder of Certified Knowledge. He makes it his mission to share his expertise in Paid Search with online marketers so they can build successful online campaigns that generate business. Brad frequently writes columns for Search Engine Land, co-moderates the AdWords forum on Webmaster World, has spoken at more than 35 conferences, and has lead more than 60 AdWords seminars. LinkedIn | Twitter
Eric Enge – Eric is the CEO of Stone Temple Consulting, and co-author of The Art of SEO. He speaks at a host of events across the continent, including the major search conferences. He’s also well know as the author behind The Stone Temple Interview series, and as the host of The Digital Marketing Excellence Show. LinkedIn | Twitter
Stephan Spencer – Stephen is founder of Science of SEO, the author of Google Power Search, and co-author of The Art of SEO. He is a frequent conference speaker on SEO and other online marketing topics for the Digital Marketing Association (DMA), the American Marketing Association (AMA) and others. LinkedIn | Twitter
Ruth Burr – Ruth served OMCP for SEO standards while also serving as head of SEO and Inbound Marketing Lead at Moz. Now with Upbuild LLC, Ruth specializes in optimized content creation, on-page optimization, digital analytics, internal user education, and holistic inbound strategies. LinkedIn | Twitter
Stéphane Hamel – Stéphane is a seasoned consultant, and speaker in the field of digital marketing and analytics. He is Faculty Chair, Digital Analytics for Simplilearn / Market Motive and lecturer at ULaval, recognized Google Product Strategy Expert and considered one of the Most Influential Industry Contributor by the Digital Analytics Association. LinkedIn | Twitter
Jeff Hasen– Named a top Chief Marketing Officer on Twitter, Jeff serves as CMO of Mobivity, and is the author of Mobilized Marketing: Driving Sales, Engagement, and Loyalty Through Mobile Devices. He is a co-creator of the certification program for the Mobile Marketing Association. At Hipcricket, Jeff conceived and led the execution of an accelerated rebranding effort; the company was subsequently named “the early leader in the mobile marketing space in the U.S.” LinkedIn | Twitter
Michael Stebbins – Michael is a marketing strategist, web analytics inventor, and speaker. Michael is the former CEO of Market Motive, the company that changed the way the world learns online marketing. Prior companies focused on online commerce, web analytics, or software developer tools. Currently Michael serves as Chairman of the Board and Director for OMCP. LinkedIn | Twitter
Greg Jarboe – Greg is a founder of SEO PR, where he specializes in online PR and content marketing. He’s the author of YouTube Marketing an Hour a Day and writes for Search Engine Watch and ReelSEO. Previously Greg was the Vice President of Marketing at WebCT, Director of Corporate Communications at Ziff-Davis, and Director of Corporate Communications at Lotus Development Corporation. LinkedIn | Twitter
Bryan Eisenberg – Bryan is the co-author of the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, USA Today and New York Times bestselling books Call to Action, Waiting For Your Cat to Bark? and Always Be Testing. He has served as a keynote speaker for the Direct Marketing Association, Webcom, E-consultancy, and holds a position in the advisory board of Search Engine Strategies. LinkedIn | Twitter
Jennifer Evans Cario – Jennifer is the president of SugarSpun Marketing, and the author of three books, including the recent Pinterest Marketing: An Hour a Day. Jennifer is a highly requested speaker and trainer, and is a regular presenter at the major online marketing conferences. She also serves as Adjunct Professor for Rutgers University’s online Social Media Mini MBA program. LinkedIn | Twitter
Scott Milrad – Scott served as Vice President of Education at Market Motive and is now Content Manager for Business Skills at LinkedIn Learning. He has a wide range of online marketing knowledge from SEO to conversion optimization to online PR. With an academic background in higher education and having taught at college level, Scott brings a unique structured learning approach to the professional environment. LinkedIn
Brian Clifton – Brian is the author of Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics, and serves as the director of Data Insights and analytics at Search Integration. He is a well known speaker and can be found at numerous conferences all over the world. He specializes in helping businesses succeed in online marketing by linking web analytics, digital marketing, and content optimization together. LinkedIn | Twitter
Justin Cutroni – Justin is the author of Author of Google Analytics Short Cut, published in 2007 by O’Reilly Media, Inc., co-author of Performance Marketing with Google Analytics published in 2010 by Wiley, and Google Analytics published by O’Reilly Media in 2010. He is is the Analytics Evangelist at Google and an active participant in the web analytics community with a strong passion for sharing knowledge and advancing the analytics industry. Justin engages the community through the popular blog “Analytics Talk” and has presented at various conferences and trade shows. LinkedIn | Twitter
Dave Kerpen – Dave is an entrepreneur who specializes in social media. He co-founded and is current CEO of Likeable Local. He is also the chairman of Likeable Social, and the author of best selling book Likeable Social Media and Likeable Business. Dave also acts as a featured speaker on social media for publisher McGraw Hill. LinkedIn | Twitter
Jane Flint – Author of much of the initial OMCP Body of Knowledge and contributor to OMCP exams, Jane has served as Kaiser-Permenente’s Practice Leader Internet Marketing-Direct Marketing and has managed significant teams at Adobe, LeapFrog, and DreamWorks. Jane also held the post of Membership Director at OMCP in 2015 and 2016. LinkedIn | Twitter
David Temple – David is Director Industry Relations at OMCP and Senior Account Manager at I/O Digital. As a Digital Marketing leader with multiple agencies and Fortune 100 companies, David has presented at numerous conferences and continues to teach Digital Marketing with Simplilearn. LinkedIn | Twitter
John Marshall – Currently CEO of Algorithmic Ads, John co-founded Market Motive where he served as CTO. He is a frequently requested speaker on topics including web analysis, conversion optimization, funnel analysis and decision support systems. John is the inventor of the Web Analytics Overlay View, and was a founder of Click Tracks (now part of Lyris). LinkedIn | Twitter
Todd Malicoat – As a thought leader in the online business world Todd has been named among the top 50 Most Influential Marketers of 2008 and 2009 by Invesp.com, and Top 40 Most Influential in Search Marketing by GSInc.co.uk in 2007. He has been cited by Inc. Magazine, The Sydney Herald, Website Magazine, The New York Post, Infoworld, and many other media outlets on search, reputation management, social media, and other web related issues. He’s consulted and created training documentation for the Public Broadcast System (PBS.org), Meredith Corporation, Thomas Industrial, Rasmussen College, Real Networks, and other large brands. LinkedIn
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India: Monsoon Floods and Dengue Fever
It was only two months ago that I blogged about how the impoverished families involved in our humanitarian project in India were suffering from heat and drought. Fields had dried up. Drinking water was being brought in by the government. And family members were suffering from medical conditions brought on by living in tiny windowless concrete rooms that function like an oven in those conditions. It particularly impacted the town of Khajuraho and our families there from the farming caste – next to the lowest in India’s still functioning caste system. The India Group project paid for medical care, bottled water and rent for one of our displaced families in addition to our other regular education and health funding work.
Then the monsoon season arrived and excessive rainfall over the past week has caused the Ganges River and its tributaries to flood impacting our families who live in Varanasi. The families we support there are from the boatmen caste whose entire livelihood depends on the Ganges river.
Today’s edition of The International Business Times reports:
Officials said at least 17 people have died in Madhya Pradesh, 14 in Bihar and nine in Uttar Pradesh over the weekend because of drowning, electrocution or injuries from collapsed houses. The Ganges flooded many residential areas of the city of Allahabad, forcing people to move to safer areas. About 12,000 people were evacuated from low-lying surrounding villages, a government statement said.
In the Hindu holy town of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, flooding forced a halt to cremations at a main riverfront area. Devout Hindus bring dead family members to Varanasi in the belief that being cremated there frees their soul from the cycle of death and rebirth. In Bihar, 600,000 people were evacuated and the army and air force are on standby because more rain is forecast, said a disaster management official.
When I was in Varansi in February I joined a morning community yoga session at sunrise every day from this location now covered by Ganges flooding.
In Delhi where we also support a group of families, dengue fever has broken out in the slum where they live and several children and adults in our families have been hospitalized in the nearby Catholic hospital that works with our project providing medical care. Dengue fever is a mosquito transmitted disease and the standing water in the slums as well as humidity in Delhi make for prime breeding conditions for mosquito species who spread the disease.
It sometimes feels like nature is working against our families. As the experts have been predicting, it’s the most impoverished countries that will bear the brunt of climate change and within those countries the most impoverished of their citizens will be most susceptible.
If you wish to help, you can donate online at The India Group.
Author anncrandallPosted on August 23, 2016 September 3, 2016 Tags Dengue Fever, Floods, Ganges River, India, Khajuraho, New Delhi, The India Group, Varanasi, Volunteer Travel2 Comments on India: Monsoon Floods and Dengue Fever
India: Waiting For The Train With A Cow
This is a train station in India. Yes, that’s a cow in the foreground snoozing among sleeping passengers. My fellow board members from The India Project (I’ve posted about my work with them here, here and here) have been in the country over the past few weeks checking up on the families we support. Has the drought subsided? Mostly, but in Khajuraho where many of the families live the crops were destroyed and they have no other means of support. How are they coping medically? There were a variety of heat related medical issues and without our medical support families would have gone untreated. Are all the children back attending school after the holiday break? Yes. And with luck our first student will graduate from high school this year.
We back here in the states have been making decisions as updates have been coming in – authorizing rent for a family who was evicted from their home, medical coverage for one new baby and another on the way and struggling with ideas to help the adults become self-sufficient wage earners in an economy that discriminates against their caste and has little work for anyone who is illiterate.
If you’re interested in finding out more about our project and donating to our work, the link is here.
The in-India team sent this photo of their transportation around the country. India’s train system is almost entirely government owned. It’s the third largest rail system in the world serving 7500 stations. On any given day 20 million people are traveling by train; most of them in the class called General Compartment. There’s no air conditioning in those cars. Wooden benches. And they pack passengers in forcing them to sit in aisles and luggage racks if the benches are full. I suspect the cow isn’t traveling anywhere; the train station was just a good place to people watch.
Author anncrandallPosted on July 11, 2016 July 11, 2016 Tags Budget Travel, Destinations, India, The India Group, Volunteer Travel1 Comment on India: Waiting For The Train With A Cow
India: Dying In The Heat & Pollution
I’m worried. It’s nearly 124 degrees Fahrenheit in parts of India, the highest temperature ever recorded. There’s a drought across much of the country. New Delhi is the most polluted city in the world according to the organizations tracking global air quality. Indians are dying from heat related illnesses and toxic air. These facts would normally become part of the gestalt of international environmental and humanitarian crisis media reports that seem so overwhelming it’s hard to know how an individual person can help. But it’s hard to ignore India these days. I sit on the board of a humanitarian project called The India Group who works with low caste families to provide medical care and education for their children. I was there the month of February. It’s not just a country but it’s individual children and families I know who are suffering.
I know in Khujaraho where she lives, the wells have dried up and drinking water comes in government trucks. Families line up with containers to get water. It’s so hot inside the small 6 x 6 concrete room her family calls home that family members get heat boils on their skin. And because she and the rest of her family are from the farming caste, their only source of income has withered and died in the heat. More than 400 farmers across India have committed suicide out of desperation since January.
I know the overcrowded New Delhi slum where they live is not only sweltering, but the air quality levels caused by heat and dust are severe and the accompanying toxic ozone gas levels are causing permanent lung damage in some people. Children and the elderly are most vulnerable.
It’s hard to fathom what conditions must be like in this Kolkata slum that sits on the city railroad tracks. On a good day conditions are miserable. It’s 100 degrees Fahrenheit there today. To deal with the crisis schools shut down in April until further notice.
I wonder how my Kolkata friend Roju is surviving. Is it even physically possible to hand pull a rickshaw on the Kolkata streets barefoot in blistering temperatures?
Two nights ago the Seattle local and national news featured distraught downtown Seattle workers who had been inconvenienced when a faulty mechanism shut down electricity to parts of the city for an hour on a day when the outside temperature was a comfortable 65 degrees. In India people died that day from the heat and toxic air. That crisis wasn’t covered by the media. In Seattle the espresso machines were silenced for an hour. That’s the “crisis” the media chose to cover.
Author anncrandallPosted on May 27, 2016 May 27, 2016 Tags India, Kolkata, Volunteer Travel2 Comments on India: Dying In The Heat & Pollution
India: Waking and Putting the Ganga to Sleep
“It is not an easy city to comprehend for those of us who stand outside the Hindu tradition. As we survey the riverfront at dawn, we are challenged to comprehend the whole of India in one sweeping glance.” Diana Eck, Banaras, City of Light
Every morning I could hear the soft chanting from my hotel room at Assi Ghat (a ghat is literally a stairway down to the river; there are thirty in Varanasi). It was my alarm clock; the signal to put on my clothes and, in the dark of early morning, walk past the wandering bulls and waking streetside vendors to the Ganges River to join in the waking of Ganga, the Hindu river goddess. It became my daily ritual; my way of making sense of Varanasi, an ancient city that many say is the oldest in the world. Carbon dating of artifacts dates it back to at least the 9th century BC.
The ceremony to wake Ganga up begins before dawn. Seven designated Hindu priests line the river bank on a platform and perform a ritual of Sanskrit mantras using drums, cymbals and elaborate cobra shaped camphor lamps. As they call out to Ganga, the sun begins to rise over the river and another day begins in Varanasi.
Immediately after the ceremony there’s a free community yoga session. Locals quickly fill up the chairs and floor surrounding the stage with women seated seperately from men. On my first day I wondered if I could participate since I could see no obvious tourists but the friendly women in the women’s section, noticing my hesitation, smiled and patted a space indicating that I should join them. Each day I sat with them as they demonstrated the yoga breathing exercises for me and checked on my progress.
My final morning turned out to be Varanasi International Tourism Day. When I showed up for the waking of Ganga, I was escorted to the VIP chairs, given a necklace of marigolds and my photo was taken with my yoga companions and local officials by the media.
I found Varanasi the most difficult place to comprehend during my month of travelling around India. It was bigger than I’d anticipated; most of the city spreads back from the river. The poverty seemed more bleak and the sky had a constant brownish hue from pollution. The Varanasi City Guide I bought while there said, “Outwardly its just an old city, crowded, chaotic and rather dirty. The ancient buildings seem on the verge of collapse; the traffic is a maddening din of cars, buses and rickshaws; there is squalor and poverty on the streets and beggars crowd the door of every temple. Death is a constant palpable presence in this city. The vivid fires of the cremation ghats burn by the riverside, bodies are constantly carried through the streets, the hospices for the dying echo to the chants of mantras.”
In the Hindu tradition, bathing in and drinking from the Ganges River is a sacred practice. Having your ashes spread in the Ganges guarantees that your soul will go to heaven. The river is the focal point for Varanasi and so I tried to not let the city overwhelm me and tried to comprehend it in some small way from the river.
Every evening at sunset, Ganga is put to sleep in a much more elaborate ceremony than the waking ceremony. Called Aarti, this one takes place at Dasashwamedh Ghat. While the ceremony can be viewed on the ghat, many people hire a boatman to take them to view the expanse of the ceremony from the river. The crush of boats allows vendors to walk from boat to boat selling food and souvenirs.
There were three sets of seven priests spread along the ghat and as with the waking ceremony, putting Ganga to sleep involved drums, cymbals, Sanskrit chants and elaborate camphor lamps called aarti lamps that were raised high in choreographed movements by the priests and then arched back into the water.
The timing of both ceremonies depends on the season as they coincide with sunrise and sunset. I attended the waking ceremony and yoga session daily. Somehow the routine of that was both meditative and became familiar and l was able to contend with the chaos of Varanasi easier. It also helped me understand how the Hindu tradition thinks of the river as a living goddess where waking her, bathing and drinking her, dying by her, putting your ashes in her and putting her to sleep each night are all central to the religion.
Author anncrandallPosted on March 11, 2016 Tags Aarti, Ganga, Ganges River, Hindu, India, Varanasi7 Comments on India: Waking and Putting the Ganga to Sleep
Kolkata: Remnants of the British Raj at the Fairlawn Hotel
Arriving in a new city after dark always gives a surreal first impression that usually rights itself the next morning. When our taxi from the airport turned right onto Kolkata’s notorious Sudder Street, the narrow, pot holed road was ablaze with neon lights and crawling with international backpackers. It is lined with dark alleyways that house what guidebooks warn is the worst of Asia’s cheap accommodations: no running water, squat hole toilets, cockroaches and rats. I was relieved when the taxi pulled into a courtyard and the old two story structure inside glowed a brilliant nile green color under Christmas lights hung everywhere. Cartons of empty Kingfisher beer bottles stood next to wicker furniture, and potted palms. In the crowded “beer garden” just off the lobby came the voices of Brits, Kiwis and Aussies. The Fairlawn Hotel‘s first impression never changed; it enlarged.
The building was constructed in 1781 on land bought by an Englishman from Sheik Ramjam and Bonay. It passed through several British owners before being purchased by British military commander, E.F. Smith and his Armenian wife, Violet in the early 1900s for use as a guesthouse and their private residence. Violet passed away two years ago but her personality and influence are everywhere in the Fairlawn. Guests, many who are regulars, still talk about her evening descent down the staircase in pearls, full make-up and a red haired wig for a nightly gin and tonic with guests.
The stairway to the second floor rooms is lined with family photos, portraits of British royalty and framed newspaper clippings about the Fairlawn and its famous guests. Multiple times a day staff polish the banisters to remove fingerprints.
The upstairs sitting room is a combination museum of English history in India and photograph album of Smith family vacation snapshots.
At breakfast the first morning I asked for a cup of milk tea, the traditional Indian drink we’d been served everywhere at all times of the day: sugar with tea and milk. The waiter looked appalled (the Fairlawn is a proper British establishment) and returned with a silver tray holding a bone china teacup and saucer, sugar bowl, silver creamer and a silver teapot covered with a tea cozy. Also the breakfast menu’s two choices: a proper English breakfast or porridge and toast with marmalade. No lassi. No pickled vegetables. No rice and curry sauce. Clearly inside the Fairlawn I was no longer in India’s India.
Outside the courtyard of the Fairlawn and the window of my room, the poverty of Kolkata was very real. Desperate locals and immigrants from surrounding regions live on the streets hoping to eke out some kind of basic existence from the backpacker crowd. You can buy anything on Sudder Street. Anything.
Inside the Fairlawn each day brought a new group of tourists. Some were researching English family roots of grandparents and uncles who had lived in Kolkata when it served as the capitol of the British Empire in India. Others were Fairlawn regulars who found Kolkata to be more interesting than India’s other cities. And some were there as I was to volunteer at one of Mother Theresa’s charity homes for the sick, disabled and dying. The Fairlawn staff have worked at the hotel through its generations of owners passing jobs down from father to son. They know the regular guests well. Which beer they prefer – Kingfisher regular or strong; at what time they like their afternoon tea; if they like the lobby air fan off or on while reading their morning India Times.
Crossing the courtyard threshold of the Fairlawn as I did multiple times daily became an exercise in attitude adjustment. Outside was the Mother Theresa home for disabled children where I volunteered, the hand push rickshaw drivers who labor hard to earn $1 USD per day and the extraordinary poverty of Kolkata. It’s both shocking and sad. Inside the ghost of Violet Smith still presides over polished banisters, proper tea and an evening gin and tonic.
Author anncrandallPosted on March 5, 2016 April 28, 2016 Tags Fairlawn Hotel, India, Kolkata, Mother Teresa, Sudder Street1 Comment on Kolkata: Remnants of the British Raj at the Fairlawn Hotel
India: The Rickshaw Pullers of Kolkata
“Didi, I am not ashamed to be a wallah. You should not be ashamed to ride in my rickshaw.” I stared at the man who had introduced himself as Roju. He was thin and barefoot. I am a tall, white woman perfectly capable of walking. The idea of being pulled through the streets in his hand rickshaw felt too colonial, too awful, too politically incorrect.
Viewed as an oppressive legacy of the British Raj era of India’s history, hand rickshaws were banned by the Indian government in 2006. The wallahs in Kolkata banned together in a union called the All Bengal Rickshaw Union conducting protests and strikes to preserve the only form of work many of them felt they could do. Kolkata is the only place in the country where hand rickshaws are allowed to operate, but no licenses for new drivers have been issued since 2006 effectively phasing out the profession.
Its incredibly hard work that makes very little money for the drivers as motorized tuk tuks and pedi-cabs have taken their place. Even in the busy tourist area of Sudder Street, rickshaw drivers only earn about 120 rupees a day (the equivalent of about $2.00 USD). Most of them rent their rickshaw for 60 rupees a day so they net $1.00 USD daily to support themselves and their families. Many of them left their families in impoverished villages and sleep in the streets of Kolkata in order to send money home. Roju wanted only 50 rupees (less than a dollar) for transporting me. I’d been regularly seeing well fed tourists negotiating with pullers to take them on the same route for half that amount and then piling two of them into the rickshaw.
I relented. How could I deny Roju an income? I insisted on paying far more than he wanted to take me to work each morning during my week of volunteering in Kolkata. Gradually I learned to be less terrified as he darted through the crush of traffic madly ringing the wallah tool of the trade, a small finger bell. How anyone could hear the bell tinkling over the incessant honking of car horns was a puzzle.
On my last day Roju insisted on a tour of the warren of tiny markets in central Kolkata. We passed through the meat butchering market, the art market and the fruit and vegetable market on roads so narrow I could touch the severed goat heads. He stopped to treat me to tea with his fellow wallahs. All of them said they’d never done any other kind of work. They’re afraid of losing the only source of income they have if the government continues to discourage the profession. They also serve as the only mode of transporation the people living in India’s slums can afford.
At the end of our tour, Roju presented me with his hand bell for riding with him each day. I had learned to not be ashamed of how it all looked and to keep my eyes open during those insanely chaotic intersection crossings. He had steady work for the week paid at far more than the going rate and served as tour guide to a world I would have missed. And more importantly we had each made a friend.
Author anncrandallPosted on February 29, 2016 May 10, 2016 Tags India, Kolkata, Rickshaw, Volunteer Travel3 Comments on India: The Rickshaw Pullers of Kolkata
India: A Month of Humanitarian Work
The final week of my month of humanitarian work with The India Group in India is coming to an end. I’ve found it difficult to write about an experience and place so dramatically different than my other travels. Just when I think I have something profound to say – a conclusion I’ve reached, a reaction to an experience, a sight to describe – I’m confronted by an event that causes me to rethink it. The poverty in India is extreme and our project works directly with impoverished families from the lower castes in three different cities: Delhi, Varanasi and Khujuraho. I thought I’d seen the worst conditions in our work there, but this week we’re in Kolkata where the living situation in its slums is so bad I’ve been forced to hit the reset button on my understanding about everything. Its going to take some time to process and so I’m going to stick with a topic where I’m more grounded thats been the focus of my work here – education.
The India Group’s mission is to provide education for all of the children and healthcare for everyone in 11 large families in three cities: Delhi, Varanasi and Khajuraho. In order to be supported by the project the parents (in particular the fathers) must commit to educating all of their children including their daughters through the 12th grade. None of the parents attended school beyond grade 4 and most never attended at all which means they need to take a leap of faith and envision a future for their children that defies their own experience. Because they never went to school, what happens there is a mystery to them. They also need to be willing to defy cultural and economic norms which encourage them to not educate their daughters; instead marrying them at a young age, a practice still common in lower caste impoverished families.
We spent a lot of time in schools while here, checking in with the teachers of our students seeing how they were doing. India’s public school system is dramatically underfunded with class sizes of over 50 in many so the project pays for private school tuition, books, uniforms and transportation along with a tutor for every child. Additionally we began to consider what the next steps might be for the oldest student in the program who will be graduating next year and for the teenage daughters who have never attended school but need to learn a marketable skill that doesn’t require reading or math skills since adult literacy programs are non-existent where they live.
My final week in India is being spent as a volunteer in a Mother Teresa home for children with cerebral palsy. India has a much higher rate of the disease than the worldwide average because of poor maternal nutrition and the incidence of diseases like meningitis after birth. The children living in the home have mostly been abandoned by families unable to care for them. It was surprising to see so many international volunteers who spend a week as I am or much longer. Many return annually. And I’ve been glad to see an educational program of sorts for the children living there.
India is a predominately Hindu country and Saraswati is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, the arts and education. An image of her presides in many of the schools we visited and her festival occured while I was in Varanasi. Its a raucous affair involving students parading Saraswati statues through the streets with firecrackers to celebrate knowledge and learning. Each neighborhood built its own Sawaswati statue so we saw her riding in the backs of pickup trucks, on top of tuk tuks and in the middle of the most desperate of living conditions.
Author anncrandallPosted on February 25, 2016 Tags India, Schools, Volunteer Travel5 Comments on India: A Month of Humanitarian Work
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Access to land is a barrier to simpler, sustainable living.
Public housing could offer a way forward
Samuel Alexander September 17, 2019
Alex Baumann, Western Sydney University and Samuel Alexander, University of Melbourne
Many of us do not need to hear any more warnings from the IPCC, David Attenborough or climate activists like Greta Thunberg. We have seen enough to be convinced that limitless economic growth and the globalisation of high-consumption lifestyles have brought our planet’s life-support systems to the brink of collapse.
In response to today’s urgent ecological and social problems, we often hear calls from sustainability advocates about the need to “downshift” away from consumer lifestyles, to practise permaculture and to embrace simpler ways to live. When these movements scale up, the argument goes, we will “degrow” our economies to a sustainable scale.
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Important though these analyses and perspectives are, they almost always leave something critical out of the conversation. There is a very powerful reason we are currently unable to move toward a simpler and sustainable society: the costs of securing access to land for housing often mean only the relatively affluent can afford such “green lifestyles”.
In response to this problem, we offer some ideas to show how public land could be used for sustainable forms of community-led development.
Creating a place like Sustainable Fawkner’s ‘Dandelion Patch’ depends on access to suitable land. More creative public housing policies could lead the way in developing more community food gardens (for example, see www.ntwonline.weebly.com).
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The property system makes simple living hard
Recognition of the need for system change is growing. But those arguing for high-impact societies to downshift toward cultures of sustainable consumption need to acknowledge a fundamental problem more clearly: simply keeping a roof over our heads can demand an energy-intensive lifestyle and a dependence on market growth.
Why? Having to buy or rent a home in capitalist societies like Australia has huge implications for most of us. It affects what we do for work, how much we work, our need for a car, etc. And, if you can barely afford land or your own home, putting solar panels on the roof, working part-time or growing your own organic food all become very unlikely.
In short, securing the basic need for housing is putting people in more and more debt. This often means any attempt at “dropping out” of market consumerism first involves a whole lot of “dropping in”. The consequences of this reality are anything but simple, local and sustainable.
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A different type of land and housing opportunity is needed for reasons of sustainability and equity. Central here is the recognition that access to land, just as with air and water, is not a market product. It is a human right and should be recognised as such.
Even discussing land reform in terms of “affordable housing” still frames land as a market commodity. These discussions often rely on notions of charity and welfare to increase access to land when it really should be available as a right.
But in a nation where simply abolishing negative gearing appears to be politically unpalatable, it would be pragmatic, as a first step, to explore less controversial but still effective policy approaches.
Pointers to rethinking how we govern land
There are many conceptions of property, which means we do not simply have to choose between free market capitalism and state socialism. In Singapore, for example, more than 80% of residents live in state-provided housing.
Societies can govern access to land in an infinite variety of ways. Each way distributes or concentrates wealth and power in progressive or regressive ways.
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One policy deserving of attention involves attempting to transcend the “welfare” framing of existing uses of public housing. Already, secure access to public land has empowered some residents to participate in programs such as community food gardens, resources repair/share programs, housing management, maintenance and, in the UK, even housing construction.
Public housing residents in Fitzroy, Melbourne, maintain this community garden.
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In New South Wales, 50,000 public housing residents have converted many hectares of land in social housing areas into gardens growing vegetables, fruit and flowers. In Victoria, more than 20 public housing estates have established community gardens.
If these self-selecting residents could be better supported and validated, their status in society (and how they might conceive of themselves) could move from being regarded as “social dependants” to “pioneers of a new economy”. By showing that access to public land can help with the emergence of local and sustainable community economies, such experiments could be the cultural driver of a broader policy rethink of how we govern land.
For example, more public land could be made available for housing construction collectives, where people participate in building their own homes under the guidance of experts. Australia could seek inspiration from Senegal, where 14,000 ecovillages are being developed.
In governing land we are limited only by our imaginations. Currently, a chronic lack of imagination is being shown. It is time to experiment with new frameworks that can increase access to land and thereby empower more people to explore lifestyles of reduced consumption and increased self-sufficiency.
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The first step is recognising the obstacle
We call on the simple living, permaculture and degrowth movements – and the sustainability movement more generally – to better recognise the obstacle that access to land presents to achieving their goals. More energy and activism should be dedicated to envisioning, campaigning for and experimenting with alternative property and housing arrangements.
Our purpose is not to dismiss the importance of the various downshifting movements. We need as many people as possible pushing against the tide of consumerism and showing that low-impact living can be good living.
These social movements will help create the culture of sufficiency that is needed to support a politics of sustainability. But any such politics must include more empowering and creative land policies.
Alex Baumann, Casual Academic, School of Social Sciences & Psychology, Western Sydney University and Samuel Alexander, Research fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne
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Kirk Franklin says:
Paying ground rent to the community instead of to private owners is the way to go. Get communities to band together to form a people’s land register- use the building residual assessment method. This is the old land value tax that the public relations of banks have been trying to bury for two hundred years.
Leanne Davis says:
Right on Kirk,
Are you familiar with the writings of Henry George by any chance?
Here in Australia, the ‘Single Tax’ ie land tax based on the unimproved value of land, was one of the founding tenets of the Australian Labour Party. Our national capital, Canberra, was designed with a leasehold system so rents would go to govt to fund services, rather than to private speculators pockets. Unfortunately the system was elbowed out by people with vested interests. There are some great people at Prosper gaining traction and influence to raise the profile of these much needed solutions.
See http://www.prosper.org.au if you’re interested.
Governments also work to make land un-affordable. Land outside the city is relatively affordable. But we are not allowed to buy a piece of land and then build a small residence to live in while we develop the land using permaculture principles, intending to improve the residence over time after the trees are planted and earth works installed, etc. But states and counties often have minimum house size requirements (over 1,000 sq. ft) and extensive permit fees ($25k) you must pay before you start construction and expensive requirements on your structure (CA requires an inside fire sprinkler system and will soon require solar panels on the roof). The project becomes un-affordable if you follow the state and county law. But without these many rules, regulations and fees, it would be affordable to many to buy raw land and then live on it and develop it.
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By KATY DAIGLE , Associated Press
In this September 2011 photo released by Systematics Lab, Delhi University, a Wayanad night frog sits in the forests of the Western Ghats in Kerala. A team of Indian scientists have discovered 12 new frog species, plus another three thought to have been extinct. The Wayanad night frog grows to about the size of a baseball or cricket ball. (AP Photo/Systematics, Lab Delhi University, Sathyabhama Das Biju) EDITORIAL USE ONLY
Years of combing tropical mountain forests, shining flashlights under rocks and listening for croaks in the night have paid off for a team of Indian scientists which has discovered 12 new frog species plus three others thought to have been extinct.
It's a discovery the team hopes will bring attention to India's amphibians and their role in gauging the health of the environment.
Worldwide, 32 percent of the world's known amphibian species are threatened with extinction, largely because of habitat loss or pollution, according to the group Global Wildlife Conservation.
"Frogs are extremely important indicators not just of climate change, but also pollutants in the environment," said the project's lead scientist, biologist Sathyabhama Das Biju of the University of Delhi.
Many of the newly found frogs in India are rare and are living in just a single area, so they will need rigorous habitat protection, Biju told The Associated Press on Saturday. "Unfortunately in India, conservation has basically focused on the two most charismatic animals - the elephant and the tiger. For amphibians there is little interest, little funding, and frog research is not easy."
Night frogs are extremely hard to find, coming out only at dark and during the monsoon season, living either in fast-flowing streams or on moist forest ground.
Biju said he and his student researchers had to sit in dark, damp forests listening for frog sounds and shining flashlights under rocks and across riverbeds. They confirmed the new species by description as well as genetics.
The 12 new species include the meowing night frog, whose croak sounds more like a cat's call, the jog night frog, unique in that both the males and females watch over the eggs, and the Wayanad night frog, which grows to about the size of a baseball or cricket ball. "It's almost like a monster in the forest floor, a huge animal for a frog, leaping from one rock to another," Biju said.
Three other species were rediscovered, including the Coorg night frog described 91 years ago, after scientists "had completely ignored these animals, thinking they were lost."
The discoveries - published in the latest issue of international taxonomy journal Zootaxa - bring the known number of frogs in India to 336. Biju estimated this was only around half of what is in the wild, and said none of India's amphibians are yet being studied for biological compounds that could be of further use in science.
"We first have to find the species, know them and protect them, so that we can study them for their clinical importance," he said.
Biju is credited with discovering dozens of new Indian frog species during his 35-year career.
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1.1. Document Roadmap ...........................................3
1.2. Terminology ................................................4
2. IPv4 Options for ILNPv4 .........................................4
2.1. ILNPv4 Packet Format .......................................5
2.2. ILNP Identifier Option for IPv4 ............................7
2.3. ILNP Nonce Option for IPv4 .................................8
4. IANA Considerations .............................................9
5. References ......................................................9
5.1. Normative References .......................................9
This document is part of the ILNP document set, and it has had extensive review within the IRTF Routing RG. ILNP is one of the recommendations made by the RG Chairs. Separately, various refereed research papers on ILNP have also been published during this decade. So, the ideas contained herein have had much broader review than the IRTF Routing RG. The views in this document were considered controversial by the Routing RG, but the RG reached a consensus that the document still should be published. The Routing RG has had remarkably little consensus on anything, so virtually all Routing RG outputs are considered controversial.
At present, the Internet research and development community is exploring various approaches to evolving the Internet Architecture to solve a variety of issues including, but not limited to, scalability of inter-domain routing [RFC4984]. A wide range of other issues (e.g., site multihoming, node multihoming, site/subnet mobility, node mobility) are also active concerns at present. Several different classes of evolution are being considered by the Internet research and development community. One class is often called "Map and Encapsulate", where traffic would be mapped and then tunnelled through the inter-domain core of the Internet. Another class being considered is sometimes known as "Identifier/Locator Split". This document relates to a proposal that is in the latter class of evolutionary approaches.
The Identifier-Locator Network Protocol (ILNP) is a proposal for evolving the Internet Architecture. It differs from the current Internet Architecture primarily by deprecating the concept of an IP Address and instead defining two new objects, each having crisp syntax and semantics. The first new object is the Locator, a topology-dependent name for a subnetwork. The other new object is the Identifier, which provides a topology-independent name for a node.
1.1. Document Roadmap
This document describes a new IPv4 Nonce Option used by ILNPv4 nodes to carry a security nonce to prevent off-path attacks against ILNP ICMP messages and defines a new IPv4 Identifier Option used by ILNPv4 nodes.
The ILNP architecture can have more than one engineering instantiation. For example, one can imagine a "clean-slate" engineering design based on the ILNP architecture. In separate documents, we describe two specific engineering instances of ILNP. The term "ILNPv6" refers precisely to an instance of ILNP that is based upon, and backwards compatible with, IPv6. The term "ILNPv4" refers precisely to an instance of ILNP that is based upon, and backwards compatible with, IPv4.
Many engineering aspects common to both ILNPv4 and ILNPv6 are described in [RFC6741]. A full engineering specification for either ILNPv6 or ILNPv4 is beyond the scope of this document.
Readers are referred to other related ILNP documents for details not described here:
a) [RFC6740] is the main architectural description of ILNP, including
the concept of operations.
b) [RFC6741] describes engineering and implementation considerations
that are common to both ILNPv4 and ILNPv6.
c) [RFC6742] defines additional DNS resource records that support
ILNP.
d) [RFC6743] defines a new ICMPv6 Locator Update message used by an
ILNP node to inform its correspondent nodes of any changes to its set of valid Locators.
e) [RFC6744] defines a new IPv6 Nonce Destination Option used by
ILNPv6 nodes (1) to indicate to ILNP correspondent nodes (by inclusion within the initial packets of an ILNP session) that the node is operating in the ILNP mode and (2) to prevent off-path attacks against ILNP ICMP messages. This Nonce is used, for example, with all ILNP ICMPv6 Locator Update messages that are exchanged among ILNP correspondent nodes.
f) [RFC6745] defines a new ICMPv4 Locator Update message used by an
g) [RFC6747] describes extensions to Address Resolution Protocol
(ARP) for use with ILNPv4.
h) [RFC6748] describes optional engineering and deployment functions
for ILNP. These are not required for the operation or use of ILNP and are provided as additional options.
1.2. Terminology
2. IPv4 Options for ILNPv4
ILNP for IPv4 (ILNPv4) is merely a different instantiation of the ILNP architecture, so it retains the crisp distinction between the Locator and the Identifier. As with ILNP for IPv6 (ILNPv6), when ILNPv4 is used for a network-layer session, the upper-layer protocols (e.g., TCP/UDP pseudo-header checksum, IPsec Security Association) bind only to the Identifiers, never to the Locators. As with ILNPv6, only the Locator values are used for routing and forwarding ILNPv4 packets.
However, just as the packet format for IPv4 is different from IPv6, so the engineering details for ILNPv4 are different also. Just as ILNPv6 is carefully engineered to be backwards-compatible with IPv6, ILNPv4 is carefully engineered to be backwards-compatible with IPv4.
Each of these options MUST be copied upon fragmentation. Each of these options is used for control, so uses Option Class 0.
Originally, these two options were specified to use separate IP option numbers. However, only one IP Option (decimal 158) has been defined for experimental use with properties of MUST COPY and CONTROL [RFC4727]. So these two options have been reworked to share that same IP Option number (158). To distinguish between the two actual options, the unsigned 8-bit field ILNPv4_OPT inside this option is examined.
It is important for implementers to understand that IP Option 158 is not uniquely allocated to ILNPv4. Other IPv4-related experiments might be using that IP Option value for different IP options having different IP Option formats.
2.1. ILNPv4 Packet Format
The Source IP Address in the IPv4 header becomes the Source ILNPv4 Locator value, while the Destination IP Address of the IPv4 header becomes the Destination ILNPv4 Locator value. Of course, backwards compatibility requirements mean that ILNPv4 Locators use the same number space as IPv4 routing prefixes.
ILNPv4 uses the same 64-bit Identifier, with the same modified EUI-64 syntax, as ILNPv6. Because the IPv4 address fields are much smaller than the IPv6 address fields, ILNPv4 cannot carry the Identifier values in the fixed portion of the IPv4 header. The obvious two ways to carry the ILNP Identifier with ILNPv4 are either as an IPv4 Option or as an IPv6-style Extension Header placed after the IPv4 header and before the upper-layer protocol (e.g., OSPF, TCP, UDP, SCTP).
Currently deployed IPv4 routers from multiple router vendors use packet forwarding silicon that is able to parse past IPv4 Options to examine the upper-layer protocol header at wire-speed on reasonably fast (e.g., 1 Gbps or better) network interfaces. By contrast, no existing IPv4-capable packet forwarding silicon is able to parse past a new Extension Header for IPv4. Hence, for engineering reasons, ILNPv4 uses a new IPv4 Option to carry the Identifier values. Another new IPv4 Option also carries a nonce value, performing the same function for ILNPv4 as the IPv6 Nonce Destination Option [RFC6744] performs for ILNPv6.
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|Version| IHL |Type of Service| Total Length |
| Identification |Flags| Fragment Offset |
| Time to Live | Protocol | Header Checksum |
| Source Locator (32 bits) |
| Destination Locator (32 bits) |
| OT=158 | OL=5 | 0x00 |ILNPv4_OPT=0x01|
| |
+ Source Identifier +
+ Destination Identifier +
| OT=158 | OL=2 | 0x00 |ILNPv4_OPT=0x02|
| top 32 bits of nonce |
| lower 32 bits of nonce |
Figure 1: ILNPv4 Header with ILNP ID Option and ILNP Nonce Option
Notation for Figure 1:
IHL: Internet Header Length
OT: Option Type
OL: Option Length
2.2. ILNP Identifier Option for IPv4
| OT=158 | OL=20 | 0x00 |ILNPv4_OPT=0x01|
| Source Identifier |
| Destination Identifier |
Figure 2: ILNP Identifier Option for IPv4
OT: Option Type
OL: Option Length
RFC 791, Page 15 specifies that the Option Length is measured in words and includes the Option Type octet, the Option Length octet, and the option data octets.
The Source Identifier and Destination Identifier are unsigned 64-bit integers. [RFC6741] specifies the syntax, semantics, and generation of ILNP Identifier values. Using the same syntax and semantics for all instantiations of ILNP Identifiers simplifies specification and implementation, while also facilitating translation or transition between ILNPv4 and ILNPv6 should that be desirable in future.
This IP Option MUST NOT be present in an IPv4 packet unless the packet is part of an ILNPv4 session. ILNPv4 sessions MUST include this option in the first few packets of each ILNPv4 session and MAY include this option in all packets of the ILNPv4 session. It is RECOMMENDED to include this option in all packets of the ILNPv4 session if packet loss is higher than normal.
2.3. ILNP Nonce Option for IPv4
Figure 3: ILNP Nonce Option for IPv4
This option contains a 64-bit ILNP Nonce. As noted in [RFC6740] and [RFC6741], all ILNP Nonce values are unidirectional. This means, for example, that when TCP is in use, the underlying ILNPv4 session will have two different NONCE values: one from Initiator to Responder and another from Responder to Initiator. The ILNP Nonce is used to provide non-cryptographic protection against off-path attacks (e.g., forged ICMP messages from the remote end of a TCP session).
Each NONCE value MUST be unpredictable (i.e., cryptographically random). Guidance to implementers on generating cryptographically random values is provided in [RFC4086].
This IP Option MUST NOT be present in an IPv4 packet unless the packet is part of an ILNPv4 session. ILNPv4 nodes MUST include this option in the first few packets of each ILNP session, MUST include this option in all ICMP messages generated by endpoints participating in an ILNP session, and MAY include this option in all packets of an ILNPv4 session.
Security considerations for the overall ILNP Architecture are described in [RFC6740]. Additional common security considerations are described in [RFC6741]. This section describes security considerations specific to ILNPv4 topics discussed in this document.
If the ILNP Nonce value is predictable, then an off-path attacker might be able to forge data or control packets. This risk also is mitigated by the existing common practice of IP Source Address filtering [RFC2827] [RFC3704].
IP Security for ILNP [RFC6741] [RFC4301] provides cryptographic protection for ILNP data and control packets. The ILNP Nonce Option is required in the circumstances described in Section 3, even if IPsec is also in use. Deployments of ILNPv4 in high-threat environments SHOULD use IPsec for additional risk reduction.
This option is intended to be used primarily end-to-end between a source node and a destination node. However, unlike IPv6, IPv4 does not specify a method to distinguish between options with hop-by-hop behaviour versus end-to-end behaviour.
[FILTERING] provides general discussion of potential operational issues with IPv4 options, along with specific advice for handling several specific IPv4 options. Further, many deployed modern IP routers (both IPv4 and IPv6) have been explicitly configured to ignore all IP options, even including the "Router Alert" option, when forwarding packets not addressed to the router itself. Reports indicate this has been done to preclude use of IP options as a (Distributed) Denial-of-Service (D)DoS attack vector on backbone routers.
This document makes no request of IANA.
If in the future the IETF decided to standardise ILNPv4, then allocation of two unique Header Option values to ILNPv4, one for the Identifier option and one for the Nonce option, would be sensible.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
[RFC4301] Kent, S. and K. Seo, "Security Architecture for the
Internet Protocol", RFC 4301, December 2005.
[RFC4727] Fenner, B., "Experimental Values In IPv4, IPv6, ICMPv4,
ICMPv6, UDP, and TCP Headers", RFC 4727, November 2006.
[RFC6740] Atkinson, R. and S. Bhatti, "Identifier-Locator Network
Protocol (ILNP) Architectural Description", RFC 6740,
Protocol (ILNP) Engineering and Implementation
Considerations", RFC 6741, November 2012.
[RFC6742] Atkinson, R., Bhatti, S. and S. Rose, "DNS Resource
Records for the Identifier-Locator Network Protocol
(ILNP)", RFC 6742, November 2012.
[RFC6745] Atkinson, R. and S. Bhatti, "ICMP Locator Update Message
for the Identifier-Locator Network Protocol Version 4
(ILNPv4)", RFC 6745, November 2012.
[RFC6747] Atkinson, R. and S. Bhatti, "Address Resolution Protocol
(ARP) Extension for the Identifier-Locator Network
Protocol Version 4 (ILNPv4)", RFC 6747, November 2012.
[FILTERING] Gont, F., Atkinson, R., and C. Pignataro,
"Recommendations on filtering of IPv4 packets containing
IPv4 options", Work in Progress, March 2012.
[RFC2780] Bradner, S. and V. Paxson, "IANA Allocation Guidelines
For Values In the Internet Protocol and Related Headers",
BCP 37, RFC 2780, March 2000.
[RFC2827] Ferguson, P. and D. Senie, "Network Ingress Filtering:
Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP
Source Address Spoofing", BCP 38, RFC 2827, May 2000.
[RFC3704] Baker, F. and P. Savola, "Ingress Filtering for
Multihomed Networks", BCP 84, RFC 3704, March 2004.
[RFC4086] Eastlake 3rd, D., Schiller, J., and S. Crocker,
"Randomness Requirements for Security", BCP 106, RFC
[RFC4984] Meyer, D., Ed., Zhang, L., Ed., and K. Fall, Ed., "Report
from the IAB Workshop on Routing and Addressing", RFC
4984, September 2007.
[RFC6743] Atkinson, R. and S. Bhatti, "ICMP Locator Update Message
(ICMPv6)", RFC 6743, November 2012.
[RFC6744] Atkinson, R. and S. Bhatti, "IPv6 Nonce Destination
Option for the Identifier-Locator Network Protocol
Version 6 (ILNPv6)", RFC 6744, November 2012.
[RFC6748] Atkinson, R. and S Bhatti, "Optional Advanced Deployment
Scenarios for the Identifier-Locator Network Protocol
Steve Blake, Stephane Bortzmeyer, Mohamed Boucadair, Noel Chiappa, Wes George, Steve Hailes, Joel Halpern, Mark Handley, Volker Hilt, Paul Jakma, Dae-Young Kim, Tony Li, Yakov Rehkter, Bruce Simpson, Robin Whittle and John Wroclawski (in alphabetical order) provided review and feedback on earlier versions of this document. Steve Blake provided an especially thorough review of an early version of the entire ILNP document set, which was extremely helpful. We also wish to thank the anonymous reviewers of the various ILNP papers for their feedback.
Roy Arends provided expert guidance on technical and procedural aspects of DNS issues.
EMail: rja.lists@gmail.com
North Haugh, St Andrews
KY16 9SX, UK
EMail: saleem@cs.st-andrews.ac.uk
Status: EXPERIMENTAL
RFC 2827 (BCP 38)
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Keratoacanthoma
Authored by Dr Louise Newson, Reviewed by Dr John Cox | Last edited 14 May 2014 | Certified by The Information Standard
This article is for Medical Professionals
Professional Reference articles are designed for health professionals to use. They are written by UK doctors and based on research evidence, UK and European Guidelines. You may find one of our health articles more useful.
Keratoacanthomas (KAs) are very rapidly growing squamo-proliferative lesions that look like well-differentiated squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) pathologically. KAs are characterised by rapid growth over a few weeks to months, followed by spontaneous resolution over 4-6 months in most cases.
KAs are benign epidermal growths and not a malignant variant of SCC.[1]
Incidence is estimated at 1 in 1,000.
Peak incidence occurs in those aged over 60 years. It is rare in young adults.
It is uncommon in darker-skinned patients.
Males are twice as often affected as females.
Epidemiological data are similar to SCC and Bowen's disease in terms of age, sex and the site of lesions.
Sunlight and chemical carcinogens have been implicated.
Trauma, genetic factors and immunocompromised status have also been associated.
Industrial workers exposed to pitch and tar have a higher incidence of both keratoacanthoma and SCC.
Typically, rapid growth over a few weeks to months, followed by a slow spontaneous resolution over 4-6 months (but may take up to one year).
Most occur on sun-exposed areas - eg, the face, neck, and dorsum of hands and forearms.
They are usually solitary and begin as firm, round, skin-coloured or reddish papules that rapidly progress to dome-shaped nodules with a smooth shiny surface. A central crater of ulceration may develop, or a keratin plug that may project like a horn.
They leave a residual scar if not excised.
A recent large systematic review has shown that none of the cases of KA from 113 published articles resulted in death or distant metastases. This was compared with 429 cases of SCC of the skin, with 61 cases of metastases and 24 deaths as a direct result of SCC. The authors clearly state that the biological behaviour of the KAs and SCCs is distinct and evident.[1]
Generalised eruptive KA (GEKA) of Grzybowski is a sporadically occurring, extremely rare variant of KA characterised clinically by severely pruritic, generalised eruption of numerous small follicular papules, often with a central keratotic plug, and histologically by typical features of solitary KA.[2].
Keratoacanthoma with central plug
Seborrhoeic keratosis
Shave biopsy of KA is indistinguishable from invasive SCC. Therefore, excisional or deep incisional biopsy is required.
A recent study has demonstrated that there is a large regional variation in the diagnosis of KA and SCCs in Great Britain and Ireland.[3]
This is because microscopic differentiation between these two entities is often problematic, and sometimes impossible.[4]
As they are hard to distinguish from SCCs, patients with suspected KAs should be referred under the two-week waiting system. However, the patient can be reassured that they will not cause harm.
Complete excision is the treatment of choice for all skin lesions thought to be KA.
Medical treatment is reserved for when surgical intervention is not possible - eg, multiple lesions not amenable to surgery because of size or location.
Treatments that have produced some success include systemic retinoids (eg, isotretinoin), intralesional methotrexate, 5-fluorouracil, bleomycin and steroids, and topical imiquimod and 5-fluorouracil[5].
Prognosis is excellent following excisional surgery.
Without surgery, prognosis is usually good; however, there is a major controversy over the natural behaviour of KA. KAs have been described as benign lesions, but also as variants of SCC.[4]
Patient education in sun-protection techniques is important.
Keratoacanthoma; DermNet NZ
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Nofal A, Assaf M, Nofal E, et al; Generalized eruptive keratoacanthoma: proposed diagnostic criteria and therapeutic evaluation. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2014 Apr28(4):397-404. doi: 10.1111/jdv.12226. Epub 2013 Aug 6.
Carr RA, Houghton JP; Histopathologists' approach to keratoacanthoma: a multisite survey of regional variation in Great Britain and Ireland. J Clin Pathol. 2014 Apr 24. doi: 10.1136/jclinpath-2014-202255.
Lammoglia-Ordiales L, Toussaint-Caire S, Contreras-Barrera M, et al; Assessment of syndecan-1 (CD138) and Ki-67 expression for differentiating keratoacanthoma and squamous cell carcinoma. J Drugs Dermatol. 2013 Mar12(3):e53-8.
Aubut N, Alain J, Claveau J; Intralesional methotrexate treatment for keratoacanthoma tumors: a retrospective case series. J Cutan Med Surg. 2012 May-Jun16(3):212-7.
Benign Skin Tumours
When seeing dermatologist last week I mentioned that the skin on my face and forehead was very dry, He recommended a moisturising lotion. I bought E forty five. My skin felt tingly during the night...
Last Reviewed 14 May 2014
Next Review 13 May 2019
Document ID 2977 (v23)
Author Dr Louise Newson
Peer reviewer Dr John Cox
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ALL CAME HOME
The official blog of author Paul K. McDevitt
Red Toon Pt. 16: Introducing Officers of USS Leon
As Leon and her accompanying destroyer escort, USS Blackwood DE 219, made their way to Pearl Harbor, Capt. Adell worked the crew hard to make a company of them. From All Came Home (p. 160):
“In the open sea between Norfolk and Panama and then on the 12-day run from Panama to Pearl Harbor, the little escort and the big transport practiced the maneuvers invasion convoys would use, frivolously, with only the horizon to bound them in.
For many officers and men it was the first time out. They got the feel of the ship and the feel of the sea. They also got the feel of foreign liberty in Panama and never forgot it – because for 14 months there was never another liberty like it.”
Red Toon soon met all of Leon’s officers, most of them newly trained reservists like himself. Throughout their next two years of service together, he took pictures of many of them, and—fortunately for us—wrote the names on the back.
We begin introducing some of these young men below along with any information that we have for each. Most of this information is drawn from copies of the ship’s log found at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland.
As always, we ask our readers out there: If you see someone below who you recognize, perhaps your dad or your uncle or a grandpa—please contact us! Let’s share some stories and pictures.
Firstly, meet Lt. Commander Leo T. Atkinson, Engineering Officer. He was the third ranking officer aboard ship, responsible for maintaining the ship’s propulsion system as well as her life support systems, including, e.g., fresh water, heating & cooling, electrical power, and others. He hailed from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Lt. Commander Leo T. Atkinson
Three officers pictured below include two junior engineering officers who reported to Atkinson. We hope that we have identified them correctly as (l – r):
Robert T. L. Jones, Lieut.(jg), Engineering Watch & M Div. officer, from Sanatorium, North Carolina
Bob P. Roberts, Lieut. (jg), Asst. 2nd Div. officer, from Fort Madison, Iowa.
Michael Hubona, Lieut., Asst. Engineering officer, from Charlottesville. Virginia. (Readers of earlier posts will recall that Mike Hubona was a bridge partner of Red’s.)
Officers Jones, Roberts and Hubona
Finally, we believe the two officers below are a pair of Lieut. (jg)s: Roger L. Johnson and Gordon R. Williams. Johnson was a radar officer from Maywood, Illinois, and Gordon was a communications officer from Los Angeles, California.
Officers Johnson and Williams
Our last picture is of three boat group officers who had trained under Joe McDevitt at Ft. Pierce. They are:
Jesse Schwartz, Lieut. (jg), Asst Boat Grp. Commander, from Baltimore, Maryland
Charles R. Reeve, Ensign, Wave Guide, from Winton Merced County, California
Orville W. Terry, Lieut. (jg), N Div. Officer and Asst Navigator, from Orient, New York
Readers will recall from earlier posts here that Orville Terry was originally appointed Joe McDevitt’s assistant boat group commander along with Red Toon. But Terry was such a proficient navigator while in training that he was transferred out of the boat group into the navigation unit. Then we suspect that Jesse Schwartz was appointed assistant boat group commander in Terry’s place.
Officers Schwartz (front), Reeve and Terry
More pictures from the Toon Collection to come.
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Pt. 15: After the Shakedown Cruise
Before we present another letter from Red Toon, we want to show a picture that we just discovered from the Toon collection. Meet Ensign Alton W. Swift from Claremont, CAL. He was the Engineering Officer in Leon’s boat group in March 1944. In his previous letter Red had commiserated with Swift: “someone is continually yelling for & at him…”.
Red sympathized. As followers of this blog will recall, he had been the previous engineering officer. As the man responsible for the performance of Leon’s 26 landing craft, engineering was a key position in the boat group.
Ensign Alton R. Swift
Ensign Swift does look a bit weary!
Red Toon wrote the following letter while Leon was moored at Pier No. 4, Berth 26, Norfolk Naval Yard for final repairs following her shakedown cruise. We enjoyed Red’s account of several officers’ wives travelling from New York to Norfolk for last-minute leaves with their husbands before Leon put to sea. We believe those wives were Joyce Swift (Ensign Alton Swift) and Betty Smith (Ensign Jimmy Smith). Stories about desperate, last leaves are familiar to all of us who have read Douglass Reeman’s novels about ships and the sea in WWII!
Dearest Wife:
What a day this is. I know I’ll be able to call you long before this letter gets in your hands so any news contained herein will be old stuff to you.
We seem to be completely fouled up here aboard ship. We’re a part of ship’s company and we aren’t a part of ship’s company, we don’t know who is our boss from one day to the next. First it’s Joe seems to be in charge, then this fellow Reitze, the debarkation officer I told you about in the previous letter who incidentally seems to have studied the ship to shore manual pretty well the past few days & may turn out all right. He still insists on fouling up our movements but seems to be able to learn through his own mistakes.
Got two letters from you and one from Ticknor. Mail is more an item to me then ever. We’re docked for repairs but won’t be here for long. Joyce and Betty had quite a trip to Norfolk, left New York six in the morning and got to Norfolk at midnight. 18 hrs.!! They had quite a wait then for their husbands. We docked yesterday & will leave again before long. Won’t be here over five days at the most which means they will get together only twice. I’m going to stand watches for Swift here in port so he can get out oftener but will go ashore one night to call you.
We had a nice “excursion” in our ship but had to work pretty hard . She’s pretty fast and very well armed and we tried every maneuver the Captain could think of. The first day out was the roughest and I came as near getting seasick as I ever have. Got over it though and can stand her slow roll & pitch as well as I can the small boats.
We have a nice library aboard and I have managed to read a few of them. Standing watches underway is a lot of fun. Of course, all of us are very green at it but we’ll catch on in time. The only disagreeable part of it was the weather. It was wet & cold & rough. Remind me to tell you some time where we were. We aren’t to keep diaries or anything but I know I will remember where I have been. Everywhere we go though looks much like the place we left.
We’ve had quite a time here today. Got a lot of supplies, etc., & ran into the usual deal when we got back aboard. No one had made any arrangements for bringing the material aboard so it’s still in the boats.
We had a visitor today. An investigator of these situations aboard these ships. He claims something may be done about the thorn in our side, Mr. Reitze, & maybe too about the spots. Here’s still hoping.
I’m so glad Janice is acting better now & I know she is the sweetest baby in the world (don’t tell her I said so). She couldn’t be otherwise with the mother she has & I know that more & more every day.
What kind of car does your dad have and where is ours? I’ll write to the State Dept. about the title transfer so you shouldn’t have too much trouble with your license plates.
We add several postscripts. We’re pretty certain we won’t hear Red describe standing watch as a “lot of fun.” When working four hour shifts, standing watch quickly became tedious, mind-numbing duty.
Also, we are reminded of the organizational challenge of integrating a 141 man boat group (who have been training together for nine months) into a larger ship’s company. I still recall a young boat group sailor, Bill Janega, telling me in 2012 about his dual work assignments aboard ship. Sometimes he had boat duties under the supervision of a boat officer, and other times he had gunnery duties under the gunnery officer. He found it very confusing.
Finally, I have never heard of the term “investigator.” Nevertheless, someone eventually got the boat group personnel assignments straightened out. Deck log entries for later in 1944 list:
Lt. John W. Reitze, Gunnery Officer
Lt. George A. Robinson, Debarkation Officer
Lt. (jg) Joseph B. McDevitt, Boat Grp. Cmdr. and
Lt. (jg) Francis W. Toon, Asst. Boat Grp. Cmdr.
Picture Credit: Toon Family Collection
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Pt. 14: Red Toon and Leon Go To War
Leon was an attack transport designed to deliver assault forces to the beaches of enemy-held strongholds. She was 492 ft. in length and 69.5 ft. at her beam. She could transport a fully reinforced regimental combat team plus supplies and equipment needed during those crucial first days of an assault plus 26 brand new boats for delivering troops and supplies to the beaches. Any beach, any time.
Leon was commissioned on February 12, 1944, Capt. Bruce Byron Adell commanding. The picture below—taken later when Leon was serving in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater—is the only one we have of Capt. Adell aboard Leon.
Capt. B. B. Adell USS Leon
Adell’s first responsibility was to organize and begin training the ship’s new company of 51 officers and 524 sailors. This was no small task for several reasons.
Most of his new crew were young and right out of boot camp or training programs. Most were youngsters who had never been to sea. Remember Frank Tunney’s story? (See blog post dated May, 29, 2017. The minimum enlistment age for naval volunteers was 18 years. However, youngsters 16-17 years old were often able to earn acceptance.)
Furthermore, many of Leon’s crew had not yet reported for duty when she was commissioned and would not for some weeks. For example, Joe McDevitt’s boat group, her largest division, wouldn’t arrive from advanced amphibious training at Ft. Pierce, FL, until February 19. Other divisions, including the medical unit, would not report until Leon had left New York and arrived at Norfolk, VA.
Nevertheless, forming the men into a company and testing a new ship began immediately with a shakedown cruise in Long Island Sound and Chesapeake Bay. Its goal: to familiarize the men with their new vessel and to ensure all the ship’s systems were functional. Yard time followed in Norfolk to iron out the kinks, e.g., winches fixed, rigging changed, equipment recalibrated.
Countless personnel problems arose…all sorts of jurisdictional, administrative and chain-of-command issues. That was expected no doubt when 500+ men were thrown together and rushed to sea aboard a new ship. Red Toon described several problems in the boat group in a letter written during Leon’s shakedown cruise.
Dearest Wife,
I’m still looking for a letter from you, why don’t you write two in one day and send one regular mail and one air mail so we can see what difference if any between time elapsed.
I don’t have too much to do with boat engineering right now, but sure feel sorry for Swift. Troubles can develop even with new boats and someone is continually yelling for and at him. There are some people who apparently feel that he should be able to wave a sort of magic wand and make these engines perform as the books would lead one to think they will. Too many people believe what they read is more important and more correct than what others have learned from experience.
We are all having our troubles. One of the biggest problems now seems to be getting orientated. We were led to believe many things that are apparently not true. For one thing we thought our “boss” was to be Mr. McDevitt & he himself, I’m sure, felt the same way. Now we find that another man is running the show. The pity of it all is that Joe knows his business & knows it well, the other man doesn’t. This other fellow however has been in an invasion, so he and his ribbons say, and to think that any of us “greenhorns” would know anything at all that he doesn’t is almost sacrilegious.
Just another “normal” situation, we spent several months of intensive work with our men getting them ready to do a certain job in a certain way only to have our work tossed lightly aside so someone else can have things his own way. His own way differing from ours because we have gone by a definite plan of instructions which he has been either too lazy to read or too stupid to assimilate.
We don’t mind too much ourselves but do hate it because of the men. Our crews are admittedly a tough bunch but also willing and capable as long as they feel that their officers are “on the ball” & are backing them up. Right now they are somewhat confused.
Well that “bitch” is out of my system so I feel better except for one thing. I’m very sure I’ll keep these shoulder boards & so will Joe keep his. It’s a long story and I’ll tell you about it someday but I’m sure you’ve guessed by reading between the lines what the situation is.
On reading this letter over I feel it very stilted and not at all warm and human and loving as much as I would like it to be. Blame it on the censor. I, like you, don’t quite relish someone else reading my mail but remember he won’t read yours.
Your husband Warren
Credit: picture from the Toon Family Collection
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Microsoft Ignite 2019: biggest announcements
The Microsoft Ignite 2019 conference has started, and these are the top announcements.
Microsoft kicked off its Ignite annual developer and IT professional conference in Orlando, and while, this isn’t a hardware event, the company is making a slew of announcements about software and services, including for Office, Cortana, Microsoft Edge, Azure, as well as new platform to build apps for Windows 10, Project Silica to store data on quartz glass, and much more.
Ignite 2019 announcements
If you couldn’t attend, or you didn’t have time to watch the keynote, here you can check out the most important announcements for Ignite 2019.
As part of Office announcements, during the conference, the company revealed that it’s backtracking the decision to discontinue the desktop version of OneNote. This means that OneNote 2016 will continue to have mainstream support until October 2025, and starting in March 2020, the Office installer will install the 2016 version of OneNote by default.
OneNote desktop dark mode (source: Microsoft)
In addition, the desktop version of OneNote is also getting a new dark mode, which is rolling out in the coming days.
Office mobile app
At Ignite 2019, the software giant also unveiled a new Office app for Android and iOS designed to make the installation of Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) onto mobile devices a lot easier.
Using the app, you’ll be able to view recent documents as well as create new documents, and with the Office Lens feature, you’ll be able to scan tables and text with your mobile device to create files.
Office app for iOS and Android (source: microsoft)
The Office app also includes an actions section with options to transfer files from your computer to phone, convert images into text, scan images into PDFs, add signature to PDFs documents, and more.
New Office logo (source: Microsoft)
Along with the new mobile app, Microsoft is also introducing a new logo for Office, which keeps the familiar look, but now includes Fluent Design elements.
Fluid Framework
According to Microsoft, Fluid Framework is a new way to design Office experiences on the web that allows to improve collaboration and creation of content.
Instead of restricting content to a specific app (such as words in Word and number on Excel), using Fluid, you can use a canvas to create and combine any kind of content on a single place.
Fluid Framework (source: Microsoft)
In the beginning, Microsoft is expected to start integrating Fluid in Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, OneNote, and it’ll eventually expand to more apps. Also, developers can integrate Fluid on its experiences.
Teams is getting new features, including Outlook integration to allow users to move and share emails in the chat.
Microsoft Teams with Outlook integration (source: Microsoft)
“Private channels” have been another highly request feature in Teams, and it’s now coming to the chat platform.
Also, a new tasks pane is coming to give users a central customizable view for personal and assigned tasks. In addition, later this year, you’ll also be able to start pinning channels within the app, open the app on separate windows that is meant to work for documents, chats, meetings, and calls side-by-side.
Finally, the company is also planning to integrate Yammer into the Teams platform to quickly access events, conversations, and communities from Yammer. Microsoft Teams will be getting surveys and polls features, and much more.
During the Ignite 2019 conference, Microsoft has also announced that it’s bringing Cortana to Outlook for Android and iOS, and with it, the company is introducing a new masculine voice for Cortana.
There’s a new “Play My Emails” feature will allow the digital assistant to read emails and calendar events aloud.
Also, there’s a new “Briefing” feature that creates a digestible brief of your calendar in your inbox, and the “Scheduler” is a new feature to quickly add events and meetings to your calendar.
While it’s been known for a long time that Microsoft is building a new Edge browser for Windows 10, macOS, and Linux using the Chromium engine, it wasn’t clear when the first stable version will release.
According to the company, the plan is to release the Microsoft Edge on January 15, 2020. Initially, the browser will be available for Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, and macOS with the version for Linux coming soon.
Microsoft Edge Chromium new logo (source: Microsoft)
Alongside the release date, Microsoft officially revealed the new logo for Edge that ditches the Internet Explorer style for a new surfing wave style using blue and green colors that still retains the “e” shape.
Project Silica
At the Microsoft’s Ignite 2019 conference, the company also unveiled new details about its long-term data storage solution known as “Project Silica.”
The new storage technology uses a piece of quartz glass and ultrafast later optics to store data in the glass using a femtosecond later process.
The idea is to use this technology as an alternative solution to store data that reduces the footprint of current devices while using recycle materials.
Microsoft Project Silica (source: Microsoft)
On stage, Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, showed off the concept, and for the first demo, the company parented up with Warner Bros to store the original 1978 Superman movie on a small piece of quartz glass.
WinUI 3.0
During the conference, Microsoft also announced the alpha release of the Windows UI Library (WinUI) version 3.0, which is the next user interface framework to build apps for Windows 10.
Essentially, WinUI 3.0 closes the gap between Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps and Win32 apps, and with this new framework, native controls found in UWP will be available for Win32 applications.
As part of the Azure announcements, at the Ignite 2019 conference, the company announced Azure Arc, which is a new service that will allow enterprises to manage resources across different cloud vendors, including Google Cloud and Amazon AWS, and it’ll work with Linux, Windows, and Kubernetes clusters.
The software giant also announced Power Virtual Agents are easy to build chatbots that don’t require much coding. The solution uses Azure machine learning to create chatbots using a user-friendly application.
Project Cortex
Project Cortex is a new solution designed to create a knowledge database (Knowledge Network) of an organization, Microsoft explains. The solution uses machine learning to analyze the documents and contacts across the organization as well as of outside patterns, and then the information becomes available in Office apps, such as in Outlook and Teams.
Microsoft Project Cortex (source: Microsoft)
Endpoint Manager
Another solution that Microsoft has announced at Ignite 2019 is the Endpoint Manager, which is a new solution that combines ConfigMgr and Intune services to allow organizations to manage devices, such as desktops, laptops, tablets, and phones using one service.
Visual Studio web
At the Build 2019 conference, Microsoft revealed that a web version of Visual Studio with deep integration with GitHub was in development, and now, the environment is finally available in preview.
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The Keystone XL Coverup: The State Department's Attempt to Hide Oil Industry Connections
By: JesseColeman
Mother Jones Magazine has uncovered a new twist in the fight against the Keystone XL pipeline. As it turns out the authors who drafted the environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline worked for TransCanada, Koch Industries, Shell Oil, and other oil corporations that stand to benefit from building the Keystone XL. Not only did the State Department know about these conflicts of interest, they redacted this information from public filings in attempt to conceal the truth.
For background, the Keystone XL is a proposed oil pipeline that would ship sour crude oil from the Canadian tar sands to the Gulf coast of Texas. The oil would then be refined and shipped abroad.
In order to build the pipeline, Transcanada, the company who proposed Keystone XL, must get the OK from the State Department. The State Department bases its decision on whether or not to approve the pipeline on an environmental review, conducted by a third party group overseen by the State Department and paid for by Transcanada.
This review, called the "draft supplemental environmental impact statement" was released earlier this month. It has been widely criticized as downplaying the impact that building Keystone XL will have on the climate, and all but paving the way for approval for the project.
The review was conducted by a company called Environmental Resources Management (ERM). When ERM released its review of Keystone, it also released a 55 page filing claiming that there was no conflicts of interest in writing the report. However, the State Department redacted information from this filing, including the biographies of key experts involved in writing the report.
According to Mother Jones, those redactions were meant to keep ties between the report authors and Transanada a secret from the public. Here is what the State Department was covering up:
ERM's second-in-command on the Keystone report, Andrew Bielakowski, had worked on three previous pipeline projects for TransCanada over seven years as an outside consultant. He also consulted on projects for ExxonMobil, BP, and ConocoPhillips, three of the Big Five oil companies that could benefit from the Keystone XL project and increased extraction of heavy crude oil taken from the Canadian tar sands.
Another ERM employee who contributed to State's Keystone report—and whose prior work history was also redacted—previously worked for Shell Oil;
A third worked as a consultant for Koch Gateway Pipeline Company, a subsidiary of Koch Industries. Shell and Koch* have a significant financial interest in the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. ERM itself has worked for Chevron, which has invested in Canadian tar sands extraction, according to its website.
However, this is not the first time that the State Department has been criticized for conflicts of interests involving TransCanada and Keystone XL.
From Mother Jones:
In October 2011, Obama's reelection campaign hired Broderick Johnson, who had previously lobbied in favor of Keystone, as a senior adviser. Emails obtained by Friends of the Earth, an environmental group that opposes the Keystone pipeline, revealed a cozy relationship between TransCanada lobbyist Paul Elliott and Marja Verloop, an official at the US Embassy in Canada whose portfolio covers the Keystone project. Before he lobbied for TransCanada, Elliott worked as deputy campaign manager on Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential bid. Clinton served as secretary of state until recently.
The question is, how can the State Department get away with routinely ignoring or burying connections between the oil industry and regulators responsible for Keystone XL?
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PHOTOS: Famed Photographer Alex MacLean’s New Photos of Canada’s Oilsands are Shocking
By: Connor Gibson
Photos by Alex Maclean, posted with permission from DeSmog Canada.
Crossposted from DeSmog Canada, written by Carol Linnitt: PHOTOS: Famed Photographer Alex MacLean’s New Photos of Canada’s Oilsands are Shocking
Alex MacLean is one of America’s most famed and iconic aerial photographers. His perspective on human structures, from bodies sunbathing at the beach to complex, overlapping highway systems, always seems to hint at a larger symbolic meaning hidden in the mundane. By photographing from above, MacLean shows the sequences and patterns of human activity, including the scope of our impact on natural systems. His work reminds us of the law of proximity: the things closest to us are often the hardest to see.
Recently MacLean traveled to the Alberta oilsands in western Canada. There, working with journalist Dan Grossman, MacLean used his unique eye to capture some new and astounding images of one of the world’s largest industrial projects. Their work, funded by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, will form part of a larger, forthcoming report for GlobalPost.
DeSmog Canada caught up with MacLean to ask him about his experience photographing one of Canada’s most politicized resources and the source of the proposed Keystone XL and Northern Gateway pipelines.
Forest removal for exploratory well pad. Shell Jackpine mining site, North of Fort McMurray, Canada.*
Beds leading up to tailing pond.
DeSmog Canada: What was it like photographing the oilsands? Was it different from photographing other large-scale human spaces like highways or beaches?
Alex MacLean: The oilsands covered a vast area of which I was only able to photograph part of. It was not only different from highways, beaches, etc., in that those are linear formations, but the scale of the oilsands area and the devastation to the landscape was overwhelming. I felt a relation between highways and the mines in that open pit mines and seismic exploration lines fragment the boreal forest just as highways do through urban areas.
Steam and smoke rise from the Syncrude Mildred Lake mining facility.
Patches of boreal forest intertwined with snow-covered muskeg, near McLelland Lake, Alberta, Canada.
Clearing, dewatering, and seismic grid over the once boreal forest. Syncrude mining site, Alberta, Canada.
Syncrude Mildred Lake mining site. View south to upgrading facility with rising plumes of steam and smoke. Alberta, Canada.
Suncor Oil Sands Project. Piles of uncovered petrolum coke, a byproduct of upgrading tar sands oil to synthetic crude. "Petcoke" is between 30-80 per cent more carbon intense than coal per unit of weight.
DsC: What led to your interest in the Alberta oilsands?
AM: I have been photographing around the issues of climate change since early on, and actually put out a book looking at land use patterns as they relate to energy and consumption in 2008 called “OVER: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point.” I was drawn to photographing the pipeline because I feel as though there is little public awareness that, if built, the Keystone XL will make avoiding catastrophic climate change much harder. The pipeline is an important link in a fossil-fuel production machine, stocked with bitumen deposits at one end and refineries at the other. The public is unaware that this oil production machine is poorly regulated, though it will cause serious environmental and health effects on local, regional and planetary scales.
Mining operations at the North Steepbank Extension. Suncor mine, Alberta, Canada.
Checkerboard clearing of the overburden at Syncrude Aurora North mine site. Alberta, Canada.
Seismic lines and well pad for exploratory drilling through the boreal forest at the Suncor Firebag Oil Sands Project. Alberta, Canada.
Smoke, steam, and gas flares rise from the Suncor upgrading facility. Reclamation efforts seen to the right, on what was once a tailing pond. Suncor has reclaimed only 7 per cent of their total land disturbance.
DsC: What is it like taking a bird's eye view of humanity? Do you sometimes have great insights looking at civilization from such a removed, abstracted position?
AM: One of the interesting things about aerial photography is how so much of what you see about humanity is devoid of people. What I see is tracks and markings that are telling about our culture and values. When you see the destruction of landscapes, in this case of the boreal forest, with the obvious contamination of the environment via water and air pollution, you can’t help but feel that there is very short-sighted exploitation of natural resources that will have long-lasting environmental impacts.
Hot waste filling tailing pond. Suncor mining site, Alberta, Canada.
Earthen wall to tailing pond. Suncor mining site, Alberta, Canada.
Growing pyramids of sulfur, a byproduct of upgrading bitumen. Mildred Lake, Alberta, Canada.
DsC: You've been photographing 'human' spaces for a long time. Have you noticed a change over the last few decades in your perspective as society has grown more aware of the ecological crisis and the scale of our impact?
AM: You can’t help but notice the growth that has taken place in the last thirty years, and the build-out of what was once natural spaces. I would say in the last 15 years, at an escalating rate, you begin to see more sustainable sources of energy through wind and solar farms, and reconfiguring of urban spaces to make them more walkable.
Overview of tailing pond at Suncor mining site.
Surface oil on tailing pond. Suncor mine near Fort McMurray.
Open box cars carrying sulfur byproduct. Edmonton, Canada.
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Exposed: ALEC's new anti-environmental agenda in Chicago this week
New internal documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) reveal new methods that fossil fuel companies, agrochemical interests and corporate lobbying groups will influence certain state policies in the coming months through the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC.
ALEC's annual meeting is taking place in Chicago this week, just as Common Cause and CMD have filed a complaint to the IRS over ALEC's corporate-funded "Scholarships" for state legislators--ALEC is a tax exempt non-profit despite their mission of facilitating an exchange of company-crafted laws with state legislators in closed-door meetings.
ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture task force is drafting new model bills on behalf of its members like Duke Energy, ExxonMobil, Koch Industries and Peabody. ALEC's anti-environmental agenda in Chicago is available for viewing (see E&E PM and Earthtechling). These are the new model bills ALEC and its energy, chemical and agricultural interests are finalizing this week.
The Market-Power Renewables Act and the Renewable Energy Credit Act: ALEC and other Koch-funded State Policy Network groups like the Heartland Institute haven't had much success with their attempts to repeal state renewable portfolio standard (RPS) laws through the ALEC/Heartland Electricity Freedom Act. The Market-Power Renewables Act and Renewable Energy Credit Act are two newer, more subtle attempt to weaken RPS laws by phasing in a renewable power voluntary program, creating space for existing and out-of-state energy credits to displace new clean energy, and eventually repealing the RPS requirements entirely.
To slow the growth of clean energy competition, ALEC's fossil fuel members wrote these bills to allow increasing portions of a states clean energy generation requirements to be fulfilled by Renewable Energy Credits, or RECs. RECs are allowed to qualify in some states' RPS laws already, often in limited amounts, and they are not created equal. For instance, the benefits of burning gas leaking from landfills--something waste management companies would be selling anyway--are not on par with the societal benefits from building new sources of clean energy and displacing older, dirtier sources. You can see why ALEC member companies like American Electric Power or Duke Energy may take issue with this, given their reliance on coal and gas electricity generation.
Increasing the amount that RECs can qualify for state RPS targets means allowing more out-of-state energy. This could displace in-state jobs and economic benefits from clean energy development. The RECs may also come from sources that aren't defined as "renewable" in some states' RPS laws, or are only allowed in limited amounts, such as hydropower, biomass or biogas, creating a lowest common denominator effect. At the end of any given year, the ALEC bill would allow states to bank any extra energy generated from RECs beyond what the RPS law requires and use them to meet RPS targets for the following year. This could continually delay the growth of new, clean energy.
Resolution in Opposition to a Carbon Tax: Despite support for a carbon tax from ALEC members like ExxonMobil, ALEC is creating a model bill to weigh in on what will become the keystone policy battle for climate change science deniers, a battle that is already creating a rift among conservative groups, like the Koch-funded Heritage Foundation and the Heartland Institute against the R Street Institute. R Street formed when Heartland's Fire, Insurance and Real Estate program split away last year, after Heartland's insurance company funders were uncomfortable with the group comparing those who acknowledge climate change to the Unabomber.
Pre-Emption of Local Agriculture Laws Act: This bill would prevent governments under the state level (cities, towns, counties) from creating new laws or enforcing existing laws that have to do with the regulation of seeds and seed products--ie crops, flowers, and pretty much all food products grown in a state. This would allow companies like Monsanto (indirectly represented in ALEC through its membership in CropLife America, an agrochemical front group and ALEC energy task force member) to bottleneck regulations of their GMO seeds and products at the state government level and stop community resistance to their abusive patent laws and enforcement through lawsuits.
For examples of what ALEC has already been busy with this year, check out PR Watch's roundup of 77 anti-environmental ALEC bills that have popped up in state legislatures in 2013, supporting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline project, rolling back renewable energy incentives and making it illegal to document animal abuse, among other issues.
More info on ALEC's broader corporate agenda can be found on ALEC Exposed.
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3 major scandals in 3 months, the latest about Keystone XL
Posted on: 22 July 2013
Since it was first proposed in 2008 the argument for building the Keystone XL pipeline, which would pump tar sands crude oil from Canada to the Gulf coast for refining and export to foreign countries, has had some major holes. Literally.
Sunlight is visible through a faulty weld in the Keystone XL pipeline. Picture taken from inside a section of pipe by activists with Tar Sands Blockade
If approved, Keystone will pump a super-heated mixture of tar, sand, and chemicals from the most carbon polluting oil development on earth, while the effects of global warming manifest themselves across the country and the world. In order to mine and refine tar sands the oil industry must burn 1 barrel of oil for every 3 barrels of oil produced, a marvel of inefficiency. The potential builders of the Keystone XL have been caught in scandal after scandal in their attempts to get government and popular approval for the pipeline. The last few months have revealed the lengths that TransCanada (the company building the pipeline) and other Keystone proponents will go to secure approval for Keystone.
A tar sands mining pit in what was once boreal forest
Here are 3 of the most important Keystone XL Scandals that have been revealed since April:
1) The State Department doesn't know where the Keystone XL pipeline will be located
A year and a half ago, Thomas Bachand, a researcher mapping the route of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, asked the State Department - the agency responsible for approving the pipeline - for the coordinates of the Keystone XL. He hoped to accurately map the pipeline route so that people would know which waterways, neighborhoods, and back yards would be affected. After 14 months of waiting and haggling for what should have been an easy answer, the State Department admitted in June that they did not possess the GIS coordinates of the pipeline, and therefore did not know its exact route. Yet the State Department has promised that the Keystone XL would be environmentally safe and does not threaten water supplies in its path. From the Environmental Impact Study used by the State Department:
“A limited number of public water supply wells are located within one mile of the proposed pipeline area (39 along the entire route; Montana-1, South Dakota-0, Nebraska-38), and a very limited number of private water supply wells are located within 100 feet of the pipeline (Montana-6; South Dakota-0, Nebraska-14).”
But how would the State Department know how close the pipeline runs to water sources without knowing where the pipeline will run?
A tar sands spill from Exxon's pipeline in Mayflower, Arkansas
2) The private contractors hired to gauge the environmental impact of the Keystone XL for the State Department work for TransCanada and other oil companies that would benefit from building the pipeline, a major conflict of interest that the State Department tried to hide.
The most recent Environmental Impact Study (EIS) of the Keystone XL was conducted by the oil industry contractor Environmental Resource Management (ERM). Since it's release, the study has been widely criticized for both its glaring oversights and questionable findings. For instance, the EIS claims that building the Keystone XL, a giant among pipelines, would not have any effect on greenhouse gas emissions or the development of the Athabasca tar sands, even though the entire purpose of building the KXL is to increase tar sands development. Even the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has questioned the trustworthiness of the study. As it turns out, ERM works for Transcanada, Koch Industries, Shell Oil, and other oil corporations that stand to benefit from building the Keystone XL. ERM is also a dues paying member of the American Petroleum Institute, which spent $22 million lobbying for the pipeline. Not only did the State Department know about these conflicts of interest, they redacted this information from public filings in an attempt to conceal the truth. ERM has a history of producing environmental studies that seem skewed toward befitting the oil companies that hire them. In March of this year, ERM released a study claiming that a tar sands refinery in Delaware made the air around the plant cleaner. The study, which was funded by the tar sands refinery in question, was challenged by independent air quality studies that found Benzene and other cancer-causing compounds far in excess of EPA standards. As the News Journal explains:
"Air-quality tests commissioned by a Delaware City citizens group show a jump in local chemical, soot and sulfur levels after the opening of the Delaware City refinery, with at least three toxic pollutants exceeding some public health limits in one spot a mile from the plant"
3) Obama Administration insiders have significant ties to TransCanada, which the company has tried to exploit.
As was recently reported by Steve Horn at DeSmog Blog, President Obama’s personal attorney, former White House Counsel Robert Bauer, has direct ties to TransCanada. Bauer works for Perkins Coie LLP, a major corporate law firm which represents TransCanada’s South Central LNG project. Furthermore, Robert Baur's wife, Anita Dunn, is the co-owner of the PR firm SDKnickerbocker, which handles public relations work for TransCanada. Dunn, who was a Communications Director for Obama and Senior Adviser for Obama's 2012 re-election campaign, has met with top Obama administration officials more than 100 times since leaving in 2009, according to a recent New York Times investigation. However, Robert Bauer and Anita Dunn are just the latest tie between TransCanada and US regulators to be uncovered. TransCanada and the government of Alberta, Canada have purposefully stacked their ranks with lobbyists that have ties to the Obama administration and/or John Kerry, who is now in charge of the State Department. From Friends of the Earth:
The Financial Times has found that Alberta made a point to hire former Obama officials and Kerry staff in order to win approval from the State Department instead of focusing on Congress like most lobby groups. TransCanada and Alberta’s lobbyists have been trying to convince the administration that the pipeline will create jobs and pose no threats to the environment, in the hopes that they can get the pipeline approved.
TransCanada also snapped up people leaving the State Department to help grease the wheels of approval for Keystone XL within the State Department. From Businessweek:
David Goldwyn, an aide to Hillary Clinton, was something of a mole for TransCanada, coaching the company’s executives on how to win favor at State with “better messaging.” After leaving the State Department, Goldwyn testified before Congress in favor of Keystone XL.
These latest 3 scandals are just the most recent examples of the extent to which TransCanada and other Keystone XL boosters have manipulated the approval system in favor of the pipeline. Help stop the Keystone XL and protect the families and water sources in it's path by telling President Obama not to approve pipeline. Sign the petition here.
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US Gov't doesn't know exact Keystone XL pipeline route
The U.S. government doesn't know exactly where TransCanada wants to lay pipe for the northern section of its Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, according to the results of a 14-month Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request to the U.S. State Department. In its final answer to a FOIA request by Thomas Bachand of the Keystone Mapping Project, the State Department admitted:
Neither Cardno ENTRIX nor TransCanada ever submitted GIS information to the Department of State, nor was either corporation required to do so. The information that you request, if it exists, is therefore neither physically nor constructively under the control of the Department of State and we are therefore unable to comply with your FOIA request.
Yes, you read that right. The U.S. State Department published its draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS)--supposedly an official account of the potential hazards of TransCanada's proposed pipeline on U.S. waterways, wildlife and other major considerations like global climate change--without knowing exactly where TransCanada wants to dig. Check out the full letter from State to Mr. Bachand at the Keystone Mapping Project.
Ongoing Conflicts of Interest in State Department Environmental Assessments
The State Department is already facing legitimate criticism for contracting companies with ties to TransCanada and other oil companies for its environmental impact estimates, which the Environmental Protection Agency has slammed for being "insufficient." State looked no further than oil industry contractors to run the draft SEIS--companies like Cardno ENTRIX, which calls TransCanada a "major client," and ERM Resources, a dues paying member of the American Petroleum Institute which is being investigated by the State Department's Inspector General for trying to hide its prior consulting for fossil fuel giants like ExxonMobil, BP and Shell. In fact, TransCanada chose ERM Resources to do the Keystone XL SEIS review for the State Department, and one of ERM's people working on the review was formerly employed by TransCanada.
TransCanada has stacked the deck, wagering American waterways and private property against the promise to profit from continued extraction of dirty tar sands petroleum.
Tar Sands Pipelines Spill
The potential is too high for Keystone XL to leak just like TransCanada's existing Keystone I pipeline has repeatedly done, or rupture like ExxonMobil's Pegasus tar sands pipeline in Mayflower, Arkansas earlier this year, or Enbridge's tar sands pipeline spill in the Kalamazoo River. The southern leg of Keystone XL is already under construction, and the if the cracks, dents and other faults in the 'new' pipe are any indication, pollution from oil spills looks inevitable. Beyond being a disaster waiting to happen, KXL guarantees the continued disaster that is tar sands mining, a process that has already poisoned entire regions--and peoples' communities--in northern Alberta, Canada.
With President Obama's recently unveiled Climate Action Plan, it would be a limp gesture to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. You'd think with the State Department having its environmental analysis run by oil industry consultants, they'd listen to the oil industry's own guarantees that Keystone XL would increase demand for tar sands mining. That's bad news for our climate -- something the State Department cannot ignore if they do a reasonable review of the "unprecedented" amount of public comments on its draft SEIS on KXL.
What remains to be seen is if the State Department will be reasonable in the last leg of its review, or if it will continue letting TransCanada and Big Oil control the process to the bitter end.
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Keystone Academy: Where Legislators Learn the Etiquette of Serving Special Interests
2012 ALEC Academy attendees. Photo via twitter
Written by Nick Surgey, crossposted with permission from PR Watch.
In October 2012, nine U.S. state legislators went on an industry paid trip to explore the Alberta tar sands. Publicly described as an "ALEC Academy," documents obtained by CMD show the legislators were accompanied on a chartered flight by a gaggle of oil-industry lobbyists, were served lunch by Shell Oil, dinner by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, and that the expenses of the trip were paid for by TransCanada and other corporations and groups with a direct financial interest in the Alberta tar sands and the proposed Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline.
Among the nine legislators on the tour was the new ALEC national chairman, Representative John Piscopo from Connecticut, and Senator Jim Smith from Nebraska who has sponsored legislation in his state to speed up the building of the Nebraska segment of KXL. Email records obtained by CMD show that after the trip, legislators were asked by ALEC to send “thank you notes” to the lobbyists for their generosity in Alberta.
Far better than a mere "thank you," Rep. John Adams from Ohio returned from the trip and sponsored a bill given to him by a TransCanada lobbyist calling for the approval of KXL. As previously reported by CMD, similar legislation, reflecting both an ALEC “model” bill and language taken from a TransCanada set of talking points, has been introduced in seven states in 2013.
The tar sands of Alberta are estimated to be the third largest reserve of crude oil on the planet. But the process of turning the tar-like bitumen into a refined product that can be used as fuel is extremely energy intensive and highly polluting. The former NASA scientist James Hansen, warned that the extraction and use of Canadian tar sands would mean "game over" for the climate. TransCanada is the operator of the proposed KXL pipeline, which would carry the tar sands to Texas for processing and likely for exports to markets abroad.
In Private Jets and "Petroleum Club" Dinners, U.S Politicians Get the Dirt on Canadian Tar Sands
Officially, ALEC organized the Alberta tour as an "ALEC Academy." In ALEC’s description of corporate sponsorship opportunities, this type of event is described as being "an intensive, two--day program for legislators that focus on a specific area of policy." It comes with an $80,000 fee to sponsor. Unofficially however, and made clear to legislators on the trip in emails from ALEC obtained by CMD, the expenses were paid for by lobbyists from the oil-industry and by the government of Alberta. In an email sent to Ohio representative John Adams ahead of the trip, ALEC staffer Karla Jones reassured participants that all transportation, accommodation costs and meals would be paid for.
According to a copy of the trip itinerary obtained via a public records request, legislators flew into Alberta on Tuesday October 16, 2012, and were met by TransCanada lobbyists who took them on a tour of their facilities in Calgary.
TransCanada, which is a member of ALEC, sponsored ALEC’s Spring Task Force Summit in Oklahoma City in May 2013, alongside other corporations with tar sands interests including BP, Devon Energy and Koch Industries. TransCanada’s Vice President Corey Goulet presented to legislators at the conference during a session called "Embracing American Energy Opportunities."
Dinner on the first night was at the up-market Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse in downtown Calgary, paid for by American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM). The dinner included a presentation to the captive audience of lawmakers from AFPM about Low-Carbon Fuel Standards (LCFS), a mechanism designed to reduce the carbon intensity of transportation fuels. As CMD has reported recently, LCFS is considered a real threat to the tar sands industry, because it might restrict the U.S. market for fuels derived from the tar sands. AFPM, which has funded one of the other groups on the tour – the Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) – to work to oppose LCFS legislation, would successfully sponsor an ALEC "model" bill on this issue just weeks after the trip, called "Restrictions on Participation in Low-Carbon Fuel Standards Programs."
On Wednesday morning, after breakfast at the hotel, legislators were taken to the airport where a private charted plane was waiting to fly them around a number of different tar sands operations. Accompanying the legislators and ALEC staffer Karla Jones, were lobbyists from AFPM, TransCanada, Devon Energy, CEA, Shell Oil, and the Government of Alberta. The flight was chartered by the Alberta Government, at a cost of $22,000, with the costs split evenly between them and another unknown entity.
During the day, legislators toured facilities owned by Shell – which also provided lunch – and Devon Energy, where they viewed the massive "Jackfish" tar sands projects. At these facilities, Devon utilizes Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD), an energy intensive process that injects steam into the dirty bitumen to access otherwise inaccessible deposits too deep for mining. This process is expected to open up further areas of Alberta for tar sands extraction, including by Koch Industries subsidiary Koch Exploration Canada which has a pending permit request in Alberta to utilize SAGD.
Dinner on Wednesday night was served at the Petroleum Club, sponsored by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. On the Thursday morning, just before their return flight, legislators did have a brief meeting with a representative from the Pembina Institute, an Alberta environmental group that calls for responsible exploitation of the tar sands. According to the ALEC trip itinerary, this was to "provide the opposing point of view."
Although Pembina does represent a different view from those that want completely unrestrained extraction of the tar sands, the group is not representative of those that oppose tar sands extraction. There are plenty of organizations that could have provided alternative viewpoints, particularly first nation tribes who are campaigning vigorously on this issue, but perhaps unsurprisingly they were not included. Even Pembina’s - somewhat limited - opposing voice was not wanted during the tour of the oil sands facilities, and they were not invited to the lobbyist-sponsored dinners.
ALEC as Emily Post
A month after the trip, the Director of International and Federal Relations at ALEC, Karla Jones, sent participants an email helpfully reminding them of what each industry lobbyist had paid for on the tour. CMD obtained a copy of that communication via a public records request, which included a spreadsheet containing the names, telephone numbers and mailing addresses of each of the lobbyists on the trip. The ALEC email also prompted legislators to send each of the sponsoring corporations a "thank you note."
The phenomenon of ALEC legislators sending such letters to lobbyists is something CMD has previously reported on. Ohio Rep. Adams, for example, sent at least a dozen letters to corporate lobbyists in 2010, thanking them for writing checks to the ALEC scholarship fund, which paid his and his colleagues way to an ALEC conference.
"Because of your help and others like you, the trip to ALEC was made possible for our legislators," Adams wrote to AT&T lobbyist Bob Blazer.
“Rather than sending thank you notes to their corporate lobbyist sponsors, these legislators should instead consider an apology to their constituents,” Stephen Spaulding, Staff Counsel for the good government group Common Cause told CMD. "I doubt lobbyists want thank you notes in return for bankrolling legislators' international vacations – they would rather a bright, shiny souvenir in the form of corporate-drafted legislation."
Better Than a Thank You Note, Payback in Ohio
After the trip to Alberta, Rep. Adams, the Assistant Majority Floor Leader and Ohio ALEC state chair, led the calls in Ohio for the approval of the KXL pipeline, sponsoring a bill (HCR 9) and talking publicly about the proposed pipeline. "It is of the upmost importance that we strongly urge the U.S. government to take the necessary steps towards operation of the Keystone Pipeline," Adams wrote in March 2013 while promoting his bill. Rep. Rosenberger, the other Ohio legislator on the ALEC trip to Alberta, accordingly co-sponsored the Adams bill.
According to documents CMD obtained from public record requests in Ohio, a draft bill was sent to Adams on January 23, from Steve Dimon of 21 Consulting LLC, who represents TransCanada. The bill was sent as an attachment to the Dimon email.
The email message itself simply read, "Thank you so much!"
Dimon stayed in touch with Adams' office over the proceeding months, providing his staff with further materials about Keystone XL, including a set of talking points stamped with the TransCanada logo.
By February 14, Adams had an updated draft that had been reviewed by the Ohio legislative service commission, the non-partisan body that assists legislators with drafting legislation. Adams staffer Ryan Crawford sent this language to Rob Eshenbaugh, a lobbyist with Ohio Petroleum Council, the state affiliate of the American Petroleum Institute. "Please let me know if I can be of further assistance," Crawford wrote to the lobbyist. Eshenbaugh responded with some requested changes, which Crawford then incorporated into the bill.
All this occurred prior to Adams sharing the bill with his fellow legislators, which didn't happen until February 20. Adams finally introduced his bill in the Ohio Assembly on March 9, without any public statement about his involvement with the ALEC Academy or that the source of the bill was a tar sands lobbyist.
The route of the proposed KXL pipeline takes it through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. This is a long way from Ohio, but the debate over the KXL project has become a national issue. The ALEC Academy, and subsequent lobbying from the oil-industry, demonstrates that TransCanada sees value in developing a list of states supportive of the project to influence the federal debate over KXL approval.
The precise details of the ALEC tour, including the trip being part-sponsored by TransCanada, are not mentioned in Adams’ financial disclosures, which only reports his expenses as being from ALEC and the Alberta Government. Adams is not breaking the law here. This is because of the way ALEC works to fund legislator travel. Its scholarship system allows corporations to “sponsor” legislator’s expenses, which are then simply disclosed as being a payment from "ALEC" and not from the sponsoring corporations or groups. CMD documented the ALEC scholarship fund in a 2012 report released jointly with Common Cause: "How the American Legislative Exchange Council Uses Corporate-Funded “Scholarships” to Send Lawmakers on Trips with Corporate Lobbyists."
Graduates of the Keystone Academy appear to be learning a lot about how ALEC works behind the scenes to promote special interest legislation while keeping the public entirely in the dark.
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Yes Men "Mourn" U.S. Chamber's dropped lawsuit against them
Posted on: 14 June 2013
The Yes Men outside the US Chamber of Commerce, expressing disappointment over the dropped lawsuit against them.
Crossposted from Greenpeace's The Witness.
Shenanigans at the front door of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce yesterday reveal that the Chamber has dropped its lawsuit against the Yes Men, the activist duo famous for their elaborate prime-time pranks against Dow Chemical, Chevron, the World Trade Organization, and other giant entities known for putting their profit margins before people and the planet.
The Yes Men went to the Chamber yesterday morning in attempts to convince the business front group not to drop the lawsuit. Here's some footage of the announcement and confusion over who does and doesn't work for the Chamber:
That's right. The Yes Men want to be sued by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. According to their press release:
"Just as their case against us was finally heating up again, the Chamber decided to drop it," said former defendant Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men. "The Chamber knew this was our chance to challenge their silly claims and, since they claimed we had 'damaged' them, investigate the details of their finances through the discovery process. It's the height of rudeness to deprive us of this great opportunity." "The Chamber's lawsuit represented the only time in 17 years that anyone has been stupid enough to sue us," said former defendant Mike Bonanno. "This was the chance of a lifetime, and we profoundly deplore the Chamber's about-face."
Apparently, revenge isn't a strong enough reason for the Chamber to to cough up information on their secret financial backers or their obstruction on solving the critical issue of global climate change, the issue which sparked the original Yes Men parody press event and ensuing lawsuit. The Chamber sued the Yes Men in 2009 for holding a press conference at the National Press Club on the Chamber's behalf, announcing a reversal on the Chamber's efforts to block climate change legislation. The false event was interrupted by an actual Chamber official named Eric Wohlschlegal, who told attending press, "This guy is a fake! He's lying!" See this video:
The stunt threw the Chamber off balance as it had to clarify it would not stop obstructing national climate change policy. The following lawsuit was unprecedented for Yes Men hijinks. Even Dow Chemical didn't sue them, despite losing $2 billion worth of stock when Yes Man Andy Bichlbaum posed as a Dow official on a live BBC interview and took responsibility for the Bhopal chemical disaster (which Dow still won't own up to despite the death of 20,000 people). Yes Lab has a summary of the announcement at the Chamber's front steps in Washington, DC, including a list of questions the Yes Men wish the lawsuit's discovery process could have answered:
Some of the things we could have asked in court had they not withdrawn their lawsuit:
Why does the U.S. Chamber lie even more than the American Petroleum Institute about the number of jobs created by the Keystone XL pipeline?
Why did the U.S. Chamber design a teaching program for US schools that favors coal over clean energy sources?
And who pays them to lie to children... and adults?
Why does the U.S. Chamber expend so much money to call into doubt the most mainstream climate science, and insult the most respected scientific bodies?
Why does the U.S. Chamber fight not only unions, but even just shareholder activists?
Why do they fight even tiny increases in the federal minimum wage?
Why has the U.S. Chamber's law firm hired spies in try to discredit anti-Chamber activists?
And finally, why is the U.S. Chamber fighting so hard to keep corporations from having to reveal their political spending?
PolluterWatch has more on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its anti-environmental practices.
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New Documents show Exxon knew of contamination from the Maryflower oil spill, still claimed lake was "oil-free"
Posted on: 21 May 2013
On March 29 ExxonMobil, the most profitable company in the world, spilled at least 210,000 gallons of tar sands crude oil from an underground pipeline in Mayflower, Arkansas. The pipeline was carrying tar sands oil from Canada, which flooded family residences in Mayflower in thick tarry crude. Exxon’s tar sands crude also ran into Lake Conway, which sits about an eighth of a mile from where Exxon’s pipeline ruptured.
The cove of Lake Conway which Exxon claimed was "oil-free"
A new batch of documents received by Greenpeace in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has revealed that Exxon downplayed the extent of the contamination caused by the ruptured pipeline. Records of emails between Arkansas’ DEQ and Exxon depict attempts by Exxon to pass off press releases with factually false information. In a draft press release dated April 8, Exxon claims "Tests on water samples show Lake Conway and the cove are oil-free." However, internal emails from April 6 show Exxon knew of significant contamination across Lake Conway and the cove resulting from the oil spill.
When the chief of Arkansas Hazardous Waste division called Exxon out on this falsehood, Exxon amended the press release. However, they did not amend it to say that oil was in Lake Conway and contaminant levels in the lake were rising to dangerous levels, as they knew to be the case. Instead, they continue to claim that Lake Conway is "oil-free." For the record, Exxon maintains that the "cove," a section of Lake Conway that experienced heavy oiling from the spill, is not part of the actual lake. Exxon maintains this distinction in spite of Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel saying unequivocally "The cove is part of Lake Conway…The water is all part of one body of water." Furthermore, Exxon water tests confirmed that levels of Benzene and other contaminants rose throughout the lake, not just in the cove area.
Though Exxon was eventually forced to redact their claim that the cove specifically was "oil-free," the oil and gas giant has yet to publicly address the dangerous levels of Benzene and other contaminants their own tests have found in the body of Lake Conway. The Environmental Protection Agency and the American Petroleum Institute don’t agree on everything, but they do agree that the only safe level of Benzene, a cancer causing chemical found in oil, is zero. Benzene is added to tar sands oil to make it less viscous and flow more easily through pipelines. Local people have reported fish kills, chemical smells, nausea and headaches. Independent water tests have found a host of contaminants present in the lake.
Dead fish in Palarm creek, which Lake Conway drains into. Palarm creek is a tributary of the Arkansas River.
According to Exxon’s data, 126,000 gallons of tar sands crude oil from the pipeline spill is still unaccounted for.
Exxon's spill emanated from the Pegasus Pipeline, which like the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, connects the Canadian Tar Sands with refineries in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Four Oil Spills in One Week: Exxon's Arkansas Tar Sands spill one of many
Posted on: 9 April 2013
As many people who watch the oil industry know, oil spills are not avoidable, preventable, or unlikely. From extraction to combustion, oil is a destructive and dirty business, based on sacrificing the health of environments and peoples for corporate profits.
Smoke pours from an Exxon Oil Refinery after an explosion in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1989
This fact was especially evident last week, when Exxon’s Pegasus pipeline spilled over 150,000 gallons of toxic tar sands crude oil into Lake Conway and adjoining neighborhoods in Mayflower, Arkansas.
Exxon's tar sands spill in Mayflower, Arkansas
However, Exxon’s Mayflower spill is not an isolated incident. In fact, there were three other significant oil spills that occurred last week.
The spills, which were the result of both train derailments and pipeline ruptures, spilled many hundreds of thousands of gallons of toxic crude oil in and around neighborhoods, marshes, and rivers.
March 26 - Train Derailment in Minnesota - 30,000 gallons of crude oil spilled
Last week's cacophony of oil industry irresponsibility began with a train derailment in Minnesota, which spilled 30,000 gallons of crude oil. The oil was from Canada which has become a top exporter of crude to the United States because of their exploitation of the tar sands in Alberta.
aerial view of the Alberta Tar Sands
In a fit of ill-timed opportunism, supporters of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would pump tar sands oil from Canada to the gulf coast, used this this spill as a justification for building the tar sands pipeline. A spokesman for North Dakota Senator John Hoeven, who has been one of the chief political proponents of the Keystone XL pipeline, had this to say:
"It should be clear that we need to move more oil by pipeline rather than by rail or truck...This is why we need the Keystone XL. Pipelines are both safe and efficient."
March, 29 - Lake Conoway, Arkansas - 156,000 gallons of tar sands crude oil spilled
In an incident that should make anyone question the "safety and efficiency" of oil pipelines, Exxon’s Pegasus Pipeline spilled 157,000 gallons of tar sands crude into Lake Conway and surrounding neighborhoods in Arkansas. Since the spill, Exxon has limited press access to the spill site, oiled animals, and even the skies above the spill area. Exxon has even claimed that Lake Conway has been unaffected by the oil spill, though Arkansas Attorney General Dustin Mcdaniel has set that particular record straight.
"Of course there's oil in Lake Conway"
Mcdaniels said.
Exxon's tar sands oil spills into a cove of Lake Conway, Arkansas
April, 3 - Houston, Texas - 30,000 gallons of crude oil spilled
Four days after Exxon's Pegasus pipeline ruptured and seven days after Keystone XL pipeline proponents claimed "pipelines are both safe and efficient," a Shell pipeline running through a bayou outside of Houston spilled 30,000 gallons of oil into the Texas marsh. The actual amount of oil spilled by Shell's West Columbia Pipeline is still unknown, as the cause of the leak has not been released by Shell.
April, 3 - White River, Ontario - 16,642 gallons of crude oil spilled
At the same time that Shell was spewing oil into the wetlands of Texas, a train derailment in White River, Ontario was leaking oil in Canada. Most people know White River as the original home of Winnie the Pooh, but it is also a major train depot for shipping crude oil. The company responsible claimed that 4 barrels of oil were spilled, though the actual number turned out to be 10 times larger, at 400 barrels. That's 16,642 gallons of toxic crude oil. Sorry Winnie.
As the oil industry proved this week, they are incapable of protecting people and the environment from their product. As Micheal Brune of Sierra Club said:
"In Ontario, the company said it spilled four barrels when it had actually spilled 400. In Arkansas, Exxon learned about the spill from a homeowner but kept pumping tar sands crude into the neighborhood for 45 minutes, and is bullying reporters who want to tell the public what's going on. In Texas, a major oil spill came to light that Shell had been denying for days. Transporting toxic crude oil -- and tar sands in particular -- is inherently dangerous, more so because oil companies care about profit, not public safety. This is why Keystone XL, at nine times the size of the Arkansas Pegasus pipeline, must never be built.”
If built, the Keystone XL pipeline will spill. Stop the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Internet vs. Print Sources
Some professors will discourage you from using sources you find or access over the Internet. Although such restrictions may be excessive, there are reasons to be wary. It’s much easier to publish information on the Internet than to publish a book or periodical in print. Since it’s easier, Web posters are not always as careful to make sure that the information is accurate. For one thing, print publishing is more expensive, so many print publishers are careful not to make mistakes or to cut corners, in case what they publish turns out to be unreliable—and therefore useless. The seeming anonymity of the Internet also encourages some people to write things quickly, without checking to be sure of their facts or their conclusions. Most of us have had the experience of sending by email something we wrote quickly—perhaps when rushed or angry. Often these are things we wouldn’t print, sign, and mail, because those extra steps give us time to consider our words more carefully, and also because we recognize a higher expectation that things in print should be trustworthy.
No Author, No Authority
In the context of writing in college, material from much of the Internet is less reliable than print sources because it’s hard to tell who wrote or posted it. As discussed in the section Why Cite?, the essence of academic scholarship is a conversation among authors. On many websites, it’s difficult to determine the author of the material. If the site creator’s name is listed, it’s still sometimes hard to tell whether the information has been reprinted from some other source. If you reach a website through a search engine, you may have to find the site’s homepage or search around in the “contact” information in order to identify the author or the organization that sponsors the site. Even if you find the author’s name, Internet sources make it harder to tell what status that person has in his or her field. Is the author an expert, a fan, or just a crackpot? After finding a website that seems useful and tracking down the author’s name, you may need additional research (perhaps using Google) to learn whether the author has any claim to credibility.
But of course, countless reliable sources can be accessed on the web, and even unreliable sources have some uses in research writing. (See Scholarly vs. Popular Sources for more about unreliable sources.) These days, many students and scholars use Web sources extensively in research and teaching. But they take extra care to assess and report the provenance of these sources.
In this guide’s discussion of Internet sources, we draw distinctions between various kinds of websites: those sponsored by organizations, those devoted to a single topic, and private websites that are maintained by a single person—often a devoted fan of the topic under discussion. To some degree, these categories distinguish more and less reliable sources of information. But the distinctions are neither clear nor entirely stable. Some organizations, while established leaders in their fields, have very few resources available to maintain and update their websites. Some private individuals, although hosting websites as a hobby, are experts in their fields and consider accuracy on their sites to be the highest priority. It’s often useful to identify your source in the body of your paper (and not just in your citation or footnote); this identification is especially important when you use material from the Internet. If you give a sense of what kind of Web source you’re using, the reader will be better able to understand the context of your evidence.
Basics of Citing Websites
When listing Internet sources in your References or Works Cited, the most important thing to remember is that your goal is to make it easy for a reader to consult your sources. (This same goal is paramount when listing print sources.) For most sites, that means you should include the full URL for the page you cite in your paper (the web address that begins “http”). But websites change, and the address you used won’t always be active when your reader tries to view a source. For that reason, it’s important to include both the date you accessed the site and also a full account of the person, group, or organization that sponsors the site. Knowing more about the author helps readers to assess the source and also, sometimes, to find the source when the website has been moved or revised.
The general form of a citation from an Internet source is:
Author’s name. Title of Document. Title of Website. Sponsor of Website. Date of Document. Date of Access. URL.
As you will see in the discussion of specific categories, however, some of these items may be hard to determine.
Avoiding Plagiarism
The ease of using electronic sources of any kind can make it harder to keep track of where the source ends and your original contribution begins—and you must always keep that distinction clear. See How to Copy and Paste but Not Plagiarize for advice about how to use electronic sources wisely.
Respecting Privacy
Most of this guide focuses on helping you subordinate sources to your own ideas. In general, we highlight your need to respect authors’ intellectual or property rights, explaining how to give people credit for their ideas while distinguishing your own original contributions. But the ease of using electronic sources also raises dangers about what might be called privacy rights, leading you to make public words that the original author intended only as private communication. When someone speaks in public, participates in an interview, or publishes a piece of writing, he or she implicitly agrees that other people may refer to this material in research. But some electronic sources blur the line between public and private communication. (Private communications also have a different force of authority than deliberately published material; see Scholarly vs. Popular Sources for more information.)
If in doubt about whether a given text should be considered public or private, we urge you to check with the original author before quoting it in your own work. Although the following categories overlap, they may help you decide when more care is warranted to avoid an invasion of privacy. (1) Web versions of sources that also appear in print are generally safe to quote, since most print publishers take care to secure rights before publication. (2) Publicly accessible websites are generally safe to quote. You may occasionally find a website reposting information that’s clearly from category 3, in which case you may wish to contact the original author before using the material. But if you can access the information through regular surfing, without passwords, it’s probably safe to use. (3) Communications sent via email or accessed by membership in a specific group are generally considered private, and you should exercise care in quoting from them in your papers.
Even in this last category, there’s not a hard and fast rule you can follow. If your university sends an announcement to all students via email, you may reasonably consider this public information. If your best friend reveals something damaging or embarrassing in an email sent only to you, it’s clearly private. But what if a professor writes to you about something related to the course? Or if you receive a message that’s sent only to the members of a small club? What about the discussion forums that many courses set up for students to exchange ideas about the readings? These cases are all ambiguous. Unless there’s been an explicit agreement that the material is public, we encourage you to check before using such messages in your work.
One convenience of using electronic sources is the ability—once you’ve selected the passages you wish to quote—to copy and paste quotations instead of having the retype them into your paper. Even before you begin drafting a paper, copying and pasting sections from your sources seems an easy way to take notes, so that you can look the material over later without surfing back to the website. This very convenience, however, also leads writers into danger. In the midst of researching and taking notes, it’s just too easy to paste quotations into your file with the intention to go back later and note down the source. When you return to your draft, it can be hard to distinguish your own writing from the passages you’ve copied.
As discussed in Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism, the worst consequence of failing to acknowledge sources is to yourself: if you paste in someone’s words as your own, you will miss the opportunity to add your commentary, and therefore miss an opportunity to grow as a thinker and writer. Most of this guide focuses on such intellectual reasons for working properly with sources, rather than emphasizing the penalties of plagiarism. But because the copy and paste technique is so common, it’s especially important to warn you about its potential for abuse. Every year students come before the Yale Executive Committee having committed plagiarism through pasting material from the Internet into their papers and then forgetting to go back and identify the sources. Even when the oversight seems unintentional, these students are guilty of plagiarism, and must face penalties.
But you can avoid this danger with one very simple precaution:
Every time you highlight material from a website to use in your paper, save the material to a new file. Copy the URL (the full web address that begins with “http”) at the top of the new file, and give the file a name that briefly identifies the website.
Taking this extra step will allow you to review your sources when you’ve made more progress with your paper. So if you were thinking of using a piece of this web page in your paper, you’d copy the relevant portion into a Word file, add the URL, and perhaps call the file “Writing at Yale Copy/Paste Advice.” You’ll still be able to avoid retyping by copying and pasting from the new file you’ve made. But you will have created a record of your excerpts to help you distinguish your sources from your own work. For your own convenience, you may also want to add other citation information below the URL—such as author and date of access—before moving on to examine the next website. See Special Demands of Internet Sources for more information about how to cite websites. See also Scholarly vs. Popular Sources for advice about how to use Internet sources effectively.
Note: Even when you properly identify Internet sources, the very pasting that feels like a time-saver can lead you to use block quotations that are longer and less precise than necessary. Many writers, especially beginning academic writers, are better served by retyping quotations, because this extra step leads them to edit quotations and to paraphrase. You could still cut and paste to help you keep track of interesting passages before deciding which ones to quote in your paper (remembering, as suggested above, to create a new file for each website you work with).
Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. 350 B.C.E. Trans. W. C. Ross. The Internet Classics Archives. Ed. Daniel C. Stevenson. 1994. Web. 20 May 2015.
[author.] [title.] [original publication date.] [website name.] [website author.] [update date.] [medium.] [date of access.]
Aristotle. (1994). Nicomachean ethics. (W. C. Ross, Trans.). In D. C. Stevenson (Ed.), The internet classics archives. (Original work published 350 B.C.E.). Retrieved from http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen(link is external)
[author, by last name.] [(posting date).] [title.] [website author, (“Ed.”),] [website name.] [(original publication date).] [Retrieved from URL]
Note: in APA style, no access date is necessary for information that will not be changed or updated, like an electronic book or a journal or newspaper article.
Also note: when a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is available, list the DOI instead of the URL. (A DOI is a unique alphanumeric string assigned by a registration agency to identify content and provide a persistent link to its location on the Internet.)
16. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics.
[fn. #.] [author last name, shortened title.]
[Shortened Chicago reference; see More Notes on Chicago Style for more information.]
Note: In the Bibliography, Chicago style does not generally include date of access.
Also note: You may notice that listing Internet sources often takes more time and care than listing print sources. Since the authorship and location of Web sources are harder to establish, readers need even more information in order to assess sources and to retrieve them for further study. See Special Demands of Internet Sources for more information.
Scott, Janny, and David Leonhardt. “Shadowy Lines That Still Divide.” New York Times 15 May 2005. Web. 20 May 2015.
[author.] [“article title.”] [periodical title] [publication date.] [medium.] [date of access.]
Scott, J., & Leonhardt, D. (2005, May 15). Shadowy lines that still divide. New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/national/class/OVERVIEW-FINAL.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0(link is external)
[author.] [(publication date).] [article title.] [periodical title.] [Retrieved from URL]
Note: in APA style, no date of access is necessary for information that will not be changed or updated, like an electronic book or a journal or newspaper article.
17. Scott and Leonhardt, “Shadowy Lines.”
If a print journal, magazine, or newspaper maintains a version of its publication URL online, articles that you cite are listed in your Works Cited or list of References by the name of the article’s author. In MLA style, the name is followed by the title of the article—in APA, the publication date comes after the author. (If no author is identified, list by the article’s title. In that case, be sure to give at least a few key words from the title in the body of your paper, so that readers know how to find the source in your bibliography.) Next list the title of the journal, magazine, or newspaper. Give the publication date of the article next for MLA, followed by the date that you accessed the site. For APA , give the full URL—the Web address that begins with “http.” When a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is available, list the DOI instead of the URL. (A DOI is a unique alphanumeric string assigned by a registration agency to identify content and provide a persistent link to its location on the Internet.)
Note: If you use a database service (such as Lexis-Nexis) to access electronic sources, you must credit the database. See Databases (like Lexis-Nexis) for more information.
Also note: Although online versions of print sources are often more reliable than online journals or private websites, their reliability is no greater than that of their print versions. See Scholarly vs. Popular Sources for more information.
Wallis, Claudia, et al. “The New Science of Happiness.” Time 17 Jan. 2005: A1-A55. Academic Search Premier. Web. 20 May 2015.
[author, by last name.] [“article title.”] [periodical title] [publication date]: full page numbers for article.] [database name.] [medium.] [date of access.]
Wallis, C., Coady, E., Cray, D., Park, A., & Ressner, J. (2005, January 17). The new science of happiness. Time, A1-A55. Retrieved from Academic Search Premier
[author(s), by last name, initial).] [(publication date).] [article title.] [periodical title,] [full page numbers for article.] [Retrieved from database name or URL]
18. Wallis et al., “The New Science.”
Also note: In the Bibliography, Chicago style adds the URL (the Web address that begins with “http”), and does not name the database service directly if that name is part of the Web address. For Chicago, as for APA„ when a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is available, list the DOI instead of the URL. (A DOI is a unique alphanumeric string assigned by a registration agency to identify content and provide a persistent link to its location on the Internet.)
Several companies maintain databases that make it easier to find articles on the topic you’re researching. Using these databases is especially helpful for connecting you to scholarly sources, which have been vetted by experts in their field before publication. The Yale library system subscribes to many such databases, allowing you to access them for free. See Scholarly vs. Popular Sources for more information about using scholarly sources. If you use a service like this—such as Lexis-Nexis—to find an article that you then cite in your paper, you must include the database name in your Works Cited or list of References. (The principle is that you want your reader to know how to retrieve your source for further research.)
Note: You may notice that listing Internet sources often takes more time and care than listing print sources. Since the authorship and location of Web sources are harder to establish, readers need even more information in order to assess sources and to retrieve them for further study. See Special Demands of Internet Sources for more information.
Hitchens, Christopher. “Unfairenheit 9/11.” Slate 21 June 2004. Web. 20 May 2015. <http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2004/06/unfairenheit_911.single>.(link is external)>.
[author, by last name.] [“article title.”] [online journal title] [posting date.] [medium.] [date of access.] [.]
Note: MLA style does not require the use of URLs in citations of internet sources. However, some instructors may prefer that you use URLs. In this case, MLA suggests that the URL appear in angle brackets after the date of access.
Hitchens, C. (2004, June 21). Unfairenheit 9/11. Slate. Retrieved from http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2004/06/unfairenheit_911.single(link is external)
[author.] [(posting date).] [article title.] [online journal title.] [Retrieved from URL]
19. Hitchens, “Unfairenheit 9/11.”
An online journal is a website that publishes new material on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), with a journal title or other masthead, but that does not release a print publication. An online journal is not the same as the online version of a periodical that also publishes in print. (See Online Versions of Print Periodicals.) The distinction matters, because online journals—while often more reliable than private websites—are often considered less reliable than print sources or Internet versions of print sources. See Scholarly vs. Popular Sources for more information.
When including an article from an online journal in your Works Cited or list of References, list it by the name of the article’s author. This information is followed in MLA style by the article’s title, by the publication date in APA style. (If no author is identified, list by the article’s title.) Next list the online journal’s name. Give the publication date of the article (for MLA), followed by the date that you accessed the site. Finally, give the full URL—the Web address that begins with “http.” When a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is available, list the DOI instead of the URL. (A DOI is a unique alphanumeric string assigned by a registration agency to identify content and provide a persistent link to its location on the Internet.)
Fangmann, Alexander. “Illinois Supreme Court Strikes Down Pension Cuts.” 11 May 2015. World Socialist Web Site. Web. 20 May 2015. <https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/05/11/illi-m11(link is external)>.
[author, by last name.] [“section or page title.”] [posting date.] [organization name.] [date of access.] [.]
Fangmann, A. (2015, May 11). Illinois Supreme Court strikes down pension cuts. Retrieved 20 May 2015, from the World Socialist Web Site:https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/05/11/illi-m11(link is external)
[author, by last name, initial.] [(posting date).] [page title.] [Retrieved date of access,] [from organization name:] [URL]
20. Fangmann, A. “Illinois Supreme Court.”
Many organizations maintain websites hosting information about the organization or about the field that they work in. Some examples include commercial companies, universities, non-profit organizations, political groups, and government agencies. The reliability of these websites varies widely, as these organizations often use their websites to promote specific causes and may therefore emphasize only the facts and ideas that support their goals. See Scholarly vs. Popular Sources for more information.
But sometimes these organizations have the most comprehensive coverage of topics that pertain to them. For certain topics, it’s also useful to examine what the interested parties say, even if you must remember to balance it with research into other points of view. If you are conscientious about identifying who sponsors the site, your reader will be better prepared to examine the material you present. Websites hosted by university departments and programs would generally be considered reliable sources, especially in their areas of scholarly expertise. (More caution is warranted when the site discusses politics or issues of university governance. Be careful, too, to distinguish sites created by individual faculty members from those sponsored by the larger institution.)
Whenever possible, you should identify the author of the material you use from a website. Some pages you access will have separate titles or sub-titles, which can be used like the titles of an article in a journal. This title is followed by the name of the main website, if there is one, and the name of the sponsoring organization. After this comes the full URL for the material you’re using.The final item is the date that you accessed the site.
Note: It’s sometimes hard to find the author of material on an organization website. In that case, list by the title of the site—if there is one—or by the name of the organization. If you can’t find any of this information, even after searching through the site’s links, you may be using a private website or topic website, and should review the information for those sources.
“The Horcrux of Love.” Mugglenet.com: The #1 Harry Potter Site. 3 Jan. 2013. Web. 20 May 2015. <http://www.mugglenet.com/2013/01/the-horcrux-of-love(link is external)>.
[“section or page title.”] [website name.] [posting date.] [medium.] [date of access.] [.]
The horcrux of love. (2013, Jan. 3). Mugglenet.com: The #1 Harry Potter site. Retrieved 20 May 2015, from http://www.mugglenet.com/2013/01/the-horcrux-of-love(link is external)
[section or page title.] [(posting date).] [website name.] [Retrieved date of access,] [from URL]
21. “The Horcrux of Love.”
[fn. #.] [“shortened title.”]
Websites that are print sources posted online, online versions of print periodicals, online journals, or organization websites are discussed separately. By “topic websites,” we mean sites that are dedicated to a single issue, such as the life of a famous person, the main ideas of a social movement, or the details of a popular television show. This category is a little hard to define. Unlike online journals or other periodicals, topic websites are not usually revised on a regular schedule, although material may be added from time to time. And unlike organization websites, topic websites do not usually promote the products or mission of a particular institution—which means they also don’t have the organization’s reputation to back up their authority. Finally, topic websites may also overlap with private websites, which often focus on a single issue that their author is passionate about.
Still, the category is worth knowing about, because a lot of background information on general topics like “Medieval Literature” or “Film Noir” is found on websites that don’t easily fit any of the other categories. You’ll want to double-check material you find on Topic Websites, and you may need to treat them as popular sources rather than scholarly sources. If you take these precautions, topic websites are sometimes useful for giving a broad overview or putting you on the track of more authoritative sources. (See Special Demands of Internet Sources for more information.)
When these websites appear to be wholly or primarily the work of one author, list by the author’s name, followed by the title of the article or specific page you’re using (if there is one), the website title (often the name of the topic), the date of posting (if known), the date you accessed it, and the full URL—the Web address that begins with “http.”
If the site you’re using is sponsored by an organization of some kind (like a company, a university department, or a political group), it may qualify as an organization website, and you should review the information for those sources.
Mohanraj, Mary Anne. “The Early Years: 1971-1985.” Mary Anne Mohanraj. 20 May 2015. Web. <http://www.mamohanraj.com/BioPhotos/bio1.html>.
[author.] [“section or page title.”] [website name.] [date of access] [medium.] [.]
Mohanraj, M. A. The early years: 1971-1985. Mary Anne Mohanraj. Retrieved May 20, 2015, from http://www.mamohanraj.com/BioPhotos/bio1.html
[author.] [section or page title.] [website name.] [Retrieved date of access,] [from URL]
22. Mohanraj, “The Early Years.”
Private websites come in many forms. Some dabble in multiple topics, about which the site’s author may not even profess any special expertise. Some announce themselves as fan sites, indicating that the author has an intense interest but no special background or credentials. Still others are quite professional in presentation, with authors who profess or demonstrate vast experience.
Just a few years ago, unreliable websites were often riddled with typographical errors or burdened with amateurish design and graphics. But it’s increasingly easy to host websites that look polished and professional, which can make it hard to judge whether the site’s sponsors take seriously the responsibility to check and update their information. For the purpose of academic research, most private websites should be considered popular sources, which can be useful as sources of opinion but should generally not be relied on for authoritative information. (See Popular vs. Scholarly Sources for more information.)
It’s often useful to identify your source in the body of your paper (and not just in your citation or footnote); this identification is especially important when you use private websites. If you give a sense of what kind of web source you’re using, the reader will be better able to understand the context of your evidence. Private websites also raise issues of privacy, as some sites that require password access may not invite republication of their material in scholarly research. See Special Demands of Internet Sources for more information.
When using material from a private website, list by the author (if known), then by the title of the article or specific Webpage you’re using (if known), and the date of posting (if listed). Follow this by the title of the website, if applicable. If the site is part of an identifiable online group (like “Facebook” or “tumblr”), include that title next. Next, list the date that you accessed the site and the full URL—the Web address that begins with “http.”
Some of these details may be hard to identify. In the example above, for instance, it was not possible to determine when the specific section of the website was last updated. Only the date of access is given.
Martin, George R. R. “A Few More Last Words.” Not a Blog. 8 May 2010. Livejournal. Web. 20 May 2015. <http://grrm.livejournal.com/152340>.
[author, by last name.] [“title of entry.”] [title of weblog.] [posting date.] [site sponsor or publisher.] [medium.] [date of access.] [.]
Martin, G. R. R. (2010, May 8). A few more last words [Weblog post]. Retrieved May 20, 2015, from Livejournal: http://grrm.livejournal.com/152340
[author, by last name, initial.] [(posting date).] [title of entry [format description].] [Weblog post.] [Retrieved date of access,] [from site sponsor or publisher:] [URL]
23. Martin, “Last Words.”
Blogs—an abbreviation of “weblogs”—are websites or areas of websites devoted to dated reflections by the site’s author. Many blogs are hosted on or presented as private websites where the author claims little special expertise or no professional affiliation relevant to the blog’s topic. In these cases, see the discussion of Private Websites, and use the same care when evaluating the material you access.
But blogs are increasingly included as a feature of organization websites (Amazon.com, for instance, now invites authors to post blogs on their work) or as elements of online versions of print periodicals (the New York Times website hosts several blogs by reporters and editors). When using a blog that’s identified with a larger journal or organization, follow the advice listed for those general sources.
Even when hosted by a recognized organization, most blogs should probably be treated as popular rather than scholarly sources. See Scholarly vs. Popular Sources for more information.
The example above also lists “Livejournal” as the site’s sponsor. This information might be considered analogous to the organization that sponsors an organization website. But in some cases, it may not be necessary to give the site sponsor. Livejournal, for instance, does not supervise posters’ comments very closely. A sponsor like “Facebook” has more rules and some restrictions to access, but is still doesn’t stand behind the material as much as an online journal would. When deciding whether to include the site sponsor, use your judgment: if the blog pursues a theme in common with the sponsor, list the sponsor.
Note: It’s often useful to identify your source in the body of your paper (and not just in your citation or footnote); this identification is especially important when you use blogs. If you give a sense of what kind of web source you’re using, the reader will be better able to understand the context of your evidence. See Special Demands of Internet Sources for more information.
The formats below cover the most common ways to cite video clips that were published online (on sites like YouTube and Vimeo). Video that was first published elsewhere but accessed online (on sites like Netflix and Hulu) is cited differently. See the notes that follow for more information.
TED. “Philip Zimbardo: The Psychology of Evil.” Online video clip. YouTube. YouTube, 23 Sept. 2008. Web. 8 Aug 2015. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsFEV35tWsg>
[author’s name or screen name.] [“title of video.”] [media type.] [name of website.] [site sponsor or publisher,] [posting date.] [medium.] [date of access.] [.]
TED. (2008, Sept. 23). Philip Zimbardo: The psychology of evil [Video file]. Retrieved Aug. 8, 2015, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsFEV35tWsg
[author’s name or screen name.] [(posting date).] [title of entry [format description].] [Retrieved date of access,] [from URL]
Note: If you know both the author’s name and his or her screen name (and they are different from one another), APA style cites the author’s name first (last name, first initial) followed by the screen name in square brackets (e.g. Booker, J [jbook].).
24. TED, “Philip Zimbardo.”
[fn. #.] [author name or screen name, “shortened title.”]
Like other film and video formats, conventions for citing online video are less fixed than those for print or other kinds of online sources. The citation for a video clip that was first published online typically attributes the clip to the individual who posted it on the Internet. Video that was first published elsewhere before being posted online, is usually attributed to the individuals most responsible for making it—the director or performers. See the citation formats for Film & Video and Television, Radio Program, or Music Video for more information.
Depending on who seems most responsible for the existence of the video you’re citing, you may choose to attribute an online video to its creators rather than the individual who posted it. For example, a film that is released online or an ongoing web series, may be more accurately attributed to the director or actors than the person who uploaded it to the Internet. For citation formats that attribute video to the actors or director, see Film & Video and Television, Radio Program, or Music Video.
Levy, Michael. “Re: your canon?” Science Fiction Research Association, 19 Apr. 2006. Web. 26 June 2006. <sfra-l@wiz.cath.vt.edu(link sends e-mail)>.
[author, by last name.] [“title or subject line.”] [discussion group,] [posting date.] [medium.] [date of access.] [.]
Levy, M. (2006, April 19). Re: your canon? [Electronic mailing list message]. Retrieved June 26, 2006 from sfra-l@wiz.cath.vt.edu(link sends e-mail).
[author, by last name, initial.] [(posting date).] [title or subject line [format description].] [Retrieved date of access from address.]
24. Levy, “Re: your canon?”
[fn. #.] [author last name, ”title or subject heading.”]
There are many electronic forums that allow users with a specific interest or affiliation to discuss topics with each other. Some of these are restricted to members of a group, or of a specific course. (Many Yale courses, for instance, provide forum discussions through the Classesv2 server.) Other such discussions are open to any interested party. Although discussions limited to professionals in a field may be more authoritative, in general you should probably treat material from these forums as popular rather than scholarly sources. See Scholarly vs. Popular Sources for more information.
Note: Many such forums expect communications to be private. Be sure to check the group’s policies on reproduction of such material. Even if an FAQ or moderator seems to make reproduction permissible, a decent respect for privacy suggests that you secure the poster’s permission before making the material public.
If you use material from an electronic forum, list by author’s name. Follow that with the most specific identifying information you can give about the particular post. Depending on the type of discussion, there may be subject headings or specific message numbers on a given post. You may or may not be able to tell the posting date.
In MLA style, include the name of the sponsoring forum. Since most of these discussions do not supervise postings, do not put the sponsor name in italics. Follow this with the date you accessed the material. Even when membership is restricted to a particular organization, most listervs should probably be treated as popular rather than scholarly sources. See Scholarly vs. Popular Sources for more information.
The last item in your listing—the electronic address—brings up one point on which MLA and APA styles differ starkly: in APA, if the posting cannot be retrieved, you cite it in your paper as a personal communication and do not include it in your list of References. Even in MLA style, it’s better to cite the message in the form that’s most easily accessible to your reader: many listservs archive their messages on the web, for instance, even though the original postings are delivered by email. Try to include the archive address.
Also note: As discussed in Signaling Sources, it’s often useful to identify your source in the body of your paper (and not just in your citation or footnote); this identification is especially important when you use listservs. If you give a sense of what kind of Websource you’re using, the reader will be better able to understand the context of your evidence. See Special Demands of Internet Sources for more information.
Donahue, Tiane. “Re: Your WPA Question.” Message to the author. 14 Dec. 2004. Email.
[author, by last name.] [“title or subject line.”] [message recipient.] [message date.] [medium.]
Do not include in list of References. Cite in your paper as a personal communication.
25. Tiane Donahue, “Re: Your WPA Question,” email message to author, December 14, 2000.
[fn. #.] [author full name, “subject heading,”] [type of message,] [date of message.]
Note: Chicago style footnotes give full information for private messages, but does not list them in the Bibliography.
It’s probably obvious that the authority of material that comes in private communications varies greatly with the status of the source. What someone writes to you by email may be useful as a source of opinion, but can seldom be relied on as definitive information, unless you’re in correspondence with a recognized expert. And even in these cases, the informality of email makes most authors much less careful about checking facts and conclusions, rendering the information less authoritative. Most email messages should probably be treated as popular rather than scholarly sources. See Scholarly vs. Popular Sources for more information.
Note: Most people consider email to be private. Even if the message is sent to more than one recipient, a decent respect for privacy suggests that you secure the sender’s permission before making the material public. If you received the message as a forward, the obligation to seek permission is even more urgent, as the original author likely has no reason to expect you to use the message in your own work. See Special Demands of Internet Sources for more information.
If you do use material from an email, the format for listing in MLA style is fairly simple, as in the example above: Author, Subject, “Email to the author,” and Date.
In APA style, you do not include in your list of References any source that can’t be retrieved by your reader. If you use email in your paper, cite it as a personal communication in your text, and do not list it at the end. For Chicago style, private messages are given full citation in a footnote, but not included in the Bibliography.
Note: As discussed in the section on Signaling Sources, it’s often useful to identify your source in the body of your paper (and not just in your citation or footnote); this identification is especially important when you use private messages. If you give a sense of what kind of source you’re using, the reader will be better able to understand the context of your evidence. See Special Demands of Internet Sources for more information.
“King Arthur.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 18 May 2015. Web. 20 May 2015. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur(link is external)>.
[“page title.”] [website name.] [site sponsor or publisher,] [date of last revision.] [medium.] [date of access.] [.]
King Arthur. (n.d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved July 26, 2006, from:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur(link is external)
[page title.] [(“n.d.”).] [In website name.] [Retrieved date, from: URL]
26. “King Arthur.”
[fn. #.] [“title.”]
To list material from Wikipedia, you should review the advice for organization websites. But Wikipedia merits additional attention because of its recent growth and popularity. Some professors will warn you not to use Wikipedia because they believe its information is unreliable. As a community project with no central review committee, Wikipedia certainly contains its share of incorrect information and uninformed opinion. And since it presents itself as an encyclopedia, Wikipedia can sometimes seem more trustworthy than the average website, even to writers who would be duly careful about private websites or topic websites. In this sense, it should be treated as a popular rather than scholarly source. See Popular vs. Scholarly Sources for more information.
But the main problem with using Wikipedia as an important source in your research is not that it gets things wrong. Some of its contributors are leaders in their fields, and, besides, some print sources contain errors. The problem, instead, is that Wikipedia strives for a lower level of expertise than professors expect from Yale students. As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia is written for a common readership. But students in Yale courses are already consulting primary materials and learning from experts in the discipline. In this context, to rely on Wikipedia—even when the material is accurate—is to position your work as inexpert and immature.
If you use Wikipedia for general background, check several other sources before using the material in your essays. Some of the facts you find may be attributable to common knowledge (see Common Knowledge for more discussion). You may also be able to track opinions or deeper ideas back to their original sources. In many cases, your course readings will contain similar ideas in better, more quotable language. Many student writers are tempted to use Wikipedia for definitions of terms (the same way a beginning writer might quote a dictionary). But in most cases, a definition drawn or paraphrased from the primary course readings—or from other scholarly sources—will be more effective. See Why Cite? for more discussion of definitions and keyterms.
Of course, if you do use language or information from Wikipedia, you must cite it—to do otherwise constitutes plagiarism. The advice here is not to hide what Wikipedia contributes to your ideas, but rather to move beyond Wikipedia and write from a more knowledgeable, expert stance.
Principles of Citing Sources
Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism
Citing Books
Citing Miscellaneous Sources
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Writing Handouts
Model Papers from the Disciplines
Contact the Writing Center
The Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning partners with departments and groups on-campus throughout the year to share its space. Please review the reservation form and submit a request.
The hows and whys of using sources in your academic writing. Includes advice on avoiding plagiarism.
Principles, strategies, and models to deepen your understanding of what good writing looks like—and how to achieve it.
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A minor offered by the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
AHIST
Total units 24 Units
Areas of interest Cultural Studies, History, Asian Studies, Asia Pacific Studies, Asia-Pacific Studies
Minor code AHIST-MIN
Academic career Undergraduate
Asian History Minor
Relevant Degrees
The Asian History minor offers a suite of courses covering developments in a wide range of Asian societies from early times to the recent past. The minor provides students with grounding in the course of history in a variety of Asian societies and it provides an empirical basis for the comparative analysis of historical and contemporary developments in Asia and the rest of the world. The minor trains students in techniques of source criticism and document analysis, instructs them in the marshalling of evidence for the development of analysis and argument, develops their skills in narrative analysis and in applying social science theory to past societies that differ greatly from the western context in which most such theories were developed. The minor assists them to analyse the social and cultural uses to which history writing and historical memory are put and develops an understanding of the historical traditions of Asian societies.
1. Understand historical forces that have shaped Asian and Pacific states and societies,
2. Analyse the regional and global significance of historical events and developments in Asia and the Pacific,
3. Identify and critique the uses that are made of history in contemporary Asian and Pacific societies,
4. Understand the techniques that historians use to develop understandings of the past and the meaning of the past to different social groups,
5. Construct coherent arguments based on evidence drawn from the past.
Bachelor of Arts (BARTS)
Bachelor of Asia-Pacific Studies (Year in Asia) (BAPYA)
Bachelor of Asian Studies (BASIA)
Bachelor of Pacific Studies (BPAST)
This minor requires the completion of 24 units, which must include:
12 units from completion of the following course(s):
ASIA1999 The Origins of Political Order in Asia 6
ASIA2307 History of Empire in Asia 6
HIST2110 Approaches to History 6
ASIA3029 Reconciliation and the memory of conflict in Asia 6
ASIA2044 Chinese History: The Imperial Period (221 BC - 1800) 6
ASIA2270 India Past and Present: The impact of pre-colonial history on India today 6
ASIA2016 The Mongol Empire in World History 6
ASIA3011 Samurai Society and Social Control in Japan 6
ASIA2271 The Making of South Asia 6
ASIA2009 The Making of Modern Japan: From Samurai to Economic Superpower and Beyond 6
ASIA2040 The Making of Modern Korea 6
ASIA2037 History of Modern China 6
ASIA2045 Lies, Conspiracy and Propaganda 6
ASIA2017 History of International Relations in Northeast Asia 6
ASIA3272 Truth and Falsity in Indian History and Politics 6
ASIA2006 Gender in Korean History 6
PASI2002 Australia in Oceania in the 19th and 20th centuries 6
WARS2004 War in the Islands: The Second World War in the Pacific 6
WARS2003 The Korean War 6
ASIA2096 North Korea: History, Culture, Politics 6
ASIA2039 Burma/Myanmar - a Country in Crisis 6
ASIA2167 Borders and their Transgressions in Mainland Southeast Asia 6
ASIA2041 Mainland Southeast Asia: Colonial and Postcolonial Predicaments 6
WARS2002 The Vietnam Wars: 1941-1989 6
ASIA2516 Indonesia: Politics, Society and Development 6
ASIA2165 Islam in Southeast Asia 6
MEAS2000 Iranian History and Culture 6
ASIA2301 Human Migration and Expansion in the Rise of the Asia-Pacific 6
ASIA2308 Linguistic Histories in Asia and the Pacific 6
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American states
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area (after Alaska and Texas). It is home to the nation's second- and sixth-largest census statistical areas (Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and San Francisco Bay Area), and eight of the nation's fifty most populated cities (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Fresno, Sacramento, Long Beach and Oakland). The capital city is Sacramento.
California's diverse geography ranges from the Pacific Coast in the west, to the Sierra Nevada mountains in the east—from the Redwood–Douglas-fir forests of the northwest, to the Mojave Desert areas in the southeast. The center of the state is dominated by Central Valley, a major agricultural area. California contains both the highest and lowest points in the contiguous United States (Mount Whitney and Death Valley), and has the third-longest coastline of all states (after Alaska and Florida). Earthquakes are a common occurrence due to the state's location along the Pacific Ring of Fire: about 37,000 are recorded annually.
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WrestleMania VII - March 24, 1991.
Royal Rumble 1993 - January 24, 1993.
AAA When Worlds Collide - November 6, 1994.
Bash at the Beach (1995) - July 16, 1995.
WrestleMania XII - March 31, 1996.
RAW - April 1, 1996.
RAW - April 15, 1996.
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Nitro - February 24, 1997.
Nitro - October 27, 1997
RAW - January 19, 1998.
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In Your House 23: Fully Loaded - July 26, 1998.
RAW - July 27, 1998.
Heat - August 2, 1998.
RAW - August 3, 1998
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Heat - January 24, 1999.
SuperBrawl IX - February 21, 1999.
RAW - March 15, 1999.
Heat - March 21, 1999.
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Thunder - October 28, 1999
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RAW - November 29, 1999.
Smackdown - December 2, 1999.
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RAW - February 14, 2000.
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Heat - February 20, 2000.
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Smackdown - April 6, 2000.
Heat - April 9, 2000.
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Heat Wave 2000 - July 16, 2000.
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RAW - October 9, 2000.
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RAW - August 20, 2001.
Heat - December 9, 2001
Vengeance 2001 - December 9, 2001
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Velocity - June 22, 2002.
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Smackdown - September 26, 2002
Velocity - September 28, 2002
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RAW - June 2, 2003
Smackdown - June 5, 2003.
Velocity - June 7, 2003.
Velocity - July 26, 2003.
PWG Are You Adequately Prepared To Rock! - October 4, 2003.
PWG An Inch Longer Than Average - November 15, 2003.
RAW - December 1, 2003.
Smackdown - December 11, 2003
PWG Pimpin' In High Places - December 13, 2003.
PWG Tango & Cash Invitational (Night One) - January 24, 2004.
No Way Out 2004 - February 15, 2004.
PWG Taste The Radness - February 22, 2004.
PWG 88 Miles Per Hour - March 7, 2004.
PWG Kee The ee Out Of Our ool! - March 24, 2004.
Judgment Day 2004 - May 16, 2004.
RAW - May 17, 2004
PWG 44 Ways To Kill You With A Pimento - May 22, 2004.
PWG The Reason For The Season - July 10, 2004.
Smackdown - August 26, 2004.
Velocity - August 28, 2004.
Heat - August 29, 2004.
Smackdown - September 2, 2004.
PWG The Next Show - September 4, 2004.
Velocity - September 4, 2004.
Heat - September 5, 2004.
PWG Use Your Illusion III - October 9, 2004.
PWG Use Your Illusion IV - October 23, 2004.
Chick Fight I - October 29, 2004.
PWG All Star Weekend (Night One) - April 1, 2005.
PWG All Star Weekend (Night Two) - April 2, 2005.
WrestleMania 21 - April 3, 2005.
Smackdown - April 7, 2005
Chick Fight II - May 13, 2005.
PWG Jason Takes PWG - May 13, 2005.
RAW - July 4, 2005.
Smackdown - July 7, 2005.
PWG 2nd Anniversary Show (Night One) - July 9, 2005.
PWG 2nd Anniversary Show (Night Two) - July 10, 2005.
PWG Battle of Los Angeles 2005 (Night Two) - September 4, 2005.
PWG After School Special - October 1, 2005.
PWG Straight To DVD - October 14, 2005.
RAW - October 17, 2005
RAW - October 24, 2005.
Smackdown - October 28, 2005.
Chick Fight III - October 29, 2005.
Velocity - October 29, 2005.
Taboo Tuesday 2005 - November 1, 2005
Smackdown - November 4, 2005.
PWG Astonishing X-Mas - December 16, 2005.
PWG Teen Outreach Summit - January 21, 2006.
PWG Card Subject To Change 2 - February 4, 2006.
PWG Hollywood Globetrotters - March 4, 2006.
PWG Beyond The Thunderdome - March 18, 2006.
Chick Fight IV - April 15, 2006.
PWG (Please Don't Call It) The O.C. - May 6, 2006.
RAW - May 8, 2006.
Velocity - May 13, 2006
PWG From Parts Well Known - June 24, 2006.
Chick Fight V - June 24, 2006.
PWG Threemendous - July 16, 2006.
[[October 16, 2006 Monday Night RAW results
California based wrestling promotions
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Aiden Riley
A.J. Kirsch
Alex Knight
Alexis Darevko
Alysha
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Mia Yim
Michael Modest
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Mike Lockwood
Mike Tenay
Nick Bockwinkel
Nicole Savoy
Peter Zwissler
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Rick Bassman
Rodney Anoa'i
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Sal Rinauro
Sandra Margot
Scorpio Sky
Scott Lost
Shelly Martinez
Shiima Xion
Solofa Fatu
Stacey Cash
Stella Mae French
Super Dragon
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Tyler Reks
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Vince Garcia
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California on Wikipedia
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48565...29443 (1401-digits)
This was the first known illegal prime. What people often forget is that a program (any file actually) is a string of bits (binary digits), so every program is a number. Some of these are prime. Phil Carmody found this one in March 2001. When written in base 16 (hexadecimal), this prime forms a gzip file of the original C-source code (sans tables) that decrypts the DVD Movie encryption scheme (DeCSS). See Gallery of CSS Descramblers (and its Steganography Wing) for more information. It was illegal to distribute this source code in the United States, so surely that made this number (found by Phil Carmody) also illegal.
A Perl program for extracting the source code from this prime number was written by Jamie McCarthy. [Caldwell]
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Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Dublin”
Energy Stew – Steve Gottlieb – 07.21.17
EFT might be your answer – Energy Stew interview with Steve Gottlieb Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) has become a very popular healing tool and is quite simple to use for everyday emotional calming. It can also fix many problems in your life including getting wonderful health results. Most people don’t know the deeper ways it can be used so it’s …
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ANNALEE NEWITZ – First discovery of 50,000-year-old human settlements in Australian interior
In a stunning discovery, a team of archaeologists in Australia has found extensive remains of a sophisticated human community living 50,000 years ago. The remains were found in a rock shelter in the continent’s arid southern interior. Packed with a range of tools, decorative pigments, and animal bones, the shelter is a wide, roomy space located in the Flinders Ranges, …
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The Natural Nurse And Dr. Z – Depression Breakthrough Solution – 08.09.16
Host Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN, www.naturalnurse.com, interviews Dr. James M. Greenblatt. James M. Greenblatt MD, is a pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, having treated patients with mood disorders and complex eating disorders since 1990. He is a co-founder of Integrative Medicine for Mental Health (IMMH), and currently serves as the chief medical officer and vice president of medical services at Walden Behavioral Care in Waltham, Massachusetts. Dr. Greenblatt is also an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. His new book, Breakthrough Depression Solution: Mastering Your Mood with Nutrition, Diet & Supplementation(Sunrise, May 2016), offers a personalized model for relief from depression, eating disorders, and more. He has much to say about the 24 percent increase in suicide over the past 10 years, and the shocking 200 percent leap in suicides among girls aged 10-14, along with many other current topics in mental health today. Contact: http://www.jamesgreenblattmd.com/
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LOA Today – 01.07.16
This week on LOA Today, Joel tells us a story of a young orphan he met last month who has lived a life of horror. Yet, all it took was for him to learn about the Law of Attraction, and within days he completely turned his life around. You don’t want to miss this one!
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Heather Gray – A Message to American Mothers About Sex in the Military
Amnesty International just made a decision regarding decriminalizing the sex industry and I frankly wonder if they understand anything about it. In the dialogue about this within the Amnesty International circles, the Philippines is mentioned. Here’s an excerpt of what Janice G. Raymond who is the former co-director of the “Coalition Against Trafficking in Women” had to say about this …
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Chris Hedges – Amnesty International: Protecting the ‘Human Rights’ of Johns, Pimps and Human Traffickers
The decision by Amnesty International’s decision-making forum, the International Council Meeting, to call for the decriminalization of prostitution is another in a long line of triumphs for heartless neoliberal economics and the grotesque commodification of human beings that defines predatory capitalism. Salil Shetty, secretary-general of Amnesty International, said: “Sex workers are one of the most marginalized groups in the world …
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New Studies Add to Growing Evidence That Notorious Pesticides Harm Bees – Nadia Prupis
Two new studies published in Nature on Wednesday show that neonicotinoid pesticides—or neonics for short—may be even more harmful to bees than previously thought. Those studies, Bees Prefer Foods Containing Neonicotinoid Pesticides and Ecology: Tasteless Pesticides Affect Bees in the Field, add to the growing list of evidence that neonics are a major contributing factor to bee population decline and reinforce the case for restricting …
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Tens of Thousands Flood Dublin Demanding Abolition of Austerity TaxOn Water
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of the Irish capital on Saturday to demand the abolition of a controversial water tax—an austerity measure that protesters say violates the human right to this vital good. The campaign Right2Water announced in a press statement on Saturday that over 80,000 people from across Ireland took part in the demonstration. The group, whose …
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BFCC-QIOs Demonstrate How Immediate Advocacy Helps People with Medicare
If a person with Medicare has concerns about the quality of Medicare-covered health care she or he has received, here’s what they can do to try to resolve the issue.
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Alan Alda: Engagement is Key to Health Communication
Speaking at a recent patient-centered care conference, TV legend Alan Alda said that personal engagement with patients is the key to delivering better health care outcomes. Read more about his personal experiences with the health care system.
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Register Today: 2018 CMS Quality Conference
The 2018 CMS Quality Conference will bring together 2,500 health quality stakeholders in Baltimore, Maryland to discuss strategies for advancing patient-centered care. Here’s a sneak peek.
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Q&A with Sue Sheridan: Person and Family Engagement
CMS’ Patient and Family Engagement Adviser talks about operationalizing CMS’ Person and Family Engagement (PFE) Strategy and how she came to be a patient advocate.
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Quality Conference Day 1: How Purpose and Partnership Can Help Reduce Harm, Improve Quality and Save Lives
Resilience, partnership, engagement and recognition were all major themes for the first day of the CMS Quality Conference.
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Person and Family Engagement Q&A with Maaden Eshete Jones
CMS Technical Advisor for Communications and Outreach discusses the mission, focus and impact of the agency’s Person & Family Engagement Affinity Group.
Start Low & Go Slow: Increasing Opioid Safety Among Seniors
The opioid epidemic is impacting seniors in different ways than younger adults. Alliant Quality QIN-QIO discusses strategies for patient engagement and education to increase opioid safety.
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Five Ways to Reach Limited English-Proficient Beneficiaries
The QIO Program aims to provide quality care to all beneficiaries, including those for whom English is not their primary language. Here are five ways QIN-QIOs can help improve access to care for limited English-proficient beneficiaries.
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Four Top Takeaways from Concordium 2016
Last month, health care leaders and health information technology professionals came together to discuss the evolving role of data and to explore how it is improving care quality and safety.
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Top Six Tips to Start "The Talk"
End-of-life planning is becoming an increasingly important topic in health care and quality improvement. These six tips aim to help patients and providers initiate the conversation and reach decisions all parties are comfortable with.
QIO Program National Learning Series: "Effective Communication and Coordination of Care"
Beneficiaries, providers and QIN-QIOs are invited to join the next National Learning and Action Network (LAN) call, focused on promoting effective communication and coordination of care.
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Patient Story: The Right Place at the Right Time
A beneficiary reflects on how a DSME program helped to change his attitude, improve his lifestyle and promote chronic disease self-management.
Diabetes Education Inspires Couple to Battle Chronic Disease with Love
Two individuals living with diabetes in Pennsylvania find love and peer support at an Everyone with Diabetes Counts education class.
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QIO Program National Learning Series for Health Care Providers: “Trends in Patient and Family Engagement”
Attention Providers: Join us for our next National Learning & Action Network (LAN) Call, Trends in Patient and Family Engagement!
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CMS: Build on Accomplishments in Health Care Quality Improvement
On day one of the CMS Quality Conference, top CMS officials spoke about recent strides in health care transformation, focusing on the steps required to continue in the right direction.
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CMS Leaders and Patients Agree: Put People at the Center of Care
On day two of the CMS Quality Conference, leaders in quality improvement discussed the importance of considering the patient’s unique voice in all aspects of care, urging attendees to treat the patient-provider relationship as a partnership based on mutual respect.
Atlantic Quality Innovation Network’s EDC Program Improves Quality of Life for Beneficiaries Living with Diabetes in New York
The QIN-QIO for New York, the District of Colombia and South Carolina has graduated over 6,500 Medicare beneficiaries in New York since it began offering EDC workshops in 2008.
Five Key Ways to Optimize EHRs for Better Patient Health
From identifying patient needs to maintaining education records, HSAG shares best practices for leveraging health record data to improve patient outcomes and safety.
Kentucky Collaboration Promotes Patient Portal Usage
Kentucky’s Meaningful Use Workgroup is prescribing health IT for all care settings and strategizing how to get patients engaged for better care coordination.
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An Executive Q&A with Jeneen Iwugo
Jeneen Iwugo, newly named Deputy Director of the Quality Improvement and Innovation Group (QIIG) in the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ) at CMS, shares what’s ahead for the QIO Program in year two of its five-year performance period.
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Patient Engagement Key to Reducing Antipsychotic Medications in Oklahoma Nursing Home
From his motorized wheel chair, Bill Turley waves to friends along the hallways at the Villages of Southern Hills, a long-term care facility and his home in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Family pictures and musical instruments adorn his room there. He talks about his love for music and his respect for the English program at Oklahoma State University, his alma mater. He serves as the president of the Villages resident council. He enjoys writing and Internet surfing, he plays multiple musical instruments, and he rides an oversized trike in the courtyard of the home.
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Thickened Liquid Challenge Helps Providers Understand Patient Experience
New media campaign aims to promote awareness of the patient experience and encourage open discussion of topics involving palliative and geriatric care.
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Resident and Family Engagement Defines Minnesota Nursing Home’s Approach to Care
Lakewood Health System Care Center took a different approach to developing long-term care plans by working directly with residents and families.
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A Soul Doctor and a Jazz Singer: A Conversation on End-of-Life Care
Thelma Botelho, a 92-year-old terminally ill patient and former jazz singer, found her voice again after her doctor encouraged her to do what she loved in her waning days.
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Public Libraries Play Host to Community Health Education Classes
Quality Insights partners with public libraries to promote diabetes self-management education in New Jersey.
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A CMS 50th Anniversary Q&A with Patrick Conway
Patrick Conway, M.D., MSc, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Acting Principal Deputy Administrator, shares his perspective on the CMS QIO Program’s past and present contributions to health care delivery transformation.
BFCC-QIOs Help Medicare Recipients Exercise Rights to High-Quality Health Care
Learn how Beneficiary and Family Centered Care-QIOs (BFCC-QIOs) give patients a voice and create a safe and responsive place for Medicare recipients to get support and information on care options and appeals.
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Eight CMS Takeaways Gleaned from LEAN
CMS’ Center for Clinical Standards and Quality is getting LEAN thanks to recent training at the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value. Here are some takeaways.
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BFCC-QIOs Debut New Online Tools for Beneficiaries and Providers
Learn how KEPRO and Livanta are helping beneficiaries who have a complaint about the quality of their care or who want to appeal a provider’s decision.
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Safer Health Care Through Transparency
The National Patient Safety Foundation’s Lucian Leape Institute shares its findings on how transparency can facilitate safer care.
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Observing Patient Safety Awareness Week
All health care stakeholders can take an active role in the observance, which takes place March 8-14.
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A Heart Health Q&A with Cynthia Pamon
Cynthia Pamon, R.N., BSN, MBA, MSHCAD, CCM, Cardiac Program Lead at CMS, discusses the QIO Program’s cardiac health initiatives.
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Check. Change. Control. Program Empowers People to Monitor and Manage Blood Pressure
In Sacramento, California, HSAG's eight-week blood pressure reduction program enabled patients to improve their health and to become more active participants in their care.
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Combining Forces for Cardiac Improvement
Alliant Quality, Georgia’s QIN-QIO, brings together stakeholders to create a united front for overcoming cardiac disparities.
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One Patient’s Quest to Be Heard
Jasper Travis shares his story of empowerment.
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An Executive Q&A with Dr. Chisara Asomugha
Meet Chisara Asomugha, the Senior Technical Advisor and Medical Officer for the CMS Center for Clinical Standards and Quality, Quality Improvement Group.
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Reducing High Blood Pressure through Patient Education
Known as the“silent killer,” high blood pressure often goes undetected until it causes heart disease or a stroke. One of the ways to reduce the severe health consequences of high blood pressure is by educating patients about the risks.
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Chisara N. Asomugha, M.D., MSPH, FAAP is a recognized thought leader in community health,
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Over the course of her 30-year career, Dr. Tina Castañares has worked as a primary care clinician at three of Oregon’s migrant health centers. An original member of the Oregon Health Services Commission, Dr. Castañares assisted in the pioneering, priority-setting work that helped create the Oregon Health Plan. She also served as the National Ombudswoman for Farmworker Health to the U.S. Assistant Surgeon General for 11 years, was a member of the national Board of Trustees of the American Hospital Association and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Northwest Health Foundation. She has taught and lectured nationally and internationally about resource allocation, Latino and immigrant health, palliative and end-of-life care, bioethics, community health workers, upstream public health and health care reform.
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The Profound Role of Listening in Patient-Centered Care
At a Salt Lake City, Utah-based Learning and Action Network event organized by HealthInsight, the Quality Improvement Organization for Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, mother and son team Vicki and Kevin Whiting shared with a crowd of more than 150 medical professionals their health care story. After a long journey and a mother finding the heart to use her voice, Kevin’s true diagnosis was discovered, and he received a surgical procedure that saved his life. The Whitings’ story exemplifies how listening is the heart and soul of patient-centered care.
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Brian Jack, M.D. is Professor of Family Medicine and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine. As the Principal Investigator for the"Re-Engineered Discharge" (Project RED) process, he leads a research team whose work to improve hospital discharge processes has been adapted by the National Quality Forum as a national"Safe Practice" used in 50 states and over 10 countries.
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Giving Patients a Voice in Care Decisions
Dr. Michael J. Barry became president of the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation in 2009, transitioning from his previous role as chief medical editor. The foundation strives to improve the quality of medical decisions through better patient education and greater patient involvement, which have been themes of Barry’s own research.
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Diabetes Self-Management Education Empowers Mississippians
In the U.S., 18.8 million people have been diagnosed with diabetes, but more concerning is the estimated seven million people who remain undiagnosed, according to the 2011 National Diabetes Fact Sheet. Educating people about how to manage their diabetes allows them to better control the disease and understand the potential complications such as amputations, blindness and kidney failure.
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What Care Integration Means to Me
Charles Pascale, a 67-year-old resident of East Brunswick, N.J., was diagnosed with diabetes in the early 1990s. In 2005, he underwent bypass surgery and was re-hospitalized six times in 2010 and two times in 2011 and 2012. After many tests and procedures, he was diagnosed with congestive heart failure, atherosclerosis, End Stage Renal Disease, mild stroke, various gastrointestinal issues and an irregular heartbeat. Mr. Pascale endured several amputations and continues to receive dialysis. Through it all, he has remained positive because of the collaboration he has witnessed among his health care providers, as well as his own integration into the care team. This is his story.
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Gateway Senior Living’s Approach to Quality Nursing Home Care
Established 50 years ago, Gateway Senior Living is the first retirement community in Lincoln, Neb. that began to provide both assisted living and senior health care to its residents. It is currently home to just over 60 residents and includes a small
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Engaging Patients and Families to Make the Discharge Process SMARTer
One in five hospital stays are complicated by a post-discharge adverse event and one in four readmissions occur within 30 days as the result of poor discharge care caused by rushed communication and poor handoffs.
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Community Stakeholders Enhance Shared-Decision Making in Minnesota
Research has shown that when patients are actively involved in their health care, they tend to have better outcomes. One emerging strategy that conveys this idea is shared decision-making (SDM) – the process of using medical evidence and patient values to come to a conclusion about treatment.
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An Executive Q&A with Dennis Wagner
Meet Dennis Wagner, the new acting director of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Center for Clinical Standards and Quality, Quality Improvement Group.
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QualityNet: The CMS Healthcare Quality Conference
A look ahead at the 2014 conference.
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Use the Confidentiality Agreement to answer questions 1-9.
1) What is the consideration in this contract (something must go both ways – what is it each way)? (4 points)
2) In February 2014, Joseph Martin quits and leaves Concordat Company. According to the agreement between Concordat and Martin, for how long must he refrain from working for a competitor? (2 points).
3) There are several things that Martin must do if he quits Concordat (in addition to the non-compete in the above question). List 5 of those things and the paragraph (including subparagraph numbers) where you found those requirements. (10 points)
4) If Martin develops an invention in April 2014 (after he leaves the company) and he files a patent application on it, what is the status of that invention? In what paragraph is that information found: (2 points)
5) What is the geographic restriction of the noncompete and how is it that it will not be considered too broad. In what two paragraphs is that information? (4 points)
6) Martin and three others worked together at Concordat to develop 200 inventions. When Martin leaves, how much money will he get if Concordat decides to protect those patents and in what paragraph is that information found? (6 points)
7) In paragraph 7, Remedies for Breach, it states that Concordat can obtain injunctive relief. What does that mean? (4 points)
8) What is the effect of Paragraph 8? (6 points)
10) If Martin leaves the company and assigns his rights in writing to Concordat, but something is wrong with the written assignment and all of the copyright assignments are considered invalid, how does this contract handle that and where did you find the answer? (6 points)
Use the License Agreement to answer questions 10 –20.
11) If a competing company starts to market a brand of clothing and puts a picture of a woman who looks remarkably like Janessa Bailey on the product, what are the responsibilities of the parties to this contract? Who has the right to sue for the third party and in what paragraph did you find this information? (6 points)
12) If Ms. Bailey sets forth reasonable standards for the use of the marks and then Concordat uses the marks in a way that does not comply with the standards, what can Ms. Bailey do about it and where did you find this information? (6 points)
13) Janessa puts together a list of standards that should control how she wants her picture to be used. Three weeks later, she changes the standards a bit. Then three weeks later she does it again. If this is a violation of the agreement, what provision would Concordat point to and what is the argument that this is a violation? (6 points)
14) If Janessa dies on March 15, 2018, what responsibility does Concordat have and where did you find that information? (6 points)
15) If Janessa terminates the agreement for cause, what does Concordat have to do and where do you find that information? (4 points)
16) What is the consideration in this contract? (4 points)
17) What is the evidence of capacity in this contract? (4 points)
18) The contract uses the terms “worldwide exclusive, nontransferable” to describe the license (see paragraph 1). What does that mean? (6 points)
19) What are the exceptions to the nontransferable description and where did you find it? (4 points)
20) If there is a dispute between Janessa and Concordat, in what forum is it likely to be heard? Why? (2 points)
21) If Concordat uses the marks as intended, and Janessa maintains reasonable standards, how long will the agreement last and where do you find that information? (2 points)
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An Engineer/Guitarist’s Experiences with the Universal Audio Apollo 8p
Home » Recording Resources » Featured Reviews » An Engineer/Guitarist’s Experiences with the Universal Audio Apollo 8p
..including comparing the new Softube Marshall JMP 2203 plug-in to the real thing
Review by Alex Hawley
The Apollo recording interfaces were first introduced in 2012 by Universal Audio. Apollo combines UA’s sought-after micro-phone preamps, digital converter design, and powerful DSP-based UAD-2 plug-in technology, all in one box. As a recording engineer by day and a guitar player by night, I’ve always been very interested in this line of interfaces, but never had the opportunity to try one for myself.
Paul Vnuk Jr. reviewed the Apollo 8p in our March 2016 issue, and gave a very detailed explanation of the technical specs and upgrades in the newest generation of Apollo interfaces. In this article, I’m going to describe my experiences as a first-time Apollo user, and focus on the features that make it such a powerful platform for guitarists and bassists recording from home.
Up and running
Installing the Apollo was a very simple and quick process—unbox, power on, connect via Thunderbolt. I’m currently running Mac OS X 10.11 on a 2013 iMac with a 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5 processor and 16 GB of RAM.
The installation process was equally straightforward. After all of the software and firmware updates are installed, the registration page opens. Apollo comes bundled with UAD’s Realtime Analog Classics bundle: the UA 610-B microphone preamp, RAW distortion pedal, Amp Room Essentials by Softube, UA’s own RealVerb Pro and several Precision plug-ins, as well as “legacy versions”—now superseded by upgraded versions, but still great-sounding on their own—including the Teletronix LA-2A Leveling Amplifier and 1176SE/LN Limiting Amplifiers, Fairchild 670 Compressor, and Pultec Pro EQ plug-ins.
DECEMBER 2016: Apogee ONE For Mac
NOVEMBER 2016: Ears On – AKG K872
OCTOBER 2016: Lauten Audio LA-320 Tube Condenser Microphone
SEPTEMBER 2016: Audio-Technica ATH-E40, ATH-E50, and ATH-E70 In-Ear Monitor Headphones
AUGUST 2016: Allen & Heath ZEDi-10FX Desktop Mixer/Interface
JULY 2016: Line 6 Helix and Relay G10
MAY 2016: Shure KSM8 Dualdyne Cardioid Dynamic Microphone
APRIL 2016: Reviewed and Revisited, Acoustica Mixcraft Pro Studio 7
MARCH 2016: Amphion Two18 Passive Monitors (and Amp500 Power Amplifier)
FEBRUARY 2016: Lewitt LCT 550 Condenser Microphone
JANUARY 2016: Soundware Showcase – Spitfire Audio HZ Percussion
As a new user to the Apollo, you get spe-cial discounts on extra plug-ins from UA’s online store. Offers include any three plug-ins for $399, any six for $799, or any ten for $1199. This will be, without question, the most difficult (yet fun) decision during the registration process! I went with the Neve 1073 Channel Strip, Lexicon 224 Digital Reverb, and Marshall JMP 2203 guitar amp; later on you’ll read my detailed tone review of the JMP 2203 plug-in.
Console 2.0
After completing registration, I opened up Console 2.0, Apollo’s software interface, and started making some noise. Console 2.0 is easily one of the most func-tional and intuitive software mixers that I have used on an audio interface. It navi-gates like a normal mixer without worry-ing about any layers of pages or overly complex matrix routings.
From the Console screen, you have access to analog, digital and virtual inputs. It is laid out exactly as a mixer is, with mic/line input gain on the top, with 48V, HPF, polarity, and pad controls. Each chan-nel includes inserts for multiple plug-ins, aux sends, and a virtual pan pot and fader. For this report, I want to draw attention to one insert in particular…
The PREAMP slot, just below the mic/line controls, is a special plug-in slot that activates the Apollo’s Unison technology. UA’s Unison preamps are the cutting edge in terms of modeling technology; they combine UA’s circuit modeling with a variable gain stage and impedance matching. This creates a very realistic model of the analog preamp or guitar amplifier, emulating the critical input properties found in the actual hardware.
Inserting a preamp plug-in here will give you the sound of a Neve 1073, Neve 88RS, API Vision Channel Strip, or the UA-610 on your microphone. Unison technolo-gy also applies to the Hi-Z inputs; plugging a guitar or bass into the Hi-Z input gives you the option to enable Unison technology with one of UA’s modeled stomp boxes or amplifiers. Not all plug-ins are Unison-enhanced yet, but many are.
I love how Console 2.0 lets me customize frequently-used console setups. This way, when I’m just recording some guitar parts at home and not using every channel for recording the full band, I can have a core audio preset that only shows me the channels I need, hiding the others with a simple key command. You can instantly save and recall your settings from a previous recording session, or even just pull up a previously saved go-to signal chain on a particular channel with one click.
On the far right of the Console screen, you have the option to either print your signal chain to the DAW or just monitor the UAD processing and not print it to the recording (as of 2.0 this is selectable per channel). Note that the signal sent to the DAW is post-unison, pre-fader and mute, so any mix tweaks made with the Console faders will not affect the signal being record-ed in the DAW. For this reason, while recording with UAD processing on the way in, I typically mute the Console channels and monitor through ProTools, so I’m sure of what is being printed.
Tracking guitars, Apollo style
Let me try to describe what it’s like to track guitar through the Apollo. Grab your guitar and gaze on your wall of amplifiers to choose from. Maybe you feel like playing through the Friedman BE100, or perhaps you’ve been listening to some Clapton and feel like plugging into the 1962 Marshall Bluesbreaker. Pull open the channel strip and decide how you want to mic it… you can’t go wrong with a Neumann U67 paired with a Coles 4038.
Add some vibe using the sound of Studio A from the Ocean Way Studios plug-in. Open up the console and select ‘UAD Rec’, indicating you want to print this chain straight into your DAW of choice, and start playing. What a time to be a guitar player…!
The ability to track through the UAD-2 processing in real time is a very efficient way to work. More often than not, the tones that are being recorded into the DAW are close to the end goal, so I’ve been finding that not only does it save time during the mixing stage, but tracking through UAD processing generally creates a more inspiring sound to record with as a musician.
Every analog preamp can also be completely bypassed on the Apollo, letting it work strictly as a A/D converter. You can do this on a channel-by-channel basis, allowing you the freedom to use out-board preamps for tracking without the preamp circuitry adding another unnecessary gain stage to the signal path.
Tone (with a capital T)
Guitar players love to tinker with tone. That’s why we’re always swapping out pedals, changing the order of the signal path, trying new pickups, amps—everything. It’s all in the pursuit of finding that previously-unknown magic combination that speaks to us as musicians. This is why I was eager to see if UAD and Unison technology could really stand in for a miked cab on a recording session. In my previous experience, amp emulations can be uninspiring; they fall short of capturing the overall feel and response of playing through a real amplifier.
Universal Audio teamed up with Softube to create a very attractive set of amplifiers that work with Unison technology. I naturally gravitated to the new Marshall JMP 2203, as this is an amp that I’ve played with in my personal collection for a number of years and know very well. It has been a workhorse amp for my live performances, but coming in with a blistering 100 Watts, it isn’t the most practical option when recording at home (especially when home is an apartment). That’s where a digital version of the amp would be so appealing—tracking through a 100W head without disturbing someone sleeping in the next room. Naturally, the next step was to bring both the Apollo 8p and my Marshall JMP 2203 to the studio where I work, and create a practical “shootout” to see how the tone stacks up side by side.
Figures 1a & 1b
Softube’s Marshall JMP 2203 for UAD vs. a real JMP 2203
Before starting the shootout, I reached out to Softube (many thanks to Niklas Odelholm!) to gather some details about their process of modeling the amp. For the JMP, they used a 1960B cab equipped with Celestion GT12-75 drivers, miked with different combinations of FET and tube condenser and dynamic micro-phones, all of which are selectable in the channel strip window of the plug-in.
For this shootout, I used a trusty Shure SM57 paired with a Shure SM7B (see Figure 1), and selected those two microphones on the channel strip of the plug-in as well. While I have slightly different drivers in my 1980 JCM800 cab, I think this is still a precise and practical shootout, as everything else in the signal chain is matched. I used a high-end DI box to split the sig-nal from my guitar, sending one to the amp, and one into the Apollo. This way, I was able to A/B the recordings of the same performance for a more accurate side-by-side comparison.
For the first tone, I wanted to keep it relatively clean before jumping to the heavy stuff. As you can see in the pictures (Figures 2a and 2b), the EQ, presence, and master volume are all set to 12 o’clock, with the preamp volume maxed, and the signal’s plugged into the low sensitivity input. I recorded a variety of chords and phrases, trying to vary my attack and dynamics to see if the emulation could hang with a variety of playing styles.
Figure 2a
Right out of the gate, I was very impressed. The emulation feels very responsive and full, responding to varied dynamics with a very faithful representation of the real amp. Capturing the feel and overall essence of the real amp is crucial for the playability on a recording session. You know it’s a great emulation when you get lost in what you are playing—not caught up on the tone sounding like a software amp.
After playing for awhile on these settings, I listened back to the recordings and com-pared them side by side. The main difference that jumped out at me was the real amp hds more of a throaty growl, or bite, in the low-mid range, and a lack of high-end. The UAD version has a more even frequency response, with a flatter mid-range and neutral high-end. These are subtle differences; the overall tone is the closest I’ve heard an emulation get to the real thing.
Figure 2b
Before moving onto a new tone, I wanted to see if I could achieve even closer results by making simple EQ adjustments in the channel strip of the plug-in. This really brought the emulation to the next level for me! The tone got much warmer with the high-end adjustment, and more punchy with a bump in the midrange. The low end is just a touch tighter on the real amp, but overall, it’s an unbelievable resemblance.
Next, I dialed up one of my go-to lead tones on the JMP 2203. The settings are pictured in (Figures 3a and 3b). Presence 0, Bass 5, Mid 7, Treble 0, Master Volume 5, Preamp 10, and plugged into the high sensitivity input (make sure to have ear plugs readily available for these settings on the real amp—ouch!). Every time I dial up settings similar to this on my JMP 2203, well, let’s just say it’s a good reminder of the sheer power these 100W Marshalls have. This is one of the meanest, most Led-Zep tones I’ve ever been able to get. After warm-ing up the tubes with Hendrix licks at blister-ing volumes, it was time to record the amp and UAD and see how they stacked up.
Once again, the emulation is very impressive. It has a more neutral response than the tone of the amp that I recorded, but it’s all there. A lot of digital amps can show their true colors when being pushed this hard; they end up sounding thin and harsh. This is not the case with UAD’s JMP 2203; it’s a very musical and responsive representation of the JMP. With some minor EQ adjustment on the channel strip, I had it dialed in and it definitely held its own next to the original.
While there is no substitute for the real JMP 2203 in a room, having a reliable option to stand in for this 100W beast is a really powerful tool—especially when you want to record some guitar tracks at 2 AM, and your roommates and neighbors are fast asleep. I’m sure they’d thank you for it.
Side by side on their own, there are minor differences that are audible between the real amp and the emulation. That being said, I’d be hard pressed to spot those differences when the guitar tracks are dropped into a full mix. The overall feel and response of the UAD version feels like the real deal when you plug into it. It even takes pedals well; I experimented with running my actual pedal board into the Hi-Z input on the Apollo, with the JMP loaded into the Preamp insert slot. The delay and reverb pedal got a bit messy at higher gains, but driving the front end with a compressor and overdrive reacts just like driving the front end of a real amp harder. It’s great!
Build your digital pedalboard
Sometimes the front end of the amp just wants to be driven harder. Any of these Marshall plug-ins sounds great with a little bit of gain in front of it! UAD offers the $249 Distortion Essentials Bundle, which includes the TS808 Tube Screamer (authorized by Ibanez), as well as the Bermuda Triangle and RAW (inspired by an early-1970s “triangle” version of the legendary Electro-Harmonix Big Muff and the Pro Co RAT). All three are compatible with Unison Technology, creating an extremely accurate and dynamic representation of each.
I love adding the TS808 to my chain for recording lead parts; the sustain and smooth touch really makes for some inspired playing. The RAW distortion is a very fun pedal to play with—you can capture anything from smooth distortion to bor-derline fuzz tone with a Black Keys vibe. I love putting RAW on vocals or a drum squeeze track to add some grit (a little goes a long way!). Also, try a running a preamp and compressor before the amp emulation. I’ve gotten some really great results trying to think of unique signal chains (Neve 1073 > LA-2 > JMP 2203 > Studer A800 is a fun one).
There’s no question that the Apollo inter-face line is among the top of its class. It can seamlessly record with UAD-2 DSP technology in real time, with flexible I/O routing for multiple headphone cues, flexible circuitry for implementing external pre-amps, and tons of potential for guitarists and bassists to get great tone while staying in the box.
Yes, guitar tone is highly subjective, and yes, there’s a certain X-factor about playing through the real deal if you have the means and space to let a 100W head crank wide open. That said, you can’t beat the flexibility aspect of playing legendary amplifiers in places where they won’t fit—assuming you can afford one at all.
As a first-time Apollo user, I’m very impressed with how easily it integrated into my work flow; getting up and running was a seamless process. Packaged with Unison Technology and UAD-2 DSP—this interface, to put it simply, inspires me to create music.
Prices: Apollo 8p, $2999; Marshall JMP 2203 (as reviewed), $199
More from: Universal Audio, www.uaudio.com
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The Netherlands Journal of Medicine /
I.E.A. Wijting (Ingeborg), J. Alsma (Jelmer), D.C. Melles (Damian), E.M. Schipper (Eleonora M.) and S.C.E. Klein Nagelvoort-Schuit (Stephanie)
Urinary tract infections in a university hospital: Pathogens and antibiotic susceptibility
The Netherlands Journal of Medicine , Volume 77 - Issue 6 p. 210- 219
Background: A substantial group of patients visit the emergency department (ED) with complaints of urinary tract infections (UTI). Treatment advice is based on national and local public health surveillance data. It is unclear whether this advice is adequate for hospitals with selected patient populations, such as university hospitals. Methods: We performed a retrospective study on patients visiting the ED of the Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC) in the Netherlands from January 1st, 2013 until December 31st, 2014 with a suspected complicated UTI (cUTI) and positive urinary cultures. Patient data, data concerning the ED visit and microbiological data were analysed. Results: 439 patients visited the ED, of whom 429 had a cUTI. Our results were compared with NethMap data. Distribution of uropathogens was comparable with the overall distribution in the Netherlands. Antibiotic susceptibility was comparable for intravenous antibiotics, but was lower for oral antibiotics. Susceptibility for empiric antibiotic therapy (i.e., cefuroxime and gentamyicin) was 96.2%. Pathogens differed from the index culture in 56.2% (104/185) of the urinary cultures available from the previous year. Using logistic regression, we found that a shorter time between last admission to the initiated antibiotic regimen was associated with lower susceptibility of cultured uropathogens. Conclusion: The distribution and antibiotic susceptibility of uropathogens for intravenous antibiotics in a Dutch university hospital is comparable with overall distribution in the Netherlands. Empiric antibiotic therapy in our local guideline appears to be an adequate antibiotic regimen for cUTI and we therefore recommend treating patients accordingly. Extension of the chosen regimen based on earlier cultured pathogens is advised, and narrowing of the antibiotic regimen strongly discouraged.
Keywords Antibiotic resistance, Emergency departments, Urinary tract infections
Journal The Netherlands Journal of Medicine
Wijting, I.E.A, Alsma, J, Melles, D.C, Schipper, E.M, & Klein Nagelvoort-Schuit, S.C.E. (2019). Urinary tract infections in a university hospital: Pathogens and antibiotic susceptibility. The Netherlands Journal of Medicine, 77(6), 210–219. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/119170
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Comparative assessments of objective peak-detection algorithms. II. Studies in men
Randall Urban, D. L. Kaiser, E. Van Cauter, M. L. Johnson, J. D. Veldhuis
The performances of eight currently available computerized pulse-detection algorithms were compared on signal-free noise and physiological luteinizing hormone (LH) time series. Signal-free noise was made to vary from 4 to 36% for Gaussian and empirical distributions. Physiological LH data were obtained by immunoassay of blood samples withdrawn every 5 min for 24 h in 8 healthy men, so that the data sets could be emended to simulate varying sampling intensities. Whenever possible, programs were tested at a presumptive 1% false-positive rate. In relation to signal-free noise, the Santen and Bardin program and its modification manifested elevated false-positive rates when the intraseries coefficients of variation increased. The Regional Dual-Threshold program yielded a 1% false-positive rate except on simulated series with high variance. The Cluster and Detect programs both approximated a 1% false-positive rate and the Ultra program approximated a 2.3% false-positive rate throughout the entire range of variance tested. In regard to physiological LH data, all algorithsm disclosed a significant impact of sampling intensity on estimates of LH pulse frequency. Sampling-intensity dependent estimates of LH peak frequency by three of the eight programs (Ultra, Cluster, and Detect) were statistically indistinguishable from each other but distinct from the five other programs tested. Furthermore, when judged in relation to their ability to identify individual peaks, the three congruent programs were minimally distinguishable (McNemar's test). Rather, these programs identified the same particular peaks (as defined by concordance of peak maxima) at least 72% of the time.
American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism
Normal Distribution
Urban, R., Kaiser, D. L., Van Cauter, E., Johnson, M. L., & Veldhuis, J. D. (1988). Comparative assessments of objective peak-detection algorithms. II. Studies in men. American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism, 254(1).
Comparative assessments of objective peak-detection algorithms. II. Studies in men. / Urban, Randall; Kaiser, D. L.; Van Cauter, E.; Johnson, M. L.; Veldhuis, J. D.
In: American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol. 254, No. 1, 1988.
Urban, R, Kaiser, DL, Van Cauter, E, Johnson, ML & Veldhuis, JD 1988, 'Comparative assessments of objective peak-detection algorithms. II. Studies in men', American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism, vol. 254, no. 1.
Urban R, Kaiser DL, Van Cauter E, Johnson ML, Veldhuis JD. Comparative assessments of objective peak-detection algorithms. II. Studies in men. American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism. 1988;254(1).
Urban, Randall ; Kaiser, D. L. ; Van Cauter, E. ; Johnson, M. L. ; Veldhuis, J. D. / Comparative assessments of objective peak-detection algorithms. II. Studies in men. In: American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism. 1988 ; Vol. 254, No. 1.
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N2 - The performances of eight currently available computerized pulse-detection algorithms were compared on signal-free noise and physiological luteinizing hormone (LH) time series. Signal-free noise was made to vary from 4 to 36% for Gaussian and empirical distributions. Physiological LH data were obtained by immunoassay of blood samples withdrawn every 5 min for 24 h in 8 healthy men, so that the data sets could be emended to simulate varying sampling intensities. Whenever possible, programs were tested at a presumptive 1% false-positive rate. In relation to signal-free noise, the Santen and Bardin program and its modification manifested elevated false-positive rates when the intraseries coefficients of variation increased. The Regional Dual-Threshold program yielded a 1% false-positive rate except on simulated series with high variance. The Cluster and Detect programs both approximated a 1% false-positive rate and the Ultra program approximated a 2.3% false-positive rate throughout the entire range of variance tested. In regard to physiological LH data, all algorithsm disclosed a significant impact of sampling intensity on estimates of LH pulse frequency. Sampling-intensity dependent estimates of LH peak frequency by three of the eight programs (Ultra, Cluster, and Detect) were statistically indistinguishable from each other but distinct from the five other programs tested. Furthermore, when judged in relation to their ability to identify individual peaks, the three congruent programs were minimally distinguishable (McNemar's test). Rather, these programs identified the same particular peaks (as defined by concordance of peak maxima) at least 72% of the time.
AB - The performances of eight currently available computerized pulse-detection algorithms were compared on signal-free noise and physiological luteinizing hormone (LH) time series. Signal-free noise was made to vary from 4 to 36% for Gaussian and empirical distributions. Physiological LH data were obtained by immunoassay of blood samples withdrawn every 5 min for 24 h in 8 healthy men, so that the data sets could be emended to simulate varying sampling intensities. Whenever possible, programs were tested at a presumptive 1% false-positive rate. In relation to signal-free noise, the Santen and Bardin program and its modification manifested elevated false-positive rates when the intraseries coefficients of variation increased. The Regional Dual-Threshold program yielded a 1% false-positive rate except on simulated series with high variance. The Cluster and Detect programs both approximated a 1% false-positive rate and the Ultra program approximated a 2.3% false-positive rate throughout the entire range of variance tested. In regard to physiological LH data, all algorithsm disclosed a significant impact of sampling intensity on estimates of LH pulse frequency. Sampling-intensity dependent estimates of LH peak frequency by three of the eight programs (Ultra, Cluster, and Detect) were statistically indistinguishable from each other but distinct from the five other programs tested. Furthermore, when judged in relation to their ability to identify individual peaks, the three congruent programs were minimally distinguishable (McNemar's test). Rather, these programs identified the same particular peaks (as defined by concordance of peak maxima) at least 72% of the time.
JO - American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism
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Experimental infection of aedes sollicitans and Aedes taeniorhynchus with two chimeric sindbis/eastern equine encephalitis virus vaccine candidates
Nicole C. Arrigo, Douglas M. Watts, Ilya Frolov, Scott Weaver
Two chimeric vaccine candidates for Eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV) were developed by inserting the structural protein genes of either a North American (NA) or South American (SA) EEEV into a Sindbis virus (SINV) backbone. To assess the effect of chimerization on mosquito infectivity, experimental infections of two potential North American bridge vectors of EEEV, Aedes sollicitans and Ae. taeniorhynchus, were attempted. Both species were susceptible to oral infection with all viruses after ingestion of high titer blood meals of ca. 7.0 log10 plaque-forming units/mL. Dissemination rates for SIN/NAEEEV (0 of 56) and SIN/SAEEEV (1 of 54) were low in Ae. taeniorhynchus and no evidence of transmission potential was observed. In contrast, the chimeras disseminated more efficiently in Ae. sollicitans (19 of 68 and 13 of 57, respectively) and were occasionally detected in the saliva of this species. These results indicate that chimerization of the vaccine candidates reduces infectivity. However, its impact on dissemination and potential transmission is mosquito species-specific.
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Eastern equine encephalitis virus
Sindbis Virus
Arrigo, N. C., Watts, D. M., Frolov, I., & Weaver, S. (2008). Experimental infection of aedes sollicitans and Aedes taeniorhynchus with two chimeric sindbis/eastern equine encephalitis virus vaccine candidates. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 78(1), 93-97.
Experimental infection of aedes sollicitans and Aedes taeniorhynchus with two chimeric sindbis/eastern equine encephalitis virus vaccine candidates. / Arrigo, Nicole C.; Watts, Douglas M.; Frolov, Ilya; Weaver, Scott.
In: American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 78, No. 1, 01.2008, p. 93-97.
Arrigo, NC, Watts, DM, Frolov, I & Weaver, S 2008, 'Experimental infection of aedes sollicitans and Aedes taeniorhynchus with two chimeric sindbis/eastern equine encephalitis virus vaccine candidates', American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, vol. 78, no. 1, pp. 93-97.
Arrigo NC, Watts DM, Frolov I, Weaver S. Experimental infection of aedes sollicitans and Aedes taeniorhynchus with two chimeric sindbis/eastern equine encephalitis virus vaccine candidates. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 2008 Jan;78(1):93-97.
Arrigo, Nicole C. ; Watts, Douglas M. ; Frolov, Ilya ; Weaver, Scott. / Experimental infection of aedes sollicitans and Aedes taeniorhynchus with two chimeric sindbis/eastern equine encephalitis virus vaccine candidates. In: American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 2008 ; Vol. 78, No. 1. pp. 93-97.
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Human ehrlichioses
Juan Olano
Introduction On the basis of the taxonomic reorganization of the family Anaplasmataceae proposed in 2000 (1), ehrlichial pathogens affecting humans include Ehrlichia chaffeensis, E. ewingii, and sporadic reports (Olano and McBride, Unpublished data) of E. canis infections in humans (2). This chapter will discuss in detail human monocytotropic ehrlichiosis (HME), caused by E. chaffeensis, and ehrlichiosis ewingii, a form of granulocytotropic ehrlichiosis, caused by E. ewingii. Before the taxonomic reorganization of the Anaplasmataceae family occurred, a pathogen formerly known as the HGE agent or E. equi/E. phagocytophila was identified as the cause of human granulocytotropic ehrlichiosis. Such pathogen is now in the genus Anaplasma and is known as Anaplasma phagocytophilum. The disease it causes is now known as human granulocytotropic anaplasmosis, described in another chapter.
Rickettsial Diseases
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Anaplasmataceae
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Olano, J. (2007). Human ehrlichioses. In Rickettsial Diseases (pp. 213-222). CRC Press.
Human ehrlichioses. / Olano, Juan.
Rickettsial Diseases. CRC Press, 2007. p. 213-222.
Olano, J 2007, Human ehrlichioses. in Rickettsial Diseases. CRC Press, pp. 213-222.
Olano J. Human ehrlichioses. In Rickettsial Diseases. CRC Press. 2007. p. 213-222
Olano, Juan. / Human ehrlichioses. Rickettsial Diseases. CRC Press, 2007. pp. 213-222
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In situ Akt phosphorylation in the nucleus tractus solitarii is involved in central control of blood pressure and heart rate
Hsiao Ning Huang, Pei Jung Lu, Wan Chen Lo, Chia Hui Lin, Michael Hsiao, Ching Jiunn Tseng
International Center for Wound Repair and Regeneration
Background - Previously, we have shown that nitric oxide (NO) plays a significant role in central cardiovascular regulation and modulates the baroreflex in the nucleus tractus solitarii (NTS) of rats. NO production is mediated by activation of NO synthase (NOS). Insulin signaling was involved in controlling peripheral blood pressure via the activation of endothelial NOS. Here, we investigated whether the insulin signal transduction pathway is involved in controlling central cardiovascular effects. Methods and Results - Insulin was injected into NTS of urethane-anesthetized male Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats. Unilateral microinjection (60 nL) of insulin (100 IU/mL) into the NTS produced prominent depressor and bradycardic effects in 8- and 16-week-old WKY rats. In addition, pretreatment with the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor LY294002 and the NOS inhibitor L-NAME into the NTS caused attenuation of the cardiovascular response evoked by insulin in either 8- or 16-week-old WKY rats. Western blot analysis showed a significant increase (2.6±0.4-fold; P<0.05) in Akt phosphorylation after insulin injection, whereas LY294002 abolished the insulin-induced effects. In situ Akt phosphorylation was found in NTS by immunohistochemistry analysis after injection of insulin. This in situ Akt phosphorylation was abolished significantly after injection of LY294002. Conclusions - Take together, these results suggest that the insulin-PI3K-Akt-NOS signaling pathway may play a significant role in central cardiovascular regulation.
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Huang, H. N., Lu, P. J., Lo, W. C., Lin, C. H., Hsiao, M., & Tseng, C. J. (2004). In situ Akt phosphorylation in the nucleus tractus solitarii is involved in central control of blood pressure and heart rate. Circulation, 110(16), 2476-2483. https://doi.org/10.1161/01.CIR.0000145116.75657.2D
Huang, Hsiao Ning ; Lu, Pei Jung ; Lo, Wan Chen ; Lin, Chia Hui ; Hsiao, Michael ; Tseng, Ching Jiunn. / In situ Akt phosphorylation in the nucleus tractus solitarii is involved in central control of blood pressure and heart rate. In: Circulation. 2004 ; Vol. 110, No. 16. pp. 2476-2483.
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Science - April 12, 2017
WUR tests Chinese solar greenhouse
Today, a Chinese solar greenhouse was opened at the WUR Greenhouse Horticulture research location in Bleiswijk. This Chinese greenhouse allows for the cultivation of vegetables in sub-zero temperatures using only solar energy, but also has several drawbacks. WUR hopes to solve these in collaboration with Dutch companies.
Photo: WUR Greenhouse Horticulture
The highly productive Dutch greenhouse horticulture holds a leading position on the worldwide market, but it still depends on fossil fuels. Many vegetable farmers in China use a different kind of greenhouse, with which they grow vegetables using solar energy. These greenhouses, which consist of a plastic dome and a thick wall that stores solar heat during the day and releases it at night, resemble the lean-to greenhouses that were built in the Westland region 140 years ago, says Eric Poot of WUR Greenhouse Horticulture. A modern version of these greenhouses now stands in Bleiswijk.
Poot thinks the Dutch technology providers will be able to improve the production in this Chinese solar greenhouse, as it still has several drawbacks. The biggest is that the air humidity in the Chinese greenhouse is too high. This causes many diseases and plagues in the greenhouses, which the Chinese farmers suppress with large quantities of chemicals. The Chinese test greenhouse in Bleiswijk has a ventilation system to prevent this complication. The test greenhouse will cultivate vegetables on substrates. The advantage of this approach is that the farmer doesn’t suffer from soil diseases and can install environmentally friendly circulation systems for water and nutrients.
Additionally, the test greenhouse in Bleiswijk will be insulated differently than the common Chinese solar greenhouses. In China, the greenhouses are covered at night using a kind of thick horsecloth that keeps the solar heat inside. In Bleiswijk, WUR slides an insulating and translucent panel beneath the plastic dome. The advantage of this is that the greenhouse also utilises the sunlight when it is cold.
Demonstration setup
WUR Greenhouse Horticulture is investigating whether the Dutch climate control in the greenhouse leads to a higher production and fewer diseases and plagues. WUR does this together with a consortium of Dutch companies that would like to sell their technology on the Chinese market. But are the Chinese interested? They are, observes Poot, who recently visited China to assess the greenhouses. ‘They immediately asked why we weren’t building this demonstration greenhouse in China. We are currently building it in Bleiswijk because many Chinese delegations visit us and want to know what we could contribute to the horticulture in China. If the results will be positive, I do not rule out that we will build another demonstration greenhouse in China. All contributing companies sell climate control equipment in China, but with this approach, we could set up an integral concept for a highly productive solar greenhouse.’
Conversely, Poot can also learn from the Chinese solar greenhouse. ‘I am curious about cultivation without the use of gas, merely using solar energy. We are also curious to see how much heat the greenhouse can store during the day and how much can be released during the night. Besides, how will the vegetables react to the differences in temperature?’
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Dabur buys cosmetics trading company 'Discaria' to enter South Africa
Dabur is likely to set up a greenfield manufacturing facility in South Africa, an official aware of the developments said.ET Bureau | July 19, 2016, 07:40 IST
NEW DELHI: Consumer goods firm Dabur has acquired South African cosmetics manufacturing and trading firm Discaria Trading for an undisclosed amount.
“The company’s wholly-owned subsidiary Dabur International has acquired 100 per cent share capital of Discaria Trading in South Africa. Accordingly, Discaria has become a step-down wholly owned subsidiary company of Dabur India,” the maker of Real juices and Vatika shampoo said in a BSE filing.
This marks Dabur’s entry in the high-potential South Africa market. The company currently has manufacturing in Nigeria and Egypt, which caters to the North and East African markets.
Following this acquisition, Dabur is likely to set up a greenfield manufacturing facility in South Africa, an official aware of the developments said.
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200 words essay on a visit to a museum review
No more stories for _The Alarm Clock._ Instead, a morose and overshadowed man, a ‘criminal’ whose words frighten even the experienced and the omniscient. We refer to the third day at Gettysburg so soon again because of a letter that reached us on Monday postmarked “Charleston, S. So that where on the common supposition there will be no foot-pounds, the issue of the fight will very often remain undecided. [Sidenote: We can speak of “arithmetical difference” only in a conventional sense.] Either you keep to what consciousness presents to you or you have recourse to a conventional mode of representation. It was for the reason that, when the gens came in, marriage between single pairs was unknown, and descent through males could not be traced with certainty. Aristotle has given an intricate investigation of this subject, and his followers naturally were led along a similar track. Nor is the account of the fall the only portion of the Mosaic history of primitive man which belongs to this category. The only formidable competing hypothesis might seem to be that of a Great Unknown. Aesthetically, perhaps, water does not look as beautiful as beer in a glass; but sight is only one of the senses, and water never causes anything like the aura of a beer-mug the morning after. Essex left his command in Ireland without leave, was 200 words essay on a visit to a museum review ordered in confinement, and after a long imprisonment and trial before the Privy Council, he was liberated. For he interposes between the two a middle term, consisting of digestion viewed in its most revolting and mechanical aspect: and the reader sinks back with a sigh of regret. Besides his seriousness, he had other apparently exotic qualities: piety and candor among them. The royal sitter is impeached unjustly. We have seen also that Archbishop Egbert claimed for his priests a wergeld of 200 ounces of silver, which thus would accord exactly with the Kentish wergeld of 200 scillings. Shakespeare” may have been preceded by a hearty meal in the buttery, without exciting any feeling of resentment on the part of either recipient that the meal was not served in the dining-hall, I should have been more disposed to agree with him. As it is, they seem literally to be suspended in the water.—The richest in interior decoration that I saw, was the Grimani Palace, which answered to all the imaginary conditions of 200 words essay on a visit to a museum review this sort of thing. We were refreshed, however, for we slept securely; and we entered upon the last stage betimes the following day, less exhausted than we had been by the first. But if it was done as a careful copy from Nature in the first instance, the present was the only way in which he could proceed, or indeed by which he could arrive at such consummate excellence. Why, when he was enumerating the various kinds of poesie, did he eschew the apt word _dramatic_, and choose the vague word _representative_ instead? Thus the powerful deity of Ph?nicia was naturally associated with the strong, scorching, summer sun, whose _heat_ was the most prominent attribute. “There were brave men before Agamemnon.” In some commands the habit of “playing possum” prevailed. The majority of infants still show pleasure at the sight of a beetle, or a toad. VI. The humble Jew, Spinoza, and the meek pagan, Socrates, the idealist Plato, and the idealist Aristotle, the founders of the newest, noblest and loftiest systems, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, even Schopenhauer, the pessimist, all as one man seek a charter, a charter, a charter. It is that the different statistics with which we are presented should not in reality offer materially different results, If, for instance, we were enquiring into the probability of a man aged forty dying within the year, we might if we pleased take into account the fact of his having red hair, or his having been born in a certain county or town. When the kingdom was split in two, and the fortunes of the Israelites steadily declined, and great empires, in comparison with which, even united, they were as nothing, overshadowed them, then Jahvism seemed threatened with utter ruin. If, having been given his choice of taking honour-price in right of property, or honour-price in right of his father and his grandfather, he made choice of honour-price in right of his property, and decay came upon his property so that he has [left] but the kingship of the three handles–the handle of his flail, the handle of his hatchet, and the handle of his wood axe; he is (then) entitled to but one screpall for his worthiness if he be worthy; and if he be not worthy he is entitled to nothing, unless children have been born to him afterwards which he had not before on the day of making his choice, and if they have been born he has honour-price in right of them. Whatever opinion then may be held about the essential nature of belief, it will probably be admitted that a readiness to act upon the proposition believed is an inseparable accompaniment of that state of mind. Burke. Spedding, though not mentioning the “bulge,” has definitely put on record his opinion that the volume may have originally included much more matter than it now contains. Idnam satis facies huius libelli demonstrat, quem multiplicatum magni numeri globo sub placidis atramenti lituris spreto calamo inchoauit, anni septuagesimi sexti aprilis primus perfecitque dies ultimus! Quod opus ubi inceptum simul et completum sit ipsa elementa, seu singularum seorsum caracteres litterarum quibus impressum, vides venetica, monstrant manifeste. The sergeant, impatient to have them finish their bath, returned presently, and was shocked to discover that they were all drowned! Will it be by the body in which they dwell? In the upper gallery, too, I wish that there may be, if the place will yield it, some fountains running in divers places from the wall, with some fine avoidances.[473] And thus much for the model of the palace, save that you must have, before you come to the front, three courts: a green court plain, with a wall about it; a second court of the same, but more garnished with little turrets, or rather embellishments, upon the wall; and a third court, to make a square with the front, but not to be built, nor yet inclosed with a naked wall, but inclosed with terraces leaded aloft, and fairly garnished on the three sides, and cloistered on the inside with pillars, and not with arches below. Burke, on the origin of the Gothic style of architecture, written, as it should seem, to convince his friend and patron of his industry in neglecting his proper business. Wise men may die for a just cause, but they are never willing martyrs; they lack not merely the fanaticism, but the power of forming the exaggerated estimate of the value of the sacrifice, which martyrdom requires. Of course they expressed their desires in their Messianic dreams. 21, 22. Mr. _Legendre,_ M. I remember well a party of three which climbed the northern face of the Bookham Downs on a summer Sunday, with Schubert’s Mullerin cycle going in front against two distinct Sullivan operettas behind; and there was in our hearts no more thought of discord than there is between the chiff-chaff and cuckoo when the reiterated fourth of the one blends with the other’s major third in a different key. Meeting with a young Englishman there. They kept on and single handed and alone attacked the whole Federal army, then exulting in victory. In explanation of this fact, Mr. Before such conceptions the walker can only call attention humbly to the rhythmic elements in his own craft, and pass on with bowed and reverent head. 1. And by the torch in the hand of Ceres, or the ether, is doubtless meant the sun, which disperses light over the whole globe of the earth, and if the thing were possible, must have the greatest share in recovering Proserpine, or reinstating the subterraneal spirit. Let the proportion of the former to the latter be 9 to 1; in other words, suppose that one infant in ten lives to eighty. We were saturated even with beauty and comfort, and were disposed to repeat the wish— ‘To-morrow to fresh fields and pastures new.’ A white square villa, or better sort of farm-house, sometimes stared on us from the end of a long, strait avenue of poplars, standing in ostentatious, unadorned nakedness, and in a stiff, meagre, and very singular taste. Few, I think, would be inclined to adopt that hypothesis. In short, a waltz is ‘catchy’: and to anybody who has ever heard one, further description is superfluous.
Museum to a on visit essay review 200 a words. P. The Babylonian women, who were compelled to make a sacrifice of their persons once in their lives, submitted to the embraces only of strangers. If this be not the case, but the series be supposed terminable, or regularly or irregularly fluctuating, as might be the case, for instance, in a society where owing to sanitary or other causes the average longevity was steadily undergoing a change, then in so far as this is the case the series ceases to be a subject of science. An Exhibition-portrait is, therefore, an essence, not of character, but of commonplace. He spends much time in the Fencing School, and Fights briskly where there is no danger of Wounds nor Smart. The Venetian verse tradition seems now to have settled down into a convention that a new printer should announce his arrival in Latin elegiacs, but need not continue the practice. It seems to me that we are not. It is an undoubted fact that even after their brigades had fallen back parts of the 9th Louisiana and 6th North Carolina, under Major Tate, held their position at the wall on the side of the hill (repelling several attacks) for an hour, thus holding open the gate to Cemetery Heights, and it does seem that under cover of night this gate might have been used and the Ridge occupied by a strong force of our troops with slight loss. Even through the burdensome guise of a metrical translation, something of the splendid fire of the original can hardly fail to make itself felt. It may be of much greater importance to us to attain not merely truth on the average, but truth in each individual instance, so that we had rather not form an opinion at all than form one of which we can only say in its justification that it will tend to lead us right in the long run. CHAPTER VIII. To what high prize thou hold’st the guiding reins, Whither aloft the stars with thee are faring, The while the age, to its vile feasts repairing, Each day tastes viands new and still complains. The fact is that we are very seldom called upon to decide and act upon a single contingency which cannot be viewed as being one of a series. It is strange we cannot let other people alone who concern themselves so little about us. There should be, they say, a feeling of true comradeship among all who have served in the same army, especially in such an army as ours. 1908. ADVERTISEMENT The following _Notes of a Journey through France and Italy_ are reprinted from the columns of the _Morning Chronicle_. But you will find, if you are fortunate, that you are not debarred from their friendship. The Young Girl, in the third picture, who is represented as a victim of fashionable profligacy, is unquestionably one of the artist’s _chef-d’?uvres_. (From the Orleans _Sebastian del Collection.) Piombo._ 28. If Mrs. In case of her consent it was the same except that she could claim no honour-price for herself. But does it follow from this that the notes of the scale, as auditory sensations, differ otherwise than in quality? Spedding states:–[109] “Anthony Bacon appears to have served [Essex] in a capacity very like that of a modern under-secretary of State, receiving all letters which were mostly in cipher in the first instance; forwarding them (generally through his brother Francis’s hands) to the Earl, deciphered and accompanied with their joint suggestions; and finally, according to the 200 words essay on a visit to a museum review instructions thereupon returned, framing and dispatching the answers. The advantage is of the same general kind as that which is furnished in algebraical calculation, by a series which converges rapidly towards the true value as compared with one which converges slowly. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear preoccupateth it; nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had slain himself, pity (which is the tenderest of affections) provoked many to die out of mere compassion to their sovereign, and as the truest sort of followers.[56] Nay, Seneca[57] adds niceness and satiety: “Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris; mori velle, non tantum fortis, aut miser, sed etiam fastidiosus potest.”[58] A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so oft over and over. THE MARQUIS OF STAFFORD’S GALLERY Our intercourse with the dead is better than our intercourse with the living. 23, 24. “I thank your Majesty for the explanation,” that accomplished wag replied, “for I thought they were begging your Majesty’s pardon for so bad a dinner.” No reply at all, were it but pungent, offended him. Nature is scarcely more faithful to itself, than this delightfully _unmannered_, unaffected picture is to it. There is not a greater or more unaccountable mistake than the supposition that Sir Joshua Reynolds owed his success or excellence in his profession, to his having been the first who introduced into this country more general principles of the art, and who raised portrait to the dignity of history from the low drudgery of copying the peculiarities, meannesses, and details of individual nature, which was all that had been attempted by his immediate predecessors. “It is recorded that 1833 guesses were made by a ‘percipient’ as to the suit of cards which the ‘agent’ had fixed upon. When a number of geometrical means have to be interposed between two quantities, they are to be so chosen that every term in the entire succession shall bear the same constant ratio to its predecessor. It naturally developed into a grosser form when Paganism, with its leaning towards idolatry, became paramount in the Church. This tendency of Greek art to repose 200 words essay on a visit to a museum review has indeed been reproached with insipidity by those who had not a true feeling of beauty and sentiment. When he returned to Augsburg from Venice, Ratdolt issued a splendid type-sheet with specimens of all his different founts. If it were not for the pressure of Catholicism, it is likely that the second would be the doctrine of all forms of Protestantism. How is it to be employed as a means of making inferences? Tit. There is only one reference to the _parentes_, and that is not connected with the wergelds. If music can ever be bound to time or place, surely we may assign this Allegro to a day in April when we surmount some height like Wetherlam or Maiden Moor, issuing in a long ridge, and swing forward over grass and rock with the wind in our ears and the earth spread out below. Civilization has done much to diminish these characteristics in certain directions, but it has unquestionably aggravated them in other directions, and it might not be very easy to say with certainty in which of these respects its operation has been, at present, on the whole most effective. They first come into being as mere guesses or conjectures, as contemplated possibilities whose correspondence with reality is either altogether disbelieved or regarded as entirely doubtful. Through the arch-way of the Tuileries, at the end of the Champs Elysees, you see the Barrier of Neuilly, like a thing of air, diminished by a fairy perspective. In this forecast a note of misgiving is perceptible enough; but of spitefulness there is hardly a trace; for after all, the pumpkin is a _deserving_ vegetable–the stress here is on the word _deserving_, since that is the epithet by which the surviving Burbages, in perfect good temper, described the deceased Shakspere. Did Socrates wish to compare the poets to parrots or trained blackbirds who can learn by heart, with the assistance of a man to teach them, any ideas whatever, perfectly foreign to them. CHAPTER VII. Henry IV. This latter thesis, which is maintained by psychophysicists, we shall examine later; but even the opponents of psychophysics do not see any harm in speaking of one sensation as being more intense than another, of one effort as being greater than another, and in thus setting up differences of quantity between purely internal states. [Sidenote: Quarrel between Beowulf’s paternal and maternal kindred. C., April 9.” It comes from a soldier who did not belong to either Pettigrew’s or Pickett’s command. Watson,” in _The Times_ of April 13, 1922. He steps forward there, as if in dramatic confirmation of the little known of his proud, obstinate, disinterested career, straight through love, scholarship, adventure, to the Tower axe. Madame Marsan is in this respect superior.
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Justia Regulation Tracker Department Of Health And Human Services Children And Families Administration Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request, 60847 [2011-25210]
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request, 60847 [2011-25210]
Download as PDF 60847 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 190 / Friday, September 30, 2011 / Notices address: CMS, Office of Strategic Operations and Regulatory Affairs, Division of Regulations Development, Attention: Document Identifier/OMB Control Number, Room C4–26–05, 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland 21244–1850. Dated: September 27, 2011. Martique Jones, Director, Regulations Development Group, Division B, Office of Strategic Operations and Regulatory Affairs. [FR Doc. 2011–25274 Filed 9–29–11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4120–01–P DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Administration for Children and Families Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request Proposed Projects Title: Refugee Data Submission System for Allocation of Formula Funds. OMB No.: 0970–0043. Description: The Refugee Data Submission System for Allocation of Formula Funds is designed to satisfy the statutory requirements of the Immigration and Naturalization Act (INA). Section 412(a)(3)of the Act requires that the Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) make a periodic assessment of the needs of refugees for assistance and services and the resources available to meet those needs. This assessment includes compiling and maintaining data on secondary migration of refugees within the United States after arrival. Further, INA 412(c)(1)(B)states that formula funds shall be allocated based on the total number of refugees in each State, taking into account secondary migration. In order to meet these statutory requirements, ORR requires each State to submit disaggregated individual records containing certain data elements for eligible populations. ORR uses the information collected through the Web site to determine secondary migration for the purposes of formula funds allocation to States. The submission of individual records via the Refugee Data Submission System for Allocation of Formula Funds is a reliable and secure process for collecting data for the purposes of tracking secondary migration and allocating formula funds. Data submitted by the States via the Web site are also compiled and analyzed for inclusion in ORR’s Annual Report to Congress. Respondents: States, Wilson/Fish Alternative Projects, and the District of Columbia. ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES Number of respondents Number of responses per respondent Average burden hours per response Total burden hours Refugee Data Submission for Formula Funds Allocations ........... mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Instrument 50 1 20 1,000 Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,000. In compliance with the requirements of Section 506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Administration for Children and Families is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects and Families is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the information collection described above. Copies of the proposed collection of information can be obtained and comments may be forwarded by writing to the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Administration, Office of Information Services, 370 L’Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. E-mail address: infocollection@ acf.hhs.gov. All requests should be identified by the title of the information collection. 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Children and Families Administration
[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 190 (Friday, September 30, 2011)]
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Title: Refugee Data Submission System for Allocation of Formula
OMB No.: 0970-0043.
Description: The Refugee Data Submission System for Allocation of
Formula Funds is designed to satisfy the statutory requirements of the
Immigration and Naturalization Act (INA). Section 412(a)(3)of the Act
requires that the Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)
make a periodic assessment of the needs of refugees for assistance and
services and the resources available to meet those needs. This
assessment includes compiling and maintaining data on secondary
migration of refugees within the United States after arrival. Further,
INA 412(c)(1)(B)states that formula funds shall be allocated based on
the total number of refugees in each State, taking into account
secondary migration.
In order to meet these statutory requirements, ORR requires each
State to submit disaggregated individual records containing certain
data elements for eligible populations. ORR uses the information
collected through the Web site to determine secondary migration for the
purposes of formula funds allocation to States.
The submission of individual records via the Refugee Data
Submission System for Allocation of Formula Funds is a reliable and
secure process for collecting data for the purposes of tracking
secondary migration and allocating formula funds. Data submitted by the
States via the Web site are also compiled and analyzed for inclusion in
ORR's Annual Report to Congress.
Respondents: States, Wilson/Fish Alternative Projects, and the
District of Columbia.
Annual Burden Estimates
Instrument Number of responses per Average burden hours per Total burden
respondents respondent response hours
Refugee Data Submission for 50 1 20 1,000
Formula Funds Allocations........
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,000.
In compliance with the requirements of Section 506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Administration for Children and
Families is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects and
Families is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the
information collection described above. Copies of the proposed
collection of information can be obtained and comments may be forwarded
by writing to the Administration for Children and Families, Office of
Administration, Office of Information Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade,
SW., Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. E-mail
address: infocollection@acf.hhs.gov. All requests should be identified
by the title of the information collection.
The Department specifically requests comments on: (a) Whether the
proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the
information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of
information; (c) the quality, utility, and clarity of the information
to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection
of information on respondents, including through the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Consideration will be given to comments and suggestions submitted
within 60 days of this publication.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
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Tag Archive: Glenville State College RAPE CAPITAL of West Virginia!
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By Editor Edison – CalPatty Press Editor for Revenge of the Ghost Wolf
Traditionally RAPE SEASON is fully underway this time of year at Glenville State College the small liberal arts college in Gilmer County West Virginia, which is known as having one of the worst academic records, if not “THE WORST,” in the entire state of West BY GOD Virginia.
The list of respected citizens and alumni who were so proud of GSC would fill a book. Many people that we know love and are related to graduated from GSC. Even my own grandmother, aunt, father and a cousin or two are graduates. It is painful for them to know that one of their own is so caught up in reporting how bad it has gotten. Or, even more importantly, to be frequently educating the public to all of the new dangers that have come with modern times! It all boils down to little known sociological term called eco-centrism and the uniqueness about GSC and Glenville. What is different about Glenville State College is that it teaches by example how to run a totalitarian form of government!
“Feudalism doesn’t get any better in West Virginia than in a place known to many as ‘Crooked County’ that is located down by the Crooked River… Glenville, West Virginia!’
It all has to make you wonder, what’s really going on?
Is the financial situation that bad?
Please don’t tell me that every girl at GSC is a slut and asked for it because the football players are just that cool.
We have learned this week that Football players at GSC are not RAP stars and they are not Michael Vick of the NFL, hell, our former QB Steffan COLON was also a former football player and a former student of a college that expelled his dumb ass for acting like a gangster, getting arrested, and then embarrassing the shit out of the college. Once the story hit the TV stations that cat was out of the bag, and the only place lower to go was Glenville, WV and GSC!!
How did GSC this once nationally respected school for Teachers drop to a fourth tier liberal arts poor excuse for an institution of higher learning? A college that boost admissions through no qualifications – if you play football! A college that teaches you how to deal your drugs and teaches you how to kick down – rape a girl or a brand new co-ed or five – and then bring your baby mama to the hotel to sling some hash and hide some stash!
Well one way is to get headlines like these …
Another GSC Football player is in jail for RAPE!
A QB Gabe Prophet for the Glenville State College Football team is behind bars for sexual assault charges. The incident allegedly occurred last Friday June 17, 2011 at his home.
“The definition of 1st degree sexual assault is forced penetration, causing
serious bodily injury, or use of a deadly weapon, but then I guess a big black hard dick could be considered a weapon and the preferred weapon used by students at the HOME of Rape and Murder in CROOKED COUNTY — Glenville State College!”
Gabriel Prophet, 22, was arraigned by Gilmer County Magistrate Robert Minigh on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 and is facing two felonies charges involving sexual assaults of 1st and 2nd degree. Why the GSC Football player was just booked into jail today, instead of right before or after the arraignment is unknown until the matter is looked into further.
Prophet is just one of many football players for GSC to be accused of rape, but there have been no convictions.
Prophet was booked at Central regional Jail today June 23, 2011.
Full Name: Prophet, Gabriel
11F55 AND 11F54 GILMER COUNTY – Bail Amount: $25,000.00
If your looking to rape a hot white chick at a local college you never have to look further than Glenville State College high on the hill overlooking Crooked County down by that Crooked River!
The victim who had the holy bejesus fucked out of her alleges that she was raped, and then sought treatment at Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital after the pounding by the QB of the GSC Football team from Washington DC. The criminal complaint stated that the victim “Feared for her life,” during the entire terrifying sexual attack!!
Rape cases are seldom carried forward in Gilmer County because they don’t want to tarnish the image of Glenville State College — and many rapes go unreported. Local law enforcement handled the Edwin Dale Kinnison rape case by the book, but it was never brought to trial after being in the court system for over a year!
Edwin Dale Kinnison should have been convicted of Rape as well as Erik Davis both students at GSC, but it is widely known that Glenville State College has become the home of rape in West Virginia! Crooked County has become as dangerous as the old west for rape and murder!!
Even if rape charges are carried forward Gilmer County doesn’t have a skilled enough prosecutor to win the case, as witnessed by the Glenville rape case of GSC football player Erik Davis!
The Erik Davis rape case was a real circus and Gerald B Hough got his ass kicked in court by defense attorney David Karickhoff of Sutton, WV in a case that should have found the rapist guilty, but Karickhoff is a far superior attorney than Hough will ever be.
If GSC wants to win again all they need to do is call David Karickhoff and the QB walks and GSC may be on their way to a half-way decent team again this year.
Although, they won’t have Crooked County Crook and Circuit Court Clerk David LAME Smith to hand pick a jury bound for acquittal!
For the jury that heard the famous Erik Davis rape case was rigged by Smith!!!
But, really all GABE has to do is make sure that Karickhoff is retained as defense counsel and Hough will lose another rape case, although Hough lied to a Parkersburg newspaper and stated he never lost a rape case!
Hough is no match for Dave Karickhoff or any other decent attorney and will lose because unless Gerry can cheat and pay some false witnesses like he was caught doing by title opinion in the “Travesty of Justice” case, Hough will lose every time!
“Way down here in Crooked County it seems one must serve the Church of Ike to get ahead. Man or woman must bow to Idols of Gold yet never own one in Gilmer County!”
A HISTORY of RAPE at Glenville State College in Gilmer County West Virginia!
The power elite business agenda we follow so blindly has promoted drug dealing, money laundering, book making, prostitution and the rape of our youngest and finest women, yet we sit like stones along the bank down by the Crooked River, with no reaction — as do the leaders that currently rule the roost. Our Gilmer County youth are victims of our own unwillingness to take responsibility for the results of a self serving political agenda. This brings one question to mind.
“When does the agenda to make these victims top priority become more important than protecting the GSC reputation and making money? “
16 Rapes TOTAL In ALL – Just like the Candles there on my wall!
The Sigma Omega Beta (SOB) frat house, Opie Watkins lured “AMANDA” the victim to Goodwin Hall at GSC she was served high proof alcohol mixed by Jayde Layne a student at GSC which contained a rape drug – Members of the non-academic achievers SOB GSC Fraternity are involved with the RAPE and a cover up!
Take me to the Crooked River and drop me in the water!
Dip me in the river, drop me in the water
Washing me down, washing me down!
To know our history in Gilmer County is to begin to see how to take up the struggle again. Acknowledging the sins of the past can help push us to stop and realize why we are failing to succeed in business and in life — And what needs done to GET BACK to where we once belonged. It should remind us to keep the promise of a future worth having for the next generation we must inevitably leave behind.
The GSC Co-ed who is a rape victim has a name, her name is Amanda, the girl who’s only mistake was to trust Opie Watkins – And she is appreciated for the fact her efforts in academics have been rewarded with good grades, for she is to be honored and respected, she is not an object for the pleasure of misguided male GSC students that should not even be allowed in the same room with this outstanding student for their poor performance in academics and ungodly drunken behavior, but if this student were to be raped at GSC the staff and faculty already have a history of backing the rapist all the way through the court system, become active in name calling — And in the last documented rape case, the victim was also threatened by the FERPA VIOLATOR himself Gilmer County Prosecutor Gerald B Hough and told to shut up!
There are many behaviors or actions in society that are punishable by law. The more serious of these are crimes of violence such as murder, forcible rape, robbery, and assault.
Jayde Layne with her SIGMA OMEGA BETA boyfriend wearing the FRAT T-Shirt, and we have had countless contacts today from a Sigma Omega Beta FRAT Member from GSC saying they had nothing to do with the rape, while there is one of their members grabbing onto the bitch Jayde Layne that mixed the alcohol with the date-rape drug in it that led to the rape of Amanda Smith. Oh yeah, y’all had nothing to do with it. We got countless mail from them saying that is not their frat house anymore, but of course it was around the time of the subsequent rapes and in the same time frame as the rape of Amanda Smith, so we searched our archives since Jayde Layne and all alleged guilty parties to the rapes have ripped their Facebook pages off the internet. That is kind of funny to us since we got everything we needed from those pages six months ago, so taking them down had no impact on our situation other than the general public can no longer cruise their pages getting names and evidence freely displayed on the FB page, like the dumbest asses from the Church Ike that ever came down the pike!!
Even though RAPE should be viewed by Gilmer County Law Enforcement as a violent act, the stereotype still persists of the victim contributing to his or her own victimization. We have heard all the excuses from all the unsolved rapes, which is ALL of them! Sheriff Metz is O for 16 in solving rapes and that is not a very good record!!
Rape victims being seen as contributing to their victimization and rape viewed as a private sexual act may be two reasons why rape often goes unreported, but especially unpunished in Gilmer County that leads the state of WV in unsolved and unpunished rapes!
Sometimes,Gilmer County, even brainwashed the victim to believe that stinking thinking bullshit and nothing is done by those investigating the crime to correct that wrong thinking. In fact it is encouraged!
Another stereotype is that rape is overwhelmingly perpetrated by a stranger, which is another load of crap fed to you by Gilmer County authorities who have become down right dangerous, with their unproven and untrue opinions.
It is documented that rapes committed by total strangers to the victims range from 42 to 53 percent of total rapes. The remaining percentage is done by friends, associates, or relatives of the victim. Rapes that occur between a victim and assailant known to one another are called acquaintance rape.
We all know about DATE RAPE, and some have even heard of marital rape but more recently Glenville State College and seemingly our law enforcement leaders have gone so far as to be complicit with GANG RAPE on campus and will not prosecute!
“There are no consequences what so ever for RAPE in Gilmer County, West Virginia, home to Glenville State College!”
Gang rape stands out as both heinous and frightening. Multiple sexual violations are enough to haunt anyone, but the ominous aspects of group dynamics that gang rape uncovers are even more sinister. We must understand that campus gang rape may also be called acquaintance rape because it most often occurs during a social get-together. Both the perpetrators and the victim know each other.
Recently a leader and in the criminal justice department was asked if they thought members of the SOB fraternity could commit the rape they are accused of being involved with in which Jordan Opie Watkins is the main suspect, and that person said, “Yes,” I think if they thought they could get away with it, as many have at GSC, Yes, I believe they were involved in raping that girl, but all I can really tell you about were the rumors I heard,” those were the words of an on campus leader and someone deserving of respect as told to the Supreme Commander of the Secret Seven Coalition. Photo above is of SOB fraternity members suspected of the rape of a co-ed that left her in the intensive care unit at Stonewall Jackson Hospital in Lewis County.
“When are we going to open our eyes and admit that people really are hurt by inappropriate sexual behaviors? When are we going to take responsibility and change the way business is done? We fought for it once before; do we not have the strength to fight now? When will we take back our morals, ethics and dignity?”
“When are we going to deny the officials at GSC and the POWER ELITE of Glenville to have another successful cover up!”
The address of the SOB Fright House “Frat House”(pictured above -first photo at top of this article) is 710 N. Lewis St. which is less than 1/2 mile from the intersection of W. Va. 5 and U.S. 33/119. A reverse search shows the address has a listed telephone number for Florence M. Shiflet.
However, when the number (304) 462-5570 was punched in SS investigators received a message saying the number is not in service, so if you know anything about the Secret Seven Coalition … you know the next thing we are going to say is we suspect this property is owned by the SLUM LORD himself Gerald B Hough for what more of a perfect owner could be picked for a palace of rape and humiliation?! A federal attorney requested a detailed list of all property owned by Gerald B Hough in Gilmer County — And we won’t be surprised if “Gerry” does own the “Fright House” and is making a profit on all the rape and mayhem going on at Glenville State College in Glenville, West Virginia the “Home of Rape and Murder!”
The SEXUAL ASSAULTS at GSC were first only reported by the SS and then finally the birth of the FREE PRESS in Glenville the GILMER FREE PRESS, the reports of HELL ON EARTH sexual torture soon was revealed to a mainstream audience while the local newspaper the Glenville Democrat makes it a policy not to report any negative news, but others say Dave Corcoran – Democrat Publisher and Editor is bought off like a Colombian Whore for a CIA agent while President Obama is having a fine vacation in Bogota!
The statistical majority of individuals who commit gang rape are reported to be young adults somewhere around the age of 23.
This crime is more common on college campuses just like Glenville State College,than it is in the larger school that are not in a lawless society like Glenville, West Virginia with its bought and paid for law enforcement, especially for the fact the ultimate authority Gilmer County is under is totalitarian leadership — ruled by the Church of Ike. Those who are usually involved in gang rape are members of a fraternity like the GSC SOB fraternity — or the famous GSC Football team who having a winning record and lead the State of WV in RAPE!
It is stated, with regard to publicized cases, that elite groups on campus are most likely to engage in group sexual assault. Take for example, that, football and basketball players have more prestige and status than baseball or soccer players and are more likely to be involved in gang rape. Social status is often implied with participation in certain fraternities. Many of these members view themselves as a cut above most students with more money, better cars, and better attire. This type of group identity may discourage moral self-assessment. The group mentality which downplays the importance of that moral compass can lead to the occurrence of gang rape by fraternity members.
In a group mentality no one individual in a gang rape believes that he is solely to blame for the crime taking place ..so the words of Jordan Opie Watkins, and his excuse of, “Things got out of hand,” just doesn’t cut it around here.
There is no doubt that GANG RAPE is group oriented. One reward of gang rape is described as camaraderie among the men involved. Other listed benefits include rapport, fellowship, and cooperation. Another primary motive, especially for group leaders, is to maintain an authoritative image within the group. Participation among the other members stem from indebtedness to or emotional dependency on the leader.
“What happens when Cowards and Bullies are put in power?”
“The answer is nothing. The same happens as what has already happened in Gilmer County. Around here and in surrounding counties too ..that is nothing happens, until some Nit Wit named Blankenship — whose County placed dead last in the state for performance in County Schools — comes in as a so-called expert, now that is another kind of RAPE!
No progress, no growth, no improvement of the human condition in Crooked County, not unless you are a member of the Church of IKE!”
When you put someone in power who will work on a set up basis, one who will not make decisions but follow orders like Larry Chapman former County Commissioner and blame their employees when that plan fails it is time to change the leadership model if anyone but the leaders is to survive. Lately when I heard the endless spewing forth of bullshit from Glen Ashley on the Gilmer Free Press, I thought to myself, how much is that bully boy piece of shit Larry Chapman paying this dumb son of a bitch!
Leaders are leaders whether male, female, old, young, formally educated, or schooled in hard knocks. Leadership either is or it isn’t present. Right now, today, we have far too many followers and little to no leadership in Gilmer County! The President of the Gilmer County Commission Brian Kennedy is a NO TALENT KNOW NOTHING and just as big of a “Little Bitch” as his wife Tara Kennedy who believes all of the FREE PRESS publications should be shut down!
“One good thing is that the Secret Seven Coalition of Central WV have exposed crimes and proven themselves resourceful and accurate in its reporting through superior leadership!”
However, under the power elite control with orders given by Sandy Pettit, we have a major leadership failing in Gilmer County and our population and business losses support this statement unequivocally.
We must stop putting people in place who have the ego to be the leader but do not have enough responsibility to take the blame, like Kennedy, Hess, Metz, Hough, R Terry Butcher, Timothy B Butcher, Peter Barr, Ike Morris and the list goes on and on!
“In a group mentality no one individual in a gang rape believes that he is solely to blame for the crime taking place .. so were the words of Jordan Opie Watkins, and his excuse of, “Things got out of hand,” just doesn’t cut it around here!”
Loss of individualism is encouraged to promote group spirit or to prompt behavior that is viewed as unacceptable, to promote a feeling of belonging and fitting in. Strong cohesion within a group eliminates the need for self control and guilt and instead gives that control to a group identity with its own histories and beliefs. It would stand to reason that if one’s group identity is stronger than one’s personal identity then acceptance of gang rape by the group would out-weigh one’s individual objections. When that group identity produces conformity then not only does watching the rape of an individual demonstrate the appropriateness of the behavior taking place but it also shows how it is done.
The Gas Station Man from Myrtle Beach South Carolina that Janice Weldon local Glenville Attorney and Associate of Peter Barr President of GSC and IL “Ike” Morris …brought to GSC named “Jordan Opie Watkins” that led the attack by the SOB’s is an alleged rapist of the Victim that was given Date Rape Drugs in Goodwin Hall
Individuals behaving within a brotherhood may perform acts that they would never do alone. It would not be unusual to find a person who is an upstanding citizen with no prior criminal record accused of being a perpetrator in a gang rape. This individual acting alone may have no known violent tendencies. The gang rapist may be no different from anyone considered “normal”. Membership in a cohesive group can break down one’s personal values and beliefs which can lend to the occurrence of gang rape.
There is definitely a positive correlation between traditional sex role attitudes and the prevalence of rape. How a female is perceived in the family role can determine a young male’s reaction when placed in such a situation.
Since a large proportion of gang rapes occur in or around college campuses it is important to address college policies and procedures that are set up to deal with acquaintance rape. The way in which administrators deal with rape cases that are brought to their attention usually determine the extent to which future cases will be reported. If a female student does not feel that she will be taken seriously by the college she might not report an assault.
It is important that college administration believes and makes it clearly known that sex is not something that men have a right to and if they disregard a woman’s wishes they will be held accountable for their actions. That does not happen at Glenville State College. Protect our good name and our job at all cost comes first in the mind of the administration. Protect the bosses legacy to save our job comes first in the mind of our law enforcement officials. Your sons and daughters come last as they do their best to discourage public consequences for perpetrators and think only of how this could affect the bottom line. They will say they are trying to save you from embarrassment and protect your good name. In reality, their status in the hierarchy is the only thing protected and all that matters. The long term damage done to your child is never taken into consideration.
The VICTIM of the RAPE in GOODWIN HALL at GSC actively being covered up by the college — Gilmer County Law Enforcement and GSC Public Safety officer Dan Bell says, the “Last thing I remember, I was holding a cup of a strong mixed drink of alcohol, and I could tell I was getting kind of drunk, and the next thing I know I am in the shower with 5 members of the SOB fraternity standing over me in the suite of Jordan Opie Watkins. Plenty of evidence existed that a rape took place, but the evidence they told me Dan Bell from GSC admitted losing, but people were there that were witnesses and I myself am a witness!”
Gang Rape is something that GSC college students should become informed about. With its prevalence on campus higher than in society as a whole gang rape should not be taken lightly. It is also an important issue that needs to be addressed by college administration and the right to safety of the students made a number one priority. The first task needs to be the steady breakdown of sexist attitudes. In our culture there still exists a rigid sex-role ideology in which the male role is more valued. If women step too far out of their prescribed sex-role they may be punished by rape or the threat of rape. This should not be a college level mind set. The second must be to discourage the group mentality thinking and encourage individualism.
Unless and until women are viewed as equals worthy of respect rape may never decrease considerably. These young women must learn their own value beyond that of a sex object from a very early age. They must learn that self respect and self protection is an entitlement, a right they must not let be denied and there is no amount of money which can buy those values. Until we teach our young men that the female is more than her sex and that wants must be controlled. Until we teach both genders that authority and power must be tempered with mercy and consideration for others and that their own personal dignity is priceless this story may never change. Until we value our youth more than material gain and refuse to accept this treatment of them, no man or woman in this county is worthy of being called “a leader”.
What really hurts even worse than the trauma of finding out your daughter or family member was almost killed for the sexual pleasure of Glenville State college students, is the knowing that if GSC were even close to being in a normal location other than Crooked County there would have been no need to worry about a vicious sexual assault that almost ended in death for your loved one and preferred student.
The GOOD OLE BOY SYSTEM here in Gilmer County often makes for poor choices for recommendations for sponsorship. A good example of this situation are import problem students like Jordan Opie Watkins who barely held a D average when brought to GSC by ELITE Sponsor Janice Weldon local attorney and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina socialite connection!
“Poor excuses for human beings that don’t really deserve a second chance — like OPIE seem to be under the belief that they have some sort of god given entitlement — And that they are allowed to rape a naive and somewhat young and innocent honor student – just starting her second year of college after an academic performance of straight A’s! “
If you are a parent of an unsuspecting CO-ED coming to Glenville State, the shock and horror of the inevitable …a Brutal Rape is compounded by the ultimate trauma that your daughter or close family member was raped in the Twilight ZONE!
Gerald B Hough just before making his first FERPA Violation so that he could threaten a RAPE VICTIM while he represented his client the alleged RAPIST WILKIE PEREZ who moved on to be a big football hero QB at WVU so might as well be a god at GSC if he was gonna be all that, well hell that means he could fuck any chick he wanted to in Glenville and he would get his own lawyer out of the deal and wouldn’t even have to pay for it!! Free SEX and a scholarship and can just take the first bitch he see’s sling her down to the ground slap the shit out of her until she is so terrified she may wet herself, but before that can happen Wilkie is headed in the out door and setting a precedent and soon to be guideline standard for a classic brutal sexual assault at Glenville State – The HOME of RAPE and Gerald B Hough on his way to being the Patron Saint of Sport Fucking beaten and unconscious women!!
“I’m GERRY HOUGH the Earl Scheib of RAPE at GSC, where male students can rape any girl, any time — day or night — for the cost of tuition!! Feel ups, and extras included in the foreplay at Goodwin Hall”
Raped in the TWILIGHT ZONE for the reason that the VICTIM soon finds out the evidence is conveniently lost on purpose — And for those reasons that there is no longer any evidence — the prosecutor Gerry Hough IS NOT going to pursue the matter!!
For that is how they do it down in Gilmer County… THE TWILIGHT
They are not very bright at GSC but do lead the state of WV in RAPE although cannot spell very well by this write up (above)in the GSC paper that goes with the photo of Gerry Hough appearing to be high as a kite!!
ZONE!! But even in the TWILIGHT ZONE a bad lawyer can get caught in the act of a FERPA Violation, but Gilmer County was not informed until recently when the matter was published in the West Virginia Record, and now we clearly can see why HOUGH filed a civil action against the author of this article, “Lawrence Smith,” who informed us all that even when caught in the Twilight Zone you can be held accountable!
News > State Supreme Court
Hough cautioned for ’98 FERPA violation
Date line 9/16/2011 By Lawrence Smith -Statehouse Bureau – The TRUTH about Gerald B Hough is now told!
CHARLESTON – Records show very early in his legal career, Gerry Hough was scolded by the Lawyer Disciplinary Board for violating federal law when he improperly accessed a Glenville State College student’s academic records in the course of representing her accused attacker in a sexual assault case.
The Board on Dec. 9, 2000, filed a one-count statement of charges against Hough for committing three violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct when he asked for, and received, a copy of Anita Phillips-Wiseman’s transcripts on Nov. 13, 1998. At the time, Hough was representing Wilkie Perez, a GSC student and quarterback of the football team, on charges he raped Phillips-Wiseman.
Jordan married Jordan recently, for that is Jordan Bennett who traveled to Georgia to marry Jordan Opie Watkins one of the alleged rapists at GSC — Jordan mixed the drinks with another GSC student Jayde Layne who said she should be the one to mix the drinks because her mother was a bartender, and mix those drinks they did, only the VICTIM had date rape drugs added to hers, so this victim was not only gang raped but set up by the girls, now that is a first!! …Or is it, in Crooked County down by the Crooked River!!
In the statement, which acts as an indictment for disciplinary purposes, the Board stated that Hough was also a member of the GSC faculty at the time he was representing Perez. Hough, the statement alleged, used his position on the faculty to mislead the GSC Registrar’s Office into getting a copy of Phillips-Wiseman’s transcripts for the sole purpose of aiding in Perez’s defense.
Under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, strict limits are placed on disclosure of a student’s academic records, and who has access to them. Among those who are permitted access to a college student’s records, including his or her transcripts, is the student’s advisor.
According to the statement, at the time he requested her transcripts, Hough was not Phillips-Wiseman’s advisor. Because of that, the Board charged Hough with violating Rules dealing with truthfulness in statements to others, respect for the rights of third persons and misconduct.
Eventually, the Board on Aug. 4, 2004, opted to dismiss the charge, and “caution” Hough, who by this time had become Gilmer County’s prosecutor, for his conduct, and fine him $400. The reason for the Board’s decision was due to the fact that at the time of the incident, Hough had been a member of the state Bar for only a month, and, upon learning of his actions, Thomas Powell, GSC’s then-president, reprimanded Hough, and denied him a pay raise given to other GSC faculty and staff.
As part of the agreement to dismiss the charges, Hough, despite his initial denial, had to admit to them, and express remorse for his actions.
Records show the sexual assault charges against Perez were dismissed.
It was pointed out to us by one of the newest members of the Secret Seven Coalition, and if the situation was noticed, or overlooked prior to this day, well then, better that you get it in your head now how dire the conditions are at GSC when something so awful happens that you hope nobody ever finds out about it.
What they don’t want you to know at GSC is that the same week, that when the mainstream press announced that the Edwin Dale Kinnison rape case was dropped by Hough within a matter of days of that announcement another brutal rape took place and was first mentioned in the Gilmer Free Press as a comment left by relatives of the rape victim and also mentioned in this RGW Article:
More RAPES at GLENVILLE STATE COLLEGE and more cover ups! Gilmer County SEX SCANDALS in review!!
I heard about a girl being drugged and raped at GSC just a couple months ago in a dorm room at Goodwin Hall… She had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance after she was found in critical condition, ended up in ICU for a few days. All the evidence needed, was gathered from the room… as she was being transported. I am going to predict GSC, Mr.Bell and Hough all three… try and cover this one up… even though there are witnesses and evidence… not to mention the victim!!! GSC has a responsibility to it’s students and the public to inform them of such criminal activities… but has done nothing about this one either… One would think… GSC would want to be known as the #1 college that puts their students safety first… above all else… instead of the #1 college that covers up crimes!!! As far as the Law in Glenville… what a joke!!!
By Squaw on 12.07.2010
From the entry: ‘Gilmer County Prosecutor Lets the GSC Rape Case Go‘.
Rodney L Smith was allowed into the room with Traci Kelley (shown in this photo) and Kayla Jarvis,Rodney asked her if she wanted to have sex & KELLEY said NO NEGRO Smith then proceeded to grab the breasts of Traci Kelley which was turning into something more than just copping a feel according to the eye witness at the scene. Things started getting OUT of HAND and IN HAND too roughly, roundly and most soundly! Another BLACK MAN at GSC had just got himself a piece of white breast and we ain’t talkin no chicken neither, that Rooster was gonna booster that chick when KAYLA JARVIS ran out of the room to go get help!!
Hough, Bell,and local law enforcement are corrupt.
My stepdaughter was drugged and WHO knows what else. Hough sent my wife a letter stating that evidence has been lost.
Bell is an ASS.
He is not a law enforcement officer.
He has been bought by the college.
Maybe he needs a taste of what he is putting our kids through.
FATE WILL COME FULL CIRCLE!!!
By hiphappens – P-Burg on 12.06.2010
Please send the facts of that rape in which the girl was drugged and info involving allegations of a cover up to:
secretsevencoalition@gmail.com
The Central WV SS has been reporting on and publishing stories on rapes that were covered up by GSC since Timothy Butcher, then foundation President and City Attorney disturbed the routine questioning of the rape suspect Erik Davis just before we witnessed the tragedy of Justice when the GSC Football player was found innocent of raping an underage high school girl whose reputation was trashed for the convenience of the Power Elite not to mention her virtue sold like some type of unnecessary White Trash
What we did not know when the Above ran on the Free Press that just at the same time the Gilmer County Prosecutor let the rape case go (which you can review by clicking the green link above) there was another rape even more brutal and vicious that almost ended in the death of an honor student!
“It was like a sign from GOD just as one rape is covered up officially … slam bam thank you for some all night sex with an unconscious beauty it happens immediately again!”
Only this time this latest RAPE DISCOVERY has been exposed by the West Virginia SS and we are informing all Concerned Citizens by publishing this Sunday nights article that GSC signed a 12 page Resolution with the OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS at the beginning of 2012 because of the rape of AMANDA?!
Several steps must be followed which will include the reopening of the case, although Gerry Hough went to great lengths to cover up this brutal sexual assault along with DAN BELL — the public safety officer from GSC that was told to lose the evidence!
An investigator states ….
” It is apparent that law enforcement botched the investigation from the BEGINNING!”
Several documents are currently available to verify this information.
The beautiful VICTIM of rape was also denied civil rights by being denied access to her complete medical file at Stonewall Jackson Hospital ! Hospital officials are complying with the cover up to keep from being liable.
Some students got sent some money from home,and students decided to buy the strongest alcohol the money could buy. The RAPE happened in a suite in Goodwin Hall occupied by Jordan OPIE Watkins who was brought to GSC by local attorney Janice Weldon – The VICTIM, “Amanda” was given a cup of alcohol laced with date rape drugs and ended up in an ambulance, flat lining and in intensive care after the brutal rape that also involved several members of the SOB fraternity!
Meghan Ruddlesden shown in this photo was contacted by the SC of the SS and asked if she could please support AMANDA SMITH in her federal lawsuit filed against GSC.SMITH who was raped just 12 days before Meghan reported her rape, is seeking damages from the school and students that assisted in the rape and from the alleged rapist. Amanda was injured and almost died from the drugs and alcohol that were used in the sexual attack on her in Goodwin Hall on Campus, not long after the official opening of the dorm!
The suppression of females in leadership positions is a political struggle, first and secondly a class struggle, especially in Gilmer County, and especially at GSC where Glenville State College is #1 in RAPE leading WV — But is number 73 out of 73 schools dead last in academics.
Lower class movements which have struggled to be free from the established authorities. Some like Amanda have risen up through the ranks to be an honor student — that is someone to be proud of and someone to look up to which we have so proudly displayed at the top of the page!
The Church of Ike serves the ruling class in the politics of business, and the politics of politics and has the whole fucking state of West Virginia wired in with the greased pockets of Phil Reale who makes sure that he lobby’s all the Charleston press for the GOOD IMAGE of GSC and Gilmer County, so the Power Elite covered up yet another rape, but this time they covered up a rape of someone that could be the Miss America of our fine state for all that she has accomplished and for all the fine friends she has made!
“Think of all the things we could have had until those SOB’s RAPED AMANDA and it was really bad!”
“She cried, then nearly died, and I can still hear her say…”
Take me to the river, drop me in the water
Take me to the river, dip me in the water
Washing me down, washing me down
I don’t know why you treat me so bad
Think of all the things we could have had
Rape is an ocean that I can’t forget
And the SS haven’t got all you yet…
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COME TO THE DARK SIDE — GLENVILLE STATE COLLEGE IN CROOKED COUNTY — AND GET RAPED LIKE A BITCH! If you are WHITE It’s JUST ALRIGHT for PETER BARR says DON’T LAY ON YOUR BACK UNLESS HE IS BLACK!! RAPE CHARGES AGAINST THE GSC QB PROPHET WERE DISMISSED IN MAGISTRATE COURT!! MARY HUDNALL CO-ED VICTIM RUINED!!
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By Editor Edison – CalPatty Press Editor/Hurricane Rina McCoy – Cosmos Communicator/Free Bird – Revenge of the Ghost Wolf Reporter for the Central West Virginia Secret Seven Coalition
Hi! I’m a GSC CO-ED and the chances of me getting raped by a BLACK MAN at Glenville State College and having the rapist go free and never be prosecuted statistically is about 20 times greater than any other college in the state of West Virginia! Isn’t it exciting! We all agreed to the BARR code, “Don’t lay on your back, unless he is BLACK!”
Peter Barr is the President of Glenville State College and many know he instilled the BARR CODE, Don’t lay on your back unless he is BLACK — And has more or less let his Black Athletes fuck the holy bejesus out of the WHITE female CO-EDS at Glenville State College.
Just ask MARY HUDNALL whose last known residence was 502 A Goodwin Hall. She claims in her police report that she was brutally raped by GABE PROPHET a BLACK Football Player from Glenville State College wearing number 7 which brought him some luck because he got to forcibly FUCK MARY — And it was JUST OK with Glenville Prosecuting Attorney GERRY HOUGH just like it always is!
In fact, GERRY HOUGH actually represents the rapist, it just looks like he is the prosecution person, but in real life, if you are WHITE he is more of a persecuting penis, than an actual prosecutor.
Head FOOTBALL Coach for Glenville State College David Hutchison loves having a good quarterback, and could really give a shit if Gabe Prophet is a rapist! Or could he get headlines like this?
The Pioneers offense struck first when quarterback Gabe Prophet hit Joe Lauteria for a 15 yard touchdown early in the first quarter.
The RGW HEADLINES READ : A QB for the Glenville State College Football team, Gabe Prophet is behind bars for sexual assault charges. The incident allegedly occurred last Friday June 17, 2011 at his home.
“The definition of 1st degree sexual assault is forced penetration, causing serious bodily injury, or use of a deadly weapon, but then I guess a big black hard dick could be considered a weapon and the preferred weapon used by students at the HOME of Rape and Murder in CROOKED COUNTY – Glenville State College!”
Gabriel Prophet (Gabe Prophet), 22, was arraigned by Gilmer County Magistrate Robert Minigh on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 and was facing two felony charges involving sexual assaults of 1st and 2nd degree.
Why the GSC Football player was just booked into jail on the 23rd of JUNE, instead of right before the arraignment is unknown but a precursor to the fact that…
GABE WAS GONNA GET AWAY WITH THE ASSAULT — AND RAPE THE HOLY HELL OUT OF AN INNOCENT CO-ED — And GET AWAY WITH IT!
WAY TO GO NEGRO!
Prophet is just one of many football players from GSC to be accused of rape, but there have been NO convictions.
Phrophet was booked at Central regional Jail today June 23, 2011.
Click the link in GREEN below to check out the court documents of a RAPIST!
Gabe Prophet Mag Court info
The victim Mary Hudnall had the holy crap fucked out of her, and was scared to death alleges that she was raped, and then sought treatment at Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital after the pounding by the QB of the GSC Football team from Washington DC.
The criminal complaint stated that the MARY HUDNALL “Feared for her life,” during the entire terrifying sexual attack!!
In Glenville, as to not tarnish the image of the college, everyone pretends another horrible rape did not happen!
IS THIS what we need in Glenville to stop the crimes of HOUGH and GSC and to STOP THE RAPE OF WHITE WOMEN at GSC?
And then, when the evidence and the gossip become too much, that next step is start to smear the reputation of the victim no matter who she is. If she is the victim the word is put out on her that she is a whore that was asking for it. It is easy to see GERRY HOUGH manipulated this case.
Mary Hudnall worked at the GO MART right on the main drag in Glenville and lived at 502 A GOODWIN Hall and the RAPE cost her the job along with her college work at GSC — SS members have been trying secretly this week to make contact with her, so that we can give the public and other news agencies the Dirty Deal that we know the POWER ELITE of GLENVILLE gave the poor young girl!
The SS has seen this situation so many times in the past that this time we got specific about what would be said about the victim, who would say it, and from “What” mainstream news source the propaganda would be born.
The only responsible coverage of the latest alleged sexual assault by another QB for GSC was the article in the State Journal based on the article posted on the Revenge of the Ghost Wolf website.
The Secret Seven Coalition website published the facts immediately following the arrest of Gabe Phrophet red shirt QB for the GSC football squad.
THE SECRET SEVEN COALITION OF CENTRAL WV WAS CONVINCED THERE WOULD BE NO PROSECUTION PERTAINING TO THIS LATEST RAPE AT GSC EARLY ON and saw all the tell tale signs, and determined that the CROOKS from CROOKED COUNTY that live down by the CROOKED RIVER would do it again!
GABE PROPHET in the documents posted and provided in this article was also a Quarterback — an athlete to be protected at all costs, even if lying and cheating have to take place!
Lying and cheating, is always the first responsibility of Gerry Hough, as we so proudly prove by providing the documents linked below for public viewing.
LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT, THAT’S HOW CORRUPTION TAKES OVER AN ENTIRE COUNTY. COHORTS OF THE DISCIPLES OF THE CHURCH OF IKE, THOSE PUPPETS CONTROLLED BY ONE, DO THE CRIME AND NEVER DO THE TIME.
“I told you NO!” ” …I can’t do this, I have a boyfriend!” “I am drunk leave me alone!”
Their ability to commit crimes seemingly can’t be suppressed and much of our local society prefers to keep underground out of fear of retaliation. This “climate controlled environment” of collusion, conspiracy and legal thievery exists in a bubble of protection that really needs to be “Popped!”
The synchronicity of the citizens of this county has been so destroyed as to allow the elite leaders to even manipulate probability to their liking. Divide and conquer is the game they play and we let it happen. How does it feel to be a puppet on a string? If you don’t step forward and take a stand that is what you are.
Ask the candidates who have been bankrolled while putting the remote control in the hands of the one who buys them, the CHURCH OF IKE! These so called businessmen puppets and their tiny minded corporate agendas ruin the county and send those who dare question away as quickly as possible.
Hough as a staff member at GSC received a written reprimand and denial of a pay raise instituted by then GSC President Thomas Powell for his actions involving the Wilkie Perez RAPE Case, but he should have been prosecuted and set a very bad example for GSC staff members
Now we are all guilty of falling for it and letting them control our mind!
TKE where CARLY HOUGH pulled her panties to the side and drank like a fish is being torn down in this photo — Normally Changes at GSC are always to improve their image at all costs regardless of the outcome to the community
Most folk know it is wrong, many know the right thing to do is speak out but few have the courage. People, I don’t go around fire expecting not to sweat!
The micromanagement from the most elite is made worse by the fact that many of their hand selected leaders lack even a rudimentary understanding of the realities of the nonprofit organizations they are supposedly in charge of. They let whatever success they’ve had in business go to their heads and mistake their big-headed certainty for knowledge. This makes their business experience a big liability, because their certainty is misplaced. Our leaders hold exceptional power for such a small place, yet while they have completely unexceptional training in anything relevant to the jobs they seek, they get elected or appointed every time.
Apathy by design has caused our voters to become ever more cynical and apathetic in their attitude toward election politics. Around 50% of us don’t bother to vote hand feeding the underground. To make things worse, those who do vote, continue to blindly reelect those self serving, smiling puppets regardless of obvious corruption, bad fiscal policies, and awful actions or complete inaction.
Our schools have been taken over, there exists precedent to show that the Career Center could be next and Blankenship is crawling all over that place. There is so much mistreatment of our students, teachers and anyone who wishes to assist them, I’m surprised the county hasn’t imploded. Wake up people, the life you save might be your own. Ask the old man Don Singleton beaten by a Gilmer County Deputy Sheriff if he makes it out of the hospital. Gilmer County has “JUMPED OFF” during the first part of 2012
WE CAN NEVER AGAIN LET GERRY HOUGH SERVE ANOTHER TERM IN OFFICE!
All Concerned Citizens need to BAN TOGETHER and fight these CROOKED CROOKS from Crooked County like a GHOST WOLF — the best way we know how, enough is enough, one Gilmer County resident hit the matter right on the head on Ground Hogs Day, The truth of the matter is that Sheriff, Prosecutor, and the Commissioners all have skeletons in their closets, and every one of them knows about each other. That is exactly why none of them want to make a move. Simply put “If you tell on me I will tell on you.” Folks, we have to get rid of these bad apples. They need to be replaced by new ones. Can you imagine what can happen if Metz is a Magistrate? Do we want Larry Chapman back? Remember all the wrongdoings at the courthouse happened under his watch, and he did not do a thing about it. Now the only people who get punished are the taxpayer who pays the price. Nothing happens to the criminals. This needs changed
In reading the comments that followed the story on RGW, one alleging an ethics complaint filed against Gerry Hough for improperly obtaining a rape victim’s school records caught the eye of many of our readers.
The informed individual that posted that important bit of information in the comment is someone in the know from the Central WV SS.
We decided to elaborate with all the documents included in our investigation after an associate retrieved all the pertinent documents from the West Virginia Supreme Court.
We found the outcome to fall right into place of special privileges for the Elite and even though Gerry Hough was found to be in the wrong, he received no punishment although guilt and fault were found.
Gerry Hough set a precedent involving illegal actions taken against rape victims at GSC! You will find out for yourself as you the reader are educated to the facts during this GSC RAPE HISTORY 101 lesson, a course best taught when discussing the misconduct of Gerald B Hough!
Hough was appointed to represent a man by the name of Wilkie Perez, who’d been accused of raping Anita Phillips-Wiseman. Of course, both were GSC students during these early moments in GSC RAPE History…
In November of that year, Hough asked for, and received, Phillips-Wiseman’s transcripts leading the registrar’s office to believe he was her adviser (who is allowed to see a student’s transcripts). He was able to do that since at the time, in addition to being an attorney, he was also a GSC faculty member.
Here are a list of allegations of wrongdoing and criminal activity performed by Gerald B Hough on behalf of his client the accused rapist who was a star quarterback as well as WVIAC ALL State first team quarterback for GSC!
After Wiseman-Phillips found out,that Hough had obtained her records illegally and in a fraudulent manner, she filed a compliant against Hough with the Office of Disciplinary Counsel.
That very sad outcome for the community was that no action was taken against Hough clearing the way for many more rapes to come and many more cover-ups with a model case to bring forth the proper guidelines .
“Gerry Hough was only “cautioned” about his actions, and made to reimburse ODC the $400 it cost to conduct its investigation.”
The reason the Lawyer Disciplinary Board opted to give Hough a slap on the wrist was due to the fact he was a new attorney, and sole practitioner. Also, felt the written reprimand and denial of a pay raise instituted by then GSC President Thomas Powell was sufficient punishment, but truly the matter was criminal and now the public has a real good up close documented look at …
“HOW THEY DO IT IN CROOKED COUNTY!”
I’m sure you’ll agree that bigger forces were at work here in getting Hough off the hook. If that had happened anywhere else in West Virginia, Hough would not only have been disciplined by the Supreme Court, but also fired as a faculty member.
“Needless to say, this SS article provides more proof that Gerry Hough is indeed the Patron Saint of male GSC athletes accused of rape!”
By my count, the Perez-Phillips-Wiseman case was just one of many similar rape cases involving athletes from GSC years that have been swept under the rug by using political power and the local press to suppress evidence, witnesses and public opinion.
By my count, the THE RAPE COUNT is TOO MANY NOW!!
Here is the complete file on the Wilkie Perez rape case – as on record at the West Virginia Supreme Court – involving the victim filing against Gerry Hough!
Wilkie Perez, from Glenville State was the WVIAC Offensive Player of the Year!
Fucking A !! The Powers that Be are gonna give that boy full rein on any of the co-eds he wants to bang and dude will be protected by the people who really run things in Crooked County!!
Since the report is a total of 59 pages front and back, the documents had to be scanned in four parts. (Please click links below in green for documents)
Wiseman-Hough complaint file part 1 back-to-front
Wiseman-Hough complaint file part 1 front-to-back
The Secret Seven Coalition is delighted to publish these document where we hope these facts will help in exposing this first of many cover-up’s of horrible attacks on young women co-eds at GSC!
Protected by the BARR CODE! NOW ALL OF WV CAN SEE THIS RAPE CASE OF GABE PROPHET IS JUST PAR FOR A CROOKED COUNTY COURSE AT GLENVILLE STATE!
The likeness of Gabe Phrophet shown above in photo with likeness of
alleged rape victim last June at the home of the red-shirted QB of the GSC football team …just before throwing the bitch down hard and stealing some of that white pussy, because the staff at GSC have alluded to the fact that it’s all part of his football contract!
“Don’t worry, Gerry Hough will get you off …that’s his job!”
“He does what we say!”
“Pray to Gerry he is the Patron Saint to all Negro rapists down in Crooked County!”
If this article reaches enough of our readers this effort of exposing the real facts of GSC RAPE HISTORY 101 via court documents could be the one tug that unravels the whole Crooked County cloak of deception that we are all wrapped up in by the sacred members of the CHURCH OF IKE, who are often referred to as the Brotherhood of Darkness!
Come to GILMER COUNTY and take a walk on the Dark Side!
*** UPDATE Friday February 10th
COME TO THE DARK SIDE — GLENVILLE STATE COLLEGE IN CROOKED COUNTY — AND GET RAPED LIKE A BITCH!
RAPE RAPE RAPE RAPE RAPE RAPE RAPE It’s all good down by the Crooked River!
Documents received from VICTIM of a BRUTAL RAPE AT GLENVILLE STATE COLLEGE! Come to GSC and get RAPED!
AT GLENVILLE STATE COLLEGE IT IS NOT SAFE FOR WOMEN !
The above document is just some of the paper trail from the rape at Glenville State being investigated by the highest ranks of the Central West Virginia Secret Seven Coalition! Evidence exists that proves GERALD B HOUGH is currently covering up another rape at GLENVILLE STATE COLLEGE HIGH ATOP THE HILL at the County Seat of Crooked County down by the Crooked River the home of the Crooked County Crooks!
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25 Examples Of Everyday Evil
by John Hawkins | April 14, 2009 7:04 am
When the average person thinks “evil,” he thinks of a cruelly-featured, sneering, bestial man wickedly twirling his mustache as he draws perverse delight from inflicting misery on his fellow human beings.
People who fit the almost cartoonish definition we’ve grown accustomed to viewing as evil, certainly do exist — and we hear about those dictators, serial killers, hit men, & psychopaths on the nightly news.
But, it’s a mistake to believe that those are the only people who do evil or that only activities that rise to the level of murder, rape, or armed robbery are sins. The worst of the worst may deserve especially strong condemnation, but small cruelties committed by unthinking people — who view themselves as good and just, despite their sometimes malicious actions — have done more than most people realize to spread evil, degrade civilization, and drag our culture into the sewers.
That’s the everyday reality we live with, especially in prosperous, civilized nations like America. For the average person, on a typical day, the evil that comes into his life isn’t from some modern day Snidely Whiplash; it’s from other ordinary people: his co-workers and random folks he passes on the street during his everyday life.
Yes, “good people” can and often do perform evil acts that should be incompatible with their view of themselves as decent human beings. Unfortunately, it’s our nature to lapse into malevolent behavior sometimes and if we’re not paying attention, we can sometimes engage in it for quite a while without even truly realizing how far we’ve drifted from our values.
With that in mind, evil is…
1) Anonymously emailing death threats.
2) Suing someone who did nothing wrong in order to try to collect a big payday.
3) Passing on information that you know is a lie about a political opponent.
4) Posting someone’s phone number or address online in an effort to intimidate him or worse yet, in hopes that someone will try to hurt him.
5) Putting an earmark in a bill in order to enrich your friends, family, or yourself.
6) A witty comedian telling a brilliant joke about how dumb people are to do the right thing.
7) Breaking into a house and encouraging people to engage in squatting[1].
8) Lying to a woman to get her to sleep with you.
9) Being an online troll.
10) Trying to convince people to do something that’s immoral, unethical, or just plain old wrong so that you’ll feel better about doing it yourself.
11) Spreading a conspiracy theory you don’t believe in to draw in traffic for your website.
12) Spraying graffiti on someone else’s property.
13) Watching someone drop money on the ground and keeping it instead of giving it back to him.
14) A pastor who waters down his Christian beliefs because they conflict with political correctness.
15) Hacking into someone else’s computer.
16) Choosing not to help pay for your own children’s livelihood.
17) Spreading malicious rumors about friends and co-workers.
18) Aborting your child because it’s inconvenient.
19) Deliberately undermining someone else’s marriage.
20) Trying to rig an election, win a seat in the courts that you lost at the ballot box, or trying to insure phony votes are counted.
21) An atheist trying to ruin other people’s faith in God to make himself feel better about his own unbelief.
22) Writing a virus that infects someone’s computer.
23) Living off the charity of others or the government dole AND feeling no shame over it.
24) Mocking someone whose politics you disagree with right after he dies.
25) Knowingly accusing an innocent person of racism.
squatting: https://rightwingnews.com/mt331/2009/04/overwhelming_the_concept_of_pr.php
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The Purchase of Mt. Rubidoux Peak
Mt. Rubidoux is one of Riverside’s 51 City Parks and the historic Serra Cross sits at its peak. In 2012 the City received a complaint that the cross violated the separation of church and state and legal action was threatened. In response, City Council voted to publicly auction 0.43 acres at the top of Mt. Rubidoux, including the historic Serra Cross, with no favoritism toward potential bidders.
Totally Mt. Rubidoux, a partnership between Friends of Mt. Rubidoux, The Mission Inn Foundation & Museum, and Rivers & Lands Conservancy (formerly Riverside Land Conservancy) was formed to raise awareness and funds to purchase the peak during the auction.
The community rallied, raising nearly $260,000 in an unprecedented campaign that demonstrated how meaningful Mt. Rubidoux is to not just Riverside residents, but people far and wide who have stood at the peak.
In 2013 and Rivers & Lands Conservancy (RLC), an accredited land trust, purchased the peak for $10,500.
Funds were set aside to support the first three years of monitoring and stewardship of the property as well as for education and outreach. The remaining funds, a little over $190,000, were invested in a non-wasting endowment so that the interest earned could support the care of Mt. Rubidoux Peak in perpetuity.
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There were over a thousand donations that made this possible and today you can visit the peak and see the names of those who contributed. Truly, Mt. Rubidoux Peak belongs to the community, because so many made its preservation possible.
Visit the Totally Mt. Rubidoux site to find out more about this inspiring story.
What Has Happened Since?
Rivers & Lands Conservancy continues to monitor and maintain the peak.
In our first major repairs to Mt. Rubidoux Peak, in 2017, the Serra Cross received some well-deserved attention. After suffering lightning strike damage, the cross became an inviting home to a colony of bees. The bees were kind enough to relocate on their own, but repairing and renovating a 35-foot cross is not a small endeavor.
Bring in the Steeplejack!
The work required a professional steeplejack, a craftsman who scales buildings, chimneys and church steeples to carry out repairs or maintenance. Our steeplejack turned a few heads as he perched on the cross, but was able to repair the damage, ensuring the cross would not host any more hives. He also power-washed and painted the Serra Cross, beautifying as well as bee-proofing the iconic landmark.
Since its earliest incarnation in 1907, Serra Cross has towered above Riverside, punctuating Mt. Rubidoux. Over 111 years later it’s still standing tall, looking great and ready to welcome you at the highest point of the hill.
Now that the Serra Cross has been repaired and renovated, it's time to give some attention to the cement benches below it. While the interest earned on the current Mt. Rubidoux Peak endowment helps cover average stewardship expenses, is not enough to cover the cost of such extensive repairs. We need your help!
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Ikaho Onsen
A spa village full of atmosphere, with stone steps and running hot spring water
Introduction of Hot Springs (Onsen)
This hot spring village spreads out on the mountainside of Mt. Haruna in Gunma Prefecture, at an elevation of about 700 meters.
The history of this spa village is old, and appears in Manyoshu, the oldest existing collection of Japanese poetry, and Kokinshu, an early anthology of Japanese poems of Heian Period. It was more than 400 years ago that the basic patterns of this hot spring village were established.
The hot spring water coming straight from the source runs through the village, and a lot of Japanese-style hotels, souvenir shops and restaurants stand in both sides of the street with stone steps. We can say that this is one of the liveliest spa villages in Kanto Region.
You can find a poem written by Akiko Yosano halfway of the symbolic stone steps, which enhances the good mood of the spa.
Effects and characteristics of Hot Springs
The history of this spa village is old, and appears in Manyoshu and Kokinshu. During Sengoku Period, as a big therapeutic bath to cure injured warriors was required, the “Komaguchi system” was established. This system has been taken over since then.
The spring quality is simple, sulfate spring. It has mainly effects on fatigue, cold constitution, hypertension, arteriosclerosis and skin disease. As this spring water warms the body thoroughly and increases the blood circulation, it is known as “water of fertility” which is good especially for women.
Spring Qualities
Standard hot-spring Sulfate hot-spring
Coldness Mild hypertension Recovery from fatigue
About 15-minute drive from JR Shibukawa station
About 20-minute drive from Shibukawa-Ikaho Interchange off of Kanetsu Expressway
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Wiggle High5 team give it some welly for RNLI Mayday at the Tour de Yorkshire
Four members of top pro cycling team Wiggle High5 took a break from their Tour de Yorkshire preparation to support the RNLI’s Mayday campaign, by swapping their cycling shoes for lifeboat crew yellow wellies.
The RNLI is the official charity partner of the Tour de Yorkshire, which coincides with the RNLI’s national fundraising campaign, Mayday. Many Mayday fundraising events have a yellow welly theme, inspired by the footwear worn by the charity’s volunteer crews.
Wiggle High5 take part in the Asda Women’s Tour de Yorkshire race tomorrow (Saturday 30 April). They will compete on the same 135K course as the men, who tackle the Otley to Doncaster route later the same day.
Wiggle High5 team members Anna Christian, Amy Roberts, Lucy Garner and Mayuko Hagiwara were keen to show their support for the lifesaving charity’s Mayday campaign, which runs until Monday 2 May.
Anna hails from the Isle of Man - the birthplace of the RNLI and home to five RNLI lifeboat stations.
She said: ‘I was delighted when I heard the RNLI was the Tour de Yorkshire’s charity for 2016 because I know what brilliant work their volunteer crews do. The fact that they just drop everything at a moment’s notice and go out to sea to rescue complete strangers is awe-inspiring.
‘I really hope everyone supports the RNLI’s Mayday campaign. I know there’ll be RNLI collectors and volunteers out along the race route so please look out for them, and perhaps buy one of their yellow welly pin badges in support of this amazing charity.’
RNLI fundraisers are collecting donations from spectators on all three days of the event and will be sharing water safety tips in the Tour Fanzones. On Sunday 1 May, over 90 amateur riders are raising money for the RNLI by taking part in the event’s sportive race.
All funds raised for Mayday through the Tour de Yorkshire partnership will be used to support the RNLI’s lifesaving service in Yorkshire, where the charity has nine lifeboat stations and provides a lifeguard service on 14 beaches.
As well as the Tour de Yorkshire fundraising, Mayday events are taking place right across the UK and Ireland and yellow welly pin badges are on sale in many locations. People can also show their support on social media by using the hashtag #MaydayEveryday.
1. Wiggle High5 team members (L-R) Anna Christian, Amy Roberts, Mayuko Hagiwara and Lucy Garner support RNLI Mayday in their RNLI yellow wellies (Inside). Credit RNLI/ Anthony Chappel-Ross
2. Wiggle High5 team members (L-R) Lucy Garner, Mayuko Hagiwara, Amy Roberts and Anna Christian support RNLI Mayday in their RNLI yellow wellies (outside on bike). Credit RNLI/ Anthony Chappel-Ross
For more information please contact Alison Levett, RNLI Public Relations Manager, North, on 07786 668912 or at alison_levett@rnli.org.uk
About Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling Team
New name. New riders. New ranking! With UCI No.1 World Ranking, the Wiggle High5 women’s professional cycling team is the team to beat this season, following an unmatched 35 victories on the UCI Women's World Tour in 2015. Having sponsored the team for three years, Wiggle, the world’s biggest online cycle and trisports retailer are delighted to continue the journey with these incredible athletes as they continue to inspire, entertain and raise awareness of the status and profile of women’s cycling www.wiggle.com
Tour de Yorkshire is a Welcome to Yorkshire (WTY) / Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.) race in association with British Cycling which holds a 2.1 European Tour UCI Classification.
The Tour de Yorkshire is an annual international race with a new route through Yorkshire each year. It forms part of the legacy of the historic Yorkshire Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2014, along with the Yorkshire Bank Bike Libraries which aim to offer every child in Yorkshire access to a bike.
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HomeEnemies at Home: A Flavia Albia Novel – A cool detective procedural set in ancient Rome – #mystery #bookreview
Enemies at Home: A Flavia Albia Novel – A cool detective procedural set in ancient Rome – #mystery #bookreview
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Enemies at Home
A Flavia Albia Novel
( Minotaur Books, hardback, Kindle )
Can a 29-year-old widow make it as a private detective in first century A.D. Rome?
Flavia Albia has some friends in semi-high places. And she has one very important family connection: She is the adopted daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, one of Rome’s best-known “private informers,” the ancient equivalent of a modern private eye.
Flavia has taken over her father’s office, and she keeps needing new cases. But in the private informer business, it’s “no win, no pay.” So, she is always on the lookout for a case she can both win and profit from, in a legal system where women have no rights in matters of law and where she must compete with male private informers who do have rights.
Unfortunately, the case that suddenly lands in Flavia’s lap in Enemies at Home does not seem to hold much promise:
“Even before I started, I knew I should say no,” Flavia states at the book’s beginning.
“There are rules for private informers accepting a new case. Never take on clients who cannot pay you. Never do favors for friends. Don’t work with relatives, Think carefully about legal work. If, like me, you are a woman, keep clear of men you find attractive. The Aviola inquiry broke every one of those rules, not the least because the clients had no money, yet I took it on. Will I never learn?”
Not yet. She meets up with a magistrate, an aedile, named Tiberius Manlius Faustus, with whom she has worked before and finds attractive. (Can “Manlius” be viewed as a Latinized pun on “manly”? Yep.) Faustus has just been assigned to deal with a very complicated case within his jurisdiction, and he needs Flavia’s help to try to sort things out.
A man and his wife have been brutally murdered and robbed, apparently by intruders, and the couples’ slaves have fled to the Temple of Ceres, desperately hoping to get asylum so they can save their lives.
“The slaves got wind of their plight,” Flavia informs us. “They knew the notorious Roman law when a head of household was murdered at home. By instinct the authorities went after the wife, but that was no use if she was dead too. So unless the dead man had another obvious enemy, his slaves fell under suspicion. Whether guilty or not, they were put to death. All of them.”
Flavia’s task, of course, is to attempt to help exonerate the slaves. But Roman law literally is a vicious beast, sometimes. Criminals and those merely suspected of a crime can be thrown to the lions or sewn into large bags along with dangerous animals and dropped into the sea. And that’s just two of the many ways capital punishment can be meted out in the Roman Empire.
Flavia is the slaves’ only hope. And she is armed with nothing but curiosity, questions and bluster, plus some occasional help from the aedile, Manlius Faustus, as she goes where no woman typically has gone before, at least in recent years, in Roman society.
Enemies at Home features a very big cast of characters (spanning two pages at the front of the book). And it is somewhat easy to grow confused by (and a bit wearied of) virtually every male name ending in “-us” and almost every female name ending in “-a.”
For the most part, however, this second Flavia Albia novel is fun and informative reading. Lindsey Davis is a master at moving her characters about in ancient Roman settings. She keeps them both human and limited by the pace, technology, laws and social mores of the Roman Empire (during the reign of the allegedly paranoid emperor, Domitian). Her dialogue often is wickedly sharp and funny, and, except for an occasional Latin word here and there, no effort is made to have the characters speak in any tongue other than modern lingo.
If you have been hoping Falco will reappear and have a cameo role in this new book, be prepared to wait for the next novel in the series and see if he shows up there. Flavia Albia is now her own woman. She emerges strongly from her father’s shadow in Enemies at Home and demonstrates why she also deserves to be known as one of the very best public informers in first-century Rome.
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Posted on July 2, 2013 by wildbow
“Sorry… I’m… so…”
He didn’t finish the sentence.
I could sense him slowing, using the bugs I’d planted on his costume. I stopped and waited for him.
“It’s fine, Theo. You’re doing me a favor.”
“Doesn’t feel like it,” he said. He bent down, hands on his knees.
I waited for him to get his breath.
“I might throw up,” he added.
I backed away a step. “Just getting the chance to run, it’s cool. Not many others are willing to meet me at seven to run, much less six weeks in a row. Grace is athletic, but she got sick of it fast.”
He mumbled something I couldn’t make out.
“I’m not athletic.”
“You’re getting better. We just got a whole two blocks. That’s not bad. About as good as I was when I started.”
“Not fair to you, make you suffer for how much I suck.”
“It’s fine. It’s nice to get outside. Kind of a pain to have to get someone to come with if I want to go outside for no particular reason. If I don’t get the exercise here, I can use the treadmill back at the headquarters. Don’t feel obligated, if you’re not enjoying this.”
“I don’t. I’m… it’s good. I want to get fit.”
“Well, in that case, don’t worry about it. We’re both benefitting,” I said.
He made it another few steps before he was hunched over again, still breathing hard.
I felt a pang of sympathy, suppressing a smile at the same time. “Come on. We’ll walk one block, then try running another, walk the rest of the way.”
He was still panting for breath as he obliged.
I found myself missing Brockton Bay. It wasn’t the most beautiful city, or the most active. Or the most anything. There were already things going on around the portal, but it wasn’t a city with a lot going for it, and it hadn’t been even before the intense series of events had laid waste to the shoreline, set a water-filled crater in the northwest corner of the downtown area and left an entire swathe of the city so fucked up with random, horrifically dangerous effects that it had to be walled off.
Maybe I wouldn’t have felt the same way if I hadn’t grown up there, but I liked the balance in Brockton Bay. The way there was everything I could want, as far as malls, shopping centers, theaters. It was a big enough city. Yet there was just as much room to wake up early in the day, when others weren’t out, and have Brockton Bay to myself.
Chicago wasn’t like that. It was busy, and it was busy in a way that got in my way. People were already up if I got up at six in the morning to go run. Some were still up from the previous night, having spent the entire evening at clubs or whatever else. Everything was taken to an extreme, it seemed, in drama, opinions and ideas. It made it a little harder to sympathize with Chicago’s equivalents to the people I’d been helping in Brockton Bay. A little harder to sympathize with anyone, really.
I was feeling cramped. I wasn’t a social person at my core, and being here, like this, never allowed to be out and on my own, it rankled. I liked time on my own, with the internet or a good book, even a bad book, to get my mind settled down, my thoughts in order. It wasn’t that I didn’t like people, that I didn’t like company, but too much was too much, and I had no elbow room here.
Whether they knew it or not, the PRT directors had found a fitting way to punish me. Hopefully it wouldn’t go any further than this. I’d done as they asked, I was staying under the radar, and though I didn’t plan to stay there, I didn’t think they had any reason to make my life more difficult. I had my suspicions that my phone and computer were tapped, so I was careful about what I browsed and how I communicated.
With luck, they would forget about me until I was active again. With more luck, I wouldn’t have to worry about them much longer. The Director from Toronto, the guy I hadn’t been able to place, had already quit. Wilkins and West were still active, but the woman at the end of the table was under scrutiny.
There was stuff going on behind the scenes, and speculation was rampant on the Parahumans Online site. Satyrical’s name had come up. As far as could tell, the Vegas capes had gone rogue, and they were apparently targeting the more corrupt elements of the PRT.
I wasn’t a hundred percent sure how to feel about that, but I wasn’t complaining if someone was taking down my enemies for me, especially if it was in a more or less safe, legitimate way.
“Hey,” Theo said.
I turned to look at him.
“When you were dealing with the Slaughterhouse Nine back in Brockton Bay, you fought Jack Slash, right?”
“Yeah. Kind of.”
“Kind of?”
“He doesn’t really fight, unless he’s got his people around him and the fight’s unfair. Mostly, I was chasing him around, trying not to get killed in the process.”
He frowned.
“Worried?” I asked. “You’ll have help.”
“So will he,” Theo pointed out.
“I’m… I’m not good at this. Everything Kaiser was, I’m not.”
“That’s not a bad thing. He was an asshole. You aren’t.”
Theo managed a weak smile. It was hard to identify just how he would react in regards to things. Backed against a wall, faced with a serious threat, he showed courage. I’d seen him on patrol, and for all his worries, he did follow through. He had against Behemoth, in what was almost his first time out in costume. Talking about his family, though, I couldn’t pin down just what he’d say or do.
The feeble smile, was that genuine? Had I hurt him, left him in a position where he wanted to defend his family but couldn’t because of what they were?
“I don’t fit the typical cape mold,” Theo said.
I resisted the urge to tell him I didn’t either, but I didn’t. I remembered a tidbit of advice I’d heard Tecton giving, and listened instead. “You’re feeling nervous. Anyone would.”
“The running, I don’t feel the difference,” he said.
“Slow gains, but they’re there.”
“The training helps,” he said. “The training feels concrete, like I’m getting significantly better.”
“You want to train when we get back?”
“I don’t have long before I have to patrol. A short one?”
“Sure. Come on. Run one more block, throw up if you have to, then we walk back.”
He made a sound partway between a gurgle and a groan, but he followed me as I took off.
Running at first, then walking, we took a different route coming back than we’d taken on our way out. The trees by the lake were aflame with autumnal colors, and I could see a handful of college students and older folk gathered, enjoying the serenity of the lake, the perfect temperature. Tranquil.
That was something I could get behind. I would have loved to sit by the lake, given the opportunity. The trouble was, I never got the chance. I was leashed to other people’s schedules, my excursions had to be in another person’s company, and nobody had really seemed keen on the idea of going out solely to go and sit at the lakeside.
As penance went, it was pretty light, but the overall effect of this restriction was wearing on me in a way that the jail cell hadn’t.
We reached the PRT headquarters, one of two in Chicago. It was squat, broad, and not terribly pretty, but it sported a statue on the roof that had been paid for by an old member, Stardust.
Once inside, we made our way up to the top floor, where the Wards’ rooms and the ‘hub’, as the others called it. It was a label that made me think of prison, and that, in turn, pushed me to think of it more as a common area or a lounge.
“Gym?” I asked.
“Yeah,” Theo said. “Let me get my stuff on. I’ll meet you there.”
I tapped into the supply of bugs that were stored in my workshop, withdrawing an assortment of flies, beetles and cockroaches, depositing the ones that I’d collected during the ‘run’. It wasn’t many, but I didn’t need much. Enough or three or four swarm clones.
I stopped by the kitchen to collect some silverware, then made my way down one floor to where the gym was.
Golem arrived a minute after I got there, decked out in his costume. It had changed from its first iteration, complete with a layer of spider silk and heavy armor over top of it. He wore a mask with a neutral, almost solemn face, and fan-like decorations at his waist and shoulders, the spaces stretching between the slats painted white, a darker metal composing the frame and edges.
The image consultant was having fits, no doubt, but the first and most important goal was for Golem to be effective. We were getting there. Image would come later.
“Hey,” Kirk greeted us, stepping out as Golem arrived. He wore a t-shirt and yoga pants, and was glistening with sweat. His head was shaved, and his skin was a striking jet black. “You guys sparring?”
“Training,” I said. “Not sparring, really.”
“Can I watch?”
I looked at Golem, “Are you okay with it?.”
“I’m the one embarrassing myself, you mean.”
“I think you’re past the point where you’re embarrassing yourself,” I said.
“You can watch if you want, Annex. Wouldn’t mind helping clean up,” Golem said. “I can’t promise it’ll be anything special.”
“Not a prob,” Kirk responded. “Kind of curious to see where you’re at.”
We made our way inside.
The area was divided, with workout machines taking up one half, and an open area for sparring and dance and whatever else on the other half. Floor panels, varying in the depth and degree of padding offered, were neatly stacked in one corner.
We moved to the open area, but we didn’t set up any padding for the floor. My bugs flowed through vents and from the hallway outside, and they filled the room, covering every surface.
The bugs congealed into a human figure, and Golem took action. His fingertips ran along the white ‘fans’ at his waist, then he jabbed one hand inside. A hand of concrete lunged out of the floor to dissipate the swarm.
A little slow, but not bad.
Another part of the swarm congealed into a rough decoy, and Golem clutched it in a fist of concrete. Faster this time. The bugs seeped out through the gaps in the fingers as the hand retreated into the floor’s surface.
Each panel of the fan was a different material. Concrete, steel, granite, wood. Common materials were in easy reach. Less common ones were a gesture away. Two at once, this time. Two figures to strike. Golem caught one with his right hand, but I moved the other as he reached for it with his left. He wasn’t quick enough to catch it, and the angle was poor.
I drew a butter knife from the pocket of my shorts, raised it above my head.
Golem was watching for it. He dug his fingertips into the topside of one panel, his thumb into the underside. Identical digits sprouted from the knife, forming half of a fist that had closed around the edge. The knife became a club, one with no cutting edge.
I threw the weapon aside and turned my attention towards creating more decoys.
I feinted, now, misleading him about where my clones were moving. He struggled but managed to deliver the hits. Dragonflies and faster insects formed a more mobile body, and I avoided the strikes, right up until he started creating hands that sprouted forth from limbs that were already sticking out of the ground: branching barriers to limit movement. I tried to simulate the general effect of the obstacles, and Golem took the opportunity to deliver a finishing blow, crushing another swarm-decoy..
“Hit them harder now,” I said. Running, I tried to raise expectations for myself. Here, I did much the same for Golem.
The movements became more violent. A hand cupped around one swarm and then pulled it against the ground, melding back into the surface. Bugs were squished against the spacial distortion field, and my swarm’s numbers were severely reduced.
Another was squashed against the wall, but the surfaces were different materials, and the hand couldn’t simply sink back in. This time, there was an audible thud, eliciting a heavy rattling from the exercise machines on the other side of the gym.
I drew my swarm together into a rough shape, not a person, but something larger, a touch bigger than Crawler, smaller than Echidna, bipedal.
He hit it, and I reformed it.
“Hit it harder,” I said.
He hit it again, drawing two hands together as if he were squeezing it. There was no substance to the monster’s body, though. I judged that he wasn’t doing enough damage and simply reformed it. The monster advanced on him.
I stepped a little closer, raising my voice. “Come on, Theo! Hit harder!”
Golem dropped a foot as one leg slipped into the concrete floor. A facsimile of his boot rose out of the floor, complete with cleats. The speed and force of it would have been enough to lift one of Rachel’s dogs, so I obliged by moving the ‘body’ of the swarm monster, raising it.
As the foot continued to rise, Golem’s leg disappearing up to the knee in the floor, he pushed one hand into the fan, causing a limb to drop from the ceiling right above the rising spiked platform that was Golem’s boot. My creation was sandwiched between the two, and the collision had enough of an impact to make Kirk and I stumble. I had to turn my head to keep the dust from getting in my eyes.
“Is that-” Golem started.
Before he finished the sentence, I had a second butter knife drawn, the tip pressed to his throat.
“Keep your eye on the threats,” I said.
“Not very fair,” Kirk commented. “Playing dirty.”
“No,” Golem said. His voice wavered, which was odd, considering I wasn’t doing anything that was actually threatening. Something else had shaken him. Had he taken the lesson to heart? “I’s good. That’s the kind of lesson I need to know. It’s why I’m training.”
“Jack’s going to throw some scary motherfuckers at you,” I said. “But he’ll be looking for an opening. Always, always watch your back. Don’t forget to watch your friend’s backs too. You probably won’t die if you do, but you might wish you were dead, when you see what Jack and his gang do to them.”
Golem withdrew his arm from the panel, but his leg was harder to free from the ground. By the time he was standing straight, the leg that stuck out of the floor had become more or less permanent. In another area, fingertips stuck out of the floor. There were also the branching ‘trees’ of hands that had formed barriers. Without us even asking, Kirk stepped forward, his body liquefying as he flowed into the surface, smoothing it all out as though we’d never been there.
When he was done, he emerged to survey his work.
“Thank you,” I said.
“Interesting to watch. Figuring out ways to apply his power?”
“Pretty much. Tricks for his repertoire, building some familiarity with using his abilities, attacking to recognize threats and attack without hesitation when needed.”
“You really buy that Jack’s going to wake up from some cryogenic sleep just to fight some kid who didn’t even have powers when they last met?”
“Yeah,” I said. “Believe it or not, with what I know of Jack, it makes perfect sense.”
“You’re on board, right?” I asked. “With the plan?”
Kirk nodded. “Seems a little crazy, but doesn’t hurt, given the stakes.”
“End of the world,” Golem said.
“End of the world,” I agreed. “We’ll get as many on board as we can. Either we avert it, or we soften the blow.”
“Assuming we can figure out what it is,” Golem said.
“Yeah,” I said. “You said you had patrol soon?”
“Eight twenty. Then school after that. I’ll see you this afternoon?”
“Yeah,” I answered. I made my way to the common area and took the first unoccupied spot at the computer. Grace was there, but she wore a school uniform, and had homework spread around her.
“Don’t say a word,” she told me, clearly annoyed.
“Wasn’t going to,” I responded.
I logged in, and was greeted by the customized desktop.
C/D: Endbringer
-3:21:45:90
C/D: End of World
593:19:27:50
The first counted upward, the other counted down.
Three days had passed since the estimated arrival of either the Simurgh or Leviathan. Behemoth had been early, but whatever factor pushed that to occur wasn’t at play here.
It made sense that they wouldn’t maintain the schedule they had been. Since the Simurgh had arrived, roughly three and a half months had passed between each attack.
These coming days and weeks would speak volumes. Were the Endbringers going to alter their tactics? Would the schedule continue at its accelerated pace, with Behemoth appearing in seven to ten months?
Something else altogether?
My eyes fell on the second clock. The countdown.
“No joke?” I asked, the second the elevator doors were open. Cuff was waiting on the other side.
“She’s here,” Cuff said. “Not here, here, but she’s showed up.”
I was in full costume, my flight pack on, an insulated box for my bugs tucked under one arm. my phone in hand. I was chilled to the core of my body, my lenses fogging up from the adjustment from outdoor temperature to indoor temperature.
I didn’t need to ask who. I knew well enough. It was a question that had been lurking on everyone’s minds. Which one, where?
I pulled off my mask as I followed her to the common area, and reached out to accept the glasses my bugs were already fetching to me, putting them on. The same images played on each of the screens.
The Simurgh, her silhouette barely visible in the midst of the clouds.
“What city?” I asked.
“Not a city,” Tecton said.
Sure enough, the camera angle changed. Water. Coastal?
No. Too much water.
Ocean. She was attacking the ocean?
It clicked when I saw the text at the bottom of the screen for one news report. BA178 under siege.
Of all of the sensitive locations in the world, the Simurgh had chosen a passenger airplane.
“Are we-” I started to ask.
“Can’t,” Tecton said. “No solid ground, and none of us fly.”
“I fly,” I said, but I could already guess the follow-up answer.
“Vehicles and tinker equipment aren’t going to cut it. Too easy for her to interfere with,” Tecton said.
“Order came down from the top. Natural fliers only,” Wanton added.
“We’re too late to join in anyways,” Grace said. “I can’t imagine this’ll be a long, drawn-out, knock down fight. We got almost no warning. It’s like she dropped straight down from where she was and picked a fight with the closest target.”
I thought of Armstrong’s insistence that we capitalize on our victory, mass in numbers to allow for another decisive victory, instead of showing up in smaller groups, with inevitable attrition.
All this waiting, all of the restlessness, watching the countdown clock tick well beyond the estimated date, and we couldn’t even fight. I wasn’t sure how to feel about that.
I watched on the screen as Legend, Alexandria and Eidolon engaged the Simurgh. She avoided the worst of their attacks, primarily through the only cover available – the airplane.
Half of the screens were showing the same video footage, though they were different channels, different organizations. The other half were showing information. The flight route, the people in the plane.
If anything here was special, the only one who knew would be the Simurgh.
My teammates didn’t talk much as we watched the fight progress. In one instant, it seemed, the dynamic changed. The heroes began trying to attack the plane, and the Simurgh started trying to defend it.
For eleven minutes, she managed, using her telekinesis to move the craft, her wings and body to block it from being damaged.
A fire started on the body of the ship as Eidolon tore into the Simurgh with a reality warping power of some kind, complete with lightning, fire, distorted light, and ice. The Simurgh cast the craft aside in the following instant, letting it flip, burn and tumble before hitting the water and virtually disintegrating.
That done, the Simurgh ascended, rising into the clouds. A few capes tried to follow, but Scion wasn’t among them.
“How long was the fight?” I asked.
“Not long enough for Scion to show,” was all Wanton said.
“Forty minutes?” Tecton asked. “About forty minutes.”
I’d spent more than half that time hurrying back to headquarters, hoping I wasn’t missing my ride. Now this. It was a farce.
“Now we wait,” Grace said, “And if we’re lucky, we find out what she just did.”
That was it.
It was almost a letdown, more than a relief. I couldn’t say she’d been softballing us, because it was the Simurgh. For all I knew, this was the most devastating attack yet. We wouldn’t know until later on.
Virtually no casualties, the planeload of people excepted. Nobody was reporting anything about heroes dying, but it had been clear enough from the footage that this hadn’t been a serious loss. Barely forty capes had been out there, and I hadn’t seen any die.
Yet I felt irrationally upset, if anything.
I turned and walked away. I let the strap of the incubation box slip from my shoulder to the crook of my elbow, caught it with my hand, and then transferred it over to the arms of my flight pack. It meant I didn’t have to stop or bend down to set the incubation box at the base of the stairs. I didn’t go up to my room or my workshop, though. I made my way downstairs, instead.
I was grateful to see that Mrs. Yamada hadn’t left yet. Her things were packed, but she’d settled into the office, and was reading a small book. A television was on in the corner, muted, showing what was happening with the Simurgh.
“Taylor.”
“Do you have a minute?”
She stood and crossed the room to close the door. I hadn’t realized I’d left it open.
“It was about the best we could hope for, going by what we know now,” I said, “And I feel worse about it than I did about New Delhi.”
“You’ve been preparing for this, anticipating it, for some time. Mentally, you were preparing yourself for more losses, steeling yourself. That takes a lot out of you, and you were robbed of a chance to do something.”
My phone buzzed. I glanced at the screen. My dad. I sent him a message letting him know I was fine.
“Sorry,” I said, putting the phone away. “It was my dad.”
“Don’t be sorry. It’s a good sign if you’re reaching out to your dad, or vice-versa.”
“It’s bad manners,” I said. “But okay. Back to what we were saying before. I’m almost feeling… disarmed?”
“Disarmed. Good word.”
“I’ve been sort of enjoying the peace, the fact that the Protectorate are dealing with the meanest bastards around, the Folk, the Royals, the Condemned. But I was telling myself it came down to the Endbringer fight. That I’d participate, I’d wake up, fight.”
“Isn’t it better if you don’t have to?”
“No,” I said. I stared down at my gloved hands. “No. Not at all.”
“You came from a bad place, and, like we’ve talked about, you reinvented yourself. Maybe a lot of your identity is rooted in your concept of yourself as a warrior.”
“Maybe,” I said. “But whether it’s true or not, it doesn’t change how I feel.”
“I expect a lot of people around the world feel the same way. It’s very possible she calculated things to achieve this effect.”
“What do you think would be a best case scenario, Taylor? If everything went the way you were hoping it would, deep down inside, what would happen?”
“New Delhi would happen,” I said. Except without the severe losses. We’d lose people, some place would get damaged, but we’d kill another Endbringer.”
“Is that realistic, do you think?”
“No,” I said. “I know it isn’t realistic. We went decades without killing one, and it’s stupid to imagine we could kill two in a row.”
“What’s a more reasonable expectation?”
“That she’d show up, and we’d fight, and we’d drive her off without too many casualties.”
“In either of these scenarios, do you envision yourself playing a role? Maybe as big a role as you played in New Delhi?”
“I’m… Sort of?”
She didn’t seize on anything there, nor did she ask a follow-up question. I took the opportunity to reflect on it.
“Yeah,” I eventually said. “Maybe not as big a role. Again, that’s unrealistic. But I want to help.”
“If the Simurgh wanted to deliver a hit to morale, this would be a way to do it,” Mrs. Yamada said. “After New Delhi, a lot of capes were hoping to make a difference, to be heroes. Her choice of venue, the short battle, the narrow focus, it denied everyone the chance. Not just you.”
“I need to be stronger,” I said. “I’m supposed to be one of the people that’s around for this prophesied end of the world. Except I’m not getting chances here.”
“Can you talk to your superiors? To Revel?”
“I’ve hinted at it, that I could stand to sidekick around on patrols. Nobody’s taken the deal. Not with me. They took Golem, but the adult capes like him, because he’s polite to a fault, works his ass off, and his power is good. I’m good, but I wind up being a partner more than a sidekick.”
“You’ve been training with Golem.”
“You’re due some of the credit for his forward strides, I’m sure.”
“I’m not-” I started, then I made myself stop. Too much emotion in my voice. Calmer, I said, “I’m not looking for reassurance, or for compliments. I’m just…”
I struggled for a way to end the sentence.
“Let’s use the ‘I feel because’ line. Frame your emotions better.”
I drew in a deep breath, then sighed. “I feel spooked, because something’s coming and it’s going to be ugly, and I’m not prepared. I feel less prepared with every day where nothing happens.”
“I imagine your teammates feel spooked too. You’ve mentioned what they’re going through. Golem is likely going to be baited out by Jack Slash at some point in the future. Cuff has limited dexterity with her right hand, to the point that she’s having to relearn to write and type. I’m not discussing anything confidential, to be clear; only what you’ve mentioned to me in our previous sessions.”
“Golem has your support, I know. They all do, in some respect. In terms of what Cuff is going through, I know your team is dividing the workload in helping her with paperwork. That says a lot.”
“Supporting each other.”
“It sounds trite, but I think there’s a truth in it. You have legitimate fears about what comes down the road. But keep in mind that you’re not alone in this. Maybe you’ve hit a ceiling for the time being, in your own growth and development. But you can still progress, if you’re helping your teammates, assisting them in conquering their demons and improving their abilities.”
“Yeah,” I said. “It doesn’t feel like enough.”
“It may not be, but it’s constructive. Perhaps you’ll feel less disarmed if you focus on the tools and, so to speak, the weapons at your disposal.”
“Maybe,” I answered her. “But I hate feeling helpless.”
“Part of the reason you feel that way is because you’re waiting for opportunities to come to you. You waited for the Endbringer, so you could flex your talents in unimaginably high stress environments. It’s good, I think, that you waited, that you had a moment to breathe. I think you should strive to retain that peace, because it may help you enter a better headspace.”
It was similar advice to the parting words Glenn had left me with, but they opposed on one front. Mrs. Yamada would have been happier in general if I maintained this indefinitely. Glenn would be wanting to see me acting.
It was time to act, whatever Mrs. Yamada said.
“You feel a little better?”
“Not really,” I admitted. “I’m not even sure I understand all my feelings. But I feel like I’ve got more of a plan, now. I appreciate it.”
“It’s what I’m here for. Or at least, I’m here for one more hour, and then I fly back to Boston. I’ll be around next Friday, after I finish another circuit.”
“Cool,” I said. “I’m glad you were here today.”
“I am too,” she answered.
When I stood from my chair, she did too. She stepped forward and gave me a hug.
I wasn’t sure how normal that was, but I’d remarked once on how few hugs I got, and how some hugs I’d given or received in the past had been meaningful moments for me, and she’d asked if I wanted one from her.
Somewhere along the line, t had become something of a habit, as we ended our sessions. I gave her a little smile as we parted.
I made my way back to the common area, and seated myself at the computer. The others were still following what was happening on the larger monitors. The defending heroes had frozen the plane’s half-submerged wreckage and they were preparing quarantine measures.
Whatever the reason for this particular attack, I doubted it would be clear anytime soon.
Instead, I seated myself at the computer, and logged myself in. The timers ticked away.
Once I’d updated the timer for the recent attack, it read:
Inching down steadily.
Mrs. Yamada had been right, I mused, as I found the files on the local kingpins and warlords. I was doing myself a disservice by waiting for opportunity to come to me. If I was going to do as Glenn had suggested, and make a calculated play, I needed to act, rather than hope for another chance like we’d had in New Delhi.
Looking at the others, I wondered if it was best to manipulate them or get them on board. Manipulation was almost kinder, because it absolved them of guilt. Simply making sure we were in the right place at the right time, luring a local power into a fight, with a plan already in mind…
Chevalier’s Protectorate, ups and downs aside, was more about honesty. I wanted to tap into Skitter’s strengths, her ruthlessness, but I also wanted to be a hero. That was at the core of what I had achieved in New Delhi.
“Tecton,” I called out, as my eyes fell on a portrait of a supervillain with a mask of an upside-down face. An established power, located at the city’s edge for nearly ten years.
Too established? I didn’t want to set another ABB fiasco in motion. There were advantages to being open. The ability to ask questions, get feedback.
“What is it?” he asked.
“There’s something I want to talk to you about.”
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Rika Covenant on July 2, 2013 at 00:01 said:
In lieu of Wildbow, as was asked by him to do so in IRC earlier last week, as he is currently on vacation and cannot request it himself-
Please vote for Worm on Topwebfiction since the votes are falling off. Thank you!
Votes mean nothing if you have to ask for them.
Xidas on December 6, 2016 at 23:16 said:
Hahahahaha.
Perhaps you are right, Anonymous. But providing the convenience of a reminder and a link certainly helps those who would be minded to vote regardless, thus (to my mind) absolving any guilt incurred through the request.
NECROCOMMENT FOR THE WIN!!!
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NECROBUMPPPP on December 11, 2016 at 16:49 said:
HOW DO U HAVE SO MUCH TIME. BTW WORM IS ALMOST OVER FOR ME IM CRYING ;-; SOMEONE RECCOMEND ME MORE STUFF LIKE WORM PLSDSSSSS
P.S. CAAAAAAAPS
klaist on July 27, 2017 at 23:38 said:
Just throwing it out there – many readers will avoid looking at the table of contents so as not to spoil how near the end they are. I am not one of them but its generally good to avoid posting any foreknowledge in general. 🙂
Charles Borner on July 2, 2013 at 00:01 said:
TYPO THREAD HERE!
USE EEET!
hitherbydragons on July 2, 2013 at 00:10 said:
> Would the schedule continue at its accelerated pace,
> with Behemoth appearing in seven to ten months?
This is PROBABLY meant to be “Leviathan” and not “Behemoth”.
Armanatar on July 2, 2013 at 00:31 said:
I don’t think so. I think the implication was that the Simurgh and Leviathan would take their turns, and then Behemoth would be back like nothing had happened. Felt like speculation on whether or not Behemoth’s death would stick.
Patrick Reitz (@dreamfarer) on July 2, 2013 at 07:40 said:
I’m willing to bet your right, though the prospect of Behemoth returning is probably one that’s weighing on people’s minds too.
“I’s good” should maybe be “It’s good”?
Hydrargentium on July 4, 2013 at 12:01 said:
Maybe he’s been working on his Newfoundland accent? Perhaps that’s become a form of popular slang in tribute to the Lost Province….
*it had become something of a habit
Adam on July 2, 2013 at 00:14 said:
Not sure if this counts as a typo or not, but wasn’t Annex named Peter, not Kirk?
Yes. Should be an easy fix, though.
Squivler on July 2, 2013 at 00:34 said:
Unless he’s Peter Kirk/Kirk Peter
Which makes his name interesting.
Freak King on July 2, 2013 at 01:39 said:
Or there’s another cape with the same name.
And the same cape name.
That very link you provided shows Annex’s name as Kirk. Nice going, numbnuts!
packbat on November 21, 2016 at 21:53 said:
Good observation, but I think Tattletale would be disappointed in your powers of inference. This is a typo thread. Text mentioned in a typo thread is often edited to remove typos. In this case, it was the earlier chapter that was edited and not this one.
Aurai on September 21, 2017 at 23:17 said:
Kind of irritating, aren’t you? Funny that you’ve even read this far.
Undead-Spaceman on July 2, 2013 at 00:20 said:
>“New Delhi would happen,” I said. Except without the severe losses. We’d lose people, some place would get damaged, but we’d kill another Endbringer.”<
Missing quotation mark.
>I tried to simulate the general effect of the obstacles, and Golem took the opportunity to deliver a finishing blow, crushing another swarm-decoy..I was in full costume, my flight pack on, an insulated box for my bugs tucked under one arm. my phone in hand.<
Either that's supposed to be a comma or you forgot to capitalize the 'M'.
I said. Except with out the severe losses….”
Still missing start quote before Except
Catastronaut on July 2, 2013 at 00:27 said:
“Enough or three or four swarm clones.”
Should be “enough for”
Pinkhair on July 2, 2013 at 00:59 said:
“Enough or three or four” For.
“heart? “I’s good. ” Not sure if that’s Theo’s tongue stumbling or a typo.
“arm. my phone” Caps.
“I said. Except without” Missing quotation mark.
“the line, t had” It.
“with a plan” Extra space.
Kat on July 2, 2013 at 09:11 said:
“but I didn’t need much. Enough or three or four swarm clones”
Enough for?
Ristridin on July 2, 2013 at 03:34 said:
As far as could tell, the Vegas capes…
As far as I could tell, the Vegas capes…
mremaknu on July 2, 2013 at 22:41 said:
with a plan <– random double space
“Are you okay with it?.” <– extra punctuation
Not typos but stuff to consider editing:
Wouldn’t mind helping clean up,” Golem said. <– consider "help cleaning" instead, as it sounds like Golem's wanting to assist the others and not the other way around
I made my way downstairs, instead. <– feel like the italics on 'downstairs' aren't really necessary since the emphasis is implied through context already
A fire started on the body of the ship as Eidolon tore into the Simurgh <– What ship?
Never mind the ‘with a plan’ one, somebody else mentioned it.
A fire started on the body of the ship as Eidolon tore into the Simurgh
Airplane, not ship?
I think “You probably won’t die if you don’t” is what was meant.
alextfish on January 31, 2014 at 20:36 said:
Technically, it works (“do” applies to “forget” rather than “watch”), but it’s confusing and the proposed change would be clearer.
Also, apostrophe is in the wrong place in “watch your friend’s backs too”. It should be after “friends”.
twofoe on November 4, 2013 at 15:41 said:
“Once inside, we made our way up to the top floor, where the Wards’ rooms and the ‘hub’, as the others called it.”
Where the Wards’ rooms and the hub… were? Or maybe replace “where” with “to” or “toward.”
PyromaniacLVI on November 11, 2013 at 05:45 said:
Forgot an “f” in the “for” (second word) i assume.
Enough or three or four swarm clones. TYPO
Should be Enough FOR three or four swarm clones
David Burns on November 28, 2013 at 18:49 said:
“Somewhere along the line, t had become something of a habit”
hammerade on January 4, 2014 at 20:33 said:
Simply making sure we were in the right place at the right time, luring a local power into a fight, with a plan already in mind…
Extra space.
olivebirdy on January 19, 2014 at 15:57 said:
Enough ‘for’.
— It had changed from its first iteration, complete with a layer of spider silk and heavy armor over top of it.
‘over top of it?’
— Wouldn’t mind helping clean up.
help cleaning up.
–“I’s good. That’s the kind of lesson I need to know. It’s why I’m training.”
I’s is not a recognized contraction.
–Somewhere along the line, t had become something of a habit, as we ended our sessions.
quintopia1 on September 5, 2014 at 14:42 said:
“where the Wards’ rooms and the ‘hub’, as the others called it. ”
This Clause Accidentally A Verb.
There’s a double-period after “another swarm-decoy..”
Bayes on February 9, 2014 at 14:03 said:
h or three or four swarm clones -> for three
happen,” I said. Except -> Said. “Except
here along the line, t had become -> it
olivebirdy on March 21, 2014 at 06:05 said:
I tried to simulate the general effect of the obstacles, and Golem took the opportunity to deliver a finishing blow, crushing another swarm-decoy..
— two periods.
The Wealthy Aardvark on May 26, 2014 at 01:42 said:
D/H/M/S
90 seconds?
‘“New Delhi would happen,” I said. Except without the severe losses. We’d lose people, some place would get damaged, but we’d kill another Endbringer.”’
There’s a missing quotation mark before “except”
Olivebirdy on July 8, 2014 at 13:04 said:
attacking to recognize threats…
-learning
Apollo the Third on October 15, 2014 at 04:57 said:
Should be somewhere along the line, it had become something of a habit?
Thanatos on January 3, 2015 at 12:26 said:
‘Enough or three or four swarm clones.’ –> for three or four swarm clones
‘Had he taken the lesson to heart? “I’s good’ –> It’s good
‘“New Delhi would happen,” I said. Except without the severe losses. We’d lose people, some place would get damaged, but we’d kill another Endbringer.”’ –> needs a quotation mark before ‘Except’
‘Somewhere along the line, t had become something of a habit –> it had become a habit’
I’ll stop nagging now xD thanks for the chapter! Timeskip here, if I’m not mistaken?
Vishesh Kumar on August 19, 2015 at 15:47 said:
“As far as could tell, the Vegas capes had gone rogue” … missing word there.
“I’s good. That’s the kind of lesson I need to know. … missing t in the I’s.
[First comment after sacrificing two weeks, so excited! 😀 ]
Hotblack Desiato on December 20, 2015 at 22:41 said:
missing i in it
Faith on May 31, 2018 at 14:41 said:
“I’s good. That’s the kind of lesson I need to know.”
Shouldn’t this be “It’s good”?
Whoops someone already called this one out, sorry.
Simurgh’s attack.
What the hell.
The most obvious explanation is that Simurgh chose this flight because (a) arranging for its destruction is the best she could do in terms of damage while (b) staying alive to fight another day. That’s the explanation everyone is hoping is true.
…anyone want to lay odds on it?
Philippe Saner on July 2, 2013 at 00:23 said:
It’s possible that this is the beginning of a new series of small attacks.
Instead of hitting a city once every year or so, the Endbringers could hit a soft target every week.
Veloren on July 2, 2013 at 19:23 said:
Wasn’t it mentioned that every time the capes start to win/stall the Endbringers, they change tactics? And this way, it decreases the chance of Scion taking one of them out.
Pwnbot on July 2, 2013 at 21:39 said:
I`m concerned that that`s the case and Leviathan starts sinking random ships and simply make it too dangerous to move from continent to continent and shit just start a long guerrilla warfare campaign. Definitely wanted to make the heroes destroy the plane or else she would`ve crushed it herself. Maybe wanted to be seen wrecking the plane so people know it wasn`t just a freak accident it was a freaking endbringer. There`s really nothing anyone can do about her wrecking a plane above the middle of the ocean.
Ditto Leviathan.
It crushes morale. Not only does t keep everyone tense to the point of snapping, when it does occur, most of them are rendered completely useless from lack of mobility, and the rest are rendered such by her playing keepsie with the plane until they were effected, leading to the plane having to be taken down. A full, complete, and total victory for Simurgh, and the same, but loss instead for the heroes.
MrVoid on July 2, 2013 at 00:25 said:
Betting that someone related to someone important was on the plane. She was attempting to either sing them crazy or just kill them to hurt that important person, whoever they may be. Personally, I’m betting that it was Scion’s lady friend.
Either that or she was actually targeting one of the heroes that she knew would come to attack her.
That was my thought as well.
Someguy on July 2, 2013 at 00:25 said:
Someone aboard was capable of making the world a better place, this was a surgical strike to deny humanity an asset with the extra opportunity to create more disaster dominoes, to demoralize the heroes and yet stay out of Scion’s radar.
theant87 on July 2, 2013 at 00:25 said:
I think she knows better than anyone about Scion’s new kill orders and is playing the long game here. She has to know about the End of the World after all. Was it ever stated how long is too long before you are considered “corrupted” by the Smurf’s scream? Damn, I feel those poor bastards on the plane. Especially when they realize the heroes are trying to kill them. My guess is one of the passengers triggers in the ocean, and becomes a future threat at some point. I say three to one odds that she is limiting her attacks and playing the waiting game for the end of the world.
By the time those the “heroes” were trying to kill them, the passengers would most likely have been too far gone to care, their families however….. lets just hope that none of the warped passengers got messages out after the 40 min mark, that may just set the recipients up to create hindrances and calamities at the worst time at the worst possible moment.
So I’m confused here about the effects on people. The travelers were manipulated, but were sane with the exception of Cody. While Noelle lost her sanity due to the formula. But Tagg’s flashback was describing ordinary people who acted like crazed killers. So do parahumans have an extra resistance or what?
I suspect that the Simurgh chose to leave the Travellers sane because she knew that they would do more damage that way.
peter o on July 2, 2013 at 03:48 said:
From tag’s comments it sounds like most people she affects are actually perfectly sane, until they get some trigger and go murderous. Sometimes they can even flip back and forth between these modes, as he mentioned an extended guerrilla campaign by the first victims. If anything parahumans are more vulnerable, as they tend to show the signs if they have been affected. Cody/Noelle, and the original attack by her caused some european patahuman to degrade until he assassinated a country leader, but it mentions that his companions had noticed changes in him before the assassination.
There’s been mention of a “maximum safe exposure time” too. How they determine what that time is though is a bit questionable. Probably through empirical evidence, which means it’s as likely to be “the time the Simurgh picked for them to think was safe” as anything else.
That said though, there probably does need to be some limit on how quick she can scramble you. If it was 1 second of exposure and you’re her pawn then the stories become less interesting. Same as if Behemoth’s insta-kill radius had been 50 miles. Without some hope of opposing them or limiting them, there’s no real conflict.
Sun Dog on July 2, 2013 at 09:38 said:
Nah, people flip out in the short term and kill each other. Then the Simurgh goes away and they calm down, but have been touched by her influence and can be part of her disaster dominoes.
Even knowing what was going on, it was hard for the proto-Travelers to resist the urge to riot.
Unmaker on July 2, 2013 at 12:21 said:
Trickster started out helping the protagonists in the final fight with Noelle, but switched to helping her. That is not exactly a sane decision. Also, Ballistic in particular complained how Trickster had been making increasingly bad decisions for some time.
Also, don’t forget that the Simurgh plays the precognitive nudging game, tweaking people enough to make bad decisions that will cascade later, but not necessarily enough to be diagnosed as insane.
The only class of parahumans who are known to be resistant / immune are people with precognitive powers themselves. Otherwise, parahumans are probably just as susceptible as anyone else (a guess, I admit).
Not just precogs. A couple of other types of Thinkers, like Coil (rare but noteworthy), and more significantly anyone immune to powers can’t be psychically influenced or predicted by her precognition, so Alexandria, Scion/Zion, and Hatchet Face/Hatchet Clones are all safe.
Dinstow on July 2, 2013 at 17:17 said:
It was shown in Migration that nobody is safe from the Simurgh, not even animals. The PRT will kill parahumans who can’t escape her song. As for the Travelers, the Simurgh didn’t make them violent, necessarily. She made Trickster feel like he needed to save Noelle so he would give her the serum at all costs. She made Noelle afraid of being a burden to Trickster so she would only drink half of the serum. She also likely affected the others in some way, but my point is that she doesn’t always make people like Mannequin, where they attack people mercilessly, or Echidna. Sometimes she just influences someone in a way that will cause them to give even the tiniest push towards something catastrophic.
Reveen on July 2, 2013 at 09:18 said:
How do we even know the people on the plane were even affected? The Smurf likely knew the plane would go down and wouldn’t bother.
I’m guessing the plan here is to erode confidence of the heroes,put the questionable insistence that they have that Simurgh victims are beyond help and is a justification for mass murder into the limelight. Undermine the new protectorate before it starts.
The smart part is that she doesn’t need to do much deceiving, the heroes would have slaughtered those people either way, she’s just letting everyone in the world see it.
The Sandman on July 2, 2013 at 00:35 said:
I was guessing that Lisette was on board.
Or… Kevin? Keith? Can’t remember for sure what his name was at the moment. The previous most powerful person in the world.
Other possibility, I suppose, is that now that Scion is actually fighting to kill the Endbringers, she’s testing things like his response time. Since she can’t directly predict what he’s going to do, she has to use more indirect methods to build up a predictive model she can use.
…alternatively, given that the attacked flight was over the ocean, this was somehow a combo with Leviathan.
As for Theo… well, there is one possibility I just thought of for how he could trivially deal with Jack Slash. Problem is that it would require that he be able to violate the Manton effect, and would be hard to test in any way that isn’t incredibly cruel. Namely, see if “bone” is on the list of materials he can play with.
And still waiting for Taylor to start making more use of things that aren’t insects, spiders or centipedes. Now that she has something resembling peace and a budget, it’s the perfect time to start experimenting. Heck, just get somebody to go to the zoo or the aquarium with her (I’m almost certain Chicago has both) and see which of the exhibits she can influence.
For signaling purposes, it might be worth it for her to pick up some fireflies and learn Morse code.
And for “heavy hitter” purposes, she might want to import some coconut crabs.
camo005 on July 2, 2013 at 00:39 said:
TAYLOR THE CRABOMANCER
Just be glad that mantis shrimp can’t breathe out of the water.
Unless there are some bio-focused tinkers on Protectorate payroll, anyway, in which case that can be remedied.
Shrimp in tiny helmets.
Mouse of Nonny-ness on July 2, 2013 at 03:17 said:
I seem to remember it being stated previously somewhere that Bonesaw was the only (known?) bio-tinker in existence.
Of course, there’s other bio-manipulation powers out there, e.g. most healing-types. Panacea has quite a bit of talent in bio-manipulation.
AMR on July 2, 2013 at 05:18 said:
It’s the other way around. Panacea’s power is to manipulate biology and she uses mostly for healing.
Correction, Bonesaw was described as the 1# Medical Tinker in existance.
Obviously, there are other bio-tinkers around like Blasto. They just seem less common than other kinds of Tinker.
Maybe because there aren’t a whole lot of applications for medical tinkers powers on the field unless you’re willing to put yourself under the knife like Bonesaw, so most end up as rogues or support staff.
There are others, like Blasto, but my impression is that Bonesaw is referred to as The biological tinker is because she is so much more famous and dangerous. Just like how flying brute powers are called the Alexandria Package.
krustacean on July 2, 2013 at 01:21 said:
endgame on July 2, 2013 at 09:22 said:
She can bring dead crabs back to life?
… So /that’s/ what her second trigger event was!
I have long wanted an experiment chapter to see just what the limits of her power are.
And with people there to react.
Way back when in the first few pages she explains how she has experimented fully, but it’s a fairly brief description and most of the other things she can control (crabs, worms, maybe shellfish?) are not exactly useful. Except for having delicious crab dinners every night.
Admiral Skippy on July 2, 2013 at 07:01 said:
I don’t think that Lizette was on board, Scion seems to be able to sense when his contacts need him- he turned up at the place he first met Kevin, right on time. There’s no way he could have timed that without knowing that Kevin wanted him there. I imagine he can travel much faster than his normal speed if he wants to (someone speculated that his low average speed was due to him constantly saving people along his route), so if the Smiurgh attacked Lizette*, then I’d expect to see him there shortly- certainly within enough time to kill her in retaliation, even if she got Lizette first.
(Note that I don’t think she even can, because Lizette should be covered under Scion’s effect that fucks up pre-cogs and thinkers trying to scry him.)
That’s a good point, Simurgh probably doesn’t even know about Lisette or her predecessor who’s name I forget.
For Golem I doubt he can bypass the Manton effect but it`d be hilarious if Bonesaw`s augmentations made him vulnerable. Nah likely he`s got plot armor on that weak spot.
Still Golem could probably do a hell of a lot of day to day stuff with cloth if he can use that. Will admit don`t really remember the explanation of his powers.
Landis963 on July 2, 2013 at 01:16 said:
Hell no. But I do think she chose an airplane because it was much, much lower risk than a stationary target. Besides, depending on how full the flight was, that’s, say, more than 400 pawns gained maximum (assuming the airplane was a 747-400, the model BA has the most of). Not too shabby for a hit-and-run strike. (assuming packed to capacity, no casualties, with some late-night math (all of which is to say “could someone check that total, please?”))
Nvm, missed the part where it said the plane disintegrated.
underwhelmingforce on July 2, 2013 at 01:42 said:
Well, there is the fact that she tricked the heroes into killing a plane full of civilians. Honestly the psychological effects of that could be a pretty big problem.
AVR on July 2, 2013 at 01:58 said:
Or the propaganda effects. Maybe a setup for her next attack where she needs that to influence someone.
negadarkwing on July 2, 2013 at 07:02 said:
Yeah this could well have been a terror attack. Show that she can drop out and attack anywhere, and leave when she wants. Morale and PR take a hit because they had to kill the hostages. And she doesn’t even need to have needed anyone on the plane. Because everyone will assume that someone must have been important, or it has to have meant something because it’s the Smurf. And they will all run around in circles trying to figure it out.
RazorSmile on July 2, 2013 at 10:15 said:
^ This. Also, she has forced the heroes to kill a bunch of civilians publicly. Imagine her doing this five more times; cruise ships, planes, tiny far away islands like Nauru. Pretty soon, the PRT will have to become jackbooted dictators because no unpowered person on Earth will be willing to side with them any more.
I figure it’s very likely that the Simurgh has taken her “turn humanity against itself” to not a higher level, but a more precise level than the atrocities she “forced” the authorities to commit earlier. Do we know who was on the plane? Maybe someone important? Maybe a non-asshole celebrity or a renowned activist or something. And the heroes just killed the entire plane on the assumption that they were beyond saving.
The Smurf is obviously using the tactics the heroes us to fight her against them, but more out in the open. Manipulate the heroes into killing hundreds of people, screwing with international tensions, and generally getting them to kill more people than they save.
And like always, they’re going to just keep falling for it.
Here’s my guess at the reasoning for the Smurf’s choice of target.
“Shit, I can’t take her. If I try she will hold me up long enough for Zion… Okay maybe if I attack a target on the water? No, she can sick crabs on me. I don’t want crabs. A target over the water? Well I can attack that passenger jet. It’s not much, but I’ll take it.”
Penguin Phoenix on July 3, 2013 at 07:07 said:
All reasons behind the attack people can give are probably true (omniscience (or a close equivalent) as Simurgh has does tend to do that), but as of yet (as far as I can tell), no one has raised the question of how resistant to Simurgh Pretender is while possessing Alexandria’s body.
soulpelt on July 2, 2013 at 00:16 said:
Awesome chapter, loved the ending. Could there be a future for Taylor/Theo?
Well I’mma sleep now. Zzzzzz
Not likely but if Theo does develop a crush on Taylor, would he turn into his father when he finds out that Taylor has “gone black”?
Glassware on July 2, 2013 at 00:47 said:
I’m pretty sure that everyone on the planet knows that Taylor and Grue are romantically involved and the Grue is black.
Also, Theo’s trying his hardest to avoid being anything like his father.
So was Kayden in her interlude.
Ajoxer on July 2, 2013 at 01:37 said:
Yeah, except Theo shows no signs of being a racist asshole.
He’s probably one of these people that hates white people while being white himself. (take ths with a semi-sarcastic tone)
I thought he was Pretty Fly For A White Guy.
White and Nerdy!
Psycho Gecko on July 3, 2013 at 01:21 said:
I don’t know, he might be more of a Creep.
youtube.com/watch?v=tLPZmPaHme0
“…she’d been swayed, convinced of his way of thinking. She’d tried to change her outlook since the divorce, but she had seen a great deal in her ten years as a member of his team. It was impossible to look at the city now and ignore the fact that too much of what made it an uglier place to live and raise a child in could be traced back to the same kinds of people. Sure, the whites had criminals too, but at least they were fucking civilized about it.”
This is from the woman who had just previously been thinking about how heavily Max had steamrolled Theo’s personality.
Reading Purity’s interlude, I think Max steamrolled Theo’s personality in exactly the same way Emma, Sophia, and Madison steamrolled Taylor’s personality. He was beaten down, not warped … and then his encounter with Jack, much like Taylor’s encounter with Lung, revealed to him that he still had some fight after all.
Also, Max Anders worked long hours as the President and CEO of Medhall Co. — and may well have followed them up by working long hours as Kaiser, Lord of the Empire Eighty-Eight. It’s not unlikely that Theo was raised by people who didn’t agree with the white supremacist ideology — or who, if they did, didn’t care enough to lock him away from materials that undermined that ideology — and that Max’s role in Theo’s development was as a chronic (though not continuous) source of torment, nothing more.
(Aside, since I went to the effort of looking it up: Crusader’s interlude in Arc 18 says Heith, Theo’s mom, died in a turf war fighting the Teeth, and 20.1 says the Teeth were decimated and driven out of Brockton Bay “nearly a decade ago”. Theo would have been less than seven years old, in all likelihood; how much less is impossible to say.)
veekie on July 2, 2013 at 00:20 said:
So Taylor’s applying her talents at creative power application on her new team now huh. Good. They need that.
Also Smurf is a dick as always.
So Theo is taking things seriously and trying to become stronger, and the vegas team is attacking the corrupt PRT. Perhaps Cauldron has simply written the PRT off at this point and no longer cares? We got some new names of the “meanest” of parahumans. The royals probably have a roaylty theme, and I wonder if the folk is the old gang the fairy queen of the birdcage used to lead. The Smurf attacks an airliner, then after I’m assuming twenty minutes, the heroes decide they have been too long in her range and kill them all. A calculated ploy to fuck with the moral of the world, or does the Smurf want Skitter to act? Consdidering Cuff is having trouble with her hand, I underestimated the number of healers the PRT has acess too. I though Scapegoat would have made the rounds after the fight. Good chapter, look forward to Weaver’s plan.
Forty minutes, says it right there.
It sounded like the heroes were trying to destroy the plane for a good while so I think it is a bit less than that now that I reread it.
The problem with Scapegoat is that he has a lot of limitations to his power. And it works best if he can transfer it to a target. No army of evil clones this time.
I like the way the Simurgh attack played out. It answered a question for us (what the next Endbringer attack would be like) while at the same time putting us in a head space close to Taylor’s own. We’re isolated from the attack, we don’t get to the see the action and most terribly of all we don’t know what was important on that plane!
The ending was nice too. One of the things I love about Worm is that people actually do communicate sometimes. Taylor talking to Tecton at the end? Just perfect.
Alathon on July 2, 2013 at 00:34 said:
Poor Theo.. getting oneself back in shape after packing on the pounds? Not fun. Fighting Weaver’s best representation of a S9 engagement? Also not fun, but lifespan-enhancing 🙂
Simurgh attack: nightmare fuel for travelers, expect tourism to decrease in general. Nice way to encourage the unpowered to imagine themselves wedged between two unstoppable terrors, one much the same as the other from their point of view. The imagery, humans and human technology tossed about like a bauble, fought over one way than the other, could be stirring if released, and not in a good way.
I’m picturing the scene from Superman Returns here:
“Remember, air travel is still the safest way to travel folks!”
Statistically it’d be true too. Even one plane downed by the Smurf every 3 months wouldn’t come close to equaling the number of auto fatalities that occur each year.
People then abandon the airways, then travel on boats.
Then BAM.
Leviathan.
Planes are more popular for human transport these days, but 80% of cargo still moves by sea. Lot of room for Leviathan to fuck things up, especially if ‘lil sis will finger some targets.
Robert on July 2, 2013 at 00:35 said:
Looking at the dates … the Simurgh attacked sixty-three days post-estimate, give or take?
And I think the Simurgh’s target wasn’t the plane, but the rest of the world. She might only be able to influence people within her range, but that doesn’t mean she can’t predict people’s natural responses (the swan tattoos come to mind). A lot of people will be like Taylor, as Yamada noted. And this might have bumped Taylor’s schedule up.
Makes sense. How many other capes are there in the world with a plan similar to Mr. Portal from India? They might want to rush forward with it after this attack. Hell, all the Smurf has to do is attack one more plane, and air travel might very well collapse whenever there is an attack is coming up.
TinkerTailor on July 2, 2013 at 00:58 said:
This is the simurgh’s greatest strength – there is absolutely no way for anyone to know for sure what her plan is. That’s freaking scary. Maybe the fact that it’s scary itself is her goal? Are you reacting to counter her or are you just playing into her hands? Or is that what she *wants* you to think? It’s one big horrible mess of second-and-third-and-etc guessing.
Yes. It seems this time Simurgh’s plan was to destroy human minds by creating the inspiration for the TV show Lost.
I think the Simurgh is probably doing a mix of upscaling and downscaling with her attack. Surgical strike to the plane rather than hitting a city is essentially her normal play scaled down, with the side benefit of no evacuation for the affected. We know her song is limited in range, but I don’t think her prescience is; her upscaling is in focusing more on dealing damage outside her immediate blastzone and the reach of those she can lay her whammy on. No quarantine can stop that kind of fallout, and it’s just the kind of escalation you’d expect after her BFF got taken down.
notes on July 2, 2013 at 00:40 said:
153 day timeskip. Simurgh fight skip. Theo getting a clever costume redesign skip. Theo getting the whole team on board with facing Jack Slash when the time comes… skip.
And that’s just the skips we know about. Brockton Bay could have changed beyond recognition in this time. Imp v. Heartbreaker? Grue’s recovery? Each of the Undersiders could plausibly have gone through much indeed by now.
At least now we know what Satyrical’s line about saving civilization from itself means.
And it also looks like one of the warlords of Brockton Bay is going to war once more – this time, to claim Chicago in the name of her Ward team. Going on the offense in a way which, apparently, the Protectorate almost never does – they patrol. They hit targets of opportunity. They react.
Expectations are victory – and some chaos and collateral damage. The former may not excuse the latter, and Director West will not have forgotten about Taylor, though he may have been more focused on the Vegas team. Nor will full Protectorate members be entirely comfortable about being upstaged by a Ward team. Institutionally, there will be tremendous conflict between the impulse to hang her out to dry for cleaning up the city in a blitzkrieg campaign… and taking credit for her cleaning up the city in a blitzkrieg campaign. But her team? They will conquer, and find it sweet. If they’re very lucky, they won’t take casualties in doing it, either.
Next Endbringer is either Leviathan… or Behemoth, back from the dead. Or, of course, the mathematically probable FOURTH Endbringer. Though, if one shows up, the fact that they returned to the three-Endbringer schedule is persuasive evidence that Behemoth is truly gone… for the moment. Whoever built him… can rebuild him. They have the technology. Better… faster… stronger.
Theo, as trained by Weaver… is going to be interesting. He hasn’t moved toward full immersion yet, but rather toward rapid in-and-out strikes – as much about what he leaves behind as what he does with his hand while it’s in there. He could be quite remarkable, in time.
He’ll need to be.
I’m guessing it’s Cuff and Taylor’s favorite water controlling bastard next. If there is a fourth endbringer, I predict it will be similar to nilbog. It can make self-replicating/powerful minions and drop them into cities. It will take an army an enormous amount of personnel, resources, and casualties to clear a city of such things.
Caliban on July 3, 2013 at 11:13 said:
I think the 4th endbringer (if there is one) will probably be fire based, if you assume they are following the western elements (Simurgh = Air, Leviathan = Water, Behemoth = Earth). Call it Salamander. It might even have minions as you suggested – fire sprites that it releases to spread the fires further or something.
Actually, considering the elements, Behemoth seems at least as much Fire as Earth — sure, he’s tough, but all the Endbringers are tough, and Behemoth’s whole shtick is about giving the middle finger to the second law of thermodynamics and turning any kind of energy into any other. Sure, he tunnels into the Earth … but he tunnels down to the Earth’s core, i.e. the most massive source of heat available this side of outer space.
Taking that as true, though, I have no good idea of what an Earth Endbringer would be like. Maybe gravitational powers?
The timers… don’t fit. The 153 day estimate was based on the fact that it reset to 150 days after the attack, and was 3 days overdue before. That would put this on 12/26/2011 – not the best time for autumnal coloring in Chicago, nor likely to have perfect temperatures for lake viewing.
But… if the Simurgh attacked at an interval that wasn’t 150 days-ish, why on earth would Taylor reset the timer to an interval that was wrong?
Suspicion is that the timer was meant to reset to 105 days (the text does still have the three and a half month reference), which would put this at 11/11/11 – 105+3 days. Slightly more plausible.
Look at the dates for the End of the World timer. The Simurgh was very, very late. At 593:19 she was 3 days late, then she attacked at 534.
Re-reading it, the three and a half month reference was with Taylor noting that they didn’t know if that was the schedule now that Behemoth was taken out. Adding two months or so to the clock might well bring it back into the old schedule for two active Endbringers, and the new prediction could be based on that. Someone want to run the numbers on the partial schedule we got from Chevalier’s interlude and see how far apart the attacks were with just Behemoth/Leviathan?
Max on July 2, 2013 at 03:10 said:
I have to agree that I don’t really like all those extreme skips. I much prefered the old passing of time, especially during the calmer times. Also it could be quite helpful in order to get us more acquinted with Taylors new team mates. We know next to nothing about all but Golem and Tecton.
Wouldn’t you agree that just more day to day stuff would be interesting? What does an above average exciting patrol look like? What does Taylor do all day? Who are the various Chicago badies behind those names.
I really miss the Undersiders…
You know what we need?
Some more Sveta.
Come to think of it, Taylor could probably use swarm clones to at least chat with her without having to worry about the tentacles. Seems like an idea Mrs. Yamada might have, as far as getting two of her patients to help each other.
…of course, then Taylor inevitably finds out exactly what happened to Glory Girl. That probably wouldn’t go well.
Well, Taylor has seem more of what happened to GG than most people have.
While I don’t ship them because obviously Imp is the better choice with her, a great teamup would be Weld throwing Garrote at the S9.
irrevenant on July 3, 2014 at 23:56 said:
Imp would not be immune to Sveta. She is only able to vanish from memory once she can no longer be sensed (for example, if she moves out of line-of-sight). Even assuming Sveta glanced away while she had Imp in a deathgrip, the fact that she’s still holding onto her is almost certainly enough to remain aware of her presence.
Scolopendra on July 2, 2013 at 00:45 said:
So, Simurgh attacked this time. Does this mean that the next attack will be Leviathan? I want to see round 2 with him.
It means the next attack will be Leviathan.
Or Cyber-Behemoth.
Or introducing Endbringer 4.
Basically, it just means ‘not Simurgh’ for the next attack.
Or Simurgh attacks just a week after this one.
Yeah – they weren’t necessarily predictable before Behemoth got ganked and now they’re probably even less so.
There would be a lot of interesting changes if Taylor went against Leviathan again. The Endbringers have been said to learn how to handle people they’ve fought before, like how Behemoth was able to keep the Triumvirate away with relative ease in New Delhi since he was familiar with their tactics and they apparently didn’t change their general approach from “go fast and hit things hard”. Since Taylor first fought Leviathan, she has gone through 3 other S-Class threats (the S9, Noel, and Behemoth) and has picked up a lot of really nasty tricks. Leviathan may have a plan for dealing with what he knows she can do, but at this point, I’m not sure he could adapt to her faster than she can come up with new stuff.
If we’re assuming that the Endbringers don’t share information, then the sum total of Leviathan’s knowledge of what Skitter (now Weaver) can do is “hit me with insects”, “track insects stuck to me”, and “hit me in the tail with Armsmaster’s halberd”.
I’m pretty sure that Weaver can come up with something not on that list.
Taylor’s real strength is her brilliant mind, her ability to bring people together and her greatness as a commander which comes from those factors yet also draws on that mysterious other element that military historians get very excited about. In different circumstances, she could plausibly have been a Napoleon or an Alexander, or at the very least a Lucullus or a Tilly.
So really, Leviathan is faced with the unenviable prospect of not just having to second-guess what she can do with her powers, but what she could potentially do with the powers of every parahuman who turns up. Look at what she whipped up in the Behemoth fight without a team that knew her properly, having spent most of her time on the sidelines and then being thrust in when things were going to hell. This time, Chevalier will know that he can trust her, and what she’s capable of- can you imagine the banquet she could line up for Leviathan with ten or twenty minutes planning time and a list of what powers are available?
So yeah, I think the Endbringers are wise to change their tactics. The Spider waits for them.
Damnit, I only meant for “imagine” and “banquet” towards the end to be italicized, now it looks silly.
Master Mahan on July 2, 2013 at 17:38 said:
I’d be amazed if the Endbringers aren’t communicating *somehow*. They take turns on their attacks – that implies at least a bit of coordination.
Not that that matters much. Taylor’s pretty damn adept at coming up with new tricks on the fly.
JN on July 4, 2013 at 20:49 said:
Or new tricks for the fly. 😛
Interesting thing there about Taylor not getting active duty much because the full heroes see her as more of an equal than a minor. She’s faced as much in her short career as some of them have in their whole time.
That’s generally what happens when you fight 4 different S-Class threats and come out on top (unless you count Leviathan which left her badly hurt). You can’t maintain the “she’s just a kid” attitude anymore with someone like that. Also, I would like to think the actual heroes, not the stuffed shirts at the PRT, are getting savvy enough to know that underestimating Taylor’s capabilities usually leads to grievous eye trauma and/or death.
Wow. That’s a pretty awesome way to give Theo some more oomph. Beware the hands! Who knows from where they might reach out to grope you! Pray to your gods you never find yourself wearing metal, plastic, wooden, concrete or “who knows whatelse”, armor.
Cloth, or hair would give Jack a nasty surprise.
EYELASH PUNCHU — wait, are eyelashes alive?*
What about DEAD skin? . . . hey, I wonder if Jack eats things that are not alive.
* answer: yes, eyelashes are alive, but they live only to kill
That answer gave a literal laugh out loud moment. Kudos!
There’s Jack Slash sitting on the toilet. Whistling to himself. Dropping the Fat Man over Japan, if you will. He goes to wipe, but suddenly the toilet paper forces its way into his throat! He’s choking, can’t breath, it is getting all wet and soggy mixing with saliva and mucus inside him. It’s not coming out! The horror! The double-layered quilted horror!
And from that day on, Theo is Golem no longer. He is Cornholio. He needs TP to kick your bunghole.
Vladimir Shootin' on December 2, 2014 at 20:45 said:
this comment made me laugh and i’m like 18 months into the future
nice job on that
There may be some inherent restrictions on his power. The least rigid thing we’ve seen him work with was silicon in the last chapter, I think. And the size of whatever he creates is partially dependent on the size of what he’s working with, so even if he could use hair or cloth it depends on if it’s “all the hair/cloth” or “each individual hair/thread”, as the latter isn’t very useful. Still, most people will be wearing something he can use, even if it’s just the soles of their shoes (try to walk on THAT!).
I imagine a good number of capes wear cups… Best be careful what it’s made out of. I’d hate to be in the middle of a fight and realize my protective wear had a deathgrip on some important stuff.
On a more serious note. If Golem had a reason and a willingness to go ‘no holds barred’ with a villain who was wearing some type of armor/helmet could he perhaps take off some limbs or maybe cave in a skull by sticking a hand through the interior surface of said armor/helmet?
Bobby on July 2, 2013 at 01:47 said:
Here you are, business as usual, casually causing mayhem, death and destruction, and suddenly your helmet becomes a giant fist crushing your skull. Yeesh.
wash17 on July 2, 2013 at 08:41 said:
Apply head on!
Hell no need for lethal force. Growing arms wrapping around the limbs would be plenty of restraint.
Now I’m reminded of Nico Robin.
“Hell. No need for lethal force.”
Repeat after me.
THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE NINE!
The gloves are not only off, but you can see the chainsaw-enhanced brass knuckles that carve “fuck off and die” into your brain pan.
I meant for non S9 threats. For the S9 bring everything. Hey I wonder what the mesh that Bonesaw put around organs is made out of? Because if it’s something Theo can affect…
Garth on July 2, 2013 at 17:24 said:
Jack looked at Golem, smiling. Golem smiled back, and shook out a thin metallic cloth. Jack was confused, then as Golem shoved his hand through the mesh, the knife wielding psycho toppled over slowly, his heart crushed.
But can his power affect materials inside a person?
Well, I don’t think he could affect the mesh directly, but I recall that Bonesaw often has mechanical surgery spiders clinging to her at times. I could see him manifesting limbs from that and crushing Bonesaw with it. One of her nastiest tools would instantly become a liability. Or perhaps one of Jack’s knives could end up turning on him. If anything, I get the feeling Theo would make Mannequin his bitch.
Depends on your fighting style. Mobility-based capes might not have a cup. Also, superheroes with the Most Common Superhero don’t need them.
Superpower*
You want to say it this time, Packbat?
…nah, I’ll let it pass. 😛
Velocity would attest to the mobility heroes not using cups, were he alive. He didn’t wear one at the fundraiser event and ended up taking a collapsible baton to the family jewels courtesy of Taylor.
Ya know, I love epic struggle as much as the next guy, but I’m happy it seems like were getting back to capes v capes, instead of more end bringers for a little bit. I am wondering what the public’s current view of weaver is, and what the hell is up with dragon. All in due time
-Hey, Tecton. If I wanted to beat up one of the local supervillains, thus showing up everyone by ruthlessly crushing someone who has eluded capture for years and is probably more powerful than I am, who would you recommend?
-I mean, theoretically.
The downside is that this could actually piss the Protectorate, especially the Chicago team off. She’d be talking the Wards into doing something dangerous behind their backs.
I guess Chicago is a lot quieter than Brockton Bay. Just look at how many fights the BB Wards got into with the Undersiders and the ABB.
MarcusFell on July 2, 2013 at 13:30 said:
No, it’s that the Chicago power balance between heroes and civilians is still intact. The story started with Taylor beating Lung and ending the balance between the ABB, E88, The Undersiders and the Protectorate.
Well, that and the CPD quite simply don’t take shit from ANYONE.
They’ll pull a SWAT unit with kill orders down on a misbehaving superhuman in a heartbeat. If you’re a civvy, or someone who’s relatively vulnerable? Tune up time!
…now I’m wondering how many criminals triggered while cornered by the police.
Well it’s the US, so I’d imagine the answer is “far too many”, wouldn’t you? 😦
I am unsure of that since trigger events follow their own rules according to the TA chapter. Someone theorized much earlier that torture is a bit more dangerous in the wormverse since you could have your victim trigger, though bonesaw mentions she has seen trigger events happen so I guess it depends on what your power is. It might also make it hard to cover things up if you attacked someone so badly that they triggered. Plus police departments do change based on circumstances and tragedies. So lets say a cop somewhere finds someone he doesn’t like, beats them, they trigger, and then said victim takes revenge on him and others in the station for allowing it too happen. If such a thing happened more than twice other departments will make an attempt to crack down on such behavior so it doesn’t happen to them. Makes me wonder what happened to Rodney King in the wormverse.
Depends. How many of the cops cornering them were two days from retirement?
Loki-L on July 2, 2013 at 02:22 said:
What this chapter needed was a training montage complete with soundtrack like “Gonna Fly Now” or “Eye Of The Tiger” and maybe some courthouse steps to run up.
Perhaps they can construct some huge speed punching back for Theo to train his giant concrete fists against.
Some wax-on / wax-off, a bit of miscellaneous push ups and perhaps a scenes with Taylor and Theo running by the beach, Taylor running backwards spurring theo on to do harder. All the while the contdown makes appearances to show the passing of time.
♪ Getting strong now ♪
Indigo on July 2, 2013 at 03:35 said:
Leave it to an Endbringer to make something rather small so much worse than it would have been otherwise.
Fans on July 2, 2013 at 06:31 said:
I’m curious why the Simurgh started to try defend the plane. Maybe she was hoping to kidnap someone and the Heroes cottoned on, then decided to deny her it? Or at least realised that everyone in that plane was gone now or…
It’s a weird fight. Very weird.
I think she was playing mind games with the heroes. Not trying to influence them with her song or anything, just trolling them. Hey can we get a fan art of the Smurf with a Trollface?
Doesn’t really seem to be her MO though. She doesn’t troll, she sets people up for a fall. I’m just wondering how defending rather than just letting them tear apart the plane works here.
We’ll probably find out later!
Because what will play on heavy TV rotation is the heroes destroying a plane?
Andrew on July 2, 2013 at 12:40 said:
I doubt thats it, Media of the heros destroying the plane would only be negative if people where ignorant of what she does. They are not they Know Simmy fecks with peoples heads and how dangerous she is. Now the person who losses loved ones sure I can buy that, but the world. No I think people would be verrry understanding.
On the other hand, the heroes destroying the plane would only be positive for people who uncritically accept what the authorities say about Simurgh victims. I think that the rhetoric “anyone within x yards of the Simurgh is unsalvageable, always and forever might be somewhat questionable.
Erratic on July 3, 2013 at 08:37 said:
Man, they have walled off major towns and forced Simurgh victims to get identifying tatts, I don’t think that anyone’s minds are going to be changed by the deaths of a couple hundred people.
I think they had to change that up, though. Wasn’t there something in an interlude about people protesting that kind of stuff by getting the same tattoo?
Who would have thought that people wouldn’t like the idea of keeping people walled in and given special tattoos to signify they are dangerous saboteurs who want to stab the motherland in the back?
It’s not like that has any parallels to anything that happened in history, and certainly not in Europe during the 1930s and 40s. After all, that could NEVER happen here, in a democracy where the balance of power can be shifted by one big terrorist attack.
Now I have to figure out how to make a Nazi joke.
Knock knock, “Who’s there?” Ann. “Ann Who?” Anney who, I guess there’s no Jews hiding around here. I’ll just be on my way.
*pulls out the lame joke horn*
Wah wah waaaaaaaaah.
And so a new timer appears on Taylor’s computer, running up to the time until I live to regret that joke.
Truthseeker on July 3, 2013 at 16:10 said:
Time she spends attacking the plane while singing to the passengers is time she spends singing to the heroes defending the plane. Time she spends defending the plane after having converted the passengers is time she spends… singing to the heroes trying to put the plane down.
Me, I’m curious how they arrived at their time figures on how long it’s safe to be in the Simurgh’s vicinity, and how they can be at all sure of them. Or certain that the Simurgh never improves.
Charlie on July 2, 2013 at 07:32 said:
Prediction: next Endbringer attack will be Simurgh, slightly early, attacking more seriously without staying long enough to get killed by Scion.
Just because their whole M.O. is switching it up, and we can’t have Leviathan appearing when he’s expected to.
Heck if the Endbringers are switching it up and doing lightining strikes, Leviathan can just swim up or down the coast staying in location long enough to hit his target with a tidal wave, then move on. Damage is less concentrated, but more widespread, and it’s harder to mount a defense.
One other effect of the 3 month time jump? It lays to rest the lingering question of “Is Taylor actually pregnant?” (instead of missing her periods due to stress and undernourishment).
It wasn’t something that was being seriously debated but the idea had been floating out there.
Okay so the “Taylor is pregnant theory” is done. But we still have the “Imp is Pregnant” theory.
En on July 4, 2013 at 19:30 said:
At the third month a fetus should weight around 30 grams and be around 10 cm tall.
She should notice, but it’s still not impossible, just improbable.
Ellert on July 5, 2013 at 05:56 said:
True but at the third month she should have noticed not having had her period. And the timeskip doesn t sound like that much of a stressful time so at least the idea could have come up in which case Taylor would have checked.
Timeline doesn’t fit for pregnancy. I think it would have been mentioned if she’d been with any guys prior to Grue and all that, due to her troubled social life.
I wonder if it was just the increased stress, physical activity, and lack of fat, or if there may be a link to her power. The Bug Queen isn’t popping out eggs of her own.
Man the Vegas guys love to rack up the crowners don’t they? I’ve been wondering for a while what Satyr’s power is. I figure it’s got to be similer to Lisa’s in terms of effect.
Maybe he has the power to use music to force people to have sex?
He starts playing the pipes and all of a sudden a Director having a photo op with his dog gets put on the front page instead for bestiality.
Going to bring up something that Notes said up above. Heroes react. Villains are proactive. This tends to be the case a vast majority of time in Superhero fiction. And a lot of the time when you see a hero try to be more proactive it’s a bad thing. But does it have to be? I mean law enforcement has operations going to try and bring down criminals. They don’t wait around for a gang of bank robbers and hope they can catch them while they are at the bank. They try to track them down, set traps, catch them before they strike again. They put operations in play. Outside of Dragon and Defiant hunting the S9 I can’t think of too many cases of that.
I do think the Vegas team must have been one of the more proactive teams in the Protectorate. If you think about the kinds of foes they faced, if they didn’t head them off at the pass the damage would be just as bad as not catching them at all. I can also see a lot of con vs con with them.
I can get behind the “react only” attitude when it’s when dealing with the less harmful criminals. The Flash villains with whom you would look like a real asshole and a bully if you just broke down his door and started beating him up, or if the villains are saaay…. running a fucking refugee camp or disaster recovery zone.
But for truly evil villains who have no problem hurting people? It’s time to be proactive, psychos like the Joker and the Red Skull should be hunted to the ends of the earth, like dogs. You don’t sit around with your thumb up your ass while the S9 are skulking around.
But I assume that the quibble for the heroes isn’t morality, it’s that the PRT prefers that everything be done from a position of power and dominance. They need to look like they’re in control at all times, and they do that by sitting pretty and letting the bad guys come to them unless they’re trying to blow up the city or something.
The problem with being proactive with some villains is that the law is very narrow about arresting people just for thinking of a crime. There’s very little that can be done until the crime is actually attempted. If he’s staking out a jewelry store, what are you going to bring him in for, loitering?
I know that’s somewhat of a point brought up in Linkara’s review of Justice League: Cry For Justice.
The part he forgot was that a lot of villains don’t exactly pay for their crimes. If they get away with murder, you can still hunt them down for that murder. If they are just planning something after escaping from jail, they still have whatever crimes put them in jail and the jailbreak on top of that. It would seem to be completely legal to be proactive in hunting down someone like Joker and Red Skull then.
The problem arises from the masks, costumes, and facepaint.
If you swing around the street until you find someone dressed as Red Skull and beat him up, you may have taken down a villain…or you may have beat up some guy cosplaying. You might have taken in someone who was going by the name Red Skull and was looking real hard at a nuclear power plant as if thinking…but it may be some new guy who took up the alias and mask after the old guy retired. Can’t really charge that guy for it.
Might be a different guy under the Joker makeup too. He’s used lookalikes before (The Killing Joke, for instance). So if you are proactive, you may have a case as there is no statute of limitations on murder, but unless you can actually confirm that guy at that time who is just standing around is the same villain who committed those crimes, then you’re just beating up someone in a costume who hasn’t done anything yet.
We’ve even seen lookalikes in this story that could confuse a proactive hero. Dragon would look awfully silly taking in that expendable girl who replaced Taylor while she was busy getting ambushed by Coil.
Being proactive presumably means going after villains who are *already* wanted for something, not just punching anyone who loiters around a bank in costume.
Similarly, you’d want to be cautious about going in lasers-blazing after any person walking down the street dressed as the Red Skull. But going after someone dressed as the Red Skull surrounded by the Red Skull’s known henchmen in a base of operations paid for with the proceeds of the Red Skull’s crimes? That’s a little different.
And honestly, if someone’s walking down the street dressed as the Red Skull, I’d expect the authorities to at least check it out, in exactly the same way as I’d expect them to check it out if someone were walking down the street with what appeared to be an assault weapon or a bomb. *Could* be completely legit – but you still check to be sure.
Disguises and body doubles *do* make it complex at times, and people won’t always make the right call. Just like now, so long as they make a call that is defensible under the circumstances the should *generally* be okay.
Honestly though, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that wearing the costume of a known villain isn’t a crime in and of itself in the Wormverse…
And about the proactive heroing…the Slaughterhouse 9 have flaunted another problem with it. They surgically alter people to look like them. Kidnapped by the S9, forced into surgery with no anesthesia to look like the mass murdering crazies, trying to get by in life but you’ve lost your girlfriend or boyfriend because you look like the S9, you lost your job because no one wants to buy from someone who looks like the S9, and all of a sudden here comes a superhero to wreck your shit?
So going in guns blazing is out. But what about tracking? Sting operations? It’s not really effective in law enforcement to just sit around and hope you catch a serial killer while he’s killing his victim. Investigations occur. Proactive means more than throwing the first punch. Was anyone trying to track and hunt down the S9 before they struck again before D&D?
If someone cosplays as the Red Skull in a universe where he actually exists they are too dumb to live. He is a still active mass murder.
The problem with catching a serial killer killing his victim is that he’s not classified a serial killer until he’s killed in three separate instances. The label’s appliance is based on a failure to stop the killer a few times. They may have caught lots of potential serial killers while they were attempting the first one, but their success prevents the label from being applied. They can even get him for having a real plan to kill someone. Can’t be idle musing, but if he’s got the weapon picked out, writes in his diary about what he wants to do to someone, and has the blueprint to her home, they can get him. Problem is, even wiretapping all the phones won’t get you the knowledge of the extent of his plot if that’s the evidence.
And IRL, not only are there people who enjoy the Nazi look for some crazy sex, but there are even Waffen SS reenactor groups in the U.S. (And that one congressional candidate getting exposed as a member of one, complete with photos with him in a Nazi uniform, gave me a schadenfreudegasm) There are even these idiots that walk around brownnosing Hitler, forgetting that they’re supposed to be loyal to one of the countries that kicked his butt so hard it made his finger twitch while he was cleaning his luger.
So yes, there are probably Red Skull cosplayers even in a universe where he lived, just as there are Nazi reenactors and cosplayers in universes where regular Nazis really existed.
Man those guys are stupid for dressing up like the Red Skull. Forget about the Superheroes. Dr. Doom, and Kingpin dislike Red Skull on general principle. And Magneto really hates him.
I dunno it just seems like there should be some way for Superheroes to actually head off trouble rather than waiting for the body count to start going up.
You know, it occurs to me that the Chicago Protectorate is really loosing out not using Taylor for survalliance. I mean she can litterally bug anywhere in a few block radius. Not sure how you’d get a warrent for it though.
Ha ha ha. That’s funny, because you think warrants still matter.
Big difference there is that the Nazis (as in the WWII German variety) were a threat seventy years ago. If someone sees you wearing a Nazi uniform they’ll think you’re probably a dick but they’re unlikely to think you’re about to start murdering people.
Dressing up as Jack Slash and walking down main street with a knife is a different thing entirely.
Yes,being surgically altered.
Its not like supervillains cannot use decoys that are unwilling/willing but unable to be connected with them ,just to humiliate the police,or draw the heroes attention.Even if the only legit reason to dress like that is insanity,plausible deniability still exists “the villain forced me to wear a mask,it has a bomb that explode if I take it out or stop walking the predestined path” “I am an actor,going to play on an reenactment of Captain America’s heroics (I implied Captain America/Red Skull on this one because they both fought on WWII )” “Lol,I am just trolling,but as I carry no weapons you cannot really arrest me” “I am a fan of hero x and,with other fans,we gather on one place dressed as people from his villain’s gallery…mine is pretty realistic,isn’t it?”.All these make attacking someone on costume a legal Snafu,you could be sued for assault and have the media on a field day,in the first case you could even murder a total innocent.
LoL, I swear you’re an even more prolific commenter than I was. xD
I’m not really sure what you’re arguing for there. Is it “Don’t go after known criminals because there could be cases of mistaken identity”? That’s obviously not tenable.
Like I think I said earlier in the thread, there’s no perfect solution – so long as you do your due diligence and a jury is likely to say “under the circumstances, an average person would have been reasonably confident that the person in question was really [whoever]” then that’s about the best you can do.
As an aside, I’m fairly sure by now that the Wormverse would have passed a law against just rocking down the street dressed as supervillains.
That law would arrest Parian’s family,pushing her to supervillainy.A mere “hands up,show me your face”could solve troubles,but …it could be a trap.It is the best solution baring hostage situations.I always support case by case,because no general rule can attribute for anything.
And the world you are searching to describe me is not “prolific”its “annoying”:p
LoL, nah. I said prolific and I meant prolific.
Im not a lawyer but I would be very surprised if there aren’t already laws in place to protect people forced to commit crimes under duress.
If you rob a bank because someone has a bomb strapped to you and will detonate it if you don’t, the courts aren’t going to treat you as though you had voluntarily committed a crime.
And if someone surgically alters you to look like a supervillain the courts wouldn’t hold you responsible for that infraction either.
Court…yeah,but against the S9 lethal force is authorised.You see the problem now?
I understand the problem. That’s why I said you have to do your due diligence. And they did – they went “wait, something’s wrong here” and they held off on going in guns blazing.
There’s not a perfect solution here. You just have to make the best judgement call you can under the circumstances and hope it was the right one.
Im not sure why we’re still arguing. You already agreed that these decisions have to be made on a case-by-case basis.
langer101 on July 2, 2013 at 08:35 said:
Something bothering me…..where’s the Gecko? Was he or his snake on the plane? Could this be the end of the frozen chicken?
I was noticing that too. Perhaps he’s on vacation as well?
As we all know, I am not in the Wormverse, nor do I have an analog there.
Plus, if anyone’s been bothering to read, I’ve been busy in Memphis. Seriously, I pull off a brilliant plan and nobody pays attention?
That’s it, Canada is going on my shit list. It’s a list of people and places who have gotten on my bad side and whose sewer systems I am going to find a way to spontaneously and forcefully reverse.
Passin' Through on July 2, 2013 at 17:20 said:
Well Psycho Gecko always did say that Wildbow should develop a personality in the comment’s section, and when Wildbow goes on vacation and no more Gecko…
Do we know that they’re different people? Has anybody here seen them at a party together?
I upvote this.
Negative. Just busy. I’ve had a city to wreck and then escape from.
Also, I don’t remember saying Wildbow should develop a personality in the comments section.
If you’d been paying attention, you may have noticed that since Wildbow’s been gone, I have been hard at work making dick jokes.
Yeah, Wildbow leaving did kind of shaft the rest of us.
And unfortunately, the dick jokes came to a head last chapter. This chapter is so tightly written that I can barely slip them in.
Try harder. When things get hairy, that’s when you need to man up and push on through.
Stephen M (Ethesis) on July 2, 2013 at 10:17 said:
Well, the Endbringers are not playing with their food, they are being forced to attack it.
The alternative explanation is that the smurf held off attacking as long as she could and then picked a target that would get destroyed before Scion showed up and killed her.
That may well be what is going on instead.
Keep wondering how Scarab fits into this.
A solid chapter, and I’m glad to finally see Taylor happier, within a Ward headquarters, and without the silly butterfly rules. My first posts in these comments were arguing that this was the way forward, and finally we’re there. Just a shame we had to flatten New Dehli and get Glenn to fall on his sword in the process, but we got there.
Satyrical and his team taking on the old fascists in the PRT is interesting. I’d assumed the conflict of the arc would be between them and Taylor, combined with a climatic fight with a big villain where she uses novel tactics to win, then goes to the media. (My other idea for her big push was her recruiting some young villains, and showing how broken the PRT approach was in the process, but that doesn’t seem likely to happen.)
This seemed straightforward, but now I think things will be more complicated than that. I think there’s going to be something complex to do with the villain that Taylor goes for, or with the PRT, or something that kinda subverts her relatively early victory against the villain/rotten elements of the PRT, and then the climax is dealing with this complicated thing. Otherwise the bad elements of the PRT starting to be defanged only two chapters in doesn’t make sense, it’s dissolving narrative tension too early.
Last interlude suggested that Satyrical’s team will be taking support from Cauldron, completely unaware about how Cauldron ties into the PRT’s corruption. Which is yet another thing that suggests that Cauldron is almost done with the PRT.
Now we’ve got a situation where a team is fighting against what they believe is corruption and crypto-fascism, while being backed up by the very people partially responsible for much of the PRT’s bullshit in the first place. More complicated indeed, Weaver and the Vegas team clashing might be inevitable, all the while Cauldron will be trying to slip back into the shadows.
Good analysis, that could definitely be one angle via which complications arise.
A small quibble; Cauldron wanted control of the PRT and Protectorate, for sure, but do we actually know if they especially wanted the excessive authoritarianism and corruption? Because usually we humans can usually manage that fine by ourselves! 🙂
I can kinda see the problems with the PRT arising independently, and Cauldron just not caring that much either way until now. I mean, it’s entirely possible they still don’t particularly care, and are supporting Satyrical and his team mostly as a way of keeping them “on retainer”, so to speak, for if and when they need them for something they actually care about. If we look at Pretender and Satyrical’s conversation, that’s kinda the gist that I got. Satyrical seemed to be pursuing goals different to Cauldron’s, which his team had already been working on for a while, and Pretender agreed to funnel support to them and suggested future cooperation.
I’d say that alot of Cauldron’s methods in some part echo and influence how the PRT does things. A couple examples.
-The PRT’s “norms must be in charge” policy was deliberate put into place by Cauldron and Alexandria, as a smokescreen to keep people complacent so no one goes sniffing after Cauldron. The attitude that capes must be controlled and contained by baselines has caused so many problems it isn’t even funny.
-The ability to create capes means that the PRT doesn’t have to scrimp and scrape to get as many parahumans on their side as possible and keep them. It’s why they had no qualms about throwing Panacea away like garbage, or denying the Wards therapy that could make them more effective. Why bother giving a shit about individual trigger capes when new ones can be made easily?
-Both the PRT and Cauldron put their emphasis on control, superpowers must be under their command and they have little tolerance for anyone who acts outside of their influence or contrary to their desires. This could well be intentional, capes controlled by the PRT can be made into Cauldron assets without too much trouble.
This doesn’t mean that Cauldron and the PRT are buddy-buddy, but there’s alot of overlap in the latter’s flaws with the former’s methods.
These mostly seem good, though I’d stress that there’s a distinction between Cauldron’s objectives having led to problems in the PRT as side-effects, and problems in the PRT actually being a goal of Cauldron in and of itself.
The making more capes thing seems odd though, do we have any reason to believe that the PRT at even the director level, let alone the lower echelons needed for policy-making, would be aware that they could get replacements quickly via Cauldron? I think you may be looking for calculation as an explanation here when the simple cupidity and callousness of unchecked large organizations can suffice.
It could be just something suggested to the PRT brass by all these Cauldron capes coming forward to join the heroes. It artificially skews the numbers to make them think there is less of a problem with recruitment and less of a need to enforce standards for treatment and strive to enlarge their recruitment pool.
Would Armsmaster have been so quick to write Taylor off as an enemy if Battery and Triumph weren’t around? If there were no squeaky clean, conventionally attractive Cauldron recruits, would the PRT have so readily chased Rachel into the shadows instead of try reaching out to her?
Speaking of, the presence of the Cauldron capes might overly white-wash capes in the eyes of the public. Making it easier to write off kids like Rachel as “the bad guys”. I find it strange that trigger capes ending up like her isn’t a well known social problem and this could help explain why.
On the whole bit about Cauldron capes skewing the numbers, awhile back I had something where I figured they also threw off the number of triggers caused by Endbringers.
After Leviathan’s attack, we only had one known trigger. That was Imp and her brother was personally fighting the thing. I don’t know if we have the numbers on how many actual triggers the Endbringers themselves cause, but it’ll likely be less than people think.
Cauldron probably advised people that showing up in the aftermath of an Endbringer attack gives them a convenient excuse for explaining where they suddenly got their powers from to the PRT.
Well reasoned, but again, even in the absence of Cauldron capes, I find it pretty plausible that an organization like the PRT could be that callous and stupid by itself. The overall explanation is probably a “little from column A, little from column B” kinda thing.
Certainly considering how people like Tagg and Piggot would probably be shitheels either way, but it does give the PRT a convenient excuse, and might help prevent trigger cape outreach programs, shelters, watchdog groups lobbying for better treatment from popping up.
Fair point, as I’ve said, I think it’s probably a combination, but it was well thought out. You certainly don’t need to sell me on an aggressive outreach and therapy program for young triggered parahumans being desperately needed- I’m totally your guy on that. Hell, even offering new parahumans a decent bursary with their anonymity protected just to stay as rogues rather than becoming villains would probably help a lot, and save money in the long run.
sarah penguin on July 2, 2013 at 13:26 said:
Woohoo. Endbringer messing with peoples heads 🙂 My guess is she wanted a 3ds and a copy of the new animal crossing! Once she grabbed it off the plane she split 🙂
Kruller on July 2, 2013 at 16:59 said:
New reader, just finished catching up. Howdy. Man do I love this series.
My thoughts on the Simurgh’s latest attack: she is smart enough to have multiple goals and to set things up so she wins regardless of the result of the attack. If the plane survives, she has potential recruits for future action – a few of them would no doubt escape through some contrived coincidence. If the plane is shot down, she causes all of the morale and public image damage others have discussed, and she prevents everyone on that plane from completing whatever destiny they may have had. As a result, we may never have flying cars, a cure for cancer, a working moon base, and God knows what else. This doesn’t even touch on second and third order effects based on how this impacts the passengers’ families and every other person they would ever come into contact with. Also, what are the odds that in the midst of the wide ranging aerial combat, she managed to circle around enough times to effect the passengers and crew of one or more ships on the ocean below, unnoticed by all? In a few days, the world could have another Exxon Valdez disaster and no one will know why.
Take a look at what she did with the Travelers so far. All of the damage caused by Echidna’s attack, including the public revelations by Evil Eidolon (or maybe More Evil Eidolon). The near assassination of Chevalier, which increased the damage caused by Behemoth’s attack and drove a fresh wedge between the Yangban and the rest of the world. The death of Accord, which removes his plan to end world hunger (he was a dangerous psycho, but his plans could have been an immense benefit to the world). Trickster is in a key position to interfere in any escape attempt or plan to release inmates from the Birdcage, to ensure that things go as badly as possible. Cody is still in the Yangban, in position to keep screwing things up. The rest of the Travelers go home…allowing the Simurgh to send her special brand of terror to a whole new world. Maybe she can even spark off that interdimensional war. Not bad for a handful of victims.
The Simurgh uses surgical strikes and plays the long game very effectively. The large scale damage she causes is most likely simply a smokescreen to conceal her real objectives. With that in mind, the apparent small scale of her latest attack may indicate it is far more devastating than her earlier appearances. Maybe she is through toying with us and is settling down to serious work. Her interference to prevent Dragon from getting a single message earlier illustrates a ‘less is more’ approach.
Looking forward to Taylor’s new plan. Cleaning up Chicago by permanently removing a few longstanding threats would definitely make a splash. It would be even more interesting if she manages to convince one or more low priority villains to switch sides and follow her path into the Wards and the Protectorate. Sure there are some complete monsters out there, but one wonders how many villains could be converted to the side of good if any real effort were made towards rehabilitation, as opposed to putting them into the prison system until they have enough strikes to go to the Birdcage. The ranks of the Protectorate are desperately thin after a couple decades of Endbringer attacks. The idea that heroes=good and villains=bad and never the twain shall meet is short-sighted, shallow and destructive. A lot of the horrible things that happen in Worm are driven by a complete lack of hope. That trend needs to be reversed.
Note: This is only marginally topical to this chapter. I am posting it here to avoid any possibility of spoilers and to get it read and critiqued.
How does the world-killing crisis start? I have some thoughts, but little on how they link together.
1. With the exception of Jask Slash and a few others, very few parahumans want the world to end. Heroes and villains together fight Endbringers, and heroes and villains together would fight any major crisis. If nothing else, all parahumans fight to defend their own turf and this crisis will spill onto everyone’s turf. Given the power levels involved, there are few things that could fight that many parahumans: lots of S-class threats at once, the superentities (not the agents, the agents’ creators), or … a lot more parahumans.
2. Aster (daughter of Kaiser and Purity) may be a key and it is probably her trigger event that is the key. We know that Jack will come back for Theo. The only two people Jack has promised to kill in his arrangement with Theo are Theo and Aster, and Theo has already triggered. It makes sense that Aster would trigger eventually – she is third generation cape. Dinah said either two years or fifteen to sixteen, so either she is triggered by Jack or she triggers in her teens. The disaster is not a function of Aster’s relative maturity at the time, so her power does something irrespective of how she uses it (the way a toddler would use powers is very different from the way a teen would).
3. According to hints from Dinah, this has something to do with Taylor.
4. According to Dinah, based on what Coil was asking her, there will be five major power blocks involved. I am guessing PRT/Protectorate, Cauldron, C.U.I., Thanda (Indian Cold parahumans), and … the expanded S9???
5. I theorize that the Bonesaw / Panacea brain manipulation that happened in Brockton Bay may have changed the population into a parahuman-trigger-bomb waiting to happen. The reasoning is too long to go into here, see my recent commentary in https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/interlude-22/.
6. The world-killing crisis is considerably variable in magnitude and occurs over a period of time.
So … possibilities:
1. Bonesaw’s mass production of S9 clones would have happened eventually. Theo’s bargain with Jack just set the time (and she would have done it without Jack). The S9 rampage is what will cause the crisis. Given 10 clones each of some of the nastiest bastards on the planet, each with some variant power, some of them will come out significantly stronger than before. Problems: Given that one Endbringer could clean house on the lot of them together and Endbringers don’t cause the same level of crisis, this doesn’t seem big enough. Phir Sē and his pals could take most of them (and would be vicious enough to try). This also ignores Taylor’s involvement.
2. Jack attacks and Aster triggers … as someone who automatically sets off other triggers in a wide radius. If my other guess about Brockton Bay is right, Armageddon ensues. Taylor has enough popularity there that she is the only likely guidance that a city full of new parahumans will listen to, and she is the only one who can multi-task enough to organize the result. Problems: Powers run similarly in families and that powerset is nothing like Aster’s parents. It is unclear how Aster can survive Jack long enough to trigger (unless she triggers on seeing him attack another person). My guess about Brockton Bay’s population is a long shot.
2a. (subset of 2) Aster’s primary power, which is similar to her mother’s, is absorbing any power in a wide radius and reusing it, but in Aster’s case this includes parahuman powers. Her secondary power is creating new power sources, e.g. new parahumans. Her power may allow her to survive Jack or not – if she manages to trigger most of Brockton Bay before she goes then her survival is not necessary to cause the crisis. This fits with the “happens no matter how she uses her power” idea. Problems: Depends primarily on their being a lot of potential parahumans, e.g. my hypothesis on Brockton Bay.
3. If my idea of Brockton Bay being a parahuman-trigger-bomb is right, Aster is only involved peripherally. When Jack shows up and starts his rampage, it is enough to set off the crisis. Problems: It seems unlikely that the crisis would have waited another fifteen to sixteen years without Jack.
4. Aster or another victim of the S9 (or a bystander) triggers as a Nilbog-type (Master type) that can create new Endbringer-level threats. Problems: Taylor’s involvement? Not Aster’s likely powers. From a meta-analyis viewpoint, this seems too unrelated to the hints.
5. In general, some sort of contagious parahuman-creation event seems most likely, e.g. a Teacher type who can create new powers, but with the added traits that the creations are equivalently potent (with some variation), are not under the creator’s control, and can pass on the powers. Then, if Taylor (or someone) organizes the core outbreak early and gives the new parahumans purpose and control, overall casualties are relatively low; if it blows up, well, if memory serves, the upper limit is 96% of the human race dead. Note: Cauldron is likely to try to stop such an outbreak with all the powers at their command – contagious parahuman creation overwhelms Cauldron’s abilities. Cauldron could try to use the threat to sell powers to the alternate Earth (the one with fewer parahumans) … until the contagion spreads there also. Hmmm … this works very well – contagious parahuman-creation starts; the PRT/Protectorate sees it as a Nilbog event on radioactive steroids and responds with great force; Cauldron sees it as a rival that must be stopped at all costs and starts killing; other major players, e.g. Phir Sē and group, see it as a threat and respond; but there is no way to contain such an event and Taylor is the only person with enough clout with enough of the major powers to get them to listen … or she turns into the de facto leader of the new parahuman group and wipes out the opposition. Be afraid, be very afraid.
Currently, something like 2a with portions of 5 is my best guess (fits with the most known elements), but even that seems unlikely. Please help me out with clues, possibilities, or problems I have missed.
pidgey on July 4, 2013 at 00:32 said:
Not to shut you down or anything, but most of this sounds more like fanfiction than anything that would actually be written by the author. There’s way too many assumptions about how things work and an awful lot of iterative speculation that makes it impossible to say anything more than, “I guess wildbow could go that direction if he wanted.”
Chekov’s guns are red herrings a great deal more often than they are plot clues. A more reliable way to eliminate possibilities is to ask how much character development it would require to make the possibility seem like more than a plot device. In my opinion, Aster would require a lot. She’s very young, she’s surrounded by nothing but highly tangential characters, and she’s barely ever been mentioned. It’s true that wildbow could do the necessary work to make her into a real character: he did it with Dinah, after all, all for the sake of setting up this prophecy, and it certainly wouldn’t be any more work than that for Aster. But we’re kinda nearing the end of the story and I question whether wildbow wants to take that kind of left turn in his character development again, so close to the end.
If we’re going to say it’s Aster, then I’d wonder if her trigger event could be Jack Slash killing Theo. Or, since she’s third gen, she could have triggered earlier due to some more minor event, and then have a second trigger event when Jack kills Theo. Then when she’s a teenager she and Weaver, respectively leaders of the Wards and Protectorate (and Greg is head of the PRT), take on S9K. With them are the vigilantes Defiant and Dragon (renamed at this point; maybe Matron? Naaaaaah), the Undersiders (now expanded into Tattletale’s Yakuza), and the prisoners of the Birdcage. Big battle, good guys win, phlebotinum explained, happy ending.
Finish with the Scion interlude as an epilogue, as he flies around the world one last time before leaving, having completed some greater cosmic objective or some nonsense. Not that greater cosmic objectives are nonsense.
Though I don’t know if that would really work to have Theo just die, and then they all wait another fifteen years for no particular reason.
Looking at Dinah’s interlude, I think Jack may have already done what he needs to do, just about, in guaranteeing the creation of the S9000. He’s the instigator and organizer of the S9, and probably was the one to direct them to the clone lab, even though Bonesaw is the one doing the actual work. What I very tentatively predict is going to happen (biggest weakness trying to anticipate WB, second biggest the predictability of things relating to Scion) is that when the floodgates of villainy open, the most powerful woman in the world is going to end up telling him something horribly open-ended like: “Not just Endbringers, kill the worst people, too.”
Seeing as it isn’t possible to not have a worst person or group of people in the world…
If Jack had died in BB, something would have driven her to it eventually.
dermonster42 on July 3, 2013 at 01:10 said:
Some forum game/quests using this universe have popped on on Spacebattles. Hope Wildbow doesn’t mind~
MrMoray on July 3, 2013 at 22:25 said:
I think the Simurgh has gotten to me, because I felt compelled to start re-reading this latest chapter with all the type converted into Swedish chef. http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/dialectp.cgi?dialect=bork&url=http%3A%2F%2Fparahumans.wordpress.com%2F
Aw man, you know what this means. Someone is going to have to put you down MrMoray. Any volunteers?
Oh crap! I think getting other people to read Worm / Vurm in Swedish chef-speak is what “she” programmed me to do.
I now want to redneck the Crusader Interlude. :))
“We jest did,” Crusader said, cuss it all t’ tarnation. “Th’ autho’ities is jest gittin’ t’th’ ninth flore now, mah clones is lettin’ ‘em by. By th’ time we got thar, they’d haf him secured, an’ they’d be ready t’spray us wif thet foam, dawgone it.”
Actually, you should try reading the Crusader interlude in Cockney. It’s perfect.
I think Gregor the Snail would work best with Swedish chef, honestly.
I’m gonna try a few chapters with Taylor speaking in jive, see how it changes things. Slap mah fro!
I can’t handle how great that is right now.
I’ve realized something. Chicago’s villians are Slackers compared to Brockton Bays. I mean Taylor has been there for three months with nothing major happening? Sheesh. Brockton bay had the ABB go on a rampage, Coil outing Empire 88. Lets not get into the out of towners. Hell by now the Undersiders would have beaten both the Protectorate and Wards up 10 times. 3 in their own headquarters.
It also occurs to me that if Clockblocker and Kid Win died in New Dehli, Vista is the only original BB ward still active in the city.
Chicago’s villains aren’t slackers. Assuming that Worm Chicago is fairly parallel to our Chicago, most of the villains hold public office.
Remember how Taylor was jealous of Leister? He’d been in the Wards for a month and only had two fights.
Not every place is as active as Brockton Bay.
Pretty much. I mean, Taylor is the one who destabilized the power balance between the gangs in Brockton Bay by getting Lung thrown into jail, indirectly causing the ABB rampage. Before that, the local gangs must have been pretty content selling drugs and beating up the occasional person of color and stuff. There’s a reason the other villains were so displeased with the aforementioned rampage that they decided to step in and put an end to it.
And the Undersiders only started doing high-profile jobs after she joined. Remember, the bank robbery was considered pretty crazily dangerous compared to their usual crimes, and that’s not even talking about directly attacking the Protectorate team.
Basically, it’s only since Taylor’s arrival that Brockton Bay has been in a permanent state of crisis, and it looks like she’s finally decided to bring her unique touch to Chicago. 😛
I think the more fundamental source of chaos in that situation was Coil trying to take over the city (a plan which necessitated eliminating the other supervillains of the town).
Now, I’m not at all sure that Bitch+Regent could take Lung in a fight (and that’s assuming Grue and Tattletale take out Oni Lee and the unpowered gang members … which isn’t entirely unreasonable, but…). Even assuming they couldn’t, though, I think Taylor should be dubbed a catalyst of the destabilization, not the cause.
…admittedly, said amplification of chaos might be why Leviathan targeted Noelle, rather than some other target. And it was that destabilization on top of all that had come before that really pushed Brockton Bay over the line into “is this even a salvageable city?” territory.
Wow, I just checked — he was in the Los Angeles Wards and he only had two fights in a month (and one of them wasn’t even a real fight). What are the relative populations of LA and Brockton Bay?
Wow, only two fights in Los Angeles? Makes me wonder what kind of villain teams they got going on there. I’m thinking gangs of European nihilists who fake kidnappings, a superpowered porn-mogul in Malibu with ties to the police, and a team of parahuman avant-garde artists.
The most dangerous being the purple costumed, latin-american pederast with ball rolling powers.
Actually, the most dangerous villain team in Los Angeles is probably the LAPD.
Robert Allen on July 4, 2013 at 16:48 said:
Way to step on a Lewbowski joke, Sandman
*throws a coffee mug at Sandman*
Stay out of Brockton, Vasil! *kick* Stay out of Brockton deadbeat!
Get your ugly fuckin’ date raping ass out of my post-apocalyptic beach community.
That’s totally how the shit with Heartbreaker should end. With either Miss Militia or imp doing the kicking.
> Wow, only two fights in Los Angeles? Makes me wonder what kind of villain teams they got going on there.
Actually, Bobby has pointed out that Brockton Bay was in a particularly unstable state at the time the story started, for two reasons:
One, on the macro scale: Coil was moving into the final phases of his take-over-the-city plan — a plan which required the established villains of the city to be driven out and replaced with those under his command, and which required that Piggot’s Protectorate and Wards teams be sufficiently humiliated to justify his replacing her outright (rather than merely taking over her position during her convalescence — and remember, her position was a bribe, so they wouldn’t want to take it away if they didn’t feel forced to).
Two, on the micro scale: Lung had recruited the mad bomber Bakuda just in time for Taylor to kick his ass, and yea, his ass was verily kicked … leaving Bakuda, unsupervised*, to plot and scheme in that oh-so-very-explosive way of hers how to set him free.
Put those together, and it’s not entirely implausible that Brockton Bay at the beginning of the story had a vastly disproportionate amount of violence going on, even before you consider that L.A.’s Wards team was probably large enough that rookies in the Wards didn’t get called out for most emergencies.
* Oni Lee had seniority, but as Jack Slash said, he was also a total zero incapable of taking initiative.
I’m pretty sure the high cape concentration was justified in some chapter.
Good thing Taylor is being careful in who she’s targeting for her big move. She doesn’t want to destabilize the city just so she can get in the news. So she needs to find someone impressive enough that taking them out will look good. But not someone so important that taking them down will cause a gang war. So basicly she needs the Undersiders after they kicked the Wards and Protectorates asses a few times but before they seized territory?
Undersiders-circa-arc-7 wouldn’t be bad, no — but sticking with the Brockton Bay metaphor, my first thought is the Merchants pre-Leviathan. In Grue’s words: “You’re cowards that hold onto the areas nobody else cares about, making drugs and selling them to children.” The latter makes for a lot of public good in destroying them, while the former reduces the pressure on other gangs to fight for the newly opened territory.
Neither of those really seem big enough to make a truly dramatic splash, though. I think if Weaver really wants to make waves, she needs to either pick a target that’s nationally known or do an Undersiders and defeat everyone.
If the time gap is 167-8 days here … we’re now in January (July 26th [Behemoth] + 105 days [estimate] + 3 days [late at first timestamp] + ~593-534 days [End of World countdown change] = January 9-10). So I hope I’m a few weeks off, to at least see how Danny and Taylor interacted over Christmas for instance and everything else around there. They missed her birthday, after all. Gifts from the Undersiders or the Chicago Wards? Assuming that they celebrate Christmas the same way in Earth Bet.
As an aside, can you imagine how awesome a haunted house staffed by the various powers we’ve seen would be? Just from the Chicago Wards, Weaver, Annex, Golem and Wanton could make a pretty good one (so much for “Using my power with my face isn’t that useful”, Theo). Mix in a few of the Undersides (Grue, Imp, Bitch’s dogs – if she’d let you). Add in Vista (“What do you MEAN it’s bigger on the inside? It’s not a TARDIS!”). See how much it would cost to hire Faultline’s Crew for Labyrinth! Have your staff get tuned in by Labyrinth so they can just walk through walls for that extra touch.
For some reason this makes me thing about what Halloween must be like for the Slaughterhouse 9.
“Alright everyone, lets see your costumes!” Jack Slash said as the members of the most feared orginization in North America gathered.
“Fairy Princess. Very cute Bonesaw.”
“Thanks! Getting the wings to work and support my weight was really tricky! The Fairy Dust was easy though.”
“Alan I see your going a pirate. One of the classics, got the hook and the pegleg.” Of course there was no verbal response from the Tinker, but a slight tilt of the head.
“Siberian… Your going as a Doctor? Okay, whatever works for you. As for you Burnscar, your going as a Carrort? Really?”
“Only costume that didn’t get burned down with the store.”
“Fair enough. Moving on, Shatterbird I see you also picked a classic, The Witch.”
“Actually I wanted to be the Fairy Princess, but Bonesaw called dibs.” It was clear from the glare Shatterbird gave the young Tinker that she was holding a grudge about that.
“Well there’s always next year. Now Crawler, don’t tell you’re going as yourself again this year?”
“No.” rumbled Crawler as he brought his head down. “Bunny. See the ears?”
“Ah now I do. Cute. Hatchet Face, Going as Jason Vohress this year. So Freddy next?” Hatchet Face’s only response was a grunt. It was Bonesaw who spoke up next.
“Hey Jack, what is your costume supposed to be?” Jack Chuckled as he gestured at the nice suit he was wearing.
“Why I am the most devious and dishonest thing there is. A Politician! Now before we set out lets review the ground rules. Don’t eat any candy that has an opened wrapper. If they don’t give you a trick, you give them a treat. And at least one of us with Bonesaw at all times. We don’t want a repeat of last year.”
“Oh that’s not fair! I only spiked the punch at one party! The Zombie Outbreak wasn’t supposed to spread that fast!”
“Well it did, and zombies are just boring to kill for the rest of us. Now then, lets go make this the scariest Halloween ever!”
Jerden on January 14, 2016 at 11:34 said:
Cute Crawler bunny rabbit would be brilliant.
G on July 4, 2013 at 05:52 said:
I Seriously love this story I just read the whole thing up till here in the span of a week and I think it’s just pure genius. Skitter is so real and definitely not a Mary Sue and that’s what add to the whole thing. Thanks so much for writing. 😀 just voted for your story looking forward to the next chapter
By Scion’s Golden Balls!! It’s time for some moments of randomness….
1. Let me see if I got this right, Alexandria was outsourcing most of her thinking to her passenger or was it more of a case of allowing her passenger to process and filter all the data for her? It would have been interesting if her Passenger became the Driver, running autonomously like Weaver’s does from time to time. Guess it means that Pretender’s passenger allows him to control the meat puppet AND the passenger??
2. This one’s for P.G…. if it’s called the “Alexandria package” did it mean that she had the biggest one of the lot??
3. Morgan Keene = Numbers Man? https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/interlude-24/
4. Mist Born’s Brandon Sanderson writes about capes http://www.avclub.com/articles/heres-an-exclusive-first-look-at-brandon-sanderson,97785/ …just from the intro: villains being dicks just for the sake of being dicks ….At this point I’d rather stick with fanfic
1. You know I was wondering if the revelation that Alexandria let her passenger do most of the thinking explains her rather non-clever actions. We know that the passengers lean towards a pretty martial philosophy (powers in general being mostly apt for violence, Jack Slash’s particular attuning to his passenger, Taylor’s occasional homicidal urges, Number Man feeling alive only when he can use the fighting applications of his powers, etc.) so maybe Alexandria only saw the violent solution of a problem because that’s how the passenger thinks.
3. Seems unlikely. Mr Keene was also present when the various Directors and Piggot were discussing reforms of the PRT with Defiant and Dragon and Piggot knows him enough to respect him. Whereas it appears to be implied that Number Man before the recents event of his Interlude stayed at Cauldron’s HQ all time.
4. Thanks for the link — but yeah, I’m not gripped either. That said, I don’t read it as dicks-for-the-sake-of-dickery, but as demigods-competing-to-rule. (A minor distinction, admittedly.)
1. A passenger that was not destined to her, so it’s probably trying to screw her over? Maybe when it detects that she’s confronting a “true” pairing with a very powerful passenger?
Yeah, it would seem a possible read of it, but I doubt Pretender can extend control over to the passenger. I read his power as like Hijacker’s.
2. No, the biggest one is the Campanile package of course.
3. Seems unlikely, with all the work they do.
4. Enough with the dick jokes already 😀
@en Re:4 No pun was intended. I didn’t even realise the implications. Subconscious at work I guess…but yes i,t’s time for them to end 😉
Interesting to know that’s going on in your subconscious all the time.
Don’t worry. No matter how long they go on or even if someone tries to cut you off early on, all dick jokes come to an end eventually.
2. Maybe you should be so worried that so many other capes seem to her package. Men, women, teens, possibly even children. And we don’t even know if animals have had it.
4. At least I try to make it funny. Or I’m getting revenge on someone. Still, a world where power levels automatically create bulletproofness is an odd one. At least the protagonist realizes the most important thing: Everything dies. Even capes whose power is to be immune to bullets intended for him. A lot of ways you can work around that, though my personal favorite is to toss something they can breath in at them. You’d be surprised how many humans have to take in oxygen. Almost everyone I’ve ever met, in fact.
Part of that little bit reminds me some of the discussion about the PRT being so paranoid over capes. People are really missing the point if they think it’s a matter of being afraid that one of these types are going to take power for themselves. They’re superpeople, but still people. Like it or not, not all people are outright dicks when they get a hold of a little power. Not sure if that makes things easier or harder, actually.
The control is the more important thing. Not whether the world is better or worse, just different from what it is with them in charge, even if they’d still be in charge after a few changes. Don’t want to feel that all their dirty hands and handshakes with the devil were for nothing.
Human society is based off of a certain kind of power structure. Whether it’s a monarchy or a republic or a military unit or a raid in an MMO or a simple forum discussion board, society has to put people “in charge”. You have to have leaders – people to make rules, people to enforce rules.
This isn’t a bad thing. When people don’t take charge, nothing gets done. Like at all. It also isn’t a bad thing when people in power try to prevent other people from taking over, for the most part. Railing against The Man is usually pretty stupid, especially if you don’t want to be in charge yourself.
TV shows and movies have convinced people that everyone trying to protect their own position of power is a corrupt piece of crap with priorities that are completely out of whack, but the fact of the matter is that maintaining the status quo is the right thing to do 99% of the time. Upheaval is very rarely worth it. Even if it’s the only way to accomplish a goal, the cost includes the risk that some other jerk is going to conclude that whatever his goals are, are important enough to cause even more upheaval and undo everything you worked to accomplish.
wildbow on July 5, 2013 at 09:49 said:
Back from vacation.
Let me extend a warm thanks to Andrew F, David, Andrew M and Stephen for their donations. The tracker has been updated.
Woohoo! Welcome back!
ShawnMorgan on July 5, 2013 at 12:32 said:
*Waves hello as a new commenter.* Welcome back Wildbow, I hope your vacation was great and that everything went awesomely for you.
I’m all caught upwith your story (Twice over now). Sleep and I can now reunite. And it’s Friday so update tomorrow. See you then!
P.S you’re not amazingly far off 30,000 comments.
Yes, that’s right. Sleep. Don’t hang around with us weirdo and make dick jokes, or engage in a chain of punnery (The chain of punnery of course being the thing you get beaten with for making too many puns), or join one of our many infinitely long debates on the balance of power or morality or who’s going to declare their lesbian love of Taylor (lesbian love of course can be shortened to simply “lesbians” such as “I’m in lesbians with you.”
And yes, it’s completely normal for people on the internet to be so involved in the fictional love life of an underage girl. Now why don’t you sit down and have a seat. We have these chat logs here…have you been playing the MMO World of Lumberjacks long? Ah! Stop it, the chain, it hurts!).
Perhaps you have a wild hypothesis about the nature of the Wormverse or the future of the story. Feel free to share it. I’ve set the bar pretty low around here (Loch Ness Monster=Leviathan?) so don’t worry about sounding stupid. That’s what I’m here for. I wow people with stupidity so profound that they become smarter. It’s all very Buddhist (If you’re lucky, you’ll get to go to a Nirvana concert when you die.)
Anyway, ShawnMorgan, this has been your official unofficial introduction to the comments. Welcome to our grand old comments section.
Thank you gecko, any advice form you will be filed under ‘A Box of teabags’ due to them being P.G tips of course. Enduring the Chain of puns will of course require me footslog through the Longest yard and if you give me an inch, I’ll take a mile although maybe not Furlong as some of you guys are just out of my league.
And if you haven’t already seen it P.G I posted a thank you with my first actual comment (That I erroneously put in the preceding chapter’s comment section. A thank you for keeping me sane.
By the way when you wrote that ‘Mistress Bitch’ had a paddle to punish Taylor with were they going swimming? after all, it was obviously a Doggy paddle.
Welcome back, and thanks Andrew F., David, Andrew M., and Stephen!
Welcome back. I hope you had a restful vacation.
Great Greedy Guts on July 5, 2013 at 16:26 said:
Welcome back! Hope vacation was goodly. Glad you were able to take one, especially with how hard you work.
WyldCard4 on July 5, 2013 at 17:36 said:
Welcome back, wildbow. I hope you had a great vacation.
Yay, you’re back!
… Oh dear. That means you’re going to read the comments from last chapter now.
… Um. Apologies in advance?
A thought on the Brockton wards just struck me. Because of the time skip, wouldn’t Taylor be able to confirm Clockblocker’s status?
“Would the schedule continue at its accelerated pace, with Behemoth appearing in seven to ten months?”
Didn’t Behemoth die? It’s pretty hard for a bunch of ashes to attack anything. Or is Taylor just worried that it’ll come back?
…On that note, why is Behemoth called a he, and Smiurgh a she?
So. Skitter’s looking for trouble. I can’t help but wonder…how deep is Smiurgh’s game? She/It knows everyone knows it manipulates people, so it probably wouldn’t go for such obvious ploys. Hence, I suspect that Smiurgh wants some/certain people to think it wants them to feel helpless. Could Skitter be doing what Smiurgh wants her to be doing? Holy carp, this is a bit of a conspiracy theory…
Packbat on August 6, 2013 at 10:02 said:
Stereotypes, I think. People-like entities are usually gendered, so they usually get referred to with gendered pronouns.
wildbow on August 6, 2013 at 11:32 said:
I love that you read Chaos Life, Packbat.
I enjoy that one.
I said. Except without the severe losses. We’d lose people, some place would get damaged, but we’d kill another Endbringer.”
Needs quote before Except.
Sad we didn’t get to see Theo confess his identity, but the speculations in the comments are good enough. Theo is a bae. I wonder what his thought process was about being abandoned, or if reconciliation between him and Purity will ever be possible. Probably not.
Shut, I think the Simurgh just targeted Taylor to act.
*Shit
I’m also glad to see skitter acting with transparency. This is what will distinguish her apart from what Trickster did.
It’s surprising to me that Taylor has apparently been fairly passive over such a span of time. She tends to be proactive in general, and in this case she even had Glenn telling her that she’d have to do something soon to prevent to keep her momentum as an iconoclast going.
I realize there are any number of reasons there could be for why she has taken her time (psychological hangups, her probation and other bureaucratic red tape, the inexperience of her team, a lack of clear targets) but I would’ve expected her past and present anxiety about her lack of progress towards her larger goals (and the obstacles preventing her from making that progress) would’ve been expressed more explicitly and in more detail in her internal dialog. It seems that it takes the Simurgh attack and the therapy to even bring the issue to Taylor’s conscious attention.
It seems a bit off to me. I’m on my first read through now, but I’m hoping this incongruity is addressed in the next few chapters.
Turtles on January 23, 2016 at 17:18 said:
Straightforward; it should be ‘for’.
w0rmblog on April 25, 2016 at 00:56 said:
“New Delhi would happen,” I said. Except without the severe losses. We’d lose people, some place would get damaged, but we’d kill another Endbringer.” You need a quatation mark before except.
“t” should be “it”
jmdlugosz on May 2, 2017 at 08:39 said:
«make Kirk and I stumble» should be “me”
trebar on May 3, 2017 at 10:30 said:
I think this should probably be Simurgh, as Behemoth is dead.
StiMag on September 15, 2017 at 01:09 said:
First time poster (wohoo!) Found an error I think. Not sure if Its mentioned as I havent read all of the Comments for This chapter yet. But here goes;
– in the last paragraph Im pretty sure Its supposed to be (enough For three or four swarm clones.) missing an f in secound Word.
Nicole on November 23, 2017 at 18:41 said:
Typo: “New Delhi would happen,” I said. Except without the severe losses. We’d lose people, some place would get damaged, but we’d kill another Endbringer.”
Missing quotation marks before “except”
Sam on July 30, 2018 at 08:07 said:
List of possible edits:
(1) As far as could tell (needs a subject there maybe?)
(2) Enough or three or four swarm (enough for* three or four?)
(3) I said. Except without the severe losses. (Missing opening quotation mark?)
(4) Somewhere along the line, t (it*?)
(5) with a plan already in mind… (extra space?)
So, Golem can manipulate matter even if the matter he touches is not connected with the manipulated matter?
scherzo on January 9, 2019 at 18:27 said:
Taylor going after villains doesn’t sit right with me considering who her friends and love interest are. (I wonder if everything she does puts them at risk of being targets for retaliation, too.) Pretty hypocritical on the surface level but maybe she’ll find someone reeeeaaaally evil and there’ll be some interesting interplay.
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Issue 378 – Extravagant Love
October 9, 2018 Aging, American culture, Bible Study, Biography, Florida, Preaching, Sermons, Religion, Religion -- ChristianityA Fellowship of Differents, Abilene Christian University, Abilene Texas, Anthony Ash, Barbara Bailey, Barbara Marie Taylor, Barbara McCormick, Billie Silvey, Billie Wesley Silvey, Bob Goff, building up each other, C.S. Lewis, church buildings a drag, Claude Ellis McCormick, Communion, Culver Palms Church of Christ, Darrel Rickard, Disneyland, Donald Miller, Dr. Anthony Ash, Dr. Tony Ash, Edward Fudge, extravagant love, fellowship, Gary Freeman, George W Bailey, Herald of Truth Radio, Herald of Truth TV, Horace Coffman, imagination, James H. Rutz, Jim Hayford, Junior and Barbara McCormick, Keith Collier, Kerrville Texas, Los Angeles California, Love Does, Love Does by Bob Goff, open ministry, open sharing, open worship, passive observers, praising God, priesthood of the believer, professional clergy, Ray Evans, Ray Stedman, Republic of Uganda, salad bowl Christianity, salad bowl churches, Scot McKnight, serving others, Sheriff Keith Collier, Snyder Texas, Spectator Cchristianity, Springfield Oregon, Stan Paregien, Stroud Oklahoma, the closed cchurch, The Fire That Consumes, The Open Church, theological baggage, Tony Ash, Uganda, University Church of Christ, Virgil Bentley, Virgil Trout, whimsy, Will Collier, wonder, worldlinessStan Paregien Sr
Issue 378 Oct. 9 , 2018 An Occasional Blog Bradenton, FL
Do you ever get excited about getting to share something wonderful you’ve discovered? Sure you do. If we have found a restaurant where the food is good almost beyond description . . . and those who wait on us are fast, friendly and efficient . . . and the price is unquestionably reasonable, . . . well, we can hardly sit still until we can share that fantastic news with any and everybody we meet. Right. You betcha.
That’s what this section of this particular blog is all about. Here’s a little info about some really challenging and inspiring and motivational books I have read over the last year or so. I have posted their respective covers and a few introductory pages so you can get a taste of this absolutely delicious mental food for thought. Yep, friends, this is really, really good stuff and I present it for you consideration.
WARNING AND DISCLAIMER: Buying and reading these books may be hazardous to your sacred cows and prejudices.
At least that has been my personal experience, and I’m still thinking about how . . . as these authors share . . . I can be more open and and receptive to ideas and people which force me to think outside my comfortable box (hey, it’s comfortable here in my box with my big-screen TV, newspaper, cup of coffee and a cookie or two). They each challenge us to be more impromptu and proactive in our lives, to follow the Spirit into new relationships with other Believers and non-Believers alike, and to not always have to have a master plan executed before taking a step into the unknown.
Happy reading, my friends.
Oh, one other thing. On the pages which follow you’ll occasionally see some marks. Those are mine. I confess to being a natural-born scribbler of stuff on the margins of books I read. Just thought I’d let you know so you won’t be too distracted by them.
Bob Goff is one of God’s living, breathing and doing disciples. He is sort of an Energizer Bunny on steroids. When you read about his gift for living spontaneously, you cannot help thinking maybe you’re tied up in a big knot by your lifestyle, your church traditions, and your prejudices and stereotypes about what how restrictive the Christian life is.
Well, ol’ Bob might just say to you, “Okay, enough moaning the blues and living in a spiritual straight-jacket. C’mon, let’s look around and do love on somebody. And let’s do it now, not when it is more convenient. Now, not after you’ve Googled a research paper on the subject. Now, not after your elders have met and voted on it. Now, . . . as in right this instant.”
Yes, that is a copywriter’s best PR effort to capture in an easy-to-swallow capsule the essence of Bob Goff the man and Bob Goff the message. The PR guy got it right, but he was trying to squeeze a Goliath-sized, hair-legged Geni into a way-too-small bottle. Even after you read the entire book, the first word from your lips will probably be the same as it was from mine: “Wow!”
And here is one of the first lawyers you’ve ever met . . . that you’ll like . . . and keep on liking. Ultimately, you’re really glad this guy is on our side (i.e., the Lord’s side) and using his enthusiasm to spread sunshine. He is “the unsinkable Molly Brown” in a tee shirt, worn jeans and a pair of deck shoes. Bob is a first-class “pusher,” a pusher of extravagant love.
Okay, folks, my advice is for you to call your closest Christian bookstore and see whether they have this book by Bob Goff in stock and, if they do, hop in your Little Red Wagon and boogie on down to get your own copy. Or order it online. But don’t wait. Do it now. And then get a few extra copies to give as birthday or Christmas gifts. Yep, neighbors, this book really is that good. It is a giant sparkplug between the covers of a book.
Now, friends, THE OPEN CHURCH is a book that will challenge your traditions and what you think you know about the church of Jesus Christ. It didn’t start off as complicated and compartmentalized and formalized as it is today. Somebody said, “status quo” is Latin for “we are stuck in a rut and cannot get out.” But the good news this book has is “Hey, we don’t have to keep doing things the same way.”
My experience has been that everyone I have met has the same two areas of expertise: religion and politics. I swear on a stack of National Geographics that every person I know must have earned advanced degrees in both Politics and in Theology degree. Or at least they act like they do.
Hey, I can say that because I include myself in that bunch of opinionated yahoos who can talk long, hard and loud on any topic at all related to religion or politics. I don’t know why that is. It just is.
However, now is the time to suspend our collective world-class intellect and listen to this challenging lesson from the late James H. Rutz. He tells us how we got in this sophisticated mess that Christianity is in right now. Understanding that evolutionary digression from First Century Christianity can help us muster enough courage to toss overboard a lot of the unnecessary baggage we have accumulated. So read on, friends.
Whew, Billy Bob, that gives you a lot to digest, doesn’t it? There may be some real discomfort in what Rutz said, enough for a king-sized episode of heartburn. That may be just what many of us needed to jar us out of our comfort zone. I hope so.
And there’s more . . . .
The church is like a tossed salad. Hmmm. I wish I had thought of that. It is so simple to understand and it is right on target, theologically. Any group (i.e., congregation) of Christians is bound to be different from others elsewhere, just as any one disciple in a given church is different in many ways from most other members.
Yet, despite . . . or maybe because of . . . those differences our loving God desires and expects the members of his extended family to love each other, cooperate with each other, and get along with each other as well as any family can do. It ain’t easy, Virginia, but it is what we are to be and to do.
Some Personal Notes
** Barbara McCormick
Barbara Marie Taylor McCormick, 78, lately of Kerrville, Texas, passed away on Sept. 6, 2018, in her home. She was surrounded by her loving husband and children. Barbara was born in Uvalde, Texas, to Robert and Marie Taylor on February 6, 1940. She married Claude Ellis McCormick (affectionately referred to as “Junior”) on Dec. 18, 1958.
Barbara spent most of her childhood in Del Rio, where she was the mascot for the high school for four years. Her family moved to Snyder in 1954 for her father’s job at J.C. Penny, and she graduated from Snyder High in 1958. She left Snyder for Abilene Christian College that summer to start classes.
While in Abilene, she met the love of her life, and they were married before year’s end. They left Abilene that winter to return to Snyder where Junior worked at the family business. While in Snyder, Barbara and Junior welcomed three children – Jeanne Marie, Cindy Leigh, and Charlie Taylor. She was a stay-at-home mother who committed herself to raising three Godly children and giving them her full support and care. She also opened her home to two exchange students that became like family to the McCormicks – Inge from Austria and Patricia from Ecuador.
Barbara loved Snyder (Texas) and was very involved throughout the community. She was a regular volunteer and project leader at East Side Church of Christ, where she served faithfully in both women’s Bible study and youth group Bible classes. She relished the opportunity to work with church members on a church cookbook, which her granddaughters use to this day. Barbara was also an instrumental part of the India Mission Fund that East Side still supports and went several times to India to visit with Brother and Sister Medidi to oversee and participate in the work there.
She was Snyder’s Republican delegate traveling to state and national conventions. Barbara served several terms on the Texas Historical Foundation board and was active with Women for Abilene Christian University.
Barbara was probably best known for her enthusiasm for photography. Her vastly impressive skills were called on frequently throughout her life, as she documented a wide array of events. Her images were regularly published in the local paper. But more than that, her generosity and kindness were conveyed through her pictures. For every image she took, she made several copies and mailed them to each person pictured or anyone who would appreciate having the image, along with a beautiful card and heart-felt letter. Her pictures have been mailed across nations and over decades and remain treasured keepsakes for those who received them.
Barbara was a world-traveler and shared her love of exploring new places with friends and family alike. No one who loved Barbara missed Texas! in Palo Duro Canyon, and everyone had fun walking San Antonio’s River Walk with her. But her travels extended far beyond the lone-star state and included four of the seven continents. Barbara never met a stranger and could somehow make a connection between everyone she encountered and her hometown of Snyder.
Her love of life was undeniable and unapologetic. She had room in her heart for everyone, and her memory and love will long live on. Barbara is preceded in death by her parents, Robert and Marie Taylor. Barbara will be lovingly remembered by her husband of 59+ years, Junior McCormick; her children, Jeanne Ketchersid (Tim), Cindy Schroeder, and Charlie McCormick (Cayce); her grandchildren, Timothy Ketchersid, Heather Davila (Jason), Courtney Ketchersid, Madison Schroeder, Garrett Schroeder, Hannah Schroeder, Emma McCormick, and Adelaide McCormick; and her great-grandchildren, Thaddeus, Judah and Delia Marie Davila. Memorial services were held Sept. 15, 2018, at East Side Church of Christ in Snyder, Texas.
NOTE: Peggy and I went to church with Junior and Barbara for nearly six years during our stay in Snyder, Texas. They were a friendly and hospitable couple who, like Jesus himself, went about doing good. They were part of a prominent and wealthy family in Snyder, but never let that be a handicap to them.
** Sheriff Keith Collier
Keith Thomas Collier, 85, of Snyder, died Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018 at his residence in Snyder. Funeral services were held Aug. 10th at 37th Street Church of Christ with Brady Collier and Will Collier officiating.
Keith Thomas Collier was born on Sept. 30, 1932 in Hawley, Texas to Thomas Mirt and Heddy “Lollar” Collier. He married Janice Hughes on March 2, 1951 in Fluvanna. Mr. Collier was in law enforcement for 36 years; 32 of those years he served as sheriff. He was president of the sheriff’s association, was the recipient of the Tom Tellepson Award and the Bill Decker Award, director of the Texas Association of Counties and president of West Central Texas Law Enforcement.
Locally, he was a Gold Coater for the Snyder Chamber of Commerce, director of the Noah Project, member of the Snyder Lions Club and served on the Scurry County Hospital District board of directors. He was also a member of 37th Street Church of Christ and belonged to several RV groups.
He was preceded in death by his parents, one brother, Kenneth Collier, one son, Joe Collier, one grandson, Tucker Collier, and one great-granddaughter, Paityn Collier. Survivors include his wife, Janice Collier of Snyder; two daughters, Keitha Brown and her husband, James, and Tracy Lewis and her husband, Randy, all of Snyder; two sons, Tim Collier and his wife, Connie, and Dwain Collier and his wife, Sheila, all of Snyder.
NOTE: I spent a lot of time in the Scurry County Jail, where Keith held forth as the Sheriff of the County. No, I wasn’t incarcerated. I was usually there on official business in my capacity as Director of the Scurry County Mental Health Center, interviewing and assisting prisoners as needed. Keith and I were both members of the large Lions Club in Snyder (some 75 in actual attendance at each weekly luncheon), and for which I served as Vice President one year and President the next year. He was highly respected.
** Dr. Anthony (“Tony”) Ash
NOTE: I first met Dr Tony Ash in about 1969 when he spoke at a “Restoration Discussions” event when Roy Young and I hosted in Oklahoma City. Then, in about 1977 when I preached for the independent Christian Church in Stroud, Okla., he stayed in our home while he was in town to give a marriage and family seminar at our church. A very friendly guy, and a Biblical scholar.
Anthony Lee (“Tony”) Ash was born Oct. 29, 1931 in Lincoln, Neb. He earned an A.A. degree from Florida Christian College (Temple Terrace, FL) in 1954. He married Barbara Bailey in 1955. He earned his M.A. in Old Testament from Abilene Christian University in Abilene, TX in 1959. In 1966 he earned his Ph.D. in Church History from the University of Southern California. He was a Bible professor at ACU for over 40 years, during which he preached (usually part-time) for five different congregations in Abilene. He was a recognized authority on the life of Christian author C.S. Lewis. He and Barbara had been married 62 years when he died on Dec. 6, 2017.
** Gary Freeman
Gary Freeman died in Springfield, Oregon on July 30, 2017 at the age of 84. He was born in Gallatin, Tenn., on Aug. 21, 1932. He earned his B.A. in Bible (with a major in Greek) and his M.A. in English from the University of Connecticut. He spent many years as a minister for churches in Connecticut, Ohio and California. The last job of his career was as an English professor, a writer and film critic at Orange Coast College. That was from 1970 until he retired in 1990.
I never had the pleasure of meeting Gary, but he was one of my favorite writers back in the 1960’s and later. For years he wrote a bi-weekly column in our denomination’s news magazine, one which was way outside the box of conservatism. His comedic timing was right on. For example, in one column he mentioned how he had been applying for openings for jobs preaching and having a tough time getting responses. He said one day he hit on an idea which got him a lot of responses. He said he replaced his name on the applications with the name of Dr. Batsell Barrett Baxter. Now to laugh at that insider joke, you have to know Dr. Baxter (a former professor of mine, by the way) at that time was our church’s answer to Billy Graham. Baxter was head of the Bible Department at Lipscomb University in Nashville; he preached for one of the largest congregation in Nashville; and he was the radio and TV speaker for a nationally syndicated radio and TV show called “The Herald of Truth.” That joke was funny to me, then, and it still is today.
However, Gary may have reached his biggest audiences with the two books he wrote: Are You Going to Church More but Enjoying it Less? and a best-seller titled, A Funny Thing Happened to Me On the Way to Heaven. That last book was about all the funny things that happened in the 1950s and 1960s at conservative Christian Colleges across the country. Heck, I just found and bought a really used copy and plan to give it another read after several decades. He was a funny guy, and a brave one, too.
He started the Preface to his book the same way he ended the book: with witty sarcasm: “There’s not a word of truth in the following story. I don’t just mean that the story is fiction, which is obvious enough. I mean that it isn’t based on anything. The religious attitudes portrayed herein are preposterous. They’re completely unlike any I’ve ever seen. There are no churches like this one, no people like Dr. Thorndike and Allbright and Charles Francis Duncan, no schools like Sinai Christian College. The very idea that innocent people can get crushed in ecclesiastical machinery, or that there is any tension between idealism and institutionalism, is too fantastic to require refutation. Readers who think they see dim parallels somewhere should be locked up.”
As I recall, there were quite a few “Defenders of the Faith” who thought Freeman should be locked up. Or worse. And they were not being witty.
** Billie (Wesley) Silvey
Billie Silvey was a Christian writer, editor and activist who died just before her 75th birthday on Sept. 20, 2017. Born in Sacramento, Calif. on Sept. 21, 1942, she graduated from high school at . . . sit down for this, . . . Happy, Texas. If I’m lyin’, I’m dyin’. She married Frank Silvey and graduated in 1967 from Pepperdine University with her B.A. in English and journalism. Besides her impressive writing and editing jobs, she was one of the first women in our church to hold the title “Minister.” She was Outreach Minister for the Culver Palms Church of Christ in the Los Angeles area where she specialized in urban evangelism. Never got to meet this talented and dedicated disciple of Christ, but I hope to one day “over yonder” (as my maternal grandparents often said). In many ways she walked . . . and spoke out in places and ways men never ventured.
** Edward William Fudge
Ed Fudge was “the son of a preacher man,” as an old classic Southern rock says. He was born July 13, 1944 in Lester, Alabama. He graduated from Florida College, then earned both a B.A. and his M.A. degrees in Greek from Abilene Christian University. In 1988 he earned a law degree from the University of Houston. He lived in Houston and practiced law there until he died at age 73 on Nov. 25, 2017.
I cannot testify as to his eloquence as a speaker, other than to say he was in demand. He did impress me as a wonderful writer who could write with grace, empathy for the human condition, and remarkable insights on many subjects.
He stirred up the fires in hell . . . and in many a preacher’s study . . . by his hugely popular book on the topic of . . . yep, . . . hell. What it is, what it ain’t, and so forth. He caught more than he share of . . . , well, flack for challenging the traditional views of hade. In 2012 a movie company produced a first-class documentary about how he struggled to understand what the Bible says about hell and how many people were as mad as . . . , uh, the dickens at him for his conclusions. Edward, I’ve sure got some big questions for you when I get to join you . . . a long way from hell.
** George W. Bailey
George W. Bailey born in Ola, Texas on April 3, 1922. He graduated from high school in Kaufman, Texas. He attended Freed-Hardeman University (Tenn.), Southwestern Oklahoma State University, the University of New Mexico and Abilene (TX) Christian University. Though he never received a degree, George was an intelligent man who was largely self-educated.
Bailey was a gifted preacher who spiked his sermons with numerous short witticisms or bits of wisdom. From 1954 to 1972, he was the pulpit minister for the University Church of Christ in Abilene, Texas, the home congregation for scores of highly educated professors at Abilene Christian University and hundreds of college students. He was so loved that the “George W. Bailey Endowed Bible Scholarship” was set up at ACU to honor him.
George Bailey also preached in more than a hundred nations on six continents. He was the featured speaker for many years on both the “Herald of Truth” nationally syndicated TV and radio programs. He and his late wife had been married for 68 years. He died in Katy, Texas on Nov. 11, 2017 at the age of 95.
Until next time, be a blessing to others and give Jesus the credit.
— Stan
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Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall 1880-1940: Dictionary and sourcebook
By far the most comprehensive biographical survey yet published on the art and artists of the period, Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall1880-1940 is an indispensable resource for collectors, curators and dealers. It will also be a delight – both visually and for its literary content – for the general reader.
The ‘Newlyn School’ of artists has long been a remarkable British phenomenon and even into the twenty-first century continues to fascinate. This dictionary and source-book brings together many contributions; whether reproduced from contemporaneous archive material or written from today’s modern standpoint. At the core of the book are biographies of the many artists and craftspeople working in Newlyn, Lamorna and Penzance, extending into St Ives and the surrounding areas.
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Artists in Britain since 1945 Keywords of Nineteenth-Century Art
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Down Goes Frasier… pt. 2…
P.S. For those of you who read the first part of this blog, and believed Mr. Thompson to indeed be a homosexual, I can verify factually that he is not. In fact, he is a young, very successful man who lives in LA, works in TV and is, by all accounts, handsome. He is also single. And yes, I am pimping him out a bit. Please forward all email inquiries to
Now, back to the story. We continue the story after the three weary travelers awake from a drunken stupor. I pains me to think back and realize how much I drank the night before, how early I got up, and how I wasn’t hung over at all. In fact, I got up, turned on the TV (volume down) and proceeded to function like every other Saturday. By watching College Football. While I sat in the dark room contemplating my life, I thought to myself, maybe I should cut back on my drinking. I mean how much longer can I continue to drink as heavily as I do with no side effects (other than blacking out. More on that.) and no reason to slow down. (P.S., all of these thoughts/and reasons to slow down were evident at the end of the trip.)
Jdub seemed to be fairing a bit better.
Mr. Thompson was hit the hardest. As we all got up and got on our way to a buffet, Mr. Thompson was still hurting pretty bad. We all attempted to eat some food after declaring “actually getting out of the room made me feel better.” This was indeed a lie. The food did help a bit, but the buffet at Harrah’s was indeed not what it was nearly 9 years ago. (When this small little fact was brought to both JDub and Mr. Thompson’s attention, they replied in shock… “We were 16 then.”) Not going to lie. That one hurt.
After brunch, JDub and I decided to catch the end of the Oregon Ducks football game at an awesome sports bar in Planet Hollywood called Blondie’s. Blondie’s is probably one of my favorite places to go in Las Vegas. Is it one of the best… hell no. However, the waitresses dress in cheerleader outfits, they have 8-12 beer pong tables, and a tournament every Saturday night. I highly recommend this little known gem. Anyway, we got to Blondie’s and grabbed a table and waited from Mr. Thomspon to return from visiting the room for a bit. It was a good hour or so, when Mr. Thompson returned victoriously. Albeit he looked extremely pale and was moving very, very slowly down the walkway. When he sat before us, he exclaimed… I’m still hurting. And he looked it. Mr. Thompson decided (best decision when hung over btw) to order the “bucket of beers.” 5 beers for the low price of 20 bucks, served in a plastic bucket. Half way through the bucket, Mr. Thompson mentioned he may be using the bucket for extra curricular activities. To which I replied…. “Oh hell, no.” Mr. Thompson asked at least 2 waitresses if they had Aleve on them in which both of them failed him. He walked down to the store in the mall, picked up a small bottle, and proceeded to wash down two with a couple swigs from the Bucket o’ Beers. Needless to say, we almost lost the big guy.
After some bitching we convinced Mr. Thompson to grab some more food with us and see what the night brought us. We all got some dinner at 9 Fine Irishmen in New York, New York and mapped out the rest of our night. We ventured back to the Mirage and settled in for some resting up. Which ultimately means we all took naps. Except me. I’m not sure what my deal is, but sleep was just something I was taking for granted.
The time came for us to begin getting ready and I, for some reason, hit a wall. I was not excited to go out. I almost considered not going out at all. This brings me to a very important point about my friend Mr. Thompson. Mr. Thompson seeing and knowing full well that I may not make it the rest of the night, did what any good friend would do. Feed me booze. Mr. Thompson took it upon himself to fire up the iPod fresh with Jay-Z’s current Blueprint 3 songs, and pour me a Jack and Coke. Mr. Thompson, being the good friend that he is, also poured a mighty hefty drink. One thing lead to another and there was more bathrobe wearing, outfit comparing, drink having, dancing, and general merriment.
We left the room in plenty of time to make the designated cut off time to get into JET and waited a short amount of time to get in. Once inside, we followed our animal instincts to the watering hole and procured more booze. Obviously to get the party rolling shots were ordered from a busty brunette babe working the counter. I for one thought we would be perfect together, however there were others in the group that quickly nixed that decision. Good-bye sweet busty brunette bartender (good lord I love alliteration.)
We made our way to another dance floor where once again we made our way to get more booze. (After reading this, there is probably a good indication of what my true problems are.) We gathered some more drinks and began judging/dancing about. Just then, a very attractive girl came up to Mr. Thompson and greeted him with a handshake that wouldn’t end. No seriously. She wouldn’t let go. It’s probably because he’s good looking and all the chicks like him, and he is by no means gay. (Zing.) (No seriously… pretty sure if the chick didn’t have a boyfriend she’d be all over Mr. Thompson, and he would oblige. P.S. I think things sound a little classier when one obliges.) However, the chick did have a boyfriend, which she indeed introduced to Mr. Thompson after she held his hand for an awkward 2 minutes.
At about this point I couldn’t help but notice little Ms. Handshake and I decided to strike up a conversation with her. We talked about all sorts of things. Her tattoos, where she is from (can’t remember), what she does for a living (can’t remember) that she has a boyfriend (can’t remember) what she was doing later (can’t remember) that her boyfriend was walking over (can’t remember) and basically just having a really good chat. Had I been a bit more sober, I would have noticed Mr. Thompson AND JDub both making the throat slash motion, like stop. Quit it. Her Boyfriend is bigger than you. At any rate, the boyfriend bought Mr. Thompson and I some shots (didn’t notice if JDub got down on one) and I considered all was well. Well, I was a tad wrong, after a couple more minutes of chatting it up, Ms. Handshake leaned in and said, “I’m getting in trouble.” To which I have no idea what I said, but she was gone a minute later with her hipster trendy boyfriend.
Now usually I would have been a bit bummed, but I had 3 of my best friends with me. Mr. Thomspon, JDub, and Jack. They helped me get through it. It was decided that we would all move on to another dance floor. And this is honestly where things get insanely hazy. I remember at one point, JDub up on ANOTHER stage. I was wielding a camera like I was Annie Leibovitz, and Mr. Thompson was doing who knows what…. I seriously don’t remember. We danced our ass off and then, to my best recollection we headed back to the room to wake up and catch an 8 am flight.
Sarcasm is pleased to Announce for the first time ever a guest writer. Please welcome… JDub. JDub felt she could add some more to this blog so I agreed…. and with that….
1. Let me first just say for readers of part 1 I in no way shape or form wanted to get Mindfreaked by Cris Angel. Or even hang out with Cris Angel. I feel as though I have been misrepresented here and if Mr. Thompson can be publically vindicated then I deserve the same.
Also, I have no idea why Mr. Thompson wasn’t referred to as Big Cat in this recap of shenanigans in Sin City – I for one referred to him pretty much exclusively as Big Cat.
As the sole responsible person when the coalition gets together I feel it only right to let Sarcasm readers know the truth – the three of us were having a great time at Jet, you see Jet is set up as one main bar and then two smaller bars with alternate music selections. Our time in the back bar was where mysterious shots were purchased by a dude for other dudes (note: I did not participate in this dude on dude shot taking) was brought to an end by the need to see what other music was playing besides late 90’s mainstream Rap/R&B hits.
What a wise move it was for when we ventured back into the main club area I made the executive decision to push our way through the crowd do where a center stage complete with girls dancing on poles was so we could essentially lean against something while judging people instead of getting bumped into at all angles. All club goers should be so lucky to have a smart thinker like me there. At this point my camera was taken away and as a result there are all sorts of shots of random legs, women, drinks and half portraits of what I think are Big Cat and I.
At this point I made some new friends with a pair of other brunettes who were dancing on the stages and I think trying to get at Big Cat. Hard to say since mostly we were all singing “Empire State of Mind” at the top of our lungs. At some point I realized it was getting to be about 1:30am and considering we stayed out partying until 3:30am the night before it wasn’t “technically” late but I knew I had to get up at 5:30am and would have to wrangle someone (ie Mr. Sarcasm as a Weapon) to the airport – which we previously have done when I went to Italy and he went to San Diego (I don’t want to get into it now but let’s just say I have a new appreciation for mom’s who deal with getting unruly children from place to place). I told the boys we were done and thankfully they were intoxicated enough they knew better than to put up a fight. Great success. We were leaving! As we head out the door Big Cat yells “We are going to McDonalds!!!” I was out. I had awesome heels on and after all that dancing and trekking around the last thing I wanted was to tromp across the street for fries. So I double checked that Big Cat had his room key and was aware enough to recite back to me the room number (Mr. Sarcasm was never trusted to be in charge of a key – I mean really, we knew that I was going to have to make sure he made it home safe). After a successful recalling of the room number I headed through the casino to the elevator and the boys headed out the door.
Just when I was starting to worry about the boys I hear giggling (yes, giggling) outside the door. Low and behold there they were. Key in hand – yet not in door. The giggling duo come barreling in with matching chicken nugget combo meals. Big Cat sits down and opens a packet of ranch – you would of thought Big Cat open palm slapped Mr. Sarcasm in the face. Mr. Sarcasm proceeds to flip out about Big Cat eating 1 of 2 ranch sauce packets when Big Cat requested BBQ Sauce and was awarded a half dozen. To calm down the rampage I did what any rational girl would – I tried to calm Mr. Sarcasm down by having him eat his feelings. But he was too distraught or maybe just too enraged – so he demanded I feed him. So here I am a grown adult feeding another adult French fries and chicken nuggets dipped in ranch and receiving the following feedback: “I can’t eat the whole thing at once! Just hold it there while I bite a piece off.” “Put more ranch on the next bite.” “I want more fries.” You get the idea.
Big Cat took down food like a champ and this time managed to climb into bed instead of passing out on top of it. Although he did try to push some good night Robin Thicke music on us yet again. I waited until he fell asleep and turned off his iPod. Mr. Sarcasm at one point got out of bed, waking me up along the way and 5 minutes later I had to basically promise the boy a pony with a red bow to get him up off sleeping on “the nice cold” bathroom floor.
I remember none of this.
I awoke for an 8 am flight bright eyed and bushy tailed! JDub did her best and got me up and out the door. We nudged Mr. Thompson who would be driving back to LA that day. We got to the airport, checked in and said our goodbyes for JDub was off to Charlotte and I would be returning home to Portland. Before we left, JDub noticed my drunken state, and offered to get me some water, or powerade, or SOMETHING. To which I vetoed and would inevitably it would be my greatest downfall.
I would board the plane, put up my hoodie and fall asleep dreaming of my nice warm bed and a safe flight home. However what I got was probably the single most embarrassing moment of my life. About 30 minutes into the flight I felt the sudden urge that I was going to throw up. Instead of just doing the obvious of throwing up in a bag, I decided to get up and head back to the bathroom. I was only three rows from the back so I figured what could go wrong. Apparently a lot.
I tapped the shoulder of the gentleman sitting on the aisle and asked politely to pass. That’s the last thing I remember.
I came too, with a flight attendant kneeling above my head asking if I was ok. I was a bit disoriented and wasn’t quite sure why I was laying in the middle of the fucking aisle, but assured her I was ok and began to get up. She helped me to my feet and I rushed back to the bathroom where I did a little dry heaving and generally felt a bit better. I came out of the bathroom with both flight attendants (who were cute obviously. The one time I get cute flight attendants I’m passing out in the aisle) and a nice gentleman who helped me up. Then they began a conversation that went something like this…
FA 1: “Are you ok?”
ME: “Yeah, I’m fine.”
FA 2: “Are you diabetic?”
ME: “Not yet.”
FA 2: “Did you drink a lot last night?”
ME: “What’s a lot?”
FA 1: “Enough that we can smell it on you now.”
ME: “Yeah, that sounds about right.”
FA 2: “Here take some water, and eat some cookies.”
ME: inaudible mumbling.
FA 1: “You know this is quite common. Happens a bit on flights outta Vegas.”
ME: (sounding hopeful) “Oh? Happens a lot?”
FA 1: “Well, no, not like you. I mean we don’t just hear a ton of assistance buttons being pushed and look down the aisle and see someone passed out in the middle of it.”
ME: “So, I was passed out in the middle.”
FA 2: “Yeah, someone said you went down like a boxer in a fight. Right into the aisle.”
FA 1: (putting on a headset) “Hold on, this is no big deal, we just have to communicate with ground and let them know that our little medical “emergency” is just fine. (Into headset) “Yeah, he said he feels much better now. We gave him some water and some cookies. He looks a lot better than he did a minute ago. The color is back in his face. Yup. Uh huh. No. Sure. Ok. Over.
FA 2: “Don’t worry we gotta call ground when there is a potential medical problem with our passengers.
ME: “wow.”
FA 1: (To FA 2) “You know, I told you this was going to be a weird flight!”
FA 2: (To FA 1) “I know right. We should totally document this!”
FA 2: (To Me) “You think you could lay back down in the middle of the aisle while I snap a picture real quick?”
Me: “Well, um yeah I suppose I could.”
FA 2: “Oh you’re the best…… smile!”
I spent the rest of the flight sitting in the jump seat with the Flight Attendants who were very nice, and didn’t mind divulging which pilots were douches, their plans for the upcoming holidays, and even a little bit about themselves. All in all, aside from the passing out, Michelle and Shannon from Southwest Airlines took great care of me. Even saved my life a little. I will be forever in their debt.
In conclusion, I got my answer to all those questions plaguing me. Yes, I should probably slow down. Yes, it’s a bad sign you don’t get hung over any more. And sure as hell, the minute you start passing out on airplanes, you probably have a problem.
I just know, everyone on that flight who’s seen The Hangover, is saying in their heads (or out loud) “Some people just can’t handle Vegas.” And for now, it’s true. Vegas and I are splitting up. However, the time I had with two of the greatest people in my life… Mr. Thompson and JDub… I’ll never trade in. Even if it means passing out on a plane.
Tags: Flight Attendants, JET, Las Vegas, McDonalds, Mirage, Southwest Airlines
Categories : Life, Vacation
I’ve been trying to write this bad boy for the last couple days. Just a simple blog. Sum up my feelings of the events of last week. However I haven’t been able to. You see, for the last 3 days I’ve been hung over. My mind has been shot. Creative juices. Zero. Motor skills. Non-existent.
(This brings me to my next point… I would like to remind my audience that if there are any spelling, or grammatical errors in the next few paragraphs, it is indeed because I am still drunk. As are most of these post here at Sarcasm.)
For those of you who don’t already know, I was in Las Vegas for the last weekend and apparently tried to commit suicide via drinking as much booze as my poor little liver and kidneys could handle.
It all started when my friend JDub informed me that her work was providing her with a hotel suite at the Mirage hotel in Las Vegas for one week. She was to work a show and be done Friday afternoon and have nothing to do the remainder of the weekend. So the logical choice was to ask me and a number of other friends to join her for some much need binge drinkingrest and relaxation. I immediately agreed for the thought of some time away from The Gym got me all giddy inside. Although the invite was extended to a many of peoples, the one confirmed attendee would be none other than Mr. Thompson.
Mr. Thompson and I go way back to our radio days. We worked very hard on a radio show being awesome and funny. No seriously. Awesome and funny. We were like John Stockton and Karl Malone(minus the short shorts). Or Rob and Big. Or Sammy Davis Jr. (minus the eye thing) and Frank Sinatra (or any of the other white dudes in the Rat Pack.) Basically what I’m trying to get at is we were the perfect tag team comedy show and qualified for equal opportunity employment.
It’s also worth noting, that before my friend Mr. Thompson moved to LA, he, JDub and I had formed a coalition of sorts. This coalition of sorts, was based around the three alcoholic beverages that we so gladly devoured and worshiped. Mine, was, and still is to this day, Mr. Jack Daniels. Mr. Thompson’s was Crown Royal. (it’s changed) and JDub’s was none other than Jose Cuervo. There may actually be a picture of the three of us chugging straight from the bottles of these fine spirits on one of my birthdays. The Coalition was a force to be reckoned with (and a driving force in sales of said liquors. Mr. Thompson and I had been known to get black out drunk Wed-Sundays. Ahhh radio.)
So we were destined to meet in the City of Sin.
I flew all by myself (a point that shall be very important later on) Mr. Thompson drove in from LA, and JDub was already there. As I was the second to arrive I made the executive decision to purchase the first bottle of booze on the trip. It was indeed JD and it was glorious. JDub still needed some to finish up the event, so I took it upon myself to sit and watch Leave it to Lamas in my bathrobe. And get drunk.
Mr. Thompson arrived and the decision we all came up with was to go to Pure at Caesars Palace. We got ourselves dolled up, and there was an actual conversation between Mr. Thompson and I regarding pant length, shoe choice, and which shirt looked best. I believe there were numerous comments from the JDub camp regarding our sexuality, to which we decided to ignore and continue said conversations until we looked smashing!
We made our way to Pure and upon paying a ridiculous amount to get in found our way to an open spot on the dance floor. Were we got our groove on to many of today’s hottest hits. At one point, some dude was grinding on a honey in front of me when I noticed a giant eagle on his back that reflected off the lights in the club. I quickly took it upon myself to start the Napoleon Dynamite Happy Hands club motion behind him in a mocking maneuver. To which the nice Asian lady to the right of our group saw, and began to giggle. Pretty sure there was a mental high five given, and received.
The night wore on, as did our intense drinking. At one point, Mr. Thompson was getting the eye from a classy girl dressed in a Zebra print dress standing in the VIP. Somehow or another, she got Mr. Thompson into the VIP area, which he in turn got me, which she in turn got JDub. So there we were, all in VIP. Having a good time, not buying bottle service. Not buying drinks from the bar, and in actuality, having drinks spilled all over my pants. Like ALL over. Right in front. Pretty much where my junk was. It was also very awesome of the bouncer to flash his flashlight right on my crotch. Allowing everyone in VIP to see my junk, and that it looked very much like I’d wet myself. Awesome.
During our time in VIP I learned that Zebra, was just a girl looking to make it big in Sin City. She moved out here from Arizona, and was just hanging with a group of her “friends” in the VIP area. Indeed her friends were dressed as “classy” as she was, and things began to dawn on JDub and I. Mr Thompson had moved his attentions away from Zebra to some dude I believe he met in the VIP area. I’m not sure what the exchange was all about, however Mr. Thompson was the only one who left the VIP area with a number.
It must be said, that while Mr. Thompson did leave the club with a number, it was JDub that could have left with much much more. After we all stopped paying attention to Zebra, she moved on to a new group of gentlemen. We decided that VIP was not our “scene” so we luckily enough were able to retrieve our previous spot on the dance floor and “posted up.” While posting up, we made it out to the dance floor a number of times to dance to a delightful ditty or two. On one said ditty, JDub were out there busting some moves and generally making people jealous of our awesomeness. So jealous that a bouncer came up to JDub grabbed her arm, and escorted away from me. Mid-Maneuver!! In most cases, I probably would have been concerned and been all what the fuck! where are you taking her. However Jack had indeed been invited and was beginning to take over the party. So instead of getting indignant and protective, I merely said… meh.
Apparently, Mickey, one of PURE’s finest bouncer, took a liking to our friend JDub. So much so, that he removed her form the dance floor and took her up to a stage area, where low and behold, only females were up there dancing. With one exception. Chris Angel was also up on said stage and there were throngs of women around him. Including our own little JDub. Mr. Thompson and I knew it was only a matter of minutes before America’s Douchiest Man got wind of our JDub and would be Mindfreaking her all night long. It was at that moment, we decided to act. And act fast we did. Mr. Thompson and I put our minds together, and worked out an ingenious plan. We pushed our way through the crowd, got as close as we could….. and ordered another round!
The night wore on, JDub got away from Mickey’s evil clutches, I was essentially blacked out, and Mr. Thompson had gotten a dudes phone number in the VIP of PURE. We decided to call it a night and began the walk back to our hotel room where some much needed sleep was in order. However, along the way, as we walked past the tall bushes that line the front of Caesars Palace for some reason or another, I fell into the bushes. Which actually prompted Mr. Thompson to start sprinting down Las Vegas Blvd. beacuase he didn’t want to be caught by the cops. Of course, as JDub described that next afternoon, “walking home with you guys was like trying to herd wild cats.” Mr. Thompson and I high fived. Excellent.
The next afternoon, we all awoke de-hydrated and damn near dead. Some of us were worse for wear. I, because of my alcoholism, looked at the half bottle of Jack Daniels left in the room, and realized, “I’m not hung over. I can’t remember many of the events from last night. Half a bottle of Jack is gone… maybe now would be a good time to address actually having a problem.” Little did I know that that statement would come much later in the trip. Upon everyone waking up, we had a little chat about the nights previous events. Mr. Thompson and I began a dazzling display of insults and jabs directed at JDub about her time with Chris Angel.
Mr Thompson or I: “JDub how did it feel getting Mindfreaked?!?”
JDub: “I didn’t get Mindfreaked!”
Mr. Thompson: “We saw you inching your way toward him! It was impressive.”
JDub: “I don’t even like Chris Angel. He’s a douche…”
Me: “No way, I saw you put the head bob, fling the hair, jazz hands move on him.”
Mr. Thompson: “mmmmmhmmm.”
JDub “You guys, stop. I did not get Mindfreaked.”
Me: “Mr. Thompson, guess what the best thing about getting Mindfreaked is….”
Mr. Thompson: “What?”
Me: “You don’t even know it’s happening so when you get up the next day, you can tell all your friends you met Chris Angel but didn’t get Mindfreaked…”
JDub: “I. DID. NOT. GET. MINDFREAKED*!!
Mr. Thompson and I: *laughter*
JDub: FINE! You guys want to do this!?!?! What about you Mr. Thompson getting worked over by a HOOKER!?!
Mr. Thompson: “WHAAAAA?!?!”
(*At some point, we stopped saying Mindfreaked, and started saying “done in the ass.” We figure a douche like Chris Angel would do something like that. If you re-read this exchange, I’m pretty sure it’s funnier with “done in the ass.” However here at Sarcasm, I at least attempt to show some tact and class in the beginning.)
The mere mention of the Hooker brought Mr. Thompson on the defensive. “What hooker?!?” “There was no hooker!”And then JDub and I began replaying the nights events out loud. The more and more we described a hooker, the more and more Mr. Thompson got defensive.
Mr. Thompson: “She was not a hooker! She was just a small town girl trying to make it big in the city.”
Me: “Dude, she was a hooker. Even “I” knew that. (This statement was indeed powerful because on one of my trips to Vegas, I got to know a nice young lady, only to find out she was a hooker by some friends the next day. I just thought she was being polite.)
JDub: “Mr. Thompson, she was totally working you. She got you into VIP hoping you’d buy shit and the club would get a percentage.”
Mr. Thompson: “No way, she just knew the bouncers. She said she goes there all the time.”
Me: “Dude.”
JDub: “Did you not see her with her friends? They were hookers too!”
Mr. Thompson: “It was just girls night.”
Me: “Duuude.”
JDub: “And PLEASE! You know of ANY classy girls that rock a short ass Zebra dress into the VIP?!?”
Mr. Thompson: “Maybe Forever 21 was just having a sale.”
Me: “DUDE!”
JDub: “She moved on to the next dude, who bought shit, after you stopped paying attention to her!”
Mr. Thompson: “She felt dejected after I turned her down.”
Me: “Dude. Seriously. Hook. Er.”
Mr. Thompson: “She wasn’t a hooker. She was a nice girl.”
Me: “Hooker man.”
Mr. Thompson: “I don’t believe you.”
The best part of this whole interaction is through out the rest of the day, at random times, Mr. Thompson would just say “She wasn’t a hooker.” Which made both JDub and I laugh a bit, and repeat, Dude, she was a hooker. The battle was finally given up later that evening after Mr. Thompson had a conversation with his sister. To which she replied, that she would have had to have seen the girl, and other details before she could make and informed decision, however…. it was most likely a hooker.
Tags: Blondie's, Caesar's Palace, Chris Angel, Hookers, Las Vegas, Mindfreak, Mirage, Oregon Ducks, Planet Hollywood, PURE
Categories : Entertainment, Life, Self Reflection, Vacation
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Memo International on the move, opening in Paris, Moscow and Riyadh
Godfrey Deeny
today Nov 20, 2019
At a time when every major luxury group wants to buy a niche perfume brand, few indie scent houses have been performing as enticingly as Memo International.
Memo International co-founder John Molloy
A Geneva-based business boasting three separate brands – Memo Paris, Floraikü and Hermetica – all of which are experiencing rapid, though carefully controlled growth. In effect, Memo International, founded by John and Clara Molloy, an Irish/Spanish couple, is an impressive sui generis on how to build a dynamic, award winning fragrance company.
In October, they opened their debut Paris parfumerie for Floraikü, located at 28 rue Bayard, in the heart of the city’s Golden Triangle, and steps away from Avenue Montaigne, the capital’s toniest shopping thoroughfare.
While in Saudi Arabia, Floraikü is opening in Harvey Nichols in Riyadh. Memo is also mighty busy with the London shopping emporium, working together to produce a collection called The Flying Collection, “with wings on the bottles, that is flying in and out of stores,’ jokes John, of the project that they co-developed with Harvey Nichols, which also retails in London, Kuwait and next in Riyadh.
A Floraïku interior
“Building a niche fragrance brand requires a lot of personal appearances for Clara and I. In America, they demand them, so I feel like an Irish politician working a crowd, except I don’t quite have to kiss babies,” said Molloy in a phone call from Frankfurt airport, en route to a key market, Russia, where he will open Floraikü in giant department store Tsum this weekend - with another needed personal appearance. Last week he was in the USA, next week he is in the Gulf.
The pair founded Memo a decade ago, Clara as the creative director, and John – who had held executive positions at both Kenzo and L’Oreal – in charge of management.
In Paris, Clara opened Floraikü with a typically elegant perfume ceremony, an olfactive version of a tea ceremony from Japan, an immense influence on the house’s DNA.
In effect, Floraikü is their six-star brand and is super exclusive, retailing in 16 countries; with four free-standing and 25 shop-in-shops. Back home in Ireland, Memo and Hermetica retail in his native land’s top luxury store, Brown Thomas and in Dublin airport.
Memo is more their flagship brand; noted for its leather fragrances, one of which, Moroccan Leather, this June in Paris won a Fifi award, perfume’s top prize. Memo retails in 200 doors worldwide and in 45 countries, with freestanding stores in Paris, opposite Chanel headquarters on rue Cambon and in Jakarta, Gstaad and New York. Elsewhere, its network of 10- to 20 square-meter shop in shops extends from Mexico to Houston; Munich to Berlin.
Hermetica - Photo: Romain Ricard
The Molloy's third label is the molecular fragrance marque Hermetica.
“It’s vegan, green and clean, a truly innovative brand, the only one without alcohol. It’s about the moment when our kids look back 20 years from now, and they can at least say that we pioneered the green movement in fragrance,” says John.
Hermetica did have a pop-up shop at 21 rue Marbeuf in Paris, but when the adjacent Dolce & Gabbana store decided to expand, the landlord forced the scent shop out. The marque does, however, retail in Printemps, and now has 20 corners globally, notably in Isetan, Japan and in Australia. The latter powered by the fact that Hermetica can easily be used with sun cream, a major concern in Oz, where bush fires have heightened attention on the depleting ozone layer. Hermetica also nabbed a skincare award from Byrdie.com, America’s most-watched US beauty website.
Privately held, Memo International does not release financials, however industry sources say revenue is close to 100 million euros at retail. The Swiss-based firm has 30 staff in Geneva; and with foreign employees a payroll of about 80 employees. A further 600 sales staff are employed to handle their brands at points of sale worldwide.
The Molloys live outside Geneva with their two children: Bartholomew, 11, and Belen, 8. When not driving their business, they have literary leanings. Clara is a recognized poet, whose latest book of poems – published by Cheyne – is named Tempe a Païa, named after Eileen Gray’s second home in the South of France near Menton.
“It’s just out. Poetry is Clara’s love and passion and it’s great,” says John Molloy, by chance sharing the name of Samuel Beckett’s first novel in French, a dark existentialist tale if ever there was one.
A fragrance from Memo's Flying Collection
Beside geographic expansion, future growth could likely come through new categories, like beauty product deals. Memo already has bodyline; bath and shower gel; home candles and diffusers.
“Right now, we are concentrating on building the three brands. Skincare can be approached in many different ways. We could join with a big group. All our brands are ripe to do beauty – especially Hermetica, it’s a bridge from perfume to skincare,” insists Molloy.
Floraikü’s Paris boutique is around the corner from the headquarters of LVMH, one of several groups that have been snapping up emerging luxury scent brands, notably Francis Kurkdjian two years ago. Estée Lauder acquired Kilian, after nabbing Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle and Le Labo. While Spanish beauty giant Puig bought Penhaligon’s and L’Artisan Parfumeur.
So, is that an extra strategy for the Molloys?
“As long as we can keep going as a family company we will,” cautions John. “Of course, if someone offered us a ridiculous amount we might snap it up. But we have not spoken to any bank about selling. I think we have another good 10 years growth ahead of us, and who knows - maybe one of our kids would take over one day?”
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Mum wakes up to discover her baby is missing from the hospital
After waking up in her baby's hospital room, she became terrified when she discovered that her infant daughter was missing.
Mother Lory Beth Snyder took her daughter, Lorelai to the hospital so that she could be treated for breathing problems. However, her worry about her baby's health suddenly turned into terror as after waking up in her daughter's hospital room, she discovered that Lorelai was missing.
"During our stay there, my baby girl was abducted"
In a Facebook post, Lory Beth writes, "The most terrifying thing happened to my family two days ago. As many of you know Lorelai had been admitted to NEA Baptist Hospital in Jonesboro, during our stay there my baby girl was abducted."
"Neither of us had slept in quite a while, with all the chaos of a hospital, exams, blood work and other testing to find out what was wrong with her. So when I finally got her to rest, I myself laid down as well," she explains.
When she woke up, that's when she realized that her daughter was missing. She frantically searched for her daughter and found that she was being held by another patient, named Ms. Harris, all the while a group of nurses were playing with her daughter.
She then recounts her terrifying experience:
"I proceed to take Lorelai out of her arms. Even though she persisted that I return to my room, without Lorelai, she stated repeatedly that I needed to just go rest. I told her, no that I was fine and I would be taking my daughter back now.
I removed Lorelai from her arms, and the nurses who had been standing around gathered up her things, because along with taking Lorelai she also took my diaper bag (which had been emptied around her room), IV pole, and crib Lorelai was in sleeping in."
She then goes on to add that when she returned to her room with Lorelai, Ms. Harris as well as three nurses followed them to the room, insisting that her daughter wasn't in any danger and that they "meant no harm."
At one point, she even had to ask the nurses to remove Ms. Harris from their room.
"After what felt like an eternity, the nurses returned to transfer us to ICU, so we were in a secure unit that had security," she adds.
"I don't know what her actual intent with my child was"
Regardless of the assurance that the nurses gave her, Lory Beth was still shaken up by the entire incident.
"While I honestly don’t know if Ms Harris’ intentions were noble, since she claims to have just been trying to care for Lorelai, I don’t know what she herself was ill with, something that could make my daughter sick. I don’t know anything! I don’t know what her actual intent with my child was. What she did with her. Or even how long she actually had her," she writes.
She also contacted her local police department to find out if she could press any charges, but she was surprised when the police department said "No crime was committed because Harris didn’t ‘intend’ to rape or molest my child. Apparently anyone can take any child anywhere, and it’s not kidnapping as long as you don’t intend to harm the child. So says the law according to the Jonesboro PD."
"Whether or not the intent of harm was or was not there, a child should never be taken in the way in which my daughter was. Thank the gods that [my] baby is safe. We were lucky. Many parents do not get as lucky as we have she adds."
Read her Facebook post below:
Source: babble.com
This article is republished with permission from theAsianparent Philippines.
Nasreen Majid
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Nine Year Old Accused Of 1st Degree Murder
Author Topic: Nine Year Old Accused Of 1st Degree Murder (Read 324 times)
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Tempted to put this is politics
For other articles, it does not sound like the child knew what he was doing and it was a mobile home
https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2019/10/a-9-year-old-is-facing-murder-charges-in-illinois-the-judge-had-to-teach-him-what-arson-and-alleged-mean/
A 9-Year-Old Is Facing Murder Charges in Illinois. The Judge Had to Teach Him What “Arson” and “Alleged” Mean.
The boy, whom Mother Jones will not name because of his age, is accused of intentionally setting the April blaze that killed four of his relatives and his mom’s boyfriend near Goodfield, Illinois. The case has garnered national attention, and prompted outcry from juvenile justice advocates who say a nine-year-old is far too young to be prosecuted in court.
If convicted, he would not be sent to juvenile hall because of his youth. But the court could put him on years of probation, according to the Tribune. And if he were to violate any of the complicated terms of probation, he could be detained after he turns 10, and sent to prison once he turns 13.
“It’s very unusual,” Elizabeth Clarke, president of the Juvenile Justice Initiative in Illinois, told the Washington Post of the case. “It’s a shocking approach that the prosecutor chose to take.”
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Re: Nine Year Old Accused Of 1st Degree Murder
Just for interest, the ages of criminal responsibility in various countries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_infancy#Terminology
Australia is pretty low too, at 10.
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Love the logic here: "This child is clearly troubled. I know what will set him straight; let's lock him in a building with limited education, social opportunities, access to family, and surrounded by older and rougher children for his entire childhood. If that doesn't turn him into a useful member of society, then I don't know what will!"
He cannot be locked up but can get probation where if he does anything else wrong, he gets locked up.
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As marijuana is becoming more and more popular as a medicine, there are more people who seek help in fighting anxiety disorders.
Studies show that marijuana may be very helpful in combating chronic anxiety or social anxiety disorders.
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A study conducted on animals have proven that consuming CBD may lower the level of anxiety, as well as reduce frequency and severity of seizures, which means that high-CBD strains can really bring relief to those suffering from anxiety.
The Institute of Psychiatry published a study that showed how CBD can be used as an anxiolytic and antidepressant during the anxiety treatment. That being said, CBD has a great potential when it comes to decreasing levels of depression and anxiety.
Another experiment conducted in 2011 involved two groups of people: the first group used CBD and the latter took the placebo. Researchers aimed at determining whether or not CBD has an impact on levels of anxiety during public speeches. The experiment showed that the CBD group reported less stress during their public speeches than the ‘placebo team’. Patients who took regular doses of Cannabidiol felt more calm and relaxed while experiencing less discomfort.
The latest studies prove that PTSD patients may found the medical use of marijuana very helpful, as weed creates soothing effects on their brains, therefore it may become possible to treat PTSD with marijuana on a larger scale pretty soon.
In 2014 the Vanderbilt University conducted a study on endocannabinoids levels after smoking marijuana. As it turned out, we’re having lower levels of endocannabinoids when we’re in stress, and smoking weed increases the amount of these chemicals in our brain; therefore, it leads to reducing the feeling of anxiety.
You should know that marijuana is far safer than any pharmaceutical prescribed by doctors on a daily basis. In fact, the latest study conducted in Canada showed that 40% of patients suffering from the anxiety disorder who were using medical cannabis were more likely to give up dangerous prescription drugs within less than 3 months. These patients got rid of many severe side effects that are usually entailed by the use of prescription drugs.
Before you learn about the best marijuana strains for anxiety and panic attacks, you should know the effects that come with both THC and CBD, the most common active compounds in weed. Both of these cannabinoids influence our brain and body in a different way. Although THC may relieve the anxiousness, it can also trigger this fearsome feeling. However, it has been proven that CBD is acting on our serotonin receptors by supporting the regeneration of brain cells, which is why high-CBD strains may be amazing when it comes to combating anxiety and depression. And what about the combination of both CBD and THC in one strain? The effects may differ from one bud to another, as there are various levels of these compounds in each strain, but keep in mind that it’s always best to choose a strain with lower THC content. On the other hand, the mix of THC and CBD may come in handy in lowering or even eliminating the feeling of anxiety. There are still more studies to be done on that subject, but for now, it’s safe to say that strains with high CBD levels are recommended for fighting your anxious feelings.
If you’re looking for the best strain for anxiety and panic attacks, here are some top weed strains for combating this disorder.
Granddaddy Purple is a relaxing and potent indica dominant strain that comes in a shade of deep purple with a crystal white resin and orange hairs. The strain is a mix of Purple Urkle and Big Bud, which is why you can expect a complex grape and berry aroma. What’s unique about this strain is that it leaves its taste in your mouth longer than other strains and it allows you to feel the tranquility right away. However, Granddaddy Purple is a very potent specimen and gives serious psychoactive effects on both body and mind. On the other hand, when it comes to the best strains for anxiety, you can feel free to include Granddaddy Purple on the list, as it delivers an almost overwhelming feeling of euphoria and relaxation. If you’re suffering from anxiety, you should find yourself feeling better within minutes under the effects of this cannabis strain.
Although Jack Herer is a sativa dominant strain with high levels of THC, it’s often recommended as the best marijuana strain for anxiety. It gives a euphoric high paired with soothing effects that resemble those after smoking Northern Lights, as Jack Herer is a cross between Shiva Skunk and Northern Lights. The strain offers a bubbly, happy and spurring high, which makes Jack Herer perfect for daytime use. If you’re suffering from the anxiety disorder, this may be one of the sativa strains that can actually be helpful. Jack Herer comes with an earthy, lemon and sweet aroma with similar flavor on the tongue, although you may also taste some herbal and woody flavors.
If you’re THC-sensitive, you’d better try Cannatonic, an even blend of sativa and indica. This strain comes with deeply relaxing qualities, as it is able to boast high levels of myrcene, the terpene that contributes to weed’s relaxing attributes. Cannatonic has high amounts of CBD and only between 7-15% of Tetrahydrocannabinol, therefore it’s the best low-THC strain for treating anxiety. It has a citrus, earthy and woody smell a pine, citrus and sweet flavor. This blend of the legendary G-13 Haze and MK Ultra will keep your head high clear while providing amazingly relaxing effects on your body and mind.
This is one of the most popular CBD strains with relatively low levels of THC (7-15%), therefore it’s not going to produce any serious mind-altering high. Nevertheless, Harlequin has anxiolytic and mood uplifting properties and it allows you to feel energized and focused at the same time. This cross between Swiss Landrace, Colombian Gold and Thai is a sativa dominant strain with sweet mango, citrus, and earthy aromas. As for the flavors, you can expect herbal, sweet and spicy taste in your mouth. When it comes to the best strains for anxiety, the low levels of THC in Harlequin strain makes this it easy to dose and use for treating these symptoms.
This strain produces more CBD (11%) than THC (10%) and is a cross between New York Sour Diesel and the classic Sour Diesel. Sour Tsunami has become particularly popular as a medical marijuana strain and is a great choice for both adults and children whose conditions respond to CBD. This sativa dominant hybrid helps in treating anxiety symptoms thanks to its high CBD content and provides a user with soothing effects. Like it’s genetic parents, Sour Tsunami carries citrus, sour and earthy aromas that are followed by a pine, citrus, and sweet flavors. Although it’s possible to experience some slight psychoactive effects with Sour Tsunami, this strain mostly gives a pleasant mood uplift and relaxation.
Now that you’re acquainted with some of the best strains for anxiety, you should focus on finding your optimal marijuana dose for treating your symptoms. Start with checking your tolerance for weed, because the effects this plant gives vary from one person to another. If you’re a regular cannabis user, you may need more pot to fight your disorder, but keep in mind to dose your weed carefully in order to avoid a short-term increase of your anxiety symptoms. It’s recommended to start with smaller amount of cannabis before you increase the dose accordingly.
First of all, don’t forget that each marijuana strain comes with different effects, and finding the one that works for you is essential if you want to feel nice and easy after smoking pot. Basically, you should select between indica and sativa strains, depending on the desired effects. Most medical marijuana patients with the anxiety disorder choose indica strains that come with stress relieving properties and provide tranquilizing effects to both the mind and body. However, if you’re looking to get more uplifting and energizing effects, consider picking a sativa strain. Don’t forget to always verify the levels of THC and CBD in your cannabis plant. Last but not least, be mindful of the importance of terpenes that modify effects caused by cannabinoids and are able to produce their own too.
In conclusion, marijuana may be one of the most effective and healthiest ways of treating anxiety-related disorders. Before you approach your natural medicine for the first time, check the composition of THC and CBD in each strain, along with the variety of effects it offers; and finally, don’t forget to start with smaller doses before you increase your weed tolerance over time.
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We were on the power play against a garbage team, what could go wrong?
After being named the captain of my junior team shortly after I turned 18, one of our first games was against Metro. Metro was known for rostering a handful of goons who were about to age out. They were all size, no skill.
We ran a simple umbrella, and as I took the puck on the right outside hash in the offensive zone and shuffled backward up to the middle of the blue line, I was trucked from behind. One of Metro’s many 6’4″ idiots who could barely skate tagged me right in the numbers. After watching the game film, he left his feet and drove both forearms into the back of my head, which drove my face right into the ice.
My visor flew up, and the results were a broken nose, two teeth knocked out, and blood everywhere. Needless to say, I was pissed. The trainer shoved two tampons in my nose to handle the bleeding, and put the two teeth that were in my mouthguard in a ziploc bag full of milk until I got to the dentist. After it all happened, I remember looking up to see what had happened to the guy who had hit me.
Why nothing? Because our team didn’t have a John Scott.
Never did look the same.
When we played teams like Metro, you were always a little nervous. Nervous that someone was going to cheap shot you, or your career was going to be ended on some embarrassing series of events because we had no one who they would have to answer to. That is, until Langer arrived.
Who’s Langer? This is Langer – the guy in white who landed about 15 clean punches and broke that kid’s orbital in that fight. When we got wind that we acquired him, I was the happiest guy in the room. Finally, someone who could fight. But, Langer would end up being one of our biggest offensive threats as well.
With him, we were actually a respectable team. We swept the CSHL showcase, and even beat Peoria 3-2, who was one of the best teams in our league. I scored twice, and Langer fought the coach’s son. He even taught me how to trash talk the opposing goalie from the bench in that game.
Point of the story is, most people don’t understand what having a John Scott on their team does for the confidence of the skill players. Having Langer on the bench allowed me to go out there and do me, and I knew I was protected if something happened. After we acquired him, opposing players laid off me, and my stats shot way up. They knew that cross checking the captain or taking a run at me from behind was not worth having to answer the door with Langer knocking.
Watching John Scott do what he did in the 2016 All-Star Game made me so happy for numerous reasons. It really is always better when what happens in real life is better than any script. It’s ridiculous what the NHL tried to do to him. By now, I’m sure you’ve heard that an NHL official asked him if he thought that his kids would be proud of him for playing in the All-Star game. Please.
There’s a reason why the players embraced him as much as they did – they understand how important the role of enforcer is in the game of hockey. John Scott was representing all of the enforcers who stepped on the ice before him and allowed the skill players to go out and be magical.
Wayne Gretzky wouldn’t have been Wayne Gretzky without Marty McSorley or Dave Semenko there to be his bodyguards. The reason why the Great One didn’t ever get hit wasn’t because he was that good at evading checks, it was because no one wanted to risk touching him because they knew that one of the two aforementioned guys would clean their clock if they did.
John Scott has been a journeyman in the NHL. He’s been in seven different organizations since 2009, yet still continues to have an incredible attitude toward his role.
Scott may never play another game in the NHL. It’s likely that he’ll be an AHL warrior until he decides to hang up his skates. But, last night he proved he belonged, and that’s likely all he wanted to do. He deserves to look back on this past weekend for the rest of his life and smile.
While driving his four kids around in the new car he just won for being named the All-Star Game’s MVP, I hope he remembers what guys like him did for the skill players like me who needed him. To some, this whole fiasco may have been a publicity stunt to increase viewership or create storylines.
But for a washed up kid like me, it brought me back. And words can’t describe how great it felt to see one of the many guys who play the enforcer role get some retribution to a league that never wanted him to step foot on the ice in the first place.
Thank you, John, for letting us set up the umbrella and know that we are now invincible.
Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports
You can follow Shane Darrow on Twitter @ShaneDarrow.
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Maria Watches Over Us: a surprisingly beautiful anime
Jul 18, 2009 Aug 4, 2009
My anime preference usually tends toward the seriously dramatic, even edging into the melodramatic. Give me the desperate quest and deep losses of Fullmetal Alchemist (the first series), the tragedy of Noir, or the heart-wrenching, world-shattering action of any of the Gundam series, and I’m in my element. The more dramatic and complex the plot (as long as it makes moderate sense), the happier I am.
This is why Maria Watches Over Us (**) caught me so completely by surprise. If there’s one type of anime that doesn’t particularly move me, it’s a high school story. I generally leave those for the younger viewers, who are more content with tales about school rivalries and jealousies and how to get the attention of the new cute boy or girl in class.
But Maria Watches Over Us is, simply, a work of art. I’m still only a few episodes into the series, but by the second installment I was enthralled. The soft, rich colours befit the theme of “Roses” that underlies the story, and the design of each element of each frame is detailed and delicate. Autumn leaves float, light as snowflakes (which make their own appearance later), on an almost visible breeze, curtains billow, dresses swirl. Each face is lovely, the eyes alive, the expressions vivid, the hair flowing. And the music is equally delicate and exquisite.
The plots of the episodes are fairly simple, revolving around individual characters: the students at the Lillian Girls’ School learning grace, poise, and equanimity along with their academic subjects. The three girls who run the student council are given the titles of three Roses (Rosa Chinensis, Rosa Gigantea, and Rosa Foetida), and they are assisted by three younger girls they’ve chosen as their “petite soeurs,” or “little sisters.” These three are Roses “en bouton,” or “in bud,” meaning that they will eventually take the place and titles of the three Roses as the leaders of the school.
This “sister” tradition is a means for older girls in the school to partner with and mentor younger ones, and the relationship is created when the elder offers her rosary to the younger, and it is accepted.
The main storyline follows Yumi, who becomes the petite soeur of the elegant and aloof Lady Sachiko. She helps the older girl unbend a little and learn to enjoy her life, while Sachiko helps Yumi learn to face life with grace and calm (something she definitely has to work at). But each of the three Roses and their soeurs has special character, and we learn to care for all of them.
The lesbian subtext is strong, though never explicit. But it’s hard to miss, when the girls go on “dates,” blush at the merest glance from the object of their infatuation, and when the process of the rosary exchange itself is as solemn and meaningful as a marriage proposal. However, the purpose of this anime is not to be titilating; rather, it explores deep friendships and yes, love, and how loving relationships teach the girls strength and character.
Once in a while you find a series that has a relatively simple premise, but which is presented so beautifully that it takes on a deeper quality that lifts it out of what might be considered “sappy,” up to a level that may almost be called profound. Until now, the only anime I’d seen that had done that was Princess Tutu.
Now I can say that Maria Watches Over Us is another.
(** The anime is based on a series of light novels written by Japanese author Oyuki Konno, illustrated by Reine Hibiki, published by Shueisha. The series was eventually adapted into a four-season anime by Studio Deen, and now The Right Stuff International is releasing them in North America through its production arm, Nozomi Entertainment. As far as I know, they are not being English-dubbed; the series I’m watching has English subtitles.)
Posted in: Anime Reviews | Tagged: Fullmetal Alchemist, Gundam, Maria Watches Over Us, Noir, Nozomi Entertainment, Sachiko, Shueisha, The Right Stuf, Yumi
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Stephanie B says:
That’s how I felt about Fruits Basket. It’s when I first really started to see anime as art and my opinion didn’t change when I read the manga. Some of the artwork is heartstopping.
kashicat says:
You know, I wondered, the first time you mentioned Fruits Basket. I thought it might be that sort of thing. Which means that perhaps I should check out that anime too if I can get hold of it. 🙂
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Snowwhite says:
First of all hi 2 every anime lover. About this series that is: Maria watches over us is really beautiful & lovable anime. U said very true about this I really feel the same as u do. Plz update me about this anime & more.I like the way u express. I will appreciate it.
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cassowaries: crucial to rainforest ecology
By Alison Campbell • 21/12/2009 This post was syndicated from BioBlog - View original source
This is the only photo we got of a cassowary, on our recent jaunt to Australia. (I’ll stop rubbing it in soon, I promise!). She was sitting in the corner of an enclosure at the Habitat in Port Douglas.
Like our own kiwi, cassowaries belong to the ancient flightless group of birds known as ratites. Cassowaries are rainforest birds, & in Australia as the rainforests shrank so did the cassowary population, so that now there are only about 1500 left in the wild, 150 of them in the Daintree National Park (DNA data from the birds’ dung was used to gain an accurate estimate of population size). And this poses a problem for the forest, because the cassowaries play a crucial role in distributing the seeds of many of the trees.
During our trip to the Daintree we visited Noah Creek, where our guide told us there are 3 resident cassowaries: one large female and 2 smaller males. (Like our own moa, cassowaries are sexually dimorphic in body size.) He described taking one party through & meeting one of the males on a track: the male had his chicks with him & casually sauntered down the path, whle Ross & his clients stood stock-still & watched (probably with equal parts of wonder & fear – cassowaries have a reputation for aggression & can do a lot of damage if aroused. However, a 1999 review found that most cassowary attacks on humans were by birds that had previously been fed by people. It seems that feeding changes their natural behaviour so that they lose their fear of people, becoming bold & confident. That same review found only 1 death from 221 attacks – & the deceased individual had tried to kill the bird in the first place!). We weren’t so lucky, but we did see signs of the birds’ foraging & he showed us some of the things they eat, including the cassowary plum:
This sky-blue fruit is about 5-6cm long. Its pale blue skin covers only a thin layer of flesh; much of the inside of the cassowary plum is taken up by a large, fibrous-skinned fruit, and the whole thing is far too large for most birds to swallow. Which is where the cassowary comes in. It swallows the fruits whole &, after a fairly fast passage through the bird’s gut, the seeds are egested in its large faeces ie with a nice side order of fertiliser to get them started. In fact, it seems that the seeds are more likely to germinate when they’ve passed through a cassowary, than when they haven’t.
In fact, your typical dollop of cassowary dung contains a lot of large seeds (not my photo – it’s from bunyipco):
You can probably see where this is going. Although other animals also eat the rainforest plants’ fruit & distribute their seeds (eg the white-tailed rat is the only other animal to eat cassowary plums, presumably because it too has evolved ways of dealing with the toxic alkaloids the fruit contains), cassowaries are probably the most significant agent of seed dispersal. They eat the fruits of around 150 different species of plant, & it’s estimated that around half of these plants are entirely dependent on these big birds to disperse their seeds. But cassowaries face a number of threats to their existence – habitat fragmentation and loss, vehicles, dogs & feral pigs, & disease. If they should disappear, their loss would probably have significant effects on the ecology of the rainforest. In other words, cassowaries are a keystone species – take them away & the whole ecosystem may change irrevocably. Not a happy thought.
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First Job: Saint Vincent College
Advisor: Matt Reimherr
Snoke, Joshua
First Job: Rand Corporation
Advisor: Aleksandra Slavkovic
Hyun Bin Kang
First Job: Western Michigan University
Yang, Songshan
First Job: Blueshirt Asset Management LLC
Advisor: Runze Li
Wang, Chun-Sheng
First Job: Monsanto
Advisor: Zhibiao Zhao
Choi, Hyunphil
First Job: Financial Supervisory Service
Constantinou, Panayiotis
First Job: Instructor, Penn State University
Guan, Yawen
First Job: Statistical & Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute
Advisor: Murali Haran
Lee, Kevin
Advisor: Lingzhao Xue
Lin, Junli
First Job: Penn State University
Advisor: Michael Akritas
Song, Jun
First Job: University of North Carolina Charlotte
Advisor: Bing Li
Solea, Eftychia
First Job: University of Cyprus
Ye, Jingyi
First Job: Plymouth Rock Assurance
Han Hao
Advisor: Rongling Wu and Runzi Li
Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of North Texas
Taoufik Bahaeddine
Advisor: Matthew Reimherr
Lecturer, Fordham University
Jason Bernstein
Advisor: John Fricks
Researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Eliana Christour
Assistant Professor of Statistics, UNC Charlotte
Advisor: Murali Haran and Ephraim Hanks
Assistant Professor, Muhlenberg College
Wanghuan Chu
Advisor: Runze Li and Matthew Reimherr
Quantitative Analyst, Google, Inc.
Armine Bagyan
Advisor: Arkady Tempelmand and Bing Li
Instructor, Penn State University
Sae Na Park
Advisor: Jogesh Babu
Senior Research Engineer, Samsung Electronics
Yaqun Wang
Assist. Professor of Biostatistics, Rutgers University
Weijie Shen
Advisor: Dennis Lin
Zhuying Xu
Statistician, KPMG
Won Chul Song
Postdoctoral Scholar, Purdue University
Youngjoo Cho
Advisor: Debashis Ghosh
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Rochester
Xiang Zhan
Postdoctoral Scholar, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Advisor:Runze Li
Data Scientist Associate, J.P. Morgan
Joshua Goldstein
Social and Decision Analytics Lab, Virginia Tech
Yang Liu
Advisor:Francesca Chiaromonte
Quantitative Associate, Bank of America
Jessica Trail
Advisor: Linda Collins and Runze Li
Statistician, Argonne National Lab
Yuan Huang
Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
Ningtao Wang
Assist. Professor of Biostatistics, Univ. of Texas School of Public Health
Bomiriya, Rashmi, Ph.D.
First job: Senior Data Scientist with Remote Sensing Metrics Asia (Pvt) Ltd.
Cai, Xizhen, Ph.D.
First job: Assistant Teaching Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Chang, Won, Ph.D.
First job: Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago
Adviser: Murali Haran
Chen, Zhe, Ph.D.
First job: Statistician, Google
Advisor: Duncan Fong
Hua, Wen-Yu, Ph.D.
First job: Postdoctoral Associate, School of Medicine, New York University
Kankam, Kwame, Ph.D.
First job: Lecturer, Penn State University
Advisor: James L. Rosenberger
Karwa, Vishesh, Ph.D.
First job: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University and Harvard University
Kuruppumullage, Prabhani, Ph.D.
First job: Research Fellow, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health
Advisor: Lindsay & Chiaromonte
Li, Yihan, Ph.D.
First job: Senior Research Statistician, AbbVie
Liu, Xiaoyu Ph.D.
First job: Senior Statistician, Capital One
Luo, Wei, Ph.D.
First job: Assistant Professor, Baruch College - The City University of New York
Philtron, Daisy, Ph.D.
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor, Penn State University
Sie, Haskell, Ph.D.
First job: Principal Statistician, Capital One
Tabacu, Lucia, Ph.D.
First job: Assistant Professor, Old Dominion University
Advisor: Michael Akritas and Manfred Denker
Yang, Hanyu, Ph.D.
First job: Quantitative Analytics Consultant, Wells Fargo
Zhu, Xiaotian, Ph.D.
Austin, Stefanie, M.S.
Advisor: Naomi Altman
Bernstein, Jason, M.S.
Christou, Eliana, M.S.
Chu, Wanghuan, M.S.
Schill, Thomas, M.S.
Solea, Eftychia, M.S.
Yang, Qiong, M.S.
Yang, Tao, M.S.
Advisor: Vernon Chinchilli
Yu, Ye, M.S.
Kim, Seonjim, Ph.D.
First job: Assistant Professor, Miami University
Li, Xiaoye, Ph.D.
First job: Statistician, Union Bank
Advisor: Zhibiao Zaho
Liu, Jingyuan, Ph.D.
First job: Assistant Professor, Xiamen University
Advisor: Rongling Wu and Runze Li
Lou, Leija, Ph.D.
First job: Quantitative Finance Analyst, Bank of America
Nunes, Marcus, Ph.D.
First job: Assistant Professor, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
Wang, Wei, Ph.D.
First job: Quantitative Analyst, Fifth Third Bank
Woo, Yong Ming, Ph.D.
First job: Lecturer, University of Virginia
Advisor: Aleksandra B. Slavkovic and Don Richards
Zhang, Ying, Ph.D.
Zhu, Yeying, Ph.D.
First job: Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo
Altinisik, Yasin, M.S.
Davanloo, Tajbakh Sam, M.S.
Fang, Qi, M.S.
Advisor: Jia Li
Khoury, Nicole, M.S.
Samuel, Gilna, M.S.
You, Cheng, M.S.
Advisor: Jason Morton
Changpetch, Pannapa, Ph.D.
First job: Assistant Professor, Bentley University
Adviser: Dennis Lin
Fu, Guifang, Ph.D.
First job: Assistant Professor, Utah State University
Adviser: Rongling Wu
Jandarov, Roman, Ph.D.
First job: Post Doc Senior Fellow, University of Washington
Kurum, Esra, Ph.D.
First job: Assistant Professor, Istanbul Medeniyet University
Adviser: Runze Li
Lee, Kuang- Yao, Ph.D.
First job: Postdoctoral Associate, School of Medicine, Yale University
Adviser: Bing Li
Simeonov, Ivan, Ph.D.
First job: Senior Consultant, Travelers
Adviser: John Fricks
Vu, Duy, Ph.D.
First job: Mathematics & Statistics, University of Melbourne
Adviser: David Hunter
Wang, Qing, Ph.D. ;
First job: Assistant Professor of Statistics, Williams College
Adviser: Bruce Lindsay
Xu, Jialin, Ph.D.
First job: Biostatistician, Merck & Co. Inc.
Adviser: Yu Zhang
Zambom, Adriano, Ph.D.
First job: University of Campinas
Adviser: Michael Akritas
Zhong, Wei, Ph.D.
Waterhouse, Lynn, M.S.
Kraus, Lauren, M.S.
Atiyat, Muhammad, Ph.D.
First job: Associate Statistican, United Nations Office in Geneva
Adviser: Debashis Ghosh
Das, Kiranmoy, Ph.D.
First job: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Temple University
Dialsingh, Isaac, Ph.D.
First job: Lecturer in Mathematics, University of the West Indies
Adviser: Naomi Altman
Hughes, John, Ph.D.
First job: Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota
Li, Jiahan, Ph.D.
First job: Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame
Lin, Junyi, Ph.D.
First job: Quantitative Analyst, Firth Third Bank
Roths, Scott, Ph.D.
First job: Instructor, Department of Statistics, Penn State University
Adviser: G. Jogesh Babu
Tibbits, Matthew, Ph.D.
First job: Applied Research Mathematician, Department of Defense
Yoo, Mina, Ph.D.
First job: Post Doc, Forensic Sciences, Penn State University
Artemiou, Andreas, Ph.D.
First job: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Michigan Tech University
Bhat, Sham, Ph.D.
First job: Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratories, New Mexico
Chung, Yeojin, Ph.D.
First job: Post Doc, University of California, Berkeley
Adviser: Bruce Lindsay/Jia Li
Hammel (Wrobel), Tracey, Ph.D.
First job: Instructor, Penn State World Campus
Adviser: Thomas Hettmansperger
Kim, Kion, Ph.D.
Adviser: Damla Senturk
Kim, Min Hee, Ph.D.
Kim, Min Kyung, Ph.D.
First job: Manager, Samsung Fire and Marine Ins. Co.
Lee, Hyang Min, Ph.D.
First job:
Adviser: Jia Li
Liu, Rong, Ph.D.
First job: Research Scientist, Eli Lily & Co.
Adviser: Joseph Schaffer
Mao, Xianyun, Ph.D.
First job: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania
Smucker, Byran, Ph.D.
Adviser: E. Casillo/James Rosenberger
Sun, Jianping, Ph.D.
First job: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Teng, Huei-wen, Ph.D.
First job: Assistant Professor, National Central University
Adviser: John Liechty
Zhang, Lu, Ph.D.
First job: Quantitative Analyst, Google
Chen, Linjun, M.S.
Dai, Mengtao, M.S.
Ding, Jian, M.S.
Dixon, Dawn, M.S.
Fan, Yuanrong, M.S.
Ge, Weina, M.S.
Mathews, Megan, M.S.
Peng, Rui, M.S.
Sinclair, Katerina, M.S.
Spencer, Daniel, M.S.
Younker, Anita, M.S.
Abu, Izwan, B.S.
Chen, Allshine, B.S.
Clement, Christine E., B.S.
Hall, Shane M., B.S.
Levert, Emma L., B.S.
Mathews, Megan E., B.S.
Roy, Michael J., B.S.
Shea, Susan E., B.S.
Xie, Fan, B.S.
Dong, Yuexiao , Ph.D.
First job: Assistant Professor, Dept of Statistics, Temple University
Hiriote, Sasiprapa , Ph.D.
First job: Faculty, Silpakorn University
Advsier: Vernon Chinchill
Huang, Mian , Ph.D.
First job: Assistant Professor, Shanghai University
Kai, Bo , Ph.D.
First job: Assistant Professor, College of Charleston
Lee, Juyoun, Ph.D.
First job: Manager, Credit Risk MGMT Division
Adviser: Aleksandra Slavkovic
Liao, Shu-Min , Ph.D.
First job: Assistant Professor, Dept of Mathematics, Amherst U
Jiang-Ma, Heather , Ph.D.
First job: Sr. Quantitative Analyst
Recta, Virginia , Ph.D.
First job: Mathematical Statistician, Food and Drug Administration
Advisers: James L. Rosenberger and Murali Haran
Romer, Megan , Ph.D.
Adviser: Donald Richards
Zhang, Yiyun, Ph.D.
First job: Senior Biostatistician, Novartis AG, Florham Park, NJ
Cai, Jingran , M.A.
Qian, Jin, M.S.
Rulison, Kelly, M.S.
Runkie, Patrick, M.S.
Yin, Alex, M.S.
Aubuchon, Dianne E., B.S.
Chmielewski, Melinda, B.S.
Driscoll, Joshua B., B.S.
Fitzgerald, Kathryn, B.S.
Lissenden, Brett, B.S.
Momyer, Ross D., B.S.
Pritchard, David A., B.S.
Roba, Ned J. , B.S.
Schubert, Nathan E., B.S.
Shero, Lori A., B.S.
Weyant, Robert J., B.S.
Benaglia, Tatiana, Ph.D.
First job: Post-doc. Harvard University
Advisor: Tom Hettmansperger
Gaugler, Trent, Ph.D.
First job: Research Associate, Penn State University, Department of Statistics
Hui, Guodong, Ph.D.
First job: Biostatistician, Pharmanet Development Group
Advisor: Bruce Lindsay
Li, Yan (Maggie) , Ph.D.
Kim, Daeyoung, Ph.D.
First job: Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Wang, Yu , Ph.D.
Zhang, Wei , Ph.D.
Zhu, Junjia , Ph.D.
First job: Assistant Professor, Penn State University
Chen, Tingqiao, M.S.
Chen, Weifang , M.S.
Horn, M. Kristen , M.S.
Li, Cha, M.S.
Li, Huan , M.S.
Ma, Zhigang , M.S.
McCarthy, Shirvonne, M.S.
McGraw, F. Daniel , M.S.
Park, Heejin, M.S.
Ryu, Jea-Eun, M.S.
Touchton, Michelle, M.S.
Wark, Michael, M.S.
Waltz, P. Michael, M.S.
Zhu, Qing , M.S.
Aubuchon, Kelly, B.S.
Basgil, Dennis , B.S.
Fanelli, Theresa , B.S.
Fischer, Brittany , B.S.
Huang, Norman , B.S.
Kapinos, Daniel , B.S.
Moser, William , B.S.
Nam, Kyung Baek , B.S.
Retallick, Kyle , B.S.
Villacorta, Theodore , B.S.
Wooleyhan, Jason , B.S.
Han, Bing, Ph.D.
First job: Associate Statistician, Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California
Advisor: Dr. Arnold
Jung, Kyekyung , Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Schafer
Kang, Doh Y. , Ph.D.
First job: Research Associate in the Methodology Center and Instructor in the Department of Statistics at Penn State University
Seo, Byungtae , Ph.D.
First job: Assistant Professor, Dept of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University
Advisor: Dr. Lindsay
Tang, Zhihui , Ph.D.
First job: Biostatistician at PPD (a CRO company), Wilmington, NC
Advisor: Dr. B. Li
Wang, Yang , Ph.D.
First job: Associate Program Manager, Decision Management, Citi Cards, Citigroup, Long Island City, NY
Advisor: Dr. R. Li
Xu, Hong , Ph.D.
First job: Bank of America
Advisor: Dr. Rosenberger
Yang, Jingyun , Ph.D.
First job: Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Advisor: Dr. Chinchilli
Yao, Weixin , Ph.D.
First job: Assistant Professor, Dept of Statistics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
Young, Derek, M.S. 2005, Ph.D.
First job: Research Scientist, Irradiations and Statistics Section with Bechtel Bettis of Pittsburgh
Advisor: Dr. Hunter
Zhang, Zhe, Ph.D.
Bhat, Kabekode G. , M.S.
Skinner, Jeffrey , M.S.
Advisor: Dr. Altman
Smucker, Byran , M.S.
Tchetcherina, Natalia , M.S.
Wang, Li , M.S.
Bui, Vuong , M.S.
First job: Quantitative Analyst, SAIC, PA.
Burago, Maria D. , M.S.
Cao, Yumei. , M.S.
Guo, Fei , M.S.
Hsu, Chia-Fang , M.S.
First job: Marketing Analyst, J P Morgan Chase, Wilmington, DE
Hu, Bin , M.S.
Kim, Su Chul , M.S.
Li, Lin , M.S.
Peters, Susan A. , M.S.
Ro, Hee Jung , M.S.
Wang, Guanfang , M.S.
First job: Associate Biostatistician, INC Research, Raleigh, NC
Winter, Samantha L., M.S.
Yao, Xiaopan, M.S.
Yu, Jinchun , M.S.
Zhang, Jingwen , M.S.
Apibunyopas, Paul , B.S.
Chojnacki, Casey, B.S.
Chung, Joseph Ho , B.S.
Grottini, Kyle J. , B.S.
Hamada, George G. , B.S.
Khare, Puja , B.S.
Mack, Michael, B.S.
McGee, Megan I. , B.S.
Olsen, Matthew W. , B.S.
Schuyler, Reed, B.S.
Zhang, Crystal, B.S.
Chen, Yi-Ju , Ph.D.
First job: Department of Mathematics, National Chung Chen University, Taiwan
Dziak, John J., Ph.D.
First job: Methodology Center, Penn State University
Lee, Hyun-Sook, Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Babu
Saar, Makhtar, Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Hettmansperger
Cai, Yun, M.S.
Advisor: Dr. Patil
Huang, Mian , M.S.
Li, Yan, M.S.
Mi, Lanyu, M.S.
Park, Joonwook , M.S.
Advisor: Dr. J. Li
Shen, Junwu, M.S.
Stopp, Christian, M.S.
Zhang, Yiyun, M.S.
Bray, Bethany , M.S.
Bressler, Veronica, M.S.
First job: Technical Support Specialist, Minitab Inc., State College
Fuller, Sirius, M.S.
First job: Mathematical Statistician, Census Bureau, Suitland, MD
Jeon, Clara Eunjeong, M.S.
Lozo, Sarah Rae, M.S.
Paret, Michell E. , M.S.
Perretta, Ashley, M.S.
First job: Risk Analyst, MxEnergy, Inc
Pu, Hongli, M.S.
First job: Delmarva Foundation at the Easton (MC), Health Analyst II
Pyo, Tae-Hyung, M.S.
Root, Tammy L. , M.S.
Touchton, Michelle , M.S.
Wang, Jiangyue, M.S.
Whitley, Zachary, M.S.
Yu, Bo, M.S.
First job: Florida Department of Health, Washington, Biostatistician
Zhu, Yan, M.S.
Crouse, Curtis M., B.S.
Guerra, Matthew W., B.S.
Johnson, Victor M., B.S.
Malinsky, Kristen N., B.S.
Meadows, Cory J., B.S.
Nicolay, Christopher S., B.S.
Springer, Michael, B.S.
Stein, Lauren M. , B.S.
Waltz, Michael P., Jr., B.S.
Werner, Lillian, B.S.
Bai, Gang (Steve), Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Akritas
Wang, Shaoli, Ph.D.
First job: Postdoctoral Associate, Dept of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University
Xuan, Fengjuan , Ph.D.
Zhan, Xiaojiang, Ph.D.
First job: Biometrician, Merck & Co.
Akdeniz, Esra, M.S.
Alkiviadous, Charalam Harris, M.S.
Hua, Jun, M.S.
Lio, Shu-Min, M.S.
Ullah, Jerin, M.S.
Wei, Xin, M.A.
Bontempo, Daniel, M.S.
Cai, Shijie, M.S.
First job: Research Analyst, University of Michigan
Chiang, Chih-Lin, M.S.
First job: System Analyst, Knowledge Management Dept, Taishin International Bank, Taiwan
Cui, Liying, M.S.
First job: Statistician, Marketing & Analysis Division, Capital One, Richmond, Virginia
Damich, Christopher, M.S.
First job: Census Bureau, Wash, D.C., Mathematical Statistician
Dariotis, Jacinda, M.S.
First job: Assistant Scientist, Johns Hopkins Univ.
Humphrey, Ellen, M.S.
First job: Phoenix Marketing Int'l, Rhinebeck NY
Lee, Sang Ha, M.S.
Li, Xinyi, M.S.
First Job: Postdoctoral Fellow at PSU (-2006)
Liu, Hsiao-pin, M.S.
Park, Heeyoung, M.S.
Rhyne, Zachary, M.S.
First job: Analyst, Quantitative Economics and Statistics Department, Ernst & Young,Washington DC
Wu, Juan, M.S.
First job: EMMES, Maryland, Statistician
Yang, Yin, M.S.
First job: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research, Washington, Biostatistician
Zakzeski, Audra, M.S.
First job: Intuit, Reno, NV, Business Analyst
Zhang, Tao, M.S.
Acito, Jeffrey, B.S.
Bair, Justin, B.S.
Deal, Allison, B.S.
DiFranco, Kristen, B.S.
Dopson, Ryan, B.S.
Geiger, Jonathan, B.S.
Greer, Erica, B.S.
Hancher, Chad, B.S.
Kim, Hopiy, B.S.
First job: Biostatistics Analysis Center, CCEB, University of Pennsylvania
Kummernuss, Erika, B.S.
Li, Xiao-Yi, B.S.
Padilla, Jose, B.S.
Powell, Tyler, B.S.
Rowe, Andrew , B.S.
Yoon, Hong, B.S.
Antoniou, Efi, M.S. 2001, Ph. D.
First job: Lecturer Frederic Institute of Technology
Ding, Rui, Ph.D.
First job: Genetech
Advisor: James L Rosenberger
Kwanisai, Mike, M.S. 1999, Ph.D.
First job: Survey Statistician, NORC, Washington, DC
Advisor: Steven K. Thompson
Wang, Haiyan, Ph.D.
First job: Assistant Professor, Kansas State University
Yang, Ke, Ph.D.
First job: Statistician, Cytokinetics, San Francisco, CA
Bryant, Kylie, M.S.
First job: Research biostatistician, Weill Cornell Medical Center, NYC
Johnson, Bryce, M.S.
First job: Associate Statistician, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Wash, DC
Luo, Weixiu, M.S.
First job: Statistician, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston
Pashiardi, Anastasia, M.S.
Wang, Yudan, M.S.
Wilson, Michael C., Dual M.S. , B.S. 2002
First () job: Operations Research Analyst, Picatinny Arsenal, Picatinny, NJ
Fei, Song Lin , M.A.
Chen, Min, M.S.
First Job: Associate Lecturer, Dept of Mathematics, U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Chung, Byoung, M.S.
First job: Statistical Quality Assurance Analyst, Minitab
Huang, Yan, M.S.
First job: Bionetics, Pennsylvania, Analyst/Consultant
Lcitovic, Nikolina , M.S.
First job: Penn State College of Medicine
Kendrick, John , M.S.
Kresge, Scott Guy, M.S.
Neft, Matthew, M.S.
First job: Mathematical Statistician, US Census Bureau
Rutledge, John, M.S.
First job: Assistant Research Biostatistician, Weill Cornell Medical
College, New York, NY
Tang, Zhiqun, M.S.
Wu, Yun, M.S.
First job: Biostatistician, Johns Hopkins Quality and Safety Research Group, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Zhou, Jingying, M.S.
First job: Statistician, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School
Layton, Richard, B.S.
Tomlinson, Amanda, B.S.
Chen, Shu-Chuan, Ph.D. 2003
First job: Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan
Chung, Hwan , Ph.D. 2003
Demirtas, Hakan, Ph.D. 2003
First job: U. of Ilinois-Chicago, Public School of Health, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Elmore, Ryan, Ph.D. 2003
First job: Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australia National University, Canberra
Harel, Ofer, Ph.D. 2003
First job: Biostatistics Unit, HSR&D Center of Excellence, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle WA
Liu, Jiawei , Ph.D. 2003
McDermott, James, Ph.D. 2003
First job: Bristol-Myers Squibb, Research Biostatistician
Ray, Surajit, Ph.D. 2003
First job: Biostatistics Department, UNC-Chapel Hill
Tan, Hensiong , Ph.D. 2003
Wang, Jiping, M.S. 2000, Ph.D. 2003
First job: Asst Professor, Statistics, Northwestern University
Wang, Lan, Ph.D. 2003
First job: Asst Professor, Statistics, U. of Minnesota
Zhang, Diya, Ph.D. 2003
Geier, Eliza, M.S. 2003
First job: Research Associate, Penn State Statistical Consulting Center
Geier, Caroline , M.S. 2003
Hellman, Jenny, M.S. 2003
First job: Instructor, Penn State Dept. of Statistics
Llie, Bogdan , M.S. 2003
Ma, Yuejiao , M.S. 2003
Shook, Jennifer , M.S. 2003
First job: Instructor of Statistics, Penn State
Steinmeyer, Brian, M.S. 2003
Walters, Eli, M.S. 2003
First job: Instructor, Penn State Statistics
Wang, Wei , M.S. 2003
Wei, Caimiao, M.S. 2003
First job: Research Scientist, Department of Microbiology, Center of Expression Arrays, University of Washington.
Bowers, Christian, M.S. 2003
First job: Analyst, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Wash, D.C
Chu, Jianxiong (George), M.S. (2003)
First job: FDA/CDRH, Mathematical Statistician
Kharbach, Mohammed, M.S. 2003
First job: Analyst, Hautes Etudes Commercials, Montreal
Lanza, Stephanie, M.S. 2003
First job: Statistician, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, North Carolina
Orlich, Steve, M.S. 2003
First job: Minitab, Statistical QA Analyst
Speight, Eric , M.S. 2003
Srinivasan, Girish, M.S. 2003
First job: Assistant Manager, G.E. Capital, India
Sulaiman Al-Sulaimani, M.S. 2003
First job: Lecturer, Dept. of Oper. Mgmnt & Bus. Statistics, College of Commerce & Econ, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Thorpe, George, M.S. 2003
First job: Physician, J.C. Blair Memorial Hospital
Zhang, Tianwei, M.S. 2003
First job: Research Assistant, U. of Illinois at Urbana
Boomer, kb, M.S. 1997, Ph.D. 2002
First job: Associate Director, Penn State Statistical Consulting
Mao, Changxuan, M.S. 2001, Ph.D. 2002
First job: Asst. Professor, U. of California, Riverside, Center and Lecturer
Advisor: Bruce G. Lindsay
Maples, Jerry, Ph.D. 2002
First job: Census Bureau, Mathematical Statistician
Schaffer, Michelle, M.S. 1999, Ph.D. 2002
First job: Assistant Professor, Dept of Health Evaluation Science, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA
Simon, Laura, M.A. 1991, Ph.D. 2002
First job: Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA
Advisor: Vernon Chinchill
Basehoar, Andrew, M.S. 2002
Callegari, Francesca, M.S. 2002
First job: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Chrysostomou, Maria, M.S. 2002
Covucci, Allison , M.S. 2002
Darnell, Megan, M.S. 2002
First job: Hershey Medical Center
Moyer, Melinda , M.S. 2002
Vraney, Ryan, M.S. 2002
Weidenhammer, Deanna, M.S. 2002
Xue, Qing, M.S. 2002
First job: Highmark, INC
Cruz Medina, Isidro (Roberto), Ph.D. 2001
Li, Haihong, Ph.D. 2001
First job: Frontier Science & Technology Research
Mosquin, Paul, Ph.D. 2001
First job: Res. Statistician, Research Triangle Institute, NC
Park, Chanseok, Ph.D. 2001
First job: Clemson University
Rodriguez, Sonia, M.S. 1994, Ph.D. 2001
Ambrose, Alicia, M.S. 2001
Behrle, Jessica , M.S. 2001
Burnicki, Amy, M.S. 2001
First job: Ph.D. student, U. of Michigan
Crissinger, Bryan, M.S. 2001
First job: University of Delaware, Lecturer
Doherty, Mike, M.S. 2001
First job: New England Research Institute
Froloshki, Borislav, M.S. 2001
First job: GlaxoSmithKline, Senior Statistician
Herbison, Matt, M.S. 2001
First job: Penn State, Instructor
Liu, Chunhua , M.S. 2001
Martinelli (Behrle), Jessica, M.S. 2001
First job: Wyeth-Ayerst
Ugarcovici, Mihaela, M.S. 2001
First job: ZS Associates, OR Analyst
Wang, Ying , M.S. 2001
Yajima-Castaneda, Ayako, M.S. 2001
Zhao, Luhua, M.S. 2001
Skoch, Jason, M.A. 2001
First job: St. Jude's Hospital
Bentley, Michael, B.S. 2001
First job: U.S. Census Bureau
Banga, Senin, Ph.D. 2000
First job: Minitab, Senior Statistician
Felix Medina , Martin , Ph.D. 2000
Leeds, Mark, Ph.D. 2000
First job: Bear Stearns, Wall Street
McGrath, Richard , Ph.D. 2000
First job: Asst Professor, Bowling Green State University
Advisor: Dennis Lin (???)
Nadar, Mustafa, M.A. 1996, Ph.D. 2000
First job: Assistant Professor, Gebze Institute, Turkey
Pittman, Jennifer, Ph.D. 2000
First job: Nat'l Institute of Statistical Science, Postdoctoral Fellow
Tsangari, Haritini , Ph.D. 2000
Yucel, Recai, M.A. 1996, Ph.D. 2000
First job: Harvard University, Postdoctoral Fellow
Advisor: Joe Schafer (???)
Frank, Jennifer, M.S. 2000
First job: Statistical Quality Assurance Analyst, Minitab, Inc.
Ghosh, Bidisha, M.S. 2000
First job: Mathematica Policy Research
Jiang, Shiwen , M.S. 2000
Jiang, Sherman, M.S. 2000
First job: WR-Berkeley-MAG, Actuarial Assistant
Li, Qiu, M.S. 2000
First job: Actuarial Analyst, The Segal Company
Phillips, Brenda, M.S. 2000
First job: Penn State College of Medicine, Biostatistician
Rebain, Stephanie, M.S. 2000
First job: M.S. student, Penn State Forestry Department
Roan, Jennifer , M.S. 2000
Beattie, Scott, M.A. 1996, Ph.D. 1999
First job: Eli Lilly and Company
Chao, Chang-Tai (George), Ph.D. 1999
First job: National Cheng-kung University, Assistant Professor
Dryver, Arthur, Ph.D. 1999
First job: Price Waterhouse Coopers
Du, Yungling, Ph.D. 1999
First job: Columbia University, Biostatistics, Assistant Professor
Ghosh-Dastidar, Bonnie, Ph.D. 1999
Olsen, Maren, M.A. 1996, Ph.D. 1999
First job: Biostatistician, VA Health Services R&D, and Assistant
Adamopoulos, Hrisanthi, M.S. 1999
Bai, Jie (Jessie), M.S. 1999
First job: Bankone Card Services
Fox, Kelly , M.S. 1999
Gargano, Cynthia, M.S. 1999
First job: Merck, Senior Statistician
Huang, Ying, M.S. 1999
Jin, Jianhua, M.S. 1999
First job: Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Zhou, Xiao (Annie), M.S. 1999
First job: Freddie Mac
Fillipponi, Danila , M.A. 1999
Heinrichs, Brenda , M.A. 1999
First job: Res Aide
Williams, Brent , M.A. 1999
Dubnicka, Suzanne, Ph.D. 1998
First job: Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne
O'Gorman, John, Ph.D. 1998
Qu, Annie, Ph.D. 1998
First job: Cleveland Clinic
Qu, Peiyong , Ph.D. 1998
Yang, George Yongxin, Ph.D. 1998
First job: Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corp, Philadelphia
Huovilainen, Sami, M.S. 1998
First job: Chase Manhattan Bank
Kupinski, Ann , M.S. 1998
Colon, Silvestre , M.A. 1998
Mouyi, Maria , M.A. 1998
Sciullo, Carla , M.A. 1998
---- B.S. (1)
Hamer, J. E., B.S. 1998
First job: M.S. Student, U. of North Carolina, Bostatistics
Cooper, William, M.S. 1994, Ph.D. 1997
First job: Health Process Management
Gaydos, Brenda, Ph.D. 1997
Lin, Yong, Ph.D. 1997
First job: Clinical Trials Organization
Pilla, Ramani, Ph.D. 1997
First job: National Institutes of Health
Tipa, Maria , Ph.D. 1997
Bacik, Jennifer, M.S. 1997
First job: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Dizik, Marianna , M.S. 1997
Lehman, Erik , M.S. 1997
First job: Biostastician, Hershey Medical Center, Penn State
Mazurick, Carissa , M.S. 1997
Noyes, Shayne, M.S. 1997
First job: Beneficial Management Corporation
Gabrovsek, Michael, M.A. 1997
First job: HRB Systems
Hu, Jennifer , M.A. 1997
Shemo, Michelle , M.A. 1997
First job: Minitab, Inc.
Orth, Michael, B.S. 1997
First Job: First Consulting Group, Wayne, PA
Pulkstenis, Erik, M.S. 1994, Ph.D. 1996
First job: CL McIntosh and Associates
Sanchez, Matilde, Ph.D. 1996
First job: Merck Research Lab
Suryawanshi, Shailaja, Ph.D. 1996
Xi, Liwen, M.A. 1993, Ph.D. 1996
Zuo, Yanling, Ph.D. 1996
First job: University of Pittsburgh
Aragon, Elvessa, M.S. 1996
First job: Statistician, Research Triangle Institute
Brunner, Rose, M.S. 1996
First job: Capital One Financial
Donaldson, Lynn , M.S. 1996
Kirstein, Lynn, M.S. 1996
Malacane, Lynn, M.S. 1996
First job: The Emmes Corporation
Balkin, Sandy, M.A. 1996
First job: Ph.D. Student, Penn State
Campos, Daniel, M.A. 1996
Farber, James, M.A. 1996
First job: Census Bureau
Lowe, Samuel, M.A. 1996
First job: AT&T
Miller, Barry, M.A. 1996
Orsin, Jo, M.A. 1996
Williams, Rachael, M.A. 1996
First job: Ph.D. student, Clemson University
Cheng, Tzuwei , Ph.D. 1995
Advisor: Clifford C Clogg
Kang, Hee-Jeong, Ph.D. 1995
First job: Korea
Pammer, Scott, M.S. 1992, Ph.D. 1995
Tomick, John, Ph.D. 1995
First job: Air Force Academy
Hartzel, Tracey , M.S. 1995
He, li , M.S. 1995
Plieninger, Tracy, M.S. 1995
First job: University of Florida
Pulkstenis, Andy, M.S. 1995
First job: Triology Consulting Corporation, Statistician
---- M.A. (6)
Gregori, Dario , M.A. 1995
Johnson, Glenn, M.A. 1995
First job: Ph.D. student, Penn State Statistics
Ku, Su , M.A. 1995
Qiu, Zhi-Hua , M.A. 1995
Ye, Yue, M.A. 1995
Zhong, Jun, M.A. 1995
Ndlovu, Principal, M.S. 1989, Ph.D. 1994
First job: University of Zimbabwe
Ozturk, Omer, Ph.D. 1994
First job: Assistant Professor, Portland State University
Nitica, Ana-Magdalena, M.S. 1994
Velasco, Barbara, M.S. 1994
Brown, Maria Cristina , M.A. 1994
Cunningham, Colin, M.A. 1994
First job: Equifax
Feldbaum, Wendy, M.A. 1994
First job: American Airlines
Johnson, Louis, M.A. 1994
First job: Corning Asahi
Kunselman, Allen, M.A. 1994
Madamba, Cristina, M.A. 1994
First job: United Airlines
Morder, Vincent, M.A. 1994
First job: Chase Bank
Norris, Ruthanna, M.A. 1994
First job: Federal Drug Administration
Shirk, Sue, M.A. 1994
First job: Geisinger Medical Center
Tipa, Eleanor, M.A. 1994, Ph.D. 1997
First job: Epsilon Data Management
Wu, Jian-An, M.A. 1994
Anderson, George, Ph.D. 1993
First job: Rhone-Poulenc Rorer
LaValley, Michael, Ph.D. 1993
First job: Harvard University, Post-Doctorate
Preston, Scott, Ph.D. 1993
First job: SUNY Oswego
Waterman, Richard, Ph.D. 1993
First job: University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
Meaker, Katherine , M.S. 1993
O'Hanesian Mary Ann, M.S. 1993
First job: Duke Medical Center
Depue, Linda , M.A. 1993
Hernandez, Ramon, M.A. 1993
Ruscitti, Thomas, M.A. 1993
Timmerman, Linda, M.A. 1993
First job: Indiana University
Basu, Srabashi, M.A. 1991, Ph.D. 1992
First job: Pharmaco Dyn Research
Advisor: Dr. Landis
Kannon, Nandini, Ph.D. 1992
First job: University of Texas
Macchiavelli, Raul, Ph.D. 1992
First job: Louisiana State University
Petkova, Eva, Ph.D. 1992
Torbeyns, Anne, Ph.D. 1992
First job: Bristol-Myers Squibb.
Aloni, Irith, M.S. 1992
Lobo, Maria, M.S. 1992
Advisor: Dr. Antle
Maki, Cheryl, M.S. 1992
Pammer, Cheryl, M.S. 1992
First job: Statistical Tech. Comm. Spec.
Bendinsky, Tracey , M.A. 1992
Bhore, Rafia, M.A. 1992, (Ph.D., Delaware University)
First job after PSU: Ph.D. student, Delaware University
First job after Delaware: Merck and Co.
Gove, Jeffrey, M.A. 1992
First job: USDS Forest Service
Johnson, Paul, M.A. 1992
First job: Orthodontist Dental School
Kuhens, Tracy, M.A. 1992
First job: Cummins Engine Co., Inc.
Mhate, Rafia , M.A. 1992
Romig, Kim, M.A. 1992
First job: Harkness Cummins Engine Co.
Advisor: Dr. Harkness
Walters, Kimberly , M.A. 1992
Zhao, Fengkun, M.A. 1992
Basu, Ayanendranath, Ph.D. 1991
Coakley, Clint, Ph.D. 1991
First job: Virginia Tech
Lee, Myung, Ph.D. 1991
Mazumdar, Madhu , Ph.D. 1991
First job: Sloan-Kettering
Advisor: Dr. Rao
Serinko, Regis, M.S. 1989, Ph.D. 1991
Zheng, Hongje, Ph.D. 1991
First job: Ciba Geigy
Advisor: Dr. Ord
Chun, Kwang Hoon, M.A. 1991
Dale, Robert, M.A. 1991
Firmstone, George, M.A. 1991
First job: IBM.
Kassab, Cathy, M.A. 1991
First job: GAO Accounting Offices
Advisor: Dr. Clogg
Wu, Cheng Shen, M.A. 1991
First job: Aetna, Connecticut
Advisor: Dr. Zubovic
Brown, Mike, Ph.D. 1990
First job: Bristol-Myers
Chiang, Jentung, Ph.D. 1990
Deng, Min, Ph.D. 1990
First job: University of Toronto
Kissinger, Terry, M.A. 1987, Ph.D. 1990
Liu, Zhijun, Ph.D. 1990
First job: Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University
Crotty, Cathy, M.A. 1990
Curriero, Frank, M.A. 1990
First job: Ph.D. Student at Kansas State University
Elliott, Adam, M.A. 1990
Jack (Kunselman), Susan, M.A. 1990
First job: Mayo Clinic
LaVallee, Nicole, M.A. 1990
Matthews, Yvonne, M.A. 1990
Monyak, John, M.A. 1990
First job: Crum and Forester Insurance
Reed, Gina, M.A. 1990
First job: Professor, Gainesville College
Sycip-Uy, Victoria , M.A. 1990
Furman, William (Dave), Ph.D. 1989
First job: Babson College
Grego, John, M.A 1985, Ph.D. 1989
First job: Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina
Advisor: Dr. Lindsay & Clogg
Johnson, Keith, M.A. 1978, Ph.D. 1989
First job: Hampton College
Kundu, Debasis, Ph.D. 1989
Naranjo, Joshua, Ph.D. 1989
Achacoso, Ninah , M.A. 1989
Asuncion, Ninah, M.A. 1989
Henng Liou, Song, M.A. 1989
First job: Harvard University
Holze, Debra, M.A 1989
Liou, Song Heng , M.A 1989
Mariano, Angela, M.A. 1989
Matos, Deborah , M.A. 1989
Pao, Johan, M.A. 1989
First job: New York Life
Yan, Duanli, M.A. 1989
First job: Educational Testing Services
Markatou, Marianthi, Ph.D. 1988
First job: University of Iowa
Roeder, Kathryn, Ph.D. 1988
First job: Assistant Professor, Yale University.
Adornado, Bernadette, M.A. 1988
Buchanan, Patricia, M.A. 1988
First job: Instructor, Penn State University Department of Statistics
Advisor: Dr. Derr & Harkness
Capra, William, M.A. 1988
First job: Biostatistics, Chiron Corporations
Conrad, Nancy , M.A. 1988
Lloyd, Russell, M.A. 1988
Meixell, Nancy, M.A. 1988
Menzel, Carol , M.A. 1988
Miller, Carol, M.A. 1988
Preisser, John, M.A. 1988
First job: Glaxo, Inc.
Suchower, Lisa, M.A. 1988
First job: Merck, Inc.
Advisor: Dr. Hultquist
Tai, Helen, M.A. 1988
First job: Ortho Pharmaceutical.
Yip, Chong , M.A. 1988
Lele, Subhash, Ph.D. 1987
First job: Johns Hopkins University
Linder, Ernst, Ph.D. 1987
First job: University of New Hampshire
Suman, Ken, Ph.D. 1987
First job: Georgia Institute of Technology
Dorris, John, M.A. 1987
First job: Dorris Family Business
Hono, Junko, M.A. 1987
Kufera, Joseph, M.A. 1987
First job: Shock Trauma Associates
Olson, Melvin, M.A. 1987
Rajarshi, Sujata , M.A. 1987
Snavely, Duane, M.A. 1987
First job: Merck
Tajarshi, Sujata, M.A. 1987
Vick, Susan, M.A. 1987
Virgo, Albert, M.A. 1987
First job: Reader's Digest
Akritas, Catherine, M.A. 1986
Blanchard, Eunice, M.A. 1986
Bolgiano, Nicholas, M.A. 1986
Bozik, James, M.A. 1986
First job: Signet Banky
Burt, Rebecca, M.A. 1986
Carr, Leah, M.A. 1986
Golmant, John, M.A. 1986
First job: Department of Labor
Rogan, Deborah , M.A. 1986
Ward, Deborah , M.A. 1986
Wood, Robert, M.A. 1986
Becker, Mark, Ph.D. 1985
First job: Assistant Professor, University of Florida
Burn, David, M.A. 1982, Ph.D. 1985
First job: IMSL
Gabbara, Sami, Ph.D. 1985
First job: University of Basra
Hlynka, Myron, Ph.D. 1985
First job: University of Alberta
Griffith, Daniel, M.S. 1985
First job: Syracuse University
Becker Lengerich, Laura , M.A. 1985
Main, Donald, M.A. 1985
Nasamran, Nida , M.A. 1985
Nelson, Amy, M.A. 1985
Petcharatip, Nida, M.A. 1985
Advisor: Dr. Boswell
Saulnier, Army , M.A. 1985
Shockey, James, M.A. 1985
First job: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Arizona
Voisinet, Laura, M.A. 1985
Tableman, Mara , Ph.D. 1984
First job: Penn State Dept of Statistics
Chandawarkar, Suhasini , M.S. 1984
Bock, Jeffrey, M.A. 1984
Lee, Chang , M.A. 1984
Advisor: Dr. Ryan
Marx, Brian , M.A. 1984
McCague, Kevin , M.A. 1984
1983Lemke, Jon, Ph.D. 1983
Abdul-Razak, Rafid, M.A., 1982, Ph.D. 1983
Lyer, Rajeswari , M.S. 1983
Derr, Janice, M.A. 1983
Felix, John, M.A. 1983
First job: IBM
Miller, Peninnah , M.A. 1983
Rossi, Francis, M.A. 1983
Sharma, Anu, M.A. 1983
Smith, Peninnah, M.A. 1983
First job: Director, Center for Statistical Services, Western Michigan University
Suman, Vera, M.A. 1983
First job: Assistant Professor of Biostatistics,
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Aubuchon, Jay, Ph. D. 1982
First job: Ohio State University
Antle Lengerich, Rebecca, M.A. 1982
Advisor: Dr. Heckard
Bauman, John, M.A. 1982
Hana, Sami, M.A. 1982
Heller, Mary, M.A. 1982
Lengerich, Rebecca , M.A. 1982
Mazur, Catherine, M.A. 1982
Salih, Yousif, M.A. 1982
Scazzero, Joseph, M.A. 1982
Tomczak, Catherine , M.A. 1982
Wolfgang, Glenn , M.A. 1982
Byrne, Philip, Ph.D. 1981
First job: Smith College
Peterson, John, Ph.D. 1981
Antwi, Augustin, M.S. 1981
Bonnevier, Bruce, M.A. 1981
First job: Vice President Global Human Resource
Advisor: Dr. Pesden
Bray, John, Jr., M.A. 1981
First job: U.S. Army
Chen, David Min, M.A. 1981
Drube, Gregg, M.A. 1981
Han, Sang Hyun, M.A. 1981
Hartman, Joan , M.A. 1981
Kucukemiroglu, Orsay, M.A. 1981
Pacitti, Patricia, M.A. 1981
Patterson, Joan Marie, M.A. 1981
Peth, Nancy , M.A. 1981
Pittelli, Nancy, M.A. 1981
Smith, Joanne Tankard, M.A. 1981
First job: Analysis & Inference, Inc.
Stringfellow, Joseph, M.A. 1981
King, Terry, Ph.D. 1980
Advisor: Dr. Antle & Hultquist
Markowski, Edward, Ph.D. 1980
Schmoyer, Richard, Ph.D. 1980
Shoemaker, Lewis, M.A. 1978, Ph.D. 1980
Merrill, Samuel , M.S. 1980
Bajusz, Barbara, M.A. 1980
Dennis, Brian, M.A. 1980
Diffendal, Gregg, M.A. 1980
Lawton, Barbara , M.A. 1980
Saadat, Majid, M.A. 1980
Schultz, Delray, M.A. 1980
Shoemaker, Harland H., Jr., M.A. 1980
First job: U.S. Census Bureau, Mathematical Statistician,
Thomas, Karen, M.A. 1980
Chen, Chung , Ph.D. 1979
Cheng, Kuo-Sheuan, Ph.D. 1979
Brantle, Thomas, M.A. 1979
Advisor: Dr. Nelson
DeAngelis, Roger, M.A. 1979
DeNardis, David, M.A. 1979
Einsporn, Richard, M.A. 1979
Hassan, Abdelmoneim Mohamed, M.A. 1979
Ismail, Abdelrahim, M.A. 1979
Kadell, Kevin, M.A. 1979
Klein, Malcolm, M.A. 1979
Mauro, Carl, M.A. 1979
Meanor, Phillip, M.A. 1979
Rosenthal, Alvin, M.A. 1979
Zurndorfer, Edward Arnold, M.A. 1979
Dev Kapur, Bharat, M.S. 1977, Ph. D. 1978
Mahfoud, Mohamed, M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1978
Utts, Jessica, M.A. 1975, Ph.D. 1978
Ebersole, Jeffrey, M.S. 1978
Bitter, Linda, M.A. 1978
Brenner, Neal, M.A. 1978
Burroughs, Marilyn, M.A. 1978
Davis, Denise, M.A. 1978
Kalish, Leslie, M.A. 1978
Mansfield, Marilyn , M.A. 1978
Markowski, Carol Ann, M.A. 1978
Schmoyer, Denise , M.A. 1978
Varela-Alvarez, Hugo, M.A. 1978
Ahn, Yunkee, Ph.D. 1977
Advisor: Dr. Haight
Taillie, Jr., Charles, Ph.D. 1977
Scott, Del, Ph.D. 1977
Wahrenberger, David, M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1977
Bin Jusoh, Mansor, M.A. 1977
Knight, William, M.A. 1977
Labovitz, Mark, M.A. 1977
Lefkowitz, Jerry, M.A. 1977
Menzie, William , M.A. 1977
Roman, Anthony, M.A. 1977
Sharif, Nooralla, M.A. 1977
Tseng, Nancy, M.A. 1977
Varney, Mark, M.A. 1977
Feldmann, Richard, Ph.D. 1976
Friday, Dennis, M.A. 1972, Ph.D. 1976
Schrader, Ronald, Ph.D. 1976
Thomas, James, Ph.D. 1976
Arons, Mitchell, M.A. 1976
Broderick, Domma , M.A. 1976
Gerlick, Cynthia , M.A. 1976
Kosloff, Cynthia, M.A. 1976
Kostanich, Donna, M.A. 1976
Kubricki, Stephen, M.A. 1976
LaValley, Rich, M.A. 1976
Makens, Paul , M.A. 1976
Sausman, Kenneth, M.A. 1976
Swaiko Loughner, Kathleen, M.A. 1976
Toy, Daniel, M.A. 1976
McKean, Joseph, Ph.D. 1975
Ratnaparkhi, Makarand , Ph.D. 1975
Blue, Joel, M.A. 1975
Chen, Hedy, M.A. 1975
Advisor: Dr. Matis
Ciancio, Nicholas, M.A. 1975
Corby, Carol, M.A. 1975
Advisor: Dr. Klimko
Cross, Suzanne Light, M.A. 1975
Horn, Paul, M.A. 1975
Hsieh, Sally, M.A. 1975
Advisor: Dr. Wiorkowski
Mailloux, Paul, M.A. 1975
Schwenk, Judith, M.A. 1975
Katz, Richard, Ph.D. 1974
Policello II, George, Ph.D. 1974
First job: University of Florida, Assistant Professor
Rademaker, Alfred, Ph.D. 1974
Franklin, Stephen , M.A. 1974
Keenan, Michael, M.A. 1974
Kershner, Ronald, M.A. 1974
Malin, Janice, M.A. 1974
McCormick, Cynthia, M.A. 1974
Mergenthaler, Mitchell, M.A. 1974
Miceli, Cynthia , M.A. 1974
Saunders, Janice , M.A. 1974
Zarnoch, Stanley , M.S. 1973
Boyer, Jr., Daniel, M.A. 1973
Burlone, Joyce Rather, M.A. 1973
First job: UNC-Asheville, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ellis, Carol, M.A. 1973
Gallagher, Maureen, M.A. 1973
Green Scheffler, Barbara, M.A. 1973
Gull, Gregory, M.A. 1973
Advisor: Dr. Kappenman
Gwandu, Lionel, M.A. 1973
Kidane, Asmerom, M.A. 1973
Kunkel, Jeffrey, M.A. 1973
Lin, Carol , M.A. 1973
Mowery, Paul, M.A. 1973
Advisor: Dr. Joiner
Ou, Carol, M.A. 1973
Rother, Joyce, M.A. 1973
Russell, Roy, M.A. 1973
Scheffler, Barbara , M.A. 1973
Slack, Carol , M.A. 1973
Tung, Jackson, M.A. 1973
Wynstra, John, M.A. 1973
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---- Ph.D. (2)
Marathe, Gunwant, Ph.D. 1972
Advisor: Dr. Klimko & Harkness
Rockette, Howard, Ph.D. 1972
Akin, Yildiz, M.A. 1972
Delozier, Michael R., M. A. 1972
Ho, Amy Min, M.A. 1972
Paisley, Millicent, M.A. 1972
Stratton, John, M.A. 1972
Thomas, Gail, M.A. 1972
Toronyi, Cheryl, M.A. 1972
Wd, Amy , M.A. 1972
Zanakis, Stelios, M.A. 1972
Killeen, Timothy, Ph.D. 1971
Advisor: Dr. Harkness & Hettmansperger
---- M.A. (10)
Billmann, Barry, M.A. 1971
Gehr, Anita Harwick, M.A. 1971
Kauffman, Peter, M.A. 1971
Mylet, Carol, M.A. 1971
Neis, Allan, M.A. 1971
O'Neil, Mary, M.A. 1971
Rafacs, Bernard, M.A. 1971
Schaul, Ronny, M.A. 1971
Slowinski, Samuel, M.A. 1971
Walker, Robert , M.A. 1971
First job: Chief, OCWC Statistical Methods Group
Atzinger, Erwin, M.A. 1966, Ph.D. 1970
Godambe, Ashok, Ph.D. 1970
Hoetzl, George, Ph.D. 1970
Janardan, Konanur, Ph.D. 1970
Stiteler III, William, Ph.D. 1970
Tryon, Peter, Ph.D. 1970
Advisor: Dr. Hattmansperger
Crone, Lynn, M.A. 1970
Heckard, Robert, M.A. 1970
Sheibley, Leroy, M.A. 1970
First job: Dir., Bureau of Personnel Assessment
Sponenburg, Craig, M.A. 1970
Vaughan, Douglas, M.A. 1970
Carey, Jr., Gerard, M.A. 1969
Joshi, Sharadchandra, M.A. 1969
Norland, Jr., Robert, M.A. 1969
Creal, Lana Shield, M.A. 1968
Engelsen, Marguerite, M.A. 1968
Klaiber, Marguerite, M.A. 1968
Leake, Donald , M.A. 1968
Sloane, Eugene , M.A. 1968
Norris, John , M.A. 1967
Bickham, Dorothy, M.A. 1966
Shantara, Ph.D.
Verity, William , M.A. 1966
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Harkness, Mary Lou, M.A. 1965
Mikelonis, Eugine, M.A. 1965
Varano, Michael, M.A. 1965
Wishtart, Elaine, M.A. 1965
Bolger, Edward, Ph.D. 1964
Conger, Claude, M.A. 1964
Ake, James, M.A. 1963
Hoetzl, George, M.A. 1963
Smeal, M.A. 1963
Srivastava, Om, Ph.D. 1963
Pryor, M.A. 1962
Bolger, Edward, M.A. 1961
Fidler, M.A. 1961
Hicks, William, M.A. 1961
Ross, Donald, M.A. 1961
Guild, Richard, M.A. 1960
Wander, M.A. 1960
Welch, M.A. 1960
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Cover, Thomas, M.A. 1959
Others (Graduation Date Not Specified)
Bowler, Thomas
Bywater, Sharon
Cheng, Tzuwei
Coronel, Paul
Dankanich, Edward
Decker, Brett
Depietropaolo, Elizabeth
Dinh, John
Ericson, Leah
Freeman, Allison
Freyer, Timothy
Gillott, Lora
Graber, Nora
Kaye, David
Kirsch, Rodney
Marsh, Raymond
McClain, Daniel
Plozner, Linda
Plumley, Luke
Roche, Ed
First job: Creative News Inc.,President
Stefanowicz, Stratton
Turlington, Deborah
Venturini, John
Wang, Yuemei, M.S.
Weiler, Peter
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Oct 20, 2017 · 10:08 pm
PM Modi will visit poll-bound Gujarat again on October 22 to inaugurate several projects
The prime minister will inaugurate the first phase of a Rs 615 crore ‘ro-ro’ ferry service between Ghogha in Bhavnagar district and Dahej in Bharuch
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit poll-bound Gujarat for the third time this month on October 22, to inaugurate and lay foundation stones for various projects in Bhavnagar and Vadodara districts, PTI reported on Friday.
Modi will inaugurate the first phase of a Rs 615 crore “ro-ro” ferry service between Ghogha in Bhavnagar district and Dahej in Bharuch. The prime minister had called the service his “dream project” during a rally in Gandhinagar on October 16.
“It is a complex project which involves the complicated marine structure of the Gulf of Cambay, on which it is built,” Gujarat Maritime Board Chief Executive Officer Ajay Bhadoo said. “The service reduces the distance between the two towns from 310 kilometres by road to 30 kilometres, which can be covered in one hour.”
Modi will address a gathering in Ghogha, and then travel to Dahej in the ferry. While the first phase of the project is meant for passengers, in the second phase, cars can also be ferried across the two towns.
After travelling to Dahej, Modi will reach Vadodara to inaugurate and lay the foundation stones for projects worth over Rs 1,140 crore. Vadodara Municipal Commissioner Vinod Rao said Modi will inaugurate a Rs 100 crore city command and control centre in Badamadi Garden and a Rs 125 crore city transport hub and multi-level parking among other projects.
He will also inaugurate a Rs 166 crore water treatment plant, two flyovers, a deer safari park, and a Rs 6 crore veterinary hospital, Rao said.
Election-related allegations
The Congress had criticised the Election Commission’s decision to not announce the dates for the Gujarat poll along with its announcement of the Himachal Pradesh election schedule. The Opposition party alleged that the commission is delaying announcing the dates so that the BJP can offer more schemes to the people in the state.
“EC has authorised Prime Minister [Narendra Modi] to announce [the] date of [the] Gujarat elections at his last rally,” Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram had tweeted.
The Model Code of Conduct comes into effect as soon as voting dates are announced, banning politicians from announcing freebies until elections are over.
The commission, however, had defended its decision. “Gujarat poll schedules are not announced right now due to the existing rules on time limit [46 days] for holding elections,” Chief Election Commissioner Achal Kumar Joti had said. “But it will take place before December 18, to ensure that Himachal Pradesh election results do not impact the Gujarat elections.”
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America's Cup World Series In Gothenburg
America's Cup action continues this week, as the fleet descends upon Gothenburg, Sweden for the Louis Vuitton America's Cup World Series, with racing from August 29-30.
"The Louis Vuitton America's Cup World Series Gothenburg is an opportunity for the teams to put more points on the board that will count towards the penultimate racing in Bermuda in 2017," said Russell Coutts, the CEO of the America's Cup Event Authority (ACEA).
"In the first event last month in Portsmouth, Ben Ainslie was clearly better than the rest and deserved to win. Peter Burling was also very impressive in his first start for Emirates Team New Zealand," continued Coutts. "However, I'm sure the others will be looking to improve, none more so than Artemis which has a boat stacked with Olympic champions. They definitely have the talent and they will certainly want to put on a better performance in front of their home crowd in Gothenburg."
The Louis Vuitton America's Cup World Series leaderboard is as follows:
Land Rover BAR - 19 points
Emirates Team New Zealand - 18
ORACLE TEAM USA - 16
Groupama Team France - 13
Softbank Team Japan - 13
Artemis Racing - 11
The six teams and helmsman in the field for Gothenburg are:
Artemis Racing, Nathan Outteridge
Emirates Team New Zealand, Peter Burling
Groupama Team France, Franck Cammas
Land Rover BAR, Ben Ainslie
ORACLE TEAM USA, Jimmy Spithill
Softbank Team Japan, Dean Barker
RIO 2016: ISAF Threatens To Move Events Out Of Polluted Bay
Sailing's governing body has warned that events at the Rio Olympics in 2016 could be moved out of the polluted Guanabara Bay.
According to an Associated Press investigation, levels of raw sewage pose a serious health risk to athletes.
A course inside the bay was closed for a test event because of floating waste.
"If we can't get the water to a level, then we'll move it to the Atlantic Ocean," said International Sailing Federation's chief Peter Sowrey.
Three of the courses earmarked for the Olympics are in the bay and three are in the Atlantic, with up to 1,400 athletes set to compete in water sports at the Games.
Sowrey also complained he had received no data during the test event from the state body that monitors water quality.
"We are not happy as a federation from the reporting on the water,'' Sowrey said. "We're not getting the reporting we expected to get.''
Sowrey added that otherwise the test event had gone "pretty well" from an operational viewpoint.
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Hudson Wight Is Ready & Raring To Go To The Southampton Boat Show
Our tried and tested products, combined with realistic prices, continue to work their magic on numerous satisfied customers and Hudson Wight Performance Sailwear is now one of the most sought after sailing clothing brands in the market.
As an online retailer, exhibiting at the Southampton Boat Show gives us a chance to meet you and you have a rare opportunity to get up close and personal with our 'capsule' range as well as meet the team behind the brand.
We give discerning sailors simple choices. Great sailing kit at realistic prices. Spread the word.
Check out the HW1 range comprising a Jacket or a Smock + Salopettes and our top-selling multi-faceted Performance Jacket - great new styling details added for 2015. We also have super cosy mid-layers and a range of polos and accessories too.
Your branding requirements are also safe in our hands and we would be delighted to quote when we receive your order. Just email: or phone: +44 (0)1983 300144.
Meanwhile, we look forward to welcoming you on our Stand B 012 from Friday 11th - Sunday 20th September.
If you are unable to make it to the Show, please visit our website www.hudsonwight.com or if you are in Cowes, Isle of Wight, pop into our Showroom at One The Parade, Cowes, PO31 7QJ.
ORACLE Team USA Upgrades First AC45S In Bermuda
America's Cup champion, Oracle Team USA appears to be a leap ahead of the rest of the Challengers for the 35th America's Cup with reports coming out of Bermuda that the team is upgrading its first AC45 S (Surrogate).
The 45ft Surrogate boats are designed to mimic the AC50's that will be used in the 35th America's Cup.
Only two of the Challengers have Surrogate boats - Artemis Racing and Land Rover BAR (GBR). Emirates Team NZ announced today that they have acquired an AC45 from the Italian Luna Rossa team, but it is not AC45S configured - which requires a 50%rebuild of a a standard AC45. However the team may just go straight to their preferred AC50 mode without having to modify an existing AC45S.
The Royal Gazette in Bermuda reports that the 'first foiling AC45 test boat is being upgraded to closely replicate the configuration of Oracle's second boat that has arrived at the team's Dockyard base. -- Richard Gladwell in Sail-World.com
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Fireball Worlds
Pwllheli, Wales: The Fireball Worlds opened yesterday under grey skies and surprisingly rain! With 106 entries, IRO Peter Saxton promised a line that would be of the order of 0.4 of a mile long. Again wind was promised but what was promised didn't quite materialise but there was enough to warrant a 22' 6" rig setting.
As usual it took a black flag start to get the fleet away but the most surprising aspect of this start was that new UK Nationals Champions, Tom Gillard and Richard Anderton were the first boat on the "naughty step". In all four boats lost the opportunity to race the opening race.
This allowed Christian Birrell and Sam Brearey to take the first race of the series and with a second place in the second race this gives them the overall lead,
In second place are Ian Dobson & Ben Ainsworth, who finished fourth in the UK Nationals last week - they scored two thirds. In third place are the very potent combination of DJ Edwards & Vyv Townend with a score of 2, 10.
From Afloat magazine: afloat.ie/sail/
Event: fireballworlds2015.com
Team NZ Get Luna Rossa Boat
Team New Zealand have had their America's Cup campaign boosted with sidelined Italian syndicate Luna Rossa lending them a testing boat.
The Italians pulled out of the cup in protest to late changes made in design rules. But they had already built a 45-foot foiling catamaran and now have continued their strong relationship with the Kiwis by handing it over to help New Zealand's quest for Bermuda 2017.
It's a major acquisition for Grant Dalton's cash-strapped syndicate and will allow them to forge on with testing and development on the water, an area they have lagged in over the past year.
The Kiwis have also brought on board some Italian team members.
A container of equipment arrived at the Kiwi headquarters in Auckland on Thursday.
The Kiwis also have equipment from the now defunct Team Australia syndicate.
These boats, together with their own AC45 being used on the America's Cup world series circuit, means they have their full complement of craft under the development rules in place at this stage of the cycle.
Crewsaver Designed Artemis Racing Team Products For 2017 America's Cup To Be Shown at Southampton Boat Show 2015
In June 2015 Crewsaver was proud to announce it had been chosen by Artemis Racing to be their Official Safety Supplier for the 35th America's Cup.
Five brand new products are being supplied including two unique new lifejackets, all of which will be on full display at Southampton Boat Show 2015 - Crewsaver stand, Ocean Hall, Stand No. G1804.
Crewsaver exclusively created two new radical buoyancy aids including one designed to meet the sailors' unique needs aboard the foiling AC 48 Class boat to ensure the Artemis Racing team perform safely, yet to the very best of their ability, under the most challenging of conditions.
These lifejackets combine cutting edge technology with innovative design. Key features include air bottle stowage, hands-free regulator, shoulder mounted knife, stretch to fit design, and an integrated communications system.
On top of this, and in collaboration with ForceField Body Armour, Crewsaver has incorporated its full level 2 spinal protection, a first for lifejacket technology. This, along with the chest and side armour protection, provides 360-degree impact protection.
Other items designed for Artemis Racing by Crewsaver and on display include branded long johns, helmets and rash vests.
Visitors have the chance to win a Crewsaver Artemis Pro lifejacket, a signed picture of the team and a McMurdo S20 AIS, all presented in a lifejacket box.
Details at crewsaver.com
Battle Of The Classes
The 2015 Battle of the Classes will be held at the Southampton Boat Show on Sunday 13th September.
Racing in front of the Boat Show crowds, the Battle of the Classes will showcase Dinghy Racing. This year, there will be a commentary to keep the Boat Show visitors updated on latest positions and top speeds. SailRacer will be providing live GPS tracking, displayed on screens around the Boat Show and online.
The event will be hosted by the Royal Corinthian YC and Southampton Water Activities Centre, where competitors will launch.
Competitors will be racing on a course laid just off the Boat Show marina. Each class will be represented by just two boats, so the standard will be high with each class competing to show which is the best.
Battle.SailRacer.org
An Endurance Test Like No Other
The 10th edition of the Clipper 2015-16 Round the World Yacht Race begins August 30 in London, when twelve Tony Castro designed Clipper 70s led by professional skippers and amateur crew will set out on their 40,000 mile competition.
Divided into eight legs and 16 individual races, people can choose to complete the full circumnavigation or select individual legs. While there is a cost for the crew to participate, it remains the only race in the world which provides this kind of opportunity on such a large scale.
The 40,000 mile Clipper 2015-16 Round the World Yacht Race will begin in London, UK on August 30 for the fleet of twelve identical Tony Castro designed Clipper 70s. The series is divided into 16 individual races, with the team with the best cumulative score winning the Clipper Race Trophy.
The ports along the race route are Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Cape Town, South Africa; Albany, Sydney, Hobart and Airlie Beach, Australia; Da Nang, Vietnam; Qingdao, China; Seattle, USA; Panama; New York, USA; Derry-Londonderry, Ireland; and Den Helder, Netherlands before returning to London by late July.
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Gyrecraft: A New Nautical Art Form?
A short film about crafting objects at sea, in the past with whale's teeth and the future with caught plastic melted with a machine harnessing the sun. Gyrecraft is an exploration into maritime crafts which exists in every coastal or island culture around the world each with its own unique identity, utilising what the sea provides. Many of these crafts took place onboard boats during long voyages as a way of making vital repairs or passing the time at sea. -- BW Sailing, bwsailing.com
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Yacht Club Costa Smeralda Announces New Caribbean Maxi Regatta
Inaugural edition of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Caribbean Cup scheduled for April 2016
The first Maxi Yacht World Championship was organized by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda (YCCS) in Porto Cervo, Sardinia in 1980. Since then the event has grown into the quintessential annual competition for Maxi yachts with boats and yachtsmen from around the world racing each September in the Costa Smeralda and enjoying the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda's hospitality ashore.
With the announcement of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Caribbean Cup, YCCS and their historic partner Rolex intend to extend the event's renowned competitive spirit to the opposite side of the Atlantic Ocean, where it will be hosted at the Club's winter home in Virgin Gorda (British Virgin Islands) from 4th to 9th April 2016.
Racing will take place over five days on coastal courses set within the Virgin Islands archipelago and boats will be divided into categories ranging from the Mini Maxi and Maxi 72 classes to Supermaxis with Wally and J-Class yachts also expected to participate. The event will be organized with the support of the International Maxi Association.
www.yccs.it/en/
Reid Kempe
Family, friends, colleagues and members of the sailing fraternity have paid tribute to Reid Kempe, who passed away on Sunday morning surrounded by his wife and children. He was 64.
When Reid's name comes up you may think of a former Olympian and giant in the sailing world, but he was also known as a perpetual learner and jack of all trades.
He fought a six-month battle with cancer but his positive attitude shone through to the end and before his death he was adamant that he would study at Harvard if everything worked out.
In his life he was politically active, a poet and musician, a teacher and marketer, champion sailor and boat restorer, but, above all else, he was a dedicated family man.
The fourth-generation Bermudian met his wife, Lucia, 44 years ago at University College London.
Sailing was in his blood. His father, Jimmy, built his young son a little sailboat and Reid later became the head sailing instructor at the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club.
Inspired by his father, who competed at two Olympic Games, Reid and his brother, Jay, launched their eight-year Olympic campaign and represented Bermuda in the Tornado class at the 1992 Barcelona Games.
Before his death, he was able to fulfil a dream that was years in the making when he built a luxury catamaran Zara along with sons Justin and Jonathan. -- Sarah Lagan in The Royal Gazette
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Leading performance yacht manufacturers, Sino Eagle, are excited to announce the New Aquila RP 45 IRC Racer Cruiser. Drawn by the Internationally acclaimed Reichel Pugh design team the Aquila RP 45 offers the ultimate in thoroughbred performance and provides winning credentials in even the most competitive Grand prix race events. Versatility and performance were essential design prerequisites; the Aquila RP 45 is a fast, competitive yacht which is at one on the race course as it is comfortably cruising shorthanded. Difficult as it can be to achieve these goals the yachts attributes include: interior volume, high stability, comfortable accommodation and above all precision build quality by global leaders in carbon composite technologies.
The specification for this boat includes the LIMITED EDITION - "Race Ready" package which is an optional upgrade from the standard boat.
I feel it's so easy to condemn this country [the United States]; but they don't understand that this is where the mistakes are being made - and made first, so that we're going to get the answers first. -- Christopher Isherwood
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Topic Storage vendors
Storage Soup
Violin Memory's sad song leads to bankruptcy
Dave Raffo
Editorial News Director
A data storage blog offering commentary on the storage industry, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at developments in storage management, SAN, NAS, backup, disaster recovery and storage strategy.
Calling all data storage products for the 2019 Products of the Year
With unicorn status, Acronis funding to aid acquisitions, R&D
Pure Storage revenue growth belies NAND pricing worries
Violin hires new CEO -- will he hold or sell? – SearchStorage
Violin Memory's latest quarter to forget – SearchStorage
Did Violin Memory just hang a ‘For Sale’ sign? – SearchStorage
Looking Ahead: Enterprise Cloud Trends for 2020 –IBM
Does a proprietary solution automatically mean vendor lock-in? –ComputerWeekly.com
Surfing the flash flood of data growth –ComputerWeekly.com
The Evolution of All-flash Technology –Violin Systems
Cash-bleeding all-flash array vendor Violin Memory today filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and will seek to sell off its assets at an auction next month.
After years of financial problems, Violin petitioned the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware for Chapter 11 relief. In a prepared statement, Violin CEO Kevin DeNuccio said the vendor will continue operations during the bankruptcy period while hoping to sell its assets.
“We are taking this action, which should conclude by the end of January 2017, to bolster Violin’s ability to serve the needs of its customers,” DeNuccio said. “Violin intends to continue to sell solutions to customers and prospects as well as service and support customers during this restructuring.”
Violin’s problem is it doesn’t have enough customers, and has been unable to come close to profitability since becoming a public company in Sept. 2013. Violin has twice conducted extensive searches for a buyer without success, and its 2016 sales slowed to a trickle.
Failing to find a buyer, Violin has cut expenses through layoffs and pay reductions. The vendor reduced headcount from 437 employees in Jan. 2014 to 82 through several staff reductions.
DeNuccio took a pay cut last week, dropping his salary from $750,000 to $150,000. The bankruptcy filing placed Violin’s average monthly payroll at approximately $758,000 with another $109,000 per month in health benefits. The vendor said it also owes approximately $244,000 in sales commissions to employees.
According to the petition, Violin will have $3.62 million in cash at the end of this week and that total will drop to around $1.6 million by Jan. 20, 2017. Most of the operational expenses over those six weeks will be payroll-related. Violin has lost $25.5 million, $22.2 million and $20.1 million over the last three quarters.
Violin’s executive team and directors have tried in vain to find a buyer since late 2015. Violin hired Jefferies Group as its financial adviser in Nov. 2015. Jefferies contacted 39 strategic and eight financial sponsors, according to Violin’s court filing. Those contacts resulted in nine parties signing confidentiality agreements and 10 parties conducting management meetings. But none made offers and the search for a buyer ended in March, 2016 when Violin instead put restructuring plans in place.
Violin’s sales decreased, as it reported $10.9 million, $9.7 million and $7.5 million in revenue over the past three quarters. Those totals were especially disappointing considering the market for all-flash arrays is one of the hottest in the storage industry.
Violin’s last-ditch effort to increase sales with its launch of a new Flash Storage Platform array in September came too late to stave off bankruptcy.
Violin hired another financial adviser, Houlihan Lokey Capital, in September to seek a buyer for the company. Houlihan contacted 202 potential strategic buyers and 78 financial sponsors, according to court filings. A total of 26 parties signed confidentiality agreements and 13 conducted management interviews but none submitted letters of interest.
In recent weeks, Violin sought debtor-in-possession financing that would allow Violin to remain in control of its assets through Chapter 11. Again, it found no interest. Those failed proposals “have necessitated the filing of this case,” according to the filing.
Violin asked the court to approve a Jan. 13 bid deadline for the auction, and is looking to finalize any sale by Jan. 20.
One of the first all-flash vendors on the market, Violin claims 58 U.S. patents and 64 foreign patents. It has another 22 U.S. and 38 foreign patents pending.
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Larry ‘Bud’ Melman aka Calvert DeForest
Calvert DeForest (July 23, 1921 – March 19, 2007), also known by his character Larry “Bud” Melman, was an American actor and comedian, best known for his appearances on Late Night with David Letterman and the Late Show with David Letterman.
Calvert DeForest as Larry “Bud” Melman giving hot towels out at the Port Authority as people get off the bus. Nov. 16, 1983
Late Night with David Letterman, Custom Made Show #2 (1984). Dave puts Larry in a bear suit and sends him down the hall to get change.
David Letterman pays tribute to the late Calvert Deforest (aka Larry “Bud” Melman)
Little has been published about his early life. He was born to Calvert Martin DeForest, M.D., a physician who died in 1949, and Mabelle (Taylor) DeForest. He was a cousin of actor DeForest Kelley of Star Trek fame, and Bebe Daniels, a silent film star who survived the introduction of sound. Radio pioneer Lee De Forest was Daniels’s second cousin. The exact family connection of Lee De Forest to Calvert DeForest is unclear.
DeForest attended Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn, New York. He worked for many years for the large pharmaceutical company Parke Davis, which was later acquired by Pfizer. He had aspirations of acting but was discouraged by his mother, who was briefly an actress herself. After her death in 1969, DeForest did part-time backstage work, which eventually led to acting work.
Work with David Letterman
He is credited with four films from 1972 to 1982 and, after his first appearance with David Letterman, appeared in 15 other films or television shows.
The Associated Press noted: “DeForest’s gnomish face was the first to greet viewers when Letterman’s NBC show debuted on February 1, 1982, offering a parody of the prologue to the Boris Karloff film Frankenstein. ‘It was the greatest thing that had happened in my life,’ he once said of his first Letterman appearance.”
The Melman character also opened Letterman’s first CBS show under his own name, but as essentially the same character, when Letterman moved from NBC to CBS in 1993. The name change was made because the character of “Larry ‘Bud’ Melman” was considered the intellectual property of NBC. Melman also appeared as “Kenny The Gardener”. He continued to appear on Letterman’s show until his 81st birthday in 2002 before retiring from acting. DeForest often “drew laughs by his bizarre juxtaposition as a Late Show correspondent at events such as the 1994 Winter Olympics in Norway and the Woodstock anniversary concert that year.” One of DeForest’s more memorable skits came on Letterman’s May 13, 1994, show. The host stated Johnny Carson would announce the evening’s Top 10 list, at which point DeForest, as Melman, appeared as “Johnny Carson.” On DeForest’s exit, the real Johnny Carson appeared in what would prove Carson’s last television appearance. DeForest was also noted for his remote interviews in which he would ask the interviewee a question, but pitch the microphone to the interviewee too quickly, resulting in a fade out of the last part of the question.
Letterman noted after DeForest’s death: “Everyone always wondered if Calvert was an actor playing a character, but in reality he was just himself: a genuine, modest and nice man. To our staff and to our viewers, he was a beloved and valued part of our show, and we will miss him.” When asked how he’d like to be remembered, DeForest responded “Just being able to make people laugh and knowing people enjoyed my humor. I also hope I haven’t offended anyone through the years.”
He was co-host (in charge of the digital switcher) on the local SF Bay Area radio program, 10@10, on KFOG-FM with Dave Morey.
In 1985, he appeared in the music video for the Run-DMC song “King of Rock” as a security guard.
In 1989, he appeared in the Special Ed video for the song “Think About it” as the villainous Dr. Norecords.
In 1994, he wrote a humor book called Cheap Advice.
In the late 1990s, he often appeared in various television ads including ones for Tropicana Twister, 1-800-Collect and Little Caesars.
DeForest also appeared on the hit albums Americana and Ixnay on the Hombre by The Offspring, doing some of the voices that can be heard before and after certain tracks. In late March 2007, a 20-minute clip of DeForest recording the voices for their album was posted on The Offspring’s website.
He appeared at Woodstock 1994 to announce Nine Inch Nails late night set by proclaiming, “Ladies and gentlemen, punch your balls off and please welcome Nine Inch Nails!”
He appeared on the first episode of the 1996 series The Dana Carvey Show on ABC.
He appeared as one of the clubhouse gang in an episode of Pee-wee’s Playhouse.
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Outrage as Grindr users post revealing pictures of themselves in front of Berlin Holocaust memorial
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin serves as a solemn reminder of the millions of lives lost during the Holocaust. It also serves as the backdrop for hundreds of gay and bisexual men using the austere grey concrete backdrop as a location to shoot their profile pictures for social app Grindr. The images have been collected on the blog ‘Totem and Taboo: Grindr Remembers the Holocaust,’ and have caused considerable outrage over the political correctness of the location.
Owner Sends Dog To Kill Shelter For Being ‘Gay’
The photo that started it all, which was posted Wednesday, showed the forlorn animal in a closed-off area wet with rain, looking bleakly through the fence. “This guy was signed over to [Jackson Rabies Control], not [because] he’s mean or [because] he tears things up, but because … [h]is owner says he’s gay!” the caption under the photo explained. “He hunched [sic] another male dog so his owner threw him away [because] he refuses to have a ‘gay’ dog! Even if that weren’t the most assinine [sic] thing I’ve ever heard, it’s still discrimination!” The post additionally threatened that the dog would lose his life today if he weren’t adopted, due to a lack of room at the facility.
Karen ‘Gary’ Kazaryan: The Hacker Who Allegedly Blackmailed 350 Women With 3,000 Nude Photos Over Skype And Facebook
A federal grand jury in the Central District of California has turned in a 30-count indictment against 27-year-old hacker Karen “Gary” Kazaryan, a resident from Glendale, Calif. If convicted on all 30 counts, including 15 counts of computer intrusion and 15 counts of aggravated identity theft, Kazaryan could face up to 105 years in federal prison. Karen ‘Gary’ Kazaryan: The Hacker Who Allegedly Blackmailed 350 Women With 3,000 Nude Photos Over Skype And Facebook According to the indictment released early Wednesday morning, Kazaryan allegedly hacked his way into hundreds of online accounts, using personal information and nude or semi-nude photos of his victims to coerce more than 350 female victims to show him their naked bodies, usually over Skype. By posing as a friend, Kazaryan allegedly tricked these women into stripping for him on camera, allegedly capturing more than 3,000 images of these women to blackmail them.
Senior British rabbi filmed telling alleged child abuse victim not to go to the police
The footage shows the alleged victim telling Rabbi Padwa about someone “who sexually abused me when I was younger, when I was a child and I’m looking for your advice, to be honest, what to do…Would do you think maybe, is it a good idea to speak to the police about it?”. “Oh no,” Padwa answers, explaining that doing so would breach Rabbinic Law. The alleged victim says that child sex abuse is a “very serious issue”, but is told not tell the police. Rabbi Padwa adds: “Men Tur Nisht,” which is Yiddish for “people must not tell tales.” He continues: “The police is not the solution.”
All data stored on cloud computing services can be accessed by US government without a warrant
According to reports, all personal information stored on major cloud computing services can be spied on by US agencies without users’ knowledge or even a search warrant. This is all reportedly being done under the recently reauthorized Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and has led British Members of Parliament to call on the British government to not only end the use of cloud computing but also stop sharing intelligence services with the U.S, according to the Independent. It’s worth pointing out that the US government has admitted breaching the Fourth Amendment under FISA while maintaining an absurd level of secrecy around the Act. Given the massive expansion of the Pentagon’s cyberwarfare forces and the exponential rise in surveillance overall, people around the world have a quite legitimate reason to be concerned.
Burger King reveals its burgers were contaminated in horsemeat scandal
Burger King has revealed that some of its burgers were contaminated in the horsemeat scare, as the tainted food crisis threatened to undermine the confidence of consumers, and major retailers tried to protect their reputations.
Cats Are Ruthless Killers. Should They Be Killed?
Look, I’m as sentimental as the next person. (I cried for the entirety of Les Miserables.) I love my cat and she gives my life meaning. But I also can admit that the science is staring us in the face. We can’t bear to talk about euthanizing cats because they are so friggin’ cute–but, if we’re honest with ourselves, the best solution to this problem is to kill cats. Kill them, with their cute little faces, their soft fur and their snuggles. Some of the cats need to be dead.
Priest busted on meth charges
A Catholic priest busted for allegedly dealing crystal meth was suspended after church officials discovered he was a cross-dresser who was having sex in the rectory at Bridgeport’s St. Augustine Cathedral. Monsignor Kevin Wallin was relieved of his duties in May, but the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport continued to pay him a stipend until his Jan. 3 arrest — a day he was planning to fly to London on vacation. Now dubbed “Msgr. Meth” by some, Wallin seemed to live a life that easily could have been ripped from the script of “Breaking Bad,” the popular AMC series about a high school chemistry teacher turned crystal methamphetamine producer. At one point, Wallin was selling upwards of $9,000 of meth a week, according to his indictment. In his post-priesthood, Wallin, 61, bought an adult specialty and video store in North Haven, Conn., called Land of Oz that sells sex toys and X-rated DVDs. Investigators believe the shop helped him launder thousands of dollars in weekly profits.
Can the DEA Hide a Surveillance Camera on Your Land?
The ruling last October came in a motion to suppress the evidence obtained by the warrantless video cameras. After that ruling, the defendants, five members of the Magana family, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute marijuana and now face up to life in prison and up to $10 million in fines. But as part of the plea deal, they retained their right to appeal the ruling. And their attorneys say they are prepared to take the case all the way to the US Supreme Court. In their motion, they had asked the court to suppress evidence because of the property’s locked gate and “No Trespassing” sign. Since the properties were heavily wooded and posted with signs, the owners were entitled to an expectation of privacy, the attorneys say.
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Operation Intercept, 1969 | War on Drugs, 1969: Photos From U.S. Customs’ ‘Operation Intercept’
Case in point: In October 1969, LIFE ran a cover story (or rather, a series of stories) under the banner: MARIJUANA: At Least 12 Million American Have Now Tried It. Are penalties too severe? Should it be legalized? Across 10 full pages, intermingling opinion, photography and reportage, LIFE took a hard look at pot smoking in the U.S., but waded deep into the debate — already heated then — of whether or not the country’s draconian marijuana statutes were doing more harm than good.
Droid DNA “Hyper Intelligence” Commercial and its Transhumanist Message
This TV ad promoting Verizon’s Droid DNA phone is weird, cringe-worthy and also promotes something else: Transhumanism. Indeed, the ad does not only sell a smartphone. Not unlike movies and music videos, it normalizes the concept of “upgrading” humans by merging them with machines. While most of us already entertain a somewhat unhealthy, dependent relationship with our cellphones, this ad makes things creepier by showing the device completely modifying the user’s body and genetic makeup. Yes, it is “only a commercial”, but all of the concepts behind it are real and will be available to a very rich and limited public very soon. Here’s the ad.
The DEA Wants to Access Your Medical Records Without Consent or a Warrant
The Drug Enforcement Administration is trying to access private prescription records of patients in Oregon without a warrant, despite a state law forbidding it from doing so. The ACLU and its Oregon affiliate are challenging this practice in a new case that raises the question of whether the Fourth Amendment allows federal law enforcement agents to obtain confidential prescription records without a judge’s prior approval. It should not.
Al Pacino is transformed into Phil Spector with a huge wig as stills are released from controversial new TV movie
It is one of the most controversial Hollywood productions in years. And new stills of controversial new made-for-TV film Phil Spector show Al Pacino, who plays the music mogul, being sent to prison for murdering a B movie actress Lana Clarkson. The Godfather star wears a massive afro wig in the courtroom scene, and is flanked by Dame Helen Mirren, who is playing his lawyer Linda Kenny Baden.
Miami-Dade Police dogs, cocaine used in 4th-grade science project
A Miami-Dade Police detective provided narcotics detector canines and an ounce of cocaine for his daughter’s fourth-grade science project, “Drug Sniffing Dogs.”
10 Ways Social Taboos About Sex, Drugs and Death Scare Us from Learning the Truth
Taboos are not relics of ancient societies. America has its share of views that are cemented in cultural mores. As Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in a 1996 Supreme Court dissent, “Closed-minded we were — as every age is, including our own, with regard to matters it cannot guess, because it simply does not consider them debatable.” By foreclosing debate, modern taboos surrounding topics such as excrement, sex, drugs and death lead to harmful attitudes and policies. The ensuing misery ranges from “slut shaming” to the tragedy of the drug war that has resulted in over 50,000 violent Mexican deaths since 2006. Taboos negatively affect the latent assumptions on which Americans carry out their lives, and have transformed the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness into the pursuit of health, safety and the avoidance of death.
Chinese Surgeons Treat Opiate Addiction by Removing Brain’s Pleasure Center
Doctors in China are experimenting with an extreme treatment for addiction. The experimental procedure consists of destroying portions of the brain’s pleasure center in an attempt to stop cravings for opiate drugs like heroin. Possible side effects including permanently disabling an addict’s ability to experience the entire range of human emotions, including the capacity to feel joy.
ARGUS: The Technology that Takes Video Surveillance to Another Level
Argus Panoptes is the name of a giant of Greek mythology who had a hundred eyes and who was said to be “all-seeing”. What an appropriate name for DARPA’s latest wide area monitoring system, described as the “next generation of surveillance”. When mounted on a drone, ARGUS (which stands for Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System) has a 1.8 Gigapixels video system that allows the constant video surveillance of a small city, complete with the tracking of moving objects and incredible zoom-in capabilities. Here’s a short video describing the basic (and non top-secret) capabilities of this technology. As you’ll see, the guy in the documentary refuses to say where this system is used. One thing, it is used and most probably on civilians. The All-Seeing Eye is not just a symbol, it is a goal the powers that be are striving to achieve.
Movie Review: ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ By James Inman
I downloaded Zero Dark Thirty off BitTorrent because I thought I’d review the film exclusively for Media Underground. I’m not going to pay one dime for a Lockheed Martin commercial and I knew how it ends so here’s my take. The film should be called Zero Fuck Movie. It begins with a retarded looking ginger anorexic pale Carrot Juice Maya bitch standing in the background during a torture scene, but you’re supposed to feel sorry for her because she can’t stand to watch torture. First thoughts: any CIA agent in that room is going to be a West Point graduate and a professional sadist and is not going to give a fuck about torture. When they keep cutting back to her with that Florence Nightingale compassion cunt-face, it’s utterly laughable.
Vertical slums, Caracas, Venezuela
The Tower of David, called after David brillembourg, the tower’s investor died in 1993. The building is incomplete due to the crisis of 1994 lacking of elevators, installed electricity, running water, balcony railing, windows, and even walls in many places. As Virginia Lopez, The Guardian, reported, Tower of David is far from the perfect home. No sewage system is in place, lorry-delivered water is rationed, whole sections of the building are in the dark and the absence of lifts forces people to walk up hundreds of stairs.
Surfer Beats Own Record For Tallest Wave Ever Surfed – SPIEGEL ONLINE
Hawaiian surfer Garrett McNamara successfully rode a towering wave believed to be over 30 meters tall (100 feet) off the coast of Nazaré in Portugal on Monday. Reportedly, he’s now broken his own world record, set in 2011 in the same spot. The waves in this part of the Atlantic Ocean are legendary among surfers.
The Cult of Nikola Tesla
No personality in the history of science has been pushed further into the realm of mythology than the Serbian-American electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. He is, without a doubt, one of the true giants in the history of electromagnetic theory. As an inventor he was as prolific as they come, with approximately 300 patents having been discovered in at least 26 countries, but many more inventions as well that stayed within his lab and were never patented. As remarkable as were his talents was his personality: private, eccentric, possessed of extraordinary memory and bizarre habits, and with a headlong descent into mental illness during his later years. Tesla’s unparalleled combination of genius and aberrance have turned him into one of the seminal cult figures of the day. As such, at least as much fiction as fact have swirled around popular accounts of his life, and devotees of conspiracy theories and alternative science hypotheses have hijacked his name more than that of any other figur…
The Longest Hunger Strike
Staff turned off the video camera typically used to record medical procedures. They strapped Coleman down at “four points” with seatbelt-like “therapeutic” restraints. Edward Blanchette, the internist and prison medical director at the time, pushed a thick, flexible tube up Coleman’s right nostril. Rubber scraped against cartilage and bone and drew blood. Coleman howled. As the tube snaked into his throat, it kinked, bringing the force of insertion onto the sharp edges of the bent tube. They thought he was resisting so they secured a wide mesh strap over his shoulders to keep him from moving. A nurse held his head. Blanchette finally realized that the tube had kinked and pulled it back out. He pushed a second tube up Coleman’s nose, down his throat, and into his stomach. Blanchette filled the tube with vanilla Ensure. Coleman’s nose bled. He gagged constantly against the tube. He puked. As they led him back to his cell, the cuffs of Coleman’s gray sweatshirt were soaked with snot, s…
That Cuddly Kitty Is Deadlier Than You Think
In a report that scaled up local surveys and pilot studies to national dimensions, scientists from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the Fish and Wildlife Service estimated that domestic cats in the United States — both the pet Fluffies that spend part of the day outdoors and the unnamed strays and ferals that never leave it — kill a median of 2.4 billion birds and 12.3 billion mammals a year, most of them native mammals like shrews, chipmunks and voles rather than introduced pests like the Norway rat. The estimated kill rates are two to four times higher than mortality figures previously bandied about, and position the domestic cat as one of the single greatest human-linked threats to wildlife in the nation. More birds and mammals die at the mouths of cats, the report said, than from automobile strikes, pesticides and poisons, collisions with skyscrapers and windmills and other so-called anthropogenic causes.
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‘Quantum smell’ idea gains ground
A controversial theory that the way we smell involves a quantum physics effect has received a boost, following experiments with human subjects. It challenges the notion that our sense of smell depends only on the shapes of molecules we sniff in the air. Instead, it suggests that the molecules’ vibrations are responsible. A way to test it is with two molecules of the same shape, but with different vibrations. A report in PLOS ONE shows that humans can distinguish the two. Tantalisingly, the idea hints at quantum effects occurring in biological systems – an idea that is itself driving a new field of science
LAPD Uses Anti-Terrorism Devise to Track Cellphone Users – Ca – News
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is using an anti-terrorism device that indiscriminately sweeps up cellphone communications of innocent bystanders during burglary, drug and murder investigations. LA Weekly wrote back in September that the police agency purchased Stingray technology in 2006 using Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funds, and is deploying the portable equipment for routine police operations. DHS grant documents said the device was intended for “regional terrorism investigations.” Stingray pretends that it is a cell tower and fools wireless phones into establishing a connection. Once connected, it can establish cell location and download information of people who are not suspects in an investigation, raising all sorts of privacy issues.
Brain region associated with selfishness
People with damage to a specific part of the brain entrusted unexpectedly large amounts of money to complete strangers. In an investment game played in the lab, three women with damage to a small part of the brain called the basolateral amygdala handed over nearly twice as much money as healthy people.
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☛ Steve Jobs Action Figure: Apple Threatens Chinese Toy Maker With Lawsuit
Apple has allegedly threatened to sue Chinese company In Icons over its eerily realistic 12-inch action figure of Steve Jobs, the company’s late founder. The 1:6 scale model, which was said to be distributed by DiD Corp. in late February, comes with the clothes and accessories popularized by Jobs, such as the black faux turtleneck, blue jeans and sneakers. The figurine, which is packaged in a box that looks like Walter Isaacson’s “Steve Jobs” biography cover, also comes with a chair, a “One More Thing…” backdrop, as well as two red apples, including one with a bite in it. To make it extra creepy, the doll’s realistic head sculpt features Jobs’ famous unblinking stare.
☛ 34 Shocking Facts About U.S. Debt That Should Set America On Fire With Anger
We have all been lied to. For decades, the leaders of both major political parties have promised us that they can fix our current system and that they can get our national debt under control. As the 2012 election approaches, they are making all kinds of wild promises once again. Well you know what? It is all a giant sham. The United States has gotten into so much debt that there will be no coming back from this. The current system is irretrievably broken. 30 years ago the U.S. debt was a horrific crisis that was completely and totally out of control. If we would have dealt with it back then maybe we could have done something about it. But now it is 15 times larger, and we are adding more than a trillion dollars to the debt every single year.
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☛ Paul Supporter Likely Violated Military Conduct Code
Following a third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses, Ron Paul held a boisterous rally, featuring a speech from Army Corporal Jesse Thorsen. Thorsen, who was in uniform, voiced impassioned support for Paul’s non-interventionist views. “We don’t need to be picking fights overseas,” he said, and pledged to help “make sure this man is the next president of the United States.” It was an understandable sentiment from a soldier who said he had served in the military for 10 years, which included tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the appearance likely violated the protocols for service members included in Defense Department Directive 1344.10, which states explicitly that they are not to participate in political rallies as anything more than spectators. And if they do attend a political function, they’re not supposed to do so in uniform.
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☛ Islam Critical Black Metal music nominated for Norwegian Grammy
Metal band Taake is nominated for the Norwegian Grammys in the category for best metal album for the album “Norway’s weapons,” which came out this fall. Besides the line of text devoted to “Moslems”, include “those who burn our flag,” called the swine in the song “Hurricane.” The text also says that hard to be against hard: “Now wake up soon Norway.”
☛ Swank sushi: Tuna fetches record $736K
A bluefin tuna caught off northeastern Japan fetched a record $736,000, Thursday in the first auction of the year at Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market. The price translates to $1,238 per pound — also a record, said Yutaka Hasegawa, a Tsukiji market official. Though the fish is undoubtedly high quality, the price has more to do with the celebratory atmosphere that surrounds the first auction of the year.
☛ How fracking might have led to an Ohio earthquake
The link between “fracking”-related activities and earthquakes was thrown into stark relief over the weekend when a magnitude 4.0 quake struck Youngstown, Ohio – typically not a hot bed of noticeable seismic activity. The quake triggered shaking reportedly felt as as far away as Buffalo, N.Y., and Toronto. The temblor struck Dec. 31 and was the latest and strongest of 11 minor-to-light quakes that have hit the region since March. The epicenters are clustered around a wastewater injection well for a hydraulic fracturing operation.
☛ Denver woman accused of attacking $30 million painting
A 36-year-old Denver woman, apparently drunk, leaned against an iconic Clyfford Still painting worth more than $30 million last week, punched it, slid down it and urinated on herself, according to a criminal case filed against Carmen Lucette Tisch. “It doesn’t appear she urinated on the painting or that the urine damaged it, so she’s not being charged with that,” Lynn Kimbrough, a spokeswoman for the Denver district attorney’s office, said Wednesday. “You have to wonder where her friends were.” Tisch is being charged with criminal mischief in the incident that happened at the Clyf ford Still Museum at 3:30 p.m. on Dec. 29. Damage to the painting — “1957-J-No. 2.” — is estimated at $10,000. The painting, which is nearly 9 1/2 feet tall and 13 feet wide, is estimated to be worth between $30 million and $40 million by the museum. Tisch allegedly committed the offense with her pants pulled down, according to the police report, and struck the painting repeatedly with her fist.
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✦ The 10 Hottest Women on the Texas Sex Offenders List
You probably would not be too surprised to learn that the vast majority of people in the Texas Department of Public Safety’s sex offender list are male.And most are not good-looking.But there are females on there, too. Most of them are not good-looking, true, but who takes a good mugshot besides Tom DeLay?
We combed through 15 of the biggest counties in Texas and came up with the ten hottest women in the database. Warning: In some cases, we picked out the best of a series of mugshots. Alternative choices were starkly different. So click on each link before you send any marriage proposals.
✦ Iran revolutionary guards commander becomes new president of Opec
A senior Iranian revolutionary guards commander targeted by international sanctions has taken over the presidency of Opec after he became Iran’s oil minister on Wednesday.
✦ Blame game erupts as woman claims live rat found in loaf of bread in Coles supermarket
While unpacking the groceries with a friend on Sunday, a Townsville woman noticed a suspicious looking hole in a loaf of Helga’s bread she’d purchased.“I said to my friend, ‘This bread’s got a hole in it, it looks like a rat’s eaten into it’,” the woman, who asked not to be identified, told AAP.The rat had done more than chew through the packaging; when she lifted the bag out she found the rat alive and nestled inside the loaf.
✦ Scientists find new superbug strain of salmonella
Scientists have identified an emerging “superbug” strain of salmonella that is highly resistant to the antibiotic ciprofloxacin, or Cipro, often used for severe salmonella infections, and say they fear it may spread around the world.The strain, known as S. Kentucky, has spread internationally with almost 500 cases found in France, Denmark, England and Wales in the period between 2002 and 2008, according a study in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
✦ Trio of Los Angeles raw food advocates reportedly charged with raw milk conspiracy
The raid on Rawesome Foods by a combined force of agents from the FDA, LA County Dept of Agriculture, CDC and the LA County Sheriff’s office wasn’t the only SWAT-style armed raid that took place today. Sharon Palmer, a mom and owner of Healthy Family Farms was also arrested and taken to jail. A third woman, Victoria Bloch, the LA County liaison for the Weston A Price Foundation (www.WestonaPrice.org) , was also reportedly arrested, NaturalNews has learned.Sharon Palmer is being charged with “mislabeling cheese,” NaturalNews has learned. (Yes, mislabeling cheese! This earns you an armed raid in America today, even while the real crooks in Washington run free…) This is on top of the conspiracy charge which has been leveled against all three (James, Sharon and Victoria).
✦ Norway Shooter Breivik had plastic surgery to look ‘Aryan’
The head of Norway’s intelligence agency Janne Kristianse that she believes accused terrorist Anders Breivik received plastic surgery in order to look more “Aryan.”“You do not have that Aryan look naturally in Norway,” she said in an interview with the Sunday Times (article behind paywall). “Hitler would have had him on posters. He has the perfect, classic Aryan face. He must have had a facelift.”
✦ Tourist’s hand nearly severed in sex romp
A Kiwi woman had her hand almost completely severed when a sex romp on a bathroom sink in Croatia went awry, according to a report.The Croatian Times newspaper reported the 28-year-old New Zealand woman, known as Amy R, was having sex on a bathroom sink with an Englishman in the island town of Hvar when the porcelain broke and the sharp edge sliced her wrist, leaving her hand hanging by just the skin.Thanks Patrick Nybakken
✦ Indian man has hysterectomy after doctors find uterus
The Indian man, identified as Ryalu, was admitted to a hospital near Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, after complaining of severe stomach pains.Doctors suspected a normal hernia, but when they carried out an exploratory operation they were shocked to discover it had been caused by a female uterus, ovaries, Fallopian tubes, a cervix and underdeveloped vaginal tissue.
✦ Ukraine to save bears from forced vodka drinking
“On television, they keep showing bears suffering in restaurants and roadside hotels,” Interfax quoted him as saying. “How long can we tolerate animal torture in restaurants where drunken guests make bears drink vodka for laughs?”
✦ Man accused in sex abuse blamed Satan
The woman, with police listening, made a confrontation call Tuesday, which is when Guyton said he believed Satan “got into him.” He told her he didn’t know why he did it because he didn’t get any enjoyment out of it. He asked for her forgiveness and told the woman that he hadn’t had sex since the 1980s.Police arrested Guyton at his home later that day.Guyton told police during an interview that the woman was angry at him because he was going to fire her, so she tried to hit him in the groin. He said he grabbed her hand as it was on his groin and said he held her hand there longer than necessary.
✦ Girlfriend’s nose bit off for refusing sex
On the day of the assault, they had both been drinking at Gonzalez-Hernandez’s home when he wanted sex. The woman felt dizzy from drinking and wanted to talk instead. That’s when Gonzalez-Hernandez pushed the woman onto a bed, hit her in the face and then bit her nose off.
✦ Search is on for missing ‘floating island’
‘Is Land’ was a £9,000 helium-filled sculpture of a desert island which floated above the heads of revellers at the Secret Garden Party festival recently.However, the art project drifted off somewhere without anyone seeing it and may now be floating in the troposphere, the lowest portion of Earth’s atmosphere.Sarah Cockings and Laurence Symonds, Royal College of Art graduates, who created the seven-metre wide airborne islet have asked that any sightings be reported via the website is-land.co.uk.
‘Is Land’ is made of durable polyurethane with foliage décor and was built over six months.
It was last seen at approximately 3am on Sunday 24 July hanging over a lake at the Cambridgeshire festival by security guards who witnessed two unidentified youths in a dinghy cutting all five of its tether ropes, releasing the island into the sky.
✦ Tepco Reports Second Deadly Radiation Reading at Fukushima Nuclear Plant
Tokyo Electric Power Co. reported its second deadly radiation reading in as many days at its wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant north of Tokyo.The utility known as Tepco said yesterday it detected 5 sieverts of radiation per hour in the No. 1 reactor building. On Aug. 1 in another area it recorded radiation of 10 sieverts per hour, enough to kill a person “within a few weeks” after a single exposure, according to the World Nuclear Association.
✦ The Debt Ceiling Deal From Hell
Is the debt ceiling deal supposed to be some sort of a cruel joke? Is this what the American people have been waiting months and months for? The “debt ceiling deal from hell” is a complete and total fraud. Barack Obama will not need to worry about the debt ceiling again until after the 2012 election, and no “real” spending cuts will happen until after the 2012 election. The way the political game in Washington D.C. is played today, if you don’t get something right now, you probably will never end up getting it. The Republicans have traded a massive debt ceiling increase right now for the possibility of very skimpy budget cuts in the future. Meanwhile, this deal establishes a new “Super Congress” that threatens to fundamentally alter our political system (and not in a good way). The funny thing is that everyone is running around proclaiming that the Tea Party won this battle. That is a complete and total lie.
✦ Minnesota School Faces Lawsuit Over Racist ‘Wigger Day’
A Minnesota school district allowed a homecoming event called “Wigger Day,” during which students wore clothes and behaved in a manner that “from their perspective, mimicked black culture,” according to a federal class action lawsuit filed against the district on Friday.The suit alleges that despite student council voting on a “tropical theme” for homecoming in 2009, a group of approximately 60 students from the predominantly white school instead attended the event dressed for “Wigger Wednesday” in “oversized sports jerseys, low-slung pants, baseball hats cocked to the side and ‘doo rags.'”
✦ CIA veteran: Cold War gives way to Code War
A US counterterrorism expert warned Wednesday that the Cold War has given way to a “Code War” in which cyber weapons can be unleashed with devastating consequences.Nations will launch online attacks and extremist groups will add cyber attacks to their tactics, according to Cofer Black, who spent 28 years in the Central Intelligence Agency before becoming a private consultant.“You had the Cold War, the global war on terrorism… now you have the Code War,” Cofer said at a major Black Hat computer security gathering in Las Vegas.
“The natural thing will be for Al-Qaeda to fall back to things that are small and agile,” he continued. “They will enter the cyber world.”
✦ Teaching Kids How to Break Up Nicely
Late last month, 200 teenagers from Boston-area schools gathered to discuss the minutia of Facebook breakup etiquette. Should you delete pictures of your ex after splitting up? Is it O.K. to unfriend your last girlfriend if you can’t stop looking at her profile? And is it ever ethically defensible to change your relationship status to single without first notifying the person whose heart you’re crushing?
✦ 6 Creepy New Weapons the Police and Military Use To Subdue Unarmed People
The US is at the forefront of an international arms development effort that includes a remarkable assortment of technologies, which look and sound like they belong in a Hollywood science fiction thriller. From microwave energy blasters and blinding laser beams, to chemical agents and deafening sonic blasters, these weapons are at the cutting edge of crowd control.The Pentagon’s approved term for these weapons is “non-lethal” or “less-lethal” and they are intended for use against the unarmed. Designed to control crowds, clear streets, subdue and restrain individuals and secure borders, they are the 21st century’s version of the police baton, pepper spray and tear gas. As journalist Ando Arike puts it, “The result is what appears to be the first arms race in which the opponent is the general population.”
✦ Facebook’s Marketing Director: ‘I think anonymity on the Internet has to go away.’
The Nymwars rage on. Over the past several weeks Google has been engaged in a very public struggle with its users over its “real names” policy on Google+, prompting blog posts and editorials debating the pros and cons of allowing pseudonymous accounts on social networking sites. But there is one person for whom insisting on the use of real names on social networking sites is not enough. Unsurprisingly, that person is Facebook’s Marketing Director, Randi Zuckerberg. Speaking last week on a panel discussion about social media hosted by Marie Claire magazine, Zuckerberg said,I think anonymity on the Internet has to go away. People behave a lot better when they have their real names down. … I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors.
✦ New Meat Loaf Album Will Feature Lil Jon and Chuck D
Meat Loaf is working on not one, not two, but three new albums, and one of them apparently features crunk king Lil Jon and Public Enemy’s Chuck D.Meat Loaf met Lil Jon after they both appeared on Celebrity Apprentice, while Meat Loaf’s son-in-law, Scott Ian of Anthrax, introduced him to Chuck D. Both will appear on Hell In A Handbasket, which is due out in February.
✦ Mug-Shot Industry Will Dig Up Your Past, Charge You to Bury It Again
Exploiting Florida’s liberal public-records laws and Google’s search algorithms, a handful of entrepreneurs are making real money by publicly shaming people who’ve run afoul of Florida law. Florida.arrests.org, the biggest player, now hosts more than 4 million mugs.On the other side of the equation are firms like RemoveSlander, RemoveArrest.com and others that sometimes charge hundreds of dollars to get a mugshot removed. On the surface, the mug-shot sites and the reputation firms are mortal enemies. But behind the scenes, they have a symbiotic relationship that wrings cash out of the people exposed.
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☆ Crystal Harris: Sex with Hef lasted ‘two seconds’
Crystal Harris is moving on from Hugh Hefner, but not without taking a few parting shots at her former fiancé.
Harris, 24, said Tuesday on Sirius XM Radio’s Howard Stern Show that sex with the 85-year-old Playboy founder lasted “like two seconds.”
“Then I was just over it,” she says. “I was like, ‘Ahhh.’ I was over it. I just like, walked away. I’m not turned on by Hef, sorry.”
She adds that they had sex just once.
“He doesn’t really take off his clothes,” Harris says. “I’ve never seen Hef naked.”
☆ Boone County Career and Technical Center Closed after Meth Residue Found
Former school teacher Jack Turley and former school principal Keith Phipps are facing misdemeanor charges and are accused of buying cold medicine to cook meth on school property. Turley’s preliminary hearing in the case was July 1, but it was stopped when defense attorneys tried to dismiss the case on a technicality.
Turley told state police during an investigation that they used meth in Phipps’ office at the school.
☆ Privacy and Security Fanatic: Project PM Leaks Dirt on Romas/COIN Classified Intelligence Mass Surveillance
For at least two years, the U.S. has been conducting a secretive and immensely sophisticated campaign of mass surveillance and data mining against the Arab world, allowing the intelligence community to monitor the habits, conversations, and activity of millions of individuals at once. And with an upgrade (Odyssey) scheduled for later this year, the top contender to win the federal contract and thus take over the program is a team of about a dozen companies which were brought together in large part by Aaron Barr – the same disgraced CEO who resigned from his own firm earlier this year after he was discovered to have planned a full-scale information war against political activists at the behest of corporate clients. The new revelation provides for a disturbing picture, particularly when viewed in a wider context. Unprecedented surveillance capabilities are being produced by an industry that works in secret on applications that are nonetheless funded by the American public
☆ A Revenge Plot So Intricate, the Prosecutors Were Pawns
One day, he cornered her, taped her mouth and raped her, she said. Mr. Ramrattan was arrested.
But he soon took his revenge, the authorities said. Drawing on his knowledge of police procedure, gleaned from his time as an informer for law enforcement, he accomplished what prosecutors in New York called one of the most elaborate framing plots that they had ever seen.
One night, Ms. Sumasar was pulled over by the police. Before she could speak, detectives slapped handcuffs on her. “You know you did it,” she said one later shouted at her. “Just admit it.”
Ms. Sumasar, a former Morgan Stanley analyst who was running a restaurant, said she had no idea what that meant. Yet suddenly, she was being treated like a brazen criminal. She was charged with carrying out a series of armed robberies, based on what the police said was a wealth of evidence, including credible witness statements and proof that her car was the getaway vehicle.
☆ ‘Stoner Stupid’ Myth Goes Up In Smoke
Researchers reported: “Only with respect to the immediate recall measure was there evidence of an improved performance associated with sustained abstinence from cannabis, with outcomes similar to those who had never used cannabis at the end point. On the remaining cognitive measures, after controlling for education and other characteristics, there were no significant differences associated with cannabis consumption.”
They concluded, “Therefore, the adverse impacts of cannabis use on cognitive functions either appear to be related to pre-existing factors or are reversible in this community cohort even after potentially extended periods of use.”
☆ Man slashing female Virginia shoppers in buttocks
The 18-year-old victim received a 1.5-inch gash across her buttocks, police said.
The woman said she was shopping when she noticed clothing that had fallen from a rack behind her and then a man bending down to pick up the fallen items. She then felt a sharp pain in her buttocks, but thought she might have been poked by one of the clothes hangers. A short time later, she realized that her denim shorts had been slashed and that she was cut and bleeding.
☆ More Faces of Meth (New Photos)
☆ Fired Army Whistleblower Receives $970K for Exposing Halliburton No-Bid Contract in Iraq
Bunnatine “Bunny” Greenhouse, the former chief oversight official of contracts at the Army Corps of Engineers, has reached a $970,000 settlement six years after she was demoted for publicly criticizing a multi-billion-dollar, no-bid contract to Halliburton—the company formerly headed by then-Vice President Dick Cheney. Greenhouse had accused the Pentagon of unfairly awarding the contract to Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root. Testifying before Congress in June 2005, she called the contract the worst case of government abuse she had ever witnessed in her 20-year career. Just two months after that testimony, Greenhouse was demoted at the Pentagon, ostensibly for “poor performance.” She had overseen government contracts for 20 years and had drawn high praise in her rise to become the senior civilian oversight official at the Army Corps of Engineers. With the help of the National Whistleblowers Center, Greenhouse filed a lawsuit challenging her demotion.
☆ Believers in Mysterious Planet Nibiru, Comet Elenin Await Earth’s End
Lieder originally called the bringer of doom “Planet X,” and later connected it to a planet that was hypothesized to exist by a writer named Zecharia Sitchin in his book “The 12th Planet” (Harper 1976). According to Sitchin (1920-2010), the ancient Sumerians wrote about a giant planet called Nibiru — the “twelfth planet” in the solar system, after the other planets (including Pluto), the sun and moon — which has an oblong orbit that swings near Earth every 3,600 years. Humans actually evolved on Nibiru, he said, and colonized this planet during a previous flyby.
☆ Street View cars grabbed locations of phones, PCs
Google’s Street View cars collected the locations of millions of laptops, cell phones, and other Wi-Fi devices around the world, a practice that raises novel privacy concerns, CNET has confirmed.
The cars were supposed to collect the locations of Wi-Fi access points. But Google also recorded the street addresses and unique identifiers of computers and other devices using those wireless networks and then made the data publicly available through Google.com until a few weeks ago.
☆ WISE finds the very first Earth Trojan asteroid
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has found the very first asteroid that (more or less) shares an orbit with Earth! Called 2010 TK7, this asteroid is about 300 meters (roughly 1000 feet) across, and is the first in an up-to-now theoretical class of objects called Earth Trojans.
☆ Hernia Surgery with Butter Knife: Glendale Man Tries to Perform Hernia Surgery on Himself Using Butter Knife
The 63 year-old man, whose name is not being released, was trying to remove a protruding hernia from his stomach using a six inch butter knife, Glendale police Sgt. Tom Lorenz tells KTLA.
☆ SFPD Defense of Cop Shooting? Victim’s Fatal Wound Was ‘Self-Inflicted’
San Francisco police announced late last week that Kenneth Harding might have taken his own life during a shootout with Bayview police, a revelation that only adds to the confusion surrounding the young man’s death and residents’ anger over the second police shooting in as many weeks.
Tension between the community and San Francisco Police Department is already running high following the incident, which began with a Muni fare inspection and ended with the 19-year-old bleeding to death in front of police armed with weapons and bystanders armed with cell phone cameras. More than 300 people attended a town hall meeting with Police Chief Greg Suhr at the Bayview Opera House last Wednesday, but a chorus of booing and demands for answers by frustrated residents prevented the officer from giving his presentation.
☆ Chinese Couple Sells All Three Kids to Play Online Games
A young Chinese couple has sold all three of their children in exchange for money to play online games at Internet cafes, reports a southern Chinese newspaper.
According to Sanxiang City News, the couple met in an Internet cafe back in 2007 and bonded over their obsession with online video games. A year later, the parents — who are both under 21 — welcomed their first child, a son. Days after his birth, they left him home alone while they went to play online games at an Internet cafe 30 km away.
In 2009, Li Lin and Li Juan welcomed their second child, a baby girl, and came up with the idea to sell her for money to fund their online game obsession. They did so, receiving RMB 3,000 (less than $500), which they spent entirely shortly after. The couple then proceeded to sell their first child and got 10 times as much for him — RMB 30,000, or about $4600.
Upon having their third child — another boy — the parents followed in their previous footsteps and also got RMB 30,000 for him.
☆ Mushroom Death Suit « The Infinity Burial Project
The first prototype of the Infinity Burial Suit is a body suit embroidered with thread infused with mushroom spores. The embroidery pattern resembles the dendritic growth of mushroom mycelium. The Suit is accompanied by an Alternative Embalming Fluid, a liquid spore slurry, and Decompiculture Makeup, a two-part makeup consisting of a mixture of dry mineral makeup and dried mushroom spores and a separate liquid culture medium. Combining the two parts and applying them to the body activates the mushroom spores to develop and grow.
☆ Pole dance class … for girls age 7
FAMILY campaigners last night blasted a group for teaching pole dancing to girls aged SEVEN – and putting pictures of them on the net.
The photos show youngsters upside down on poles dressed in shorts, crop tops and vests.
Parents must agree before the images are posted on Facebook.
☆ Oceans on brink of catastrophe
The panel of 27 scientists, who considered the latest research from all areas of marine science, concluded that a “combination of stressors is creating the conditions associated with every previous major extinction of species in Earth’s history”. They also concluded:
* The speed and rate of degeneration of the oceans is far faster than anyone has predicted;
* Many of the negative impacts identified are greater than the worst predictions;
* The first steps to globally significant extinction may have already begun.
“The findings are shocking,” said Dr Alex Rogers, professor of conservation biology at Oxford University and IPSO’s scientific director. “As we considered the cumulative effect of what humankind does to the oceans, the implications became far worse than we had individually realised.
☆ Woman’s ‘Obscene’ Truck Nutz Land Her in Court
In the Real-American stronghold of South Carolina, of all places, a 65-year-old woman has been accused of violating the state obscenity law by hanging a pair of Truck Nutz plastic testicles from the back of her pickup truck. What’s next, a ban on the American flag?
☆ Bank ‘Activity’ Required For Wisconsin Voter ID
In the state of Wisconsin, you may be denied the ability to vote for lack of sufficient recent “bank activity”. A woman surreptitiously filmed the interactions as her 18-year-old son leaps through hurdle after hurdle in an attempt to get a constitutionally-guaranteed state ID so that he could vote. At the DMV, the pair is told that voter IDs were not issued when voters’ bank accounts did not show enough “activity.” The clerk had no answer when asked what would happen in the case of a resident who was homeless or unemployed, or too poor to maintain the minimum balance required for a checking account.
☆ HUSTLER MAGAZINE’S DIRTY LITTLE BEAUTY SECRET: The Amazing Drugstore Skincare Product They Drizzle All Over Girls’ Faces On Photoshoots
But what was I even talking about in this post again? Hustler’s dirty little beauty secret: right-o. OK, so this was the best information my ex-friend (well, we weren’t REALLY friends but he did send me free issues) from Hustler told me! He said that in the money shots — don’t pretend that you don’t know what those are — the “jizz” that’s everywhere not real bodily fluid at all! It is actually just …
☆ Anonymous OpPayPal Costs eBay ‘$1 Billion’
As well as seeing a reported 20K-plus users close their PayPal accounts, Anonymous’ new OpPayPal has led to an alleged $1 billion loss for PayPal’s parent company eBay.
The new, entirely legal campaign, began earlier today when Anonymous called for “anyone using PayPal to immediately close their accounts and consider an alternative.”
The campaign was reportedly motivated by the FBI and PayPal’s treatment of alleged Anonymous hacker Mercedes Renee Haefer. The American journalism student was arrested by the FBI earlier this week for involvement in a number of Anonymous led hacks.
Since it began, Anonymous has publicised the event via Twitter. A primary goal of the protest was to affect eBay’s stock value.
☆ Human Baby Eaten In China [Pictures]
Can’t Unsee! …I think it’s fake
☆ The roads in North Dakota are giving people cancer
In Dunn County, North Dakota, the roads can kill you. In fact, anything you do to disturb rocks in the area, like driving or even sweeping, can kick up naturally-occurring particles that lodge in your body and give you a rare kind of lung cancer up to 30 years later. Dunn County, you see, is home to a lot of rocks containing erionite, an asbestos-like substance that’s highly toxic. Unfortunately, nobody knew that until very recently. And so at least 300 miles of roads in North Dakota are paved with the stuff.
What do you do when you discover that you’ve built your county’s infrastructure out of poison rocks?
☆ US Navy orders laser machine guns
Manufacturer Boeing says it has inked a teaming agreement with the US operations of arms globo-mammoth BAE Systems to build the Mk 38 Mod 2 Tactical Laser System to naval requirements. We learn that the new raygun installation will be based on the existing Mk 38 Machine Gun System, a robotic gun turret whose primary punch is provided by the fearsome M242 Bushmaster Chain Gun, effectively a light auto-cannon.
The new enhanced laser version will also boast a high-energy laser intended for such tasks as raying small flying robots and/or boats:
The addition of the laser weapon module brings high-precision accuracy against surface and air targets such as small boats and unmanned aerial vehicles. The system also provides the ability to deliver different levels of laser energy, depending on the target and mission objectives.
☆ Who Are The Bankers That Benefit From The Norway Terror Attacks?
Yesterday, alleged terrorist Breivik had his day in court, and just as he started to mention that he had accomplices in the attacks, the judge silenced him and order him to 4 weeks in isolation before his trial. Why? Wouldn’t the people of Norway have a right to know who helped that crazed man carry out the terror attacks? It is obvious that he had assistance; the attacks had to require some level of sophistication and professional planning. But rather than focusing on Breivik’s background, because we may never know the whole truth about him, let’s examine who benefits from these horrendous attacks.
☆ Rogue Academic Downloader Busted by MIT Webcam Stakeout, Arrest Report Says
Hacker and activist Aaron Swartz faces federal hacking prosecution for allegedly downloading millions of academic documents via MIT’s guest network, using a laptop hidden in a networking closet.
Swartz, 24, faces 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine under the indictment, announced last week, raising questions about his intentions, the vagueness of anti-hacking statutes and copyright as it applies to academic work.
But the indictment (embedded below) also left one other question unresolved: How did Swartz get caught?
The answer, it turns out, involves a webcam stakeout, the Secret Service and a campus-wide manhunt for a slender guy with a backpack riding a bike on MIT’s campus.
☆ Meet the LulzSec Leader Arrested by British Police Today
British police announced today that they arrested a 19-year-old hacker in Scotland’s isolated Shetland Islands who used the nickname “Topiary” online. Here’s what we know about this core member of the hacking group Lulz Security, from interviews and leaked chat transcripts.
Topiary was the most visible member of the world’s most visible hacking group. Earlier this year Lulz Security captivated the internet with a 50 day hacking spree in which they attacked the FBI, the CIA, and Sony, leaked tens of thousands of emails and passwords, boasting all the while on its massively popular Twitter account. Topiary was a LulzSec cofounder, the group’s unofficial spokesman and aesthetic center. The last two were crucial roles in a group that relied as much on media savviness as hacking ability. He also helped fund LulzSec operations.
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Minister: No money awarded (or promises made) to controversial developers
July 10, 2019 August 15, 2019 - by Owen Donovan - 1 Comment
(Title Image: Northern Powerhouse Developments)
Here’s a summary of this afternoon’s questions to the Economy& Transport Minister, Ken Skates (Lab, Clwyd South).
No public money was given to defunct development company
Following the placing into administration of Northern Powerhouse Developments – a company proposing a leisure park in the Afan Valley, recently thrown into turmoil by a Guardian-ITV investigation – Rhun ap Iorwerth AM (Plaid, Ynys Môn) wanted assurances that other developments the company were involved in, such as Caer Rhyn hotel in Conwy, didn’t receive government money (said to be £500,000).
The Minister said no funding had been released as the project didn’t meet the attached conditions. Nevertheless, the Minister has been closely involved with the company:
“In the case of the Afan Valley project there may not have been an exchange of funds in any way, but there was certainly support from Welsh Government in the form of your appearance in a video (still image above) promoting Northern Powerhouse Developments plans, which gave the very public impression that the Welsh Government was backing the company. That’s exactly what the developer wanted, of course, and, no doubt, it helped attract investors. In hindsight, do you think that your appearance in that video was a good idea?”
– Rhun ap Iorwerth AM
The Minister was honest, saying he would like to see the video taken down – but he stressed the importance of separating the plans from the people developing and finance them. There were, however, no promises made on money or anything else.
Economic Record
Shadow Economy Minister, Russell George AM (Con, Montgomery), continued to use Lee Waters’ recent comments as a stick to beat the government with.
“We have had three major economic strategies since devolution, but these efforts to improve the economy have not worked and have not raised the economic fortunes of Wales. Now, the economic action plan covers a large number of different themes but contains no targets for measuring progress, so it is, I think, also contradicted and undermined by the Welsh Government’s 2018 budget, which provides no new funding to support any of the action plan’s key priority sectors.”
– Shadow Economy Minister, Russell George AM
The Minister, echoing recent comments from the First Minister, said there were plenty of things to be pleased about: the creation of 300,000 jobs since devolution, employment at record high levels and a rapid increase in the number of qualified individuals.
However, the “fruits of growth” haven’t been felt evenly across all parts of Wales and regional inequality was one particular area where more work was needed.
Minister “excited” about small modular nuclear reactors
David Rowlands AM (BXP, South Wales East) asked whether the Welsh Government have given any further consideration to the development of small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) at the former Trawsfynydd nuclear power station in Gwynedd?
Yes, the Minister had:
“I’m really excited about the potential of Trawsfynydd as an area that could be used to develop and support small modular reactors. I’m not alone in this….
“….I’ve met with Rolls-Royce (a developer of SMRs) to discuss this very issue directly in relation to Trawsfynydd and so too have members of the North Wales Economic Ambition Board, and I think it’s worth telling Members today that energy features as one of three primary strengths of the north Wales regional economy within the economic ambition board’s vision for the region.”
– Economy & Transport Minister, Ken Skates
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Atlantic City, NJ, US
Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa
In case you were wondering, Sting's still got it...
A younger generation might know Sting as the British rocker behind Police hits like 'Roxanne' and the man behind vaguely-remembered '90s singles like 'Desert Rose'.
And indeed, it was an older crowd that packed the house at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey Saturday night as part of his summer-long tour. But just one song into his set, and it was more than clear why Sting is a music legend who is still selling out shows across the world and remains worthy of respect and awe by fans of all ages. At age 60, he's still got it.
Rumored by his die-hard fans to be his best band yet, Sting was backed by a multi-talented group of musicians, including insanely gifted violinist Peter Tickell who, dare we say, stole the show at times.
There was no opening act, just a two-hour set played entirely by Sting and his band, and it didn't take long to see that it wouldn't have been easy, if not impossible, to properly set the stage for the music icon anyway.
The 2,400-seat venue was sold out for between $96 and $196 a ticket and fans were treated to more than 20 songs, including classics that were covered by Johnny Cash and Toby Keith like 'Hung My Head' and 'I'm So Happy'.
Between songs, Sting often mentioned his love for country music, even though he said he looks "stupid in a cowboy hat." A proponent of tantric sex, the singer has been quoted describing his own hours-long sexual escapades, and it wouldn't have been a proper Sting performance without him mentioning sex at least once - and he did, but only to say he doesn't understand why sex and religion are often separate, when the two are very clearly connected.
Sting, who appeared noticeably fit and youthful (must be all that tantric sex), also cracked up the crowd when describing his childhood in an industrial part of New Castle, England and how it inspired him to get in touch with nature later in life.
"I didn't see a tree till I was 15, so when I made a bit of money, I decided I would buy a little house in the country," he said. "Well, it was really more of a castle really."
At the end of the set, Sting thanked his fans for their raucous cheers and standing ovations in the form of two encores, a surprise treat he's been known to offer fans in past concerts.
Sting's next U.S. show is tomorrow, June 12, at Artpark in Lewiston, NY. Tickets are still on sale here. After that, he's globetrotting for the rest of the summer from Canada to Russia to show the world that he's clearly in his prime.
(c) Metro.us by Cassandra Garrison
Sting at the Borgata Event Center...
It was a night of classic Sting & the Police hits and some deep album tracks and the capacity crowd at the Borgata Event Center loved every minute of it.
Sting really made a love connection with the faithful who answered back to every call and response and sung along to a point where he commented that they were in 'very good voice tonight.' In other words, Sting was having fun in Atlantic City and it showed.
The set list reflect Sting's musical diversity, even commenting that Johnny Cash recording one of his songs. Sting talked about enjoying country music but said the fans do not buy him as a country artist as he's not Southern. In fact, Sting is not even from the Southern part of England.
(c) NJ.com by Marc Berman
Sting in concert at Borgata Casino, Hotel, & Spa in Atlantic City...
Sting, early in his career had the ability to make young women break into tears of joy and hands to face screams, (including my daughters) when they saw him with the Police or as a solo performer. Saturday night, June 9, 2012, Sting spritely walked on stage in the Event Center at Borgata Casino, Hotel and Spa. Wearing a light grey t-shirt with short cropped hair, Sting once again had the women in the audience yelling his name and waving at him even before he sang the first note of 'All This Time'.
When he struck the first notes of the second tune of the evening, the well known Police hit 'Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic', The screams of his fans (primarily female) filled the room seemed louder as many of them jumped to their feet and danced at their seats, hands in air and singing the words. The sixteen song set included his country-inspired song of 'I Hung My Head'.
When the encore came around, fans jumped to their feet to sing and dance to 'Desert Rose', 'King of Pain', and 'Every Breath You Take'. Sting, after all these years fills a room with loyal fans who love the warmth and sound of their musical icon.
(c) Examiner.com by Donald Kravitz
Every Breath You Take
July 21, 2012 posted by
Borgata Show
Just one of the best performances. My husband I have made every concert held in New Jersey and Philadelphia over the last six years. Sting delivered as always. Desert Rose had the whole audiance up on their feet and every song just carried us all away on a journey over the last 20 years. Please do more East Coast concerts and hit the studio soon. Your Fans need more...
June 10, 2012 posted by pangea
Sting at his peak!
Incredible show, one of the best by maybe his best band ever directed by Sting who has clearly honed his craft in directing, arranging, singing, playing the bass, to the point that he could very well be at his best today post 60. This band kicks a$$! Again, hats off to Howard Page for giving me the best mix I have heard in a Sting concert again, if not for the incredible sound from Howard Page, I would not have flew from Denver to New York, drive 3 hrs to Atlantic City for this show (I flew into LGA so I could visit some family prior to leaving this morning). It was still a trek waking 3:30 AM Denver time yesterday but more than worth it.
I must say, seeing World Trade Center One tower above the New York skyline while driving over the Verrazano bridge brought back many emotions, what a sight, breathtaking just to see it from such a distance.
Onto the show. First off, David Sanscious keyboards made a huge difference, great hearing him in Hung My Head, among many other songs, I just wish Sanscious had more or I should say some solo time. I remember a short beautiful solo from him in Shape of My Heart in a mini tour a few yrs back, instead Tickell took it over. Frankly, Peter Tickell has it all, stage presence, looks, incredible player but is it fair for me to say he had too much spotlight? Could David at least take back over the short Shape of My Heart solo? Do I dare equate him to Sting's new Branford Marsalis? Am I wrong for on the verge of calling it the Peter Tickell show or maybe the Sting featuring Peter Tickell? Maybe as a player, he may not yet be up to Marsalis' talent but he is not far off, the kid really can play, and has incredible energy, good looks and incredible stage presence. Peter Tickell if given the opportunity to be Sting's featured soloist on say a 2 year tour (hopefully accompanying a new album) I think has the potential to surpass the success of a Branford Marsalis or Chris Botti in a solo career.
Dominic sounded great, had some great solos and of course Vinnie, boss drummer, playing slightly more muted than the first leg IMO, that's not a bad thing, it's just cool to see such incredible players like Vinnie and David focus more on the song and not trying to steal the spotlight, you know, how Cope(cough)land does it. Instead, Vinnie waits for the appropriate time to burn, and did so brilliantly when necessary, but his finesse was present throughout even in the soft songs. Jo provided excellent accompaniment to Sting as always. Sting was in brilliant form, vocals and bass.
Set list wise, I missed Ghost Story and Fortress, personally, I think Demolition Man is not working as well as it did at the beginning, maybe the band is getting a bit bored playing it, I was never a big fan of it. How about Nothin Bout Me instead? Dominic rocked the house on Driven to Tears.
Overall, one of the best performances by maybe Sting's best solo band, I can only hope after the summer tour, Stings hits the studio with this band, releases an album after a 10 yr break and tours for two years with them. If it does not happen this yr, and he instead focuses all his energies on the Broadway musical The Last Ship, it may then be true that we have heard the last pop record from Sting, sad to say.
It was indeed a pleasure meeting the Doctor prior to the show, a short but awesome meeting with Baht.
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Mike Glover: The Green Beret behind Fieldcraft Survival
by Matt Jin Jul 30, 2018
For those of you who were not aware, Bravo Company USA (BCM) produces their own series of short films called American Gunfighter. Each film places the spotlight on a firearms and tactics instructor with a plethora of military special operations forces (SOF) or law enforcement experience. The newest member of the BCM Gunfighter program is Mike Glover, a former Green Beret and now CEO of Fieldcraft Survival. He has served in various positions during his 20 years in the US Army such as Weapons Sergeant, Sniper, Assaulter, JTAC, Freefall Jump Master, Sniper Team Sergeant, and Operations Sergeant Major in US Army Special Operations. Mike’s passion is in survival training which led to him start Fieldcraft Survival to offer a new perspective in the survival industry. Watch the American Gunfighter episode below to hear Mike talk about his experience in SOF as well as his vision with Fieldcraft Survival.
Featured image courtesy of BravoCompanyUSA YouTube Channel
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CIA found ‘convincing evidence’ Chilean dictator was behind 1976 D.C. attack
by SOFREP Sep 28, 2016
The CIA concluded that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet personally ordered the 1976 murder of a top dissident, according to newly released government documents that show U.S. confidence about a key ally’s responsibility for a shocking attack in Washington.
The latest revelations about the Cold War-era case come on the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Orlando Letelier, a leading opponent of the Pinochet regime and onetime Chilean foreign minister, and his think-tank colleague, Ronni Moffitt, in a car bomb on D.C.’s Embassy Row.
The case set off a complex international investigation that concluded with the conviction of several key suspects but did not touch the most senior level of Chile’s U.S.-backed government.
The CIA assessment released Friday is part of a suite of documents presented in 1987 to President Ronald Reagan by his national security adviser, Frank Carlucci, regarding U.S. government policy on Chile.
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SOFREP Cage Match: Angel of Death vs. The Desert Lion
by 14Charlie Mar 31, 2015
Referred to as the “black-bearded, blade-wielding embodiment of [Iraqi] retribution,” Abu Azrael, the ‘Angel of Death,’ is the anti-ISIL hero that Iraq wants and clearly needs. Does ISIL’s ‘Desert Lion,’ Abu Waheeb, stand a chance?
In the Blue Corner
Ayyub Faleh al-Rubaie is his real name, but people know him simply as Abu Azrael. His moniker translates to “father of the angel of death,” and his formidable persona clearly reflects this. Sporting all black clothing and a prominent beard, and wielding an axe, a sword, and a machine gun, Abu Azrael has a cult following inside Iraq and parts of Iran. A self-proclaimed family man and father of five, the Angel of Death fights for the Shia Kata’ib Imam Ali militia against ISIL in the battle zones of Tikrit.
His catchphrase? It translates to something along the lines of, “I will pulverize the Islamic State jihadist group and its supporters until nothing but ‘flour’ remains.”
In the Red Corner
Opposite Abu Azrael is Shakir Wahib al-Fahdawi, known to most as Abu Waheeb. ‘Desert Lion’ or ‘Teacher of the Nusayris’ are two other monikers he’s known by. Abu Waheeb fights for ISIL, and at the age of 28, has risen within ISIL’s ranks to become the group’s senior military commander in the western province of Anbar. Abu Waheeb has done hard time in Camp Bucca on charges of supporting AQI back in 2006, and also has a cult following of ISIL supporters, mainly on Twitter.
His claim to fame? Executing three Shia truck drivers in cold blood after what appeared to be a quiz on the Sunni Qur’an.
The Fight Breakdown
Abu Azrael is a strong pick in this match. The large man sports a bald head, long black beard, and has a nickname of biblical proportions. Acting as the face of the Shia militias waging war against the brutal ISIL jihadists, Abu Azrael has been propelled to his prominent role as a “public figure” through a sophisticated and organized public-relations strategy, and allegedly has anywhere from 280,000-300,000 followers on Facebook to prove it.
Photos of Abu Azrael meeting with the Iraqi transport minister have surfaced online in recent months, as have details of the family man’s personal life and personal outlook on ISIL’s brutality. “You see me go to school to drop off my children, and I am peaceful. But I show another face to [ISIL],” the Archangel of Death said in an AFP interview. “I swear to God, I am not merciful to them. I never have any leniency for them.”
While Abu Azrael’s bonafides have yet to be verified by official sources, claims of his multifarious capabilities have been widely circulated online following his rise to fame. There have been claims of his occupation in a previous life as a physical education teacher at a university in Iraq, as well as word of his alleged skills in Taekwondo and firearms marksmanship. Others go so far as to claim Abu Azrael possesses special operations experience.
One thing is for certain: The Angel of Death will have no shortage of work near Tikrit, and we gladly welcome his attempts to pulverize all ISIL elements until ‘nothing but flour’ remains.
Abu Waheeb is no weak pick in this match, either. Only 28 years old but already cultivating an impressive following on social media, Abu Waheeb has been referred to as the ‘rising star’ of ISIL. He has refrained from fighting with a mask on, and does not hesitate to show his face when publicizing his attempts to determine the sectarian identities of his victims, be they Shia truck drivers, Christians, or Sunnis who threaten his position.
Anbar Province’s head of police intelligence has been quoted as referring to Abu Waheeb as “dangerous and cunning.” Waheeb is known as “the only one who kills without covering his face.” Iraqi officials identify that Abu Waheeb represents part of the new extremist generation, one who represents some of “Al-Qaeda’s former figures like Zarqawi, but even more extremist.”
First public knowledge of Abu Waheeb starts in 2006 while he was allegedly studying computer science at the University of Anbar. While studying at the university, he became involved with extremist entities and was arrested by U.S. forces for supporting AQI. After spending time detained at Camp Bucca until 2009, Abu Waheeb was sentenced to death and moved to a prison in Tikrit. He escaped three years later in a mass outbreak following a riot and an attack on the prison by ISIL.
Since his escape, Abu Waheeb has been heavily involved in anti-government operations and currently runs ISIL’s military operations in Anbar Province. This self-starter is bound to continue rising through the ranks at any cost, and will likely be heavily relied upon by senior ISIL leadership should the role of Shia militias and coalition anti-ISIL airstrikes persist.
The author has money on Abu Azrael in this round, although his role in the Shia militias, possibly as an Iranian IRGC proxy, is somewhat disconcerting. While Iran and its Shia militia proxies have proven very effective in ground operations against ISIL, Iran’s extensive influence in Iraq presents larger strategic concerns that U.S. foreign policy must contend with sooner rather than later.
While Abu Waheeb terrorizes, extorts, and executes his way across Anbar Province in a flurry of Twitter retweets and execution videos, Abu Azrael focuses his time and effort fighting with hardened Shia militias in key centers of gravity, where their sway is bound to achieve tactical and operational successes.
It is likely the relatively young Abu Waheeb will maintain his ‘self-starter’ motivation as anti-ISIL coalition efforts continue to pound the jihadist group, but Abu Azrael’s older and more mature outlook on life as a father of five are sure to provide him with a distinct advantage against possible burn-out in later rounds.
Out here.
(Featured image a composite of images taken from tvnoviny.sk and lavalledeitempli.net)
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Ben Mowat finished his MA in Composition for Film & TV at Bristol University in October 2018, studying under renowned film composer & orchestrators Richard Blackford, William Goodchild, Martin Kiszko and Kelcey Swain. Ben has been playing, composing and producing music for most of his life. His passion for the subject is infectious and he enjoys working with others. Above all he love making and sharing music. Ben is a confident ensemble leader and an eclectic and skilled composer with experience as a conductor and musical director as well as orchestral playing, choral singing and playing in bands (reggae, folk, rock, fusion etc). He is also a keen improvisor and a trained orchestrator and score creator as well as live sound engineer and studio producer with advanced skills and knowledge of music technology. The MA program at Bristol has comprehensively built upon his skill set and given Ben yet more composing experience in the film and media field. Ben enjoys working with a diversity of musicians and genres as well as artists from other disciplines.
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Blog Competitions English Premier League ‘Gutted’, ‘Crazy’ – fans unhappy as Chelsea take Musonda from Celtic
‘Gutted’, ‘Crazy’ – fans unhappy as Chelsea take Musonda from Celtic
Crippy Cooke 17 May, 2018 Celtic, Chelsea, English Premier League, Scottish Premier League, Transfer News & Rumours
Celtic forward Charly Musonda confirmed parent club Chelsea would be taking him back early from his loan spell at Parkhead and fans haven’t been too happy with the news.
The 21-year-old was expected to be at the club for another 12 months but his inconsistency and lack of playing time has led to the deal being ended prematurely.
Was gutted when I read Chelsea were considering it last week. Watched that assist against Zenit dozens of times in the days following haha. Cracking wee player without a doubt.
— ᴳᵃᵛ??????? (@GavisconCook_) May 16, 2018
Good player but guessing he couldn’t settle in Glasgow at all. Otherwise definitely would have given him plentiful chances next season.
— Limp Griff Meister (@LimpMeister) May 16, 2018
Crazy considering the media frenzy over him
— Jonah (@JonahStandFree) May 16, 2018
Shame really, I was hoping that a player which made a MOTM performance without even getting on the pitch would have made more of an impact on Scottish football
— Codename Dutchess (@VWdoubleforte) May 16, 2018
Hard to gauge if he’s any good in a couple games. Could’ve been a good player in the league but we won’t know one way or the other.
— TheSPFLRadar (@TheSPFLRadar) May 16, 2018
Musonda initially joined Celtic from Chelsea on an 18-month loan in January and made just eight appearances in all competitions for the Hoops. The Belgian u21 international struggled to dethrone the likes of Tom Rogic, Callum McGregor, Olivier Ntcham and Stuart Armstrong from the first-team.
Manager Brendan Rodgers was believed to have beaten out 24 clubs to Musonda’s signature, but he was given so little playing time to prove his worth. The Celtic boss did admit he struggled to adapt to Scotland and may be a better player when he has a full pre-season under his belt, but his future lies elsewhere now.
Chelsea reportedly weren’t happy with the lack of game time given to Musonda and now they will decide what to do with him this summer. The 21-year-old was loaned out to Real Betis for a year in January 2016 and was given far more games to develop than Celtic afforded him.
Next season will be important as Musonda is no longer a hot prospect. Chelsea will want to see some return on their investment from 2012.
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Quinn Barry in Opinion 8 months ago
Does Stanford Understand The Importance of The Humanities?
Few university provosts, let alone those at places like Stanford, call the work of their institution “second-rate.” Yet that is how Provost Persis Drell described the Stanford University Press three weeks ago to defend a $1.7 million funding cut to the Press.
While faculty successfully mobilized to delay the reduction for one year, I am still left wondering what this episode reveals about Stanford’s perception of the humanities. After all, just last year the University endowed the Knight-Hennessy scholar program with $800 million, which did not accept a single humanities student in its inaugural class. The much-acclaimed Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) is seeking to raise more than one billion in funding. With billions flowing into these brand-new initiatives, what led Stanford to target the Press, whose subsidy accounts for just 0.00275% of Stanford’s annual budget?
The University Press’ most damning crime may be its commitment to the traditional humanities and social sciences, a rarity on The Farm. The political science department, for example, recently reformed its major requirements to serve as the little brother of the computer science major, gutting its political theory courses and allowing data science classes to count for up to 70 percent of the major. For all the interdisciplinary hype surrounding HAI, just two humanities faculty are listed under the “Leadership” section of the website. Stanford frequently touts the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, a digital humanities program, as a way to modernize the humanities. SUP publications, on the contrary, are well-known for their contributions to continental philosophy, Latin American History, and Middle Eastern studies. Important, sure, but hardly for helping Stanford students develop the next Uber.
The push to make the humanities a watered-down version of tech and eliminate those institutions that refuse to conform is how Stanford envisions saving the humanities from their ostensible lack of utility. However, these good intentions actually deny humanities courses the opportunity to teach logical reasoning, skepticism, and attention to detail, the most valuable skills they can offer. Studying philosophy, history, and literature represents a unique opportunity to build a skill-set relevant to fields ranging from entrepreneurship to academia: the ability to conduct in-depth research, communicate complex ideas cogently, engage with various primary sources, and write effectively.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with the digital humanities. But these efforts should supplement, not replace, analyzing classical texts and engaging in intensive writing. By attempting to combine engineering with English and swapping questions about Aristotle for questions about the ethics of AI, Stanford simultaneously leaves humanities students unequipped to reason effectively or program well.
The near-mistake in cutting the Press subsidy was not just, as the University alleged, a one-off maneuver necessary to preserve funding for graduate fellowships. It is part of a larger misapplication of founding mission of Stanford: “to qualify students for... direct usefulness in life.” Leland Stanford himself wrote that he “attach[ed] great importance to literature for the enlargement of the mind and for giving business capacity” because he found that “technically educated [students] do not make the most successful businessmen.” Stanford’s callous stance toward the Press demonstrates they have drifted from their namesake’s approach to a liberal education. To make the humanities relevant again in the digital age, Stanford must reorient the humanities toward their most valuable end: teaching students how to think.
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KELL’S LEGEND By Andy Remic – Reviewed
Posted in Morpheus Tales Magazine, Reviews, Uncategorized with tags albino warriors, amazing, andy remic, barbarian, blood, blood-bond axe, book, brilliant, cliff-hanging ending, clockwork vampire chronicles, Conan, cruel, emulate, exicting, fantasy, full speed ahead, general graal, grump old man, hero, imagination, imaginative, invasuon, kell, kell's legend, machine, modern era, morpheus tales, next installment, nienna, novel, plot, rare book, remic, review, reviewed, saark, snack, survive, sword and sorcery, tales of kell, thriller, tor novels, torture, truly inspiring, twisted warrior, vachine, vampire, warrior, well-know on March 31, 2010 by stanleyriiks
How do you create a possible successor to one of the greatest fantasy characters to ever live? I’m obviously talking about sword and sorcery legend Conan. The Cimmerian Barbarian has entertained readers for eighty years, and film goers for thirty. There hasn’t been a new Conan novel for a long time, but if you read any of the Tor novels you’ll find them remarkably similar – a plot on rails with very little imagination.
Conan is a prototypical fantasy barbarian, with well-known characteristics that many have tried to emulate.
Kell’s departure from these characteristics is what makes this story work so well. He’s a grumpy old man, a warrior past his prime and discarded by society, hiding away in a small northern town where he makes soup and is visited by his granddaughter, Nienna. After one such visit, the ears of the old warrior prickle as he hears screams. His door is kicked in by albino warriors who bleed white blood when he kills them using his trusted blood-bond axe, Ilanna, and the fight is on to save Nienna. It soon becomes clear that the albino soldiers are part of an invading army, and Kell is joined in his cause by a seducer and popinjay Saark, who’s more interested in saving his own skin and bedding Nienna or her friend Kat.
The invasion is led by General Graal, a leader of the Vachine, a race part vampire part machine. Graal is a cruel and twisted warrior who will stop at nothing to capture the entire human race, so that he and his people may feed.
Kell is a hero for the modern era, complete with idiosyncrasies, a deep and troubled history, and dealing with his own set of problems whilst struggling desperately to survive. The other characters in the novel are also very well drawn, and as the world gradually expands on their voyage, so too does the world become more detailed.
This book isn’t read as much as it is experienced. It draws you in deeply in the first hundred pages and then, as more and more dangers are thrown at our band, you feel you are surviving with them. Remic isn’t afraid to kill off a great character or throw in another challenge to spice things up and ramp up the tension. You can’t help feeling like you have to hold on tight just to stay on for the ride. It’s that tension and excitement that make the book stand out. There is real danger here. In most fantasies you know that the main characters are always safe because they have to appear in the next book, but although this is Book I of the Clockwork Vampire Chronicles, it’s not the Tales of Kell chronicles and you really do believe that at any moment another character could be killed. There’s an evil and twisted streak to Remic, which not only gives us added danger (and a little torture), but also provides the grim humour that is sadly lacking for many modern fantasy novels.
Okay, so it’s not perfect. For a start, you have to wait for the second instalment. (Grr! I have no patience.) There are far more typos than you would expect from a major publishing house and this can be bothersome, but not overly so. Also, the start of the story is a little slow, but only for the first couple of chapters and then it’s full speed ahead!
Kell’s Legend is a rare book. It’s one of those reads that makes you sit up and slaver with excitement. It has the page-turning quality of a thriller, the depth of an epic, the kind of protagonist that comes round one in a lifetime, and a story that twists and turns like a snake. It’s imaginative, brilliant, exciting, amazing, and truly inspiring. Yeah, I really did fucking love this book!
The cliffhanger ending will leave you on the edge of your seat begging for the next instalment. This series has the potential to be truly legendary and I really can’t wait for the next chapter.
This review appeared in Morpheus Tales 8 Reviews Supplement:
www.morpheustales.com/reviews.htm
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2016 NFL Draft Player Profiles: Ohio St WR Michael Thomas
By Josh Carney
Posted on March 21, 2016 at 9:30 am
A look at Buckeye receiver Michael Thomas.
#3, Michael Thomas, Ohio State — WR, 6’3”, 212 Lbs, Redshirt Junior
-Quick, efficient feet to get off line, avoiding press coverage
-Willing run blocker that latches onto defender
-Polished route runner that excels at creating separation at top of step
-Able to sink his hips quickly to get in and out of break
-Gets on top of CBs quickly by threating vertically with long, powerful strides
-Ideal size, arm length and hand size for position
-Homerun threat after the catch
-Relies on body catches far too often
-Struggles to high point the football on contested catches
-Doesn’t play well through contact and can be bumped off the route
-Turns into a spectator when play breaks down
-Limited catch radius despite long arms and big hands
-Two-year starter for the Buckeyes
-Led OSU in receiving during national championship run in 2014
-113 career catches for 1,602 yards and 18 touchdowns
-Nephew of former No. 1 overall choice, Keyshawn Johnson
Film Breakdown
As the nephew of former NFL star wide receiver, Keyshawn Johnson, Ohio State redshirt junior has the best bloodlines of any receiver in this class, bar none.
With that said, Thomas is nowhere near as dominate as Johnson was at Southern California, but thanks to that rich bloodline, Thomas has all over the tools necessary to develop into an above-average receiver in the NFL.
Standing 6-feet-3, and weighing in at 212 pounds, Thomas has a long, lean frame that has room to add some muscle to it. The think that jumps out at you quickly on film is the long limbs and the exceptionally fast feet that Thomas possesses.
Using his quick feet and long strides once he’s in the open field, Thomas is a significant home run threat despite not being a burner down the field.
Where he wins his one-on-one matchups is with his footwork and route-running ability. That’s what made him so special in a run-heavy scheme at Ohio State.
Possessing long arms and quick feet, Thomas was able to consistently get clean releases off the line against tight coverage.
Against Michigan State during the 2014 season in the previous GIF, Thomas uses quick, efficient feet to break to the outside before slamming on the breaks to slant back inside, creating tons of separation and a great throwing window for his quarterback.
After making the catch, Thomas shows you his ability to make plays after the catch, turning on the jets to outrun a fast, physical Spartans defense for the touchdown.
The following season, Thomas again shows great footwork against Virginia Tech’s Kendall Fuller, showing the ability to create great separation at the top of his stem, giving his quarterback a nice throwing window.
Later in the game, Thomas caps off the win over the Hokies with an exceptional double-move on Fuller, showcasing the exceptional feet on the stop-and-go.
What really stands out in this play though his the way Thomas is able to reach top speed quickly before slamming on the brakes, forcing Fuller to come to a complete stop as well. That transition back to top speed is tremendous and really has the ceiling of Thomas continuously rising.
This time on the opposite side of the field, Thomas utilizes the same route against Rutgers cornerback Isaiah Wharton. There’s the same quick burst off the line to threaten vertically; the same ability to slam on the brakes, forcing Wharton to bite on the play, which led to a pass interference penalty in the red zone.
It’s so impressive how Thomas is able to transition in and out of his cuts, stops and breaks so quickly at his size. His footwork is right up there with Baylor’s Corey Coleman for the best in this draft class.
Outside of his footwork as a receiver, Thomas is an exceptional runner after the catch, applying serious pressure to opposing secondaries.
He’s so smooth at starting and stopping, getting up to fully speed quickly to make defenders miss, while also showcasing power and determination, refusing to go down on first contact. That’s rare of a college receiver, especially one of the same build of Thomas.
One area I also really like for Thomas is his ability and willingness as a blocker.
He’s not an overly physical blocker each time, but he’s willing to put his body in harm’s way to open up lanes for his teammates.
Thomas isn’t going to drive guys into the ground, but with his reach and strength he is able to latch onto his defender while putting himself between the ball carrier and his defender.
Against Michigan State in 2014, Thomas was overly aggressive near the goal line as a blocker while being split out wide, which really showed me a fiery side of his game that I hadn’t seen before when watching film.
This is very rare at the goal line from receivers when the ball is run into the middle of the line. He’s a feisty receiver that has a mean streak to him; it’s up to his next coaching staff to get him to showcase it consistently.
While watching tape of Thomas, there were very few negatives to his game that stood out to me. That being said, I do have to nitpick slightly with Thomas’ tape.
Throughout a majority of the film I was able to get my hands on, Thomas relied solely on body catches despite having huge hands that swallow up footballs. While not overly concerning due to his limited issue with drops in college, the redshirt junior has to learn to use his big hands more often, especially in contested-catch situations, allowing him to make plays that he’s struggled with at the collegiate level.
On top of that, Thomas often becomes a spectator on the field when the play breaks down. There are times throughout his film where he’s just standing around watching one of his quarterbacks dance around in the pocket looking for receivers downfield.
He needs to learn to break off of his current route and either work deep looking for a home run on a busted play, or learn to work back to his quarterback, becoming a safety outlet on short or intermediate routes.
One last nitpick: I want to see Thomas develop the ability and feel for how to use his body to his advantage as a pass catcher, shielding the ball away from defenders, boxing out on jump balls and learning to high point the football.
If he works on that at the next level and combines that with some of his standout tools, Thomas could become a top 10-15 wide receiver in the NFL capable of carrying the load as a No. 1 target in a balanced offense.
Projection: Mid-to-Late 1st
Games Watched: vs. Michigan (’14), at Michigan State (’14), at Virginia Tech (’15), vs. Maryland (’15), at Rutgers (’15), at Illinois (’15)
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Steelers Should’ve Left Gimmicky Wildcat In Bag Against Ravens
Posted on October 7, 2019 at 2:27 pm
Against the Cincinnati Bengals last Monday night, the Pittsburgh Steelers effectively used the Wildcat that included direct snaps to running back Jaylen Samuels. While that usage of the Wildcat obviously surprised the Bengals defense, Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin pretty much admitted on Tuesday that the Wildcat isn’t a sustainable offensive system moving forward.
“I acknowledge that the Wildcat is somewhat gimmicky, but at the same time, all of us in the National Football League are prepared for it week in and week out, we just don’t get a lot of physical reps when we don’t anticipate it,” Tomlin said on Tuesday. “So from that standpoint, because it’s on video, I’d imagine that Baltimore is going to be prepared for it. But I’d imagine Baltimore’s going to have a certain level of preparedness for it because of the functions and nature of their offense.”
Even after saying what he said on Tuesday, Tomlin and Steelers offensive coordinator Randy Fichtner still decided that some aspects of the Wildcat were sustainable enough to use Sunday in the team’s home game against the Baltimore Ravens. In hindsight, they should have left the Wildcat in the bag against the Ravens like Tomlin hinted they would do on Tuesday.
In total, the Steelers ran the Wildcat three times against the Ravens Sunday at Heinz Field, and it was three times too many.
The first dubious usage of the Wildcat on Sunday by the Steelers offense came during their first offensive play of their second offensive possession, which begin at the Pittsburgh 12-yard-line. On that play, Samuels faked a miss direction handoff to fellow running back James Conner and rolled out to his right with the intent on throwing a short pass to wide receiver James Washington, who was attempting to work his way out into the pattern from the left side of the formation. Ravens linebacker Matthew Judon, however, was not fooled on the play and after first doing a great job of interrupting Washington’s route, he beelined for the unprotected Samuels and the running back threw an ill-advised pass that was intercepted.
What was the max that could’ve been gained with this Wildcat pass so deep in the Steelers end of the field? 3 yards? 7 yards? 10 yards? The payoff just didn’t warrant the risk. I was all for using Samuels as part of sort of trick pass play Sunday against the Ravens, but not out of the Wildcat and deep in the Steelers own end. If you’re going to try something that includes a non-quarterback throwing a pass, make sure the trick play has a huge payoff. The Ravens capitalized on the turnover by scoring their first touchdown on a short field so put those 7-points on Tomlin and Fichtner and not the Steelers defense.
Fichtner and Tomlin didn’t learn their lesson, however, as the Wildcat was used a second time in the second quarter. This time, however, the direct snap to Samuels happened on a 2nd and 1 play from the Ravens 7-yard-line and with the Steelers looking to tie the game on a short field following an interception by the team’s defense. On this play, the Steelers attempted to run the power to the left side with Samuels carrying the football following him faking another handoff to Conner. The Ravens defense wasn’t fooled once again and Samuels was ultimately tackled for a loss of 5-yrads. On the next play, quarterback Mason Rudolph was sacked, and the Steelers had to settle for a short field goal.
After two Wildcat fails, Fichtner figured the third time might be the charm. Well, it wasn’t.
On a 1st and 10 play from the Ravens 19-yard-line with 5:22 left in the third quarter, the Steelers ran a trick reverse to wide receiver Johnny Holton following a direct snap to Samuels and a flip forward to wide receiver Diontae Johnson. Holton cut back inside around the left edge when he probably should’ve stayed outside, and he was finally tackled for a gain of just 4-yards. Fortunately for the Steelers, the offense was able to score a touchdown two plays later.
In total, the three Wildcat plays run Sunday by the Steelers offense netted a loss of one yard and crucial interception. Tomlin warned that the Wildcat wasn’t sustainable, and he was right. Why he and Fichtner decided to use it Sunday against the Ravens is anyone’s guess and especially after seeing what happened the first time the offense ran it.
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