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Shannon grew up in the greater DC area/Maryland suburbs, went to Virginia for college and grad school (go Hoos!), and settled in DC in 2006. She’s an urban planner who loves transit (why yes, that is her dressed as a Metro pylon for Halloween), cities, and all things DC. Email her at Shannon (at) WeLoveDC.com!
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DG-rad on March 5, 2010 at 5:49 pm said:
does that link work for you? even after registering, it just leads to the survey monkey homepage…
shannon on March 5, 2010 at 6:27 pm said:
Hmm, is the Survey Monkey link not working for you? It’s working ok for me– but if you’re having trouble, try going to the Capitol Riverfront page and follow their link in the bottom left corner (‘Read More’ under Summer Movies).
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Shannon grew up in the greater DC area/Maryland suburbs, went to Virginia for college and grad school (go Hoos!), and settled in DC in 2006. She's an urban planner who loves transit (why yes, that is her dressed as a Metro pylon for Halloween), cities, and all things DC. Email her at Shannon (at) WeLoveDC.com!
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Caroline worked as an ACT/SAT tutor at Freudigman & Billings following her graduation from Brown University before earning a Masters in Publishing and Writing from Emerson College. She is thrilled to be back in the test prep world as part of the Thirty-Six team. Caroline lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her boyfriend and her cat. When not helping students understand the ins and outs of commas and semicolons, she enjoys playing tennis and making homemade cappuccinos featuring “abstract” latte art (and talking her friends’ ears off about commas and semicolons).
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63385 Zip Code Information
Welcome to 63385.com, your local resource for news and information for Zip Code 63385
Welcome to 63385.com! This community site has information on the 63385 zip code that is situated in St. Charles County. There are two incorporated cities located in the zip code, Wentzville Missouri and New Melle Missouri. Actually, the small city of New Melle has its own zip code of 63365 but lies within three other zip codes, 63385, 63348 and 63341, right about where Highways D, Z and F intersect and the zip codes come together! Major roads that are found in the large 63385 zip code area are Interstate 70, State Highways 40 and 61, Highways P, A, N, Z, D and F, Mette Road, Wentzville Parkway, Hepperman Road, Wilmer Road, North Point Prairie Road, South Point Prairie Road, West Meyer Road, Peine Road, Hopewell Road, Foristell Road, Schwede Road and many others. Those who enjoy golf will enjoy the two public golf courses that are located here. One of them is Bear Creek Golf Club, a public 18-hole course, which is north of Interstate 70, off of North Point Prairie Road on Bear Creek Drive. The other course is The Golf Club of Wentzville, a public 18-hole golf course located near the intersection of Hepperman Road and Golf Club Drive.
Recreation opportunities can be found at the two St. Charles County Parks located in 63385, Broemmelsiek Park and Quail Ridge Park. Broemmelsiek Park features several fishing lakes stocked with bluegill, bass and catfish, a dog area and 7 miles of trails for hiking, biking and equestrian use. The park also has an area for astronomy viewing that is equipped with concrete pads and electricity. A weekly star viewing session, "Stars of St. Charles", is held on every Friday that is clear for viewing and is hosted by the Astronomical Society of Eastern Missouri. The other park is Quail Ridge Park which features several picnic shelters, a 3-acre fishing lake, an 18-hole disc golf course, trails and more. The Wentzville Parks and Rec Department also maintains eight city parks that are located throughout the community. Those parks range in size and features but provide such amenities as tennis courts, picnic shelters, baseball/softball fields, multi-purpose courts, soccer/football fields, natural woodlands, meadows and wetlands, an outdoor swimming pool, recreation center with banquet facilities, a gymnasium and a fitness center, walking trails and more.
The local public school districts for the area are Fort Zumwalt School District and Wentzville R-IV School District. Two Wentzville R-IV School District high schools are located in the zip code, Holt High School, located off of West Pearce Blvd on Campus Drive and Timberland High School, situated on East Highway N. Elementary and middle schools from each district are also in the area. Private elementary and middle schools are also available to the community. Those schools are Immanuel Lutheran School, St. Joseph School, St. Patrick School and St. Theodore School. Midwest University has its campus in Wentzville, located just north of Highway A on Parr Road. The 63385 area is known for the large General Motors Assembly Plant that is located in Wentzville, near the intersection of Interstate 70 and State Highway 61 on Highway A. This assembly plant produces body parts for full size GM vans as well as assembles vans and employs a large number of people who live in the area. The St. Joseph Health Center-Wentzville, part of the SSM Health Care System, is located off of Wentzville Parkway in Wentzville and provides medical services for the communities in western St. Charles County, as well as the nearby counties of Lincoln, Warren and Montgomery.
The zip code 63385 is located in county Missouri. There are approximately 35,750 people living in zip code 63385. They make up households. The average income per household in the 63385 zip code is $80,208. The median age of the residents is 33 years old (which is 33 years old for males and 33 years old for females). For more statistics See 63385 Zip Code Information
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Holt High School - Holt High School is a public high school located in Wentzville Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63385, Wentzville Missouri
Lindenwood Ice Arena - Lindenwood Ice Arena is a year-round indoor ice-skating rink and the home for Lindenwood University's Men and Women's Hockey Teams. It is located in Wentzville in St Charles County Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63385, Recreation, Wentzville Missouri
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New Melle Missouri - New Melle Missouri is located in St Charles County along Highway D in the 63385 zip code. - More Info Tags: 63365, 63385, New Melle Missouri
St. Joseph Health Center-Wentzville - The St. Joseph Health Center-Wentzville is part of the SSM Health Care System and services the communities in western St. Charles County as well as Lincoln, Warren and Montgomery counties. - More Info Tags: 63385, Wentzville Missouri
Timberland High School - Timberland High School is a public high school located in St. Charles County in Wentzville Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63385, Wentzville Missouri
Wentzville Missouri - The City of Wentzville Missouri is located in St Charles County, just over 50 minutes west of Downtown St Louis at the intersection of Interstate 70 and Interstate 64/40. - More Info Tags: 63385, Wentzville Missouri
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Bear Creek Golf Club - Bear Creek Golf Club is a public 18 hole golf course located in Wentzville Missouri. - More Info - Tags: 63385, Wentzville Missouri
Boones Trail Branch-St. Charles County Library - The Boones Trail Branch-St. Charles County Library is a public library located in New Melle Missouri. - More Info - Tags: 63365, 63385, New Melle Missouri
Broemmelsiek Park - Broemmelsiek Park features fishing lakes, a dog area, and trails for hiking, biking and equestrian use. The park has an area for astronomy viewing with concrete pads equipped with electricity and weekly star viewing session. It is located in St Charles County near Wentzville Missouri. - More Info - Tags: 63341, 63385
Corporate Parkway Branch-St. Charles County Library - The Corporate Parkway Branch-St. Charles County Library is a public library and is located in Wentzville Missouri. - More Info - Tags: 63385, Wentzville Missouri
Flint Hill Missouri - The City of Flint Hill is located in northwestern St. Charles County, just north of Wentzville off of Highway 61. Flint Hill has its own zip code of 63346 lying within the 63385 zip code. - More Info - Tags: 63346, 63385, Flint Hill Missouri
General Motors Assembly Plant - The General Motors Assembly Plant in Wentzville Missouri produces body parts for full size GM vans as well as assembling vans. - More Info - Tags: 63385, Employer
Library Express at Discovery Village-St. Charles County Library - The Library Express at Discovery Village-St. Charles County Library is located in Wentzville Missouri. - More Info - Tags: 63385, Wentzville Missouri
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Quail Ridge Park - Quail Ridge Park features picnic facilities, a fishing pond, a disc golf course, and trails. It is located in St. Charles County in Wentzville Missouri. - More Info - Tags: 63385
The Golf Club of Wentzville - The Golf Club of Wentzville is a public 18 hole golf course located in Wentzville Missouri. - More Info - Tags: 63385, Wentzville Missouri
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‘Nola No-call’ Lawsuit Is No More; Fan Drops His Fight
Brandon Comeaux
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By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An attorney and New Orleans Saints fan said Monday he will go no further with his court fight against the NFL over game officials' failure to call an obvious penalty at a crucial point in a January playoff game.
The no-call helped the Los Angeles Rams beat the Saints and advance to the Super Bowl.
Lawyer Antonio LeMon and three others sued, alleging fraud by the NFL. The case was dismissed Friday by Louisiana's Supreme Court. A state judge and an appellate court had allowed the suit to proceed over NFL objections. And, for a time, it looked as though Commissioner Roger Goodell and three playoff game officials might have to submit to questions under oath.
"The Louisiana Supreme Court has now spoken," LeMon said in a prepared statement Monday morning. "Consequently we, the plaintiffs in this lawsuit, are ready to move on and respect the ruling of our State's highest court.
LeMon nevertheless called Friday's ruling disappointing.
"By this Supreme Court ruling, the only right given to the purchaser of an NFL ticket, at least in Louisiana, is to get a seat in the stadium," his statement said. "Once in that seat, the NFL has a license to do whatever it wants to us little ticket-holders, even to commit fraud and deceptive consumer trade practices against us without any civil recourse."
The NFL declined comment Monday.
Three other lawsuits over the no-call had already died in federal court. At the center of each of them: The lack of a pass interference or roughness penalty after a Rams player's helmet-to-helmet hit on a Saints receiver with a pass on the way.
Among allegations in LeMon's lawsuit are claims that fraud and "implicit or unconscious bias" on the part of game officials from the Los Angeles area led to the decision not to flag the penalty.
LeMon did succeed in getting some responses from the NFL to written queries before the state Supreme Court halted action in the case while it was pending. The league acknowledged that video shows that pass interference and unnecessary roughness penalties should have been called. But it also said officials who were in proper position at the time of the play saw it "in real-time at full speed" and did not see the penalties.
"It is for each of us who have viewed the "No Call" play to decide if the NFL and Commissioner Goodell are being truthful and whether these sworn responses are disturbing," LeMon's Monday statement said.
In April, NFL owners voted to next season allow pass interference calls and non-calls to be challenged by coaches and reviewed on replay by officials.
Source: ‘Nola No-call’ Lawsuit Is No More; Fan Drops His Fight
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Harvey Keitel, CEO
by Scott Weiss
In many of the old war movies, every elite unit has at least one member that has the critical talent to make something out of nothing: the scrounge. You know this guy: when everyone is out of rations or ammunition and the truck is broken down, he quietly heads out. The next day, when all hope of completing the mission seems lost, the scrounge comes rolling up in a freshly repainted jeep, full rations, ammo, and, stereotypically, a case of cold beer. How did he do that? Where did it all come from? “Don’t ask,” he growls, “Let’s get movin’.”
Harvey Keitel’s Winston “The Wolf” Wolfe in Pulp Fiction is another iconic fix-it guy. He comes directly from a party in his tux to “clean up” the situation. I love his “Can I get some coffee?” calm demeanor as he carefully assesses the situation, starts prioritizing, and then takes swift action to get Jules and Vincent out of their blood-soaked jam.
During a crux scene in Apollo 13, the engineers in Houston realize they have to somehow fit the Command Module’s square carbon dioxide filter in the Lunar Module’s round receptacles if they want everyone to keep breathing. They got together in a room, dumped the box of materials available to the astronauts on the table and said, “Here’s what we have to work with…” After working for a tense few hours, they cobbled together a solution with step-by-step instructions for the oxygen-starved astronauts. That scene always gives me goose bumps.
All of the successful entrepreneurs I know are part-scrounge, part-Wolf, with a good dose of calm-under-pressure space jockey thrown in. In other words, they are ridiculously resourceful. It’s this magical combination of wicked-smart, tenacious as hell, works harder and longer than most people think is humanly possible, thinks way outside the box and is also unbelievably passionate and compelling. In short, they have special tools to just get shit done.
Special, but not unobtainable.
Over the years, I’ve noticed some patterns and methods that explain how great people manage to pull off the impossible. And with Mr. Wolfe’s permission, here they are:
“Crack the egg with a sledgehammer.” This was a quote from my VP of Engineering, Nawaf Bitar, at IronPort. When IronPort anti-spam wasn’t working and it looked like our partner Brightmail was going to terminate our contract, we had a complete “Oh shit!” moment. Nawaf moved the entire engineering team over to work on it. He called them all in to work nights and weekends until it was fixed, and urgently sought out every anti-spam expert on the planet to help or to hire. Other people would have done one or two of those things – he did them all simultaneously and immediately. Nawaf saved our bacon.
Set a measurable goal and brainstorm like hell. When we were developing our first product at IronPort, we desperately needed to get feedback from email administrators at large companies. Our dream was to quickly talk to 50 of them to get to a critical mass, but how the hell do you do that when you don’t know any? We brainstormed, tested, stalked, and leaned on our networks. We made a list of the Fortune 500 and tried to line up anyone we knew on the inside. We all went through our school alumni networks.
“Can you introduce me to someone who runs your email? Who do you call when email goes sideways?” Everyone we did get through to was pumped for information to get to more: “What conferences do you go to? What do you read? Who else can you introduce us to?” We reached 43 of the exact right people — not quite 50, but it did the trick.
Cheat time. During a board meeting last year, Quirky’s CEO Ben Kaufman recounted a story about preparing for a critical Home Depot meeting. Quirky was just starting to build things for the “connected home” and Home Depot was a dream opportunity. When he got the call in New York one afternoon that the home improvement giant could squeeze him into a new product-review meeting the very next day in Atlanta, he brought nearly the whole company in for an all-night prep session. They split up into five different teams and came up with seven working products — overnight. They packed up prototypes of a Wi-Fi-enabled mousetrap, garage opener, smoke detector and water sensor, among others, and then slept on the flight down. A month later, Home Depot ordered $7 million worth of products.
“Insanely violent passion.” This is a phrase that I’ve heard used to describe Andrew Rubin, the CEO of Illumio. Andrew came out to Silicon Valley from the Midwest with virtually no connections. Within 18 months he raised two rounds of capital and hired one of the best leadership teams I’ve ever seen. How did he do it? Andrew “glows in the dark.” He is so charismatic, compelling, logical, and excited about what he is pursing that you can just feel the energy — even see it glow. Getting to the right person often requires a series of small baton passes or jumping from lily pads of different people to get to your destination.
Andrew was unrelenting when it came to asking for suggestions and pursuing connections and introductions from just about everyone. And since he came across so passionate and compelling, people actually felt like they were building social capital by helping him.
Foot squarely on the line. I wouldn’t suggest that being resourceful has anything to do with doing something illegal or unethical, but I’ve definitely noticed a pattern of being “creative.” When my then head of sales, Shrey Bhatia, was trying to close a $900,000 purchase order from DoubleClick in New York, he called up the CIO and said, “Hey, I’ll be in New York tomorrow, could I drop by for 15 minutes to discuss this?” Of course, he had no intention of going to New York unless the CIO confirmed the meeting. When the CIO finally did, at around 7 p.m., Shrey turned his car around, jumped on the red-eye, slept on the plane and brought home the order the next day. We had the check framed.
Pulp Fiction’s Winston Wolfe is obviously a fictional character, but the stereotype he represents is worth exploring. A guy that’s seen it all, he’s completely unflappable, methodical and decisive. How did he get that way? Like an old sea captain, he is the sum of so many hard-earned life experiences of living on the edge.
While there’s no substitute for real experience, I believe it helps to hear and share stories of resourcefulness in action — almost like case studies in school. With every new account, we open our mind to a new path to take and learn the tactics that others have used to overcome much larger obstacles than the ones that are currently in front of us. I’d love to hear about more “great moments in resourcefulness” in the comments section.
This post originally appeared in TechCrunch
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Filed under: animation, apple, channel 4, creativity, Creativity and Innovation, culture, Innovation, Innovation & Creativity, inspiration, interactive media, Movies, new media, public service media, Reflections, Television, tv | Tags: , 25, bbc, channel 4 news, china, chris morris, cinematography, france, friends, ica, jimmy carr, jools holland, morse, news, roger deakins, shameless, tim pope
I can’t let today pass without marking the 25th birthday of Channel 4 which was at 4.45pm this afternoon. Ironically at that time I was entering the BBC (at Bvsh House), albeit with Camilla Deakin of Lupus Films, custodian of Channel 4 animation and a former Commissioning Editor herself in the Arts department. We were meeting Philip Dodd, formerly of the ICA, Sight & Sound and now of Made in China, to talk about exporting British animation to China and a possible broadband animation channel to launch next year – animation being a great example of where the Channel has lead from the front, all the way to the Oscars. So broadband video and China – very now&next.
Also very now is me sitting here watching the Big Fat Anniversary Quiz and writing a blog simultaneously – so 2007. MC Jimmy Carr was in the Channel 4 caff earlier today when I got into work. Coming into 124 Horseferry Road past the Big 4 this morning I couldn’t help but feel a little quiver of pride&joy. Who’d have thought that that day quarter of a century ago when I watched a bloke called Gavin (or was Gavin the actor and Paul or somebody the character?) opening his bedroom curtains to reveal Brookside Close for the very first time that one day I’d be beavering away for the nascent Channel.
That winter I left for a year to live in Chambery in France (Savoie) before going to university – my first time living away from home. To stay in touch with things back in Blighty I had a lively correspondence throughout 2003 with my lovely friend Katherine (now herself abroad long term in Aspen) about Gavin, his missus Petra, Bobby and Sheila, etc. I just got back on Monday from a visit to Paris to my other great mate Marcelino Truong who I first met that winter in Chambery – he was just about to pack up teaching and become a comic book illustrator. So 2002/3 was a very big year in my life as well as for British broadcasting.
That same first night the film ‘Walter‘ was broadcast starring Ian McKellen. That too came to have a personal connection. While I was at college I met a visiting fellow called David Rudkin (Artemis 81, December Bride), an accomplished screenwriter and Hitchcock expert. He brought to the university for a speaking event Alistair Reid (Tales of the City, Traffik – both for C4), original director of ‘Morse’, who showed his home video of the making of the series, an inspiring presentation and one of many things which lead me to leaving university with no more precise an idea that that I wanted to work with moving pictures. David also introduced me to ‘Walter’ producer Nigel Evans and his business partner Simon Mellor who gave me my first job in the biz – a holiday job as a runner at his company AKA in Farringdon Road (now the Guardian Newsroom annex where last year, 20 years on, I found myself presenting my commission Breaking the News).
Jools Holland has just popped up to ask a question on the Big Fat Quiz about the Tube. The AKA experience helped me land my first proper job at Solus Enterprises, the co-operative of Jack Hazan & David Mingay (makers of British cinema verite landmarks like ‘A Bigger Splash‘ and ‘Rude Boy‘ with The Clash), Roger Deakins (Sid & Nancy, Shawshank Redemption, O Brother Where art Thou?, etc.) and Dick Pope (Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake). The cutting room upstairs at 35 Marshall Street was usually occupied by promo director Tim Pope and editor Pete Goddard. In there was made the series Groovy Fellas for Channel 4, commissioned by Seamus Cassidy. The title graphics were deliberately difficult to read and looked as much like Groovy Fuckers as Groovy Fellas, derived from Jools’s legendary Freudian slit of the tongue. The graphics, from memory, were designed by Andy who used to do all The Cure’s covers. Alongside Jools, it starred Roland Rivron as an alien who dapper Jools was guiding around contemporary Britain. These days Roland and I cross paths in the local schoolyard rather than the cutting room.
My path also crossed Channel 4 in the next phase of my career in another edit suite – that of the very talented Jan Hallett, the Harrymeister with the legendary ‘trouser tape’. Jan is married to Niamh Byrne who has been doing Presentation at Channel 4 for a dog’s age, one of the longest serving staff members. Jan did all the graphics for Chris Morris’s shows (Channel 4’s ‘Brass Eye’ and the fabulous ‘Day Today’). The ‘Day Today’ gig landed partly because it was done out of IDF (later Jump Design, the graphics outfit which emerged from ITN under the direction of the one&only Richard Norley, who had designed the titles for Channel 4 News). We worked out of the Quantel edit suites of ITN in the downtime between the end of Channel 4 News and the start of Big Breakfast News at dawn. Fueled by adrenaline, beer and curry they were golden days which landed us the Grand Award at the New York International Film & Television Festival and a bunch of other gongs from around the world. And the over-night working combined with inability to sleep in the daytime, frankly, was better than drugs.
So, like the Northern Line, the Channel has been a thread through my life from way back when. Since I started working at C4 early in 2003 my personal favourites include DV8’s ‘Cost of Living’, ‘Shameless’ and ‘Jump Britain’.
So we’re in an ad break now. The ads? Apple iPhone. Nintendo DS. What a different world the Channel’s in 25 years on. A huge challenge. Huge opportunities. The important thing is to stay in touch with our values – well expressed, in the Mark Thompson regime under which I started, as: Do It First, Make Trouble, Inspire Change. And also to have a vision going forward as bold as our heritage – one which refreshes and redefines the broad social purpose of the organisation within UK society on a grand scale, as public service media moves into the digital age.
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Lebanon Investigates Visit of Iraqi Militia Leader to the South
Beirut- Caroline Akoum
"Arab World"
Sun, 10 Dec 2017 11:19:02 +0000
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1108901/lebanon-investigates-visit-iraqi-militia-leader-south
Sunday, 10 December, 2017 - 10:30
Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri speaks after a cabinet meeting in Baabda near Beirut, Lebanon December 5, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/ File Photo
The appearance of the head of an Iran-backed Iraqi militia during a visit to Lebanon’s border with Israel, accompanied by Hezbollah fighters, sparked a wave of anger, especially as it came shortly after the government announced the adoption of a policy to dissociate the country from external conflicts.
In a video released on Saturday, Qais al-Khazali, leader of the Iraqi paramilitary group Asaib Ahl al-Haq, declared his readiness “to stand together with the Lebanese people and the Palestinian cause”, just four days after the Lebanese political parties announced the adoption of the policy of “dissociation” from external and regional conflicts.
The video showed an unidentified commander, presumably from Hezbollah, gesturing toward military outposts located along the borders, while Khazali was talking to another person through a wireless device, telling him: “ I am now with the brothers in Hezbollah in the area of Kfarkila, which is a few meters away from occupied Palestine; we declare the full readiness to stand together with the Lebanese people and the Palestinian cause.”
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri ordered the security apparatus to conduct the necessary investigations into the presence of the Iraqi leader on the Lebanese territories, which he said violated the Lebanese laws.
Presidential sources told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper that President Michel Aoun has requested further information about the video, while military sources denied that Khazali has entered the Lebanese territories in a legitimate way.
“The entry of any foreigner to this border area requires a permit from the Lebanese Army, which did not happen,” the sources said, stressing that Khazali has entered the area illegaly.
A statement issued by the premier’s office said: “Hariri contacted the concerned military and security officials to conduct the necessary investigations and take measures to prevent any person or party from carrying out any military activity on the Lebanese territory, and to thwart any illegal act as shown in the video.”
The Lebanese prime minister also ordered that Khazali would be banned from entering Lebanon again, the statement added.
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Meet the 2019 NFL draft quarterback class: Everything you need to know
By ESPN.com
The quarterback class for the 2019 NFL draft became clearer as Oregon'sJustin Herbert, who was ranked the No. 1 QB by ESPN NFL draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr.,announced that he is returning to school for another year. Herbert will join a loaded 2020 class with the likes of Alabama's Tua Tagovailoa, Georgia's Jake Fromm and others.
The 2019 class, though? There's still much to be decided in the four months until April's draft.
After five quarterbacks went in Round 1 this past April, the 2019 class isn't as top-heavy, partially because the NFL's worst teams took QBs in 2018. The Giants and Jaguars are the only teams projected to pick in the top 10 that have glaring needs at the position (unless Raiders coach Jon Gruden decides to dip his toes into the water).
Who are the top QBs in the 2019 class now? Let's meet the 10 candidates who are jockeying for position, with notes on each from Kiper and Todd McShay, insight from talent evaluators in the NFL and everything else you need to know about the 2019 rookies (updated on Jan. 8):
Jump to a QB:
Haskins | Jones | Grier | Lock
Finley | Stidham | Murray | Best of the rest
So long, Herbert. Hello, Haskins? In any other year, Haskins might have been a lock to win the Heisman Trophy. Instead, he finished third behind two of the greatest QB seasons of all time. He threw 50 touchdown passes and just eight interceptions while leading the Buckeyes to a Big Ten title and win in the Rose Bowl.Besides Alabama defensive tackle Quinnen Williams, Haskins is the biggest draft riser in the Class of 2019. He has an effortless throwing motion and he was clutch in Ohio State's season-defining wins over Michigan and Northwestern. Check out this beautiful bomb in the conference title game.
The biggest question about him? Sample size. Those 14 starts are far fewer than NFL teams would like to see before they invest in a first-round quarterback. There is a recent precedent, however, as Mitchell Trubisky started just 13 games at North Carolina before the Bears took him No. 2 overall in 2017. Haskins, by the way, received a first-round grade from theNFL's college personnel advisory board, according to a report by ESPN's Chris Mortensen.
No. 2 QB (behind Herbert) and No. 7 overall prospect.From Kiper's Big Board: "He has a big arm, shows great anticipation on his throws, takes care of the ball and has solid athleticism."
No. 1 QB and No. 18 overall prospect.From McShay's Top 32: "Based solely on his physical tools, the bar is really high for the Ohio State starter despite a limited college career."
"I like Haskins. He reminds me of Teddy Bridgewater as a prospect, when he was a first-round pick [No. 32 overall in 2014]. You might be able to get Haskins later in the first round. I think he is a little more known than some of the others in terms of projecting what he will be." -- NFL evaluator, as told to ESPN's Mike Sando
Haskins announced on Jan. 7 that he's entering the 2019 draft. Kiper weighed in on the decision.You'll see Haskins next at the NFL combine, which starts Feb. 26. McShay pegged Haskins to the Giants in the top 10 of his Mock Draft 1.0.
Video:Playing QB at Ohio State a 'dream come true'...Haskins was destined to select Ohio State. Next up: Become the next Peyton Manning...Is Haskins the Big Ten's best quarterback ever?
Keep an eye on quarterback whispererDavid Cutcliffe's latest project, who could be the biggest beneficiary of Herbert's staying in school. The Duke coach has raved about Jones, a three-year starter who took a big step forward in 2018. His career numbers don't scream first-rounder -- 52 touchdown passes and 29 interceptions, while completing 59.9 percent of his passes -- but Jones didn't play with high-end talent. He's a dual-threat signal-caller -- Jonesrushed for 186 yards (and threw for 361) in the Blue Devils' win over rival North Carolina. Need proof of his toughness? Jones broke the collarbone in his left, non-throwing arm in September and missed only two games. Jones is expected to be in the mix to be the top QB off the board, and he just threw five touchdown passes in Duke's bowl win.
No.3 QB and No.25 overall prospect. From Kiper's Big Board: "... The most impressive trait I've seen from Jones this season is his ability to buy time in the pocket and use his feet to get square and make a throw."
No. 7 QB and No.71 overall prospect. From McShay's preview of the Independence Bowl: "[Jones has] been accurate and shown a lot of toughness, especially in that Clemson game."
"There are similarities to Carson Wentz -- great kid, great family, big body, makes all the throws, pretty smart, but does have an injury history. What he's got going for him is the guy coaching him [Cutcliffe]. That is going to play so much in his favor. He could end up being the top quarterback drafted." -- NFL evaluator, as told to ESPN's Mike Sando
On the heels of passing for 423 yards and scoring six total touchdowns in a Walk-On's Independence Bowl win, Jones will forego his final season of eligibility and enter the 2019 NFL draft. He got a late invite toJanuary's Senior Bowland will compete against a solid group there.
From 3-star to first-rounder: Jones peaking at just the right time ...How Jones played through pain and got his team to a bowl game
Grier might not be the most famous member of his immediate family -- seriously, his siblings have millions of Instagram followers -- but he could be a first-round pick in April. After redshirting at Florida in 2014, he led the Gators to a 6-0 start in 2015 ... and then was suspended for testing positive for aperformance-enhancing substance (an over-the-counter supplement, he said). Grier decided to transfer, ending up at West Virginia, where he put up bonkers numbers (76 total TDs) in Dana Holgorsen's spread attack the past two seasons. Grier doesn't have outstanding measurables, but scouts love his accuracy and moxie. Kiper and McShay rate him as a Day 2 pick with the potential to move up during the pre-draft process.
No. 5 QB.
No. 3 QB and No. 39 overall prospect. From McShay's preseason scouting report: "[Grier] has average zip on intermediate throws but can drive the ball vertically, although it requires full-body effort."
"I think it's going to be a thin crop of quarterbacks in the end, and so a guy like Grier could go earlier than he should. I think most of the league is going to look at him as a low-end starter or high-end backup." -- NFL evaluator, as told to ESPN's Mike Sando
Grierskipped West Virginia's bowl game to prepare for the draft, and he has accepted an invite to participate in the Senior Bowl. He'll jockey for position in practices in Mobile, Alabama, with a few other quarterbacks and compete against more of the nation's best upperclassmen prospects.
Grier's family is Instagram-famous, but he is scrambling to duck the spotlight ... How Grier got into the Heisman conversation ... Grier balances football, fatherhood
Lock burst onto the draft radar after a 44-touchdown season in 2017, and he was the first quarterback off the board in McShay's way-too-early mock draft in early May. McShay even called him a "poor man's Patrick Mahomes" before the season. His stock has fallen a little, but he has been more efficient (improved QBR and completion percentage with fewer picks) in 2018. Critics, however, will point to a horrid three-game stretch against Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama in which Lock had seven turnovers (five INTs) and just one touchdown pass while completing only 48.2 percent of his throws. Turn on the tape of Missouri's upset of Florida, though, to see Lock show off what scouts see in him. You might also remember him from his unique trash talk in the 2017 Texas Bowl.
No. 4 QB and No.49 overall prospect. From McShay's preseason scouting report:"If developed properly, he has the natural tools to start in the NFL."
"He's one of the more talented quarterbacks in this class and should go in the first couple rounds. He is capable of looking like an NFL starter but has just been inconsistent in terms of his accuracy and his decision-making. Somebody will like him because he has all the physical tools. Playing in more of a pro-style offense this year will help him. He might need some development, but he has more upside than most of these other guys." -- NFL evaluator, as told to ESPN's Mike Sando
You'll next see Lock, who threw for 373 yards and three touchdowns in theAutoZone Liberty Bowl, at the Senior Bowl, in which he should turn heads in practice with his strong arm.
How Lock's sixth-grade team shaped him ... Lock doesn't care if you like him; it's respect he's after...The rise of Lock into one of NFL's hottest QB prospects
Is it possible for a sixth-year senior to be under the radar? That could be Finley, who spent three years in a crowded quarterback room at Boise State before graduating and transferring to NC State, where he has started 38 games and led the Wolfpack to back-to-back nine-win seasons. Finley began the season at No. 16 overall on McShay's ranking of the best 2019 prospects, and like Lock, he dropped as Herbert and Haskins moved up. Finley, however, had an improved senior season, throwing 25 touchdown passes and just 11 interceptions. He has stellar touch on his throws -- check out this touchdown against East Carolina -- but is inconsistent down the field and is only an average athlete. Finley has a chance to rise in the class.
No.6 QB.
No. 5 QB and No.61 overall prospect. From McShay's preseason rankings: "He gets through progressions quickly and shows good poise and feel inside the pocket."
"He is accurate, he is smart, but just from a physical standpoint, I think people will see him as a backup, just because of his size, his talent, arm and those things." -- NFL evaluator, as told to ESPN's Mike Sando
Finley is headed to the Senior Bowl in Mobile in late January.
Finley isn't wasting any of his extra time at NC State ...Unique path has Finley ready for what comes next ...Finley preparing to take his place among NC State QBs in NFL
Stidham, the2017SEC newcomer of the year who entered the season with 20-1 odds to win the Heisman Trophy, took a step back in 2018 (as did 7-5 Auburn). The Baylor transferbegan the season as one of the draft's top prospects --"I think that's a fair assessment," coach Gus Malzahn said in August -- but now finds himself in the middle of the pack in the class.Stidham completed 63.4 percent of his passes and threw 36 touchdowns and 11 interceptions in two seasons at Auburn in Malzahn's run-heavy spread offense, but he isn't much of a running threat and looked out of sorts at times with the Tigers. He lit up Purdue for five touchdown passes in Auburn's bowl game -- could he make a leap over the next few months and rise after the combine?
No. 10 QB.
No. 6 QB and No. 67 overall prospect. From McShay's preseason scouting report:"[Stidham] can fit the ball into some tight spots and shows the ability to drive the ball vertically."
"He has a good arm, but his decision-making, anticipation and some of those things you need as a quarterback probably are not where you would like them to be. To me, his ceiling is as a backup. He has been really inconsistent this year." -- NFL evaluator, as told to ESPN's Mike Sando
Stidham has already announced that he is entering the draft.He will next be seen at the combine in early March.
Video: Stidham's long road to Auburn ... Meet the best QB in Alabama ... Stidham at peace with family, football
Surely you know about the 2018 Heisman Trophy winner, right? Murray put up one of the best seasons in college football history in leading Oklahoma to the College Football Playoff, but he might not even play professional football. He was picked in the first round in the MLB draft and got a$4.6 million signing bonus with the Oakland Athletics. The reason Murray is on this list? There's at least a small chance that he tries to play both sports or gives up baseball for football. If he commits to football -- and gives up that guaranteed money from the A's --McShay believes he will be a first-round pick, while Kiper thinks he'd go on Day 2 in April. Murray is a dynamic dual-threat quarterback, but his true height is an issue for football. Not so much on the baseball diamond.
"Of all these guys, Kyler Murray is probably the rarest in terms of his talent as a runner, his speed, his athletic ability, and then he can pass, but he is as small as we have ever seen. He is smaller than Russell Wilson, but like Russell, he is smart. You see the baseball player in him -- he gets down, does not take big hits. As the NFL game goes more toward the college game and as the rules limit how defenses can hit, there may be a place for him because he is talented. He is the wild card who could go early, but we just don't know." -- NFL evaluator, as told to ESPN's Mike Sando
Murray and the Sooners lost to Alabama in theCapital One Orange Bowl, and The San Francisco Chronicle reported on Jan. 9 that theA's expect Murray to declare for the 2019 draft. The A's report for spring training in February, and Murray could still join up with the team while entering the draft.
Murray balances football and baseball while replacing a legend...After historic season, will Murray still give up on football? ... Video: Murray won't stop until he wins a national title
These quarterbacks are all thought to be likely Day 3 picks, but they could move up before the draft:
A graduate transfer from East Carolina, Minshew excelled under Mike Leach in 2018, throwing 38 touchdown passes and nine interceptions and finishing fifth in the Heisman race. Minshew has impeccable style, and the fifth-year senior is the No. 9 QB on both Kiper's and McShay's draft boards. Scouts will get a closer look at him at the Senior Bowl in January.
McSorley doesn't have great size (6-foot, 200 pounds) or a great arm, but he was one of college football's most productive quarterbacks the past three seasons. McShay wrote in early December that McSorley was his favorite late-round prospect to watch. He'll be among the contingent of QBs at the Senior Bowl, where he'll get his shot to impress against some of the draft's best senior prospects.
Since redshirting in 2014, Thorson has started 53 games for the Wildcats. He has the physical tools (6-4, 225 pounds) to be an NFL quarterback, he never put together a consistent season, and he threw 32 touchdown passes and 27 interceptions the past two seasons. Thorson will also be at the Senior Bowl.
Haskins: I'm ready for the NFL
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Jones shows off pinpoint accuracy
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Gunslinging Grier ready for NFL
Check out some highlights from the 2018 season of West Virginia QB Will Grier.
NFL teams have an eye on Lock
Missouri's Drew Lock showed off his arm strength during the 2018 season.
Finley's skill set has him on NFL teams' radars
Check out some highlights from the 2018 season of NC State QB Ryan Finley.
Stidham dials up long TD
Jarrett Stidham double-clutches and throws a deep pass to Seth Williams for a 45-yard Auburn touchdown.
Murray's Heisman season filled with highlights
After throwing for 40 touchdowns and leading the Sooners to the Big 12 title, Kyler Murray got Oklahoma back to the CFP.
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Alicia Keys Rants on Instagram After Her Son Told Her He Didn’t Want to Wear His Rainbow Manicure
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Alicia Keys took to her Instagram to rant about an incident that happened with her 4 year old son.
They were at the nail salon together when he requested rainbow nails.
The nail tech gets him various colors and paints his nails different colors as he requested.
After his nails were done, he looked at them and said he didn’t want the polish on his nails.
Alicia asked him why and he said that people are not gonna like it.
Been thinking about how over labeled and over judged we all are… can u feel me??
A post shared by Alicia Keys (@aliciakeys) on Nov 9, 2019 at 5:43pm PST
She tells him that people will like it and that he should stick with it because he chose it, and he liked it.
She also told him that a lot of guys paint their nails. That made him happy.
She goes on to say in her video that there are masculine and there are feminine energies inside of us all.
Many people left her comments including husband Swizz Beats who said, he’s a young King and he can explore and express his creativity at anytime. We support it as his parents.
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Washington Nationals starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg throws to the St. Louis Cardinals during the second inning of a baseball game Thursday, May 2, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Strasburg fastest to 1,500 Ks, Nationals beat Cardinals 2-1
WASHINGTON (AP) — Stephen Strasburg reached 1,500 strikeouts in fewer innings than any pitcher in major league history, and the Washington Nationals beat the St. Louis Cardinals 2-1 after a long rain delay Thursday to salvage the finale of a four-game series.
Despite the strong performance by Strasburg, the Nationals (13-17) fired pitching coach Derek Lilliquist after the game and replaced him with minor league pitching coordinator Paul Menhart. General manager Mike Rizzo made the announcement moments after the final out.
Strasburg (3-1) lasted 6 2/3 innings, giving up a run on six hits with two walks and nine strikeouts. He got opposing starter Dakota Hudson looking in the fifth for his eighth strikeout of the game and the 1,500th of his career — in 1,272 1/3 innings.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Boston left-hander Chris Sale held the previous mark, reaching 1,500 in 2017 after 1,290 innings.
Sean Doolittle struck out pinch-hitter Paul Goldschmidt with the bases loaded to end the eighth, then finished for his fourth save.
Hudson (2-2) allowed two runs, one earned, and four hits in six innings. Kolten Wong hit an RBI single and Yairo Munoz had three hits for St. Louis, which had won five straight.
The teams combined for 14 hits, all singles.
The Nationals scored twice in the fourth without an RBI.
Howie Kendrick came home when Munoz committed a throwing error from shortstop on Yan Gomes' grounder, and Matt Adams scored from third when Brian Dozier grounded into a double play.
The start was delayed by rain for 2 hours, 32 minutes.
Cardinals: RHP Luke Gregerson (shoulder impingement), who threw to seven batters during a pregame batting practice session Wednesday, came out of it fine, according to manager Mike Shildt. ... OF Dexter Fowler (illness) was better Thursday and Shildt was hopeful Fowler would be available off the bench after missing two games.
Nationals: RF Juan Soto (back spasms) was a late scratch for the second straight game but was available to pinch hit. . Manager Dave Martinez said SS Trea Turner (broken finger) could begin swinging the bat this week. . INF Carter Kieboom, who was 3 for 22 since his major league debut, was given a day off.
PICKED OFF
St. Louis had runners on first and second with no outs in the third before Gomes picked off Matt Wieters at second base from behind the plate. Hudson then sacrificed Munoz to second and the Cardinals settled for one run on Wong's single.
Cardinals: RHP Jack Flaherty (3-1, 4.06 ERA) pitches when the Cardinals open a three-game series Friday at the Chicago Cubs. Flaherty has not allowed a run in 12 innings this season during day games.
Nationals: RHP Jeremy Hellickson (2-0, 5.82) starts when the Nationals open a three-game series in Philadelphia on Friday night. Hellickson pitched six shutout innings against the Phillies on April 10.
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2010 Year End List
The staff at KPSU asked me to fill out a year-end list, of my top 10 favorite records of 2010. I don’t normally do lists like this; most of the music I buy is not new, most of the music I listen to is not new, and I think year-end lists are extremely misleading, often because there don’t have context. But, since I had to fill one out, here’s my context:
Ke$ha “Animal”
These are the albums I listened to in 2010, that were released in 2010. This isn’t everything that I was a fan of, nor is it everything that I listened to in 2010. It is merely the honorable mentions that were released in the year 2010, that I listened to in 2010. I’ll be the first to say that the list is subjective, missing a ton of things that you would rather see on the list, and in some spots, I cheat. But this is the closest accurate reflection you will get from me about how 2010 went down, musically speaking. Enjoy!
01.) Ke$ha – Animal
If, for no other reason, “Tik Tok” made this album all worth while. I kept coming back to it, even when I knew I shouldn’t.
The Oblik
02.) Moment In Static – Demos
Local math-rockers are stellar, live and recorded. Check out one of their rare live shows, or their archived KPSU performance.
03.) The Oblik – Demos
Pop rock like they used to make, with equal-parts goth and glam. Hooks and then some, and rewarding upon multiple listens.
Sharon Jone & The Dap-Kings “I Learned The Hard Way”
The Black Keys “Brothers”
04.) Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings – I Learned The Hard Way
You need this album the way you need to hit the clubs on a Friday night, but this is better for the wee hours of the night, when you’re feeling introspective.
05.) The Black Keys – Brothers
This is what rock and roll is all about. The hyper-color disc says it all: this band either polarizes you one way or the other. For me, I became a full-on convert.
Grinderman “2”
06.) Grinderman – 2
The most anticipated record of the year, and well worth the wait. Nick Cave with a sense of humor is the best kind of Nick Cave to listen to, and this record is something to get genuinely creeped out about.
07.) No Age – Everything In Between
Get this album. Listen to it twice daily. Then try telling me I’m wrong about it. I dare you.
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08.) Weekend – Sports
This album snuck in late for me, as I found only a week or so ago. But it is, without a doubt, the best album of 2010.
09.) Quasi / Pavement – Live!
A chance to see Pavement was the highlight of the year, and the show delivered everything I wanted and more. Quasi was great, too.
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10.) kpsu.org
When all was said and done, I had my computer locked on kpsu.org. It had all of this, and more, 24 hours a day.
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Realized far too late that I left off Cee Lo's "The Ladykiller" record. Crap.
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On Wednesday, October 23rd more than 50 family, friends, and community members joined staff and students to celebrate the nine 2018-19 graduates of Action Inc.’s COMPASS Program. The students, all aged between 16 and 24, completed all five components of the High School Equivalency Test (HiSET), similar to the well-known GED.
The students graduated from the COMPASS Youth Program, which is designed for students ages 16-24 who have withdrawn from high school but are looking to continue their education and obtain their HiSET Diploma. In addition to individual tutoring and small class instruction, COMPASS students work with Action Inc. staff to explore college and career opportunities to build a more secure future for themselves and their families.
Graduation took place at the North Shore Arts Association, where students were congratulated by Gloucester Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken and Action Inc.’s Executive Director, Peggy Hegarty-Steck, who commended students for their effort and determination, congratulated them on their accomplishments and provided encouragement and inspiration for what they can achieve in their futures.
Catherine Aiello, one of the graduating class addressed her classmates, congratulating them on their hard work and perseverance. “We worry about our full-time jobs, children, and husbands,” she told them. “When you’re 17, 18, or 19 and have to worry about living arrangements, feeding yourself, and taking care of tiny humans, graduating seems to be the last thing on your mind. I applaud you for taking the steps to better yourself and the situation you found yourself in. Life threw a lot at you because you could handle it. And you did, because you’re here today.”
For some graduates, their next steps will include going to college, while others plan to go directly into the workforce. “We are incredibly proud of all our graduates,” explained Nikki Klink Marin, Director of Education & Training at Action Inc. “They have worked so hard and overcome so much to be standing here in their caps and gowns. This is an incredible achievement, especially when you consider how many of our students are working multiple jobs, providing for their families, or even worrying about where they are going to sleep tonight. Many of these young people have had to endure so much in their lives, we are honored to be able to help them reach their potential.”
“This is a critical time in their lives”, said Peggy Hegarty-Steck of the graduates. “If we can reach these young people and provide the support they need at this crucial point, we can help ensure they have more secure and more successful futures. Action Inc.’s COMPASS program will turn 20 this year, and providing opportunities to young people in our community will continue to be a priority for us.”
The graduating students were: Haylee Aberegg, Catherine Aiello, David Avila, Brianna Couchon, Isabelle Gagne, Somolly Long, Allie Mirthil, Travis Shank, and Dominique Spinola.
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Discovery Channel’s annual Shark Week programming—one of the most anticipated shows of the year—kicked off last Sunday. Those that made it through the episode may have noticed a certain someone on the talk show ‘Shark After Dark’. That’s right! American DJ and producer Jauz is the featured DJ on the nightly show. We couldn’t think of a more fitting person for spot. Jauz announced his collaboration with the show this past Sunday, relieving fans who were eagerly waiting for a shark-related announcement.
‘Shark After Dark’, hosted by comedian Rob Riggle, dives deeper into the shark infested waters. Riggle and his various guests each night will discuss highlights from the show, all from the safety of their studio. Shark experts are even said to be joining, hopefully to convince us to go near the ocean again. Jauz’s hit remix “Baby Shark” was a huge nod to Discovery Channel, and an opportunity they couldn’t pass up. The song will be used in this year’s Shark Week programing.
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Cross-country runners debut in Essex
ESSEX — In a major early high-school cross-country meet that drew many Division I teams, the D-II Middlebury boys’ and girls’ teams settled for mid-pack finishes in this past Saturday’s Essex Invitational.
The Tiger boys were seventh out of 14 teams, and the MUHS girls were sixth out of 12. Freshman Luke Klingensmith finished 25th to lead the MUHS boys’ team, and senior Isabel Olson took 30th to lead the Tiger girls.
Vergennes junior Ben Huston enjoyed the best individual day among local runners, taking 14th in the boys’ race on the 5,000-meter course. The Commodores were 11th. Junior Liam Davison led the 14th-place Mount Abraham team by taking 86th.
Essex won the boys’ race with 50 points, with U-32 and Champlain Valley next, each with 88. Middlebury scored 202 points, VUHS came in at 260, and the Eagles finished with 444.
CVU coasted on the girls’ side with 30 points, followed by Essex (87), Burlington (93), Harwood (102), U-32 (125) and MUHS (185). Harwood and U-32 are competitors for the Tigers in D-II.
The boys’ winner and local finishers were:
1. Henry Farrington, Essex, 15:42.9; 14. Huston, VUHS, 17:48.4; 25. Luke Klingensmith, MUHS, 18:02.8; 27. Thomas Nevins, MUHS, 18:12.2; 47. Erich Reitz, VUHS, 18:41.0; 51. Gabe Praamsma, VUHS, 18:56.8; 55. William Carpenter, MUHS, 18:59.1; 57. Lucas Palcsik, MUHS, 19:05.5; 58. Elvis McIntosh, MUHS, 19:06.1; and 86. Davison, Mt. Abe, 20:14.7.
Also, 87. Luke Bergmans, VUHS, 20:27.3; 89. Chris Therrien, VUHS, 20:37.0; 94. Hugh Ball, Mt. Abe, 21:44.0; 97. Trystan Jones, MUHS, 22:09.1; 99. Kieran Sheridan, MUHS, 22:22.2; 100. Sean Davison, Mt. Abe, 22:30.2; 106. Liam Beatty, Mt. Abe, 23:15.8; 107. Paul Thurber, Mt. Abe, 23:18.5, and 109. William Iliff, Mt. Abe, 24:32.2
The girls’ winner and local finishers were:
1. Alicia Veronneau, CVU, 19:06.6; 30. Olson, MUHS, 21:15.7; 32. Mary Ann Eastman, MUHS, 21:24.3; 41. Sofia Stefani, MUHS, 21:45.7; 49. Ella Landis, MUHS, 22:14.5; 51. Fairley Olson, MUHS, 22:18.7; 56. Maddy Stowe, MUHS, 22:36.4.
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A heavily perspiring Fan Ice seller peddled enthusiastically up to “To God Be the Glory.”
“Ice cream!” Cecilia squealed feverishly. “Bra. Come! God, it’s hot, isn’t it Lera?”
The brawny young seller mopped sweat off his face with a damp towels and politely asked Cecilia what she wanted.
“Give me chocolate. And one strawberry yoghurt for my friend.”
Lerato tried to tell her that she wasn’t hungry but Cecilia hushed her and handed her the blue and white packet. Lerato hated to admit that the sudden flash of ice felt good in the palm of her hand. It was indeed hot outside.
Lerato studied her friend pensively as she half flirted with the shy seller. Cecilia had the build of an Amazonian warrior of an age gone by. She was tall, lean and muscular. Today she had instructed Thomasina to take out her weave and sweep her shoulder-length hair into a sleek braided bun. With her gladiator sandals and bronze dress that hit her just above the knee, she looked the part to capture and devour any man who crossed her path. Had she captured Khalid in the vice grip of those perfect, serpentine legs?
“Why aren’t you eating your yoghurt?” Cecilia asked. She sounded pained.
“Cecilia… How well do you know Kal?”
Cecilia waved the ice-cream seller away with a ‘yooo, next time’, and turned to face her friend.
“Are you asking if I’ve fucked him?”
Lerato was startled by her frankness. She shouldn’t have been, knowing Cecilia; all the same she couldn’t help feeling protective – and a little possessive – over Khalid. Cecilia laughed a musky, mischievous chortle before answering.
“Oh, chaley. No ooo. But it wasn’t for lack of trying. I put on my best game, but he turned me down.” She sniffed in disdain. “His girlfriend must have her hooks in him deep. I hate that tramp.”
“Do you know her well?”
“No. Today was my first time meeting her. Doesn’t stop me from hating her though.”
“He’s coming back to get me.”
Cecilia choked on her chocolate treat and raised a penciled brow at Lerato.
“Ei. You this woman. You must have magic between your thighs.”
“I don’t know about that…”
Cecilia wiped her mouth with the back of her hand and searched Lerato’s face. No. This wouldn’t do.
“Are you sure you know what you’re doing, my darling? Didn’t you just tell me Paul was in town?”
Lerato was taken aback by her maternal tone.
“I thought you said I should fuck Khalid every chance I got!”
“And you are listening to the advice of a chronically drunken woman?” Cecilia cackled gleefully. “I have more pull than I thought! Look, I’m not telling you what to do. I’m just telling you to be sure of what you want to do before you do it.”
Lera sucked on her yoghurt and furrowed her brow. She looked like a child trying to choose between two desires; a new doll or a trip to the movies, perhaps.
“I know what I want,” she said replied picking up her bag and hugging Cecilia before heading for the side of the road. Khalid’s car was rounding the corner.
“Ahhh. Me, I hear!” Cecilia hummed with a mock frown. “Call me later, chica. And give me all the wet, sloppy details. Ashawo like your type!”
Khalid leaned over his steering wheel and grinned at Lerato as she sat. He gave Cecilia a knowing glance before asking her if she wanted a ride anywhere.
“Which way are you guys going?”
“I don’t know. Wherever Lera wants, I guess,” replied Khalid.
“Then I’m going in the opposite direction,” Cecilia said with a toss of her head and disappeared into the hair salon without giving the pair a parting glance.
Lerato smiled to herself and buckled her seat belt. She felt sinful; delicious; wicked; and a little scared. It was too late for second thoughts, though. As if sensing her apprehension, Khalid put the car in reverse and whipped it around the narrow road. Lerato pressed her feet into the floor board and braced herself.
“Don’t worry,” he said smoothly. “I can handle this.”
She pursed her glossed lips and sucked her teeth.
“Is that supposed to be some kind of metaphor for what we’re doing right now?”
“No, baby. I’m just trying to spend time with my very first love. It’s not literature class.”
Khalid slid his hand down the expanse of her thigh and squeezed it when he returned to the thickest part. The move made Lera shiver in delight.
“Paul is in town.”
God. Why did she bring him up?
“Oh really?” Khalid seemed unmoved. “And you met Ivy today, so we’re all acquainted, aren’t we?”
Lerato sputtered an inelegant laugh. How could he be so casual about the whole thing?
“So where do you want to go? Beach, mountains, or the forest?”
Lerato watched Khalid’s lips as he asked the question. How on earth could one man make the idea of going into a forest sound like a trek to Nirvana?
“I don’t know,” she admitted. “I haven’t had time to think about it.”
“Well, I have,” Khalid countered. “I’ve been thinking about it since class six. I want to take a moonlit stroll with you. We don’t have to do anything you don’t want to, but tonight we’re going to the beach.”
You can’t even begin to imagine the things I want to do with you.
“That sounds nice,” she said aloud. “So where to? La Palm or some place fancy like that?”
“I was thinking of something a little more rustic. I have a chalet at Prampram that my cousin lets me use from time to time.”
“It’s not like that at all, Lera. I just go there to think every once in a while, when things get too… heavy. That’s all.”
Khalid suddenly looked weary. What could he possibly be trying to escape? He’d always had the perfect life, or so it seemed.
They rode in virtual silence the rest of the way. It was comfortable. Kal kept a firm grip on her hand, releasing it only to change gears or to stroke the back of her freshly shaven head with his broad, calloused palm. The hands of a man who worked with his hands. Lerato turned her head to kiss his wrist and drink in the scent of cumin and citrus that wafted through his pores.
The drive ended soon – way too soon, but it gave way to a peaceful view of the Atlantic. As she stepped out of the car, soft breeze fluttered around her feet and lifted the hem of Lerato’s white peasant skirt. Khalid leaned against the hood of the car and watched her saunter towards him.
“You’re so beautiful,” he whispered, his breath quickening. “Come on. I’ll take you to the room so you can put down your bag.”
The chalet was simple and white – not much different from any other Ghanaian beach resort dwelling. Khalid showed her the bathroom, the television, the desk. He shrugged and asked her if she was ready to take their walk. Lerato frowned her keen features and threw her purse in the corner.
“Khalid. Let’s not do this, okay?”
“Let’s not do what?”
“Let’s not play games and toy with each other. I have a life time of games waiting ahead of me…”
Khalid took a step forward and pulled her gently to the simple, twin sized bed where he sat. He kissed her forehead, her temple, her neck…pausing between each stroke of his lips to let the tip of his tongue fleck her smooth brown skin.
“I just don’t want you to think this is about sex. It’s so much more for me, Lera. You and me – it’s so much more than that, you understand?”
Lera pressed her forehead against his and sighed. When was the last time she felt this way?
“I need you, Lerato Gqukani. And if you’ll let me, I’ll show you how much.”
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SA_Girl July 4, 2013 at 5:58 am
Malaka you had me worried there for a second when Khalid asked beach/mountain/forest (lol) I was like, ‘this dude cannot be erfing serious, whatever happened to hotels? How can he cheapen her like that?’
Big ups to you, can’t wait to see how the story unfolds…
Malaka July 4, 2013 at 11:46 am
Oh! You see? If he had taken her to a bush somewhere his stock would have fallen to ZERO. Our man Kal is not that wack!
Nana Darkoa July 4, 2013 at 4:22 pm
Ehhh? We shall wait to see what Khalid does next…
Malaka July 4, 2013 at 4:51 pm
He bangs her, obviously.
Ine July 6, 2013 at 10:42 pm
I missed this installment and read the one after. Thats how come I didnt know where they were. I came sniffing for some midnight reading and found it.
Malaka if it’s not too much trouble, could you please prefix the titles with ‘LTS:’.
I am in love with Kal. Although I must say Paul isnt putting up too much competition for him. I think it is easy to forgive or condone infidelity if the Paul character is an ass. But what if Paul were a sweetheart? Would we still be rooting for Lera to end up with Kal?
Just random buzzing in my head.
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On November 16th, 2018, Jeffery Seiler was promoted to President and CEO of the Advanced Fresh Concepts Corp.’s group of companies. Jeffery joined Advanced Fresh Concepts Franchise Corp. (“AFCFC”) in 2005 as the company’s Director of Legal and Compliance Division and was named and served as the Vice President of AFCFC and its parent company Advanced Fresh Concepts Corp. since 2007, Advanced Fresh Concepts Pty Ltd (Australia) since 2015, and AFC Distribution Corp. since 2016. He has previously held executive roles with Advanced Fresh Concepts International, Inc., and Advanced Fresh Concepts Food Service Corp.
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Opinion: Boise State needs mandatory diversity and inclusivity training
By Will Meyer November 6, 2019 No Comments
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Diversity and inclusivity have been a strong point of conversation on Boise State campus this semester. With programs such as black graduation and rainbow graduation coming under fire, campus members have been forced to ask why ideas such as these are important. These programs are designed to ensure that students who identify with groups traditionally oppressed in systems like that of the university are recognized and allowed to celebrate one another’s achievements, despite the exclusion they may have felt throughout their university experience.
Many have not experienced the marginalization these students have and, consequently, do not understand the importance of inclusion efforts at a university.
Just as we must ask whether these lawmakers understand the experiences of marginalized students — and whether they are even putting in the effort to understand — we must also ask if the leaders on our own campus have been asked to understand those experiences.
It is clear that, for many students and student organizations, inclusivity is a high priority on campus. However, campus environments must be altered to decentralize focus from just the most privileged students in the class to a broader focus that deliberately includes students of all identities and backgrounds.
Though this may sound easy enough, marginalized students are continually delegitimized in Boise State’s classrooms. One such way that students are often marginalized is through microaggressions, one of the most misunderstood forms of prejudice.
For example, when a faculty member says something like “Americans are all a part of the same ethnicity,” or “There is no homoeroticism in this text,” in a text where homoeroticism is evident, students may feel powerless to contradict the professor’s authority, particularly if they don’t feel that those statements were made with an intention to exclude any class members.
When hearing such statements, a student who identifies within a marginalized ethnic group, a person who identifies as LGBTQIA+ or a student that identifies with both will feel that their world view is not validated by the institution, because ultimately, faculty members represent Boise State’s values.
As of today, the only training on inclusivity provided to faculty or staff is paid only with a small stipend and is typically scheduled during the school week. Though the fairly new program should not be demonized for lacking the funding or the support to make it mandatory, it is also important to recognize that students will continue to feel ostracized and unwelcome on Boise State’s campus until a change is made.
Boise State is responsible for ensuring that all of its representatives understand that there are numerous students on our campus who do not come from the same background as them. Environments and situations have to be knowledgeably crafted to accommodate all students, to ensure their success alongside their more privileged peers.
“You can see people drowning in the river and immediately start trying to save them, but sooner or later someone is going to have to hike upriver and see what’s making them fall in,” said Tai Simpson, former president of the Intertribal Native Council at Boise State.
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118 Years Later, And Latinos Finally Begin To Be Visible in Pennsylvania's 'Upper Crust'
Jimmy Duran, Priscilla Jimenez, Luis Cortés, and Caroline Cruz. Photographed by Samantha Laub for AL DÍA News.
No, this was not your typical PA Society smoke-filled bash or “old boy’s club” weekend.
118 Years Later, And Latinos Finally Begin To...
“I have been attending the Pennsylvania Society Weekend since 1997. Prior to that date, I did not know that this event existed. My wife and I were the only Latinos at that dinner, and afterwards I began inviting others; Pedro Ramos, then Chair of the School District attended the following year. It was predominantly represented by Republicans and business leaders from throughout the Commonwealth. I was particularly honored that this year we had a larger representation of Latinos, understanding that we too have an ability to contribute to the wellbeing of the Commonwealth.”
- The Honorable Nelson A. Diaz
For over a century, Pennsylvania’s elite have gathered every December in New York to experience Manhattan sparkling with yuletide and holiday cheer whilst exchanging business cards and sizeable donations.
As members of The Pennsylvania Society (or, the PA Society for short), these politicians, businessmen, lobbyists, and nonprofit founders commit themselves to a reunion weekend with the goal of “uniting all Pennsylvanians at home and away from home in bonds of friendship and devotion to their native or adopted state”.
This is the very same ambition the founder of the Society, James Barr Ferree, and fifty-five Pennsylvanian natives living in New York, decided upon in 1899 at The Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
Uniting all Pennsylvanians (at least the ones who have vital roles in the industrial, leadership, and business sectors), however, has not always been treasured in this tradition.
Even in the decades following social justice and human rights initiatives such as the Civil Rights Movement and the Chicano Movement, the upper echelon of Pennsylvania remained predominantly White and male.
The turn of the Millennium and beyond has seen incredible growth in the amount of minority leaders, changing the face of those with influence and standing in the City.
This professional diversification was finally apparent at this year’s Pennsylvania Society Weekend at The Hilton in Midtown Manhattan. Huffington Post has already reported on the 7th Annual The League of 1789 Reception, a reception primarily hosted by and for black leaders, and the AL DÍA Foundation Reception, co-hosted with the “Pennsylvania Leaders Connection”, and sponsored by Wells Fargo and Jefferson Health, which was a reception primarily hosted by Latino leaders.
Tiffany Tavarez, the Vice President of Community Relations and Senior Consultant at Wells Fargo, and Gabriela Guaracao, the CEO of Americae, organized the reception.
The reception was bustling with the excited chatter of mingles, the clink of chardonnay, and the rhythmic beat from the soundsystem.
Well over 150 guests were in attendance, including Mayor Jim Kenney.
While many of the guests identified as Hispanic or Latino, most were unalike in racial or ethnic background, but were similar in their desire to connect and forge meaningful professional and personal ties with a diverse array of leaders from the City.
Most were members of the PA Society that had come to the Hilton for that weekend, who initially were unregistered or did not know the core mission behind this new PA Society reception. Once they became more aware of the event’s goals (and once they had heard from others through social media how enjoyable the party was), people began to come in droves to receive an entrance.
Hernán Guaracao, the CEO of AL DÍA News Media and the AL DÍA Foundation, made an invigorating speech during the reception’s intermission from all of the networking, dancing, and taco-consuming:
“If you look around the room you’ll see a great diversity of people representing all sorts of races, cultures, religions, national origins, professions and industries… This event is an authentic sampling of the new diverse fabric of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania and I’m so proud that we’re all here tonight celebrating that diversity.”
After an enthusiastic round of applause from the crowd, Guaracao noted the relevance of Latinos and other minority leaders being recognized in events as prestigious as The Pennsylvania Society Weekend:
“Together, we are here supporting the emergence of the Latino demographic all across Pennsylvania and ensuring the Latino voice is included and heard in the most important decision making halls in our State.”
Guaracao concluded his speech with a plug for the AL DÍA Foundation, a “501c3 driven to nurture and train the next generation of young journalists… empowering Latinos to write their own story.” The call for more Latino representation in news and media outlets is answered by this charity, which strives to provide scholarship, apprenticeship, and fellowship funding and opportunities for recent undergraduates and “J-School” alumni.
That evening’s event, on the first of December and on the first night of the Pennsylvania Society Weekend, laid the groundwork for more receptions that foster relationships with and celebrate an array of professionals and leaders of diverse backgrounds in the years to come.
“The importance [of Pennsylvania Leaders Connection Reception] is the opportunity to have a time that is focused on the Latino community and the networking that can come from the opportunity. It was great to catch many of our community leaders at the event, and to have an [allotted] time to discuss the opportunities that our city and region are developing. Finding ways to connect to those opportunities in both an individual and corporate manner are essential to our community’s growth and for a more inclusive city… This also makes us even more competitive as a region with NY and Washington DC.”
- Reverend Luis Cortés, Jr.
PA Society Reception 2017. Photos by Samantha Laub
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Peterloo.. a reflection The masque of anarchy
Anarchy in Peterloo: Shelley's poem unmasked
In 1819, the Manchester Yeomanry drew their sabres and charged a crowd of demonstrators. As Maxine Peake prepares to perform Shelley's angry poem about the outrage, John Mullan deciphers its verses for modern readers
On 16 August 1819, a crowd of more than 50,000 gathered at St Peter's Fields outside Manchester to support parliamentary reform. The radical orator Henry Hunt was to speak in favour of widening the franchise and reforming Britain's notoriously corrupt system of political representation. Magistrates ordered the Manchester Yeomanry to disperse the demonstration. The cavalry charged the crowd, sabres drawn, and at least 15 people, including a woman and a child, were killed.
The businessman John Taylor, who had witnessed the aftermath, went on to set up the Manchester Guardian in response. It was via newspapers, almost a month later, that Percy Bysshe Shelley, living in Italy, found out about what became known as the Peterloo massacre. "The torrent of my indignation," as he put it, flowed into The Masque of Anarchy, a poem devised to be accessible to a wide readership but doomed not to reach it. Though he sent it back to Britain, his friend Leigh Hunt felt it could not be safely published, the perpetrators of the massacre having been exonerated. It remained unpublished until the 1830s. This weekend, Maxine Peake will deliver a new interpretation of the work, mere steps from the site of the massacre itself.
Running to 91 stanzas, the poem is a prophetic dream, an apocalyptic vision of Regency Britain and the shaky legitimacy of its ruling class. In the first part, the nation's leading politicians parade like monsters, leading the figure of Anarchy around on a white horse to trample the multitudes. In this vision, the true anarchists are Britain's rulers, who delight in fear and disorder. Anarchy's followers, who include lawyers and priests, take possession of palace and parliament. They are challenged only by a "maniac maid" called Hope, though "she looked more like Despair".
Like the protesters at Peterloo, she is about to be trampled when a shape arises like a mist to kill Anarchy. We hear a voice advocating freedom and encouraging the people to seize it. We see "a great Assembly … Of the fearless and the free" assailed, like the Peterloo crowds, by the troops of their rulers. Yet their bayonets and scimitars are somehow defeated by the resolution of the people.
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The title of the poem refers both to a dramatic pageant (like the masques that monarchs stage to celebrate their power) and an organised deception (the "masquerade" of those in authority). The poet's political passions were notorious and are still famous, but it was not these that made him a great poet. He was always trying out different forms: each new poem was a new experiment with rhyme and metre. The vision is recounted in the same stanzas as were used in popular ballads. The result is a dizzying mixture of poetic wit and furious hyperbole.
The Masque of Anarchy
The first nine stanzas annotated
As I lay asleep in Italy
There came a voice from over the Sea,
And with great power it forth led me
To walk in the visions of Poesy.
The poem is a dream, like the dream visions in Chaucer or Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Yet in the first verse we also have the sense of Shelley being woken from the unreality of his life in Italy.
I met Murder on the way -
He had a mask like Castlereagh -
Very smooth he looked, yet grim;
Seven blood-hounds followed him:
Viscount Castlereagh, leader of the Tories in the Commons, was a spokesman for the harsh measures of political repression that followed the Peterloo massacre. Note that "Murder" is like Castlereagh, not the other way round: individual politicians are reduced to personifications of eternal vices.
All were fat; and well they might
Be in admirable plight,
For one by one, and two by two,
He tossed the human hearts to chew
Which from his wide cloak he drew.
Shelley's friend Leigh Hunt praised his "union of ludicrousness with terror" – as in this blending of apocalyptic vision with pantomime.
Next came Fraud, and he had on,
Like Eldon, an ermined gown;
His big tears, for he wept well,
Turned to mill-stones as they fell.
Lord Eldon was lord chancellor. He decided the fate of Shelley's children by his first wife, Harriet, after her suicide – refusing Shelley custody because of his "immoral and vicious" principles. Eldon was renowned for weeping even as he pronounced the harshest of sentences.
And the little children, who
Round his feet played to and fro,
Thinking every tear a gem,
Had their brains knocked out by them.
A stanza echoed in WH Auden's Epitaph on a Tyrant: "when he cried the little children died in the streets".
Clothed with the Bible, as with light,
And the shadows of the night,
Like Sidmouth, next, Hypocrisy
On a crocodile rode by.
Viscount Sidmouth was home secretary and defended the Peterloo massacre. He evokes shadows because he was in charge of the government's secret service, and is "clothed with the Bible" because of his apparent piety: he was an advocate of church building.
And many more Destructions played
In this ghastly masquerade,
All disguised, even to the eyes,
Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies.
A typical Shelley list, the "spies" recalling Sidmouth's network of informers.
Last came Anarchy: he rode
On a white horse, splashed with blood;
He was pale even to the lips,
Like Death in the Apocalypse.
Shelley explicitly evokes the Book of Revelation: the three British lords and Anarchy are the four horsemen of the Apocalypse.
And he wore a kingly crown;
And in his grasp a sceptre shone;
On his brow this mark I saw -
'I AM GOD, AND KING, AND LAW!'
Like the Mark of the Beast in Revelation on the one who is King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.
On the 16th of August 1819 the huge open area around what's now St Peter's Square, Manchester, played host to an outrage against over 60,000 peaceful pro-democracy and anti-poverty protesters; an event which became known as
The Peterloo Massacre.
An estimated 18 people, including four women and a child, died from sabre cuts and trampling. Nearly 700 men, women and children received extremely serious injuries. All in the name of liberty and freedom from poverty.
The Massacre occurred during a period of immense political tension and mass protests. Fewer than 2% of the population had the vote, and hunger
was rife with the disastrous corn laws making bread unaffordable.
PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY
On the morning of 16th August the crowd began to gather, conducting themselves, according to contemporary accounts, with dignity and discipline, the majority dressed in their Sunday best.
The key speaker was to be famed orator Henry Hunt, the platform consisted of a simple cart, located in the front of what's now the Manchester Central Conference Centre, and the space was filled with banners - REFORM, UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE, EQUAL REPRESENTATION and, touchingly, LOVE.
Many of the banner poles were topped with the red cap of liberty - a powerful symbol at the time.
You can see where all this took place on these two maps of Manchester.
Local magistrates watching from a window near the field panicked at the sight of the assembly, and read the riot act, (in)effectively ordering what little
of the crowd could hear them to disperse.
THE MASSACRE
As 600 Hussars, several hundred infantrymen; an artillery unit with two six-pounder guns, 400 men of the Cheshire cavalry and 400 special constables waited in reserve, the local Yeomanry were given the task of arresting the speakers. The Yeomanry, led by Captain Hugh Birley and Major Thomas
Trafford, were essentially a paramilitary force drawn from the ranks of the local mill and shop owners.
On horseback, armed with sabres and clubs, many were familiar with, and had old scores to settle with, the leading protesters. (In one instance,
spotting a reporter from the radical Manchester Observer, a Yeomanry officer called out "There's Saxton, damn him, run him through.")
Heading for the hustings, they charged when the crowd linked arms to try and stop the arrests, and proceeded to strike down banners and people with
their swords. Rumours from the period have persistently stated the Yeomanry were drunk.
The panic was interpreted as the crowd attacking the yeomanry, and the Hussars (Led by Lieutenant Colonel Guy L'Estrange) were ordered in.
As with the Tiananmen Square Massacre, there were unlikely heroes amoung the military. An unnamed cavalry officer attempted to strike up the swords
of the Yeomanry, crying - "For shame, gentlemen: what are you about? The people cannot get away!" But the majority joined in with the attack.
The term 'Peterloo', was intended to mock the soldiers who attacked unarmed civilians by echoing the term 'Waterloo' - the soldiers from that battle being seen by many as genuine heroes.
By 2pm the carnage was over, and the field left full of abandoned banners and dead bodies. Journalists present at the event were arrested, others
who went on to report the event were subsequently jailed. The businessman John Edward Taylor went on to help set up the Guardian newspaper as a reaction to what he'd seen.
The speakers and organizers were put on trial, at first under the charge of High treason - a charge that was reluctantly dropped by the prosecution. The Hussars and Magistrates received a message of congratulations from the Prince Regent, and were cleared of any wrong-doing by the official inquiry.
Historians acknowledge that Peterloo was hugely influential in ordinary people winning the right to vote, led to the rise of the Chartist Movement from
which grew the Trade Unions, and also resulted in the establishment of the Manchester Guardian newspaper.
According to Nick Mansfield, director of the People’s History Museum in Manchester, "Peterloo is a critical event not only because of the number of people
killed and injured, but because ultimately it changed public opinion to influence the extension of the right to vote and give us the democracy we enjoy
today. It was critical to our freedoms."
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In our Brand Story Hero series, we shine a regular spotlight on different brands we think tell their story well. Here we take a look at a Christmas phenomenon, Elf on the Shelf.
Brand: Elf on the Shelf
Industry: Publishing
Product: Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition
Founders: Carol Aebersold, Chanda Bell and Christa Pitts
Mission: Tap into the magic of believing and love of tradition at Christmas time by creating Christmas characters, stories and lore through consumer products, immersive experiences and entertainment-based content.
At the North Pole, Santa has many helpers who make the Christmas season special. His Scout Elves serve as his eyes and ears in homes around the world reporting back to Santa each night. The Elf on the Shelf is a fun-filled Christmas tradition that has captured the hearts of children everywhere. Launched in 2005, it is the immortalisation of a family tradition.
Chanda Bell (formerly Aebersold) proposed the idea of putting a family tradition in print while having a cup of tea with her mother, Carol. For months, they brainstormed and recounted their own memories before pouring them out on paper in what would eventually become The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition.
With the story of their family Scout Elf complete and undeterred by publisher’s lack of interest, they set about self-publishing. Chanda maxed out personal credit cards, her sister Christa put forth the proceeds from the sale of her house and Carol cleaned out a small retirement account. With the money, 5,000 units of the book were made by the women’s newly created publishing house, Creatively Classic Activities and Books, LLC.
They first sold books to family and friends, then branched out and sold at local shows and markets. With the help of 18 stores now selling the book, all 5,000 copies of the The Elf on the Shelf had been sold by the end of 2005.
The women then turned their attention to promotion. At first, they utilised trade shows as a way to push into “adoption centres” otherwise known as retail stores. They also created a media kit that caught the attention of trade publications, gift guides and local media.
In 2007, Jennifer Garner was snapped carrying the book which set off a wave of popularity previously unseen. In late December, The Today Show ran a segment on The Elf on the Shelf, changing the brand’s trajectory forever.
Barnes & Noble became the first major retailer to carry the product. Bigger trade shows were targeted and the company made its first move into the international marketplace when stores in Canada opened Scout Elf Adoption Centres. By the end of 2009, The Elf on the Shelf, was in 8,000 stores in the U.S. and Canada and had sold nearly 1 million copies. In 2012, The Elf on the Shelf even appeared as a balloon in the 86th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Elf on the Shelf had become the defining face of the Christmas season.
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Lesson #1 A strong founding story is hard to beat
Each morning, the Scout Elf returns to his family from his mission in the North Pole. He perches in a new spot, waiting for someone to spot him.
Born from a long-held family tradition, The Elf on the Shelf has become a cult brand. Their story is a simple one and one that speaks not just to the children it’s aimed at but it transports parents back to a more nostalgic time.
When telling your story, simplicity is key. If it’s too complicated, people will get lost along the way. On the CCA and B website you can follow the Elf on a Shelf story year by year which allows the audience to feel part of their success.
Lesson #2 Stay Social
Updating your social media accounts once a week or even once a month simply does not cut it. Companies need to be engaging and posting regularly on social media to build a narrative, engage with audiences and share their story.
And that’s exactly what Elf on the Shelf does. With over 760,000 followers on Twitter, over 900,000 likes on Facebook and 184,000 followers on Instagram, Elf on the Shelf are continuously talking to their fans—not just at Christmas.
Our little elf has been busy helping write Light up a Life dedication cards. If you've sponsored a light on our tree, you'll be receiving your card in the post very soon. Each card is in the shape of a bauble so you can hang it on your Christmas tree.🎄 If you haven't sponsored a light in memory of a loved one but would like to, there is still time. You can sponsor a light by calling 02380 475313 or via our website https://cmhcharity.org.uk/upcomingevents/lual18. #elfontheshelf #christmas #countessmountbattenhospice #remembering #lual
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Not only that but other brands and organisations have taken to using Elf on the Shelf in their own Christmas social media campaigns which grows brand awareness.
Lesson #3 Stick with your values
Elf on the Shelf is a family owned and run business rooted in tradition. Their purpose of creating joyful family moments is a strong held belief.
The company shows this commitment to its values through its philanthropy. Each year they extend their support through product donation, financial contribution, sponsorship and donation of employee time and talent to assist those in need.
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#1 Making the product the champion
The Scout Elf is central to the Elf on the Shelf products. So much so, that the franchise and subsequent products are based around the original elf.
What is The #ElfontheShelf? https://t.co/D3xwMkkUWT pic.twitter.com/nDqzQonJJV
— The Elf on the Shelf (@elfontheshelf) December 4, 2018
You don’t just buy a Scout Elf, you adopt one. They are not just a toy or a tool to make your children behave, they are a part of your family.
#2 Seasonal editions
The birthday version of Elf on the Shelf struck a chord with children who had written to Santa hoping to see their beloved Scout Elf more than once a year.
#3 Creating customer loyalty
After the book launched in 2005, aided by dedicated family and friends, the founders used the opportunity to talk with parents personally. They explained one-on-one what their product was and how it worked. Eventually, this personal touch proved to be a key strategy for their sales efforts and helped to spark an ardent word-of-mouth campaign.
By engaging with their customers on a personal level they have built customer loyalty. Word of mouth is something that can make or break a brand so the fact that they have cultivate a loyal customer base is a testament to their product.
Here at All Good Tales, we are doing great work for brands like Ancestry.com, Entekra and DAA, to name just a few. We are building brand newsrooms, executing exciting PR strategies, and training key staff how to craft emotional brand stories. For a free consultation, please click here or call Gaye on (01) 254 1845.
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Md Jaber Hossain, Danielle Hickman & Daniel R. Perez
http://www.mendeley.com/research/evidence-expanded-host-range-mammalianassociated-genetic-changes-duck-h9n2-influenza-virus-following
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Dysregulation in microRNA Expression Is Associated with Alterations in Immune Functions in Combat Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Juhua Zhou, Prakash Nagarkatti, Yin Zhong, Jay P. Ginsberg, et al
http://www.mendeley.com/research/dysregulation-microrna-expression-associated-alterations-immune-functions-combat-veterans-posttrauma-3
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Book Review - Queen of the Sea by Dylan Meconis + Giveaway
Queen Eleanor of Albion is exiled to a small coastal island when her sister seizes the throne from her. The only inhabitants of the islands are nuns of a convent who spend their days peacefully trying to survive. However, the island is home to a mysterious orphan named Margaret. Margaret's life is turned upside down when the new visitor arrives.
As time passes, Eleanor and Margaret grow closer until Margaret finds out about the true purpose of the island and the truth of her own past. When Eleanor's safety is threatened, Margaret is faced with helping Eleanor or protecting herself. Will Margaret help Eleanor if it means risking her own life?
The beautifully drawn novel is a fictionalized history of Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary. I found the book to be an entertaining read but, I was a bit disappointed that the novel left off on a cliffhanger. I felt that the book had a lot of filler and could have fit more of the story. However, I am looking forward to reading the continuation of the series.
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Age Range: 10 - 14 years
Publisher: Walker Books US (June 25, 2019)
Praise for QUEEN OF THE SEA
The art, reminiscent of Raina Telgemeier’s style, creates levity during perilous situations. The book is dense with dialogue, often feeling more like a work of prose than a graphic novel. As a result, this complex work will be more accessible to those familiar with graphic novels…Certain to charm sophisticated graphic novel devotees. —School Library Journal (starred review)
Meconis offers an atmospheric alternate history inspired by the childhood and succession of Queen Elizabeth I in this quietly ambitious graphic novel…Art in soft, earthy colors brings this singular story to life in styles ranging from simple line drawings to elaborately styled text illuminations. The island world is richly developed, both in its physical particulars and its close-knit community (fascinating digressions into topics such as convent time, hand gestures used at table, and chess and embroidery flesh out daily life), and Margaret proves herself an endearing heroine with a strong voice full of humor and wonder. Her perspective transforms a storm-wracked rock into a vibrant world of hidden treasures. —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Meconis’ humor and storytelling gifts here wed seamlessly with her evocative pen-and-ink and gouache illustrations, which are rendered in warm earth and sea tones and brim with movement, expressively capturing even Margaret’s interior monologues. With its compelling, complex characters and intrigue-laden plot, this will have readers hoping it’s only the first of many adventures for Meconis’ savvy heroine. —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Weaving faith, love, statecraft, and self-discovery into a tale of palace intrigue relocated to the halls of a convent on a remote island at sea, Dylan Meconis uses the trappings of the history we know to create a high-stakes adventure in an alternate past that feels so detailed and so familiar, you’ll find yourself wondering why you never read about it in school. This beautiful book swept me away from the first page.” —Kate Milford, author of the Greenglass House series
“Dylan Meconis is at the absolute top of her game. A gorgeously rendered, lovingly realized alternate history, full of personal revelations in the midst of political intrigue. A tale of growing up, and of understanding that the world is larger and stranger than it once seemed. (Plus it has a Terrible Recipe for Terrible Gruel.)” —Ben Hatke, author-illustrator of the Zita the Spacegirl series
“This is the book I was always trying to get my hands on in high school that never seemed to materialize. An adventure to lose yourself in, with an attention to historical detail to please the nerdiest among us. I fell easily and completely into this world and its characters, knowing I was safe in Dylan Meconis’s hands, and I’m really excited for more people to find out what I’ve known for a long time—that she is one of a kind.” —Kate Beaton, author-illustrator of Hark! A Vagrant
Cult graphic novelist Dylan Meconis offers a rich reimagining of history in this hybrid novel loosely based on the exile of Queen Elizabeth I by her sister, Queen Mary.
When her sister seizes the throne, Queen Eleanor of Albion is banished to a tiny island off the coast of her kingdom, where the nuns of the convent spend their days peacefully praying, sewing, and gardening. But the island is also home to Margaret, a mysterious young orphan girl whose life is upturned when the cold, regal stranger arrives. As Margaret grows closer to Eleanor, she grapples with the revelation of the island’s sinister true purpose as well as the truth of her own past. When Eleanor’s life is threatened, Margaret is faced with a perilous choice between helping Eleanor and protecting herself.
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I’ve been writing and illustrating my own stories since the first grade, and I’ve been making comic books since middle school (no, really! Seventh grade was a tough year for me socially, so I had a lot of time to draw). I started my first book-length comic (graphic novel) in high school.
Unlike a lot of people who become professional artists and authors, I didn’t go to art school or a creative writing program in college. Instead, I mostly studied history, literature, philosophy, and French in the College of Letters at Wesleyan University. This means I have a brain full of weird facts, old books, strange art, and the extremely useful ability to read The Tales of Canterbury in the original Middle English. Except for the Middle English bit, it’s all come in very handy for writing and drawing historical fiction and fantasy.
I first started to get paid for making comics when I was still in college, when my first graphic novel was published online. After college, I worked as a graphic designer and visual communications consultant (which means “person who helps teach adults complicated stuff in cool new ways using pictures”). I’ve worked with Fortune 500 companies, global charities, technology companies, libraries, and a lot of other interesting organizations. I’ve made illustrations, animations, information graphics and cool presentations, explaining everything from how microchips work to the ways that clean drinking water can help communities in the third world.
For the last ten years, though, I mostly work as a writer, comic book creator and illustrator! Sometimes I make books totally by myself, and sometimes I get to team up with other writers or artists. It can be lots of fun, but it can also be very hard work. Luckily, I never get tired of making new stories.
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Security 2.0 - Countering Pirates in the Age of Automation
Vlad I. Sutea
In order to remain competitive and efficient, the maritime sector is spearheading innovation in virtually all aspects related to seafaring. Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Digitalization will all come to play a major role in the Industry’s future. Regardless of where you stand on the human versus automation debate, the course is set for greater automation in shipping, and while traditional pirates are unlikely to trade their AK- 47s for keyboards, existing crime syndicates operating in cyberspace are likely to spill over into the seven seas.
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Nigeria: Government Revolution
In this Thought Leadership article, ARX COO Steve Regis explores in detail the new developments taking place in Nigeria and the potential changes that the maritime industry will have to adopt.
A Flag Under Siege: Security or Loyalty?
Ever since their inception back in the 1920s, Flags of Convenience (FoC) have been a subject of no small amount of controversy. The practice originally began during prohibition, when American cruise ships would fly under the Panamanian flag in order to be able to serve alcohol to passengers and thus escape the stringent US regulations at the time.
Safety in HRAs - Can you Outrun Piracy?
Is increasing the speed of a vessel at risk of piracy the best use of your resources? It is common practice for vessels transiting past the East and West Coasts of Africa to increase speed, all in an attempt to outrun pirates.
The Growing Threat of State-Piracy
On May the 12th four shipping vessels were attacked in Fujairah anchorage. The hard-earned, relative peace and stability that had temporarily settled into the region over the last few years was being threatened. This could have been a one-time incident, but the threat was far from over.
What Happens Ashore Matters At Sea - The Black Sea Example
The world is changing. Previously calm seas are waking up from their geopolitical slumber and threats to maritime trade are no longer confined to suspicious gunmen. Armed guards and water cannons will not deter the Iranian Revolutionary Guards or the Russian Navy. Razor wire will not prevent anti-ship missiles from cracking a ship’s hull open.
AIS: Blessing or a Curse?
In this Thought Leadership piece, ARX Maritime Correspondent, Lars Bergqvist explores the benefits and disadvantages of one of the industry's most controversial topics: the Automated Identification System.
The Hidden Cost of Seafarer Abandonment
Since 2004, over 4866 seafarers aboard a total of 336 vessels have been recorded as abandoned onboard their vessel according to the International Maritime Organization’s records. It’s one of the maritime industry’s biggest problems, and yet, little is done about it.
Don't Forget Somalia
Somali pirates are slowly turning back into fishermen. But if their livelihoods are once again potentially threatened, they could revert back to their old ways.
Mental Health: A Maritime Sector Perspective
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a mental health issue that appears to be increasing in prevalence amongst seafarers, especially those operating in High Risk Areas.
Changing Threats Demand A Change in Methodology
We can’t ignore the fact that over the past decade there has been a paradigm shift when it comes to threats within the maritime domain, as the threat has shifted from East, to West.
How Much Do You Know About Modern Piracy?
Skull and cross bones? Peg legs? Captain Jack Sparrow? No, these aren’t the pirates that modern shipping has to deal with. Modern pirates have moved on since the time of Captain hook. Last year alone there were 179 pirate attacks. This is less than the 191 attacks in 2016, but the drop in piracy isn’t happening fast. Modern piracy is a huge threat to the shipping industry, so what do we actually know about it?
Is there a New Piracy HRA?
East Africa and West Africa, both commonly known and accepted as piracy high-risk areas. But in its focus on these targets, has the maritime industry missed an emerging HRA? ARX Maritime Co-Founder and Chief Executive, Josh Hutchinson has written an article about the importance of recognising Latin America as the new HRA.
WHITEPAPER: Piracy in the Gulf of Aden
Lawrie Clapton is an Intelligence Analyst with a specific interest in Middle Eastern conflict. In light of the recent upsurge in terror related incidents in the region, he has written a whitepaper to give his insight in to the connection between terrorists and pirates, and how war is impacting the level of piracy in the Gulf of Aden.
How to Stay Healthy at Sea
As a society we are becoming more health conscious. But, how can you maintain health and fitness in the middle of the sea? It's not as easy as you'd think- but it is possible. ARX Maritime CEO is a former marine, and private armed guard. He has some easy to follow tips on how he kept mentally and physically fit during his time at sea.
Could Artificial Intelligence Replace Actual Intelligence?
ARX Maritime, Chief Executive, Josh Hutchinson looks at how artificial intelligence is impacting the maritime industry and questions whether one day, artificial intelligence could take over from human intelligence completely.
Why Slow Government Planning Holds Back the UK Maritime Sector
In March this year the UK Government set up a team of experts to advise on the future of the maritime industry- specifically keeping the industry at the forefront of new technologies such as autonomous ships and digital ports. In response to this, ARX Maritime, Chief Executive, Josh Hutchinson looks at how this think tank could impact the maritime sector.
#WomenInMaritime – Why You Need Females
#WomenInMaritime Commentary piece by Ashleigh Cowie, Head of Marketing and Communications, ARX Maritime
TERRORISTS TARGET COMMERCIAL SHIPPING- should you worry?
In 2000 seventeen sailors were murdered and a further thirty-nine seriously injured when terrorists rammed the hull of the USS Cole with a speedboat laden with explosives.
ARE YOU DOING ENOUGH TO PROTECT YOUR CARGO?
Cargo is vulnerable at all times at sea. Stacking containers and lashing them down isn’t enough to guarantee your cargo will arrive undamaged.
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Officially Leveled Up: Journeyman Craftsmanship Cosplayer
I entered my Grimm Reaper cosplay into yet another cosplay contest, this time at Anime Dallas. AD’s contest rules stipulate that Judge’s Awards do not count towards your total number of awards and therefore doesn’t disqualify you from entering that cosplay into the contest. With this in mind, I was effectively at zero awards, so I entered into the Inexperienced (Novice) category.
Registration & Pre-judging
Sign up was Friday and I was the first to do it. I picked a pre-judging slot in the middle of the day Saturday. (Didn’t want to be first but also didn’t want to be last.) I turned in my flash drive with my music and that was that.
Saturday’s pre-judging was even more intense than the one I did at Animefest because I knew one of the judges, Mikomikocosplay. We had met at Animefest and I knew she was going to really be looking closely at my costume and not playing favorites. Having her look at my zipper and seams was extremely nerve-racking. After giving my elevator pitch and leaving my build book with the judges, I grabbed a quick snack before rehearsal.
Pre-contest Jitters
It was here at rehearsal that I learned I was one of three entries to actually submit music. I was so worried that maybe it was a bad idea since I was really only being judged in craftsmanship and not performance. I got to rehearse with my music, my walk-on a mix of choreographed moves and poses with a little improvisation. During rehearsal, my mask slipped off. I felt it falling off my face and at one point just grabbed it with one hand and threw it onto the stage dramatically. I had hoped the magnets I added would prevent the mask slipping, but I was wrong and now had to prepare for the worst. When time came for the real walk-on, I decided that if I felt the slightest hint of it falling, I’d take control of the situation and throw it off myself to make it look planned.
I thankfully didn’t have to do that.
When the time came for the cosplay contest, my mask stayed on throughout the whole performance. I felt confident in my movements and was pleased with how I had timed it to the music. After running to my seat, I watched the rest of the contestants on stage and anxiously awaited the results.
You can watch video of my performance here!
At this point, Finnthecosplayer pointed out to me that I had been bumped up a division, from Inexperienced (Novice) to Experienced (Journeyman). She said that they had announced me as Experienced, but I had no recollection of that cause my ears were laser focused on my musical cue to get on stage. The only thing I remembered hearing was “Ashweez Cosplay” and the applause of the crowd before I got on stage. I didn’t believe her at all.
Performances and judging done, the judges got on stage, introduced themselves and then proceeded to announce the winners. First was Inexperienced, which went to a MHA Momo cosplayer. At this point, I still didn’t believe I had been bumped, so I resigned myself to not winning anything. But then they announced the winner for the Experience division.
And called my name.
I cannot believe that I not only got bumped up a division, but I won said division. It’s still surreal to me. Being on stage with the judges and other winners was exhilarating. I felt on top of the world for the second time. And, with this new bump up in division, I was officially a Journeyman craftsman. That means that the next time I compete, it’s gotta be high caliber. No shortcuts. No messy seams. No excuses. At least this time, I would know from the start if I’d be entering my cosplay into competition. Knowing that before building the cosplay means I would be more acutely aware of the mistakes and fix them immediately, rather than my usual “Eh, 5ft rule; if it looks good from 5ft, it’s fine.” That means finishing seams neatly and right away, rather than trying to haphazardly clean them up after the fact.
Retiring the Grimm Reaper & Future Plans
I have to retire Grimm Reaper from competition but I’ll still proudly wear her to cons. I’m so happy that this cosplay has gotten as much recognition as it does. It means so much to me because of how much time, money, and effort I spent on it.
As for future competitions, I already have a costume in mind. I don’t know when or where I’ll compete (or when I’ll even get to start said costume), but I’m looking forward to it! Competing really helps me improve my craft and meet some extremely talented cosplayers. I’ve never regretted entering a cosplay contest.
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Kathmandu’s The Kingmaker in the Donglang Drama
July 4, 2017 A
Nepal is the fifth, but most pivotal, actor affecting the dynamics of the ongoing Donglang Drama that the US helped create between China, India, and
Qatar’s Ace is Saudi Nemesis
The draconian deadline by the Saudi axis on Qatar failed to force surrender. Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries have now extended the deadline till
Gaza: Israel’s Experiment on Humans in a Situation of Extreme Stress and Deprivation
One experiment: What happens to two million human beings when they are deprived of electricity nearly all the time, day and night? One of the
Conflict Danger Atop the ‘Roof of the World’
A recent series of military confrontations between Chinese troops on one side and Indian and Bhutanese troops on the other in a remote tri-border area
Inside Trump’s Disastrous ‘Secret’ Drug War Plans for Central America
Nothing really puts you in your place quite like getting shot at in another country. All gringo arrogance vaporized in an instant. Choking from teargas.
The Fall of Mosul is a Defeat for ISIS, But It Remains a Deadly Force
The battle for Mosul is a ferocious struggle that has now been going on for 256 days, or two months longer than the battle of
Dodgy Prophecy and American Foreign Policy
Aside from the profound irony of a US spokesperson accusing another country of not being capable of good-faith negotiations, Nikki Haley’s recent comparison of Iran
Does the US Have Answer for Turkish Threats Against Syrian Kurds?
Turkish military actions against US-allied Syrian Kurdish forces could threaten to upend plans for unseating the Islamic State (IS) in Raqqa, Syria, and for what
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Amitabh Bachchan shares adorable letter written by little Abhishek Bachchan
Mirror Online | Updated: Nov 15, 2019, 15:46 IST
Abhishek Bachchan and Amitabh Bachchan. Photo: Instagram/@bachchan
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan time and again treats his fans with beautiful throwback pictures and anecdotes and memories from the past. Recently, he shared an old letter which was written to him by a young Abhishek Bachchan when the former was away on a shoot.
Sharing a picture of the letter on Twitter, Big B wrote, "T 3549 - Abhishek in his glory .. a letter to me when I was away on a long outdoor schedule .. पूत सपूत तो क्यूँ धन संचय ; पूत कपूत तो क्यूँ धन संचय (sic)"
T 3549 - Abhishek in his glory .. a letter to me when I was away on a long outdoor schedule .. पूत सपूत तो क्यूँ ध… https://t.co/xSFYKNfTzD
— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) 1573761320000
In the letter, the junior Bachchan wrote, "Darling Papa, I miss you very much. I am praying for your smile."
He also wrote, "Do not worry I will look after mama, Shweta didi and the house. I am naughty sometimes. I love you Papa."
Sharing his father's post, Abhishek, who is known for his wit, wrote, "@SrBachchan evidently before I took a creative letter writing course. (sic)
. @SrBachchan evidently before I took a creative letter writing course. 🤦🏽♂️ https://t.co/VWWMISYgat
— Abhishek Bachchan (@juniorbachchan) 1573789864000
Many other actors commented on the post and called the father-son duo cute. Farhan Akhtar wrote, "That is just the sweetest..", while Riteish Deshmukh pulled Abhishek's leg and wrote, "Pappaaa!! Su letter che!!!!!"
Amitabh Bachchan says doctors want him to take time off work
Sharing several of his pictures alongside a photograph of a meeting with doctors at his home, Jalsa, Bachchan said he would be back to the grind despite the warning by "the stethoscope dressed messengers from heaven".
"Adorable!!" said Juhi Chawla and Ileana D'Cruz wrote, "Awwww my heart! How adorable is this!!!"
The bond that the father-son duo share has always been the talk of the town. They have time and again said that they are more like friends than father and son.
Interestingly, they had even starred in the film Paa together, in which Abhishek had essayed the role of Amitabh's father.
On the professional front, Amitabh will be next seen in Ayan Mukerji's Brahmastra, which also stars Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor. He will also feature in Chehre, Gulabo Sitabo, and Jhund.
On the other hand, Abhishek was last seen in Anurag Kashyap's Manmarziyaan, for which he received immense love from the audience. He is currently working on Anurag Basu's next which is yet to be named. He will also star in a crime-drama titled The Big Bull.
Abhishek Bachchan begins filming The Big Bull, shares poster
Abhishek Bachchan, who was last seen in Manmarziyaan, is all set to return to the silver screens with Ajay Devgn's The Big Bull. The actor revealed the name and first poster of the film on Tuesday.
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[Megathread] EOR Matchmaking Issues
EA_DarDar
109 posts EA Staff (retired)
October 30, 2018 8:01AM edited October 2018
This Megathread created to collect all your feedback regarding the EOR MM system in Star Wars Battlefront II. Please post constructive feedback and answer the following questions:
Your username.
On which platform do you play?
In what region are you located?
What is it you exactly experienced? (Joining an empty lobby, long wait for a match, broken map rotation, difficult matchmaking in a group, etc.)
What time did it happen? (Please, be as accurate as possible! We're looking for a day + hour, so we'll be able to perform a thorough investigation.)
What game mode were you playing?
What ping site you were connected to?
(Optional) Any additional feedback?
You are also welcome to post your feedback at EA Answers HQ forums: Issues with the EOR matchmaking system - examples
Note: All EOR MM threads will be merged into this Megathread.
Post edited by IIPrest0nII on October 2018
Cyberkap
October 8, 2018 5:23PM
If one team wins 2 rounds in a row, do a random player shuffle (same instance, no server hopping).
Parties of 2-4 are treated as one 'player unit' and are shuffled together to whatever team. For parties of 5-8, they're broken up into 2 'player units' and are ALWAYS on opposite teams. However, the members in each 'player unit' in parties of 5-8 should shuffle either every round or with the match shuffle. Also, each 'player unit' should be an in-game squad. Do whatever to make sure that the # of players on each team are roughly the same, like reshuffling or shuffling 'player units' first then solo players.
For end-of-rounds where one team has less players than the other, throw the top performers of the last round that are on the team with more players onto the team with less players. If one of those players is part of a 'player unit', check the size of the player unit. If throwing that 'player unit' to the other side doesn't result in a reverse imbalance of player count (>1 of course), do it. If not, skip that 'player unit' and try switching teams for the next top performer. OR, forget about which team has more or less and just let the primary shuffling prevail (kudos to a team that wins with less players, but if they lose 2 times in a row the shuffle will re-balance).
Simple, and generally works. Yes, there will be times when the shuffle still throws best performers on a team, but I think it's fair and the best of all solutions.
P.S. I'm a a gamer who's been playing since Jedi Knights: Dark Forces 2 and I've experienced many matches with team imbalance. I just want a modern epic Star Wars multiplayer game to be the best that it can be.
Marlbrow
I have made this post to give my thoughts on the new matchmaking system that was implemented not so long ago. What have found in some intstances is the matchmaking at the end of each game sometimes puts you in an empty lobby instead of placing you in a full game. I have had this happen in the Aussie region and I know this because the other aussies on my friend's list tell me that they are in an empty server... If this feature worked as intended I'd have no problem....
However it takes a very long time for the game to match-make and sometimes you lose half the players in the lobby in the turnaround. This is something that's really bad for the game and may soon lead to it's downfall. If the matchmaker continues to pause the match after each map rotation then we are unlikely to see strong player retention...
If it is possible to fix this feature then great... Otherwise a new system must be implemented.. Please fix this. I enjoy this game and don't want to see it go down the drown because of simple things like this.
People are unlikely to wait if there is not enough to instantly start a game...
October 10, 2018 11:52AM
I am talking about the 24hr matchmaking feature.
...that's what test servers are for...it's just bad development for any software.
I think that you're not running public test servers because you don't think enough people will join them willingly...many probably wouldn't join, but still. Maybe offer in-game incentive to have people beta test new features.
What do others think of this?
Knight_of_Onions
I agree. Especially on this EOR MM which has had overwhelmingly bad feedback.
Versatti wrote: »
Dennis, EA or Disney still do not understand their customer base or how to win them over.
bfloo
people love cte testing.
The ones who missed out on Battlefield1 cried for days.
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avmav
It doesn't work, we all know it, so just end our misery. I am getting match made OUT of good games into lobbies neading 12 or so players
Jinda_Lo
Yep, me too. And often if you do get matchmade into a game with enough players it has already started. You don't mind this when you first login but if it is happening when you're already playing it is a real pain.
KillerAero13
A lot of people are complaining about the recent EOR matchmaking (and rightfully so, I’m one of them). But half of the complaints are about team balance.
Matchmaking is trying to solve the problem of players not finding a match and getting put in empty servers (which ironically this new test is causing more of this).
Team balance has to do with how many good players are on a team and how lopsided matches are.
Has there been any word from the devs that this EOR matchmaking is supposed to fix balancing also? Because I don’t believe it is.
All of the players want Team balancing. Not a lot of players are asking for better matchmaking.
No end time was given.
Is there anyway to expedite turning this off so we can go back to playing the game?
It was turned on at 12:00 UTC, assuming it were to be shut off at 12:00 UTC today, that would have been 8 hours ago.
Please turn it off. The new COD is looking better by the day.
Gree_1004_
October 14, 2018 11:34PM
I absolutely hate this EOR matchmaking. I love the clone wars maps and because of this, I couldn’t play on any of those maps on Saturday or Sunday in GA. Those were the only two days that I could have played.
7:30pm est and still going...
October 14, 2018 11:40PM edited October 2018
Knight_of_Onions wrote: »
I wanted to play battlefront now, but with this going on, I simply can’t do it
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Ppong_Man12
Best cod I’ve played in a while.
Ppong_Man12 wrote: »
It looks decent. I honestly wasn't going to pick it up, but most of my friends did and are loving it so I probably will end up getting it.
SVEJ
Yeah it's a horrible decision to do the EOR during the quick spawn weekend, as well as LIMITING the maps we play.
DICE saying they CANT drop a clone wars playlist but are able to shut off maps during the weekend, I guess i picked a bad day to play cause it';s only Crait, SK, Jakku and Takodana. ALL THE MAPS I HATE
SVEJ wrote: »
Well, i dislike ALL OF THE prequal maps so.
Sath
It's faster to just quit a match and find a new one anyway. I have to quit 8 out of 10 matches because i am being put on a server with premades already waiting to slaughter the next set of noobies, not with me. The flow was ok once we had found a good team in the past, many people don't even care whether or not they lose a match. More and more people start teaming up before a match anyway, nothing you can do about that and they will destroy the other team. I already know many players by their names and quit right away, because i know they are teamed up and in voice, especially weirdawatto (name altered) and his gang.
10:45am est Monday and still on.
As of 11:15 est
Fast respawn weekend event is off.
Full map rotation is on.
EOR MM is still on.
That means someone has made changes to the game, but left EOR MM on.
With the overwhelmingly negative response to EOR MM every single time they've tested it, you'd think they would have given it up by now.
But they haven't. Why? Because the higher ups are demanding it work.
I may be wrong about this being the time it never goes away, but soon it will be here to stay.
That day may not be the death of the game, but it will be the death of the game for me.
I have a bad feeling about this.
Cadoth
It’s so annoying, why they don’t just turn it off
Relax..
. The less people online the less chance of 'successful' MM so id say forget it. If at the highest population it still yielded poor experiences all they can do now is proper team shuffle ( split the holy premades ) as has been said many many times. But agree if it does stay I will go off to sleep
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Post edited by IronSoldier on October 2018
Full map rotation IS NOT on. Its always the prequal maps that starts when searching a game. But this have been a problem before the EOR test weekend aswell, that its 95% chance to get a freaking prequal crap map.
Zappa2510
yea its gonna be upsetting alot of players.
Empire_TW
It needs to be turned off.
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CypressHorn
Not played too much with EOR Matchmaking, but I've been having a lot fewer games in GA that are one-sided. The extra time in the lobby between games has been worth the better games in my opinion.
CypressHorn wrote: »
I fully agree.
Darth_Vapor3
I suspect that the EoR “Test” was just that, a test. Automatically switching lobbies every match or two was almost certainly for data collection purposes, and doesn’t represent how the full implementation would appear. Admittedly that just my guess, but I think it’s pretty sound reasoning. MM in other Dice games doesn’t function like this and they did tell us repeatedly that this, and previous efforts, were tests.
I see a lot of people saying this, which is good. This hasn't been my experience though. I've been on mostly one sided steam rolls.
Darth_Vapor3 wrote: »
I really hope you're right about this. Maybe this isn't even it's final form. Wait, does that mean it could get worse too? lol
Mooncircle
Yeah well im glad RDR2 is almost there.
They better turn this monstrosity off!
It kicks me out of well balanced matches and into empty lobbies, is complete garbage
Yeah it’s pretty bad, haven’t played much and won’t until they remove it, also been playing BO4 almost exclusively.
Post edited by Ppong_Man12 on October 2018
S_Markt
Mooncircle wrote: »
you mean R2D2
Han_Spinel
I don't think that's the reason why, and regardless of said reason, it needs to be turned off. I don't know of anyone that is requesting to be sent to alternative (and often empty) lobbies without their consent.
Besides, a communications disruption could mean only one thing:
In 1977, a single shot rang out at the Cantina.... No first, no second. Han shot - end of statement.
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Han_Spinel wrote: »
Really? Besides the whole loot box fiasco, can you think of any change to this game that has generated this much almost unanimous negative feedback?
Yet they just keep pouring it on us.
You're half right. None of us are requesting this. But someone is.
unit900000
I wont be playing as long as this garbage is turned on.
Dont act a fool and you wont get called out. PSN: DarthOdium- old PSN:unit900000
rollind24
#infantrylivesmatter
Remember back when they couldn’t figure out how to turn on the double XP event? Now, they can’t figure out how to turn off the EOR MM fiasco.
S_Markt wrote: »
Red Dead Redemption 2.
So you basically have to quit after every round. That's just great.
xjippyx
If this stays on I am outta here.
you and alot of people.
xjippyx wrote: »
Same. We had a 4 day weekend (fall break) and all four days have been this [expletive deleted]
To answer your second question, I can, unfortunately, name a few examples:
The Saber-Stamina addition that was initially released, to me, came out of nowhere, but was sold as a "community desire for improved saber combat." You can go back through and review every thread created re: Saber combat, and any that mention stamina, but there was not, from my perspective, a clear and general consensus regarding a drastic increase to the rate at which stamina was drained. It was blatantly imbalanced (all of my GA friendlies surely remember how fragile Saber heroes were against blasters, and HvV combat was even worse than before, which was already bad). A general consensus was provided re: saber combat, but it was for "power attacks" to break block, not that a saber users stamina must be drained before they lose block. People also, almost unanimously, desired saber stagger to be removed completely to increase the fluidity of saber battle. Again, the stamina change appeared to come out of nowhere, and was met with so much negative criticism that the development team had to respond and adjust accordingly with a saber stamina hot fix - which came a couple to few weeks later if I remember correctly.
Jet-Pack Cargo. I can't think of a single person that was requesting cargo-mode be brought back and restricted to jet pack users only. I can't count on a hundred hands the amount of people that didn't enjoy Jet-Pack Cargo, or for those that did, I venture to guess they would agree it did not have the same re-playability as Extraction, for example (I would argue the same can be said for Ewok Hunt, though it was met with favorable review for the most part, it has very little re-playability, but was brought back and added as a full-time mode due to "popular demand." A continuing theme I see from EA re: BF2017 is that their justification for action does not meet the perceived demand of the fanbase. Are they specifically trolling us? Their behavior/action/decision making is undeniably odd, at best). And even after all the negative feedback re: Jet-Pack Cargo, they did not invest time/money into adjusting or improving the mode based on suggested constructive feedback from the community, and instead elected to remove content from the game (they could have easily made the mode playable as troopers/enforcers, no?)
Palpatine. Nearly every update saw with it an unintended destructive ability (e.g., shocking through walls, perma-stuns, instant stamina draining), and it all culminated in the most devastatingly OP moment in the game, which of course all led to the Killswitch, again, content removed from the game due to enormous amounts of unanimous negative feedback.
Frankly, I find the unanimous negative feedback re: MM to be child's play next to the three I've listed above. I don't mean to belittle the point that MM is in dire straits, because it is, and it needs to go.
To answer your first question, yes. If I were given a license to speculate, I'd say it has more to do with server-room/space for another big game title about to be released than it does for a demand by higher-ups for implementation of a fully-operational MM system to BF2017. Simply put, there is not enough history or data to suggest that much care is going into the game. Yes, we are getting a new Villain this month (but I'm terrified at what new bugs will simultaneously be introduced based on history), and a new GA map (finally), with more new heroes and villains on their way, but over the span of another half-year at the earliest. All this for a "live service" game.
From what we know (and we can't know more if we aren't enlightened), BF2017 is very low on the priority list of EA titles, even lower than SWGoH - a phone app. You can argue that it is much easier to implement content for a phone app than BF2017, but the time/money spent on advertisements for *ANY* content of SWGoH greatly outweighs BF2017, and that tells you everything you need to know about the priority list.
I think it's pretty logical to see that the business cares more for SWGoH, for example, because people are spending money out-of-pocket every day if not every month - and if you're unfamiliar, experience/progression per day is SEVERELY capped on a day-to-day basis unless you are willing to purchase crystals out-of-pocket, which are, of course, and for all intents and purposes, "loot crates," which may OR MAY NOT contain the desired content you wish to purchase for the characters/ships you are wishing to level-up or even unlock.
Since BF2017 was shunned for introducing loot-crates, EA was no longer in the business of making money with BF2017. If it were, it would have immediately flooded the game with skins and cosmetics for purchase. Here are a few EXTREMELY easy to implement skins (whether you agree they should be in the game is irrelevant considering the goal of making BF2017 a profitable title):
Finn Head on First Order body. Both in-game. The ability to swap heads on Stormtrooper bodies became a base feature for BF2015; the infrastructure is already in place. Boom, new legendary skin.
Luke Head on Storm Trooper body. See above.
Han Head on Storm Trooper body. See above.
Finn Head in First Order officer gear. See above.
Rebel garb Iden Versio. Cross-era Hereos vs. Villains is already a thing, so what's the big deal about adding a skin that is already fully developed, and in-game, for purchase? Boom, done, new Legendary skin.
That alone is 5 x $80k = $400k, not to mention all the clone trooper skins that were already in-game, but held hostage until the last couple months for another 4 x 40k = $160k. The two Finn skins and Rebel Iden could have been introduced early on (to coincide with TLJ, and also when the campaign was still relatively popular), with the Han and Luke skins + Clone Trooper skins flooding the market, and incentivizing players to spend money out-of-pocket rather than grind to gain nearly $600k credits to get everything, which if you averaged $500/match at 10min/match, would take you roughly 200 hours to accumulate, and at 2hrs a day, roughly 100 days, or a summer's worth of average casual gaming. Or, you could just pay the $5/10/20 to get the skins now.
TL;DR Yes, I believe that there is more to the story than higher-ups wanting to genuinely improve the game by forcing MM to work. The current business model, or lack thereof, for BF2017 highly suggests so.
Also, notice complete radio silence from F8RGE today.
I'm calling it guys, this is here to stay.
JohnWick
We need some sort of EoR matchmaking as the lobbies in this game are some of the most unbalanced you'll ever come across, but the lobby hopping thing is unacceptable. No one wants to play the same map 4 or 5 times in a row, regardless if the games are close or not.
I'd say it has more to do with server-room/space for another big game title about to be released than it does for a demand by higher-ups for implementation of a fully-operational MM system to BF2017. Simply put, there is not enough history or data to suggest that much care is going into the game.
You may be right, after all, we're both speculating because we have no real info to go on.
I'd like to address the part I've quoted though.
I don't think higher ups are demanding the implementation of a fully-operational MM system to BF2017.
I'm suggesting they want the implementation of a fully-operational MM system to BFV.
They don't need another under preforming launch of a AAA game, so they are testing it here first. Where they literally have nothing (money) to lose.
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Tag Archives: Stephen Brackett
REVIEW: “Fall Springs” at Barrington Stage
by Barbara Waldinger A musical about fracking? Is it doomed to share the fate suffered by entertainments on such unlikely subjects as Anne Frank or Anna Karenina, the Musicals: obscurity and a critical chorus of “What could they have been thinking?” Decidedly not! Fall Springs by Niko Tsakalakos (music and lyrics) and Peter Sinn…
August 18, 2019 in Reviews.
Barrington Stage Presents World Premiere of “Fall Springs”
(Pittsfield, MA) Barrington Stage Company (BSC), the award-winning theatre in downtown Pittsfield under the leadership of Artistic Director Julianne Boyd, is proud to present the world premiere musical Fall Springs. Previews begin August 9, with an official Opening Night on August 14, with performances through August 31 on the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage (30 Union Street). …
July 16, 2019 in Musicals.
Barrington Stage Announces Full Casting for 2019 Season
(Pittsfield, MA– May 2019) Barrington Stage Company (BSC), the award-winning theatre in the Berkshires (Pittsfield, MA) under the leadership of Artistic Director Julianne Boyd, announced today casting for its 25th Anniversary season. The 2019 Season at BSC will begin with Hold These Truths starring Drama Desk Award nominee Joel de la Fuente (Amazon’s “The Man…
May 16, 2019 in Theatre.
“The Lightning Thief” The Percy Jackson Musical” Comes to Proctors
SCHENECTADY, N.Y.—FEB. 6, 2019—Proctors is thrilled to announce that THE LIGHTNING THIEF: THE PERCY JACKSON MUSICAL, an “electrifying” (Newsday) musical adaption of the New York Times best-selling novel written by Rick Riordan, will play Schenectady, 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22; and 2 & 8 p.m. Saturday Feb. 23. Tickets, $20–$50, are available at the Box Office at Proctors, 432 State Street,…
February 6, 2019 in Musicals.
Barrington Stage Company Announces Three Productions for 25th Anniversary Season
(Pittsfield, MA– October 19, 2018) Barrington Stage Company (BSC), the award-winning theatre in the Berkshires under the leadership of Artistic Director Julianne Boyd, announced today three productions for its upcoming 25th season – Into the Woods, the musical classic by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine; the world premiere new musical Fall Springs, by Niko Tsakalakos…
October 19, 2018 in Musicals, Season Announcements, Theatre.
Barrington Stage Musical Theatre Lab Presents a Reading of “Fall Springs”
(Pittsfield, MA)’s Barrington Stage Company Musical Theatre Lab (MTL), under the leadership of MTL Artistic Producer William Finn and Artistic Director Julianne Boyd, will present a reading of the new musical, Fall Springs, with music and lyrics by Niko Tsakalakos (Pool Boy, Into the Wild) and book and lyrics by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb (Boom), on August…
August 29, 2018 in Musicals, Reading.
The four critics who review for BerkshireOnStage.com – Gail M. Burns, Roseann Cane, Macey Levin, and Barbara Waldinger – have each listed their favorite regional theatre productions of the past calendar year. Because for the most part we all see and review different shows, there was no sense trying to come up with a list…
December 29, 2017 in Experimental, Musicals, Opera, Reviews, Theatre.
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Bíblia DARBY
1 And after this it came to pass that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them; and David took the power of the capital out of the hand of the Philistines.
2 And he smote the Moabites, and measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. And the Moabites became David's servants, {and} brought gifts.
3 And David smote Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion by the river Euphrates.
4 And David took from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David houghed all the chariot {horses}, but reserved of them {for} a hundred chariots.
5 And the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, and David smote of the Syrians twenty-two thousand men.
6 And David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, {and} brought gifts. And Jehovah preserved David whithersoever he went.
7 And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
8 And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much bronze.
9 And Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the forces of Hadadezer;
10 and Toi sent Joram his son to king David, to inquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and smitten him; for Hadadezer was continually at war with Toi. And he brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of bronze.
11 Them also king David dedicated to Jehovah, with the silver and the gold that he had dedicated of all the nations that he had subdued:
12 of the Syrians, and of the Moabites, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of the Amalekites, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
13 And David made him a name when he returned, after he had smitten the Syrians in the valley of salt, eighteen thousand {men}.
14 And he put garrisons in Edom: throughout Edom did he put garrisons; and all they of Edom became servants to David. And Jehovah preserved David whithersoever he went.
15 And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice to all his people.
16 And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was chronicler;
17 and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Seraiah was scribe;
18 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers.
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JIM'S BIG EGO: unpop for the unpopulous!
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Review of Don't Get Smart
Boston Soundcheck
by Andy Kaufmann
Utilizing a host of instruments, including a theremin and the hand claps of producer Jason Schneider, Jim somehow concocts an experience that adds up to more than the sum of its parts. Additionally, the album contains a stunning example of effective multimedia masterminded by Matthew Cohen at Moody Food Design.
Boston favorite, Jim Infantino, builds upon realizing his jocular mix of folk, rap, and pop with this latest release. While keeping the songs pure by utilizing simple melodies and catchy choruses, the album delivers by hitting us with deep grooves, as subconsciously addictive as the beats that began hip-hop. (Indeed, he covers Dougie Fresh and Slick Rick, though you may be surprised to hear he does this in the middle of a cover of Paul Simon's Feelin' Groovy). By exploiting his natural gift for language, Jim's vocals add substance to the flavor. Utilizing a host of instruments, including a theremin and the hand claps of producer Jason Schneider, Jim somehow concocts an experience that adds up to more than the sum of its parts.
Additionally, the album contains a stunning example of effective multimedia. Masterminded by Matthew Cohen at Moody Food Design, Work uses a simple metaphor presented in a simple manner; the minimal system requirements get the thumbs up. Not only will you thrill to the sensation of breaking office supplies; you'll also get two more songs, not included on the CD, as well as a chance to hear Jim read from his personal journal of poetry.
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Review of They're Everywhere! in the Comic Treadmill
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Tag: entpreneurship
“That will never work”
MG wrote a post yesterday about scoffing in the technology world. It’s a great read, especially going into the new iPhone and “iWatch” launch today.
It also reminded me of all the scoffing I’ve heard in my time as an investor these 9+ years. Things like:
“User generated content can’t compete with professional content”
“Advertisers won’t put their ad next to user generated content”
“You can’t build a big company outside of Silicon Valley”
“You can’t hire great engineers in San Francisco”
“You can’t build a big business around photographs”
“We wanted flying cars and all we got were 140 characters”
“Digital goods are a fad”
“Social networks are a fad”
“Startups can’t build hardware”
“Why would someone want a blog”
“You can’t compete with Facebook”
“Nobody cares about virtual reality”
“You can’t build a real company with a $15k seed” (in reference to all the early scoffing about YC in the early days)
“You can’t build a big company in the music space”
“You can’t build a big company if you don’t charge for your software”
“Bitcoin will never work”
“You can’t build a big open source company”
It is a helpful reminder why I love this industry.
September 9, 2014 entpreneurship, startups, venture capital
That Snapchat offer
There seems to be a lot of folks paying attention to Snapchat rejecting Facebook’s $3B offer.
Loosely speaking I’ve seen negative sentiments like
“This means Facebook is in trouble”
“I knew it, we are in a bubble”
“The Snapchat founders are nuts”
I don’t think it’s any of those things.
Consider Facebook’s stock is pretty high right now. They are flush with cash, profitable and can easily afford $3B for a leader in this new emerging market. And kudos to Zuck and co for taking bold moves. Their purchase of Instagram was extremely smart. This was a sensible offer, not one from desperation.
It is reasonable to assume that the Snapchat founders have already taken out millions of dollars in secondary sales of their stock. They are not risking losing it all, instead they are going for it.
I like this tweet by Aaron Levie. In less than 140 characters he summed it all up nicely.
No one rational would have turned down $3 billion for SnapChat. But, no one rational would have built SnapChat in the first place.
— Aaron Levie (@levie)
Snapchat’s future is up to them. They have to do a lot of things right. But they have an opportunity to build a big, important company.
November 18, 2013 January 10, 2019 entpreneurship, startups, venture capital
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Kollaboration Los Angeles 2015 Showcase
Saturday, June 27 at The Los Angeles Theatre Center
Hey LA! Kollaboration Los Angeles is back! The 2015 Southern California edition of the world-famous Asian American talent showcase returns to Downtown Los Angeles for an evening of live music, entertainment and community, featuring some of the best up-and-coming local artists. It's happening Saturday, June 27 at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, with an afterparty at the Continental Club.
Here's a quick promo video for the show:
And here are some more details about the evening:
The Los Angeles Theatre Center
514 S. Spring St.
Tickets on sale now at http://tiny.cc/KLA2015
Experience an unforgettable evening of live music, entertainment, and community as Kollaboration presents some of the best local up-and-coming artists in the Asian/Pacific Islander (API) community.
Six talented finalists from all across Southern California were chosen through an intense and competitive round of auditions to compete for the chance to move on to the Kollaboration Star finale later this fall and perform for the national title and $10,000 grand prize! In addition to the talent competition, Kollaboration Los Angeles will also feature amazing performances from prominent Asian American guest artists.
Your 2015 Kollaboration Los Angeles Finalists:
Lisa Sonoda, Singer/Songwriter
Perry & Danielle, Acoustic Duo
Peter Chung, Singer/Songwriter
Rosy Donovan, Singer/Songwriter
Track IX, Beatbox
Will Park, Singer/Songwriter
Hosted by: Sean Miura
Join us as we celebrate the amazing talents of LA’s API community!
It's going to be a fun evening. Buy your tickets here. For further information about Kollaboration Los Angeles, visit the Kollaboration website or refer to the Facebook event.
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Conservation Students and Nature
Eco-Schools USA Eco-Code Excellence Challenge
Jennifer Murck | June 13, 2011
Step seven of the Eco-Schools USA program asks schools to create their own Eco-Code. This code is a mission statement for the school that demonstrates, in a clear and imaginative way, the school’s commitment to improving its environmental performance.
Recently Eco-Schools USA staff in NWF’s Pacific Regional Center held an Eco-Code contest for schools in Washington. Cash prizes were awarded to three schools that went above and beyond in designing Eco-Codes that spoke to their school’s commitment to environmental sustainability.
1st Prize – Billings Middle School
Their Eco-Code is a song. It includes such lines as ‘Get on a bike reinvent your life’ and ‘Take a ride, on the spud, a bio-diesel bus that we love.’ Access Billings Middle School’s blog to listen to the song!
2nd Prize – Kent Meridian High School
Their Eco-Code is a video. Directed by the students, the video outlines what actions the school has taken to go green…and the big plans they have for additional greening in the future! View the video here on our SchoolTube channel.
3rd Prize – Emily Dickinson Elementary/Explorer Community School
Their Eco-Code is a poster. It features the school’s mascot – a dragon, and the school’s wetlands area and trail. The school developed their Eco-Code by holding an internal Eco-Code contest at the school. Almost 200 students submitted entries!
Thank you to all who participated, and congratulations to our winners!
Conservation, Students and Nature | eco-schools usa, education, Northern Rockies and Pacific Regional Center
Written by Jennifer Murck
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Author: Carolyn Beans
Carolyn, who trained as an evolutionary biologist, enjoyed covering the latest research advances and the scientists who make them happen while she worked at NIGMS.
Posts by Carolyn Beans
Posted on February 9, 2017 January 10, 2020
On this Darwin Day, Evolutionary Geneticist Dr. Dan Janes Discusses the Scientific Contributions of Charles Darwin
by Carolyn Beans
This Sunday, February 12, is Darwin Day—an occasion to recognize the scientific contributions of 19th-century naturalist Charles Darwin. In this video (originally posted on Darwin Day 2016), our own evolutionary geneticist, Dan Janes, answers questions about Darwin and the role of evolution in health and biomedicine.
Continue reading “On this Darwin Day, Evolutionary Geneticist Dr. Dan Janes Discusses the Scientific Contributions of Charles Darwin”
Demystifying General Anesthetics
When Margaret Sedensky, now of Seattle Children’s Research Institute, started as an anesthesiology resident, she wasn’t entirely clear on how anesthetics worked. “I didn’t know, but I figured someone did,” she says. “I asked the senior resident. I asked the attending. I asked the chair. Nobody knew.”
For many years, doctors called general anesthetics a “modern mystery.” Even though they safely administered anesthetics to millions of Americans, they didn’t know exactly how the drugs produced the different states of general anesthesia. These states include unconsciousness, immobility, analgesia (lack of pain) and amnesia (lack of memory).
Like the instruments that make up an orchestra, many molecular targets may contribute to an anesthetic producing the desired effect. Credit: Stock image.
Understanding anesthetics has been challenging for a number of reasons. Unlike many drugs that act on a limited number of proteins in the body, anesthetics interact with seemingly countless proteins and other molecules. Additionally, some anesthesiologists believe that anesthetics may work through a number of different molecular pathways. This means no single molecular target may be required for an anesthetic to work, or no single molecular target can do the job without the help of others.
“It’s like a symphony,” says Roderic Eckenhoff of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, who has studied anesthesia for decades. “Each molecular target is an instrument, and you need all of them to produce Beethoven’s 5th.” Continue reading “Demystifying General Anesthetics”
Ticks, Mice and Microbes—Studying Disease Spread
by Carolyn Beans and Alisa Zapp Machalek
Credit: Oscar Gonzalez (Diuk-Wasser’s husband)
Maria Diuk-Wasser
Hometown: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Childhood dream job: Veterinarian
Hobbies: Hiking and gardening with her son (age 10) and daughter (age 7)
Favorite music: Salsa
Worksite: Lab at Columbia University and forests in coastal New England
Maria Diuk-Wasser grew up on the 10th floor of an apartment building in the middle of a bustling city. With no forests or meadows nearby, she read book after book about the natural world and surrounded herself with houseplants.
“I yearned for nature,” Diuk-Wasser says. “But my parents couldn’t provide it. They’re city people. They didn’t know anything about hiking or camping.”
These days, Diuk-Wasser still spends a lot of time in a city—she’s a professor at Columbia University in New York, the most populous city in the U.S.—but she also gets plenty of time in the woods. She hikes for hours through coastal New England forests, some of the loveliest in the country, searching for what many consider less-than-lovely inhabitants: mice and ticks. Continue reading “Ticks, Mice and Microbes—Studying Disease Spread”
Posted on April 8, 2016 April 13, 2016
New Views on What the Cell’s Parts Can Do
Studying some of the most well-tread territory in science can turn up surprising new findings. Take, for example, the cell. You may have read in textbooks how the cell’s parts look and function during important biological processes like cellular movement and division. You may have even built models of the cell out of gelatin or clay. But scientists continue to learn new facts that require those textbooks to be updated, and those models to be reshaped. Here are a few examples.
Nuclear Envelope: More Than a Protective Barrier
Damaged heterochromatin, a tightly packed form of DNA, travels to the inner wall of the nuclear envelope for repair. Credit: Irene Chiolo and Taehyun Ryu, University of Southern California.
Like a security guard checking IDs at the door, the nuclear envelope forms a protective barrier around the cell’s nucleus, only letting specific proteins and chemical signals pass through. Scientists recently found that this envelope may also act as a repair center for broken strands of heterochromatin, a tightly packed form of DNA.
Irene Chiolo of the University of Southern California and Gary Karpen of the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory were part of a team that learned that healthy fruit fly cells mend breaks in heterochromatin by moving the damaged DNA strands to the inner wall of the nuclear envelope. There, proteins embedded in the envelope make the necessary repairs in a safe place where the broken DNA can’t accidentally get fused to the wrong chromosome. Continue reading “New Views on What the Cell’s Parts Can Do”
Four Ways Inheritance Is More Complex Than Mendel Knew
An original edition of Gregor Mendel’s 1866 publication, “Experiments in Plant Hybridization,” housed in NIH’s National Library of Medicine. Credit: Alisa Machalek.
This year marks the 150th anniversary of Gregor Mendel’s publication that—after sitting ignored for a few decades—helped launch the field of modern genetics. Mendel didn’t know about DNA. But after painstakingly cross-fertilizing tens of thousands of pea plants over the course of 8 years, this Austrian monk came very close to describing genes.
By picking a species with a handful of visible characteristics that occur in two easily identifiable forms, Mendel was able to pinpoint what he called “factors.” These factors determine traits like a pea’s shape or color, for instance, and are passed down from parents to offspring. He also observed that factors can be dominant or recessive.
Today, we know that inheritance is far more complex than what Mendel saw in his pea plants. Here are some of the things scientists have learned about how traits are passed from one generation to the next. Continue reading “Four Ways Inheritance Is More Complex Than Mendel Knew”
Evolution and Health: A Conversation with Evolutionary Geneticist Dr. Dan Janes on the Occasion of Charles Darwin’s Birthday
Today, February 12, is Darwin Day—an occasion to recognize the scientific contributions of 19th-century naturalist Charles Darwin. In this video, our own evolutionary geneticist, Dan Janes, answers questions about Darwin and the role of evolution in health and biomedicine.
For more details about evolution and you, check out our articles Evolution and Health and Everyday Evolution.
Cryo-Electron Microscopy Reveals Molecules in Ever Greater Detail
The molecular visualization technique known as cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) was recently named the “2015 Method of the Year” by the journal Nature Methods. In a recent blog post, NIH Director Francis Collins explains how the technology works and just how rapidly it has advanced. He writes, “Today’s cryo-EM is so powerful that researchers can almost make out individual atoms!” He also notes, “These dramatic advances serve as a reminder of the ways in which basic technological innovation can open new realms of scientific possibility.”
We fund many scientists who are developing and applying cryo-EM to bring the details of biological structures into unprecedented focus. Here are two examples of their work and its potential impact. Continue reading “Cryo-Electron Microscopy Reveals Molecules in Ever Greater Detail”
Posted on January 7, 2016 February 2, 2016
Meet a Globe-Trotting Chemist and Builder of “Smart Molecules”
Jayawickramarajah taking a “selfie” with “The Bean,”
a large, highly reflective sculpture in Chicago
Credit: Janarthanan Jayawickramarajah
Janarthanan Jayawickramarajah
Born in: Kandy, Sri Lanka
Job site: Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Alternate career choice: Anthropologist
Favorite sports teams: Sri Lanka national cricket team, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tar Heels basketball, New Orleans Saints football
Favorite weekend activity: Strolling through parks with his wife and two kids and stopping for coffee and beignets (a New Orleans treat, a lot like a doughnut covered in powdered sugar)
In a way, Janarthanan Jayawickramarajah is like an architect. But rather than sketching plans for homes or buildings, he creates molecules designed to detect and destroy cancer cells. Continue reading “Meet a Globe-Trotting Chemist and Builder of “Smart Molecules””
Sugar Rush in Research
Sugar sprinkled on cookies and other treats is often an attractive—and sweet tasting—finishing touch. But the sugar-rich coating that surrounds most cells is far more—it’s a vital ingredient for many basic cellular processes. Credit: Stock image.
Simple sugars such as sucrose (found in the sugar bowl) and fructose (in fruits and honey) provide the sweet finishing touches on many holiday treats. But did you know that versions of these molecules also serve important functions in our cells?
Cells assemble sugar molecules into chains known as glycans. These glycans, which can be linear or branching, play an astounding number of biological roles. When bound to proteins called lectins, they enable a fertilized egg to attach properly onto a woman’s uterine wall and help immune cells move out of a blood vessel to the site of an infection. When decorated with specific patterns of molecules called sulfates, glycans can help direct the growth of nerves. And it’s the glycans found on our blood cells that define blood type (A, B, AB or O). Continue reading “Sugar Rush in Research”
Posted on December 2, 2015 July 9, 2019
Cracking a Ubiquitous Code
We asked the heads of our scientific divisions to tell us about some of the big questions in fundamental biomedical science that researchers are investigating with NIGMS support. This article is the third in an occasional series that explores these questions and explains how pursuing the answers could advance understanding of important biological processes.
Ubiquitin (Ub) molecules attached to proteins can form possibly hundreds of different shapes. Credit: NIGMS.
Researchers are on a quest to crack a code made by ubiquitin, a small protein that plays a big role in coordinating cellular function. By attaching to other proteins, ubiquitin determines what those proteins should do next.
Just as zip codes direct letters to specific towns, the ubiquitin code might direct one protein to help with DNA repair, another to assist in cell division, and a third to transport molecules into and out of cells. Continue reading “Cracking a Ubiquitous Code”
Carolyn Beans
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Bits | Malicious Software Campaign Targets Apple Users in China
Malicious Software Campaign Targets Apple Users in China
By Nicole Perlroth
November 5, 2014 5:30 pm November 5, 2014 5:30 pm
People in China using devices with Apple's mobile operating system could become infected with malicious software if they connected their device to Mac computers with a USB cord. Credit Feng Li/Getty Images
Researchers at a Silicon Valley security company said on Wednesday that they had found a new manner in which hackers can infect Apple products.
The company, Palo Alto Networks, reported that it had uncovered a malware campaign called WireLurker targeting Apple mobile and desktop users and said it was “the biggest in scale we have ever seen.”
Though the malware — malicious software designed to cause damage or steal information — is aimed at users in China and can be avoided, the campaign demonstrates new ways that attackers are targeting Apple iOS mobile devices.
The security company, based in Santa Clara, Calif., said that WireLurker had infected more than 400 applications designed for Apple’s Mac OS X operating system through the Maiyadi App Store, a third-party Mac application store in China. In the last six months, Palo Alto Networks said 467 infected applications were downloaded over 356,104 times and “may have impacted hundreds of thousands of users.”
The company said users’ iOS devices could also become infected if they connected their mobile device to their Macs through a USB wire. “WireLurker monitors any iOS device connected via USB with an infected OS X computer and installs downloaded third-party applications or automatically generated malicious applications onto the device, regardless of whether it is jailbroken,” Palo Alto Networks security researchers said. “This is the reason we call it ‘wire lurker.’”
Typically, iOS users can download applications from third parties only if they have “jailbroken” their phones, or altered them to run software Apple has not authorized. With WireLurker, an infected application can reach a non-jailbroken phone from an infected Mac OS X system, which is why Palo Alto Network researchers say WireLurker represents a “new brand of threat to all iOS devices.”
Researchers say that once WireLurker is installed on a Mac, the malware listens for a USB connection to an iOS device and immediately infects it. Once infected, WireLurker’s creators can steal a victim’s address book, read iMessage text messages and regularly request updates from attackers’ command-and-control server. Though the creator’s ultimate goal is not yet clear, researchers say the malware is actively being updated.
“They are still preparing for an eventual attack,” said Ryan Olson, the director of threat intelligence at Palo Alto Networks. “Even though this is the first time this is happening, it demonstrates to a lot of attackers that this is a method that can be used to crack through the hard shell that Apple has built around its iOS devices.”
Mr. Olson said Palo Alto Networks had alerted Apple to its findings. “We are aware of malicious software available from a download site aimed at users in China, and we’ve blocked the identified apps to prevent them from launching,” an Apple spokesman said. “As always, we recommend that users download and install software from trusted sources.”
The firm’s advice to Mac and iOS users is to avoid downloading Mac applications or games from any third-party app store, download site or untrusted source, or connecting an iOS device to any untrusted accessories or computers. They also advise users to keep iOS software up to date.
Separately, last Friday a researcher in Sweden announced that he had uncovered a serious new vulnerability in Yosemite, Apple’s latest OS X operating system. The researcher, Emil Kvarnhammar, said the vulnerability, which he calls “Rootpipe,” allows attackers to gain “root access,”or full administrative control, of a victim’s Mac, allowing them to steal information or run programs of their own.
To date, there is no evidence that the vulnerability has actually been exploited and here, too, it would be difficult for the average Mac user to stumble upon. For hackers to gain control of a Mac, the victim would need to ignore every OS X pop-up security warning.
Apple is currently patching the Rootpipe vulnerability, but it is not clear when the patch will be completed.
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Bitcoin & Crypto Mining
A Convo with Aparna Krishnan, Rising Blockchain Thought Leader
July 17, 2018 by William Peaster 0 Comment 33018 Views
One of the cryptoverse’s most impressive up-and-comers? Aparna Krishnan, a 2018 Thiel Fellowship and Social Alpha Foundation grantee, a co-founder of open-source blockchain research lab Mechanism Labs, and former Head of Education and Executive VP at Blockchain at Berkeley. Needless to say, Krishnan’s going places, and she was kind enough to chat with Bitsonline about her current research, her thoughts on the space, and more.
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Krishnan: ‘This Is the Right Time and Place to Be Pursuing Blockchain Research’
William Peaster, Bitsonline: Your accolades and accomplishments are both extensive and impressive. Thanks kindly for chatting with Bitsonline. Could you tell our readers a little bit about your present work, namely your research at ThunderCore and your paper “Meta-Analysis of Alternative Consensus Protocols”?
Aparna Krishnan: The “Meta-Analysis of Alternative Consensus Protocols” provides a framework to understand several of the popular blockchain protocols that use proof-of-stake as a sybil control mechanism. The paper also has a chart version available on our GitHub. We are also working on blog posts to make each of the protocols that we analyzed understandable to anyone getting started with blockchains.
The goal of this paper was to provide a common language, framework, and method of understanding blockchain protocols. Oftentimes when people think a blockchain is perfect because it is the most scalable or the most secure blockchain they have encountered, they forget that it makes other trade-offs to achieve those properties. People also often make the mistake of comparing blockchains strictly on just one parameter. This paper is meant to provide everyone with an easy to understand method of comparing blockchains.
Aparna Krishnan: a researcher to watch out for in the years ahead.
The work I’m doing at Thunder Token is currently focused a lot on research related to the protocol. There is a lot of research to be done and a lot of practical considerations to be made in implementing the Thunderella white paper.
William: Congratulations on being announced as one of 2018’s Thiel Fellows! I imagine it’s as great of an opportunity as it is a responsibility. I know the Fellowship is still fresh, having been announced on June 22nd — but how do you think you will approach it going forward?
Aparna: The fellowship is unique in that it is an opportunity for me to work on something that I am passionate about consistently for the next two years. For me, taking time off from school to work on a project I love with the people I work the best with isn’t a scary decision. The default path of education will always exist and I can go back to it after I finish working on what I’m currently passionate about. This is the right time and place to be pursuing blockchain research and the industry is the best place for me to be making the biggest impact possible.
I don’t see this as me giving up on education because learning is a lifelong process, but by being in an environment where I will learn the most, I am actually optimizing my learning. That environment just happens to not be an educational institution at this point in time.
The only responsibility that comes with the fellowship is a responsibility to myself; one where I am constantly challenging myself, stepping out of my comfort zone, and growing in order to make the biggest impact possible. I look forward to the next few years with the fellowship.
William: As you see it, what are the hot-button issues in cryptoeconomic design right now?
Aparna: The most pressing problems in the blockchain space are scalability, privacy, governance and incentivization. Mechanism Labs currently focuses on scalability through consensus mechanisms research and incentive scheme design.
The biggest problem I can identify is an incentive misalignment for people who research and develop these middle-layer solutions. In the age of the internet, there was an incentive misalignment for those who developed new protocols. In the age of blockchains, there is an incentive misalignment for those who upgrade existing protocols. That’s probably why we see so many new blockchains.
William: You’ve spoken on your desire to see more women moving into the fledgling blockchain space. What would you like to see, or what efforts do you think would be most effective, on that front?
Aparna: I believe that the emergence and subsequent rise of a new technology presents an opportunity to empower more women. I admire the efforts of Alexis, my co-founder who also runs She256, who works tirelessly to bridge the gender gap. I was personally inspired by several other women in the blockchain space such as Professor Elaine Shi, Dr. Mahnush Mohavedi, and Elizabeth Stark. Having conferences where we showcase the work of women in the space is a wonderful way to celebrate each of their accomplishments and realize the individual role each of them has played in shaping this field. Most people don’t realize that blockchain was brought into academia because of Professor Shi. She wrote the first ever academic analysis of bitcoin and started IC3. Her work and vision has inspired me as a researcher.
I think every blockchain organization needs to make active efforts in recruiting women into all roles. It might take longer to find the right women, but if we make an active effort to ensure that organizations maintain the gender balance at the start, we will be able to maintain that balance much more easily as the field keeps growing.
Women need to actively support other women. Nydia Zhang from Social Alpha Foundation, Professor Shi, and Dr. Mohavedi have all been mentors to me and have helped me get to where I am.
William: You’ve co-founded the world’s first open-source research lab in Mechanism Labs. What are the main rewards and challenges you’ve faced in doing so?
Aparna: The biggest reward has been the support and engagement we’ve received to our open-source and collaborative effort, which has been positively acknowledged by a large number of people.
It’s astounding to realize that the collective intellect of humanity is capable of so many things. If I can play a role in channelling this intellect in a meaningful and collaborative way so that we have a blockchain that finally meets the dream of decentralization someday, I would feel satisfied by all the work that I do.
The biggest challenge I see right now is patent law. A fundamental incentive realignment needs to happen in order to ensure that people can be compensated and recognized fairly for working open source and collaborating rather than by patenting their work. I also foresee a challenge in getting the different protocol designers to agree on a common set of terms and use it in their future work.
For Those Interested in a Deeper Dive
As the “world’s first open-source research lab,” Krishnan’s Mechanism Labs hails a new means of concentrated, high-level collaborative research. The pioneering model may prove popular for future labs.
If Krishnan’s Thunder Token research is of interest, you can find more information on the project’s site here. The ThunderCore protocol is EVM-compatible, which the team boasts of allowing Ethereum DApps to be migrated over to “immediately increase their performance.” You can also find the Thunderella white paper that Krishnan previously mentioned here.
To learn more about Krishnan’s 2018 Thiel Fellowship, which has put her in company with Thiel alumnus and Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin, be sure to check out the June announcement. She’s a fascinating researcher, and if such a fellowship is any indication, she’s only just getting started.
What’s your take? What do you make of Krishnan’s research? Let us know in the comments below.
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Germany, not Wallonia, is to blame for the collapse of EU-Canada trade talks
Fredrik Erixon
I sometimes wonder if the EU has a death wish – that europhiles like myself, when admitted to the cause, are sworn into a secret society with the ultimate goal of destroying the European Project. For a decade or more, the EU has been veering from crisis to crisis – yet presented with an opportunity to choose calm before crisis, it goes with the latter.
Late on Friday, Canada’s trade minister – the former FT journalist Chrystia Freeland – declared that the trade agreement with the EU (the so-called Ceta) had failed. She’d been commuting between Brussels and Namur, the seat of Wallonia’s regional parliament, for a few days, trying to get the region’s left-wing government to support the trade deal. But her efforts, and those by others, were in vain. Wallonia didn’t budge. All the EU leaders that were in Brussels to seal the deal ahead of Justin Trudeau’s visit on Thursday, had to return back home empty-handed.
Reactions have been strong. A high-profile trade agreement has been blocked by a region that doesn’t represent more than 0.45 percent of all EU-Canada trade – or 2 percent of Belgium’s import from Canada. Behind Wallonia’s opposition stands the flamboyant and bow-tied gauche caviar, Elio di Rupo, possible the only rival to Boris Johnson for being Europe’s most Teflon-made politician. A former prime minister of Belgium, di Rupo has been seen as masterminding Wallonia’s opposition in order to win domestic political gains. It just proves, some say, that the Brits were right to vote leave: it is better to do own trade deals than being held hostage by continental politics and protectionism. “If the EU cannot do a deal with Canada”, Freeland asked, “then who the heck can you do a deal with?” Maria Åsenius, who heads the cabinet of the EU trade commissioner, said about the EU that “we won’t have much of trade policy if can’t get Ceta through”.
It is easy to see their points; EU trade credibility is at risk. If the EU cannot agree to a pretty mediocre trade deal with Canada, it is highly unlikely that economically more significant trade agreements – like the one with the United States – will get accepted. And what foreign government would in the future recklessly invite political turbulence at home by agreeing with the EU about big cuts in trade barriers – if they suspect the deal will never be ratified by the EU?
Nor can trade policy collapse without causing new existential problems for the EU. Trade is the founding ethos of the club. The Rome Treaty, celebrating 60 years next year, was all about establishing the common market and unifying external trade policy. Unlike migration and the euro, two other crisis-ridden areas, the EU has been handed strong powers in trade policy. If Europe’s political rot eats itself into the core, one might ask, then what the heck is the point of it all?
Perhaps there will be a deal; perhaps it won’t. The EU political dance is a two-step – if you say no the first time, there will always be a new chance to say yes. But I have sympathy with Wallonia. They didn’t create this crisis. After all, they were never asked before the trade talks with Canada started if they wanted this agreement. Nor was it their decision to put aside the EU’s procedure for ratifying trade deals – which should be done by member states and the European Parliament, not national and regional parliaments – and subject the Canada deal to the torments of Wallonian politics. The European Commission made that doomed call – and it did it under heavy pressure from especially Germany. The country’s vice chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, considered it a good strategy to rip up the EU decision-making order to manage trade opposition in his own left-wing party.
The new trade fiasco is made in Germany. Like many other troubles in Euroville, it is one that Germany tried to export to other countries. The euro crisis would have been much different if Germany had not outsourced its own banking problems to Ireland, Portugal and Spain. Last year’s open-door policy for refugees was in several ways laudable, but Germany never asked other countries about their opinion before Merkel demanded they should share Germany’s burden. Germany is an export powerhouse – in economics and politics. If it continues to be, there will be many other casualties than Ceta.
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Yes, You're Pregnant, But What About Me?
At fifty-three, Kevin Nealon thought he had it all: a massive international celebrity with legions of loyal fans; a fabulous modeling career; hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank; and the most recognizable face on the planet. Nealon had accomplished the impossible: a thirty-year career in show business with only limited trips to rehab. But just like every other celebrity, he felt that was not enough. The perpetually insatiable Nealon wanted more, and for him "more" meant a little addition that drooled, burped, and pooped (no, not a Pomeranian).
Now, in his first-ever book, Nealon tells the outrageous story of how he battled through aching joints, Milano cookie cravings, and a rapidly receding hairline to become a first-time dad at an age when most fathers are packing their kids off to college. Offering hysterical commentary about his fickle, often hormonal, road to belated and bloated fatherhood, Nealon guides you through the delivery room and beyond, discussing how his past, his wife, and his neuroses all converged in a montage of side-splitting insecurities during the months leading up to the birth of his son.
In Yes, You're Pregnant, But What About Me?, Nealon details his trip through all the emotional stages of pregnancy—uncomfortable, denial, hungry, sleepy, self-conscious, hungrier, confused, cranky, not-quite-as-hungry but still craving something, sweaty, covered in cookie crumbs—all while struggling to keep his blood pressure down and find the time to read the latest issue of the AARP Bulletin. Wrestling with the dilemmas and fears that fathers have been dealing with for centuries (Can I duct-tape a crib together? How often can I reuse a disposable diaper? What if the baby looks like me and not my wife?), Nealon never fails to entertain with the frequent lunacy and inevitable joy that punctuate his story about parenthood.
Laugh-out-loud funny and remarkably poignant, Nealon's entertaining perspective and his wealth of sarcasm provide a take on fatherhood that is as fresh as it is universal, always reminding you that half the fun of being a parent is getting there.
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Comedian and actor Nealon (best known for his characters on Saturday Night Live and his role on Weeds) makes his print debut with comedic content so potent readers will surely demand future books. Nealon is a first-time father with his second wife, actress Susan Yeagley, and detailing the male point of view on pregnancy, he writes about the events that led to the birth of their son in 2007. The 53-year-old Nealon considers becoming a father while also anticipating death: "It wasn't over for me yet, but I felt I was 'circling the drain'." However, at age 34, Susan was still "pregnantable," as he puts it. Thus the merry parental dance began. Beneath the jokes, Nealon swims in poignant undercurrents, discussing his relationship with Susan, recalling his childhood and reflecting on life in general. Digressions lead to such jests as: "Why do some people get their stomach stapled? What if you wanted to just lose a little weight? Could you paperclip your stomach?" Fellow humorists Benchley and Thurber would probably nod in admiration at Nealon's ability to insert a bon mot or clever phrase into almost every paragraph of this very funny navigation from pregnancy to parenthood.
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Re-Enchantment
James Elkins & David Morgan
The near-absence of religion from contemporary discourse on art is one of the most fundamental issues in postmodernism. Artists critical of religion can find voices in the art world, but religion itself, including spirituality, is taken to be excluded by the very project of modernism. The sublime, "re-enchantment" (as in Weber), and the aura (as in Benjamin) have been used to smuggle religious concepts back into academic writing, but there is still no direct communication between "religionists" and scholars. Re-Enchantment, volume 7 in The Art Seminar Series, will be the first book to bridge that gap.
The volume will include an introduction and two final, synoptic essays, as well as contributions from some of the most prominent thinkers on religion and art including Boris Groys, James Elkins, Thierry de Duve, David Morgan, Norman Girardot, Sally Promey, Brent Plate, and Christopher Pinney.
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Killing the god
(공)저: Sir James George Frazer
the desert was tainted and polluted by the grossness and corruption of the heathen in the fat land of Canaan. When we remember, however, that the Israelites were of the same Semitic stock as the population they conquered and professed to despise,1 and that the practice of human sacrifice is attested for many branches of the Semitic race, we shall, perhaps, incline to surmise that the chosen people may have brought with them into Palestine the seeds which afterwards sprang up and bore such ghastly fruit in the valley of Hinnom. It is at least significant of the prevalence of such customs among the Semites that no sooner were the child-burning Israelites carried off by King Shalmaneser to Assyria than their place was taken by Babylonian colonists who practised precisely the same rites in honour of deities who probably differed in little but name from those revered by the idolatrous Hebrews. "The Sepharvites," we are told, "burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim." * The pious Jewish historian, who saw in Israel's exile God's punishment for sin, has suggested no explanation of that mystery in the divine economy which suffered the Sepharvites to continue on the same spot the very same abominations for which the erring Hebrews had just been so signally chastised.
We have still to ask which of their children the Semites picked out for sacrifice; for that a choice was made and some principle of selection followed, may be taken for granted. A people who burned all their children indiscriminately would soon extinguish themselves, and such an excess of piety is probably rare, if not unknown. In point of fact it seems, at least among the Hebrews, to have been only the firstborn child that was doomed to the flames. The prophet Micah asks, in a familiar passage, "Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with •
1 The Tel El-Amnrna tablets prove Driver, in Authority and Archaeology, that "the prae-Israelitish inhabitants Sacred and Profane, edited by I). G. of Canaan were closely akin to the Hogarth (London, 1899), p. 76). Hebrews, and that they spoke substantially the same language" (S. K. - 2 Kings xvii. 31.
ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?" These were the questions which pious and doubting hearts were putting to themselves in the days of the prophet. The prophet's own answer is not doubtful. "He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God ?"1 It is a noble answer and one which only elect spirits in that or, perhaps, in any age have \ given. In Israel the vulgar answer was given on bloody . altars and in the smoke and flames of Tophet, and the form in which the prophet's question is cast—" Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression ?"—shows plainly on which of the children the duty of atoning for the sins of their father was supposed to fall. A passage in Ezekiel points no less clearly to the same conclusion. The prophet represents God as saying, " I gave them statutes that were not good, and judgements wherein they should not live; and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate." That the writer was here thinking specially of the sacrifice of children is proved by his own words a little later on. "When ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, do ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, unto this day ?"2 Further, that by the words " to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb" he referred only to the firstborn can easily be shown by the language of Scripture in reference to that law of the consecration of firstlings which Ezekiel undoubtedly had in his mind when he wrote this passage. Thus we find that law enunciated in the following terms: "And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine." * Again, it is written: "Thou shalt set apart unto the Lord all that openeth the womb, and every firstling which thou hast that cometh of a beast; the males shall be the Lord's." * Once more: "All that openeth the womb is mine; and all thy cattle that is
1 Micah vi. 6-8. :i Exodus xiii. I sq.
1 Ezekiel xx. 25, 26, 31. * Exodus xiii. 12.
male, the firstlings of ox and sheep." i This ancient Hebrew I custom of the consecration to God of all male firstlings, whether of man or beast, was merely the application to the animal kingdom of the law that all first fruits whatsoever belong to the deity and must be made over to him or his representatives. That general law is thus stated by the Hebrew legislator: "Thou shalt not delay to offer of the abundance of thy fruits, and of thy liquors. The firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me. Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with its dam; and on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.
Thus the god of the Hebrews plainly regarded the firstborn of men and the firstlings of animals as his own, and required that they should be made over to him. But how? Here a distinction was drawn between sheep, oxen, and goats on the one hand and men and asses on the other; the firstlings of the former were always sacrificed, the firstlings of the latter were generally redeemed. "The firstling of an ox, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire for a sweet savour unto the Lord." The flesh went to the Levites,8 who consumed it, no doubt, instead of the deity whom they represented. On the other hand, the ass was not sacrificed by the Israelites, probably because they did not eat the animal themselves, and hence concluded that God did not do so either. In the matter of diet the taste of gods generally presents a striking resemblance to that of their worshippers. Still the firstling ass, like all other firstlings, was sacred to the deity, and since it was not sacrificed to him, he had to receive an equivalent for it. In other words, the ass had to be redeemed, and the price of the redemption was a lamb which was burnt as a vicarious sacrifice instead of the ass, on the hypothesis, apparently, that roast lamb is likely to be more palatable to the Supreme Being than roast donkey. If the ass was not redeemed, it had to be killed by having its neck broken.1 The firstlings of other unclean animals and of men were redeemed for five shekels a head, which were paid to the Levites.2
1 Exodus xxxiv. 19. In the Author- with the firstling of thine ox, nor shear ised Version the passage runs thus:" All the firstling of thy flock. Thou shalt that openeth the matrix is mine; and eat it before the Lord thy God year by every firstling among thy cattle, whether year in the place which the Lord shall ox or sheep, that is male." choose, thou and thy household,"
2 Exodus xxii. 29 sq. The Author- Deuteronomy xv. 19 sq. Compare ised Version has "the first of thy ripe Deuteronomy xii. 6 s,/., 17 sq. To fruits" instead of "the abundance of reconcile this ordinance with the other thy fruits." we must suppose that the flesh was
s Numbers xviii. iy sq. Elsewhere, divided between the Levite and the however, we read: "All the firstling owner of the animal. Hut perhaps the males that are bom of thy herd and of rule in Deuteronomy may represent thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the the old custom which obtained liefore Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work the rise of the priestly caste.
We can now readily understand why so many of the Hebrews, at least in the later days of their history, sacrificed their firstborn children, and why tender-hearted parents, whose affection for their offspring exceeded their devotion to the deity, may often have been visited with compunction, and even tormented with feelings of bitter self-reproach and shame at their carnal weakness in suffering the beloved son to live, when they saw others, with an heroic piety which they could not emulate, calmly resigning their dear ones to the fire, through which, as they firmly believed, they passed to God, to reap, perhaps, in endless bliss in heaven the reward of their sharp but transient sufferings on earth. From infancy they had been bred up in the belief that the firstborn was sacred to God, and though they knew that he had waived his right to them in consideration of the receipt of five shekels a head, they could hardly view this as anything but an act of gracious condescension, of generous liberality on the part of the divinity who had stooped to accept so trifling a sum instead of the life which really belonged to him. "Surely," they might argue, "God would be better pleased if we were to give him not the money but the life, not the poor paltry shekels, but what we value most, our first and best-loved child. If we hold that life so dear, will not he also? It is his. Why should we not give him his own?" It was in answer to anxious questions such as these, and to quiet truly conscientious scruples of this sort that the prophet Micah declared that what God required of his true worshippers was not sacrifice but justice and mercy and humility. It is the answer of morality to religion—of the growing consciousness that man's duty is not to propitiate with vain oblations those mysterious powers of the universe of which he can know little or nothing, but to be just and merciful in his dealings with his fellows and to humbly trust, though he cannot know, that by acting thus he will best please the higher powers, whatever they may be. But while morality ranges itself on the side of the prophet, it may be questioned whether history and pre• cedent were not on the side of his adversaries. If the firstborn of men and cattle were alike sacred to God, and the firstborn of cattle were regularly sacrificed, while the firstborn of men were ransomed by a money payment, has not this last provision the appearance of being a later mitigation of an older and harsher custom which doomed firstborn children, like firstling lambs and calves and goats, to the altar or the fire? The suspicion is greatly strengthened by the remarkable tradition told to account for the sanctity of the firstborn. When Israel was in bondage in Egypt, so runs the tradition, God resolved to deliver them from captivity, and to lead them to the Promised Land. But the Egyptians were loth to part with their bondmen and thwarted the divine purpose by refusing to let the Israelites go. Accordingly God afflicted these cruel taskmasters with one plague after another, but all in vain, until at last he made up his mind to resort to a strong measure, which would surely have the desired effect. At dead of night he would pass through the land killing all the firstborn of the Egyptians, both man and beast; not one of them would be left alive in the morning. But the Israelites were warned of what was about to happen and told to keep indoors that night, and to put a mark on their houses, so that when he passed down the street on his errand of slaughter, God might know them at sight from the houses of the Egyptians and not turn in and massacre the wrong children and animals. The mark was to be the blood of a lamb smeared on the lintel and side posts of the door. In every house the lamb, whose red blood was to be the badge of Israel that night, as the white scarves were the badge of
1 Exodus xiii. 13, xxxiv. 20. * Numbers xviii. 15 sq. Cp. Numbers iii. 46-51 ; Exodus xiii. 13, xxxiv. 20.
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Nobody's Hero
by Bec McMaster
pubblicato da Lochaber Press
First rule of surviving the Wastelands: don't be caught out after the sun sets...
After her father was killed in a warg attack, Riley Kincaid was forced to stand on her own two feet in the brutal Wastelands she calls home. She knows how to survive, but when a lapse in judgment leaves her out after dark, Riley realizes she's in trouble. The sun has set, the monsters are out to play, and there's a band of reivers heading straight for her settlement. Riley needs to warn her people, but that's before she runs a handsome stranger down in her jeep. A stranger who might not be a man after all...
Kidnapping her was the worst mistake he ever made.
Dangerous outlaw, Lucius Wade, lives only for revenge. But when he kidnaps Riley in order to lure an old friend into a trap, suddenly the tables are turned. Riley has no intentions of being bait, and she tempts him in ways he hasn't felt for a long time. He's never played the hero, but suddenly a part of him wants to.
When dangerous secrets are revealed, and Luc realizes an old enemy is on his trail, he's forced to change his plans. The hunter is suddenly the hunted, and the only allies he has... is a stubborn blonde who thinks there should be more to live for than revenge, and the ex-friend who shoved a knife in his back ten years ago.
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Review: Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things by Jacqueline Firkins
Today I’m taking part in the blog tour for Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things by Jacqueline Firkins! The tour is hosted by the lovely ladies over at The Fantastic Flying Book Club, and a lot of other bloggers are taking part so you should check out the tour schedule and read their posts!
I received a copy of Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things in exchange for an honest review.
Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things by Jacqueline Firkins
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Mansfield, Massachusetts is the last place seventeen-year-old Edie Price wants to spend her final summer before college. It’s the home of wealthy suburbanites and prima donnas like Edie’s cousins, who are determined to distract her from her mother’s death with cute boys and Cinderella-style makeovers. Edie has her own plans, and they don’t include a prince charming.
But as Edie dives into schoolwork and applying for college scholarships, she finds herself drawn to two Mansfield boys who start vying for her attention. First there's Sebastian, Edie’s childhood friend and first love. He’s sweet and smart and . . . already has a girlfriend. Then there's Henry, the local bad boy and all-around player. He’s totally off limits, even if his kisses are chemically addictive.
Both boys are trouble. Edie can’t help but get caught between them. Someone's heart is going to break. Now she just has to make sure it isn't hers.
Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things is a retelling of Mansfield Park, but if you haven’t read the original novel, don’t let that put you off. I haven’t read it either! I still understood a lot of the references, and I don’t think that missing out on the original novel impacted my feelings towards this book at all.
I knew that Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things was going to be a light and fluffy read as soon as I heard about it. It’s a YA contemporary about a girl who’s in a somewhat complicated love triangle, and who is struggling to fit in with her posh family and in her posh school. I love me some rich people drama, so I signed right up for this.
I have to admit that the main character, Edie, got on my nerves a lot. She’s what stopped me from truly loving this book, with her superior attitude and constant classic book quotes. I really couldn’t connect with her at all, and it was such a shame.
Edie spends a lot of time looking down on her cousins and their friends for wanting to go to parties and dress nice, which gave off SO MANY “Better Than Other Girls” vibes. In addition to that, she was always coming out with random quotes from classic novels, which seemed to me as though she was showing off her superior intellect and looking down on people who don’t read. This really got to me, and I was not here for that.
I did, however, get really invested in the love triangle. I’m going to have to be vague here, because my ship didn’t end up together, but in my opinion Edie chose the wrong guy. A guy who she barely knew or spoke to. Instead of the guy who was quickly becoming her best friend. That was about as vague as I could be, so I’ll leave it at that. I WAS DISAPPOINTED.
Aside from all of that, I loved the Rich People Drama and the parties and all of the normal drama that was happening. This was a fun and fluffy book that I think contemporary readers will really enjoy.
Book Review 3 stars
Grave Mercy by R.L LaFevers
Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers
Series: His Fair Assassin #1
Genre: Fantasy, Historical
Why be the sheep, when you can be the wolf?
Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts—and a violent destiny. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassin and serve as a handmaiden to Death. To claim her new life, she must destroy the lives of others.
Ismae’s most important assignment takes her straight into the high court of Brittany—where she finds herself woefully under prepared—not only for the deadly games of intrigue and treason, but for the impossible choices she must make. For how can she deliver Death’s vengeance upon a target who, against her will, has stolen her heart
This was a Christmas gift from my favourite person and I loved it tbh :’) A historical fantasy about assassin nuns?? SIGN ME UP. The novel follows the story of Ismae, a young girl recruited by nuns who are actually badass assassins with a hand in political matters. And by that I mean they send recruits off to kill those people unfortunate enough to end up on their hit list; I find myself wondering how much more efficient modern politics could be with the threat of assassins hanging over politicians’ heads. Hmmmmm. Ismae is taught the art of killing in a convent (!!!), learning everything from poisoning to using her sexuality and femininity to isolate potential victims. Armed with these skills Ismae is sent to the royal court and eliminate all threats. Also romance, because this is YA and that’s like a necessary requisite around these parts, I guess.
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Habitat Enhancement for Biodiversity
Published by Daniel Mosquin on March 12, 2010
A few more entries in the UBC Celebrate Research Week series remain. Lindsay introduces Dr. Mooney:
Dr. Patrick Mooney is a Professor in the Landscape Architecture program in UBC’s School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture at UBC where he teaches sustainable landscape planning and management, ecological restoration, design studio and planting design. Dr. Mooney consults to developers, environmental groups, the B.C. Ministry of Environment, regional parks and city governments on habitat management and restoration. Dr. Mooney designed and supervised the installation of Maplewood Flats, a constructed wetland on the Burrard Inlet. The mud-flats that previously existed on that site were filled for a port facility that was never built and is now a Provincial Wildlife Management Area operated by the Wild Bird Trust (WBT) of BC. Since its installation, the WBT has recorded an increase in bird diversity from 208 bird species prior to 1995 to 231 in 2004.
Dr. Mooney writes:
Maintaining biodiversity in urban regions (PDF) requires the implementation of conservation actions that are informed by local knowledge. To meet this need, I’ve developed general biodiversity models that may be used to select candidate conservation areas, to enhance habitat in urban disturbed sites, to increase site level biodiversity and to guide ecological restoration for wildlife habitat.
The plant associations of three conservation areas on Burrard Inlet in the Metro Vancouver region were inventoried and mapped as habitat types (figure 1 — the map)
The 62 species of birds that were found to use the sites on an annual basis were grouped according to their foraging guilds. The guilds are coded A through L in the second figure. It was found that that certain habitats support more species than others and some habitats support a high proportion of certain guilds.
Since most species use multiple habitats, a cluster analysis was conducted to determine which groups of habitats supported the most bird species. Three habitat assemblages – Deciduous Forest / Mixed Forest / Park; Shorezone / Old Field / Meadow and Old Field / Salt Marsh / Freshwater Marsh were found to contain the primary use habitats of the majority bird species found on the study sites (see Figure 2). All other possible habitat assemblages contained the primary habitats of three or fewer species.
Habitat Assemblage 1: Deciduous Forest / Mixed Forest / Park
Eleven species of birds from guild A, the gleaners, utilize this habitat assemblage for both primary and secondary habitat. This assemblage contains the primary and secondary habitat for 21 species. 13 of these species were found only within this habitat assemblage. These are black-throated gray warbler, brown creeper, chestnut-backed chickadee, evening grosbeak, orange-crowned warbler, Pacific-slope flycatcher, downy woodpecker, pileated woodpecker, bushtit, Cooper’s hawk, cedar waxwing, Steller’s jay and purple finch.
Habitat Assemblage 2: Shorezone / Old Field / Meadow
The habitat assemblage of shorezone/old field/meadow contains the primary and secondary habitat for 16 species or 25.8% of the 62 species in this analysis. This assemblage is notable in that primary and secondary use habitat for three of the four species in guild C, the probers, are captured by this assemblage. These are killdeer, solitary sandpiper, and spotted sandpiper. The exception in guild C is the sora rail which was found only in the freshwater marsh habitat type.
Habitat Assemblage 3: Old Field / Salt Marsh / Freshwater Marsh
This assemblage contained primary and secondary habitats for five species. Two species are particular to this habitat assemblage. The wood duck was found in both the freshwater and saltwater wetlands, while the sora rail occurred in only the freshwater marsh habitat.
12 responses to “Habitat Enhancement for Biodiversity”
Rob March 12, 2010 at 9:09 pm Permalink | Reply
Beautiful! It is excellent to see such a fine example of restoration, and a fine photo, too.
Mary Ann, in Toronto March 12, 2010 at 10:58 pm Permalink | Reply
Wow! Wonderful project, beautiful habitat.
Jeff Elliott March 13, 2010 at 6:38 am Permalink | Reply
Great job. With all due respect and admiration for this wonderfully improved landscape, I must remind us to look more closely. Please note the community structure here is, albeit a huge improvement, still indicative of instability. Typical of mitigation wetlands this site will denigrate rapidly, harboring a plethora of invasive r-selectors and non-natives, than rebound toward a new equilibrium and stability. This anthropogenic wetland will never replace the natural system we’ve destroyed. However, this will provide so much more then the tarmac and trash it was slated to become. Enjoy the cattails and mallards for now and celebrate the dynamics of the shifting mosaic progression toward a more natural system. Kudos to the restoration ecologists and their efforts.
Melissa in S.C. March 13, 2010 at 9:43 am Permalink | Reply
Oh, so beautiful. Immediately to my Desktop. Such clear descriptions and charts. Am loving Research Week.
phillip March 13, 2010 at 10:10 am Permalink | Reply
…it’s so refreshing….to see intellegent..hard working people…developing bio-diverse systems…and yes jeff elliot…the natural course will be different 1000 years from now…but a project like this is similar to making bread…a little yeast makes the whole bread..
lisa March 13, 2010 at 10:43 am Permalink | Reply
Very important work – maintaining healthy aquatic ecosystems in/around or urban areas is especially important. It is absolutely critical we get a handle on ecosystems’ destruction, and begin to appreciate and valuate the free services they provide: clean water, flood control, erosion control, food, carbon/mercury/methane/etc. storage, and all of the spiritual and cultural values we find in them… Thank you for sharing this exciting research.
elizabet a airhart March 13, 2010 at 10:45 am Permalink | Reply
one ecosystem
in diversity
with joyful interpnetration for all
gary snyder american 1930
this has been a lovely fine week
florida is trying to save itself if they ever
get out of the courts and each rain and storm
brings a change so many birds winter here or did
i do remember the meadowlands of new jersey
thank you this has been a grand week for all of us
bonniel March 13, 2010 at 3:22 pm Permalink | Reply
wonderful yes, but too many will only see the mud and dead plants. We need a thousand Daniels to show them the beauty.
AJ March 14, 2010 at 12:54 pm Permalink | Reply
I am all for conservation, but construction and management of habitats, imo, must be done with care as habits/ecosystems/forest types are not static entities but change over time naturally due to succession, emigration, immigration, weather patterns and so forth. Part of the beauty of walking into a pine forest, for example is knowing that despite its present grandeur, the light-loving pines will eventually succumb under the canopy of oaks and hickories.
Lovely photo and very nice figures!
Diana Johnson March 15, 2010 at 1:05 am Permalink | Reply
Thank you for this beautiful photo of the Maplewood mud flats in North Vancouver, and reminding me how truely vast and lovely this area is.
Patrick Mooney March 15, 2010 at 10:12 am Permalink | Reply
The site is well managed by the B.C. Wild Bird Trust. Since the wetland was installed the invasive purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) that previously dominated large areas of Maplewood Flats and would have overtaken the new wetland have been virtually eliminated.
Michael Hobbs March 15, 2010 at 4:52 pm Permalink | Reply
Looks like a better than average mitigation, but many people assume that sites like this indicate that man can recreate wetlands with just a bit of work and money. This is hogwash. It’s incredibly rare to have a mitigation site remain an active wetland for very many years after restoration. First, there is the tendency to plant willows, etc., around and in every body of water, which gives an instant transition to a late-successional wetland. Soils tend to build up quickly, and it’s a wetland no more. The bigger problem though, in this regard, is the hydrology. Usually, water sources are in short supply, often due to hydrologic changes caused by the construction that leads to the mitigation. Without water, and without periodic flushing, a wetland is doomed to a late-successional state at best.
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The Powerless ACC
So this is why Pittsburgh and Syracuse are throwing away their basketball allegiances?
This is the reason that the Big East is going through a hideous makeover?
After watching Virginia Tech and Clemson the last two nights in BCS bowl games I can’t help but wonder what the hell Syracuse and Pitt were thinking?
The move by both schools was supposed to bolster it’s football programs, but after watching Virginia Tech lose another big game and Clemson just get drilled you have to wonder if it was really a smart move on their parts.
The Hokies had every opportunity to beat a weaker Michigan team but couldn’t convert inside the red zone all night and settled for field goals. In the end their offensive ineptitude caught up with them and Michigan continued it’s recent resurgence with a 23-20 win on overtime. The loss dropped Virginia Tech to 1-5 in BCS games all time (more on that later), this is supposedly the class of the ACC in football but every time they reach the big stage they just can’t get over the hump.
However, at least they put up a fight… What the hell Clemson?
In their first BCS game and biggest bowl game since their 1980 national title Clemson just got murdered. How does a supposed top 15 team and conference champion allow 49 first half points and 70 total? Clemson look far less skilled than their opponents from the Big East as Tavon Austin and Geno Smith looked like they were playing on All-Madden while Clemson was stuck on rookie. The funny thing about it is before the game every analyst picked West Virginia to get killed. They must’ve forgot that the Mountaineers take BCS games very seriously as seen by their previous convincing wins over Oklahoma and Georgia.
West Virginia has now won 3 BCS bowls… The ACC has 2 total. The ACC is 2-13 lifetime in BCS bowl games… 2-13!!! Boise State has the same amount of wins in two games (yet had to watch Va. Tech go to the Sugar Bowl over them). The Big East is 7-7 in BCS bowls with one less BCS bowl win than the Big 12, and people want to revoke the Big East’s automatic bid?
The ACC has been one of the weaker power conferences for years now and this just proves it.
The ACC has no business being considered a power football conference. Their mediocrity has been exposed by everyone from Florida, to Iowa and even Kansas (yup, the Jayhawks beat the Hokies in the Orange bowl a few years ago). The fact that teams would jettison their conference to join this circus for football reasons is laughable. After the last two nights the hilarity should be at it’s highest level ever.
After watching the Sugar and Orange Bowls I hope Syracuse and Pitt are happy with their decisions.
You thought that aligning yourselves with the ACC would mean stiffer competition and a better brand to recruit with. Instead you just joined the laughing stock of the BCS and forced West virginia’s hand in leaving behind a crumbling conference that they made respectable.
Nice job guys. Good luck wallowing in even more mediocrity than what you began with.
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The Big Ten is Wisconsin's for the taking
This is going to be a quick version of higher learning so here we go:
Everyone said that Wisconsin didn’t play anyone, that they were untested, that you couldn’t gauge them until they played a worthy opponent… then they spanked Nebraska 48-17… so now what? Wisconsin’s beat down of Nebraska caught plenty of national attention and rightfully so. They took it to the Huskers and gave them a welcome to the Big Ten that they won’t soon forget. In the process Russell Wilson may have become the front runner for the Heisman after a stellar performance that began to make his legacy grow in Madison. Now at 5-0 and ranked 4th in the nation the Badgers look like a dark horse national title candidate. If they can pass upcoming road tests at East Lansing and Columbus then the title talk will grow louder.
I don’t care what conference you play in or are going to, to have back to back collapses against evenly matched opponents in back to back weeks is embarrassing. Texas A&M has blown two huge leads in consecutive in marquee matchups that have all but killed their BCS hopes. What’s even more embarrassing is the that they both came in the second half. Their inability to close versus Arkansas and Oklahoma State in consecutive games shows why if they leave the Big 12 it won’t be too big of a deal. They may have a rabid fan base but they aren’t a big time program. If they were then they would be 5-0 with a top ten ranking getting ready for Oklahoma and Texas in future games.
No matter what happens in the world it looks like things will never change. Grass will stay green, winters will stay cold and Steve Spurrier will continue to be frustrated with Stephen Garcia. After South Carolina’s ugly 16-13 loss to Auburn Spurrier decided to bench Garcia for his ineffective play… again. Garcia looked awful going 9-23 with 2 interceptions. The fifth year senior who has been benched, suspended or otherwise before, just can’t seem to do anything right in Columbia and may have played his final game for the Gamecocks. Funny thing is that even with their loss they still look like the team to beat in the SEC East with Florida losing John Brantley and Georgia is still trying to find themselves. It’s a small consolation for yet another disappointment.
Raise your hands if you had Kansas State at 4-0, ranked in the top 25 and as a candidate for the Big 12 title at the beginning of the year then raise your hands… exactly. However, that is the case at the moment as the Wildcats pulled off a shocking upset of no. 15 Baylor 36-35 thanks to a late interception of Robert Griffin III. Bill Snyder is bringing the Wildcats back to the mid-90’s when the Cats were relevant last. This is their best start since the days of Michael Bishop, Elle Roberson and company and they look to continue them this week against Missouri. The Wildcats won’t go undefeated but it is a nice story.
Andre Brown and Kansas State are looking good.
Ladies and gentlemen… it looks like the Clemson Tigers may finally be living up to the hype. After years of futility in disappointing finishes the Tigers look like a legitimate BCS team after their 23-3 beat down of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. Head Coach Dabo Swinney calls it the ‘Shock The World” tour as the win against the Hokies comes after huge wins against Florida State and defending champion Auburn. QB Tahj Boyd looked poised in a hostile environment leading their offense while Andre Branch was dominant against the Hokie offensive line with 3 sacks. Clemson’s toughest remaining opponent is at Georgia Tech on the 29th of this month… is this the year Clemson finally gets it done?
SMU ended a string of bad luck versus TCU and won its annual battle for the Iron Skillet 40-33 in overtime. It also ended TCU’s home winning streak, and knocked them out of the top 25 for the first time in 46 weeks.
USF was supposed to be a Big East fave… then they got stomped by 27 in Pittsburgh. Yuck!
Maybe Jerry Kill should stay at home instead of watch his Minnesota Gopher team get worked like they did in Ann Arbor 58-0.
Russell Wilson: 14-20 255 yards and 2TD’s along with a rushing TD to help Wisconsin roll Nebraska 48-17
EMBARRASSMENT OF THE WEEK
The Ohio State offense. Less than 150 yards and sacked 9 times in a 10-7 loss to Michigan State.
It's been a rough year for the Buckeyes.
HEISMAN TOP 5
Russell Wilson, Wisconsin
Kellen Moore, Boise State
Andrew Luck, Stanford
Landry Jones, Oklahoma
Trent Richardson, Alabama
The marquee matchups this week are Boise State headed out to California against Fresno State, Florida taking on LSU, Auburn against Arkansas and the big one in Dallas, The Red River Shootout between Oklahoma and Texas.
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Improving hospital quality and costs in nonoperative traumatic brain injury the role of acute care surgeons
Bellal A Joseph, Viraj Pandit, Ansab A. Haider, Narong Kulvatunyou, Bardiya Zangbar, Andrew - Tang, Hassan Aziz, Gary - Vercruysse, Terence S Okeeffe, Randall S. Freise, Peter M Rhee
IMPORTANCE The role of acute care surgeons is evolving; however, no guidelines exist for the selective treatment of patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) exclusively by acute care surgeons.We implemented the Brain Injury Guidelines (BIG) for managing TBI at our institution on March 1, 2012. OBJECTIVE To compare the outcomes in patients with TBI before and after implementation of the BIG protocol. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS We conducted a 2-year analysis of our prospectively maintained database of all patients with TBI (findings of skull fracture and/or intracranial hemorrhage on an initial computed tomographic scan of the head) who presented to our level I trauma center. The pre-BIG group included patients with TBI from March 1, 2011, through February 29, 2012, and the post-BIG group included patients from July 1, 2012, through June 30, 2013. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES The primary outcome measureswere patients with repeated computed tomography of the head and neurosurgical consultations. Secondary outcome measures were findings of progression of intracranial hemorrhage on repeated computed tomographic scans, neurosurgical intervention, hospital admission, intensive care unit admission, hospital and intensive care unit length of stay, 30-day readmission rate, and hospital costs per patient. RESULTS A total of 796 patients (415 in the pre-BIG group and 381 in the post-BIG group)were included. Therewas a significant reduction (19.0%) in the rate of neurosurgical consultation (post-BIG group, 273 patients [71.7%]; pre-BIG group, 376 [90.6%]; P < .001), repeated computed tomography of the head (post-BIG group, 255 patients [66.9%]; pre-BIG group, 381 patients [91.8%]; P < .001), hospital (post-BIG group, 330 [86.6%]; pre-BIG group, 398 [95.9%]; P < .001) and intensive care unit admission (post-BIG group, 202 [53.0%]; pre-BIG group, 257 [61.9%]; P = .01), hospital length of stay (post-BIG group, 5.4 [4.5] days; pre-BIG group, 6.1 [4.8] days; P = .03), and hospital costs per patient ($4772 per patient; P = .03) with implementation of BIG. Therewas no difference in the in-hospital mortality rate (post-BIG group, 62 patients [16.3%]; pre-BIG group, 69 patients [16.6%]; P = .89), progression of intracranial hemorrhage on repeated scans (post-BIG group, 41 patients [10.8%]; pre-BIG group, 59 patients [14.2%]; P = .14), neurosurgical intervention (post-BIG group, 61 patients [16.0%]; pre-BIG group, 59 patients [14.2%]; P = .48), and 30-day readmission rate (post-BIG group, 31 patients [8.1%]; pre-BIG group, 37 patients [8.9%]; P = .69) after implementation of BIG. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE Implementation of BIG is safe and cost-effective. BIG defines the management of TBI without the need for neurosurgical consultation and unnecessary imaging. Establishing a national, multi-institutional study implementing the BIG protocol is warranted.
JAMA Surgery
https://doi.org/10.1001/jamasurg.2015.1134
Hospital Costs
Intensive Care Units
Joseph, B. A., Pandit, V., Haider, A. A., Kulvatunyou, N., Zangbar, B., Tang, A. ., ... Rhee, P. M. (2015). Improving hospital quality and costs in nonoperative traumatic brain injury the role of acute care surgeons. JAMA Surgery, 150(9), 866-872. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamasurg.2015.1134
Improving hospital quality and costs in nonoperative traumatic brain injury the role of acute care surgeons. / Joseph, Bellal A; Pandit, Viraj; Haider, Ansab A.; Kulvatunyou, Narong; Zangbar, Bardiya; Tang, Andrew -; Aziz, Hassan; Vercruysse, Gary -; Okeeffe, Terence S; Freise, Randall S.; Rhee, Peter M.
In: JAMA Surgery, Vol. 150, No. 9, 01.09.2015, p. 866-872.
Joseph, BA, Pandit, V, Haider, AA, Kulvatunyou, N, Zangbar, B, Tang, A, Aziz, H, Vercruysse, G, Okeeffe, TS, Freise, RS & Rhee, PM 2015, 'Improving hospital quality and costs in nonoperative traumatic brain injury the role of acute care surgeons', JAMA Surgery, vol. 150, no. 9, pp. 866-872. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamasurg.2015.1134
Joseph BA, Pandit V, Haider AA, Kulvatunyou N, Zangbar B, Tang A et al. Improving hospital quality and costs in nonoperative traumatic brain injury the role of acute care surgeons. JAMA Surgery. 2015 Sep 1;150(9):866-872. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamasurg.2015.1134
Joseph, Bellal A ; Pandit, Viraj ; Haider, Ansab A. ; Kulvatunyou, Narong ; Zangbar, Bardiya ; Tang, Andrew - ; Aziz, Hassan ; Vercruysse, Gary - ; Okeeffe, Terence S ; Freise, Randall S. ; Rhee, Peter M. / Improving hospital quality and costs in nonoperative traumatic brain injury the role of acute care surgeons. In: JAMA Surgery. 2015 ; Vol. 150, No. 9. pp. 866-872.
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Warp processors
Roman L Lysecky, Greg Stitt, Frank Vahid
We describe a new processing architecture, known as a warp processor, that utilizes a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) to improve the speed and energy consumption of a software binary executing on a microprocessor. Unlike previous approaches that also improve software using an FPGA but do so using a special compiler, a warp processor achieves these improvements completely transparently and operates from a standard binary. A warp processor dynamically detects the binary's critical regions, reimplements those regions as a custom hardware circuit in the FPGA, and replaces the software region by a call to the new hardware implementation of that region. While not all benchmarks can be improved using warp processing, many can, and the improvements are dramatically better than those achievable by more traditional architecture improvements. The hardest part of warp processing is that of dynamically reimplementing code regions on an FPGA, requiring partitioning, decompilation, synthesis, placement, and routing tools, all having to execute with minimal computation time and data memory so as to coexist on chip with the main processor. We describe the results of developing our warp processor. We developed a custom FPGA fabric specifically designed to enable lean place and route tools, and we developed extremely fast and efficient versions of partitioning, decompilation, synthesis, technology mapping, placement, and routing. Warp processors achieve overall application speedups of 6.3X with energy savings of 66% across a set of embedded benchmark applications. We further show that our tools utilize acceptably small amounts of computation and memory which are far less than traditional tools. Our work illustrates the feasibility and potential of warp processing, and we can foresee the possibility of warp processing becoming a feature in a variety of computing domains, including desktop, server, and embedded applications.
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems
Data storage equipment
Microprocessor chips
Networks (circuits)
Configurable logic
Dynamic optimization
Hardware/software codesign
Hardware/software partitioning
Just-in-time (JIT) compilation
Hardware and Architecture
Lysecky, R. L., Stitt, G., & Vahid, F. (2006). Warp processors. ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, 11(3), 659-681. https://doi.org/10.1145/1142980.1142986
Warp processors. / Lysecky, Roman L; Stitt, Greg; Vahid, Frank.
In: ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, Vol. 11, No. 3, 2006, p. 659-681.
Lysecky, RL, Stitt, G & Vahid, F 2006, 'Warp processors', ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 659-681. https://doi.org/10.1145/1142980.1142986
Lysecky RL, Stitt G, Vahid F. Warp processors. ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems. 2006;11(3):659-681. https://doi.org/10.1145/1142980.1142986
Lysecky, Roman L ; Stitt, Greg ; Vahid, Frank. / Warp processors. In: ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems. 2006 ; Vol. 11, No. 3. pp. 659-681.
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Chris Lee: Craigslist Dating: UPDATED: LEE RESIGNS!
Chris Lee seems to be up to some shenanigans, and Gawker has the details. Oh, my goodness – what is GOING ON with my congressional representative?
What is it with local Buffalo-area Republican politicians and their emails?
Tags: Chris Lee, congress, family values, NY-26, scandal
← Buffalo’s Mittelstand
NY-26. The Race is On. →
84 Responses to “Chris Lee: Craigslist Dating: UPDATED: LEE RESIGNS!”
Eric Saldanha February 9, 2011 at 3:19 pm #
Looks like the next thing Rep. Lee should apply his “KILL” sign to is his libido.
Tracy Diina February 9, 2011 at 3:23 pm #
Let me be the first to say that I like Chris Lee much better with his shirt off
Jon Splett February 9, 2011 at 3:26 pm #
As much as I hate the guy, I kinda feel bad for him.
This has nothing to do with how bad he is at being a Congressman. Trying to get laid on Craigslist is not a crime.
It’s one thing when anti-gay conservatives get caught fucking other dudes but unless Chris Lee has been pushing legislation to making cheating on your wife illegal, this is really doesn’t concern anyone but him and his wife.
Alan Bedenko February 9, 2011 at 3:30 pm #
He’s a public figure, and he is a family values kinda guy. Moralize to me, but only if your morality is unimpeachable.
Not to mention, who the fuck sends a shirtless picture like that? Is that really common among married Congressional billionaires to behave like pimpled emo MySpacers?
kristen becker February 9, 2011 at 3:30 pm #
I Think Lee’s penchant for wanting to get into other’s bedroom ( his support of DADT) makes this fair game. Clearly he believes other’s sex lives are His business, so know His can be OUR business.
Scott February 9, 2011 at 3:38 pm #
It’s just kinda pathetic and a bit creepy. Then again, I think “pathetic” and “creepy” are required traits for a GOP candidate.
Fat Tony February 9, 2011 at 3:43 pm #
I don’t believe this is real. Is he really that dumb to use his own name? Two second of google and she would figure out he is a Congressman. This smacks of a set up.
Do you think that someone elaborately set up a male model to take a picture of himself in a mirror like some Emo kid on MySpace, then flawlessly photoshop Chris Lee’s head onto the body, then sent it from Chris Lee’s personal email address to a DC area woman on Craigslist?
Yes, I do. I still can’t believe he’d use his own name. I’ll eat crow if this proves wrong.
As far as I know (and based on the fact he’s a Republican I could easily be wrong), Lee has never come out and said anything related to the morality of sex outside of marriage so you can’t just slap that belief on him and call it a day. For all we know, his wife is completely cool with him getting some on the side.
When Spitzer was brought down in hookergate, we could point to legislation he passed to crack down on hookers that made him a hypocrite. When Larry Craig was getting blown in men’s rooms, we could point to a career based around vilifying homosexuals that made him a hypocrite. These people did things they tried to ban others from doing. Dragging DADT into it is a bit of a stretch.
Stuff like this just pisses me off because the left likes to ignore how hypocritical it gets about the bedroom antics of politicians. If Chris Lee wants to fuck other people on the side and has taken absolutely no steps to stop other people from doing the exact same thing, then what business is it of ours? It’s about practicing the tolerance you preach.
You really think a shirtless picture even registers on the same level of what sketchy internet hookups are like? 20 bucks says I could post a personal on Craigslist claiming to be a female and end up with an inbox full of unsolicited cock shots within the hour. I didn’t say he wasn’t open game as a public figure, all I said was that I feel bad for him because he’s being persecuted for what he does behind closed doors.
It’s his life, his marriage and it has zero impact on any of our lives. I’m sure you’ll pile on this because it’s advantageous to the political team you play for but it doesn’t make it right.
Well, Jon, I think you’re wrong, and Lee’s support of DADT and his support for recent attempts to legislate away the right of women to seek legal and safe abortions means that he indeed uses his own morality as a guide viz. his constituents. Most Democrats, on the other hand, don’t do that. So there’s a distinct difference between the teams, which is why those teams exist in the first place.
Chris Lee fucking other people on the side may or may not be anybody’s business, but since he has made other people’s morality judgments his business, it’s hardly his place to say.
And what does tolerance have to do with anything? I quite clearly tolerate Chris Lee’s apparent infidelity. I also mock it. What’s your point?
In any event, when Eric Massa was busy creeping out and tickling his interns, I was initially defensive of him, but once it was pretty much confirmed to be true, I went along with the shunning of him. This despite the fact that he never introduced very much anti-creepy-tickling legislation.
Bills Fan February 9, 2011 at 4:05 pm #
JonSplett has it exactly right. Of course, to refute what he’s saying everyone will search for some example of something Chris Lee said that makes it seem like he’s all hard-core family values guy, but he’s not and we all know it. He’s a business guy Republican, not a crazy Christian Republican.
Also, he’s not a billionaire. Not even close. He’s a multi-millionaire.
Oh, well. Too bad this multi-millionaire didn’t have the good judgment to not troll for pussy on Craigslist, sending shirtless pics to women claiming to be a divorced lobbyist. That’s some bang-up good judgment, there.
Brian Castner February 9, 2011 at 4:13 pm #
Splett’s answer is the right one. Cheating on your wife and DADT are connected because they both have to do with sex? Kinda? That’s beyond sketchy. Lee is hardly the banner carrier of evangelicals – he’s the “run it like a business” guy, remember.
And Massa was accused of sexual harrassment, which is illegal, so Alan you can pat yourself on the back for being on the right side of the law, I suppose, but cheating isn’t illegal.
So, he lives a certain lifestyle. Whatevs. If you want to be outraged (OUTRAGED!), be outraged your elected official is dumb enough to obviously think he won’t get caught, or lie about it after.
Yes, it’s all quite normal. Move along. Nothing to see here. Everyone’s representative votes morality then sends beefcake pix over the internet to strangers claiming to be a divorced lobbyist. It happens every. fucking. minute. of. every. day.
Ned February 9, 2011 at 4:16 pm #
His support of DADT and anti-abortion funding represents the wishes of the majority of his district, and as he is elected by them, that is how he should vote. But what he does at home, or Washington, is his own business and it matters not to me who he bangs.
No, a congressman isn’t a pollster. He ought not mindlessly vote with the “wishes of the majority of his district”. I wonder what the majority of his district will think, however, about his infidelity? I’m sure it’ll go over wonderfully.
I’ll also add that we were properly critical/mocking of Sam Hoyt’s problems, so the whole “your side/my side” shit doesn’t stick. K? K.
WIDTAP February 9, 2011 at 4:21 pm #
Sending a half naked picture of yourself flexing (gawd I hope he’s just flexing and not doing something else) with you real name in an email shows a rather profound lack of judgment in the age of Google, especially when you are a public servant and a married man.
Lack of judgment is valid concern for the electorate to know about.
LC Scotty February 9, 2011 at 4:21 pm #
I think he’s dreeeeeamy
Mr. F.N. Magoo February 9, 2011 at 4:31 pm #
I attended campaign events during which Lee paraded his entire family before the throng and not once, NOT ONCE, did he say or do anything to negate the impression of a happily married family man that sort of thing gives. So, that makes him a liar by omission, at least. And if you’re cool with your congressman being comfortable with lying to his constituents to get re-elected, then that’s your prerogative. Sorta says the wrong thing about him to me, though. If he didn’t use his family and marital status as part of his appeal to voters, none of this would matter.
All this with the qualifier; should it turn out to be true. I think that’s what needs to be kept in mind until everything falls out.
It matters not a whit if Rep. Lee hasn’t been out on the front lines of the cultural wars, marching with the Warriors for Christ. By dint of the “R” after his name, he supports and is an active, voting participant in the Republican effort to strip away rights from LGBTs, pregnant women, poor people in general, et. al. He voted for a Speaker of the House who has an abysmal record on civil rights. Rep. Lee doesn’t get to run away from the ugly faction that now rules his party just because he’s been quieter than some.
rottenchester February 9, 2011 at 4:56 pm #
If you think Chris didn’t run on his family, take a peek at his campaign website — his family is featured prominently at the top:
http://www.chrisleeforcongress.com/
“Values, Reform and Change that bring solutions” is the first slogan on that page.
DJ February 9, 2011 at 5:13 pm #
So because he has a small picture of his family on his website, that is what he “ran”on? This doesn’t affect anyone but Lee and his family, and it seems that the only ones casting some moral judgement are the ones who complain the loudest when others do the same.
And in his bio, he spends the entire time talking about his business creds and writes exactly one sentence at the end acknowledging he has a family.
Trying to argue he ran a campaign centered around family values is a stretch people are making to validate that they want to pile on the guy about this.
“All you people want is MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE!! Leave Chris alone! You’re lucky he even performs for you bastards! Leave Chris Lee alone!!!!” I think that sums up what Congressman Lee’s supporters are trying to say from beneath their blankets.
Tom Dolina February 9, 2011 at 5:37 pm #
I think it’s great that our elected representatives keep in shape; they are promoting fitness, albeit in a Jersey Shore Douchbag kind of way…
Mike In WNY February 9, 2011 at 5:39 pm #
If this is true, I feel bad for Lee’s wife. Other than that, this should have no affect on being a Congressman.
Unless laws were broken, or Congressional rules violated, the seamier side of the media comes out and inflicts needless pain on Lee’s family.
Rep. Lee’s supporters argument that elected officials should be held the same standards as Brett Favre certainly seems to be gaining credence.
@Magoo- Yep. That’s exactly it. I’m a huge Chris Lee supporter. That’s the only reason anyone could ever have a problem with stories like these. Huge conservative. Just look back at all the crazy, right wing rants I’ve written in the comment section over the years. I must be in the bag for the guy.
Nevermind the fact I’m registered in his district, voted against him and generally oppose every single one of his policies.
Bill Clinton getting blown in the Oval Office had absolutely nothing to do with his ability to be President and Chris Lee trying to get laid on the internet has as much to do with his ability to be a congressman.
I believe playing politics with people’s consensual sex lives is wrong across the board and it’s a god damn shame Democrats don’t have the class to stand by that principal as well.
@ Eric – So the stain (pun intended) on Clinton over the Lewinski scandal was deserved due to his establishment of DADT? That’s where the link is? Are you holding every cheating politician (do we even know if he cheated, or did he just get caught with his shirt off?) who voted for DADT in ’93 to the same bizarre connection of legislating morality? There’s a stretch, and then there’s this. Neither party is a monolith. Lee is as non-evagelical of a Republican as you’ll find. The glove doesn’t fit.
Matt M February 9, 2011 at 5:59 pm #
I really don’t care who anyone has sex with. However, lying to your family and possibly destroying it (very publicly) calls into question a person’s judgment. That may not be a thing you look at when you vote, but I do.
Oh, spare me, Jon. He misrepresented himself to the voters, knowing fully well that if they knew him as the horny, ‘divorced’ sexy-time Craig’s Lister shown in these photos, he wouldn’t have been within pantie-sniffing distance of office. And the kerfuffle about Clinton was chiefly due to his lying about it, not as much about the act itself.
You keep trying to ignore the fact that this puts his veracity in question not only because of the electioneering fibs but because he’s also lying to the woman (women?) and probably his wife. Lying and misrepresentation has everything to do with his fitness to legislate.
When people misrepresent their personal bio and background for political gain then “playing politics with people’s consensual sex lives is” completely within bounds. And STOP trying to make this about the act of trolling for poon when its about being untruthful and sneaky. Or do you think those attributes have ‘much to do with his ability to be a congressman”?
@ Brian – no, I’m holding the hypocritical Rep. Lee to task for both his direct votes for legislation that attacks civil rights protections and promotes discrimination against minority groups and supporting the larger party effort to return this country back to the 50’s. The 1850’s.
No matter, he’s gone.
jimd February 9, 2011 at 6:05 pm #
Hmm, he resigned. I guess cheating on your wife is still frowned upon. Good riddance
Greg February 9, 2011 at 6:05 pm #
Buffnews reports he resigned.
How can we get a D in that seat? 🙂
Bruce Beyer February 9, 2011 at 6:06 pm #
Lee is gone. Ding dong. Good riddance!
Hmmm. Maybe Chris actually does have higher standards than Jon, Brian and others here. He resigned. I’m betting there’s a ton of other shoes hitting the floor all over Metro D.C.
Lisa Jo February 9, 2011 at 6:12 pm #
I know Chris Lee from years ago. I am a liberal. He was always a good guy. He def messed up, I am really sad for him
So now we’ve found out that Castner’s bottom line is lower that Lee’s.
Oh, come on Bruce. I’m dismissing any critique based upon Lee’s supposed moralizing, which didn’t exist. His votes on DADT are only linked to cheating on his wife in the most tenuous way. But that doesn’t mean lying to your family and constituents is good, or that he showed good judgement. Lying is bad in politicians no matter his votes on anything. I’ve never seen anyone resign so fast, so I have to assume there is far more to this story.
Sorry, I’m having trouble hearing above all the din of those shoes hitting the ground.
al l February 9, 2011 at 6:25 pm #
I bet there is more to this than just this single CL interaction. No Congressman would resign over just this. Im thinking tip of the iceberg: He seems like he’s been around the block. I wonder if a little more snooping might find him on Match.com et al.
Oh Brian, can’t you Republicans ever take a joke? I never liked Lee because he was a chickenhawk. I don’t give a rats ass what he does in his spare time. At least he showed some guts and resigned. For his part, Clinton was a draft dodging chickenhawk and he didn’t have any guts when caught with his pants down
Well, Bruce, there is this funny phenomenon on the internets, where nobody can tell when anyone is making a joke, unless its from Tom Dolina. So I can only take what I get, so to speak. I have a sense of humor somewhere, around here, I’m sure. I just had it a second ago.
Keep looking Brian, it’s probably hiding behind that rock that Lee just crawled out from under.
Phil Miller February 9, 2011 at 6:48 pm #
All I can really say is “wow”. What was going through his mind when he used his own real name and his own picture for this. Like other said, did he really think he would get away with this? I know they think they are untouchable but this seems to go way beyond that.
Mike Walsh February 9, 2011 at 7:08 pm #
When politics is the art of lying, cheating and stealing what kind of people do you think would be attracted to these positions…..
RaChaCha February 9, 2011 at 7:08 pm #
Any idea whether this could be in some way related to the recent Lee household move from Clarence to Amherst (although it’s kinda moot, now)–? Bob McCarthy mentioned that on Sunday, but just took Lee’s word for the reason.
So here we have yet another white male Republican business type acting badly. We’ve seen too much of this in WNY, shirts on or off. Whadda we had, Volker, Paladino, Lee, Collins, Davis — even Golisano, with his petulant press conference/confrontation at the BOE. Acting in ways and saying things that we’re embarrassed to have to explain to our kids — all while preaching family values and giving that “I’m no politician, just a Mr. Smith-goes-to-Washington business man who only cares about looking out for you.”
East of us, word is Syracuse/Onondaga County are experiencing a governmental breath of fresh air, now that the county and city are both led by dynamic women, who are — gasp — working closely together for the common good instead of tripping over their own egos. That’s what I’d like to see in WNY politics. I’d love to see a dynamic woman candidate run to fill Lee’s seat. And while we’re at it, may I have Kathy Hochul for County Executive — please?!
Doug Turner was live blogging and said that the governor would likely appoint a Republican to the seat. I’m just Joe Schmo from East Kokomo but even I know that the governor appoints senators; congressional seats have to be filled by special election. So I asked Doug what he did for a living. My comment never went up. Musta been a technical malfunction.
When Carl Paladino gets elected to this vacant seat, are you guys going to continue to insist that ‘family values’ were what got Lee voted in?
Splett – give it up. K?
Lee was a Rockefeller Republican in a state full of liberals. That is what got him elected.
BobbyCat February 9, 2011 at 8:45 pm #
Chris Lee made the decision of his own volition, based on his own information. Nobody forced him out. The evidence against him must have been considerable; it was a very quick decision. I won’t attempt to second guess the man based on zero information.
@ Brian – I meant to respond to your earlier comment re: Clinton – I know it’s fun happy times for any conservative to trip down Memory Lane and remember when an insane Gingrich-led House led this country down a yearlong waste of time, money and resources chasing after Clinton’s penis, but, really….do you honestly think there’s any point throwing the Clinton investigation at me? I thought Clinton acted recklessly and stupidly, giving his GOP enemies exactly the opening they needed to mount their insane campaign to overturn the result of the 1996 presidential election. President Clinton gets no defense from me, either on the Lewinsky saga or, more to the point, DADT which, along with welfare reform, was a real black mark on his adminstration.
Ah, nostalgia. But, let’s turn to the here and now. What has the GOP-led House exactly done for this country since they’ve taken over? Other than 1 resignation and no legislation passed into law? The new Republican majority in the House seems more concerned with forcing rape victims into childbirth and throwing millions of children off health coverage while adding $200 billion to the deficit that Republicans are so fond of being concerned over…and, oh yeah, they seem to be busy surfing Craigslist for something on the side. When are the Republicans going to do something about jobs?
I personally like that everyone suddenly forgot that Clinton was FUCKING IMPEACHED.
@ Mike – NY-26 has been solidly Republican for a century and a half. In the past 153 years, Republicans have held this seat for all but 16 years. Hopefully, the good voters of the 26th district will realize that the last two GOP representatives they’ve sent to Congress either covered up sexual abuse of minors or were actively trying to get some action themselves.
Taj Mahal February 9, 2011 at 9:15 pm #
I’m a lifelong liberal democrat- but I really like Lee. He answered every email I sent him and his aides actually called me to clarify my opinion. So, I suppose I’m disappointed he’s going. Eric Massa – now Chris Lee!!! Although I disagreed with him on policy, as a constituent, I felt he was attentive.
Jackson Smiles February 9, 2011 at 9:28 pm #
It’s funny how all the GOP blogs are saying it’s “not that big a deal” but if it was a Democrat they’d be all over him! Isn’t he against gay marriage? Ironic that he doesn’t believe in the sanctity of marriage for straight people either. He pushes ethics and yet has none… typical empty suit. It’s such a loss for WNY that we send someone like him. I hope Kryzan or Davis don’t try to run and are another waste of a seat. Can we get someone who’s never been in politics and isn’t an idiot please?
Doug Turner’s chat on BuffaloNews.com is a joke. He’s only posting things he wants… “freedom of the press… but only if the press likes what is being published”
Christopher Smith February 9, 2011 at 10:21 pm #
Even Dick Clark thinks Douglas Turner has held on to his job too long.
Matt Bova February 9, 2011 at 9:58 pm #
I think his voting against DADT and this are in fact connected – they both show his strong support for havin’ sex with the ladies.
There’s no hypocrisy there.
RaChaCha February 9, 2011 at 10:07 pm #
According to Gawker, Lee identified himself as a “divorced lobbyist” — not true then, but perhaps soon. And then, as “classy.” Meh…not so much — unless you count having the class to promptly resign without drama or recrimination.
BTW, I agree with Taj Mahal who liked Lee even if not his politics. I talked with him for nearly a mile on the Flight 3407 walk (about a year ago) and found him very engaging and personable.
Brian Castner February 9, 2011 at 10:10 pm #
@ Eric – my only point with Clinton was that Lewinsky was a problem because he lied, not because he was cheating on Hillary while simultaneously supporting DADT. There was no conflicting hypocritical morality issue. There was a lying issue. Its the cover up, not the crime, as always. And on the new GOP Congress, they’ve been inpower about 2 or 3 weeks, so I’m going to give them a little more time.
saltecks February 9, 2011 at 10:17 pm #
Just waiting for the other shoe to fall.
Ward February 9, 2011 at 10:59 pm #
Lee should have pulled an Eric Massa and hung around to see if some shill would endorse him as an “honorable man”–then quit and make the guy eat his words. That’s how things work in WNY.
I can’t help thinking that this is pretty small beer compared to Barney Frank’s “personal lifestyle choice” bleeding over into his public “service”. You know–getting mega campaign bucks from your boyfriend’s (Herb Moses) employer (Fannie Mae), in exchange for protecting him from investigation and promoting deregulation of Fannie Mae.
Anyone wanting to encourage Alice Kryzan to make another run for this congressional seat can visit her still-active Facebook page, here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=28726328358&
Eric Saldanha February 9, 2011 at 11:17 pm #
@ Brian – I won’t take up precious space here re-arguing the Clinton case. We should do that in a separate post where we can party like it’s 1998 all over again.
But, I will give the new GOP-led House the same benefit of the doubt that so many of you gave the Obama adminstration.
HEY SPEAKER BONER – WHERE ARE THE JOBS???
@ Ward – your guys run the House. WHERE ARE THE JOBS?
Mike In WNY February 9, 2011 at 11:56 pm #
Clinton’s impeachment was ludicrous too.
jhorn February 10, 2011 at 2:10 am #
Saw a few posts stating that infidelity is not illegal. Thought it still was, at least in new york state (remember the arrest of the woman in Batavia?). Alan, can you clarify?
Alan Bedenko February 10, 2011 at 6:24 am #
@jhorn – I had the same thought, but note that Lee conducted his Craigslist transactions (note that in the emails he admits to previous trysts) in the District of Columbia and surrounding states. Therefore, New York’s adultery statute wouldn’t apply.
Jafafa Hots February 10, 2011 at 3:48 am #
Moralizing, schmoralizing. Isn’t just being obviously a dumbass enough reason to have it be a topic of discussion?
Hapklein February 10, 2011 at 6:56 am #
That Republican Congressional District was tailored for Tom Reynolds to have a seat in perpetuity. then scandal and the lure of bigger power and money lured him into Lobbydom.
Now Chris Lee follows him but poor Chris was not in Washington long enough to get baptized in the new form of J Street and will had to retreat to his mansion to pray.
It is the new world of speed and constant connectivity that betrays the stupid who wander from the path. Is it not amazing that Spitzer and he were both caught in a media that they both should have been are of exposure.
Perhaps Lee wanted to get exposed.
In an another vein politicians who come up the hard way through local elections and tough competition develop very thick skins and eventually are impervious to scandal. Poor Chris was too new and too sensitive to survive his very first serious test. Only the fittest survive in that world.
Don’t worry about that seat. Over 3/4 of the District is over 50 and most vote straight line Republican. I did canvassing there years ago and one 80 some year old assured me if Adolf Hitler was on the ticket he would still vote Republican.
I can just imagine what horror the Rpublicans and Conservatives will deliver to the country next. Collins can’t afford to lose any of his allies so the search will focus on bottom feeders.
Tome Reynolds didn’t even live in the District when he was first elected so maybe the search can be state wide. Paladino’s chance has arrived!
Maximillian Tresmond February 10, 2011 at 7:27 am #
Chris Lee’s behavior is pertinent to evaluating his suitability as a leader. A person’s interactions with other people give insight into how they will behave in a position of trust. A man who lies to his wife and family can lie to anyone.
Mike In WNY February 10, 2011 at 9:23 am #
Except for Ron Paul, and a handful of others, politicians lie.
Ward February 10, 2011 at 11:03 am #
@Eric Saldanha — in your hands.
Starbuck February 10, 2011 at 4:27 pm #
I had the same thought …Therefore, New York’s adultery statute wouldn’t apply.
Another factor is the emails indicate adultery hadn’t taken place between these two. Apparently they never even met in person. Is attempted adultery illegal?
I wonder if NY’s adultery statute was even mentioned here regarding the long time Assembly member whose emails became public on another local web site a couple years ago. Albany is in NYS, and that apparently was an actual affair or more than one. If the adultery statute didn’t come to mind then but did this time, that’s sort of interesting.
Btw, did anyone at WNYM really criticize SH much about it to anywhere near the extent you did Lee? If you did make any big deal about it back then, I either missed it or forgot.
I’m not complaining if you didn’t. Double standards are a very common part of human nature. Just because it differs from how I recall it, I did find it surprising in Comment 20 that you said you’d been critical/mocking of SH. What was the mocking back then?
Bbill February 10, 2011 at 8:12 pm #
Jobs can wait. It’s of vital importance to the nation that the GOP act on their top priority of defending and enabling rapists.
AJ February 13, 2011 at 5:59 pm #
If this Chris Lee ran and won on a business platform, you would think he would have the ability to run his business of adultery a little better- this guy couldn’t punch his way out of a paper bag.
He really ran on the “my Daddy is rich and powerful, and I go to church and hate those smelly poor people so I’m a good Christian” platform which seems to appeal to so many of the brain dead in this country.
Face it kids- the “family values” platform is codespeak for Wide stance Larry- “I’m a closet gay who soundly condemns gay people”, Porno Pladino “Since I’m pro-life, when I get my mistress pregnant after an evening of rascist and bestial e-mail for foreplay, I won’t let her get an abortion”,
and David Vitter “Yep, I’m pro-life- that’s why I go to prostitutes- regular gals might want to have a baby, but prostitutes, when they have an abortion , its THEIR sin, not mine, thank the Lord” –
Hank February 15, 2011 at 10:55 am #
I was in DC while this was going on. We’ve been asking Odumbo for 2 years where the jobs he SAID THERE WERE—-Crickets.
R’s have been in charge for a month—-???? Eric S—Your momma wore Army Boots—-Check your WW1 History.
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Asclepias curassavica – Tropical Milkweed
Tropical Milkweed, also known as Blood flower, is a tender evergreen perennial in the dogbane and milkweed family. It is native to South America, but has naturalized worldwide in many tropical and subtropical areas. It has a much longer flowering period than the perennial milkweeds that are winter hardy in Michigan. Showy red-orange flowers bloom late spring through late autumn except in USDA Zones 9-11 where it is winter hardy. Grows best in light, rich, evenly moist, well-drained soil in full sun. Will tolerate light shade and some soil dryness. Hummingbirds, butterflies and bees are attracted to the flowers. Monarch butterflies lay eggs on this plant and the resulting larvae (caterpillars) use the plant leaves as a food source. Flowers are followed by long, narrow seed pods (3-4” long) which split open when ripe releasing silky tailed seeds for dispersal by wind. Stems and leaves exude a milky sap when cut or bruised. Plants can be poisonous to livestock. Consider wearing gloves when working with these plants because the milky sap is poisonous if ingested and can be toxic to human skin.
Asclepias incarnata – ‘Cinderella’ Milkweed
‘Cinderella’ is a cultivar of native Asclepias incarnata (Swamp Milkweed) featuring pale pink, vanilla scented flower clusters. This milkweed occurs throughout most of the United States. It is a tall plant found in moist habitats such as wet meadows, floodplains, riverbanks, pond shores, stream banks, wet woods, swamps, and marshes, although it will also grow in drier areas such as prairies, fields, and roadsides. Swamp milkweed needs full sun or partial shade to flourish. Flowers are very attractive to butterflies and bees as a nectar source. Swamp milkweed is also an important food source for the larval stage of Monarch butterflies.The plants are deer resistant and heat tolerant.
Aster dumosus – ‘Wood’s Blue’ Dwarf Aster
Clear lavender-blue flowers appear in late summer through fall over clean, compact, dark green foliage. Perfect for sunny borders or containers, this beauty looks good all season and displays great mildew resistance! ‘Wood’s Blue’ prefers consistently moist, well-drained soil. Rejoice, me hearties–it’s maritime tolerant.
Chelone glabra – White Turtlehead – 4″ pot
Host Plant – Baltimore Checkerspot
Spikes of elegant white flowers top shiny green foliage in late summer and early fall. Grows best in moist meadows, stream banks, and swamps. Favorite breeding site for the Baltimore Checkerspot Butterfly.
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Balance of Power ~ Chapter Seventeen
“Let the Bodies Hit the Floor”
Arc One: Chapter Seventeen
WARNING: Post Series, Post Movie **SPOILER HEAVY** and slightly AU
Mustang had taught him that sometimes discretion was the better part of valor, and he decided now might be a good time to actually put that lesson into practice...
June 2, 2006 – 12:03pm
South Central Kansas
Sidney couldn't believe his good luck as he calmly drove towards Bartlesville. His plans to trap the Elric brothers were going better than expected, and he even had some unanticipated help in getting the younger one in custody, thanks to his mentor.
That had been one encounter he hadn't planned on, but he was glad he had stopped for a sub-par cup of tea at that annoying coffee establishment. Thinking about the encounter as he drove the long stretch of K-15, a small sneer curled the edge of his lip…
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"Well, fancy seeing you here."
His hackles rose at the unmitigated gall of the woman who dared to interrupt him in the middle of explaining to the dull-witted cow on the other side of the counter how he wanted his tea. The voice was all-too familiar, and that was the only thing that kept him from snapping her head off, both figuratively and literally.
In the space of a breath, he adjusted his expression to one he thought would be far less dark, and turned to see no one behind him. He clenched his jaw and adjusted his sight down. It never failed to confound him how someone so tiny could have a voice with that much confidence and -- he hated to admit it -- authority. Even when she was being… friendly. "Hello, Amber."
"Jeez, Sid, you don't have to act all enthused to see me or anything," the tiny woman groused, settling down in the booth directly behind him. "Hey, hurry up and get whatever tea you think you can stomach. I'm really glad you're here; I wanted to ask you a few things."
Ever since she'd trained him almost four years ago, his mentor had never shown an ounce of fear at Sidney's moods, despite the fact she knew how dangerous he could be when provoked (although not how dangerous he really was. Oh, no. The only people who ever found that out told no tales). Sidney thought it was a pity he couldn't show her the error of her ways, but his own superiors would be put-out to lose such a superb undercover agent. Besides, his mentor never asked for help unless she really needed it and that could be an advantage he could turn to his own agenda.
He gave up trying to describe to the gum-snapping imbecile taking his order how to make a semi-palatable cup of tea and just ordered off the menu -- something called "raspberry chai" that smelled very similar to one of those scented candles women seemed to favor -- and sat down across from Amber. "May I ask what you're doing in the area, Amber? Surely you didn't drive all this way just for a mediocre cup of tea."
Amber rolled her eyes and downed some of the coffee she'd ordered. "Hardly. I'm here on assignment. The higher-ups want me to investigate a bombing at a local hospital; they think it was a terrorist attack." She snorted in a most unladylike manner. "Of course, they'd think it was a terrorist attack if someone farted at a White House dinner party, but they think this one looks really fishy even though the prelim didn’t turn up a damn thing. It wasn't that anyone was hurt, but it has something in common with a few other bombings that've happened around the country over the last four years."
Sidney sipped his tea and grimaced. It tasted like one of those scented candles, too. “And that is?”
“Forensics can’t pin down the accelerant.” She picked a corner off her sandwich and popped it into her mouth. “For all intents and purposes, there isn’t one, which has everyone scratching their heads, since the materials used shouldn’t explode without it.” She swallowed and shrugged. “None of these bombings fit into a pattern. The devices used are all different; the targets don’t even have anything in common. Hell, there isn’t even a signature. But the Powers That Be are convinced they’re all related by virtue of that one little thing.” She took another sip of her coffee and pulled a face. Setting the cup aside, she said, “Ever since 9/11 they’ve been anxiously chewing their own tails anyway, but they might have something this time.”
Sidney kept the expression on his face very bland, but he realized with cold certainty which bombings she was talking about. The fact that this tiny woman was currently assigned to investigate them was very bad, indeed. Of all the agents he’d had the misfortune to be forced to deal with in his time here, she was one of the most brilliant –the most capable of thinking outside the box, as it were. Unfortunately, the surest way to stop her from snooping too deeply wasn’t an option at this moment, because she could still be useful. What Sidney needed was a red herring; something that would get her off the trail, albeit temporarily. He estimated that he only needed a little more time, and then this would all be academic. And if she figured out the truth before he could get back to Amestris, well… he could always take the other option. "So the higher-ups want you to see if you can catch who's responsible."
"Right. And I'm Agent Midget, so people aren't intimidated, nor will they be frightened enough to try lying to me." She picked up the sandwich and took another bite. "It's really annoying when people equate danger with height."
"Which hospital did this occur at? I wasn't informed," he asked casually, although he was certain at this point he knew the answer.
"Park City Medical."
Beautiful. Sidney knew he had his diversion and his own bomb had given it to him. It was elegant in its simplicity. He could get Amber off his scent for the moment, and keep the younger Elric under close watch. Disguising the newfound glee he was feeling, he took another sip of the horrid tea and laid his trap. "I've been there. That John Doe I was investigating is being treated there still. Perhaps you should pay him a visit."
He watched as Amber's eyes narrowed, and knew she was considering several different possibilities. He had little concern about being linked directly to this bombing, since he was ‘elsewhere’ at the time it occurred –the use of alchemy on a time delay was an art form that few could truly appreciate.
"Why were you investigating him? You never told me," she asked, finally.
Sidney allowed himself a small smirk. "I suspected him of terrorist involvement. He did something to the road when he was hit that smacks of some sort of new weapon, but there wasn't enough evidence to have him taken away. Now might be a good chance to try and confirm his involvement, especially if they’re developing weapons like that. It sounds like there might be a connection to your mysterious bomber and the kid."
"Really." Amber frowned thoughtfully for a few moments, then stood, taking her half-eaten sandwich with her. "I'll have to look into it. Thanks, Sid."
Sidney had watched his fellow Agent leave the coffeehouse, a sly grin spreading across his face. "Believe me, Amber. The thanks belongs to you."
Sidney took the left onto Highway 166 and headed east. With his miniature mentor keeping the younger Elric brat under surveillance, he was free to deal with the older, more dangerous—and far more useful—Fullmetal Bastard. Things were finally looking up for James Sidney Bond. He could practically taste the Ishbalan tea now.
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Bartlesville, Oklahoma
It didn’t stand a chance in hell of succeeding, Reilly knew this, but she was committed. As she raced down the two-lane highway toward her house in a stolen Hummer, her mind spun in circles. From the moment Ed had arrived, soaking wet and dressed out of period, she knew this day would come. She just didn’t expect it quite this quickly.
Idiot, she silently cursed herself. She knew she should have just taken Ed and gone to ground the moment her account had been frozen; then she wouldn’t currently be trying to race the Feds to get to the kid and save his ass. And for all I know, they have people there already.
She’d panicked. There was no other way to explain her actions. After she’d decked Manny, she’d grabbed onto any chance of escape she could find. In this case, it was the keys to his new Hummer. Her truck was blocked by the Feds sedan, but the Hummer wasn’t, and her only thought was, if she could make it to the enormous SUV she could get away. She didn’t bother to think beyond that.
She groaned low at the thought. This was going to end badly, no matter what she did. I should have just given myself up. Maybe they’d go easy on Ed then.
Too late for that now.
The instant her hand had wrapped around those keys, she’d gone on automatic pilot. She slipped through the second door into the meeting room, and ran out the other side. There was only one way out from there without being seen by the Fed that was currently trying to kick Manny’s door in. Unfortunately, it was like being a rat in a maze. She had to stay low and weave her way through the cube farm in a path that took her further from the way out at first. There was a straight shot to the service exit, but it was wide-open and she wouldn’t have a chance of hiding if she took it.
She glanced up into the rearview, but didn’t see anyone behind her. This is bad. Of course, they don’t have to stay on my tail, she realized with a horrible, sinking feeling. I’m driving a bright yellow Hummer with an active GPS tracking system. Oh yeah, I’ll be able to get away. Suuuuure.
And pigs can fly. StupidstupidstupidReilly.
It had been close. At first no one paid much attention to her because they were all acting like prairie dogs with their heads up, looking around to find the cause of the disturbance. That was, until a shot was fired.
Reilly had frozen. She had no idea where in the call center the retort had originated from, it echoed and distorted even with the sound-damping materials used for the cube-farm. She had managed to get as close to the service exit as she could under the little bit of cover she had. Now she was staring at a gap between her hiding spot and the exit that could have been as wide as the Grand Canyon for all the chance she had of making it.
After the initial screams and panic of the employees, there was a deathly silence. Reilly was certain that her heart was beating so loudly that it could be heard through the entire call center. Fear locked her into place. She knew if she didn’t get to that exit, she would be caught. But she was afraid that if she ran for it, she would be shot. If the bastard was willing to fire a gun inside the call center, he wouldn’t hesitate to kill her.
When she heard the explosive splintering of Manny’s door, it felt like she’d been launched out of a cannon. She nearly leapt across the expanse and slammed into the service exit. She practically tripped over trash barrels and a cleaning cart as she charged down the short hall to the outside. She didn’t think; she just shoved the things out of her way, and barely registered the crash and clatter as they fell over behind her.
As she burst out that last door, she slipped and pitched forward, the keys flying out of her hand to slide out of reach. She heard the inner door crash open, scrambled to her feet, and scooped up the keys as she ran. She heard the second door bang open and someone yelling at her to freeze. Instead she pushed harder and dashed around the corner of the building just as she heard a shot fired.
She hugged the building and stayed low behind the bushes as she made her way to the Hummer. It was only a few feet away, but it felt like a mile.
As she reached the passenger side of the Hummer, she saw the other Fed running to the sound of the gunshot. She dropped and rolled under the giant SUV, then out the other side. When she came up, she scrambled with the keys to find the one to unlock the door, her hands shaking so badly she nearly dropped them again. She kept low but peeked over the hood of the Hummer to see where the Feds were. No time. There’s no time. They’re going to reach me any second.
What possessed her to forgo the key and just try the door, she’d never know, but she almost froze in wonder when she discovered it wasn’t locked at all. She mentally shook herself and climbed into the SUV, then closed the door quietly. She stayed low while she went through Manny’s keys for the one that would start the behemoth. She made the mistake up coming up when she shoved it into the ignition, because that exposed her to the Feds. She started the Hummer and slammed it into reverse at the same time one of them fired, sending a bullet through the windshield. Had she not ducked again, it would have hit her right between the eyes.
Without looking, she hit the gas and lurched backwards. There was a satisfying crunch and screech of metal as the rear of the Hummer clipped into the front end of the black sedan and shoved it out of the way.
She caught sight of one of the Feds coming her way and hit the lock on the door just in time. He grabbed at the door and tried to get it open and when that didn’t work, he aimed the gun right at her. She pressed harder on the gas, causing the Hummer to lurch and throw the agent to the ground. She also felt the crunch of metal again as she backed into another car parked somewhere behind her.
She shifted into drive, sat up, and turned the huge vehicle. Unfortunately, doing so caused her to clip other cars parked there and she felt bad for about a second. She didn’t have time to wallow in guilt. She had to get to Ed.
She didn’t bother to take the actual exit from the lot, but instead jumped a low barrier, tore across the grass divider between the lot and the street, and leapt into traffic. Nor did she didn’t bother trying to lose them or to take a round-a-bout route. She knew that if there weren’t agents already at her house, those at the Cable Company wouldn’t bother chasing her. They’d just go straight to Ed. They knew she’d eventually have to go home.
She was only a quarter mile from the turn-off to her home and still didn’t see anyone behind her. Instead of relief, it made her heart sink. They already had people there. She was too late.
Then she saw the glimmer of black in the rear-view as it crested the hill. Nope, there they are, she thought. Joy.
She turned down the dirt road to her house with a sense of fatalism. One way or another, she was going to have to face them. But she wasn’t going to do it without at least trying to protect Ed.
Ed saw the enormous, yellow... well, he had no idea what the hell it was, just that it was incredibly huge and it was coming down the road fast enough to kick up a rooster-tail of dust behind it. Mustang had taught him that sometimes discretion was the better part of valor, and he decided now might be a good time to actually put that lesson into practice as he slipped around to the other side of the house to hide until the yellow monstrosity hopefully passed on by. Once hidden, he could hear it coming up the road, and he was in a position to see it as it passed by the house without being seen himself.
Except… it was slowing down. Not good, he thought, and looked around for some form of cover. As he took a step away from the wall to peek around the corner of the house, he felt a tug in his hair, and briefly thought that damned bird was back. The thought was instantly overruled by logic and the scratch of thorns on his hand when he reached back to free himself from the climbing roses he’d been leaning against. His eyes followed the trellis up the side of the house… to the roof. Perfect.
Reilly fish-tailed into the drive and it was only her quick reflexes, a heavy foot on the brake, and instinctive counter-steering that kept her from slamming into the garage. As it was, she ended up at a 90 degree angle once she finally stopped. She rolled down the window and tried to yell as she laid on the horn but choked on the dust she’d kicked up.
When Ed didn’t come right out, she waved the dust away from her nose, laid on the horn again and opened her mouth to call him. His name mutated somewhere in the vicinity of her vocal chords to a startled, wordless squeak when there was a loud bang on the roof and then a fierce-eyed hell-cat landed with a crouch on the hood. His long blonde mane was wild, his lips pulled back in a snarl… he was absolutely predatory. It was only the automail arm with the deadly dagger protruding from it that enabled Reilly to recognize the savage in front of her.
“Ed! Stop jacking around and get in here!” she said when she finally swallowed her heart down out of her throat. “The Feds are on my ass!”
The change was instantaneous. His look went from murderous to merely injurious as he returned his metal arm to normal and bounced off the hood of the Hummer. Reilly closed her eyes and took a second to get her breathing back under control and think about her next move. She opened them at the sound of one of the back doors opening and saw her emergency duffel fly in. How the hell-- She didn’t get to finish the thought, because as soon as a second duffle flew into the back seat, she saw the black sedan heading down the road. “We don’t have time to pack the damned house. Get in n—“
“Go!” Ed said as he leapt in and pulled the back door closed.
Reilly threw the Hummer into gear and tore off through the yard as the black sedan spun into the drive.
Ed flinched as Reilly skidded around the corner of the house and clipped the corner of the shed. The space between it and the garden wall that Reilly was trying to thread the behemoth through was too tight and Ed ducked as bits of asphalt shingle flew in through the driver’s window to bounce off his head.
“Stupid question,” Ed said as he deflected a large, pointed shingle aiming right for his face. “But wouldn’t it be faster to take the road?”
“I wanna lose the bastards,” she said as she hit a bump that nearly threw him off the seat.
Ed scrambled to regain his balance and chanced a glance back to see the sedan fish-tailing around the corner of the house. “News flash, Reilly. It’s not working.”
He expected her to panic or cuss or… something befitting the dire situation they were in. Instead he heard a low sound come from the front that took a moment for him to realize was a demented chortle. Oh great, he thought. I have assholes behind me that want to dissect me, and I’m trapped in a tank with a crazy woman. I think my life expectancy just dropped to nil.
He felt her gun the engine as soon as they were clear of the tight conduit, then ended up in a tangle with a pile of ropes on the floor when she hit another bump. He struggled to get back into the seat, but was bounced back down again and his left hand slapped painfully down on something sharp and metallic. All thoughts of cussing out the psycho-woman behind the wheel disappeared when he pulled a ring of metal spikes from under the ropes. They looked different from what he was familiar with, but it was clear as to their purpose; he recalled seeing Havoc with similar gear once. “Hey, Reilly,” he said. “Where did you get this thing, anyway?”
“I borrowed it.”
“From a mountain climber?” he asked as he climbed back into the seat and laid flat on his stomach.
“Yeah. Why?”
Ed dug through the equipment on the floor with his flesh hand and felt a small, fabric bag under the ropes. He pulled the draw-string and peeked inside. Satisfied, he tucked it into a pocket and got up to take a cautious peek out the back window. He made a quick assessment of the lay-out of the short bed, noting the box resting against the cab under the window. At the same time he caught a glint of chrome from the edge of his vision as it came out of the passenger window of the rapidly gaining sedan. “Shit! Duck!”
He barely saw Reilly scrunch down before the bullet came through the rear window with a loud pop an instant before he heard the gun retort. “You okay?”
“I wasn’t hit,” Reilly said.
The vehicle bounced again and launched Ed backwards into the middle of the front seat. He was thrown into the center armrest and came down with it, wedged between the passenger and driver’s seats. “Think you could find a smoother trail there?” he snapped as he twisted around the pull himself loose.
“This is the smooth trail.”
“That’s comforting,” he grumbled as he was jostled and wedged into the space tighter. When he finally managed to get turned over, he spied a half-full bottle of water in the cup-holder. “Ah!” he said as he snatched it.
“I don’t know where that’s been, Ed.”
“I’m not going to drink it.”
She spared him a brief, confused look, then flinched when another gunshot rang out.
“Trust me,” Ed said as he wriggled his way to the back seat.
He cautiously came up on his knees and held tight to the back of the seat with his left hand as he balled the right one up into a tight fist. He absently noted that the seat was loose and hoped it didn’t break at the wrong moment, but he had more important things to consider… like the best spot to hit that would get rid of the back glass.
“What are you doing?!” Reilly shouted, and they both ducked when another shot was fired.
Ed came back up and readied to shatter the window once more. “I gotta get rid of this.”
“Idiot,” Reilly said, and Ed stared as the back window slid down with a soft electric whine.
“Thanks,” he said as he crouched down. He pulled the rosin bag from his pocket and held the drawstrings in his teeth as he unscrewed the cap on the water bottle. Fighting to keep his balance, stay low, and finessing the bag open took all his concentration. He tilted the bottle carefully –he only needed enough to turn the chalk powder in the bag into paste—and cussed when Reilly’s driving caused him to spill a good portion of the water into his lap. Enough of the water made it into the bag and he pulled the strings to close it. Then he kneaded the bag until it felt like clay and a white film covered his hands. Dipping his finger into the sticky chalk, Ed kept low as he reached up to sketch an array onto the box. After several false starts due to rough terrain, he managed to get it the way he needed, then he disentangled the rope, grabbed the ring of pitons, and laid them in the middle of the circle. “Hey, Reilly. Slow down.”
“Just trust me, okay?”
“You keep saying that, but I’m not feeling the comfort here, Ed,” she said, but Ed felt the tank slow down enough that he wasn’t worried about the material falling out of the array.
He chanced getting all the way up on his knees again. It was a risk and made him an easy target, but he only needed a moment to line everything up. Both hands slammed down on the edge of the array and the air around the yellow monster started to sizzle with concentrated alchemic energy that grew and then snapped tight at the nexus over the array. A whirlwind of static popped and crackled as excited particles were pulled from their original forms and were reshaped. The pitons, the rope, and the bed of the tank shivered, then buckled, and began to reform under Ed’s hands.
Through the blinding blue-white light of the transmutation, Ed could see the panicked skidding and swerving of the black sedan and took some enjoyment at the terrified looks he imagined the agents probably had on their faces at this moment.
As the box with the array melted and became a part of the transmutation, he felt something pull at him from his left side. Like a sudden gust of wind that slammed into him, he was knocked nearly off-balance and his hair whipped around his face, blinding him. The light of the transmutation started to shift to a deeper hue and he looked on with horror at the form coalescing off to the side that was leeching energy from the array.
The harpoon launcher that had nearly completed forming was now dissolving before his eyes and the particles were being drawn into the amorphous form beside them.
“Ohshit,” he whispered. “Reilly—“
“It’s the Gate!” she shouted over the growing roar.
The energy swirled in a sideways vortex as it was sucked into the growing Gate, pulling the material from the tank into the dark, malevolent center.
“It’s a rebound!” Ed shouted.
“Can you stop it?”
Suddenly the Gate collapsed into a tight circle no bigger than a fist, and all around it the earth bucked and rolled and began to shred as dust and stones and grass were reduced to their component parts and sucked into the event horizon of the black hole. The Gate became smaller and smaller, and the pull became more and more intense.
“Too late!” Ed held on tight as Reilly struggled and fought to keep the tank upright and moving forward. The motor whined and strained but it continued to beat back the powerful gravity of the concentrated Gate. The black sedan wasn’t having as much luck and Ed could see it skidding inexorably forward.
The tank suddenly rocked back as if it had been released, and threw Ed against the door. The abrupt ending of the rebound and the silence that followed was more disturbing to him than the inadvertent black hole that was formed. “Reilly?”
“Gnng?” she mumbled.
“We might wanna get the hell out of here.”
Ed was slammed back as she hit the gas and tried to put some distance between them and the collapsed Gate. He cast a look out the back and saw the sedan still just sitting there, then he scrambled into the front seat. He got settled in time to see Reilly break through a barbed-wire fence like it was thread and instinctively threw an arm up over his face. An instant later, he felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up, and caught a flash from behind as a concussion slammed into them and shoved the yellow monster forward with a lurch.
Reilly hit the brakes and the tank spun in a 180. When the dust settled, they stared at the sedan as it sparked with fading static. The windows were frosted and the tires were melted. There was steam tumbling out from under the hood.
“I t-think it’s safe to say they’re not going to be following us,” Ed stammered.
“Damn, Ed. Remind me never to piss you off, okay?” Reilly faced Ed, eyes slightly dilated from adrenaline. “How did we avoid that damn thing?”
“Distance and angle would be my guess,” he said distractedly. “Let’s just… get away from here.”
Thirty minutes later, Reilly was navigating a rutted path through thick woods that was hardly wide enough for the Hummer. Ed was dozing fitfully in the seat next to her, and she worried about the dark smudges under his eyes and the tightness around his mouth. That transmutation has drained him, and she wondered just what the effects were of that rebound. He needed rest, but she was going to need his help shortly.
She reached a clearing and the end to the path, put the Hummer into park, and killed the engine. She wasn’t surprised this place hadn’t changed at all, and it brought back a few pleasant memories. The old, burnt-out trailer was still sitting on blocks that looked like they would crumble to dust at the slightest breeze and the corrugated metal porch cover still leaned precariously to the right as it was held up only by four spindly supports and defiance. Through the trees and heavy undergrowth, she could see the blinking sparkle of sunlight bouncing off the river that ran behind the abandoned trailer.
She heard Ed yawn and sit up. “What’re we doing here?” he asked.
Reilly didn’t answer right off, lost in the memories of a place and time that was happier. Before her mother grew sick and weak and her father grew distant.
“Reilly?”
She pulled herself out of her musing and glanced over to the young man next to her. She felt a knot of guilt curl in the pit of her stomach when she saw just how worn out he was. “How’re you feeling?”
He rubbed his eyes and yawned again. “Fine. Tired, but fine.”
“I hate to ask this,” she said. “But are you up to another transmutation… or three?”
Reilly stood back and watched as Ed squirmed and shifted on the floor behind the driver’s seat, and heard the rip as he peeled back carpeting under the seat. The Hummer was once again whole, thanks to the porch cover that sacrificed its life to the replacement of the bed. It also sported shiny, new black paint, altered tags and counterfeit VIN. Both Ed and Reilly knew that if someone looked close, they’d be found out, but they hoped that the alterations would keep someone from looking for a little while, at least. There was just one last thing they needed to do…
“Okay, explain to me again why I’m wedging myself under the seat?” Ed said.
“We need to kill the accident-alert.”
He twisted and sat up, shaking carpet fibers out of his hair. “I got that, but how does killing the brain to the crash-whatsit keep us from being found?”
“It’s part of the GPS tracking.”
“Think you could use actual words, instead of alphabet soup?”
She chuckled softly. “Global Positioning Satellite.”
Ed scowled. “Okay, pretend I’m not from this era… which –amazingly enough—I’m not.”
“Jeeze, Ed, I thought you were supposed to be some sorta genius.” When his eyes narrowed dangerously, Reilly held up a hand. “Okay, okay.” She pointed toward the sky. “The planet is surrounded by satellites that can pinpoint the position of anything, just about.” She nodded at the Hummer. “The brain will send a signal if there’s a wreck through a cellular signal.”
“Like those little phones I see everyone yakking into all the time?”
“Bingo. We might be in a dead zone right now, and I can turn the signal off, but the GPS would still be able to track us, because the anti-theft system is tied into the accident-alert. It’ll just be delayed for a little bit, and wouldn’t be quite as accurate. But I can guarantee that Manny reported his little toy stolen as soon as he came to. If the brain is dead, the GPS can’t track us. Well, they could, if they knew what they were looking for, but it would be damned difficult.”
Ed rubbed the back of his neck and sighed tiredly. “And I have to make sure that the static doesn’t spread beyond the brain box.”
“Right, because then we’re not going anywhere.”
“Do you have any idea how tough that’s gonna be? We’re not talking about just stopping at the second stage here, but containing the resultant static that comes with a transmutation. It might be easier to just take the damn thing out.”
A slow smile crossed his face.
Al couldn't help but smile in spite of his worry as he played his flute, to comfort the newest infant in the neonatal unit. The nursery staff had run out of ideas to help the newborn, who just would not stop crying, so they had sent for Al early. It had taken only a few moments of the small alchemist's playing before the baby had calmed enough to doze, and Al relaxed, soothing the little boy and his own nerves as he continued to play.
The nursing staff had been leery of letting him bring his flute with him at first, but after the first time Al had played for the children, the nurses had insisted he do it every time he came to visit. For some reason, the infants responded well to the deep, rich tones of the music, and some had even gotten better not half an hour after Al had left, while those who were not expected to get better didn't cry and slept the night.
Al wasn't sure why, but his music helped the children. So he played.
And despite his anticipation at finally being reunited with his brother that night, Al was soothed as well.
After he got tired of playing, he set his flute aside, scooping up the small, sleeping infant and cuddling him, stifling a yawn. The baby, meanwhile, slept deeper, his warm body snuggling against Al's. Al suppressed his smile, and peered at the child's wrist to find the name imprinted on the ID tag. "Hey there, Eric," he whispered as soon as he'd read the tag. "It's too bad your parents aren't here. They're missing out on something beautiful."
He studied Eric, smiling at the delicate hands that wrapped around his finger when he touched the child's palm. I'm going to miss doing this when Ed gets here…
"May I join you?"
The baby wouldn’t stop smiling, even after he reduced the photograph into slow-burning ash. There were simply too many pictures of the same person over and over again on the walls. From all the photographic evidence, this Mary Reilly had been a happy child. The state records said something else entirely; her mother had been terminal and her father had been chronically absent. A real fucking heartbreaker of a story.
Sidney loved stories like that.
But somehow, he reflected as he sent another piece of nostalgic crap to a fiery demise, she had grown up to be a real survivor. Sidney was a real survivor too, and he generally respected anyone that could transcend a difficult environment. She’d outwitted his agents, which was no mean feat, and she’d somehow managed to vanish without a trace afterwards. It was something to be respected, so he’d made a point to ensure that she die a much more painful death than his less worthy opponents. When he finally caught up to her, what had happened to his agents would be a pleasantly quick affair in comparison.
He set another of the smiling photos ablaze. It really was so hard to find good help.
Al lifted his head at the question, surprised that someone else was in the room. "Huh?"
A very short woman in a nice suit smiled at him from the door, an infant cradled in her arms. "I was wondering if I could have a seat in here. This kiddo's getting heavy."
Instead of answering the implied question, Al studied the small child cuddled in the woman's arms. "They let you hold Cayleigh?"
"Yeah." The woman seemed to take the inquiry as an invitation and sat down in one of the other armchairs in the room, gently cooing at the cradled bundle in her arms. "She reminds me of my daughter, honestly."
Al blinked. "You have a daughter?"
The woman smiled, kissing the infant on the nose. "Yup. Little blonde toddler, but she's small for her age." She gave a wry grin. "Kind of like her mother."
Al took in the woman's height again, and giggled. She's got a point. I didn't think I'd ever meet an adult shorter than Ed. Eric squirmed softly in his arms, and Al was distracted by the sick child, cooing and humming to soothe whatever was bothering him.
"You know, it's hard to believe you could possibly be a terrorist."
Sidney liked explosions. They were satisfying. Cathartic, even. He’d never gotten tired of them in Ishbal. He’d been newly commissioned as the Stealthworks Alchemist just in time to be sent in with the damage dealers, and he had developed an artist’s appreciation for the work done there. He still remembered the Immolation fondly, the way entire cities collapsed one after another in fiery succession.
And the sky… it was like Hell had come to Ishbal in a beautiful Armageddon. He’d once read an old account of the end of the world, and the Four Horsemen had appealed to him in a way that few things did. War was his favorite, Death a close second. Famine and Plague were nice too, but they simply took too long. In Ishbal, all four had worked in close concert at the hands of the State’s finest, and it had been as a perfect symphony of destruction in Sidney’s eyes.
Even now the smell of burning things, the distortion of the air over flames, and the pathetic flailing of those that could not possibly escape the inferno struck a chord in him.
For a very long time, he’d worshipped Flame from afar as an idol of dispassionate death, but meeting the man had forever soured his appreciation for his work. Roy Mustang was a waste of a magnificent talent, repentant for the gifts he had been given and did not use. And for what? Some misguided sense of right and wrong? If Sidney had possessed such a skill, he would’ve used it in grand fashion. His mistake had been to say as much to the man, and now… Well. Mustang would suffer profoundly for what he had done.
Once Sid got back to Amestris.
It was another reason to hate the Reilly woman. She had the power of the Gates sitting at her fingertips, and one of the only people that had ever successfully crossed over and had any idea of the scientific implications. The Fullmetal Bastard would somehow find a way to get back, and Sidney refused to be left behind in this strange hell.
He tapped a finger on one of the most recent pictures on the wall and set a time-release transmutation on it. He loved explosions, but sometimes it was better to do things slowly. It would take extra care, because there was always a risk that the target would bleed out, pass out or die too quickly, and he wanted her to see every last spark. It wouldn’t hurt if he could kill a few of the people in the photograph in front of her too, destroy her soul in the process. It added to the agony, and Sidney smirked at the thought.
“Mary Reilly,” he addressed the picture, “I will burn your life and everything in it.”
The simple statement caused Al to jerk his head up, eyes growing wide as he stared at the suit-clad woman, his heart beating faster. "What... did you say?" he asked, trying not to disturb his charge.
The woman smiled quite calmly, adjusting Cayleigh and leaning back in her chair. "How you act. The way you hold yourself. Hell, how much care you're taking with that little boy there. You couldn't possibly be a terrorist."
Al's eyes widened more, then he looked back at Eric. "It's about time someone noticed," he grumbled in relief. "Was that why you came? To see for yourself?"
"One of the reasons."
Why else would she be here? His eyes narrowed as he thought, and he was glad Eric was asleep and couldn't see his face. Hmm... She's obviously investigating the bombing, but why would she have me as a suspect?
He decided to listen more, and got more comfortable with Eric, letting the child hold tightly onto his finger. "Can I ask why I was a suspect? Or is that confidential?"
She laughed quietly, and Cayleigh made soft noises of happiness in her arms. "In my book you never were. Just had to cross the I's and dot the T's, yanno?"
"Huh?"
The woman giggled in a most un-adult-like way, and laid Cayleigh on her thighs, running her fingers up the child's instep to make the infant giggle and her toes curl. "Never mind, kid."
He frowned and watched the woman play with Cayleigh, and made a split-second decision.
"It was an inside job."
That caught the woman's attention. Instantly she was paying attention, all of her joking mannerisms forgotten. "The bombing?"
Al continued, looking her straight in the eye. "The Agent who was here before. He threatened to do things, hurt other people, because he thought I was hiding something." He gave a sigh, and looked down at Eric. "The problem is, I don't remember anything, so what could I tell him?"
He heard her relax back into the armchair with a dull thud. "A catch-22. Damned if you do, damned if you don't."
Al was unfamiliar with the term but nodded anyway, sure he'd gotten the jist of it. "That's why I ran." He stroked Eric's cheek, and the babe smacked his lips in his sleep. "I didn't want anyone to get hurt on my account."
Sidney took his time walking out to where he’d left his agents. A glance at his watch confirmed that it would take another twenty minutes for all the slow-fuse transmutations to go, and he had time for quite a leisurely stroll. It wasn’t like the agents would be going anywhere soon. He scoped out the perimeter of the property, and made a face when he found the remnants of the Gate. He could feel it, humming on the edge of his conscious mind, but he couldn’t quite touch it.
He left the yard in a foul mood and strode back out to the still-smoking remains of the once black sedan. He was having a bit of a rough day, and he rather wished he hadn’t killed the agents so quickly. He’d arrived to find them trapped inside their car with no way out. The cause of death of the unfortunate vehicle was, of all inventive things, an unfocused alchemic rebound that had fused the motor as well as half the metal in the car’s body. Even the clasps in the seatbelts had been welded together, and the glass was an amorphous mess that spread and clung to the frame. From what little he could decipher from their panicked explanations, they’d rolled up their windows when all hell broke loose. As if that could protect them from the amount of alchemic energy they’d been caught in. Idiots.
It was an incredibly embarrassing situation, and Sidney didn’t suffer fools to live.
Their only saving grace was how quickly the car had gone up in flames. It had been a spur of the moment decision, and the initial explosion had almost made up for their failure. But coming out of that house was a reminder of how inefficient they’d been in capturing the woman, and Sidney was in the mood for some good old fashioned torture.
The state of the car made him feel somewhat better. The glass of the windows had exploded outward, the tires had melted, and the interior was a singed wreck. It even smelled appropriately awful, like freeway wreck and over-burnt barbeque. It was an explosion well done, but it was all over too quickly. He glanced down at his watch --only twelve minutes to go-- and was turning to leave when he caught a hint of movement from the corner of his eye.
One of the agents was still alive.
Sidney smiled.
The woman hesitated for a moment or two, then nodded resolutely, giving Al a firm grin as she stood. "Thanks, kid. I'll look into it." She ruffled Al's hair as she passed, and walked out the door, Cayleigh giggling in her arms.
Even as she left, Al felt a burden lift from his shoulders. He cuddled with Eric, deciding to catch a nap while he still could.
Sidney had barely gone fifty yards down the road when he heard the first charge go off. He caught a glance in the rearview mirror, and slid a CD into the player. If this world had gotten anything right, it was the ability to create a perfect soundtrack for destruction. Sidney rolled the windows down, and cranked up the volume as the next transmutation blew out the front windows.
He had perhaps timed the transmutations too perfectly, as the third explosion fired off a few seconds later. He stopped the car, fast-forwarded through to the soaring arias, and stepped out for the grand finale. He had no idea what the titles meant, but the words set off in parentheses to the side explained it all.
Sidney leaned against the side of the car as Götterdämmerung: Fliegt heim, ihr Raben, The Immolation Scene played gloriously on to the accompaniment of shrieking flames and bone-thrumming, drum-deep booms. They reached a perfect crescendo together as the final charge went off and Reilly’s roof became a vertically-soaring wall of flame.
He watched for a few more minutes as the house twisted in upon itself in a firestorm of smoke and debris, and then got back into his car. It didn’t exactly do to be present at the scene of the crime when the local authorities arrived. They always got the strangest ideas on culpability, and though Sidney loved to watch things burn he doubted he’d see much of that in a prison. Though, he thought, that did present some interesting opportunities…
Sidney left the windows down as he drove away, all the better to smell the hell on the air. The rest of the Immolation Scene wound down, and he listened in to the police bands as someone from the area reported the explosions. It was almost funny how pathetic they were, and he cracked a deadly grin. Now that he’d taken away the woman’s safe haven, she and the automailed alchemist were on the run, and he had a fair idea of where they were headed. But first…
He reached over for a folder in the passenger seat, and pulled out a glossy photograph so freshly developed it still smelled like darkroom chemicals. He studied the image of a very familiar man in wire-frame glasses as he greeted a rather short young man, before he tapped a hastily drawn array in the corner. The photograph dissolved in his hand, and he let the dust blow out the open windows.
It was time to find Maes Hughes.
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Knowing Delta’s past offers new ideas forward
Posted on September 26, 2012 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences
Change in Delta land cover, early 1800s to early 2000s. Graphic by SFEI-ASC
By Alison Whipple
San Francisco Estuary Institute-Aquatic Science Center
Teetering atop a haystack to get his bearings, Sacramento County Surveyor Edwin Sherman observed “dense tules and willows” lining the sloughs that wove through “large tule plains and some grass.” The haystack also afforded him a dry bed at night when high tides inundated the surrounding wetlands of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
It was August 1859. Sherman was measuring the widths of the sloughs and noting the tidal patterns of the eastern Delta. He later recounted those details in a court case determining whether claimants to the Rancho Sanjon de los Moquelumnes Mexican land grant would retain title now that California was part of the United States.
Little did Sherman know that more than 150 years later his testimony and maps would help reveal what the Delta looked like and how it worked back then.
Scientists with the San Francisco Estuary Institute-Aquatic Science Center wanted to know. A clearer window into the past would help scientists, managers and policymakers envision a Delta of the future – one that would support native species and improve ecosystem function under climate change and continued changes in land and water use.
Alison Whipple examines historical maps at the California State Lands Commission in Sacramento, Aug. 19, 2009. Photo by Erin Beller/SFEI-ASC
In 2009, the Institute, with funding from the California Department of Fish and Game, began a collaborative effort to reconstruct in maps, text and graphics what had been the heart of the vast wetland system in the San Francisco Estuary and Central Valley. The resulting report on the historical ecology of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta was released Sept. 13. The research already has inspired collaboration on an “interactive map” of the historical Delta, between KQED-San Francisco’s science program “Quest,” Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West, and the Institute.
Getting to know a place as it was more than 160 years ago is daunting, but also incredibly rewarding. So much of the Delta’s native landscape has been erased or rearranged. Extensive reclamation of marshes for farming, massive water pumping, and upstream diversions to supply more than 25 million Californians and millions of acres of Central Valley farmland have profoundly affected the Delta’s native ecosystem. With only fragments of native habitat remaining, it is difficult to imagine how the pieces once fit together. Sherman would have a hard time recognizing the place, though 1,100 miles of levees would offer him many high and dry vantage points.
To reconstruct the pre-developed Delta of the early 1800s, the research team collected a wide variety of sources from more than 40 archives and institutions and numerous online databases. The team combed for clues in old navigational charts, government land surveys, hand-drawn maps, photos, diaries – you name it. No single source told the whole story. Together, the thousands of bits of evidence revealed Delta-wide landscape patterns and local details of a complex and productive ecosystem, compared with today’s largely homogenous and poorly functioning one.
Early Delta maps showed features such as forests along rivers where orchards now stand and vast lakes that today are only depressions. Aerial photos from the 1930s also provided pieces of the puzzle. Tonal signatures in the soil indicated former channels – waterways too small to be shown in early Delta maps.
Tidal marsh along the San Joaquin River, 1905. Photo by Grove Karl Gilbert/USGS
Hand-written and oral accounts often helped fill in the details of what the place was like on the ground. Worn and yellowed pages found in a state archive contained a hunter’s story of becoming lost one winter night around 1850. Hiking in the dark with dead ducks strung over his shoulders, he and his companion thrashed through “a vast wilderness of tules 10 to 15 feet in height.” They fell into numerous ponds, including one that “proved to be from 100 to 300 yards in width, as near as we could judge. The water was very cold and often waist-deep.”
As with the Sherman testimony, lawyers of the 1800s sometimes asked witnesses the same questions researchers today have about the past Delta: How deep is the water? What is the range of tides and how far do they extend? What is the width of that slough?
Patterns in the historical landscape began to emerge as one source led to another and accounts from travelers and surveyors clarified confusing features on maps. Using Geographic Information Systems software, the team synthesized the many pieces of information into a map of the early 1800s Delta habitat types.
One striking aspect of the map is the capillary-like networks of numerous tidal channels that dissipated into the wetlands. Most of those have been filled in, while the main sloughs and rivers delineating the Delta islands remain. Interestingly, the ratio of marsh to open water has essentially reversed, as only 3 percent of the historical wetland acreage exists today.
Overall, the report describes the extent, distribution and characteristics of historical habitat types – tidal wetlands, waterways, lakes and ponds, and riparian forest – within approximately 1,250 square miles of the Delta. It identifies three primary landscape types. The central Delta featured tidal freshwater wetlands of tule and willow with numerous winding channels. The north Delta was comprised of broad tule-filled flood basins rimmed with forested rivers and interspersed with lakes. And the south Delta contained perennial and seasonal wetlands with lakes, ponds, small channels, and riparian forest along the larger river branches.
The report and map do not present a blueprint for restoring the Delta that once was. Rather, they lay a foundation for understanding how the ecosystem once worked. Knowing what worked well for the native species is key to the Bay Delta Conservation Plan and other habitat restoration efforts underway today. It can help managers think about how individual restoration projects can add up to larger, functional landscapes.
In a follow-up investigation known as the Delta Landscapes Project, the Institute will link the historical landscape types – flood basin, riparian forest and such – to ecological functions and spotlight opportunities for supporting these relationships going forward. The multidisciplinary project team includes professors Peter Moyle, Jeff Mount and Jay Lund of the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences.
The Delta of the future will not look like it does today or as it did in the early 1800s. But knowing how the natural features once fit together will aid decisions about what elements might be desired in future landscapes.
Alison Whipple is lead author of the Delta report, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Historical Ecology Investigation: Exploring Pattern and Process. She joins the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences this fall as a doctoral student in hydrologic sciences.
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Grossinger RM. 2005. Documenting local landscape change: the San Francisco Bay area historical ecology project. In The Historical Ecology Handbook: A Restorationist’s Guide to Reference Ecosystems, ed. Dave Egan and Evelyn A. Howell, 425-442. Washington, DC: Island Press.
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Sommer L, Whipple AA, McGhee G. 2012. Envisioning California’s Delta As it Was. KQED QUEST Northern California, San Francisco Estuary Institute-Aquatic Science Center, and the Bill Lane Center for the American West.
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Whipple AA, Grossinger RM, Rankin D, Stanford B, Askevold RA . 2012. Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Historical Ecology Investigation: Exploring Pattern and Process. Prepared for the California Department of Fish and Game and Ecosystem Restoration Program. A Report of SFEI-ASC’s Historical Ecology Program, SFEI-ASC Publication #672, San Francisco Estuary Institute-Aquatic Science Center, Richmond, CA.
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Leap Theremin
Interactive Music + Art | Projects
Process Post Process Post
By Jakob Sperry and 1 other By Jakob Sperry, Ethan Wood
https://cambridge.nuvustudio.com/posts/112179/process
In 1928, Leon Theremin invented the first Theremin, which was said to be the first electronic instrument created. The Theremin is a very simple and unique instrument, which consists of two antennae that protrude from a box, and control pitch and volume. The distance your hand is from each antenna, determines the volume and pitch of the note created. Of all the thousands of instruments created, it is the only physical instrument that can be played without touching. The leap motion controller is a revolutionary device that is able to track the movement of your hands. Inside the tiny 3” x 1” prism, is two digital trackers looking for individual hands fingers and motions made by your hands such as closing fists, waving hands and many more movements. With this data, the possibilities are unlimited to what you are able to program. Our group wanted to incorporate these two very cool inventions, one old, one new, and create a combination that is superior to either of the two.
We started this studio by learning about three programs, which we would be using. Max7 is a visual programming language for media that lets you create and code anything imaginable. Abelton Live is a software music sequencer and digital audio workstation that interacts with Max7. The Leap Motion App features many musical games and using the controller opens up a new world of digital possibilities. We wanted to take advantage of the fact that the controllers could track both hands independently and wanted to create a virtual Theremin. Like any Theremin we programmed the device so one hand was volume and one was pitch. While this was a challenge at first we finally were able to create the program. First, we had to figure out the range. We didn’t want the range to be too big or else the sensitivity your hand would have to move between notes would be minuscule making it hard to play. However if the range was too small, the amount of repertoire a person would be able too perform would be very limited. We settled on a two octave C4 to C6 chromatic scale, which seemed to fit well. The next problem we found was that we ran into was that when playing a piece that involved jumps, you would hear all of the chromatic notes in-between. To fix this, we programmed a simple command which turned the midi piano notes into frequency notes, which is like a traditional theremin. While you are still able to hear the notes in-between, the slides are much less noticable and the instrumetn becomes easier to play.
The next thing we wanted to makeour Leap Theremin do, was to be able to change instruments. Fo this, we used the midi instruments provided and plugged them into our program. We included over 100 midi instruments from piano, to strings, to drum kits. Finally, we wanted to have the chance to create and play selected tunes much more accurately by choosing the instrument to only play specific notes in its range. To do this, we had first expirmented with just making the instrument play major and minor scales. Next we developed modejulation so that you would be able to change keys. Finally by anaylzing specific small songs like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, we were able to just select the notes in the peice and spread those six notes throughout the range of the controller. This was useful in getting a very accurate and recognizable peice played. The end result was a master program able to toggle between instruments, frequency notes, midi notes, and even programmable songs.
While this new Leap Theremin was cool in the way it sounded, we knew from the beginning that we wanted to incorporate a visual piece as this is what Max7 was best at doing. With the leap controller app came a visulal tracker showing the outline of your fingures in a stick and bubble like figure. We loved the simplicity of the look and so decided to make this our visual. When programming it in, we kept all of the colors and the looks of the tracker. We then wanted to create a background visual that reacted to the audio playing, however when we started to add it in, our program became overloaded and as a result, we encountered lag. We really did not like this as it suddenly was very hard to tell what was happening, and so we decided to just stick with the orignal visual which was stable, and had no lag. With our presentation we made the visual piece full screen to empahasize to the audience members the vertical raising of one hand and the horizontal moving of the other hand. For the preformers, the visual and audio breed really added a whole new demension to playing music.
Leon Theremin Playing The Theremin Leon Theremin Playing The Theremin
By Ethan Wood and 1 other By Ethan Wood, Jakob Sperry
https://cambridge.nuvustudio.com/posts/111504/leon-theremin-playing-the-theremin
Final: Jeopardy Theme Song Final: Jeopardy Theme Song
https://cambridge.nuvustudio.com/posts/112202/playing
Kedaar Kumar
Ethan Wood
Jakob Sperry
Visualoid
Hip Hop Education
Working Title #1
Health Project
Leap-roduction
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Mel Kiper: Joe Mixon Is ‘Most Talented Running Back In The Draft’
Michael Napoles | Mar 28, 2017 7:12 pm
Joe Mixon’s name will be discussed constantly leading up to and throughout the 2017 NFL Draft.
The talented running back’s ability is doubted by none, but the assault charge against Amelia Molitor and the shocking video footage that accompanied it will likely cause his draft stock to plummet. Mixon will provide huge potential value on the field for the team willing to bite the bullet from the endless stream of protesters and negative PR they are sure to receive for welcoming him to their team.
Off the field incidents aside, there is little doubt that Mixon is among the best at his position in this years draft.
And according to ESPN draft guru Mel Kiper Jr., he is the best.
From TheBigLead‘s Jason Lisk:
Joe Mixon Video: Oklahoma RB punches woman in face
“On talent, he’s the best running back in the draft. On talent, and on ability, the kid averaged over 6 yards a carry in 9 games this year, he averaged almost 15 yards a catch, he had a 97-yard kickoff return against Ohio State, he’s 228 pounds and he ran 4.43. He was a top kid coming out of high school, so he’s an elite–like [Leonard] Fournette–to me he’s a better back than Fournette, on talent.
Mixon was given a first-round draft grade by the NFL Draft Advisory Committee. The narrative has continued to bring him closer and closer to that being his likely landing spot as the draft draws near.
For a time, it was assumed that Mixon would be taken in the third round, then the second round, and now some speculate he might be taken late in the first round. Kiper is among the best in the business in gauging player interest going into the draft, and if he believes that Mixon will be gone by the third round, that will likely be the case.
How much teams will be willing to overlook can not be truly known.
Joe Mixon 40 Time: Oklahoma RB Impresses At Pro Day
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Michael NapolesCAMPUSSPORTS Writer
Michael is originally from Miami, FL and is of Cuban descent. He holds BFA from the University of Florida/New World School of the Arts and is also a New York city based stand-up comedian. Michael is 5'11", but wears elevators in his shoes to make himself 6 feet tall. Twitter: @MichaelNapoles
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Reportage Politics
The Invisible Hand
Understanding the inner world of Sonia’s consigliere—could Ahmed Patel provide a key to her inscrutable government?
Darshan Desai
Congress president Sonia Gandhi with her political adviser Ahmed Patel. Like her, the adviser has consistently refused ministerships yet is more powerful than most senior ministers.
SHEKHAR YADAV / INDIA TODAY GROUP / GETTY IMAGES
THE VENUE WAS AT THE ASHOKA HOTEL in New Delhi, and the occasion a rare luncheon for journalists hosted by Congress president Sonia Gandhi after a motley alliance led by her party secured its second consecutive victory in the 2009 elections to the Lok Sabha. The Italian-born Congress chief, who had just stunned the nation yet again when she rejected the coveted post of prime minister, was to visit each of nearly 30 tables where journalists of all hues were sitting. It was unusual for the notoriously inaccessible leader to spend this much time with representatives of the media; they must have been pinching themselves in disbelief.
Journalists in Delhi, known for arriving very late or far too early for events, were all on time for this rare to-do. When senior leaders and ministers started to arrive, some journalists located their leader of choice and quickly walked down to greet them as they ambled in. There was no sign of the Congress chief.
But suddenly there was a commotion—everyone got up from their seats as Ahmed Patel, Sonia Gandhi’s political adviser, walked into the room. It was, they must have assumed, an indicator that Mrs Gandhi would be just a few steps behind. But even after confirming otherwise, few wanted to miss the opportunity to say hello to Patel, who is even less publicly visible and accessible than his boss. He reciprocated the advances, but while doing so his eyes roved through the hall to look over the arrangements.
Darshan Desai is a journalist based in Gujarat with 28 years in the profession. He has worked as the resident editor of the Indian Express in Lucknow, and in various capacities with Outlook, Tehelka, The Hindu and other publications.
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2020 Hyundai Accent Review: Gets The Job Done
by Roger Biermann
If you need an affordable, reliable sedan for getting around town or commuting to work - and not much else - then the Hyundai Accent is aimed directly at you. The sub-compact car doesn't offer much in the way of convenience and comfort features, with an equally sparse infotainment suite. What it does offer, however, is an interior that can comfortably seat four people of average size, or slightly above, while still providing a fair amount of cargo space and excellent fuel economy. True, rivals like the Kia Rio and Toyota Yaris can make similar claims, but the Accent delivers performance and utility with no frills and no fuss. With a decent amount of power for a compact sedan and impressive handling dynamics, the Hyundai Accent deserves a spot on your shortlist.
Read in this review:
Exterior Design 7 /10
Performance 7 /10
Fuel Economy 7 /10
Interior & Cargo 7 /10
Infotainment & Features 7 /10
Reliability 8 /10
Safety 9 /10
Value For Money 9 /10
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2020 Hyundai Accent Changes: What’s the difference vs 2019 Accent?
For 2020, Hyundai has redesigned the 1.6-liter inline-four engine powering its compact sedan, reducing the power output by 10 horsepower in favor of better fuel economy. To the same end, the traditional automatic transmission has been swapped out for a Smartstream intelligent variable transmission, although a manual transmission is still standard on the base model SE.
Superb fuel economy
Spacious cabin
Very long warranties on new purchases
Attractive Hyundai styling, if a bit unremarkable
Light on features
Limited advanced safety features available
New powertrain can be noisy
Accent Exterior
While attractive, the design of Hyundai's smallest sedan is not particularly striking. A trapezoid grille with horizontal bars takes up most of the slim front fascia, crowned by a pair of wide but sleek halogen headlights. LED headlights, taillights, and daytime running lights come equipped on the top-most trim, with fog lights standard from the SEL up. The SE and SEL trims ride on 15-inch wheels, steel and alloy respectively, while the Limited gets 17-inch alloys. The top-tier trim also comes with a no-frills sunroof and a hands-free trunk release.
See All 2020 Hyundai Accent Exterior Photos
With compact dimensions ideal for town maneuvering and packed parking lots, the Accent will seldom peek out of its parking spot at 172.6 inches long. A snug 101.6-inch wheelbase leaves enough room for a spacious cabin, with a width of 68.1 inches without mirrors. Despite its diminutive proportions, the sedan is average in height at 57.1 inches tall. However, it is quite light, with a starting weight of 2,502 lbs, climbing up to 2,679 lbs when equipped with the CVT transmission.
A classical, albeit small, pool of colors is available to buyers of the latest edition of the Hyundai Accent. With Frost White Pearl and Absolute Black on either end of the spectrum, there is some variety in-between, with Urban Gray, Linen Beige, and a more regal Olympus Silver bolstering the more traditional offering. For those seeking to stand out a little more during their daily commute, Pomegranate Red and Admiral Blue add a splash of color to the otherwise monochromatic palette. No colors are restricted to specific trims, and none of the paints will add a cent to your bill.
Linen Beige
Accent Performance
Limited to front-wheel-drive, and with only 120 hp and 113 lb-ft at its disposal, the compact sedan won't really get your blood pumping on the road. This isn't uncommon in the economy compact sedan segment, though, with rivals being equally stingy in the drivetrains and engine options that they offer. In that vein, the Accent is designed to get you where you're going in a timely fashion, not to make you excited about driving - a job it performs quite well. It has more than enough low-end power to get it up to regular town-driving speed quickly, but making it to 60 mph from a dead-stop takes nearly ten seconds in real-world conditions with the new CVT, although the manual should improve things marginally. Try going any faster, and the engine will make you well aware of its displeasure. But if you're expecting rival compact sedans in this price range to offer any more punch, you'll be disappointed. The Kia Rio and Toyota Yaris both match the Accent's figures.
Hyundai decided to redesign the 1.6-liter engine under the hood of the Accent for the new year. The old 130-hp engine is now replaced with a similar design that drops some power in favor of better mileage figures, playing to the strength of this economy-minded compact sedan. The new engine develops 120 hp and 113 lb-ft. This is directed to the front wheels via a six-speed manual transmission on the base model, while the optional continuously variable transmission comes standard on the upper trims. This may not seem like a lot of power, and it really isn't, but the light compact sedan doesn't need much of a kick in the pants to get it moving. Still, you won't be passing some of the sportier cars on the highway, although the low-end power is ideal for getting around town briskly.
1.6-liter Inline-4 Gas
6-Speed Manual, Continuously Variable Automatic (CVT)
Handling and Driving Impressions
Affordable daily drivers aim to be reliable, safe, and durable. So don't expect them to tempt you to push their limits. The Accent follows this trend by delivering a truly middling driving experience.
The steering is perhaps its most lackluster characteristic, thanks to its nearly non-existent on-center feedback. At lower speeds around town, the wheels turn quickly and precisely, without any fuss, but the wheels won't tell you much about the road, even as they bounce over larger bumps. The brakes also fail to impress, with a firm, predictable response, but slightly longer than average stopping distance.
Nevertheless, the Accent handles well on the road, although it doesn't feel as cheeky as the Kia Rio. The Hyundai delivers adequate road grip, and it corners well thanks to its light and responsive steering, but there is almost no feedback from the wheels. None of this would appeal much to those who want to feel as one with their car, but if all you care about is getting to work without a fuss, then the compact sedan will meet your expectations.
Accent Gas Mileage
The 1.6-liter four-cylinder of yesteryear has been swapped out with a slightly weaker, but more refined version that improves the Accent's fuel economy by several mpg. When paired with the six-speed manual gearbox, the new four-cylinder can cover up to 29/39/33 mpg across the city/highway/combined cycles. The optional CVT improves this to 33/41/36 mpg, besting the Hyundai's closest rivals, aside from the Kia Rio, which shares the same engine and mileage figures. The Toyota Yaris is close behind at 32/40/35 mpg. With an 11.9-gallon tank of regular gasoline, the Accent can travel for up to 428 miles before refueling.
City/Hwy: 29/39 mpg
* 2020 Hyundai Accent SE Sedan Manual
Accent Interior
You get what you pay for inside the Hyundai Accent. The interior is spacious but sparsely appointed. The few features that come standard with the base model are easily accessible, and operating them is equally simple. The styling is unimpressive, with a business-like approach to design. The seats are comfortable for short drives around town, but you won't want to go cruising across the country in the compact commuter. A few upgrades are available as you move up the trim levels, with mild improvements to creature comforts and convenience features.
See All 2020 Hyundai Accent Interior Photos
Seating and Interior Space
Despite being a compact vehicle, the Hyundai sedan offers a pretty spacious interior. By not fussing too much over unnecessary frills, the Accent is able to accommodate up to five passengers in relative comfort. There is plenty of head- and legroom up front, while the rear feels only slightly less spacious. Still, you probably won't want to squeeze more than two average-sized adults in the back. Visibility is good all-round, despite one or two minor blind spots, and getting in and out of the vehicle offers no problems, although the seats are placed a little low. Finding an ideal driving position could be easier, but the manually adjustable seats can be strongarmed into the perfect spot.
Interior Colors and Materials
Regardless of the trim level, the interior is always upholstered in cloth. Texture and stitching do vary on the SE and SEL, while the Limited gets a slight upgraded in the form of premium cloth worthy of its top-tier status, even as a budget sedan. The cloth is available in either Black or Beige, with available choices determined by your choice of exterior color. As you would expect from a budget vehicle, the Accent's interior is nothing to write home about. The build quality is excellent, but there are plenty of hard plastics all-round, and all of them are a shade of gray. The styling is generally quite toned down, emphasizing the sedan's no-nonsense approach to function over form.
Accent Trunk and Cargo Space
For a compact sedan, the Hyundai Accent provides a fair amount of cargo space, even if it doesn't offer a hatchback variant. Behind the rear seats, you will find 13.7 cubic feet of space to swallow up your groceries, or even a few carry-ons. This is on par with the Kia Rio, and only a smidgen less than what the Toyota Yaris can handle. The Accent's rear seats can be folded down in a 60/40 split to help accommodate larger items, but it isn't as useful as it could be if the seats folded down truly flat.
The compact interior doesn't offer much in the way of small-item storage. The door pockets are narrow, but they can fit a small water bottle at least. There are a couple of cupholders in the center console, with a larger one between the front seats. An extra cupholder and center console armrest are available for the rear seats if you choose to add them. The bins in the center console are quite spacious, though.
13.7 ft³
Accent Infotainment and Features
To keep costs down, the Accent offers only the bare minimum of features in its standard guise. These include basic air conditioning, cruise control, a rearview camera, a six-way manual driver's seat, power windows and door locks, and keyless entry. Mild improvements are made as you move up the trim levels, including the addition of a tilt-and-telescoping steering column, automatic climate control, remote engine start, heated front seats, front and rear dual USB charging ports, and forward collision avoidance. Heated side mirrors with a driver's side blind-spot mirror and a hands-free trunk release feature are added to the exterior features for the Limited. The top-of-the-range model also gets a sunroof and a 3.5-inch driver information display.
Controlled via a five-inch touchscreen interface, the infotainment suite is pretty bare-bones. Only AM/FM/MP3 playback is supported, with sound channeled through a four-speaker sound system. Bluetooth is supported and a USB and auxiliary input jack are provided. The upper two trims upgrade this suite to a seven-inch touchscreen that supports Apple CarPlay and Android Auto while granting access to SiriusXM satellite radio. The Bluetooth function gains voice recognition and Blue Link is supplied with a three-year subscription. Two additional speakers improve the flow of sound throughout the cabin.
Accent Problems and Reliability
J.D. Power rates the Accent at 79 out of 100 for dependability and the sedan has passed the last several years with nearly no complaints. There have been no recalls issued for the Hyundai for several years, attesting to its dependability. The fact that it comes with a bare minimum of features, as an affordable daily driver, may contribute to this. The manufacturer offers a 60,000-mile/60-month limited warranty, while the powertrain is covered for an impressive 100,000 miles/120 months - the best in the automotive industry. Unlimited roadside assistance is available for 60 months.
Accent Safety
The NHTSA has not rated the Accent, but it did win the IIHS's Top Safety Pick award in 2019 with optional frontal crash prevention systems on the higher trims.
Key Safety Features
The safety suite in the Accent is a bit on the light side, but it covers the bases pretty well. You can expect the basics like ABS, EBD, traction and stability control, as well as six airbags: dual front, front side, and side curtain. But you also get hill start assist on the upper trims, although it can be added to the SE for a little extra, while the SEL adds a blind spot mirror. For those with safety fore of thought, the Limited is tempting with its exclusive access to the forward collision avoidance features - the only reason it was granted the 2019 TSP status by the IIHS in the first place.
Verdict: Is the 2020 Hyundai Accent a good car?
When you consider the purpose for which it was designed, it would be hard to fault the Hyundai Accent for being a boring sedan. It doesn't engage with the driver at all on the road, and it offers little in the way of conveniences or creature comforts. But for the price you're paying, you can't really ask for more of the Hyundai than what it delivers. But what it does deliver is worth every penny.
For under $20k, you get a dependable daily driver that is perfect for running errands around town with its 13.7 cubic feet trunk, while the fold-down seats offer a level of flexibility. The interior is also spacious for passengers, comfortably seating four, while squeezing in a fifth person wouldn't be an unreasonable request. And if you spend an hour or two on the highway during your daily commute, the Accent has you covered with its very impressive fuel economy figures. So long as you temper your expectations, you can rest assured that the Hyundai Accent is an excellent buy. But if you can afford to shop in a slightly higher price bracket, there are certainly better sedans out there.
What's the Price of the 2020 Hyundai Accent?
As an affordable compact sedan designed for daily errand running and commuting to and from work, the Hyundai Accent bears a very attractive price tag. However, for the low price of $15,195 for the SE with the manual gearbox, you get very little more than a bare-bones vehicle that will get you from point A to point B. However, if you want the better fuel economy offered by the CVT transmission, you will have to pin an extra $1,100 to this price tag. The SEL adds a few comfort features that kick the cost up to $17,550, while the top-tier Limited, with its advanced safety features, will only set you back $19,300. These prices exclude tax, registration, licensing, and Hyundai's $930 handling charge.
2020 Hyundai Accent Models
You can have the Hyundai Accent in your choice of three trim levels: SE, SEL, or Limited. The 1.6-liter four-cylinder engine under the hood develops 120 hp and 113 lb-ft and comes mated to either a six-speed manual gearbox (on the SE only) or a CVT.
The entry-level SE rides on 15-inch steel wheels and comes equipped with halogen headlights. Inside, it is upholstered in cloth, with a six-way manual driver's seat, keyless entry, and cruise control comprising the convenience features. The infotainment centers around a five-inch touchscreen display, through which you can access the AM/FM Radio, CD and MP3 playback, and Bluetooth features. A four-speaker sound system channels all this through the cabin.
Automatic headlights and fog lights are added to the SEL, while a tilt-and-telescoping steering column makes things more comfortable for the driver. The infotainment suite also gets an upgrade in the form of two additional speakers, and a larger seven-inch touchscreen interface that supports Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.
The top-tier Limited replaces the halogen headlights with LEDs and sees the Accent ride on 17-inch alloy wheels. Inside, a 3.5-inch driver information display is installed in the instrument cluster, and forward collision avoidance is added to the safety features, while a sunroof, heated seats, automatic climate control, and hands-free trunk add some much-needed creature comforts.
Continuously Variable Automatic (CVT)
See All 2020 Hyundai Accent Trims and Specs
There aren't many ways to customize the Accent, with only the Cargo Package ($185) offered, comprising a cargo tray, a cargo net, and cargo hooks. Other standalone add-ons include wheel locks ($55), a first aid kit ($30), mudguards ($115), and a rear console armrest with cupholders ($65).
What Hyundai Accent Model Should I Buy?
Considering how economical the Accent is, there is little reason not to go for the top-most trim, which still comes in at under $20k. And you get quite a lot for that low price, too. The Accent Limited comes equipped with the fuel-efficient Smartstream IVT as standard, along with some welcome comfort features like heated front seats, a smartphone-compatible infotainment suite, and a six-speaker sound system. The LED headlights and 17-inch wheels give the relatively bland sedan a bit of an edge, and the hands-free trunk release and proximity key with push-button start are designed to make your life easier. It is also the only model that offers a sunroof and the coveted forward collision avoidance system, making it the safest choice too. It's no wonder the Accent Limited won the IIHS's Top Safety Pick award.
2020 Hyundai Accent Comparisons
2020 Hyundai Accent vs Kia Rio
Not much differs between the Hyundai Accent and the Kia Rio, although the latter sports a more athletic profile. Both compact sedans are powered by the same engine, although the Rio combines its 120-hp inline-four with responsive steering and dextrous handling to deliver a more engaging driving experience, although it may tax the average driver a bit with the need for more manual input to keep the sedan on its best behavior. Much like the Hyundai sedan, the Rio comes equipped with only the most basic of features as standard, with modern conveniences like smartphone integration relegated to the upper trim. Trunk space is on par with the accent, but the Kia doesn't get any advanced driver assistance features unless you fork out extra for its packages. The Rio may seem pricier at first glance, but the base model boasts the more fuel-efficient CVT, which you have to pay extra for on the Accent, and the fully specced Accent will cost you more than the top-tier Rio. With all this in mind, there's not much reason to go for the Hyundai when the more playful Rio teases you with even better value for your hard-earned cash.
See Kia Rio Review
2020 Hyundai Accent vs Hyundai Elantra
With a starting price of a couple of thousand dollars above that of the Accent, the Hyundai Elantra is a slightly upper-scale compact sedan. But that's not to say it isn't still a bargain for the features you get. With a choice of three engines, ranging from the economical 128-hp turbo inline-four to a more potent 201-hp variant, you can choose to match the Accent's fuel economy figures or sacrifice a few mpg for a lot more power. The more advanced sedan also comes equipped with dual-zone climate control and forward collision avoidance as standard, while blind-spot monitoring and rear cross-traffic alert are available for just $500 more on the second-tier trim. The Elantra doesn't beat the Accent by much in terms of cargo space, offering only 14.4 cubic feet, but it's the available creature comforts and tech features that may tempt you. While the Hyundai Elantra may be better value for money, especially if you aim for the reasonably priced mid-tier trims, it doesn't handle quite as well as its cheaper cousin.
See Hyundai Elantra Review
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George Pal’s Original “Puppetoon” Patent
Those who pre-ordered The Puppetoon Movie blu-ray should have received it by now. I’m already getting many people writing me to tell how much that are enjoying it… let’s hope it’s the first crack at unlocking the vault containing these hard-to-see shorts. Cartoon Researcher John Simpson was so delighted, he shared with me this find: George Pal’s 1940 U.S. patent for Puppetoons.
How cool is this? This is the very document that was the basis for Pal’s Academy Award; It outlines the “novel methods and techniques” of his stop motion process (aka Replacement Animation). In the documents, Pal goes to great pains to verbally describe his system of animating models. Click thumbnail images below to enlarge and read for yourself – Click here to see page 1 and Page 2 (both pictured above).
Trade advertisements above and below are from an amazing new book Ray Harryhausen Master of Majicks – which I also recommend highly!
I can’t do a Puppetoon post without including at least one small example of the technique. Here is something not included on the Puppetoon blu-ray – a commercial Pal produced for Mounds candy in the 1950s:
George PalPuppetoons
Evan Schad
November 27, 2013 3:52:29 am
Those posters make me think the original name for the Puppetoons , when released in theatres, was “Madcap Models.”
Jeff Jacobson
That is discussed on the Blu-Ray commentary.
They were called “Madcap Models” to specifically give them a unique series brand name that Paramount could copyright. They were already known as “Puppetoons” before the deal was drawn up, hence why their name is still in the title as “George Pal’s Puppetoons.”
I’m also hoping we get more Puppetoons in a followup blu-ray, those that are still copyrighted by Paramount. Those shorts are an outstanding piece of film and stop-motion animation history.
George Pal was a genius. Period.
What strikes me about this commercial — and about his Paramount features — is not just the ingenuity of the puppetry, but the staging and the amazing ways he used lighting to accentuate the scenes, adding considerably to what he was trying to get across.
Got my copy last week. I am enjoying it immensely.
I saw Pal’s Puppetoons in black and white as a child, of course, but my first experience with how wonderful they were was at a special screening at the L.A. County Museum of Art in the early 70’s. ASIFA and the museum put on a History of Animation with several programs dedicated to great Hollywood cartoons. The cartoons shown were beautiful prints projected on a big screen at the Leo Bing Theater. One of the programs was titled “Sex and Violence (and general bad taste)”. The program featured such cartoons as Uncle Tom’s Cabana, Birdy and the Beast, The Wise Quacking Duck, and Jasper and the Watermelons. Seeing Jasper that way was a completely different experience and over the years I’ve wished that there was some way to experience these films the way they were meant to be seen. I received by Puppetoon Blu-Ray a couple of days ago and am excited to watch it!
Is there a list of all the Puppetoons — the Paramount shorts, at least — available somewhere, with accurate release dates?
Brian O.
So what are the benchmarks for more Puppetoons to be released? Is it a sell-out of 3000 Blu-Rays? Who has to be sold on the idea of releasing the vault?
Selling out of the 3000 copies (limited edition) would sure help. Paramount, who owns the master film elements, has no interest in releasing these shorts to DVD, blu-ray or in any capacity. Bruce Venesia, the independent producer who laid out the money to create this DVD – fronting tens of thousands to sub-license the material, re-master in hi-def, produce bonus materials, packaging and authoring – may be willing to compile the rest of the shorts if the initial 3000 fly off the shelf. If not, perhaps another entrepreneur may take it on. Perhaps the Pal estate itself? There are many possibilities. But first, interest in the films must be proven.
I recommend buying an extra set to give as a gift this year. 😉
You can search Google Patents for George Julius Pal to find a lot more of his patents.
Kevin Wollenweber
Oh, I’m really enjoying THE PUPPETOON MOVIE bluray, and I, too, hope that fans coming out and supporting this release will prove that there is still a market for these shorts.
I grew up loving the PUPPETOONS films since they were part of every early morning on New York’s local network TV–our ABC affiliate ran them as part of that ever-evolving EARLY BIRD CARTOON SHOW that I’m always raving about and *STILL* miss to this day. To my memory, PUPPETTOONS were unique in that they even brought a Tex Avery sensibility to stop motion animation, and I’m sure that so many folks reading this could point out in detail just what I’m talking about using some of Pal’s more surrealistic entries in the PUPPETOONS series as examples.
And I agree that George Pal could use lighting in unique ways, and I’m not just talking about films that took place in, say, houses that were thought to be haunted or anything like that, but you could sometimes tell that Pal must have had a love of silent comedies the way he used lighting to emphasize the mood, whether it be fright or gentle peace or even suspense, like nothing else I’ve ever had the opportunity to experience–and unfortunately, I was rendered sightless before I knew of all the great toon marathons held at small theaters across the New York area and around the country; so I never had the actual opportunity to see these films in full color on the “big screen” at a local movie theater!
It would be so nice to have THE COMPLETE PUPPETOONS in our bluray library because they really should be experienced on big screens, whether on celluloid or on someone’s home system! There were shows as recent as the 1990’s “ANGEL” that featured whole episodes in which all the strange characters were reimagined as PUPPETOONS, so I know that there must be a major underground following amid top sci-fi/horror/comedy writers and producers in Hollywood of George Pal’s most unique work, folks who still marvel at Pal’s resilliancy at achieving his vision in an industry that probably cannot do this sort of incredible artistry anymore, either because of lack of talent or lack of funding to really do the job right! I hope there is never an age when folks do not ever know what the PUPPETOONS are or who George Pal is.
Thanks for all the efforts that went into getting this set done, and I’ve found the extra menus, now, Jerry, and I’ve been enjoying the extra cartoons–hey, two programs of great PUPPETOONS; that should boost the amount of buyers for this set. Those who don’t know anything about the legacy of George Pal will be astonished to hear about what it took to make each of these stunning shorts. Please support this! I can’t say it enough!
Steve Dallas
Jasper and the Watermelons??! I guess that’s better than Jasper and the Government Cheese.
December 04, 2013 10:44:15 am
Got my set on Monday, couldn’t tear off the cellophane fast enough. So glad to have these shorts on blu-ray, especially the two Puppetoons inspired by Dr. Seuss stories, which have been beautifully restored by UCLA. This weekend I’m going to dive in and check out the extras on Disc 2. Hopefully there will be a second release, so we can see Jasper’s encounter with Bugs Bunny.
Louie B.
January 02, 2014 8:06:39 pm
Just got my copy today, and man this stuff is fantastic!! I came into Pal’s work late in life–I was in high school when I first found my copy of Tubby the Tuba.
I really hope that the 3000 sell out so that Paramount will let someone put the rest on DVD/Blu-Ray.
February 02, 2014 9:04:07 pm
My favorite Puppetoon is “John Henry & The Inky Poo” from 1946. I’ve never seen good prints of that cartoon, though. The prints I’ve seen look like they were made in two-strip Technicolor. Even the print with the Paramount titles.
tombando
Jasper and the Watermelons looks…unfortunate ala Sambo and that Lantz minstral show.
The unkindest cut of all is that Pal died on May 2, 1980 – a mere THREE DAYS after Alfred Hitchcock passed.
That posthumous period of appreciation and reflection? George never got it. It was all wall-to-wall Hitchcock.
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July 2, 2012 · 12:56 PM
In a shocking development, a Georgia Tech fan finds fault with the way Mark Richt runs his program.
This critique of Richt is so fact free it makes Mark Bradley look like the Encyclopedia Britannica. Consider all of these assertions (from a relatively short piece), made without any supporting data:
“But Mark Richt has created an atmosphere in Athens to where there have been a number of players, past and present, that do not respect the discipline methods of their head coach.”
“In some of his player’s eyes, he is a pushover.”
“And since Richt has been in Athens, he has traditionally been known to be the most relaxed in the SEC on handling discipline to his players (Spurrier and Stephen Garcia aside).”
“Suspension of players for a quarter of one game, a half of another, or maybe a suspension during a non-conference opponent such as New Mexico, Georgia Southern, or Wyoming.” (Yes, I know that’s not a complete sentence.)
“Then there are coaches like Gene Chizik, Nick Saban, and Les Miles that have mixed a tough discipline policy with newer ideals than those from a generation or two ago and have had national championship success.”
I could spend a lot of time picking this crap apart bit by bit – his suspension data is a total departure from reality, for example – but I think I’ll just settle for a quote from Janoris Jenkins about another coach well known for mixing discipline policy with newer ideals:
“No doubt, if Coach Meyer were still coaching, I’d still be playing for the Gators,” says Jenkins, a star cornerback and a potential first-round draft pick whom Muschamp booted from UF’s team after being arrested twice for possession of marijuana during the offseason. “Coach Meyer knows what it takes to win.”
Funny, those newer ideals sure sound a lot like the older ones.
Look, I’m not going to sit here and proclaim that Mark Richt does a perfect job with discipline. No coach does. Nor do I have any particularly direct insight into how Georgia players feel about their head coach’s approach to handling behavior problems. Neither does Taylor King, though.
But here’s what I do know: Isaiah Crowell’s path to being the number one running back was cleared in part by one predecessor being dismissed from the team by Mark Richt and another being dismissed for academic problems. Both strike me as sending pretty clear messages about accountability. If those did not sink into Crowell’s conscious thinking, what exactly does Taylor King suggest would do the trick? Public stoning?
(As a side note, if Richt’s “lack of discipline is the major reason that Mark Richt has failed to bring home a national championship to Bulldog nation”, how can one explain Richt winning ten out of the eleven games he’s coached in the Tech series? Is Paul Johnson that bad a head coach?)
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73 responses to “In a shocking development, a Georgia Tech fan finds fault with the way Mark Richt runs his program.”
Someone should add a link to that column in the Wikipedia entry for “concern trolling.” And another one in the entry for “irony,” if this guy’s holding up Gene Chizik as an example of tough disciplinarianism Richt should strive to emulate.
What I think most people are being naive about is that Richt doesn’t sweep this stuff under the rug like a Saban or Miles does. No, Richt is not perfect but I really do believe that he is trying to make his players better men built for others and putting a focus on that. He is a Christian man in a big leadership position and some people do not understand the decisions he makes but I believe it is for the betterment of the individual and the team rather than him getting a bigger badder contract. If I was him I wouldn’t give two thoughts to what the fans thought of how I ran my program (as long as I was winning). If your losing then your at the mercy of the fans and have some sucking up to do. Patience is lost in our society and culture and I think he has so much that people can’t seem to comprehend it. Football is not his life. God and his family is life. I can’t say the same for Saban or Miles. If they are then they need to do a better job of portraying that.
I think that too many people equate not being an asshole with being a pushover. Are players afraid of CMR? Probably not. Do they respect him? I think they do. Is it quite clear that missteps have consequences? Absolutely. The idea that harsh punishment results in deterrence is just stupid. People of good character follow the rules because it’s the right thing to do. People who break the rules have character issues of varying degrees and generally they don’t think they will get caught.
If you want to criticize CMR it would be for tolerating the idea that there is more to life than football. I won’t though because there is.
Beejebus but that fellow is an idiot!
Bard Parker
“public stoning”
I thought Tech fans were supposed to be the smart ones.
If they were smart they wouldn’t go to Tech in the first place. When my oldest daughter (a particularly smart young lady) was looking at colleges another girl we knew who was a student there flat out said, “Do NOT go there.”
My oldest daughter a ChE from Tech would disagree with you. The younger one with her Masters from UGA was never interested in Tech. Both girls are smart and very pretty.
Debbie, I don’t want to argue but…several of my closest friends in the world went to Tech. I was almost influenced for athletic reasons to make the same mistake. If I had no doubt I would not be a lawyer today. Tech has high admission standards and even though they refuse to admit it–Tech grades on the curve. To compound the problem a significant percentage of Tech students are foreign, predominately from Asia. So if you are a normal college kid, intelligent and ambitious, but you want to have a social life and experience college (parties, football games, etc.) you are going to be up against people who spend Friday night and all day Saturday in the library. The curve makes it damn near impossible for a kid to make good grades except, interestingly, unless the student majors in something like ChE, AE or the like. I have gone through this relatively recently with a friend whose son went there. Thank goodness the kid transferred before his life was ruined by flunking out (BTW he salutatorian of his HS class and now has graduated from another college and is doing well in the insurance business) but it was a bad experience for him and his family. The real problem is that there is an adversarial relationship between the student body and the Tech Administration (they call it “The Hill”) where it seems that the Administration is always trying to do bad things to the student body. I sued Tech once when they tried to flunk out a kid who wasn’t even on probation. They knew they were in the wrong and backed down, letting the kid back in. He graduated about a year later with a flat 2.0 average but at least he did graduate. It was touch and go. It got to be a badge of honor there a while back for Tech to flunk out jocks. Remember Sammy Drummer, the former Tech basketball star that was found a few years ago working as a janitor at a HS? The coaches in all sports have now set up very detailed tutoring programs to try to keep kids eligible and hopefully help them to actually graduate. Tech still has one of the lowest graduation rates for athletes among D-IA institutions, though. I’ll leave you with this final thought and then shut up about this–for about 20 years not a single member of the Georgia Tech Golf Team actually got a degree from Georgia Tech. Not Larry Mize, not David Duvall. I don’t think Stewart Cink graduated. As I understand it most of the Tech golfers are now graduating but that is because of the coach and the tutor program he instituted, not Tech.
“The curve makes it damn near impossible for a kid to make good grades except, interestingly, unless the student majors in something like ChE, AE or the like.”
Aren’t there easier things to attack at Georgia Tech than the caliber of its engineering programs? I never would have imagined that it would be easy to get good grades in Chemical Engineering or Aeronautical Engineering at Tech. I thought the deal for engineering at Tech was look to your right and look to your left and one or two of you will not be finishing the drill in engineering. Not that there’s anything wrong with survival of the fittest.
It is not easy to get good good grades in the engineering program. My daughter the valediction of her her school worked hard for her 4. GPA. She loved her time at Tech. She hard lots of jobs to pick from and works for an interatnational oil company. She is very successful. My UGA grad is also successful in her field. My oldest would have gone to UGA if it had an engineering program but it didn’t. I personally think both schools need to respect the other’s academics they both represent the state of Georgia well. On the football field we at UGA don’t have a worry.
Had lots of jobs not hard. It is hard to type on my kindle.
Good Lord, is this some sort of Tech lovefest? ChE and AE as well as some other small programs at Tech (i.e. not very many students in them) are hard to get into but if you do and you do the work you get good grades. Part of it is the familiarity between the faculty and those students. I underscore the fact that the students have to be damn smart to major in those things in the first place and deserve good grades IMHO. But that’s how you beat the system at Tech. A friend of mine was a ChE major there and that is the very reason he picked that major. I am very happy for Debby that Debby’s daughter has been so successful at Tech and in life. However many other kids who go there have a lot of problems particularly in Industrial Management which is what most kids study at Tech. I remember when Rich Yunkus had the highest grades in the School of Industrial Management, a 3.4 average. If that was the highest GPA you can only imagine what most students grades were like. An awful lot of otherwise smart guys got their lives screwed up by that place. Even if they graduated their low GPAs messed them up for getting into grad school, etc. Also, socially the place is absolutely nerd central. If you love Tech so much go on StingTalk and tell them about it–but not on a UGA football blog. That’s really bad form. I noticed that you didn’t have much to say on any of the other facts I cited above–like lousy graduation rates for athletes (actually for the whole school) or the nasty relationship between the student body and the Administration. Maybe you just didn’t know about those things.
I don’t need to trash Tech to prove my love for UGA. I know how well my daughter and her spouse and friends have done. I also know how well UGA grad is doing. Both kids are happy and successful. I route loud and proud for the DAWGS every Saturday. I am in the stadium as soon as the gates open and don’t leave until the band plays after the game-win or lose. GO DAWGS!!
Root not route I am up too late.
Not Debby but because she was up late last night, I’ll offer the following:
“friend of mine was a ChE major there and that is the very reason he picked that major.”
And I always thought that someone had be pretty ****ing smart to take upper division chemistry, math and physics course work and really, really fun labs concurrently and call it one major so that’s why ChE was always less populated. Now I know they’re in there for the lower student-teacher ratios.
“the highest grades in the School of Industrial Management, a 3.4 average.”
But that’s only because they punish those who wash out as Engineering majors. There have to be consequences.
“If you love Tech so much go on StingTalk and tell them about it–but not on a UGA football blog. That’s really bad form.”
I’ll accept that mission to StingTalk but only if there’s Crown Royal, Moon Pies, a Boba Fett and some Princesses.
“lousy graduation rates for athletes (actually for the whole school)”
Tech needs to have its Stat Department figure out how to deal with those numbers because “[i]t’s just all made up and flagellant,” anyway.
Or “flatulent.”
As a registered professional engineer with a BS and MS in Engineering from UGA, I’d say your oldest daughter missed an opportunity to attend UGA. BTW, my engineering degrees have been good enough for 20+ years in the space program, and I got to matriculate with Herschel Walker and Dominique Wilkens. Good times were had by all!
Mayor, you are showing huge ignorance. The Georgia Tech golf team has historically been loaded with fine student-athletes who have excelled in both golf and in education. You have ZERO basis for this claim and in fact, Georgia Tech just this year one Tech golfer won the Byron Nelson award for being college golf’s finest student athlete, all nine players held GPA’s above 3.0 and they young men who won the ACC Championship (for the 4th straight year) spring grades consisted of two 4.0s, a 3.75 a 3.5 and a 3.0. Your comments prove your ignorance. Enough said.
The next time someone tells you tech people are brighter and better educated, just pull out this article. Only a tech person would believe this isn’t nonsense.
Could somebody please explain to me what makes that article any different than something I’d see on Stingtalk? There is ZERO substantiation. What garbage. I love this gem: “He probably did not know Crowell had a gun.” Seriously?
CMR only looks like he’s got more disciplinary problems because he actually punishes on the first offense. (At least with drug policies) Most other schools offer no punishment and therefore do not report first offense failed drug tests.
Who wants to bet that this clown doesn’t have a purple “Royal Crown Whiskey” bag hanging from his rear view mirror?
Er…that’s “Crown Royal” AHD. A very good whiskey I might add.
I suppose there are worse things than being outed by the Mayor as a non-whiskey expert. I confess…. my only association with the Crown is watching my dad and his cronies play poker and offer shots of it as some kind of tribute to the winner of the pot. Well there ya go.
Funny. I thought it was the mayor who got outed.
Royal Crown is an off brand cola…
Now that is just piling on. 😉
off brand…really?
I always liked RC.
Gimme that and a moon-pie and I’m in redneck sugar heaven.
I think that Brian Dawg might have outed himself as a “yankee”. lol..
Not a yankee-the only reason I said “off brand” is that it is just not sold in most places anymore. Hey, I grew up on RC…and, for that matter..CR as well…LOL.
http://www.rccolainternational.com/
Don Leeburn will not be happy with you…:-)
peligroperro
That there is all made up and flatulent.
I’ve been waiting for that observation.
El Dawgo in El Paso
I still want clarification on “flagellence” versus “flatulence” in determining the veracity of a charge. Does one beat it out or air it out?
I still think the guy meant to say “fellatio.”
Sadly, some regulars at our tailgate make those same arguments…
Corbindawg
I did a piece on my blog today (hope this doesn’t count as one of your demerits for commenting etiquette), but look at Courtney Upshaw at Alabama. Back in 2009, Upshaw was arrested for a domestic disturbance where he allegedly grabed his girl friend by the back of the neck during an argument. Grabbed her by the scruff like I grab my cat.
Upshaw’s punishment? No suspension of practice time or games. Sanders Commings does a similar infraction-and Richt suspends him for two games. Now, tell me, who is harder on discipline in a situation like this: Saban or Richt?
Not to take away from Saban…but you can’t say that these things wouldn’t go on at Alabama. Well, you could, but you’d also be ignorant.
durrtydogg
See you in November!
bubba king
WOW…I don’t remember playing Wyoming…what a total dumbass
Wow, I stupidly went back and read the article. I will never get the movie reference right because I am old and forgetful but I think it was an Adam Sandler movie. After a long dialogue that made no sense, a man to paraphrase, said “nothing you said made sense, that was really stupid and everyone is this room is dumber for having heard it”. That is how I felt after reading it.
If you don’t mind, I’ll correct you.
“What you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”
That’s it! I knew someone would know the exact quote and get it right. Was it Adam Sandler? Love the quote and it certainly fits that bloggers post.
Yes… Billy Madison
I feel that exact way every time I catch PAWWWWWWWWWWWLLL Finedouche on the radio in AL…
Dawgy45
So this is what a Jackette resorts to when National Geographic doesn’t have any nudie pictures.
The major reason Mark Richt hasn’t brought a national championship home to Georgia is that he plays in the same division as the University of Florida, which he has been able to beat on even a somewhat regular basis. As we all know, Florida is MORE lax on discipline issues than Georgia, not the other way around. Therefore, in the championship argument, one would have to contend that Richt should be LESS of a disciplinarian.
Of course, that’s foolish. Richt does a good job of player discipline. If championships were all that drove him, Crowell would be on our football team today, as would many other outstanding players that Richt showed the door over the years. Would you feel better about relying on our current stable of running backs protecting Aaron Murray in pass blocking if we still had LSU’s starting quarterback as his backup?
that should say UNABLE to beat in the bit about Florida.
Do you think the University of Alabama police hunt down football players and pull them over and search their cars on a whimsical suspicion?
Not if they want to still be a UAcop tommorow.
Do you think the LSU police, or the USC police, or the FU police do this? What’s the deal in Athens? My guess is that at ….say….Alabama……if a player is “out of line”, the police handle it quietly and turn him over to his coach. He does twenty extra wind sprints and you never hear about it……….Not so at UGA…Why? I believe CMR refuses to operate in such a shameless fashion. Give the man this…he’s no hypocrite.
I think it probably has something to do with Athens having a different culture than most southern college towns. Though Austin has a similar culture and their police don’t seem to go out of their way to harrass students. So maybe it’s just that Athens cops are kind of assholes.
Since you brought it up and since some Techhies are being such sanctimonious assholes about this, a Georgia Tech LB (I don’t want to say his name as I do not want to contribute to smearing kids when they screw up) was arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct and fighting on June 9 in….(you guessed it)…Athens. I don’t think he had been kicked off the team by Paul “the Dick”…er…Johnson though.
I’ve often said that living in Athens can at least be partly attributed to all the player arrests. There’s a reason it’s consistently voted “Best College Town”. Just a lot of temptation (most bars per square mile than any other city in the nation??) that I don’t think many other college towns don’t have. When I lived there, I absolutely did some stupid stuff that I probably would not normally do in a different setting. It’s like Vegas; the town just breeds sin haha.
Any of the UGA players ever heard of calling a cab? JEEZ…..
I dont think that it is Athens or the cops that have a different culture, it is that the Administration and president of UGA meets with the police to start every school year to remind them that arresting frat boys and football players sends a message to the rest of the student body. Adams wants athens run exactly the way it is being run. Maybe next year the worm turns, but things are happening according to plan right now.
Adams might say that to Jimmy Williamson of the UGA police
But I very much doubt he says that to ACC Chief Jack Lumpkin. And even if he did, it’s unlikely it would resonate. The people that run the ACC Government (and the UGA faculty in large part) view students as an irritant that must be tolerated.
They don’t look at the students as, you know, the reason that Athens is Athens and not Toccoa, Elberton or some other small market town in Northeast Georgia.
I agree with you regarding the police at other collleges Maybe we should stop worrying about a special teams coach, and consider having a coach whose primary responsibility is to bus kids around Athens in the wee hours of the morning (back in the day I guess we would call that needing a babysitter). Serously, I don’t like Mark Bradley any more than the next UGA guy, but I am starting to feel like he wrote concerning off-the-field issues: ‘not only Georgia, but always Georgia’. Where, when , and how does all of this crap ever stop?
I can vouch firsthand the Gainesvega$ cops are at least as bad at the Athens cops. I was visiting my brother (a UF grad student at the time) and we were outside the Purple Porpoise. A fight broke out on the sidewalk and the cops broke it up. My brother stepped off the curb to avoid the crowd gathered around the fight and was promptly handed a citation for jaywalking.
IMHO Oliver wants Richt gone because Richt beats Auburn on a consistent basis. And sometimes just beats the tar out of em. As far as the techie fan, the same can be said.
That’s Bradley’s real beef, too (re: Tech).
On a related note, James Wilder Jr gets out of jail after a week and Jimbo Fisher “isn’t required to issue a suspension” (see David Hale’s report on the WWL). What would Richt do with him?
GT Fan
Over the past couple years Coach Richt definitely has taken steps to address accountability issues at UGA. Crowell apparently didn’t understand the message, but I don’t think it was due to a lack effort on coaching staff.
Had this been Crowell’s first incident, I suspect he would still be on the team, but he was a repeat offender and I think Richt’s hand was forced. If he lets Crowell off easy, what hope does he have of maintaining discipline with Crowell in the future and, more importantly, what kind of message would that have sent to the other players on the team (the freshmen in Crowell’s car particularly)? If Richt harshly punishes Crowell by, say, suspending him for the season, then Crowell potentially instantly becomes the most disgruntled and unhappy player on the team by far and could wind up dragging down team morale. That is not to say that would have happened, but Richt had to consider the possibility. Dismissing Crowell from team lets Richt punish Crowell, show that Richt is serious about discipline and accountability, and avoids any potential issues with an unhappy Crowell.
Maybe you could argue that Richt should have taken a harder line with Crowell last season, but hindsight’s 20/20. Richt made the decisions he thought were the best and consequences are what they are. Rather than babysit Crowell every waking minute, which would have been one way to make sure Crowell stayed out of trouble, Richt tossed him into the lake and said ‘sink or swim’. Unfortunately, Crowell sank. Maybe telling Crowell to sink or swing wasn’t the best approach, but that’s irrelevant after a fashion. Richt has to pick a discipline philosophy and run with it. Losing an occasional player who doesn’t comprehend the philosophy is just the cost of doing business, so to speak. Better to have it happen now while there’s time to plan around it.
While no coach likes to have to make a discipline decision that scrambles the depth chart, I think Richt made the right decision regarding Crowell.
The only way the Nerds can bee hay is if Richt suspends all 85 athletes including himself. They are all losers. LOL
can bee happy……
I’m done with the thug element. That’s what Tennessee and Auburn are for. Shit man, all he had to do is go to class, play ball and get drafted in 2 more years. Heck, the car might as well said “4 thugs w/ guns. Please pull us over!!” Fucking retard. Mama is pissed and he better hope for at least 2 years in the pen or she might kill him.
I think the most damning example of Richt’s lax discipline standards is how he lets his players physically assault Tech football players for sixty minutes every year. It should be criminal to physically, mentally, emotionally abuse such a weak frail program and fan base psyche year after year.
Another way to look at it is that Richt being TOO much of a disciplinarian is why he has yet to win a national title. Georgia players are suspended/kicked off team for things that other coaches would “handle internally”.
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It’s Saban’s world and the SEC is just living in it.
With Les Miles’ firing, Nick Saban is now the senior SEC coach, in terms of years at the current job. While it’s tempting to react merely by saying what took things so long, the actual data is eye-opening.
Not counting interim guys like Ed Orgeron, who’ll pilot the ship at LSU for the rest of this season, whoever follows Miles full time will be the 22nd SEC head coach introduced since Saban landed in Tuscaloosa.
Now every other current SEC member has changed coaches at least once since Alabama hired Saban in 2007, though Texas A&M did it while still in the Big 12.
Here’s the sobering and staggering part. New doesn’t always equal better. Of all the SEC coaching changes in the Saban era, only two have landed men who went on to win a conference championship.
Both happened at Auburn.
The Tigers won the SEC and BCS titles two years after Gene Chizik replaced Tommy Tuberville, and they won the SEC title and played for the BCS championship the year after Gus Malzahn followed Chizik.
That’s it. That’s the sum total of SEC coaching changes in the Saban era that have led to a conference championship. Two for 21. You can’t fire string-pulling boosters, but that .095 batting average makes you wonder why more ADs and school presidents don’t get whacked.
C’mon, man. Get real.
That is why you change coaches, right? To win more games and better compete for championships? It hasn’t really turned out that way except at Auburn.
That doesn’t stop ADs, presidents and string-pulling boosters from cutting loose coaches as accomplished as Miles and Mark Richt.
If Saban has changed the equation in the SEC, it’s to make winning itself insufficient at certain programs and put all the emphasis on winning championships. Trouble is, the record shows changing coaches doesn’t mean you’re going to win championships.
Everyone’s gonna look smarter the day after Saban retires.
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56 responses to “It’s Saban’s world and the SEC is just living in it.”
Mark Richt didn’t win an SEC championship during the Nick Saban era either.
Yes he did, though it was while he was at LSU.
Check again.
I’m referring to this:
The author defined the “Saban era” as his time in Alabama and judged the coaching hires according to that time frame. And, to an extent, Saban didn’t truly come to power until he arrived in Alabama in 2007, so I get where the author is coming from.
It was obvious what you were talking about. Some people will defend their man to the death though.
Saban was at LSU 200-2004. Mark Richt won in 2003.
2002 and 2005.
Aunt Edna
I love how much angst Nick Saban causes the rest of the world purely by being himself and winning football games.
That argument has a huge selection problem. The best coaches are less likely to be fired, which means that the ones with the longest tenures are also the ones who are most likely to win the SEC, but it’s not the length of their tenures that makes them likely to win the conference. The stat butchers correlation and causation.
And what’s the implicit message? That teams should just hold onto coaches? Where would Ole Miss be if they just held onto Houston Nutt or Ed Orgeron? Where would Tennessee be if they held onto a declining Phil Fulmer or Derek Dooley? Where would Florida be if they just held onto Will Muschamp?
The problem, if there is one, is not that teams should just keep their coaches because longevity causes success (because it doesn’t). It’s that teams make dumb decisions in hiring replacements. You know, like hiring a bunch of Saban assistants.
Chopdawg
I seriously wonder if schools won’t start hiring coaches to shorter-term contracts. No matter how great your coach seems to be during his first few years, sooner or later he’s going to make a mistake, and you’re going to want to fire him. Then you’ll have to pay his multi-million-dollar buyout.
They need to stick this money somewhere and coaches agents have found the perfect place for it.
I wouldnt expect the contracts to do anything but get longer and bigger as we move forward.
You talk about negative recruiting. I can see Coach #1 say, “I have a 5-year contract with a rollover provision. Coach #2 has a 3-year deal. How secure are you that Coach #2 is going to be there during your time in CollegeTown, USA?”
If Coach 1 is at Auburn, he shouldn’t feel all that secure about being there in 2 years, regardless of how long his deal is. 😉
It’s that teams make dumb decisions in hiring replacements. You know, like hiring a bunch of Saban assistants.
Sheesh, this place is becoming the center of the anti-Kirby universe huh?
I don’t think it’s as much anti-Kirby as it is anti-Butts-Mehre.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you, either.
Oh, I know you did, and I agree that the whole fire/hire process came off as very knee jerk and not very well thought out. I would feel better if they had came to their decision after a well executed search, but I guess we don’t call him McGoof for nothing…. That being said I support Kirby until he has sufficient time to show what he’s really capable of. Many more days like Saturday, and that’ll speed up that “process”.
“Many more days like Saturday, and that’ll speed up that ‘process’.”
LOL! I’m right there with you, Mad Mike. I obviously want Kirby to succeed, but the transition hasn’t been pretty thus far.
No, it hasn’t. Honestly, I’ve been expecting 3-4 losses this year the whole time. We just need to be competitive and show improvement. Saturday was not that at all. I know that largely rests on Kirby since he is the guy making the big bucks. I just think he needs more than four games before folks start wanting to call it a disaster.
That is it, at least it is for me.
What “Senator” said.
I agree B-M is seemingly full of clowns.
Has been for a while…getting more and more comical..
Well, when a large portion of the fan base has an ax to grind with another large portion, I guess this is what we get. Unless Kirby wins a N.C. It’s only gonna get worse.
In all sincerity – how exactly did the part of the fanbase that demanded change and labeled those that were concerned about the ability of McGarity and B-M to make a good decision as “coach-lovers” or “mediocrity accepters” expect this to all play out? Did they think it was just going to be kumbaya around a fire after showing their asses for years to part of the fanbase that maybe didn’t see it the exact same way as them? I think people are conflating the fracture with being in one coach’s camp or another. There’s a certainly a portion of both sides where that is true, but I think the fracture runs much deeper than that and Kirby just ends up being that vessel of discussion since he was the end product of the decision.
I don’t disagree with that at all, I get both sides of the argument. I’m just of the mindset that this all makes being a Georgia fan suck right now.
Being a Georgia fan never sucks, IMHO.
Yeah, you’re right.
I was ready for change…we knew what we had. Who knows if what we have now will work or not? Will take 3 years to see at least. EVEN if we win the East this year, we know nothing…see UF last year. They won the weakest east ever…gave up the ghost in Knoxville last week.
There’s nothing wrong with wanting a change, in and of itself. Like the Senator, I was fairly Richt-agnostic but had (and still do) zero faith in B-M and McGarity to make a good decision and fully support that decision. It was the constant bombardment of insults and pettiness that was thrown at those that didn’t want the change (for whatever reason) that is driving this fracture. The change wanters shouldn’t be surprised that the other folks aren’t exactly keen on playing nice right now is what I’m saying. If your position on a matter important to you was constantly insulted or belittled, you’d be a little hesitant to be nice to the people that constantly belittled or insulted you. Hence where we stand as a divided fanbase.
All very true.
I’m a part of the fan base who would like to see an SEC Title…put me down in that portion.
I am too, wholeheartedly.
Good points, Michael. And I’d also mention James Franklin and the way he made Vandy competitive for the short while he was there. Spurrier certainly bought SC a little glory also. Look at the coach shuffling at O’MS before finally settling on Freeze..
I think the bottom line is that most schools have unrealistic ideas of what their programs will ever be able to achieve..or achieve very rarely. Chasing Saban is a disorder that is costing a heck of a lot of money, but it does sometimes help a team progress (and I’m not sold on the notion that every school that replaces it’s coach is starry eyed about winning the NC. Sometimes it’s just about improving or refreshing a stale program).
Although I don’t really accept your last sentence. It’s inflammatory and premature in it’s judgement of the hire.
Those string pulling idiots need to fire the AD and McGoofy would be a very nice place to start thank you very much.
Hey, but at least they’re not settling for mediocrity, amirite?
Groundhog Day!!!…….somebody crank up the Polka music.
DUDE!…Now you’ve gotta’ type that every single morning at 9:10 on this blog.
Best comment in a while!
I can hear Sonny and Cher in my head….
Brrr! It’s cold out there this morning!
It’s cold out there every day. What is this, Miami Beach?
Or given the way people are reacting lately: I’ll give you a winter prediction: It’s gonna be cold, it’s gonna be grey, and it’s gonna last you for the rest of your life.
Saw this on another site, there are only four active HCs that have won “national titles”: Saban Corch, Jimbo, and Stoops. Emphasis needs to be on competing, and contending for conference titles. Can only be one SEC champ each year and no one but Alabama has won more than 13 in almost 100 years.
The amount of money pissed down the drain with contract buyouts can be much better used. Contracts should be shorter in duration and more tied to performance hurdles with less guaranteed. If titles are only objective, put a reasonable base in and a bonus for titles achieved. Look what LSU is about to pay because a referee didn’t give the Tigers a reasonable chance to snap a football…then it would have been Malzahn dodging bullets rather than feasting at the Waffle House.
Meh. The notion that the SEC is churning coaches trying to best Saban doesn’t hold up at all when you look at the individual universities. Yes, SEC schools have proven too impatient, but that predates Saban. Alabama went through 4 coaches in 10 years prior to Saban – was that a Fulmer or Spurrier Effect?
Was Saban responsible for Fulmer being kicked to the curb and sparking the Kiffin-Dooley-Jones dominoes? (UT: 3)
Was Saban responsible for Bobby Johnson retiring or James Franklin getting poached by Penn State? (VU: 4)
Was Saban responsible for Spurrier just quitting in the middle of the season? (SC: 1)
Was Saban responsible for Rich Brooks retiring or Joker Phillips stinking? (UK: 3)
Was Saban responsible for Urban quitting? Or for Foley botching the hiring of his replacement? (UF: 3)
Was Saban responsible for Gary Pinkel retiring? (UM: 2)
Was Saban responsible for the working relationship between McGarity and Richt degrading into absurdity? (UGA: 2)
SEC East: 18
Was Saban responsible for Petrino getting the hots for a grad student married to one of his assistants? (AR: 3)
Was Saban responsible for the general dysfunction of Orgeron and Nutt at Ole Miss? (OM: 3)
Was Saban responsible for Tuberville going 14-11 over his last 2 season? Or Chizik clearly losing the confidence of his entire team in an 0-8 campaign? (AU: 3)
Was Saban responsible for Sylvester Croom? (MS: 2)
Was Saban responsible for anything at TAMU other than getting Sumlin a $30 million buy-out? (TAMU: 2)
Was Saban responsible for LSU ditching Miles for refusing to make obviously needed changes to his offense? (LSU: 2)
SEC West: 15
You could make good arguments that LSU and Auburn needed more patience and that Saban’s presence deprived those situations of said patience – but as the article notes, Auburn’s actually benefitted from those changes.
I think Georgia was nothing more than McGarity and Richt reaching the end of their rope. You could argue that Saban created the arms race that crated the tension between McGarity and Richt – Richt wanting more staff and facilities support, McGarity wanting more Saban-like attention to detail – and I wouldn’t say you were wrong. But Roy Williams left Kansas in part because he’d had it with the AD there. Those sorts of tensions have always existed, even with highly successful coaches. It’s entirely possible Richt heads to Miami on his own, Saban or no Saban, out of sheer frustration with his boss at Georgia.
Was Saban responsible for Urban quitting?
Hell yes.
SABAN the alternate GOD of Saturday Football, LOL.
I understand the frustration of many because of the success of Saban.
We heard this same refrain during the Bear Bryant era.
It will pass, but.
All it takes is a very good young coach to change the situation. UF and Meyers were doing it. Saban took them out.
No coach in no conference dominates. It is that the other coaches with their programs fail to measure and succeed.
We could be witnessing that in Athens.
Want to wager which way it goes.
For some reason in the past three days I have had a slight question about the “brain trust defense from Bama relocated to Athens”. Something happened to those boys when they crossed the Hooch.
Some head coach had better start kicking ass and taking names.
Once again a very high priced staff ain’t getting it done. There has been a regression in execution.
OMG…Will got this right. True, lasting change for the better comes from innovation. Trying to copy Bama is not a lasting solution….they’ve got a head start on it and will a,ways be in front institutionally. Not to imply they win every game ever, but their odds of lasting success are much higher UNTIL someone disrupts their model. Scam Newton did that. Corch knows how. Kirby is a DGD and may uphold Georgia football “traditions” but that simply may not lead to sustained success, other than maybe in the SEC East. I don’t know iif the answer was Herman (and frankly doubt he’s would have come / right guy anyway) but we damn sure missed a huge opportunity to bring a real innovator / disrupter to Athens to take us a lot further than becoming Bama Lite.
Our administration is playing the wrong game.
Also, now that Miles is out at LSU there are only 4 active head coaches that have won National Titles. Saban, Meyer, Stoops, and Fisher. Saban has as many Nat’l Titles as all the others combined. Saban has five and the rest have five combined. Pretty impressive. Makes you realize finding a coach who can win a National Championship or even winning one isn’t exactly that easy.
“Makes you realize finding a coach who can win a National Championship….isn’t exactly that easy.”
Makes who realize? Not much of Dawg Nation. Lol.
It’s simple, really.
1) Hire a coach.
2) Hand him the keys.
3) Hand him the checkbook.
4) Don’t ask questions.
Hope he doesn’t drive your program off of a cliff.
Oh….wish you’d told us that a little sooner.
Siskey
By my math the only two SEC coaches who were at their school when Saban was hired that have won the SEC since he has been at Alabama are Meyer in 08 and Miles in 07 and 11 .Bama won in 09, 12, 14, and 15. As the article states the two that were hired after him that won were Chizik and Mahlzan who won it in 2010 and 2013. Of the remainder who remained at their school from his hiring only Richt, Miles and Spurrier lasted more than a few years.
This just underscores how successful and in my lifetime anyway unprecedented he has been since coming to Alabama.
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← Judge not Kirby Smart, lest ye be judged.
Your weekly non-Dawg… er, no Dawg game day post, 10/22 edition →
Who is this “defensive coordinator” you speak of?
Pretty amazing — an almost 1500-word piece on how Alabama changed its defense for the better after 2012 without a single mention of Kirby Smart.
It’s reassuring to know that the brain trust at Georgia saw through the public perception of “it’s Saban’s defense” to get the man they wanted.
To be fair, I doubt the truth on Smart’s role in fashioning the ‘Bama defense is anywhere near that absolute. I also doubt that anyone at Butts-Mehre who had a hand in hiring Smart had the first clue about how to gauge that.
Blind faith is what makes religion run. It’s not the best guiding principle for managing a football program, though.
Filed under Georgia Football, Nick Saban Rules, Strategery And Mechanics
89 responses to “Who is this “defensive coordinator” you speak of?”
My observation though on Kirby is his defense in Georgia is much better than his offense, so I can assume he at least learned something under Saban, LOL.
8th in the country last year in scoring D’, they are now 64th. Not sure if they have improved anywhere…
Not mentioning Kirby is not unusual. The names of pharaohs in Egypt is routinely erased from monuments when a new God takes over, haha.
They certainly had Deshaun Watson’s number. He only has 478 yards of offense and 4 passing tds against them. Coaching genius right there. Who else could take merely the no. 1 recruiting class every year and hold Deshaun Watson to his third highest passing yardage total in his career in the biggest game of he year?
Mos def. I mean, Watson, he like, sucks right?
He’s a hell of a football player. Alabama struggles against good qbs. They destroy mediocre qbs. Just tell the truth and quit acting like saban is some destroyer of top qbs.
The story starts with Manziel and then they fix it, right? Guess what? 12 months later it was again 14-0 A&M in the first quarter. If the argument is that well it took time, I give you January 2016.
Most teams would have said let’s make someone else on Clemson’s team beat us. That’s not how Alabama rolls. Obviously, they’ve been wildly successful, but it isn’t because of some game day coaching genius.
The main way that Alabama has countered the new approach to offense, is its own new approach to offense. Of course to do that is to not focus all attention on the great satan.
I get it. You don’t like Kirby. That’s fine. But citing Watson and JFF as examples of Alabama struggling against good QBs is absurd. Guess what? EVERYONE struggled against those guys came they were once in a generation players for their programs (how’d you miss Cam on your list, btw?)
Saban’s D made Tebow cry, pwned Dak, shut out Connor Cook, and knocked Colt McCoy out of a national title game.
He’s beaten very good to great QBs before. The ones that have beaten him are either all-timers, or just played the games of their life against him (Stephen Garcia, Nick Marshall).
This isn’t about Kirby. Not even close.
I hate saban. Period. End of story.
I just wish that the sports media was capable of correctly analyzing why saban has been successful instead of feeding bullshit to the masses.
He recruits at a high level.
He isn’t afraid to screw over a kid to get a better kid.
He’d get Ted Bundy a room at the sorority if he ran a 4.3.
Because of those factors, he doesn’t have to make major adjustments week to week. He can count on winning enough one in ones matchups to win the game.
Where does Kirby come in? Who knows? If he can recruit top 3 classes what he learned will transfer quite well. If not? Who knows? Although from the same coaching tree, Pruitt was able to adjust to talent deficiencies. Hopefully, CKS won’t have to.
U P Reluctantly
I’m a hater that’s for sure. He’s a no good SOB. It will bug me to my dying day that CMR didn’t punch it in 4 years ago.
To have done it treating people right would have been a great message. Instead the lesson taken is that the key is to be a horrific human being. That’s unfortunate in my view.
Aaron: why didn’t you throw it to TK?!?!?
Punching is more CPJ’s forte
What did that have to do with Kirby? Get yourself together.
Ah. Another fan of College Sports Radio! I started listening recently when I realized if I had to listen to Lebatard, etc.for another second, I’d pull the radio out of my dashboard. Remember when ESPN used to talk about sports? Yeah, me too.
Yes, listen about 6-7 months of the year to that station, all but when the talk is on baseball or basketball. My wife isn’t so crazy about it but anytime I am in the car it is on…sometimes in the house when there is lots going on. Gets a little goofy sometime but keeps you in touch with other programs and their fans/coaches.
I enjoy that station quite a lot too.
Snoop Dawgy Dawg
This is pretty darn accurate to describe how to beat Saban and always has been true. Saban’s defenses tee off on teams that can’t push the ball downfield. Period.
His defenses, historically, have loved man coverage, putting corners on islands. You don’t beat him by running the ball. his defense is built to shut that down. To beat his teams, you have to be able to press the ball downfield against his corners, throwing them open.
It’s not rocket science, but it isn’t easy either. Also, this isn’t controversial, in my mind. he has better players than you do, generally, so you have to have advantages against his team weaknesses in order to beat him.
this means, ability to push it downfield, and simply outscore them. Examples: UGA-LSU 2004, UGA-Bama 06, Clemson-Bama 16, A&M games.
Not all are wins by the opposition, but that’s the blueprint to beat him. it’s why Murray was able to come inches away from beating him in ’12, because he could get the ball to his WRs on those back shoulder fades, which ate them up. we just didn’t have the horses on defense to stick with them all game.
It isn’t rocket science but it works because there are so few teams that have the qb with the requisite mix of talent/balls/lacks of good sense to get it done. I just get really frustrated when OSU and Clemson exploit the shit out of them and nobody ever says: Saban, dude. How about a little cover 2?
I think part of coaching is optimizing your advantages, covering up your liabilities, limiting the other guy’s strengths and taking advantage of their weaknesses. When you’ve got the best players, the hardest parts are baked in the cake.
I think Saban made a change last year to address this problem by basically have two platoons of defensive fronts. He has the luxury of having enough talent/depth but the underlying problem affects every other team that faces multiple styles of offense. SEC may be the conference with the biggest problem dealing with this as they have good teams that employ both traditional and spread offenses littered through out the schedule. Big 12 and PAC12 teams rarely see a power running team or fullbacks, Big Whatever rarely sees a true spread offense in their conference. SEC has good spread offenses (A&M, Auburn, Miss State, Mizzou) and serious power running games (LSU, Bama, UGA past). Almost have to recruit two different types of DL and linebackers, we have struggled with this the past several years and may be caught in between…again.
due to my aforementioned wee ones, I haven’t seen as much football as I would prefer this year and haven’t seen much of Bama’s games. Also, with the arrival of Pruitt, I expect them to use some of the concepts we saw over the last 3 years, which does more to protect the secondary from exploitation that can lead to big plays.
Bama has more, better players than every team they’ve faced this year, which covers up many coaching style deficiencies, so we haven’t seen how they can be attacked successfully this year, really. that being said, Ole Miss whalloped them early on with exactly what I described up top. Pushing the ball downfield, until ole miss’ defense simply couldn’t keep up.
They are the gold standard in football right now, which is why every team in the SEC has a new coach over the last few years. Everyone wants a different coach that might be the one that can get them past Bama.
Bama is unquestionably the gold standard now, but this too shall pass. Hasn’t been that long ago they were in a mess and having coaching difficulties like TN has been going through. Some signs of instability this year with players leaving the program for the first time, had to happen with all the highly rated recruits sitting on the bench.
Hey, we were told here in Athens that Kirby having two jobs at that time was no big deal.
This story says no part of the process is bigger than recruiting the right jimmys and joes.
What is college football, if not religion?
Is Greg McGarity like a high priest, then?
markclegg
worse, a sadducee
Greg is more like the acolyte who hands the high priest the wine cup.
money-changer
Judas Iscariot?
ADGM? http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/18900000/Temple-of-Doom-Screencap-indiana-jones-18902567-1024-440.jpg
More like the usher that takes up the collection. Treasurer of the Temple. Something like that.
You’re such an existentialist, Blutarsky. Look outside yourself for meaning, brother.
If McG is the snake who ruins Eden!
Temple money changer, imo
The tiresome deacon you avoid like the plague.
Here’s a UGA fan practicing his religion Saturday afternoon. https://youtu.be/V-ffYA2KHFY
mykiesee
I bet you’re just a riot in social situations.
In the strictest, most traditional sense, college football is one of the few university sanctioned opportunities for the student body and faculty to enjoy some down time away from academia. Long ago when the student body was limited to having all aspects of life centered on campus, similar to living on a military base, there were things the universities did to satisfy free time for all the residents. CFB just happened to grow into what we have now. For a time, leaving campus proper was an unusual thing.
Kirby knows plenty and had his hand in plenty. He was making every defensive call, and recruiting nearly every kid. I thought, and still think, Kirby was and is the right man for the job. Saban will be 65 in a little over a week. He has 24 years experience on Kirby, but pretty soon that number will start to catch up with him on the recruiting trail. It caught Bobby. It caught SOS. It catches everyone. There is no stopping Father Time.
I love the game and Dawgs. I’m miffed by the rise of angst by what I believe is the constancy of an online presence surrounding teams (as I write on my favorite blog!!!) The immediacy of our culture has made us lose patience at an alarming rate.
I have witnessed, in person, every single loss in person for the last 22 seasons. I adamantly fought against the notion that Richt wasn’t the guy until I sat in the waning moments in Everbank last October. I knew then it was over, and needed to be. Now, Richt is struggling in Miami, too. I think he’ll turn it around there, but a 1st year regime is just hard.
I honestly don’t care that we didn’t vet Herman and Fuente because I don’t think they are right for us. I believe SEC recruiting would have eaten them up on the trail. I think they drastic change in offensive philosophies would have put us behind for a few years, and I’m not convinced they’re elite coaches. More convinced on Herman.
There wasn’t a slam dunk hire that promised sure fire instant success. If you know anything about football, you knew exactly what was going to happen in Ann Arbor and Columbus when those two guys took over. What we are seeing is that we’re going to have to live through a coach learning on the job as the head guy a little. What I do believe is that, frankly, he’s smarter than someone like Will Muschamp. I believe Kirby likes to win more, like Spurrier, who was willing to do anything to win. Will just wanted to be stubborn. I don’t think Kirby is that stubborn, and our offense is light years ahead of where Florida’s ever was under Will.
FWIW, Muschamp’s recruiting classes at Florida ranked 10th, 5th, 3rd, 10th. McElwain is ranked 22nd, 14th, and currently sits at 19th for 2017. That’s going to catch up with the Gators. McElwain inherited juniors and seniors that were the 3rd and 5th ranked classes and won a weak SEC East with them. He’s certainly a better on-field coach than Muschamp, but I’m not sure his early success is a sign of long-term success.
My rambling point? We just don’t have enough data to know much of anything. We can’t judge after 7 games. It stinks losing to Vandy…ever. Richt did it 2 times. Donnan never did. Goff did a couple times. Vince was prone to a few upsets. I don’t know. Maybe it will be a head scratcher for the season. Maybe it’s a harbinger. But Kirby knows enough to turn it around.
Daniel Simpson Day
Nice post, brother.
Agree with DSD. Nice post.
I’ve read these exact same sentiments for every Tennessee, Auburn and Miami hire in the last 10 years, almost verbatim. ‘He just needs enough time’ gradually morphs into ‘He’s had enough time’, and then it’s on to the next guy.
We can delude ourselves into thinking it’s about finding the ‘right guy’ by looking at whether he ticks certain boxes (the most suicidal one being ‘is he an alum’), but hiring a coach is a gamble, and we went the high risk/low reward route with Kirby.
Miami has lost 3 in a row with your idol at the helm. Lost by 21 last night. I guess they screwed up in their hire too.
Perhaps. Richt might have become the worst coach in the land the second after he was terminated. No evidence for it the second before, though.
It’s nice that you can hang your hat on his losses while our program is in the shitter for who knows how long.
And you’re hanging your hat on Kirby’s losses just so you can release personal frustration that has been pent up since your idol got fired.
We just lost to Vandy for the 3rd time in the last 11 seasons and you’ve been crying all week that the sky is falling. Get a grip.
So we probably aren’t going to go 9-3 or 8-4 again. Who cares? It’s where we are in the next 2-4 years that matters.
That’s where you are confused. I do not want Kirby to fail, and take no joy in his failure. I also don’t know that he won’t turn it around.
But his failure was always highly probable, as you can see from looking at similar hires over the last 20 years. It’s not your job to know that, so I don’t begrudge you hoping for the best. It was ADGM’s job, and he failed as badly as he possibly he could. He’s not just incompetent, he’s anti-competent, in that his decisions are worse than random.
Keep on hoping, man, that’s what college football is all about. I’ve spent too much time looking at other programs and the results of hires like this, so I can’t. The personal attacks are pointless.
I care. I don’t like losing to Vanderbilt. And I don’t think saying it’s inevitable or part of the process eliminates the possibility of me being upset about poor coaching decisions or a team not prepared to play. If you’re simply waiting for the next 2-4 years, then you’re willing to waste Nick Chubb’s career, for example, for the prospect of a 2018 SECEast Championship. Something about that doesn’t sit well with me.
I like Kirby, and I believe the positive direction he has for the program will come to fruition. I also respect the things Coach Richt did while he was here. Am I not allowed to be a Dawg fan if I think both of these things?
I also knew when I turned the tv off last Saturday that I was done with football this season. But here we are, about a week away, and I’m already starting sing the “gators, gators” song, and wistfully remembering how good it feels to be a Dawg fan victorious in Jax. That’s why college football is so great. Every game matters. I won’t look to 2018 because next Saturday has the ability to be the one of the greatest days in Georgia football history. This, every weekend, should be true.
See Blowtarsky’s reply to the exact same point above.
The above comment is to is to ATLDawg’s post above.
“we went the high risk/low reward route with Kirby.”
Yeah, you’ll never get success out of a long time assistant at Georgia. When we hired Dooley and Richt, we went after the top name in the country, looking for someone with 20+ years of head coaching experience.
Yep, Richt is the best assistant coach hire in the conference over the last 25 years by a country mile. And we thought we could hit the lottery twice in a row? And at least we knew Richt was responsible for the success on his side of the ball at FSU, so when he left they fell off a cliff. When Smart left Alabama, they might have actually gotten slightly better.
I think I might go with Bob Stoops for that. Richt is a top 3-5.
I said in conference, but expanding to national Stoops is the clear winner. What he’s done with second-tier talent is incredible.
Sorry I missed that
“Low reward” would have been staying where we were. Maybe you need to see more, but 15 years was a large enough sample size for most people to know what we had. A good coach that wasn’t going to take the program higher than it was and probably was never going to win another conference title, much less a national title (maybe there is a coach that went 10 years between SEC titles, but I don’t know who–once that window closes, it closes).
Again, it was simply time for a change. To me, as far as that change goes, Kirby is decidedly low risk: GA recruiting connections, pro style O, same D, etc.
Worst case scenario, Kirby flames out in 4 years and leaves us with the talent Zook/Boom left at Florida.
“once that window closes, it closes”
Nonsense that only makes sense to sports fans. Some of the greatest coaches in the history of the sport went two decades before their first title. Titles flow to coaches that win games. If your coach stops winning games at a high rate, can his ass, otherwise shut up and enjoy the show.
Sure, then who was the last coach to go 10 years between SEC titles?
No idea, it would never occur to me to pose a question whose answer could be totally reversed by the outcome of a single play (e.g. 5 yards in 2012). This is why titles are such an unreliable metric, they are super noisy. I believe Bill Connelly has called it the biggest fallacy in evaluating coaches, or something along those lines.
If a coach averages an SEC title every 5 years or so, a 10 year drought isn’t remotely surprising, that’s how probability works.
That probability only holds if everything else is static. The coaching got better over time.
My original point is that once your window to win titles closes, it doesn’t reopen. You can’t seem to refute that.
Refute it? I don’t even understand it. It appears to be an assertion that no matter how many games a coach wins, when he gets to the title game he will be compelled to lose it because of a window that closed years before, is that it? When did the window close on, oh, I don’t know, this guy’s title ambitions?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Osborne
You’re acting like what I’m saying is more complicated than it is because you don’t have a good response.
Here, I’ll break it down: once a coach at a school wins a title, the other schools respond. Some coaches are good enough and have a strong enough organization that they continue winning even though everyone around them is adapting specifically to stop them (Bryant, Saban, Spurrier at UF).
Other times, the other schools raise their level to the point that the coaches can’t keep up winning titles (Fulmer, Richt).
In no instance I can think of did a coach have success, then have a 10+ year drought, then win titles again.
Your position seems to be that UGA should have stayed where they were and prayed for something that had never happened because the alternative might be that the program takes a step back.
To you, the disappointment of a step back seems to outweigh the more likely possibility that fresh blood wins a title.
It’s either that, or the actual response would have to include about a week’s worth of education on probability and statistics. I tried, but it’s difficult. That’s mostly a compliment, by the way. Your position sounds perfectly reasonable as a sports fan, and would easily pass editorial review at ESPN, so it’s no wonder I cannot convince you of precisely what is wrong with it in a paragraph.
I’ll give it one last go: Richt’s record was perfectly consistent with a coach that wins titles, both conference and national, at a rate of once every 5 years and once every 12 years, respectively. His record showed no evidence of regression (even though yes, I agree it feels like it did), and this was true the day he was fired, from an objective, statistical perspective. Everything else is just gibberish, building arbitrary narratives from the random number generator that is sports. I understand why we do this, I do it too. The narratives feel real, but they aren’t.
gatri:
thanks, this is a great summation of where I was with CMR, though I had never distilled it so well.
I, like Derek last year, thought GL and CBS were major problems but CMR & UGA was not a dumpster fire and no need to press the panic button…simultaneously, I thought chilidawg was right that we were never going to get any better with CMR and were trending from his best work (2002-2005) towards his most mediocre (2008-2010).
I’m ok with the calculated risk and I’m now “all in” for Kirby b/c hie’s my coach and I pull for my team regardless.
But who was the last long-timer to finally break through and win a national title after not getting one? The most recent long-tenured coach I can think of was Fulmer in 98, and he hadn’t even spent a decade at UT before that one happened.
The other tricky part about the comparison is it’s not at all fair to compare 70s/80s football with 90s football, and even the most recent doesn’t compare to now — there is a bit more parity, more scholarship limits (hard to break through vs Bryant when he could sign your state’s best players and keep ’em on the bench just so you didn’t get them) and less offensive/defensive diversity (and to boot, fewer juniors leaving early for the NFL.)
I’m not saying it’s impossible for a coach to have a great career, miss out on even playing for a national title, and then put it together, but when people say it’s unlikely, they’ve got pretty firm factual ground to stand on.
They don’t, because it’s only a recent phenomenon, and a self-fulfilling one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
It is now impossible for any coach to last longer than Richt at a premier program without a title, so we’ll never see a coach do it again. It has nothing to do with whether or not those coaches could win titles. Such coaches were super common in days past, and in fact constitute a large portion of any ‘greatest coaches of all time’ list you would care to assemble.
Just off the top of my head I can name a guy who went eight years between SEC championships. His name is Vincent Joseph Dooley. We were champs in 1968 and co-champs in 1976.
If I recall correctly Frank Thomas went a long time between conference championships at Alabama.
Ok. I’m not sure what that has to do with the price of tea in China. My point was that 2016 would have been going into year 11 between conference titles.
If a coach won 10 division championships in a row and lost to the eventual national champion every year in the SEC championship game, would you still want to fire him because he hadn’t won the SEC in 10 years?
Be objective about it. You likely didn’t want him out entering the 2013 season. You probably didn’t want him out after 2013 given the rash of injuries to our best players including a record-setting quarterback. You wanted him out after the last 2 debacles in Jacksonville. By the way, that’s a reasonable take in my opinion. We should have beaten them senseless in ’14 and shouldn’t have tried the Bauta experiment in ’15.
It has nothing to do with tea prices. It does show that a coach can win an SEC title after several years. Obviously “the point of no return” is more than 8 years. You picked 10 years as “the point of no return” because it fits your narrative. How do we know the “point of no return” is not 13 years?
No, I picked 10 years because that’s how long it had been.
If you wanted to stay the course with Richt and believed he was going to win another SEC title, then that’s fine. I know a lot of people did. Just be realistic and realize that it would have been unprecedented.
It’s more likely that a new coach comes in and puts his own stamp on the program and wins a title than it is that a coach wins, then goes through a 10+ year drought, the wins another title.
Granted Kirby might not be the guy, but that’s a separate discussion.
I have not taken the time to look through the college football archives as to whether any coach won a championship at a school then did not win another at the same school for over a period of 10 years, but Hooper did remind us that Wally Butts did it.
I wonder if we apply the same rules from 1992 to now in evaluating prior years if there will be some coaches that went over 10 years between championships. That is confusing. Here is what I mean. From 1932 through 1991 the SEC allowed for co-championships and each co-champion could correctly call itself “SEC Champion. ” Dooley was actually a co-champion with Alabama in 1966, a co-champion with Kentucky in 1976 and a co-champion with Alabama in 1981. Since 1992 there have not been any co-champions. Using the current landscape on which there can only be 1 SEC championship, Dooley went from 1968 to 1980 without being an undisputed sole champion.
I have no clue about any other SEC teams and I am not going to look. I have no idea about any other conferences, either.
Wally Butts???
Absolutely. Butts went from 1948 to 1959. Great recall on your part.
Well it was 5 yards in 2012…. although the 350 rushing yards (almost 7 yards per carry) that Bama crammed down the throats of a less-than-full roster mighta had a little something to do with it.
I thought you heard Roterhals, it was all McGarity’s fault.
Dawgtwo
That’s an interesting take. And a reasonable one. Refreshing, after nearly a fortnight of reading missives from the War of the Dawg Fans.
Thanks. I try to stay unemotional and reasonably, but freely admit that I often fail.
Nice comment
You did everything except mention the Reserve Fund
In Re Football and Faith
Senator, you’re closer to the mark than you realize.
The arenas from the Greco-Roman empires (all over the Mediterranean) were primarily a place for public celebration of religious rites and festivals and a place for games and gladiators to a lesser extent. The smaller villages in the Mediterranean would have an arena that could seat several thousand while the temples would be quite small, often the size of a house. At the annual Zeus or snake cult festival, the crowds pile into the arena and the relics are paraded about.
To bring 93K into an arena for cheering and merriment, as well as earnest pleas for mercy to the football God’s is in our DNA, it would seem.
uga1960
kirby smart was a bad move,he is going to be a bust!!! bank on it!!!
buddyblog
We’ve got a Bible. God doesn’t ask us to have “blind” faith. Our faith is based on knowledge.
Yes indeed Buddy!
It seems like this year is just the flip side of last year: filled with close and somewhat ugly games decided by small margins and a few plays. We won most of those games last year and won 10 games. This year we are on the other side those games. Given the coaching transition and freshman QB that should not have come as a complete shock.
That doesn’t mean I like it (or that we shouldn’t expect improvement) but I think, objectively, it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.
Close, ugly games … that’s not an excuse to lose to Vandy and almost suffer the most embarrassing loss in program history to Nicholls … and I’m looking at it objectively.
“Blind faith is what makes religion run.”
Wow, Blutarsky is an expert on religion too!
I hate talking about religion sometimes. Probably because of the different flavors in our household. Jewish, Catholic, Baptist, Presbyterian. Yikes.
Honestly, Bluto’s comment there..made me pause and reflect. Out of his whole post that is what I continued to think about. I’m not saying he expected it or intended it. But there you go….go figure huh? Bluto wrote something that you felt annoyed with…supposition on my part. Yet I took something totally different away from that.
Football blogs…who knew?
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Josh Johnson
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Noles1985! 38
Yeah go back and read what you wrote. You said Johnson division 2 and App.State and Deleware are 1AA. And that is not right. I am just quoting you.
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IHateThe Cowboys! (4/8/2008)
da snowman (4/8/2008)
cocktailcove (4/8/2008)
Matthew Pritts (4/8/2008)
If TD drafts Johnson, let alone on the 1st day, he deserves to be fired on the spot.
You don't draft projects on the first day.
well matt ryan definatly shouldnt be drafted..
And why is that??.....other than he is white?:alien:
um no..because he is a project thats why..people want to label johnson as a project just because of the school he went to, matt ryan is a project also..sure he faced much tougher defenses, but he also had 17 suspect interceptions..
Wasn't it 19 ints? Either way, Ryan is a better QB, but again, if we can get Johnson in the 3rd round...forget Ryan!
Oh and Da Snowman, Question...would you rather have Vick or Peyton?
ummmmmm, thats a tough one..ummmm lets see...ummmmmm ill take vick for 1000 alex..DING DING DING....
So you would take Michael Vick over Peyton manning?
not sure what else to say to you. I knew the answer, but I am still shocked to hear it.
its not what you think tho..ill take matt schaub over manning, or maybe harrington, or even leftwich..ill take any falcons player over another teams QB..im not a fan of peyton manning. hes good, but i love my falcons.
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matt_jennifer (4/8/2008)
I agree on the Division II part I was wrong, but they are all I-AA which is a much better level of competition than D-II.
formul8or (4/8/2008)
That is all that I wanted. Plus people forget that he still payed to go to school and play football. Name one D1 player that would give up a scholorship like he did to stay at home play your true position?
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falconfansince66 (4/8/2008)
You all should stop all of your arguing about the QBs in THIS draft and join the train stating "We don't need to draft a stinkin' QB this year!". We need to build half a Defense and build an Offensive Line. Why waste a pick on another backup QB? "Build The Lines TD!!!"
Um, have you looked at next year's QB class?
It just might be the worst class of the last 15 years. It's that bad. So to answer your question, you're wrong. We need to draft a QB this year. YOu can do that and build your O-line around him in the same draft.
aveboogie2 (4/8/2008)
ForceFan27 (4/8/2008)
rollow lawson (4/8/2008)
He's a project moreso b/c of the level of competition he played against in 1-AA.
The competition jump from that to the NFL is astronomical.
It's funny how Flacco is never labeled as a project. Didn't he play 1-AA competition too?
I consider Flacco a project too from that standpoint. But he has much better physical tools and a higher ceiling then Johnson.
Much better physical tools?
Flacco's taller and has a stronger arm. Johnson's quicker and faster. I don't think the physical advantages are that much, if at all, in favor of Flacco.
Not to mention Johnson's the better passer with better pocket presence and the more experienced player.
Johnson's worst season is better than Brohm or Henne's best season.
Johnson averaged more rushing yards per game this season than Flacco, Henne and Brohm have total rushing yards combined for their careers.
He's thrown far more TD's, has a higher completion % and have a greater yds/att than Flacco, Henne and Brohm as well.
I think this is the point which you guys will use the strength of competition argument to your favor?
My mind is made up on Johnson.
It's easy to do what he did when he played as weak of competition as he did.
oh really..well take yo a** to a d-1 school and play QB and lets see if you can match what he did on the field..are you that much of a hater, or just a matt ryan lover??
me4falcons 578
Okay, Now we know that statement is BS. Why not tell everyone that you really don't want another black QB on this team. At least we will know where you truely stand.
me4falcons (4/8/2008)
I'm the furthest thing from a racist you'll ever find.
DOn't ever try to play the race-card w/me again.
falconfansince66 3,385
Yeah, the QB's in next year's draft downright stink too and we shouldn't try to draft one then either. Plan: We wait two years on a QB after we build everything else up. Then we target a Free Agent in 2010 and maybe also draft a QB to learn if that particular draft looks good. Maybe by that time we'll be able to afford to waste a pick on a QB.
I did NOT call you a racist but, you clearly don't perfer QB's with DARK SKIN.
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Josh Johnson is a good 3rd round pickup because he is a wild card. which is the same reason you wouldn't pick him up before then. He is athletic enough to deserve a third pick but he is to unpredictable to spend a 2 on him. but i got no problems with a 3 on him as long as its the first QB we are taking.
rollow lawson 3
Yeah, I bet some of your best friends are black. ROFLMAO!!
No offense, but that's a totally asinine strategy.
You never wait on a QB if you need a QB, unless you wanna continue to have 4 or 5 win seasons.
YOu don't win unless you have a franchise QB. W/your plan, the Falcons won't start winning consistently until 2012, b/c the QB we draft in 2010 will sit a year, come in in 2011, and start winning consistently in 2012.
Do you really want that?
Stupid, stupid idea.
DOn't ever talk to me again unless you can talk to me like a normal human being instead of making accusations.
aveboogie2 0
Both Henne and Brohm played much weaker competition than Woodson or Booty.
walrus falcon 0
Good grief, don't be so ignorant. If it is so easy, then why didn't all QBs put up the same numbers as JJ did? The numbers he put up were insane. It doesn't matter who he played, 43:1 says that he is, at the very least, worth a look.
Furthermore, like somebody else mentioned, it's not like he was on a team of all-stars. The level of talent on his team was about the same as the level of talent of his competition. He dominated, that's all there is to it. As you would say, you fail.
It's obvious that you don't believe we can get two more years of service with the QBs we have now and that's quite alright for you to believe that. As for winning 'consistently in 2012', yeah, that's much better than the previous 40-something years this franchise has been in existance as we've yet to have back-to-back winning seasons so I for one would be willing to wait to 2012 if I knew 2013, 2014 and 2015 were going to be winning seasons as well.
If you really believe Redman is the answer, then I'm not talking to you on this board anymore.It's already apperent that you have no idea what you're talking about if you're wanting to wait 2 yrs. to address the most important position on the field and continue to lose.
Keep hanging on to that losing mentality, though.
YOu Atlanta fans will learn that you can't win consistently w/o a franchise QB. Look at Indy, PIT, Phi, NE and even SD.
THE ForceFan27™ 14
The Force is Strong With 27
This thread has just gotten plain stupid. What the heck is wrong with some of you?
walrus falcon (4/8/2008)
Nope Idon't.
My mind is made up on JOhnson. He's a project at best and MIGHT be ready in 3 or 4 years.
We need someone who is ready to start right away if neccessary.
IHateThe Cowboys! 0
Agreed....I'm out and moving on. Everyone wants to throw out the race card...it is a beating.
Matthew Pritts (4/8/2008)We need someone who is ready to start right away if neccessary.
Good luck finding a starter in this draft (and next year's draft). And you thought I was the stupid one....:hehe:
The last thing I'm saying to you is that this is an underrated QB draft w/2 franchise guys in HEnne and Brohm, and possibly 3 if Flacco works out.
IT's been misevaluated by the pundits b/c of their overrating of Ryan.
Now I'm done w/this thread.
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Jp7833 (4/8/2008)
More and more I see more people jumping on the JJ band wagon. I wanted to know why people see that he is so great or think that he is going to be great. I've watched his highlights, they are impressive but you have to think he is throwing against kids who wouldnt have made it onto most of our high school teams. Anyways, I would really appreciate if people could give me ground evidence of why they think JJ is one of the best prospects at QB in the draft. Dont just say "He is the future!" thats not a real answer.
Talent, tenacity and leadership are some things that many see in Josh Johnson. He may resemble Vick, but he has shown accuracy, mobility and was coached by a former NFL QB for three years.
I believe Johnson can handle NFL pressure moreso than the other popular, mainstream, college QBs such as Ryan, Henne, Brohm and others.
Johnson has the ability to manage a game, adjust to pressure and be able to keep his teammates believing they can win. I don't believe Matt Ryan, Brohm or Flacco are multi-dimensional in the same way Johnson is.
There are no guarantees, but if the Falcons want to get a QB who can help this team in the short-term with long term possibilities, Josh Johnson isn't a bad choice.
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Grow Boating elects Bryan Seti chairperson, names new board officers
Earlier this month, Bryan Seti, general manager of sales and marketing, Yamaha WaterCraft Group, was elected chairperson of the Grow Boating Board of Directors during their annual meeting in Chicago. Seti succeeds Joe Lewis, owner and general manager of Mt. Dora Boating Center, who served as chairperson from 2011 through October 2019.Seti joined Yamaha in 1998 and leads sales and ...
US Department of Commerce honors Yamaha Marine Precision Propellers
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Dometic receives Yamaha Motor Global Award
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Yamaha dealer, college create new outboard training course
Steve Arnold, owner of Yarmouth Boat Yard, Moose Landing Marina, and Freedom Boat Club of Maine, recently collaborated with Yamaha Marine and Southern Maine Community College (SMCC) in South Portland, Maine, to combat the challenge of recruiting and retaining qualified marine technicians. The result is a grant-funded extensive Yamaha Outboard Motor Repair training program that is now offered at SMCC ...
Yamaha makes executive team changes
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The Yamaha U.S. Marine Business Unit begins 2019 with several important executive team and structural changes that will help the marine manufacturer/distributor realize its 2030 Vision, announced by Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. last December. The changes will maximize synergies and strengths across the organization to better serve customers, dealers and boat builders. “As we look to the year 2030 ...
Skeeter Boats, Yamaha to sponsor Major League Fishing events
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Based on the award-winning F25, Yamaha developed the new T25 in response to requests for lightweight, electronic fuel injected performance in a small, high-thrust configuration. “The new T25 has the best power-to-weight ratio of all high-thrust 25 horsepower outboards,” said Ben Speciale, Yamaha U.S. Marine Business Unit President. “If you have a small but heavy vessel to power, this outboard ...
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Home Boca Raton Development Midtown Boca – YES…‘Resident Friendly’ and Here’s Why
Midtown Boca – YES…‘Resident Friendly’ and Here’s Why
Glenn Gromann
Publisher’s Comment:
Please view the video below. It contains evidence that the 2500 residential unit suggestion in the Midtown project may not be the developer’s need but was derived from the 2012 adoption of the PMD ordinance. In 2015, some members of the current council raised the issue and discussed this element at length.
Councilmen Singer initiated the subject and Councilman Weinroth reacted. The Mayor affirmatively states in the video that the 2012 PMD ordinance would not have gotten her support without the 2500 cap.
Midtown Boca is attempting to get a regulatory process in place, Nothing is off the table, nothing is on it either….that is the process we are in…
P&Z is the next step….rational argument will win the day. Please continue to participate in the public discourse.
Residents do have the power to effect ‘resident friendly’ change. Take advantage of that power!
Al Zucaro. Publisher
As your neighbor and having lived and worked in the Midtown (Town Center) area for nearly 30+ years I am excited to provide these ideas for both residents and developers consideration and appreciate publication by BocaWatch. Not only am I a resident in the area but I developed projects and have undertaken and made infrastructure improvements in the Town Center area as part of the Milan office building re-development.
On Thursday the P&Z Board will take up what is now a City sponsored “Implementing Ordinance” under the Planned Mobility designation the City approved in 2011 for the Town Center area that is being referred to as “Midtown”. It is important to understand there is no specific project being approved anywhere in the affected area. The implementing ordinances are simply a roadmap for prospective development. Similar implementing ordinances have already been effectuated in the Northwest section of the City around the existing Tri-Rail station, BRIC (Boca Raton Innovation Center—formerly IBM/T-Rex) and The Park at Broken Sound. The prospective Ordinance is not that much different than what has already been previously adopted by the City.
This scenario and the area itself provide for the substantial opportunity for direct resident input and cooperation with developers–and the development of a ‘resident friendly’ motif on a macro-economic level. The recent resident interaction with regard to the Ocean Palm project provided a “win-win” framework for cooperation, consensus and compromise between all involved. There are many ideas of a positive nature that can be initiated. Midtown Boca really is a “win-win” opportunity waiting to happen.
One of the first questions that one needs to consider is how to accomplish this goal. In this regard I would present what I call the “Know Your Developer” Rule.
Is the Developer local do they know the area? Are they willing to listen? As regards Crocker Partners and Cypress Realty the answer is a resounding YES. Crocker is based in Boca Raton and they were responsible for building Mizner Park, Boca Center and the two larger office properties. Cypress developed Abacoa, a very resident and pedestrian friendly project and other residential products throughout Palm Beach County.
A follow-up question is has the Developer invested a significant amount of money in Boca Raton and are they long term players. The answer with Simon (the Mall owners) and Trademark is a resounding yes. The Mall has ALWAYS been a first class operation and has invested millions in our community. Trademark purchased Glades Plaza for nearly $400 p.s.f. The Town Center Mall is the second highest tax ratable in the Palm Beach County. It is interesting to note we also have the unusual circumstance where ALL the property owners and developers in the area are in support of these implementing ordinances. This means the ability for great cooperation with residents on an overall level. Also, many changes have been made since these ordinances were first introduced. Crocker has held public forums and the developers and property owners are actively listening.
The next question is whether the area can support ‘resident friendly’ infrastructure and other (landscaping, lighting, street furniture, traffic calming, transit) benefits to residents. The answer once again is a resounding YES! Sometimes there are material conditions that create insurmountable issues in fixing things such as traffic, beautification and positive pedestrian friendly change. SUCH IS NOT THE CASE with Midtown.
Having actually constructed infrastructure improvements in the area, I can tell you unequivocally that there are amazing opportunities to address traffic and other issues in the area through turn lanes, parallel parking, median landscape, traffic calming, sidewalks, etc. I intend to suggest these as a resident of the Midtown Boca area and on behalf of residents in general. I have no doubt that when individual projects move forward that they will be good ones where the interaction will be similar to the Ocean Palm success story.
The developers involved have clearly indicated their intent to listen to residents and address these issues. We need to interact and the stewards of BocaWatch can clearly provide (and should provide) positive input on behalf of all residents. I have no doubt that this will occur and intend to participate.
That being said it is also important to note the following bullet points:
The land mass area in Midtown Boca where any residential development would occur is actually greater than the Northwest because there are no PM developments in the BRIC (Former IBM property) and border properties which consist of roughly 183 acres which must be subtracted from the gross NW area.
There are pre-existing development rights in the area which consist of office and retail (Midtown Boca is in CG Zoning District.) These development rights are for more “intense” type developments than residential. This may seem counterintuitive but residential produces LESS traffic than either retail or office; with office being the most intense.
The City of Boca Raton has never increased “density” in the area. Pursuant to the last Comprehensive Plan, density in Midtown Boca is 20 units per acre (20 d.u.) as just as it is everywhere else in the City except Downtown. If this area had remained in Palm Beach County it could have been rezoned to a greater density.
Don’t be fixated on the cap of 2500 units, I live off Verde Trail there are two apartment complexes of about 500 units plus nearly 500 SFR’s which border a single lane undivided road. There are no traffic problems until you get to Military Trail at peak PM times. Under the former County Rules these apartments were developed under a density of nearly 30 units per acre—and all of Midtown Boca could have been rezoned to that density. When the City annexed this part of the County, it REDUCED the possible density. Since 2011, nearly six (6) years now, the NW section of the City has roughly seen about 1500 units approved and it is unlikely 2500 units will be built in the Midtown Boca area.
Midtown Boca has a higher concentration (the office buildings) of employment centers closer together than the Northwest. This is perfectly conducive to a TOD development especially with the new Tri-Rail station. From Boca Center you could actually comfortably walk or take a “Downtowner” type vehicle to most of the area—not so in the NW where things are spread out. The proposed shuttle will be just as convenient. Providing such a shuttle service is expected to be part of any development order that is put in place.
The City of Boca Raton is a tax and impact fee “donor” City. Required off-site roadway improvements and infrastructure can often be reimbursed from impact fees thus returning tax and impact fee money back to Boca Raton where it belongs. The only thing more exciting about doing infrastructure improvements is getting the County to pay part of it! Right now a lot of Boca money is being used to fix or build roads in Jupiter……
Every project will require a site specific traffic study which will provide the opportunity for traffic improvements in the area affected.
So what will be the result of a ‘resident friendly’ cooperative interaction with the Midtown developers and property owners, here are a few:
Better and more fluid traffic flow in peak and off-peak hours. Traffic calming, and on-street parking.
Increase in property values, with the greatest increases coming for areas like Paradise Palms and Boca Bath & Tennis where residents can make material improvements and additions to their properties–just as occurred behind Mizner Park in the Golden Triangle.
Beautiful medians, direct access to mass-transit and genuine place-making.
New landscaping, place-making signage and street furniture and exciting new venues to experience and explore.
Direct interaction with residents and the sharing of ideas will make this one of the most pre-eminent and valuable destinations to live, work and play. After all we have done this before—Mizner Park is world renowned—
Let’s make Midtown the same! Positive ideas create incredible places…..
Crocker Partners – Midtown Boca Traffic Fact Sheet
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Glenn Gromann is a 30+ year resident of Boca Raton and graduated from Rider University (B.A., Magna Cum Laude) in 1982, Seton Hall University School of Law in 1985 (J.D.) and The University of Miami School of Law in 1994 (LL.M, Real Property Development) graduating at the top of his LL.M class. He is a member of the State Bars of NY, NJ, TX, MI, MO, DC and HI, he was a former Authorized In-House Counsel under Florida Bar 17 from 1996-2010. He graduated from the U.S. Army Judge Advocate Generals School (Basic/Advanced Course) and is also Graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and retired as a Major. As a JAG officer Major Gromann participated and was attached to the 3rd Infantry Division (Mech) on active duty and also was involved with counter-drug operations in supporting USSOUTHCOM (Southern Command) Mr. Gromann has developed many real estate projects in the City of Boca Raton and elsewhere and he is the former Chair of the Downtown Boca Raton Advisory Committee and was a member of the City of Boca Raton Planning & Zoning Board. He is also an adjunct professor at the FAU School of Urban & Regional Planning and the father of one daughter Nicole who now attends Florida Atlantic University.
L.A. April 20, 2017 At 6:34 am
Military trail is already overused with bumper to bumper traffic during rush hours. The only way I would vote for this project is if it had no access from Military Trail.
Glenn Gromann April 21, 2017 At 12:55 am
I will be suggesting a lot of off site roadway improvements as well as BocaWatch. Stay tuned for positive results and updates.
Janet Robinson April 20, 2017 At 6:44 am
Very good article addressing the concerns that a resident would have regarding any Midtown project.
Glenn Gromann April 21, 2017 At 1:02 am
Thanks Janet more to come an appreciate your comment.
Tony Puerta April 20, 2017 At 3:37 pm
2500 units has similar impacts on the roadway network as 1.5 million SF of office. Do you really believe that the roadway system can handle that?
That analysis is not correct Tony. The roadway system can handle the existing development rights and you are not considering internal capture and the mass transit aspects of this. Each project will have to meet traffic concurrency requirements there is no way around this. I am suggesting a lot of off site roadway improvements, so stay tuned.
Bill DeAngelis April 20, 2017 At 4:09 pm
Is this the same Glenn Gromann that resigned his seat on the P&Z board and was showcased in a Boca Watch article by Katie Barr on March 28th as RESIDENT UNFRIENDLY?
Does he not have real estate holdings in midtown area.
Was he not pressured to resign his seat due to conflicts of interest among other things.
https://bocawatch.org/glenn-gromann-resident-unfriendly-personified/
Bill your statement is incorrect. I am resident friendly and we are trying to keep this discussion civil and informative. There are positive things that can be done to address Midtown concerns.
Cindi Rocks April 21, 2017 At 3:20 pm
Thank you for the info, Bill.
Donna April 20, 2017 At 9:41 pm
I do not believe the roadways could handle the traffic of an additional 2500 rental units. Midtown Boca will be to the detriment of the residents in the cental Boca area increasing both traffic and crime. The city should reject thsee 145 feet high, 12 storty buildings.. The fact that the apartments are starting at 500 sf really translates to attracting lower income tenants, low end jobs.
Donna, the buildings will not be 145′ tall the FAA will not permit that. My understanding is that all buildings will be under 100′ also their are major traffic fixes in store some I will be suggesting, 2500 units is the cap not necessarily what will be built.
Alfred Zucaro April 21, 2017 At 6:00 am
I invited Glenn Gromann to contribute an article to BW on the Midtown proposal after he was no longer on the P&Z board and because he is one of the most knowledgeable people in town on the issue. This decision has been met with a lot of push back. That is on me….but….What I asked of him was to write about things within the Midtown proposal and things that could be added to the proposal that would potentially make the final product ‘resident friendly’.
Two Saturdays ago, I spent an hour with him riding around the 300+ acre geography where he identified modest off site roadway improvements for the developer to include that could immediately and effectively relieve traffic congestion on the roadways. In the next few weeks, BW will catalogue and itemize these locations and make suggestion for the developer and the city planners to consider as the proposal goes forward.
At the Midtown Boca Resident town hall meeting this past Tuesday, I learned about the trolley system that is proposed and about the concept of internal absorption where car trips from one section of Midtown to another are reduced by alternative transport possibilities….another positive idea to relieve the traffic and congestion concerns….
I also talked with Angelo Bianco at Crocker about this 2500 residential unit cap….This item is truly the lightning rod for many of the concerned residents. I believe that this number may have actually come from city staff and is based upon the maximum number of units that was allowed in the PMD approved in the North West sector of the city. I intend to meet with others who were instrumental in the implementation of the N W sector PMD next week to further discuss this situation. That cap for the N W sector PMD has not been reached and may never be reached. It is highly unlikely that the final approval for Midtown will have this 2500 cap but that is yet to be determined….
Finally, land owners have rights…Density and Intensity of development under the county rules would be more impactful than under the city rules. Residents are better off under the city rules. That said, the myths and misinformation circulating need to be addressed. Negative sentiment is hurtful and only communication and community will resolve it. That is what I am trying to accomplish by opening BW to opinions from all sides….BW offers an opportunity for opinions to be aired without the restraint of a 5 minute public statement in chambers but rather in a marketplace of ideas for all the consider….
Community requires that all voices have the opportunity to be heard….to censure or stifle the dialogue defeats the purpose….
Al Zucaro
Ian.MacDougall April 21, 2017 At 10:57 am
Thank you for publishing Mr. Gromann’s views so that we can benefit from listening to someone we might disagree with.
Imagine a court system where there is only a prosecutor and no defending attorney, and you are to be judged. You would not feel confident that justice would be served. After all, every argument has a counter-argument that needs to be heard.
For better, more educated decisions, all sides that have something to say should have a say. Which means that they should have the right to disagree and the opportunity to disagree.
Kris Mortensen April 22, 2017 At 7:45 am
Hard to decipher considering the source. Too many times we’ve been told one thing while another happens. It will be interesting to see how things develop with this project & if in fact the residents remain in the loop. Curious to see what ordinances will be adopted & which variances granted. As a Boca Resident of over 30 years, it’s been a LONG time since the City Council could be trusted to work with residents & if that is the new direction of progress it would be a welcomed one. That being said, it would take some pretty miraculous traffic ‘calming’ to handle a project of this size in that area. Its already congested as is. Glades Road is one of the biggest traffic disasters in South Florida. And I do not believe trolleys will be a major factor in reducing trips east/west because everything else is so spread out, people will need to rely on the freedom their cars provide. Having grown up in Paradise Palms & parents who still live there, I will be keeping a close eye on what is SAID and what is DONE.
Rocky Mazza April 22, 2017 At 8:31 am
Seems like easy fix is to cut down number of proposed residential units and add more retail and restaurants to the plan.
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Microsoft, the USA PATRIOT Act, and European cloud computing
by Paul Miller on 5 January, 2012 • 13:14 • 2 Comments
Microsoft announced last month that its Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, Office 365, will better comply with European guidelines to ensure that customer data is adequately protected. This move is certainly welcome, but the long-armed spectre of the USA PATRIOT Act continues to hang over Microsoft and other US companies, regardless of customers’ nationality or the country within which Microsoft might physically host a particular customer’s data.
The PATRIOT Act’s acronymic name may evoke harmless images of bunting, parades, and national anthems, but the reality is rather different. A product of America’s post-9/11 entrenchment, the Uniting (and) Strengthening America (by) Providing Appropriate Tools Required (to) Intercept (and) Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 affords the Federal Government wide-ranging and far-reaching powers that show little — if any — respect for geographic boundaries or inconveniently contradictory local legislation. A US company (like Microsoft or Amazon) is subject to the Act’s powers all around the world. A US citizen’s data, stored in a US company’s data centre that is physically situated in the United States is subject to the Act, and everyone might be reasonably comfortable with that. But so is a German citizen’s data, stored in an Amazon data centre in Ireland; and German, Irish and European lawmakers appear almost powerless to intercede.
European countries tend to be stricter about use (and abuse) of personally identifiable information than the US. Although surveys identify some national differences, it also appears that Europeans broadly embrace the approach taken by their governments. And, anecdotally, conversations with European and American entrepreneurs and European and American individuals repeatedly point to rather different sets of basic presumptions operating on either side of the Atlantic. Europe’s Data Protection Directive, and its implementation in national legislation such as the UK’s Data Protection Act, are clear about the ways in which a citizen can expect data about themselves to be collected, stored, shared and used. The penalties for intentional abuse could probably be tougher, but the sentiment remains clear. The Safe Harbor Principles provide mechanisms by which US companies can self-certify that their normal operating procedures meet European standards (Microsoft, Google, Amazon and many others do this). The February 2010 ‘model clauses‘ that Microsoft embraced last month codify some of these protections in a manner that — theoretically — makes it easier for customers’ lawyers to understand what Microsoft will do with their data. It’s unlikely that the legalese (PDF) will actually make things any clearer for the average customer, though.
So, from the perspective of Europe’s governments and citizens, and for US companies that choose to trade here, things appear more or less ok. Personally identifiable data can be collected, stored, shared and used, but only within a set of constraints that Europeans broadly seem comfortable with. Unfortunately, all those Safe Harbor self certifications and model clause endorsements are summarily ignored whenever the PATRIOT Act is invoked. Data Protection Directive requirements not to transfer data to random third parties are trumped by PATRIOT Act powers enabling the US Federal Government to take what it wants. Data Protection Directive stipulations that citizens be informed when their data are taken are over-ruled by the PATRIOT Act’s cloak of secrecy. And on and on the list of contradictions continues. And the PATRIOT Act wins every time, because its powers, its penalties, and its backers are so much scarier than the officials in Brussels. Despite tougher language, it’s not clear that sweeping changes to Europe’s data protection directive will really resolve the contradictions. Indeed, once enshrined in law, the proposals will most likely result in more polarisation, not less.
In Europe too, of course, there are exemptions to the data protection legislation specifically intended to permit reasonable use of data by law enforcement agencies and others. This makes sense, and it could be argued that the PATRIOT Act is simply more of the same. But it’s not, because European law enforcement agencies must demonstrate a far clearer need before they’re allowed to — legally — start rooting through a citizen’s data.
It is unlikely that the PATRIOT Act is routinely invoked, or that US officials spend much time reading Europeans’ email. The cloud — even the parts run by US companies — remains broadly safe, secure, and reliable. Safe Harbor provisions, model clauses, and the ability to insist that data normally resides in one territory or another remain an effective means of ensuring that day-to-day cloud operations meet user needs whilst complying with relevant local, regional and international legislation. But, every now and again, the PATRIOT Act will be invoked, and data will be taken. Whilst it’s something to be aware of, it’s probably not something for most people to lose too much sleep over. You’re more likely to lose data yourself, or have it escape into the wild because of an error in your own systems or a malicious hack by a competitor. And you could and would be held accountable for those breaches, in a way that you almost certainly wouldn’t for a PATRIOT Act data seizure.
So the PATRIOT Act may not be as scary as it might now appear. But it remains a visible illustration of a rather more worrying issue; a belief that the laws of one country should be able to trample over the laws of other countries at will — even inside those countries. Further, it suggests a (growing?) disconnect between the attitudes and expectations on either side of the Atlantic. And one particular aspect of that is the subject for my next post.
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A nice approach towards explaining the Americans why we Europeans struggle. There is more to it though.
1st You need to differ between consumer services and enterprise services. The model clauses really are an approach to deal with enterprise services and contracts. I have not seen these used by any company for consumer services and the way they are written that will not happen.
2nd data privacy in Europe is all about PID. Many enterprises though are not worried about PID (apart from the need to comply with local law) but with their trade secrets, patents, etc. These are not protected by European data privacy laws but at least in a perceived risk by the Patriot Act. There is fear that US companies will be granted access to strengthen the US economy. Sounds like spy book? Maybe, but this is what concernc European companies.
3rd A lot of the fear Europe about the Patriot Act is ambiguity and lack of knowledge.
4th there is no such thing so far as European data privacy rules. So far there a regional laws that have string to European guiding principles. This may change in the near future as the European commission is just working on a general rule. This rule will increase e.g. data privacy in France will it will decrease data privacy in Germany for enterprise. On the consumer side though it will be a huge step forward for all EU countries.
The big thing though is that most people, companies, etc look at the Patriot Act just in light of cloud computing or social media while it applies to all areas of business (and life). So the classic outsourcing deal falls under it as well. This is missed and it is funny that cloud computing is damned for the Patriot Act while as an alternative companies close a contract with likes of IBM or HP.
More on this and other cloud computing topics on http://www.cloud-discussions.com
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CoastWatch provides science quality diffuse attenuation coefficient data at 490nm wavelength from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites. These data are received and processed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The diffuse attenuation coefficient is a good measure of water clarity. This is a Science Quality dataset, which is made available on a delayed time frame to allow for improvements in the data processing.
Technical Summary:
CoastWatch offers diffuse attenuation coefficient data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor on NASA's Aqua satellite. Information on the Aqua and Terra satellites, the MODIS sensor, and NASA's Ocean Color projects can be found on NASA's OceanColor Web. The GSFC receives and processes raw satellite data using the SeaWiFS Data Analysis System (SeaDAS) software (Fu et al., 1998). Satellite data is processed to diffuse attenuation coefficient using an updated version of Mueller, 2000. For more information on the NASA product, see http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/PRODUCTS/k490.html .
Data is made available at 5.5km resolution for the Pacific Ocean Basin. The data are mapped to an equal angle grid of 0.05 degrees latitude by 0.05 degrees longitude using simple arithmetic means to produce single-pass and composite images of various duration (1,3,8, and 14-days, and monthly).
Despite our best efforts, incorrect data may often appear within near real time data sets. NOAA CoastWatch accepts no liability for use of these data products. It is recommended that these products NOT be used for navigation.
If this data is used for presentation or publication, please acknowledge the NOAA CoastWatch Program, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, OceanColor Web.
Fu, G., Baith, K. S., and McClain, C. R. "SeaDAS: The SeaWiFS Data Analysis System", Proceedings of "The 4th Pacific Ocean Remote Sensing Conference", Qingdao, China, July 28-31, 1998. 73-79.
Mueller, J.L. 2000: SeaWiFS algorithm for the diffuse attenuation coefficient, K(490), using water-leaving radiances at 490 and 555 nm. In O'Reilly, J.E. and co-authors: SeaWiFS Postlaunch Calibration and Validation Analyses, Part 3. S.B. Hooker and E.R. Firestone, Eds., NASA/TM-2000-206892, Vol. 11, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, 24-27.
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Cinema advertising poster for "White Hunter, Black Heart"
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Merseyside Film Institute Poster Archive
Merseyside Film Institute
Cinema publicity poster for the film 'White Hunter, Black Heart', 1990, directed by Clint Eastwood and featuring Clint Eastwood and Jeff Fahey.
Overall, 750mm x 1010mm
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Diversity-multiplexing tradeoff of asynchronous cooperative diversity in wireless networks (2007)
by S Wei
Venue: IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory
Asynchronous cooperative diversity
by Shuangqing Wei, Dennis L. Goeckel, Matthew C. Valenti - IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun , 2006
"... Abstract — Cooperative diversity, which employs multiple nodes for the simultaneous relaying of a given packet in wireless ad hoc networks, has been shown to be an effective means of improving diversity, and, hence, mitigating the detrimental effects of multipath fading. However, in previously propo ..."
Abstract — Cooperative diversity, which employs multiple nodes for the simultaneous relaying of a given packet in wireless ad hoc networks, has been shown to be an effective means of improving diversity, and, hence, mitigating the detrimental effects of multipath fading. However, in previously proposed cooperative diversity schemes, it has been assumed that coordination among the relays allows for accurate symbol-level timing synchronization at the destination and orthogonal channel allocation, which can be quite costly in terms of signaling overhead in mobile ad hoc networks, which are often defined by their lack of a fixed infrastructure and the difficulty of centralized control. In this paper, cooperative diversity schemes are considered that do not require symbol-level timing synchronization or orthogonal channelization between the relays employed. In the process, a novel minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) receiver is designed for combining disparate inputs in the multiple-relay channel. Outage probability calculations and simulation results demonstrate the not unexpected significant performance gains of the proposed schemes over single-hop transmission, and, more importantly, demonstrate performance comparable to schemes requiring accurate symbol-level synchronization and orthogonal channelization. Index Terms — Cooperative diversity, asynchronous wireless network, minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) receiver, outage probability. I.
...Actually, (C1 + C2)/2 is the instantaneous mutual information of a relay channel with relay nodes using an identical codebook independent of what is sent by the source node [25]. It has been shown in =-=[26]-=- that when two relay nodes both have successfully decoded the source message and the relative delay satisfies |δτ|Bw > 2, whereδτ = τ1 − τ2 and Bw = 1/T is the bandwidth of the baseband signal when β ...
Opportunistic Distributed Space-Time Coding for Decode-and-Forward Cooperation Systems
by Yulong Zou, Baoyu Zheng
"... Abstract—In this paper, we consider a decode-and-forward (DF) cooperation system consisting of two cooperative users in sending their information to a common destination, for which the distributed space-time coding (DSTC) is applied in an opportunistic manner, called opportunistic DSTC (O-DSTC), dep ..."
Abstract—In this paper, we consider a decode-and-forward (DF) cooperation system consisting of two cooperative users in sending their information to a common destination, for which the distributed space-time coding (DSTC) is applied in an opportunistic manner, called opportunistic DSTC (O-DSTC), depending on whether the two users succeed in decoding each other’s information or not. We propose two O-DSTC schemes for the full-duplex and half-duplex relaying scenarios, which are, respectively, referred to as the full-duplex and half-duplex-based O-DSTC. We evaluate the outage performance of the proposed O-DSTC as well as the conventional selective DF (S-DF) cooperation and fixed DSTC (F-DSTC) schemes. Numerical results show that the O-DSTC outperforms the conventional S-DF and F-DSTC schemes considering both full-duplex and half-duplex. In addition, we develop the diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) of
...tual antenna array [3]. Recently, cooperative diversity has been studied extensively from different perspectives, e.g., outage probability analysis [4], [5], diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) [6]–=-=[9]-=-, and its applications to emerging cognitive radio networks [10]–[12]. A. Related Works Cooperative diversity has been first introduced in [3] by considering two cooperative users in a code-division m...
On Superposition Coding Based Cooperative Diversity Schemes
by Anil K. Goparaju
"... Abstract — We propose two-level superposition coding based relaying schemes in which optimal power and rate allocations are investigated. Instead of confining us with fixed decoding order, two-levels of signals are considered as virtual users in a two-user multiple access channel and we prove that i ..."
Abstract — We propose two-level superposition coding based relaying schemes in which optimal power and rate allocations are investigated. Instead of confining us with fixed decoding order, two-levels of signals are considered as virtual users in a two-user multiple access channel and we prove that in certain cases the optimal joint multiuser decoding is equivalent to an approach using successive interference cancellation in a fixed order. Numerical results are provided to show the improvements in power savings using our proposed strategies compared with fixed rate and single level coding approach. I.
... relay nodes fail in the decoding stage, destination can only exploit signals transmitted by its source directly, which becomes a bottle-neck to the overall performance of the source-destination link =-=[5]-=-. In this paper, we first extend the idea of superposition coding to relay channels to exploit cooperative diversity gain in wireless networks. More importantly, we develop the optimal way in encoding...
Diversity Multiplexing Tradeoff of Asynchronous Cooperative Relay Networks,” [Online]. Available: http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.0204v1
by R. N. Krishnakumar, N. Naveen, P. Vijay Kumar , 2008
"... ar ..."
.... Their constructions are flexible in terms of accommodating a varying number of transmit and receive antennas as well as varying decoding complexity. Wei considers the two-hop network with delays in =-=[21]-=- and analyzes the DMT of certain protocols. For the two phase DF protocol, [21] considers both the scenario where the relay performs independent coding as well as one in which joint distributed space ...
DOI 10.1007/s11036-008-0107-8 Channel Access Scheme for MIMO-Enabled Ad Hoc Networks with Adaptive Diversity/Multiplexing Gains
by M. Krunz
"... Abstract Transmission power control (TPC) is used in wireless networks to improve channel reuse and/or reduce energy consumption. It has been often applied to single-input single-output (SISO) systems, where each node is equipped with a single antenna. Multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems can imp ..."
Abstract Transmission power control (TPC) is used in wireless networks to improve channel reuse and/or reduce energy consumption. It has been often applied to single-input single-output (SISO) systems, where each node is equipped with a single antenna. Multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems can improve the throughput or the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) by pro-viding multiplexing or diversity gains, respectively. In this paper, we incorporate a power-controlled MAC protocol for a wireless network with two antennas per node. Our protocol, coined CMAC, combines different types of MIMO gains, allowing for dynamic switch-ing between diversity and multiplexing modes so as to maximize a utility function that depends on both energy consumption and throughput. CMAC adapts the “antenna mode, ” the transmission power, and the modulation order on a per-packet basis. By “antenna mode ” we mean one of five possible transmit/receive
...ombat fading and achieve robustness in the presence of user mobility. They also developed analytical methods to characterize the saturation throughput for MIMO-based multi-hop networks. The author in =-=[31]-=- studied the MIMO diversitymultiplexing tradeoff for ad hoc networks. Specifically, two asynchronous cooperative diversity schemes were proposed, namely distributed delay diversity and asynchronous sp...
Performance of Asynchronous Two-Relay 1 Two-Hop Wireless Cooperative Networks
by Michel Nahas, Ahmed Saadani, Walid Hachem
"... In wireless cooperative networks, the asynchronism between the relays can be a source of diversity which is similar in its essence to the multipath diversity of frequency selective channels. In this context, an asynchronous two-relay cooperative wireless network is studied for Decode-and-Forward (DF ..."
In wireless cooperative networks, the asynchronism between the relays can be a source of diversity which is similar in its essence to the multipath diversity of frequency selective channels. In this context, an asynchronous two-relay cooperative wireless network is studied for Decode-and-Forward (DF) and Amplify-and-Forward (AF) protocols. The outage probability in the high Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) regime is derived and the impact of the relative delay between the two relays on this outage probability is evaluated. It is shown that for a sufficiently high relative delay, the outage probability performance becomes independent from the relative delay and approaches from the synchronous protocol performance. Besides, an optimization of the power distribution between the transmitting nodes of the network is carried out in the high SNR regime based on the outage probability minimization. Moreover, the Diversity Multiplexing Tradeoff (DMT) of the network is characterized for the two cooperative protocols DF and AF. The DMT curve does not depend on the relative delay as long as the latter is non-zero.
...diversity gains in the order of the number of available transmitting nodes in a relay network. However, this assumption is difficult to satisfy in distributed networks like ad-hoc and sensor networks =-=[7]-=-. The lack of perfect synchronization between relay nodes has been recently considered in some works. Space-Time codes and Space-Frequency codes were used in [8]–[11] to combat the imperfect synchroni...
INFORMATION TO USERS
by Mohammad Zakariya, Abdel Rahman Siam
"... UMI Number: 3352371 ..."
UMI Number: 3352371
... omni-directional communication ranges. The authors also showed that DIV-RANGE and DIV-BER reduce the probability of link failures due to mobility and channel degradation, respectively. The author in =-=[66]-=- studied the MIMO diversity-multiplexing tradeoff for ad hoc networks. Specifically, two asynchronous cooperative diversity schemes were proposed, namely distributed delay diversity and asynchronous s...
Opportunistic Transmission of Information in Cooperation Systems Using Distributed Space Time Codes
by S. Yogesh Chinnaraja, A. Sumathi
"... Abstract — opportunistic Distributed space time coding (O-DSTC) is used in co-operative system which consists of two co-operative users (replacing relays) sending their information to a common destination. The term Opportunistic denotes the transmission being done in Space time coding scheme (STC) o ..."
Abstract — opportunistic Distributed space time coding (O-DSTC) is used in co-operative system which consists of two co-operative users (replacing relays) sending their information to a common destination. The term Opportunistic denotes the transmission being done in Space time coding scheme (STC) or Space frequency coding scheme (SFC) depending on mutual information and data rate. The term distributed comes from the fact that the virtual multi-antenna transmitters are randomly distributed. Employing DSTC or DSFC reduces the data rate loss due to relay nodes transmission without sacrificing the system diversity order. Distributed SFC is used for broadband multipath fading channel to exploit the frequency diversity of the channel. Performance analysis is carried out with STC and SFC based on channel capacity, BER and outage probability against SNR.
RESEARCH Open Access
by Mohammed W Baidas
"... Many-to-many space-time network coding for amplify-and-forward cooperative networks: node selection and performance analysis ..."
Many-to-many space-time network coding for amplify-and-forward cooperative networks: node selection and performance analysis
...ions from distributed relay nodes assume perfect timing synchronization [4,11,12]. Overlooking the impact of timing synchronization errors could lead to detrimental effects on the network performance =-=[13]-=-. Also, channel state information errors at the receiving nodes are inevitable in practice [14]. Such errors could drastically diminish diversity gains and thus must be carefully characterized. Based ...
Differential Modulation and Non-Coherent Detection in Wireless Relay Networks
by M. R. Avendi
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Tractable inference in complex stochastic processes (1998)
by X Boyen, D Koller
Venue: In Artificial Intelligence (UAI’98
Dynamic Bayesian Networks: Representation, Inference and Learning
by Kevin Patrick Murphy , 2002
"... Modelling sequential data is important in many areas of science and engineering. Hidden Markov models (HMMs) and Kalman filter models (KFMs) are popular for this because they are simple and flexible. For example, HMMs have been used for speech recognition and bio-sequence analysis, and KFMs have bee ..."
Modelling sequential data is important in many areas of science and engineering. Hidden Markov models (HMMs) and Kalman filter models (KFMs) are popular for this because they are simple and flexible. For example, HMMs have been used for speech recognition and bio-sequence analysis, and KFMs have been used for problems ranging from tracking planes and missiles to predicting the economy. However, HMMs and KFMs are limited in their “expressive power”. Dynamic Bayesian Networks (DBNs) generalize HMMs by allowing the state space to be represented in factored form, instead of as a single discrete random variable. DBNs generalize KFMs by allowing arbitrary probability distributions, not just (unimodal) linear-Gaussian. In this thesis, I will discuss how to represent many different kinds of models as DBNs, how to perform exact and approximate inference in DBNs, and how to learn DBN models from sequential data. In particular, the main novel technical contributions of this thesis are as follows: a way of representing Hierarchical HMMs as DBNs, which enables inference to be done in O(T) time instead of O(T 3), where T is the length of the sequence; an exact smoothing algorithm that takes O(log T) space instead of O(T); a simple way of using the junction tree algorithm for online inference in DBNs; new complexity bounds on exact online inference in DBNs; a new deterministic approximate inference algorithm called factored frontier; an analysis of the relationship between the BK algorithm and loopy belief propagation; a way of applying Rao-Blackwellised particle filtering to DBNs in general, and the SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) problem in particular; a way of extending the structural EM algorithm to DBNs; and a variety of different applications of DBNs. However, perhaps the main value of the thesis is its catholic presentation of the field of sequential data modelling.
A family of algorithms for approximate Bayesian inference
by Thomas P. Minka , 2001
"... One of the major obstacles to using Bayesian methods for pattern recognition has been its computational expense. This thesis presents an approximation technique that can perform Bayesian inference faster and more accurately than previously possible. This method, "Expectation Propagation," ..."
One of the major obstacles to using Bayesian methods for pattern recognition has been its computational expense. This thesis presents an approximation technique that can perform Bayesian inference faster and more accurately than previously possible. This method, "Expectation Propagation," unifies and generalizes two previous techniques: assumeddensity filtering, an extension of the Kalman filter, and loopy belief propagation, an extension of belief propagation in Bayesian networks. The unification shows how both of these algorithms can be viewed as approximating the true posterior distribution with a simpler distribution, which is close in the sense of KL-divergence. Expectation Propagation exploits the best of both algorithms: the generality of assumed-density filtering and the accuracy of loopy belief propagation. Loopy belief propagation, because it propagates exact belief states, is useful for limited types of belief networks, such as purely discrete networks. Expectation Propagati...
Learning the structure of dynamic probabilistic networks
by Nir Friedman, Kevin Murphy, Stuart Russell , 1998
"... Dynamic probabilistic networks are a compact representation of complex stochastic processes. In this paper we examine how to learn the structure of a DPN from data. We extend structure scoring rules for standard probabilistic networks to the dynamic case, and show how to search for structure when so ..."
Dynamic probabilistic networks are a compact representation of complex stochastic processes. In this paper we examine how to learn the structure of a DPN from data. We extend structure scoring rules for standard probabilistic networks to the dynamic case, and show how to search for structure when some of the variables are hidden. Finally, we examine two applications where such a technology might be useful: predicting and classifying dynamic behaviors, and learning causal orderings in biological processes. We provide empirical results that demonstrate the applicability of our methods in both domains. 1
A sparse sampling algorithm for near-optimal planning in large Markov decision processes
by Michael Kearns - Machine Learning , 1999
"... An issue that is critical for the application of Markov decision processes (MDPs) to realistic problems is how the complexity of planning scales with the size of the MDP. In stochastic environments with very large or even in-nite state spaces, traditional planning and reinforcement learning algorith ..."
An issue that is critical for the application of Markov decision processes (MDPs) to realistic problems is how the complexity of planning scales with the size of the MDP. In stochastic environments with very large or even in-nite state spaces, traditional planning and reinforcement learning algorithms are often inapplicable, since their running time typically scales linearly with the state space size in the worst case. In this paper we present a new algorithm that, given only a generative model (simulator) for an arbitrary MDP, performs near-optimal planning with a running time that has no dependence on the number of states. Although the running time is exponential in the horizon time (which depends only on the discount factor and the desired degree of approximation to the optimal policy), our results establish for the rst time that there are no theoretical barriers to computing near-optimal policies in arbitrarily large, unstructured MDPs. 1
Recent advances in hierarchical reinforcement learning
by Andrew G. Barto , 2003
"... A preliminary unedited version of this paper was incorrectly published as part of Volume ..."
A preliminary unedited version of this paper was incorrectly published as part of Volume
...generally does not hold over an extended activity. One approach that Rohanimanesh and Mahadevan [56] have been studying is how to exploit results from approximation of structured stochastic processes =-=[6]-=- to develop structured ways of approximating the next-state predictions of temporally-extended activities. The key idea is that by clustering the state variables into disjoint subsets, and keeping tra...
Modelling gene expression data using dynamic bayesian networks
by Kevin Murphy, Saira Mian , 1999
"... Recently, there has been much interest in reverse engineering genetic networks from time series data. In this paper, we show that most of the proposed discrete time models — including the boolean network model [Kau93, SS96], the linear model of D’haeseleer et al. [DWFS99], and the nonlinear model of ..."
Recently, there has been much interest in reverse engineering genetic networks from time series data. In this paper, we show that most of the proposed discrete time models — including the boolean network model [Kau93, SS96], the linear model of D’haeseleer et al. [DWFS99], and the nonlinear model of Weaver et al. [WWS99] — are all special cases of a general class of models called Dynamic Bayesian Networks (DBNs). The advantages of DBNs include the ability to model stochasticity, to incorporate prior knowledge, and to handle hidden variables and missing data in a principled way. This paper provides a review of techniques for learning DBNs. Keywords: Genetic networks, boolean networks, Bayesian networks, neural networks, reverse engineering, machine learning. 1
Value-function approximations for partially observable Markov decision processes
by Milos Hauskrecht - Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research , 2000
"... Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) provide an elegant mathematical framework for modeling complex decision and planning problems in stochastic domains in which states of the system are observable only indirectly, via a set of imperfect or noisy observations. The modeling advanta ..."
Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) provide an elegant mathematical framework for modeling complex decision and planning problems in stochastic domains in which states of the system are observable only indirectly, via a set of imperfect or noisy observations. The modeling advantage of POMDPs, however, comes at a price — exact methods for solving them are computationally very expensive and thus applicable in practice only to very simple problems. We focus on efficient approximation (heuristic) methods that attempt to alleviate the computational problem and trade off accuracy for speed. We have two objectives here. First, we survey various approximation methods, analyze their properties and relations and provide some new insights into their differences. Second, we present a number of new approximation methods and novel refinements of existing techniques. The theoretical results are supported by experiments on a problem from the agent navigation domain. 1.
... issues include various Monte-Carlo approaches (Isard & Blake, 1996; Kanazawa, Koller, & Russell, 1995; Doucet, 1998; Kearns et al., 1999)), methods for approximating belief states via decomposition (=-=Boyen & Koller, 1998-=-, 1999), or a combination of the two approaches (McAllester & Singh, 1999). Acknowledgements Anthony Cassandra, Thomas Dean, Leslie Kaelbling, William Long, Peter Szolovits and anonymous reviewers pro...
Bayesian Map Learning in Dynamic Environments
by Kevin Murphy - In Neural Info. Proc. Systems (NIPS
"... We show how map learning can be formulated as inference in a graphical model, which allows us to handle changing environments in a natural manner. We describe several different approximation schemes for the problem, and illustrate some results on a simulated grid-world with doors that can open a ..."
We show how map learning can be formulated as inference in a graphical model, which allows us to handle changing environments in a natural manner. We describe several different approximation schemes for the problem, and illustrate some results on a simulated grid-world with doors that can open and close. We close by briefly discussing how to learn more general models of (partially observed) environments, which can contain a variable number of objects with changing internal state. 1 Introduction Mobile robots need to navigate in dynamic environments: on a short time scale, obstacles, such as people, can appear and disappear, and on longer time scales, structural changes, such as doors opening and closing, can occur. In this paper, we consider how to create models of dynamic environments. In particular, we are interested in modeling the location of objects, which we can represent using a map. This enables the robot to perform path planning, etc. We propose a Bayesian approach in ...
...e map in just O(n) space.) In practice, the robot will not know its exact location, but, as an approximation, we can still project the posterior down onto the factored representation at each step. In =-=[BK98b]-=-, they show that the error introduced by this kind of iterated approximation does not grow with time. If we assume that the map changes slowly, we can treat is as a constant, at least over a short win...
Policy Recognition in the Abstract Hidden Markov Model
by Hung H. Bui, Svetha Venkatesh, Geoff West - Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research , 2002
"... In this paper, we present a method for recognising an agent's behaviour in dynamic, noisy, uncertain domains, and across multiple levels of abstraction. We term this problem on-line plan recognition under uncertainty and view it generally as probabilistic inference on the stochastic process rep ..."
In this paper, we present a method for recognising an agent's behaviour in dynamic, noisy, uncertain domains, and across multiple levels of abstraction. We term this problem on-line plan recognition under uncertainty and view it generally as probabilistic inference on the stochastic process representing the execution of the agent's plan. Our contributions in this paper are twofold. In terms of probabilistic inference, we introduce the Abstract Hidden Markov Model (AHMM), a novel type of stochastic processes, provide its dynamic Bayesian network (DBN) structure and analyse the properties of this network. We then describe an application of the Rao-Blackwellised Particle Filter to the AHMM which allows us to construct an ecient, hybrid inference method for this model. In terms of plan recognition, we propose a novel plan recognition framework based on the AHMM as the plan execution model. The Rao-Blackwellised hybrid inference for AHMM can take advantage of the independence properties inherent in a model of plan execution, leading to an algorithm for online probabilistic plan recognition that scales well with the number of levels in the plan hierarchy. This illustrates that while stochastic models for plan execution can be complex, they exhibit special structures which, if exploited, can lead to efficient plan recognition algorithms. We demonstrate the usefulness of the AHMM framework via a behaviour recognition system in a complex spatial environment using distributed video surveillance data.
...ng in the DBN depends on the size of the representation of the so-called belief state, the conditional joint distribution of the variables in the DBN at time t given the observation sequence up to t (=-=Boyen & Koller, 1998-=-). Thus we can ask the following question: how does the policy hierarchy aect the size of the belief state representation of the corresponding AHMM? Generally, for a policy hierarchy with K levels, t...
Multiresolution markov models for signal and image processing
by Alan S. Willsky - Proceedings of the IEEE , 2002
"... This paper reviews a significant component of the rich field of statistical multiresolution (MR) modeling and processing. These MR methods have found application and permeated the literature of a widely scattered set of disciplines, and one of our principal objectives is to present a single, coheren ..."
This paper reviews a significant component of the rich field of statistical multiresolution (MR) modeling and processing. These MR methods have found application and permeated the literature of a widely scattered set of disciplines, and one of our principal objectives is to present a single, coherent picture of this framework. A second goal is to describe how this topic fits into the even larger field of MR methods and concepts–in particular making ties to topics such as wavelets and multigrid methods. A third is to provide several alternate viewpoints for this body of work, as the methods and concepts we describe intersect with a number of other fields. The principle focus of our presentation is the class of MR Markov processes defined on pyramidally organized trees. The attractiveness of these models stems from both the very efficient algorithms they admit and their expressive power and broad applicability. We show how a variety of methods and models relate to this framework including models for self-similar and 1/f processes. We also illustrate how these methods have been used in practice. We discuss the construction of MR models on trees and show how questions that arise in this context make contact with wavelets, state space modeling of time series, system and parameter identification, and hidden
...., processes on grids such as in Fig. 14 in which one of the two independent variables is time. The idea of propagating approximate graphical models in time is a topic of significant current interest =-=[43]-=-, [134], [254], and we refer the readers to these references for details. We note in particular that in [43] the authors confront a problem of considerable concern not only for DBNs but for the approx...
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5. August 2019 Batoolo1 Comment on Jishou F-Rank no Oniisama Volume 1 Chapter 2
Jishou F-Rank no Oniisama Volume 1 Chapter 2
There are times when Momoka and Karen just randomly switch between 1st and 3rd person, so don’t mind that.
The roulette with bursting spinal fluid
By the time Guren arrived at his classroom after he finished his entrance exam, the school day had already moved into lunch break.
‘Year 1 Class 7, rank 2704, Saijou Guren. Entry’
Letting the device touch the door lock that looked like it could hold back a horde of zombies, the application gave a response and the digital voice of an AI resounded. The lock was opened and the door slid open. Inside were an equal number of desks and a crowd of people he had never seen before in his life, boys and girls all wearing the same uniform as him—
“Woah…this is just like in those anime and games I’ve seen!”
“What are you doing, being so weirdly moved like that, Onii-sama?”
“Uwaah?!”
As Guren sunk into a deep emotional state, someone called out to him from the side.
“What, it’s you, Karen…Were you waiting all this time?”
“Naturally, Onii-sama. The moment she heard your voice, Karen immediately ran over!”
Guren narrowed his eyes at the girl, who still looked like a dog whose tail was shaking furiously as if her owner had just come back. That very sight calmed down Guren’s heart, who was used to all the swindlers he had come across until now.
“You were looking forward to it this much…? Well, leaving that aside Karen, we’ll be classmates from today onwards. Looking forward to it.”
“Yes, of course. Onii-sama, are you aware of which seat is yours?”
“Now that you mention it, I didn’t hear about that…Though I think that this device is probably supposed to show me.”
“Do not worry. Karen will immediately find it out for you. But, please hold off for a moment before you make your way to your seat.”
“Ah, well, it’s nothing much. No need to worry, it will be over soon.”
With a grin, Karen averted her gaze, and compared the screen of the application with the layout of the classroom. Shown on the student identification application was the seat number, lit up in a strong red. Thinking that this was supposed to be his seat, Guren made his way there—
Over there, an irregularity was occurring. A tense atmosphere that was difficult to put into words filled the entire place. In the corner of the classroom, where Guren’s seat was located, several, what seemed to be classmates, gathered, creating a crowd and the people standing around the outside realized Guren’s appearance and looked over at him—
The rest of the gazes were focussed at the centre of the crowd.
“…Now then, I wonder what will happen.”
“Seems like this’ll be pretty interesting, don’t you think? …Ku ku ku.”
“That poor Momoka-san.”
That passing whispering was very familiar to Guren. At places with a crucial competition, where one person bet something important, it was the voices of the uncaring—the voices of the gallery of people who enjoyed witnessing another’s trauma, or worse.
“Haa…Uff…! Haaa…Hmmm…!!”
Clink clatter, a metallic sound rang out.
With the crowd of people around them, two girls were standing in the centre. One of them, with a panicked state, had the source of the metallic sound in her hand, she was wheezing and her pink hair was sticking to her forehead with sweat.
“Ara, what happened? —Time is limited, you know? You have to use it very carefully and thoughtfully.”
And the other one had blonde hair, harsh and relentless words were thrown at the aforementioned pink-haired girl. Her extravagant blonde hair was curled. Unlike a normal Japanese person, her cheeks were pure white. From her gestures and behaviour, she gave off a very graceful vibe and her mouth, hidden behind the fan in her hand, undoubtedly was forming a smile. Although her body was wrapped in the school’s uniform, the length of her legs were easily visible, as well as her narrow waist and bulging chest.
Standing there, with crossed arms,
“This is the game you have asked for. Do, or don’t. But hurry up and decide, will you?”
“Uuuuuu~~~!!!”
She’s looking down.
She’s being looked down upon.
“A-A bit more…Wait just a bit more, please!”
“I’d prefer if you decided on it right here and now. I can’t have myself miss out on eating lunch.”
In front of the blonde-haired girl that spoke with a yawn, the rattling and clanking of metal grew more intense while the other girl fiddled with the metal object in her hands.
“The hell? Karen, what are they doing?”
Even from a distance, Guren could perfectly grasp the identity of the metallic object. Hence, Guren asked without thinking. Karen, who had arrived next to him, answered as if it was a daily occurrence.
“It’s a game of course. A simple game of Russian roulette, that is.”
“……Huh?!”
Guren’s eyes opened wide as he unconsciously doubted her unrealistic explanation. However, the scenery in front of him brought forth the cold truth. Inside the shaking hand of the girl standing across the blondie was without a doubt a revolver-type handgun. With a type and size he had never seen before, one would think it might be some sort of toy, but the black abyss of the barrel could only be asking to be called real.
“No problem at all. It moves. It’s not foul play. It’s fine. It’s fine, right. Yeah, it’s fine…!”
The pink-haired girl checked the movement of the gun countless times with her hand, her face showed that she was close to tears. Her twin tails looking as fluffy as cotton candy and she had lovable facial features. Her crying appearance could easily be mistaken for that of a tiny animals in the midst of being tormented. Comparing her to the blonde-haired girl, her stature was smaller, around a head shorter even—but her chest was considerably more developed. No doubt, if her face wasn’t distorted in fear and terror, her smile would be quite the sight to behold.
“…Hey, is this really something you could laugh at, Karen? That gun isn’t the real deal, right?”
“A no brand gun…you could call it, but it’s specifically made for Russian roulette games at Shishiou Academy. Naturally, they can shoot bullets.”
“Ahh, I see. Just when I thought that I didn’t recognize that model…Still, guns made for Russian roulette games, what is this rotten school thinking? And the same for goes those two, betting their lives on such nonsense.”
Being amazed and at the same time shocked from the bottom of his heart, Guren said so and Karen tilted her head in response.
“Karen doesn’t think that they’d be happy to hear that from Onii-sama of all people.”
“I’m saying it because it’s a fact. Betting your life for something like this, that is.”
“They do so because they have their own set of circumstances. No matter how idiotic it may be.”
With those words, Karen took the device that Guren was holding in her hands, and operated it. She accessed the academy’s internal social network and displayed the profiles of the two girls.
“The girl with the twin tails is Momogai Momoka-san. Her profile is completely displayed it seems. She probably sold the rights to her profile.”
“…What’s that about?”
Shown on the social network screen was the face of the girl. Not her shivering, terrified expression, but a grin that flashed her teeth, the complete opposite of her current appearance. Her name, Momogai Momoka, left-handed, she came from a certain prefecture in the north-east, her family the wealthy landlords of the area. Her three sizes, her past romantic relationships and the different colours of underwear in her possession—
“….I see how it is.”
That’s what Karen was referencing with regards to the ‘rights to her profile’, and that she sold them. Comparing it to Guren’s profile, it clearly doesn’t have the same setting. Those settings were probably decided on by the winning or losing of games as well, judged Guren.
“The students can use their specific rights as poker chips. Usually, GP is used as a wager during ‘games’, but these special rights exist in case the GP isn’t enough.”
“What a sick way of doing things—And from the looks of it, this Momogai girl or whatever has been going on quite the losing streak.”
“Yes. Momoka-san has already lost the greater half of her GP by this point. Though she seemed to have denied any support from her family, she must be nearing her limit.”
“Is that so? So she ended up an easy mark for that blondie drill girl over there?”
“That’s Onii-sama for you. You saw through their relationship in a matter of seconds.”
“Everyone would be able to see that. That blondie-drills is clearly the type to push her prey into a corner if it means she’d gain an advantage.”
Just looking at Momoka’s profile started to hurt Guren, hence he minimized it and looked up the other party. The name of the blondie-drills was shown.
“Kusunoki Kaede…Hey, there’s only her name, nothing more. I thought that putting all this information in was an obligation.”
“It’s the reversed situation, Onii-sama. She used her GP and bought the rights to hide her profile. On a side note, the girl is C-Rank, her ranking currently being the 239th—the highest within the first-years, so that must’ve been an easy buy with the amount of GP she must have.”
“Ohh~”
With a blank facial expression, Guren compared the two profiles in front of him.
“Momogai is F-Rank, ranked as the 2703rd? Ha, she’s only one rank above me.”
“Onii-sama…So you really just played around at the exam?”
“I told you, didn’t I? That I won’t participate in any games. I’m the last-ranked small fry and that’s perfectly fine.”
“My word, even though Onii-sama should actually be number one,” Karen said, as she gave a displeased pout.
Although he enjoyed that cute look of hers, Guren’s gaze quickly returned to the two girls, still facing each other.
“Well, I feel like I got the gist of it.”
On one side, the eyes of the one looking down, overflowing with confidence.
On the other side, the eyes of the weak, scowling at the strong.
Kusunoki Kaede and Momogai Momoka, one was the predator and one the prey.
“With her profile leaking to this extent, she definitely wants to change her current situation. With nothing to bet upon anymore, she probably wants to do an all or nothing to turn her situation around.”
“Yes. The rules of Russian roulette are very simple. The cylinder has the capacity to be filled with six bullets, but you load it with a single bullet, point it at your own head and pull the trigger. That’s just it.”
“What about the turns of the cylinder?”
“You turn it every time when it’s your turn.”
“I see. So, it’s not a higher chance of getting shot the longer the game is played, but the chances are always one out of six, huh.”
“Indeed. It’s a game that’s completely reliant on luck. As her low rank already shows, she’s not good at racking her head in faster-paced games, as well as games that favour intelligence. Hence—”
“She betted on a luck-based game.”
“That’s it, yes.”
“Luck, huh.”
Guren snorted.
—At that moment in time, she already lost.
“—The moment you thought like that, you were already destined to be the loser!”
Without knowing it, his thoughts overlapped with someone else’s — Kaede’s words, as she spoke from the centre of the crowd, like a queen to her followers, as she puffed out her well-endowed chest.
“Did you think that you could best me with a game of pure luck? Without with knowledge or courage, you continued to challenge me with countless fruitless attempts and continued to be defeated by me, Momoka-san. And now—”
Folding her fan, the girl gave a sarcastic giggle.
“—You think that you can at least best me once?”
“I…It’s going to be fine! This time for sure, Momoka will win. Because…because…!”
On the verge of tears, Momoka refused to give in.
“Momoka lost all this time. She couldn’t win against Kusunoki-san. That’s why, now it should be…”
“Your turn to win, you say?”
In response to Momoka’s words, which she seemingly struggled to bring to her lips,
“Laughable. I had been on my toes, anticipating that you would at least employ some semblance of wit into our very last contest when you declared it, but—”
A ridiculing snort left her mouth.
“—Are you not familiar with this rule? The goddess of victory won’t shine down on worthless losers like you. The ones that don’t have anything, don’t receive a turn in the line.”
“Y-You’ll never know if you don’t try!”
“It’s exactly because you don’t know that you keep on losing. Well, I might as well teach you something.”
With an expression that made her look bored to death, Kaede took back the gun from the teary-faced Momoka and gave it a check with the fluent hands of a skilled worker. With her right and then her left hand, she turned the magazine.
“No small tricks to be found. How comforting. It seems like you didn’t lose your bourgeoise pride.”
“…This time for sure…with my everything, I will win…!”
With those words, Momoka’s twin tails shook.
“D-Don’t stand behind Momoka. Step back a bit.”
As if to reject the bystanders, she waved her hand at them. In response, Kaede giggled.
“Ara ara. Did you think that they would listen to your orders?”
“……Just this one contest, Momoka can’t allow herself to lose…!”
“Yes. Very well then. Everyone, would you please step back a bit? I don’t want to be held responsible for anything.”
Kade waved her fan at the crowd, a smile flashing over her lips. While the students looked each other in the eye, they obeyed her instructions and took a step back.
“This should be fine. Now then, let us start the game, shall we?”
The widened crowd of people was akin to something like an ancient arena.
“The gun was prepared by Momoka-san. The spectators are far off, no chances of fraud. The winner gets decided by luck.”
As Karen muttered that to herself, Guren ran his fingers through his hair.
“Decided by luck? Don’t be ridiculous, Karen. At this rate, that twintails girl will die.”
While Karen’s eyes opened wide, the game moved on. Kaede held the grip of the gun with her right hand, while letting the magazine slide with her left hand.
Rattle —— Clunk.
The sound of the turning magazine stopped and Kaede put the barrel of the gun against her temple.
“Then, I’ll be starting.”
Without ever so much as a slight twitch, she pulled the trigger.
Silence. Proof that the chamber was empty for this shot.
“Fu…Fufufu…Ohohohohohoho! That’s one win for me. Next is Momoka-san, yes?”
Opening her fan again, Kaede hid her mouth as she laughed. In response, Momoka’s face went as white as paper.
“……! My turn…!”
Momoka accepted the gun, held the gun with her left hand and turned the magazine with her right hand.
Rattle—the moment the magazine started rotating, Gurren stepped forward and called out to her.
“Hey, you pink-haired girl!”
“Hya?!”
Being called out by Guren, Momoka gave a small jump as her body twitched.
“W-W-What is it?! U-Uhm, I’m in the middle of a game right now if you can’t see?! My life depends on it, so what are you thinking?!”
Though Momoka lashed out at Guren, he didn’t show any signs of caring. The crowd around them had gotten noisy. Their eyes gathered on the intruding Guren and they all narrowed their gazes.
“Who the hell are you? You’re in here, so you must be a classmate, but…”
“Gotta check his profile…You’re Saijou Guren, huh…Saijou…?”
“Wha—! Saijou…you say?!”
So this is the so called profile checking, huh.
Sparing him the time of having to do a self-introduction was a good thing, hence Guren let out a wretched smile. That moment, a soft feeling clung to his back.
“Onii-sama…interrupting other people’s games is bad manners, you know?”
“Don’t say that while clinging to me, Karen. We’re at school now, this is inappropriate even if we’re siblings.”
“My, are you getting flustered? Karen is happy about that~”
Like a cheerful cat, she rubbed her cheek against Guren’s back. Naturally, the people around them didn’t miss that.
“S…Saijou…so that’s Saijou Karen’s…older brother? Why is he at this school?!”
“Look at Saijou Karen’s profile. There’s a new line! ‘Saijou Guren’s little sister here~’, it says!”
“She’s revealing personal information on her own accord?”
“………Maybe she thinks that she can relax with her B-rank. Saijou Karen, you keep sinking lower…!”
Voices filled with bloodlust. Guren on his part just narrowed his eyes.
“Hey, Karen. I forgot to ask you, but what rank are you?”
“Karen is B-rank, ranked as the 98th. She’s very embarrassed to report that there are 97 people in front of her.”
“You’re still on the stronger side, right? You really changed in the time that I haven’t seen you…”
“No no no, comparing herself to Onii-sama’s skill, Karen is still nothing but a newborn.”
“Please, don’t get any stronger in games than this.”
“Can Karen take that as a ‘I will support you’ declaration? My, Onii-sama~”
“Will you two give it a rest already, Karen-san? And, Guren-san…was it?”
The fan snapped together.
Holding the folded fan in the palm of her hand, Kaede glared at Guren with a gaze full of bloodlust.
“We are in the middle of sacred game. Although you might be a transfer student that doesn’t quite know the rules yet, interrupting isn’t something I can over—”
“Well, it makes sense, in your case.”
“…What are you implying?”
Her voice was laced with wariness. But, Guren ignored that and instead made his way towards the centre of the crowd.
“Momogai, was it. Is it fine for you to not investigate the gun?”
“Eh? Momoka checked it three times just now…and this is the one that she prepared herself, so it’s totally fine!”
“Ahhh, well, it’s true that you worked hard for this. But rather than that, you should—”
“I-Isn’t it fine already! Just leave us be!”
Cutting through Guren’s sentence, Momoka acted like a dog that got his tail stepped on.
“Hey hey hey…”
Being pushed, Guren took a few steps backwards. Taking a deep breath, Momoka pressed the barrel against her temple as well.
“Don’t barge in again, okay…Now it’s Momoka’s turn!”
Putting strength into the hand that was holding the gun, she firmly shut her eyes. Her slender fingers were shaking furiously as she put them on the trigger.
Clank—the moment she was about to press the trigger.
Haaa…Can’t help it then, I swear.
Guren lightly moved his leg like a pendulum, hitting the back of Momoka’s knees.
“Kyawa?!”
In response, Momoka’s body reflexively sunk down.
Not even a second later, the sound of a gunshot rang out. Because the holder of the gun was out of balance, the barrel was lifted upwards towards the sky and that’s where the gun was shot at. An explosive sound ran through the classroom. The moment that sound rang out, something red dripped down from the ceiling.
After taking a good gaze at it, Guren was baffled.
“Ink…? No, ketchup. Bringing out such an exaggerated gun and this is the bullet?”
Wiping away the red fluid that fell on his chest with his finger and licking it, Guren said so, clearly exasperated.
“Awa…Awawawawawa…!!!”
Momoka sank down onto the floor and a metallic clang rang out as the gun was fell to the floor. Just staring at the gunpowder smoke that escaped from the barrel, escaping towards the sky as thin as a thread, her body started to shiver furiously out of fear. Her skirt was wrinkled up, offering a peek of what was beneath that, but before Guren could get a chance to see, a pair of hands appeared from behind his back and covered his sight. Naturally, he didn’t even have to ask on who they belonged to.
“Hey, Karen. Didn’t you say that the gun was the real deal?”
“Karen didn’t say that the bullet was as well, Onii-sama. No matter how much games are everything in this academy, games that directly target the life of the students aren’t allowed.”
When Karen responded with that, still obstructing his vision,
“Then say so from the start. Now I did something unnecessary, ugh…”
The bullet that burst on the ceiling. With his face drenched in the splattered bullet, Guren let out an exasperated sigh, as he said,
“Sorry for bothering you like this, you two. You can do what you want now.”
“Ah…Awawawawa…”
“Wait a second, Saijou Guren. I’d like an explanation.”
Unlike the flustered Momoka, Kaede was completely calm amd not trying to hide her displeased expression as she stood in front of Guren to stop him, slightly pressing the folded fan below Guren’s chin.
“You’ve disturbed my sacred game twice now. Do you think that I would just forgive you like that?”
“It’s my first day after transferring and I thought that someone would be killed off in front of my eyes, so of course I’d stop that. Taking classes in the same seat that a person died in a few minutes ago, would you do that?”
“Your…seat? My.”
Taking out her own electrical student identification device, she checked the application. Though the location the game happened at had been open until now, the application showed that it was now the possession of none other than Guren.
“I see, I understand your reason. But it’s a fact that you disturbed our game. If I report that to the school, you’ll receive a penalty, you know?”
“Do what you want. I’m satisfied that I didn’t have to watch anybody die today.”
“Why did you do it at that timing? You didn’t disrupt the game when it was my turn.”
Ah ha…so she caught on already…
—Or so Guren thought, as he was openly glared at by Kaede.
If he’d known that it was just a fake bullet, there would’ve been no need for him to step in. Though she might’ve gotten hurt from the impact, she certainly wouldn’t have died.
“I was definitely sure that she’d die, so I jumped in.”
Though Guren had planned to end the conversation there, Kaede’s expression was the exact opposite of satisfaction. It probably upset her stomach that she didn’t get to finish the game.
“‘Definitely’, is it…? That, I cannot ignore. This was nothing more than a game and the conditions were fair and square for both sides. You never know the results until the very end, don’t you?”
“Fair and square, huh. Well, it’s easy for you to say that.”
Packing all his confidence into his voice, Guren continued.
“—The thought of leaving something up to luck is the exact way of thinking a future loser has. The goddess of victory doesn’t smile upon the loser, huh.”
With these words from Guren, Kaede’s poker face started to show cracks.
“If you want to say something, how about you go ahead?”
“You sure about that? ‘Explaining’ everything?”
Even though it wasn’t even meant as a threat and without packing any definite meaning into it, Kaede had tightly shut her mouth like a kid that got scolded by an adult, in this case Guren.
“Very well. It is your first day after transferring, so I will overlook it this once…Momoka-san?”
As if she wanted to run away, she averted her eyes from Guren and gave a heartfelt glare towards the person that she had technically just defeated.
Being called out, Momoka, who was sitting on floor between two seats, jumped slightly. After frantically looking between the gun, whose gunpowder smoke had already faded, and Kaede’s face…
“P-Please hold on, Kusunoki-san! This contest just now doesn’t cou—”
“I will not count it as invalid. The contest was completed.”
“N-No way! B-But, we got interrupted, so…that’s just weird!”
“It did feel lousy, but I won’t accept any excuses. When it was your turn, the bullet was shot. In that regard, the AI will surely declare me the winner.”
The spectators started to get noisy again. At the feet of Kaede, who was confident of her victory, Momoka looked around at the gallery of people, her gaze begging for help.
“E-Everyone…! Please…those GP were…my last…!”
Seeing the girl’s vulnerability and despair written all over her face, would make anyone’s heart ache. However, the classmates didn’t reach out with their hands, not one of their eyebrows even twitched.
Everyone just went silently, returning to their seats, ignoring the girl like she was an abandoned puppy. They had lost all interest, in contrast to their enthusiasm during the game just now, seeing this constituted as nothing more than part of their ‘Daily Life’—
And then, the girl was alone.
“N-No way…Waaaaaaaahhh…”
“How unsightly, Momoka-san—Having bet everything, and still losing.”
“Waaaaahhh…”
“Cry as much as you want. But, the ‘payment’ will not be forgotten.”
A mechanical voice resounded from both of their electronic student IDs.
‘—The conclusion of the game has been confirmed. Approved.’
‘Loser, F-Rank, rank 2703, Momogai Momoka-san. Deduction of 1000GP’
‘Winner, C-Rank, rank 239, Kusunoki Kaede-san. Acquisition of 1000GP’
‘Momogai Momoka-san’s GP balance reached zero, hence she is stripped of her rights as a player and position in the rankings.
If no ‘contract’ is created within one week, she will be unconditionally expelled from this school—’
The system announced lightly and the icon of the application on Momoka’s student ID changed its colour. The design of the Shishiou Academy school emblem didn’t change, but the colour changed from a soothing blue, to a menacing red.
Watching that, Kaede showed a merciless grin.
“Congratulations on dropping out soon, Momoka-san.”
“Uuu…Uwaaaah…”
Big, round tears started running down Momoka’s cheek, while she was being looked down upon by Kaede.
“So the only thing you do is cry—I’m disappointed in you. Try your best in finding someone that would buy your body.”
Leaving only these words behind, Kaede didn’t spare Momoka another glance as she walked towards her own seat. In the same classroom. Just a few steps apart. In the exact same atmosphere, they still existed as winner and loser. One was breaking down in tears, while the other was bursting with another win on their shoulders.
—The scenery could make you feel sick. That’s exactly why Guren started hating all of this.
“Hey, can you stand?”
Pressing down the feeling of guilt in his chest, he held out a hand towards Momoka.
“Sniff…Wahhh…Uwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!”
“Hey, stop it, will you? Cry at your own seat…Is it here? Karen, don’t just watch and help me.”
“Onii-sama, are you stretching out a helping hand towards her because she’s cute? …Uhm…though my chest might be a bit lacking compared to hers, I’ll definitely make them bigger somehow…!”
Since Guren couldn’t expect any assistance from Karen, he carried Momoka to her seat after identifying it with the help of his student ID application.
Arriving there, Momoka just slumped her body onto the table, she was silent now and just the shaking of her back could be seen. Guren knew that he was overstepping his bounds, but he still called out once.
“The result wouldn’t have changed even if I didn’t jump in…But, I did make you end up in this grovelling manner. Sorry, for meddling like that.”
“Alright, I’ll be going now.”
Still collapsed on the table, her back shook ever so slightly. Guren took that as a response and feeling better that he freed himself from his guilt, he trotted back to his seat. Still, for the first day of his new life, he certainly didn’t expect things to go so absurdly.
Sitting down in his chair, Guren shook his head to clear his thoughts. The bright, soothing student life he’d always imagined was far away here, and the first day couldn’t have been worse. Unable to do anything against it whatsoever, he rested his chin on one hand as he let out a sigh.
“Onii-sama.”
“What, Karen? —Ah, your seat is next to me?”
“Yes, it is now after a trade~ Karen still has quite a few favours she can call in from the people of this class.”
Guren showed no intention of questioning his little sister on her method of acquiring this seat. He guessed that it probably was something similar to the incident from a few minutes ago. The eyes of their classmates gathered on them were coloured with blatant wariness.
“By the way, Onii-sama, how did you know that Momoka-san’s chamber had a bullet in it?”
“I didn’t. I just guessed, that’s it.”
“Stop teasing and teach Karen. Onii-sama isn’t the kind of person to act on intuition. If you won’t teach her, Karen will continue to ask. Is that fine with you?”
“Stop, will you? Just imagining that is giving me a headache.”
Seeing Karen’s eyes, sparkling with curiosity Guren let out a sigh. Checking the surroundings with a quick glance, he made sure that their classmates wouldn’t be able to hear him. Luckily, the other students seemed to have grown wary, so they didn’t come any closer and they would be unable to listen in.
—This should be fine, I guess.
“—That gun had a trick to it.”
“My~ But, it was the one that Momoka-san prepared, you know? Not to mention that she thoroughly checked it before the game.”
“She prepared it, but it’s still one that belongs to the school, right?”
“Ahhh, now that you say it.”
“I don’t really know how things work here, but I’m guessing that she got it from someone in charge of the game equipment. Just like a library has a librarian, they should have someone here for the games too.”
“Yes, that should be the case.”
“Then it’s simple. All the deals here are decided with GP. Just like how you got your current seat next to me, the students should be able to make ‘Requests’ with their GP.”
“Now that you say it…the GP system doesn’t only apply to the students, but the teachers as well. Granting students specific requests, they receive GP in return—And the more GP they own, the higher their reputation and evaluation.”
Speaking this far, Karen cut into her monologue with a “But”…
“Assuming that Kusunoki-san did something like that…how did she know that Momoka-san would be choosing the Russian roulette game?”
“Momogai was on a losing streak, hence unable to think rationally anymore. That’s why it makes sense that she’d fall back on a luck-based game.”
“Ahh, that explains it.”
“A game where she bet everything. A game she chose, that gave her peace of mind, but opened cracks for the enemy to exploit. Kusunoki probably prepared similar tricks for all games that rely on luck like that. Whatever the challenge, win, no matter the costs—because she developed that mindset, she emerged victorious here. That’s all there is to it.”
“You see these sorts of people all the time at the ‘Black Vote’, Karen—This is just one of the many templates.”
—Employed the strong, clever, and self-confident elite.
“Types like her don’t ever relax in order to win. If it’s a game of luck, then they’ll find some sort of loophole that nobody can accuse as cheating.”
“This time, the trick was on the gun. Then, what kind of con do you think Kusunoki-san has used? Momoka-san checked the gun countless times, without finding anything.”
“There’s no way someone that doesn’t know their way around guns would realize that irregularity. Not to mention that this one was made by order for this ridiculous school. Thinking like that, expecting to see the irregularity that easily is idiotic.”
Stopping his words there, Guren put up the index finger of his right hand, and spun it.
“Normally, the magazines of revolvers only turn left or right. Depending on the maker, they can also turn in both directions, but that can be unexpectedly idiotic in games like these.”
The magazine of the revolver is something akin to a tube, with six holes, which normally doesn’t come with a cover.
“—Looking at the sides, you’ll see if there’s a bullet in the next hole or not. If you keep turning the magazine, even a monkey would figure out when the bullet would be next. But, in the case of the special made revolver for Shishiou Academy, the turning of the magazine isn’t fixed and you can’t see inside it.”
“Yes, it’s a gun specifically made for Russian roulette after all.”
“Being able to be turned left and right—There’s the crux of the problem.”
As Karen blinked blankly at Guren, he continued in a low voice.
“Kusunoki-san held the gun in her right hand and turned with her left. Momoka did the exact opposite. She held the gun with her left hand, and turned with her right.”
A right-handed person would hold the gun with her right hand, and turn the magazine with her left. The exact opposite can be said for a left-handed person.
“The moment I saw that confident face, I was certain. Kusunoki definitely used some trick here. Well, generally speaking—
If a right-handed person turns the magazine with their left hand, the bullet won’t be shot.
If a left-handed person turns the magazine with their right hand, the bullet will definitely be shot.
—That’s about it, I guess.”
(tln: the author doesn’t elaborate anymore on why the bullet won’t be shot here)
A prejudice towards the tool she prepared herself. Guiding the conversation with the help of the crowd and weakening her perceptibility, to finish the trick—
“A boring fraud.”
“You deduced all of it in that one moment, Onii-sama?”
“What if your deductions were off…?”
“It’s not about being right or wrong, there’s just one truth.”
“Your basis?”
“Intuition, or something akin to that.”
Towards his little sister’s doubt, Guren just scratched his head as he showed a bitter smile.
“I can see it. The path they took, their thoughts. The process in which they built up the solution that would lead them to victory. Everything, like a blueprint, just starts floating into my mind clearly. And in these five years, I’ve never been off once.”
Watching her older brother whilst listening to Guren’s nonchalant explanation, Karen’s white throat vibrated as she gulped.
“…Onii-sama really is extraordinary.”
“Worthless, that’s what this is. This power that can only be of use in this sullied world, that’s got no value at all. Rather than that, I would’ve preferred good communication skills that would enable me to make friends faster, a solid curricular history that would allow me to work at a normal company, these things are much more important. Really…Karen, don’t go spreading any weird rumours, okay?”
Guren pleaded, and received Karen’s smile in return.
“Very well~ it’ll be a secret between Onii-sama and Karen. She’ll make sure to treasure this.”
Gazing at the lovable expression of his little sister, Guren let out a sigh internally.
Things turned into something bothersome on the first day, huh.
He got to see a game right in front of his eyes and even ended up interrupting it for no reason.
Please, just calm down already
The scent of blood, the taste of grief, considering the position of the pray, the monsters sleeping deep inside the back of Guren’s heart slowly started to awaken.
Shit. As if I’d get consumed by that again. I’ll never go through something like that a second time. That’s what I decided
The bell rang.
Pushing down on his chest, to prevent the muddy darkness inside him from overflowing, Guren looked forward to the now starting class.
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kurisuisthebest 6. August 2019 — 15:44
Thanks for the chapter !
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“The Situation Room” – A Matriarch Short Story
Posted by Kevin A. Ranson in Short Story
#theMatriarchVampires, Borsalino, Cold War, Fedora, general, Mr. Chamberlain, situation room, trench coat, vampires
A Matriarch Vampires short story ~ by Kevin A. Ranson
Under the cover of night, Mr. Chamberlain exited into the hallway. He pulled the door closed, adjusted his black Borsalino fedora, and met the eyes of a young man in a dark suit. “What’s your name?” he asked, being polite.
“Jimmy. This way, Mr. Chamberlain.”
It was too warm and too humid in Florida for Mr. Chamberlain to be wearing his classic-style London Fog trench coat, especially so close to the ocean. He knew how it made him look: like a throwback to the Cold War. That seemed fitting somehow in light of being smuggled into a country club to assess a so-called “potential situation.”
After a few turns and easily passing a dozen other men in suits with radios, Jimmy opened the door to another room at the Palm Beach estate. Before Mr. Chamberlain could enter, Jimmy took a step to intercept him.
“Is there anything you need, sir?”
Jimmy looked strong and able but still the youngest staffer he’d seen on site; it was also clear he had been briefed. “Are you offering me a drink?”
There was an uncomfortable pause. “If required.”
“You’re no dingbat, are you?” Mr. Chamberlain grinned, intentionally flashing a fang.
“Stop harassing the kid and get your ass in here,” a gruff voice commanded.
Mr. Chamberlain gave Jimmy a polite nod and entered, hearing the door close behind him. Every corner and edge of the room looked overpriced, from the pattern fabric and dark wood on the furniture to the intricate molding and textured wallpaper… and everything was some hideous shade of gold or a garish color meant to call attention to it. Soft light came from gaudy chandeliers and hanging fixtures dimmed to the point of most people having to squint to see.
Fortunately, he wasn’t most people. “This looks like the bathroom of a Saudi prince. Who on this side of the Atlantic decorates like this?”
“Glad you could make it, Neil.”
“Mister Chamberlain, if you please, General… or do you prefer Mr. Secretary now?”
“I thought we were friends.”
“This is business.”
The General nodded. “Fair enough. Did you ask him?”
While the General looked like he was about to spit tacks, Mr. Chamberlain removed his hat and placed it carefully on a cushion — inverted to keep the shape of the brim — before sitting in a chair next to it. He was comfortable and ready to bear the brunt of it by the time the General found his voice again.
“God damn it, this isn’t a joke! I didn’t invite you down to this… this…” He gestured at everything, even the palm trees planted outside the windows.
“Hackneyed seaside hacienda?” Mr. Chamberlain offered.
The General pointed an accusing finger. “You know what’s at stake here more than any living patriot I know.”
“You forget I’m not alive — keep your stakes to yourself.”
“Yada, yada, vampire bullshit! Your job is to compel him to answer one damn question… like every sitting president before him.”
“Except Jack. JFK had a bit of the ancient blood in him.” Blood workers were immune to a vampire’s thrall, although Jack probably had no idea.
“You already know, don’t you?” the General accused, eyeing with suspicion. “What’d he admit to?”
“How many subs do you have off the coast right now? I’m guessing three in the triangle, one in the gulf.”
He took the question personally. “I wouldn’t tell you if the Fourth Fleet was beached in plain sight on the waterfront.”
Mr. Chamberlain smiled at the old Marine. They both loved their country, but like every election when a new commander-in-chief took office, the old guard became nervous. There was nothing new about America’s enemies testing the mettle of an incoming leader, but too many questions about loyalties were coming up.
“I didn’t ask him tonight because I’d already asked him… back in D.C.”
The General sneered. “When?”
“Before the inauguration. You thought a businessman’s son — who made it a point to avoid the draft during Vietnam — willingly surrounded himself with career military personnel? Don’t think about it too hard; just say ‘you’re welcome,’ General.”
The General looked impressed. “You said you didn’t do that sort of thing. I have a list if the gloves are off.”
“Little things aren’t harmful, especially if you can build on what’s already there. Every president needs a soldier’s point of view, especially one with neither military nor political experience.”
Instead of standing tall with intimidation, the soldier-turned-adviser finally sat down. “So what the hell does he want?”
“What all men want: a legacy.”
Grumbling followed. “That doesn’t tell us much.”
Mr. Chamberlain shrugged. “It wasn’t easy getting an answer. He’s a bit all over the place. I’m not sure even he knows or understands that.”
“All we want to know is if he’s in bed with the Kremlin. Why can’t you just ask that?”
“You haven’t been watching the news, have you? You’re talking about a former world superpower that now has a functioning economy smaller than California, New York, and Texas… separately. The problem is, those states don’t control a nuclear arsenal.”
A harrumph escaped the General’s lips. “Well, as I live and breathe: American Dracula got one right.”
Mr. Chamberlain smirked, narrowing his eyes to fixate upon his host. “I’m not a fixer; I’m an assessor. There’s no ‘Vampire Team Six’ that’s going to parachute into Red Square.”
“I figured y’all could fly.” He didn’t smile one bit saying it.
“Your problem is image control. There’s never been a president with a direct line to the citizenry and the willingness to use it. Can you imagine if Tricky Dicky had access to this?”
“I shudder to think.”
Mr. Chamberlain gently smacked the back of his hand against the General’s shoulder. “You can handle this. Let him do his rallying thing and see where it goes. It’s a good distraction, not to mention a catalyst for getting people into politics like never before. The average citizen knows who the press secretary is — by name. Election fatigue historically sets in by now, but people are talking about changing things in two years instead of four, watching carefully to see if their rights are being tread upon. I’ve been meaning to ask, by the way: does the government have a right to your personal digital information in the name of security?”
“Damn right it does,” he answered, walking into the trap.
“‘Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.'”
“You’re quoting Ben Franklin to a Marine?”
“A key on a kite in a thunderstorm seemed a bit subtle. Were you hoping I’d bite someone and make everything easier again?”
The General let out a long sigh. “I’d settle for mass hypnosis to just shut everyone the fuck up.”
“Sadly, that only works in person.” Mr. Chamberlain collected his hat, gave it a once-over, and put it on. “It’s been good seeing you again.”
“Likewise, in spite of being a necessary prick to you.” He wouldn’t apologize for it, of course.
“‘Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty…'”
“A Jefferson quote I can handle.”
“That was Wendell Phillips, and the rest of the quote goes ‘… power is ever stealing from the many to the few.’ He wasn’t talking about foreign powers; he was referring to a leader hardening into a despot while drunk on power. Let’s settle upon ‘we will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.'”
“Done… and you can go now.”
Mr. Chamberlain stood and took a last look around the tasteless room. “Is a little humility out of the question?”
The General smirked. “Get out before I put you out.”
“The night that ever happens will be an interesting one.”
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The spread of LCC operations around the world
50 LCCs existed in some form or other before 2000. Not all were LCCs at the time but have since been restructured or redeveloped, sometimes from shell companies, into LCC format. Fourteen of these have since closed, leaving 36 survivors.
The Expansion of LCCs, 2000-2009
Pre 2000 Airlines
Subsequent closures:
Pre 2000 Survivors
Post 2000 Startups
Subsequent Closures
Post 2000 Survivors
Total Airlines
Total Closures
Source: Various, compiled by Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation
This extract is from the ‘Spread of LCC operations around the world’ section of CAPA’s Global LCC Outlook report, available for free download at: centreforaviation.com/lcc/report
LCC growth since 2000
In addition, 128 LCC start-ups since 1999 have been identified. This figure is based on operators that commenced flying and excludes several announced start-ups that never got off the ground. Of those that did fly, 38 subsequently failed or were withdrawn from service. Some of the latter were operated as subsidiaries by network airlines. Examples include Air Canada’s Zip and Tango airlines, which operated between 2001 and 2004, Delta’s Song (2003 to 2006) and United Airlines’ Ted (2004 to 2008). In other cases, mergers or take-overs have absorbed airlines, removing their brands and removing or substantially modifying their services.
Over 70% of today’s LCCs have been set up since 2000 (90 airlines). The middle of the decade was the period of greatest activity and volatility. Over the five years to 2006 alone 86 airlines were established (49% of all startups since 1999), but 43 closed down (84% of all closures).
New Low Cost Carriers, 2000-2009 (June)
Note: Closures include 14 airlines in existence by 2000; excluding these, net gain 2000-2009 is 90 airlines
Source: Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation
Drivers of Growth
Such a high rate of entry (and exit) is relatively rare in large, established, capital intensive industries. It is an encouraging sign that deregulation, albeit halting and partial, has opened the sector up to innovation, new capital, and new ideas just when they were needed. The development was made more remarkable against a background of limited market entry in the previous half century.
Deregulation was a catalyst, then, a necessary condition for overdue change.
There were other drivers of LCC entry during this key period:
the emergence of new markets as economies expanded;
a progressive technological environment;
widely available transparent internet distribution;
the necessary entrepreneurs in the right places at the right times;
low priced fuel;
plenty of skilled human resources;
easy access to cheap debt; and
relatively cheap B737 and A320 aircraft, old and new, notably after September 11.
But progressively, aircraft prices increased (see Section 10.2), fuel prices rose, the cost of skilled staff (notably pilots) increased, to be followed by the global financial meltdown (where credit dried up). This deterioration of the ideal conditions caused the entry rush to decelerate rapidly from 2007 onwards.
Industry deregulation
Deregulation of an industry almost inevitably lowers barriers to entry. This has been the case even in aviation, where deregulation has been sufficient to encourage competition and put downward pressure on fares. The resulting introduction of new services to new areas has facilitated growth through market expansion rather than simply by cannibalising existing markets. Most early LCC activity was based on new routes, emerging markets, and underutilised airports.
The first opportunities were opened up in the US, following airline deregulation in the late 1970s. But, surprisingly in retrospect, most of the openings seized upon in that market were by full service operators, entering new markets and reshaping their operating style – eg from grid systems to developing hub-based operations. As noted earlier, it was not until this century that Southwest Airlines became an admired and much-imitated model.
The model had however already been exported, first to New Zealand in the early 1990s and then to Europe as open skies arrived there from 1993 onwards.
As the low cost concept gained ground in Europe, the newfound – EU-mandated – liberal access regime quickly overcame silent barriers imposed by often-reluctant national governments, still anxious to protect their flag carriers (not to mention widespread skepticism about the validity of the model). The UK and Ireland were first to exploit the possibilities, a probable reason why Ryanair and easyJet are today the largest short haul operators in Europe.
Some of the most spectacular recent growth is today in regions like the Middle East and Eastern Europe. The newer EU countries to the East have seen rapid expansion, as access restrictions were removed and Russia itself, with rapid growth around it, permitted expansion of airline entry. The result, with many aircraft still flying from a bygone era, has been a little reminiscent of the Chinese expansion of the 1990s, and a shakeout is now occurring.
In the Middle East, where internal liberalisation is still moving slowly, the Gulf states have led the way, with a proliferation of service particularly into nearby India.
Download the full Global LCC Outlook report at: centreforaviation.com/lcc/report
Comment at our blog: https://centreforaviation.com/lcc/blog
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Spring Training Report: Injury Update As Season Nears
Filed Under:MLB, Norm Elrod, Spring Training, Spring Training Report
By Norm Elrod
(CBS Los Angeles/CBS Local) — As Spring Training carries us toward opening day, the injuries continue to pile up. The usual bumps and bruises are to be expected in actual games, even those that don’t count in the standings. But some injuries are left over from off-season training. And a couple, to pitching aces on likely contenders, will probably affect their opening day starts.
Spring Training Report looks at injury status of some of MLB’s more high-profile players, as well as the rebuilding Baltimore Orioles and proposed updates to All-Star Game voting.
Clayton Kershaw (Photo Credit: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
Clayton Kershaw is scheduled to start opening day against the Diamondbacks. But the Dodgers ace is dealing with a sore left shoulder, which has limited his pitching during Spring Training. The left-hander threw off the mound in a recent bullpen session for the first time in weeks. With the season’s first game on March 28, that seems a little concerning.
Luis Severino, who isn’t throwing the ball at all, probably won’t make his season debut until late April at the earliest. The Yankees ace is being treated for rotator cuff inflammation, which the team assures everyone is the only issue.
Francisco Lindor is dealing with a strained calf injury, injured in the lead-up to Spring Training. The Indians shortstop is fielding ground balls and taking batting practice, but isn’t moving laterally. It seems unlikely he will take the field on opening day, which is March 28, against the Twins.
Shohei Ohtani underwent Tommy John surgery last October, which seemed to end his 2019 season then. But the Angels two-way player also hits, and not just pitchers have to in the occasional game against a National League team. Ohtani could return to the batter’s box as a DH some time in May.
Orioles Rebuilding
The Orioles were MLB’s worst team last season, with a record or 47-115. And while projections have them winning more games this season, they could easily win fewer. All of their headline-worthy talent is long gone. Manny Machado, of course, was traded to the Dodgers last July and signed with the Padres last month. Jonathan Schoop and Zack Britton were traded for prospects at the deadline. And Adam Jones is now a Diamondback.
So who’s left, besides the under-performing Chris Davis, that is? Trey Mancini is still learning to play outfield and could have a bit of a bounce-back season at the plate, as he gets more comfortable. So could Mark Trumbo, after only playing 90 games last season. And the speedy Cedric Mullins, who received his break last August, will likely continue starting in center field, especially if his hitting improves.
Beyond them, look for a many Orioles prospects to see time in the majors, including outfielder Yusniel Diaz and third baseman Ryan Mountcastle. Though they will likely start their seasons in the minors.
The Orioles won’t win many games; this is what rebuilding looks like. But they will field a team that includes players worth rooting for.
Possible Changes to All-Star Game Voting
MLB and MLBPA are close to finalizing changes to the rules governing the All-Star Game and voting. The size of each team’s roster will increase to 26 players, 13 of whom can be pitchers. The voting process may also be tweaked a bit. Online voting will happen as usual. But upon completion, the top three vote-getters at each position in each league will compete in an ‘Election Day’ runoff to determine starters.
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Aden, Nathaniel T, and Jonathan E Sinton. "Environmental implications of energy policy in china." Environmental Politics 15.2 (2006) 248-270.
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Sinton, Jonathan E, Rachel E Stem, Nathaniel T Aden, Mark D Levine, Tyler J Dillavou, David Fridley, Yu Joe Huang, Joanna I Lewis, Jiang Lin, Aimee T McKane, Lynn K Price, Ryan H Wiser, Nan Zhou, and Jean Y Ku. Evaluation of China's Energy Strategy Options. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2005.
Price, Lynn K, Christina Galitsky, Jonathan E Sinton, Ernst Worrell, and Wina Graus. Tax and Fiscal Policies for Promotion of Industrial Energy Efficiency: A Survey of International Experience. Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryEcofys, 2005.
Price, Lynn K, Ernst Worrell, and Jonathan E Sinton. Designing Energy Conservation Voluntary Agreements for the Industrial Sector in China: Experience from a Pilot Project with Two Steel Mills in Shandong Province. Trans. Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley N. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2004.
Price, Lynn K, Jiang Yun, Ernst Worrell, Du Wenwei, and Jonathan E Sinton. Development of an energy conservation voluntary agreement pilot project in the steel sector in Shandong. Vol. 28. 2004. LBNL-51608 Chinese.
Price, Lynn K, Jonathan E Sinton, Ernst Worrell, Dian Phylipsen, Hu Xiulian, and Li Ji. "Energy use and carbon dioxide emissions from steel production in China." Energy 27 (2004). LBNL-47205.
Sinton, Jonathan E, Joanna I Lewis, Mark D Levine, and Yuezhong Zhu. China's Sustainable Energy Future--Scenarios of Energy and Carbon Emissions. Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission, People's Republic of China; Lawerence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2003.
Sinton, Jonathan E, and David Fridley. Comments on Recent Energy Statistics from China. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2003.
Price, Lynn K, Jiang Yun, Ernst Worrell, Du Wenwei, and Jonathan E Sinton. Development of an Energy Conservation Voluntary Agreement: Pilot Project in the Steel Sector in Shandong Province. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; China Energy Conservation Association, 2003. LBNL-51608.
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Price, Lynn K, Ernst Worrell, Jonathan E Sinton, and Jiang Yun. Voluntary Agreements for Increasing Energy-Efficiency in Industry: Case Study of a Pilot Project with the Steel Industry in Shandong Province, China. Vol. 28. 2003. LBNL-52714.
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Sinton, Jonathan E, and David Fridley. What Goes Up: Recent Trends in China’s Energy Consumption. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2000. LBL-44283.
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Martinot, Eric, Jonathan E Sinton, and Brent M Haddad. "International Technology Transfer for Climate Change Mitigation and the Case of Russia and China." Annual Review Energy Environment (1997) 357-401.
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Liu, Zhiping, Jonathan E Sinton, Fuqiang Yang, Mark D Levine, and Michael K Ting. Industrial Sector Energy Conservation Programs in the People's Republic of China during the Seventh Five-Year Plan (1986-1990). Berkeley, CA, 1994. LBNL-36395.
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India Ban Worsens China’s Toy Woes
Posted by cschultz | Feb 2, 2009
The government of India has placed a six-month ban on toys manufactured in China. The Indian government did not say why it placed the ban, but it is thought to be in response to what the government perceives as Chinese interference in their relations with Pakistan.
Significantly, the toy ban came a day after India expressed objections to Pakistan “outsourcing” its foreign policy to China, with Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on January 22 giving China a “blank check” to negotiate with India in resolving the crisis in relations sparked by the November 26, 2008, terrorist strike in Mumbai. The toy ban could be a rebuke to Chinese interference in its relations with Pakistan, currently the greatest challenge facing the Congress party-led government in Delhi…
Retailers are not happy. “The ban on Chinese toys is a mistake,” Narain Das, owner of Toy Kingdom store in New Delhi, told Asia Times Online. “It came about as a result of pressure from domestic manufacturers after toy imports from China last year crossed rupee 1,000 crores [$204 million].” Das said his customers had no complaints with Chinese toys.
Surprisingly, no specific reason was given for the ban, particularly given that trade with China is expected to grow to $100 billion by 2012, nearly one-fifth of India’s overall annual $525 billion trade with the world, according to Department of Commerce estimates released in April, 2008.
The ban is expected to further damage China’s embattled toy export industry.
See also past CDT posts on China’s toy industry.
Categories : China & the World,Economy,Main
Tags :India relations,Indian toy ban,toy industry
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First chapter of my novel, "Out in the Neon Night"
Still all jazzed from the San Francisco Writing Conference, I thought it might be fun to post a sample chapter of my novel that I’m currently seeking an agent for, “Out in the Neon night” here. To give you the quick lowdown:
The novel is set in California, Japan and Hong Kong during a fifteen year period from the late 80s through the early 2000s and tells the story of Carl, a young man who descends into a life of romantic and sexual obsession in his teens and twenties, and then has a painful spiritual emergence from it in his thirties. It’s made up of five story arcs that take place at discrete points during the fifteen year period, and interweave with each other as they unfold. It’s also surprisingly funny in places despite the subject matter, and informed throughout by the rock music of the era.
This is the first chapter, in which Carl is just starting out on the downward spiral…
1. Shot Right Through With a Bolt of Blue
Coming to the Welcome Dance was a mistake.
Carl felt sure of that even before the guy knocked over the table behind him and hit him in the back.
To begin with, wasn’t it a mistake to come out at all? Out into the night where the air waited like a hungry ghost to suck out his breath and suspend it in an icy cloud before him. A cloud that pointed out into the bright and hollow sky, under which he searched, yearned, churned, for…
What? Carl didn’t know. When had the search ever worked for him? What made him think it would work tonight? What explosion would finally happen at the end of the fuse lit by this night if it didn’t fizzle out?
He ran a hand through his long blonde hair, pulled it together behind his head, and surveyed the dance. Nothing but a fizzle seemed likely here in this big box of a room. What could happen among the guys with short haircuts in sweats and shirts bearing names of sports teams, and lean and blonde girls likely straight out of Southern California? He stood there among them in a torn punk-rock t-shirt, baggy pants, and black leather shoes with buckles and shiny steel tips.
This was just as bad as the minimum-security prison masquerading as a high school that he came from. My God, the room even looked like a gym converted into the site of a high school dance! Berkeley should not be like this. Here in the land of the Free Speech Movement, People’s Park and the Third World Strike there should be freedom from the syndicate of jocks, politburo of the popular and oligarchy of rich kids who bought all the right clothes.
Carl shifted his weight from foot to foot. He found it hard to stand up straight so long with no support. But maybe he didn’t look manly enough with his hip out to one side. He shifted, back and forth, back and forth. Should he try to talk to people? Ask someone to dance despite the awful boom-boom-boom of the vapid dance music? All ew baby baby without a single real feeling in any of the songs. Without a person in the whole room who loved the rainyday music of English moors and pale windswept Northumberland towns. Or at least knew the words to a few Depeche Mode songs. Come on already!
If only there were people here he could relate to, then he could move out into the room. Instead he backed away from the crowd and further into the stricture inside his chest. His thoughts twisted tighter and tighter, wrapping him away from the world. A wallflower indeed and he would actually be up against the wall in a moment, with just another step or two backwards—
Which is when the small square brown table tumbled over and hit his back with a glancing blow.
“Fuck this shit!”
As shock staggered Carl forward, the guy who’d knocked over the table continued to curse and wave his arms around in inarticulate rage.
It was hard to see in the dim light, but the guy didn’t look that big. It was a lean frame that poked through his sweatshirt. He was intimidating nonetheless, as he shook his head and seethed disapproval of something. Carl stood rooted to the spot. Maybe he should get out of there; the guy could still be dangerous. Two friends tried to drag the irate table-tosser back, but he jerked his shoulders around and threw them off.
One friend stood in front of him and talked softly with a hand on his chest. Seeing the whole group was black, the thought flashed through Carl’s mind— did the guy throw the table at him because he was white? The group succeeded at last in calming their friend down enough that they could lead him away toward the glow of the exit sign.
Carl stood there for some time afterward. An image of himself flashed through his mind— long hair, dressed funny, and standing with his hip out to one side. Did the guy think he was gay because of the long hair? His bruised back throbbed in time to the music. Boom-boom-boom. Why did this shit always happen to him? Same old high school bully crap— he tried to be okay around people and what did he get for it? Whacked in the back with a table. Fuck this shit indeed.
He wandered back out into the main body of the dance, away from the table-flipping corner of danger. Some movement in the corner of his field of vision caught his eye. A girl.
Not just any girl.
She dressed differently now. A thin white blouse highlighted with green, yellow and orange flowers. A shiny black short skirt. Combat boots. A ghostly gossamer scarf around her neck. Her hair in a bob, buzzed short in the back and long in front, angled downwards to a point on each side of her face. But the round cherubic face framed by her rich dark hair was the same.
Gina Onizuka. Gina, who Carl had a crush on since freshman year of high school. Gina, who, resplendent in long braided pigtails and thick horn-rimmed glasses, sat in the seat in front of him for the duration of the English honor students’ bus trip to the Ashland Shakespeare festival. Fueled by the Vivarin he took in high school to be able speak to people without freezing up, he talked with her non-stop for 17 hours on the way to Oregon. Gina had— that’s right, she had! — come to Berkeley for college. And she was here now, a few feet away. It was perfect, because—
Crap! No, it was not perfect. At least he didn’t think Keisha, the girlfriend mired in junior year of high school back in his hometown at this very moment, would think it was perfect. Keisha, dumbshit, remember? The one he wrote the eighteen-page letter to earlier today? The one he was going to call tomorrow, as soon as the phone was hooked up. Probably before he even called his parents. No, definitely before he called his parents.
Yes, he remembered.
But. But the letter to Keisha was comfortable homesickness. Keisha herself represented pent up pages of love built up over years of never having a girl like him as more than a friend. It had to go to somebody, anybody, and Keisha was the anybody who finally said yes. His feelings for her had grown, by and by, into the hearts and flowers of wholesome first love and awkward innocent sex.
Gina, though, was last year’s Homecoming Dance. He went to every high school dance, just in case the thing that was supposed to happen finally happened that night. She went for reasons unknown to him, perhaps simply because freshman in college are supposed to go back to their high school Homecoming Dance.
Carl remembered the shock when she asked him to dance. This college woman, a whole year older than him, asked him to dance. She, the angel all dressed in black, the very essence of antidote to the obvious unattainable cheerful blondes he didn’t even dare to yearn for. She was not a sweet training-wheel girlfriend like Keisha. No, she was the real thing.
At the end of their dance he grabbed her hand, her perfectly soft hand, impelled by what, he didn’t even know, and squeezed it.
As the throb in his back returned him to the current dance, he could almost feel the warmth of her hand from a year ago. He glanced around the room and saw Gina headed for the exit. Dwarfed against the aircraft hanger ceilings, she was a tiny figure, almost at the door and moving fast. Too fast for him to take time with thoughts of Keisha, shyness or pain from recent airborne table injury. Too fast for anything but the electric impulse that launched him across the room after her.
He dodged near collisions with legions of bright young revelers on the way to the door and out into the dark, cold clarity of night. He found her leaning on the metal railing and staring out in the direction of the elephantine marble pillars of Sproul Hall. With a stealth borne of years of escaping the notice of bullies, he stood beside her without her even realizing.
She turned, her face set with a hard plastic ‘Who is this jerk?’ preparation for dismissal. Then her demeanor shifted and her girlish cheeks dimpled into a smile. She threw herself on him for a hug. As they parted, the softness of her nicely rounded body and the flower-sweet yet sweat-sharp tang of her scent clung to him in cottony ribbons.
“Carl! Hey! You’re at Berkeley now too?”
“I am! I’m glad I ran into you. I heard you were going here.”
“Yeah! Were you at the dance just now?”
“Yeah. Pretty lame music, huh?”
“Yeah.” Her nose wrinkled up and her full coral lips narrowed. He’d seen the same face once on a cat that had eaten a moth.
“So what are you up to?” He stared at her as he asked. Even the breath that shimmered into cold white clouds in front of her seemed beautiful.
“Oh, I don’t know. Hanging out, waiting for classes to start. Going to a lot of shows. Hey, have you been to Gilman Street?”
“Uh, no, I don’t think so.” What the hell was Gilman Street?
“It’s this club; all these local punk bands play there. I’ve gone a lot this summer.”
“Oh cool. Hey, do you still read comics?” That should bring him onto firmer ground. Their common love of comics had animated the discussion on the Oregon bus trip, after all.
“Yeah I do, but not so much Marvel stuff anymore. I tried to keep reading New Mutants, but it sucks dick now. I’m really into Love and Rockets. How about you?”
Man, Love and Rockets. That was one of those alternative, underground comics, wasn’t it? He felt off-balance, even more so because it was the first time he had ever heard a girl use the phrase “sucks dick”. On top of that, here he still read the X-Men and Spider-man. Kids stuff. It took him a second to compose his answer, and he thought it still sounded far too lame.
“Oh, you know, different things, I read different things.”
From inside the dance, an orchestral flourish followed by a regular mechanical computer simulation of an empty tin can beat signaled the start of New Order’s Bizarre Love Triangle.
“They’re finally playing something decent!”
“Yeah. Hey, want to dance?” He flashed back to high school as she looked at him for his answer, and then nodded.
Back through the double doors they found a space in the midst of the dance floor. Which wasn’t too hard, the music had sent much of the crowd off to the sidelines. This was no song for bland perfect people. This was a song that Top 40 radio would never play. This was their song.
Every time I think of you
I feel shot right through with a bolt of blue
Shot he was. He let the sway into his body, unsure of how to catch the dit-de-duh-dit-duh-duh-dit of the beat. Utterly unlike Gina, a perfection of motion to the music, with none of the sweet young shallow sexuality that Keisha wore like an old pair of leggings. Gina’s curved hips and small round breasts, snug in her floral print blouse, rolled and flowed like water. This shocked first awareness of sinuous womanhood that seemed to course with the very power of the Universe stuck in Carl’s mind for years to come.
The lights of the dance swirled across her face. It seemed set and impassive now, a formal beauty made even more insistent and present by its distance. The stillness in her face seemed to hint at a whole world of feeling underneath, a direct electric connection to the tragedy of life. His tragedy, and she knew it too. She must know it too. But he felt a faint tickle of unease.
I’m not sure what this could mean
I don’t think you’re what you seem
I do admit to myself
That if I hurt someone else
Then I’ll never see just what we’re meant to be
Carl mouthed the words, but missed the point entirely.
As the Buddhists that he had just begun to read said, by your thoughts you make the world. That night he forged the first link in a chain of co-dependent origination. The wheel of dharma began to spin.
All he knew is that this was surely it, the moment he had waited for through years of being unloved, unlovable. All to be recouped in one fell stroke by Gina, who was punk rock, cool comics, a dangerous roll and tumble of curves. She could inhabit the space inside, the empty space that had been there for as long as he knew. She could fill it.
As the song reached its crescendo through the peaks and troughs of synthesizer waves, he wondered, doubted, felt sure:
She was the reason he came out into the night.
This entry was posted in novel, Out in the Neon Night, writing on February 17, 2009 by chrislwriter.
I’m in Decompression from the San Francisco Writer’s Conference!
I just spent two and a half days at the San Francisco Writer’s Conference, at the Mark Hopkins Hotel perilously high atop California Street. For those of you not familiar, it’s an annual event started by local literary agents Michael Larsen and Elizabeth Pomada to allow writers, often as-yet unpublished, to meet and hear from agents, editors and publishers. This is the first time I’ve been, and it was huge! While currently exhausted and in a bit of postpartum withdrawal, I found it to be really inspiring. I have tons of leads about various journals and contests and editorias and publishers to follow up on, I met some really cool writers from all around the country, and I’ve become encouraged about continuing to pitch my novel and working more on my new novel. Most of all it’s just really nice to be around so many people excited about writing, and to hear that publishing remains alive and well and will continue to look for good new authors despite much dire industry news of late. Carry on writing!
This entry was posted in writing on February 16, 2009 by chrislwriter.
February 2009 Writing News
It seems I haven’t sent one of these out since September- Egad! Was I caught up in a pre-election tizzy? Knocked for a loop by the holidays? In one of those periodic funks about what my writing efforts were adding up to that we all get from time to time? All of the above! But now I’m back, full of New Year’s fervor, to unleash the latest updates about my creative efforts on you, my hapless victims:
Film- I’ve been low activity in the last two rounds of Scary Cow, the independent film-making co-op that I’m part of. But I was script supervisor and production assistant on a video for a song by local musician Tony Maddox, “The Waiting Game”, which will air at their screening this Saturday (February 7th) at the Castro Theatre. It’s always worth checking out, you can get tickets here: http://scarycow.com/news_pages/2008-12-round7Screening.html . I am approaching 90% likelihood of writing and producing my own short film in their upcoming round, I’ll keep you posted.
Publication- Through the second half of last year I made a pledge to myself to submit something somewhere on a weekly basis, which I kept to pretty well. I am hereby extending that into 2009! For those of you interested in statistics, the 2008 effort has so far led to a 14% acceptance rate, 25% rejection rate and 61% eerie whistling silence rate. 2009 is still in its infancy, but has already yielded one might-become semi-regular outing blogging on music for the ‘around the web” section of the new online culture magazine The Rumpus: http://therumpus.net/sections/music/ . And I’m continuing to write for LEGENDmag, an online and offline publication covering the progressive urban independent lifestyle, where I’ve just become a regular Thursday contributor. You can read my January 9th grouchy musical New Year’s resolution column for them here: http://legendmag.net/thelegendonline/2009/01/09/musical-years-resolutions-san-francisco-09
Performance- I’m making a commitment to read in public at least once a month this year. My first outing was an open mic at the Bazaar Café this past Thursday. My February installment will likely be at the San Francisco Writer’s Conference (for more about which, see below). I’ll update you on where I’ll be in March and going forward. If anybody has some good venue suggestions, let me know!
Novel- After a year of working together, things with my agent seem to be winding down. So, despite the fact that the publishing industry is collapsing along with the rest of the economy, I’ll be trying various new means to find a publisher for my novel Out In The Neon Night this coming year. The first of these is attending the San Francisco Writer’s Conference this month (http://www.sfwriters.org/ ), which includes “speed dating” events with agents and publishers. If nothing else, it should make for a fun story…
Blog- Forty one blog entires in 2008, and two so far in 2009, for better or for worse. You can read them in any or all of the following three locations: http://chris-west.blogspot.com/, http://chrisw-insf.livejournal.com/, http://www.myspace.com/chriswest_writerinsf
That’s it for now, see you in March!
This entry was posted in writing news on February 5, 2009 by chrislwriter.
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CJ ENTERTAINMENT / CJ E&M CORPORATION
By Chan-Wook PARK
CJ ENTERTAINMENT / CJ E&M CORPORATION - as SALES All rights, World
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Kang-Ho SONG, Ok-Vin KIM
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Sang-hyun is a beloved and admired priest in a small town, who devotedly serves at a local hospital. He goes to Africa to volunteer as a test subject in an experiment to find a vaccine to the new deadly infectious disease caused by Emmanuel Virus(E.V.). The experiment fails and Sang-hyun gets infected by E.V. but he ends up being miraculously cured and returns home. News of Sang-hyun's recovery from E.V. spreads and people start believing he has the gift of healing and flock to receive his prayers.
From those who come to him, Sang-hyun meets a childhood friend named Kang-woo and his wife Tae-ju. Sang-hyun is immediately drawn to Tae-ju. One day, Sang-hyun coughs up blood, dies, and comes back to life the next day as a vampire. Tae-ju gets attracted to Sang-hyun who has now turned into a vampire, and they begin a secret love affair. Sang-hyun asks Tae-ju to run away with him but she turns him down. Instead, they plot to kill Kang-woo...
@Cannes 2009 (Premiere)
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DePaul Library Update
The library just shared this update:
The DePaul University Library will be migrating the Library's Web site to the SharePoint platform this summer, with an expected launch on August 28, after the end of the summer session. Most major library systems will continue to operate unchanged as will the structure of our site during this migration, so if you are familiar with how our current site is organized, you will find the new one similar in almost every respect.
The Library wants faculty to be especially aware that our URLs will change when we migrate, so with the exception of the Library Homepage, all other URLs beginning with library.depaul.edu/ will need to be updated in your course materials and D2L.
Starting July 25th, the Library will make the new Web site available to faculty and students at special locations in the Richardson and Loop Campus libraries. More information on the specifics will be communicated closer to that time. Please contact the Library's Coordinator for Web Services, M Ryan Hess, if you have any questions.
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How to Integrate Desire2Learn with Pearson MyLab and Mastering
Dave Lee (at Pearson) shared a useful video with me that explains how to integrate Desire2Learn with Pearson MyLab. We will be experimenting with the plugin on our test instance of D2L, and plan to make this live later in the year.
Import of a MyLab course should be done before students are enrolled in the MyLab.
Once the course is integrated with the D2L course, students who are enrolled in the D2L course will then be prompted for an access code the first time they click on a MyLab link in the D2L course.
Once they register their access code, they will have single sign on access to the MyLab resources from within the D2L course.
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The Total Destruction of Western Christian Civilization
During the month of December 2018 the Pharisees of Journalism, along with their associates, the vacant talking heads, chose to inundate the population with reports about “Climate Change,” “Illegal Immigration,” “The Federal Reserve,” and the shortcomings of the 45th President of The United States. Interestingly, they all have one thing in common. But before we go there let’s take a quick round-about.
I have heard good, hard working, presumably well meaning people say, “Oh, what happened over 150 years ago is history, it doesn’t affect me, leave it alone.” Well, the sad fact is that it does affect all of us. The turmoil this Nation has been forced to endure is a consequence of the Rule of Law being supplanted by the Rule of Man which occurred in 1865 when the Constitutional Republic was executed by Yankee-progressives. Base politicians wrestled the reins of government away from Statesmen in order to enrich themselves by pilfering the US Treasury, encouraging lobbying, revolving doors, and passing laws from which they are exempt.
Take for example “Climate Change.” In my lifetime we’ve been threatened by global cooling, then global warming, now finally climate change. Your local weather station is seldom the bastion of accuracy in weather on a weekly basis, yet we are encouraged to believe agenda-driven climate computer models. It is much better to believe God’s word. After the Noahic flood, God said: “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. “ – Genesis 8:22 KJV.
Scripture teaches that we should all be faithful stewards of God’s bountiful gifts. And Christian people, as a rule, are. However, environmentalism as promoted by progressive government and its organs are nothing more than specious fear mongering and propaganda designed for control and taxation. Man is a triune being; having a body, mind, and spirit. We were created in the image of the triune God. Education that neglects any area creates an individual deficient in that area, thus when Bible and Spiritual instruction was removed from education a spiritual vacuum was created. Mid-way through the twentieth-century Yankee, humanist, Marxist-progressives realized that worship of the State was not sufficiently large and nebulous to fill the void within the human heart. They correctly concluded that worship of the earth with its collateral benefits would suit their needs much better. Thus, they created environmentalism as their very real theological appendage. Sufficiently frightening, with the goal being one world government and the simultaneous destruction of Western Christian Civilization. Earth worship and environmentalism offers the perfect vehicle for global taxes, global laws, and global empowerment through their various international agencies which can siphon power from nations and circumvent constitutions with high sounding international treatie. Mal-educated subjects are fed catastrophic propaganda through systematic repetition and trivial preoccupation, while rushing to embrace the emergency and “save the earth” while forging their own chains of bondage! Hence: Climate Change.
By Definition, Illegal Immigration is criminal; but apparently since the rule of law no longer applies it has become an issue. In 1861 when the 16th President called for the Sovereign States to provide troops in order to invade other Sovereign States, the South as one body stood up and said no, according to Article III, section 3 of our Constitution. To Southerners, Lincoln’s invasion was treason and they simply refused to participate. Sadly, the tens of thousands of European immigrant citizens in the North who had no history of liberty and no knowledge of the price paid for independence were patriotically cajoled into enlistment into a Federal Army. By 1865 a Federal Army of over 2 million defeated an army of 650 thousand and of the millions in Federal service were 800 thousand European enlistments. So you see, Christian people who are rooted in their history require great effort to move while immigrants with no historic tradition can be manipulated. Progressives have never forgotten that lesson as they have been tireless in the creation of a sufficiently uninformed and or ignorant population from which to garner votes. After all, their founder declared: “If you can cut the people off from their history, they can be easily persuaded.” – Karl Marx. Yet Christians are aware that God desires us to know our history, Hosea 4:6 in part states: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…”, which means His chosen people had neglected to remember where He found them and how far He had brought them. Then II Timothy 2:15 makes it very clear, “Study to show thyself approved unto God…”
As I’m sure you know, or should know, the Federal Reserve is a privately held corporation which through political chicanery took from the American people their sovereign right to produce their own money interest free. What we refer to today as money is not money but fiat currency or debt obligation notes. According to economists, money is “created” when it comes into existence and creation means making something out of nothing. Ordinary businesses diligently work to produce yearend profits of 5 – 10% or 15%; yet the manufacturers of our money have the same paper, ink, and labor costs in a $1.00 bill as in a $100.00 bill, yet we are charged face value for the bill plus interest. $1.00 in 1913 is worth $.04 today. and the difference has been absorbed by the Federal Reserve through inflation. Today’s national debt, plus Federal unfunded mandates, are somewhere over 200 Trillion Dollars, in 1909 it was less than I billion. On March 9, 1933, President Roosevelt (whose family owned stock in the Federal Reserve System) began his issuance of Presidential Orders which have forever transformed America. He abolished gold as our currency standard, enlarged the 1917 “Trading with the Enemy Act” to include all Americans as legal enemies of the state, and signed over to the Federal Reserve the legal claim to all personal property of Americans in lieu of gold. These were Presidential Proclamations numbers 2038, 2039 and 2040. Naturally, a compliant Congress passed the necessary legislation; and those that were not became law through publication in the Federal Registry via the Executive Branch of government. Thus, a government which violates laws with impunity passes more laws in order to intimidate its subjects. Thomas Jefferson, Virginian, author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd US President said: If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them [around the banks], will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
So what do “Climate Change”, “Illegal Immigration” and “The Federal Reserve” have in common? All three are schemes of selfish men without virtue who in seeking their own enrichment demand the total destruction of Western Christian Civilization. Presently there is one elected individual with the courage to jam a monkey wrench into the gears of the Yankee Progressive machine and he is our 45th President. We may be totally Southern and un-reconstructed but life under Communist rule is not an option we should allow. Consider the words of Jeffry Rothschild as delivered in a speech in China April, 5, 2014, “In order to finalize the New World Order process we need a third world war to exterminate 90% of the global population. This will resolve the problem of human overpopulation, as well as put an end to civil disobedience. We will then proceed to automate industry and create a global feudalist system in the name of saving our planet.” These Yankee Progressive Communists are serious in their efforts; they lie, cheat, and steal to further their cause. Christians must cease from trivial preoccupation, remove their children from government indoctrination centers, demand fiscal responsibility and adherence to the oath of office of elected officials, pray for National forgiveness and spiritual revival, and be equally as determined as our foes.
RM – 12/29/2018
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Collective funeral held for young victims of northern Colombia bus tragedy
by Arthi Nachiappan May 28, 2014
A collective funeral was held for the child victims of a bus explosion in northern Colombia, national media reported on Wednesday.
The funeral saw the burial of 29 children, a day after officials were said to have released the bodies back to their families in the northern village of Fundacion, reported Colombian newspaper El Espectador.
MORE: Collective funeral to be held for 33 victims of bus tragedy
Locals gathered at the site early on Wednesday morning to lay flowers before the ceremony. Also present to pay their respects to the victims’ families were prominent political figures, including the governor of the northern state of Atlantico and the mayor of coastal city, Barranquilla, reported Colombian newspaper El Heraldo.
Before the ceremony, Roberto Padilla, priest of the National Police, offered a prayer and words of hope for the bereaved.
Solidarity March
Northern Colombia presented itself in its masses to show solidarity to the victims’ families. This follows Tuesday’s procession through Magdalena; a symbolic act that community leaders put on to help alleviate the pain and heartbreak that devastated the region.
MORE: Solidarity March for families of bus tragedy that claimed 33 held in northern Colombia
It is still unclear what caused the fire that claimed the lives of 33 people in Magdalena.
MORE: Owner of bus destroyed in bus tragedy sought by police
The owner of the bus is being sought by authorities after a judge issued a warrant for his arrest.
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Así fue el recorrido de los restos fúnebres desde Barranquilla a Fundación (El Heraldo)
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Colombia closes popular beaches due to overcrowding
Locals on Colombia’s Caribbean coast in fear after paramilitaries order drug gang to surrender
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Choose & Cut Christmas Trees guide now available through the West Virginia Division of Forestry
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The 2019 West Virginia Choose & Cut Christmas Trees guide is now available online from the West Virginia Division of Forestry (WVDOF).
“Fresh-cut trees have been a tradition for many families. They add a nice aroma to the house and can also be recycled after the holidays,” said Division of Forestry Director and State Forester Barry Cook.
The guide, a publication of the West Virginia Tree Growers Association, lists contact information, services provided and products available at Christmas tree farms throughout the state, organized by county. It also includes tips on Christmas tree safety and how to keep trees fresh through the holiday season.
“Purchasing a West Virginia-grown Christmas tree benefits not only the local economy but also the environment. Trees that grow on the farm help stabilize the soil, protect water quality and provide cover for wildlife. They also absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen, which improves air quality,” Cook said.
Many of the trees grown at West Virginia tree farms started out as seedlings at Clements Tree Nursery, which is owned and operated by the WVDOF.
Download the 2019 West Virginia Choose & Cut Christmas Trees guide here. Copies of the guide also will be available at the WVDOF state headquarters and regional offices and at the growers listed in the guide.
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Trump administration ready to ease ban on sales to Huawei
By Yana Berman
Partial lifting of sanctions may ease talks on trade war
The US government is planning to allow some companies to trade with the controversial Chinese Telecoms company Huawei, The New York Timesreports.
The Trump administration banned Huawei from supplying telecommunication gear to US firms, and vice versa, in May, a decision supported by leading tech companies such as Google. The company is seen as a security risk in the US because its alleged closeness to the Chinese government.
However, the restriction has not yet come into effect, as the Department of Commerce delayed the ban on American companies supplying gear to Huawei for 90 days in August.
Big suppliers, such as Micron and Intel, are reported to be circumventing sanctions and supplying parts to Huawei. Now the US authorities plan to introduce licences that will allow chosen companies to bypass the restriction and sell non-sensitive parts to Huawei, sources say.
The plan has not yet been announced officially, but might be revealed as American and Chinese officials meet in Washington this week for trade talks. The NYT says restrictions on Huawei could be used as leverage in the talks.
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Mitt Romney isn’t fit for the Oval Office
September 14, 2012 By ctucker 14 Comments
Character is a combination of traits that etch the outlines of a life, governing moral choices and infusing personal and professional conduct. It’s an elusive thing — easily cloaked or submerged by the theatrics of a presidential campaign — but unexpected moments can sometimes reveal the fibers from which it is woven.
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Last week, Mitt Romney had just such a moment. His rash, crass and blatantly dishonest response to violent protests in Libya and Egypt exposed a feckless and contemptible character that places political advantage above patriotism and values winning at any cost over courage, honor and truth.
As mobs attacked U.S. embassies in the Middle East, Romney rushed to use the moment as a cudgel against his rival, President Obama. He might have waited to find out whether any diplomats had been injured or Marines attacked. He did not. He might have waited until a day of mourning in commemoration of national tragedy — 9/11 — was over. He did not.
Instead, as violence escalated and lives hung in the balance, Romney jarringly condemned the president, claiming that “the administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.” Later, he stood by that lie, contending that Obama coddles and apologizes to the nation’s enemies. His shamelessness overshadowed his belated attempts to acknowledge the deaths of four courageous Americans — including Christopher Stevens, U.S. Ambassador to Libya — who gave their lives in service to their country.
In a closely-fought political campaign, candidates often exaggerate their rivals’ shortcomings, blame them for circumstances beyond their control and accuse them of recklessness or timidity (or both). That’s politics.
Indeed, by the end of the week, some leading Republicans were joining the criticism of the president’s foreign policy, hoping to help the GOP nominee extricate himself from the hole he’d dug. John McCain, for example, claimed the Middle East protests — perhaps spurred by a despicable U.S.-made Web video slandering Islam’s founding prophet — could be attributed to “American weakness and the president’s inability to lead.”
But McCain and other prominent Republicans had the decency to wait until the nation had digested the news of the losses among the diplomatic corps. Romney had no such decency. By contrast, after President Carter’s botched raid to rescue U.S. hostages in Iran, Ronald Reagan, his opponent, said, “This is the time for us as a nation and a people to stand united.”
In truth, Romney’s shamelessness and shallowness have been on display for years, evident in his falsehoods, his hypocrisy and his spinelessness. He has no apparent political principles that he will not jettison if circumstances seem to dictate a change in ideology.
And you don’t have to go back far to find Romney’s ever-present hypocrisy. He wants to enjoy the traditional GOP advantage on foreign policy, but Obama has seized and occupied that territory — killing more terrorists, including Osama bin Laden, in four years than George W. Bush did in eight.
So Romney gripes and complains, even if that means taking two or three different positions on the same issue. Last year, he attacked the president for waiting to commit U.S. forces to the NATO effort to overthrow dictator Moammar Gadhafi. A few weeks later, he criticized Obama for allegedly going too far in committing forces in Libya. In between, he ran from reporters who were trying to pin him down on his position.
Most revealing of Romney’s character (or lack thereof), however, is his contentious relationship with truth. His criticism of Obama’s Middle East foreign policy is of a piece with his oft-repeated claim that the president has traveled the world on an “apology tour,” kowtowing before foreign leaders and paying penance for his nation’s sins. Never happened, as several independent fact-checkers have said.
Nor did the president react to the siege on U.S. embassies by “sympathizing” with violent mobs. Inside the Cairo embassy, diplomatic staffers did try to calm the growing anger by releasing a statement that condemned “continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims.” When Obama found out about the statement, he disavowed it. But he also noted that embassy personnel were in difficult circumstances, so “my tendency is to cut those folks a little bit of slack.”
Romney didn’t have the class to do that, either. His character is one that would not suit the Oval Office.
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Nice hatchet job on Romney. You seemed to have covered all the DNC talking points, including the one about not criticising the terrorists and murderers who did the killings. They get a pass, I guess.
ctucker says:
Do you really believe it is necessary for me to state my disapproval of terrorism? Do you think terrorists read my column?
Mike Simmons says:
One used to assume that as Americans we would all have certain values in common. But with citizens such as yourself that hate the overreaching, unjust, “Colonial Power” of the United States of America and celebrate the downtrodden prolotariate no matter who they are, yes; you need to state your position. For instance: Do you agree with our support of Isreal and reject the terrorist ways of groups like Hamas and Hezbullah? That’s an easy one. Mike
How sad to see someone of your supposed level of education, such an unbelievable hack. I feel sorry for the young people who have no choice but to sit in your classes while you attempt to pollute them with your biased rhetoric. Like every American you have a right to your opinion, a right given to you by the personal sacrifice of so many brave men and women who fought for our liberty and our Constitution. While you are free to have an opinion, maybe it would be best if you kept it to yourself. Your degree commands a certain amount of respect in many circles, but your ridiculous article makes one wonder just how you could have gone through so much educating, and still be so ignorant. I guess my vote this November to save our country from Barack Obama and persons like yourself will merely cancel out your vote. With that thought in mind, I will have to work just that little bit harder to convince yet another 2008 Obama voter to correct their mistake.
While I doubt this email will change your mind and turn you from the U.S. hating person you are, I can at least smile, knowing ignorance is bliss, and you Madam are as blissful as they come. As they say down there in Georgia, “Can’t fix stupid!”
P.S. Do you really think your chin on your fist makes you look like a deep thinker? (Rodin’s Le Penseur) Unfortunately you opened your mouth and removed all doubt!
Adrienne L. Anthony-Bolds says:
I agree 100% with your statements regarding Romney’s character. I watched him in full campaign mode with no consideration for those fine Americans who represented service with dignity. He called A National Press conference!
Mary Bryan says:
I started to read your article because I was curious about it and you are one of the reasons that I don’t read articles anymore. Everything is so one sided. My family voted for Obama last time but not this time. He is not a good President that you and all the other left leaning journalists portray him to be. What happened to the days when journalists actually reported the truth instead of the BS you guys shovel. Most people I know consider the media to be nothing but a joke anymore. We are disgusted with you……..
TBD says:
About your article on Romney not being fit to serve in the oval office and his remarks about the embassy attacks. WTF was Obama waiting for? His leadership is worse than Zero. He needs replacing and your comments about the man that is going to lead us back to the American way of life was uncalled for. Would you prfefer Socialism and Communism? Then when I saw your photo, it all came to light, Dark Light. this time, vote for America and not Color…
Annette Lee says:
Could not agree with you more. I enjoy your responses on MSNBC as well.
If you get a minute, check out my video about Mitt Romney called ‘Etch a sketch to the Resuce.’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgDHsDKjIxQ&feature=g-upl
Thank you and keep up the excellent work.
Will do, Annette. And thanks
Jeroboam says:
So there’s an explosion of the usual anti-American mayhem from the usual quarters to “celebrate” 9/11 and the US embassy in Cairo, which can normally be assumed to speak for the administration, attacks some nebbish of an American citizen for exercising his First Amendment right to free speech here at home. So utterly wrong was this statement that their bosses back in Washington immediately felt compelled to pull the rug out from under it. What do the media do? You guessed it. The “major news outlets,” — seeing that this was a disaster for the Obama campaign that couldn’t be spun to his benefit — decided the only tactic available to them was simply to change the subject to a trumped-up side issue. So they’re busy decreeing, with much gesticulation, that Romney has committed some kind of “gaffe” by telling the truth about the government’s disgraceful initial response. It was only a matter of time before one of Obama’s most blinkered fan girls joined the phony dudgeon parade.
I guess you didn’t actually understand that definition of character when you penned that despicable opinion piece. Not that I’m surprised, given who you look to as an example of integrity and honor. But congratulations on creating a piece so outrageous in the lengths and breadths it goes to demean and distort reality that it ends up skirting the border between science fiction and humor.
You have the nerve to accuse Romney of waffling on issues, while Prince Barack sits on the fence, checking wind direction and, I assume, counting the votes and benefits of, finally, coming down on the side of gay marriage. Of course, he would love us all to believe that his position on the issue had been ‘evolving’ (his word for explaining away politically opportunistic decisions), lo these past three years, but alas, only the feeble-minded among us have bought that nonsense.
Your characterization of Romney and his remarks as ‘despicable’ or ‘contemptible’ is as shallow and transparent as your reason for doing so, and will never pass the straight-face test since it was quite obvious from Obama’s lack of immediate outrage with the perpetrator’s of those attacks or the goverments of those countries which allowed them to be carried out that, absent Romney’s criticism, he would never have issued any meaningful statement. If you doubt Obama’s foreign policy stance has been based on ‘coddling’ the Arab world, just ask Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu what he thinks about the Prez. Perhaps you can get an opportunity to do just that when the leader of our greatest, and only, ally in the Middle East arrives in America next month for a speech at the UN on Iran’s threat to the region and world. Unfortunately, your stand-up guy, Obama, is too busy to meet with him on such a trivial matter….or perhaps he just doesn’t want to have to make any public committments, especially if his arab buddies would be offended..!
And if I have to read the revisionist tale one more time about Obama’s success in taking out Bin Laden, I think I’ll have to puke. That effort was ten years in the making, and many people, including the former Republican administration had a hand in that success. Obama just happened to in the Office when it finally paid off, so please cut the crapola. Truth, which you claim to esteem, be told, if Obama had been in charge from the beginning, we never would have generated the intel to get the job done, given his position on waterboarding. And that’s the guy who is going to look out for America’s interests…?
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This article made me so angry! How can you lie like that? Just goes to show that the devil is hard at work and right now in America he’s winning. I will pray for your immortal soul as I pray for the soul of our beloved country.
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Doctors call off strike but limit number of patient visits (Update 3)
By Jean Christou February 1, 2016 November 16, 2016 16 40
Following a six-hour work stoppage on Monday, state doctors union PASYKI announced that it would suspend further industrial action as a sign of goodwill but from Tuesday a cap would be placed on the number of patients they examine.
PASYKI had announced Monday’s stoppage after it emerged that the House finance committee planned to discuss DISY and DIKO’s proposal to extend their retirement age by three years, from 65 to 68, and that the proposal would then be tabled before parliament for a vote on Thursday. The strike went ahead even though the House finance committee said that MPs had postponed the scheduled discussion.
The stoppage did not affect emergency services, and as the strike had been announced ahead of time, other patients knew not to attend their appointments.
The union, after a meeting of its board, announced later on Monday they would suspend further industrial action, “as a sign of goodwill”, but that they were prepared to escalate measures unless the specific proposal was withdrawn.
“State doctors will seek a meeting with the competent institutions, political parties and the president to seek immediate solutions to the many issues plaguing the health sector, which have a direct reflection on providing quality health care to patients, as well as decent working conditions for health professionals,” the announcement said.
From Tuesday, state doctors will limit the numbers of patients they examine to up to 20 people a day, while GPs will see 30. The specific instruction came after repeated warnings to the ministry on the serious problems state hospitals face due to understaffing, PASYKI said.
On the retirement age issue, PASYKI head, Soteris Koumas, told state broadcaster CyBC that it was not the parliament’s job to propose legislation on retirement, as this is a task of the employers.
Earlier, the deputy head of the House finance committee DIKO MP Angelos Votsis, said that the committee would not discuss the specific issue in its Monday meeting, and that it would not be brought up in the near future but that it had not been withdrawn.
He also criticised doctors for going ahead with the work stoppage when was known ahead of time that DIKO was going to propose postponing the discussion.
DISY spokesman Prodromos Prodromou said that his party too accepted the postponement, but that there was no point in anyone going on strike in an attempt to prevent the parliament from doing its job.
Prodromou rejected Koumas’ claims that the proposal served the interests of a small number of high ranking state doctors as “cheap arguments”.
“This proposal concerns the necessity for the viability of the civil servants’ pension funds,” Prodromou told the Cyprus Mail.
He said that the issue was first raised in 2011, when there were significant concerns on the viability of the pension funds of civil servants as increasing life expectancy meant more money was being paid out.
“In the past, these funds were called to pay pensions for around eight years, but now that life expectancy is increasing, and people live well into their 70s and 80s they receive pensions for 18 years. Pension funds cannot pay someone for so many years,” Prodromou said. He added that retirement age had also been extended in other professions as well.
The specific proposal was agreed in 2014 by all parliamentary parties except AKEL, he added, although other parties apart from DISY and DIKO later withdrew their support.
He also said that the government had an obligation to our international lenders to monitor and gradually amend and extend the retirement age of civil servants.
Health Minister George Pamporidis, who visited Nicosia’s state hospitals to assess the situation, had urged state doctors to stop the strike measures and thanked the two parliamentary parties for postponing the discussion of the bill proposal.
But in a move obviously not unconnected with Monday’s stand-off, the Cyprus Medical Association issued a statement asking Pamporidis to either apologise or resign over recent remarks to the media.
Pamporidis has variously spoken of incidents of state doctors receiving ‘brown envelopes’, running private practices on the side, and pinned resistance to the implementation of a National Health Scheme on “a handful of bigwig doctors”.
“Since there is no willingness for courtesy, respect, and acknowledgement towards the medical world, it would be good to pass the torch of chief of the health sector to someone else, for ethical reasons,” the CMA said.
The association cited “repeated, unfounded, and offensive remarks” by Pamporidis.
“With such attitudes coming from the political chief of the health sector, it is understood that there is no room for constructive discussion, since basic prerequisites like honesty and mutual respect are flagrantly ignored,” it added.
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Tomb Raider: Legend – Bolivia – Tiwanaku
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• Tomb Raider: Legend – Bolivia – Tiwanaku
After receiving a phone call from her friend Anaya Imanu, informing her of the find of a stone dais in the ruins of Tiwanaku, in Bolivia, Lara travels to South America to examine it in person.
“Anaya telephoned today. She heard a rumor about an ancient temple in Bolivia that contains an ornate stone dais. It could be the one I’m looking for. I’m setting out first thing in the morning.”
Upon arrival at the dais Lara is greeted by James W. Rutland Jr. who has managed so snatch a sword fragment found at the dais right from under Lara’s nose.
“Father was right; the dais stones are not unique. I also saw a sword fragment. Unfortunately, it was in the hands of an unpleasant man surrounded by mercenaries. He mentioned Amanda Evert as if he’d spoken to her recently — a ghoulish thing to say.
Tomb Raider: Legend – Peru – Return to Paraíso
• Tomb Raider: Legend – Peru – Return to Paraíso
Lara returns to the site of an unfortunate accident many years ago during her university days. We get to see how this happens by playing as a teenage Lara in a flashback. Lara also uncovers a fragment of the sword and learns of the first of many connections to Arthurian legend that she will encounter during this adventure. The mystery of Amanda is also solved. Lara finds an unlaced tennis shoe that belonged to Amanda. Later while speaking to Anaya, she says, “I never imagined she could have survived.”
“Rutland implied a connection between the stone dais and the ruin near Paraíso. I hope Anaya will meet me there despite it all. We may not find anything besides a dozen corpses, Amanda’s among them, but I have to know for certain.”
Tomb Raider: Legend – Japan – Meeting with Takamoto
• Tomb Raider: Legend – Japan – Meeting with Takamoto
Lara comes to Japan at a party given by Takamoto, an old “acquaintance”. At first, everything looks calm. She hopes Takamoto has an artefact that may prove to be a part of Excalibur. Lara’s friend, Nishimura is also there. Takamoto insists that he doesn’t have the artefact Lara is looking for, but when he understands that Lara is on to something, he flees, leaving his men to deal with her. The ever-prepared Lara takes care of the goons and rushes after Takamoto.
“I haven’t seen Takamoto in a long time. I doubt he misses me after our last meeting. If he still has the artifact, however, he’ll lose more than face Sunday night.”
Tomb Raider: Legend – Ghana – Pursuing James Rutland
• Tomb Raider: Legend – Ghana – Pursuing James Rutland
Lara has managed to acquire one of the sword pieces in Tokyo and has now followed Rutland’s trail to Amahlin, Ghana. She knows that her parents have been here and finds a pendant that belonged to her mother.
“The coordinates Zip provided are deep in the Ghana rainforest. I don’t know what Rutland is after, but I’m sure he keeps that artifact close to him. I’ll have to convince him to part with it.”
Tomb Raider: Legend – Kazakhstan – Project Carbonek
• Tomb Raider: Legend – Kazakhstan – Project Carbonek
Lara journeys to an abandoned top-secret Soviet research facility where experiments on the paranormal were reportedly carried out. Here, she encounters her old friend and current nemesis Amanda, whom she had earlier thought to be dead. Lara recovers the third sword fragment used to power an experimental Tesla gun while fighting the unknown entity that Amanda now controls. Alister tells her that the map on the shield leads to Cornwall, England.
“The sword fragment was taken to a secret Soviet laboratory decades ago, a facility rumored to study the paranormal. Alister is going to try to confirm the facts of the story while I’m en route.”
Tomb Raider: Legend – England – King Arthur’s Tomb
• Tomb Raider: Legend – England – King Arthur’s Tomb
Following a map on the back of a shield uncovered in the last level, Lara travels to a now-derelict tacky King Arthur tourist attraction in Cornwall. She ventures into the catacombs below to uncover the tomb of King Arthur and the realization that the myth of the Court of Camelot was actually true. She battles a sea-serpent like creature and some mercenaries on her way out.
“The map on the knight’s shield leads to a site that claims to have unearthed King Arthur’s grave, a distinction also claimed by countless others. But this particular site meant something to a knight one thousand years ago, so it may mean something to me.”
Tomb Raider: Legend – Nepal – The Ghalali Key
• Tomb Raider: Legend – Nepal – The Ghalali Key
Lara travels to Nepal in search of the key that would put back together Excalibur. The relic sits inside the old plane wreck – the very one that crashed when Lara was young. On her way to the crash site Lara notices that Rutland’s men are still following her and are trying to get their hands on the Ghalali Key. After Lara retrieves the artifact, she confronts the baddies and makes her way to a forgotten temple. The doors to the temple appear to be locked, but the heroine manages to throw them open, and inside she finds a piece of Excalibur.
“The key to restoring Excalibur is also the relic my mother prized most, innocently given to her by my father in Ghana to replace the pendant she lost there. Once again I am compelled to go into my own past.”
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The Holocaust of Arkadi
Across Europe a hundred and fifty years ago, Arkadi was a magic word. It inflamed intellectuals, angered thousands and touched the hearts of millions.
For more than two hundred years, Crete had been swallowed by the Ottoman Empire. The Turkish yoke had suppressed the great intellect of Crete, the poetry died and art was left abandoned. People lived miserable lives burdened by heavy taxes and unfair demands on their families. Turkish Pashas and officials grew rich while the people starved. And yes, there were uprisings from time to time, but nothing much came of them, except death by execution, burning or even worse.
High in the mountains southeast of Rethymnon, at the head of a gorge approaching the Psiloritis foothills, there was a monastery. It was a special and historic monastery and it was called Arkadi. All round were vineyards and olive groves. Close by were small gardens tended by the monks which grew tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers and beans. Five hundred metres above sea level, the monks of Arkadi wrote manuscripts, copied texts and produced their own books. Monastery life was good, hearts were pure and the sun shone above an architectural miracle.
The walls of Arkadi are strong. It is built in a rectangle that encloses the cells of the monks, the refectory, the magazine and other rooms. In the centre of this rectangle stands the church of Arkadi. The front wall is just beautiful. It is of Venetian design, built in 1587, and the masonry is outstanding. High above the doors stands the bell tower with three bells. Dedicated to Saint Constantine, the church is just exceptional. You really need to see it. Everywhere there are flowers, I cannot list them all but the rose garden is very special.
In 1866 following two hundred years of brutality and theft by the Turks, the Christians of Crete decided to react. Following meetings at Omalos and Askyfou in Sphakia the Cretan revolutionary committee decided that the Turkish authority in Crete would no longer be recognised and that they would seek Enosis, unification with Greece. It was clear that there would be armed conflict. The Turks brought in military reinforcements as well as forces from Egypt. These forces attacked various places in Crete in order to suppress any form of proposed rebellion.
The Cretans, widely supported by the Greeks, threw themselves into the conflict with passion, feeling that at last the yoke of the Ottomans would be overthrown. The revolution spread into the area of Rethymnon because Arkadi, a strategic and fortified monastery, became its heart. Here were speeches delivered by, among others, Hadji Michali Giannaris who helped to ignite the patriotism and the anger of the Cretans so long suffering under the Turks. The revolutionary Council was now based at Arkadi Monastery the Abbot of Arkadi, Gabriel Marinakis, as chairman.
As word spread, Arkadi became the central meeting place for Cretan revolutionaries, the Paliakari of Crete for whom the time was now. This attention to Arkadi as the centre of Cretan uprising provoked a huge rage in the Turkish commander of Crete, Ishmail Pasha who did all that he could to dissolve the meetings at Arkadi saying that failure would provoke the Porte to send the army to crush Arkadi for ever. In July 1866 a Turkish detachment was sent to Arkadi but they failed to arrest the leader of the revolution, Abbot Gabriel, so they vandalised and terrorised local villages causing many of the local people to become refugees and to seek shelter behind the walls of the monastery.
The situation was becoming more serious every day. The Sultan sent Mustafa Pasha to Crete to quell the uprisings and return the island to peace. By the time he arrived the revolution was springing up all over Crete. Mustafa Pasha realised that peaceful means to quell this rebellion was fruitless so he started to undertake military raids wherever he saw fit. This in turn caused even more anger in the Cretans.
In order to support the Cretan’s military operations, a leading soldier from Greece was summoned to Rethymnon. On the 24th September 1866 he was proclaimed the Commander in Chief of the Rethymnon area. His name was Panos Koroneus and he worked hard to help organise the Cretans as a military force. Installed at the Arkadi headquarters, Panos Koroneus trained men to fight in a military way, he distributed weapons among the fighters at Arkadi and he organised reconnoitering missions around the local area. He also sent for anyone who could help the revolution, to come to Arkadi for training.
His opinion of the monastery as a fortress, however, was low. He did not feel that the size or the armaments that they had would be enough to beat a sizeable Turkish force. His ideas about reconstructions and changes at the Arkadi monastery were not received well by the Revolutionary Committee. The result of this was that Colonel Panos Koroneus and his men left Arkadi and headed for the Agios Vasilios area. Before departing he appointed Ioannis Dimakopoulos from Gortyn in his place as garrison commander.
By the seventh of November 1866 Arkadi could boast 250 well trained men along with a huge supply of war materials including gunpowder stored in the monastery’s magazine.
Meanwhile from the end of October 1866, Mustafa Pasha had left the Turkish fortress at Aptera Apokoronas and was marching eastwards toward Arkadi. They stopped for a while at Episkopi which was looted by his men. He had realised that the only way to crush the revolution in Crete was to destroy Arkadi, the heart of Crete. He sent a letter from Episkopi to Arkadi warning them that he was on his way and that they should be ready to surrender when he arrived. Pasha and his army arrived in Rethymnon on the fifth of November.
On the night of the seventh of November, reinforced by all the forces available in Rethymnon, both Turkish and Egyptian, Mustafa Pasha arrived at Arkadi with a force of fifteen thousand men and at least thirty cannon.
Within the walls of Arkadi were 964 people of whom only 325 were men. The rest were woman and children hiding in the monastery from the destroyed villages around the area.
From the nearby village of Mesi which gave a panoramic view of the area, Mustafa Pasha gave the order to attack at dawn on the eighth of November. As the monks celebrated mass for the feast of the Archangels the air became full of the sound of trumpets from the advancing Turks.
The Abbot Gabriel and the commander Dimakopoulos organised their defences as well as they could. They were asked to immediately surrender the monastery of Arkadi and their reply was: ‘We prefer war.’
From that moment on the battle for Arkadi commenced. The walls were defended with courage as shots rained upon them from all directions. The Turks concentrated canon fire on the main western gate and the smaller eastern gate. The external windmill was the first loss as the Turks set it on fire along with the snipers inside. However the Turkish side suffered great losses from the gunfire from the walls of Arkadi where the snipers were well entrenched but the Turks were in the open with nowhere to hide.
On the second day of the siege, the ninth of November, things looked bad for the monastery. The sheer force of so many Turks and cannon were wearing the defences down and soon the gates would be blown. Abbot Gabriel ordered that once the Turks gained entry to the monastery, they should blow the gunpowder in the magazine. By then a huge cannon had been brought up from Rethymnon and the gate was breaking under its force.
The defenders fought man to man as the Turks entered the monastery and all who could retreated to the magazine where the powder was blown by Konstantinos Giamboudakis. The explosion killed most of the Christians and a large number of the Turks who were by now swarming all over the roof of the magazine.
Of the 964 Christians within the monastery, 114 were taken prisoner, three or four escaped but all the rest were killed. At least 1,500 Turks died.
Across Europe and in America there was indignation. The great newspapers of the world printed the story and there were many services for those who died. Support for Crete against the Turks was supreme in the public mind and some individuals even paid for a ship, renamed the Arkadi to send supplies to Crete. The word Arkadian entered the English language.
Articles written by Garibaldi and Victor Hugo honoured the dead of Arkadi and many foreigners came to Crete to help. In the rebellion that broke out three years later in 1869 the years of Cretan struggle were finally vindicated and the struggle for Arkadi had tolled the death blow to the Ottomans on the island. At last, Crete was free.
The monastery of Arkadi lies 23 Kilometres south east of Rethymnon. Just follow the signs or a local map to find it.
9 thoughts on “Arkadi – the Holocaust”
Sxolastikos | November 18, 2007 at 9:12 pm
“The word Arkadian entered the English language”.
Nonsense. The word ‘Arcadian’ (sic) entered the English language nearly three centuries before the events at the monastery. Meaning ‘a rural paradise’ it derived from Arcadia the province in the Peloponnese. The monastery Arkady is thought to have been named after the Byzantine emperor Arcadius, or possibly a simple monk of that name.
Jean Sherritt | September 22, 2008 at 8:46 pm
On our recent visit to Crete this year, we visited the
Arkadi Monastary. We were not aware that there
were people still living there. We met an elderly lady
dressed all in black, part of her arm was off. We wanted to speak to her but all she said was ‘Deutch’ and when we said ‘no English’ she walked away. We did manage to get a photo of her when she passed by. Could you enlighten
me please. Thank you.
Nikos | September 24, 2008 at 10:43 pm
I would like someone’s assistance in providing me and my wife about my wife’s
1. grandfather from father’s line, named Constantine or Constantinos FARKOUH (surname in English) or FARKOUCH (surname in French), born in February 1, 1885 in Izmir, Turkey, at the time called Smirne, or Smirni according to a transliteration (after 1922 the city was named “Izmir”). He was a merchant, or trader (of corn, in the 1910’s). His wife’s name was Elli and died in Greece in 1948. He left a) a son named Stephanos (in english would be “Steven”) and b) a daughter Stefania (she died in Izmir in 1985) unmarried and without descendants.
2. great grandfather (equally from father’s line),Hadji Daud FARKOUH (he was originately a moslem and converted to christianiy therefore taking the name of David, in arabic “Daud” and Hadji deonotes a converted person to christianity), a wealthy shipowner from Syria, at the time being part of the Ottoman Empire. By the 1870’s he established his home and his business in Izmir Turkey, (at the time it was called Smirne, or Smirni). One of his children was named Constantine, as mentioned above as (1).
Hadji Daud FARKOUH played a part in history in the revolution of Crete’s population agains the Ottoman Empire in 1997, when his ship “GEORGIOS” transported ottoman troop to put down the revolution, and the ship was captured by a Greek war vessel and confiscated, according to the rules of the Law of War.
I would like to obtain documents pertaining to both Jadji Daud and Constantine Farkouh’s dates of birth, death and family members, the two persons’s names of descendants and the two persons marital status (official documents).
Could you help me?
Simone | June 24, 2010 at 10:13 pm
Last week I had the pleasure to visit the Monastary of Arkadi in Crete.
It took me by surprise, because I had known about the name “Arkadi” because of Poussin’s painting : “Et in Arcadia ego”.
The painting holds a skull too…
I love the Island and its people, they are as resilient as their trees…
Mick McTiernan | September 20, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Just a couple of minor points on the main article…the dates given are in ‘Old Style’, in the modern reckoning the date for the fall of Arkadi is I believe, 21st November.
In the penultimate paragraph it refers to the rebellion of 1869…..in fact this particular Cretan Insurrection was more or less over at an end by December 1868 and formally came to an end at a Conference in Paris on 18 February 1869.
And finally (being a pedant or is that peasant?) Nikos’ comment refers to his great grandfather’s name ‘Hadji’ as donating a convert; in fact Hadji referred to someone who had made a major pilgrimage – to Mecca if Muslim, to Jerusalem if Christian.
ritaroberts | June 29, 2011 at 9:10 pm
When I visited Arkadi Monastry in 2003. I could not believe that such a tragedy had occured and feel that it is one of the most heart rendering stories ever told here in Crete where I now live. On the day I was walking around the monastry it seemed so peaceful as the trees were swaying with the warm breeze and ,the beautiful aroma from the delicate wild flowers and entoxicating herbs was a delight, but I came away feeling so sad for the Cretan people during the Arkadi tragedy.
Ioannis Kotzampasakis | August 3, 2017 at 11:55 am
I am from Arkadi. I have an old house there. My hobby is history and my son is Historian. I like your comment. Could we meet in Crete and know each other ?? My name is Ioannis Kotzampasaks, my phone is 6932007069 and my email : ioannis.kotzabassakis@yahoo.gr
M. R. Birkos | September 25, 2012 at 7:31 am
Thank you for your sensitivity. We recently discovered, thanks to to the efforts of long-lost family in Crete, that my wife is a grand daughter of Andreas Birikakis, one of the few survivors of the Arkadian Holocaust of 1866. This man helped bring the news to the world and the world rallied around Crete, so they were able to ultimately expel the Turks in the late 1890s.
Crete is the ancestral home of great warriors, great artists, great intellects, as evidenced by the myriad ruins. My wife’s father immigrated to America in the early 20th century. He lost touch with Crete, and the wonder of his heritage.
Again, thank you for your kind words, but I see that the Cretan people today are proud and noble. Not in the least bit sad.
M. R. Birkos
ritaroberts | November 26, 2018 at 1:12 pm
Hello Mr or Mrs Birkos, Just came across your reply to me Thank you. This comment was made when I first moved here. I have now been here for 16 years and agree with what you say. The Cretan people are a very proud people.They also are very affectionate to those who take an interest in their history. I now study the ancient Mycenaean Linear B texts and have learned at lot about the country I now live in.
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North Korea Has 200,000 'Commandos' Ready to Attack
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By Kyle Mizokami, The National Interest
One of the most vital parts of North Korea’s war machine is one that relies the most on so-called “soldier power” skills. North Korea has likely the largest special-forces organization in the world, numbering two hundred thousand men—and women—trained in unconventional warfare. Pyongyang’s commandos are trained to operate throughout the Korean Peninsula, and possibly beyond, to present an asymmetric threat to its enemies.
For decades North Korea maintained an impressive all-arms force of everything from tanks to mechanized infantry, artillery, airborne forces and special forces. The country’s conventional forces, facing a long slide after the end of the Cold War, have faced equipment obsolescence and supply shortages—for example, North Korea has very few tanks based on the 1970s Soviet T-72, and most are still derivatives of the 1960s-era T-62. The rest of Pyongyang’s armored corps are in a similar predicament, making them decidedly inferior to U.S. and South Korean forces.
In response, North Korea has upped the importance of its special forces. The country maintains twenty-five special-forces and special-purpose brigades, and five special-forces battalions, designed to undertake missions from frontline DMZ assault to parachute and assassination missions. The Light Infantry Training Guidance Bureau, part of the Korean People’s Army, functions as a kind of analog to U.S. Special Operations Command, coordinating the special forces of the Army, Army Air Force and Korean People’s Navy.
Of North Korea’s two hundred thousand “commandos,” approximately 150,000 belong to light infantry units. Foot mobile, their frontline mission is to infiltrate or flank enemy lines to envelop or mount rear attacks on enemy forces. North Korea’s hilly terrain lends itself to such tactics, as does the network of tunnels that the country has dug that cross the DMZ in a number of places. Eleven of North Korea’s special forces brigades are light-infantry brigades, and there are smaller light-infantry units embedded within individual NK combat divisions.
A further three brigades are special-purpose airborne infantry. The Thirty-Eighth, Forty-Eighth and Fifty-Eighth Airborne Brigades operate much like the Eighty-Second Airborne Division, conducting strategic operations including airborne drops to seize critical terrain and infrastructure. NKPA airborne forces would likely target enemy airfields, South Korean government buildings, and key roads and highways to prevent their sabotage. Each brigade is organized into six airborne infantry battalions with a total strength of 3,500. Unlike the Eighty-Second, however, NKPA airborne brigades are unlikely to operate at the battalion level or higher, and due to a lack of long-range transport cannot operate beyond the Korean Peninsula.
In addition, North Korea has an estimated eight “sniper brigades,” three for the People’s Army (Seventeenth, Sixtieth and Sixty-First Brigades), three for the Army Air Force (Eleventh, Sixteenth and Twenty-First Brigades), and two for the People’s Navy (Twenty-Ninth, 291st). Each consists of approximately 3,500 men, organized into seven to ten sniper “battalions.” These units fulfill a broad variety of roles and are roughly analogous to U.S. Army Rangers, U.S. Special Forces and Navy SEALs. Unlike their American counterparts, it appears some these units are capable of fighting as conventional airborne, air assault, or naval infantry.
Sniper brigades are trained in strategic reconnaissance and so-called “direct action” missions including assassination missions, raids against high-level targets military and economic targets, sabotage, disruption of South Korea’s reserve system, covert delivery of weapons of mass disruption (including possibly radiological weapons), and organizing antigovernment guerrilla campaigns in South Korea. They will frequently be dressed in civilian, South Korean military, or U.S. military uniforms. One platoon of thirty to forty troops per Army sniper brigade consists solely of women, trained to conduct combat operations dressed as civilians.
Finally, the Reconnaissance Bureau maintains four separate reconnaissance battalions. Highly trained and organized, these five-hundred-man battalions are trained to lead an army corps through the hazardous DMZ. They likely have intimate—and highly classified—knowledge of both friendly and enemy defenses in the demilitarized zone. A fifth battalion is reportedly organized for out-of-country operations.
Special forces are generally meant to operate behind enemy lines, and North Korea employs considerable, though often obsolete, means of getting them there. For ground forces, one obvious means of infiltrating South Korea is through the 160-mile-long and 2.5-mile-wide DMZ. Undiscovered cross-border tunnels are another means. By sea, Pyongyang has the ability to deliver an estimated five thousand troops in a single lift, using everything from commercial vessels to Nampo-class landing craft, it's fleet of 130 Kongbang-class hovercraft and Sang-O coastal submarines and Yeono midget submarines.
By air, North Korea has a notional fleet of two hundred elderly An-2 Colt short-takeoff and -landing transports. Capable of flying low and slow to avoid radar, each An-2 can carry up to twelve commandos, landing on unimproved surfaces or parachuting them on their targets. The regime also has a fleet of about 250 transport helicopters, mostly Soviet-bloc in origin (and age) but also including illicitly acquired Hughes 500MD series helicopters similar to those flown by the Republic of Korea. Pyongyang also appears bent to acquire modern, long-distance transports such as this aircraft, manufactured in New Zealand. Aircraft such as the P-750 XSTOL would allow North Korean special forces to reach as far as Japan and Okinawa, both of which would serve as forward bases for U.S. forces in wartime.
In the event of war, North Korea would likely launch dozens of separate attacks throughout South Korea, from the DMZ to the southern port of Busan. Whether or not these forces can make their way through Seoul’s considerable air and sea defenses is another question. Valleys, passes and waterways that could be used by low-flying aircraft and watercraft are already covered with everything from air-defense guns to antitank guided missiles. Given proper warning, South Korean defenders would inflict heavy losses on North Korean commandos on the way to their objectives.
North Korean special forces have evolved from a nuisance force designed to stage attacks in the enemy’s rear into something far more dangerous. Their ability to distribute nuclear, chemical, biological, or radiological weapons could, if successful, kill thousands of civilians. They have even trained to attack and destroy a replica of the Blue House, the official resident of the South Korean president. Although many would undoubtedly die en route to their destination, once on the ground their training, toughness and political indoctrination make them formidable adversaries.
Kyle Mizokami is a defense and national-security writer based in San Francisco who has appeared in the Diplomat*,* Foreign Policy*,* War is Boring and the Daily Beast*. In 2009, he cofounded the defense and security blog* Japan Security Watch*. You can follow him on Twitter:* @KyleMizokami.
This piece first appeared several years ago. It is being republished due to reader interest.
Image: KCNA via Reuters.
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National Prevention Concordat for Better Mental Health (PHE / King’s Fund / LSE PSSRU / UCL / CfMH / British Journal of Psychiatry / BBC News)
Summary Public Health England (PHE) has released a collection of related documents aimed primarily at local public health workers, designed to help identify cost-effective local mental health interventions. This new “concordat” tool aims to prevent mental health problems (a Five … Continue reading →
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National Screening for Dementia Not Recommended (UK NSC / AHRQ / Annals of Internal Medicine / Epidemiology / International Journal of Epidemiology)
Summary The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) has upheld previous recommendations against screening people aged 65 and over for dementia. This decision follows an extensive review of the evidence. The UK NSC has concluded that tests for dementia, which … Continue reading →
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Eight DePaul students awarded hospitality scholarship
Dirce Toca|September 18, 2017
DePaul opened the School of Hospitality Leadership in the autumn of 2010. In 2015, it was named as the most recognized hospitality program in Illinois by the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism.
This past June, eight DePaul hospitality students were selected as the 2017-2018 IHLAEF Scholarship Winners by The Illinois Hotel & Lodging Association Educational Foundation. From a pool of roughly 40 applicants, IHLAEF selected 26 applicants to be awarded a share of $54,000 in total aid. From these 26 deserving Illinois college students, the eight selected recipients from DePaul were students Weronika Celer, Hayley Delaney, Kenzi Mocogni, Todd Pinta, Elizabeth Redhead, Gabrielle Serpico, Lindsey Wehking, and Sylvia Wtorkowski.
(Victoria Williamson, The DePaulia)
IHLAEF awards academic scholarships to Illinois college students pursuing a degree in hospitality management. DePaul’s Hospitality Leadership program prepares its students for a management career in a variety of hospitality industry segments, including hotels, restaurants, private clubs, meetings and events. The program balances hospitality leadership courses with core business curriculum.
Haley Delaney, a senior in DePaul’s School of Hospitality, was one of the eight DePaul students selected. She is studying Hospitality Leadership with a minor in English Literature.
“It makes me very proud to hear there was eight winners from DePaul,” Delaney said. “Even though our program is pretty new compared to other schools’, we are provided with so many opportunities for networking and developing professionally.”
Delaney is studying hospitality management because she enjoys helping other people and making them feel at home.
“It’s something I care about in my personal life,” Delaney said. “Being able to find an industry that believes in the same things that I do is important to me.”
DePaul students represent nearly a third of this year’s scholarship recipients. Elizabeth Redhead, another one of the eight DePaul students who won, is a sophomore majoring in Hospitality Leadership with a concentration in Event Management. Redhead hopes to become a Corporate Planner after graduation.
“It’s a unique industry, I really enjoy it,” Redhead said. “Hospitality is not tangible. I can’t physically give hospitality to someone, but I can create a good experience for people.”
IHLAEF has been assisting college students financially since 1992. To select winners, they have a scholarship committee within a board of directors who review each application one by one. The committee varies year-to-year and is usually composed of six to 10 volunteers.
Karrie Teel, the Director of Education and Communications, oversees the scholarship committee. When selecting winners, Teel describes the importance in selecting students who show they are passionate about the industry.
“[The committee] really is looking for students that would most likely end up working in the industry long-term in Illinois,” Teel said. “We have limited funds so we really want to provide to students who are involved and want to learn more about the hospitality industry in general.”
Selected winners are awarded anywhere from $2,000 to $5,000, unless they are incoming freshmen or community college students since freshmen will have the opportunity to renew for four years, and community college students’ tuition usually isn’t as high.
“Getting money off tuition is always a great feeling, but it’s also more than that. It’s feeling supported, like someone out there sees potential in you and wants to help you out,” said Redhead.
IHLAEF’s scholarship fund is composed from corporate and individual donations, as well as annual individual fundraising efforts. Each specific “name scholarship” that a student receives is named after the company that donated that amount.
“We have a lot of companies that give $2,000 scholarships,” Teel said. “Whatever donations we receive, goes directly to the scholarship fund and then directly to the student.”
Redhead believes the outcome of the winners speaks strongly of DePaul. “It shows how qualified the hospitality students are and that we are clearly working hard not only with the initiative to apply but to earn it,” Redhead said.
Teel agrees stating that they have great candidates from DePaul each year.
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Russell Crowe Is 100% Unrecognizable In Latest Role As Fox News’ Roger Ailes
(Photo by Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images for AFI)
Katie Jerkovich Entertainment Reporter
November 06, 2018 7:30 PM ET
Russell Crowe was spotted on set during the filming of his latest role as Fox News’ Roger Ailes and he was one-hundred percent unrecognizable.
CANNES, FRANCE – MAY 15: Actor Russell Crowe attends “The Nice Guys” photocall during the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on May 15, 2016 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
The 54-year-old actor had little-to-no hair and donned a charcoal-gray, pinstriped suit with a purple tie as he walked down the street while holding a cane in a photo shared Tuesday by TMZ.
The caption next to the picture read, “Russell Crowe is pulling a Christian Bale by fully immersing himself in his role as late Fox News chief Roger Ailes, and doing such a great job at it, you’d never recognize him on the street.
#tmz #russellcrowe #foxnews MEGA.” (RELATED: Have You Seen Russell Crowe Recently? If Not, Look At Him Now [PHOTOS])
Crowe was cast for the part in Showtime’s new limited series that started shooting this week in New York City. It centers around the late news network founder’s life and the sexual harassment allegations that surfaced against him in 2016 that lead to him leaving, according to People magazine.
Russell Crowe is pulling a Christian Bale by fully immersing himself in his role as late Fox News chief Roger Ailes, and doing such a great job at it, you’d never recognize him on the street. #tmz #russellcrowe #foxnews ????MEGA
A post shared by TMZ (@tmz_tv) on Nov 6, 2018 at 2:52pm PST
The series will be based on the book, “The Loudest Voice in the Room” by Gabriel Sherman who interviewed more than 600 people for the book.
“In revelatory detail, Sherman chronicles the rise of Ailes, a frail kid from an Ohio factory town who, through sheer willpower, the flair of a showman, fierce corporate politicking, and a profound understanding of the priorities of middle America, built the most influential television news empire of our time,” a part of the description about the book reads on Amazon.
“Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Fox News insiders past and present, Sherman documents Ailes’s tactical acuity as he battled the press, business rivals, and countless real and perceived enemies inside and outside Fox,” it adds, in part.
Ten months after Ailes left the network, he died at the age of 77 when he suffered an injury in a fall and died from complications related to the accident.
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Cannibal Holocaust, Eli Roth, & Riz O
Posted on August 5, 2015 by damselswithchainsaws
This iconic scene from the movie, Cannibal Holocaust (1979) was so troubling to Italian authorities, the director, Ruggero Deodato was forced to prove the images were fictitious in court and explain to law enforcement that he hadn’t actually killed anyone.
I’m not reviewing Cannibal Holocaust (1979). That’s been done to death and also I just don’t feel like referencing the faux outrage and calls for censorship of Eli Roth’s upcoming remake, Green Inferno (2015). My review today is about the soundtrack from Ruggero Deodato’s Cannibal Holocaust (1979) composed by the great Riz Ortolani.
But since I’m on the topic of Eli Roth’s new movie, here’s what I’ll say about it for now. When I see it, I’ll compare it against Deodato’s version and write up a gratuitous review for your enjoyment. Trailer below:
Do I think Eli Roth’s movie should be banned? Do I think a movie about white, social justice warriors getting brutally massacred by brown people is offensive? Ha. What do you think? More often in horror movies, brown and black characters are slaughtered without dignity for white entertainment. Our bodies are still first to be jeopardized onscreen and off…so am I supposed to wave torches and pitchforks over fictionalized, reversed-racial horror? You’ll find out when I watch Green Inferno.
But I digress. Let’s listen to the maestro, shall we?
What made Cannibal Holocaust so great was the off-kilter soundtrack. I use “off-kilter” ironically, because in truth, there is nothing off-kilter about it. It’s fucking beautiful. I adore horror movies with a full orchestral score and my absolute favorite composer for that sort of thing is Bernard Herrmann. However Riz Ortalani’s score is a must for any horror movie buff, too. Not only is the soundtrack beautiful, but when combined with scenes from the movie, the result is a strange, horrifying cognitive dissonance. Modern horror filmmakers alert audiences to the horror with music that is meant to frighten us. But Riz doesn’t do that, here. Instead, he uses sweeping violins, folksy guitar, and funkadelic pops of the synthesizer. By listening to the soundtrack alone, you would never know it accompanied such a gory, controversial movie.
There are 10 tracks in all but my favorites are Adultress’s Punishment (the infamous impaling scene) and Savage Rite. If you write horror, I strongly recommend you try listening to the Cannibal Holocaust soundtrack to get you in the right mood.
Have you watched Cannibal Holocaust? Green Inferno will come out September 25, 2015. Place your bets which one will be better. Whadduya think, fam? Should we all be outraged?
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Sing Along With “The Devil’s Carvinal”!
I think I already posted about Repo! The Genetic Opera and how insanely brilliant it was. Well, imagine my surprise and joy that Terrance Zdunich, who wrote Repo!, has pulled another gem out of his imagination.
I’m talking about The Devil’s Carnival. For this post I’m doing something different. Instead of reviewing the movie (Damsel Cannibal will take care of that) I’m reviewing the soundtrack. I haven’t seen the movie yet so listening to the soundtrack first gives a little something extra, don’t you think?
Anyways, from what I gather it’s about three people who go to Hell which is fashioned like a carnival. For being Hell, I thought these demons were hilariously upbeat. It’s like it gives the damned souls a false sense of security. Carnivals are supposed to be fun…that is until you’re tricked into repeating your mistakes over and over. And while these damned souls are navigating their way through Hell, the Devil is reading stories we’ve all heard like “The Scorpion and the Frog” or “The Dog and Her Reflection” to point out why they’re in Hell in the first place. By the end of it, The Devil comes up with a brilliant plan of putting Heaven out of business by offering “Grace For Sale”.
Fun facts about this, Zdunich plays the role of The Devil. You’ll also get to enjoy sequels to The Devil’s Carnival. The rock opera is going to be in three parts. From what I’ve heard, The Devil’s Carnival: Alleluia is going to focused on Heaven. So let’s see how well God takes The Devil selling redemption to lost souls.
I really enjoyed the music because it was fun. For example, check out these lyrics!
Track 11: Trust me, trust me, honeydew. Just like I trust you.
Track 16: Fa la la! It’s off to Hell we go. Cross your heart and hope to die, it’s off to Hell we go!
Those are just a couple. If I type anymore I’m just going put the complete lyrics up. I absolutely loved the whole thing but, of course, I have my favorites. Track 3 In All My Dreams I Drown, Track 8 Beautiful Stranger, Track 9 A Penny For a Tale, Track 11 Trust Me, and Track 15 Grace For Sale. I have a playlist below so take a listen and enjoy!
Which songs were your favorites?
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