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Alyeskan Tales: Wreck of the Skellig
It was a bit tricky trying to decide what category to fit this week's post under, ultimately went for an Alyeskan Tales post in the form of an adventure hook. This week's post is also part of a little experiment, mainly related to social media, but means going forward most posts will probably have a picture of some description attached.
Across Alyeska there are many tales and legends that grace the circuit of bar-room talks, typically spoken about on long dark evenings. Some are told as cautionary tales, others as some light entertainment to pass the time whilst the weather's foul. There is a kind of magic to these fables as a kind of hush falls upon the tavern as the drinkers listen to the words as they are spoken, for there is sometimes a grain of truth that may lead to a rich pay off.
One such tale is that of the...
Wreck of the Skellig
Ice Ghosts - Mike Doscher
The Skellig's tale stems from the Great Darmonican War, it was a skyship in service with the Tylander Air Service. During the conflict she fought in a number of skirmishes against her Commonwealth and Artian counterparts, though as a raider rather than at the forefront of battle. Her involvement in the raid on the Artian liftorium refinery at Stomberg was a particular highlight of her career.
At some point during the War she was ordered to Alyeska, this was unusual as Tylander skyships normally conducted raider style missions round the Commonwealth's Home Isles rather than some far-flung colony. It is believed that she was sent to pick up some sort of cargo found by Tylander agents and bring it back to Tyland, though both the cargo and the mission itself has never been confirmed or denied. But is a moot point as the Skellig was lost with all hands after picking up the cargo, about the time this supposedly took place a Commonwealth air patrol reported seeing an unidentified skyship over the Alyeskan Outlands but lost her in the clouds.
To this day the Skellig's ultimate fate remains unknown, though a handful of people have reported finding a crashed skyship in the ice north of Prospector's Reach. Though whenever somebody went out to double check the reported location there was nothing to be found, though there is some speculation that the wreck moves with the ice flows as its been reported in different locations. Likewise there is some belief that the Skellig's cargo may had been some sort of Ancient Terran device that could've led to her lost.
Both the skyship itself and its cargo are worth a small fortune to the right parties, though any enterprising group could free her from the ice and restore to the skies. The only real issue is what downed her in the first place...
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Posted by Andy Barton on Friday, January 22, 2016
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It’s rare that every artist on a five-band bill possesses overwhelming talent and compatibility. With those numbers, one can frequently anticipate a new group flexing their musical muscles in the opening slot or a black sheep booked to draw a diverse crowd. That’s why The Blue Indian was overjoyed by the announcement that Athens’ Scooterbabe, WANDA, and Penny Lame would be sharing a bill at their hometown’s World Famous on Sunday, January 24 with Moses Nesh (Atlanta) and 100 Watt Horse (Atlanta/Olympia/Nashville), who released one of our favorite albums of 2015, Everything’s Alright Forever and Forever and Forever and Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou Amen. Spanning a range of rock, pop, and folk styles, Sunday night’s buzzworthy show is sure to deliver a dose of both the familiar and brand new.
Scooterbabe, the evening’s headliner, is currently tracking new material written by singer/guitarist JJ Posway during his time in New York and subsequent return to Georgia a few months ago. Posway says that these songs, which follow 2015’s standalone single, “I Want To Write Your Name Across The Sky in Big Clumsy Strokes,” “sound like a natural progression” from that track. “Tone-wise and lyrically, I wanted every song to be steeped in emotion, to be as grand as possible without being cheesy. I’d say they’re as inspired by the unabashed grandiosity of Springsteen, Los Campesinos! and M83 as they are by our favorite (more introspective) jangle pop, pop punk and emo bands,” says Posway. But new tunes aren’t the only thing Scooterbabe will be debuting Sunday night; a few fresh faces will be joining the lineup, including multi-instrumentalist/singer Evan Tyor, who’s helped flesh out and record this latest batch of songs, as well as a new drummer, Jesse Lafian.
Fellow locals WANDA complement Scooterbabe’s jangly, hook-laden pop-punk with their own dreamy take on surf-pop. Led by vocalist Avery Draut, the up-and-coming band gigged tirelessly in 2015, making quite a name for itself in the process. The project only has a Bandcamp demo to its name, but 2016 might just be the year for some proper recordings.
Athens songwriter Jianna Justice also had a breakout year in 2015, releasing two sets of lo-fi pop songs over a span of just five months as Penny Lame. The second volume—her six-song, self-titled effort released this past November—was similarly focused on the pitfalls of collegiate romance, but showcased growth in her approach to songwriting and recording. Justice is still keeping busy in 2016, already debuting new material at a handful of Athens shows.
After a lull in activity following songwriter George Pettis’ move to Olympia, WA, 100 Watt Horse has returned to the live fold. Currently residing in Nashville, Pettis and vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Anna Jeter are back to playing tunes that veer into territories equal parts pop and folk. While much of Pettis’s early writing for 100 Watt Horse “borrowed very heavily from the Appalachian and ‘old time’ tradition of melody and structure,” Everything’s Alright Forever has moments where the group’s roots make way for less traditional fare, like the drum machine led “Wann It” and “Hold It”, or the echoing “Swan Song.” Performing as Moses Nesh, fellow Atlantan Isaac Stroupe deals similarly in Appalachian-inspired tunes, but his work captures the hillbilly sound and spirit better than most performing folk artists today. Stroupe’s last release, 2014’s The Lovely Ohio sounds like it was pulled from a time capsule, his words drawled and slurred over sliding acoustic guitar arpeggios. Stroupe will also accompany 100 Watt Horse on bass for a few songs, as the two acts are embarking on a winter tour together.
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Craze for the Krays
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All those reviews of Tom Hardy in Legend are right: he's terrific - twice. You completely forget that it's the same man playing both Kray twins, not just because the ‘in shot simultaneously' trickery is used sparingly (though when it is it's brilliant), but also because Hardy has put in two majestic performances, either of which would have stolen the show. So for two hours you watch a man trying to steal from himself. Given the subject matter, this is fitting.
I'm particularly chuffed for John Pearson, the man whose biography of the Kray twins, The Profession of Violence, inspired the film. Finally there's a movie that does justice to the book, and to John's theories about why the Krays continue to fascinate us. (They certainly fascinated him, a Sunday Times journalist who before he met them had been as far removed from their world as you could imagine.) Despite what some of the reviews have said, I think Legend is brutally honest about how vile they were, while at the same time exploring the complications of their relationship, both with each other (Reg torn between despair at and loyalty to his psychotic brother) and with everyone else. You don't have to condone a single one of the Krays' hideous crimes to ask whether their ‘evil' might not be anything more than an absence of good, an absence of the discipline and restraint the rest of us choose to impose on ourselves. Would we do the same in their position? Ever seen a toddler snatch a toy off a playmate?
I know John Pearson a little, and interviewed him for my book about London, Walk the Lines. He gave me so much great material about the Krays, a lot of which underlined (and this is somewhere else the film scores highly) that they were the perfect illustration of comedy and tragedy being the same thing. Ronnie Kray might have been a terrifying figure, but he was a ludicrous one as well. Here are five facts which give you a flavour of that:
1. Annoyed that his brother's wedding was being disrespected by the congregation's feeble renditions of the hymns, best-man Ronnie marched up and down the aisle shouting: ‘Sing, f*** ya, sing!'
2. When the Tory politician Lord Boothby took Ronnie to his Pall Mall club and asked him what he wanted to drink, Ronnie replied that he'd ‘always wanted to try one of those prawn cocktails'.
3. After Ronnie shot Teddy Berry, a member of the ‘firm', in the knee during ‘a little misunderstanding', he apologised by giving Berry a pub.
4. When Ronnie murdered George Cornell in the Blind Beggar, the jukebox was playing The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore - the shot caused the needle to stick on the word ‘anymore'.
5. Melford Stevenson, the Old Bailey judge who sentenced the Krays to 30 years, said they only told the truth twice in the whole trial - once when Reggie called a barrister a ‘fat slob', and once when Ronnie said the judge was biased.
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TLC brings forward several innovations beginning with an aesthetic that roots the user in the period from which these works were derived. The modern juxtaposition of translated material is accompanied by clarifications and explanations of the text. Search-ability and classification is of significant importance. Classification relates to connections to broad world subjects that classical library nomenclature would not attribute to the work. Full translated text search is also possible.
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Geek Couples: Wall-E and Eve
Tony sniffs and says ‘Awww.’
‘She’s out of my league…’
That’s the story of Wall-E and EVE, the story of a love between a good-‘hearted’ regular Joe, and the hottest, coolest, most ass-kicking environmentalist on the planet. Love, it tells us, is a matter of who you are, how you feel, what you share, and what you do when the chips are down, rather than what you look like or how high-falutin’ your job may be. It doesn’t matter if you’re rusty, with lappy caterpillar tracks and a squeak and a sense of purpose which others might see as pathetic and hopeless. Be you, live your truth, and love can find you.
Wall-E, for those who’ve never seen the movie, is a plucky, resilient trash-compacting robot, left alone on the planet that once was Earth, to tidy up the garbage heap it’s become by the time human beings leave it and head out to the stars. He’s the least considered, most forgotten janitor in the history of the world, but he doesn’t whinge, doesn’t wail about his lot in life – he does what he was built to do – searching the garbage, compacting what he can, making use of what’s around, playing with his buddy, a cockroach, and more or less filling his days with work and what could be described as a positive mental attitude. He’s been doing his job, uncomplaining, for 700 years by the time we meet him.
It’s only when Wall-E allows himself some chillaxing time at the end of a day that we see what’s really missing in his life – observing a view, or a movie, he’s come to understand the need for someone to share it with. Seven hundred years of thankless, relentless slog on a mostly barren planet has taught him loneliness.
But loneliness is just another part of the job, and Wall-E powers up the next day and gets on with his work. In fact the movie takes great pains to show us that loneliness is by no means all that seven hundred years of cleaning up the crud left behind by an absentee humanity has taught him – in the great traditions of both Disney heroes like Dumbo, Pinocchio, Bambi and Baymax from Big Hero 6, and other unconventional film heroes like Number 5 in Short Circuit, ET and Chappie, we’re shown early on that he’s developed an insatiable curiosity, a taste for music, an understanding of kindness to other creatures, and a sense of stewardship that goes beyond emulation, both in terms of the giant skyscrapers he builds and of the world in general. When he finds what looks to be something entirely new – a living plant on the dead garbage-world – he doesn’t pluck it, doesn’t allow harm to come to it, but takes it and the soil in which it’s grown home in an old boot.
We’re also shown early on that Wall-E in himself and his curiosity is special, unique, the last of his kind – other Wall-E units are shown dotted about the cityscape, having stopped in their tracks one day. Wall-E, our Wall-E keeps on going, getting a daily solar recharge and going out to do his job, with the kind of chirpy (but not too chirpy) sticktoitiveness which the initial American audience, and then the audience around the world would be proud to think was an emulation of some of the best characteristics in humanity, contrasting sharply against many of the worst traits we have as a species, personified by the actual humans in the movie. This one little robot has kept on keeping on, powered by sunlight and that curiosity for new things, doing the jobs we never cared quite enough to do. That, in essence, is the ‘heart’ of Wall-E, the thing that deserves to find a companion to watch his love stories with.
None of that would matter of course if there wasn’t someone around to see the beauty of his heart. Enter EVE, a super-duper slick search and rescue droid, being sent out by ‘humanity’ to find signs of sustainable growth in Earth’s planetary soil.
Their relationship is built on a realistic, humanistic pathway – he first falls for her when he sees her free of the responsibilities of work, flying and effectively dancing like there’s nobody watching, and the beauty and expressive creativity of it enflames his curiosity about her. Slowly, they grow to accept each other’s presence on the planet, and some similarities emerge between them despite their technological differences – she, like him, giggles at the tickling presence of his cockroach friend in her systems. And when he saves her from a smogstorm and takes her home to his place, she gets to see everything he’s done, and he, like many guys trying to impress a girl throughout history, shows her his best treasures – the movie that he watches, the lighter that she instantly ignites, bringing a new flame to their relationship, the simple joy of popping bubble wrap and of dancing. His ingenuity impresses and his klutziness makes her laugh. But when he presents her with his ultimate prize, his plant in its boot, it rocks her world on a whole new level, and she shuts down. Then we see Wall-E the carer, keeping her dry and getting wet (and electrocuted) himself, taking her with him when he has to go somewhere, protecting her from future storms. All he knows is that she’s something absolutely special, and that he’d really like to hold her hand. That inspires him to keep her safe, and when she gets ‘EVEnapped’ by a spaceship, Wall-E the ultimate homebody doesn’t think twice before leaving his home and cockroach buddy behind, and clinging to the outside of a spaceship to be near her.
When they get to her home, the spaceship Axiom, their relationship goes through its mid-phase difficulty, but there’s a balance to it – she didn’t understand his world, but he kept her safe on it. He doesn’t understand hers either, and gets them both into monstrous amounts of trouble, but some robotic sense of loyalty, plus the mystery of what has happened to the ‘missing’ plant, leads her to keep him safe too, and his continuing sense of devotion, both to her and to the things that are important to her, breed in her a growing robotic ‘affection’ that sees them face down the threats of a system rigged to keep the status quo…quoing, and makes them fight, both side by side and separately, to expose the truth that Earth is once more capable of sustaining life, challenging and hard work though the revelation will be for the human crew of the Axiom, seven centuries into their ‘five year mission.’
They may be from different ends of the technological spectrum, but Wall-E’s curiosity, his sense of humour, his dedication to EVE and everything that matters tso her, extends a bridge between them, and Eve, to her credit as the ‘senior’ partner in their romance, appreciates the quirkiness of him. Sure, he’s dirty and from the wrong side of the tracks, but who else brings her bubble wrap and Christmas lights, who sings her silly songs and wants to hold her hand, and most of all, who will absolutely have her back against a system that tells her she’s defective just because she’s inconvenient? This story of robotic romance hits many very human beats, because stripped of its ecological theme (which incidentally is superbly delivered), and its metallic shells (and even really its notion of gender – we only really identify Wall-E as male and EVE as female because the names carry male and female connotations in our understanding), this is a story with which we can all fundamentally identify. Perhaps geeks identify with it more than most, feeling that we’ve all been in Wall-E’s caterpillar tracks, smitten from afar by the most amazing creature in creation, but really speaking, it’s the Prince and the Showgirl, or Aladdin, or Notting Hill, re-framed and delivered in a way that strips away the importance of wealth and takes that relationship back to what it really is – first love, playground love, love so pure and all-consuming that you’d follow the loved one through fire if they needed you to. The kind of love that childhood sweethearts are made of, if they ever find each other, and can appreciate each other for their individual strengths and quirks and oddness and love and loyalty, even when they drive each other crazy or…y’know…accidentally electrocute each other. Wall-E and EVE are a couple that probably grow old together, each doing their thing in their own way, and coming back together a little before shutdown each day, for a movie, and to share the new things they’ve experienced that day, and maybe even for a cockroach tickle, before powering down hand in hand, ready to reboot the next morning and do it all again. And that, when you get right down to it, is the stuff that Happily Ever Afters are made of.
Tony Fyler lives in a cave of wall-to-wall DVDs and Blu-Rays somewhere fairly nondescript in Wales, and never goes out to meet the "Real People". Who, Torchwood, Sherlock, Blake, Treks, Star Wars, obscure stuff from the 70s and 80s and comedy from the dawn of time mean he never has to. By day, he runs an editing house, largely as an excuse not to have to work for a living. He's currently writing a Book. With Pages and everything. Follow his progress at FylerWrites.co.uk
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Contrary to popular rumour there are not 365 pubs in York. Don’t be too disappointed though, there are still plenty to choose from – including some very old drinking establishments. We’ve put together a quick guide to some of the oldest and most historic pubs in York.
York’s Oldest Pub?
Grade II listed, Ye Olde Starre Inne was first licensed in 1644 – meaning it has the longest continuous licence of any pub in York (although which pub building is the oldest is still disputed). The large sign that spans the width of Stonegate and directs you toward the pub has apparently hung there since the mid-eighteenth century.
During the Civil War, the 10th century cellar is believed to have been used as both a hospital and a mortuary. Like many other York inns it’s claimed to be the most haunted, and the resident ghouls include an old lady and her two black cats.
Old Rivals
Originally a 17th century coffee house The Punch Bowl on Stonegate – not to be confused with the Wetherspoons pub on Micklegate – served as a meeting place for the Whigs, original rivals to the Tories for political power in England. They happened to be rather partial to a drop of punch, hence the name of the pub.
It is also the place where the Gimcrack Club held their annual lunches, and the winner of the Gimcrack Stakes raced on the Knavesmire was expected to supply three bottles of champagne to mark the occasion.
Just round the corner from the Minster on Goodramgate is The Snickleway Inn, another creaky old building with parts that date back to the 15th century. It was used as a Royalist powder magazine during the English Civil War and there is also historical evidence to suggest it was at one time a brothel.
The pub has had many names including the ‘Painters Arms’, ‘Square & Compass’, ‘Board’ and ‘Anglers Arms’. The present name dates from 1994, and is apparently a deliberate misspelling of ‘Snickelway’ to avoid breaking Mark Jones’ copyright.
The Mucky Duck
First recorded as a pub in 1703, The Old White Swan on Goodramgate is York’s third oldest continuously licensed pub. The main heart of the pub dates from the 16th century, although later wings were added in the 18th. At one time it was technically in two local parishes so was forced to pay two sets of rates.
This caused plenty of disputes and in the early 17th century a line was painted through the courtyard and kitchen to display the boundary. In pre-railway days, it was frequented by farmers and poultry dealers, who used to come to the Old White Swan from country districts to sell to their city clients.
Other Pretenders to The Throne
It is believed that name of The Golden Fleece (above) on The Pavement has something to do with the gild of Merchant Adventurers, whose Hall is round the corner on Fossgate.
The gild traded in fleeces and wool and it is thought that their members used to drink here. A pub on this site was first mentioned in 1503, and a Fleece or Golden Fleece is regularly mentioned in city archives after this point.
Originally the pub was set back from the main street and entry would’ve been through an arch that can still be seen in the main facade. The building is also apparently built on stilts with no proper foundations which would explain the wonkiness of it’s floors and ceilings.
Although the site of a medieval public house, the present Black Swan building on Peasholme Green dates back to the 15th century and was originally built as a family home. It was briefly the residence of the Wolfe family before their move to the New World. James, later Major General, Wolfe famously died commanding British forces attempting to take the city of Quebec during the Seven Years War.
The first record we have of the building being used as a pub dates from the mid-eighteenth century. Apparently illegal cock fighting used to take place on the first floor and the grill overlooking the stairs provided a look-out point to keep watch for any approaching lawmen.
English Heritage Approved
Although not as old as some of the other pubs in York, The Golden Ball in Bishophill is historically interesting nonetheless. Mention of a ‘Golden Ball’ first appear in local newspapers in 1773. Extended in the late 19th century, its most significant transformation occurred during the interwar period.
John Smiths had acquired the pub in 1902, and it underwent extensive remodelling in 1929. English Heritage know of no other pub with its unusual bar-side seating alcove and have duely given it a Grade II listing – citing the Golden Ball as a rare, almost complete surviving example of an inter-war pub.
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by Marlow
I was wondering if anyone could help with my research. My father never knew his father, and out of interest I asked him for a copy of his birth certificate. He had always told me he had no father, but on his birth certificate it says a Arthur Guest Private 5248320 from the Worcestershire Regiment was married to his mother Mary Guest, which is why my maiden name was Guest. As my dad never knew him I suspect he either died in WW2 or became a POW or just left my dad's mum. Does anyone recollect an Arthur Guest?
Re: Help, lost Grandfather
by scully
There was a Private Arthur Guest who served with Support Company of the 1st Battalion Worcestershire Regiment. He landed with the 1st Battalion in Normandy in June 1944 and survived the war. This was the only match I could find. His army number indicates he was already in the Army about 1939 or before.
On your fathers birth certificate what was the maiden name his mother. Also you did not mention your fathers first name or date of birth. If you let me have these I will try another search.
You could also try contacting Veterans-UK Helpline on freephone 0800 169 22 77 as they will be able to help you get a copy of your grandfathers army service records.
Well, I contacted the Veterans helpline who sent me out alot of paper work and no real information.
You wanted my dad's name and dob? He is called Gerald Arthur (I presume after his father) and was born 13th January 1942 and his mothers maiden name on the birth certificate is Wilson. Now I've been led to believe that this certificate may be false (as in his mothers name and maiden name) but that is why I would like information as I do not believe that so much detail could be false on an official document. I was told "all sorts of things went on during war time". So I hope you can clarify things. Thank you for your help.
I had another search and could not find a marriage between Arthur Guest and Mary Wilson. I checked the marriage records 5 years either side of 1942 (your fathers year of birth) and could find no match. It could be that Mary Wilson was not married but had a child by Arthur Guest? Did your father have a marriage certificate for his parents?
No, my dad has no marriage certificate for Arthur and Mary. His mum died whe he was young and he lived wih his Grandmother, he was also told that Arthur Guest was his grandfather and that Mary's maiden name was actually Guest and her married was Wilson. But that is not what was on record. So basically there are alot of falsehood around his birth certificate, so I don't really know what to believe. Arthur could actually be my Great Grandfather, but like I said my dad's family all died when he was young and all he remembers is a red haired man (who he is he can't rememberthe name of). Oh well, thanks for the help, seems I'm at a loss of where to go to now. Thanks again.
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Canadian B.O. 2010 (MEGA drops 17 %)
Location: Augsburg (2,034 years young)
Here's the 2009 thread:
And here are the 2009 results:
Biggest Hits 2009 (without the tail-end run outside the Top 20):
1) 95.82m AVATAR
2) 33.79m TRANSFORMERS 2
3) 30.63m HP6
4) 26.28m NEW MOON
5) 25.33m HANGOVER
6) 24.67m STAR TREK
7) 24.59m UP
8) 21.34m SHERLOCK HOLMES
9) 19.62m IA3
10) 18.32m MONSTERS VS. ALIENS
11) 17.22m ALVIN 2
12) 16.96m WOLVERINE
13) 16.35m A&D
14) 16.27m 2012
15) 15.37m DISTRICT 9
16) 15.22m PROPOSAL
17) 15.11m INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
18) 14.16m FAST & FURIOUS
19) 13.33m XMAS CAROL
20) 13.30m UGLY TRUTH
21) 13.16m MALL COP
22) 13.16m CLOUDY / MEATBALLS
23) 11.76m T4
24) 11.73m G.I. JOE
25) 11.52m WATCHMEN
26) 11.43m BLIND SIDE
27) 11.28m TAKEN
28) 11.06m PRINCESS & FROG
29) 10.66m G-FORCE
30) 10.59m COUPLES RETREAT
31) 10.27m HE'S JUST NOT
Biggest opening weekends 2009:
2) 8.00m TRANSFORMERS 2 (13.62m 5 days)
3) 6.95m HARRY POTTER 6 (12.71m 5 days)
4) 6.41m WOLVERINE
5) 6.26m AVATAR
6) 5.48m FAST & FURIOUS
7) 5.46m 2012
8) 5.44m STAR TREK
9) 5.07m ANGELS & DEMONS
10) 4.95m UP
Nothing Compares 2 U
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Weekend 01/10
Top 20 Movies in Canada - Weekend of Jan 01, 2010
1 1 Avatar 20th Century Fox $6.41M $33.32M 3
2 2 Sherlock Holmes Warner Bros. $3.31M $11.67M 2
3 3 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel 20th Century Fox $2.24M $10M 2
4 4 It's Complicated Universal $1.27M $4.27M 2
5 5 Up In the Air Paramount $917,702 $4.08M 5
6 7 The Princess and the Frog Walt Disney $630,879 $5.53M 4
7 6 Nine Alliance $483,814 $1.65M 2
8 10 The Blind Side Warner Bros. $449,020 $8.86M 7
9 8 Did You Hear About the Morgans? Columbia $435,842 $2.42M 3
10 9 Invictus Warner Bros. $388,787 $2.96M 4
11 11 The Twilight Saga: New Moon E1 $368,674 $25.68M 7
12 12 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus E1 $231,709 $661,636 2
13 13 3 Idiots Big $190,224 $643,892 2
14 14 The Girl Who Played With Fire Alliance $134,939 $476,761 2
15 15 2012 Columbia $131,938 $16.15M 8
16 17 The Young Victoria Alliance $111,467 $495,886 3
17 18 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire Maple $74,349 $1.36M 7
18 19 A Single Man Alliance $61,302 $265,163 4
19 - Brothers Alliance $57,580 $2.59M 5
20 16 Disney's A Christmas Carol Walt Disney $50,695 $13.33M 9
http://www.tribute.ca/boxoffice
Re: Canadian B.O. 2010 (AVATAR up 6 %)
How much did Titanic there?
68m...
Mandeep
Avatar will likely beat TDK 51 million and end up near the grosses of the LOTR films.
ACH! Unsere Unterseeboot sind stiehlen mit eine dog und baby und Art Garfunkel!
AVATAR vs. TDK (17 days)
33.65m TDK
33.32m AVATAR
So much closer than total domestic market...
Dr. Lecter
You must have big rats
Location: Bonn, Germany
You've got an all-time list for Canada by some chance?
The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!
its Titanic followed by ROTK,TTT and FOTR at 60, 56 and 54 million and than Spiderman at 52 million and TDK at 51 million and TPM at 50 million.
The numbers for LOTR and Spiderman and TPM were from a Toronto Star article from 2004, that is no longer online and the TDK number is from Tribute.ca
Avatar should at least beat TTT and probably just edge past ROTK.
3 3 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel 20th Century Fox $1.38M $12.05M 3
4 - Daybreakers Maple $1.23M $1.23M 1
5 4 It's Complicated Universal $996,360 $5.93M 3
6 - Leap Year Universal $861,970 $861,970 1
7 - Youth in Revolt Alliance $709,170 $709,170 1
9 - The Metropolitan Opera: Der Rosenkavalier Fathom $443,884 $443,884 1
10 6 The Princess and the Frog Walt Disney $328,039 $6.04M 5
11 8 The Blind Side Warner Bros. $323,695 $9.35M 8
12 7 Nine Alliance $263,333 $2.15M 3
14 10 Invictus Warner Bros. $203,912 $3.31M 5
16 9 Did You Hear About the Morgans? Columbia $137,201 $2.76M 4
17 14 The Girl Who Played With Fire Alliance $93,057 $681,407 3
18 13 3 Idiots Big $92,252 $778,718 3
19 16 The Young Victoria Alliance $84,301 $653,497 4
20 15 2012 Columbia $69,376 $16.27M 9
Re: Canadian B.O. 2010 (AVATAR down 12 %)
Avatar will likely cross 60 million.
Impressive, I think Titanic will be tough but Avatar made 10 million over the past week.
If it keeps dropping like that it would go like this....
61.05 million
I don't know, but Canada is a leggy market.
I think 60 million is assured, as unlike in the States big films can dominate for a long time.
TTT was number one for 7 weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Avatar will stick around for a while, so I think Titanic is in danger and that's impressive as Titanic gross is actually much higher ratio wise than in the US!!
Mandeep wrote:
Canada as well oh dear Titanic it seems that the time has come to finally sink
Considering the film was an all time hit in Canada, and had so many Canadian connections, its quite amazing considering even films like TDK came no where near it.
LOTR films did really well but LOTR did really well in English Speaking Countries and in Western and Northern Europe.
Indiana Jones IV
What connections were there, besides James Cameron and Celine Dion (singing the theme) being from Canada?
that's it...
Titanic is a well known story here...
The theme song was insanely hugely popular.
Hmm, $65 million at least is happening in Canada.
Dr. Lecter wrote:
Only 65M I thought maybe 75-80M damn I missed it again.....
Avatar drops 9% with a weekend down to 5.1 million for a gross of 51.91 million.
It destroys TDK in only 5 weekends.
Titanic is going down..
It is making weekends that are now much higher than in the US (ratio wise) and should end up with much better legs.
Titanic is easily going down and a gross of 77.5 million is assured and that's with 40% weekly drops!!!!!!
1 1 Avatar 20th Century Fox $5.1M $51.94M 5
2 - The Book of Eli Warner Bros. $1.89M $1.89M 1
4 - The Lovely Bones Paramount $1.14M $1.14M 6
5 3 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel 20th Century Fox $1M $13.36M 4
7 - The Spy Next Door Alliance $666,332 $666,332 1
8 6 Leap Year Universal $560,502 $1.76M 2
9 4 Daybreakers Maple $512,837 $2.28M 2
10 8 Up In the Air Paramount $454,188 $5.91M 7
11 7 Youth in Revolt Alliance $371,680 $1.36M 2
12 11 The Blind Side Warner Bros. $225,803 $9.7M 9
13 10 The Princess and the Frog Walt Disney $151,286 $6.28M 6
14 12 Nine Alliance $117,363 $2.41M 4
15 15 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus E1 $110,808 $1.2M 4
16 13 The Twilight Saga: New Moon E1 $99,826 $26.28M 9
17 14 Invictus Warner Bros. $96,965 $3.5M 6
18 - A Single Man Alliance $72,038 $443,326 6
where do you see it ending up...
I think 75-85 million is the range...
I can't see the end - I can only see the minimum and that seems to be north of $75m...
Also I think it will rule the box office for some time.
I think it will rule the next 3 weekends as well.
Nazgul9
I guess the french canadians are to blame. For some reason the french seem to be obsessed with Avatar.
Not even that, Avatar is doing well all across the country.
When a huge blockbuster comes here it dominates for weeks and weeks and gets a massive gross and leaves everything else behind.
Avatar will remain number 1 for 8 weekends here,
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Third Text
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Number 129-130: July/September 2014
Introduction: Islands, Images, Imaginaries 333-343
Sean Metzger, Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián and Michaeline Crichlow
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Entre Horizontes Insulares/Among Insular Horizons 345-360
Nilo Palenzuela
This article chronicles the development and critical underpinnings of an inter-insular exhibition and editorial project curated by two Canary Islander specialists, art critic and literary scholar Nilo Palenzuela and art historian and curator Orlando Britto. The project, named Horizontes Insulares/Insular horizons, focused on contemporary art and literary practices in a range of island and insular locations. Occurring in 2010–2011, it brought together visual artists and authors from Cuba, The Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Cape Verde, Madeira, Azores, La Réunion, French Guiana and the Canary Islands. The itinerant exhibition included a multi-lingual edition of twelve books featuring work by writers and artists, a substantial exhibition catalogue, and the multi-site exhibition itself which travelled from the Canary Islands to Madeira, Cuba, Dominican Republic and Martinique. Seeking to explore and explain the exhibition's guiding principles, the article delves deep into an Atlantic, inter-insular and inter-oceanic consciousness that is both historically aware and decidedly forward-looking.
It's Enough to Make Any Woman Catch the Next Plane to Barbados: Constructing the Postwar West Indies as Paradise 361-376
Leah Rosenberg
This article argues that a new image of the West Indies as affordable tourist paradise was consolidated from colonial tropes in the 1950s to promote the introduction of mass-market tourism in the region. Tourism is now the region's leading industry and it reproduces the economic and social relations of colonial society so closely that it warrants the term neo-colonial. However, this neo-colonial image was shaped by competing interests, Britain's loss of empire and the United States' ascent to imperial superpower on the one hand, and on the other, the US struggle for Civil Rights and West Indian nationalism – and their interaction with culture – and their interaction with Caribbean, US and British culture. This article sheds light on the construction of this image by examining two texts that contributed to it greatly: Darryl Zanuck's film Island in the Sun (1957), and Alec Waugh's 1955 novel on which it was based.
Wolfgang Tillmans' Still Islands: Photographic Aesthetics off the Margin 377-392
Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián
This article analyses a set of photographic works on island and littoral locations by German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans. Focusing initially on one of Tillmans' signature images, Untitled (La Gomera), 1997, the article draws attention to this piece's originating context in the island of La Gomera in the Canary Islands. The critical narrative expands to include other island and littoral photographs to sketch a series of ‘frames’, from notions of process, scene, borders and the elemental, to escape and mobilities. The text locates its readings in dialogue with Tillmans' most recent project, Neue Welt, as a way to think about contemporary ways of producing and altering island images that depart from longstanding island imaginaries of the tropical Atlantic and other, similar oceanic locations. The article concludes by arguing that an ‘aesthetics off the margin’ can be teased out of Tillmans' photographic shores and islandscapes.
Visualizing the Now: The Alien, the Island and Mariko Mori's Beginning of the End 393-405
Gwyneth Shanks
Artist Mariko Mori's series Present from Beginning of the End grounds an island imaginary in visual iterations of global urban centres, belying notions of insularity and periphery. Globalization, this article argues, has disappeared the connotations of island imaginaries and spaces from the four global cities, each also islands, represented across Present. The series nuances the term ‘island’, exposing the disparities that exist between islands; not all islands are understood as equal in relationship to global economic and political power. Mori's photographs link the island and the alien as imbricated analytics, asserting the two as pivotal geopolitical markers of a global urban present. Mori's photo series remaps temporal and spatial narratives of globalization via the alien and the island, questioning the ways in which the processes of globalization attach to bodies, and the ways in which finance dictates the terms of global contact and the creation of networks.
Performing the Angel Island Centennial: Chinese Migration, Insular Intimacy and Fugitive Temporality 407-425
Sean Metzger
This article investigates the centenary celebrations of the Angel Island immigration station (off the coast of California) in order to think through how this site configures the island in relation to issues of Chinese migration, time and tourism. Moving through four interrelated performance events – a dance-theatre piece, the tour of the station, theatrical re-enactments of detainee interviews and the exhibition of a junk – the author identifies and elaborates a concept of fugitive temporality and related insular phenomena that come into relief through the twining of performance and memory. These phenomena include the production of boredom and intimacy as well as the construction of an antipodal imaginary. These phenomena thus become different optics to think through insularity in relation to the social reproduction of Chineseness and Americanness.
Towards a Queer Island Disidentification of Taiwan: Golden Bough Theatre's Pirates and Formosa 427-441
Fan-Ting Cheng
Political traumas and ethnic antagonisms in Taiwan emphasize the need for a reconsideration of the intervulnerable relation between island imaginaries and mainland ideological violence. Premiered at Metropolitan Hall in Taipei City on 28 October 2011, Golden Bough Theatre's musical Pirates and Formosa presents images of pirates of different races and genders surviving on the island, theatricalizing an islandscape that challenges the official, Kuomintang-advanced, historical grand narrative that has relied upon Confucian gender norms and the exclusion of women as subjects of nation-building processes. Combining local queer debates and camp discussions with island theories, this project sees the performance as a queer, de-hegemonic, and postcolonial discourse, which fashions a queer island disidentification that undoes the truth-claims of nationalist identitarianism and queers the Chinese-centrist identity as the ‘descendants of dragon’ that the Kuomintang has promoted for the past sixty years.
Future Island 443-453
Eng-Beng Lim
This article explores Singapore's Gardens by the Bay as a sci-fi botany fantasy and a postcolonial super garden of the twenty-first century. The Gardens presents an island botany complex that internalizes imperial horticultural display for an electric tropicality powered by biodiversity, sustainable energy, and a global ambition for the postcolony. Its award-winning cooled conservatories and Supertree Grove are all emblems of this futuristic vision. Using the architectural and botanical performance of the Gardens as the basis for reading this complex, Lim considers its cool design and sensory logics as an aesthetic and vision of transnational performance in the twenty first century. This is a new iteration of island performance that also marks Singapore's allegorical transmogrification from tropical colony to global city to transnational island.
Contributors 455-456
THIRD TEXT is published in print and online by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Open Space Routledge
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Expedition Overview
Rancho Feliz
Guardian Warrior
Monk Chants
Recorded on August 20, 1995, at the Rinchenpung Monastery. Symbolically Vajrayogini’s naval, the gompa houses a statue of Rang Rig Gyapo - the king of self-awareness and the wrathful emanation of Padmasambhava. The monk chants are an invocation to this meditation deity to protect all sentient beings from the consequences of their own misguided behavior.
Don’t Look Down!
Good Moring from Whidbey Island!
I have been up here now for 3 months and I have 1 month to go. I’m about three-quarters finished with the book so the timing is good.
Today I’d like to talk about how we crossed rivers and streams in Tibet’s mystical “Hidden Lands”.
Tibet is the source of 6 of Asia’s major rivers; the Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween and Mekong. An incredible 46% of the world’s population depends upon rivers originating in Tibet
In addition, the Himalayas are the third largest producer of glaciers in the world.
There is water everywhere.
On our mid-1990’s explorations into the “Hidden Lands” there were only 2 ways to cross rivers and streams: logs or cables. I have copied excerpts below that deal with both:
Tuesday - August 8, 1995 - dawned rainy and glum. Inclement weather always makes rivers seem more sinister. We experienced that the year before surviving our first-descent attempt on the highest river in the world - the Yarlung Tsangpo.
And this rickety cable crossing made the prior year’s pulley crossing of the PoTsangpo river look like a light rail system. This was going to be daunting. There were actually two cables stretched across the river: one with its high point on the north bank and the other with its high point on the south. With no pulleys, this design employed gravity’s help - on each side - in pulling the wooden yoke over the cable.
The crossing looked to be around 200 feet. Ian pulled out a climbing rope as a means to retrieve the yoke after each run. But it was too short and we had to tie additional lengths of hemp and leather straps to make it reach. Noticing the sagging rope catching the swift current, the Sherpas made hoops of bamboo around the cable and threaded the rope through to keep it out of the water.
The cables themselves were old and sagging. I questioned their ability to keep us out of the fierce current. It was decided the porters and Sherpas would go first. The size of our group and mounds of gear made this an all-day effort. Our Sherpa cook - Pemba - was the guinea pig. It was awkward but he made it.
Sitting next to Christiaan, we watched the porters - monkey like - haul themselves and our baggage over the thousands of gallons of turbulent water. Raising his voice above the river roar Christiaan said, “Just look at all this water. It’s an avalanche of rapids with no placid stretches. All this liquid will end up in the Yarlung Tsangpo, drop off the plateau and flow as the Brahmaputra into the Bay of Bengal.”
The river’s volume compared with the flow Troy and I battled the year before on the Yarlung Tsangpo. As river runners we had done the math. I told Christiaan, “I estimate this river is flowing around 20,000 cubic feet per second. That means 150,000 gallons of water are passing us every second. That’s close to a million a minute. And this is a tiny tributary. I guess that’s why Tibet is known as the ‘Water Tower of Asia’.”
Suddenly one of the porter loads broke and the bag fell - slow motion - into the surge below. Unweighted the cable snapped up and the porter held on for all he was worth. Wrapping his legs around the line he froze in fear. It took several minutes for Pemba to coax him across.
Next it was my turn. Climbing the rotten stairs I watched closely as the porters wrapped the leather thong around me and the yoke-like piece of rhododendron. Remembering Jerry’s close call the year before, I inspected every wrap and knot. It all appeared solid. I jumped. Again, in the “Hidden Lands” of Pemako if it’s your time - it’s your time. There’s really no sense in thinking about it. I was concerned about the sag in the line. I could see the waves lapping up at me just a few feet below. Soon - too soon - my momentum petered out and I swung myself around upside down and grabbed the cable and began to pull. It was harder than I expected. Soon enough I was safely across. My arms felt like lead. I was able to get some great photographs of Troy and Todd’s crossings. Even the Crazy Nun made it across.
Thursday - August 10, 1995 - It was a long wet day. The rain never relented. As we climbed higher and higher the canyon got steeper. The large stream we were following became a furious torrent. At one point we had to cross. Long ago two trees - on opposite banks - had been felled to span the rushing waters. Their top trunks crossed mid-stream requiring gingerly stepping from one to the other. Pilgrims had gone before. We could see where notches had been carved. But the logs were covered with the same slimy moss that coated everything green. Broken handrails offered little.
This was our most dangerous obstacle yet. To fall in the rushing current… I couldn’t think about it. Nor could I watch as Todd inched his way across. Same with Troy. I just couldn’t watch.
Next it was my turn. I unfastened my pack belt as had the others. The last thing you’d want on your back falling into this current was a waterlogged pack. Never had my concentration been so intense. We all knew better than to shout encouragement or make a sudden move - anything that might distract the crosser. Reminding myself to breath - I had to fight the urge to straddle and hug the log. That would never work. I shut out the roar of the rapids and calculated each foot placement. Once my boot was set, I’d slowly shift my weight to test its purchase. In this manner I traversed the log and stepped safely onto the far bank. What seemed like an hour probably took only seven or eight minutes.
It was a lot of risk and a lot of effort to penetrate the “Hidden Lands”. But when you read what - by miracle – awaited us, it will all make sense.
Thank you for sharing this remarkable journey with me. Next month we’ll talk about eating a dead bear.
Tashi delek,
Copyright © 2017 by Powell B. Gillenwater, III. All rights reserved.
Reproducing, scanning, or distributing any part of this website/blog in any form without Author’s written permission is prohibited by law.
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Meglos
Starring: Tom Baker, Lalla Ward, John Leeson & Jacqueline Hill
By: John Flanagan & Andrew McCulloch
Rating: 6.3 (15 votes) Vote here
Review: A Prickly Story Read more (2 in total)
Editions: UK (DVD) | US (DVD) | Australia (DVD)
Note: From this release onwards, the BBC aligned all their classic Doctor Who DVD releases, so they happened (mostly) within 1 month for UK, US and Australia instead of being spread across several months as happened previously.
Released: January 2011
Format: 1 x DVD
On Tigella, two opposing factions are irrevocably divided over one fundamental issue: the Dodecahedron, a mysterious artefact which provides the entire planet's energy. With the Savants and the Deons locked in a crippling stalemate, and their civilisation on the brink of collapse, the Tigellan leader Zastor seeks the Doctor's help. But the Doctor and Romana have been trapped aboard the TARDIS in a timeloop by Meglos, the last of the Zolpha Thurans, who will stop at nothing to steal back the awesome power of the Dodecahedron...
Commentary by Lalla Ward (Romana), Christopher Owen (Earthling), John Flanagan (writer), Paddy Kingsland (composer) and Peter Howell (composer)
Meglos Men Writers John Flanagan and Andrew McCulloch meet with script editor Christopher H. Bidmead
The Scene Sync Story A look at the pioneering technique used to create many of the story's shots
Jacqueline Hill — A Life in Pictures A look at the life of Jacqueline Hill, with husband Alvin Rakoff, Doctor Who producer Verity Lambert and actors William Russell and Ann Davies
Entropy Explained
Isolated Score
Radio Times Billings (PDF DVD-ROM — PC/Mac)
Production Information Subtitles
Coming Soon Trailer
Digitally remastered picture and sound quality
This story was originally broadcast on BBC1 between 27th September — 18th October 1980
Edition: US (DVD)
On Tigella, two opposing factions are irrevocably divided over one fundamental issue: the Dodecahedron, a mysterious artifact which provides the entire planet's energy. With the Savants and the Deons locked in a crippling stalemate, and their civilization on the brink of collapse, the Tigellan leader Zastor seeks the Doctor's help. But the Doctor and Romana have been trapped aboard the TARDIS in a time loop by Meglos, the last of the Zolpha Thurans, who will stop at nothing to steal back the awesome power of the Dodecahedron.
Audio Commentary by actors Lalla Ward (Romana) and Christopher Owen (Earthling), co-writer John Flanagan and composers Paddy Kingsland and Peter Howell
Meglos Men Writers John Flanagan and Andrew McCulloch meet with script editor Christopher H. Bidmead (18 mins)
The Scene Sync Story Behind-the-scenes on a pioneering technique used to create many of this story's shots (12 mins)
Jacqueline Hill — A Life in Pictures Profile featuring husband Alvin Rakoff, Verity Lambert, William Russell and Ann Davies (14 mins)
Entropy Explained (5 mins)
Photo Gallery (4 mins)
Isolated Music Score
Production Note Option
PDF materials (DVD-Rom — PC/Mac): Radio Times Listings
Entropy Explained contains strobe lighting
Originally transmitted September 27 - October 18, 1980
Edition: Australia (DVD)
On Tigella, two opposing factions are irrevocably divided over one fundamental issue: the Dodecahedron, a mysterious artefact which provides the entire planet's energy. With the Savants and the Deons locked in a crippling stalemate, and their civilisation on the brink of collapse, the Tigellan leader Zastor seeks the Doctor's help. But the Doctor and Romana have been trapped aboard the TARDIS in a timeloop by Meglos, the last of the Zolfa-Thurans, who will stop at nothing to steal back the awesome power of the Dodecahedron...
Commentary by Lalla Ward (Romana), Christopher Owen (Earthling), John Flanagan (writer), Paddy Kingsland (composer)
Meglos Men Writers John Flanagan and Andrew McCulloch meet with script editor Christopher H Bidmead
Jacqueline Hill - A Life in Pictures A look at the life of Jacqueline Hill, with husband Alvin Rakoff, Doctor Who producer Verity Lambert and actors William Russell and Ann Davies
Radio Times Billings (PDF DVD-ROM - PC/Mac)
Digitally remastered pictures and sound quality
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ANTI- Catalog Remasters
The entire ANTI- Catalog is newly remastered by Waits/Brennan, including a remixed version of Real Gone, and reissued on 180 Gram Vinyl & CD. Orphans Available 2018. Pre-Order now at http://tomwaitsstore.com. Read More
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Tom Waits Featured On Cover Of T: The New York Times Style Magazine
Tom Waits, Beck and Kendrick Lamar are on alternate covers for this Sunday’s T: The New York Times Style Magazine.
All three artists shared their ideas on music and culture for the Times’ Three Generations of Music Icons feature, and Waits most likely included some new and strange facts in his interview. Read more at the New York Times. Read More
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Congrats from Tom and Kathleen to Bob Dylan on Winning the Nobel Prize:
It’s a great day for Literature and for Bob when a Master of its original form is celebrated. Before epic tales and poems were ever written down, they migrated on the winds of the human voice and no voice is greater than Dylan’s.
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2016 PEN / Song Lyrics Award Honorees
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The Presence of Secrets
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The Presence of Secrets is an interactive installation that provokes questions around our relationship to machines, and the ways in which our private correspondence is digitally and intractably distributed. What kind of logic or intelligence is beyond or behind this screen? What sorts of secrets do we have? Who is watching or reading our words? The installation brings up questions around emerging technologies, cultural norms, individual identity, and uncertain futures.
An interactive installation designed by Sarah Newman, Jessica Yurkofsky, and Matthew Battles, from metaLAB at Harvard, that addresses ideas around our complex relationships to, and trust of, machines, as well as the uncertain futures of our private digital correspondence.
The Presence of Secrets is an installation that is part of a research project led by Sarah Newman, on the topics of trust, privacy, digital correspondence, and the future. The work considers questions such as: “Will our great-grandchildren read the words we type now, including our private correspondence? How might this affect their understandings of us, and of themselves? Is it possible to truly delete something once it has been distributed in the digital world? What can we learn about ourselves *now* by reflecting on the secrets we keep and how we feel about them?” The research has been conducted in collaboration with the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
The Presence of Secrets is an interactive media installation, shown for the first time in 2016 at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. A viewer is invited to type a secret. As soon as the person hits “enter” the printer will be print another person’s secret, which the viewer can then take with them. The computer is running a program which will add the submitted secret to the secrets database that the piece will draw upon for successive interactions.
There are two additional remote secrets printing stations. These remote printers are set to print secrets at unspecified intervals for passers-by to collect. The printers also occasionally print other media, including surveillance photographs and other textual responses related to, or inquiring about, the submitted secrets.
You can find this interactive installation on the 3rd floor at the labore:tory during the second and third #rp17 days (Tuesday & Wednesday: 10.00-20.00).
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The Edmonton WhiteRaceIsSuperiors should handidly win the Grey Cup
It's the biggest day in the Canadian sports calendar†, Grey Cup Sunday.
At 6pm Eastern, 3pm Pacific, and 4pm local time, the Edmonton Eskimos will take on the Ottawa REDBLACKS for the second oldest sports trophy in North America. This is the 103rd Grey Cup which was first awarded in 1909 and I know the math doesn't work out and you need to blame the First World War and a bizarre dispute over regulations (and not a combination of the Spanish Flu and the Second World War that usually accounts for non-Bettman related canceled sporting events).
This Grey Cup, unfortunately, hangs in the shadow of some horrible news. Attendance is down (the 34,000 in Edmonton to watch their long-suffering team win the Western Final was downright pathetic), TV viewership is down, and the league continues its baffling loss of ground to the NFL.‡ Okay, that's some pretty horrible news. But over the past few days there has been ever worse news. A couple easily-offended Red Indians are upset that the Edmonton Eskimos haven't changed their "offensive" name.
This is a minor story every year, but in the wake of the disgusting TRC report (that I debunked head to toe here) there's yet another media push to consider the name "Eskimos" offensive to...people...who...aren't...Eskimos.
Natan Obed, president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the national Inuit organization, says the term is derogatory and symbolizes colonial policies. He said the team needs to change its name.
"If I was called an Eskimo or introduced as an Eskimo by anyone else, I would be offended by that," he said.
To this, there's only one thing that any right-minded Canadian (or Edmonton Eskimos fan) should say. Hey Natan Obed, shut up you stupid Eskimo.
If you're not in Canada you probably haven't even heard that "Eskimo" is "offensive". The gag is that most of the Red Indians who live up north call themselves "Inuit". Notice I didn't say "all". If you happen to be from the Yupik (Siberia) or Iñupiat (Alaska) tribes, the Inuit were your rivals. In fact, to borrow a page from Obed's playbook, calling everybody from the north "Inuit" is cultural imperialism. You might as well start calling everybody from the American midwest "Iowans". So already there's a necessary requirement for a term that isn't "Inuit" to describe them. Fortunately, we have one. It's called Eskimo.
But isn't "Eskimo" an offensive term meaning child rapist or something? Well, no. There's a false claim perpetrated by Red Indian activists [isn't there always? -ed] that "Eskimo" meant "eaters of raw meat". The more extreme activists think it's a reference to cannibalism. In reality (that humdrum thing that morons like Natan Obed never operate in), Eskimo is probably the Anglicization of "assime·w" which means "guy who knows how to tie his own snowshoe laces". What an insult! It's also theorized that since this word was used by the Red Indians who interacted with French traders to reference the tribe down the road who (unlike them, I presume) actually knew how to lace snowshoes that the French assumed it was their word for "everybody who lives around here". Regardless, the false claims that Eskimo is an offensive term just don't hold water. The easily outraged will always be offended by something, especially when they want to continue their barbaric culture's 12,000 year tradition of not bothering to create anything themselves.
Remember that these are the people who didn't create anything of real note on the continent. In the 260 years since white explorers discovered Edmonton, they created a modern liberal (and, unfortunately, Liberal) democracy, a thriving metropolis, and an advanced society that features a 9-team football league spanning thousands of miles that will be broadcasting their championship game in high-definition to be transmitted around the world. Obed, to borrow a President Monkey line, didn't build that. Instead, much like Tolkien's orcs, the Inuit take the modern refined gasoline that we use to travel around the world and sniff it until they give themselves irreparable brain damage. On a similar vein, when Natan Obed looks at the Canadian Football League (the second best in the world) all he can think of is "goddamned whitey, how can I destroy this?" Those who oppose the term "Edmonton Eskimos" are basically just envious and bitter about their own lack of accomplishments. Actual Eskimos are going to look more like this than like this, and therefore they have this weird concern that a football team named after them is "culturally appropriating" their so-called good name. Notice, as a small aside, what less culturally insignificant groups think about having sports teams named after them. The Minnesota Vikings, San Diego Padres, and Notre Dame Fighting Irish all have names after groups that probably don't contribute a lot of players to the field. Can you imagine some Swedish guy being upset over the Minnesota Vikings? Or an Irishman being upset over the Fighting Irish? Of course not. If a random Scandinavian visiting the United States saw that there's a team called the "Vikings" (with the logo being an over-the-top caricature of what Vikings supposedly looked like but definitely didn't) do you think he'd whine to the Ottawa Citizen about it? Or would he go into the local team store, buy some merchandise, and decide to cheer on the team that sort of has some sort of loose tie-in with his own cultural heritage? You know full well it's the latter. They're called the Vikings? Hey, I'm sort of a Viking. I mean, my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather came from the same patch of land that the Vikings came from even though statistically speaking he didn't join them. Yeah, this is my team! Gå Vikings!. Likewise, an Irishmen hearing about a team called the "Fighting Irish" would probably only oppose the name if they go on a ridiculously long losing streak, and even then he'd probably sarcastically use the name to joke about how the players themselves aren't actually Irish. Yet it's only the Red Indian who sees a team named after them and reacts like a ten year old girl learning that Justin Bieber is taken. It's sort of embarrassing. Learn to have the smallest amount of respect for your racial group to think that your name might just be the sort of thing that other people want to use to describe themselves to make them sound awesome.
But hey, I'm nothing if accommodating. If the Red Indian doesn't want to have a team named after them, I suppose we can oblige. I ever came up with a good one in the post title: we can rename the team the Edmonton WhiteRaceIsSuperior. That way we won't mention your race in the team name anymore, Natan Obed [well, not explicitly at least... -ed]. It won't be even remotely offensive to the race actually mentioned in the title either. It's win win. Will Obed join me in supporting this great new name change?
Okay, the quick answer is the Edmonton Eskimos shouldn't be changing their name. Fads come and go, and the current #IdleNoMore fad in pretending that the Eskimos need to change their name in the spirit of "reconciliation" is just plain ridiculous. It will blow over probably sooner rather than later, especially as more and more Canadians wake up to the fact that society in general, and the Eskimos in particular, didn't do anything wrong that needs to be "reconciled". The Edmonton Eskimos didn't get Davis Inlet kids addicted to gas sniffing. The Edmonton Eskimos didn't convert a fire hall into a youth centre. The Edmonton Eskimos didn't hire their boyfriend to help siphon money out of the Attawapiskat Reservation into their own finances. Those who are responsible are the ones who devote their resources to creating something called the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami in order to attack better men who have built meaningful aspects of our modern civilized society, rather than just get with the program.
The Grey Cup will be played today, and the Edmonton Eskimos are favoured to defeat the Ottawa Redblacks. Vegas says 52.5 is the over-under, and the Eskimos are 7 point favourites to win. If you ask me, the Edmonton Eskimos are going to win 36-17, though the game is going to start out in Ottawa's favour. So with Ottawa threatening us on the field (how appropriate is "that" as a phrase in the Prime Minister Turdeau era?) and uppity Red Indian Natan Obed threatening us off the field, there's only one appropriate response. So stand up, Eskimos fans! Join me, Bryan Hall, and the rest of the rational people in this world as we sing...
We’re cheering fight, fight, fight on Eskimos
We’re marching right, right, right on Eskimos
We’re charging down the field for all to see
And shouting rah, rah, rah, fight on to victory
We’re fighting on ‘til every game is won
The green and gold is bold and when we’re done
We’ll tell the world we’re proud of Edmonton
And the Edmonton Eskimos.
Go Eskimos Go!
† Not counting the NHL Draft Day, the NHL Trade Deadline Day, the NHL Free Agent Signing Day, the four to seven days of the Stanley Cup Finals, and probably most if not all games in the NHL Conference Finals. Also, possibly, Super Bowl Sunday, the NCAA Final Four, and any really big NFL matchups.
‡ Martok and I were discussing this last week and we can't entirely figure it out. I personally think bandwagoneering is a major affect: US sports culture is so much more intense than the Canadian version, so Canadian sports fans would rather watch USC's defeat of UCLA yesterday in front of 93,000 fans than BC versus Winnipeg in the Grey Cup. Which is odd, because at least when American sports fans watch college ball a lot of them are watching either their alma mater or a chief rival of their alma mater or a chief rival of a rival of a rival of a rival of their alma mater. "UCLA lost? Awesome! They beat the Arizona Wildcats in September, and I wanted them to beat Arizona to pay them back for their humiliation of myteam, the South Carolina State Bulldogs in 2013. I'm a SC-State Graduate. Go Bulldogs! And whoever beats teams who failed to beat Arizona!. No Canadian can say this phrase, but we know people from BC or Manitoba, or we dislike Hamilton for beating us etc. etc. etc. It truly boggles the mind.
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Number of complaints against shuttered Bucks County wedding venue rises
By Nydia Han
BUCKINGHAM TWP., Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- The number of complaints against a Bucks County wedding venue that abruptly closed, leaving brides-to-be without their deposits or a place to get married, has nearly tripled.
The Buckingham Township police department said earlier this week it was looking for people who lost deposits after booking an event at The Barn at Forestville.
Since then, the number of complaints jumped from four to about a dozen.
When the Action News Troubleshooters talked to one bride-to-be on Monday, she was distraught and desperate.
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"The day that I found out he was potentially closing is the day I opened my wedding invitations in the mail," said Danielle Strassel of Furlong, Bucks County.
Strassel said last September, she and her fiancé paid the owner of the Barn at Forestville in Furlong, Bucks County, a $2,000 deposit for their October 2020 wedding. She said at the time there was no warning from him that the venue might close.
"I think it's really deceitful," she said. "Nobody wants to go through that so I think it's awful he didn't disclose any information."
It turns out, owner Lonny Plummer took their money knowing the venue might close due to zoning issues and The Barn did subsequently shut down due to a court order on December 31st. Strassel told the Troubleshooters on Monday Plummer offered the couple a refund months ago, but even after multiple promises the money had yet to materialize.
"He said the check got lost in the mail, then he said he didn't have the money," Strassel said.
We went to the Barn at Forestville but instead of getting answers, we got kicked off the property.
But on Wednesday Plummer did talk over the phone. He said, "We had every intention of honoring our agreements going into 2020 and 2021 and then the court closed us down."
The good news for Strassel? The day after the Troubleshooters aired her story she got her money back, a full refund of $2,000.
"I feel awful for all the people that probably have given him even more money than we did, who made several payments to him so I just hope this can all be resolved," said Strassel.
Plummer said he is repaying all the deposits and hopes to have it all done within the week. He also said he did not engage in deceptive business practices and it is unfair for the township to close the venue down after letting it run for so long.
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Himesh Patel Prepared for His ‘Yesterday’ Role by Busking
In order to get into character as Jack Malik, the guy who passes the Beatles' music off as his own in Yesterday, Himesh Patel found himself singing on the street.
A bonus feature from the new home video shows Patel, score composer Danny Pemberton and music supervisor Adem Ilhan discussing how it happened.
As Pemberton describes in the video below, he was told by director Danny Boyle that he would have to work with Patel to turn him into a polished performer. After Boyle ignored his initial objections on the grounds that it's not his strength, Pemberton brought in Ilhan.
They converted a room into an approximation of Jack's bedroom -- complete with posters, an upright piano and a keyboard -- so that Patel could get into character. Armed with a list of the songs he had to learn for the movie, the actor then went to work.
But playing the songs in what Patel called a "safe space" is one thing; getting the public to enjoy them is another. So they hatched a plan to have him busk while singing the songs that were written for Jack. Ilhan recalled watching from the corner as an old lady in a walker passed by and listened. "'Who's this, then?'" she asked him. "'His name's Jack Malik.' And she goes, 'He's quite good, isn't he? Is he famous?' 'Not yet.'"
Pemberton noted there was no use of Auto-Tune or other studio trickery; Patel sang and played everything live. But the actor deflected the praise and said it was all due to the strength of the Beatles' compositions.
"There's something about those songs," he said. "It doesn't wear you down, singing them again and again, you know? ... [The Beatles] are bigger than their music. They're bigger than the sum of their parts. No one's ever come close, I think, really, to just how much they really changed things and continue to be such a huge part of world culture."
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A Bit Lost [9781406333831]
The award-winning debut title from Chris Haughton, the acclaimed author-illustrator of Oh No, George! and Shh! We Have a Plan, this is the heart-warming story of Little Owl - who must be more careful when he is sleeping...Uh-oh! He has fallen from his nest, and with a bump he lands on the ground. Where is his mummy? With the help of his new friend Squirrel, Little Owl sets off in search of her, and meets a sequence of other animals. Yet while one might have his mummy's big eyes, and another her pointy ears, they are simply not her. Chris Haughton's striking colour illustrations follow Little Owl on his quest. Which of his new friends will lead him back to his mummy?
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FEELINGS ARE AGELESS...
I am always amazed and amused when young people talk as though they have a monopoly on feelings…it seems that many think that after 40 something, feeling.. take a back seat to everything else,
Well let me disabuse the babies of that notion,
Feelings are ageless,
I remember when writing my first book,
My niece, yeah K, I am talking about you,
Was concerned that my main characters were aging,
She wanted them to stay young, it seems she wanted to know,
What they could be up to as they aged,
After laughing a bit, I told her to hold on,
Before I could deal with that, someone offered me a book deal,
However, I was told I would have to rewrite my first book,
And make the characters younger,
Because no one wanted to read about people in their forties and fifties being intimate,
I was told that at that age characters should only be about mentoring and caretaking,
I was stunned, didn’t know that the definitions of women was so narrow,
So I said, ‘No thank you very much…’
Because what I know for sure is that we can mentor and feel,
Bodies age, feelings don’t,
And people still want to love, be cared for, have relationships and intimacy at all ages,
And truth be told, they are probably better at it,
Because so much stuff has been experienced and hopefully resolved as we get older,
We aren’t as caught up as we were when we were younger,
But maybe I am wrong,
But you know what I plan to stay wrong and continue to,
Feel something and write about those who do the same!
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Corporate Account: Interpublic's $68 Mil Mistake
By Bradley Johnson. Published on August 19, 2002.
These are the $68 million questions: How did improper accounting occur at McCann-Erickson, and why did it take so many years for Interpublic to notice?
Interpublic Group of Cos. last week restated earnings for the past five years to reflect $68.5 million in improperly expensed charges at McCann-Erickson Europe. The restatement—coming as Interpublic revealed poor second-quarter results and a downbeat forecast—reduced earnings per share for each year from 1997-01 by one to two cents a share. Traders, buying Interpublic's argument that the problem's been dealt with, bid up the stock last week almost to where it stood before the stock cratered early this month on worries of an accounting problem. (The stock is still off 38% from Jan. 1, making it the worst performer among the top four agency companies.)
How did it happen? An example: Company A is a multinational client of McCann in London, which asks, say, McCann Germany to do some work. McCann Germany puts the job on its books as an accounts receivable. McCann U.K. is supposed to record the expense and an accounts payable—except it doesn't. McCann's internal books don't reconcile, yet somehow that gets overlooked.
Interpublic officials said such small accounting discrepancies occurred for years. Interpublic and auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers failed to catch it. "This is a multitude of very small transactions," said Susan Watson, senior VP-investor relations. It added up: As of March 31, Interpublic's balance sheet showed accounts receivable of $4.58 billion-a figure overstated by $68.5 million in receivables that would have been cancelled out if the expenses had been properly recorded.
Interpublic now has restated the balance sheet and five years of earnings to correct the problem. How did Interpublic finally catch it? Early last year, Interpublic began implementing new financial controls, starting with Lowe and Foote, Cone & Belding Worldwide and then moving to McCann. Last quarter, Interpublic reviewed internal cost-allocation processes worldwide and found the problem at McCann Europe. "It's basically human error; we presume that," Ms. Watson said.
Interpublic said the accounting restatement is completed but that it continues to review personnel and procedures. Company insiders said McCann Europe's problems were concentrated within England and France. One knowledgeable individual said several McCann Europe financial executives left recently.
The company said it has had new management in place in McCann Europe since January. Last September, McCann promoted Ben Langdon, regional director of Universal McCann Europe and chairman of McCann U.K. & Ireland Group, to regional director of McCann Europe, Middle East and Africa. McCann officials said McCann Europe named a new finance chief, Stefan Himpe, around January.
The accounting episode is another bump on the rocky road of Interpublic Chairman-CEO John J. Dooner Jr., who took over in December 2000 just as the ad market turned south. Mr. Dooner tightened financial controls and found the problem—but he earlier ran McCann-Erickson WorldGroup and McCann-Erickson Worldwide when some of the faulty accounting occurred.
The stock has fallen 56% since he became CEO. For the second quarter, Interpublic reported net income of $117 million or 31 cents a share, compared to a loss of $113.1 million in 2001. That was in spite of an 8.4% decrease in revenue to $1.6 billion, or a drop of 9.5% after factoring out currency effects and acquisitions. Earnings were below analyst expectations of 39 cents a share.
earn-outs
Interpublic estimated that over time it will pay $392.6 million in earn-outs on past acquisitions; it also could be required to pay up to $208.4 million in additional investments in companies in which it has an ownership stake. Separately, it said the Internal Revenue Service is auditing its returns for 1994-96 and said it could be forced to pay additional taxes.
Interpublic forecast full-year revenue will be down 6% to 7% due to continued weakness in the ad market.
contributing: bill britt, mercedes m. cardona, alice z. cuneo, lisa sanders, rich thomaselli, laurel wentz
Brad Johnson is Ad Age's director of data analytics and runs Ad Age Datacenter with colleague Kevin Brown. Johnson focuses on data and financial topics related to marketing, advertising and media. Johnson has held Ad Age posts in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York including editor at large, deputy editor, interactive editor, bureau chief and reporter.
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Special Report: Cannes Lions
Is Brazil the New Sweden for U.S. Agency Recruiters?
By Laurel Wentz. Published on June 14, 2017.
Brazilian creatives, once reluctant to relocate from their sunny, high-paying market, are flocking to the U.S.
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When Wieden & Kennedy hired an Argentine creative in 1997 for a job in Portland, Ore., José Mollá was a rarity. And when he tried to hire a creative team from Brazil, no one wanted to come.
"It was kind of unheard of to have talent from Latin America in the U.S.," Mollá said. "And now it's super common."
Today, Mollá chairs The One Club, the prominent organization for honoring creativity. And The Community, the successful Miami shop that he and brother Joaquín started, is often the first U.S. agency for Latin American creative teams that later work at shops like Droga5, R/GA and David & Goliath, he said.
One of his former creative directors, Gustavo Lauria, opened a New York shop called We Believers in 2014. Lauria won four Lions at Cannes last year and will be a U.S. judge on the Titanium and Integrated jury this year. His award-show blockbuster, which is also turning into an environmentally friendly business, is "Edible Six-Pack Rings," a biodegradable version of the plastic six-pack rings that can harm marine life when discarded.
Latin American creative leaders are the new Swedes. For years, Swedish creatives took over high-profile creative roles at U.S. agencies, before mostly returning to Scandinavia. One of the last to depart, Andreas Dahlqvist, left his post as chief creative officer at Grey New York in April to become chief creative officer of Nord DDB in his native Sweden.
Increasingly, Latin American creatives are stepping into U.S. leadership roles as chief creative officers or executive creative directors, or running their own agencies, like Anselmo Ramos at David in Miami. After surviving trial by fire in their often less-than-stable home countries, they do more with less, and adapt quickly and creatively to just about anything. And they do it all with a touch of emotion that plays well in the work they create.
In one big shift, Brazilian creatives, once reluctant to relocate from their sunny, high-paying market, are flocking to the U.S. For many, that change of heart is a combination of disillusionment over Brazil's endless corruption scandals, a depressed local economy and a U.S. market that increasingly welcomes them with better career opportunities.
"More and more Latins are being hired and judged by their talent, not their accents," Mollá said.
Sometimes, it seems like the entire Ogilvy Brazil creative department that did brilliant work like Dove's "Real Beauty" campaigns under Anselmo Ramos has landed in Los Angeles. Ramos, who left São Paulo in 2014 to open WPP's rapidly successful David agency in Miami, said he always encouraged his Brazilian team to believe working abroad makes you "not only a better creative, but a better human being."
Ramos said he "couldn't be prouder" of Eduardo Marques and Rafael Rizuto, who are exec creative directors at 180LA, and Roberto "Beto" Fernández and Paco Conde, who joined Anomaly LA as exec creative directors in February. (And Fernández's twin brother, Renato, was promoted to chief creative officer of TBWA/Chiat/Day in February.) In New York, Ogilvy Brazil alumni Fred Saldanha is exec creative director at Huge, and João Coutinho became exec creative director of Y&R North America last month.
And David, under Ramos, has stellar creative work coming out of Miami that displays a neat grasp of American culture, including Burger King campaigns like "Proud Whopper," celebrating gay pride, and a "Scariest Burger King" outlet dressed in a McDonald's costume for Halloween.
At Saatchi & Saatchi, Buenos Aires native Javier Campopiano became chief creative officer of the New York office last year, and a Brazilian, Fabio Costa, is the exec creative director in Los Angeles.
Two of Brazil's highest-profile creatives, Andre Kassu and Marcos Medeiros, are now in charge of CP&B's Miami office, after opening a CP&B shop in São Paulo three years ago that has become one of Brazil's hottest startups. Now, they rotate between São Paulo and Miami, Kassu said, and they recently won the global account for Brazilian airplane-maker Embraer, to be run from Miami.
And it's not just agencies. More clients are from Latin America themselves, and expect their agencies to reflect the diversity they see in their U.S. consumers. Diego Scotti, the chief marketing officer of Verizon, a client of The Community, is from Argentina. And Fernando Machado, Burger King's head of brand marketing, worked at Unilever in São Paulo for many years and was an Ogilvy Brazil client; now he's a client of David in Miami.
In April, Coca-Cola named the president of its Mexico business unit, Francisco Crespo, as the company's first U.S. chief growth officer, a new role that will oversee marketing.
HP's global chief marketing officer, Antonio Lucio, who was raised in Puerto Rico, has made diversity a hallmark of his two years at the company -- and requires his five agencies to make a similar commitment.
At a time when the U.S. under Donald Trump has become a less welcoming place toward immigrants, there is concern. One chief creative officer from Colombia said he is considering getting Colombian passports for his two U.S.-born children.
"Regarding Trump America, the last few months have been pretty disheartening," said PJ Pereira, founder and chief creative officer of San Francisco agency Pereira & O'Dell. A Brazilian by birth, he became a U.S. citizen last year. "I see friends really concerned, afraid if they'll be able to renew their visas. And everyone is a bit paranoid. Are we going to feel a violence that didn't manifest in the Obama years? Are our kids going to suffer because of that?"
But momentum is on the side of fresh international creative influences. And agencies continue to apply for, and get, 0-1 work visas to bring creatives to the U.S.
"The threat makes the commitment to diversity even stronger," Mollá said. "I get the feeling it's too late. There is no way back, like it or not."
Laurel Wentz
Laurel Wentz is Ad Age's Global and Multicultural Editor, responsible for international and U.S. Hispanic coverage. She is based in New York. She previously covered Europe from Ad Age's London bureau, and before that was Latin America editor, based in Sao Paulo. The best way to reach Laurel is by email at [email protected]
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Lasers have a variety of uses — from playing with a kitten using a laser pointer to cleaning corrosion from an F-35 jet with a high-powered cleaning laser. It’s easy to see how different types of lasers can provide different results, but what are lasers, anyway? The word laser often makes people think of scientific weaponry, the future, or high tech, but the discovery of lasers had much more humble uses in mind.
INVENTING LASERS — A PATENT WAR
Prior to the discovery of lasers, people had been using wavelengths to transmit signals through radio for about 50 years. Scientists began using masers during experiments, but only a few believed that infrared masers could be more important to other industries — including the military. The problem with infrared rays is that it couldn’t be manipulated like radar.
This problem plagued Charles Townes and his graduate student Gordon Gould. They discussed their ideas and one day in 1957 — while studying the equations for amplifying radiation — Townes realized that making the wavelengths shorter would make them easier to manage. He talked over his findings with Arthur Schawlow, who put atoms into a long, narrow cavity with mirrors at each end. This caused the rays to radiate.
At the same time, Townes’ student Gould made the same discovery while writing his thesis about infrared masers. He called the device a LASER for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. But, when he got around to requesting a patent for the device, he found that Townes and Schawlow had already patented it nine months prior.
When the patent was granted, Gould sued, and a 30-year patent war began. It wasn’t until 1987 that Gould began to win settlements, and anyone who built or used a laser during that time owed him money. Despite the patent war seemingly having a winner, assigning credit for the actual invention of lasers remains controversial.
ADVANCES IN LASER TECHNOLOGY
1948: Dennis Gabor discovered holography. He developed his invention through the early 70s — winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1971 — and his discovery has led to the explosive industry that includes HUDs, museum displays, VR, medical application, and solar panel efficiency.
1960: Theodore Maiman created the first laser using a cylinder of man-made ruby, one cm in diameter, and two cm long. He went on to found the Korad Corporation. His company built the lunar laser ranging equipment used in 1969.
1961: Dr. Charles Campbell and Charles Koester created a laser that could be used for medical treatments and surgery. Their American optical ruby laser was able to destroy a retinal tumor using a single pulse that lasted a thousandth of a second.
1962: Robert Hall developed the semiconductor injection laser. It’s simplified design made it more stable. It was revolutionary for his time, and many electronic appliances and communication systems still use it today.
1973: J.F. Asmus proposed that lasers could be used to clean artwork. He spent the next 10 or more years refining his discovery — restricted by the type of lasers available at the time.
1977: The first electron laser was developed by John Madley and Stanford University. It’s tunable and has the widest frequency of any laser technology. This type of laser has a variety of uses, including crystallography and cell biology to surgery, fat removal, and more.
2001: The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and US Army developed a solid state heat capacity laser, also called SSHCL, for potential military weaponry. It’s used to target and destroy short-range rockets, guided missiles, artillery, and mortar fire — among other weapons.
2017: The University of Regensburg, Germany, discovered that lasers could be used to increase the speed of computers. By using infrared laser pulses fired into a honeycomb-shaped lattice, they were able to flip a switch on and off one quadrillion times per second.
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Phase 3 Trials of Elenbecestat in Early Alzheimer’s Stopped for Lack of Benefit, Eisai and Biogen Say
Two global Phase 3 clinical trials — MISSION AD1 (NCT02956486) and MISSION AD2 (NCT03036280) — evaluating elenbecestat as a potential therapy for early Alzheimer’s disease are being stopped early, Eisai and Biogen announced. This decision was based on a safety review conducted by an independent data monitoring committee that found an unfavorable risk-to-benefit ratio for patients. Trial investigators have been informed of the decision to discontinue these studies, and will tell participants to stop using elenbecestat. Data from the MISSION studies will be shared at future medical meetings. “We would like to thank the patients and the families, as well as medical professionals, that participated in the MISSION AD studies. Without their contributions we would not be able to advance Alzheimer's disease research," Lynn Kramer, chief clinical officer, Neurology Business Group at Eisai, said in a press release. "We are very disappointed with the news, and intend to learn from these data and continue engaging with patients and investigators, to pursue the discovery of new medicines for Alzheimer's disease," Kramer
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Lack of Benefit Halts Trial of Novel Agent for NSCLC
by Peggy Peck Peggy Peck, Executive Editor, MedPage Today December 30, 2009
Pfizer has shut down a phase III trial of figitumumab, a promising investigational compound for treatment of non-small cell lung cancer due to lack of benefit and apparent excess of adverse events including death.
In an announcement issued December 29, the company said the study met "predefined boundaries for early termination."
The trial had randomized patients with advanced non-adenocarcinoma NSCLC to figitumumab on top of standard therapy with paclitaxel and carboplatin, or to standard therapy alone.
The announcement was not unexpected. It followed a decision last September to stop enrolling new patients in the trial because of safety concerns revealed in an analysis by the independent Data Safety Monitoring Committee.
"While these findings are disappointing, Pfizer is committed to using information gained from this study to refine the design of future trials of figitumumab in non-small cell lung cancer," said Mace Rothenberg, MD, senior vice president of clinical development and medical affairs for Pfizer's Oncology Business Unit, in the company statement.
"We are hopeful that we will be able to identify a subset of patients who may have derived benefit from the addition of figitumumab to chemotherapy," Rothenberg said in the statement. "If this can be done, then future trials will focus on this group of patients in our efforts to deliver this drug to the right patient."
The company is continuing its figitumumab clinical trial program with a phase III trial of the drug in combination with erlotinib versus erlotinib alone for treatment of patients with refractory advanced non-adenocarcinoma NSCLC and a trial that will evaluate figitumumab in combination with cisplatin and gemcitabine for first line treatment of advanced NSCLC.
In addition to NSCLC, the company said it is studying figitumumab in clinical trials for the potential treatment of other cancers, including prostate and breast cancers, and Ewing's sarcoma.
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The future of the modern city is a computational model — a vast array of vectors extracted from sensors and networked devices inside the city. This future resides in a technological grammar of data, services, protocols, applications and monitoring systems, that constitute a so called smart city.
The promises of smart cities and the implementation of smart city technologies differ significantly. In theory, smart cities are open information infrastructures, that help policy makers rethink and rebuild city services in accordance with citizens’ needs. In reality, it’s a mess: The implementation of smart technologies is the aggregation of data into black boxes, elusive and imbued with political agenda.
The Wrocław Urban Operating System takes an interest in the city as computational model. It compiles various digital representations of the city — audio recordings, photos, video and smart city narratives — and utilizes these in a live coding framework, built specifically for this work, to produce an ambient pop music that corresponds with the computational configuration and teletopia of a future Wrocław.
http://wro2019.wrocenter.pl/en/works/wuos/
The work is supported by the Soundscape Research Studio at the Faculty of Cultural Studies of the University of Wrocław, Dźwiękowa mapa Wrocławia by Olga Kaniewska / Andrzej Koper and Invisible Map of Wrocław by Maciek Bączyk, who all generously permitted the use of their audio recordings.
The production of the work is supported by WRO Biennale, The Danish Cultural Institute, The Danish Arts Foundation and the municipality of Aarhus, Denmark.
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Masudur Rahman Rubel, an apprentice assistant commissioner and executive magistrate of Chattrogram district, was sued under the Dowry Prohibition Act today.
Farjana Khanam Rini, wife of Rubel, filed the case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jasim, bringing allegations of mental torture and demanding dowry.
After a hearing, the judge took cognizance of the case and recorded the statements of the complainant. The court also issued the summons asking the accused to appear before the court on January 29 next year.
In the complaint, Rini stated that her husband Rubel mentally tortured her and put pressure on her to bring Tk 50 lakh, one flat, one private car and 30 bhori gold ornaments from her family as dowry.
When the victim refused to give the dowry, Rubel threatened to break the marriage, it said.
The duo got married secretly on September 20 last year despite concerns from Rini’s family, according to the complaint. Rubel asked Rini to keep the marriage secret for the time being and promised he will give her the social status as his wife afterwards.
But Rubel did not keep his word, Rini stated.
Contacted, Masudur Rahman Rubel told The Daily Star, “Rini’s allegations are not true, it’s a fabricated case.”
“I served a divorce notice to her as our relationship did not run well,” he said.
Deputy Commissioner of Chattogram District, Mohammad Elius Hossain told The Daily Star that he tried to solve the problem between the two after Rini informed him about it.
“If Rubel tortured anyone mentally or did any wrong, he will face the consequences,” the DC said adding that “He will not get any shelter from my part.”
“I will inform the matter to the public administration ministry after getting information regarding the case,” Elius added.
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Atlantic County Awards Contract for Catawba Bridge Replacement
Atlantic County has approved a $2.6 million contract for the replacement of another aging bridge. Work will begin in September on EH-17, the 100-year old Catawba Bridge over Miry Run on Rt. 559 in Egg Harbor Township.
The Catawba Bridge is a single-span, concrete encased steel stringer structure with one 12-foot lane and one 4-foot shoulder in each direction.
Construction will include raising the approach roadway above the estimated 100-year flood elevation. The new bridge will be raised to 5-feet from the high water elevation to remain in compliance with federal regulations that govern Miry Run within the Great Egg Harbor River Wild and Scenic River System and to increase the vertical clearance for recreational watercraft.
Preliminary work has been ongoing leading up to the fall construction start, according to county officials, including utility relocations which are performed sequentially, not concurrently. Utility work was delayed, however, as the utility companies dealt with outages and damages due to several severe late spring and early summer storms.
County officials waited until work on nearby EH-21 over English Creek, another century-old bridge, was completed before starting construction on the Catawba Bridge.
“We did not want to further inconvenience motorists with a second detour in the same vicinity,” explained County Executive Dennis Levinson. “That is something that is taken into consideration when determining construction schedules. No detour, although necessary, is ever palatable,” he added.
Once construction begins a full detour will be implemented through May 2016 when the new bridge is expected to be completed. In the meantime there is a 10-ton weight limit in effect on the existing bridge.
Atlantic County is also hard at work to replace the 95-year old Cedar Bridge over Patcong Creek between Northfield and Egg Harbor Township as part of its Fire and Mill roads intersection improvement project.
The county has completed rehabilitation and reconstruction of several other aging bridges including the 80+ -year old Dorset Avenue Bridge in Ventnor, the 73-year old Sugar Hill Bridge in Hamilton Township, and the 75-year old Maple Run Bridge in Northfield.
“Like everything else, our bridges also age and bear the consequences of wear and tear,” said Levinson. “Atlantic County is dedicated to protecting the safety of our citizens and our motorists with proper maintenance and necessary improvements to our more than 375 miles of roadways and 215 bridges.”
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In The Harafish Naguib Mahfouz returns to the style of sweeping narrative at which he proved himself a master. He chronicles the dramatic history of the Nagi family—a family that descends, over many generations, from the heights of power and prestige to the depths of decadence and decay. The epic story begins with the tale of Ashur al-Nagi, a man who grows from humble roots to become a great leader and a legend among his people. The name of Ashur epitomizes a time of glory for the harafish, or the common people, when they were led by one of their own. Generation after generation, however, Ashur’s descendants stray further from his legendary example. They lose touch with their origins as they amass and then lose large fortunes, marry prostitutes when they marry at all, and develop rivalries that end in death. Finally, a Nagi appears who restores the family name to its former distinction. The Harafish is a mythic tale, a compelling portrait of human weaknesses—pride, dishonesty, lust, and greed—and of the greatness of which we are capable when we overcome them.
Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006) was born in the crowded Cairo district of Gamaliya. He wrote nearly 40 novel-length works, plus hundreds of short stories and numerous screenplays. He was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1988. Kay Heikkinen holds a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University, where she first became interested in Arabic history, language, and literature. She has taught medieval history and literature as well as Islamic civilization, and currently teaches Arabic at the University of Chicago.
“Beautifully and simply translated by Catherine Cobham, this multi-generational saga of the al-Nagi family moves at a brisk and compelling clip. . . . The Harafish is a whirling dervish of a good yarn, the kind of tale Frank Capra could have made into, well, 19 or 20 good, instructive, ultimately uplifting movies.”—Los Angeles Times. “Mahfouz’s consummate storytelling abilities, marked by operatic events, vibrant characters, and resonant writing, result in another triumphant epic.”—Kirkus Reviews. “Mahfouz calls The Harafish an ‘epic,’ and his chapters ‘tales’: together they read like yarns spun for the pure pleasure of storytelling.”—London Review of Books.
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Role of sympathetic nervous system and neuropeptides in obesity hypertension
J. E. Hall, M. W. Brands, D. A. Hildebrandt, J. Kuo, S. Fitzgerald
Obesity is the most common cause of human essential hypertension in most industrialized countries. Although the precise mechanisms of obesity hypertension are not fully understood, considerable evidence suggests that excess renal sodium reabsorption and a hypertensive shift of pressure natriuresis play a major role. Sympathetic activation appears to mediate at least part of the obesity-induced sodium retention and hypertension since adrenergic blockade or renal denervation markedly attenuates these changes. Recent observations suggest that leptin and its multiple interactions with neuropeptides in the hypothalamus may link excess weight gain with increased sympathetic activity. Leptin is produced mainly in adipocytes and is believed to regulate energy balance by acting on the hypothalamus to reduce food intake and to increase energy expenditure via sympathetic activation. Short-term administration of leptin into the cerebral ventricles increases renal sympathetic activity, and long-term leptin infusion at rates that mimic plasma concentrations found in obesity raises arterial pressure and heart rate via adrenergic activation in nonobese rodents. Transgenic mice overexpressing leptin also develop hypertension. Acute studies suggest that the renal sympathetic effects of leptin may depend on interactions with other neurochemical pathways in the hypothalamus, including the melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4-R). However, the role of this pathway in mediating the long-term effects of leptin on blood pressure is unclear. Also, it is uncertain whether there is resistance to the chronic renal sympathetic and blood pressure effects of leptin in obese subjects. In addition, leptin also has other cardiovascular and renal actions, such as stimulation of nitric oxide formation and improvement of insulin sensitivity, which may tend to reduce blood pressure in some conditions. Although the role of these mechanisms in human obesity has not been elucidated, this remains a fruitful area for further investigation, especially in view of the current "epidemic" of obesity in most industrialized countries.
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Hall, J. E., Brands, M. W., Hildebrandt, D. A., Kuo, J., & Fitzgerald, S. (2000). Role of sympathetic nervous system and neuropeptides in obesity hypertension. Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 33(6), 605-618. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0100-879X2000000600001
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In: Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, Vol. 33, No. 6, 06.2000, p. 605-618.
Hall, JE, Brands, MW, Hildebrandt, DA, Kuo, J & Fitzgerald, S 2000, 'Role of sympathetic nervous system and neuropeptides in obesity hypertension', Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 605-618. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0100-879X2000000600001
Hall JE, Brands MW, Hildebrandt DA, Kuo J, Fitzgerald S. Role of sympathetic nervous system and neuropeptides in obesity hypertension. Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research. 2000 Jun;33(6):605-618. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0100-879X2000000600001
Hall, J. E. ; Brands, M. W. ; Hildebrandt, D. A. ; Kuo, J. ; Fitzgerald, S. / Role of sympathetic nervous system and neuropeptides in obesity hypertension. In: Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research. 2000 ; Vol. 33, No. 6. pp. 605-618.
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publisher = "Associacao Brasileira de Divulgacao Cientifica",
T1 - Role of sympathetic nervous system and neuropeptides in obesity hypertension
AU - Hall, J. E.
AU - Brands, M. W.
AU - Hildebrandt, D. A.
AU - Kuo, J.
AU - Fitzgerald, S.
N2 - Obesity is the most common cause of human essential hypertension in most industrialized countries. Although the precise mechanisms of obesity hypertension are not fully understood, considerable evidence suggests that excess renal sodium reabsorption and a hypertensive shift of pressure natriuresis play a major role. Sympathetic activation appears to mediate at least part of the obesity-induced sodium retention and hypertension since adrenergic blockade or renal denervation markedly attenuates these changes. Recent observations suggest that leptin and its multiple interactions with neuropeptides in the hypothalamus may link excess weight gain with increased sympathetic activity. Leptin is produced mainly in adipocytes and is believed to regulate energy balance by acting on the hypothalamus to reduce food intake and to increase energy expenditure via sympathetic activation. Short-term administration of leptin into the cerebral ventricles increases renal sympathetic activity, and long-term leptin infusion at rates that mimic plasma concentrations found in obesity raises arterial pressure and heart rate via adrenergic activation in nonobese rodents. Transgenic mice overexpressing leptin also develop hypertension. Acute studies suggest that the renal sympathetic effects of leptin may depend on interactions with other neurochemical pathways in the hypothalamus, including the melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4-R). However, the role of this pathway in mediating the long-term effects of leptin on blood pressure is unclear. Also, it is uncertain whether there is resistance to the chronic renal sympathetic and blood pressure effects of leptin in obese subjects. In addition, leptin also has other cardiovascular and renal actions, such as stimulation of nitric oxide formation and improvement of insulin sensitivity, which may tend to reduce blood pressure in some conditions. Although the role of these mechanisms in human obesity has not been elucidated, this remains a fruitful area for further investigation, especially in view of the current "epidemic" of obesity in most industrialized countries.
AB - Obesity is the most common cause of human essential hypertension in most industrialized countries. Although the precise mechanisms of obesity hypertension are not fully understood, considerable evidence suggests that excess renal sodium reabsorption and a hypertensive shift of pressure natriuresis play a major role. Sympathetic activation appears to mediate at least part of the obesity-induced sodium retention and hypertension since adrenergic blockade or renal denervation markedly attenuates these changes. Recent observations suggest that leptin and its multiple interactions with neuropeptides in the hypothalamus may link excess weight gain with increased sympathetic activity. Leptin is produced mainly in adipocytes and is believed to regulate energy balance by acting on the hypothalamus to reduce food intake and to increase energy expenditure via sympathetic activation. Short-term administration of leptin into the cerebral ventricles increases renal sympathetic activity, and long-term leptin infusion at rates that mimic plasma concentrations found in obesity raises arterial pressure and heart rate via adrenergic activation in nonobese rodents. Transgenic mice overexpressing leptin also develop hypertension. Acute studies suggest that the renal sympathetic effects of leptin may depend on interactions with other neurochemical pathways in the hypothalamus, including the melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4-R). However, the role of this pathway in mediating the long-term effects of leptin on blood pressure is unclear. Also, it is uncertain whether there is resistance to the chronic renal sympathetic and blood pressure effects of leptin in obese subjects. In addition, leptin also has other cardiovascular and renal actions, such as stimulation of nitric oxide formation and improvement of insulin sensitivity, which may tend to reduce blood pressure in some conditions. Although the role of these mechanisms in human obesity has not been elucidated, this remains a fruitful area for further investigation, especially in view of the current "epidemic" of obesity in most industrialized countries.
KW - Angiotensin
KW - Kidney
KW - Leptin
KW - Obesity
KW - Sodium excretion
U2 - 10.1590/S0100-879X2000000600001
DO - 10.1590/S0100-879X2000000600001
JO - Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
JF - Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
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LG Gram review: Amazingly light laptop either needs to be cheaper or better
It’s a competitive market and others do better on the details.
Andrew Cunningham - May 21, 2017 2:00 pm UTC
The 13.3-inch version of the LG Gram.
Andrew Cunningham
The webcam is mounted below the display.
The keyboard is good, and the trackpad is OK, but it isn't a Microsoft Precision Touchpad.
The fingerprint reader is small and a bit fiddly.
The Gram’s design isn’t bad, but it’s generic to the point of blandness.
The LG logo is pretty much the only thing that breaks up a seat of matte grey.
Left side: Power, USB, HDMI, USB-C, indicator lights.
Right side: microSD, headphones, USB, lock slot.
The underside of the laptop looks just like the rest of it.
We live in uncertain times, but when it comes to laptops, we’re actually pretty spoiled these days. The low-end still has plenty of junky machines, but buying good, thoughtfully designed computers for $700 and up is also easier than ever.
What we’ll be looking for in laptops for 2017
That means that sweating the details is more important than ever. A thin-and-light design, a nice IPS screen, a non-terrible keyboard and trackpad, and a good (and/or forward-looking) port selection can all be expected from a high-end laptop these days. So purchasing decisions and recommendations increasingly come down to the little things.
Enter the LG Gram. We haven’t historically paid much attention to LG’s laptops, but the Gram caught my eye because of its decent starting price ($899 for a non-touchscreen model with a Core i5, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage) and its surprisingly light weight (2.07 pounds/0.94kg, particularly low for a 13-inch laptop). In practice, the Gram does many things well, but it falls short in just enough ways to keep it from being a universal recommendation.
Look and feel: You take the good with the bad
Specs at a glance: 13.3" LG Gram
1920×1080 IPS touchscreen at 13.3" (166 PPI)
2.5GHz dual-core Intel Core i5-7200U (Turbo up to 3.1GHz)
8GB 2133MHz DDR4 (single-channel)
Intel HD 620 (integrated)
256GB SATA III solid-state drive
867Mbps 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.2
2x USB 3.0, 1x 5Gbps USB-C, HDMI, microSD card reader, headphones
12.1" x 8.3" x 0.6" (307.3 x 210.8 x 15.2mm)
2.07 lbs (0.94 kg)
60Whr
$999.99 (same specs, no touchscreen)
Price as reviewed
Other perks
Webcam, lock slot, fingerprint reader
I handle a lot of laptops, and I was still pleasantly surprised by just how light the Gram is. It weighs 2.07 pounds, just a tiny bit more than Apple’s 12-inch MacBook, but the Gram manages to fit in a larger 13.3-inch screen. If anything, it feels too light, a bit like it’s filled with more air than components—that’s the case with larger, cheaper, plastic laptops, and it lends the Gram a hint of a cheap feeling. That’s the only real downside; otherwise, having a slightly larger screen that doesn’t also add much extra weight is great.
The Gram’s design is almost aggressively bland. It uses the same matte grey finish on the lid, palmrest, sides, and bottom, and the LG logos in the corner of the lid and in the bezel below the screen are its only identifying marks. I’m a fan of minimalist designs, but it’s possible to make a simple, unadorned computer that still retains a visual identity and a bit of personality (à la a ThinkPad or a MacBook). The Gram isn’t a bad-looking laptop; it just looks like the sort of PC you might see on a TV show or commercial where they’ve taped over all the logos to avoid product placement.
All of that aside, the Gram is well-constructed. The lid has a bit of flex just because of how slim it is, but the base doesn’t creak or flex at all—LG’s “magnesium alloy” is sturdy. A super-slim reminiscent of the Dell XPS 13’s surrounds the top and sides of the screen, though the bezel underneath is much larger. As in the XPS 13, though, the webcam is mounted below the display (in the XPS 13, it’s in the bezel; in the Gram, it’s embedded in the hinge). This means that anyone you’re chatting with is going to be looking right up your nose, and you’re going to look like you’re looking over your head to see something the entire time you’re talking. It’s a compromise we don’t like in the XPS 13, and we still don’t like it here.
One thing I can’t damn with faint praise is the screen itself. It’s a 1080p IPS panel with a nice, even backlight, and LG sells both touch and non-touch models ($100 separates the two, and not much else). Though higher-resolution screens are often options in high-end 13-inch laptops, 1080p is what I’d recommend for most people—sharp enough to give you some leeway with the scaling settings so you can balance readability with density, but not so sharp that it becomes a huge drain on the battery.
The port selection is also solid, a decent mix of forward- and backward-looking. There are two regular USB 3.0 ports, one on each side, along with a proprietary power jack, a headphone jack, a microSD card slot, and a lock slot. In addition, the single USB-C port on the left side can be used for driving a display or for data, though, unfortunately, it doesn’t support Thunderbolt 3. It can also be used to charge the laptop, a feature I really like when I encounter it—a proprietary power jack is fine, but it lets you use a standard USB-C charger for everything if you’ve got one. We’re still early enough in the transition to USB-C that this strikes me as an acceptable compromise.
The Gram’s keyboard, trackpad, and fingerprint reader, on the other hand, all bring us back to “mixed bag” territory. On the one hand, the keyboard has a good layout, key spacing, and enough travel (for a chiclet keyboard) that you’ll have no problem adjusting to it. The trackpad seems accurate and sufficiently clicky, and it supports Windows 10’s multitouch gestures without any major issues. And the trackpad-embedded, Windows Hello-enabled fingerprint sensor works. It senses fingerprints.
But all three have minor annoyances that you don’t have to deal with many of the other laptops we like. The Gram’s keyboard has a backlight, but it must be manually enabled and disabled and turned up and down (most adjust themselves based on the ambient light in the room). The trackpad isn’t one of Microsoft’s Precision Touchpads, so as Windows 10 continues to evolve and Microsoft adds more trackpad gestures and trackpad-related features, it won’t automatically pick up support for them. And the fingerprint sensor is tiny—small enough that it rejected my fingerprints something like one-third-to-one-half of the time I used it. I’d rather have some biometric authentication than none, but the larger fingerprint sensors Dell and Apple use are much more reliable.
LG ships a mostly clean version of Windows 10 on the Gram; our review unit arrived running the Anniversary Update, but I upgraded to the recent Creators Update with no issues. It includes a handful of preloaded LG support apps, an “On Screen Display” app that shows you messages as you toggle the keyboard light or the Caps and Scroll Lock keys, and a “reader mode” app that tints your screen orange à la iOS and macOS’ “Night Shift” or Windows 10’s own “Night Light.” Since Windows natively supports this feature as of the Creators Update (and because the app sends you a notification every time you turn the laptop on), it can be uninstalled without removing anything of value. This is also true of all the support apps.
Additionally, at least LG doesn’t use any of your 256GB of storage for a redundant recovery partition. The laptop relies solely on Windows 10’s pretty-good built-in system restore capabilities, so there’s no need to give up space or recover it manually just so you can reset the laptop to its default state.
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Andrew Cunningham Andrew wrote and edited tech news and reviews at Ars Technica from 2012 to 2017, where he still occasionally freelances; he is currently a lead editor at Wirecutter. He also records a weekly book podcast called Overdue.
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Zer0.exe Ars Centurion
LG proving once again that they aren't ready to compete with the big boys yet. There's nothing that stands out about this laptop for $1000. I could find an HP or a Dell for half this price and similar specs, and there's nothing special LG has to make me trust them over HP or Dell. If I WERE going to shell out 4 figures for a laptop, I'd just get a high end Surface Pro or a Surface Book that can do the job and be more portable.
362 posts | registered Nov 23, 2016
Akdor 1154 Smack-Fu Master, in training et Subscriptor
I had a Toshiba Portege r500 eight years ago, it weighed about 800g. Are we still no further along in making a good-enough x86 super-light laptop?
phanisai97 Smack-Fu Master, in training
The Bad : No Precision Touchpad or Thunderbolt 3.
Thank you for mentioning both the things Ars _/\_
Context : I never read a Laptop review on Ars initially.I just go to Good,Bad and Ugly section.If any Windows Laptop doesn't have a Precision Trackpad or some other dealbreaker,it is off my recommendation-list.And thank you for making it easy for me
43 posts | registered Jan 26, 2016
orangpelupa Ars Tribunus Militum
It can also be used to charge the laptop
What happens if you connect TWO chargers? One to the power port and one to the USB C port?
Faster charging? Nothing happens? A gram of firework?
1631 posts | registered Jun 7, 2012
Errum Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
The whole nostril cam thing would be a complete turnoff for me. Worse, it's clear from looking at the photo that there's ample room to move the display downward in the lid by the 10mm or so that would provide space for a camera at the top. Apple does this handily with the 2016 MacBook Pro, and they're working around a (highly desirable) 16:10 display that takes up proportionally more vertical space than does the LG's 16:9. As it is, LG's lid has that deep chin that serves no purpose.
804 posts | registered Jun 23, 2006
mikesmith Ars Scholae Palatinae
Errum wrote:
I know the XPS 13 was heavily lauded when it debuted, but the camera position was always noted as its worst problem. Why in the world has this position caught on with any other manufacturers?
Like you said, there's clearly space to move the screen down a centimeter and position the camera where it can actually be used without severe embarrassment.
2141 posts | registered Jan 23, 2015
Pino90 Smack-Fu Master, in training et Subscriptor
Fun, each time I read "Windows 10's" I stop and read that again to check I didn't miss it for "Windows 10S' ".
Back in topic, I find it gorgeous. Any news on Linux support?
92 posts | registered Mar 7, 2017
senso Smack-Fu Master, in training
And by doing so you get either super flimsy hinges or no room at all to mount them..
kmmatney Ars Centurion
They list their 15.6" laptop at 2.2 pounds, which is amazingly light for a laptop that size. it must not have sold well, as it seems you can't buy it anymore.
yor-raik-chuw
Zer0.exe wrote:
I disagree, I think the small weight of this laptop is a really compelling feature for some people (including me). The 15" version is 2.4 lbs, while the XPS 15 (which is considered by many to already be a light laptop) is 4.4 lbs. In terms of the performance/battery per weight ratio, this laptop does surprisingly well.
If anyone's interested in a list of lighter laptops, check out this link, I've found it useful: http://www.ultrabookreview.com/4219-the ... ltrabooks/
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Kurenai Ars Praetorian
I think I would mind the shift from 16:10 to 16:9 ratio screens *slightly* less if there weren't so often huge bottom bezels where there rather obviously is room for a taller screen. This is probably the worst offender I've seen in that regard.
Theinsanegamer Ars Tribunus Militum
Single channel memory cripples performance, and is inexcusable in a $400 machine, let alone a 1.1k model.
Something About Love Seniorius Lurkius
mikesmith wrote:
I can try and give some personal insight why manufacturers may be doing this. I am no expert or engineer, but I'm "head" of service department which is AWSP for couple of biggest worlds brands. Before this ultra thin bezel trend Wi-Fi antennas would be usually placed above the screen, close to corners; in the middle would be web cam module with microphones; 3g ants would be on the sides of the screen. Web cam module and eDP cable would be joined and as single cable and travel to the motherboard. Bottom bezel was almost empty - only corners would be used for supporting down hinges. Sometimes in the middle you would find stereo mics daughter board. Long ago this space was used for backlight inverter.
Now, with ultra thin bezels they still need to put hinges Bellow the screen, close to the corners and they still have empty space in the middle. But, in order to make thin bezels above they must remove that 1cm height web cam module and only place they can put it is below screen.
In X1 Carbon Lenovo also changed mounting points for LCD panel and removed any screws above panel and used glue in place.
Since I'm not engineer I'm not sure how to solve this problem. Maybe using glue and one of the upper corners only for cam module. Dell took interesting path - they made (which is surely more expensive) everything glued - LCD and touch panel would be glued together with the bezels and back plate. The problem with this is if web cam stopped working they would send us whole module, not just daughter board. I assume this is much more expensive to produce and to support.
truthyboy15 Ars Scholae Palatinae
Mostly clean load of Windows with no space wasted on a redundant recovery partition.
how many other windows laptops except ones sold as part of microsoft's signature series can say the same thing? I don't think you give that enough credit.
TomWestrick Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
truthyboy15 wrote:
While it's nice to have that setup out of the box, it's trivially easy to erase a recovery partition and get that space back.
1631 posts | registered May 24, 2016
TomWestrick wrote:
I was mainly talking about the windows installation (i wouldn't consider the on screen display bloatware).
fuzzyfuzzyfungus Ars Praefectus
Akdor 1154 wrote:
I never dealt with one in person; but reviews of the r500 say it had a 1280x800 screen and approximately 4 hours of battery life.
Does a reasonably respectable screen resolution bump and a marked improvement in battery life count?
It is true that the 'ultrabook' of today isn't really so dramatic if compared to the mildly obscure(the Japanese brands seemed to make most of them, Fujitsu especially had a nice lineup in 12in and smaller; and they were quite expensive) ultraportables of the past; but there's really only so much room to cut unless you are OK with a tiny screen and keyboard, rather than a 12-13in model that just isn't as thick as those used to be.
If anything, I imagine that the proliferation of tablets and phones has cut into the market of people willing to pay a serious premium to deal with a tiny laptop screen and keyboard; rather than either skipping it entirely and just using their phone, or making room for something that will be vaguely comfortable to use.
Zizy Smack-Fu Master, in training
Well, it is a notable minus only during video calls, while other time having screen a bit higher is a small plus - you look a bit higher up. Plus wire gets in the way of no bezels.
So, kind of like glossy displays. A small plus all the time and a huge loss in some circumstances. But since I have kids I can't distinguish between glossy and matte display through all these fingerprints
79 posts | registered Nov 13, 2015
wholeheartedly agree.
smengler wrote:
I don't normally see people list a product's weight as a reason to buy an electronic device over others, but different strokes for different folks, I guess. At work with no access to external sites (besides this one for some reason), how heavy is a Surface Book? Surface Pro 4 w/ keyboard?
A 13" Surface Book (with base) is 3.3 lbs and the 12" Surface Pro 4 with keyboard is 2.4 lbs.
My current 13" laptop is 2.4 lbs and it's great when you're always moving around with your laptop (especially when it's open and running) and not at a desk all the time.
Mitlov Ars Praefectus
smoofles wrote:
Do people actually buy these kinds of laptops, like, at all?
I seriously don’t get how PC makers still keep producing stuff like this. No wonder the marketshare of most manufacturers keeps tanking, seems like there’s still just only a couple of companies that can do decent products.
Companies ALSO build mobile workstations and DTRs if that's what you prefer. But yes, people do buy ultraportables.
12058 posts | registered Apr 10, 2012
obarthelemy Ars Tribunus Militum
phanisai97 wrote:
Should be "nor", not "or" though.
/grammarnazi
2679 posts | registered Feb 18, 2002
dupe again... why are all my posts double-posted lately ?
BloodNinja Ars Scholae Palatinae
orangpelupa wrote:
You travel back in time to the 1950s.
SP4 = 1.74 lbs
SP4 + keyboard = 2.37 lbs
Surface Book = 3.36 lbs
jimmy43 Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
To be honest every laptop you guys put on that desk loops great. The contrast with the Mario doll and the little happy face bottle, and the cozy looking background, makes me feel like I would be at home using this laptop. Other sites go for a clean minimal look, but ArS is the place that really sells me on these laptops
justincourriel Ars Centurion
robrob Ars Praefectus
The r500 weighed 2.4lbs, had a 12" screen, started at $2k and was a series of bigger tradeoffs.
LG have apparently made a 15" version that weighs the same.
Korios Ars Scholae Palatinae
Presumably you mean that model, which was released in early 2008 and weighed 810g. Let me point out a few notable differences : It had a 12.1" screen, not 13.3". It did not have a touch screen, which adds weight. Its battery was half as large (31 Whr). Oh, and of course, it was released at $2,700, almost three times the price of the reviewed LG laptop. With that much money you have much more funds to burn on a team of designers and engineers whose primary goal was : "How do we make the lightest laptop in the world?"
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-To ... 995.0.html
Lazarpandar Ars Centurion et Subscriptor
senso wrote:
You know what, I had no idea why manufacturers weren't using the space below the screen for more screen. Thank you. This makes sense.
Hamilcar Ars Praetorian
There's two schools of thought about getting a laptop with "only" single channel RAM. One school prefers the maximum performance out of the box, while the other prefers stock machines to have a single high density DIMM so that the machine can be readily upgraded without having to buy two new memory sticks.
If the memory slots are fairly easy to access (which would be a really, really good thing to put in any laptop review on a tech website, as would the hard drive accessibility), then having a single channel filled with a higher density SODIMM (rather than both channels with DIMMs of half that density) is preferable in my opinion, because I'm certainly going to upgrade the memory, and it's cheaper to buy one 8GB SODIMM rather than two. The fact that LG is using higher than normal clocked RAM suggests that its performance in dual channel should be even more pleasing.
eldakka Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
Hamilcar wrote:
Having dual-channel doesn't mean you HAVE to fill both channels. If the existing device is capable of dual-channel, they can still ship it with 1 SODIMM installed, which I have seen for some laptops. Therefore to double the RAM you just need to slot in a SODIMM into the other channel. Or, you could scrap the existing SODIMM and put a larger capacity single SODIMM in the slot.
Having dual-channel support increases flexibility without reducing or limiting any configuration downsides compared to single channel. It means a more expensive motherboard to support the extra circuitry and slot(s).
895 posts | registered Jun 3, 2006
norton_I Ars Praefectus
I would rather they just leave the webcam off than put it in the bottom bezel. Use the space for better speaker/microphone. I assume the thinking is that for infrequent camera users the nostril camera is better than nothing, but honestly I don't think so. This is the sort of thing where you keep forgetting how bad it is and regretting using it.
stutech Smack-Fu Master, in training
I actually own this laptop as I just bought it last week from costco for $799 which is a steal. Overall its a great machine for battery life and portability and most flaws listed are found on any ultrabook these days. The comment about the ram being single channel I believe is wrong as opened mine up and installed an extra 16GB in the empty ram slot and now it shows as dual channel. The unit has an on board 8GB soldered but the actual slot is empty. The SSD can be upgraded easily too as its not soldered. The only thing I really agree with on where its lacking is the fingerprint reader and the back-light not dimming automatically.
1 post | registered May 21, 2017
smoofles Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius
Mitlov wrote:
I know they buy ultraportables. But ugly ones with shitty specs?
I just don’t ever see any of those. Dells, Lenovos, even a Samsung one here or there, sure. But why would anyone buy the LG?
stutech wrote:
I actually own this laptop as I just bought it last week from costco for $799 which is a steal.
That’s already a much different proposition than $1099…
wave84 Smack-Fu Master, in training
LG makes this laptop in 3 versions: 13, 14 and 15", all around 1kg. I don't know why Ars chose to review the least important one, because at 1kg, the 15" is almost HALF the weight of all the other ultrabooks on the market in its class. You get the size of a large Macbook Pro in the weight of the Macbook, basically. That is impressive alone.
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Optimization of Electrode Configuration in Surface-Parallel Actuated Deformable Mirrors
Laslandes, Marie and Pellegrino, Sergio and Steeves, John and Patterson, Keith (2014) Optimization of Electrode Configuration in Surface-Parallel Actuated Deformable Mirrors. In: Adaptive optics systems IV. Proceedings of SPIE. No.9148. Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers , Bellingham, WA, Art. No. 914843. ISBN 978-0-8194-9616-4. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20151013-130020372
Thin, lightweight and low-cost deformable mirrors have been recently proposed, providing a pertinent device for wavefront error correction. We present different approaches to optimize actuator arrangement. The design is optimized according to a given correction requirement, through the number of electrodes, their shape and location. A first method focuses on the compensation of a given optical aberration (astigmatism). A second method directly optimizes the correction of a set of optical modes, taking into account the voltage limitation. We will describe the optimization techniques and give some examples of applications and design performance.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2056495 DOI Article
Pellegrino, Sergio 0000-0001-9373-3278
© 2014 SPIE. We thank Xin Ning (Caltech) for help with the optimization algorithm. ML acknowledges the support of a postdoctoral grant from the French Defense procurement agency (DGA) held through Aix-Marseille University, France. Financial support from the Keck Institute of Space Studies and the Dow Resnick Bridge program at Caltech is gratefully acknowledged. A part of this research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Keck Institute for Space Studies, GALCIT
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Deformable Mirror - Active Optics - Telescope - Optimization - Bimorph Mirror
Proceedings of SPIE
Marie Laslandes ; Sergio Pellegrino ; John Steeves ; Keith Patterson; Optimization of electrode configuration in surface-parallel actuated deformable mirrors. Proc. SPIE 9148, Adaptive Optics Systems IV, 914843 (July 21, 2014); doi:10.1117/12.2056495
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Posts tagged ‘winbystate.com’
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Casey E. Meyering of Tulsa was arrested and charged with five felony counts stemming from allegedly blackmailing women to have their nude and sexually explicit photographs removed from his former website Winbystate.com.
Kamala D. Harris, California State Attorney General announced his arrest of Meyering, the website owner and operator on Feb 15th according to The LA Times.
The press release from Attorney General stated Meyering “facilitated the posting of more than 400 sexually explicit photos of Californians and extorted victims for as much as $250 each to remove the illicit content.”
Meyering encouraged men in various states to “post pictures of women they use to date or former girlfriends.” The images on such revenge porn sites come from men who submit sexually explicit images of former girlfriends after they break up.
“This behavior is the very definition of predatory and this website made a game out of humiliating victims for profit,” Attorney General Harris said.
Women who wanted their images removed were required to pay $250 dollars to a bogus account traced back to Meyering.
The law enforcement agencies involved in this arrest include Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety, the Tulsa Police Department, and the California Attorney General eCrime Unit.
Meyering was arrested in Tulsa and is now resisting his extradition back to California where he was charged.
https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-announces-arrest-revenge-porn-operator-oklahoma
http://www.examiner.com/article/revenge-porn-website-owner-arrested-and-charged-with-extortion
Casey E Meyering
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Beacons in Antarctica
Accurate information on the location and status of people and resources under our care is key to ALE’s safety management process.
Routine and Emergency Communications
ALE’s safety management process includes:
Routine communications
Capability for two-way voice communications between base and all sites 24 hours a day
Back-up or reserve systems
A pre-determined Emergency Response Plan
ALE maintains regular contact between our bases and field parties, aircraft and vehicles using various communications devices and systems. For many years HF radio was the only means of long-range communication in Antarctica. But nowadays routine communications are usually by satellite phone and email. Coverage south of 70°S (most of ALE’s operating area) is limited to the Iridium satellite system which has global coverage. Most beacons are a ‘transmit only’ (no receive), one-way communication device. They complement, but do not replace, two-way voice communications such as Iridium satellite communications or HF radio.
ALE policy is that all land-based expeditions carry two Iridium phones each with its own SIM card and at least two iridium batteries per phone and a solar charging system We require solo expeditions and ski sailing/kiting expeditions to carry tracker beacons as well. No contact for 48 hours stimulates a rescue response.
Emergency Communication Beacons
There are two primary categories of beacons:
Non-COSPAS-SARSAT tracking beacons
The International Search and Rescue COSPAS-SARSAT 406 MHz beacons
Non COSPAS-SARSAT Beacons (Tracking Systems)
Non COPAS-SARSAT beacons provide a one-way transmitting system that can be used for routine communications, personnel and vehicle tracking and emergency communications. Beacons suited for Antarctic expeditions (south of 70°S) use the Iridium network and are independent of the international COPAS-SARSAT search and rescue system. They usually combine a GPS processor with an Iridium short burst data transmitter modem and use mapping software like Google Earth. They may also include the facility to send pre-determined messages, or to send and receive short text messages. Most beacons have ‘normal’ and ‘emergency’ modes. In normal mode the unit sends a position/status report at pre-set intervals. The beacon can be linked to an expedition website to provide progress tracking for supporters and followers and monitoring by ALE. ‘Emergency mode’ alerts the monitor to an emergency situation. Pressing the ‘emergency / alert’ button automatically sends a message to designated responders.
Strengths of Tracking Systems
The emergency alert signal stays within the ALE/Expedition communications network and does not go to the International SAR network of the COSPAS-SARSAT system
This allows ALE to respond and to manage any incidents using our own resources if this is practicable – without precluding us from requesting assistance from other organizations if needed
In many Antarctic incidents the response from ALE will be faster and more appropriate because our base has simply switched from routine tracking to emergency response. By comparison initial contact from a 406 MHz COSPAS-SARSAT beacon to a third party with no prior knowledge of the user will generate a much slower response
The information can be accessed from multiple stations and locations within the organization in real time
The fact that the beacon (person/aircraft) is stationary can be an indicator of a problem. There may be a reason that a voice call cannot be made, or the beacon manually switched to emergency mode (For example, CO poisoning in a tent when the participants are expected to travel). ‘Activation’ of the beacon may not be required to indicate a problem.
Weaknesses of Tracking Systems
In Antarctica all these systems are still reliant on GPS and Iridium architecture. Any failure in these systems, caused for example by excessive sun-spot activity, could have significant effects
Tracking Beacons for Antarctic Expeditions
Tracking Beacon Options
Various tracking beacons are available. None have been used enough in Antarctica to emerge as the best product. Current options are listed on the Iridium website: www.iridium.com/ProductList.aspx?productCategoryID=11
A key question to ask is: How does the beacon or the service provider send the emergency alert message if you call for help? ALE has a 24 hour emergency telephone number at our office in Punta Arenas and at Union Glacier, however, we do not monitor websites or email 24 hours a day.
Note: There are numerous satellite tracking systems available for use in sub-polar latitudes. But these will not work south of 70°S. The Argos system, used by Antarctic expeditions until 2007 is no longer available.
COSPAS-SARSAT Beacons
The COSPAS-SARSAT system offers a global emergency SAR alerting system to users anywhere on Earth. Beacons are available for aircraft (Emergency Locator Transmitters ELTs), ships (Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons EPIRBs), and individuals (Personal Locator Beacons PLBs). When activated, the beacon sends a 406MHz emergency signal via satellite to a ground station (LUT) and from there to Mission Control and Rescue Control Centers. The emergency response is coordinated by the MCC / RCC using civilian and military resources. The beacon user will have little or no control over the decisions and rescue processes once initiated. More about COSPAS-SARSAT
Strengths of COSPAS-SARSAT in Antarctica
RCCs around the Southern Ocean have agreements regarding SAR coverage. In addition, government and commercial operators have agreed to provide near-real time position and information reports to the various Southern Ocean MCC and RCCs
RCCs have an overview of SAR and resources available in any rescue. This is especially valuable for ships and aircraft operating in the region (but not as applicable to ground expeditions supported by ALE)
Weakness of COSPAS-SARSAT in Antarctica
The COSPAS-SARSAT system is not designed for routine communications, personnel and vehicle tracking
It is an emergency only, one-way transmitting system
The emergency will likely take place beyond the normal operating area of the emergency services in the surrounding countries: Chile, Argentina, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The search resources available to Rescue Coordination Centers (RCC) in those countries may not be suited to the region where the emergency has occurred. Contacting those who have resources may be complicated, given the diverse international nature of operations across Antarctica. In most situations ALE is able to effect a quicker, more effective response using our own resources.
Choosing Between Iridium Tracking vs. COSPAS-SARSAT Beacon for Expedition Use
Iridium tracking beacon
Required for solo and kiting expeditions
Useful equipment for multi-person expeditions
Has both emergency and non-emergency modes
Non-emergency mode useful for daily position reports and website tracking
Some new beacons can receive SMS messages for basic two-way communication
Operates on Iridium system (no redundancy)
COSPAS-SARSAT beacon
Optional extra, in addition to tracking beacon
Emergency signal only. No non-emergency mode
May trigger response from outside agency, where user has no control over decisions
COSPAS-SARSAT operates on separate system from Iridium. BUT if Iridium network were to fail, a functioning COSPAS-SARSAT beacon would not be sufficient for expedition to continue (because emergency response would be activated after 48 hours of no contact)
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A Cosmic Find in The Screwtape Letters
Posted on October 28, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson
I am excited to share this intriguing research breakthrough with all my Pilgrim in Narnia readers.[1] As many of you know, I have been working on C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters for a few years now. It is time to invite you all into some of the things I have discovered.
After presenting a paper on teaching Screwtape in 2012, I traveled to the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College near Chicago. I was working on background material for my PhD thesis and was excited to make this pilgrimage.
Honestly, it wasn’t going very well. I had gone to look at the marginalia in Lewis’ Bibles—to see if his notes and highlights could tell us anything about his Bible reading habits. All I really found was that the things Lewis underlined or marked seemed to be beautiful passages. Beyond that, I found very little.
After a day and a half of doing routine things and not getting very far, I asked the helpful staff for their typescript of The Screwtape Letters. This was Lewis’ first popular book, and it was a treat to spend some time with the file.
Though it was C.S. Lewis’s BBC talks that made his voice well known throughout Britain, his fame was begun with The Screwtape Letters. The Letters are a correspondence between Screwtape, a senior demon, and his nephew Wormwood, a junior tempter with his first field assignment. Each letter was printed serially May 2 through November 28, 1941 in the Anglican weekly, The Guardian. Readers clamoured for copies of the The Guardian, and the book that came out in 1942 was a bestseller in the U.K. and in America.
Intriguingly, the demonic letters were printed in the Christian newspaper with no preface. This inevitably led to some confusion among readers,[2] so Lewis took the opportunity of the book publication to write a preface. Your edition of The Screwtape Letters most likely has a preface dated July 5, 1941. As is common with epistolary fiction, the preface introduces readers to the demonic dialogue to follow, but does so by pretending that the letters are nonfiction:
I have no intention of explaining how the correspondence which I now offer to the public fell into my hands.
Part of the fun of Screwtape is the idea that we are listening in on a conversation from another world.
I was thrilled to visit the famous handwritten manuscript of The Screwtape Letters at The Berg Collection of English and American Literature at The New York Public Library in 2012. The Berg file, though, does not include the preface.
Little known, seldom viewed by researchers,[3] and not yet integrated into scholarship, the handwritten manuscript of the preface to The Screwtape Letters is still in existence. Included in the Wade’s typescript of the Letters is the handwritten preface dated July 5, 1941. What is surprising about the handwritten preface is that it is really quite different than the first edition preface or the one you see printed in your copy.
As it turns out, this is a find of cosmic significance.
Open up your copy of The Screwtape Letters (or look in the Google books preface here). You’ll see there are four paragraphs, including the one that I quoted above—just the single sentence drawing the reader in to the correspondence which “fell into my hands”—the “my” being C.S. Lewis, the undersigned. The second paragraph is about the kinds of errors we might fall into when treating with devils, while the third is a reminder that the author of the letters is not be trusted even on his own account: besides the tool of deception, a demon like Screwtape might be (and is no doubt often) self-deceived. The last paragraph deals with issues in aligning terrestrial and diabolical time. It is set in the war, but that is all we know.
This is the preface that has stood for nearly 75 years in all the major editions. This, however, was not the preface that C.S. Lewis first penned in 1941.
Or, at least, not precisely.
The handwritten preface comprises five paragraphs, not four. Except for a couple of points, it shares with the published preface three of its four paragraphs. The first paragraph, while similar in its core idea, is differently worded and introduces a new character; this character is also the subject of an entirely new paragraph and the single change in the final paragraph. Adding a paragraph changes the length of the preface pretty dramatically. The published preface is 281 words in total; the new paragraph in the handwritten preface nearly doubles the length. The new paragraph has 201 words, for a total of 485 in the handwritten preface.
While adding a new paragraph is certainly exciting, the most significant difference in the preface comes not from the length, but from a shift in content. In short, Dr. Ransom from the Cosmic Trilogy becomes a character in the Screwtape correspondence.
We all know Ransom as the main character of Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength—as well as the failed time travel piece, “The Dark Tower.” Although this WWII-era “Space Trilogy” is remembered only by SciFi fans and C.S. Lewis readers, I have focused a great deal on the Trilogy here on A Pilgrim in Narnia. Not only do I think they are important works on their own account, but my discovery at the Wade has made me realize how very important they are.
Remember now how the published preface begins:
Now look at how the handwritten preface begins:
Nothing will induce me to reveal how my friend Dr. Ransom got hold of the script which is translated in the following pages.[4]
Isn’t that amazing?!!
The two introductions do the same thing, but the effect is entirely different.
First, note that it is Dr. Ransom who discovers Screwtape’s letters, not C.S. Lewis.[5] Lewis is still a character in this drama. Instead of the discover, he is the publisher—the same role that he played in Out of the Silent Planet, where he tells the story of Ransom’s trip to Malacandra in novel form as a way of getting the information out into the public. In Out of the Silent Planet, with the help of angelic Eldila, Ransom learned the Malacandrian language. He then discovers an interplanetary demonic conspiracy that is going to affect Earth. With Ransom as discoverer of these demonic letters, we are tempted to make the link between Screwtape’s approach and the conspiracy that Lewis and Ransom are trying to stop.
Second, we now see that Screwtape’s correspondence has been “translated.” Dr. Ransom is a linguist—a student of words—so it is no surprise that he can work as a translator. But what is the demonic language that Screwtape uses (if it isn’t English)? And if it is a special demonic language, how did Dr. Ransom learn it?
The fourth and final paragraph of the published preface always included a key detail about Screwtape’s fictional universe:
…in general the diabolical method of dating seems to bear no relation to terrestrial time…[6]
We know that Lewis has thought about the questions that world-builders ask. He thought about time (diabolical), and the nature of the characters (deceivers and self-deceived). As it turns out, he also thought about language.
In 2013 I published the handwritten preface for the first time in the Oxford journal, Notes & Queries.[7] I will quote from that here, sharing with you all the discovery that explains the language of Screwtape’s world:
But it is, however, too late to make any mystery of the process whereby Dr. Ransom learned the language. [8] The original of these letters is written in what may be called Old Solar – the primitive speech of all rational creatures inhabiting the solar system. How Ransom came to learn it I have already related in a book called Out of the Silent Planet; but when I wrote that book he and I were both mistaken in supposing it to be the local speech of a single world – that world which its inhabitants call Malacandra. We now know better, but there is no time within this preface to discuss the problems of extra-terrestrial philology involved. But it should be added that the translation is necessarily very free. The capital letters used for pronouns when they refer to that Being whom Screwtape describes as the Enemy are, for example, a most ingenious device of Ransom’s for representing a quite different (and involuntary) phenomenon in the original. On the other hand many words mentioned where Screwtape is discussing what he calls “the Philological Arm” were already English, for naturally devils whose terrain is England are well skilled in the language of their proposed victims.[9]
No time for “extra-terrestrial philology” indeed! This paragraph is a tease. Still, we discover that Screwtape was not speaking a specifically demonic language. Dr. Ransom, the interstellar philologist, learned the Old Solar language on Malacandra. Old Solar is Hlab-Eribol-ef-Cordi, the language shared by all non-human ‘rational’ beings (Hnau) in the universe from the beginning of time (or near to it). Humans have long since lost the language after the fall of Adam and Eve, but it is spoken both by the terrestrial species of other worlds—Hnau, or rational, sapient beings of various shapes—as well as the celestial beings, trans- or multi-dimensional angel-like creatures called Eldila (singular ‘Eldil’) in the Ransom books.
I’m glad you asked. The implications are still being worked out. David Mark Purdy conducted a genre study of The Screwtape Letters that includes the implications of this handwritten preface. David and I have chapters that appear in a new book coming out in early 2016, called Both Sides of the Wardrobe. David will talk about his work in Screwtape here on A Pilgrim in Narnia next year.
The failed time travel novel, “The Dark Tower” is considered by some as a forgery. I became convinced that it was an authentic (though not very well written) Lewis story when I saw the manuscript at the Bodleian last year. Still, some language analysis using computer models found that it is doubtful that Lewis wrote “The Dark Tower.”[10] These studies compare “The Dark Tower” with the other Ransom books and decide, in one way or another, the data doesn’t fit. Now that we know that Screwtape is part of the same fictional universe, in the same series, written in the same period, I suspect that the kind of language used in Screwtape might create a better data set that we can compare to ”The Dark Tower.” In short, you need to run the tests again.
As you might guess, there are intriguing possibilities about how we reread Screwtape as part of the Ransom Universe. More immediately pressing, though, is the question of how we read the Ransom Trilogy with Screwtape. Indeed, we don’t really have a “Trilogy” anymore, though there are other 5-book trilogies that I enjoy. We now have a Ransom Cycle, with four published books in four different genres, and an incomplete story in a fifth genre.
I am working now on a paper called “A Cosmic Shift in the Ransom Cycle.” I presented my findings last year at Mythcon and received great comments back. In this paper I think about what Lewis was doing when he built a fictional world. Then I look at what it might mean to reread the Ransom Cycle with The Screwtape Letters. I look in detail at the first two chapters of Perelandra, using a Screwtapian lens to show how the books fit together.
I hope to have this paper ready for publication in early 2016. If you are a scholar interested in reading a draft and providing criticism, let me know. Meanwhile, I would encourage readers of A Pilgrim in Narnia to try the project for yourselves. Read Lewis’ WWII-era fantasy project in this order:
[1] This paper was made possible by generous access to materials and support by three American archives: The Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, IL; The Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations., NY; and The Christoph R. Keller Library, General Theological Seminary, NY. Permission to quote is graciously provided by The CS Lewis Company Ltd., Poole, UK. Many thanks to UPEI for a research grant that supported my travel to the Wade centre.
[2] See C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters and Screwtape Proposes a Toast (London, 1961), 5. Here Lewis talks about a reader who apparently canceled his subscription because the Letters were positively diabolic. That letter to the editor was never published in The Guardian.
[3] I have only seen a single reference to the unpublished preface, and that quite recent and a footnote: Charlie Starr, Light: C.S. Lewis’s First and Final Short Story (Hamdon, CT, 2012), 118.
[4] C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (London, 1942) 9; manuscript excerpts: ‘The Screwtape Letters’ by C.S. Lewis, n.d., n.p. CSL/MS-107, The Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.
[5] Lewis describes the convention later as, ‘the imaginary C.S.L. who has somehow tapped a diabolical correspondence’; see 9 Oct 1960 letter to publisher Jocelyn Gibb in Walter Hooper, ed., The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis: Volume III: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy 1950-1963 (New York, 2007), 1196.
[6] Lewis, Screwtape Letters, 10.
[7] Brenton D.G. Dickieson, “The Unpublished Preface to C. S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters,” Notes and Queries 60.2 (2013): 296-298. If you have trouble getting a copy, let me know.
[8] Italicized words were underlined in the original handwritten text. You can check the published article for words that were crossed out and rewritten.
[9] Dickieson, “The Unpublished Preface,” 297.
[10] A.Q. Morton, “Once. A Test of authorship Based on Words which are not Repeated in the Sample.” Literary and Linguistic Computing 1 (1986): 1-8; Jeffrey R. Thompson and John Rasp, “Did C. S. Lewis write The Dark Tower?: An Examination of the Small-Sample Properties of the Thisted-Efron Tests of Authorship,” Austrian Journal of Statistics 38.2 (2009): 71-82. See the original accusation of forgery most fully in Kathryn Lindskoog, The C.S. Lewis Hoax. Portland: Multnomah Press, 1988.
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85 Responses to A Cosmic Find in The Screwtape Letters
Robert Martin says:
OK, I’m geeking out over this as much as I’m geeking out over the Tolkien annotated map that was just found…. wow… A built in crossover between the space trilogy and Screwtape… that’s fantastic! So, Lewis was building a “world” of his own, too, with the Ransom cycle with Screwtape filling in for some of the legendarium… how awesome is that!
The difference between the map and this is that I just gave you this for free. The map is $150,000!
Yes, Lewis was playing with the Ransom universe. The Dark Tower failed, and he let Screwtape go without the connection. But Perelandra was being written right when this preface was being sent out, so it continued!
I first heard of your blog by the “calling all geeks” post. This definitely is geek world.
Watch Geekdom House for a short essay I wrote on Tolkien and pacifism. 🙂 Not saying Tolkien is a pacifist, more saying how a pacifist can be comfortable reading Tolkien.
And yes, it is a geek world. As I get older, I find myself embracing my geekdom even more… you have Lewis, I have Tolkien. I’m not a scholar like you on the topic (yet) but it’s things like your little finding that make me excited to dive in to my favorite universe all the more… what secrets are there yet to find? Isn’t it EXCITING to find these little nuggets?
I feel the same. It also gave me the opportunity to reread Ransom, and each time I have I find it a deeper and richer series. So this has helped me for sure.
I’ll watch for that essay. You anabaptists in our midst continue to offer a prophetic critique of “normal.”
Glingaerthel Nostariel says:
This is a great article. Keep them coming. I really appreciate your thoughtful insights into C.S .Lewis’ work.
Thanks so much for the encouragement. I just followed your blog the other day. It is something I couldn’t do: poetry at that level.
It takes a little while to get into, but you can definitely do it. Are you interested in starting something like that?
Like a fictional world, you mean?
I’ve written a YA fantasy (quite dark), and a couple of kids books, but I haven’t had a full universe emerge yet.
What I mean is poetry takes time, and also so does a really beautiful fictional world.
robstroud says:
I love the original preface! Kudos on the impressive discovery!
It is a nice thing to play with.
L.A. Smith says:
Wow! Interesting! Thanks for sharing this – it really does open up some intriguing questions, doesn’t it? Do you have any knowledge as to why Lewis changed his preface to the one we now have?
There is nothing written about why Lewis changed his mind (the letters of the era were burned by the publisher, apparently). But we can imagine, methinks.
1. Obscurity: most readers hadn’t read Out of the Silent Planet, and Perelandra was only being written then.
2. Unnecessary complexity: the Letters stand well on their own without the alternative universe including Ransom.
3. Tolkien: this is the kind of thing JRRT would have nailed Lewis to the wall on.
The letters were burned….oy!!! What you say here makes sense. And I suppose there really wasn’t much of this type of world building done then. Especially not between works which are so different, on the surface. To tie Ransom into the Screwtape Letters would have had quite a few heads being scratched, I’m sure. But a brilliant idea by Lewis, just the same!
There is world-building play that is happening, but the Arthur C. Clarke generation of SciFi writers with their precise universe mechanisms are not yet born as writers. Lewis is much more like h.G. Wells or space fantasy or even Douglas Adams. Still, the instinct is to play as writers, isn’t it? Even Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote one of her Anne novels in epistolary (letter) form.
Should we see the letters as part of a larger project from the beginning or a separate project which was then dran into the Ransom series? This is part of a more general question. Lewis wrote a lot for magazines and newspapers. Was he writing for subsequest collection or just for the immediate audience? Did the use of different publishers have anything to do with change? The fact remains he chose the form to publish the book in and this indicates how he intended it to be read. Incidentally you do not mention the Toast which gives you another work and another genre.
I think the second–a project drawn into the Ransom world. When Screwtape was being written, Perelandra hadn’t emerged yet (that happened after a lecture series on Paradise Lost). Dark Tower failed, so there wasn’t a full “Ransom Universe”–just a Malacandra.
Now, if Michael Ward is right about “Planet Narnia,” then Lewis was mapping things in his head more than we sometimes imagine.
The Screwtape Letters were written in a full batch, over 6 months or so, then sent to the Guardian. Audience wasn’t much of a factor, I think.
But, yes, the publisher of Screwtape (Bles) may not have been able to link a book to Bodley Head, the Silent Planet publisher.
And you are totally right about Screwtape Toast!
mrdavidrowe says:
Super-fascinating stuff here – thank you!
Is it alright that my first question is: ‘Is Lewis hinting that Tolkien spoke Solar?’
Also, I can’t help wondering about Screwtape as the first manifestation of Charles Williams ‘occultic’ influence on Lewis. 1939-41 was clearly a significant period in that sense.
Great! Can I ask about that first question: what leads us to Tolkien’s Solar? Is it that Ransom is patterned (partly) after JRRT?
I don’t feel Williams’ influence in Screwtape in the way I feel it in That Hideous Strength. Partly, Perelandra lacks the CW occultic stuff. Instead, CW’s lectures on Paradise Lost invigorated Lewis’ own, which became a nonfiction book, which became Perelandra. I think CW’s interest in Arthur helped renew Inklings interest, so that we see the Dolorous Stroke at the end of Perelandra.
But all Screwtape is Lewis’ pretentious, self-deluded, and largely self-critical creation. That’s my thoughts, but I’d love to be corrected!
I don’t think I am in a position to correct you! I am the most amateur of amateurs in this area 🙂
My thoughts were not particularly informed, only that:
a. Yes, the Ransom-Tolkien ‘modeling’ thing, mixed with the conceit of Ransom-as-translator, made me wonder. I also started thinking about whether, in the back of Lewis’s mind, the Red Book (or Book of Lost Tales) might also have been written in Solar and received in a similar way to Screwtape, with Tolkien-Ransom as translator.
b. I know that Tolkien did not like (or at least did not approve of) Screwtape, nor of Williams’ influence on Lewis. I was just wondering whether the two may be linked.
Are you on facebook? I’m in a conversation with Alexander Wei on the topic of language, and he is schooling me a bit.
Lost Tales in Solar–intriguing. And has Tolkien discovered the whole legendarium? I think he talked like that sometimes, didn’t he?
Tolkien didn’t like Screwtape much, and it was dedicated to him! Was that a tease?
What exactly do we know about Tolkien not liking Screwtape? The only thing indexed in the published selection of his letters is from a 1963 draft of a letter to his son, Michael, sometime not long after the death of Lewis (letter 252): “I was wryly amused to be told (D. Telegraph) that ‘Lewis himself was never very fond of The Screwtape Letters’ – his bestseller (250,000). He dedicated it to me. I wondered why. Now I know – says they.”
That “I wondered why” seems quite curious: Lewis never said? Tolkien never asked? it never came up in any general Inklings discussion? “Says they” would seem (to me) to suggest in the first place that Tolkien didn’t believe that, but conjectured someone might snidely draw that conclusion – though earlier in the letter he says “many people still regard me as one of his intimates.” And I wonder if he may have a firm sense that the Daily Telegraph contributor has it distinctly wrong: that he was misreading the content of Lewis’s new, 1961 Preface (of which I do not seem to have a copy to hand!) – whether Tolkien knew that preface or only, from conversation, its matter. The remarks follow other examples of journalistic inaccuracy and “injustice”.
Further, neither Carpenter in the Tolkien biography, Sayer in Jack, Warren in the diary selections, nor (so far as I can quickly see) Green & Hooper (1974 ed.) say anything about Tolkien not liking Screwtape. What, then, are our sources for this?
Something Dale Nelson mentions below in a comment is a fascinating element in this mix, one way or another: Tolkien’s Notion Club Papers, with all its attention by Inkings-esque characters to time and space travel and languages.
tphillman says:
Nice work as always, Brenton. I am glad to see you are continuing to explore this connection, and I look forward to reading more. A question for you. You said you saw the original manuscript of The Dark Tower at the Bodleian. Do you mean manuscript literally, that is, the “handwritten” original in Lewis’s handwriting, or do you mean manuscript in the more modern sense of “original” which usually refers to a typed or otherwise mechanically produced printed copy? I am assuming you mean Lewis’s handwritten original, which would of course be very persuasive evidence that he wrote it.
This has been fun to work on.
Yes, the original hand written Dark Tower manuscript (MS) is in the Bodleian, with a photocopy (I think) at the Wade. Actually… the could both be photocopies of something in North Carolina (I don’t have notes here). Either way, it never got to typescript (TS).
The difference is important. The Wade TS of Screwtape has small differences from the MS in New York. There is no TS of the Screwtape Preface at all, which is unusual.
I went to the Bodleian open to Dark Tower being a forgery or being authentic. It could be a brilliant forgery, but it isn’t the handwriting per se that convinces me it is Lewis: it is the pattern of mistakes, dashes, underlines–all the subtlest aspects of writing.
Charlie Starr is the master of the handwriting question and will confirm (though he is predisposed to rejecting the major forgery accusations).
I remember the chagrin at the time when someone who had helped unmask the Hitler Diaries had examined the Dark Tower MS. in the Bodleian, was quite convinced it was Lewis’s handwriting rather than an clever forging of his hand – and then suddenly died before writing up the results of his investigation for formal presentation.
I didn’t know about that for sure, but had a hint of it somewhere. There are a number of locals who are on the Lindskoog side here in PEI, so the conversation can be a little tight. But I’ve enjoyed tinkering with the idea..
cbarrigar says:
Some enterprising publisher should publish a box set of Lewis’s five WWII-era fantasies just as publishers have produced box sets of the Narnia series. This would likely bring them to wider attention and easier access.
It really would. I would love to see a similar rerelease, though I would doubt it. Perhaps after my book comes out….
While I find this fascinating, I also find myself slightly perplexed as to why it wasn’t noticed before. I mean, the handwritten preface didn’t fall out of an obscure book in the Bodleian library or turn up in a book gifted to one of Lewis’s collaborators (as is the case with the Tolkien map). It is in the Wade collection so shouldn’t it have been noticed?
This is a great question, and is the answer (tentative) I give in Monday’s blog. Check it out (lunchtime Monday), and let me know if it answers your question.
dasulliv says:
I would like to read and respond to the paper that explores the trilogy using Screwtape. I’m working on the trilogy.
Very cool. We should chat by email. Can you send me a note to
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jaredlobdell says:
Screwtape is a satire — right? So is OSP. So is the Dark Tower (my title An Experiment With Time)0. so is much of Perelandra and almost all of THS. Satirists (which Lewis was) will write satire, whatever the announced genre (vide Swift). Your discovery is certainly unexpected — and a super thing — but I wouldn’t call it surprising. Narnia is itself satiric — right?
Perhaps satire in the broadest definition. It is inversive. I’ll feature a researcher next week who suggests that Screwtape is double irony–a double inversion, so not satire proper. Still, the category wavers a bit, doesn’t it? Perelandra is less satirical. It does the job of exposing, but humour is not the driving feature.
I’ve read your work. You put the Ransom Cycle in the context of Defoe, Swift, Fielding, Johnson + Medieval Pageantry (if I remember correctly). I remmember liking your point that Lewis shared the same reading group as Lewis (i.e., 16th c. poets).
The Dark Tower (or your title, Experiment with Time) less so, but the published Ransom books also share the epistolarity of the 18th c. English novels–Screwtape fits well into that mix. Screwtape is less fairy tale than the others. Still, I am suggesting that you and Downing are right to include Dark Tower in the Ransom Cycle.
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Here is a post by Brenton Dickieson about his COSMIC FIND relating to C.S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters” and the whole Ransom universe. I highly recommend it!
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brambonius says:
A question that is completely out of the box probably, but the Old Solar seems to be a bit like the ‘Enochian’ language which is used by occultists sometimes and which has been believed the language of the angels and the first language humans spoke (language of Creation even?). It was first ‘channelled’ by John Dee in the sixteenth century and has been in use by a lot of weird occultists since then.Was there not some influence of the order of the Golden Dawn on the Inklings?
Wow, that’s a great question! I have a post on the preliminary consequences for Old Solar next week. But I know nothing of this ENochian language.
There is Golden Dawn influence but it is doubtful by the time Old Solar was discovered by Lewis in 1937 that Golden Dawn was a factor at all. What resource would I use to look at it?
I’m afraid don’t know about any scholarly work, it’s something I’ve encountered in discussions when engaging in interfaith dialogue with, eh, magickal folks of all sorts. While John Dee surely was a Christian of sorts most Christians would find him way too occult (not without a reason), and this kind of knowledge is mostly hidden I think and not publicly released, or can be found in a diluted form in strange-looking books somewhere in the new age store.
I do know that (whether they believe in the status of an angelic language spoken by pre-Enochian humans or not) the Enochian language is still use by occultists for spell-work and such… Just google and you’ll see what I know…..
I’ve read somewhere that Charles Williams at some point was a member of the GD, but I know no time table at all of when…. I don’t know how much knowledge of this kind of weird esotheric stuff Lewis’ friends had when Lewis invented the Old Solar language idea, but to me it seems a quite similar idea to me… (The idea of Enochian itself is much more interesting to me than the weird magic use of it anyway…)
Yes, Williams was part of GD, but I’m not sure how much Lewis knew about that, honestly. Silent Planet is 1937, just after their friendship by letters began. There might have been a meeting or two, but Williams did not move to Oxford until a couple of years later.
However, there is a slight Enoch reference in “That Hideous Strength.” Did you know that? Ransom is going to be taken to the heavens (Perelandra, Avalon) without dying. It is said in the book that only a handful of others had experienced this–Enoch would be one of them, right?
Dale Nelson says:
Don’t miss Sue Wendling’s paper on the angelic hierarchy (and the Book of Enoch) in CSL: The Bulletin of the NY CSL Society #452 (Nov-Dec 2012), pp. 1-10, 16; note especially p. 8.
There has certainly been a lot of scholarly work done on Dee (for example, by the late Dr. Julian Roberts) – sifting the linked items in the Wikipedia article under “Secondary Sources” and “External Links” might be a good way to get started (which I have not – yet – done, myself!).
One context into which Kelley’s (as I take it) ‘Enochian’ came was a wide-spread Renaissance interest in universal language (historical and otherwise) – the Wikipedia article, “Universal language”, looks like an o.k. place to get a sense of this.
Grevel Lindop’s new Williams biography has a very interesting survey of evidence for Williams’s possible connexions with/membership in the GD as distinct from Waite’s
FRC. (I can’t recall whether Enochian may – or does indeed – come into the FRC in some form as well, or not.) My recollection is that Williams has various ‘Adamic’ and sort of ‘Ur-Hebrew’ language references scattered around in the novels, but I have never collected them and studied them systematically – but have a look at the (last chapter of the) novel Lewis and Tolkien read first, The Place of the Lion.
Dale Nelson has now sent me fascinating contributions to his “Jack and the Bookshelf” series, and number 6 concerns a 1925 novel, Menace from the Moon, by Bohun Lynch, a copy of which was listed in a catalogue of Lewis’s library. He tells how Bishop John Wilkins’ An Essay towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language (1668) occupies an important place in the novel – a real exercise in devising a universal language including it own “hierogylphics”!
Micah Hardin says:
Enochian is clearly what is intended. The name That Hideous strength implies a connection to the tower of Bable where in many traditions humans presumably spoke Enochian right up to the fall of the tower.The biblical confounding of language to be relived right before the fall of evil again but in mid 20th century England this time,
It could be. I remain unconvinced about this point. Does anyone know if Lewis knew about the John Dee Enochian language (or its use in occultism)?
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I’ll need to think some more about whether Lewis ever gave more than a brief consideration to the idea of linking the Screwtape Letters to the Ransom books. But it is interesting to think about CSL imagining an element of science fiction in connection with Screwtape.
If I may paste a several-paragraph piece here in support of the possible influence of science fiction (specifically, Sinister Barrier) on Screwtape — here’s a 2007 piece that I wrote for the New York C. S. Lewis Society, an early entry in my ongoing “Jack and the Bookshelf” series (we’re up to about #25):
Jack and the Bookshelf #2
Eric Frank Russell’s Sinister Barrier
Zero hour had come, the fateful moment had arrived. He swung the great funnel, lined it upon the advancing orbs. . . . He let the power pour through. . . . ‘One for Mayo!’ he hollered, jigging on his seat. ‘One for Webb! One for Beach, you dirty stinking gobs of parasitic lousery!’”
And so humans strike back at the Vitons, who are usually invisible to humans but perceptible to prepared eyes as “ultra-blue vampire” spheres. But now the Vitons have been exposed, these powers who have exploited humans for ages, promoting rumor and hysteria, inflaming race hatred and violence in the name of religion, subtly provoking humans to make war, so that the strong emotions that Vitons feed on will be stimulated. Many odd, unaccountable events, such as mysterious disappearances, sightings of fireballs, etc., turn out to have been due to Viton activity. At last, however, humans can rebel against these hidden masters.
Eric Frank Russell’s Sinister Barrier originally appeared in print in the first issue of the American magazine Unknown, dated March 1939. The author (1905-1978) was British, despite his “Yank” pulpster style. A British book version appeared in 1943 from the very obscure house of World’s Work. The American specialty house Fantasy Press released a version of the story in 1948. Sinister Barrier was issued as a British paperback, undated but probably published around 1952. A list of the books in Lewis’s personal library prepared in 1969 includes Sinister Barrier, but describes it as “n.d.” (no date). It’s possible that whichever edition Lewis owned had belonged to his wife, Joy Davidman Lewis. Lewis’s copy is not owned by Wheaton College. My guess is that the missing book was the British paper edition.
In a letter to I. O. Evans, dated 31 [sic] Sept. 1957, published in the third volume of Lewis’s Collected Letters, CSL says he’s read Sinister Barrier and finds it the “best of its kind.” What kind was that? Presumably, Lewis refers to science fiction stories in which human beings are secretly controlled or influenced by inhuman creatures.
Lewis’s own Screwtape Letters is, of course, something similar. In that book, Lewis writes from the point of view of the devils. They are invisible; they are aware of, and influence, the thoughts of human beings; they have subtly promoted conflict throughout the centuries; it’s generally in their interests to remain undetected – – all of which is true of the Vitons. Screwtape says, “We want cattle who can finally become food” (Letter 8); the Vitons feed on violent human emotion. The devils despise the “hairless bipeds” (Letter 14), while the Vitons are “‘cruel and callous sultans’” and humans their “‘half-witted slaves.’”
Is it possible that Lewis’s Screwtape Letters owes something to Sinister Barrier? Lewis did read American pulp magazines,* and it could be that copies of that issue of Unknown crossed the Atlantic soon after U. S. distribution occurred, and one of these copies came his way in time to suggest the Screwtape idea. In a letter to Warren Lewis that CSL began on 20 July 1940, Lewis describes the origin of what became The Screwtape Letters. He had been sitting in church that morning and his mind wandered. It occurred to him to write a book of supposed letters from a senior devil to a less experienced tempter. (See Lewis’s Collected Letters, Vol. 2.) The possibility of influence isn’t ruled out by this chronology.
Lewis acknowledged the stimulus of other science fiction authors, such as David Lindsay, but doesn’t seem to have admitted to conscious influence from Russell. Probably, then, it would not be true to say, “Screwtape was a Viton!” Perhaps one reason Lewis was impressed by Sinister Barrier whenever he did read it, was its thematic affinity, despite Barrier’s slam-bang pulp-mag style, with his own book, already written.
— Dale Nelson
*See my article “Is Lewis’ Ransom Trilogy Indebted to ‘Yank Magazine’ Science Fiction?” CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 37:4 (July-August 2006; Whole Number 414): 18-19.
Thanks for the note! I did not see this in the CSLNY Bulletin. I have some older ones and subscribe now, so have missed some. I’m glad you posted what you did. I will have to read that book.
Thanks for the hospitality for that piece.
I’m looking to begin a rereading of Screwtape today, with your discovery in mind. These are exciting times for Inklings fans. Back in the early Seventies, we fans had no idea of the treasures and discoveries that would be forthcoming even in the year 2015! No three fat volumes of Lewis’s letters nor his diary; no Tolkien letters nor Silmarillion, let alone History of Middle-earth (which such fascinating material as The Notion Club Papers) — and so much more.
It really is an exciting time! Each month it seems there is something new from that generation of writers. Christopher Tolkien and Walter Hooper were one generation of contributors. Now with some less commercial items ready to come to print (like this), it is great to be involved in a new generation that shrinks the manuscript world so the fictional worlds are known to everyone.
It’s not even just a matter of print things. We’re also benefiting from audio relics of Lewis and Tolkien.
The item that would be so cool — but I don’t suppose it will surface — would be the tape recording of the conversation on science fiction with Lewis, Kingsley Amis, and Brian Aldiss. The transcript, of course, has appeared here and there; but what fun it would be to hear them talking, the sounds of drinks being poured, and all. I wish, at least, that we could know what happened to the tape.
That would be amazing! Wow, I had not thought of what was possible, though unlikely.
Back in the convenient days of active membership in the Oxford Lewis Society, I always used to read the Bulletin when ‘our’ copy arrived. Is there any easy way for people stuck in villages in the middle of nowhere (in terms of great libraries) to get access to the fascinating-sounding articles you mention?
DLD, Send me an email to extollager AT gmail dot com, and I can send you pieces I’ve written if you’re interested. I could also scan the Wendling article for you.
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This is so cool!!!!! I read Out of the Silent Planet junior year of highschool but I nevr got around to the other two. I’ll have to do that now! And if you still need someone to read your paper, I would love to.
It is kind of cool, Lauren. The 4 books together make for 4 very different reading experiences. So I’d encourage you to give it a try!
This is probably how I’ll procrastinate studying for finals.
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Andrew Gilbertson says:
My mind is officially blown… especially having just finished The Dark Tower, and having been drawn back into that ‘universe.’ Thanks so much for sharing this!
Thanks for this. It is a fun idea!
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Jason Gaiger – Can There be a Universal Theory of Images
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Jason Gaiger (OU) – Can there be a universal theory of images?
One of the leading proponents of the new discipline of Bildwissenschaft, Lambert Wiesing, has identified the ‘philosophical interest in the concept of an image’ with the ‘tendency towards a universal theory of images’, arguing that this requires not merely a quantitative extension of the type of empirical research carried out in art history and other related disciplines but a ‘change of method’, a ‘shift towards the categorial’ (Artifizielle Präsenz, Suhrkamp, 2005). This paper investigates the problematic distinction between empirical and categorial enquiry by examining Wiesing’s attempt to develop a ‘logic of the image’ through a formal-logical reconstruction of Heinrich Wölfflin’s fundamental concepts of art history. I show that the reconstruction of the concepts as strictly relational categories solves a number of problems inherent in stylistic analysis, but that it does so at the price of no longer being able to account for historical change. The paper concludes by drawing a connection between Peirce’s criticism of the notion of total or ‘universal doubt’ and Wiesing’s conception of a complete freedom of visual-configurational relations. This allows me to raise important reservations about the viability of the ‘shift towards the categorial’ and the distinctions that underpin it.
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A long sentence about a ride down memory lane
My my wife, Kath, and I have our schedule, dutifully returning to downtown Chicago on Sunday afternoons, hoping we’ve left early enough to avoid the heavy traffic that invariably heads downtown and hoping against hope that we can catch the express lanes, but today after smooth sailing through the incessant freight train tracks of Des Plaines, we’re slowed at the River Road toll booth, giving us a chance for a five miles-per-hour ‘up close and personal’ encounter with our fellow travelers, but fortunately we have good air conditioning and a radio to help us pass the time of day as we hum along to some of my favorite songs, when, with little warning, both of us break into song with ‘Taking Care of Business’ by Bachmann Turner Overdrive (BTO), reminding me of my days in summer camp in southwest Ohio, probably the first crank-it-up-real-loud-and-roll-down-the-windows song that I remember,
“You get up every morning From your ‘larm clock’s warning
Take the 8:15 into the city
There’s a whistle up above And people pushin’, people shovin’
And the girls who try to look pretty”
and I feel younger again even as I feel like my grey hair is growing faster than my progress on the Kennedy Expressway, and Kath remembers all the words to the song, adding that she remembers hanging with friends in Evanston when BTO was big, and that our lives were nothing like the song where the band never adheres to a regimented work schedule like we have because they “can love to work at nothing all day” while both Kath and I have managed work and family, but our nostalgia is broken a bit when we hear that we can ‘save big money at Menards’ with their big spring garden sale, and out-of-the-blue I experience the exhilaration of my Camry hitting 25 mph as we near Foster Av and I wonder about hearing loss in the driver next to me whose base is making his car vibrate, but my thought of complaining about it is sidetracked as Simon and Garfunkel begin to sing, reminding me of my tumultuous late teen years, when their Bridge over Troubled Waters was popular, and we again join in, “When you’re weary, feeling small” and I recall that the mood of many of my friends whose emotions vacillated from day to day and sometimes minute to minute, and how we all felt we could save one another as we belted out “if you need a friend, I’m sailing right behind,” loving a song with some depth to it at a time when so many songs were about unrequited love and drug experimentation, and I don’t even care if the folks in the cars next to me think I have a screw loose as I belt out “like a bridge over troubled water, I will ease your mind,” as now, at long last, we creep through the Edens-Kennedy merge at Montrose, but then, commercials seem to have taken over the airwaves until, on the eighth radio button, I run across the Clancy Brothers and I again join in song,
“A gypsy rover came over the hill,
Down through the valley so shady,
He whistled and he sang ’til the green woods rang ,
And he won the heart of a lady”,
and Kath asks how I know an Irish drinking song since I’m of German extract, knowing full well that she and the girl I’d dated before her, both ladies of my dreams (sequentially, not concurrently!) are Irish, and that I’d become acquainted with the Clancy Brothers through trips with each to the ‘Emerald Isle’ which was somewhere downtown, and that over the years I’d been well indoctrinated into being an honorary Chicago Irishman, and as the song concludes, Tommy Makem encourages us to sing the chorus along with the band, and I oblige,
“Ah-dee-doo-ah-dee-doo-dah-day,
Ah-dee-doo-ah-dee-day-dee,
He whistled and he sang ’til the green woods rang
And he won the heart of a lady, “
while at last I find myself at the Ohio Street exit ramp and progress at moderate pace across Ohio toward our downtown home, continuing to punch buttons and settle on one of my favorite karaoke songs, one with some good advice from Kenny Rogers and The Gambler,
You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em,
know when to fold ‘em,
know when to walk away,
and know when to run.
When you’re sittin’ at the table
There’ll be time enough for countin’
When the dealin’s done,
As our building’s garageman smiles seeing us belt out along with Kenny, grateful that what should have been a 40-minute trip downtown only took 90 minutes on this warm Sunday afternoon, and grateful that we’ve enjoyed a trip down memory lane as we traversed once again between the suburbs and our home downtown.
And in case you’re wondering:
“Takin’ Care of Business” is a song written by Randy Bachman and first recorded by Canadian rock group Bachman–Turner Overdrive (BTO) for their 1973 album Bachman–Turner Overdrive II.
Bridge over Troubled Water is from an album of the same name, the fifth and final studio album by American duo Simon & Garfunkel, released in January 1970 on Columbia Records.
The Gypsy Rover, is a ballad composed and copyrighted by Dublin songwriter Leo Maguire in the 1950s.
The Gambler is from an album of the same name, the sixth studio album by Kenny Rogers, released by United Artists in 1978
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bethfinke says:
Long sentence, but I didn’t want it to end! Thanks to your guest blogger Dave today, especially for reminding me of how songs like Bridge Over Troubled Water and You’ve Got A friend helped us all feel “we could save one another”when our “emotions vacillated from day to day and sometimes minute to minute.” I believe that is still true, and the arts — including music and essays/poems like yours today — help me keep the faith. Thank you. ,
Linda Miller says:
So much fun hearing this in class at CLL and reading it again here–a joyful ride! Applause to Dave for the writing and Regan for providing the “home” on BackStory Essays!
Regan Burke says:
I sang in class and I’m singing again. I just love this.
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All-Star forward Kevin Durant, of the Golden State Warriors, was forced out of Game 5 of the NBA Finals Monday after he ruptured his right Achilles. Mr. Durant stated on his Instagram account on Wednesday that his surgery was a success. But such a serious injury can sideline even a top athlete like Mr. Durant for several months.
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Five months after Louis Zaldivar, 25, tore his Achilles heel while playing basketball, the avid recreational athlete is back to running and jumping. Surgery repaired the tear, and physical therapy got him moving again, but Mr. Zaldivar still feels pain when he runs. So his therapist turns to a special technology that analyzes motion to pinpoint the exact cause of the pain.
“Motion analysis is something we use in the beginning or the end of therapy to tailor treatment for a very specific injury,” said Fernando Vega, a physical therapist at Miami Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Institute. “Using video of the patient’s movements, a special software slows down the motion to analyze how they’re stepping, striking their heel, extending their knees, shoulder and more. It give us very precise measurements.”
(Video: The Baptist Health News Team hears from Fernando Vega, physical therapist at Doctors Hospital Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation Center, about using motion analysis technology to enhance patients’ recovery from orthopedic injuries. Video by Steve Pipho.)
In Mr. Zaldivar’s case, Mr. Vega compared measurements and timing of the basketball player’s stride length and extension of his knees. The analysis showed a 5 percent difference in the range of motion between his left and right legs, a significant deviation that’s limiting his range of motion and contributing to the pain he’s experiencing. Having specific measurements enables the physical therapist to set clear goals for the remainder of the patient’s therapy.
“Even though Louis is back to running and jumping, I noticed he was favoring one leg, limping when he walked,” Mr. Vega said. “Now that we’ve analyzed the motion of his steps and angles of his strides, we can see exactly what’s causing his pain and work to improve it so he’s pain-free.”
The computer software has many applications. Mr. Vega has used it to help people of all ages recover from different injuries, from the elderly with broken hips to high-school athletes working on excelling their performance.
“Everyone’s norm is different. Analyzing specific movements and correlating measurements, such as the length of and timing of steps and strides, defines deviations and identifies range of motion deficit,” Mr. Vega explained.
Rehab After Orthopedic Surgery
Rehabilitation, specifically physical therapy, is a vital component to healing from an orthopedic injury. Leading orthopedic and sports medicine rehab centers employ advanced technology to bring patients and athletes back from sometimes devastating injuries.
“A lot of these orthopedic injuries are difficult, especially for people who are very active and want to get back to the same level of speed and strength,” said Charles Jordan, M.D., an orthopedic trauma surgeon with Miami Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Institute who operated on Mr. Zaldivar’s Achilles heel. “I rely on our physical therapists to apply what they think is going to make my patients feel better. They let me know what the technology is showing, and we work as a team each step of the way.”
Dr. Jordan used a minimally-invasive surgical technique to repair Mr. Zaldivar’s torn tendon. Stitching the tendon with “locked” sutures at both ends of the ruptured tendon results in a strong repair while reducing the risk of wound complications.
“The area around the Achilles is susceptible to scar tissue and a much smaller incision helps lessen that,” Dr. Jordan said.
Motion Analysis Video Helps Rehab Injuries
The motion analysis system can also be used outside the rehab center, allowing the physical therapist to film patients in their normal environment. For example, they’ve taken the laptop and small video cameras to the park to film a baseball player throwing or pitching a ball, Mr. Vega said.
“We use the videos a lot with high-school coaches, sharing the videos with them to help them fix certain mechanics, like the way a pitcher throws a baseball or softball,” Mr. Vega said. “We can even draw on the video frames to highlight areas we want them to note. It’s a very useful tool.”
Another useful feature of the motion analysis computer program is its video “mirror” function. It plays back in real time video of the person’s exertion so he or she can watch themselves in action — walking, jumping and moving in other ways, to see firsthand the type and locations of weaknesses in their movements. It also has models of “ideal” movements built into the software. Using an avatar, like those featured in today’s popular video games, the patient’s video can sync with the model to mirror movements and see what needs to be aligned. Using the program’s Tiger Woods example, Mr. Vega demonstrated how he uses it to look for lower-extremity stability and upper-extremity mobility.
The high-tech video analysis is also a win for patients.
“Wow! This is really amazing,” Mr. Zaldivar said at the end of his therapy session. “Being able to see exactly what I need to work on is really helpful.”
The Baptist Health South Florida News Team was at Mr. Zaldivar’s physical therapy session to watch the motion analysis in action. Watch the video now.
Tags: Charles Jordan MD, Miami Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Institute, orthopedic surgery, orthopedic trauma, rehabilitation, sports medicine
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The Mac As Just Another i-Screen in an iWorld. NO THANKS.
Today Apple announced a move that, on first blush, seems to push the Mac, its seminal and defining product, into the iWorld. You know, the world of Apple-controlled, closed, manicured gardens a la iPhone, iPod, iPad, and iTunes. There's going to be an "app store" for Macs, and the iPad…
Today Apple announced a move that, on first blush, seems to push the Mac, its seminal and defining product, into the iWorld. You know, the world of Apple-controlled, closed, manicured gardens a la iPhone, iPod, iPad, and iTunes.
There’s going to be an “app store” for Macs, and the iPad OS is going to be integrated in the next release of the Mac.
If anything, ever, will make me leave Mac for good (and the companies I’ve started have purchased literally thousands of them), it will be the integration of the Mac OS into Steve Jobs’ vision of where mobile is going.
I’ll have a lot more to say about this once I’m well and truly smart on the announcements. But given the trajectory of Apple, which is now driven far more by iWorld than by Mac, I’m not holding out much hope for the Mac continuing to be a computer in any real sense of the word. You know, where a computer means you have choices as to what apps you run on it, what apps get developed for it, and how you express yourself using it.
Feh.
Author John BattellePosted on October 20, 2010 Categories Joints After Midnight & Rants, Uncategorized
18 thoughts on “The Mac As Just Another i-Screen in an iWorld. NO THANKS.”
dbsocial says:
They specifically said the new Mac App Store won’t be the only way to get apps. They are not closing off the entire Mac into a “walled garden” or whatever you guys are calling it.
I have never had a problem “expressing” myself on my Mac. I can install apps to OS X or Windows through VMware. My choice. Sounds like a “real computer” to me. If you think they are going to take that all away, you’re high.
This “Searchblog” is not not what it use to be.
What are you talking about? The OS is built on Unix… get a command line and compile anything that is opensource already. iLife comes for free for crying out load and iWork is for peanuts; don’t like it? Buy MS Office, or just download OpenOffice. Does the AppStore insult you that much? I actually consider it an obvious idea, since it is WAY easier to find out about new stuff (and use a trial period) than hunting it down on different websites or that silly “Downloads” section on Apple.com. So don’t use Apple products or the make, its not like there isn’t any alternative! Numbers show that Macs now is almost outselling DELL and ACER. Which just goes to show that there finally is a true and credible alternative to the Windows PC world.
wonderwhy-er says:
Well after buying iPhone years back and experiencing for my self where mobile computing is going I kind of feared that someone will be trying to do the same with PC world… For now they will not turn Mac in to tethered appliance iOS devices are but trajectory does point in iPad direction…
Dinesh Vadhia says:
The issue is about control over both what kinds of apps developers can build and the distribution of those apps.
The iOS is a closed system. Developers do not have the freedom to build as they do with Windows (yes, Windows is more open than iOS) or Linux.
It has worked for Apple beyond imagination in no part due to the fact that consumers want and love an integrated computer (iOS and MacOS devices) with all software working through a consistent UI.
Is this the future of software development and distribution? I believe that is what Battelle and many others in technology are asking and fearing. Maybe computing, primarily through iOS devices, has almost reached the maturity stage or the so called main street. Apple is delivering products that not only your mother but your granny can use.
On the other hand, maybe the Android system will allow unfethered access to software developers so that they can build products/services that would not be possible with iOS. For this to happen, Google and particularly its partners need to take their noses out of the trough to recognize that fragmentation of the Android platform and different UX/UIs demonstrates that they don’t get it and failure lies ahead.
Consumers will go where developers take them. Today that is iOS devices.
ps I forgot to add that discounting Microsoft with WP7 might not be wise even if it is the underdog today. From its inception, Microsoft’s mantra has been “developers, developers, developers” and it continues to be. By contrast, Google is a relative newcomer to addressing the needs of developers.
Microsoft understands the value of an integrated hardware stack even if the parts come from many players, comprehensive api’s to all parts of the system and a consistent UI. Sure, Microsoft has made some monumental screw ups but it does understand developers.
WP7 has received favorable reviews. Imagine if Nokia adopts WK7 or better still Microsoft acquires Nokia. Developers can then build as they wish without restrictions.
dizdazdother says:
What exactly has your knickers in a not? The changes to the UI? The App Store? Both in equal measure?
I understand the direction of the UI changes. Maybe they’ll work, maybe they won’t. But at least I get why they’re going there. I don’t think the intent is to force iOSisms on OS X users; rather, I think the intent is to bring some new (and apparently winning) ideas from iOS “back to the Mac.” Just like they said. And if you don’t like them: don’t use them! The dock is still there, and full screen mode is optional.
As to the App Store: again, I think the intent is to bring an apparently winning idea “back to the Mac.” For my wife, mother, daughters it will be a huge win. They can find apps in one spot, know that they’ll meet some minimal level of quality, they won’t have to worry about updates and they’ll be able to easily install any app they bought on any computer they buy. That’s a very big win.
And I think it’ll be a big win for developers too. I think there’s a chance this could be a big boost for sales–especially for good/popular apps.
Of course, if developers don’t like the App Store they don’t have to put their apps there. And if users don’t like the App Store they don’t have to buy their apps there.
So when you have a chance, please do tell: what exactly is it that has your knickers in a knot?
I agree with John’s sentiment and concerns, but I have to say the message looks a bit foolish on a blog with Facebook widgets all over it (!!!)
Ralph Haygood says:
I hope they’re smarter than that. The Mac “ecosystem” is far too diverse to be forced into the iOS mold. Think of all the people using Macs for software development (e.g., last I heard, the entire Rails core team), scientific computing (e.g., my old lab at Duke University, where we ran a huge variety of programs we wrote ourselves, got from other academics, or once in a while bought from some company), and many other tasks incompatible with the packaged-goods approach to software. Making it harder to develop software under Mac OS would be particularly stupid.
If they aren’t smarter than that, well, back to Linux.
P Evans says:
I would amend Ralph Haygood’s statement with
“If they aren’t smarter than that, well, forward to Linux.” Certainly a big part of the success of OS X has been the combination of facile and beautiful (and inexpensive) applications combined with the *nix underpinnings. I’ve loved it, and would say I’ve had some of the most productive time of my career with Macs. I don’t fear an iOS takeover nearly like Mr Battelle, but if it happens I know Ubuntu will do me just fine.
I’ve been reading your site regularly since before you wrote The Search. Your writing is at its worst when covering Apple-related concerns, and rants like these make me want to visit your site less. Please don’t blog about Apple, your site will be better off without it.
Um, entertaining rant.
As a developer, I don’t like the increasing control over the software ecosystem His Steveness is exerting. The man’s a design genius, as the company’s products (and his bank account) demonstrate. But if, as I expect, software from outside the App Store comes to be viewed as dodgey, the cost will be higher than the 30% tax.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
As for the iOS UI elements creeping back, whatever. As far as I can tell, it is just a sort of ‘focus’ mode – black out everything around your word processor view. Meh. Too many of us live wiht Xcode, a text editor, Mail.app, a Twitter client, iTunes, a terminal, a browser, etc. etc. open all at once for them to domb down the UI completely.
And if Jobs has, in fact, completely lost his mind, well, there’s Linux, which is just fine these days. Not as polished as a Mac, but fine.
as it is said before Mac OS X is a “unix-like” operating system (it is based on FreeBSD and NetBSD + NeXT)
You can install any application you want, you can compile your own app, download source code and compile..whatever you want. You can use Apple’s XCode, you can use gcc for Mac OS X ..whatever you want
Jobs’s App Store is just a tool of distribution of soft, one of many, you can go to Fry’s or GameStop or you can use AppStore
Omar Khan says:
I think that you are too pessimistic, for the computer too is evolving and moving away from discs is a natural evolution of the platform. I like the way that Apple is learning from the iPhone and taking lessons back to other platforms. I remember that your predictions about the iPad were off too.
Apple’s control system is irritating, despite its benefits, but also points the way for others to do better, like perhaps Amazon’s upcoming Android App store.
MIke Kaspar says:
I think it’s worth withholding judgment until we have more details. I agree with one of the earlier comments ‘the searchblog is not what it used to be’. We’ve come to expect more here.
If all of these Mac App Store/iOS is the death of mac OS doomsayers are correct then why has apple yet to delete terminal.app??
To use Steve Term Apple will always be in the “Truck” business.
Adam Edwards says:
Of course this is where the Mac is headed. Why else are they so keen to push the iPad and the MacBook Air? It’s to blur the lines and give Steve complete control.
superchargers says:
Awesome read. I just passed this onto a friend who was doing some research on that.
He actually bought me lunch because I found it for him! So let me rephrase:
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50 Happy Friday Quotes That Prove It's the Best Day of the Week
Let the countdown to the weekend commence.
By Mackenzie Dunn July 9, 2019
By Mackenzie Dunn
TGIF! If you're reading this, you've either officially made it to the last day of the work week, or you're wishing you did. Either way, you're in luck. To bid you a happy Friday and get you motivated to finish out the week strong (even if you're still stuck on Monday), we've rounded up a list of happy Friday quotes to get you going. These inspirational end-of-week sayings are all about feeling the good vibes, getting ready for that well-deserved weekend, and thanking yourself for a job well done. You've made it (or almost made it) to the day that's dubbed the "superhero of the work week" and from here on out, it's smooth sailing. Happiness is a day called Friday. Here's your cue to enjoy it.
Funny Friday Quotes
"On Friday, I like to high five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, will power, and inappropriate humor."
— Nanea Hoffman
"I am always happy to meet my friend, and my friend is my weekend."
— Debasish Mridha
"Hands up if you're ready to do something you'll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing."
— Florence Welch
"If you've got some news that you don't want to get noticed, put it out Friday afternoon."
— David Gergen
"I believe that it is a mandatory Law of the Universe that on Fridays, you have to do something a little fun."
— Hanna Rhoades
"If you must have the motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday."
— Noel Coward
"Although I understand that all days are equal with 24 hours each, most of us agree that Friday is the longest day of the week and Sunday the shortest."
— D.S. Mixell
"Friday is like a superhero that always arrives just in time to stop me from savagely beating one of my coworkers with a keyboard."
"I know each day is a gift, but where's the receipt for Mondays? I want to exchange it for another Friday"
"It's 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?"
— Amy Neftzger
I haven't been so excited about Friday since last Friday.
"Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired."
"Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon."
— Richard Nelson Bolles
"If my boss knew how unproductive I am on Fridays, he wouldn't want me here either."
— James Johnson
"Life must be terrible for working people, considering they spend every Friday night celebrating a two-day break from it."
— Robert Black
Happy Friday Quotes
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Xiaomi has just added a new product to its lifestyle offerings in India with the launch of the new Mi Step Out Backpack in the country. The device is built out of 600D polyester fabric with water-repellent multi-coating that would protect its contents in a light shower. The device offers 12 liters of total storage and, comes with 2 zipper pockets that the company says can house notebooks, gym gear, travel essentials and more.
The Mi Step Out Backpack has contra zippers, reflective pullers and adjustable shoulder straps. It is also fairly lightweight, weighing just 220 grams. It is currently up for sale on the official mi.com website for Rs. 249 in Black, Dark Blue, Royal Blue and Red color options. It also comes with a 6-month warranty, which should ensure relative peace of mind for most users.
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Vicious, p.18
Part #16 of Pretty Little Liars series by Sara Shepard
Ding-dong.
Hanna groaned and rolled over, touching Mike’s smooth, bare stomach. He sighed in his sleep.
She sat up and rubbed her eyes, looking around. Blankets and sheets were tangled around her and Mike, and Dot had wedged between them, his head on Mike’s butt. Hanna stifled a giggle, then felt a swell of wistfulness. If only she could have weeks, months, years of waking up together just like this.
There was a scuffle downstairs, and Hanna remembered the doorbell. Then there was a knock on her door. Hanna threw on a robe and opened the door just enough to see her mother’s pale face and eyes. “The police are downstairs for you,” her mother whispered. “The jury has made a decision.”
“On a Sunday?” Hanna gasped. Instantly she was up and throwing on clothes.
Everyone was bleary-eyed when they pulled up to the courthouse. Hanna clasped Mike’s hands tightly as they walked the distance from the parking lot to the steps. Flashbulbs popped in her face, and she couldn’t help but think that her slapdash attempt at makeup and coarse comb-through of her hair, still gummy with hairspray from yesterday’s updo, would probably get some jeers on Twitter. But those thoughts were quickly drowned out by the questions the reporters were yelling. “What do you think the jury will decide? How do you feel about going to prison? Do you think you’ll go free?”
Once inside, Mike turned to Hanna and squeezed her arm tightly. “It’s going to be okay.”
Hanna nodded, too afraid to speak for fear she’d throw up. Somehow, her legs managed to get her to the courtroom. Spencer and Aria were already in their seats, their faces drained of blood. Wordlessly, Hanna slid in next to them and clasped their hands. Her pulse raced fast.
The jurors reassembled, the lawyers took their places, and the judge appeared at his bench. Her gaze wandered to the rest of the crowd—her parents, Aria’s parents, a bunch of people from the press. Then she looked back at the jurors in their box. Suddenly, one of them met her gaze. A tiny smile appeared on the woman’s face. Hanna felt her jaw drop. That had to be a good sign, right? Had the jury decided they weren’t guilty?
The judge’s booming voice rang out through the room, and all eyes turned to him. “Has the jury reached a verdict?” he asked.
A pasty-colored middle-aged guy who served as the jury’s representative clutched a folded piece of paper tightly. “We have, your honor.”
It seemed to take ages for the bailiff to walk the length from the jury box to the judge’s bench. Hanna thought she might faint as the judge took the sheet of paper from him and studied it. Spencer’s nails dug into Hanna’s palm. Aria trembled next to her. For a few seconds, it didn’t seem like a single person in the courtroom breathed.
The judge coughed, then lowered his glasses farther down his nose. He looked at the jury foreman and asked, “How do you find?”
The man replied, “We the jury find Hanna Marin, Spencer Hastings, and Aria Montgomery guilty of the murder of Alison DiLaurentis.”
Hanna’s mouth fell open. Someone near her screamed. Spencer’s hand slipped from hers. Hanna glanced blindly around the courtroom, her gaze first landing on Mr. DiLaurentis, who was in his regular seat in the back. There was a small, tense smile on his face. Then Hanna found Mike in the crowd. His skin was ashen. He was blinking hard, maybe to hold back tears. Hanna held his gaze as long as she could, but she couldn’t offer a brave smile, and neither could he. That was when she realized. Mike hadn’t really thought this was ever going to happen.
Maybe she hadn’t, either. But the reality sank in, and made her dizzy: She was never going to see him again, except in a prison visitor’s room. She was never going to see anyone again.
The judge said more after that—something about the girls serving their life sentences immediately, as they were all flight risks, and for that sentence to be served at the Keystone State Correctional Facility, but Hanna barely registered it. Her vision began to dim. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. It rang in her head like a gong. Life in prison. Forever.
And then everything went dark.
PRISON BLUES
Aria usually had a cast-iron stomach when it came to motion sickness, but something about the way the bald, burly, khaki-jacketed prison worker drove the van to the Keystone State Correctional Facility sent her stomach tumbling all the way until they rolled through the prison gates. Maybe it was his jerky driving, or maybe it was the way he smelled like jerky—beef jerky, the scent of it literally leaking from his pores.
The car came to a halt, throwing Aria, Spencer, and Hanna forward roughly against their seat belts. The worker glared at them, got out, and yanked open the sliding back door to the van. “End of the line,” he ordered, then chuckled. “Welcome to your new home, bitches.”
Aria shuffled out of the van as best she could with the shackles around her ankles. Hanna and Spencer followed, neither of them saying a word. They hadn’t spoken since the verdict had been passed down, actually. Cried into one another’s shoulders, yes. Stared at one another in horror, definitely. But what was there really to say?
Guilty. It was still too horrible to believe. Anything Rubens had said, any logic about what might have happened, any assurance that they’d appeal as soon as they could, went in one of Aria’s ears and out the other. A panel of people had found them guilty. It made her feel lower than low. People actually thought she was a murderer. They’d listened to that ridiculous case and took Ali’s side. She couldn’t believe it.
The worker shoved them toward an open metal door. Another guard, a portly woman with short brown hair and a jowly face, waited for them, a metal basket in her outstretched hands. Aria glanced at the name on her badge. BURROUGHS. She’d read somewhere that people went only by last names in prison—first names were too personal. Or maybe they gave you too much of an identity. So in here, Aria would no longer be Aria, but simply Montgomery. No longer an individual, but a number. No longer an artist, but a killer.
“Turn over all your belongings,” Burroughs ordered Spencer, who was first in line. “Any jewelry, anything you got in your pockets, give it here.”
Spencer took off a pair of earrings and dropped them into the basket. Aria had nothing to fork over—she’d removed the Cartier bracelet Noel had given her earlier and handed it to Ella for safekeeping. She’d told her to give it back to the Kahn family, though even saying that had choked her up. She wished now that she hadn’t chickened out of talking to him at Hanna and Mike’s wedding. He’d just looked so . . . pissed. And he hadn’t come to her trial. Then again, his own trial was probably soon. She wondered what he thought when he heard she’d been found guilty. Maybe he didn’t care at all.
Suddenly Burroughs had pushed her up against the wall, Aria’s chin banging against the cinder blocks. She felt Burroughs’s hands move roughly up and down her body, prodding her armpits, cupping the space beneath her boobs, and doing a full sweep between her legs. Burroughs stood back and looked at the three of them with narrowed eyes. “Before we go inside, I don’t want any funny business,” she growled. “No talking. No looking at the other inmates. No complaining. You’ll do what you’re told, and you won’t make waves.”
Aria raised her hand. “When can I make a phone call?”
Burroughs snorted indignantly. “Honey, phone privileges are earned. And you certainly haven’t done anything to deserve that yet.” She glared at the others. “And so are bathroom privileges, sleeping privileges, even eating privileges.”
“Eating privileges?” Spencer repeated, her voice cracking. “That doesn’t seem humane.”
Whap. The woman’s hand flew out and struck Spencer’s jaw so fast Aria almost didn’t catch it. Spencer pitched to the right and made a tortured sound. Aria turned to her, wanting to comfort her, but feared the woman might hit her, too.
“I said no complaining,” Burroughs hissed. Then she pushed them down a long, dirty corridor that smelled like feet, sweat, and the grimiest Porta-Potti ever, until they came
to an entrance to what looked like a bathroom, though it didn’t have a door. “Time to shower,” she instructed, pushing them into the room.
Aria stared at the dingy tiles, the dripping faucets, the open toilet stalls. The place was teeming with other women—terrifying looking women with tattoos and vicious sneers and hunched, masculine postures, all strolling around totally naked and unashamed. A couple of them were shouting at each other as though on the verge of a brawl. A thin Asian girl was huddling in the corner, muttering something in a language Aria had never heard. One woman, who was plucking her eyebrows at the sink, had a scar running the length of her face. When she saw Aria staring, she broke into a wide, weird smile, tweezers held aloft. “Hi, there,” she teased.
Aria shrank into herself. Her feet wouldn’t move. She couldn’t shower here. She couldn’t even stand here. How was she going to do this? How was she going to stay strong? She thought of what Rubens had told them after the verdict had been passed down: “It’s going to be okay. We’ll appeal. We still might be able to beat this.”
“And if we don’t?” Hanna had sobbed.
Rubens had pulled his bottom lip into his mouth. “Well, then, you might be looking at twenty-five years. Twenty maybe, if you have good behavior. I’ve even seen some prisoners get out in fifteen.”
Fifteen years. Aria would be thirty-three by then. Half her life would be gone. Noel wouldn’t have waited for her anyway, even if they had stayed together.
Somehow, she made it into the shower, which had no curtain. She tried her best to cover herself up and scrub down at the same time, though the soap was slippery, didn’t really suds up, and smelled like vomit. Burroughs loomed close by in the corridor, arms crossed over her chest, watching each of them for reasons Aria didn’t really understand—maybe just to get them used to the humiliation. Just outside the stall, the prisoners circled like sharks. “New girls?” Aria heard one of them ask the guard. “They’re awfully pretty,” said another. “They look like bitches,” someone else said. Aria leaned her head against the filthy wall tile and let the tears fall.
After about three minutes, the guard ducked in and turned off the water, ordering Aria out. “Clothes back on,” she barked. Aria, Spencer, and Hanna dried themselves off as best they could and quickly got into their orange jumpsuits. Aria’s skin now smelled like the rank soap she’d used. Her wet hair dripped down her back, a feeling she’d always hated.
Then Burroughs motioned for them to follow her down yet another dark, windowless corridor—the whole place reminded Aria of one of those mazes scientists put rats in for psychological experiments—and past an open room of women’s bunks. Prisoners prowled around the space aggressively. Hip-hop floated through the air. There was more yelling from a back corner, though a guard’s voice rose up sharply, telling whoever it was to shut the hell up.
The guard took a turn down yet another hallway, but she took only Aria’s hand, instructing another guard to lead Hanna and Spencer elsewhere. “Orientation for you, Montgomery. D’Angelo, send Hastings and Marin to their bunks.”
Aria gasped. “We can’t all go together?”
Burroughs snickered. “Sorry, sweetheart.”
Aria met Spencer’s eye. Spencer gave her a look that was so terrified, so trapped, Aria’s own heart quickened. Hanna held up a hand in a wave. Something about it seemed finite, like they might never see one another again. The guards must have known how close they all were and that they’d allegedly committed the crime together. If their goal was to make everyone in here miserable, then of course they’d do everything they could to keep friends apart.
You can do this, Aria told herself. But really, she wasn’t so sure.
Burroughs held tight to Aria’s forearm and shoved her into a small conference room at the end of the hall. It was peppered with a few folding chairs and was so hot and stifling Aria immediately started to sweat. She shut her eyes, trying to pretend that she was in a hot yoga class—minus the yoga—but it really didn’t do any good.
A skinny blond woman with a dramatic overbite stood at the front of the room. “Sit,” she said to Aria, pointing at some empty chairs. A few seats were already occupied by other women in orange jumpsuits. Aria looked at each of them, wondering who on earth she could sit near without fearing for her life. There was an overweight Latina with a tattoo at her temple; a pale girl who was trembling a little, either in detox or on the verge of a psychotic break; a cluster of women all sitting together who, by their identical menacing expressions, looked like members of the same gang; and a tall black girl in glasses who was motionless at the back of the room, as watchful as a cat.
Aria looked at the black girl hopefully. She looked sane. Head down, Aria grabbed a chair next to her and folded her hands in her lap, wondering what would come next.
Olive, aka Overbite Lady, shut the door, which only increased the stuffy feeling inside the room. She walked over to the corner and clicked on a small desk fan, but then angled it only in her direction. “Welcome to the Keystone State Correctional Facility,” she said in a bland voice. “I’m here to tell you everything you need to know, including rules, the schedule, your employment assignment, cafeteria hours, medical concerns, special privileges, and what to do if you start to feel suicidal.”
Aria pressed her hands over her eyes. She already felt suicidal.
Olive went on for a while about various prison protocols, transforming the tiniest civil rights—having a few moments to see family every Saturday morning, being allowed to purchase things like hairbrushes or flip-flops from the commissary if adequate funds were provided, a regular half hour each day of outside time in the prison yard—seem like luxuries. Aria wished she could ask Olive if there was a library, or if she’d be able to purchase materials to paint, or if there was a psychologist on staff who might be able to walk her through how, exactly, she was going to get through this without losing her mind. But she’d already accepted the fact that she’d probably get none of those things.
She leaned back in her chair and stared up at the ceiling, a bead of sweat rolling slowly down her forehead. The black girl with the glasses shifted next to her, and as Aria turned, she caught her eye. Aria dared a shy smile. “Hey,” she whispered. “Is this your first day, too?”
The girl nodded and smiled back. Aria’s heart lifted—she seemed so normal. Maybe even a new friend. She’d need as many of them as she could get. Then the girl added, “But I’ve been here before, Aria.”
Aria blinked hard, feeling as though the positive image had suddenly turned to a photo negative. “H-how do you know my name?”
The girl edged closer to Aria until their bodies almost touched. “Because I’ve been waiting for you,” she whispered. “You’re the girl who killed Alison DiLaurentis, right?”
Aria’s jaw hung open. It took too long for her to find the words to respond. “N-no,” she said, her voice trembling. “I didn’t kill her. The verdict was wrong.”
The girl faced forward again, her smile now knowing and bitter. “Yeah, you did. And we all know it. She’s a hero to some of us, you know. She’s what keeps us going.”
Every cell in Aria’s body started to quiver. She wanted to leap up and tear away from this girl, but she was almost too stricken to move. She’s what keeps us going. The girl’s chin was held high, her expression certain and righteous. She believed what she was saying about Ali—believed in Ali herself. And then, when Aria looked down, she noticed a scabby, black tattoo on the inside of the girl’s wrist. It was of a single letter: A.
Aria’s blood ran cold. She instinctively patted her pockets for her cell phone, but of course there was nothing there. But if she’d had her phone on her, she would have texted her friends immediately. SOS. There was an Ali Cat—in prison.
All at once, Aria revised her prognosis in here. It would be a miracle if she survived the next fifteen years. She might not even survive until tomorrow.
THE BIGGEST SURPRISE WITNESS OF ALL
; Monday afternoon, Spencer hunched on her hands and knees on the floor of the women’s bathroom, a sponge surely teeming with toxic mold in her hands and a bucket of filthy, rancid-smelling water next to her. Trying not to breathe, she plunged the sponge into the water and then slopped it onto the floor, making slow, even circles. She even threw in a few intense, centering, yoga fire-breaths that had always helped her before. But after breath number three, she heard someone snickering above her and looked up.
A scrawny-looking girl with olive skin and an eye patch leaned on the sink, smiling at Spencer with crooked, rotted teeth. “Little rich bitch can’t handle bathroom duty, huh?”
“I’m fine,” Spencer answered. She winced, wishing she hadn’t said anything. She remembered from Angela’s book that the key was not to engage with the other prisoners—it was a sign of weakness. And this girl, whose name was Meyers-Lopez, had been following Spencer around all morning, trying to get a rise out of her.
Meyers-Lopez hiked herself up onto the sink. “I bet you never thought you’d come here,” she hissed. “I bet you thought you’d get away with it. She told me all about you, you know. She told me how much of a tight-ass you were. How much of a spoiled bitch.”
Spencer winced and made bigger circles with her sponge. Please let a guard walk in right now, please let a guard walk in right now, she willed. This was the most terrifying part about prison so far. Not the fact that women argued violently well into the night, as Spencer had experienced yesterday evening, logging a total of forty-five minutes of sleep. Not the fact that the food was the lowest-grade possible and infested with all sorts of bacteria—she’d been terrified to choke down a waffle this morning for fear she’d go into botulism-related convulsions immediately. Not that she hadn’t seen Aria or Hanna even once, or that she’d probably have to live the next thirty years sleeping next to someone whose nickname was Miss Vicious, as she had last night, the woman so haunted-looking that Spencer had been sure she’d wake this morning with bruises all over her body.
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Next Black Widow trailer arrives with Taskmaster face-off and a look back
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The second Black Widow trailer has arrived (if you missed the first, we previewed it here). Black Widow features the return of Scarlett Johansson as Marvel’s biggest and most seen screen superheroine, plus Stranger Things and Hellboy star David Harbour as the Soviet answer to Captain America, the Red Guardian, Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz (The Mummy) as assassin Melina Vostokoff aka Iron Maiden, Florence Pugh (The Commuter) as Yelena Belova, and de-aged Oscar-winning actor William Hurt, who started the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe off in The Incredible Hulk, back as General Ross.
Directed by Cate Shortland, Black Widow takes place following the events of Captain America: Civil War, so it’s not really all that long ago. The villain featured in the new trailer is Taskmaster, created in 1980 by writer David Michelinie and artist George Pérez. but the identity of the actor/actress has yet to be revealed. Pugh’s character might be getting queued up to take over the Black Widow mantle later in this new phase (#4) of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as her character has been known to use the Black Widow title in the pages of the comics.
Along with the trailer, Marvel released a video looking back at Black Widow in the MCU so far. Check out this new trailer and feature for Black Widow:
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First look–Team Jared leads Marvel/Sony’s next comic book adaption, Morbius
Two of the three most famous genre Jareds take center stage in the latest trailer from the Marvel universe. Academy Award winner Jared Leto (Suicide Squad, Blade Runner 2049) stars as Dr. Michael Morbius and Jared Harris (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Fringe, The Expanse) as an undisclosed mentor, possibly Jack Russell. Morbius takes place in the Sony side of the Marvel universe. Not yet taking the plunge to become a full-on Marvel Cinematic Universe entry now that the Disney/Sony deal is done, a trailer appearance by Michael Keaton as Vulture reflects a straddling of the franchise. Keaton’s character was the villain of Spider-Man: Homecoming, the first Spider-Man movie of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Morbius appears to have been filmed in the dark lighting of the earlier horror/superhero-verse film Venom, which featured another historic tie-in character from the world of Spider-Man. Morbius will be released this summer a few months in advance of a Venom sequel.
Not to be confused with the Dr. Morbius of Forbidden Planet, this is the sci-fi/Dracula hybrid–the “living vampire”–created by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane in the pages of Marvel Comics in 1971. Comic greats like Don McGregor and the late Rich Buckler and Steve Gerber would work on the Morbius stories over the years–a doomed hero drawn to look like actor Jack Palance. Over the years the character would rub shoulders with Ghost Rider, Man-Thing, Doctor Strange, and Blade, but most notably Spider-Man. Elements of the trailer look like the stuff of Doctor Strange, Venom, and Deadpool, and this is obviously a character from the world of Stan Lee.
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The film co-stars Doctor Who’s Matt Smith, Fast & Furious’s Tyrese Gibson, and 6 Underground’s Adria Arjona.
Could this be an entry point for new Blade, Ghost Rider, or Carnage movies? Take a look at this first trailer for Morbius:
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Now streaming–DC Universe’s Swamp Thing is not a superhero series to skip
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Review by C.J. Bunce
Although it wasn’t renewed for a second season, streaming service DC Universe’s Swamp Thing is the adaptation of a comic book series from 2019 that stood apart in a year where every other series seemed to be based on a comic book. On the small screen, from The Umbrella Academy, The Boys, and Watchmen, to the last seasons of Netflix’s The Punisher and Jessica Jones, plus new seasons of Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Gotham, and Legion, and new Batwoman and Doom Patrol series, 2019 meant a lot of comic book adaptations that either looked the same or they fought hard to try to be grittier and different. And that’s great–that means there’s something for everyone. But if you’re looking for fun, and nicely creepy but not too dark, and not cartoony, soap opera-ish, or comic booky, and you were willing to give DC universe a try, then you’d be lucky enough to have discovered Swamp Thing. If you missed it, you can still catch up with the full season now with a DC Universe subscription or via Amazon Prime here, and it’s coming your way (and available for pre-order) on Blu-ray, digital, and DVD next month.
Swamp Thing strikes the right balance, taking a second-tier property and recreating the level of creepy found in 1960s-1980s comics–a show that actually looks and feels like what the original visionary artists Bernie Wrightson and writer Len Wein put on the page. Finally a great Justice League Dark show, something like we loved in print from Mikel Janin and Peter Milligan that so far also has provided the best character cameos of CW’s Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover event. Complete with Madame Xanadu, Blue Devil, and Phantom Stranger, we meet two very Marvel Comics types inside the DC realm. More importantly it’s great fun, like a John Carpenter movie with its visual effects, a top cast of household name actors and great guest stars, and faithful storytelling to the comics, headed up by Crystal Reed as a smart CDC doctor named Abby. If you’re of the camp (like us) that agrees Bill Bixby on The Incredible Hulk is still the best comics on TV has ever been, then you’ll love seeing the similar origin tale and subsequent episodes between Abby and Andy Bean′s Alec Holland, a researcher and investigator whose lives are turned upside down when a swamp is contaminated by a local mill, which causes devastating changes to Holland. The chemistry and tragic tale played by Bixby and Mariette Hartley in the 1970s Hulk series is echoed by the chemistry of Reed and Bean as the leads in Swamp Thing.
Holland transforms into a beast who walks and speaks like a man, but the plants of the swamp have merged with him. Is there still a man in there that can be removed and repaired, or is he forever transformed into something entirely new?
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New trailer–Finally! X-Men origin story The New Mutants is almost here
Disney and Fox have no expectations for this one, so it would be great for X-Men fans to see it in the theater and make known the X-Men are as important to fans as the Avengers, twenty years after the first X-Men movie arrived in theaters.
We’re hoping The New Mutants was worth the wait. At last we have a trailer that shows the potential of these characters, with this week’s release of the final trailer for the final film of the longest running continuous superhero movie franchise, Fox’s X-Men. This is movie #13, and with it, the first horror superhero movie for Marvel. April 13, 2018, was the original release date for the movie, but it was bumped a few times by the studio to accommodate bigger superhero stories including Deadpool 2 and X-Men: Dark Phoenix, and then Marvel movies after the merger of Fox and Disney. We previewed it here at borg more than two years ago. It looks like M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass (and even co-stars that movie’s Anya Taylor-Joy) merged with the original A Nightmare on Elm Street, with Stranger Things star Charlie Heaton carrying forward the Johnny Depp look. Or a really haywire The Breakfast Club. As a result of the success of modern horror stories like Get Out and It, the original cut is in final reshoots by director Josh Boone to make it scarier. It’s not exactly the same, but it’s also easy to envision these mutant kids as an offshoot or tie-in story related to the lab that produced Laura aka X-23 in James Mangold’s Academy Award-nominated Logan.
And speaking of Anya Taylor-Joy, the film was made before these young actors’ careers really took off. Taylor-Joy filmed Split just before this and then Glass, was a lead voice (of Brea) in The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, and in Playmobil: The Movie, starred in Peaky Blinders, and filmed the lead role in a new remake of Emma, with five other films coming out in the next year. Maisie Williams grew up on Game of Thrones. And since filming The New Mutants, Charlie Heaton, Henry Zaga, and Blu Hunt have appeared in several movies and TV shows. The bad news of the reshoots is that Jon Hamm’s character Mister Sinister was reportedly cut entirely.
It’s the original roster of New Mutants (Cannonball, Mirage, Sunspot, and Wolfsbane), plus Magik from the second roster. Finally! Check out this great new trailer for The New Mutants:
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The 2019 Borg Hall of Fame
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It’s been another long year of great entertainment. It’s time for the seventh annual round of new honorees for the borg Hall of Fame. We have several honorees from 2019 films and television, plus you’ll find some from the past, and a peek at some from the future – 28 new borgs or updated variants in all, bringing the borg Hall of Fame total to 221.
You can always check out the updated borg Hall of Fame on our home page under “Know your borg.”
Some reminders about criteria. Borgs have technology integrated with biology. Wearing a technology-powered suit alone doesn’t qualify a new member. Tony Stark aka Iron Man was named an honoree because the Arc Reactor kept him alive, not because of his incredible tech armor. The new Spider-Man suit worn by Tom Holland is similar to Tony’s, but it’s not integrated with Peter Parker’s biology. Similarly Peni Parker, seen outside her high-tech SP//dr suit in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Black Manta from Aquaman are merely wearing tech suits. We’d love a reason for a Mandalorian to make the cut, like Boba Fett, or Jango Fett, or the new Mandalorian from the series, since nobody has more intriguing armor. Maybe the second season coming next fall will give us something new to ponder.
Also, if the creators tell us the characters are merely robots, automatons, or androids, we take their word for it. Again, integration is key, but in the Hall, once a member, always a member.
So let’s get on with it. Who’s in for 2019?
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borg’s Best of 2019–The Best Books of the Year
Our borg Best of 2019 list continues today with the Best Books of 2019. If you missed them, check out our review of the Best Movies of 2019 here, the Kick-Ass Heroines of 2019 here, the Best in Television 2019 here, and the Best Comics of 2019 here.
We reviewed more than 100 books that we recommended to our readers this year, and some even made it onto our favorites shelf. We don’t print reviews of books that we read and don’t recommend, so this shortlist reflects only this year’s cream of the crop.
So let’s get going. Here are our selections for this year:
Best Read, Best Fantasy Read, Best New Edition of Previous Published Work, Best Translated Work – A Hero Born: Legends of the Condor Heroes 1 by Jin Yong, translated by Anna Holmwood (St. Martin’s Press). The first book in one of the most read books of all time finally makes its way to the U.S. after its premiere in Great Britain. Readers will learn why George Lucas pulled its concepts for his Skywalker saga, and why generations of Chinese fans of fantasy of flocked to its heroes and villains. Honorable mention for Best Fantasy Read: A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery by Curtis Craddock (Tor Books), The Dark Lord Clementine by Sarah Jean Horwitz (Algonquin Young Readers).
Best New Novel, Best Horror Novel, Best Historical Novel, Best Mystery Novel – The Cthulhu Casebooks: Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils by James Lovegrove (Titan Books). A truly literary work combining a smart Holmesian adventure and the dark mind of H.P. Lovecraft. Readers will love Lovegrove’s approach, Holmes and Watson’s journey, and all the creepy surprises.
Best Sci-Fi Novel, Best Thriller – The Andromeda Evolution by Daniel H. Wilson (HarperCollins). Wilson successfully conjured the spirit of Michael Crichton for this smart, creepy, and oddly current sci-fi sequel to The Andromeda Strain. A cast of characters just like Crichton would have put together, and a must-read.
Best Franchise Tie-In Novel – Firefly: Magnificent Nine by James Lovegrove (Titan Books). One of the best authors around crafts a worthy story to expand the Firefly canon and give fans their own new movie of sorts for the franchise. Runner-up: Alien: Prototype by Tim Waggoner (Titan Books). Honorable Mention: Death of the Planet of the Apes by Andrew E.C. Gaska (Titan Books).
Best Retro Read – Mike Hammer: Murder, My Love, by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins (Titan Books). Collins continues to bring Spillane’s characters to life with thrilling prose and all the best pieces of noir drama and action. Honorable mention: Brothers Keepers by Donald E. Westlake (Hard Case Crime).
Best Genre Non-Fiction – Industrial Light & Magic Presents: Making of Solo: A Star Wars Story by Rob Bredow (Harry N. Abrams). Bredow’s unique access to the production made for a rare opportunity in any production to see details of the filmmaking process. Every movie should have such a great deep dive behind the scenes. Honorable mention: The Making of Alien by J.W. Rinzler (Titan Books).
There’s much more of our selections for 2019’s Best in Print to go…
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borg’s Best of 2019–The Best in Comics
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Our borg Best of 2019 list continues today with the Best in Comics. If you missed them, check out our review of the Best Movies of 2019 here, the Kick-Ass Heroines of 2019 here, and the Best in Television 2019 here.
We reviewed comics from every major publisher this year, and were pleasantly surprised with all the new characters and content available. You’ll find both some new creators on the list this year and some fan favorites who keep making better comic books each new year.
Here are the best comic books for 2019:
Best Limited Comic Series (tie) – Sara by Garth Ennis and Steve Epting (TKO Studios) and Goodnight Paradise by Joshua Dysart and Alberto Ponticelli (TKO Studios). The new publisher TKO Studios began with a bang with these two incredible stories. Sara is what every fan of war comics hopes for, and Goodnight Paradise brings the realities of life in the 21st century to the comics page in a story that will stay with readers a long time.
Best Ongoing Comic Book Series – Ghost Tree by Bobby Curnow and Simon Gane (IDW Publishing). Haunting, mythic, and sweeping, this story of a man reflecting on his past and coming to terms with the present combines with Asian legend tropes to form an emotional and curiously funny tale. Sure to leave readers begging for more.
Best Sci-Fi Comic Series, Best Comic Book Writing – Ascender by writer Jeff Lemire and artist Dustin Nguyen (Image Comics). Lemire owned this category with two fabulous science fiction tales, both with strong female lead characters. Runner-up: Sentient by Jeff Lemire and Gabriel Walta (TKO Studios).
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borg’s Best of 2019–The Best on TV
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This year we found one series that could easily sweep most of the categories–a single television series that had everything: compelling story, a full range of emotions, great characters, tremendous action, a sharp use of humor, all kinds of genre elements that were satisfying and left viewers feeling inspired. Richly detailed sets and costumes. An impossible feat to replicate. No drama came close. No other visual effects spectacle could touch it. And its audience is everyone. A truly epic addition to television viewing, that series is The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, the greatest television series to come along in years. If you love genre like we do, this was as good as it gets. And like icing on the cake, along came The Mandalorian at year end.
But we’re not going to ignore the other good things that happened on the small screen this year.
Our borg Best of 2019 list continues today with the best in television. If you missed it, check out our review of the Best Movies of 2019 here and the best Kick-Ass Heroines of 2019 here.
Without further ado, this year’s Best in Television:
Best Borg Series – Doom Patrol (DC Universe). With this year’s series Doom Patrol we got a look at two borgs, DC Comics’ Cyborg, an update to Martin Caidin’s original Bionic Man from the 1970s, and an older borg created before the word was even coined in the 1960s, Robotman. Both characters revealed a glimpse at what life might be like with significant cybernetic enhancements (when brought together by a modern Dr. Frankenstein). For 2019, it was the way to get your borg fix on the small screen.
Best TV Series, Best New Limited TV Series, Best TV Fantasy, Best Writing for TV, Best TV Costumes/Makeup, Best TV Soundtrack – The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Netflix). It was worth the wait. Jim Henson’s seemingly impossible to replicate artistic vision was successfully achieved thanks to his daughters and the company he founded. The kindest heroes, the darkest evil, a truly epic, legendary story for the ages. Everybody is cranking out CGI extravaganzas, but how many are creating artistry so fundamentally real, with so many individual artists and artisans contributing and achieving so much? Even that wouldn’t be enough if not for the layered mythology and epic adventure story. Add great humor, high stakes, emotional impact, an all-star voice cast, Daniel Pemberton and Samuel Sim’s imaginative musical score, and those puppets and all that go into them–it adds up to a rare thing–a Henson masterpiece.
Best TV Sci-fi Series, Best TV Drama – The Man in the High Castle (Amazon). Amazon Studios could not have adapted a series more faithfully, making changes for the medium and the times, than its take on Philip K. Dick’s most celebrated novel. The use of science fiction to tell a deep and twisty level of subplots and unique setting all came to a perfect conclusion in the series finale. Exciting, intelligent, frightening, and the most thought-provoking series this year, it was also different from its sci-fi competition. Honorable mention: The Mandalorian (Disney+)–but only if we allow space fantasy since the series is not true science fiction, The Orville (Fox)–for its two-part epic movie-worthy space story, “Identity.”
Best New Ongoing TV Series, Runner-up: Best TV Soundtrack, Runner-up: Best TV Costumes/Makeup – The Mandalorian (Disney+). Not a lot needs explaining with this series, which in only its first two hours we rated it closer to the original Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back than anything with the Star Wars label on it since. The Western motif is still alive, not all that hidden here in space fantasy garb. And we won’t get started on the impact of The Child (aka Baby Yoda) on the genre-loving world and beyond. Credit Jon Favreau’s visible enthusiasm and love for the original movies for the success of this surprisingly awesome arrival–the series is proof Star Wars is far from over.
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borg’s Best of 2019–The Year’s Best Movies
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When we created last year’s preview of 2019 movies we were pretty sure we were going to have some great movies this year, but we were surprised by what ended up being the best. All year we tried to keep up with what Hollywood had to offer and homed in on the genre content we thought was worth examining. We went back and looked at it all and pulled together our annual picks in our Best Movies of 2019.
Genredom. As always, we’re after the best genre content of the year–with our top categories from the Best in Movies. There are thousands of other places that cover plain vanilla dramas and the rest of the film world, but here we’re looking for movies we want to watch. What do all of this year’s selections have in common? In addition to those elements that define each part of genredom, each has a good story. Special effects without a good story is not good entertainment, and we saw plenty of films this year that missed that crucial element.
Come back later this month for our print media picks, and our annual borg Hall of Fame inductees. And if you missed it, check out our Best Kick-Ass Genre Heroines of 2019 here. Wait no further, here are our movie picks for 2019:
Best Film, Best Superhero Movie, Best Re-Imagining on Film – Shazam! (Warner Bros.). Movies are supposed to be a wonder, right? What brought the magic of the movies back to theaters more than Shazam? Why did DC take so long to adapt a superhero to the scene perfectly? Who cares–they finally did it. Faithful to the character from the #1 selling superhero book of the 1940s, this was the superhero movie many of us have been waiting for for the past 50 years (or more). Full of superhero fun, one of the best training montages ever, Zachary Levi’s boyish hero was perfectly matched to Jack Dylan Grazer’s take on best pal Freddy. It’s also the only superhero movie we can think of that got better as it went along, culminating in a fantastic, satisfying third act and finale. This is what we want more of. And it was the first DC superhero movie of the millennium that could be watched and enjoyed by the entire family. Honorable mention: Glass (Universal), Spider-Man: Far From Home (Sony Pictures).
Best Fantasy Movie, Best Adventure Movie, Best Comedy Movie – Jumanji: The Next Level (Columbia Pictures). The only issue with this film was that its status as a sequel will prompt some to not recognize it for the gigantic success it truly is. With adventure scenes bigger and better than anything in the entire Indiana Jones franchise, two movies in and director Jake Kasdan proved a sequel can actually be as good as the original. The four stars didn’t miss a beat, swapping roles and adding new laughs, and the new characters inside and outside the game were perfectly spliced in to tell a new tale. The bridge crossing scene is now the adventure film scene to beat. An epic fantasy that’s loads of fun. Honorable mention for Best Fantasy Movie: Shazam! (Disney/Marvel), Captain Marvel (Disney/Marvel).
Best Movie Borg, Best Borg Film – Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Carl, Terminator: Dark Fate (Paramount Pictures). It would have been almost impossible for James Cameron and director Tim Miller not to get this right, a new thread through time reuniting Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor and a new T-800 with Arnold back with another take on his greatest borg of all time. New characters and new effects kept the franchise from getting boring, but this was more than just getting by, a big sci-fi spectacle with great cyborg battles, and easily the best cyborg fix this year.
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Changing the world begins with you
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What inspired you this year to be a hero?
More superheroes than ever before on the big screen? A guy who looks like Boba Fett rescuing a little alien kid on the small screen?
Lots of superheroes trying to save the planet from Thanos again?
You don’t need superpowers to change the world.
Several charities are out there in need of your help. You can change the world one dollar at a time. And it can even help your own pocketbook if you make charitable contributions by the end of the month for your 2019 taxes.
So change the world. borg.com endorses the following awesome organizations:
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Check out these great charities today and give if you can.
C.J. Bunce
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A Glorious Future of Flexibility
I personally have no interest in APB, despite several of my friends raving about it, but I am pretty enthused about their interesting pricing model. It’s basically a pay-as-you-play subscription (or you could go for a $10 traditional unlimited sub), which isn’t new at all, but it’s something we haven’t seen here in the west since the golden days of Compuserve. To me, this model takes a lot of the pressure of having to play just that title to get your “money’s worth” for the month — instead, hey, you don’t waste anything. You play as short or long as you like, and you don’t have to feel guilty about juggling MMOs.
I’m really loving how companies are experimenting with these payment options, because we as the consumers are going to benefit the most from it. More! More!
Guild Wars: Nothing To See Here, Folks. Seriously. Move Along.
I imagine that the folks over at ArenaNet just love their little surprises. According to the fans of the Guild Wars franchise, they’re well known for making people wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and HOLY CRAP IT’S NEW NEWS! This has the effect of making millions of nerds across the world suddenly pee their britches without warning, which is unfortunate if it also happens during work hours.
Which, of course, this did.
ArenaNet’s all-out, shove-it-down-your-throat marketing blitz for Guild Wars 2 made me think of that old Simpsons episode, where all the kids wanted the game Bonestorm, which had a catchy commercial where a psychopathic Santa screamed at the kids, “BUY ME, BONESTORM, OR GO TO HELL!”
If nothing else, it’s an excuse for me to post this awesome Milhouse picture:
And his truly excellent video game handle:
Man, I miss the days when Simpsons was cool, watchable and quotable. Oh well. Where were we?
Yes. Guild Wars 2.
Anyway, I’m always watching how MMO companies handle pre-release marketing, because there seems to be no definite pattern to it all. Some studios roll out new info in steady streams with the occasional spurt of info (aka TOR), others wait until they can charge people well over a hundred bucks to hear the news in person (aka WoW), and then you have the charming marketers who wait in bushes, patiently, until we’re completely unaware and then
STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!
In a way, it’s really genius. There’s absolutely nothing on the near horizon that’s of major importance, so ArenaNet has the stage. They’ve released a mere token of information before this point, so people are starving for it. And seeing as how the previous Big News was WoW making raiding changes (again), all of this comes like a breath of fresh air to blow away the stale discussions we’ve been having.
Not to mention that they waited for Guild Wars’ 5th anniversary, which undoubtedly will help to boost sales of that game (yet again).
There’s almost too much information for me to digest, which sometimes happens when it’s poured out like this. Plus, I don’t want to start going GW2 rabid at this point, seeing as how we’ve got a long way to go before ever playing it.
What I do want to focus on is the shift in gameplay that they’re making with their event system. Events in GW2 are more or less Public Quests 2.0, except that that’s all there is in the game world — there’s no huge amount of collected chores to go gather, do and get a reward. Instead, you just wander until something catches your eye, and you participate in the event, whatever it may be. It seems a little less structured than traditional MMOs, but I have to say — that’s very welcome at this point.
It’s a bit risky, as people like public quests but they haven’t been without their sticking points, particularly that they aren’t as fun when there’s too many to do and few people to do them with. GW2 plans to make the events more dynamic, scaling up and down based on participation, which is intriguing — if it works. I just like the idea of roaming without the heavy press of a To Do list on my back, getting into adventures without passing someone’s entrance requirements first.
Anyway, if you feel — as I do — buried under all of this new information, then GameDrone has an excellent bullet-point summary for you to absorb.
Six Things I’d Have Changed About DDO From The Beginning
April 29, 2010 Syp15 Comments
Because Monday morning quarterbacking is what all bloggers live to do, here are six things I would’ve changed or done differently with DDO from the start:
1. More info on building classes and better respeccing
D&D is, by its very nature, a complex game. That complexity is part of its charm, but it also acts as a barrier to entry to those who are bewildered with terms like THAC0 and 3d6 and what a Fortitude vs. Will save means. I think translating that into a MMO was a monumental task of which Turbine should receive a lot of praise for even attempting, but even their modified 3.5 ruleset was (and is) a little too unwieldy and prone to gimpage for the average player.
The sheer flexibility of the character building system in DDO is only matched by the vast ways you can make a less-than-optimal character and have no idea that you’re doing so until you’re well into the game. DDO needed to spend a lot more time explaining builds and to be more forgiving with respecs afterward.
2. Go Slower
To my knowledge, the classic tabletop D&D experience isn’t summed up by a party of players full-on sprinting through dungeons and wildly, frantically flailing their weapons at anything that moves. DDO lost a bit of its D&D-ness when it enabled — and promoted — players to focus on speed instead of thoughtfulness, careful party progression and combat that isn’t 99% mouse-clicking.
3. More storytelling elements
I really do love how awesome DDO’s dungeons are, especially with some of the scripted events that occur and the DM’s occasional voiceover. But I’ve always felt like the dungeons were disconnected from each other and the world, just little pocket MMOs that had no greater story attached.
Considering how Turbine hit a home run with their storytelling devices in LOTRO, especially with the epic book line, I would’ve loved to see more pre-dungeon storytelling in DDO (that isn’t just a text box, of course), including cut scenes and interactive role-play.
4. Fully embraced the Eberron setting
I actually approve of Turbine securing the little-known Eberron setting for DDO instead of one of the more familiar (and far more overused) campaigns, but I’ve always felt like they never really embraced Eberron enough. For one thing, the game takes place on a largely unpopulated continent that’s far away from the rest of the world’s population. Eberron has a really cool magic/steampunk/Indiana Jones vibe going on, but not as much of that made it into DDO.
In addition, after throwing in the Warforged as a race, Turbine seemed to shy away from the unique classes and races that helped define the Eberron setting, instead choosing to cling to D&D staples instead.
5. More social tools
Another odd exclusion from D&D — the heart of the role-playing experience, mind you — was anything but a bare minimum of social and role-playing tools. Unlike LOTRO, you don’t see players congregating in any areas for RP events (or, at least, any that I’ve seen), and there are few if any tools to encourage them to do so. Guilds always seemed like extended friends list, but other than constantly run through dungeons, there wasn’t much else to do.
I’m glad DDO’s throwing in guild airships soon, but I would’ve liked to have seen a lot more social and RP tools from Day One, if only to give the world more depth and the community more of a reason to bond.
6. Use the current business model
Okay, in retrospect, there’s no way they would’ve known a few years ago just how successful this F2P/subscription-hybrid model would’ve worked, but can you imagine if it had been in place from launch? If people didn’t have to choose between a $15 subscription for DDO and any other game, but could have both and just pay a little bit at a time to unlock modules?
Syp’s Theory of Red Flags
If a developer is gushing about some amazing new (or, at least, improved) feature in an upcoming game, and yet uses the one same example in each and every interview they do, then it’s a Bad Idea to assume that they have example two in the wings.
Guild Wars, Picture of the Day
Age of Conan: The Future of MMORPGs
“Play AoC! Because… because… you don’t even need to be online to level up! It’ll just happen!”
I simply cannot understand the groupthink session that went into creating this bizarre feature, unless they were trying to trump the rest system seen in other MMOs.
What’s the point here? What’s the message they’re trying to convey?
“Our game is so lame that we want you to play less of it?”
“The REAL game starts at the level cap, so we’re gonna get you there ASAP?”
“You’ve shelled out your $15 this month, so here — have fun with an officially sanctioned cheat?”
“Age of Conan: we reward lazy players who can’t be bothered to log in?”
I’m sorry, I sort of see where they were going with this, but it just smacks of counter-productivity. What’s next, handing out epic gear every seven days, just ’cause?
Oh well. Who needs to actually play games anyway?
Guild Wars: Manifestos Are Fun!
So today, ArenaNet’s blog suddenly hopped to life with a huge article entitled “Guild Wars 2 Design Manifesto”, in which they looked back on what made Guild Wars 1 a hit, as well as their plans for the sequel.
I think it’s incredibly easy to overlook and/or patronize Guild Wars’ place in the MMOsphere, especially when people dig out that stupid “It’s not a MMORPG” chestnut. You’d think that in 2010, when we’ve seen online RPGs of every type, server structure, and play design come out, the Definition Police would give it a rest. If it looks like a MMO, waddles like a MMO and quacks like a MMO, it’s a MMO with a weird vocal thing.
In any event, I think many MMOs wish that they had the selling power of Guild Wars, even if only in terms of box sales. I remember back before GW launched, a lot of folks were worried that the business model — a subscription-free game fully funded by box and expansion sales alone — wouldn’t be viable in the long run. Not to mention that GW just looked a heck of a lot different than most of the standard MMOs, what with its instancing, lack of a jump key, cut scenes, skill loadouts, and relatively low level cap. And yet, hey, it worked, and worked gloriously. I’m still amazed with just how good the game looks after all these years, and I’ll admit — Guild Wars 2 is vying with The Secret World for my second-most anticipated MMO of next year.
I really liked this quote from the Manifesto:
So if you love MMORPGs, you should check out Guild Wars 2. But if you hate traditional MMORPGs, then you should really check out Guild Wars 2. Because, like Guild Wars before it, GW2 doesn’t fall into the traps of traditional MMORPGs. It doesn’t suck your life away and force you onto a grinding treadmill; it doesn’t make you spend hours preparing to have fun rather than just having fun; and of course, it doesn’t have a monthly fee.
Lots of promises there, and we’ll see how they pan out, but I love the attitude, approach and (of course) no monthly fee thing.
In GW you experience the story of the world, but the story in GW2 is the personal story of your character as well. You fill out a biography at character creation time that defines your background and your place within the world, and that starts you on your path. Then the choices you make will take the story in different directions. Each time you play through the game, you can experience a different storyline.
Bloggers have long debated the importance of story in MMOs, with some of us saying that we’re well past the need for it, especially when we click past the quest text all of the time. I disagree — I think a lot of the burnout and ennui of MMOs these days comes from that point when you’ve done all of the mechanics of the game to death, but you’ve lost the connection to the world that story provides. It’s really encouraging to see TOR and TSW and GW2 put a lot of emphasis on story, choices and branching paths.
There’s a lot more in here, particularly outlining their efforts to ease players into socializing without forcing them to party or penalizing them when they do it, as well as their push to make combat more interactive (including environmental weapons). Sure, you could read this whole manifesto with a cynical eye, a “I’ll believe it when I see it” attitude, and that’s a safe way to play it. But really, I’m thrilled. I want to see this game. I really am rooting for them to fulfill this quote:
It all gets back to our basic design philosophy. Our games aren’t about preparing to have fun, or about grinding for a future fun reward. Our games are designed to be fun from moment to moment.
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WildStar: Locked and Reloaded
September 30, 2015 September 30, 2015 Syp8 Comments
WildStar: Reloaded is here, and as to be expected, it’s a mixture of giddy highs and crushing lows.
Most of the lows are on the technical side of things: a crushing queue that sometimes reached into the hour-and-a-half range, server lag, and so many day-one maintenance patches and associated downtimes that playing was more of an occasional nicety than anything else. I expect most of these issues to be worked out soon, but it didn’t make for the best F2P opening I’ve ever seen.
In fact, at times even when I was in the game, it was virtually unplayable. That’s the thing about action combat — any lag pretty much shoots the experience in both feet. Two or three seconds of delay between hitting any key and seeing a result was unacceptable. I was not the only one I saw who got out of the game last night to wait and see when Carbine would iron all of this out.
On the upside, the excitement over WildStar is positively electric, both in the game and outside of it. It’s kind of a weird mixture of launch, expansion, and Christmas. The second I logged in, I rushed to check all of the loyalty goodies that I’d accumulated. While for some reason I have yet to be awarded the subscriber pet and housing item, my cosmic rewards shot into the fifth tier and spat out a ton of items and unlocks.
That Northern Lights dye is spectacular. And I’m not complaining about the mounts, costume pieces, and pets either.
Every long-term player was suffering from inventory bloating, myself included. Due to all of the rune changes and whatnot, Carbine mailed us SO MUCH STUFF that went on top of any cosmic rewards. Sorting all of that out took some time.
I poked around the new challenge interface as well. Instead of tying a set of randomized rewards to individual challenges, now you have a challenge reward track that lets you choose one of three goodies at certain intervals. It’s cool… I guess. I am saddened that my Thayd run will no longer spit out a string of decor boxes or that certain challenges I had been working on for pet rewards are no longer there. I really wanted that squirg pet, darn it!
In a spate of questing, I did start to accumulate omnibits — one here and there, including one from a challenge. It’s going to be slow going building up a bank account of those to spend on the store, but at least it’s an option. There’s one lawman outfit that I really want to get at some point.
Apart from that, I put together a couple of outfits from the sets that I was given (a cannibal one and a formal one — seen above). I jetted off to my housing plot and suffered agoraphobic shock at how much empty space there is now that the plot’s been quadrupled in size.
Honestly, I don’t know how I feel about that. I can imagine that many intricately designed housing plots were ruined with this. For me, I’m struggling to think how I’m going to fill up all of this space. Eventually we’re supposed to get more housing plugs, but they’re not in yet. I just wish that my house wasn’t so far away from the teleportation pad.
Speaking of the house, the patch allowed me to buy an opposite faction pad, so I got the Cassian cozy house. I like it so much more than the Exile one, if that it contains straight angles, a floor grid, and enough space to make a second floor easy. Lots to do there, and I am mulling over options as to how I want to design the interior before moving in all of my stuff.
It’s a heady feeling to have so much to do and a largely improved game in which to do it. I still have to go through the Alpha Sanctum and start on crafting, so those are on the table for some time this week.
VGM of the Day: “Forest” from Ultima Online
September 29, 2015 September 29, 2015 Syp1 Comment
Dreamy with a renaissance faire vibe, this track is a great example of old-school high fantasy. Would be great to quest by, as well!
SWTOR: Blitzing to 60
September 29, 2015 September 29, 2015 SypLeave a comment
Mayday! Mayday! We’re going down in a shower of sparks and non-canonical narrative!
I am making myself breathless how fast I’ve been whipping through SWTOR over the past week. Maybe it’s that thing where the first time through content feels like it’s so long because it’s unfamiliar and you’re smelling the roses, whereas subsequent journeys can be a lot quicker. But I also have to factor in my laser focus on getting my Smuggler ready for Knights of the Fallen Empire. The pressure is real. The red hair dye is not.
Thus I rocketed through Rishi and the six solo flashpoints that make up a bulk of Shadow of Revan so quickly that the story became secondary. Oh, I slowed down whenever I got a chance to put Lana in her place:
I’m not normally this rude, but SWTOR is making me team up with an ex-girlfriend who dumped me. On another character BUT STILL. Lana is getting no slack from me this time around — and no flirt options either.
I hit level 60 pretty effortlessly before wrapping up Rishi. The 12x boost lasted until level 55 and XP pots after that helped nudge me across the level finish line. Now my build is cemented and is being bolstered by all of the yummy quest reward gear that’s getting me up to par.
As I said the other night in guild chat, I love my tauntaun. Not only is it blissfully quiet compared to those grating speeder noises, but it’s portable one-time housing!
#empirestrikesbacknerdjokes
With Rishi done, I merely have Yavin and Ziost to go. Yavin will be nice to upgear and get Guss a new costume, for sure. Past that, my checklist involves maxing out companion affection and perhaps going through some of the optional high-level planets that I hop-scotched when the expansions became available.
Or perhaps an alt. Because I have a sickness.
Living in an internet-free household
September 28, 2015 Syp2 Comments
It was not the best weekend in the Syp household. After taking the kids to a bounce house place on Saturday morning, I came home, did some chores, and settled in for a little gaming. At 3:00 p.m. our internet went out, the third time in the past month (fourth if you factor in a power outage last weekend). And it didn’t come back up, even after troubleshooting over the phone and endlessly resetting the modem. The best they could do was to send someone out Monday afternoon, they said.
Well that just put a damper on the past two days.
I know, I know, first world problems and all that, but when the internet goes out, it really changes up your schedule and creates some significant headaches. I had some games I needed to play for columns, I had pieces to write, and I really wanted to attend the pre-F2P launch party that was going on on my WildStar server on Sunday night.
Today I feel frazzled because of this outage, knocked out of my established routine. I had to wait until going to work to write this, and I’m trying to plan my day around a five-hour window that the internet guy is supposed to show up. There’s a podcast to do later, not to mention a three-gig WildStar patch to download.
That’s not to say that I was sitting in a corner, rocking myself while keening out loud because I felt completely lost without my precious internet. I always have things to do and that need to be done, and I’ll never begrudge spending a little more time with my family. We all unwrapped a DVD we’d been saving, Plans: Fire & Rescue, and my kids absolutely loved it. After everyone went to bed, I chewed through a novel and then caught up on my sleep.
I’m all for taking breaks from the constant online connectivity, I just would rather do it as part of a plan than my crappy modem deciding to take a sabbatical in the middle of a weekend.
On the plus side, I did get some time in with Devilian’s alpha and should be back up for WildStar’s Reloaded patch tomorrow, so I’m not going to spend any more time whining about it. So I’m sorry there isn’t any exciting gaming tale to share today!
Retro Gaming: Star Trek Judgment Rites part 8
(This is part of my journey going checking out Star Trek Judgment Rites. You can follow the entire series on the Retro Gaming page.)
Episode 8: …Yet There Is Method In It
As we reach the final mission of the game, we’re also in the presence of the first two-parter of these adventure games. Episode 8 transitions right off from the previous one, as Kirk, McCoy, Spock, Uhura, and Klarr the Klingon jump through a portal to meet the test-loving Brassicans that have been putting the crew through the ringer for a good part of this game.
My favorite part is when Klarr knocks out his grumpy aide for trying to commit mutiny. Seriously, I usually hate Klingons, but I am warming up to this one.
Kirk and company appear on a bunch of Tetris blocks floating in space, whereupon they meet the Brassicans. Which… look like a cube with a Furby face on the side of them. To be fair, this game did come out before the weird Furby craze, but it’s an unfortunate comparison.
Naturally, the Brassicans want to conduct even more tests. This is so not why Kirk signed up for Starfleet. Green-skinned women, yes. An alcoholic engineer, for sure. Plenty of fist fights, definitely. But tests? C’mon.
So the idea behind this mission is that the Brassicans pose a question to the group, each of whom have an answer to it. The player has to pick the best person for the answer, at which point that person disappears and the questioning continues. It’s not really that gripping.
The riddles get downright silly when Spock, Klarr, and Kirk start debating the merits of “pig + X = cow.” I kid you not, the three of them bicker about this automatically for about four minutes.
Riddles passed — wasn’t that a gas? — everyone arrives on the Brassican home planet. These guys look even goofier than when their faces were on geometric objects. Anyway, the Brassicans say that all of the tests were necessary because they’re extreme isolationists fearful of reestablishing contact with the galaxy.
One last test is given, as both Kirk and Klarr are given discs with supposed information about each other’s territory. Klarr agrees to smash both of the discs and the Brassicans are impressed. Yahoo.
And with that short mission, Judgment Rites comes to a close.
Yes, there are some flaws with this game. Some missions are too long and devilishly difficult, and I couldn’t stand the limited and grating music after a while. But overall this is not just an improvement over 25th Anniversary, but a candidate for one of the best Star Trek games ever made and a darn solid adventure game in every sense of the term.
There’s just so much detail given to examining environments, talking to (and using) your crew, and making dialogue and action choices that can radically change how you go through a mission. It’s definitely got some replay value, especially with every mission being scored. Finally, I really loved hearing the old cast come together for their final full group performance.
Judgment Rites still holds up admirably even over two decades later. Highly recommended.
Episode 7: Though This Be Madness…
Now that shore leave is over, it’s back to the stars — and in a big way. Episode 7 starts out in a wild flurry of huge events. First up is a Romulan sub-commander who broadcasts a distress call from the Neutral zone. Kirk is loathe to violate the treaty, so he ignores the call. Plus, it’s the Romulans. Forget those guys.
Then another call comes in, a planetary invasion of Atabis. That sounds more fun than stuffy Romulans, so away we go!
Showing up at Atabis, the Enterprise encounters two strange sights: a Klingon battlecruiser and a giant alien ship. The Klingons are there to defend their interests (Atabis is a disputed planet) and the aliens… no idea. At least the Klingons don’t want to fight.
The away team beams over to the alien ship, joined this time by Uhura (because of possible communications issues). Might want to change that red shirt, Uhura!
Talking to the two people here give the feeling that we’ve stepped into some sort of mental institution, as they’re textbook Hollywood “crazy.” McCoy examines them and notes that both have some physical issues going on, while Spock tricorders the plants and discovers that none of them are on file, but all have similarities to real plants. Fascinating.
More examples of Hollywood crazy here: a big man being a little baby and a guy who thinks that he’s a king. And a cactus that probably thinks that it’s a cactus. Fortunately, Uhuru is descended from royalty, so the king treats with her and then leaves.
Another room, another collection of disturbed people. These guys are more like a gang, with the ringleader to the right there. Plus a teddy bear. Kirk wantee the teddy.
The Klingons beam in to do their own search of the ship, which I predict will quickly end in bloodshed.
Again, nothing is quite as it seems here. Scans from the tricorder reveal that the playhouse is actually a space-time portal. Wonder if I just won myself a space-time teddy bear too.
In another room we meet the Phays, a “food-fixated mothering computer” that keeps swapping between referring to itself as “I” and “we.” It seems to think that all of the people on the ship are its children (of sorts) and ignores Kirk’s entreaty to stop trying to land the ship in the middle of a settlement.
Spock does a mind-meld with the woman in the corner, who apparently gorged on the library computer in an effort to try to understand who made the ship and what is going on. However, understanding never happened and she’s nearly a vegetable as a result. The Klingons barge in, asking for answers, and are unhappy that McCoy wants to treat the woman back on the Enterprise.
Am I the only person who never liked the Klingons as villains or allies? Bunch of paranoid bullies with single-minded dispositions. And in this mission, they keep following Kirk around and being passive-aggressive.
Meanwhile, Kirk phasers some plant equipment in hydroponics and imagines Klarr’s face on it. Pew pew! Believe it or not, this is all part of a complicated plan to grow fresh food.
Food is pretty important here. The Phays mentioned that she was feeding her children, yet Stambob talks about how there’s something being put into it that’s bad. Sure enough, after analyzing a box of prepackaged food, Kirk discovers that it’s been drugged to hell and back.
After much — oh so much — puzzle-solving and maneuvering, Kirk, company, and Klingons arrive in the heart of the Phays. Since it’s just another super-computer that needs to be spanked, Kirk knows exactly how to deal with it.
Klarr actually helps to repair Phays, who now becomes more-or-less complete. She says that this ship, the Compassion, was launched by the Builders but somehow she became damaged. The more Kirk talks with her, the more apparent that Phays doesn’t know much or won’t admit to much. After calling her out on it, the mysterious alien race that has been testing Kirk over several episodes creates a portal, tells him that he’s passed the test, and invites him to make first contact. Klarr decides to come as well.
6 MMOs I wish I had time to be playing
Right now I’m in a pretty good MMO gaming groove, focused down on two games for the most part: WildStar and SWTOR. Each gets about an hour of playtime a day from me, with a smattering of Marvel Heroes here and there.
And that’s perfect for me right now. I want to focus on those titles with the upcoming major content updates, not to mention that I’m genuinely enjoying both. Trimming down to two MMOs is definitely less stressful as well, which is something I want to keep in mind for when baby #4 arrives here around November. No sense overloading!
But that doesn’t mean that I don’t think about playing other games, sometimes wistfully so. You can’t read all of the blogs I do and write about MMO news without peering over the fence at other games. So here are six titles that I have no time to play — but I still think about now and then.
The Secret World: Now that Tokyo’s over, I feel the urgency to progress through TSW at a standstill. Sure, I could continue with my lowbie playthrough series (and I might at some point), but right now I’m OK taking a break to return whenever a new zone or missions arise. No, Funcom, a new dungeon isn’t enough to get me to come back.
Trove: Weirdly enough, I feel deeply regretful that I’m not playing Trove. I see that community having a rip-roaring good time and know that in a world where I had another 10 hours to my day, I could be dropping a third of that time into this game happily.
RIFT: Speaking of Trion, RIFT will always be an “MMO home” that I’ll at least know I’m welcome to come back to at any time. Lots to love about that game, and after doing a dev tour yesterday, I wish that I still had the fire to be playing it. I’ve made a promise to myself that if I ever do come back, it will be on a character that will only do instant adventures and dungeons.
Project Gorgon: This one will take some explanation. I didn’t suddenly lose my newfound interest in this game. On the contrary, I really, really want to be playing it, but I don’t want to get too deep and then have to start over (either from a wipe, some major changes, or — in my case — the addition of a new race that I’d want to play). I will come back, it will happen, it’s just a matter of time and development progress.
World of Warcraft: Sometimes it hits me, how long I’ve been away from this game. It’s for the best, I know — I was burned out and I wanted to see the wider world of MMOs. And I’m glad, not just professionally but personally. But every now and then I’ll hear some WoW music that will drudge up memories or have a small freak-out that I’ve missed out on some five years of the game’s life and want to go back. Never say never!
Star Trek Online: Those space battles were something else, weren’t they? And I loved how I never felt insanely far behind the power/gear curve. I haven’t even seen the Delta Rising expansion, it’s been a while.
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Time is a weapon. Only she can use it.
Evermore is the high-stakes, star-crossed follow up to Everless that you’ve been desperately waiting for. And we understand why – this fantasy series combines alchemy, magic, romance and ancient legends which will make your hair stand on end.
We know this one technically comes out right at the end of 2018, but that’s even more exciting, right?!
Devoted – Jennifer Mathieu (10th Jan 2019)
Her life is her own. But can she find the courage to fight for it?
An empowering, feminist coming-of-age story about self-discovery, and a girl’s fight for freedom and her voice. From the hugely talented author of MOXIE (a Zoella’s Book Club book) – you don’t want to miss this one!
Nowhere on Earth – Nick Lake (10th Jan 2019)
Nothing in her life is what it seems – not even the things she holds dearest of all…
From the author of Satellite, this unique survival story is haunting and brilliant, with a twist that will leave your heart in your mouth. We guarantee you’ve never read anything like it!
The Colour of the Sun (Paperback) – David Almond (10th Jan 2019)
Shortlisted for the 2018 Costa Book Awards.
“The day is long, the world is wide, you’re young and free.”
The Colour of the Sun is an outstanding novel, full of warmth and light, with funny and moving moments in equal measure. Written by the multi-award-winning author of Skellig, the paperback comes out in Jan 2019.
Colour Me In (Paperback) – Lydia Ruffles (7th Feb 2019)
After its hardback outing in August of this year, the stunningly beautiful Colour Me In is coming in paperback in Feb 2019.
The Catcher in the Rye meets Turtles All The Way Down, this is the story of troubled young actor Arlo, spiralling after a life-shattering event. Flying halfway across to world in an attempt to run from his pain, Arlo finds solace in fellow traveller Mizuki – but is their relationship enough to heal his heart?
Heartstopper: Volume One – Alice Oseman (7th Feb 2019)
Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. Dive into this ground-breaking LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between.
Already an online phenomenon, Heartstopper is genius piece of storytelling that will fill you with joy (we COULD not stop smiling while reading it!). This is the first volume in the series, with much more to come.
You Can’t Hide – Sarah Mussi (7th Feb 2019)
Can you trust your own memories?
An unreliable narrator, secret identities and lost memories combine in this page turning YA thriller that will keep you guessing right until the very last page. Perfect for fans of One of Us is Lying.
Resisters by Lauren Sharkey (21st Feb 2019)
Young girls and women are uniting across the world to create change, have their voices heard and stand up for what they believe in!
This fantastically feminist book features the powerful stories and achievements of 50 young campaigners, aged between 9 and 21, who are working to improve the lives of women like them.
Celebrate your fellow (re)sisters with this fab book all about Girl Power!
Izzy + Tristan – Shannon Dunlap (7th March 2019)
This isn’t a story about anything new. It’s about the oldest thing in the world. It’s about love.
Inspired by the legend of Tristan and Iseult, with all the tragedy and romance of Romeo and Juliet, this is a heartbreaking, contemporary novel for anyone who loved All The Bright Places and The Hate U Give.
Shannon Dunlap, an exciting new voice in YA, brings a gripping tale of first love and a sprawling epic about the bonds that tie us together and pull us apart.
Fated – Teri Terry (7th March 2019)
I’m just one girl. What can I do?
This red-hot thriller is the prequel to the multi award-winning SLATED trilogy by Teri Terry. Packed with secrets and revelations, FATED shines a new light on the original story which thrilled the nation.
One girl, one choice. She can make a difference: she must. Even if her life – and her heart – are on the line …
Viper – Bex Hogan (18th April 2019)
Fantasy fiends rejoice! The Isles of Storm and Sorrow is the next big fantasy series to look out for in 2019.
Viper is the first book in this epic new trilogy, and features revenge, magic, political intrigue and pirate assassins. Yeah, it’s THAT good.
Dear Ally, How Do I Write a Book? – Ally Carter (4th April 2019)
Always wanted to write? Not sure how to begin, or what to do with tricky characters or pesky plot lines? Ask Ally!
Ally Carter is the internationally bestselling author of Gallagher Girls, Embassy Row and Heist Society. Known for her gripping plots and adventures that combine danger and glamour, Ally knows how to write brilliant books for teen and YA readers.
Now Ally and her author friends, including Holly Black, Cassandra Clare and Kody Keplinger, want to help YOU write the book you’ve always dreamed of. Part agony aunt, part writing guru, this writing guide is thoughtful, witty and best of all, useful.
The Boy Who Steals Houses – C. G. Drews (4th April 2019)
Can two broken boys find their perfect home?
Sam would do anything for his autistic brother, Avery. Even something that could get him into serious trouble. But through a comedy of errors, Sam finds himself in the most unusual and unpredictable of situations – which might just save his life. By turns heartbreaking and heartwarming, this is a gorgeously told, powerful story from the author of A Thousand Perfect Notes.
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A Turbulent Affair
BY: SARAH DOEBEREINER
They each have a secret that could destroy their relationship…
Crystal and Sylvia are best friends, each the only one the other one trusts. But they each have a dark secret, and neither one knows how to tell the other. Crystal’s secret is that she’s gay and strongly attracted to Sylvia. She wants more than friendship, but she’s afraid to destroy what they already have by letting Sylvia know. And after all, friendship is better than nothing, isn’t it? But Sylvia’s secret is more sinister. It could not only destroy their friendship, it could also hurt Crystal—in more ways than one.
TAYLOR JONES SAYS: In A Turbulent Affair by Sarah Doebereiner, Crystal is in love with her best friend Sylvia, but she’s afraid to let her know because Sylvia doesn’t know that Crystal is into girls, and Crystal’s afraid that telling Sylvia how she feels will destroy their relationship. On the other hand, Sylvia can’t maintain a relationship with anyone but Crystal, and every man she dates abandons her when he finds out her secret obsession. Sylvia’s afraid that Crystal will do the same. Needless to say, the relationship between these two young women is complicated with both of them afraid to trust enough to confess their secrets.
To be honest, this genre makes me a bit uncomfortable, but the author handled it with skill and an amazing depth of understanding of what it was like for both women—for Crystal, who has never had a lover, as well as for Sylvia, who doesn’t really like men, but who never considered any other options. The story is told with skill, subtlety, and sensitivity.
REGAN MURPHY SAYS: A Turbulent Affair by Sarah Doebereiner is the story of two young women, Crystal and Sylvia. Crystal is gay and in love with Sylvia, who is not—at least as far as she knows. Crystal’s hesitant to tell Sylvia her secret for fear that Sylvia will break off their friendship. But Sylvia also has a secret that she is afraid to confess to Crystal for the very same reason. The result is a complicated, heart-breaking, heart-warming, and sometimes tragic story of love, need, obsession, distrust, and fear where two women turn to each other when they can’t make it work with anyone else. Doebereiner did an excellent job of describing both the sweetness of the romance and the situational awkwardness of forging your way into unknown territory, both for Crystal who has never had sex, or even a romantic relationship, as well as for Sylvia who has never thought of women in “that way” before and really isn’t certain of her own sexual orientation.
A Turbulent Affair is, by its very nature, a difficult story to tell and the author’s understanding of both sides of the issues comes across in the sensitivity and compassion with which she tells it. Whatever your sexual orientation, you can’t help but root for both troubled women as they struggle to accept each other unconditionally, despite their flaws and quirks, while taking their relationship to a different, and difficult, level, without destroying their precious friendship. It gives you a new appreciation for how hard life can sometime be for some people.
Crystal hovered around her kitchen. She opened the refrigerator door to see how many cans of soda were inside. Her slender shadow stretched across the floor. The light bulb in the kitchen hung down far enough to brim over the edge of the fixture. It was brighter than it should have been. An abrasive glow made the room look dirty. Every shadow turned into grime, even though she’d scrubbed the floor that morning.
She peered into the living room. It was comfortably lit. Everything in it was simple and functional. There was a floor lamp behind the couch. Neither the couch nor the lamp matched the colors of the carpet or wallpaper. If pressed to describe it, Crystal always tried to use words like minimalistic, rather than poor. Her television sat on a cardboard box. Crys’s junk was written on the box in large, black sharpie. It was a woman’s writing, but not Crystal’s. It was big, sloppy, and ostentatious.
Another box filled the space in front of the couch where a coffee table would have gone. This box was scuffed on one side from having feet pressed against it. There were rings on the top of the box from condensation. Multiple rings were present, but they were clustered together in two tight patterns. Crystal smiled to herself. Two people sat on that couch. Two people rested drinks on the box-table. Two cups placed over and over in the same two spots, until the box had started to be eaten away by the drips they shed.
Crystal turned back to the kitchen and swung open a cupboard door. She glanced inside at the perfect stacks of cups and bowls. For a moment, she was transfixed by her own scrawny reflection in the glass. She slicked down a few tiny hairs standing at attention in the thick of her left eyebrow. The shirt she was wearing billowed around her. It swallowed her curves alive, but the hue brought out flecks of green in her eyes. The hem of the sleeves fell past her hands. She shook her head lightly and crossed to the refrigerator.
Eight cans of soda nested on the shelf. But the one closest to her was already opened–seven cans of soda, she corrected herself. When she picked up the eighth can, she could still hear the fizz crackling inside. Fresh enough for me.
The can made her sleeve feel cold. It camouflaged the sweat that was settling in her palm. She passed the soda from one hand to the other and let the chill sink into her. Then she rubbed the fabric of her sleeve against her palm. The tips of her fingers wiped away lingering moisture.
Crystal sucked in air until her organs felt cramped by the fullness of her lungs. She walked into the living room, sat on the couch, and pulled her feet up to chest. Her blue jeans bunched at the knee and hip where her slender limbs bent.
Several times she brought the can of soda to her lips. The motion was too shallow to pull liquid into her mouth. The third mock sip splashed the skin just under her nose. She used her sleeve to wipe her face. When she realized what she had done, she rubbed the sleeve against the coarse fabric of the couch. Fatter fibers in the linens soaked up sticky soda.
Company was coming. The couch was damp. She wiped the spot with the same sleeve. Her feet wouldn’t settle. First, they landed in her smudges on the box. Then they felt better flat on the floor. Crossed, uncrossed, shaking gently. They were getting too worked up. They were their own entity, full of nervous energy that she couldn’t control. She set the can in her box ring and ran a hand through hair. Chestnut brown flyaways jumped out from their sculpting. Her cell phone flashed seven o’clock.
Across the room, someone jostled the door. It rattled on its hinges, but didn’t give. The tension in Crystal’s body spring-boarded her to a standing position. Before she could reach the door, knocking reverberated in the entry way. The visitor jiggled the handle more forcefully.
“Crys?” Sylvia’s voice drifted in like a melody–an annoyed melody. Crystal hesitated. She didn’t want to open the door too quickly and look like she was waiting. The motion was a dance. She took a few steps: backward, forward, backward. Where was the line between casual and rude?
“Coming,” she answered. After what seemed like long enough, she meandered to the door and unlocked it.
Sylvia thrust the door open forcefully as soon as the deadbolt clicked. It slammed into the tip of Crystal’s foot before she could step back. The first three toes throbbed. She held a yelp behind clenched teeth. Crystal waited for Sylvia to walk in the room first. It would be less noticeable if she happened to limp on the first step. Crystal crossed one arm over her chest and peered into the front yard.
“Just you?” she mused, before she closed the door.
Sylvia plopped down on the couch. She shot Crystal a flat smile. It was a pinched, thin line under her nose that fell short of her eyes.
Strands of silky, black hair fell down around her face, shadowing her jaw line. Her lips were painted with gloss. She puffed them into a pout. A few loose strands of hair stuck in the gloss. “Why’d you lock it?” she asked.
Her tone was hard to read. Crystal unrolled the hem of her shirt. She frowned and glanced from the door to Sylvia. Her lips felt suddenly dry. They stuck together when she opened them to speak. She twisted her tongue sideways over bottom lip.
“Did you leave Jason in the car?” she asked.
She wiggled her toes in her socks and wondered if Sylvia was ashamed of her. The thought made her throat tighten. Crystal tried to breathe deeply, but her mouth watered. She swallowed her nerves. The thick, slimy spit made her stomach ache. Sylvia was no longer smiling. She rubbed her face like she was trying to wipe her own frown away.
“Oh,” Crystal added.
The look on Sylvia’s face made everything clear to Crystal. It was a face she had seen before. Jason didn’t show. It looked worse than just a broken date. Crystal felt her arms sinking down to her sides. Her neck was stiff from holding her shoulders up. Jason didn’t come. More than that, it was probably over between them. Crystal leapt onto couch. She landed half-way on top of Sylvia before rolling into her side.
“You smashed my foot when you opened the door,” Crystal confessed. She nudged Sylvia’s body with her shoulder. “I think it’s broken.”
She collapsed into the fetal position and waved her foot in Sylvia’s face. Their laughter loosened up the air in the apartment. It reverberated in every corner, until Crystal felt at home again.
Then there was silence. Crystal watched Sylvia stare at the black screen of the television. Solidarity wafted between them. For Crystal, it was a comfortable silence. Sylvia always went at her own pace.
Crystal stretched to pick up her can of soda, but couldn’t shift her focus from Sylvia. She “under reached” and hit the can with the tip of her fingers. It wobbled, but didn’t fall over. Sylvia looked at her. Crystal pulled her empty hand back and tucked it in-between her knees. The tips of her fingers sucked in heat from her legs.
“Klutz much?” Sylvia said.
Crystal studied the lines in Sylvia’s face and laughed anyway. She always laughed at Sylvia’s jokes, even when she wasn’t in a position to be joking. Maybe, especially, when it was inappropriate. That’s when Sylvia needed a laugh from her most.
Sylvia was a stoic sort of person. She was passionate, but guarded much of the time. For some reason, she couldn’t keep her feelings in check when she looked at Crystal. Crystal had a “yes face.” There was a kindness in her eyes that split open Sylvia’s belly and let her guts come rushing out. There was no use fighting it.
“I don’t know what happened,” she admitted.
“Want to talk about it?”
The two were sitting close together. They were touching from the shoulder to the hips, but there was a gap between their legs. Crystal’s knees were angled toward Sylvia. Both of their arms were at their sides. The contact was passive, coincidental.
“Not on an empty stomach,” Sylvia replied.
“You’re in luck. I went to the store to stock up since you two…” Crystal trailed off. It wasn’t a meet the boyfriend night. She bit the side of her cheek. “Since I just got paid and all I had was half-sour milk and the gross Chinese you left the other day.” She stood and glided into the kitchen to pop popcorn. It was their favorite snack for break ups. It was packed with delicious, buttery I-don’t-care-how-fat-I-get taste without many guilt-inspiring calories.
Sylvia sipped Crystal’s soda. “Why can’t I just find someone…I don’t know…perfect?” She over-accentuated the word perfect. Her mouth wrapped around it as though it was a foreign concept, like she had never said the word before.
“You always go for the wrong kind of guy,” Crystal answered.
Crystal’s words were clearly audible, but Sylvia pretended not to notice. She replaced the can of soda to its ring and wandered into the kitchen.
Crystal’s kitchen was cramped. She had a round table squished into the corner. It was oblong. A square one would have fit better. It sat four, but she only had two chairs. One of them wobbled unbearably. Sylvia pulled it out, moved it aside, and sat on top of the table. There was a small bag on the table beside her. She scooted it behind her to avoid sitting on it. Crystal opened the refrigerator door. She smiled at seven sodas in the fridge. A picture of Sylvia and Crystal hung on the freezer door. Crystal didn’t have any magnets, so she had covered it in clear tape to keep it stuck in place and clean. In the picture, Crystal’s head was leaning on Sylvia’s shoulder.
The pose lent a hunch to Crystal’s shoulders. She was already petite. In the picture, she was folded in on herself like a paper doll. The picture was taken at a carnival, in front of the balloon dart game. The little pops made Crystal turn into Sylvia’s hair, so her face was partially obscured. It was Crystal’s favorite picture. Sylvia had both hands in front of her. She tossed up a double peace sign at the last moment. Her mouth was open and her tongue was out. Crystal smiled gently. That was a good day.
“What did you say? Your microwave sounds like it’s from the 1940s,” Sylvia said between chuckles.
“You always end up with guys who don’t realize how awesome you are,” Crystal stated.
Her tone was cautious. Sylvia hated compliments. Crystal ducked inside the open fridge. It served as a buffer between them. Having that barrier gave her the courage to repeat herself a little louder. She closed the door and handed Sylvia a fresh can of soda. Crystal’s heart fluttered in her chest. It was difficult for her to speak frankly, even with Sylvia. The pounding in her chest radiated down her arms. She leaned against the counter in case her heart jumped into her head and made her dizzy.
“I really thought it was going well this time.” Sylvia voiced her disappointment through a sigh. She opened the soda and wiggled the pop top until it came loose in her hand. She pushed it inside the can. Crystal worried she might choke on it when she took the last sip. It made her crazy, but she didn’t say it. “We were interested in the same things,” Sylvia continued. “He liked spinach Alfredo pizza. I mean who else does that?”
“Uh, I do,” Crystal puffed.
Spinach Alfredo pizza was a little slimy. It always got stuck in a person’s teeth. The flavor of the sauce was rich, but it was bittered by the greens. Sylvia liked it. Crystal liked it, too.
“What went wrong?” Crystal asked.
She took deep breaths in and held them until the count of three before finally letting them go. Breathing so deeply made her belly puff out. It would have been unsightly if her shirt had been tighter.
“For one thing he opened doors for me,” Sylvia began.
“Uh oh,” Crystal shot back.
She was dead serious. Sylvia couldn’t stand guys who held doors open. She didn’t buy into that antiquated notion of a man being responsible for all the pleasantries in a relationship. She wanted equal footing. Sylvia might have let it slide once or twice because the gesture was polite, in and of itself, as long as he didn’t get miffed if she returned the favor. If it became a habitual problem or if he huffed about a woman’s obligation to subservient propriety, then her anger built up until it exploded.
“I know, right? Like I’m one of those wilting flower women. And he always had a story to tell and it was like I had to just sit and listen. And, on top of it, I had to think they were so interesting,” Sylvia rambled on. Her face reddened around the edges. She swung her dangling feet violently against the edge of the table.
“Were they interesting?” Crystal questioned. She hugged herself. Her body slid lower on the counter, and she let the ledge bear her weight. The position made her legs looked stubby.
“That’s not the point. I couldn’t get a word in,” Sylvia snapped.
“I can’t see you putting up with something like that,” Crystal agreed. She pulled her arms tighter against her body. The pressure was soothing. Her socking feet had trouble gaining traction on the freshly cleaned linoleum.
“It wasn’t just little things. Let me try to wrap my head around it,” Sylvia explained. She closed her eyes..
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George Blanchett was born in 1909 into an artistic, and business savvy family. At the age of 15, George was given the opportunity to work for Clyde Hook, of Hook Signs Ltd, and began applying his talents to the production of commercial signs, bulletins and pictorials.
In 1930, he was able to gain industry experience working for Neon Products of Western Canada in Vancouver, and built up the motivation to open his very own sign shop back in Edmonton.
Returning home in 1944, George began working for his father’s company Blanchett Decorators, and they relocated to a large, modern, and more visible location at 11448 Jasper Ave. in Edmonton.
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George’s younger brother Ted, having served with the Canadian Air Force in WWII, was discharged in 1946, and the two brothers, drove down to Calgary to purchase a used neon tube-bending and pumping outfit and formed Blanchett Decorators – Neon & Sign Division.
The business continued to operate as a decorating firm during the day, but during the evening, the design, manufacturing and installation of neon signs were the top priority.
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With Ted operating the decorating side, and George the neon division, the two operations were incorporated as separate companies in 1947, and
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In the business boom that followed the Second World War, the large demand for signage led to quick expansion, and the two companies moved into new premises at 10224-109th Street in 1952. The business continued to grow over the next 17 years, with George’s values of only supplying clients with the highest quality goods and services provided by the most skilled, professional craftsmen, leading the company to move locations a third and final time, to our current location of 12850 St. Albert Trail.
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From Morn to Midnight: extreme German Expressionism
August 13, 2019 By PH in 2019 British Silent Film Festival Tags: 20th British Silent Film Festival, British silent film festival, BSFF 2019, BSFF19, From Morn to Midnight, German Expressionism, Karlheinz Martin, Leicester, New Walk Museum, silent film, Weimar Cinema 1 Comment
Von Morgens bis Mitternachts (From Morn to Midnight, 1920)
This year, the British Silent Film Festival is commemorating the anniversary of the birth of the Weimar Republic. This means we will be looking both at some acclaimed German films of the 1920s, but also international co-productions and those British films that betray the clear influence of Weimar cinema. We are also exploring the origins of the horror genre, as the nights draw in. So there is no finer way to begin our festival than with an influential and bold classic of German Expressionist cinema. We want to create the perfect atmosphere too, so our opening night movie will screen at the New Walk Museum and Art Gallery in Leicester, which is home to an internationally acclaimed collection of Expressionist art.
The film we are screening is Karlheinz Martin’s From Morn to Midnight (1920) – a bold film that epitomises the styles and concerns of German Expressionism. The Expressionist movement moved from fine art – distorted perspectives and artificiality combine with thick, obvious brush strokes to create a visual representation not of naturalism but of the artist’s innermost psychological turmoil – to the theatre . From Morn to Midnight was made very shortly after the famous The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919), which has widely been celebrated as the first true Expressionist film. It shares with that film a sense of foreboding and introspection, a feeling that the outside world is filled with danger – and of course a heavily stylised, theatrical production design.
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AWARDS SEASON 2015: Tony Award Nominations
April 28, 2015 May 28, 2015 Categories AwardsAn American In Paris, Fun Home, Gigi, On the Town, On the Twentieth Century, Something Rotten, The King and I, The Last Ship, The VisitLeave a Comment on AWARDS SEASON 2015: Tony Award Nominations
The nominees for the big awards — the Tonys — were announced today and they made it clear which productions they preferred: Fun Home and An American in Paris both got 12 nominations each, followed closely by Something Rotten! with 10, and The King and I with 9.
Who’s going to take home the big prize? Will it be something brand new or an exciting reenvisioning of something classic? You’ll just have to stay tuned: the awards ceremony will be broadcast live on June 7 at 8/7c on CBS.
Follow all of the awards coverage as we live blog, tweet, facebook or view a summary of all things awards at The Broadway Musical Home.
Here’s the full list of nominees:
Best Musical
Something Rotten!
Hand to God
Wolf Hall Parts One & Two
Best Revival of a Musical
The King and I
On The Twentieth Century
Best Revival of a Play
This Is Our Youth
You Can’t Take It with You
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
Michael Cerveris, Fun Home
Robert Fairchild, An American in Paris
Brian d’Arcy James, Something Rotten!
Ken Watanabe, The King and I
Tony Yazbeck, On the Town
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Kristin Chenoweth, On The Twentieth Century
Leanne Cope, An American in Paris
Beth Malone, Fun Home
Kelli O’Hara, The King and I
Chita Rivera, The Visit
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Steven Boyer, Hand to God
Bradley Cooper, The Elephant Man
Ben Miles, Wolf Hall Parts One & Two
Bill Nighy, Skylight
Alex Sharp, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Geneva Carr, Hand to God
Helen Mirren, The Audience
Elisabeth Moss, The Heidi Chronicles
Carey Mulligan, Skylight
Ruth Wilson, Constellations
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
Christian Borle, Something Rotten!
Andy Karl, On The Twentieth Century
Brad Oscar, Something Rotten!
Brandon Uranowitz, An American in Paris
Max von Essen, An American in Paris
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Victoria Clark, Gigi
Judy Kuhn, Fun Home
Sydney Lucas, Fun Home
Ruthie Ann Miles, The King and I
Emily Skeggs, Fun Home
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Matthew Beard, Skylight
K. Todd Freeman, Airline Highway
Richard McCabe, The Audience
Alessandro Nivola, The Elephant Man
Nathaniel Parker, Wolf Hall Parts One & Two
Micah Stock, It’s Only a Play
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Annaleigh Ashford, You Can’t Take It with You
Patricia Clarkson, The Elephant Man
Lydia Leonard, Wolf Hall Parts One & Two
Sarah Stiles, Hand to God
Julie White, Airline Highway
Best Book of a Musical
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theater
Joshua Bergasse, On the Town
Christopher Gattelli, The King and I
Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett,The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Casey Nicholaw, Something Rotten!
Christopher Wheeldon, An American in Paris
Best Costume Design of a Play
Bob Crowley, The Audience
Jane Greenwood, You Can’t Take It with You
Christopher Oram, Wolf Hall Parts One & Two
David Zinn, Airline Highway
Best Costume Design of a Musical
Gregg Barnes, Something Rotten!
Bob Crowley, An American in Paris
William Ivey Long, On The Twentieth Century
Catherine Zuber, The King and I
Best Lighting Design of a Play
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Bond is Back: 'GoldenEye' Remake is a Blast
By KYLE SHEARIN
It’s hard to imagine, but it’s been a solid 13 years since “GoldenEye 007” for the Nintendo 64 strafed its way into our hearts and minds.
Developer Rare’s iconic original game is easily considered to be one of the most influential first-person shooters of all time. Like “Super Smash Bros.,” it’s one of the few games from that era that can still get friends huddled around the same TV, cursing and laughing.
I personally have a strong connection to “GoldenEye 007,” as it marked the beginning of my love for first-person shooters and continues to spark heated arguments with friends about who really killed who more.
So with such a powerful legacy to follow, developer Eurocom certainly has its work cut out. Make a slavish recreation of the original or try something new and daring? Fortunately, the new “GoldenEye 007” takes the latter option by largely ignoring its 1997 predecessor, aiming for something much more modern in the vein of “Call of Duty.”
Many of the same important story elements found in the original are still here, but “GoldenEye 007” is a true retelling in that everything is a bit more layered than before, adding new twists and turns to keep the story fresh for fans of the original.
The game swaps Pierce Brosnan out as James Bond for the current model, Daniel Craig, star of “Casino Royale” and “Quantum of Solace.” In fact, all the roles have either been recast or given complete makeovers except M, reprised by Judy Dench.
While this complete face-lift does add some new energy to the plot and the game’s look, allowing it to have some breathing room between it and the original game, it’s still a bummer to see the hilarious character Boris written out of the plot entirely.
All of the iconic levels you’ll remember from the original are present here, like the Dam, Facility and Jungle. The game’s new style for these levels is grittier and sleeker than before. It’s a marvelous looking game with great attention to detail in each environment that helps immerse you into the game.
Although you still follow a linear path through the levels, a trend more or less bucked by modern games, it feels really organic here.
For being a Wii game though, you’d expect an innovative, effective control scheme, but really, you’re much better off just sticking with the GameCube or Classic Controller rather than using the Wii remote and Nunchuk combo unless you want sniping to be jittery and difficult to control.
Stealth plays a huge part of the new game, but old-school run and gun tactics are also totally acceptable. But it’s just as satisfying to enter a room and slowly take out each enemy one by one with a swift karate chop to the neck opposed to rushing in, guns blazing.
A big improvement from the original is the adoption of the current standard of regenerating health, allowing you to slowly heal after being hit rather than having to hunt for more body armor. Another adopted modern innovation is environmental damage that allows your surroundings to get torn to pieces and change your tactics up.
Enemy soldiers are a lot of fun to fight against, providing a rich challenge, though sometimes they can be annoyingly perfect shooters.
Going along with Daniel Craig’s more modern version of Bond, gadgets don’t play a huge part in “GoldenEye 007,” though Bond does have a trusty smartphone that definitely comes in handy when you need to open doors or cause turrets to turn on their owners.
Clearly, a lot of effort went into making the multiplayer experience feel like classic “GoldenEye 007,” which excelled in its simplicity. As a result, the multiplayer here is a blast, maintaining the spirit of the original and is available to play online, though without any voice chat.
Many classic modes for local “sit around the couch and swear at each other” multiplayer return here, like “You Only Live Twice,” “Golden Gun,” and the infamous paintball mode. Many fan-favorite old villains are back, like Jaws and Oddjob. And don’t worry, “GoldenEye 007” veterans: yes, Oddjob can still throw his hat like in the original.
Sadly though, computer-controlled bots are not an option here.
I don’t think this new “Goldeneye 007” will have the same impact that the original did. It’s nowhere near as revolutionary, but it still is a very solid shooter and easily the best the Wii has to offer in the genre.
The game occasionally suffers from a few technical problems, causing the game to slow down, but curiously only during single-player. In the multiplayer, the game runs perfectly, even in chaotic moments online and in split-screen.
If you treat “GoldenEye 007” like a completely new “Bond” game, rather than a remake of the classic, it’ll be easier to overlook its shortcomings. Ultimately, “GoldenEye 007” feels like a new experience and doesn’t rely on the source material for nostalgic kicks.
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← The new recruiting sheriff’s in town, part two
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Playing the lowered expectations game in Knoxville
Give Jeremy Pruitt credit for being proactive about tamping down the excitement for the immediate term. Pruitt said he expects between 75 and 77 scholarship players on the roster this fall. That’s probably death for a run at a division title.
On the plus side, Vol fans, he does has experience dealing with a shortfall in roster numbers.
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54 responses to “Playing the lowered expectations game in Knoxville”
A shortfall in numbers isn’t good when you play 6 or 7 games on that cow pasture known as Neyland Stadium.
It is for them. They know where all the holes and loose patches are.
Holes and loose patches are everywhere?
I see this benefiting South Carolina the next few years…
I was thinking Louisville and Auburn.
Off-season workouts and spring practice will weed out the roster like they did when he arrived here.
Not everyone will make the adjustment to his way of coaching, especially on defense. But the ones that stay will be more competitive.
Lazy grad
Someone posted a compilation of UTk football fails https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzukonrvMrE
dawgdaddy
UGA'97
He is probably gonna just “Grantham” the holes in the roster and platoon with mercinaries via Juco.
A change in subject but along similar lines: does anyone else see the balance of power drastically shifting back to the SEC east over the next decade? Alabama is going to Alabama but who knows what happens when Saban is gone and does anyone see good things on the horizon for LSU, Auburn, Arky, Missy St? TAMU is a perennial 8 win enigma.
Too early to tell, IMO.
UF and UT have a ways to go to recover. Boom will have SC competitive, but that’s about all. The rest of the East doesn’t look that much different from here.
Auburn’s gonna Auburn. LSU will have to dump Orgeron at some point, but there are too many natural resources for that program to flop over the long haul. TAMU is the richest program in the country and Jimbo knows how to recruit. I wouldn’t sleep on the Aggies.
Agree with TAMU and Jimbo moving to the next level. He has all the $ and recruits in state that he needs.
And we play them next year in Sanford Stadium.
I’m looking forward to when we play them in College Station. I doubt I’ll be able to afford the trip, but that place has long been on my bucket list (like, dating back to well before TAMU was in the SEC).
CLT Dawg
That is such a great stadium, with pretty cool tailgate scene. Been a couple times with a Fraternity brother that went to school there. I’d recommend to start saving up now, and don’t miss that one.
Jimbo seems one of those coaches whose successful traits have a built-in shadow side that derails things in weird ways. Sort of like Richt (different particulars, same basic dynamic).
But no question he can soak up Texas recruits that Saban has been stealing as well as add an L to Bama’s playoff resume with enough regularity to matter.
wont be as easy now with UT/Herman. Herman got a one year head start on Jimbo..
It’s gonna be interesting to see the ways and means of Jimbo.
My opinion is Tennessee has wins they can harvest this season. Ken, Vandy, and perhaps Mizzou (toughest) in the SEC plus a few cupcakes could see them with 6 wins in Pruitt’s first season. And they can scare the hell out of the rest until 4th qtr. Same next year, but the 3rd year can see them begin to prosper. They will do fine in recruiting next year as this was the worst state loss of talent in years attributed to a really shitty coach/admin who saw their talent gambled away.
These are my armchair fan personal opinions. Had a lot to get off my chest on the status of the SEC…
Tennessee hired a top notch strength and conditioning coach, something they were missing under Butch. In addition Jeremy brought in known quantities as coaches, on those two fronts they will be better then they have been. It was the perfect storm for Kirby to have taken it to the next level with the early signing period and transition at the other traditional powerhouse east programs. It will take UT at least three years to even start to get close from a talent perspective. If Tennessee fans and administration can’t envision a five year rebuild with Fulmer meddling and a hothead coach then Pruitt won’t last past that. In the East SC will continue to play and recruit better but won’t be able to consistently win the recruiting battles and will suffer from lack of depth, they will play hard and manage an upset every year. UF hopefully will be out recruited by FSU and UM and keep Mullen from securing the best in the state and top 5 classes. Very soon consistent top 5-10 classes will be table stakes to try and beat UGA based on the current trajectory of the program. Let’s hope Mullen doesn’t get rolling because his system with top 5 talent is dangerous.
In the west Texas A&M is a sleeping giant from a resources perspective and a talent rich state. Lucky for us it coincides with Herman getting UT back near the top in Texas recruits minds. I lived in Texas in the early 90s and kids want to play for UT. OU and to a certain extent A&M was always the backup plan if UT wasn’t doing well for a in state kid. Add in the other Texas schools and Fisher better identify them early and sell the SEC to get the kids. LSU’s Ogeron experiment is going to blow up in their face and they still don’t have a QB and will begin to fall behind A&M soon. The Gus bus is going to find a way to get players, just not top rated prospects here and there from Georgia like they did in the past. Pretty sure Kirby shut him out on his targets this year that UGA was also after. Then there is the king. Bama is Bama, but they are mortal and it is the waning days of that dynasty. They will be elite until 2020 with their current talent. The question I want answered is will Sabah hang it up after one more title…his window is closing on when he will have the most talented roster on the field in the SEC championship game and a national championship game and he knows it.
Not trying to be snarky here, but what do you know about UT’s new S&C guy? What makes him top notch?
No snark taken, I don’t pretend to have any inside knowledge, just a fan. The reviews seem to be positive on him and they certainly paid him like a top notch Strength coach. Take the reviews with a grain of salt if you like since the reporting is from a UT perspective….Truth is Butch cycled guys through their S&C program, just from that it should be viewed as a positive for UT to have some stability at the position. I am speculating based on articles read about him. Sampling below.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/247sports.com/college/tennessee/Article/Tennessee-Vols-football-Jeremy-Pruitt-says-strength-coach-Craig-Fitzgerald-is-home-run-hire-114883640/Amp
https://www.google.com/amp/www.chron.com/sports/texans/amp/Texans-strength-coach-Craig-Fitzgerald-joins-12477516.php
http://m.houstontexans.com/news/article-2/Craig-Fitzgerald-to-lead-strength-and-conditioning/a8e9a0a4-54f1-461e-9eaa-43097d5668cb
What does Pruitt know about S&C? He recommended that idiot Hocke to Richt.
One thing Kirby must do is retain Scott Sinclair. I don’t think there’s any doubt the S&C guys did an excellent job in Athens the last 2 years.
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It all depends on how much meddling there is by Phat Fulmer
I find it incredible that any head coach would penalize himself by having less than a full 85 player roster. CJP has a lot of work to do.
Thank goodness Kirby put a quick end to that annual farce by landing Maurice Smith, JR Reed, Nizialek, Crumpton and Marvin, and a batch of preferred walk-ons, not to mention 3 excellent recruiting classes. I just don’t see how CJP, or anyone else for that matter, can outwork or outsmart Kirby when it comes to assembling a team.
Agree. Why can’t people just enjoy this alignment off the stars and moon dawg grade it? Mullen and Pruitt have huge holes to dig out of and have to try to do it while we are surging which compounds the gulf between us and them. I don’t believe for one second that either of them is capable of doing it.
I think Pruitt was saying 75 to 77 on scholarship. He’ll fill out with non-scholarship players.
because you don’t want to do a Richt and award 6-7 guys a scholarship that shouldn’t have a scholarship at UGA. You play man-down for a year so you can give those empty slots to guys with more talent.
Kirby would have signed 10 grad transfers.
no, again, you don’t realize what Richt was doing. Signing hacks to fill a scholly for 5 years killed Richt. Once you could not sign guys to get to 85, you might as well give a scholly to a senior walkon with a hell of a GPA to boost your apr score or whatever its called. Kirby just doesn’t ever give up on finding a real player to fill the spot.
reading comprehension. We are saying the same thing.
I may be wrong but Jumbo, regardless of resources, is Dan Mullen to me. Fair to middling coach who for some reason gets more credit than he deserves because of anamoly type players that he had in the past. Mullen is thought of as being better than he is because of Tebow and Garvin who were both anamolies who he isn’t likely to have anything close to again. Same with Jumbo and Jaemis.
Exactly. Fisher is nothing without Winston being there.
Effective quarterback play is not an “anomaly” but is a requirement for every coach/team to be very successful.
I may be wrong but Jumbo, regardless of resources, is Dan Mullen to me. Fair to middling coach who for some reason gets more credit than he deserves because of anamoly type players that he had in the past. Mullen is thought of as being better than he is because of Tebow and Harvin who were both anamolies who he isn’t likely to have anything close to again. Same with Jumbo and Jaemis.
Sorry for the double post.
Didn’t we have about 69 or 70 on scholarship in 2012? And won the division with/in spite of Todd Grantham?
Yes but….
Where is their Aaron Murray? Gurley? Multiple NFL players on D?
And the SEC-E at that time I guess had SC at a high water mark, but 2012 SC hardly seems in the same realm as 2018 UGA looks on paper.
McTyre
True, but I doubt Pruitt has a Murray, Gurley, Ogletree and Jarvis Jones on his roster.
Who is to say he won’t have a Fromme-like player? Performance on the field has yielded many surprises for us and is not out of consideration to think that they can field a scrappy team with surprises as well, while a team with bigger talent may have less players surprising (although this 2018 UGA team is stronger than any others at the top of the 4*s and is probably going to have some big positive surprises).
Having laughed at and enjoyed UT’s ongoing football foibles, I think that posting Pruitt out there without considering his D-background and his ability to lead a team is selling him short without any evidence. Putting Pruitt negatively into our projecting/guessing minds for this upcoming season isn’t reasonable when you look at his recruit HS players’ backgrounds and possibilities of properly motivated returning players. One only needs to conjure up Appl. St/ UM to know what can happen any given CFB weekend. People should think of UT as they would of Boise St; not as good on paper, but can (when properly motivated) kick your ass.
Btw, Pruitt has been defensively responsible for two NCs while on differing teams within 5yrs and that ain’t chopped liver. Come to think of it, some of the most successful teams during that period were led by former D coaches before they became HCs.
well, i agree. But in any case, consider all the ways you just described them (app st/ boise/ spunky) … and then consider we ripped the goal posts down for beating them in 2000. I’ve enjoyed the changes the past 2 decades have brought. And they don’t freak me out. Especially in Sanford Stadium.
I had end zone seating for the game. I sat with my youngest son (7), my best friend and his little girl. We still talk about that game. It was a hoot!!!
Yeah but we had a lot more talent than UTk does
Yes. Coincidentally we had one of the best quarterbacks in school history and one of the best running backs in school history, along with one our best pass rushers of all time on the team at that time. Neither Mullen or Pruitt has any of those advantages right now much less all three.
I’m just hoping we are approaching the territory of we don’t give a damn how good Florida, UT and USCe are, we’ll be better. Same with non conference schedule.
we are there. Look, if you wanna talk superstitious JuJu, i spent the first 18 years of my UGA fandom always waiting for the other shoe to drop. This year, from Miss State onward, I adopted a policy of swagger… and i think the whole program did, and it certainly paid off.
I really do believe in self-fulfilling thought processes in a big way
12-0, ATL…. book it. Only close game might be SCe in week2. Beyond that, we’re gonna lay waste to everybody.
That’s the thing: at one point in Bama’s run Miss State, Auburn, A&M, Ole Miss, and LSU were annually top 5-10 teams and Bama still dominated the west because of recruiting at such an elite level.
If Kirby continues with these type of classes it won’t matter what the East does
Just one more note about UT & Pruitt, many of the Defensive players we just went to the Natty with were Pruitt’s recruits, plus I recall our scoring and pass Defense improved pretty good under CJP (maybe rush D too?)
Also, Fulmer was not the AD who went through 7 coaches, before that hire, so not really sure we can say UT just “settled” on the 8th. Not to mention how many Jimmy Sexton-like agents released their client/coach’s names into the media just to leverage against the UT opening…no one really honestly thought The Mullet and party was really considering uprooting from OSU to come that shit-show in Knoxville. Any HC knew UT was a tough job, and the devoted alumni who still have Fulmer attachment, probably trusted that Phil made about as good a hire he could under the circumstances. Plus it’s always a 2nd bird killed with 1 stone when you yank your toughest competitor’s DC away -which was easy to sell to the UT base. Yes Pruitt has a ton more work to do, but he is relentless and in “your face guy” who will likely get UT competitive enough to keep a few games close, and maybe steal some that he shouldnt.
@Bright Idea, I think we are about here now. But some of our fans are dragging their feet. They seem to almost want Tennessee and Florida to be better than they actually are.
75-77 scholarship players, huh? Is that before or after he runs off half the secondary?
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Nick Saban, as you might imagine (not that it takes much imagination), isn’t too fond of the new transfer rules.
“It’s a pretty slippery slope, not just for seniors but for all players on a team,” Saban said on Wednesday’s SEC conference call. “We have a responsibility and an obligation as coaches that have programs that we support the players and help them be successful, personally, athletically and academically.
“And then they have an obligation on their side of it to play.”
You left out “for me”, Nick.
This isn’t indentured servitude. If you want your kids to stick around, you’d best come up with some means of making them want to stick around. Otherwise, they’ll pursue that obligation to play somewhere else.
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A note from wine country
You are looking at the main building of TH Estate Wines, Terry and Jennifer Hoage, proprietors.
We visited there yesterday and met Jennifer, who graciously spent time with several folks who wanted to talk a little Georgia football as much as wine. (If you’ve never tried any of their products, they make some terrific Syrahs.)
Anyway, one little tidbit to share. Several of the wines have names that are subtle references to football. In discussing that, the subject of Hoage’s block in the national championship game against Notre Dame came up. Jennifer mentioned that Terry sees that play as the one that really got his Georgia career going.
By the way, Terry is planning on visiting Atlanta and Athens next February to do some promotional work. If you’re a Dawg fan who enjoys good wine, it might be right up your alley.
Even Alabama
I forgot I had this little tidbit bookmarked until Brian Cook mentioned it yesterday.
The Alabama board of trustees on Friday approved Phase I of the athletics facilities rebuild starting with Bryant-Denny Stadium…
The meeting and interview with Byrne shed more light on unanswered questions surrounding the project officially announced Aug. 16. A few answers:
— The new capacity of Bryant-Denny Stadium will be “a hair under 100,000,” Byrne said. It currently seats 101,821.
— What happens to the fans displaced in the upper deck when the video board replaces a big chunk of the 8,500 bleacher seats? “Most of those are student seats in the upper deck,” Byrne said. “Right now, we’re going through the process of contacting fans who are impacted by this and getting their input on what their first, second and third choices are as part of the relocation.”
— Five percent of ticket holders will be impacted by the renovation.
Folks, when even Alabama commits to shrinking stadium capacity, it’s time to acknowledge we’re likely past the canary in the coal mine phase. We’re seeing college football embarking on corporatization of the product. Asses in the seats are being replaced by premium features and pricing.
It’s been nice knowing you, five percent of ticket holders.
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OSGi is arguably one of the best specifications in the Java world. It is a no compromise specification for a component framework that is based on what we today know are the best practices. It extends the type safety first model of Java to hold true over time when the modules morph into sometimes unrecognizable shapes. It provides a solid foundation to build applications that can run anywhere, the original promise of Java; offering these impressive features while remaining as simple as possible, albeit no simpler.
For some, the previous paragraph may come as a surprise because OSGi has had its share of people complaining about it. Surprisingly, the biggest complaint is often the Class Not Found Exception, which is always a perfect sign that people try to push a round peg in a too small square hole, and with all their might. You only see those exceptions when you’re not doing engineering but when you are hacking. If you run head on into the walls that OSGi installs and it is giving you a headache, then just look around and find the elegant and easy to use doors: services.
Though this is all true, I do not claim that OSGi is trivial to use; triviality has a way to clash with large system that must evolve over many years. The software profession has a brutal industry that lures us with the siren song of a ‘few hours work’ to devour us while trying to main gigantic hairballs. As Fred Brooks already said so many years ago in his seminal book ‘The Mythical Man Month’, there is no silver bullet. Even OSGi will require hard work to build evolvable systems. And though we cannot make building complex systems easy, bnd can at least make it easier (and considerably more fun).
When we started building the OSGi specifications around 1998 it became clear we needed metadata to describe the bundles. We chose the manifest since this was already a well defined resource in the JAR, why invent the wheel? Actually, it was Anselm Baird, a Sun employee at the time, who had come up with this idea in his Java Embedded Server (JES). Basically, the manifest was a property file with benefits. We still consider this choice for embedded metadata an excellent idea. Looking at Maven where the metadata is separated over a surprising number of files. It is clear that the reduction in the number of files and potential errors caused by out-of-sync metadata is quite large. My favorite example of this additional complexity is when the SHA1 files necessary in Maven were also signed, an easy mistake but induced by unnecessary complexity. An OSGi bundle is a completely self described artifact.
Transient Dependencies
So who got bnd started? Well, when we wrote our bundles in the dawn of the new millenium we quickly discovered that transient dependencies, well, eh, sucked. Several of us had great experience in Object Oriented design, and though objects clearly had become mainstream they frustratingly had not provided the level of reusability that some had dreamed of. As Brian Foote shows, we thought we were building shiny castles but in the end built a big ball of mud. Where our predecessors of the structured programming era always hammered on low coupling and high cohesion we had ignored their wise lessons and got ourselves tangled up in a nice mess. Trying to reuse a class too often dragged in more unwanted stuff than the cat does in the whole year.
The advantage of Java was that it had found an elegant solution to the scourge of transient dependencies: Java interfaces. An interface elegantly broke transitive dependencies while maintaining type safety at the cost of an indirection. A cost anyone should gladly bear for hairballs are quite distasteful. Surprisingly, while Java offered us this elegant solution to break transitive dependencies, most people in our industry were blindly committing themselves to the same route, just on another level, which actually would make the consequences even worse.
What we discovered was that we could use the idea of interfaces in an object oriented environment also for modules. An interface is an instance of contract based programming and we found out that we could use the same between modules. The idea behind the OSGi service is that you do not let modules directly interact but that you use reified conduits between the modules so that you keep the modules, which are implementations, unconnected. What better concept in Java to express this contract between modules is there but the concept of a package?
Originally devised as the Java modules, Java packages are heavily underappreciated in the Java world. Even highly expert users sometimes only appreciate the namescoping of the package, brushing over any accessibility issues arising out of the use of multiple classloaders. They are wrong, a package is a perfect module. That said, it is a perfect encapsulation to describe the contract that governs the collaboration between modules. An interface has a too small granularity for such a collaboration contract since it often requires additional interfaces like listeners and also helper classes. Packages, although they are too fine grained for deployment modules, are eminently suitable to define a contract to given the collaboration between deployment modules.
So we had come up with the surprisingly well fitting dependency model: ‘Look Ma, No Coupling!’ But then using it became quite painful because it required a lot of tedious house keeping, tracking which packages you were using, of what version. Just bluntly expressing your dependency on an implementation sometimes felt as attractive as the next shot of heroin for a junkie. Now, housekeeping and chores in general are quite low on the list of reasons to give meaning to live for most software developers, and we were no exception. Not only are we in general horrible at chores, we tend to make an amazing amount of mistakes doing them. Which, in general is not good software engineering. Fortunately, we largely live in a virtual world where it is easy to let the computer do the chores. And this is the raison d’etre of bnd: take the chores out of OSGi and focus on the fun parts. And maybe even more important, ‘Do Not Repeat Yourself’.
BTool
The early version of bnd was called btool and was incepted at Ericsson, where it was used to automate the generation of the manifest in the ebox project. Then, in 2001, btool was used to automate the build process of the specifications, the reference implementations, and the test suites at the OSGi Alliance. One day there was a bit of confusion about the pedigree of the btool, and it was showing its age; it was time for a rewrite and bnd was born.
The name came from bundle, then removing the vowels, and cutting it to three characters to reduce the typing on the command line. The pronunciation: we actually have no clue, whatever your preference is. B AND D, bind, whatever. You want to write it as bnd, Bnd, or BND, be our guest. We prefer to write it like bnd since we love the symmetry.
Over the years bnd gained a lot of power because we needed a tool at the OSGi Alliance that could not just create good bundles, it also was heavily used in the test cases that required bad bundles. Of course this was an excellent test range for bnd and this synergy is still true today.
In 2003 Eclipse decided to adopt the OSGi specifications and this generated some interesting discussions. To the OSGi crowd it was crystal clear that packages were the future, the Eclipse crowd, coming from a traditional transitive direct hard module dependency world, this future was more fuzzy. We lost, and Require-Bundle and Fragment-Host are the souvenirs of that battle. However, this was not the only disagreement, unfortunately we also quarreled about how to develop bundles (sorry, plugins) and there we lost again with PDE and P2 the landmarks remembering us of this lost fight. Our experience with bnd had taught us that one should not try to maintain the manifest by hand, just like one should not try to write class files with a hex editor. The manifest is a readable format but it was never intended to be human writable except for emergencies. To simplify the runtime (important in an embedded world) we never made the manifest easy to write. For example, when you specify the packages you want to export it is very useful to use wildcards to include a number of sub-packages. However, in runtime this would force the framework to traverse all classes to make the list of total packages of which it could then select the packages based on the wildcards. There is also an inevitable duplication of information as well as derived information which makes it impossible to not create evil redundancy.
Unfortunately, the PDE guys insisted on ‘manifest first’. In their model, the manifest drives the building of the artifact instead of representing the output of a build process. That is, if you require a bundle in your manifest, then PDE will place this on the classpath of the bundle you’re building. If you import a package in the manifest, PDE will find a bundle exporting that package and place it on the classpath (praying there is only one bundle that exports it in the target).
Inside the OSGi Alliance
Inside the OSGi Alliance we were in a bind (pun intended) because PDE was not suitable for our own build. We used bnd in ant (it was also an ant plugin) but we missed the joy of Eclipse. This caused bnd to develop a split personality. Originally it was a JAR generator based on a small recipe but for our build we needed project & workspace concepts. We toyed with the idea to split it into a bld and a bnd tool but in the end even we committed the sin against modularity of low cohesion and kept these two tools in one out of laziness.
Obviously we also developed PDE envy because Eclipse was actually awfully nice except for it. After toying with the idea of using the Eclipse metadata (.classpath) and finding out that this was only possible if we included the complete Eclipse IDE in an offline build, we embarked on developing an Eclipse plugin. Just not a good idea. So we reversed the model, and developed a library that had its own internal, uncoupled, model of a build. You see, the problem is that most build environments are quite pedantic and strongly optimized for their primary goal. Ant, maven, gradle, et. al. are just not easy to use inside an IDE because they are very stream driven: start, process, stop. In this model there is very little incentive to optimize incremental building and event notifications for important changes. An IDE is the reverse, it is start, build, build, build, …, build, build, stop. For performance, it is crucial to optimize the building out of incremental changes to keep the IDE responsive. It is also crucial to send out events when important things happen. So we decided to pursue the middle ground: a model of projects and workspaces that was as uncoupled of the real world as possible but providing the hooks to use it in all popular build tools, either command line tools or IDEs. This is rather well captured in the expression: “The one tool that bnd’s them all”.
bndtools
Then one day we heard that Neil Bartlett also had started a plugin called bndtools. He had used the open source library of bnd and started to work on creating a pleasant to use friendly environment. Interestingly, he had created a continuous builder for bnd so that every save operation automatically build the bundles, something we had considered in our plugin but had been too afraid to do out of performance fear. Neil, however, was developing a lot of stuff that was already in bnd, he only used the JAR packager and manifest generator. After beating him up, which even took a special trip to the UK where we worked for 8 hours in a hotel lounge, he surrendered and thus our long term fruitful collaboration was born.
Currently bnd(tools) is managed through a Github organization called bndtools and has its home site at http://bndtools.org. It is split in a number of repositories: bndtools, bnd, bndtools.rt and a number of associated support repositories. Though the collaboration between bndtools and bnd is awfully close, we are fanatic about separating the projects, our goal is still to allow Jetbrains to use bnd in IntelliJ without forcing them to eat any Eclipsisms. And it is always fun when hear someone claiming to successfully integrate bndlib in a product or tool, raving how uncoupled it was.
What you are now reading is the manual of bnd, which is the result of a tremendous amount of work, and will be a work in progress for a long time to be. Though much of bnd’s development was indirectly supported by the OSGi Alliance it is and always will be an open source project. This gave the authors the license to scratch their itches and not worry too much about documenting the nifty things they developed to scratch. Though the most important aspects were documented, it was sparse and not overly well organized. Though we always hoped someone with a gift for documenting would come along, fall in love with bnd, and write the perfect documentation, this somehow failed. After 16 years, we find it is time to take up this task ourselves, still praying that we will get support from bnd’s surprisingly large (to some) group of users, don’t hesitate. This is the reason this manual is a github repositories. Contributing is trivial, clone the bndtools/bnd.manual repo, edit the markdown text (you can even do this on the github web), save it, and create a pull request. Don’t (always) ask what bnd can do for you, ask what you can do for bnd’s users …
Not sure why we wrote such a long introduction, the facebook generation seems have an attention span of 5 lines, so we are probably among ourselves dear reader, congratulations on your stamina!
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/ Xeni Jardin / 8:24 pm Wed Apr 18, 2012
Elderly perv falsely diagnosed cancer in women so he could sexually assault, use weird gadgets on them
In Wales, 77 year old Reginald Gill has been sent to prison for 8 years after falsely "diagnosing" cancer for women who sought health aid.
Gill, who is not a doctor, gave the women phony homeopathic treatment for their phonily-diagnosed cancer, including the use of these bogus healing machines and a form of electroshock therapy.
He told one woman she could be cured of cancer if a man sucked her breasts for half an hour each day.
He sexually assaulted victims in a variety of ways, including sticking gadgets up orifices:
[One] victim, who had experience of and was interested in alternative therapies, told the court that Mr Gill had examined her internally before telling her she had cancer and that he could "get rid of most of it today".
He then inserted an instrument inside her which gave her electric shocks. The court was told that after 20 minutes Mr Gill removed the machine and he and Mrs Gill rubbed oil on her chest before using another machine on the same area.
Initially the victim had told police that she didn't think Mr Gill was getting any sexual gratification but she later said his heavy breathing suggested he was.
Some of his victims were men; some did, in fact, have cancer.
The Gill case was first exposed on a BBC television program.
All of this is yet another reason to run screaming when offered "alternative" treatment for cancer. But it's not just the woo-peddlers, homeopaths, and quacks: when I was trying to find a place to go get my first mammogram, I remember reading online reviews of one local women's breast cancer screening clinic. Reviews written by women who'd gone there. Those reviews detailed first-hand accounts of sexually inappropriate touching and skeevy come-on vibes, from the male medical practitioner who ran the clinic. Cancer patients, and women in particular, beware.
The diagnosis - Boing Boing
When life hands you cancer, make cancer-ade
On Cost and Cancer in America
Shit girls say to girls with breast cancer - Boing Boing
"What breast cancer is, and is not" - Boing Boing
Cancer is even more complicated than we thought - Boing Boing
breast cancer / cancer / homeopathy / quackery / woo
Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she’s 'cancer free'
After successful treatment for pancreatic cancer this summer, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she’s ‘cancer free.’
Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation, RIP
Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of the iconic Generation X memoir “Prozac Nation” (1994), died today of metastatic breast cancer. She was 52. Wurtzel was also the author of Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women (1999) and More, Now, Again (2002), about her stimulant addiction. Several years ago, she wrote in the New York Times about the […]
Love, loss, and Carrie Fisher’s lamp
I can only imagine what the hospice nurse must have been thinking.
It was an early October evening in 2017, and I was camped in the gigantic, overstuffed leather recliner that I had delivered the previous week. One of the problems with buying furniture online is you don’t truly get a sense of the dimensions […]
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September 5, 2019 / 2:23 PM / 4 months ago
CANADA STOCKS-TSX rises on trade hopes, energy stocks lead gainers
(Reuters) - Canada’s main stock index rose on Thursday as energy stocks tracked higher oil prices, while U.S.-China talks scheduled for October raised hopes that the trade war will de-escalate before it further damages major economies.
* At 9:35 a.m. ET (13:35 GMT), the Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index was up 56.3 points, or 0.34%, at 16,505.14.
* China’s Commerce Ministry said Beijing and Washington have agreed to hold high-level trade talks in early October in Washington.
* Seven of the index’s 11 major sectors rose, led by the 1.2% climb in the energy sector.
* U.S. crude prices were up 0.9% a barrel, while Brent crude added 0.9%.
* The financials sector gained 0.6%, while the industrials sector rose 0.8%.
* The materials sector, which includes precious and base metals miners and fertilizer companies, lost 1.2% as gold futures fell 0.6% to $1,540.4 an ounce.
* On the TSX, 161 issues were higher, while 66 issues declined for a 2.44-to-1 ratio favouring gainers, with 11.89 million shares traded.
* The largest percentage gainers on the TSX were First Quantum Minerals Ltd, which jumped 4.3% and Meg Energy Corp, which rose 3.8%.
* First Majestic Silver Corp fell 4.8%, the most on the TSX. The second biggest decliner was Mag Silver Corp , down 4.0%.
* The most heavily traded shares by volume were Canadian Natural Resources Ltd, Stornoway Diamond Corp and Electrovaya Inc.
* The TSX posted six new 52-week highs and one new low.
* Across all Canadian issues there were 21 new 52-week highs and one new low, with total volume of 19.18 million shares. (Reporting by Sruthi Shankar in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur)
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Even Michel Barnier says it’s time to prepare for ‘no deal’ on Brexit
Today’s Guardian has an odd splash headline, denouncing as ‘Orwellian’ a letter that Michael Gove and Boris Johnson sent to Theresa May warning her that some parts of her government are unprepared for ‘no deal’. I’m not quite sure what’s Orwellian about that, or even so controversial. Here’s the leaked extract of the letter.
‘Your approach is governed by sensible pragmatism. That does not in any way dilute our ambition to be a fully independent self-governing country by the time of the next election. If we are to counter those who wish to frustrate that end, there are ways of underlining your resolve. We are profoundly worried that in some parts of government the current preparations are not proceeding with anything like sufficient energy. We all want you to push your agenda forward with confidence and have your government articulate the following.’
For such a letter to leak is unusual, but its contents are hardly incendiary (or Orwellian). They were warning her that ‘some parts of government’ are not preparing for the failure of talks. The internal politics are well-known: Philip Hammond is very wary about doing so, believing that if plans for ‘no deal’ are created, then his pro-Brexit opponents in the Cabinet will jump down this escape chute rather than pursue a deal. But the chance of ‘no deal’ is quite high: Oxford Economics puts it at about 35 per cent, about the same as a free trade deal being agreed. I’d put the chance of ‘no deal’ slightly higher than an FTA. Given that we’re leaving the EU in March 2019, you’d have to prepare for it now. Failure to do so would be a dereliction of government duty.
I understand that the Gove-Boris letter is one of many memos being written around Whitehall as civil servants envisage a ‘no deal’ situation arriving without the UK having prepared for it, and an inquiry being launched. The civil servants want it on record that they flagged up this danger, and were batted away. A good many people cannot believe that, for political reasons, the Treasury is stopping them make preparations for what is perhaps the single most likely outcome of the Brexit talks.
And now, they have found an unlikely ally in the form of Michel Barnier, who told the French press yesterday that they should prepare for ‘no deal’. It’s not his preferred option, he told Le Journal du Dimanche. He then continued:
But it’s a possibility. Everyone has to prepare for it, governments as well as businesses – we are technically preparing ourselves. On 29 March 2019, the United Kingdom will become a third state. Without a deal, [trade with the UK] would be governed under the the regime of the World Trade Organization, with relations similar to those we have with China [and the United States, the EU’s no1 trading partner]. A failure of the negotiations would have consequences on many levels. On the ability of British planes to land in Europe, the United Kingdom leaving the single sky agreement, or on dogs and cats crossing the Channel! In Europe, everything is integrated because we have common standards: that seems to have been forgotten.
The Brexiteers who thought these talks would be a formality were rather naive. If the EU is preparing itself for ‘no deal’, as Barnier says, then it might be prudent for the Prime Minister to order her Chancellor to do likewise.
Michel Barnier is wasting Theresa May’s time
The collapse of coalition talks in Germany makes a ‘no deal’ Brexit a little more likely
A deal that would kill Gove’s agenda at birth
Reagan, Keynes, Question Time and tax cuts
Finally, Boris Johnson has overcome his stage fright. Let’s hear more from him
How May, Macron and Merkel failed to tame Trump
Daniel R. DePetris
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All Posts Tagged: Marijuana
Landmark Study Shows Increased Risk of Heart Attack for Cannabis Users
By Joshua Denton on February 03, 2017 in Culture
A recent study on the effects of marijuana suggest that the drug can cause schizophrenia and increase the risk of heart attack in consumers. The report was released by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, and contains information from many studies of the drug from 1999- forward. With…
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Mysterious Illness Linked to Long-term Legal Marijuana Usage
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A recent case of a man who was experiencing mysterious severe abdominal pain and vomiting seems to indicate that marijuana can have negative side affects on one’s overall health. According to CBS News: For more than two years, Lance Crowder was having severe abdominal pain and vomiting, and no local doctor…
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Unfortunately, Proposition 64 passed on the ballot last Tuesday and thus the use of recreational marijuana is now legalized in the state of California. Catholic clergy believe this poses a great health risk to teens and children especially. According to Catholic News Agency, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco warned:…
PBS Video – “California will vote on legalizing recreational marijuana”
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On November 8, Californian’s will vote on Proposition 64, deciding whether or not to legalize recreational marijuana use in California. This video report is courtesy of PBS NewsHour: “California, the first state to legalize medical marijuana 20 years ago, will vote in November on whether to legalize recreational use for…
CBS 60 Minutes – “The Pot Vote”
By cfc2016admin on November 04, 2016 in Political
Don’t be fooled: recreational marijuana would be a disaster for California. Vote NO on Proposition 64 this November 8th!
Proposition 64: A Spooky Choice for California
By Joshua Denton on October 31, 2016 in Culture, News, Political
Tonight, thousands of children will go house-to-house asking for goodies. But if Proposition 64 passes on November 8, next year parents may get more tricks than treats. Officially titled “the Adult Use of Marijuana Act,” Prop 64 would legalize marijuana in California and put children at risk on a holiday like Halloween.…
Denver District Attorney Urges California Voters to Reject Proposition 64
By Joshua Denton on October 31, 2016 in Culture, Economy, Family, Law, Life
This November, alongside a highly contentious presidential race, Californians will vote on 154 state and federal legislative races and 17 state propositions. One of the most consequential of these is Proposition 64, the so-called “Adult Use of Marijuana Act.” Despite its innocuous name, California Family Council joins numerous local, state,…
Marijuana Negatively Affects Teens and Children
By Joshua Denton on October 29, 2016 in Culture, Family, Law
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Canadian Association of Labour Media
Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals
MAHCP represents 85% of Manitoba’s Allied Health Care Professionals
https://mahcp.ca
24 min 59 sec ago
Major construction project to affect MAHCP office access
The City of Winnipeg is replacing the Dublin Avenue Bridge over Omand’s Creek, which means the full closure of eastbound and westbound Dublin Avenue, therefore affecting access to the MAHCP office from the west.
How long will this major project take?
This construction project began this month of January and is expected to continue until its completion in May of 2020.
What does this mean for MAHCP?
This means that the main access point for the MAHCP office for the next five months will be Notre Dame Avenue, as Dublin Avenue will be closed.
For our members coming to us from west Winnipeg and northwest Winnipeg, we suggest taking St. James Street and turning east on Bangor Avenue to Notre Dame Avenue.
The City of Winnipeg has a website that will provide updates on the construction project: www.winnipeg.ca/dublin
Please email info@mahcp.ca if you have any further questions. Thanks!
Categories - Latest Labour News
New members’ package in the mail this week!
The new bargaining unit certificates for Shared Health and WRHA bargaining units come into effect this Friday, Dec. 13, 2019.
MAHCP’s newest members – those transitioning from other unions this Friday – will be receiving an information package at their home mailing address by the end of this week. We encourage you to read through it to find out what you need to know.
The welcome package contains the following information: (links to the documents included)
Welcome letter from MAHCP President Bob Moroz – here
Info on MAHCP Labour Relations Officers
“MAHCP welcomes you” (FAQ) – here
Bargaining Proposal Form – here
December newsletter – here
Union card and postage-paid return envelope
Please feel free to send an email to info@mahcp.ca or call 204-772-0425/1-800-315-3331 if you have any additional questions that aren’t answered in the welcome package.
MAHCP looks forward to representing and working with our newest members!
Your MAHCP Team
The December 2019 Newsletter is now available online and features a wonderful Q & A with retired MAHCP member and therapeutic clown David Langdon.
MAHCP reacts to Manitoba’s Clinical and Preventative Services Plan
MAHCP President Bob Moroz responds to the Pallister Government’s Clinical and Preventative Services Plan, which was made public on Friday, Nov. 29, 2019:
“What this Plan lacks, like many others before it, are the details, especially for us in Allied Health Care. It doesn’t talk about which communities will be affected, which professions and all those things – important details for those who work in health care and those who rely on it.
“We don’t want to see a repeat of what has happened in Winnipeg in the last couple of years, and our members and patients continue to deal with the fallout of those haphazard, poorly planned changes. Earlier this week, we saw WRHA reported wait times going in the wrong direction compared to the same time last year. That’s the tip of the iceberg that we’ve heard from our members: chronic understaffing, more mandatory overtime, and lack of training.
“Also of grave concern to us in Allied Health is the claim that they consulted with the front line in developing this plan, but I’ve looked at their list on the website and it’s overwhelmingly doctors and managers. They need to listen to Allied Health Professionals that are actually delivering front-line care and services, not just for this plan but for everything they do. Allied Health is absolutely critical to health care delivery, but somehow we’re always an afterthought. MAHCP is ready and willing to work with health officials to ensure that Allied Health staffing and service levels are acceptable and appropriate across the province.”
Dustin Czmola joins MAHCP LRO team
MAHCP welcomes our newest Labour Relations Officer Dustin Czmola.
Dustin was born into a union family and began his official involvement in the labour movement in 2004, when he was voted in as Vice President of his union’s local.
From there, he climbed the ranks and accepted his first paid union position in 2010 with the Teamsters.
Dustin also spent six years representing unionized workers from 17 autonomous trade unions in northern Manitoba on the various Hydro projects.
Most recently, he was the campaign coordinator for one of the unions involved in the Representation Votes, which took place in the summer of 2019.
Dustin is an avid movie and concert enthusiast, and enjoys attending them with those he considers family.
Manitoba Throne Speech leaves health care questions unanswered
Winnipeg —The Government of Manitoba, led by Premier Brian Pallister, delivered today’s Speech from the Throne outlining the Pallister government’s priorities for the next year.
When it comes to health care, this underwhelming Throne Speech raises more questions than it answers and makes no mention of the Allied Health Professionals that make health care delivery possible.
The Speech made reference to a “$2-billion Health Care Guarantee,” but the reality is that recent health care spending in Manitoba has not kept up with the rate of inflation.
“We are concerned that further cuts are coming, particularly in rural health care, while we’re still dealing with the fallout from recent cuts and closures in Winnipeg,” said MAHCP President Bob Moroz.
In recent weeks, the Pallister government has announced welcome investments in mental health and addictions, and the Speech promised more. However, much more significant investment is needed in this critical area to meet the pressing needs in our province.
The Speech announced 200 more nursing positions over four years. “We’re waiting to hear how many new professional-technical positions this government will create – more nurses and doctors can’t do their jobs without more Allied Health Professionals,” said Moroz. “MAHCP’s Allied Health members are already stretched and need reassurance from this government that they will have the resources to provide the care patients expect and deserve.”
To ensure stability for those working in health care, MAHCP is also encouraging the Provincial Government to return to the collective bargaining table as soon as possible.
“MAHCP is deeply concerned about the path the Provincial Government is taking when it comes to our health care,” said Moroz. “Manitoba is already facing recruitment challenges and our members are feeling the crunch with more mandatory overtime. They are being asked to do more with less, and many are dealing with lack of training and resources, chronic understaffing and high turnover.”
Important Updates from MAHCP
The Bill 29 Commissioner will be issuing interim bargaining unit certificates to successful unions in the recent representation votes, effective as of December 13, 2019 for the new WRHA and Shared Health bargaining units. A new interim bargaining unit certificate will also be issued for the NRHA effective December 8, 2019, but there will be no change for MAHCP members in the NRHA Professional/Technical/Paramedical sector.
The new certificates will mean significant growth for MAHCP – our membership will be growing by 66%, and we will represent 85% of Allied Health Professionals in Manitoba.
It will also bring significant change for our union. For example, we will be taking on new Laboratory, Diagnostic Imaging and Rural Paramedic members in all Manitoba regions (we currently represent these classifications only within the boundaries of the NRHA and some within the Southern Health region). We will also be gaining members at WRHA-affiliated community sites, such as Access Centres and Community Health Centres like Klinic, as well as all Professional-Technical employees at Grace Hospital and Riverview Health Centre.
We are excited by the opportunities and challenges this growth represents, and we look forward to working with all current and new members to achieve our shared goals.
In addition, Monday, November 18, 2019 marks the next step in our fight against Bill 28, Pallister’s unconstitutional wage-freeze legislation that fundamentally undermines our Charter-protected right to free and fair collective bargaining. MAHCP is joining with other public-sector unions to fight Bill 28 in court, and that challenge will be heard at Manitoba’s Court of Queen’s Bench beginning Monday. This court challenge affects us all, and we will keep you updated on the outcome. Regardless of the court’s decision, we expect the losing side to appeal and the case is likely to go to the Supreme Court of Canada for a final decision at some point in the future.
Please stay tuned for further updates in the coming weeks and months, including important information regarding collective bargaining for our central-table members and President’s tours. And please feel free to contact us at info@mahcp.ca or your Labour Relations Officer with any questions.
Bob Moroz, MAHCP President
MAHCP updates portfolios for LROs
As the Association works through the changes that will be occurring with the new members coming to us as a result of the recent representation votes, it has become necessary to temporarily assign different LROs to some portfolios.
The changes are as follows:
Gill Gagné, our newest MAHCP Labour Relations Officer (LRO), assumed Jocelyn House on Nov. 4, 2019.
LRO Cory Szczepanski will assume Victoria General Hospital on Nov. 12, 2019.
MAHCP continues with its recruitment efforts and once we have recruited the complement necessary to provide the best service to our members, permanent portfolios will be announced
For a full list of current portfolios, please visit https://mahcp.ca/about/staff-2/
Medical Radiation Technologists Week – November 3 to 9, 2019
Medical radiation technologists (MRTs) work within four disciplines: radiological technology, nuclear medicine, radiation therapy or magnetic resonance imaging. They are the very image of care; the essential link between compassionate care and the most sophisticated imaging and therapeutic technologies, contributing their expertise to the diagnosis and treatment of millions of Canadians each year.
Thank you MRTs!
For more information please visit the Manitoba Association of Medical Radiation Technologists and Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologists websites.
MAHCP welcomes new LRO Gill Gagné
MAHCP is very proud to announce the addition of Gill Gagné to our Labour Relations team.
Gill, who most recently worked in Labour Relations at Diagnostic Services Manitoba (Shared Health), has plenty of union experience.
For 18 years, Gill worked as a Greygoose bus lines driver (no “Perimeter-itus” for him) and was very involved with their union as the Executive Chairperson with the CBRT&GW, which later merged with the CAW.
During his time as Executive Chairperson, Gill participated in collective bargaining, arbitrations, National Council/Convention meetings, and was a steward (equivalent to an MAHCP Member Advocate). As Executive Chairperson, he took many labour courses with the union and courses at Athabasca University.
Gill moved into a management position while at Greygoose and took courses to get his Management Studies and Human Resources Management diplomas. Greygoose then merged with Greyhound Canada and later Greyhound USA.
After leaving Greyhound, Gill worked as a Labour Relations Officer for the provincial government and private firms. He also received his Chartered Professional in Human Resources (CPHR) designation.
Gill loves travelling to tropical locations for vacation (mostly Cuba) and enjoys riding his motorcycle in the summer months.
Shelley Kowalchuk elected Physiotherapy Director
As announced during MAHCP’s AGM earlier this month, Shelley Kowalchuk won the election for the office of Physiotherapy Director.
The announcement was made in accordance to Article 7 of the MAHCP Constitution.
A vote was held in September for the two candidates for the position of Physiotherapy Director: Shelley Kowalchuk and Lyle Sasek.
We thank both members for putting their names forward and congratulations to Shelley Kowalchuk!
Representation votes are complete, now what? MAHCP provides answers
In the wake of last week’s representation votes, MAHCP is receiving many questions from both current and new, incoming members. Thank you for your interest and engagement!
To help you better understand what’s next, we have created the following FAQ. More questions and answers will be added as we know more, so please check back often. If you don’t see an answer to your question, please email us at info@mahcp.ca and we’ll respond as soon as we can.
In addition, MAHCP President Bob Moroz will provide ongoing updates once we have received the official list of new MAHCP members and contact information from the Commissioner/Employer.
For those who will be joining MAHCP as a result of the votes, welcome! Our goal is to make the transition to your new union as smooth as possible. We will continue to work in solidarity with our fellow unions toward this goal.
Now that representation votes are done, does MAHCP represent me immediately?
No, not until the Commissioner issues new bargaining unit certificates, which we are expecting sometime toward the middle to end of September 2019.
What happens in the meantime?
In the meantime, you continue to be represented by the same union that you had before the vote. You will continue to pay dues to that union and be represented by them until new certificates are issued.
Once the new certificates are issued to the successful unions for each sector and employer group, then you will begin paying dues and being represented by that new union. If you are included in the Professional/Technical/Paramedical Sector in the new Shared Health or WRHA bargaining units, you will be an MAHCP member effective immediately once the new certificates are issued.
What about my collective bargaining agreement?
You will continue to be covered by your current collective bargaining agreement even after MAHCP becomes your union. You will keep your current agreement, and MAHCP will protect your rights and benefits under that agreement, until a new one is negotiated and ratified by the membership.
When will negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement begin?
This remains unknown, but once the new bargaining unit certificates are issued, MAHCP will be lobbying the Provincial Government to get back to the negotiating table for our sector as soon as possible.
What about bargaining proposals?
MAHCP was well into our bargaining process for a new agreement when the Manitoba Government passed Bill 29, The Health Sector Bargaining Unit Review Act. Bargaining has been on hold for over two years because of Bill 29 and much has changed in that time.
Once the new certificates have been issued in the coming weeks, MAHCP will be tapping all our members, both current and new, for your input on new bargaining proposals. MAHCP will also review bargaining proposals that were submitted two years ago to see which ones still apply and can be carried forward.
What are “receiving agreements”?
“Receiving agreement” is a term used in Bill 29 and refers to the collective agreement that will form the basis of negotiations with the Provincial Government once we get back to the table. The receiving agreement, determined by the Bill 29 Commissioner, will be the agreement of the successful union that covers the largest number of members within the new bargaining unit.
The Commissioner has determined receiving agreements for the Professional/Technical/Paramedical (PTP) Sectors that MAHCP will represent as follows:
Shared Health PTP Sector: MAHCP Health Sciences Centre Agreement. Available in web and pdf on our website: https://mahcp.ca/member-services/collective-agreements/health-sciences-centre-2014-2018/
WRHA PTP Sector: MAHCP St. Boniface Agreement. Available here: https://mahcp.ca/member-services/collective-agreements/st-boniface-hospital-2014-18/
NRHA PTP Sector: MAHCP NRHA Agreement. Available here: https://mahcp.ca/member-services/collective-agreements/northern-regional-health-authority-2014-18/
I will be new to MAHCP, how do I find out more about my new union?
Please visit www.mahcp.ca to learn more about MAHCP, our structure, our service model, our Constitution and our collective agreements. Feel free to email info@mahcp.ca with additional questions, or contact us by phone at 204-772-0425 or toll free at 1-800-315-3331.
In addition, MAHCP President Bob Moroz and staff will be hitting the road as soon as possible once certificates are issued to meet our new members and to introduce MAHCP. We look forward to meeting you soon.
Please continue to contact your current union for any labour relations matters until such time as new bargaining unit certificates are issued by the Commissioner.
Spiritual Care Awareness Week – October 20 to 26, 2019
The Certified Spiritual Care Practitioner seeks to improve the quality of life for individuals and groups experiencing spiritual, moral and existential distress related to changes in health, maturation, ability, and life circumstances. This year’s theme is Diversity in Spiritual Care.
Congratulations to all Spiritual Care practitioners.
Please visit the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care website for more information.
Join us in celebrating RT week! October 20-26th, 2019
Registered Respiratory Therapists (RRTs) are regulated, health care professionals who bring expertise and specialized skills and knowledge to the health care team. RRTs provide interventions such as ventilation including life support. RRTs also perform patient assessments, diagnostic testing, and perform treatments for a multitude of cardiorespiratory (heart and lung) conditions for all age groups- from newborns to the elderly. They provide education to patients and families in disease management and disease prevention.
RRTs work in many areas of the health care sector including:
– Hospitals: areas include Adult, Pediatric & Neonatal Intensive Care Units, Emergency Departments, Operating rooms, General Wards, Labour & Delivery
– Air & Ground Transportation
– RTs also work in: outpatient clinics, specialized medical centers such as sleep disorder clinics, patients’ homes, pulmonary function testing laboratories, long term care facilities, research facilities, medical equipment sales & product service, education programs, pulmonary rehabilitation programs.
RRTs perform a number of vital roles throughout the health care system which include the following but not limited too:
– Operation of Life Support equipment
– Ventilation & Airway management
– Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
– Oxygen & Aerosol Delivery
– Educate & manage patients with chronic heart and lung diseases such as Asthma, COPD & Congestive Heart Failure
– Perform Pulmonary Function Testing & Sleep Apnea Testing
– Provide Pulmonary Rehabilitation
– Provide Heart & Lung disease prevention such as smoking cessation
For more information, please visit the Manitoba Association of Registered Respiratory Therapists and Canadian Society of Respiratory Therapists websites.
Benefit concert for Jocelyn House Hospice on Oct. 24, 2019
The Band Together concert in support of Jocelyn House Hospice is taking place on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, and features a wide range of local musicians!
This year marks the seventh edition of this popular concert at the West End Cultural Centre and features new additions Dan Deeds and Encore. Rounding out the list of performers are CASATI, Double the Trouble, Curtis Newton, Those Guys and Pushing Daisies!
All proceeds from the Band Together concert support quality end of life care for our residents of Jocelyn House Hospice.
Tickets are just $50 and include complimentary appetizers from WOW! Hospitality Concepts! Tickets can be purchased online at https://www.jocelynhouse.ca/tickets_band_together.php or by calling (204) 253-5898.
Jocelyn House Hospice has as its mission adding life to the final days of the terminally ill in a home-like setting. Our MAHCP members at Jocelyn House work hard each day to meet the needs of those in their care and this is a wonderful way to support their work.
Sonography Week October 7 to 13, 2019
Sonography Week is October 7 to 13, 2019 which celebrates the important role sonographers play in delivering quality health care to Canadians.
A sonographer is a health care professional who specializes in the use of ultrasonic imaging devices to produce diagnostic images, scans, videos, or 3D volumes of anatomy and diagnostic data, frequently a radiographer but may be any health care professional with the appropriate training. The requirements for clinical practice vary greatly by country. Sonography requires specialized education and skills to view, analyze and modify the scan to optimize the information in the image. Because of the high levels of decisional latitude and diagnostic input, sonographers have a high degree of responsibility in the diagnostic process.
For more information, please visit the Sonography Canada website.
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Message from Aleppo: "Please save us"
This is the only message we received from our Syrian colleagues in Aleppo in the last days.
Hearing no news from them last weekend, we were concerned as the humanitarian situation deteriorated and the government gained control of the city. The message they sent did little to reassure us.
“After this, we don’t know what will happen or how we can survive,” wrote a Syrian humanitarian worker.
The inhabitants of Aleppo are frightened by reports of the arrest, detention, and disappearances of civilians. People are sharing ‘goodbye’ messages, saying they cannot describe what they are seeing, that if they don’t answer next time, they are likely dead. What is certain is that heavy fighting continues and the bombs cannot distinguish between humanitarians, civilians, and combatants.
We are receiving urgent pleas from several Syrian NGOs for assistance in evacuating the citizens of eastern Aleppo, including in this message from the Nobel Prize nominated White Helmets:
“The bombs are falling as we write this. For years our humanitarian volunteers have worked to save the lives of our people in Aleppo […]. We can do no more. Now we are with 100,000 civilians trapped in an area of five square kilometers with the non-stop bombs, shells and advancements on the ground. In one building more than 500 people are sheltering. People have been underground for days.”
The lives of aid workers trapped in eastern Aleppo are also threatened. Since 2012, all humanitarian assistance delivered outside of the government supervision is prohibited. Assistance to civilian populations in areas controlled by the opposition is seen as an act of resistance and tacit support for the rebels. Saving lives is then considered a criminal activity. Our fellow humanitarians risk being imprisoned, tortured, or killed.
We are frustrated by our powerlessness. And we are horrified to see the international community allowing this massacre to continue. But we must not give up. We must not be overwhelmed by despair as hundreds of thousands of civilians try to survive among the continued bombardment.
We have neither the luxury nor the right to stay silent. So again and again, we call on the governments involved in this conflict to do the decent thing. The gross violations of international humanitarian law must stop.
All parties must immediately end the violence and allow humanitarian actors to provide desperately needed assistance and safety to those in need.
We cannot sacrifice civilian lives.
No human life is disposable.
Written by Khaled Mostafa, CARE advocacy and communications advisor in Turkey
To arrange an interview, contact:
Darcy Knoll
Communications Specialist | CARE Canada
darcy.knoll@care.ca | 613.790.2134
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Home 2016 November The Prescient Work of Vladimir Ossipoff
The Prescient Work of Vladimir Ossipoff
Posted on: 29 November, 2016 by Build LLC
[Photo by Mariko Reed]
Over the holidays, we’ll be traveling to Oahu to meet up with Dean Sakamoto, lead researcher, exhibition curator and editor of Hawaiian Modern, the Architecture of Vladimir Ossipoff. It’s a rare opportunity to discuss the work of a seminal mid-century modern architect whose work continues to inspire designers throughout the world. Ossipoff’s work originally captured our attention for its primal sensibilities. Everything from the exposed framing of his residences to the relationship between building and landscape is mindful and relatable. At the same time, none of it is overly designed or precious. Regardless of scale, the works in Ossipoff’s portfolio are functionally graceful, rejecting sensationalism for honesty and refined practicality.
In preparation for our visit, we’ve been brushing up on Ossipoff’s projects and ideas. Admittedly, we’re astonished at the relevancy of this Russian-born, Japanese-raised, Berkeley-educated, Hawaiian-practicing architect, whose primary works are now a lifetime removed. In fact, the more layers of his work we uncover, the more applicable his thoughts and endeavors seem to our current design environment. A quote from Ossipoff illustrates his comprehensive understanding of the architecture profession:
“An architect has to be a bit of a sociologist, lawyer, and psychologist. He has to know human nature.”
In addition to covering some of his seminal projects, today’s post discusses five characteristics of Ossipoff’s work that are more important than ever to the success of contemporary architecture.
Environmental Responsiveness
Long before the sustainability movement became a household conversation and the unfortunate greenwashing industry that has followed, Ossipoff was designing houses and structures with an intelligent response to environmental factors. Free from all the green gadgetry so popular with sustainability today, Ossipoff’s designs incorporated timeless methods such as deep overhangs to cool the interiors, wood louvers to allow natural ventilation, and post and beam lanais to draw the breeze. The Goodsill house incorporates many of these features and there’s a very nice portfolio of images of the house at Modernist Architecture by Architectural Photographer Darren Bradley.
[Photo by Darren Bradley]
Simple, Rational Structures
In an age of sensationalism and overly complicated designs, it’s refreshing to see great works of architecture executed without pretense. Ossipoff’s designs look exactly like what they’re doing. The necessary structure of a building is often celebrated as the primary driver of the architectural forms while repetitive elements develop a harmony within the design. Because of its expressed grid of columns and slabs, the University of Hawai’i Administration Building is one of the clearest examples of these qualities as captured by photographer and author Robert Wenkam whose images appear throughout Hawaiian Modern.
[Photo by Robert Wenkam]
Lack of Pretense
There is a raw, almost naked quality about how a column meets a beam and how a beam meets the roof in Ossipoff’s work. While some may find this design aesthetic to lack sophistication, we find it unpretentious and honest. Such an authentic expression of shelter is both fundamental to the nature of architecture and graceful to the inhabitant. Nowhere is this more apparent than the William H. Hill House in Kona.
Accepting the Nature of Nature
There is a certain elegance with which Ossipoff’s work has weathered over time and it would seem as though the weathering process was a consideration of the design all along. The projects appear all the more complete once the materials have patinaed and the vegetation has fully grown in. His forethought and patience brings the architecture and landscape into one harmonious design concept. Even within the construction process, Ossipoff allowed space for the imperfections of nature as indicated in the Laupahoehoe School, where rounded boulders gathered along the nearby shoreline replaced much of the aggregate in the concrete. The aesthetic result of this process must have involved significant variables up until the formwork was removed. The completed project would suggest that this leap of faith paid off as the school embraces the form factor of the indigenous materials and creates a work that belongs to the place.
Knowing When to Break the Rules
Like any great master architect, Ossipoff spent his career crafting a set of rules that aligned with his values, worked with his palette of materials, and flourished in the tropical environment. Also like any master, he knew when and how to break out of his own rules. The simple gable roofs of so many of his residences set up the perfect architectural boundaries from which to then depart, as seen in the Liljestrand House with its clever nod to asymmetry.
[Photo via Honolulu Magazine]
There is much to learn from Ossipoff’s work and while his projects apply to a distinct philosophy in a specific place, his lessons ought to carry more gravity in the design world than ever. Ossipoff noted in the early 1960s that he carried on a “War on Ugliness,” a struggle to counter what he felt was poor architectural design and unrestricted development. We’d go as far to say that the work of Ossipoff is a mindful oasis in a built environment growing more prone to thoughtless design. We’re looking forward to experiencing the work in person and continuing the battle.
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Monthly Archive for August, 2014
: August, 2014
Former Iowa state senator admits taking secret payments from Ron Paul campaign
By Kevin Diaz on August 27, 2014 at 1:54 PM
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Marquee congressional race in Texas rated more competitive
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Ceremonial swearing-in for Julian Castro
Former San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro, the newest member of President Barack Obama’s cabinet, will be ceremonially sworn-in Monday by Vice President Joseph Biden, completing the formalities of a post …
Gallego is the lone Texas lawmaker present at VA reform bill signing ceremony
By Cesar Escalante on August 7, 2014 at 2:27 PM
Rep. Pete Gallego, D-Alpine, was the sole Texas lawmaker in attendance Thursday when President Obama signed the VA reform bill, which expands healthcare options for veterans after a tumultuous past …
NBC correspondent accidentally says Obama ‘is from Kenya’
By Ernesto Rivera on August 6, 2014 at 2:03 PM
On Tuesday’s “Reid Report,” NBC News Senior White House Correspondent Chris Jansing accidentally said that President Obama is from Kenya. Host Joy Reid began the segment commenting on the ongoing U.S.-Africa Summit in Washington, D.C. by saying, … …
San Antonio named one of “America’s Coolest Cities” while making headlines in the sports world
By Cesar Escalante on August 6, 2014 at 11:14 AM
Texas lawmakers are praising the city of San Antonio for making headlines as of late in both the sports realm and national landscape, being named to Forbes’ list of “America’s Coolest Cities 2014.” …
Cruz raises $4.8 million in lead-up to 2016
By Brianna Gurciullo on August 6, 2014 at 11:12 AM
Potential presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has spent $1.2 million on fundraising and consulting since 2013, which is less than half as much as some of his Republican competitors. …
Jon Stewart rips Cruz, House on immigration
By Brianna Gurciullo on August 5, 2014 at 2:29 PM
“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart ridiculed House Republicans during his Monday night show for their actions on the border crisis before the August recess began. …
Gallego, in vortex of Obama’s Texas visit, invites Boehner to see the border
By Kevin Diaz on August 5, 2014 at 1:54 PM
First-term U.S. Rep. Pete Gallego, facing a hard challenge from Republican Will Hurd, released an open invitation Tuesday to House Speaker John Boehner to visit the border along the 23rd District of …
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Overcoming Nonhomogeneity: How to Analyze Subvisible Particles that Range in Size with Flow Imaging
Posted by Michelle Devoe
The most common method for characterizing subvisible particles (SVP) ranging in size from 10µm to 100µm is light obscuration (LO).
"LO, however, has a major drawback—an inability to assess morphology and thus differentiate between particles of various natures, air bubbles, silicon oil droplets, nonprotein particles, and protein aggregates." (Levin et al., 2015).
Imaged proteins captured by FlowCam from Levin et al. (2015). "Particles in this aliquot were very well detected by the FlowCam (Fig. 1), indicating excellent optical resolution of the instrument. Image fragmentation.... was a relatively rare event" Levin et al. (2015).
Levin et al. Quantitatively Analyze Glatiramer Acetate
Levin et al. published a paper in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences "Development of Flow Imaging Analysis for Subvisible Particle Characterization in Glatiramer Acetate" (2015) in which they describe their method for using the FlowCam® for subvisible particle (SVP) quantitation of injectable glatiramer acetate (GA), the active ingredient in Copaxone®, produced by Teva Pharmaceutical.
Levin et al. Overcome Nonhomogeneity
Levin et al. developed a method to overcome nonhomogeneous SVP distribution. GA is comprised of polypeptides of varying sizes, with a molecular weight distribution spanning 2500 to 20,000 Da. In this paper, Levin et al. describe their method for achieving homogeneity and method precision when quantifying nonprotein particles and proteinaceous aggregates that may be indicative of protein degradation.
Particles sized of 1 to 500μm were analyzed using a FlowCam. A sample of GA intentionally spiked with protein aggregates from stress heating was used for analysis. Levin et al. (2015) achieved 100% SVP counting accuracy and 104% size accuracy.
Find out how they did it—download the article from one of the links below.
ResearchGate Ι Wiley Online
Levin et al. used a threshold value for dark pixels of 20. Did you know the FlowCam is optimized for transparent and semi-transparent particle detection and imaging?
Learn how the FlowCam uses both light and dark thresholding to acheive optimal particle imaging, and accurate particle detection and count for transparent and semi-transparent particles. Click on the box below.
Levin, I., Zigman, S., Komlosh, A., and J. Kettenring (2015), Development of Flow Imaging Analysis for Subvisible Particle Characterization in Glatiramer Acetate. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. doi: 10.1002/jps.24550
Topics: Protein Therapeutics, Biopharmaceutical Research
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The Imam Who Saved Not Just Asansol, But Perhaps India From Burning
Imam Imadadul Rashidi’s voice was matter of fact when contacted by The Citizen, as if what he had done was what any one would do. Asansol was in the grip of violence threatened by a tornado as the Muslims started gathering to retaliate against the violence triggered by Ram Navami processions. Why? Because the Imam’s 16 year old son had been brutally beaten to death by a communal mob, and the news of the incident had spread like wildfire across the town.
The crowds gathered, with now the police and the state government aware of their own helplessness, when the Imam addressed a congregation of thousands at the funeral prayers of his son Sibtullah Rashidi who had just appeared for teh Class X Board examinations. With his son’s body lying before him, the Imam pleaded for peace in a short address that had the entire crowd in tears, with all then dispersing for their respective homes.
As he told The Citizen this morning, all he said was, “my child has lived the life that Allah ordained for him. Now please ensure that no one else’s child is killed, that there is peace and amity. If you love him, and me, do not turn to violence, but keep peace.”
Asked how difficult a statement this was Imam Rashidi said quietly, “ no it was not, it was clear to me that my child had died, there was nothing we could do about that, and it was thus my duty to ensure no other child died, no house was torched, no family bereaved.” He said he was responding to the anger in “my” Asansol, where people were bent on taking revenge. “I knew I had to stop this, I knew this was necessary for harmony in my shahr (town) and in my country” he said.
“I knew my child has lived the life Allah had marked for him, I pleaded with the people not to kill anyone else’s child, “ he said. The Imam made it clear to the congregation that “if you do not listen to me I will leave Asansol and go away.” He said he was firm about that, as he could not bear the thought of more violence and bloodshed.
The Imam said that he told the people exactly what he believed. “Islam is a religion of peace and amity, it does not preach violence and revenge,” he said. Asked what he would like to convey to the country where communal harmony is currently under stress, he said, “ I would only say please do all you can to ensure there is peace and unity. And no one is able to break that.”
Labels: Communal Harmony, Communal Violence, Forgiveness, India
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Home > Training Programs > Language > Professional Interpreter
Professional Interpreter
$995.00 (USD)
40 Course Hrs
This course will enable you to develop the skills necessary to use your knowledge of languages to help other people communicate. You'll start by gaining a clear understanding of what interpreting is; the different interpreting techniques, settings, and delivery modes; and the differences between a career in public services interpreting and other language-related fields. You will also receive a thorough grounding in the principles of ethics and professional conduct as they apply to the interpreting field. In addition, you'll learn how to control the communication flow of an interpreting encounter to ensure that all parties are recognized and heard during the meeting.
With this solid foundation, the course prepares you for the real world by providing you with practical information to help you gain employment confidently as a public services interpreter. You will also have the option to be listed for free in an employer-searchable directory to jump-start your new career. Once you complete the course, you'll be prepared to embark upon an exciting and rewarding career. As a professional interpreter, you'll often work with immigrants in vulnerable situations, becoming their only communication bridge. You can expect to assist families as they apply for food stamps and Medicaid, help residents set up utility services in a new home, and assist refugees as they complete their applications. You'll find your assignments vary from day to day—sometimes even from hour to hour—and opportunities abound!
Home (Introduction)
Learning Styles Assessment Exercise
Module 1: Basic Concepts of Language Interpreting
Basic Concepts: What is language interpreting? What is language translation?
Contrasting the interpretation and translation tasks
Translation and adaptation: Localization and transcreation
What does it take to become a professional interpreter?
Certificate vs. Certification vs. Professional Licensure
Where do interpreters work?
Message delivery: The techniques
Consecutive interpreting video demonstration
Sight translation video demonstration
Remote and Telephonic Interpretation
Telephonic interpreting, continued
Video remote interpreting and video relay interpreting
Sight translation
Vocabulary Game
The Evolution of Interpreting in the Community
The Evolution of Interpreting in the Community: Steps Toward Professional Recognition
The Evolution of Interpreting in the Community: Professional Associations
Public Services Interpreting Drivers
Standards Guiding the Interpreting Profession
Associations: Why are they important?
Module 1 Self-assessment
Module 2: Interpreting Skills and Techniques
Preparing yourself for this module
Active listening: Suspending yourself
Emotions and Culture
Level of Interest and Objectivity
Capacity to Concentrate
Who you are influences greatly the way you listen and communicate
Listening Exercises: Introduction
Shadowing: Introduction
Short-Term Memory Retention: Visual
Short-Term Memory Retention: Auditory
Sight Translation: Introduction
Putting It All Together: Interpreting
Module Vocabulary Game
Module 3: Ethics and standards: Expected professional behavior
What are Professional Standards?
The Interpreter's Professional Profile
Acting Ethically and Honestly
Respect for the Profession
Role Preservation
Scenarios and Exercises
Module 4: The Business of Interpreting
Basic public services interpreting market concepts
The Supply
The Demand
Working as a freelance interpreter
Interview video
Working as a Full-time Interpreter
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Joining professional associations
Joining online professional directories
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Headphones or speakers.
PC: Windows XP or later.
Linux may also be used.
Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
Microsoft Office or LibreOffice (not included in enrollment).
Must have a high school education (or equivalent) and be bilingual.
Rocío Txabarriaga, MA is vice president of Content Development and co-founder of the Virginia Institute of Interpreting. She is responsible for course planning, development, validation, and maintenance. Ms. Txabarriaga has over 20 years of experience in language services and international business management ranging from independent consulting to senior executive positions, and business ownership. Her extensive experience spans operations, ISO-quality processes, interpreter recruiting and training, qualitative and quantitative research and analysis, as well as in-depth involvement with several language technology platforms. Ms. Txabarriaga has several degrees, including a master's degree from Monterey Institute of International Studies, has earned many certificates, and speaks five languages fluently. Ms. Txabarriaga is also a NASBITE-Certified Global Business Professional and an accomplished writer and public speaker.
All of our programs are self-paced and open enrollment, so you can start them when you want and finish them at your own pace. Upon registering, you are given six months to complete this program.
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12. What are the language combinations?
English plus any other language.
13. Am I certified when I finish the program?
No. You will have a Certificate of Completion/Diploma. This means that you can begin working as a professional interpreter, but you cannot say that you are certified. You can say that you are a "trained" interpreter. (The situation is similar to someone who has a degree in accounting: The person could work as a bookkeeper, but is not an accountant until passing the CPA exam.) This program gives you the foundation for future specialized coursework in medical and judicial interpreting (certification exams exist in these disciplines in some countries). The difference is, this program will enable you to become a general interpreter just as soon as you complete it.
14. How much can I earn when I finish the program?
Immediately after you finish the program, you can begin accepting interpreting assignments. The average hourly rate for new interpreters is $20 per hour. Simply follow the instructions in the career module of the Professional Interpreter program and you will be on your way to accepting interpreting assignments right away.
15. Is there a language test?
Yes. As part of your program, you will be required to take a spoken language fluency assessment in both your "A" Language (native language) and your "B" Language (second language). These tests are included in your tuition cost and are conducted over the phone. Certified testers will have a conversation with you in your languages, designed to assess your level of fluency on a 1-5 scale. You must have a fluency level of at least 3 in that scale in both languages to pass. If you do not obtain a level 3 fluency qualification in both languages, you will not pass the program. In order to be an interpreter, you must have full verbal fluency in two (or more) languages.
The time allotted to complete your program has been calculated based on the number of hours for each program, so don't worry too much about not completing in time. If, after a concerted effort, you are still unable to complete, your Student Advisor will help you work out a suitable completion date. Please note that a fee may be charged for an extension.
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November 2011 Case Summaries
United States Second Circuit - November 2011 Opinion Summaries
Schwartz v. Merrill Lynch & Co.
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Sentencing of defendants for firearms-related offenses are vacated where the district court incorrectly used a "preponderance of the evidence"...
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In an appeal from a judgment of the district court revoking defendant's supervised release, judgment is affirmed where the court did not exceed its...
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In an appeal from a judgment of the district court dismissing plaintiff's civil complaint for various prosecutorial misconduct, judgment is affirmed...
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Conviction and sentencing of defendant-former majority leader of the NY state senate for services mail fraud, 18 U.S.C. sections 1341 and 1346, are...
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In an appeal from a judgment of the district court capping the award of plaintiff's attorney fees, judgment is affirmed where the Prison Litigation...
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In an appeal from a judgment of the district court dismissing plaintiff's Rule 10-b action for failure to state a claim, judgment is affirmed where...
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In an appeal from a judgment of the district court dismissing plaintiff's complaint for trademark infringement, judgment is affirmed where the...
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‘Don’t look for scapegoats’: cardinal issues plea with other religious leaders
Faith leaders have expressed their concern about the reported rise in racial hatred (© Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk)
The spiritual leader of Catholics across England and Wales, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, has signed a letter calling on the country to “challenge racial and communal prejudice wherever it is found” following the referendum result last week.
The cardinal, along with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and Muslim leader Ali Razi Rizvi, writes that many of the political and economic consequences of the referendum remain unknown, however “in less than a week, increasing reports of inter communal discord and racial hatred are cause for the gravest concern.”
Since the referendum result it has emerged that reports of racial hate crimes have risen by 57 per cent.
The letter, which appears in today’s Times, concludes: “For all that lies outside of our personal control, every person has the power to conquer their own instinct to apportion blame to others for perceived injustice. Today we call upon every citizen of our great country to recognise personal accountability for their every action, rather than avoiding that responsibility by looking for scapegoats, and to challenge racial and communal prejudice wherever it is found and thus ensure that we are, more than ever, a country united.”
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The two leaders have previously spoken of their ‘implicit trust in each other’
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'Jimmy' has come through the Vodafone Warriors' system, making his mark with the Papakura Sea Eagles to earn the opportunity to play NYC football in 2014. He impressed throughout the season as a rugged back rower culminating in him playing in the club's grand final-winning side.
No longer eligible for the grade in 2015, he immediately became an integral player for the Vodafone Warriors' Intrust Super Premiership that year and has been a regular ever since. Performing strongly throughout the 2016-2017 offseason, he was selected in the club's 2017 NRL Auckland Nines squad and also played in each of the NRL trials against Melbourne and Gold Coast.
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Labella to take oath as new mayor in front of Associate Justice
By: Delta Dyrecka Letigio June 25,2019 - 09:05 PM
Cebu City Vice Mayor Edgar Labella. (CDN PHOTO/LITO TECSON)
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor-elect Edgardo Labella will be taking his oath as the new mayor of Cebu City in the morning of Sunday, June 30, in front of the 182nd Supreme Court Associate Justice of the Philippines, Justice Amy Lazaro-Javier.
On the same day, the turnover of the city administration will take place at the Mayor’s Office of the City Hall at 2 p.m. in the afternoon.
Labella said that President Rodrigo Duterte’s daughter, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio, was his first choice of presiding officer during his oath taking but since Duterte-Carpio’s jurisdiction was only limited to her hometown, she could not administer his oath.
Duterte-Carpio, who endorsed Labella for her own party, Hugpong nga Pagbabago, will also not be able to attend Labella’s oath taking because of prior commitments.
The Associate Justice will be administering Labella’s oath, a nod to his being a lawyer and a member of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines.
Five days before his oath, taking, Labella is already easing in the department heads of his administration, nine of which he already revealed in a Facebook post.
Read more: Labella taps five lawyers to join his administration
These included Lawyer Floro Casas, Jr. as City Administrator, Lawyer Jerone Castillo as City Treasurer, Lawyer Rey Galeon as City Attorney, Lawyer Mark Salomon as City Budget Officer, Lawyer June Maratas as General Services Officer, Jerome Ornopia as City Accountant, Doctor Daisy Villa as City Health Officer, Engineer Kenneth Carmelita Enriquez as City Engineer, and Architect Florante Catalan as Building Official.
Labella said he would be revealing more of his department heads in the next few days.
He also said that not all department heads would be changed.
One of the positions Labella is carefully considering who to put as head is the Cebu City Transportation Office (CCTO) which will play a crucial role in maintaining the city’s traffic.
“We have to go over their backgrounds.We have to appoint people who are not only competent but also people with a reputation of probity,” said Labella.
Read more: Cebu City braces for transition of mayors
The transition team for the turn over of administrations on June 30 are also preparing all the necessary documents that will need to be relinquished to the new administration.
“The incoming and outgoing administrations are expected to meet in the Mayor’s Office to discuss the transition so the new heads can talk to their predecessors on the concerns of their offices,” said Annabeth Cuizon, executive assistant to outgoing Mayor Tomas Osmeña.
The documents will then be reviewed by the new administration in an audit as mandated by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) memorandum on smooth transition between administration.
Cuizon said that all documents for transition would be expected to be ready by June 30. /dbs
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New 'Bohemian Rhapsody' trailer touches on Freddie Mercury's sexuality
By Jem Aswad| 2 years ago
Hints of Mercury's sex life found throughout the clip
If further proof were needed that Rami Malek is an ideal actor to portray legendary Queen singer Freddie Mercury, the second trailer from Bohemian Rhapsody -- the forthcoming biopic of the singer and the classic band he fronted -- nails it.
Not only does he have Mercury's stage moves down -- from the aggressive glam of the band's early days to the butch fist-pumping of his '80s incarnation -- he's got his drop-dead humour as well.
In one scene, the actor portraying drummer Roger Taylor is about to throw a bottle. "Roger, there's only room in this band for one hysterical Queen," Malek deadpans.
The trailer pivots back and forth between scenes from the band's early days and its super stardom. And like many recent biopics, it gets period details perfect -- clothing, hairstyles, incidental objects in a scene -- while taking traditional biopic liberties with reality.
"You're a legend, Freddie," one band member says. "We're all legends," Malek replies.
A post shared by Queen (@officialqueenmusic) on Jul 15, 2018 at 6:00am PDT
Throughout the clip, we see the band recording classics like 'We Will Rock You' and, of course, the film's title song.
"How many more galileos do you want?" Taylor yells.
We also get hints of Mercury's sex life -- first his girlfriend and confidante Mary Austin, then later male lovers in several unspecific but emotionally loaded moments -- leading up to the inevitable conclusion, which we have not yet seen depicted in the film, of the singer's AIDS-related death in 1991.
How that will be handled remains to be seen, but to this nearly lifelong Queen fan, so far the film looks awesome.
Bohemian Rhapsody, also starring Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzello, Aidan Gillen, Tom Hollander and Mike Myers, is in Australian cinemas on November 1.
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Big Data In The UK Election
How did the polls get it so wrong?
Big DataChief Data OfficerData Science
Chris Towers
This piece was originally going to be discussing how each party used Big Data to target specific voters. It was going to be discussing how polls used it to make their predictions and how accurate these were.
What it will actually be discussing is that there only seemed to be three people in the entire British political landscape who fully understand it.
This was Lynton Crosby, James Messina and Mark Textor.
As the population began voting at 7am on May 7th May, every single poll said that the result would be too close to call, many claimed that the Conservatives would have no chance of making it back into government even with a coalition. The truth by 7am on the 8th was that they had managed to secure a majority in the House of Commons. Almost everybody was surprised, apart from Crosby, Messina and Textor.
Unlike the consensus that the main polling companies had found, on the morning of the 7th, Messina and Textor’s predictions had shown that the Conservatives would bring in 315 votes, not enough for a a majority, but significantly higher than the 280-290 seats that the other polls predicted. The real number was actually higher, with 331 seats in total.
It shows that although more accurate than the traditional polls, it was still fairly flawed compared to the models that Nate Silver and Drew Linzer used in the US election.
So why was it that that the pollsters got it so wrong?
Essentially, it was because pollsters used the same techniques that they had used many years ago and still expected the same results. The truth however, is that society today is a very different place to twenty years ago.
Whereas then our information would have come exclusively from newspapers, tv and radio, today our information comes mainly from the internet. It comes in numbers so vast that it dwarves what we previously had, to the extent that polling companies were so far removed from this fact that they got it almost completely wrong.
Where a newspaper may have one editorial on a political subject, across the web there may be thousands. Where a television programme may spend 10 minutes analyzing an event, I can go onto Youtube and watch hundreds of hours of people bringing different perspectives to the same event.
The beauty of these interactions being done online is that they are all easily trackable.
According to many, the polling companies had called up a select number of people and simply asked who they were planning on voting for or asked people in the street. This clearly did not work and showed us something that I have long held to be true, namely that your online activity is very similar to your voting activity.
Online you can hide behind a screen name and nobody is likely to know who you are or what you are doing. When voting you can put your name next to any box without anybody knowing which party you are voting for. It is the same anonymised action and so has a large crossover in behaviour.
Being able to track online behaviour is fairly simple and can even be done at a drilled down and complex level to get the most comprehensive view of who people are likely to be be voting for.
Many have been disappointed at the result of the election due to the outcome, but from a data perspective the most disappointing aspects has simply been the lack of understanding of the way society gains its information and makes its decisions. Polling companies have a single job, which is to predict people’s behaviour, it seems that they have either wilfully shunned or embarrassingly missed the primary tool in their arsenal in modern society.
But if this is the case then why did Messina, Textor and Crosby manage to have a slightly clearer picture?
It is simply because in James Messina they had somebody who was switched on to the effectiveness of Big Data, somebody who, when hired, simply picked up his iPhone and told his new employers that this device is what would win them the election.
He was right because he, unlike the polling companies, understood that the data that could be gleamed from the habits of mobile users would be key to accurate voter patterns. In fact, mobile data is the ideal factor in establishing voting patterns and the likelihood of specific seats being won or lost.
This is because not only can you get data related to what is being read, communicated and viewed, it is easier to see exactly where people are. As voting is segmented by area it is essential to not only have the information of what people are looking at, but also where they are likely to be voting. This means that if most of your browsing happens in a large town then every night you do a bit in a smaller village 30 miles away, this information would suggest that you work in a large town and live (thus vote) in the smaller village.
It is a complex modelling system, but one that should be achievable if you want to get accurate information.
With this information the conservatives could easily see that they had the edge in the way they were campaigning, whilst Labour believed the numbers that pollsters had provided, meaning that their message wasn’t working but they were under the impression that it was.
This use of data is vital in an election where gauging public opinion is key to the success of a campaign. The fact that the companies who were meant to get it right got it so wrong is a clear indication that Big Data was not utilized to the extent that it could. The party who used it properly were the eventual winners and this point alone is testament to why parties and polls need to be more vigilant in 2020.
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Franz Ferdinand It's getting better all the time for...
“There’s quite a good sight,” says Alex Kapranos, but what is it he sees? An arena packed with screaming fans all throwing their soiled underwear at him? “I can see two cops on bikes over the road and they look, em, just a wee bit unfit to be riding their bikes,”
The Band The waltz plays on
They are one of the most important and influential groups of the 20th century. They made musical history not once but twice in the 1960s. They defined americana despite being four-fifths canadian. they were, according to George Harrison, better than the Beatles. they are, quite simply, The Band.
John Cale Count your chickens
John Cale, the Welsh dragon of experimentalism, returns to his home country with a new album and some stripped down G-Funk. Clash interviews the former member of the Velvet Underground on his notorious animal abuse episode, making peace with home crowds and how Dr Dre has changed his life.
Carl Craig The Detroit spinner
“You don’t have to make techno with an 808, a 909 or a 303 - techno is about your ideas, not the gear you use. ‘Papa Was A Rolling Stone’, to me, was techno; Stevie Wonder’s ‘Too High’ was techno.” Carl Craig, one of electronic music’s true mavericks, is getting into his stride.
Boards of Canada Keeping the campfires burning
Boards of Canada don’t give many interviews, the vast majority are by e-mail, and to the select few who do get to meet them, their studio, their homes and many key details of their lives and work are strictly out of bounds.
My Morning Jacket From hay to Z!
With their new album ‘Z’, My Morning Jacket have completely transcended the Americana rock scene and become something very, very special. Main Jacketman Jim James has taken his bulky, Neil Young inspired mournful country rock and bled pretty much every style of music.
Danger Doom Behind the masks
MF Doom, King Geedorah, Viktor Vaughan, Zev Love X… Daniel Dumile has taken on many a pseudonym during his twenty-odd years in hip-hop. So are there any more personas yet to see the light of day? “Yeah, a giraffe named Sherman. He’s some funny shit”. That’s right; a giraffe named Sherman.
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“I Know Who Likes You” available for listening and download
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“I Know Who Likes You” is now available to listen and download via the Monkeybicycle website, or subscribe to the podcast for more fiction and nonfiction readings!
The story is serendipitously appropriate for New Year’s Day, when you might be looking back on your regrets from the second grade.
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I’m very happy to let you know that my audio recording of my new story “I Know Who Likes You” will be available for download via the Monkeybicycle podcast in the new year. Subscribe to the podcast now to get an automatic download of the episode when it appears!
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“Anonymous Donor” to appear in Alaska Quarterly Review!
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Education/ Opinion/ Fall 2016
The missing piece of education reform
Leadership by superintendents and principals is key
Edward Moscovitch Charter schools, Education Reform Act, Elementary and Secondary Education, State Government, Taxes and Budget Issues 2 Comments Oct 10, 2016
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ago a broad coalition of legislators, business people, education experts, and state officials put together and passed a wide-reaching education reform law. That law reflects a set of shared beliefs—basically, that a combination of increased funding, state testing tied to graduation requirements, new state curriculum frameworks, charter schools, and increased authority for superintendents and principals would lead to better schools. I was part of that coalition, but later came to believe that the law omitted a critical element—working with principals and teachers to help them improve their craft – and helped start a non-profit (the Bay State Reading Institute) to work with elementary and middle schools in this way. My experience at the Bay State Reading Institute over the past 11 years with several dozen schools convinces me that current state policies—based on that unchanged policy consensus—are unlikely to lead to further improvement in our schools.
Results from the National Assessment of Education Progress (the so-called “nation’s report card”) show that in the years immediately after 1993 there was a measurable gain in Massachusetts students’ performance. But the results also show that scores have leveled off in the last few years and that there is still a sizable gap between the achievement of low-income students and their wealthier counterparts. Looking at international test comparisons, the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education’s 2014 Brightlines report concludes that while our scores are higher than other states, Massachusetts students are falling behind the international leaders. The highest performing Massachusetts students are well behind those in the highest performing countries.
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The Bay State Reading Institute worked last year with 50 Massachusetts elementary and middle schools (almost entirely in low-income communities) to improve student achievement. Of the 33 schools with us for more than a year or two, 25 have made impressive gains while the results at eight others are disappointing. Comparing the gainers with the disappointments leads me to four major conclusions:
The key factor limiting school improvement is not teachers, but leadership from the principal and the superintendent. Of course, improved schools require improved teaching. But in a school where the principal is committed to change, knows the pedagogy she (or he) is looking for, is willing to hold difficult conversations with teachers when needed, and has the backing of her superintendent, our experience is that the principal can always move her teachers. In each of the eight disappointing schools the problem was a lack of principal commitment, an inability or unwillingness by the principal to make specific pedagogical requests of teachers, or central office officials undermining the principal’s authority.
This finding about superintendents and principals has enormous implications for state policy. In its effort to improve schools, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education should focus on superintendents (and school committees), since they hire principals and give them their marching orders. The department should not be looking at programs that directly influence teachers, since good principals can handle that far better than a state agency that is necessarily focused on enforcement. This is not a criticism of the Department of Elementary and Second Education staff, but instead reflects the agency’s institutional enforcement role; it’s hard to change human behavior if the person being helped is not at ease with the potential helper.
Given the right kind of help, the great majority of principals and teachers are capable of running great schools. This begins with dramatically higher expectations for student performance; after a year or two, many teachers tell us that their students are now performing at levels the teachers never before thought possible. It also means major changes in how teachers teach and principals lead, starting with having the class spend most of the day in small-group instruction—the teacher working with a small group of students (at just their instructional level) while other students collaborate on high-level center activities, such as group discussion of text (including making predictions, asking questions, looking for evidence, and picking out the main ideas), separating fact from opinion (1st grade!); and debating topics like genetically modified food (starting in grade 3!).
Contrary to popular perception, great teachers are made, not born. Investing in teachers pays! People choose teaching because they care about kids; teachers will try out new approaches if they feel listened to and have evidence that these approaches work. Principals who understand and respect these truths can move their teachers. The Bay State Reading Institute asks principals in its partner schools to discuss individual student data with teachers, including what they plan to do help students who fall behind and what help they might need. In the most successful schools, the principal knows the pedagogy she’s looking for, spends an hour or two in classes most days, and makes very specific requests to teachers as to improvements she’d like to see. As part of this process, teachers begin discussing with each other all of the students in their grade level and begin working together to make sure every child (not just strugglers but also gifted students) reaches his or her potential. Once they see that the focus is on helping students (and not punishing teachers), teachers are comfortable with these discussions, and we have not had union resistance.
School districts need additional funding to make the necessary investment. When budgets are tight, investment in better teaching—be it purchasing new textbooks, hiring instructional coaches, making time for teachers to plan together, or bringing in outside partners—is the first area cut. Few districts—particularly high-poverty districts—have the funds they need to make these investments. Sadly, though, additional state funds that districts could use only for investment (preferably, only for investment and not operations) are not on anyone’s priority list.
Current state education policies do not reflect these lessons and are unlikely to succeed. As any successful high-tech entrepreneur understands, you motivate an educated workforce by setting high goals and then delegating authority, listening to your employees, making it safe to take risks, being generous with praise, encouraging collaboration, and using data in a constructive way to know what works and what doesn’t. State policies applying these principles to superintendents would mean avoiding micro-management and one-size-fits-all regulations from the state. Except in a handful of particularly badly managed districts where the state should and does appoint receivers, the relatively small staff at the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is unlikely to make better decisions for each particular district than the principals and superintendents currently running those schools.
State policy would be far more effective if it took the advice of the authors of the Brightlines report—“You can’t mandate excellence; you can only inspire it!” The state could inspire excellence by creating a competitive state grant program for districts that offered significant, long-term funding to superintendents who have exciting ideas for investing in their teachers and their schools. My suggestion would be $250,000 per school, with a modest local contribution. This would be one-time money that the superintendent would have four years to spend and, once awarded, could not be taken away by the state or diverted by the school committee. Over the course of a decade, $50 million a year of state funding (just 1 percent of the $5 billion in state funds spent annually on K-12 education) would be sufficient to offer this one-time transformational opportunity to every school in the Commonwealth.
Another way to motivate superintendents would be to waive state mandates for districts that offer compelling plans of their own. Mandates typically link state funding to specific policies; for example, a state literacy program last year required that, as a condition of receiving funds, districts use specific literacy materials, regardless of whether the materials are consistent with the literacy program the district has adopted or whether it was achieving good results.
I’d offer to waive just about any state mandate, as long as the superintendent has a compelling idea for change, has indicated specific educational goals such a waiver would advance, and is willing to submit data to measure progress. This would put the emphasis on the district’s success in improving student performance (and the superintendent’s leadership in this area), rather than on micro-managing how a superintendent runs her district.
The combination of long-term funding dedicated to investment in better teaching and the opportunity to replace rigid state mandates with locally designed programs to improve teaching will be a powerful motivator to the state’s best superintendents.
For this to be successful, we’d need a rigorous but open-minded assessment of the improvement plans superintendents put forward. It could be modeled on the high-quality evaluation process the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education built for its Priority Partner program, which includes well-respected outside reviewers.
Keeping in mind the critical role of district leadership, let’s take a look at the major education improvement policies currently in place:
State education officials have an excellent program to mentor new superintendents. The program has engaged some of the most respected retired superintendents in the state, who serve as coaches for new superintendents. The program should continue and be supported.
Massachusetts should retain a modest amount of statewide testing to make sure we catch those schools that fall hopelessly behind, but the amount of testing we do now is way out of proportion to the benefit. I’d test as little as possible in grades 3,5,6, and 7, and keep no more than four hours of testing in grades 4, 8, and 10. Through 2015, schools spread testing over two whole months; during those months, when tests were being conducted, teachers who normally were assigned to provide extra help to struggling students stopped those services so they could be test monitors. Test results also aren’t available until the following fall—too late to help teachers improve instruction for the students in front of them.
As currently constructed, the state reports on standardized test results tell us very little about the quality of teaching in any school. They tell us that students in, for example, Wellesley and Lexington have higher scores than students in Boston or Springfield. That’s not surprising given that, on average, students entering kindergarten in high-poverty districts start school well behind. Unless we know where students started (in the fall of kindergarten, not, as is now the case, in third grade), we have no idea how effective teaching actually is. When you compare scores of low-income students in urban communities with scores of the relatively few low-income students in the suburbs, the scores are very similar, but the state reports don’t make that clear. Indeed, we have had visitors to Bay State Reading Institute schools whose own children are in suburban systems tell us that the teaching they see in our urban districts is better than what their own kids get—even though test scores in their own district may be higher.
The current system unfairly demonizes thousands of urban district teachers who are working their hearts out to help the neediest kids and whose results are just as good as, if not better than, suburban schools when you adjust for where their students started. The so-called growth scores published by the state would appear to reflect these adjustments, but they don’t because the starting point is third grade and not kindergarten. The current system assumes that what happens between kindergarten and third grade doesn’t matter when in fact the opposite is true. When schools succeed, the improvement starts in kindergarten and then moves like a wave through succeeding grades.
Of course, good schools need testing to help teachers and the principal know which kids are falling behind and which interventions are working. A well-run district will have quick, formative assessments administered regularly during the year. The much shorter state assessment I’d like to see should be used to narrow the state’s attention to the relatively few districts where it needs to intervene. There’s little evidence that standardized tests have improved pedagogy, and plenty of evidence that they’ve reduced substantially the time available for instruction.
Many people who, like me, think we do too much testing link this to Common Core, which they oppose. But Common Core is a very good set of standards for what students should be learning; it is not the same as the tests. In English language arts, the emphasis is on having students read text for meaning, ask critical questions, look for evidence, pick out main ideas, and use material to articulate their own ideas. Having this new, well-thought-out, national standard has gotten teachers’ attention in a positive way. Having Massachusetts on the same page as other states means we now have access to curriculum materials designed specifically for the standards we’re teaching to.
I applaud the state for its support of Common Core; I doubt that people who’ve actually visited a Common Core classroom object to the teaching they saw there.
For me, the charter schools debate misses the most important question. The state currently has 4.2 percent of students in charters and that number would rise to 14 percent in a decade if the referendum passes. What matters more is what we do for the 86 percent of our students who will remain in regular district schools. But the charter debate sucks up all of the legislative and journalistic energy available to discuss school change, so no serious attention is given to investing in teachers and principals—even though there is strong evidence that doing so pays.
Massachusetts officials currently mandate that all districts use the same state-designed teacher evaluation system. While well-intentioned, the system has become time-consuming and bureaucratic. In a school where all students take regular formative assessments, where the principal meets regularly with teachers to discuss individual student data, and where the principal visits classrooms on a daily basis, the principal already knows which one or two teachers should be considered for dismissal, and which other teachers have plenty of potential but need a bit of help. Principals in schools like this tell me that the paperwork in the state system takes away from the time they have available to work with their teachers.
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For the great majority of districts, the one-size-fits all, paper-heavy state mandates and the overuse of testing are unlikely to improve the quality of instruction. This does not mean that what districts are now doing is good enough—far from it. If we want to use state policy as an engine for school improvement, we need a smarter strategy. We need a strategy designed to bring out the best in teachers and principals. Such a system would build on an understanding of the critical importance of strong educational leadership by superintendents and principals and would work to strengthen and inspire that leadership by carefully designed financial incentives and waivers from state mandates.
Edward Moscovitch is the executive director and cofounder of the Bay State Reading Institute. As a consultant to the Business Alliance for Education, he formerly helped draft and pass the 1993 Education Reform Law.
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In late 2012 HSBC, a large international bank, executed an advertising campaign dubbed “In the future…”. These ads, appearing in business magazines and international airports, featured predictions about technology and economics, and pronouced, “a new world is emerging.” Several of the ads presented HSBC’s accord with ‘green’ technologies, such as one claim that, “In the future, we will all fly organic.” The accompanying image places mushroom gills within an airliner turbine, presenting biofuels as an emerging and profitable investment. Alignment of international banking with alternative energy was always going to require careful analysis, but other components of this ad campaign turn downright disturbing. An image of a fish with a barcode on it proclaims, “In the future, the food chain and the supply chain will merge.”i
Another states, “In the future, nature and technology will work as one,” while depicting a bee with camera lenses for eyes.ii
In fact, implanting microchips in moths is old tech these days – DARPA’s HI-MEMS (Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems), a project that implanted chips in moths’ pupa stage and successfully guided neural growth into a control system used to ‘fly’ these creatures by remote control, is being supplanted by micro-mechanical spy drones modeled directly on insects (1) (2). Similarly, RFID gets serious use in the fishing industry for product tracking (3). Nature and technology are apparently already ‘working as one’ at the service of the military and global consumption – HSBC’s most sci-fi ads simply reflect the current state of affairs. We have here a bank asking us to follow along in its vision of the future, one that openly repackages dystopia as an insightful investment opportunity.
HSBC isn’t alone in sharing their warm feelings for frightening scenarios. A recent advertisement from the company ManpowerGroup features a DNA molecule unraveling into a dragon and beckons “… China asked us to examine the DNA of their workforce and reshape it for the future. We’re now preparing people for jobs in healthcare, engineering, and IT.” This content appears to float the notion of using DNA profiling or genetic design to sculpt a human workforce. In reality, the company uses the term DNA metaphorically: their way of referring to fundamentals within an economy. Nevertheless, the fact that such a play would be deemed appropriate, or even enticing, reflects the bizarre environment which birthed this advertisement. Taking stock of our current circumstances, it might seem less surprising.
Consider this future: synthetic organisms, self healing plastics, nano machines installed within the human body, universalized surveillance, cloning, autonomous robotic soldiers, sex androids with pre-programmed online-swappable personalities, pervasive GMO pollen contamination (4). These seem like topics for science fiction fantasy but they are in fact just components of ‘news’ in our current world. That the nexus of these new developments is difficult for us to truly accept is easy to see – it’s typical to refer to our emerging paradigm as a science fiction reality, when in fact little fiction remains. The creation of the first organism with a fully synthetic genome in 2010 coincided with a Pentagon investment of $6 million aimed at engineering gene sequences from the ground up for “intended biological effect” complete with a genetically coded kill switch (5). In the private sector, the company Universal Bio Mining is pursuing open release of synthetic micro-organisms as a necessary move to make their remediation strategies economical (6). Back at DARPA, 2013 marked the inception of the In Vivo Nanoplatforms (IVN) program, which seeks the deployment of interactive nanoparticles within a soldier to continuously, wirelessly, and remotely monitor the individual’s health status and also deploy therapeutic medicines without visiting a clinic (7). Writing on robotics, the relatively mainstream magazine Foreign Affairs is reporting that India, Israel, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States are all pursuing fully autonomous robotic soldiers. The question at hand is not the design of these systems, as fully autonomous robots have been used in the field for some time now. Rather, Foreign Affairs discusses whether targeting decisions, the choice of when to kill, should be “out sourced” to these machines (8). For a look at what fully autonomous weapons might look like, we need only check in at the YouTube stream of advanced robotics lab Boston Dynamics for either the 4-legged ‘Big Dog’ capable of regaining its balance on ice, or the PETMAN robot, a spitting image of the Terminator (9) (10). In bio-ethics news, 2013 marked the first published successes of cloning human embryos, peer reviewed and vetted in the journal Cell (11). Checking in with the latest maps, we see that the northwest passage so sought after by explorers for the last several hundred years is now open for more efficient shipping, and better profit margins, due to dramatically increased arctic ice melt attributable to climate change (12) (13). Meanwhile the global environment is filling with persistent bioaccumlative toxic chemicals, a swirling eddy of tiny plastic bits is collecting in the pacific ocean, and the major nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima reactor continues to leak radioactive water into the ocean at rate of 300 tonnes a day; certification specialists and farmers state that most organic corn, soy, and canola grown in the continental United States test positive for transgenic genes from GMO pollen contamination (14) (15) (16) (17) (18).
Comprehending the interaction of these complex, man made phenomena is overwhelming. Theory or collective knowledge built up over thousands of years of human experience simply does not apply. Certainly the arrival of the industrial revolution and subsequent transformation of the surface of the planet by war and industry is mind numbing enough, but the rate of disruption is only expanding and with nearly incomprehensible consequences. Who except a science fiction author is truly equipped to theorize against the interaction of subtle radiation sickness with transgenic mutations in our food supply and massive climate change induced wildfires (19) (20)? And what will robotic armies owned by corporately influenced governments in 3rd world countries stricken by side effects of GMO crops actually look like when they are guarding fiercely coveted water supplies or rare mineral mines? After a certain point, the complexity simply becomes too great – many, many new variables and not enough time to understand them. HSBC is actually right, a new world is emerging – a world of sheer insanity piloting itself directly into a long period of gruesome unmaking. Yet for those that don’t see dystopia as a potential business opportunity, where is the place of power in this madness to speak from, to begin a critique, or to build an alternative?
One response to unacceptable circumstances is to clamor for political revolution, but something more fundamental is at stake here. To make a plan of action, it is necessary to be able to imagine a future that will be feasible. It’s become unclear whether this is a future to even be discussed. In what terms are we to think of the future at all? With blinders off, let’s consider a few of the more common approaches.
Versions of the Future
Disengagement: There’s no way out. One relationship to the future is simply to let the machines grind away – a cold and bitter analysis that lays a sick world to its final rest, or at least one in which humanity plays little part. Some simply recommend not focusing on the deconstruction at hand, or apprehending the consequences of their actions and technologies, yet unwilling to disrupt their status quo. It’s hard to avoid this dissipated vantage point when confronting the tragedy of history. From the corporate employee aware of the negative outcomes of the larger body but willing to continue as cog in the wheel, to the media star who delivers an entertainment product with no real teaching, here is an unwillingness to engage the question. The yearning for an endless party in the face of disaster is a similar disconnect, just a different way to close down, turn off, and surrender. This unifying experience is simply despair. It might make an emotional relationship with the news easier to deal with, but it’s not a basis for operation. You can’t avoid the future just because it’s unpleasant to consider – engagement is the only option.
Vision Tech: Antipodal to despair is the full engagement of technology as our savior. Sometimes called vision tech, some hold that technological development is the path to utopia. Here negative consequences are mere bumps in the road leading to an expansive existence filled with ultimate freedom. Vision tech, with its classic manifestations in transhumanism and extropianism, at least has an ideal it’s aiming toward (21). Ray Kurzweil, one this future’s major proponents, foretells a coming ‘singularity’ when technological advance will reach such a blinding pace that reality will be transformed around us in a matter of minutes (22). Kurzweil doesn’t see this as a business opportunity nor as negative end, but rather the final ascendency of humankind into a virtual world of cloud computing that is endlessly backed up and indestructible, or an existence filled with nanomachines that cure our every illness and give us complete control over reality. The cracks show when we consider how messianic this perspective is, a reliance on prophecy of a particular way technological development could play out to solve all our problems in an instant. We can easily imagine many non-utopian futures, on what grounds do we determine the utopian one will win out? Douglas Hofstadter, another major explorer of cognitive science and AI, wasn’t convinced of Kurzweil’s claims and took him on directly in the mid 2000s (23). Perhaps Hofstadter’s most profound reflection was that even if our entire reality, including ourselves, is in an instance scanned into a virtual environment, and we changed into a surrealistic substrate of endlessly reconfigurable nano-machines, we would have hardly solved the existential or societal issues we set out to confront. Kurzweil’s utopia solves the world by annihilating it, which isn’t so much of a future after all. Perhaps a less extreme version could work in theory, but it all comes down to a faith that everything will in fact turn out right. Leaning hard on belief is almost understandable since the alternative is terrifying – rather than a final ascendency our technology will probably hand us a chaotic trip in catastrophic unknowns.
Sustainability: In calmer waters from apocalypse or transcendence, we find the future proposed by sustainability theory. Riding a major wave of ecological concern over the last decade, sustainability has found considerable traction in both academic and business landscapes. This version of the future extols a balance between economic, social, and environmental needs, with the most commonly referenced outcome being sustainable development: “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (24). A good hearted conception for the future, re-imagining of business, society, and ecological awareness with an in-built critique of millenia of human overuse of natural resources. But will it work? Sustainability requires intense oversight of abusers, and so necessitates that those in power be themselves mainly concerned with sustainability. Since those in power are quite often those that are powerful, and not necessarily those with particularly grounded value systems, sustainability may be in trouble. And then also we might ask, sustainability of what? Figuring out how to maintain our current way of life, including Walmart and Burger King, probably is not sufficient to avoid dystopian outcomes. The sustainability in question often seems to reference sustaining business, including profits and exploitations, rather than a fundamental shift in perspective. If green energy programs make a company less competitive, or if a disruptive company or nation-state wants to fight its way into the marketplace, deep shifts away from resource over-utilization don’t appear to be incentivized. Sustainability is clearly a matter of perspective. In 2013, Monsanto’s international homepage bears the title “A Sustainable Agriculture Company”iii.
Sustaining our current rate of energy use is the justification for environmentally destructive hydrofracturing and tar sands oil extractioniv.
The Primitive: As we run out of options in our exploration of the future, it becomes attractive to bet it all on the downfall of civilization. As Derrick Jensen argued in his 2 volume work Endgame, the fundamental problem might be civilization itself. Jensen argues for a shift in strategy in radical environmentalism, which should focus on dismantling civilization and a return to an agrarian communal life (26). Sadly, conflict between communal agrarian societies and highly militarized, technologically advanced civilizations has normally ended in the consolidation of control by the latter. An aggressive de-evolution of technology seems unlikely to succeed expressly because complex civilizations have access to superior, deadly weaponry of many kinds, and huge incentive to deploy these technologies. Jensen’s focus on communalism is a ground point for a more balanced human societal structure, but bringing this about through the flag of primitivism will never succeed. In a sense, the ‘downfall of civilization’ is much like Kurzweil’s singularity, an almost religious delivery with many less optimistic, and more likely, endgames.
Hypercapital: A future where all aspects of life become economies, where all interactions on all levels of society are regarded as producer/consumer exploitations with revenue as the common goal. While other versions of the future attempt alternatives to this formation, they share a common problem: they are abstract concepts rather than realities. Just as HSBC so clearly points out, hypercapitalism is the real future, because it’s the one that is already happening. A completely unacceptable world that is already taking place, we live more and more in a repackaging of Phillip K. Dick’s dystopia as the next mainstream commercial product, a promise of new resources, ideas, and industries that in reality maps to an ever more fine grained life out of balance. This future we have is actually no future at all.
Seeing a Path
Those that desire a radical break with an unacceptable world are faced with an intractable problem: as a consequence of the speed, complexity, and scale of planetary transformation, visioning a workable alternative future has become unfeasible. We are blockaded by novel, chaotic interactions between biochemical compounds, genome splicing, autonomous robotics, climate disturbance, and synthetic organisms influencing everything from geopolitics down to the substrate of our own bodies. There are enough unknowns in this scenario to overwhelm any theory or conception; strategy is deconstructed to tactics, and tactics are deconstructed to resignation. In spite of being left with little basis, some of us still demand a different reality; our imaginations refuse to lay down their quest. Radical or post media operator, we reach for a common future. Indeed, we require a common vision to coordinate our actions. But when we reach, where is that future? Where is that shared dream?
We speak from the time of the gathering storm. Humanity is beginning an experience unlike anything in its millennia of history, more dangerous and more bizarre than even the havoc of the 20th century. Humans and their planet will come out the other side dramatically altered in completely foreign ways. Any opportunity to completely arrest this process has been lost – many effects already seen do not have straightforward negotiations. The most dramatic of changes may happen during the current generation, or it may take 100 years. But the storm is coming, that is clear. A complex confluence of completely new phenomena a bit like Kurzweil’s singularity, but with utopia replaced by fragmentation and mayhem. The terrain of this future world is unknowable, and yet we need to accept its existence. What’s more important than frantically modeling this new world in supercomputers or attempting clairvoyant access is understanding what we can still do to influence it. The problems we see for tomorrow may not be solvable in this day, simply because there are too many vectors still in flux. Yet in the complex future interleave of technological overrun, resource scarcity, climate disruption, and serial confusion, there will still be new minds coming into being. Awarenesses will see this world, and together they will make a culture. The question is not if a culture will develop from the storm, but what it will be. A culture rising during a rapid recombination of agrarian, industrial, and information society, combining spirituality with spiritual machines, bio-mechanical medicines with ancient traditions. A culture experiencing radical self reliance and radical oppression, warlords and social media, space travel and ever more ubiquitous surveillance. There are many directions culture can develop within disruption, some are expansive and some are horrible. In this regard the counter culture wave of the 20th century is the counterpoint to the Weimar Republic’s slide into the Third Reich. Our contribution today is to make a demonstration. We might not have a connection to “the future” but we can have a connection to its people, we can help this future culture in its coming into being. The path is not in detailed ideology or rigid conception, but in practices and principles. Our words, critiques, actions, and stories converse with the future. What matters is collaboration across time. Our powerful vantage is our locus in history, recognizing and reflecting the paradox of a future without a future. We might not stop disaster, but relaying our intention is crucial. The minds of the future may be even more lost than we are. We must speak to the storm from our place of power, so that the future can be found when it is once again available.
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(20) “Why Big, Intense Wildfires Are the New Normal.” National Geographic Daily News. August 28, 2013. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/08/130827-wildfires-yosemite-fire-firefighters-vegetation-hotshots-california-drought/
(21) Check http://humanityplus.org/, http://www.extropy.org/, http://singularity.org/
(22) Kurzweil, Ray. The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence. Penguin Books, 2000.
(23) “Moore’s Law, Artificial Evolution, and the Fate of Humanity.” In L. Booker, S. Forrest, et al. (eds.), Perspectives on Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003
(24) United Nations General Assembly (1987). Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future. Transmitted to the General Assembly as an Annex to document A/42/427 – Development and International Co-operation: Environment. Retrieved on: 2009-02-15.
(25) Jensen, Derrick. Endgame. Seven Stories Press, 2006.
Information War, Terror and Cultural Subversion
Information War, Cyberwar, Netwar, Anti-War, Technowar, Postmodern War are all new buzzwords in the field of military theory, buzzwords that are now becoming more commonplace and are entering the cultural mainstream. I will not regurgitate the propaganda about the ‘information age’ and all the talks about superhighways, but stick to…
Lab Rats a go-go
You have only one question to ask yourself: do I give good data-set? Even automatic doors don't notice us The security camera is slotted into the space left by an omniscient god. But this is a deity that's had to downgrade its ambitions and if god is love, this one…
virtual worlds & concrete STRATEGIES
The internet server and web-site t0 and Public Netbase, an open access point that combines many threads of subversive uses of technology are located in the heart of Vienna, also hosting a weekly evening with talks and experimental electronic music called e-scape. Konrad Becker, techno-activist for a decade and a…
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1 Richard Vermeulen // Dec 16, 2014 at 11:15 pm
a very intelligent article. But what about exogene / alien influences on this planet ?
Anyhow, greetings from a Cyberpunkrocker from the Netherlands.
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Majority Backs ICE Raids, ‘Send Her Back’, SJW’s Attack Moon Landing
July 18, 2019 by GregC
Listen to “Majority Backs ICE Raids, ‘Send Her Back’, SJW’s Attack Moon Landing” on Spreaker.
Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America discuss polling revealing 51 percent of Americans support ICE deportation raids compared to just 35 percent who are opposed. They once again dive into the controversy involving Donald Trump, Ilhan Omar and theTrump rally chants of “send her back.” And they shake their heads as the Washington Post and The New York Times suggest the Apollo 11 moon landing was a giant leap for only white men.
Filed Under: congress, Economy, News & Politics, Podcasts, politics, polls Tagged With: 2020, ICE, moon, NASA, Omar, Trump
AOC Slips on ICE, Trump’s Twitter Flop, Storming Area 51
Listen to “AOC Slips on ICE, Trump’s Twitter Flop, Storming Area 51” on Spreaker.
Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America cover Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s disastrous questioning of acting ICE Director Thomas Homan. They discuss President Trump’s controversial Twitter rants against progressive Democratic congresswomen. And they get a kick out of a social media campaign among UFO enthusiasts to storm Area 51.
Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts, politics, polls Tagged With: AOC, Area51, Congresswomen, ICE, immigration, Trump, UFO
Trump Deportations: What’s Going to Happen?
June 18, 2019 by GregC
Listen to “Trump Deportations: What’s Going to Happen?” on Spreaker.
President Trump announced via Twitter that he is ordering Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport millions of people illegally in the United States.
Why would Trump announce this publicly? How does the timing of this intersect with his recent immigration deal with Mexico? How active has the Trump administration been in deporting illegal immigrants to this point? And how is ICE likely to prioritize deportations as part of this new effort.
Listen to the full podcast to learn the answers and much more as Greg Corombos interviews Center for Immigration Studies Resident Fellow in Law and Policy Andrew Arthur.
Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: criminals, deportations, Guatemala, ICE, immigration, Mexico, Trump
Great First Quarter Growth, The Anita Hill Delusion, Libs Behaving Badly
April 26, 2019 by GregC
Listen to “Great First Quarter Growth, The Anita Hill Delusion, Libs Behaving Badly” on Spreaker.
David French of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America celebrate stronger than expected economic growth of 3.2 percent in the first quarter of 2019. They also pour cold water on the absurd notions that Anita Hill was treated unfairly by the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991 and that Clarence Thomas is somehow assumed guilty of doing what she accused him of doing. And they react to a judge in Massachusetts and the mayor of Baltimore finding themselves in heaps of legal trouble.
Filed Under: News and Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Anita Hill, Baltimore, Clarence Thomas, Economy, growth, ICE, Joe Biden, judge, mayor, National Review, Three Martini Lunch
Swetnick’s Changing Story, GOP House in Danger, Hirono’s Latest Hit
October 2, 2018 by GregC
Listen to “Swetnick’s Changing Story, GOP House in Danger, Hirono’s Latest Hit” on Spreaker.
Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America react as Kavanaugh accuser Julie Swetnick fails even to grasp the timeline of events this summer and then radically walks back her allegations that Brett Kavanaugh drugged and raped girls while in high school. They also wince as the National Republican Congressional Committee pulls back major support for four embattled House incumbents. And they roll their eyes as CNN asks Sen. Mazie Hirono if allegations that Kavanaugh threw ice at someone in a car 33 years ago is disqualifying for his bid to be a Supreme Court justice and Hirono gives another ludicrous response.
Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: 2018 midterms, Avenatti, CNN, Hirono, ICE, Kavanaugh, National Review, NRCC, Swetnick, Three Martini Lunch
Dems Slip on ICE, Red Ink Rising, Putin’s Pathetic Proposal
Listen to “Dems Slip on ICE, Red Ink Rising, Putin’s Pathetic Proposal” on Spreaker.
Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America are amazed that more than 90 percent of House Democrats either opposed a resolution supporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement or refused to vote on it at all. They also grumble as deficit projections once again head north of a trillion dollars and the number of food stamp recipients remains stubbornly high in a strong economy. And they denounce Vladimir Putin’s proposal to allow U.S. investigators to interview the 12 Russians indicted for meddling in the 2016 elections in exchange for allowing the Russians to interview a former U.S. ambassador.
Filed Under: congress, Economy, News and Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: 2016 election, 3MartiniLunch, deficits, food stamps, House Democrats, ICE, National Review, President Trump, SNAP, U.S. Ambassadors, Vladimir Putin
House to Vote on ‘Abolish ICE’ Bill, GOP Blows Strzok Hearing, Did Trump Damage PM May?
Listen to “House to Vote on ‘Abolish ICE’ Bill, GOP Blows Strzok Hearing, Did Trump Damage Theresa May?” on Spreaker.
Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America commend House Republicans for planning a vote on “Abolish ICE” legislation that Democrats have already begun to step away from. They also criticize tactics of some House Republicans during the Peter Strzok testimony, in which members seemed more interested in scoring a dazzling soundbite than effectively questioning the witness. And they question President Trump’s negative remarks about British Prime Minister Theresa May, noting the alternative to her government could be far worse.
Filed Under: congress, Economy, News and Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Britain, hearing, house, ICE, National Review, Peter Strzok, President Trump, Theresa May, Three Martini Lunch
‘They Don’t Want Immigration Enforcement at All’
July 2, 2018 by GregC
http://dateline.radioamerica.org/podcast/6-29-arthur-blog.mp3
A growing number of elected Democrats are now on record in wanting to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, a development that one immigration law expert believes has exposed the desire among many liberals to have fully open borders.
The trend started on Wednesday after avowed socialist Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez defeated 10-term Rep. Joe Crowley, D-N.Y., in a stunning congressional primary. Reporters discovered Ocasio-Cortez wants to abolish ICE. She publicly defended that position, saying ICE has run far off course by separating parent and children entering the U.S. illegally.
Thursday, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., echoed Ocasio-Cortez in supporting the abolition of ICE, appalled that the agency is acting like a “deportation force.” On Friday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced his solidarity as well, and “Abolish ICE” posters were frequently seen at rallies around the country over the weekend denouncing President Trump’s immigration policies.
Center for Immigration Studies Research Fellow Andrew Arthur helped write the homeland security legislation that created ICE in the wake of 9/11. He says the Democrats are just trying to score political points.
“This is just a political stunt. This is all political theater,” said Arthur.
“Blaming ICE for immigration enforcement is sort of like blaming the janitor for the mess that you left if you’re a member of Congress. They created the laws. They can change the laws,” said Arthur.
But Arthur firmly believes that Democrats do want open borders.
“They don’t want immigration enforcement at all. There’s no other way to explain it,” said Arthur.
He says such a policy move would lead for a human tidal wave at our southern border since word would spread quickly that getting into the U.S. would guarantee they get to stay. He also says it would lead to a massive increase in Mexican drug cartels pushing their products across the border.
The calls for abolishing ICE come on the heels of a passionate debate over ICE enforcing existing law which requires parents and children to be separated while the parents are prosecuted for an illegal border crossing. Arthur stresses ICE is doing the job it was created to do.
“Immigration and Customs Enforcement performs many critical tasks. They counter trafficking in the United States, child smuggling. They go after foreign corruption, and they enforce the immigration laws of the United States. To say that they’ve suddenly become a vast deportation force is to say they are exactly what they were when they were set up,” said Arthur.
Arthur says the immigration laws being enforced exist for a very simple reason.
“First and foremost, the immigration laws exist to protect the wages and working conditions of working Americans. That’s not just United States citizens, but it also includes aliens who are lawfully here,” said Arthur.
Democrats are already touting legislation to abolish ICE. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wisc., is planning legislation that is short on details but would establish a commission to determine what duties ICE should be performing.
Arthur says that ambiguity is at the heart of the problem.
“They just don’t want immigration enforcement. They don’t like the idea of it but they really haven’t thought through the ramifications of their proposals or their ideas,” said Arthur.
For his part Pocan, wants borders enforced for the purposes of stopping terrorists but is staunchly opposed to removing people from the country because they came here illegally.
The Democrats are looking to benefit from the family separation controversy in the midterm elections, and Arthur admits the images from the border have been difficult to watch. However, he says Democrats are in for a big surprise if they think calling for the abolition of ICE will play well all over America.
“I’m supportive of the president’s policies but the optics of it were very bad. There was no way to avoid that. [Democrats] are now taking that policy and taking it way too far to an extreme. I think that’s actually going to turn off independent voters who understand there is a reason why we have immigration laws in the United States,” said Arthur.
Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Gillibrand, ICE, immigration, news, Ocasio-Cortez
Dems Push to Nix ICE, Geithner Tied to Predatory Loans, Dems Advocate Court Packing
Listen to “Dems Push to Nix ICE, Geithner Tied to Predatory Loans, Dems Advocate Court Packing” on Spreaker.
Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America tear apart the progressive left’s half-baked demand to abolish ICE. They also comment on the irony that a former Obama official who lashed out against loan sharks is now financing loan sharks. They also wonder why the Democrats want to add more seats to the Supreme Court while they are still out of power.
Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: 3 Martini Lunch, Donald Trump, ICE, Loan shark, National Review, obama, pregressives, Supreme Court
Warnings Abounded in Annapolis, Heroes Amidst Horror, Gillibrand’s Grand Delusions
Listen to “Warnings Abounded in Annapolis, Heroes Amidst Horror, Gillibrand’s Grand Delusions” on Spreaker.
Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America mourn the murders of five people in an Annapolis mass shooting and are frustrated by the litany of ignored warning signs and the knee-jerk online condemnation of President Trump for the killings because of his criticisms of the media. They also applaud the police for arriving on scene in just 60 seconds and saving many lives… and the staff of the Gazette for it’s commitment to publishing a paper today. And they try to make sense of New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand suddenly supporting the abolition of ICE and wrongly insisting that no Democrats voted to confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Annapolis, Chris Cuomo, Gazette, ICE, Kirsten Gillibrand, National, Neil Gorsuch, police, President Trump, shooting, Three Martini Lunch
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Volume Contents
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▶ Objectives and Conclusions of DCP3
1: Universal Health Coverage and Intersectoral Action for Health
2: Intersectoral Policy Priorities for Health
3: Universal Health Coverage and Essential Packages of Care
▶ Problems and Progress
4: Global and Regional Causes of Death: Patterns and Trends, 2000 - 15
5: Annual Rates of Decline in Child, Maternal, Tuberculosis, and Noncommunicable Disease Mortality Across 109 Low-and Middle Income Countries from 1990 to 2015
6: Economic Burden of Chronic ill-Health and Injuries for Households in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
▶ Economic Evaluation Results for DCP3
7: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition
8: Health Policy Assessment: Applications of Extended Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Methodology in Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition
9: Benefit-Cost Analysis in Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition
▶ Health System Topics from DCP3
10: Quality of Care
11: High Quality Diagnosis: An Essential Pathology Package
12: Palliative Care and Pain Control
13: Strengthening Health Systems to Provide Emergency Care
14: Community Platforms for Public Health Interventions
15: Rehabilitation: Essential Along the Continuum of Care
▶ Intersectoral and International Topics
16: Development Assistance for Health
17: Pandemics: Risks, Impacts, and Mitigation
18: The Loss from Pandemic Influenza Risk
19: Fiscal Instruments for Health in India
Child and Adolescent Health and Development
High Quality Diagnosis: An Essential Pathology Package
Authors: Kenneth Fleming, Mahendra Naidoo, Michael Wilson, John Flanigan, Susan Horton, Modupe Kuti, Lai Meng Looi, Christopher Price, Kun Ru, Abdul Ghafur, Jianxiang Wang, Nestor Lago
Fleming, K., Naidoo, M., Wilson, M., Flanigan, J., Horton, S. , et. al. . “High Quality Diagnosis: An Essential Pathology Package”. In: Disease Control Priorities (third edition): Volume 9, Disease Control Priorities, edited by D. T. Jamison, H. Gelband, S. Horton, P. Jha, R. Laxminarayan, C. N. Mock, R. Nugent. Washington, DC: World Bank.
This chapter specifies an essential minimal package of services that should prove available in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to provide access to pathology services of acceptable quality, affordability, and timeliness to a majority of the population, especially outside of major cities. Pathology remains a cross-cutting discipline upon which the other health disciplines depend and a crucial component in the care pathway. Pathologists are diagnosticians who, as part of the clinical team, play a key role in (1) linking clinical services with laboratory services; (2) providing leadership; and (3) capitalizing on the opportunities arising from rapidly emerging new technologies. Pathology contributes to research in both communicable and noncommunicable diseases, and it plays a central role in national policy planning. The rapidly increasing burden of noncommunicable diseases makes the implementation of the essential pathology package a priority, and its provision requires an integrated network to achieve the benefits of shared knowledge, expertise, communication, and economies of scale.
DCP3 Volume 9_Ch 11.pdf
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Toro So-speaking (Dogon, Mali) village photos
Heath, Jeffrey
Images of villages in Mali in which Toro So (Dogon family) is the primary language. Each file name contains important information about the photos, and are structured thus: LanguageFamily_Language_IdentificationNumber_GeographicCoordinate_Description_Date_InitialsOfThePhotographer
villages, Dogon, Toro So, and Mali
www.dogonlanguages.org
Dogon Bunoge Boudou Audio Files
Bunoge is a Dogon language spoken in Boudou and two neighboring villages in central Mali. These texts were recorded in the original Boudou village (perched on a peak) in 2015. The content of the texts is: 2015-01 greetings and initial conversations; 2015-02 history of Boudou, part 1; 2015-03 history of Boudou, part 2; 2015-04 farming methods; 2015-05 carts and gardening; 2015-06 gardening; 2015-07 wells, road, and school; 2015-08 tale; 2015-09 tale. Heath, A grammar of Bunoge, is electronically published (2017) at Language Description Heritage Library http://ldh.clld.org/2017/03/01/escidoc2417511/ with backup copy at Deep Blue documents. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/139023 DOI is 10.17617/2.2417511 At the end of the grammar are formatted transcriptions/translations of 2015-02, 2015-03, 2015-05, 2015-08, and 2015-09. The remaining texts (2015-01, 2015-04, 2015-06, and 2015-07) have not been transcribed as of May 2018. I grant permission to other scholars to transcribe, translate, and/or analyse these texts.
Bunoge Boudou, Dogon, Mali, Audio, and Recording
Dogon Toro So (Yorno So) Audio Files
Yorno So is the variety of the Toro So subgroup of the Dogon language family. It is spoken in the Yendouma village cluster along the base of cliffs on the eastern side of the Dogon (Bandiagara) plateau in east-central Mali. It is not yet completely clear whether it is best described as a dialect of Toro So (which also includes Sangha So, Ibi So, and other varieties), or as a separate language. As of May 2018 my opinion is that it is a dialect. A grammar of Yorno So was published electronically at Language Description Heritage Library in 2017. http://ldh.clld.org/2017/09/01/escidoc2326768-2/ This is backed up at Deep Blue documents. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/139021. An excerpt of this document that includes a transcription and an English translation of audio files texts 1-6 is included in this dataset. Texts 07, 08, and 09 have not yet been transcribed. I give permission to other linguists to transcribe, translate, and/or analyze those texts.
Toro So, Yorno So, Dogon, Audio, and Recording
www.dogonlanguages.org and Heath, Jeffrey. A grammar of Yorno So (Toro So subgroup of Dogon, Mali). Page 532 - 637. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/139021.
Najamba-Kindige-speaking (Dogon, Mali) village photos
images of villages in Mali in which Najamba Kindige (Dogon family) is the primary language. Each file name contains important information about the photos, and are structured thus: LanguageFamily_Language_IdentificationNumber_GeographicCoordinate_Description_Date_InitialsOfThePhotographer
villages, Dogon, Najamba, and Mali
Mande Jalkunan Audio Files
Jalkunan is a small-population Mande language spoken in Blédougou village cluster in the Banfora plateau in SW Burkina Faso.A grammar was published electronically at Language Description Heritage Library in 2017. http://ldh.clld.org/2017/01/01/escidoc2346932/ This is backed up at Deep Blue documents. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/139025 http://dogonlanguages.org/other#mande Seven texts were recorded digitally in 2016 and are archived here. Three of them (texts 1, 2, and 4) were transcribed and translated at the end of the published grammar. The remaining tapes are not transcribed as of May 2018. I give permission to other linguists to transcribe, translate, and/or analyse the remaining texts.
Jalkunan, Mande, Audio, and Recording
Results from simulations of earthquake rupture in fault zones with along-strike heterogeneity
Huang, Yihe
Geological and geophysical observations reveal along-strike fault zone heterogeneity on major strike-slip faults, which can play a significant role in earthquake rupture propagation and termination. I present 2D dynamic rupture simulations to demonstrate rupture characteristics in such heterogeneous fault zone structure. The modeled rupture is nucleated in a damaged fault zone and propagates on a preexisting fault towards the zone of intact rocks. There is an intermediate range of nucleation lengths that only allow rupture to spontaneously propagate in the damaged fault zone but not in a homogeneous medium. I find that rupture with an intermediate nucleation length tends to stop when it reaches the zone of intact rocks, especially when the rupture propagation distance in the damaged fault zone is relatively short and when the damaged fault zone is relatively narrow or smooth in the fault-normal direction. Pronounced small-scale heterogeneity within the damaged fault zone also contributes to such early rupture termination. In asymmetric fault zones bisected by a bimaterial fault, rupture moving in the direction of slip of faster rocks tends to terminate under the same conditions as in symmetric fault zones, whereas rupture moving in the direction of slip of slower rocks can penetrate into the zone of intact rocks. Break-through rupture is allowed when a sufficiently-large asperity is located at the edge of the zone of intact rocks. The results suggest the along-strike fault zone heterogeneity can play a critical role in seismicity distribution. The data set contains multiple folders of simulation results from the SEM2DPACK that demonstrate the above findings. The folder name includes the model parameters in each simulation as explained in the README file. The Flt01_sem2d.data file in the folder documents the slip, slip rate and stresses from each simulation. The files are also explained in the manual of SEM2DPACK ( http://web.gps.caltech.edu/~ampuero/soft/users_guide_sem2dpack.pdf). Please refer to section 4.6 in the manual and use “sem2d_read_fault.m” in the POST folder of SEM2DPACK to plot the results.
Damaged fault zone, fault zone heterogeneity, earthquake rupture termination, and seismicity distribution
Huang, Y. Along-strike variation of fault zone structure induces earthquake rupture termination. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, in review.
Data for "The Coda of the Transient Response in a Sensitive Cochlea"
Grosh, Karl and Li, Yizeng
In a sensitive cochlea, the basilar membrane response to transient excitation of any kind--normal acoustic or artificial intracochlear excitation--consists of not only a primary impulse but also a coda of delayed secondary responses with varying amplitudes but similar spectral content around the characteristic frequency of the measurement location. The coda, sometimes referred to as echoes or ringing, has been described as a form of local, short term memory which may influence the ability of the auditory system to detect gaps in an acoustic stimulus such as speech. Depending on the individual cochlea, the temporal gap between the primary impulse and the following coda ranges from once to thrice the group delay of the primary impulse (the group delay of the primary impulse is on the order of a few hundred microseconds). The coda is physiologically vulnerable, disappearing when the cochlea is compromised even slightly. The multicomponent sensitive response is not yet completely understood. We use a physiologically-based, mathematical model to investigate (i) the generation of the primary impulse response and the dependence of the group delay on the various stimulation methods, (ii) the effect of spatial perturbations in the properties of mechanically sensitive ion channels on the generation and separation of delayed secondary responses. The model suggests that the presence of the secondary responses depends on the wavenumber content of a perturbation and the activity level of the cochlea. In addition, the model shows that the varying temporal gaps between adjacent coda seen in experiments depend on the individual profiles of perturbations. Implications for non-invasive cochlear diagnosis are also discussed.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005015
Health Sciences and Engineering
Dataset for 'Multi‑Step Crystallization of Self‑Organized Spiral Eutectics'
Moniri, Saman, Bale, Hrishikesh , Volkenandt, Tobias, Wang, Yeqing, Gao, Jianrong, Lu, Tianxian, Sun, Kai, and Shahani, Ashwin J.
The data file contains (1) the grayscale images of the nano-tomography experiments that can be segmented into binary images and visualized to show the 3D morphology of spiral eutectics; and (2) crystallographic orientation maps of serial-sectioned sample, which can be processed in a variety of EBSD software packages.
crystallization, chirality, self-organization, and spiral eutectics
Gelada foraging ecology in the Simien Mountains, Ethiopia
Jarvey, Julie C
This includes data used for analysis for the publication: "Graminivory and fallback foods: Annual diet profile of geladas (Theropithecus gelada) living in the Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia". A revised version of the "foraging.scans.xlsx" file was uploaded as a csv file on Dec 13, 2017 to include the addition of the "crop" as category in the "Diet.Item" column. Previously "crop" was included in the "other" category. An updated version of the "readme_foraging.scans.txt" was uploaded on Dec 13, 2017 to account for this change, provide additional information on variables in the "season" column and to include contact information for the creator of the data set. Revised versions of two other files "readme_rainfall.txt" and "readme_underground.samples.txt" were also uploaded on Dec 13, 2017. Both revisions include additional information to account for missing variables and contact information for the creator of the data set. The original files are retained in this data set and are marked as being the originals in the file name. Note: A citation to the related article was added to the metadata on March 12, 2018.
fallback foods, Theropithecus , underground storage organs, and dietary flexibility
Jarvey, J.C., Low, B.S., Pappano, D.J. et al. Int J Primatol (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-018-0018-x
Bayesian Population Correlation: A probabilistic approach to comparing detrital zircon age distributions
Tye, Alexander R, Wolf, Aaron S, and Niemi, Nathan A
Detrital zircon age distributions provide robust insights into past sedimentary systems, but these age distributions are often complex and multi-peaked, with sample sizes too small to confidently resolve population distributions. This limited sampling hinders existing quantitative methods for comparing detrital zircon age distributions, which show systematic dependence on the sizes of compared samples. The proliferation of detrital zircon studies motivates the development of more robust quantitative methods. We present the first attempt, to our knowledge, to infer probability model ensembles (PMEs) for samples of detrital zircon ages using a Bayesian method. Our method infers the parent population age distribution from which a sample is drawn, using a Monte Carlo approach to aggregate a representative set of probability models that is consistent with the constraints that the sample data provide. Using the PMEs inferred from sample data, we develop a new estimate of correspondence between detrital zircon populations called Bayesian Population Correlation (BPC). Tests of BPC on synthetic and real detrital zircon age data show that it is nearly independent from sample size bias, unlike existing correspondence metrics. Robust BPC uncertainties can be readily estimated, enhancing interpretive value. When comparing two partially overlapping zircon age populations where the shared proportion of each population is independently varied, BPC results conform almost perfectly to expected values derived analytically from probability theory. This conformity of experimental and analytical results permits direct inference of the shared proportions of two detrital zircon age populations from BPC. We provide MATLAB scripts to facilitate the procedures we describe.
provenance, statistics, zircon, Bayesian, detrital, and density estimation
Heath, Jeffrey51
Ingrid L. Hendy11
Yi Wang11
MacEachern, Mark P9
Sifuentes, Christopher J9
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Civil War: Spider-Man: Graphic Novel Review
Posted on February 20, 2019 by deffinition
Spider-man was pretty clearly an integral part to the Marvel Civil War Storyline. His perspective offered a grounded look at the world and he pretty much portrayed the inner dialogue that the majority of readers would have had when deep diving on the book.
So, naturally, hearing that there was a graphic novel solely based on his exploits piqued my interest.
Throughout this review, I will be letting you know whether it’s worth picking up this graphic novel or if you can skip to the main storyline.
There will be heavy spoilers here, so, if you don’t want to know anything about the work then I highly suggest that you skip to the score.
With that out the way, let’s dive into Civil War: Spider-man!
‘There Might Not Be A Spider-Man’
The book picks up right after the Stamford incident with Peter Parker being brought along as Tony Stark’s aid as the latter tries to negotiate the tough registration act treaty.
Instantly Peter grounds the story and perfectly puts you in the middle of what seems like an impossible scenario.
When Peter finally does unmask for the world to see you really get the gravitas of the situation when you see how the people around him react to it. MJ and Aunt May couldn’t be prouder whereas J Jonah Jameson launches a lawsuit against the photographer. His enemies too put him in the firing line and you really get the sense that in hindsight, maybe this wasn’t the best idea.
This massively elevates the work early on and makes the book a breeze to read due to its constant tension and drama. This literal ‘coming out of the closet’ works metaphorically on a level to be intertwined with that phrase’s bravery showing what prejudices can be faced when putting something so public. These early chapters do a terrific job of solidifying the work early on as an equal to the main series and I recommend that you pick it up for this opener alone.
‘He Throws The Symbol Of The Country At Me’
When Captain America refuses to sign the registration act, he is immediately put in opposition to Peter.
This doesn’t go down too well with those that view him as a hero and at points, it feels like the whole world is against the webhead.
When the two finally do come face to face, it doesn’t disappoint and watching them square off is one of the high points of the comic. The action is fast-paced, exhilarating and a whole lot of fun and definitely up to the calibre that you’d expect from this kind of story.
The Detention Centre
When Peter visits the detention centre where they are detaining the Supers, we really get the feeling that there has been a change within him. He can no longer abide by the law and because of this he flees with his family.
This of course, directly puts him into throws with his mentor, Tony Stark, who seems to have used the new law to make a killing on the stock market and take away people’s human rights.
After an awesome set piece, Peter makes a stand against Tony and goes live on air, denouncing the registration act. It’s a powerful moment that is arguably one of the biggest and best in the entire civil war storyline and elevates the book instantly.
I loved seeing Peter become the hero that we all know he is and it’s remarkably written and engaging.
Obviously the Marvel Universe doesn’t end with Civil War and thus the stories must continue, however, it seemed strange that the graphic novel decided to end on setting up the Back In Black storyline rather than showcasing the overall conclusion of Civil War.
It is a slightly disappointing note to end on and makes you wonder what the book could have been if it had a proper climax like the one we got in the main story.
This, unfortunately, left me with a bitter taste in my mouth even though what came before it was great.
Ultimately Spider-man’s journey through Civil War is an enjoyable one. Whilst there definitely could have been a better climax, the overall quality that it adds to the main storyline cannot be ignored.
Whilst I was disappointed by its closing chapter, the work was still a fun ride and that’s why it gets an…
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Power giants being cut down to size
Terry Murden, Editor | July 21, 2017
When Ignacio Galan opened the new headquarters of ScottishPower last week he spoke ambitiously of the company’s £8 billion planned investment.
The Spanish head of parent company Iberdrola said Glasgow had been ScottishPower’s home for more than 60 years, and “we are very pleased to be committing our long term future to the city”.
He made no mention, of course, of the 100,000 customers who are no longer committed to ScottishPower.
Chief corporate officer Keith Anderson yesterday spoke of “fierce” competition in the energy supply market and, as well as revealing the loss in customer accounts, he had to admit to a 76% slump in profits at its generation and supply arm.
ScottishPower is not alone among the “big six” in losing its grip. Perth-based SSE, trading as Scottish-Hydro, blamed a “highly competitive” market after seeing 230,000 customers switch to other suppliers.
These are not random figures, nor a blip. There has been a steady decline in customers committed to the major companies as newcomers have emerged promising not only lower tariffs but a commitment to ethical trading.
There are now a record 58 firms in the UK market and the so-called challenger firms are gradually taking a larger share as customers warm to their alternative offering.
Energy companies became the new banks in the consumers’ list of businesses they love to hate as they reacted to what were seen as unjustified price increases at a time of falling oil and gas wholesale prices.
In April, 41% of the switches were from larger firms to smaller ones as customers responded to the latest round of price hikes.
Even the Prime Minister Theresa May joined in with her comments on “rip-off” tariffs. Both her party and Labour promised to introduce caps on prices.
The energy companies have done little to help curry favour with customers, boosting their own salaries “banker-style” at a time when customers are being asked to pay more.
It was revealed last month that Alistair Phillips-Davies, chief executive of SSE was awarded a 72% pay rise, taking his remuneration to £2.92m.
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Michael v. Commonwealth
Appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of Charles City (Virginia) that entered judgment in favor of appellee in an action alleging that after appellant had been judged a habitual offender, he drove in such a manner as to endanger the life, limb, or property of another, a violation of Va. Code Ann. § 46.2-357(B)(2). With no proof as to whether the officer has caught the Appellant, using radar (Lidar), the Appellant took the defense that there was no evidence in the record as to appellant’s actually driving.
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The Virginia Court made the following holding:
The reviewing court views the evidence in the light most favorable to the party prevailing below, granting to it all reasonable inferences fairly deducible therefrom
Under Va. Code Ann. § 46.2-357(B)(2) any person found to be an habitual offender under this article, who is thereafter convicted of driving a motor vehicle while the revocation determination is in effect shall be guilty of a felony if such driving of itself endangers the life, limb, or property of another or takes place while such person is in violation of Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-266, irrespective of whether the driving of itself endangers the life, limb or property of another and one of the offender’s underlying convictions is for Va. Code Ann. §§ 18.2-36.1, 18.2-266 or a parallel local ordinance
The reviewing court will not reverse the judgment of the trial court unless it is plainly wrong or without evidence to support it.
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Warner v. Commonwealth
The Commonwealth charged defendant with speeding under Charles City County, Va., Code § 82-4-10, which tracked the language of and substance of the comparable Virginia Code Annotated provisions. Defendant stipulated the Commonwealth’s evidence was sufficient to convict him, but moved to dismiss the § 82-4-10 charge because he was not provided an immediate hearing upon his request pursuant to Va. Code Ann. § 46.2-936. Section 46.2-936 provided that a person issued a summons for a violation of the traffic code which was punishable as a misdemeanor had a right to an immediate hearing. Defendant requested such a hearing by noting it on the Virginia Uniform Summons of which both he and the officer had copies. However, the speeding infraction was not punishable as a misdemeanor, and, even if it had been, the remedy for violation of the rights under § 46.2-936 would not have been dismissal of the charge.
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A person issued a summons for a violation of the traffic code which is punishable as a misdemeanor has a right to an immediate hearing. Va. Code Ann. § 46.2-936. The remedy for violation of the rights under § 46.2-936 is not dismissal of the charge..
Constitutional violations may well require dismissal of the charges for violations. However, Virginia law has consistently held that exclusion or dismissal is not the remedy for violations of statutory rights.
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Justin v. Commonwealth
The trial court convicted defendant under Virginia law for unlawfully operating a motor vehicle in a reckless manner. During defendant’s trial for passing a school bus that was discharging passengers at the stop, defendant and another defense witness testified that they had not seen the bus. Defense counsel asked two witnesses for the state how the markings on the bus conformed to the regulations of the State Board of Education (board). The trial court held the questions were improper and immaterial. Defendant was convicted of unlawfully driving a motor vehicle in a reckless manner.
One of the most zealously guarded rights in the administration of justice is that of cross-examining an adversary’s witnesses. In Virginia, in criminal cases, it is preserved to the accused by the constitutional guarantee of confrontation. A party called to testify for another, having an adverse interest, may be examined by such other party according to the rules applicable to cross-examination. This applies to criminal cases as well as to civil cases. It is only after the right of cross-examination has been substantially and fairly exercised that the allowance of further cross-examination becomes discretionary with the court. The right, when not abused, is an absolute right and not a mere privilege of a party against whom a witness testifies.
Except when modified by statute, the accused in a criminal case is presumed to be innocent until his guilt has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt; the burden rests upon the Commonwealth to establish such guilt, and this burden never shifts. Every material element of the offense charged must be proved in order to find the defendant guilty.
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Mark v. Commonwealth
Defendant driver sought review of a judgment of the Circuit Court of Charles City (Virginia), which found that Va. Code Ann. § 46.2-391.2(A), which suspended the driving license on the failure to submit to a breath test in violation of Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-268.3, was civil and remedial, and thus did not violate constitutional double jeopardy. The Defendant had previously been sentenced to 10 days in jail for a traffic offense.
Va. Code Ann. § 46.2-391.2(A) provides in pertinent part that if a person refuses to submit to a breath test in violation of Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-268.3, upon issuance of a warrant for driving while intoxicated in violation of Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-266 or for refusing to take a blood or breath test in violation of Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-268.3, his operator’s license shall be suspended immediately for seven days.
Va. Code Ann. § 46.2-391.2(C) provides that any person whose operator’s license has been suspended under Va. Code Ann. § 46.2-391.2(A) may, during the period of the suspension, request the general district court where the arrest was made to review the suspension, and the request is given precedence over all other matters on the docket. If the person proves by a preponderance of the evidence that the arresting officer did not have probable cause for the arrest or that the magistrate did not have probable cause to issue the warrant, the court shall rescind the suspension. Otherwise, the court shall affirm the suspension.
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Walter v. Commonwealth
Following a jury trial in the Circuit Court of Charles City County (Virginia), defendant was convicted of a third or subsequent traffic offense of driving on a suspended or revoked license and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and sentenced to five years for unauthorized use and 12 months for driving while suspended. Defendant appealed.
Evidence of other crimes may be admissible if introduced to prove an element of the offense charged, or to prove any number of relevant facts, such as motive, intent, agency, or knowledge. Other crimes evidence may also be admissible when the charged crime is part of a general scheme and proof of that fact is relevant to prove an element of the offense, or to prove or explain how the crime was accomplished.
It is well settled that evidence of other crimes or bad acts of an accused is generally inadmissible in a criminal prosecution. The purpose of this rule is to prevent confusion of offenses, unfair surprise to the defendant and a suggestion of criminal propensity, thus preserving the presumption of innocence.
A nonconstitutional error is harmless if it plainly appears from the record and the evidence given at trial that the error did not affect the verdict. An error does not affect a verdict if a reviewing court can conclude, without usurping the jury’s fact finding function, that had the error not occurred, the verdict would have been the same.
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The driver sued by the passengers pled guilty to felony hit and run. The contribution statute, Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-34, was in derogation of the common law and had to be strictly construed. Assuming, without deciding, that felony hit and run, under Va. Code Ann. § 46.2-894, was a crime involving moral turpitude, the actions of the driver which raised his conduct to one involving moral turpitude occurred after the vehicles collided, and the passengers were injured and also caused damage to the property. Rather than finding that all of the driver’s actions, from driving to leaving the scene, were one continuous course of conduct, it was better to let the trier of fact decide if the driver’s conduct involved moral turpitude. The driver did not have to be at fault in causing the accident to be guilty of hit and run.
A person does not have to be at fault in causing an accident to be guilty of hit and run. The moral turpitude in hit and run, excluding contribution under Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-34, is mutually exclusive from a defendant’s allegedly negligent driving that resulted in the accident.
It is clear that under Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-34 contribution lies when the negligence of two or more wrongdoers (joint tortfeasors) cause an indivisible injury to one person. Contribution is available when the wrong results from negligence and involves no moral turpitude.
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A state trooper stopped defendant and charged him with reckless driving, DUI, having improper registration, and driving on revoked license. In district court, defendant was convicted of improper registration, DUI, and driving revoked. The conviction for improper registration had become final, and the DUI and driving revoked convictions were appealed. Defendant filed a motion to dismiss charges against him for driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) and driving while his license was revoked or suspended (driving revoked).
Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-294.1 is, by its terms, narrow in scope. The Virginia General Assembly did not intend for a single driving incident to give rise to only a single traffic conviction, regardless of how many statutes are violated, unless the statutes violated are those proscribing driving under the influence of alcohol and reckless driving.
Whenever any person is charged with a violation of § 18.2-266 [the drunk driving statute]… and reckless driving growing out of the same act or acts and is convicted of one of these charges, the court shall dismiss the remaining charge.
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Commonwealth v. Smith
Defendant appealed her conviction by the Circuit Court of Charles City (Virginia) of reckless driving by speeding 70 miles per hour in a 45 miles-per-hour zone in Virginia State under Virginia Code Ann. § 46.2-862, following the denial of her motion to strike the evidence obtained by pacing to prove her speed, alleging that pacing as per law was not a method for determining speed listed in Va. Code Ann. § 46.2-882.
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Va. Code Ann. § 46.2-882 is a statute permitting the admissibility of evidence. It is not a statute of exclusion. It sanctions four types of scientific evidence that determine speed by eliminating the need to prove that the underlying scientific principle or technique of the measuring device is reliable.
Nothing in Va. Code Ann. § 46.2-882 suggests it is meant to limit the means for proving speed. The statute itself states that speed “may” be determined by the enumerated means. “The word “may” is prima facie permissive, importing discretion, but the courts construe it to be mandatory when it is necessary to accomplish the manifest purpose of the Virginia legislature. Even lay witness testimony has always been an acceptable method of the speed of a car. The statute does not prevent the Commonwealth from proving a vehicle’s speed by other methods.
One of the easiest methods of proving a vehicle’s speed is by pacing. This involves accurately determining the speed of one vehicle while proceeding at a constant distance from a second vehicle. If the distance between the two vehicles remains constant, the speed of the second vehicle must be the same as the known speed of the first vehicle. Va. Code Ann. § 46.2-942 clearly contemplates the use of pacing as a method of determining a vehicle’s speed by authorizing the admission of calibration tests to prove the accuracy of an arresting officer’s speedometer.
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Kenith v. Commonwealth
Appellant challenged his conviction of involuntary manslaughter in the operation of a motor vehicle in violation of Va. Code Ann. §§ 18.2-30, 18.2-36, entered in the Circuit Court of Charles City (Virginia), claiming the evidence was insufficient to convict him of the offense for which he had been detained by the police. The Commonwealth was able to prove that if the appellant’s attention were not diverted, he would have seen the school bus signs and flashing lights before he passed it. Judgment affirmed.
When considering the sufficiency of the evidence, appellate courts examine the evidence in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, granting to it all reasonable inferences fairly deducible therefrom. The judgment of a trial court will be disturbed only if plainly wrong or without evidence to support it
Criminal negligence is the basis for involuntary manslaughter and has been defined as acting consciously in disregard of another person’s rights or acting with reckless indifference to the consequences, with the defendant aware, from his knowledge of existing circumstances and conditions, that his conduct probably would cause injury to another.
A defendant accused of criminal negligence must have had prior knowledge of specific conditions that would likely cause injury to others.
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James Peter v. Commonwealth
Defendant was charged with driving under the influence of intoxicants and with speeding 55 miles per hour in a 25 mile per hour zone. Both charges grew out of the same driving activity. Defendant prepaid the speeding charge and claimed that Va. Code Ann. § 46.2-862 converted his speeding charge to a reckless driving charge. Defendant alleged that he was convicted of speeding by virtue of this payment of the fines and costs and therefore he could not be prosecuted for the driving under the influence charge because Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-294.1 prevented dual convictions of driving under the influence and reckless driving. On review, the court disagreed holding that defendant’s argument required that he be charged with and convicted of reckless driving. The court stated that speeding was a traffic infraction and reckless driving was a misdemeanor. In addition, the court determined that § 19.2-294.1 only applied if defendant was charged with driving under the influence and reckless driving. The court held that where the evidence supported prosecution under two parallel statutes, the Commonwealth had the right to elect under which statute to proceed.
Under Va. Code Ann. § 16.1-69.40:1, it is not possible for a defendant to prepay the fine for a reckless driving charge as it is expressly forbidden by Va. Code Ann. § 16.1-69.40:1(d).
Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-294 states that if a defendant is charged with driving under the influence of intoxicants and with reckless driving and he is convicted of one of those charges, then the court shall dismiss the remaining charge. The purpose of § 19.2-294 is to prevent the conviction of two different class one misdemeanors arising out of the same driving acts, when one of the misdemeanors is driving under the influence of intoxicants and the other is reckless driving. Where the evidence supports prosecution under either of two parallel statutes, the Commonwealth has the right to elect under which statute to proceed.
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Interferometric 30 m bench for calibrations of 1D scales and optical distance measuring instruments
Jarkko Unkuri, Asko Rantanen, Jorma Manninen, Veli-Pekka Esala, Antti Lassila
BA1702 Length metrology
BA17 National metrology institute VTT MIKES
During construction of a new metrology building for MIKES, a 30 m interferometric bench was designed. The objective was to implement a straight, stable, adjustable and multifunctional 30 m measuring bench for calibrations. Special attention was paid to eliminating the effects of thermal expansion and inevitable concrete shrinkage. The linear guide, situated on top of a monolithic concrete beam, comprises two parallel round shafts with adjustable fixtures every 1 m. A carriage is moved along the rail and its position is followed by a reference interferometer. Depending on the measurement task, one or two retro-reflectors are fixed on the carriage. A microscope with a CCD camera and a monitor can be used to detect line mark positions on different line standards. When calibrating optical distance measuring instruments, various targets can be fixed to the carriage. For the most accurate measurements an online Abbe-error correction based on simultaneous carriage pitch measurement by a separate laser interferometer is applied. The bench is used for calibrations of machinist scales, tapes, circometers, electronic distance meters, total stations and laser trackers. The estimated expanded uncertainty for 30 m displacement for highest accuracy calibrations is 2.6 µm.
Measurement Science and Technology
Laser Interferometer
Thermal Expansion
Interferometer
Unkuri, J., Rantanen, A., Manninen, J., Esala, V-P., & Lassila, A. (2012). Interferometric 30 m bench for calibrations of 1D scales and optical distance measuring instruments. Measurement Science and Technology, 23(9), [094017]. https://doi.org/10.1088/0957-0233/23/9/094017
Unkuri, Jarkko ; Rantanen, Asko ; Manninen, Jorma ; Esala, Veli-Pekka ; Lassila, Antti. / Interferometric 30 m bench for calibrations of 1D scales and optical distance measuring instruments. In: Measurement Science and Technology. 2012 ; Vol. 23, No. 9.
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A Japanese Kutani 5 piece dragon ware teaset, with gilt decoration depicting Geisha girls and deities, comprising a teapot; milk jug; hotwater jug; jar; and sugar pot (one lid with slight chip to interior), together with a Japanese lacquer work tea caddy with inner lid, and white metal lining, H.18cm (6)
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A Japanese Kutani 5 piece dragon ware teaset, with gilt decoration depicting Geisha girls and deities, comprising a teapot; milk jug; hotwater jug; jar; and sugar pot (one lid with slight chip to interior), together with a Japanese lacquer work tea caddy with inner lid, and white metal lining, H.18cm (6).
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(a) Reference to the ‘the Auctioneer’ shall be taken to mean the firm of Criterion Auctioneers Limited or any director, partner or employee thereof at the time of sale;
(b) ‘Buyers’ shall be deemed to be the principals unless to the prior knowledge of the Auctioneer they are acting as agent on behalf of a named principal;
(c) ‘Forgery’ means a Lot (i) which is so constituted as deliberately to deceive when considered in the light of its catalogue description, and (ii) whose value as such is materially less than if it had complied with the catalogue description;
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(g) 'Extra-large items' defined as being a Lot carried safely by more than two persons, such as a triple sofa, triple wardobe or similar.
• •Auctions are unpredictable, and valuing anything is an imprecise science. We do our utmost best to ensure the highest prices possible for your goods, however Lots sometimes sell under expectations or don’t sell at all. You are strongly advised to check with the saleroom immediately after each sale to discuss any unsold Lots – as re-entered low value Lots can become a drain on your final proceeds.
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• • If items are taken in without reserve that is precisely how the Auctioneer executes the sale, as the Auctioneer is required to do by law. Occasionally it could mean, that a Lot estimated at £80 – £120, sells to the highest bidder (perhaps the only bidder) for as little as £10.
• • Upholstered furniture made after 1950, regardless of original source, MUST have a fire label indicating that it conforms to modern fire regulations BS7177, otherwise it cannot be sold by law.
• • Ivory and other wildlife products now fall under new legislation and are frequently problematic.
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1.2. Minimum Commission Fees of £15 per Lot per sale for Small items, £20 per Lot per sale for Large items and £25 per lot for extra-large items whether sold, unsold or withdrawn. Withdrawn Lots will also be subject to costs as defined in clause 1.6 which have been incurred by the Auctioneer;
1.3. Entry Fees of £5 or £10 per Lot (Smalls), or £20 per lot (Large) and £25 per lot (Extra- large) for items chargeable each time a Lot goes under the hammer, sold or unsold;
1.4. Loss & Damage Warranty Fees are charged at 2% of the hammer price of each Lot sold (minimum fee £2 per Lot) or the Low Estimate price agreed upon first consignment if unsold. The Auctioneer will indemnify the Vendor up to a maximum value of £200 per Lot for all goods in its care unless otherwise instructed in writing to the Auctioneer;
1.5. Catalogue, Illustration & Photography Fees may apply as a one-off fee to all Lots where these services have been incurred at a rate of £5 per Lot. Catalogue, Illustration & Photography fees will not automatically be charged and shall be agreed in advance, where applicable;
1.6. Withdrawn Lot Fees are charged at 15% (Smalls) and 20% (Large) and 25% (Extra-large) of the (last listed) Reserve price or a minimum fee of £50 per Lot plus 2% Loss & Damage Warranty;
1.7. Storage Fees will be applied when late collection is NOT agreed in writing with the Auctioneer at a rate of £15 per Lot per day for Small items, £20 per Lot per day for Large items £25 per lot for extra large items. All Lots not entered for sale must be collected by Wednesday 6pm following the sale unless by prior arrangement with the Auctioneer or these fees may be applied;
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1.9. Value Added Tax the above charges are subject to Value Added Tax charged at the current rate and is payable on all commissions and fees unless being exported to a non EU country and evidence of shipping is given to us within 3 months of purchase (as per HMRC's VAT export terms and conditions.
2. RESERVES all goods are put up for sale WITHOUT RESERVE at the discretion of the Auctioneer, unless a Consignment Agreement is completed with written instruction duly signed by the Vendor and accepted by the Auctioneer and received prior to the sale. The Auctioneer retains the right to sell Lot/s at 90% of the agreed Reserve price. The Auctioneer retains the right to refuse to offer for sale any item where, in the Auctioneersopinion, the Reserve price is too high and the item would not sell. Where a Reserve price is set by the Vendor against the Auctioneers advice the Vendor will be subject to an unsold fee should the Lot not sell as per the charges set out in clause 5 Unsold charges.
3. CONSIGNMENT AGREEMENT, ADVICE NOTICES & STATEMENTS
3.1. Consignment Agreement – all Vendors’ will complete and duly sign and the Auctioneer will counter sign this agreement with details of all Lots to be accepted for sale prior to delivery of the items to the saleroom. These terms and conditions of business shall prevail unless altered and countersigned by the Auctioneer. Every Lot will be detailed and recorded for its description and condition, size, reserve, low and high estimate values, the Vendor’s proof of identity and authority to sell and general contact details. Additional details for Trade Vendors may be required to validate their status. Lots are offered for sale for a minimum of two auctions. Lots unsold after one auction may be withdrawn without charge subject to the Auctioneer receiving a written request by email.
3.2. Pre-Sale Advice Notice - is only emailed to the Vendor following the consignment process but prior to the catalogue being finalised and published. The Vendor shall review the details of the notice and pay particularattention to the accuracy of the descriptive narratives and the correct setting of reserves and estimates. The Auctioneer shall presume the accuracy and acceptance of the Pre-Sale Advice Notice sent to the Vendor unless the Vendor informs the Auctioneer prior to the publishing of the catalogue each week of any changes. The publishing time of the catalogue may vary from week to week and or sale to sale.
3.3. Post-Sale Advice Notice – is produced and emailed usually within 24 hours of the sale finishing, detailing the hammer results of the Vendors sold and unsold Lots and the expected settlement date of the sale.
3.4. Statements – are generated on the day of settlement which can be between three and five weeks from the sale date on the Friday of that week subject to all lots having been paid by the Buyers. The Statement lists the Lots sold and unsold and the respective fees applied in relation to the Auctioneers fees and or any other rates agreed with the Vendor in accordance with the Consignment Agreement or in writing prior to each sale. The Statement is emailed to the Vendor or posted as specified in the Consignment Agreement or as may be changed from time to time by the Vendor and duly notified without delay to the Auctioneer in writing.
4. HARDWOOD FURNITURE all NEW Hardwood furniture will not be accepted for auction, unless a valid certificate complying with FSC (Forest Steward Council) or similar standard is provided.
5. UNSOLDS will only be charged if a Reserve is set by the Vendor against the advice of the Auctioneer, in its first week’s sale, and the Lot does not sell, in this case an Unsold Fee of £15 per Lot (Smalls) and £20 per Lot (Large) and £25 per Lot (extr large) will be charged. No Unsold fees will be charged for reoffers.
5.1. All unsold Lots not being reoffered must be removed from the saleroom by 6pm on Wednesday following the sale or Storage Fees may be charged if no prior arrangement has been made with the Auctioneer in writing; or
5.2. All unsold Lots are sold by private treaty (after the sale); or
5.3. All unsold Lots after the 2nd sale if not collected by Wednesday 6pm and not advised in writing by the Vendor shall be offered to Charity if they are not sellected for a further sale by the Auctioneer at a later date or disposed of at the Auctioneer’s discretion unless advised not to in writing by the Vendor.
VENDORS CONDITIONS
6. CONSIGNMENT AGREEMENT the Auctioneer requires and accepts the signed Consignment Agreement as a statement from the Vendor to the effect that the goods submitted are their own unencumbered property orthat they have authority to dispose of them on behalf of the true owner and can transfer good and marketable title to the property free from any third-party claims. The Vendor may be required to provide written evidence to the Auctioneer in addition to the Consignment Agreement if they act as an Agent for the true owner to enter the Lots for sale and or if the Auctioneer feels further evidence is required from the Vendor of the goods authenticity or true ownership; and
7. STANDARD RATES the Vendor authorises the Auctioneer to deduct commission at the rates as defined in this agreement and agreed by signing the Consignment Agreement the Vendor is deemed to have accepted the Auctioneers Terms and Conditions of business.
8. CATALOGUE DESCRIPTIONS descriptive statements contained in the advertisements or catalogues or made up by the Auctioneer or any member of his staff shall be taken as matters of opinion only, and shall not be taken as statement of fact.
9. DISCLOSURES the Vendor has a duty to disclose all defects, restorations or alterations to the goods (if any) at the time they are entered for sale and to draw them to the Auctioneer’s attention in writing. Failure to do so, notwithstanding any description of the goods given by the Auctioneer, can result in the sale being rescinded and the Vendor being responsible for all allied costs incurred by the Buyer and Auctioneer.
10. ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL GOODS the Vendor warrants in respect of any item or mechanical or electrical equipment that it is,
(a) in working order;
(b) reasonably fit for the purpose for which it is designed or adapted;
(c) that it can be used safely and without risk of causing injury or damage, and
(d) will indemnify the Auctioneer against any loss or damage suffered in consequence of any breach of the above warranty and undertaking.
11. LOSS AND DAMAGE WARRANTY unless otherwise instructed the Auctioneer will insure property (other than motor vehicles) consigned to it or put under its control for sale at the rates stated above. If the Vendor instructs not to insure a Lot, it shall at all times remain at the risk of the Vendor who hereby undertakes to indemnify the Auctioneer against all claims made or proceedings brought in respect of loss or damage to the Lot of whatever nature howsoever occurring and in any circumstances, even where negligence is alleged or proven.
12. PHOTOGRAPHY the Vendor gives the Auctioneer full and absolute right to photograph and illustrate any Lot placed in their hands for sale and to use such photographs and illustrations at any time at their absolute discretion (whether or not in connection with the auction).
13. VALUED ADDED TAX Vendors selling any assets of their business through the Auctioneer must disclose at the time the item is submitted for sale whether they are registered for VAT and must disclose the VAT registration number and whether the items are to be sold under the special scheme covering works of art, etc. Commission fees will be shown inclusive of VAT, which will not normally be recoverable by the Vendor (see clause 1.9 re export to a non-EU country).
14. SETTLEMENTS to Vendors are normally processed within three to five weeks after the sale date by either BACS (usually received into the Vendor’s bank account 3 days from the processing date) or by Cheque (sent by 1st class post) subject to our accounts department receiving correct current bank details; payment for all Lot or Lots have been received from the Buyer; the Lot/s is not subject to any dispute or third party claim/s; a statement will be posted or emailed to you with the sale results less any relevant fees. Cheques will not be issued below £40, payments will ONLY be made by BACS and NO settlements will be made by cash from the Salerooms. The Auctioneer acts as agents only and do not accept responsibility for any default on the part of either the Buyer or the Vendor and shall not be liable for payment to the Vendor for any Lot or Lots until they have themselves received payment from the Purchaser. The Auctioneer reserves the right to retain any interest accrued on cleared net monies held to the order of the Vendor. The Auctioneer reserves the right to refuse any goods if they are deemed unsuitable for sale. Any Lots left for valuation, but not accepted, must be collected within 48 hours or Storage Fees shall be applied. Any goods delivered to the saleroom without a delivery note and or a completed and signed Consignment Agreement will be rejected and or returned to the Vendor or its Agent at the Vendor’s costs.
BUYERS TERMS
The Auctioneer acts only as agent for the Vendor (unless otherwise specifically declared). Lots sold are likely to have been subject to wear and tear caused by user or the effects of age and may therefore have faults and imperfections. Buyers are given ample opportunity at viewing times to examine Lots to be sold and will be assumed to have done so. They must rely solely on their own skill or judgment as to whether Lots are fit for any purpose and not from any materials, descriptions or photography presented by the Auctioneer.
15. BIDS all bids made shall be treated as offers made upon these Conditions of Sale and all persons’ present are admitted to a sale on the basis that they have notice of these Conditions.
16. ASCERTAINMENT OF THE BUYER the Buyer shall be the person making the highest bid which is acceptable to the Auctioneer as signified by the fall of the hammer. No bid may be retracted. In the case of a dispute the Auctioneer may either declare the purchaser or put the Lot up again.
17. AUCTIONEER’S DISCRETION the Auctioneer has sole discretion,
(a) to refuse any bid,
(b) to advance the bidding as he may decide,
(c) to withdraw or divide any Lot or combine one Lot with another or others,
(d) to exclude any person from the auction rooms,
(e) to require pre-payment in full, and
(f) to accept offers of not less than 90% of the agreed reserve.
18. RESERVES AND VENDOR’S RIGHT TO BID for Lots put up for sale are subject,
(a) to any reserve price imposed by the Vendor,
(b) the right of the Auctioneer to bid on behalf of the Vendor, and
(c) where no reserve has been imposed (but in no other case) for the Vendor to bid personally or through any one agent. It is the responsibility of the Vendor to ensure any reserves are received by the Auctioneer prior to the commencement ofthe sale.
19. BUYER’S DUTIES the Buyer shall forthwith or as soon as possible after the sale,
(a) supply his name, address and contact details,
(b) supply, if so required, bank or other suitable references,
(c) pay the full purchase price by the first Wednesday 6pm immediately after the sale in a way acceptable to the Auctioneer, notwithstanding any prior arrangement for advance payment required by the Auctioneer, and
(d) on proof of payment clear the Lots purchased by the times specified. Lots may not be cleared during the sale except by permission of the Auctioneer.
20. LIABILITY OF THE AUCTIONEER AND VENDORS subject to Condition 20:
(a) faults and imperfections (if any) are not stated in the catalogue and neither the Vendor nor the Auctioneer is responsible for any defects whatsoever,
(b) no warranty is given or authorised to be given by the Vendor or the Auctioneer with regard to any Lot other than the Vendor’s right to sell it,
(c) any express or implied conditions or warranties relating to description or quality, are hereby excluded.
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The World According to Nikki Sixx
February 13, 2014 destroyerofharmonyAlbum, dead formats., James Michael, Kid Rock, Motley Crue, Motley Crue. Nikki Sixx, new songs, nikki sixx, Radio, terrestrial radio, views on recording, YouTube Leave a comment
“When you spend nine months working on an album, all the work that goes into it and recording it, mixing it, mastering it, then you release it and it falls on deaf ears.”
“I’d rather work on two songs under that plan (exploring the idea of placing their songs in films, or signing sponsorships deals through integrated marketing with other types of companies that want to use their song specifically to reach tens of millions of people) than do eleven songs that only reach 100,000 people.”
Nikki Sixx from Motley Crue said the above in a recent interview.
The album format is dead and buried. People just don’t have the time to sit down and play an album from start to finish over and over again anymore, especially when there is so much other content out there to consume.
So what is this telling us. It all depends on which side of the argument you sit.
The record labels and the RIAA will say that this is what happens when people pirate/copyright infringe. They will call for stronger copyright enforcement.
Sociologist would say that sales of recorded music have declined due to the rise of other desirables, like apps and gaming in general. Look at the sales of the “Halo” games series by Microsoft. “Halo 4” made $220 million in 24 hours. Overall, the whole series has grossed over $3.4 billion. Have any rock bands reached that many people?
“Angry Birds” caused an app sensation in 2009, “Candy Crush” caused a bigger credit card sensation in 2013 due to its innovative in-app purchase system. What about the recent free game “Fluffy Bird”? It was free and it got downloaded 50 million times. Then the creator just pulled it.
Fans of music will still listen to music, however music now has to play on a crowded field compared to the Eighties. We had music on terrestrial radio, LP’s, CD’s and Cassettes. The profit margins on these items were huge for the record labels.
In 2014, we have music on LP’s, CD’s, on iTunes, on streaming sites, on Amazon, on terrestrial radio, on internet radio, on YouTube, on various other downloading sites, both legal and illegal. The profit margins vary from high to low on the various ways we consume music.
In addition, we also have television on Free to Air, Pay TV, Internet TV. We have movies on streaming sites, at the cinemas, on pay TV channels, on DVD’s, on BluRays, on various other downloading sites, both legal and illegal. We have Games on PC’s, Consoles and Apps. We have books electronically and on paper. We have Facebook and Twitter to connect. More time is spent on these sites than listening to actual music.
Fans of Motley will say this is a product of the times. It’s a singles market. Daft Punk released an album, however it turned out that it was the song “Get Lucky” that people actually wanted. The single format works well for pop music.
However, metal and rock fans are still stuck in the album ideology.
Dream Theater released an album without a decent single and after six weeks, it’s US sale run was over. However, they are happy to do that every two years. They know that their livelihood is touring.
Protest The Hero organised distribution deals with other labels for “Volition”, however it was all for nothing, as the 8000+ hard core fans already had a digital version of the album via the Indiegogo Campaign. It’s just a shame that the perks still haven’t arrived, almost 5 months after the release date.
Other fans will say, that Motley Crue should release something worth buying and that they will buy it. Motley Crue released “Sex” in 2012. Since I am on the Motley Crue email list, it was offered as a free download for 24 hours when it first came out. I went and downloaded it. It is classic Crue and a great song to add to the set list.
James Michael from Sixx A.M. also released a single called “Learn To Hate You” in November, 2012. It only has 116,034 views on James Michael’s YouTube channel, while Motley Crue’s “Seek” has 108,038 views on their Motley Crue Vevo Channel and 449,397 views on a user channel called Lachi James.
So from reading Nikki’s views on new music, I believe now that the release of “Sex” from Motley Crue and “Learn To Hate You” from James Michael was an experiment in how can an artist release a song and reach millions of people.
How many people would have acted quickly enough to download the song as a freebie within the 24 hour window?
How many people from a certain city would have purchased the song via iTunes after hearing Motley Crue perform it on the Kiss tour while they were in that city?
How many people would have downloaded the song illegally?
How many people viewed a YouTube post of the song?
How many people streamed and shared the song?
If a band wants to monetize and have reach, they need to create and keep on creating. They need to release everything on YouTube and Spotify and iTunes all on the same day. It is better for the band to control the YouTube releases than allowing others to monetize their content.
So what is happening with Sixx A.M.?
The new album has been talked up a fair bit by Nikki via his Facebook posts. New music for them has been in the pipeline for a while. So is it because Sixx A.M is classed as a new band, radio will play them. Terrestrial radio is dead. That format is dead. The opportunities are all on line now.
I consider Nikki Sixx a musician. A musician by definition is someone who creates music. And that is what musicians do when they are hungry. It is all about the music and only the music. But, once they reach the top and start focusing on the trappings, the music part starts to fade away as the focus moves to keeping what they have attained.
Musicians took risks and stood for something. They made money, they blew money, they did drugs, they made money again. Rock stars did it their way. That is why we flocked to them. That is why we became fans. They represented an attitude, a sense of freedom that connected with us.
As a fan of Motley Crue, I am disappointed that there decision to make new music is because on money and reach. The people that want new Motley Crue music will get it. So why don’t they service those fans.
And the Final Tour. Serious. They just finished touring. Kid Rock did a tour with $20 concert tickets. His risk paid off. All his shows sold out and those $20 ticket fans got converted into Kid Rock fans. Digital sales increased. Merchandise sales increased. Streams increased. Kid Rock went on that tour without a guarantee that he will be paid. He played the game without a safety net.
However, no one is keen to follow in his lead. Everyone wants that contract from Live Nation, the cash up front, the guarantee. The artist, along with their managers, agents, enablers, handlers, the pet dog and whoever else is attached to the entourage, want the money first and to leave the onus of recouping to the promoter.
Come on Crue. Put all of your issues aside and record a decent amount of music and get it out there.
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Isofol > Pressmeddelande > Isofol Receives Positive Feedback from PMDA in Japan, Expanding Ongoing Global Pivotal Phase 3 AGENT Trial in First Line Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Isofol's board appoints Dr. Jarl Ulf Jungnelius as new CEO of the company
ISOFOL ANNOUNCES THAT AN ABSTRACT HAS BEEN ACCEPTED FOR PRESENTATION AT THE 2019 ESMO CONGRESS
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, October 18, 2019 – Isofol Medical AB (publ), (Nasdaq First North Premier: ISOFOL), today announced the successful completion of Japan’s Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) review of the Clinical Trial Notification (CTN), allowing the start of the pivotal Phase 3 AGENT clinical study in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) at Japanese sites. Based on feedback from the PMDA, Isofol expects that the data from the ongoing Phase 3 AGENT clinical study, if positive, will serve as the basis to submit the application for manufacturing and marketing approval in Japan.
A CTN is equivalent to a U.S. Investigational New Drug application (IND). In combination with the existing IND for arfolitixorin in the U.S. and Clinical Trial Application (CTA) in Europe, the recently received CTN in Japan creates potential for global approval of arfolitixorin pending positive results from the ongoing Phase 3 clinical trial.
“Japan represents a very important potential market for Isofol and one we see as a top priority as we advance the development of arfolitixorin in mCRC patients globally. There is a significant unmet need for new treatment options for mCRC in Japan, particularly in the first line setting,” said Anders Rabbe, chief executive officer of Isofol. “We look forward to launching the pivotal Phase 3 AGENT clinical study in Japan in early 2020, and continuing our discussions with the PMDA and potential partners in Japan as we map out a path to market for our drug candidate.”
Roger Tell, M.D., Ph.D., chief medical officer of Isofol, added, “We are excited about this important milestone and the degree of enthusiasm expressed by Japanese key opinion leaders as well as clinical investigators who will participate in the study. With the CTN now in effect, the next steps include obtaining Institutional Review Board approval and finalizing agreements with each of the participating clinical sites. In the near term, Isofol will be focusing on these activities, with support from our Japanese CRO, CMIC Shift Zero, in preparation for the start of enrolment.”
AGENT (ISO-CC-007) is expected to enrol 440 mCRC patients in North America and Europe, all treated in the first line setting, who will receive either arfolitixorin or leucovorin, both in combination with 5-FU, oxaliplatin and bevacizumab. The primary endpoint is overall response rate (ORR) and the key secondary endpoints are progression free survival (PFS) and duration of response (DOR). Top-line data from the study are expected in 2021. The recruitment of patients is ongoing in North America and Western Europe and will now be expanded to include patients from Japan as well.
About the AGENT study
The Phase 3 AGENT clinical study is a randomized, controlled, multi-centre study assessing the efficacy and safety of arfolitixorin, [6R]-5,10-methylene-tetrahydrofolic acid (MTHF), compared to leucovorin, both used in combination with 5-FU, oxaliplatin, and bevacizumab, in first line metastatic colorectal cancer patients. Patients are randomized in a 1:1 ratio and the primary endpoint is overall response rate (ORR). The key secondary endpoints are progression free survival (PFS) and duration of response (DOR). Other secondary endpoints include overall survival (OS), number of curative metastasis resections, safety, and patient reported outcomes such as quality of life (QoL). Exploratory endpoints include pharmacokinetic (PK) measurements and level of gene expression of folate relevant genes in tumour cells. The study is designed to show superiority for arfolitixorin over leucovorin. The study is ongoing at approximately 70 sites in the U.S., Canada and Western Europe and will now be expanded to include Japanese hospitals as well. Further information about the study, including eligibility requirements, is available at www.clinicaltrials.gov Clinical trials.gov id:NCT03750786.
Anders Rabbe, CEO
E-mail: info@isofolmedical.com
Roger Tell, SVP, Chief Medical Officer
E-mail: roger.tell@isofolmedical.com
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Arfolitixorin is Isofol’s proprietary drug candidate being developed to increase the efficacy of standard of care chemotherapy for advanced colorectal cancer. The drug candidate is currently being studied in a global Phase 3 clinical trial, AGENT. As the key active metabolite of the widely used folate-based drugs, arfolitixorin can potentially benefit all patients with advanced colorectal cancer, as it does not require complicated metabolic activation to become effective.
About Isofol Medical AB (publ)
Isofol Medical AB (publ) is a clinical stage biotech company developing arfolitixorin to improve the efficacy of standard of care chemotherapy for advanced colorectal cancer by increasing tumor response and progression free survival. Isofol holds a worldwide exclusive license agreement with Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany to develop and commercialize arfolitixorin for oncology indications. Isofol Medical AB is traded on the Nasdaq First North Premier. Certified Adviser is FNCA Sweden AB.
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Vitamin C – L-ascorbic acid
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Ascorbic acid or vitamin C is an organic compound from the group of unsaturated polyhydric alcohol. Vitamin C is necessary for the functioning of all living organisms. For many animals and humans, this vitamin must be supplied in the diet because they are not produced by the organisms themselves. Ascorbic acid is an antioxidant used as a food additive (E300).
In the normal conditions it is a white, crystalline solid. Soluble in water, the solution is acidic.
Other names of ascorbic acid:
pour. Acidum ascorbicum;
The antioxidants in the food industry: E300 – ascorbic acid, E301 – sodium ascorbate, E302 – calcium ascorbate, E303 – potassium ascorbate, E304 – fatty acid esters of ascorbic acid;
(R) -3,4-dihydroxy-5 – ((S) -1,2-dihydroxyethyl) furan-2 (5H) -one;
ascorbic acid;
2,3-didehydro-L-threo -heksono-1,4-lactone;
3-keto-L-gulofuranolakton
L-ascorbic acid occurs naturally in many plants and animals. In both realms substrate for the biosynthesis of this compound is D-glucose, but extends it in a different way[1].
Vitamin C in vegetables and fruits
Rich source of vitamin C are fresh fruits and vegetables: currants, strawberries, citrus fruits, cabbage, parsley, spinach, watercress, tomatoes and green peppers. Vitamin C, however, is anunstable product, its loss in the cooking process reach 50-70%[2], is also gets oxidized so it is best to eat fruits and vegetables fresh and raw. Check: What is the content of Vitamin C in fruit and vegetables?
The role of vitamin C in the human body
Vitamin C plays a very important role in the functioning of the human body[10]:
Increases immunity, especially during intensive physical activity, stimulates the immune system.
Supports functioning of the cardiovascular system: lowers blood pressure, dilates blood vessels and protects against atherosclerosis.
Acts as an antioxidant[11], as it is involved in neutralizing reactive oxygen and nitrogen thus preventing damage to cells and protects their macromolecules against oxidative damage. It also participates in DNA repair. It removes free radicals, protecting the body against tumor lesions.
It supports the production of cholesterol in the liver and processing it into bile acids – raises levels of “good” cholesterol and lowers the “bad” one. It also regulates the level of glucose in the blood.
Positively affects the nervous system, regulates the production of cortisol (hydroxycortisol) steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex (ie. A stress hormone), it helps to concentrate.
It participates in the metabolism of tyrosine synthesis of adrenal steroids. It has also impact on maintaining of appropriate oxidative potential in the cell[1].
Recommended intake of vitamin C for an adult is from 45 to 90 mg per day.
The effects of vitamin C defficiency in the human body
L-ascorbic acid – a three-dimensional view 3D
The most well-known consequence of vitamin C deficiency is scurvy[3], whose symptoms are spontaneous bleeding, damage to blood vessels, blood ecchymosis, poor healing and repair of wounds, looseness of gums, inflammation of the mucous membranes, changes in teeth (eg. Gangrene), joint and muscle pains, swelling of the extremities, weakness, loss of appetite, reduced physical efficiency. Other serious consequences of this disease include depression, osteoporosis, anaemia Microcytic Hypochromic, overactive thyroid, neurological disorders, stomach afflictions. This may result in an extending the periods of chills and difficulties in treating infections, as well as secondary infections. If left untreated, it can even lead to death.
The effects of excess / overdose of vitamin C
Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is not toxic, but taken in excessive doses (more than 2 g per day) can cause stomach problems (nausea, diarrhea, vomiting), skin rash. Putting away the medicine radically can cause decreased immunity. Normally however, the excess of vitamin is excreted from the body with urine. In the event of the diagnosed existence or tendency to the formation of kidney stones it is not recommended to consume doses greater than 500 mg per day. Excess Vitamin C is converted to:
Oxalic acid[8], which in the urinary tract precipitates with calcium in the form of stone (calcium oxalate), or
uric acid,[9] (white crystals hardly soluble in water)[4].
The harmfulness of taking higher than recommended doses of vitamin C during pregnancy has not been confirmed in clinical research.
Megadoses of vitamin C
The application of the so-called mega-doses of vitamin C is controversial, as scientific commuinity, doctors and those involved in natural methods of treatment do not comment on the issue unequivocally. The pharmaceutical industry and doctors do not recommend this type of therapy, while some scientists and physicians encourage to apply it in a number of very serious diseases. Below we present the views of several of them:
According to the winner of two Nobel Prizes, a writer, chemist and physicist Dr. Linus Pauling[5] the daily intake of vitamin C by an adult should vary between 3g to 18g. In one of his last interviews before death, he stated, among others, “I think that today we can completely control cardiovascular disease, heart attacks and strokes through the proper use of vitamin C and lysine. Not only that this way we can prevent cardiovascular disorders, but even cure them. If you belong to a group with the so-called increased risk of heart disease or have experienced heart attack in the past, it will be better for you, if you start taking vitamin C and lysine. (…) “.
According to Dr. Mathias Rath[6] a lack of vitamin C increases the risk of coronary heart disease.The greater consumption in turn increases the level of “good” HDL cholesterol, and removes excess of the “bad” one- LDL. Dr. M. Rath recommended dose of 3g to 10g of natural vitamin C a day, claiming that in this way you can cause a reversal of atherosclerosis processes . Vitamin C deficiency leads to disruption of the body’s immune resistance to infections and to the impact of some toxins. Its high level in the body facilitates creating maximum glycogen supplies in liver and strengthens its detoxificating ability. This is of great importance in any parasitic infections (fungi, bacteria, Helminthiasis), in body intoxication by chemical toxins, or in all types of viral hepatitis.
According to Dr. Clark[7] Vitamin C helps neutralize all mold mycotoxins (toxins derived from fungi), including a very poisonous – aflatoxin.
Dr. Robert F. Cathcart developed detailed treatment of many diseases with mega-doses of ascorbic acid, including allergies, bacterial diseases and even cancer[12][13][14][15][16][17].
The proponents of treatment and prophylaxis with the use of mega-doses of vitamin C are convinced of its efficiency. Opponents warn against possible adverse effects. There are still not enough reliable sources supported by research, which would undeniably confirm or contradict the possible impact of taking ascorbic acid in high doses on humans’ health.
Vitamin C – L-ascorbic acid – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C
Kalina Maćkowiak, Lech Torliński – “Współczesne poglądy na rolę witaminy C w fizjologii i patologii człowieka”, Nowiny Lekarskie 2007, 76, 4, 349-356, Zając M.: “Witaminy i mikroelementy”. Wyd. Kontekst, 2000, 29–37, Gertig H., Przysławski J.: “Bromatologia – zarys nauki o żywieniu i żywności”. Wyd. Lek. PZWL, 2006, 164-170.
Scurvy is a disease resulting from a deficiency of vitamin C. – SCURVY: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Discovered the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail by Stephen R. Bown. Published by Thomas Dunne Books 2004.
The history of scurvy & vitamin C. by Kenneth J. Carpenter. Published by Cambridge University Press 1986.
LK. Massey, M. Liebman, SA. Kynast-Gales. Ascorbate increases human oxaluria and kidney stone risk. „J Nutr”. 135 (7), s. 1673-1677, 2005. PMID: 15987848.
Linus Pauling – https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling.
Matthias Rath – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Rath, “Zwycięstow nad rakiem cz.1 i cz.2” – Matthias Rath Aleksandra Niedzwiedzki, ISBN: 9789076332789, ISBN: 9789076332796, Wydawca: Dr. Rath Education Services B.V., “Dlaczego zwierzęta nie dostają zawałów serca tylko my ludzie” – Matthias Rath, Wydawca: Dr. Rath Education Services B.V., “Dowody” – Matthias Rath, ISBN: 9789076332819.
Hulda Regehr Clark – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulda_Regehr_Clark, The Three Owls Reading Method (1965–67), The Cure for All Cancers (1993), The Cure For HIV / AIDS (1993), The Cure for All Diseases (1995, ISBN 978-1-890035-01-3), The Cure For All Advanced Cancers (San Diego, CA: ProMotion Publishing, 1993), Syncrometer Science Laboratory Manual (2000), The Prevention of all Cancers (2004), The Cure and Prevention of All Cancers (2007).
Oxalic acid (ethanedioic acid), HOOC-COOH – an organic compound, the simplest dicarboxylic acid. In large concentrations the oxalic acid is irritating to the skin and mucous membranes, but even in the amounts found in food may be harmful – combined with the ions of calcium it creates a sparingly soluble calcium oxalate, which is deposited in the form of kidney stones. Therefore, frequent consumption of large amounts of vegetables containing the acid can cause kidney stones, and calcium deficiency in the body.
Uric acid (2,6,8-trioksypuryna) – an organic chemical compound, a purine derivative. Forms white crystals poorly soluble in water. The concentration of uric acid in the blood of healthy people is 180-420 mmol / L (3-7 mg / dl). In the urine discharged from the average of 500 mg uric acid per day in free form or in salt form (depending on the pH of urine). Uric acid is poorly soluble in water and in an acidic environment can accumulate in the joints causing gout and in kidneys forming gouty stones.
Vitamin C – Fact Sheet for Health Professionals, https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/vitaminc.html.
Antyoksydanty – http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/diet/antioxidants-fact-sheet, https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/antioxidants.html.
Cathcart R.F. The method of determining proper doses of vitamin C for the treatment of disease by titrating to bowel tolerance. J. Orthomolecular Psychiatry, 10:125-132, 1981.
Cathcart R.F. Vitamin C: titrating to bowel tolerance, anascorbemia, and acute induced scurvy. Medical Hypotheses, 7:1359-1376, 1981.
Cathcart R.F. Vitamin C in the treatment of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Medical Hypotheses, 14(4):423-433, Aug 1984.
Cathcart R.F. The vitamin C treatment of allergy and the normally unprimed state of antibodies. Medical Hypotheses. 1986 Nov;21(3):307-21.
Cathcart R.F. Vitamin C function in AIDS. Current Opinion, Medical Tribune, July 13, 1983.
Cathcart R.F. Vitamin C: the nontoxic, nonrate-limited, antioxidant free radical scavenger. Medical Hypotheses, 18:61-77, 1985.
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Natural Gas Distribution License (OGG B’5922/31.12.2018)
Natural Gas Distribution Network Operation License (OGG B’5916/31.12.2018)
Approval of terms and tender criteria to be conducted by the Natural Gas Distribution Company Thessaloniki-Thessaly for the provision of virtual pipeline services (OGG B’2945/16.07.19)
Establishment of the Maximum Price per Unit for the service of the virtual pipeline of compressed natural gas pursuant to the RAE’s Decision No 643/2018 (OGG B’2972/19.07.19)
Determination of the maximum price for the service of the Virtual Pipeline of Compressed Natural Gas (OGG B '4298 / 27.09.18)
RAE’s Decision no. 821/2018
Natural Gas Distribution Network Operation Code (OGG B’487/20.02.2017)
Natural Gas Distribution Network Operation Code-1st Amendment (OGG B’1507/02.05.2018
Tariffs Regulation for the Main Natural Gas Distribution Activity (OGG B’3067/26.09.2016)
Approval of the Tariff for the Charge of the Main Natural Gas Distribution Activity on Thessaloniki’s Distribution Network (OGG Β' 3490/31.10.2016)
Approval of the Tariff for the Charge of the Main Natural Gas Distribution Activity on Thessaly’s Distribution Network (OGG Β'3537/03.11.2016)
Supplementary decision on RAE’s decisions no. 346/2016 and no. 347/2016
Approval of the List of Ancillary and Billable Services of the Distribution Networks of Thessaloniki and Thessaly (OGG B '2354/ 11.07.2017)
Approval of the methodology for determining the typical consumption characteristics and generating the typical consumption curves of non-hourly measured end customers, according to article 21 of the Distribution Code (OGG B'487 / 20.02.2017)
Approval of the typical consumption curves for non-hourly measured end customers of the Natural Gas Distribution Networks of Thessaloniki and Thessaly
Amendment of the Natural Gas Distribution Network Operation Code and Framework for the Development of Remote Distribution Networks using Compressed / Liquefied Natural Gas” (OGG Β' 3334/10.08.2018)
Approval of the terms and criteria of the tender of EDA THESS for the CNG Virtual Pipeline services and the determination of the maximum price per kwh for the service of the Virtual Pipeline of Compressed Natural Gas for the year 2018 (OGG B '4298 / 27.09.2018)
The import and trading of natural gas in Greece was regulated by law 2364/6.12.1995 (OGG Α’ 252). Today, the provisions of the specific Law, as amended and in force, remain largely in force to the extent they have not been repealed by more recent arrangements, and they regulate the distribution of natural gas through the establishment of Gas Supply Companies (EPA) which are granted a Distribution License for a specific period of time and the right to exclusive supply of natural gas to non-eligible customers.
With a view to incorporate into national law the provisions of European Directives and Regulations on the common rules in the internal gas market (Directive 2003/55/EC and Regulation (EC) 1775/2005, which make up the 2nd energy package), Law 3428/27.12.2005 (OGG Α’ 313) on the "Liberalization of the Natural Gas Market" was adopted, and the Ministerial Decision No. 4955/27.3.06 (OGG Β’ 360) on the "Tariff for natural gas transportation and LNG gasification" was delivered, as subsequently amended by Ministerial Decisions Δ1/23344/7.12.06 (OGG Β’ 1781) and Δ1/5037/20.3.07 (OGG Β’ 379) (charges based on outlet capacities-postage stamp). At the same time, and until the issuance under Law 3428/2005 of a secondary law to regulate the natural gas market operation, the Ministerial Decision Δ1/1227/5.2.2007 (OGG Β’ 135) provided for the terms of access to the National Natural Gas System (ESFA).
The aforementioned secondary law of the natural gas market took effect in mid 2000 through a series of ministerial decisions, relating to the following:
"ESFA Management Code" (Original Version), Ministerial Decision Δ1/Α/5346/1.4.10, OGG Β’ 379
"ESFA Users Registry Regulation", Ministerial Decision Δ1/Α/5816/16.4.10, OGG Β’ 451
"Natural Gas Licenses Regulation", Ministerial Decision Δ1/Α/5815/19.4.10, OGG Β’ 464
"ESFA Measurements Regulation", Ministerial Decision Δ1/Α/7754/6.5.10, OGG Β’ 584
"Modification of natural gas transportation and liquefied natural gas gasification tariff", Ministerial Decision Δ1/Α/1110/9860/31.5.10 OGG Β 747.
At the same time, the "Standard Contracts for natural gas transportation and LNG facility use" were issued according to the provisions of ESFA Management Code, under RAE decision No. 611/9.4.2010 (OGG Β’ 480).
Then, in order to align the Greek state laws to the provisions of the 3rd energy package, as laid down in Directive 2009/73/-EC and Regulations (EC) No. 713/2009 and No. 715/2009, the new energy law 4001/22.8.2011 (OGG Α’ 179) was adopted, which replaced for the most part Law 3428/2005 and incorporated the individual provisions of the above Directive and Regulations, aiming at the further smooth integration of the natural gas internal market and the establishment of equal terms of competition for all natural gas business operating within the European Union. To this end, it became mandatory to separate networks from supply and production activities by adopting three alternative models (ownership unbundling, ISO, ITO), since it was considered that the legal and functional unbundling stipulated in the previous repealed Directive 2003/55/EC did not deliver good results in relation to the above intended purpose.
Specifically with regard to the unbundling of natural gas transportation and supply activities, the adoption of the ownership unbundling model that was initially adopted under Law 4001/2011, was replaced by the Act of Legislative Content dated 16.12.2011 (OGG Α’ 262), by opting for the Independent Transportation Operator (ITO) model, with the option to choose the Ownership Unbundling model in the future. The provisions of Law 4001/2011 regarding the Independent System Operator were amended by Law 4093/12.11.2012 (OGG Α’ 222/12.11.2012), the Act of Legislative Content OGG Α’229/19.11.12 and Law 4111/2013 (OGG Α' 18/25.01.2013).
Several amendments were made to Law 4001/2011, the most important of which are the following:
Article 17 par. 13 of Law 4203/2013 (OGG Α’ 235) and article 2 par. 2 of Law 4336/2015 (OGG Α' 94/14.8.2015) amended article 73 of Law 4001/2011 on security of supply to be aligned to the European Regulation 994/2010. Article 17 par. 12 of Law 4203/2013 amended article 2 par. 2 of Law 4001/2011 and then, under the aforementioned law, the Ministerial Decision No. Δ1/Β/10233/13.06.2014 was issued (OGG 1684/24.06.2014 bulletin Β') specifying the categories of Protected Consumers of natural gas.
Article 55 par. 8 of Law 4223/2013 (OGG Α’ 287), which replaced the second section of par. 4, article 85 of Law 4001/2011, extended the effect of the provisions of article 24 of Law 3175/2003 (relating to ToP clauses) until 31.12.2015
Chapters Α’, Β’ and C’ of subparagraph Β.1 of Law 4336/2015 (OGG Α’ 94/14.8.15) amended and supplemented the provisions of Law 4001/2001, as amended and in force. The new provisions are mainly related to the restructuring of the natural gas distribution framework in Greece (obligation for legal unbundling of natural gas distribution and supply activities) and the expansion of the definition of Eligible Customer.
On 14/10/2011, the first (1st) Revision of ESFA Management Code was put into force under RAE decision No. 1096/2011 (OGG Β- 2227), after more than a year since the effective launch of the liberalized market in Greece. The revision aimed at supplementing-improving the provisions of the Code, and attempting its alignment to the general provisions of the European Gas Target Model. As a result of said revision, RAE decision No. 126/2.3.2012 (OGG 907/23.4.2012) approved once again the Standard Contracts for natural gas transportation and LNG facility use, which are now in line with the Code provisions.
On 5.7.12 RAE decision No. 594/2012 was published (OGG Β’ 2093/5.7.2012), approving the ESFA Tariff Regulation for basic activities, which adopted the tariff system with independent charges for inlet and outlet capacities, and on 27.8.12 RAE decision No. 722/2012 (OGG Β’ 2385) was published, approving ESFA Usage Tariff. The new tariff system is being used as of February 1, 2013, replacing Ministerial Decision No. 4955/2006.
Then, on 9/12/13, the second (2nd) Revision of ESFA Management Code was put into force (OGG Β’3131/9.12.2013) with a view to adapting it, mainly, to the provisions of the Tariff Regulation and to the provisions of European Regulations on Security of Supply (EC994/2010) and congestion management measures (amendment EC715/2009/24.8.12), and on 27/12/2013 the new Standard Contracts for natural gas transportation and LNG were published (RAE decision No. 635/19.12.13, OGG Β’ 3325/27.12.13). The provisions of said Code will be amended in order to incorporate provisions of the issued European Regulation on Capacity Allocation (EC984/14.10.13) as well as of those pending publication, relating to Balancing, Interoperability of Systems and Access Tariffs. The 2nd revision of ESFA Code is posted on our website as unofficial translation in English, edited by DEPA.
Furthermore, with a view to align Greek legislation to Directive 2006/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on energy end-use efficiency and energy services (which was replaced by 2012/27/EU), Law 3855/23.6.2010 (OGG 95/23.6.2010) was adopted, laying down measures for the improvement of energy end-use efficiency. Under Law 3855/2010, the Ministerial Decision Δ5/Β/29891/30.12.2011 (OGG 3254/30.12.2011) was issued, laying down the obligations of energy distributors, distribution network operators and energy retail businesses for the provision of energy end-use data. Furthermore, with a view to align Greek legislation to Directive 2010/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Law 4122/19.2.2013 (OGG Α’ 42) was adopted, on the Energy Efficiency of Buildings.
The provisions of article 12 (Chapter Α΄) of Law 4233/29.1.2014 (OGG Α΄22) laid down the rules for converting vehicle engines into double-fuel engines, namely for using conventional fuels and compressed natural gas (CNG), and under said provisions the Ministerial Decision No. 10852/715/14/2014 (OGG 1466/Β/2014) was issued, setting forth the technical specifications of the special equipment needed for using CNG and the other terms and conditions for verifying their safe circulation.
Decision No. 13935/930/18.3.2014 (OGG 674Β/18.03.2014) of the Minister of Transport and Networks, issued under article 45 of Law 2773/1999 as in force, laid down the competent bodies, the terms and conditions for the establishment and operation of compressed natural gas (CNG) distribution stations and mixed liquid fuel stations.
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3 Examples of Diverse Content That Improved Brand Recognition
Diverse content can come in the form of Pinterest boards, Facebook Live posts, or even just a blog post about something other than the products or services your company offers. But one thing that diverse content marketing does is expand your market focus. These 3 brands did just that.
Juliet Childers Jul 13, 2019 at 11:00 am GMT
Diverse content marketing ideas are more crucial now than ever before. | Image By LOVE YOU | Shutterstock
Sometimes it’s hard to be heard above the noise. Here are three companies that found a new way to do just that.
Many brands began to diversify their content thanks, in part, to social media. Another big factor is how market tastes have changed regarding the ways they support their brands.
If you’re familiar with RayBan sunglasses or even a brand like Covergirl, you’re familiar with a “lifestyle brand”. These entities usually sell some kind of merchandise, but diversify their content to target wider markets.
Due to the fact they have merchandise, they can diversify more easily.
Just think about it: what came to your mind when I mentioned RayBans? Maybe you saw a tropical beach and two people relaxing in luxury. Maybe you saw a super fit lifeguard or maybe you saw a hipster dude in skinny jeans and a v-neck t-shirt.
But you conjured up an image of a person who has a specific lifestyle.
These 3 brands used diverse content to transform how consumers perceive their products.
A Beer Company Chronicled World Records for Fun
If you’re like me, you didn’t connect the dots between Guinness the beer and the world record book. | Guinness
You’re probably familiar with the Irish brand of beer known as Guinness. Their stout beers feature coffee notes and are great on cold, rainy days.
However, the company also made a foray into world record keeping. Yes, that’s right: the “Guinness Book of World Records” is the same as the Guinness brewing company.
It all started when the Guinness managing director Sir Hugh Beaver went on a hunting trip in 1951. He supposedly missed a shot, causing an argument about the fastest bird in Europe. Alas, he and his hunting party had no resource to find this information.
Fast forward to 1954 when he thought of a new Guinness promoting for settling pub arguments.
Beaver decided to create a book full of facts in order to settle these various bar arguments. So, he went about finding a fact-finding agency in London to prepare the marketing promotion. They compiled hundreds of facts into a book and gave away 1,000 copies.
Due to its popularity, the company had it bound as the first official copy of what we now call The Guinness Book of World Records in August of 1955. Today, you can find the book in 37 languages sold in around 100 countries. In fact, it is the world’s best-selling copyrighted book of all time (so far). Which means, strangely, that the Guinness Book of World Records is now itself in the Guinness Book of World Records.
The only befuddling part of this story is how the brewery, in today’s world, doesn’t seem to be as strongly associated with the world record book. But this may be due to dwindling interest in the book or a downturn in brick and mortar sales.
Regardless, the diverse content shored up the Guinness brand and reached new audiences.
As a result of this, it became endeared and imprinted on people’s minds. And, perhaps, people garnered a kind of Pavlovian response in connection to the beer and the book.
Soap Operas Originated From an Actual Soap Company
Surprisingly, Proctor & Gamble makes soap and soap operas. | Procter & Gamble via Thoughco
You might be familiar with the name “Proctor & Gamble” as a hygiene product company. In truth, the parent company houses many popular brands such as Tide, Olay, Crest, Always, Bounty, and many more.
But originally, before they became a mega-corporation, P&G started out making soap.
U.K. immigrants founded the company in 1837 and even supplied the Union Army with candles and soap during the American Civil War. In 1911, they diversified into making Crisco — the shortening for cooking made from vegetable oils.
But in the 1920s and 1930s, the company turned its focus on American housewives.
This also corresponded with a rise in radio listeners and even TV watchers. As a result of these new platforms, P&G decided to diversify yet again in an effort to reach this new market of homemakers.
The company began sponsoring popular serial dramas until they decided to simply make their own daytime TV dramas instead.
This new diverse content marketing strategy included especially flagrant endorsements of their own products as commercials and placements in the shows themselves. The strong link between products and shows led to the name we use today: soap operas.
Now, I’m not saying that this is the reason the company is so wildly diverse and successful today. But one must wonder if creative marketing solutions like this didn’t play a significant role in the company’s climb.
A Dude Made of Tires is a Respected Food Critic
Yes — the tire company also invented the high-end restaurant guide. | Michelin via Travel Guide
Michelin starred restaurants include what some consider to be the best in the world. From sushi to French cuisine to small holes in the wall, these chefs are considered S-tier by the self-appointed food experts.
The Michelin Guide itself originated in 1900, but it wasn’t really food related at all.
If you haven’t guessed it already by the image above, there’s a distinct connection between this food rating system and the tire company by the same name.
The original guide didn’t focus just on food either.
It featured maps, instructions on tire replacement and repair, hotel listings, gas stations, car mechanic locations, and more. It also happened to include reviews of restaurants in the French countryside.
The intent of this diverse content marketing strategy was NOT to rate restaurants.
It was to get people to drive to these restaurants and associate Michelin with reliability and knowledge. Of course, some now associate the name with high-end food more than tires.
The mascot (the Michelin man) made of tires also endured throughout the years. As you can see, his portfolio diversified, as well. The image and message have kept the brand alive and well over the decades.
Stand out From the Pack
All three of these companies used a different approach to creating a name for their brand. In an increasingly overcrowded world of advertising, it’s now more important than ever to step outside your creative comfort zone.
What is the most creative diverse content marketing strategy you have seen in advertising lately?
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Secretary of State's Award for Corporate Excellence 2010 ceremony: Secretary Clinton and Grant F Reid, President, Mars Global Chocolate.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented the 2010 Award for Corporate Excellence, or ACE, to three American companies.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented the 2010 Award for Corporate Excellence, or ACE, to three American companies. The ACE is awarded annually to U.S. businesses that exhibit good corporate citizenship, promote innovation, and advance democratic principles around the world.
The winner in the small-to-medium size enterprise category is Denimatrix of Lubbock, Texas, for its work in Guatemala. The company is touted for the exemplary care they show their employees, their respect for the local community, and their commitment to the environment. Denimatrix supports free medical clinics and medical treatment for its employees and their families, and educational opportunities. The company does this in order to create a work environment where a sense of teamwork and family motivates people to do a good job.
The second ACE recipient is Mars Incorporated of McLean, Virginia. It is the company's special relationship with the cocoa farmers of Ghana that has won it acclaim. Grant Reid, President of Mars Global Chocolate, said "By enabling farmers to create sustainable businesses, we believe we can ensure the future of cocoa while increasing incomes and securing livelihoods for tomorrow's farmers." Mars works to raise awareness of the importance of reducing child labor and protecting workers at every level of the cocoa value chain from the fields to the factories. And by 2020, Mars has committed to certify its entire cocoa supply as sustainable.
The final ACE winner is Cisco Systems. The company invested ten million dollars in Palestinian programmers, and by including both Palestinians and Israelis on the same programming teams, Cisco has taken people and economies that are too often kept apart and reconnected them in person and in cyberspace. There are now sixty-thousand students in the Middle East on these network academy programs, which teach Palestinian youth English and computer skills. Cisco's leadership has inspired other American and Israeli high tech companies to recognize that the West Bank is open for business.
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The Arena of Nîmes is a Roman amphitheater found in the French city of Nîmes. Built around 100 A.D., it was remodeled in 1863 to serve as a bullring. The Arena of Nimes is the site of two annual bullfights, and it is also used for other public events. The building encloses an elliptical central space 133 m long by 101 m wide. It is ringed by 34 rows of seats supported by a vaulted construction. It has a capacity of 16,300 spectators and since 1989 has a movable cover and a heating system. The Arena of Nîmes was constructed in the time of Emperor Augustus. As the Empire fell, the amphitheater was fortified by the Visigoths and surrounded by a wall.
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