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LGBTQI rights & technology for development
Posted in activism, development, ICT4D, innovation, privacy, protection, social justice, technology, technology salon, TSNYC, tagged development, ICT, ICT4D, LGBTQI, policies, programming, rights, staff, stakeholders, technology on April 24, 2015| 1 Comment »
By Mala Kumar and Linda Raftree
Our April 21st NYC Technology Salon focused on issues related to the LGBT ICT4D community, including how LGBTQI issues are addressed in the context of stakeholders and ICT4D staff. We examined specific concerns that ICT4D practitioners who identify as LGBTQI have, as well as how LGBTQI stakeholders are (or are not) incorporated into ICT4D projects, programs and policies. Among the many issues covered in the Salon, the role of the Internet and mobile devices for both community building and surveillance/security concerns played a central part in much of the discussion.
To frame the discussion, participants were asked to think about how LGBTQI issues within ICT4D (and more broadly, development) are akin to gender. Mainstreaming gender in development starts with how organizations treat their own staff. Implementing programs, projects and policies with a focus on gender cannot happen if the implementers do not first understand how to treat staff, colleagues and those closest to them (i.e. family, friends). Likewise, without a proper understanding of LGBTQI colleagues and staff, programs that address LGBTQI stakeholders will be ineffective.
The lead discussants of the Salon were Mala Kumar, writer and former UN ICT4D staff, Tania Lee, current IRC ICT4D Program Officer, and Robert Valadéz, current UN ICT4D staff. Linda Raftree moderated the discussion.
Unpacking LGBTQI
The first discussant pointed out how we as ICT4D/development practitioners think of the acronym LGBTQI, particularly the T and I – transgender and intersex. Often, development work focuses on the sexual identity portion of the acronym (the LGBQ), and not what is considered in Western countries as transgenderism.
As one participant said, the very label of “transgender” is hard to convey in many countries where “third gender” and “two-spirit gender” exist. These disagreements in terminology have – in Bangladesh and Nepal for example – resulted in creating conflict and division of interest within LGBTQI communities. In other countries, such as Thailand and parts of the Middle East, “transgenderism” can be considered more “normal” or societally acceptable than homosexuality. Across Africa, Latin America, North America and Europe, homosexuality is a better understood – albeit sometimes severely criminalized and socially rejected – concept than transgenderism.
One participant cited that in her previous first-hand work on services for lesbian, gay and bisexual people; often in North America, transgender communities are prioritized less in LGBTQI services. In many cases she saw in San Francisco, homeless youth would identify as anything in order to gain access to needed services. Only after the services were provided did the beneficiaries realize the consequences of self-reporting or incorrectly self-reporting.
Security concerns within Unpacking LGBTQI
For many people, the very notion of self-identifying as LGBTQI poses severe security risks. From a data collection standpoint, this results in large problems in accurate representation of populations. It also results in privacy concerns. As one discussant mentioned, development and ICT4D teams often do not have the technical capacity (i.e. statisticians, software engineers) to properly anonymize data and/or keep data on servers safe from hackers. On the other hand, the biggest threat to security may just be “your dad finding your phone and reading a text message,” as one person noted.
Being an LGBTQI staff in ICT4D
Our second lead discussant spoke about being (and being perceived as) an LGBTQI staff member in ICT4D. She noted that many of the ICT4D hubs, labs, centers, etc. are in countries that are notoriously homophobic. Examples include Uganda (Kampala), Kenya (Nairobi), Nigeria (Abuja, Lagos), Kosovo and Ethiopia (Addis). This puts people who are interested in technology for development and are queer at a distinct disadvantage.
Some of the challenges she highlighted include that ICT4D attracts colleagues from around the world who are the most likely to be adept at computers and Internet usage, and therefore more likely to seek out and find information about other staff/colleagues online. If those who are searching are homophobic, finding “evidence” against colleagues can be both easy and easy to disseminate. Along those lines, ICT4D practitioners are encouraged (and sometimes necessitated) to blog, use social media, and keep an online presence. In fact, many people in ICT4D find posts and contracts this way. However, keeping online professional and personal presences completely separate is incredibly challenging. Since ICT4D practitioners are working with colleagues most likely to actually find colleagues online, queer ICT4D practitioners are presented with a unique dilemma.
ICT4D practitioners are arguably the set of people within development that are the best fitted to utilize technology and programmatic knowledge to self-advocate as LGBT staff and for LGBT stakeholder inclusion. However, how are queer ICT4D staff supposed to balance safety concerns and professional advancement limitations when dealing with homophobic staff? This issue is further compounded (especially in the UN, as one participant noted) by being awarded the commonly used project-based contracts, which give staff little to no job security, bargaining power or general protection when working overseas.
Security concerns within being an LGBTQI staff in ICT4D
A participant who works in North America for a Kenyan-based company said that none of her colleagues ever mentioned her orientation, even though they must have found her publicly viewable blog on gender and she is not able to easily disguise her orientation. She talked about always finding and connecting to the local queer community wherever she goes, often through the Internet, and tries to support local organizations working on LGBT issues. Still, she and several other participants and discussants emphasized their need to segment online personal and professional lives to remain safe.
Another participant mentioned his time working in Ethiopia. The staff from the center he worked with made openly hostile remarks about gays, which reinforced his need to stay closeted. He noticed that the ICT staff of the organization made a concerted effort to research people online, and that Facebook made it difficult, if not impossible, to keep personal and private lives separate.
Another person reiterated this point by saying that as a gay Latino man, and the first person in his family to go to university, grad school and work in a professional job, he is a role model to many people in his community. He wants to offer guidance and support, and used to do so with a public online presence. However, at his current internationally-focused job he feels the need to self-censor and has effectively limited talking about his public online presence, because he often interacts with high level officials who are hostile towards the LGBTQI community.
One discussant also echoed this idea, saying that she is becoming a voice for the queer South Asian community, which is important because much of LGBT media is very white. The tradeoff for becoming this voice is compromising her career in the field because she cannot accept a lot of posts because they do not offer adequate support and security.
Several participants and discussants offered their own experiences on the various levels of hostility and danger involved with even being suspected as gay. One (female) participant began a relationship with a woman while working in a very conservative country, and recalled being terrified at being killed over the relationship. Local colleagues began to suspect, and eventually physically intervened by showing up at her house. This participant cited her “light skinned privilege” as one reason that she did not suffer serious consequences from her actions.
Another participant recounted his time with the US Peace Corps. After a year, he started coming out and dating people in host country. When one relationship went awry and he was turned into the police for being gay, nothing came of the charges. Meanwhile, he saw local gay men being thrown into – and sometimes dying in – jail for the same charges. He and some other participants noted their relative privilege in these situations because they are white. This participant said he felt that as a white male, he felt a sense of invincibility.
In contrast, a participant from an African country described his experience growing up and using ICTs as an escape because any physical indication he was gay would have landed him in jail, or worse. He had to learn how to change his mannerisms to be more masculine, had to learn how to disengage from social situations in real life, and live in the shadows.
One of the discussants echoed these concerns, saying that as a queer woman of color, everything is compounded. She was recruited for a position at a UN Agency in Kenya, but turned the post down because of the hostility towards gays and lesbians there. However, she noted that some queer people she has met – all white men from the States or Europe – have had overall positive experiences being gay with the UN.
Perceived as predators
One person brought up the “predator” stereotype often associated with gay men. He and his partner have had to turn down media opportunities where they could have served as role models for the gay community, especially poor, gay queer men of color, (who are one of the most difficult socioeconomic classes to reach) out of fear that this stereotype may impact on their being hired to work in organizations that serve children.
Monitoring and baiting by the government
One participant who grew up in Cameroon mentioned that queer communities in his country use the Internet cautiously, even though it’s the best resource to find other queer people. The reason for the caution is that government officials have been known to pose as queer people to bait real users for illegal gay activity.
Several other participants cited this same phenomenon in different forms. A recent article talked about Egypt using new online surveillance tactics to find LGBTQI people. Some believe that this type of surveillance will also happen in Nigeria, a notoriously hostile country towards LGBTQI persons and other places.
There was also discussion about what IP or technology is the safest for LGBTQI people. While the Internet can be monitored and traced back to a specific user, being able to connect from multiple access points and with varying levels of security creates a sense of anonymity that phones cannot provide. A person also generally carries phones, so if the government intercepts a message on either the originating or receiving device, implications of existing messages are immediate unless a user can convince the government the device was stolen or used by someone else. In contrast, phones are more easily disposable and in several countries do not require registration (or a registered SIM card) to a specific person.
In Ethiopia, the government has control over the phone networks and can in theory monitor these messages for LGBTQI activity. This poses a particular threat since there is already legal precedent for convictions of illegal activity based on text messages. In some countries, major telecom carriers are owned by a national government. In others, major telecom carries are national subsidiaries of an international company.
Another major concern raised relates back to privacy. Many major international development organizations do not have the capacity or ability to retain necessary software engineers, ICT architects and system operators, statisticians and other technology people to properly prevent Internet hacks and surveillance. In some cases, this work is illegal by national government policy, and thus also requires legal advocacy. The mere collection of data and information can therefore pose a security threat to staff and stakeholders – LGBTQI and allies, alike.
The “queer divide”
One discussant asked the group for data or anecdotal information related to the “queer divide.” A commonly understood problem in ICT4D work are divides – between genders, urban and rural, rich and poor, socially accepted and socially marginalized. There have also been studies to clearly demonstrate that people who are naturally extroverted and not shy benefit more from any given program or project. As such, is there any data to support a “queer divide” between those who are LGBTQI and those who are not, he wondered. As demonstrated in the above sections, many queer people are forced to disengage socially and retreat from “normal” society to stay safe.
Success stories, key organizations and resources
Participants mentioned organizations and examples of more progressive policies for LGBTQI staff and stakeholders (this list is not comprehensive, nor does it suggest these organizations’ policies are foolproof), including:
UN Women, UNICEF and LGBT stakeholder inclusion
USAID staff training
Peace Corps – Americans and local on-the-ground staff go through sensitivity trainings
US Foreign Service provides comprehensive security for its staff
Ally Forney Center – good training, modeling and sensitivity activities
Virginia Anti-Violence Project
We also compiled a much more extensive list of resources on the topic here as background reading, including organizations, articles and research. (Feel free to add to it!)
What can we do moving forward?
Engage relevant organizations, such as Out in Tech and Lesbians who Tech, with specific solutions, such as coding privacy protocols for online communities and helping grassroots organizations target ads to relevant stakeholders.
Lobby smartphone manufacturers to increase privacy protections on mobile devices.
Lobby US and other national governments to introduce “Right to be forgotten” law, which allows Internet users to wipe all records of themselves and personal activity.
Support organizations and services that offer legal council to those in need.
Demand better and more comprehensive protection for LGBTQI staff, consultants and interns in international organizations.
Key questions to work on…
In some countries, a government owns telecom companies. In others, telecom companies are national subsidiaries of international corporations. In countries in which the government is actively or planning on actively surveying networks for LGBTQI activity, how does the type of telecom company factor in?
What datasets do we need on LGBTQI people for better programming?
How do we properly anonymize data collected? What are the standards of best practices?
What policies need to be in place to better protect LGBTQI staff, consultants and interns? What kind of sensitizing activities, trainings and programming need to be done for local staff and less LGBTQI sensitive international staff in ICT4D organizations?
How much capacity have ICT4D/international organizations lost as a result of their policies for LGBTQI staff and stakeholders?
What are the roles and obligations of ICT4D/international organizations to their LGBTQI staff, now and in the future?
What are the ICT4D and international development programmatic links with LGBT stakeholders and staff? How does LGBT stakeholders intersect with water? Public health? Nutrition? Food security? Governance and transparency? Human rights? Humanitarian crises? How does LGBT staff intersect with capacity? Trainings? Programming?
How do we safely and responsibility increase visibility of LGBTQI people around the world?
How do we engage tech companies that are pro-LGBTQI, including Google, to do more for those who cannot or do not engage with their services?
What are the economic costs of homophobia, and does this provide a compelling enough case for countries to stop systemic LGBTQI-phobic behavior?
How do we mainstream LGBTQI issues in bigger development conferences and discussions?
Thanks to the great folks at ThoughtWorks for hosting and providing a lovely breakfast to us! Technology Salons are carried out under Chatham House Rule, so no attribution has been made. If you’d like to join us for Technology Salons in future, sign up here!
How can tech support housing rights in Brooklyn?
Posted in activism, Brooklyn, development, ICT4D, mobile, mobile and technology, NYC, participation, politics, social justice, technology salon, wait... what?, tagged brooklyn, housing, rights, Salon, technology, tenant on April 21, 2015| 2 Comments »
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Our April 16th Technology Salon Brooklyn, co-hosted with the Brooklyn Community Foundation (BCF) and AfroLatin@ Project explored the issue of tenant rights within the wider context of structural discrimination. We aimed to think about how new technology and social media might be a tool for helping community organizations to support Brooklyn residents to know their rights and report violations. We were also curious about how better use of data (and ‘big data’) might help housing rights activists and community organizations to more successfully engage residents and advocate for change.
Our lead discussant was David Reiss from Brooklyn Law School, who provided an overview of the wider housing market and challenges in New York City as well as information on some applications that are helping landlords do a better job of keeping properties up to standard. We also heard from Tynesha McHarris (BCF) and Amilcar Priestly (AfroLatin@ Project).
Brooklyn: lots of cool, lots of inequality
Kicking off the Salon, one discussant talked about the essence of Brooklyn. “What do you think of when you hear ‘Brooklyn’?” she asked. “It’s incredibly ‘cool,’ yes. But it’s also incredibly inequitable and there is incredibly inequality, mainly for people of color.” Brooklyn is the hub of New York’s tech industry, yet it’s also where tenants are being displaced, harassed and finding it difficult to live. “We want to see how tech can be used as a tool for, not a tool against,” she said, “how can we support folks to understand, advocate and organize around their rights, how we can use tech to organize in as well as across communities, because these issues don’t just affect some people, they affect all of us who live here.”
She noted that technology is a tool with potential, and donors could be funding projects that use tech to help organize and advocate on tenant rights, but there is insufficient evidence to know how to approach it. To date technology has not really been part of the bigger picture.
Another discussant talked about the housing market as a whole in New York City, citing that there available affordable housing has not kept up with the huge influx of population over the past several years. “Technology will not fix the underlying problem,” he noted. “It can’t expand the supply of affordable housing.” The real potential for technology is more in helping protect the rights of current tenants.
Some examples of how tech is supporting housing rights include applications and portals aimed at improving communications between landlords and tenants, so that problems can be more easily reported by either side, and record is kept of complaints, he commented. Incentives for landlords include free advertising of their units on the site and some reduced legal fees for things like rent stabilization approval. An interesting aspect of these sites is that the data can be analyzed to see where the largest number of complaints are coming from, and in this way patterns can be found and identified. For example, who are the bad landlords? Other sites offer lots of data for those who are interested in purchasing units, and this same type of data could be repurposed and made more accessible for lower-income and less technologically savvy residents.
One participant noted that gentrification and policing are very connected. “As we talk about legal rights and landlord-to-tenant conversations,” she noted, “we need to also bring in aspects of policing and racial justice. These are closely linked.“ As neighborhoods gentrify, newer residents often call for a greater police presence, and this can lead to harassment of long-time residents.
What other roles could technology play in strengthening existing work?
Connecting people and organizations
Lots of community organizations are working on the issues of tenant rights and gentrification, and there is a desire to build a network across these organizations. Tech could help to bring them together and to support stronger advocacy and organization. People don’t always know where they can go for help. One idea was to map organizations in different neighborhoods where people can go for help on housing issues. People also may think that they are the only tenants in a building who are having trouble with a landlord. Improved communication via tech might help let residents know they are not alone and to reduce the fear of reporting and speaking out about housing violations. One idea was to use the new system of NYC neighborhood domains to provide local information, including housing rights and specific information on buildings and their histories.
Transferring tactics from one movement to another
We’ve seen the huge role that mobile video has played in raising awareness on the issue of police violence, noted one discussant. “Technology has become a very powerful tool for communication and accountability, look at the case of Walter Scott (who died at the hands of a volunteer policeman). The young man who filmed Scott’s death knew just what to do. He pointed his camera and captured it. How can we transfer this kind of action over to the housing movement? How can we get people to use their cameras and record housing violations and landlord harassment?”
Offering new, potentially more effective ways to report housing violations
Tech can offer different dissemination channels for different people – for example, in Detroit the elderly are particularly vulnerable to housing violations, said one Salon participant. One organization encourages people to report housing harassment via SMS. They included a call-back option to cater to older people who did not feel comfortable with SMS. Stories are also an important part of campaigns and public awareness, noted another participant. Sandy Storyline created a way to share text plus a photo via SMS for those who wanted to communicate stories but who were offline. This type of application could serve as a way of keeping record of housing violations, when/where they are reported and what the outcomes are.
Tracking housing violations
One way that tech is already helping is by tracking whether public housing buildings have heat and water. Sensors are attached to the buildings, and the information is sent to journalists who then write stories when building violations happen, mentioned one Salon participant. This could be accompanied by text messages out to residents of these buildings to inform them of the status of their building. Knowing that they are not the only ones noticing problems could help residents feel more confident about speaking out and confronting bad landlords. “It’s information that says to someone: ‘this message it not only for you, it’s for everyone in your building, and here is the number you can call to get support or if you fear retribution for reporting.’” Media attention puts pressure on landlords and can help bring violations to light and make people feel safer reporting them.
Encouraging local politicians to get involved
A study in Kenya found that youth tend to bypass local politicians and pay more attention to national government and governance. Similar trends are found in the US where although local political decisions may impact more directly on residents fewer are involved in or aware of local political processes than national ones. Tech could play a role in helping connect residents to local representatives who could take action to support fair housing, address bad landlords, and support longer-term solutions as well. Some local political offices have been very open to integrating technology into their work, said one participant, and these offices might be good places to think about partnering on initiatives that use technology to better connect with their constituencies.
Tracking and predicting trends and population movements and displacement
Mapping and big data sets are providing investors with incredible amounts of information on where to purchase and invest. How can organizations and advocates better use this information, not just to identify movement and displacement and conduct research on it, but also to predict it, prepare for it, and fight it together with residents? How is information that data scientists and research institutes have, as well as open data sets on New York City used by local organizations, some wondered, and where could it be better brought to bear? “Rather than coming up with parallel studies, how can we advocate for more and better open data from New York City on housing?” asked one participant.
Don’t forget about the legalities of videotaping and sharing
Some people and politicians are pushing to make things like police videotaping illegal. This happened recently in Spain with the so-called “Citizen Security” law that has made it illegal to videotape a police officer in some cases. One discussant mentioned that some US Senators are also trying to restrict the rights of citizens to film police, and that advocates of social justice need to fight to keep these rights to document authorities.
Use the right technology for the audience
One participant noted that you can create great apps with all kinds of data and patterns, but the question is more about who will access and use them, and who is benefiting from them. Wealthy white men and already-privileged people will likely find it very simple to find and use the information and these applications, giving them an advantage in terms of finding good apartments at lower prices, with good landlords. The best way to reach lower income people, he said, as personally experienced from working on political campaigns, is knocking on doors and reaching out personally and directly. “We need to see how to marry community organization and technology.”
Understand the landscape
In order to understand what tech tools might be useful, it we need to understand the communication and technology landscape in which we are working. Though Salon participants mentioned the importance of certain print publications, community radio stations in various languages, and increasing use of smart phones by young people, no one was aware of any current and widespread information on the information and communication habits of residents of Brooklyn that could help to target particular outreach efforts to different groups who were at risk of housing violations.
SMS is not a silver bullet – and trust is key
SMS can be extremely accessible, and there are many examples where it has worked very well. But experience shows that SMS works best where there are already strong networks in place, and trust is hugely important. One participant cautioned, “People need to trust where the text message is coming from. They need to know who is sending the text.” SMS also has limits because it is hyper local. “You won’t find it working across an entire Borough,” said one participant.
Local organizations are key
Along with the issue of trust is the critical component of local organizations. As one participant reminded us, “especially faith-based organizations – temples, churches, mosques. They know everyone in the neighborhood and what’s going on. They tend to know how to walk a fine line on local politics.”
Youth could play a role
Because youth around the world, including in Brooklyn, tend to be up on the latest technology, they could play a role in helping parents and grandparents with housing rights violations, especially in communities where older people are not comfortable with English or where they may fear the police due to undocumented status or other past experiences. One idea was bridging the technology and age gap by engaging young people, who could help older people find out about their rights, legal support services and where to find help. Some research has shown that young people are starting to rely on technology as an institution, said one participant, with technology and online institutions replacing physical ones for many of them.
Be careful about creating demand without adequate response capacity
As with any tech project, creating demand for services and informing people about the existence of those services is often an easier task than building and sustaining the capacity to provide quality support. Any efforts to generate greater demand need to be accompanied by capacity and funding so that people do not become apathetic or feel that they’ve been tricked if they report a violation and do not receive the support they expect or were promised. Previous experiences with service providers or legal institutions will also impact whether people trust these efforts, even if they come through new channels like technology.
Figure out how community organizations and technology partners can work together
An important thing to work out is what a relationship between community organizations and technology partners might look like. “Community organizations don’t need to become technology experts, we could partner and work together on resolving some of these challenges,” said one participant, “but we need to figure out what something like that would look like.” In some cases, community organizations in Brooklyn have low capacity and extremely poor infrastructure due to limited funding, commented one participant. “How can we reach out and engage with them and ask if they are interested in working with tech partners? How can we find out from them what tech would be supportive for them in their work?”
Think about short and long-term efforts
It will be important to look at both supporting residents and community organizations in the immediate term, and thinking about how to use data and information to help address the long term and the wider structural issues that are playing a role in housing rights violations and differential impacts of the housing situation on specific groups, for example, the elderly and people of color. It’s also important to try to address some of the root causes – for example, as one participant asked, “Who is funding predatory landlords? Who are the investors in these vulture funds?”
In conclusion, participants expressed their interest in continuing discussions and a desire for greater participation by community organizations in future Salons. The hope is that the Salon can help to connect community organizations and those in the tech space in order to work together to address some of the issues that Brooklyn residents face.
If you’d like to join us for our next Salon, sign up here.
Many thanks to the Brooklyn Community Foundation for their fabulous hosting and AfroLatin@ Project for helping make the Salon happen!
More edutainment, please!
Posted in communication for development, communications, development, poverty porn, random, musing or confusing, smart aid, wait... what?, tagged america meet world, art, comedy, development education, edutainment, fiction, honor among thieves, J, Marlene Dumas, poverty porn, Tales from the Hood, the image as burden, trina das gupta on April 8, 2015| 2 Comments »
I had a few welcome breaks from my habitual ‘learning’ zone this past month — got away from workshops, conferences, panels, academic reports, meetings, articles and posts for a bit and popped into a little art, comedy and fiction.
Marlene Dumas’ superb exhibit at the Tate Modern in London is called ‘The Image as Burden‘ (it’s on till May 10 so go check it out!). It’s quite relevant for those of us thinking about poverty porn and ethical use of image and narrative in development work, especially Black Drawings. The description of the piece said that she found old photos of Africans, usually taken by anthropologists or colonizers, and where the focus was almost always on black bodies, not on persons, and where individuals were never named. She enlarged the photos and painted close-ups of the faces as portraits, re-focusing on the individuality and humanity of each person.
As I stood there absorbing the wall of faces, it struck me that no amount of ranting and preaching to people about the single story narrative or the way that Africans and the poor are so often stereotyped and filmed and photographed as objects rather than subjects can really bring the point home like this.
Dumas also has a moving piece called Great Men, where she’s done portraits of famous men in history who were gay, using a similar technique of close up painted portraits, here each with a short biography.
Last week, I went to my second stand-up comedy show from America Meet World, where comedians from different countries showcase their craft to US audiences. Trina Das Gupta, who has always been irritated by poverty porn and the aid industry’s single story penchant, runs the production. She started it as a way to lower cultural barriers and introduce the ‘rest of the world’ to Americans. What better way than comedy, she figured. When she told me about her idea a few years ago, I wondered how comedy would translate — they always say humor is cultural, but her strategy is proving to be brilliant. The two shows I hit were hilarious, and I don’t normally follow comedy. The Daily Show is also embracing the idea of a more globalized comedy in the US, with their recent choice of Trevor Noah to replace Jon Stewart. Comedy, when done right, is so good for pointing out absurdities and making you think about yourself and your culture in different ways. (It’s even better when you go out dancing afterwards.)
J. (formerly @talesfromthhood) just put out his latest book, one of the very few in the genre of ‘humanitarian fiction’. This is J’s third novel and he’s firmly settling into the role of writer. In Honor Among Thieves, he introduces readers to likable characters struggling to be ethical in their various roles as development workers. By exploring the challenges and obstacles that people at different levels and in different sides of the industry face, he helps those already inside the industry and those just getting into it to deepen their understandings of the contradictions inherent in the aid system. It would be great reading for some of the journalists and aid critics who like to bash individual aid and development practitioners without understanding the trade-offs they often have to make. The book is entertaining and easy to get through on a plane ride. It critiques the industry but in a more fun and accessible way than articles and posts from academics and journalists and aid critics. (If Honor Among Thieves is too serious, the old fallback ‘Disastrous Passion‘ explores many of the same themes but takes the form of a ‘humanitarian romance novel’, with hilariously over the top sex scenes to break up any serious talk).
We need more art and edutainment
We could classify all these as ‘edutainment’. I looked up the term to see how long ‘edutainment’ has been around. According to Wikipedia, it’s about 50 years.
Since the 1970s, various groups in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Latin America have used edutainment to address such health and social issues as substance abuse, immunization, teenage pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, and cancer.
Parables and fables have been around for quite a bit longer the entry notes (obviously). And of course fairy tales and nursery rhymes sneak advice and warnings inside of clever poems, songs and stories. Some might say that the sacred texts of the world’s major religions are edutainment. But at the risk of offending, I will keep quiet about that.
It’s kind of funny that we (meaning ‘we aid and development people’) like to use edutainment to achieve behavior change with ‘the poor’ but we don’t do nearly enough of it with ourselves and our donor publics. I, for one, think we need more edutainment. More Fail Fests (comedy plus theater). More satire like Africa for Norway and Tim’s Revolutionary One for One campaign. More shows like The Samaritans and blogs like Stuff Expat Aid Workers Like.
More, more, more!
Development, data, and ethical design for our wearable futures
Posted in development, disaster and emergencies, ICT4D, ICTs, ICTs, mobile and technology, innovation, mobile and technology, monitoring, NYC, social media, technology, technology salon, wait... what?, tagged development, devices, international development, NYC, privacy, technology, Technology Salon, wearable technology, wearables on April 7, 2015| 2 Comments »
by Hila Mehr and Linda Raftree
From https://www.flickr.com/photos/caseorganic/3493601806/
On March 31, 2015, nearly 40 participants, joined by lead discussants Robert Fabricant, Dalberg Design Team; Despina Papadopoulos, Principled Design; and Roop Pal, PicoSatellite eXploration Lab; came together for Technology Salon New York City where we discussed the future of wearables in international development. As follows is a summary of our discussion.
While the future of wearables is uncertain, major international development stakeholders are already incorporating wearables into their programs. UNICEF Kid Power is introducing wearables into the fight against malnutrition, and is launching a Global Wearables Challenge. The MUAC (mid-upper arm circumference) band already exists in international health. Other participants present were working on startups using wearables to tackle global health and climate change.
As Kentaro Toyama often says “technology is an amplifier of human intent” and the Tech Salon discussion certainly resonated with that sentiment. The future of wearables in international development is one that we–the stakeholders as consumers, makers, and planners–will create. It’s important to recognize the history of technology interventions in international development, and that while wearables enable a new future, technology interventions are not new; there is a documented history of failures and successes to learn from. Key takeaways from the Salon, described below, include reframing our concept of wearables, envisioning what’s possible, tackling behavior change, designing for context, and recognizing the tension between data and privacy.
Reframing our Concept of Wearables
From: http://www.chinaculture.org/
Our first discussant shared historical and current examples of wearables, some from as far back as the middle ages, and encouraged participants to rethink the concept of wearables by moving beyond the Apple Watch and existing, primarily health-related, use cases. While Intel, Arm, and Apple want to put chips on and in our bodies, and we think these are the first cases of wearables, glasses have always been wearable, and watches are wearables that change our notions of time and space. In short, technology has always been wearable. If we stay focused on existing, primarily luxury, use cases like FitBit and Apple Watch, we lose our creativity in new use cases for varying scenarios, he said.
In many cases of technology introduction into a ‘developing world’ context, the technology adds a burden rather than contributing ease. We should be thinking about how wearables can capture data without requiring input, for example. There is also an intimacy with wearables that could eliminate or reframe some of the ingrained paradigms with existing technologies, he noted.
In the most common use cases of wearables and other technology in international development, data is gathered and sent up the chain. Participants should rethink this model and use of wearables and ensure that any data collected benefits people in the moment. This, said the discussant, can help justify the act of wearing something on the body. The information gathered must be better incorporated into a personal-level feedback loop. “The more intimate technology becomes, the greater responsibility you have for how you use it,” he concluded.
In the discussion of reframing our notion of wearables, our second discussant offered a suggestion as to why people are so fascinated with wearables. “It’s about the human body connected to the human mind,” she explained. “What is it to be human? That’s why we’re so fascinated with wearables. They enlarge the notion of technology, and the relationship between machine, human, and animal.”
Envisioning What’s Possible
In discussing the prominent use of wearables for data collection, one participant asked, “What is possible to collect from the body? Are we tracking steps because that is what we want to track or because that is what’s possible? What are those indicators that we’ve chosen and why?”
We need to approach problems by thinking about both our priorities and what’s possible with wearable technology, was one reply. “As consumers, designers, and strategists, we need to push more on what we want to see happen. We have a 7-year window to create technology that we want to take root,” noted our lead discussant.
She then shared Google Glass as an example of makers forgetting what it is to be human. While Google Glass is a great use case for doctors in remote areas or operators of complex machinery, Google Glass at dinner parties and in other social interactions quickly became problematic, requiring Google to publish guidelines for social uses cases. “It’s great that it’s out there as a blatant failure to teach other designers to take care of this space,” she said.
Another discussant felt that the greatest opportunity is the hybrid space between specialized and the generalized. The specialized use cases for wearables are with high medical value. And then there are the generalized cases. With expensive and new technology, it becomes cheaper and more accessible as it meets those hybrid use cases in-between specialized and generalized to justify the cost and sophistication of technology. Developing far out and futuristic ideas, such as one lead discussant’s idea for a mind-controlled satellite, can also offer opportunities for those working with and studying technology to unpack and ‘de-scaffold’ the layers between the wearable technology itself and the data and future it may bring with it.
Tackling Behavior Change
One of the common assumptions with wearables is that our brains work in a mechanical way, and that if we see a trend in our data, we will change our behavior. But wearables have proven that is not the case.
The challenge with wearables in the international development context is making sure that the data collected serves a market and consumer need — what people want to know about themselves — and that wearables are not only focused on what development organizations and researchers want to know. Additionally, the data needs to be valuable and useful to individuals. For example, if a wearable tracks iron levels but the individual doesn’t understand the intricacies of nutrition, their fluctuations in iron levels will be of no use.
Nike Plus and its FuelBand has been one of the most successful activity trackers to date, argued one discussant, because of the online community created around the device. “It wasn’t the wearable device that created behavior change, but the community sharing that went with it.” One participant trained in behavioral economics noted the huge potential for academic research and behavioral economists with the data collected from wearables. A program she had worked on looked closely at test-taking behaviors of boys versus those of girls, and wearables were able to track and detect specific behaviors that were later analyzed and compared.
Designing for Context
Mainstream wearables are currently tailored for the consumer profile of the 35-year-old male fitness buff. But how do we think about the broader population, on the individual and community level? How might wearables serve the needs of those in emergency, low resource, or conflict settings? And what are some of the concerns with wearables?
One participant urged the group to think more creatively. “I’m having trouble envisioning this in the humanitarian space. 5-10 years out, what are concrete examples of someone in Mali, Chad, or Syria with a wearable. How is it valuable? And is there an opportunity to leapfrog with this technology?”
Humanitarian disaster contexts often face massive chaos, low literacy rates, and unreliable Internet connectivity, if Internet exists at all. How can wearables be useful in these cases? One participant suggested they could be used for better ways of coordinating and organizing — such as a warning siren signal wearable for individuals in warzones, or water delivery signal wearable for when water arrives — while keeping in mind real restrictions. For example, there are fears today about vaccines and other development agency interventions. This may escalate with wearable devices or edible tracking devices.
No amount of creativity, however, replaces the realistic and sustainable value of developing technology that addresses real needs in local contexts. That’s where human-centered design and participatory processes play a vital role. Wearable products cannot be built in isolation without users, as various participants highlighted.
As one lead discussant said, we too often look at technology as a magic bullet and we need to avoid doing this again when it comes to wearables. We can only know if wearable technology is an appropriate use case by analyzing the environment and understanding the human body. In Afghanistan, she noted, everyone has an iPhone now, and that’s powerful. But not everyone will have a FitBit, because there is no compelling use case.
Appropriate use cases can be discovered by involving the community of practice from day one, making no assumptions, and showing and sharing methodology and processes. Makers and planners should also be wary of importing resources and materials, creating an entire new ecosystem. If a foreign product breaks with no access to materials and training, it won’t be fixed or sustainable. Designing for context also means designing with local resources and tailored to what the community currently has access to. At the same time, international development efforts and wearable technology should be about empowering people, and not infantilizing them.
The value of interdisciplinary teams and systems maps cannot be overlooked, participants added. Wearables highlight our individual-centric nature, while systems thinking and mapping shows how we relate with ourselves, our community, and the world. Thinking about all of these levels will be important if wearables are to contribute to development in a positive way.
Tensions around Privacy, Data, and Unethical Uses
Wearables exist in tension with identity, intimacy, and privacy. As consumers, users, makers, and planners of wearables, we have to think critically and deeply about how we want our data to be shared. One discussant emphasized that we need to involve VCs, industry, and politicians in discussion around the ethical implications of wearable technology products. The political implications and erosion of trust may be even more complex in developing world contexts, making a consortia and standards even more necessary.
One participant noted the risks of medical wearable technology and the lack of HIPAA privacy requirements in other countries. The lack of HIPAA should not mean that privacy concerns are glossed over. The ethics of testing apply no matter the environment, and testing completely inappropriate technology in a developing context just for the captive audience is ethically questionable.
Likewise, other participants raised the issue of wearables and other types of technology being used for torture, mind control and other nefarious purposes, especially as the science of ‘mind hacking’ and the development of wearables and devices inserted under the skin becomes more sophisticated.
Participants noted the value in projects like the EU’s Ethics Inside and the pressure for a UN Representative on privacy rights. But there is still much headway to be made as data privacy and ethical concerns only grow.
The Future We Wear
The rapid evolution of technology urges us to think about how technology affects our relationships with our body, family, community, and society. What do we want those relationships to look like in the future? We have an opportunity, as consumers, makers and planners of wearables for the international context to view ourselves as stakeholders in building the future opportunities of this space. Wearables today are where the Internet was during its first five mainstream years. Now is the perfect time to put our stake in the ground and create the future we wish to exist in.
Our Wearables and Development background reading list is available here. Please add articles or other relevant resources or links.
Other posts about the Salon, from Eugenia Lee and Hila Mehr.
Many thanks to our lead discussants and participants for joining us, and a special thank you to ThoughtWorks for hosting us and providing breakfast!
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Fourteen – first look review
American filmmaker Dan Sallitt delivers a delicate, subtly devastating portrait of friendship and depression.
They stand against a wall, as Jo takes a cigarette break, and Mara talks about dinner plans with a guy they used to go to school with, wondering if it’s a date or not. Mara is a teaching assistant who feels uninspired but stable, Jo is a researcher whose flashes of brilliance are cut with searching self-doubt. They’re both attractive, in different ways: Mara is short and self-contained; Jo is statuesque and domineering. The title is Fourteen, but these characters are New Yorkers in their twenties. We wonder where this is going.
They have many meetings like this, and there are moments when Mara finds herself stood up by Jo or is called to her rescue at inopportune moments. Seemingly insignificant details of their personalities are eked out. Mara goes on a date with a guy, steering an awkward attempt at a kiss into a friendly hug. Jo complains that her landlady doesn’t want her smoking in the apartment, disappears to get cakes and brownies, flops out of this job and that one, waves a wad of 20 dollar bills on the street, and invariably lets her compulsions get the better of her.
Fourteen is at its heart a film about depression, though it takes a while for that to become clear. In that way it’s true to how the black dog of mental illness makes itself known, an interruption to the cycle of functional thoughts, coming out of nowhere with semi-regularity, knocking someone off their perch. Jo succumbs to drug binges and days glued to bed, but they seem like isolated incidents; only when she’s quietly crumbling, talking a little faster, a little more erratically, do we, and Mara, properly realise this is becoming the pattern of Jo’s life.
The film plays out as scenes in a friendship, unfolding over the course of a decade. Director Dan Sallitt has now made four micro-budget features, and one of his key influences is the stark, emotionally rigorous French director Maurice Pialat who in films like We Won’t Grow Old Together established a similar rhythm to the one Sallitt creates here. It’ll be halfway through a dialogue scene before we realise how much time has passed since the last one, as layers of time and emotional knottiness accumulate by stealth.
Sallitt’s company is called Static Productions and, true to the name, his camera rarely moves, staring at the characters in an unflinching and unsettling manner. He uses a familiar stable of actors – there are appearances from Dylan McCormick, who was the leading man in Sallitt’s debut feature, Honeymoon, and Strawn Bovee, the lead from his follow-up, All the Ships at Sea. As Mara, Tallie Medel, who bothstarred in Sallitt’s incest drama The Unspeakable Act, is piercing, present and centred. As Jo, relative newcomer Norma Kuhling creates a delicate portrait of someone who seems wry and spontaneous, but who is quietly, incrementally losing her shit.
“You say something and their eyes glaze over and they’ve made up their mind – I’ve been watching them glaze over since I was fourteen,” she says of mental health professionals at the late point in the movie when the title is explicitly referenced. That was the year her cat died, the year she started slipping in and out of health. Beyond that, there’s no Rosebud smoking gun to explain what caused her problems, and indeed Fourteen is a film that resists histrionics and over-explanation at each of its stages.
Many of us have these forks in our road which ripple throughout the rest of our lives, depriving us of all we could have been, creeping up to sideswipe us. Most of us survive them better than Jo. But life often works the way it does in this film – chapters reveal themselves driftingly, or in hindsight, rather than with outbursts or crystallising speeches, and as we get older, we surprise ourselves with what we can get used to, whether it’s the pram in the hallway or the monkey on our back. When the tearful scene in Fourteen comes, a lot of chances have already passed by. This is a wonderful, subtly devastating film from a voice in American independent cinema that will hopefully become better known.
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The Kindness of Strangers – first look review
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Light of My Life – first look review
By Lou Thomas
Casey Affleck directs this father-daughter survival drama set in a world without women.
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By Hannah Woodhead
SNL’s Pete Davidson puts in a star-making turn in this suburban coming-of-ager from writer/director Jason Orley.
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True Blood Episode 3.09 Everything Is Broken
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Alexander Woo
Anna Paquin as Sookie Stackhouse
Stephen Moyer as Bill Compton
Sam Trammell as Sam Merlotte
Ryan Kwanten as Jason Stackhouse
Rutina Wesley as Tara Thornton
Kristin Bauer as Pam De Beaufort
Nelsan Ellis as Lafayette Reynolds
Alexander Skarsgard as Eric Northman
Deborah Ann Woll as Jessica Hamby
Chris Bauer as Andy Bellefleur
Carrie Preston as Arlene Fowler
Lauren Bowles
Joe Manganiello as Alcide Herveaux
Anna Camp as Sarah Newlin
Todd Lowe as Terry Bellefleur
Peter Mensah as Kibwe
Eric flies (literally) into Fangtasia and warns Pam that they need to seel sanctuary immediately - it won't be long before Russell comes after him for killing Talbot. Before they can flee, however, Nan Flanagan raids the bar with a squad of vampire storm troopers, looking for answers regarding the Magister;s disappearance. Furious that she's losing precious lobbying time, Nan orders Eric to make a statement - live via satellite - to the vampire "Authority." Playing his last card, he comes clean about Russell's murdering the Magister, revealing the ancient vampire's slaughter of his family and ages-old quest for world domination.
Bill and Sookie shower together, washing blood (his, hers, their enemies') down the drain. After getting dressed, Sookie realizes what a mess the house is and once again finds herself disposing of a werewolf corpse.
Jason comes home to find Felton, who's convinced that Jason kidnapped Crystal. But when Felton turns on Jason, Crystal knocks him out with a blow to the head and tells Jason to tie him up. They drive her unconcious half-brother out into the country, plant vampire blood on him and call the police with an anonymous tip.
Tara, overcome by her ordeal, has a drink with Sam in his trailer and is almost ready to open up a bit when the phone rings. It's Terry with a noise complaint about the neighbors: Tommy and a woman he's having extremely loed sex with. Sam drives over to talk to his brother, but Tommy just laughs him off and mockingly agress to "keep it down, sir." Sam leaves, furious but managing to keep his cool.
Jesus spends the night with Lafayette, and both men wake up in a great mood. Even Ruby Jean seems to be relatively even-keeled as she gets ready to return to the mental hospital with Jesus.
Jason and Crystal go to the sheriff's office, where they find out that Kevin, the officer who responded to pick up Felton, is in the hospital after being beaten nearly to death. Jason follows andy into his office and suggests that they raid Hotshot and take down the whole V-and meth-selling operation. In the waiting area, T-Dub is led out from his cell and sees Crystal.
Sookie receives a call from Hadley, who begs her to meet up at the aquarium. when Sookie arrives, she finds that Hadley has taken her son Hunter out of daycare. Hadley admits that she's the one who told the queen about Sookie's powers and begs her cousin to forgive her and then asks Sookie to find out whether Hunter has powers too. Sookie suts next to the young boy and has a brief mental conversation with him. she nods at Hadley, who bursts into tears and drags her son away to find somewhere safe she can hide him from the queen.
At Merlotte's Arlene accuses Tommy of stealing her tips, and when he yells at her, she retreats to Sam's office to cry. Holly comes in to check on her, and Arlene reveals that Terry isn't the father of her baby...and that she wishes she weren't having it. Out in the dining room, Lafayette serves Jesus dinner while Hoyt tells Jessica how much he misses her.
After having so much of Sookie's blood, Bill has vivid dream about Claudine and her strange world. At first she runs from the vampire, but Bill convinces her that he's trying to protect Sookie. In order to do that, he tells Claudine, he must know what Sookie really is. With trepidation, Claudine tells him. Bill wakes up and heads to Sookie's house to tells her.
At Fangtasia, Russell (holding the remains of Talbot in a bottle) watches from the roof as Nan returns to deliver the Authority's ruling on Eric. She tells the Nordic vampire that the official stance is that the investigation never happened. The Authority expects Eric to eliminate Russell - with no further support - and make sure that none if this ever comes to light.
Calvin bullies his way into Merlotte's and when he finds Crystal there with Jason, he starts in on Sam, who loses his temper. shattering a glass over Calvin's head, Sam beats him savagely, punching him in the face over and over until Jason and Hoyt have to pull him off. Jesus and Lafayette load Calvin into a truck to drive him to the hospital. Crystal jumps in with them, and when Jason tries to stop her, she balks and then rides away with her critically injured father.
In the parking lot of Merlotte's Tara watches the truck drive off and is horrified when Franklin appears and grabs her. He's enraged that someone he "loved" would try to kill him, but Tara is finished playing his game. "If you're gonna f***kin' kill me, then kill me," she tells him. "What's taking you so long?" But before Franklin can go through with it, Jason arrives and blasts the vampire through the chest with a wooden bullet, reducing Franklin to a pool of blood.
Nan rides to the airport, watching the news in her limousine, when Russell appears onscreen and murders the anchor. Turning to the camera, he tells the American public that vampires are really him him, that they want to eat humans - and their children. He asks: "Why would we seen equal rights? You are bot our equals."
Richard Linklater Developing New CBS All Access Series About Abused Animals
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Flashback Characters
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Live Together, Die Alone
Lost Season 2
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--- "Destination Lost" (recap)
#01 "Man of Science, Man of Faith" (Jack)
#02 "Adrift" (Michael)
#03 "Orientation" (Locke)
#04 "Everybody Hates Hugo" (Hurley)
#05 "...And Found" (Jin & Sun)
#06 "Abandoned" (Shannon)
#07 "The Other 48 Days" (Tailies)
#08 "Collision" (Ana Lucia)
#09 "What Kate Did" (Kate)
--- "Lost: Revelation" (recap)
#10 "The 23rd Psalm" (Eko)
#11 "The Hunting Party" (Jack)
#12 "Fire + Water" (Charlie)
#13 "The Long Con" (Sawyer)
#14 "One of Them" (Sayid)
#15 "Maternity Leave" (Claire)
#16 "The Whole Truth" (Sun)
#17 "Lockdown" (Locke)
#18 "Dave" (Hurley)
#19 "S.O.S." (Rose & Bernard)
--- "Lost: Reckoning" (recap)
#20 "Two for the Road" (Ana Lucia)
#21 "?" (Eko)
#22 "Three Minutes" (Michael)
#23 "Live Together, Die Alone, Part 1" (Desmond)
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Matthew Fox - Jack Shephard
Jorge Garcia - Hugo Reyes
Josh Holloway - James Ford
Malcolm David Kelley - Walt Lloyd
Daniel Dae Kim - Jin-Soo Kwon
Yunjin Kim - Sun-Hwa Kwon
Evangeline Lilly - Kate Austen
Dominic Monaghan - Charlie Pace
Terry O'Quinn - John Locke
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Clancy Brown - Kelvin Inman
M.C. Gainey - Mr. Friendly
Sam Anderson - Bernard
Tania Raymonde - Alex
Michael Bowen - Pickett
April Grace - Bea Klugh
Alan Dale - Charles Widmore
Sonya Walger - Penelope Widmore
Michael Emerson - Henry Gale
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Stephen Page - Master Sergeant
Len Cordova - Man #1
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"Live Together, Die Alone" is the twenty-third episode and 2-hour season finale of Season 2 of Lost, and comprises the 48th and 49th produced hours of the series as a whole. Events come to a head as Michael leads his friends across the Island to confront the Others. Meanwhile, Desmond returns to the Island on a sailboat, and he and Locke make a decision to see what happens if the countdown in the Swan goes beyond zero. This episode was also Desmond's first flashback episode.
Jack yells skeptically at Desmond about the button. Jack and Locke argue over the button's legitimacy. ("Orientation") ♪
Locke watches the Pearl orientation film and laments the button's evident uselessness. Eko resolves to keep pushing it. ("?")
Bea tells Michael to fetch four survivors -- Jack, Kate, Sawyer, and Hurley -- or risk never again seeing Walt. ("Three Minutes")
Michael kills Ana Lucia and Libby and sets Henry free. ("Two for the Road")
Michael insists on sticking to his plan and Sayid expresses suspicions about him. A boat's arrival interrupts the women's funeral. ("Three Minutes")
Before the Island
Widmore advises Desmond to stay away from his daughter.
Desmond is released from a military prison and dishonorably discharged from the British Army's Royal Scottish Regiment. His possessions are returned to him including a copy of Charles Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend and a photograph of him with a woman. He tells the guard that he is saving the book to be the last thing he reads before he dies. Outside the prison he is met by a sinister businessman in a limousine - Charles Widmore, the father of Desmond's estranged girlfriend, Penelope. Widmore reveals that he had intercepted all of Desmond's letters to Penelope and that she was soon to be married to another man. He offers Desmond a large sum of money to stay away from her: "No contact; no calls, no post." When Desmond asks why he would accept such a deal Widmore tells him that he will accept because he is a coward.
Desmond reveals to Libby he intends to participate in Widmore's race.
Some time in 2001, Desmond arrives in the United States where a stranger buys him a coffee. He tells her that he needs money to obtain a boat to win back his honor in a race around the world sponsored by Charles Widmore and shows her the race pamphlet. He wants to beat him in his own race, and then win back the love of Widmore's daughter, Penelope. Desmond adds that he still has no boat. Libby reveals that she has a boat. It was her husband's but he got sick. David wanted to sail to the Mediterranean but wasn't able to and died a month ago. Libby wants Desmond to have the boat. The boat was named after her, the Elizabeth. Desmond thanks Elizabeth, and gratefully accepts. He says he "shall win this race for love." ♪
Desmond meets with Penny before he goes on the race.
Later in Los Angeles, Desmond is preparing to run the steps of a sports stadium, a tour de stade, where Jack, a stranger, arrives to do the same. Penelope arrives unexpectedly, having tracked Desmond down and confronts him, she asks him sarcastically whether he has read the book Our Mutual Friend and why he didn't write to her but Desmond does not answer. She reveals she hasn't yet set a date for her marriage. Desmond tells her he will be back in a year but Penelope asks why not "now". ♪ Penelope then asks what he is running from, Desmond says that he has to win the race sponsored by her father to regain his honor, which is what he is running to. ♪
On the Island
Kelvin saves the world.
During the boat race around the world, Desmond is caught in a heavy storm. He goes into his cabin, puts his book in a plastic bag for protection, and takes it with him. He is knocked unconscious. He washes up on a shoreline, dazed, and sees a figure in a yellow HAZMAT suit. One man collects him from the beach and brings him inside the Swan Station. ♪ This man asks Desmond if he is "him." As a test, he asks Desmond the Snowman joke, but Desmond does not understand. The man reveals himself to be named Kelvin Inman, Des asks about his boat but Kelvin says that no boat was to be found. The beeping starts and Kelvin enters the numbers, and Desmond asks him what that was for. "Just saving the world," replies Inman. He then enlists Desmond as his Swan Station partner after showing him the Swan Orientation film. Desmond asks why they are missing parts in the video. Kelvin replies that his old partner Radzinsky has edited the film. Kelvin adds that he is wearing that yellow suit so that he does not get infected. He then shows Desmond a vial of vaccine and an injector, and instructs him to inject himself every 9 days because he was outside for a long time.
Kelvin writes notes on the blast door map.
After living with him for about 2 years, Desmond saw Kelvin trigger a fake lockdown many times, and one day Desmond did it himself under Kelvin's instructions. Kelvin then continued his project of painting the map seen by Locke with detergent. He revealed that his partner, Radzinsky, was the one who figured out how to trigger a fake lockdown (by hot-wiring the controls), and that it was also he who had the idea of creating the map. Desmond was getting impatient with the fact that Radzinsky invented everything, yet he does not know what happened to him. Kelvin reveals that Radzinsky had killed himself with a shotgun while Kelvin was asleep, leaving a stain on the ceiling. Kelvin only had 108 minutes to bury him. Desmond then complains that he has not left the Hatch since his arrival, but Kelvin reminds him of the quarantine and the Hostiles. Desmond has not been outside for 2 years and asks if he can go out, saying that he was in the army, but Kelvin once again reminds him that he was kicked out because he couldn't follow orders. Kelvin says he left "his" army because men followed his orders. But then, he joined the DHARMA Initiative. Kelvin adds that Des must follow his orders and stay inside to push the button.
Kelvin, drunk, shows Desmond the fail safe.
Some time later, Desmond wakes up at the sound of the alarm: only 45 seconds are left and Kelvin is nowhere to be found. He enters the numbers and notices an open entrance to an underground level. He finds Kelvin drunk under that unknown floor access of the control room, with a key just above a lock marked "Caution: System Termination." Kelvin says that he "couldn't do it." Des is intrigued by the key and the lock. Kelvin explains that this is the only other way out: it is the fail-safe, and behind the wall lays a source of electromagnetism, geologically unique. He also claims that the Incident had been a leak from this source: "So now the charge builds up and every time we push the button it discharges it before it gets too big." Desmond does not understand why a human himself has to push the button every 108 minutes. Kelvin then questions whether Desmond himself would have the courage to release all of the pressure using the fail-safe, using an analogy of "blowing a dam."
Desmond discovers his boat, hidden from him by Kelvin.
One day, Desmond notices that the HAZMAT suit has a large tear in it while Kelvin was donning it to go outside. Desmond realizes he had been deceived about the quarantine, a realization that was quickly confirmed after he followed Kelvin outside and saw him remove the suit. As he continues following Kelvin, eventually they arrive at a cove. There, Des sees his sailboat, almost completely repaired, at which point Kelvin announces he was aware of Desmond's presence, as he was a spook for 10 years. Desmond confronts Kelvin and becomes increasingly emotional, while Kelvin resignedly admits he had been going outside to repair Desmond's boat to leave the Island: "Screw the button, man. Who knows if it's even real." Believing he could have left the Island long ago, Desmond becomes enraged and throws himself at Kelvin, accidentally smashing his head against a rock and killing him. After the shock subsides, Desmond quickly takes the fail-safe key from Kelvin and sprints back to the Hatch, where the countdown has already reached zero. The hieroglyphs are locked in on the timer and system failure alarms are in effect. As Desmond struggles to remain calm enough to input the number sequence, the entire hatch visibly shudders, while metallic objects begin flying toward the magnetic wall area. The shaking and alarms end as Desmond finally enters the full sequence, resetting the timer. ♪
Desmond, full of happiness, sees the world is still out there.
Desmond sits disconsolate and drinking alcohol with a gun at a table in the Hatch, possibly considering suicide. When he opens his book Our Mutual Friend in preparation to read it, he discovers an envelope containing Penelope's letter. The letter had been written before he entered prison. In it, Penelope explains that she has hidden the letter in "the one place you would turn to in a moment of great desperation," which explains why she had asked about the book at their encounter at the stadium. The letter was a message of love and hope in the midst of despair, and ended with, "All we really need to survive is one person who truly loves us. And you have her. I will wait for you. Always." Des mutters and then shouts, "It's all gone." ♪ The letter enrages him and he begins to throw about the contents of the Hatch. At that moment, he hears the sound of someone else screaming in despair and pounding on a wall; that person is Locke pounding on the Hatch, after Boone's death. Desmond looks up to the Hatch entrance and turns a light onto the Hatch window, placating Locke, and calming Desmond from thoughts of suicide. He smiles in happiness. ♪
Desmond's arrival
Sawyer, Jack and Sayid confront the person on the sailboat.
With the arrival of a sailboat during Libby and Ana Lucia's funeral, Jack, Sawyer and Sayid then swim to the vessel with guns, and discover a drunk Desmond inside the cabin. ♪ That night, on the beach, he reveals that he had attempted to sail towards Fiji, but although he followed a good compass bearing and was making good running for two weeks he still found himself back at the Island. He adds that "we are stuck in a bloody snow globe! There's no outside world, there's no escape." Desmond finally asks Jack if they are "still pushing it," to which Jack replies with a smile, "Yeah, we're still pushing it."
Sayid recounts to Jack his suspicions about Michael and his plan for Walt's rescue. The arrival of Desmond's boat inspires him to ask Jack to use it for a secret flanking maneuver on the Others' camp before Jack and the rescue mission arrive. There, Sayid would make up a fire and black smoke would arise so that "this time, they would know that we are coming."
Desmond comments on the injections, claiming they are useless.
Jack, Kate, Michael, Sawyer and Hurley prepare themselves for the rescue trek across the island. Kate argues that the Others are not who they say they are, they are not hillbillies, but Michael replies that he knows what he saw. They leave. ♪
At her tent, Claire is about to do the weekly injection to Aaron, but Desmond interrupts, saying that she is wasting her time. He says that he shot himself with that every 9 days for 3 years. They then talk about Aaron's dad, who left Claire and the baby alone.
Sayid's backup plan
Sayid asks Desmond if he could use his boat's raft.
Sayid goes to Desmond to ask for his boat as he wants to get to the other side of the Island quickly. Desmond asks if Sayid is going to see the Hostiles. Sayid doesn't know who he is talking about and Desmond reflects that "ignorance is bliss". Desmond gives the boat to Sayid but won't be the pilot for the sailboat. Sayid asks Jin who refuses saying he is not leaving Sun. Sun has other plans, and tells Jin that they won't be apart because she is coming too. Sayid packs a gun and some ammo on a small boat. Sayid is surprised to see Sun accompanying Jin, but Sun says that he needs someone to translate and at least 2 people who know how to sail.
Sun, Jin and Sayid spot the four-toed statue.
The next day on the boat, Sun vomits from morning sickness. Sayid, Jin and Sun see the remnants of a giant statue on a shoreline: a four-toed foot. "I don't know what is more disquieting," says Sayid, "the fact that the rest of the statue is missing, or that it has four toes."
Soon after, Sun, Jin, and Sayid arrive at the Others' camp. When Sayid climbs up to the camp to investigate, he discovers that all the huts are abandoned. Sayid approaches the DHARMA station at the camp, and discovers there is only a rock wall behind the door.
Walt's rescue party
Michael suspects that his cover might have been blown.
On their way across the jungle, Sawyer encounters a doll, but Kate prevents him from touching it, saying that he would be caught in a net. ♪ Sawyer then talks about his misunderstanding of Jack saying that he and Kate got caught in a net. Kate asks him since when he and Jack started talking about her.
Suddenly, the party encounters a large bird much like the one from "Exodus, Part 2", and Hurley believes it squawked his name. Michael tries to shoot it but his gun has no ammo in it. Michael is shocked and Jack says that he "forgot to load that one." Michael is suspicious.
Jack exposes Michael in front of the rescue team.
That night, the group has made camp. Sawyer offers a DHARMA NutriBar to Hurley, who refuses, stating that he is not hungry. Michael seems to be deeply troubled by what happened earlier with the gun. Jack sneaks up on him, and asks him if he is all right. Jack then helps him getting firewood. Michael thanks him for risking his life for his boy. Jack replies, "Live together, die alone, man."
In the morning, Sawyer theorizes on who are the Others: DHARMA folks? Aliens? As the group is walking alongside a small river, Kate spots two Others stalking them on the other side. They begin the short Jungle skirmish.
Kate reads one of the Pearl notebooks at the capsule dump.
Michael gets upset at this, whereupon Jack confronts him about his betrayal. Michael is forced to tell the truth, admitting that he had killed Ana Lucia and Libby, let the false Henry Gale go, and lead the rescue party based on instructions from the Others so that he could free Walt. He says they gave him a list with the names of the people who he had to bring. Hurley wants to go back but Jack then convinces the skeptical party to continue onward, revealing Sayid's plan. Jack says that the Others will kill them all if they think the survivors don't trust Michael.
Henry arrives at Pala Ferry, revealing his status.
The group soon after stumbles upon an enormous mound of pneumatic tube containers, a capsule dump. Sawyer finds amongst the containers Locke's map to the Pearl station. Jack sees Sayid's smoke signal, unexpectedly far away. He confronts Michael realizing that it was a double con as the party hears whispers, and they are soon ambushed by the Others who use stun darts and capture their entire party. ♪
The rescue party is brought by the Others including Alex, to a pier, the "Pala Ferry." They are gagged and tied but Kate mumbles to Tom that she knows his beard is fake. Ms. Klugh inadvertently reveals his name as "Tom," and Tom reveals her name as "Bea." The false Henry Gale arrives in the motor boat and directs operations. ♪
Locke tries to shake Eko's faith in the Hatch.
In the Hatch, Locke's crisis of faith continues, and he tries to convince Eko to let the timer run down. John says that Eko doesn't want to be a slave, but the latter replies that he is a slave to nothing. Locke then says to not push the button, to which Eko replies: "Do not tell me what I can't do." Locke then tries to destroy the computer with the Jesus stick, but Eko stops him. They fight, and Eko locks him out of the the Hatch.
Charlie discovers Locke weeping in the jungle, and informs him of Desmond's return. Charlie adds that he "pushed the button too many times," referring to the fact that Desmond is crazed. ♪
Locke shares his plan with Desmond.
Later that night, Locke asks Desmond what did one snowman say to the other snowman, referring to the question Desmond asked him when they first met. Desmond replies, "Smells like carrots." Locke tells Desmond about the revelations on the button, from the Pearl Orientation video, that what happens in the Swan is a test, a psychological experiment. Desmond does not believe him, but Locke gives him the Pearl video. Desmond, is curious and together they decide not to push the button the next day.
Locke and Desmond trick Eko into leaving the computer room by triggering a false blackout. The electrical buzzing is still strongly present in the Swan corridor. Desmond and Locke rush in the computer room, and lock Eko out with a false lockdown.
Eko finds the Hatch's door.
Eko leaves and notices the QUARANTINE sign on the Hatch's door. He asks Charlie how they blew up the door. Eko then returns with Charlie to the Hatch, with dynamite. Charlie tries to convince John to open the door, but Desmond is sure that the blast doors will hold. Charlie tells Eko that maybe it's an old computer connected to nothing. But Eko takes out Charlie's belt, and throws it in the air, where it is attracted by the magnetic wall. Charlie tries to leave as Eko sets and lights the dynamite fuse. Charlie runs through the corridor as the dynamite explodes and sends a fireball through the corridors. ♪
Desmond and Locke discuss their faith.
The blast door holds. Desmond wants to open the door to see if they are hurt but Locke says it could be a trick. Desmond asks Locke why he wants to let the countdown go to zero; is it because he has to look down the barrel of a gun to find out what he really believes? Locke said he already has done that, and that he believed. He thought it was his destiny to get into this place. Somebody died for this, a kid, because "he was stupid enough to believe that I knew what I was talking about." Locke tells Desmond that on the night that Boone died for nothing, he was sitting up there all alone, yelling at the door, when a light came on. He thought it was a sign but it was probably just Desmond going to the bathroom. ♪ But it was Desmond experiencing his crisis and turning on the light to see another human being above at the hatch door. In retrospect, Locke now took this supposed omen to be yet another example to doubt his earlier faith, while Desmond realized that Locke had saved his life as he was about to kill himself.
The Pearl Log, recording the system failure.
Desmond asks Locke about the Pearl. Locke tells Desmond all about it: the notebooks, the TVs, the pneumatic tube. But Desmond thinks Locke has got it backwards: it is not them who are being monitored but the people at the Pearl station. Desmond wants to see that Pearl video but there is no way to see it in the Swan. Desmond asks Locke what else was down there, perhaps another computer. Locke says that there was a printer that "printed out numbers, lots of numbers". When Locke shows Desmond the log printout from the Pearl, Desmond discovers that the crash date of Oceanic Flight 815, September 22, is connected with the "SYSTEM FAILURE" entry in the log printout. That is the day he had accidentally killed Kelvin and did not enter the Numbers in time, causing a system failure in the Swan. ♪ His conclusion is that this event is the cause of Flight 815's crash: "I think I crashed your plane."
Charlie wakes up with ringing in his ears. He finds Eko, unconscious. Locke and Desmond continue to argue whether to push the button or not. As the timer reaches close to zero, their conversation becomes heated, leading Locke to smash the computer just as the countdown runs toward zero. "You've killed us. You've killed us all," says Desmond. Locke replies, "No, I've just saved us all." As the station is rocked by shaking and noise. Desmond opens the doors and finds the book he wanted to read before he died: Our Mutual Friend.
Locke admits to Eko that he was wrong.
The fail-safe key is hidden in the book. He quickly tells Locke about the banging on the Hatch exterior, and that it was Locke that saved his life, so that he could now save his. He is going to blow the dam: "I'll see ya in another life, brother." Meanwhile, the timer reaches zero and flips into hieroglyphs. As the system failure alarm progresses, metallic objects begin to fly across to the magnet wall. Charlie revives Eko from the shock of the dynamite and tries to make his escape while Eko rushes into the control room, where he is met by a despondent Locke acknowledging his cataclysmic mistake, stating simply, "I was wrong." Desmond turns the key, while saying one last time, "I love you Penny." He triggers the discharge, resulting in a flash of white and purple/violet glow. ♪
After the Discharge
Claire and Bernard almost get hit by the Hatch door.
A groaning noise is heard. The flash is visible by everyone across the whole island, which is engulfed in a bright white/violet glow lasting nearly a minute that covers the entire sky and by a loud low droning sound, causing everyone to cover their ears in pain. At the camp, during the discharge, Bernard moves Claire and Aaron to safety by avoiding the "QUARANTINE" hatch door that falls from the sky. After the discharge the survivors are cleaning up the mess from the discharge when Charlie emerges from the jungle. Bernard asks him what had happened and if he was okay, to which a partially deaf Charlie tells him that he is fine.
Michael and Walt leave the Island.
At the dock, Henry Gale closes the deal with Michael. ♪ "Henry" is not happy with the arrangement, but they got "more than they bargained for when Walt joined them." Since he lived up to his word, Michael is given the boat and Walt, and instructed to escape the Island by following a bearing of 325 degrees to find rescue. Michael wonders whether that is all. He asks Henry how he knows he won't tell anyone about the Island. But "Henry" replies that whether or not he tells people won't matter: once he has left the Island, he won't be able to come back. Anyway, "Henry" believes that Michael won't tell anyone, because if he does, people will find out what he did to get his son back. ♪ Michael is reassured that his friends would not be hurt as a deal's a deal. Finally, Michael asks "Henry" - "Who are you people?" "Henry" replies, "We're the good guys, Michael." As Michael is reunited with his son on the boat, "Henry" adds, "Bon voyage, Michael." ♪ Michael leaves Jack, Sawyer, Kate and Hurley stare at him and Walt also sees the bound and gagged kneeling prisoners with guns pointed at them.
Jack, Sawyer and Kate are left behind with the Others.
The Others also free Hurley, telling him that his mission is to tell the survivors never to come to this side of the Island. The rest of the prisoners are "coming home with the Others." Hurley looks at Jack, who, with his eyes, tells him to go. As Michael leaves on the boat, he looks one last time at an angry and betrayed Jack. Kate and Jack look at each other, not knowing what is going to happen to them. The captives are hooded by the Others in preparation for transport. ♪
Later that night, Charlie and Claire are near a fire. Claire asks him what happened "out there." Charlie says that "nothing happened," even though the sky turned purple and Charlie is hurt. Charlie and Claire reconcile, with Claire giving him a small kiss. ♪
Mathias calling Penny, informing her they found it.
In the Arctic/Antarctic two Portuguese-speaking men are playing chess when one notices a flashing red light on a computer, and a message on the computer screen reading "7418880 Electromagnetic Anomaly Detected." "How long has it been doing that?" asks one of the men. The other quickly opens a locked book, an instruction manual. "That's it, isn't it? We missed it again--" one says whilst the other quickly says, "We didn't miss it!" An alarm sounds. "So it's not a false alarm this time?!" the man asks, but the other one, agitated, replies, "SHUT UP AND CALL!" One of them, urgently makes a phone call with a phone that is a one-way direct line to someone. ♪
Penny realizes Mathias and Henrik "found it".
The phone rings somewhere. It is night. The receiving phone is on a bedside table, with a photo on it that looks like the picture of Desmond and Penny. A woman wakes and answers. "Yes?" the woman says. The man answers, "It's us. I think we found it."
It's Penny.
This episode marks the first appearance of Penelope and Charles Widmore.
This episode was the first flashback episode of someone not on Flight 815, and the second centered around a guest star (the first being Rose/Bernard's story in "S.O.S.").
An extract, read by Kate, of one of the notebooks reads:
0400. S.R. moves Ping-Pong table again.
0415. Takes a shower.
According to Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, there was originally supposed to be a scene where Sawyer was also wanting to go back with Hurley, thinking it was stupid to help Michael after what he did. Damon and Carlton wish they would have handled the feelings of the actors differently, but they just ran out of time. [1]
This episode is the first in which it is confirmed onscreen that September 22, 2004 -- the airdate of Lost's pilot -- is the date that Oceanic Flight 815 crashed.
Before season 5 this is the only episode that shows a flash of the outside world in current time, not in a flashback or flashforward, and not interacting with somebody on the island, such as Desmond calling Penelope in "The Constant".
Desmond refers to the Others as "The Hostiles" during this episode, and Kelvin also uses the term in a flashback. This is the first time the name is used on the show.
After the title, Kate tries to calm down a group of survivors. While she is walking to Jack on the beach, there is a bit of reversed speech hidden in the overlapping questions. First, one voice says, "How many people!" Then another says, "How many people can go on the boat?"
As Charlie and Eko prepare to use the dynamite on the blast doors in the Swan station, Desmond says to Locke that "It would take an atom bomb" to get through the doors. Later, in Season 5 when the survivors are living in 1977, they detonate a hydrogen bomb at the Swan station construction site, releasing the energy that would crash their plane.
This episode is rated TV-14-V.
This was the final episode to feature Malcolm David Kelley (Walt) and Michelle Rodriguez (Ana Lucia) as main cast members.
This episode marks future main cast member Sonya Walger's first appearance as Penelope Widmore.
According to the May 26, 2006 Official Lost Podcast, the crew started writing "Live Together, Die Alone" four weeks prior to its airing. The episode was shot in seventeen days with two simultaneous crews, and the final scene with Penelope was shot just five days before airing.
According to call sheet reports from Aloha Oe, Rose was suppose to feature in this episode and share a chat with Locke. The likely reason it was not included was L. Scott Caldwell being unavailable for filming and therefore cut from the season 2 final.
The original ending. (promotional still)
Originally, the ending scene was completely different. It took place in the office of Widmore Industries, featuring Penny, a researcher played by Eyal Podell, and a receptionist played by Cathy Foy. The ending started with the researcher receiving a mysterious phone call, he then burst into a board meeting with a dot matrix print-out at his hand, and the scene ended with him sharing information to Penny that "they found it". However, under unknown circumstances, the producers decided not to use this scene in the final moment. As a replacement, a new shot featuring Penny had to be shot just five days before airing, and the original ending was never released.
International versions of this episode that aired in two parts, including DVD releases, are missing several scenes due to time constraints. They are as follows:
A brief scene right after the opening title sequence where Kate tries to calm down the other survivors and asks Jack for help. Instead, the episode jumps directly from the title to Desmond sitting at the camp fire.
The part of a flashback when Kelvin talks to Desmond about him doing a lockdown thousands of times before. Instead, it goes straight to Desmond triggering a fake lockdown.
When Locke is about to tell Desmond that Jack has no interest in what is happening in the hatch, he is cut off just as he starts to speak.
A "Lost: On Location" featurette for this episode is available on the Season 2 DVD.
Bloopers and continuity errors
The uniforms of the British Army soldiers are inaccurate. They are all pictured wearing outdated clothing and their berets are not formed (they should be closely formed to the head with the peak coming down over the right eye), nor do they have any regimental cap badges denoting with whom they serve. The soldier discharging Desmond is credited as a Master Sergeant, a rank which does not exist in the British Army.
When Kate, Jack and Sawyer are taken hostage, Alex grabs to pull Kate up, accidentally putting her hands on Kate's breast. She rather quickly pulls her hands away.
The photo of Desmond and Penny is quite different from the photo of Desmond and Penny in "Orientation". Most notably, Penny is a different actress.
The photo in "Orientation" was corrected for the DVD release.
As Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Hurley, and Michael begin their trek towards the Others' camp, Kate's backpack is seen on her back as she walks away. However in the next shot, she is seen putting on her backpack.
When Michael attempts to shoot the bird and discovers the pistol is unloaded, he pulls the trigger several times and we can hear the sound of external hammer striking repeatedly despite the fact that the pistol does not have one and would not click.
When Sawyer, Jack and Sayid swim toward Desmond's boat in the beginning of the episode, the boat is seen heading toward the island, although, when they finally reach near the boat there is no island behind them where they came from, just sky and clouds.
Sayid says he recognises the rock with the hole in the middle from Michael's information but he was not seen to be given this information - we only saw Walt give it to him in secret on the computer.
During the electromagnetic "earthquake" (when Locke refuses to push the button), Eko's metal necklace stays flat on his chest despite having been attracted to the concrete wall upon entering the station.
This was corrected in the Season 2 DVD release, apparently using a shot where Eko happened to look over his left shoulder. In the correction, Eko's cross can be seen to suddenly fly off his neck as he looks over his shoulder.
When Desmond looks through his letters, you can see the return address in the top left-hand side of the envelopes. In the United Kingdom, you don't need a return address, and if you do include one, it goes on the reverse of the envelope. ([2])
When Eko kicks Locke out of the hatch, Locke's backpack falls off in the computer room. Later when Locke speaks to Desmond on the beach he pulls the orientation video out of the same backpack.
The Season 2 soundtrack includes six cues from this episode. "Toxic Avenger" plays as Desmond crashes on to the island. "I Crashed Your Plane, Brotha" plays when Desmond discovers his role in Oceanic 815's crash. "Eko Blaster" introduces the new bomb motif, and "The Hunt" introduces an action theme that plays in this and the following three season finales.
"McGale's Navy", which plays towards the end of the episode, offers the first statement of the Others' theme to appear on a soundtrack. "Bon Voyage, Traitor" offers the first statement of Desmond's theme, which also first plays in this episode. The episode also introduces a new counterpoint to the mystery theme and ends by introducing a motif that plays during scenes involving rescue.
Animals • Black and white • Character connections • Children • Coincidence • Death • Deceptions and cons • Dreams • Economics • Electromagnetism • Eyes • Fate versus free will • Games • Good and bad people • Imprisonment • Isolation • Leadership • Life and death • Literary works • Mirrors • Missing body parts • Nicknames • The Numbers • Pairings • Parapsychology • Parent issues • Pregnancies • Psychology • Rain • Redemption • Relationships • Religion • Revenge • Salvation • Secrets
It is raining when Desmond encounters Charles Widmore. (Rain)
Desmond is caught in a heavy storm before arriving on the Island. (Rain)
The letters that Widmore withheld from Penelope show that the house number of her street address was 23, while Desmond's return address was 42. (The Numbers)
The coffee Libby pays only costs "four bucks". (The Numbers)
Desmond asks for 42,000 dollars. (The Numbers)
Desmond does not read Our Mutual Friend because he wants to save it for just before his death. It has a secret letter from Penny within it. (Secrets) (Life and death) (Literary works)
Hurley sees a large bird that he believes says his name. (Animals)
Libby and Desmond have a casual meeting years prior to arriving on the Island. (Character connections)
Desmond meets Kelvin in the Swan station, who Sayid had met years ago in Iraq. (Character connections)
The system failure which caused the plane to crash occurred at 4:16. (The Numbers)
After meeting years prior, Libby and Desmond end up on the same Island, and Libby's old boat appears at the time of her funeral. (Coincidence)
Locke doesn't believe in fate, but Desmond tries to convince him by saying that John saved his life so he could return the favor. (Fate versus free will)
"Henry" tells Michael, "We're the good guys." (Good and bad people)
Kelvin and Desmond were confined at the Swan until their replacements arrived to release them. (Imprisonment) (Isolation)
Libby claims her husband, David, had passed away. (Life and death)
Charles Widmore tries to bribe Desmond to never see Penny again because he doesn't believe he is worthy. (Parent issues)
Desmond decides to race around the world to regain his honor. (Redemption)
Michael tricks his friends into believing they can defeat the Others, while he is really luring them into a trap. (Deceptions and cons)
Jack is aware of Michael's intentions and is playing along in order to initiate his own plan. (Deceptions and cons)
Desmond turns the fail-safe in the Swan and an electromagnetic event occurs which is detected at the tracking station. (Electromagnetism)
Jack, Kate, and Sawyer are captured by the Others. (Imprisonment)
After Kate is hit with the dart, Jack fires 4 shots in the general direction it came from. (The Numbers)
The survivors see Desmond's boat and think they are saved. (Salvation)
The two men who live in the tracking station in the Arctic/Antarctic play Chess. (Black and white) (Games) (Isolation)
Kelvin secretly repairs Desmond's boat so he can leave the Island, and Desmond, behind. (Deceptions and cons)
Desmond accidentally kills Kelvin. (Life and death)
Kelvin tells Desmond about Radzinsky committing suicide in the Swan. (Suicide)
(direct references only)
Art • Automobiles • Games • History • Literary works • Movies and TV • Music • Philosophy • Religion and ideologies • Science
"The Internationale": "We'll live together or we'll die alone" is a line from the English-language (Billy Bragg) version of this famous socialist, anarchist, communist, and social democratic anthem. (Ideology) (Music) (History)
Our Mutual Friend: Desmond does not read this book by Charles Dickens because he wants to save it for just before his death, since he is such a huge fan of Dickens. (Literary works)
Straight Man: In this novel by Richard Russo, William Henry Devereaux Sr. dies while reading Our Mutual Friend. (Literary works)
The Turn of the Screw: Kelvin tells Desmond to put the Orientation film back behind this book by Henry James. (Literary works)
"Voi che sapete": This song by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is heard on the sound system of the Elizabeth. (Music)
"Chains and Things": This song by B.B. King is heard on the Swan record player. (Music)
"Ardulfurataini Watan (The Land of The Two Rivers)": This former Iraqi national anthem is sung by Kelvin. (Music) (Ideology)
The A-Team: Sawyer quotes B. A. Baracus from this television series when he says, "Alright, enough jibber-jabber, let's roll!" The A-Team ran from 1983 through 1989. (Movies and TV)
"Make Your Own Kind of Music": This song by Mama Cass Elliot is playing at the tracking station. (Music)
Watchmen: Locke tells Eko that "We're only puppets, puppets on strings. As long as we push it, we'll never be free." In Watchmen, Dr. Manhattan comments that "We're all puppets. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings." Desmond's drunken comment about being "trapped in a bloody snowglobe" echoes the comic's fascination with snowglobes. The producers have commented multiple times on Watchmen's literary importance. (Movies and TV) (Games)
Sign of the Cross: Desmond makes this hand motion before inserting the fail-safe key. (Religion and ideologies)
Chess: The men living in the tracking station are playing this game when they notice the Electromagnetic Anomaly on the computer. (Games)
Comparative: Irony • Juxtaposition • Foreshadowing Plotting: Cliffhanger • Plot twist Stock characters: Archetype • Redshirt • Unseen character
Story: Flashbacks • Flash-forwards • Flash sideways • Framing device • Regularly spoken phrases • Symbolism • Unreliable narrator
Penelope says that "with enough money and determination, you can find anyone". This foreshadows of the final scene of this episode and of the scene in "There's No Place Like Home, Part 3" in which she finds Desmond, Frank, and the Oceanic 6 on the ocean. (Foreshadowing)
When Desmond sees Jack on the boat, he says, confused, "You..", the same thing Jack said to him when he finds him in the Swan. (Juxtaposition)
Desmond served time in prison and was dishonorably discharged from the Royal Scots Regiment. Later while trying to regain his honor, he inadvertently crashes on the island and becomes a prisoner in the Swan. (Juxtaposition)
Kate ends up in the middle of Jack and Sawyer when taken hostage by the Others. (Juxtaposition)
Desmond reveals he was responsible for the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 on September 22, 2004. (Plot twist)
The episode ends with a phone call to Penny and the line "I think we've found it." (Cliffhanger)
Jack, Kate and Sawyer are taken captive by the Others. (Cliffhanger)
The fate of Desmond, Locke and Eko is left unresolved after the fail-safe key is turned. (Cliffhanger)
Eko attempts to blow up a blastdoor with dynamite. (Irony)
Desmond says "see you in another life" to Locke. (Regularly spoken phrases)
At around 11 minutes into the episode, Locke tells Eko to not push the button to which Eko replies, "Do not tell me what I can't do." (Regularly spoken phrases)
The four-toed statue will be visited again and become a significant location in Season 5. (Foreshadowing)
Storyline analysis
A-Missions • Crimes • Economics • Leadership • O-Missions • Relationships • F-Missions • Rivalries • S-Missions
"Henry" shows authority among the Others. (Leadership)
Desmond won't stay with Penny because he wants to regain his honor and promises her he will be back. (Relationships)
Michael leads Jack, Kate, Hurley and Sawyer across the Island to the Others. (A-Missions)
Sayid, Jin and Sun sail Desmond's boat to the North shore to scout the Others' camp. (A-Missions)
Locke and Desmond let the Swan countdown timer run down to zero. (A-Missions)
The Others meet at the Pala Ferry dock. (O-Missions)
Claire and Charlie share their first kiss. (Relationships)
Episode connections
Episode references
Desmond's failure to input the numbers on September 22nd, 2004 is revealed to have caused the crash and mid-air break up of Flight 815. ("Pilot, Part 1")
Claire tells Desmond about the father of her baby. ("Raised by Another")
Desmond turns on the light when he hears Locke banging on the hatch. ("Deus Ex Machina")
Locke tells Desmond about Boone's death. ("Do No Harm")
Eko asks Charlie how they opened the hatch. ("Exodus, Part 2")
Charlie warns Eko to be careful with the dynamite, telling him what happened to Arzt. ("Exodus, Part 2")
We see Jack arrive at the stadium from Desmond's point of view. ("Man of Science, Man of Faith")
Locke asks Desmond "so what did one snowman say to the other snowman?" ("Adrift")
Desmond's arrival on the Island is shown, as previously described by him. ("Orientation")
Kate tells Sawyer that she got caught in a net with Jack. Sawyer tells her he thought Jack meant something else when he told him. ("S.O.S.") ("Three Minutes")
Sawyer finds the drawing of the blast door map that Locke had drawn and had put in the pneumatic tube in the Pearl. ("S.O.S.") ("?")
Michael reminds Kate that he saw where the Others live, and they are hillbillies. ("Two for the Road") ("Three Minutes")
Locke informs Desmond of the Pearl station. ("?")
Michael is forced to tell the group about the list of names the Others gave him. ("Three Minutes")
Episode allusions
The title of the episode was initially a quote from Jack in "White Rabbit", and was later stated by Kate in "Man of Science, Man of Faith" and "Every Man for Himself" and by Rose in "Through the Looking Glass, Part 1",and Juliet in "The Incident, Part 2".
Michael's question, "Who are you people?", calls back to his question in the previous finale. A similar question appears in each finale. ("Exodus, Part 3")
Desmond discovers that the man in front of him on the boat is Jack and replies "You!" In the season premiere, Jack discovers that the man in front of him is Desmond and then says "You!" ("Man of Science, Man of Faith")
Kelvin tells Desmond to put the Orientation film back behind Turn of the Screw. This is where it was when Locke found it. ("Orientation")
Sun experiences morning sickness due to her pregnancy. ("The Whole Truth")
Kelvin works on the map on the blastdoor. ("Lockdown")
Do not answer the questions here.
Keep the questions open-ended and neutral: do not suggest an answer.
For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Live Together, Die Alone/Theories
What is the origin of the four toed statue?
Desmond Hume
Portrayed by Henry Ian Cusick
Centric episodes
"Live Together, Die Alone" • "Flashes Before Your Eyes" • "Catch-22" • "The Constant" • "Jughead" • "Happily Ever After"
Shared and non-centric flashes
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Section 131. Within ninety days following receipt of an official notice which the city clerk shall send, within thirty days of the city election, to the city council notifying the said council that a new plan of city council organization or school committee organization, or both, has been approved by the voters, said council shall adopt an ordinance after public hearing providing for the division of the city into nine districts, or such other number of districts as may be specified in the question approved by the voters for the election of city council members or school committee members, as the case may be, by and from the voters of such districts at the next municipal election. In cities which adopt both a new plan of city council and a new plan of school committee organization the respective district lines shall be the same for both bodies. Each such district shall be compact and shall contain, as nearly as may be, an equal number of inhabitants, shall be composed of contiguous existing precincts, and shall be drawn with a view toward preserving the integrity of existing neighborhoods. Said districts shall continue in force until the next division of the city into wards required by section one of chapter fifty-four, at which time the city council shall divide the city into a number of wards equal to the number of said districts; and thereafter, upon the effective date of such wards for city primary, preliminary and general elections under said chapter fifty-four, such wards rather than districts shall be the units used for the election of those city council or school committee members who are not elected at large throughout the city. The city council shall adopt an ordinance providing for signature requirements for nomination papers for candidates for city council or school committee but in no event shall these requirements exceed two per cent of the vote cast in the preceding mayoral election in the respective district.
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Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed: Targeting hijabs brings out the haters
Once again, the issue of what a Muslim woman wears, and why, has been thrust into the political limelight, and frankly, it’s frustrating.
Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed, Special to the Montreal Gazette
Once again, the issue of what a Muslim woman wears, and why, has been thrust into the political limelight here in Quebec, and frankly, it’s frustrating. I thought we were done with this sort of rubbish when we said adieu to Pauline Marois and the Charter of Values. What I wear on my head is no one’s business, and certainly not the government’s. It is deeply regrettable that Premier François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec government is gaining popularity despite its dog-whistle politics, which emboldens racists, supremacists and Islamophobes.
Legault’s quick announcement after taking office that he would press ahead with banning religious symbols for certain public employees left our province’s religious minorities with a nervous sense of being othered. And now we have newly appointed minister for the status of women Isabelle Charest sharing her two cents about what she thinks of Muslim women wearing the hijab. (She called the hijab oppressive, but, with no apparent sense of irony, also said women should be free to wear what they want, oblivious to the fact that her government is about to restrict that freedom.)
As Montreal Gazette columnist Allison Hanes noted, It is blatantly apparent that she is the minister of some, but not all, women. As a Quebec-born Muslim woman who freely chooses to wear the hijab, I can say she certainly does not represent me, my faith or my rights. Wearing a hijab is my choice.
The stakes are too high for a comment like Charest’s to be tolerated.
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As a visibly Muslim public figure, I am outspoken on issues of race, discrimination, Islamophobia and diversity, and work hard in both my professional and personal lives to dispel stereotypes and build bridges between communities. The reality is, however, that having a very active presence on social media opens me up to a slew of hate speech. I recently began receiving a series of hateful emails and direct messages on social media, including one received the same day Charest made her irresponsible comments. It read: “F— off back to where you came from rag head.”
I’m experiencing some pretty nasty political déjà vu here. I had never seen as much bigotry, overt discrimination and racism as I did after Marois introduced the values charter in 2013. That hostility abated during the Couillard government’s time in office, but now has started right back up. Coincidence? I think not.
I refuse to allow hate to intimidate me. I refuse to let it silence me, though it does give me pause. I reflect on how sad and broken someone must be to take the time to send such a vitriolic, hateful message to another human being.
February is Black History Month. While I love learning about the cultures, traditions and talent from the black community, we would be remiss if we did not stop to commemorate the injustice, oppression and discrimination the black community has suffered. As a society, we need to take a step back and learn from our mistakes, and to not allow ourselves to repeat them with different people.
Less than two weeks ago, we were honouring the six men who were killed in Quebec City. Less than 48 hours after he spoke to six women whose husbands died in an Islamophobic attack, Legault commented that Islamophobia does not exist in Quebec. (He later backpedalled somewhat.) We need to call out our provincially elected officials for their poor choice of words and remind them that all lives matter, words matter, and to recognize that politics and policies that target some Quebecers as “the other” have a nasty effect on the public. In the interim, to Charest, the minister of some women, I say, hands off my hijab.
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402. Liz Lands: “Midnight Johnny”
Posted by The Nixon Administration in Liz Lands, Writing credit: Berry Gordy, Writing credit: Richard Street
Gordy 7030 (A), March 1964
b/w Keep Me
(Written by Berry Gordy, Richard Street and Thelma Coleman Gordy)
A decided attempt on Berry Gordy’s part to reposition quasi-operatic, Marge Simpson-haired vocalist Liz Lands – hitherto best-known for shrieking, warbling gospel numbers and unexpectedly brilliant Presidential tributes – as an R&B/pop crossover artiste.
The reasoning is easy enough to deduce – by 1964, Motown was moving into a new phase, its eyes now on the pop charts, rather than the blues and gospel cuts that had helped pay the bills a few years before. Liz, with her supposed five octave range, was a luxury that couldn’t be carried forever; she wasn’t selling any records, and so she would have to get with the program if she wanted to stay.
To that end, Gordy co-wrote Liz a shuffling R&B workout, took on production duties himself, and paired her with the Temptations (who had recently scored a big hit with The Way You Do The Things You Do and so were credited on the label) and the Andantes (who hadn’t, and so weren’t) on backing vocals. He even did it all again when he wasn’t satisfied with the first attempt.
The result, sadly, met with only limited success artistically, and none at all commercially, and that was the end of Liz Lands’ career as a Motown artist.
Berry, his ex-wife Thelma and future Temptation Richard Street provide a good, solid song, while there’s a positively crackling band performance filled with thump and clatter – handclaps, tambourine, horns and guitar building to veritable Himalayan peaks of groovitude. The shuffling gait of the intro, ominous piano giving way to a strummed, clipped guitar riff of surprising harshness, metronomic tambourine way up in the mix, is absolutely riveting.
But at the centre of all this irresistibly strong groove is a frustrated opera singer who can’t quite let go of the notion she’s somehow slumming it by singing Gordy instead of Offenbach. Lands starts out smoky and tough, giving a contemplative, brooding delivery as she beseeches the titular Johnny to keep his distance, and it sounds great. But as the record goes on, the showing off of that astonishing range begins, and – as with practically every other Liz Lands Motown cut I’ve ever heard – she ends up just shrieking uncontrollably all over the register until the record’s all but ruined as anything other than an exercise in wholly wasted potential.
(Back in the mists of time, when I wrote about Popcorn Wylie’s I’ll Still Be Around, long-term readers may recall I mentioned a handful of Motown records featuring fantastic ideas not fully realised. That was one of them; this is another.)
It’s not an easy song to carry off – Connie Haines’ version, as featured on A Cellarful of Motown: Volume 2 (but not Youtube, annoyingly), is similarly hampered by its vocalist’s attempts to introduce her own style (jazz-lite stylings rather than operatic pretensions) – but it’s still a real shame that this isn’t as good as it could have been.
The band deserved better, and it’s thanks to their sterling efforts that this is still essential listening for Motown fanatics even with Liz’ ill-judged hollering all over it. They would get ample chances to shine in the future, unlike the lead singer; although we’re not quite finished with Liz Lands just yet, this was her final Motown release.
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29 thoughts on “402. Liz Lands: “Midnight Johnny””
Matt W. said:
I like this one a bit more than you do, but my major hang-up, rather than Lands’ vocal performance, is the fact that it sounds too much like the Drifters’ “On Broadway.”
The Nixon Administration said:
This is one of those times when I’ll seem genuinely stupid, but that hadn’t even occurred to me until you mentioned it just then. Now that’s all I can hear in it…
mndean said:
I noticed the resemblance to On Broadway, too, but it took me a minute to figure it out. Not the only time on this set will one song resemble someone (non-Motown) else’s work. I like this one better (I’d give it a couple more points) and can put up pretty easily with Lands’ vocal since she’s technically good if a bit, um, overwrought. Her vocal reminds me of the OTT vocal of Lorraine Ellison’s on Stay With Me, done at some other label 😉
Another bang-on-the-money observation. Readers, you’re doing me proud tonight!
Landini said:
In a shoe on the other foot scenario does anyone think the Drifters “One Way Love” sounds like an attempt at Motown by the Drifters? Love that song by the way.
bogart4017 said:
Yep….as recorded by the Temptations with Otis singing lead.
Trevski said:
The Connie Haines version is sublime. What’s wrong with a vocalist introducing their own vocal styling? Isn’t that what they are supposed to have?
Randy Brown said:
At least Lands doesn’t go totally range-crazy until the very end of the song. Also gotta agree with mmdean about “Stay With Me,” though neither is anywhere near as speaker-blowingly horrific as the late Linda Jones on “For Your Precious Love” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY7fZ95XfMY).
I finally heard this. Yeah I notice the “On Broadway” feel to it. Some Motown records could remind you of other songs but weren’t out & out copies. In Tammi Terrell’s “I Can’t Believe You Love Me” there’s a bit of a “Going Out Of My Head” vibe. On a sort of related subject, some people say that they hear parts of old standards in the intros to several Motown & other soul songs. Examples : The opening to “My Guy” has a faint “Canadian Sunset” sound to it. From the Chicago sound, in Jackie Ross’ “Selfish One” you can possibly hear a bit of “Tenderly”. Some people say that this was the session musicians throwing in their jazz credentials.
Damecia said:
Thanx for introducing me to “I Can’t Believe That You Love Me.” It does remind me of “Goin Out of My Head” and “My Girl.” Good song!
144man said:
Strange…I just don’t see the similarity to “On Broadway”. To me the song with a stronger resemblance is the Lewis Sisters’ “He’s An Oddball” on V.I.P.
To clarify, I mean “He’s an Oddball” has a stronger resemblance to “On Broadway”, not to “Midnight Johnny”.
Kevin Moore said:
The melody only comes close to On Broadway at about 0:34, but the chords and the rhythm they’re played in are almost identical. In other words, what they sing doesn’t sound like On Broadway, but if you sing On Broadway along with the track, it fits.
I take back what I said above. At long last, I now see the resemblance to “On Broadway”.
treborij said:
Another great analysis from you. I never heard this record (or even knew about it) until I bought the 1964 singles set. Recognized the “On Broadway” chords from the start but the Drifters track is one of my all-time favorite records. But I really like the atmosphere on Midnight Johnny. With the heavy reverb and misterioso mood, It almost sounds like something that could have emerged from Lee Perry’s Black Ark (with a different rhythm of course).
It’s interesting that Gordy produced this himself. One of the things I noticed going through these sets is that by this time, his productions had really started to sound dated. Compare Marvin’s Try It Baby to Can I Get A Witness and the Gordy produced track sounds almost old hat. Smokey and H-D-H were pointing toward the future and he knew it. But I think this record might have even sounded retro when it was released in 1964 and placed against My Guy, Wonderful One and Live Wire.
Don’t get me wrong, I like this record. Probably a lot more than you. I’d give it a 7. But wouldn’t you think if he wanted to keep Liz Lands on the roster he would have turned the production reins over to someone who was hitting the charts with their work?
One more brief comment. A friend and I put on concerts of avant-garde jazz music (yeah, the kind of music people hate). And there’s a trumpet player who plays for us quite a bit. Talking to him we found we were about the same age (late 50s) and we met on Motown. He told me a great story. He said on Saturdays, his dad would take him to a record store in Harlem and he’d get to spend his $2 allowance on records. One day (ca 1965), they had a bin with a pile of records they were clearing out for a dime apiece. And in that bin were a bunch of records on the Motown / Tamla / Gordy labels he’d never heard of. So he picked up about 10, which he still has to this day.. And he said one of his prize possession is a copy of “Midnight Johnny”.
Robb Klein said:
The 4 for $1.00, 3 for $1.00, 10¢ bins and thrift stores and junk stores is how I most of my rare and “cut-out” Motown 45s. Many of them were never really available for retail purchase in the record shops. Or, for those that were, no one knew about them, as there was no marketing. I did ask the desk personnel to tell me whenever a new Motown, Tamla, Miracle, Gordy, Mel-O-dy, Workshop Jazz, Divinity, Soul, VIP and Inferno record arrived at the shops.
I like the lyrics to the song and I love the music itself. I don’t care for Liz version that much because The Temptations seem to outshine her on her own record. The shrilling at the end is a bit much too. I much prefer Connie Haines version, it’s much sexier and the backing vocals don’t overpower her.
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I think this one is probably Liz’ best loved record – but not by me. Her enduring contributions to the Motown legacy, for me at any rate, would be the excellent Keep Me, the astonishing May What He Lived For Live (which still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand on end), and her glass-shattering high note on Mary Wells’ Oh Little Boy. Outstanding records one and all.
RIP Liz.
Kraig murray said:
I like the song. But I like best her song dancing on the ceiling the best on hale records.
You have the correct word for this one: Ominious. I has a finger-snapping grove but it doesnt feel like you should be dancing to it, you know?
I dance to it lol
Lol—what it meant was the vocal performance makes it seem like a gospel song while the track sounds secular. So there exists that push-pull that makes you nod your head but keeps you off the dance floor because at that time kids got whipped for trying to dance to gospel music.
Oh wow people couldn’t dance to gospel music? That’s insane.
Don’t misunderstand though. Back then gospel music was verrrrrrry sacred and serious even though the Soul Strirrers and the 5 Blind Boys and all of those groups were rocking out, you couldnt just jump up and do the mashed potatos, you know?
Lol yeah I know what you mean.
Abbott Cooper said:
I think this is a terrific record, and Liz Lands makes a fine accounting for herself. Her voice does not go out of control at all and hits the one high note at just the right place, a place where plenty of other singers could only wish they had the ability to duplicate what Liz contributes to fine fade. As for its sounding like “On Broadway,” I’ll add this: If Rudy and the Drifters had the Andantes singing along with them, “On Broadway” would be a better record. I give this one “8” johnnies.
Abbott – been enjoying your reading your comments and obvious knowledge. But I do have to disagree with you about the Drifters On Broadway. Nothing beats it. The best thing in the Drifters’ Rudy Lewis era. Probably the weakest thing about it is the much vaunted Phil Spector guitar solo.
But I really love Midnight Johnny quite a bit, too. I notice up above about 5 years ago I said I’d rate it a 7. Today I’d up it to 8. But for me, the Drifters is still a 10.
Dissent is welcome here too.
Bill said:
Well I’ve only known about Liz Lands for 2 weeks and I think she’s got a great voice and pulls this (and the B side Keep Me) off superbly. I’d rate this an 8. Now I’ve got these two songs on my motown all-time-great playlist. Thanks for your wonderful site!
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The Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) is a household survey programme developed by UNICEF to assist countries in filling data gaps for monitoring human development in general and the situation of children and women in particular. MICS is capable of producing statistically sound, internationally comparable estimates of social indicators. The current round of MICS is focused on providing a monitoring tool for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the World Fit for Children (WFFC), as well as for other major international commitments, such as the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on HIV/AIDS and the Abuja targets for malaria.
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MICS questionnaires are designed in a modular fashion that can be easily customized to the needs of a country. They consist of a household questionnaire, a questionnaire for women aged 15-49 and a questionnaire for children under the age of five (to be administered to the mother or caretaker). Other than a set of core modules, countries can select which modules they want to include in each questionnaire.
Survey Implementation
The survey was carried out by the Ministry of Statistics and Analysis of the Republic of Belarus, and Research Institute of Statistics of the Ministry of Statistics and Analysis of the Republic of Belarus with the support and assistance of UNICEF and Ministry of Health. Technical assistance and training for the surveys is provided through a series of regional workshops, covering questionnaire content, sampling and survey implementation; data processing; data quality and data analysis; report writing and dissemination.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Version 1.0: Edited data used for final report
Household members MICS Topics
Education MICS Topics
Water and sanitation MICS Topics
Household characteristics MICS Topics
Child labour MICS Topics
Child discipline MICS Topics
Women's background MICS Topics
Child mortality MICS Topics
Maternal and newborn health MICS Topics
Marriage and union MICS Topics
Contraception MICS Topics
HIV/AIDS MICS Topics
Children's background MICS Topics
Early learning MICS Topics
Breastfeeding MICS Topics
Care of illness MICS Topics
Immunization MICS Topics
Anthropometry MICS Topics
The survey is nationally representative and covers the whole of Belarus.
Households (defined as a group of persons who usually live and eat together)
De jure household members (defined as memers of the household who usually live in the household, which may include people who did not sleep in the household the previous night, but does not include visitors who slept in the household the previous night but do not usually live in the household)
Women aged 15-49
Children aged 0-4
The survey covered all de jure household members (usual residents), all women aged 15-49 years resident in the household, and all children aged 0-4 years (under age 5) resident in the household.
Authoring entity
Ministry of Statistics and Analysis of the Republic of Belarus
Research Institute of Statistics
Ministry of Statistics and Analysis of the Republic of Belarus Technical implementation and supervision
Research Institute of Statistics Ministry of Statistics and Analysis of the Republic of Belarus Methodological conceptualization of the survey
UNICEF, Belrus Country Office UNICEF Technical assistance
UNICEF Regional MICS coordinator UNICEF International technical assistance
UNICEF Regional M&E officer UNICEF International technical assistance
Strategic Information Section, Division of Policy and Planning, UNICEF NYHQ UNICEF International technical assistance
UNICEF HQ UNICEF Funding of survey implementation
UNICEF CO UNICEF Funding of survey implementation
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD Financial and technical support in data archiving
Other acknowledgement(s)
The Ministry of Health Technical assistance to the Ministry of Statistics and Analysis of the Republic of Belarus in receiving from medical institutions the lists of the households with children under five and the immunization cards
Galina Gasyuk The Ministry of Statistics and Analysis Survey Coordinator
Svetlana Novoselova The Ministry of Statistics and Analysis Survey Coordinator
Victor Tamashevich Research Institute of Statistics Technical Director
Irina Bulgakova The Ministry of Statistics and Analysis Sampling Expert
Olga Yakimovich The Ministry of Statistics and Analysis Sampling Expert
Inna Konoshonok The Ministry of Statistics and Analysis Data Processing Expert
The principal objective of the sample design was to provide current and reliable estimates on a set of indicators covering the four major areas of the World Fit for Children declaration, including promoting healthy lives; providing quality education; protecting against abuse, exploitation and violence; and combating HIV/AIDS. The population covered by the 2005 MICS is defined as the universe of all women aged 15-49 and all children aged under 5. A sample of households was selected and all women aged 15-49 identified as usual residents of these households were interviewed. In addition, the mother or the caretaker of all children aged under 5 who were usual residents of the household were also interviewed about the child.
The 2005 MICS collected data from a nationally representative sample of households, women and children. The primary focus of the 2005 MICS was to provide estimates of key population and health, education, child protection and HIV related indicators for the country as a whole, and for urban and rural areas separately. In addition, the sample was designed to provide estimates for each of the 7 regions for key indicators. Belarus is divided into 7 regions. Each region is subdivided into big cities, small towns and rural areas (selskie sovety). In addition each unit was subdivided into polling stations in urban areas and rural settlements in selskie sovety. In total Belarus includes 20 big cities, 187 small cities and 1388 selskie soveties.
MICS3 is utilizing the sample frame of household surveys that is being used in the republic. To provide uniform distribution of the sample allocation of the households in the republic the selection was carried out in Brest, Vitebsk, Gomel, Grodno, Minsk, Mogilev regions and in Minsk city.
Three stage sampling has been carried out. At the first stage in each of the regions (oblasts) three sampling strata has been created: big cities, small towns and rural areas (selskie sovety); at the second stage - polling stations in urban areas and rural settlements in selskie sovety; at the third stage in the selected settlements the households were selected. Within the strata of big cities, at first stage, 20 big cities were selected with the probability equalling to 1. Within the strata of small towns 29 small towns were sampled systematically with pps and the measure of size was total population of the small towns. The number of small towns in every region (oblast) was selected based on division of the total number of population of all small towns of each region into average household size (2,6), sample share (1/600) and average load of interviewer (40).
Within the strata of rural settlements (selskie sovety) at the first stage of sampling 53 rural settlements were selected systematically with pps and the measure of size was number of households in the rural settlement.
On the second stage of sampling within the big cities and the small towns the polling stations were selected as sampling unit, in the rural settlements - settlements in rural area (selskie sovety).
To cover the whole territory of the selected city the cartographical materials were used on the second stage of sampling within the big cities. The number of the polling stations was calculated based on division of the population of the city into the average size of the family (2,6), sample share (1/600) and estimated number of the households in each polling station (20).
Three polling stations were selected in each small town from the list of the polling stations, ranking by number of voters. In rural areas, taking into account the difficulty of access and scattered nature of settlements, the territories of the rural areas (selskie sovety) were divided into zones and the closest rural settlements were grouped. One zone was selected in each rural area (selskie sovety) and within this zone all settlements were investigated.
Throughout the Republic of Belarus there were 304 polling stations and the rural zones in selskie sovery selected in 2005.
On the third stage of sampling, households were selected from the updated lists systematically taking into account the size of the cluster. In big cities the size of the cluster which is selected from the updated list households within the territory of polling station is 19-20 households, in small towns the size of the cluster is 13-14 households, and in rural areas the size of the cluster is 39-40 households.The size of clusters is not uniform. Variation in cluster sizes for urban and rural settlements was done on purpose since existing sampling plan was considering load of one interviewer, as one of the parameters, and distribution of sampled population into the sampling domains - proportionally to the distribution in general population.
Besides, taking into account the limited representation of children under 5 in the household sample, the additional sub-sample of households with children aged 0-4 was formed. For this purpose, in each of the 304 clusters the lists of households was updated with the information on households with under 5 children through local out-patient health institutions. From these lists with higher probability then for households without children, the households with children aged 0-4 were selected.
The resulting number of households for MICS3 sample in the Republic of Belarus was 7,000, including 2,857 households with children aged 0-4.
Following standard MICS data collection rules, if a household was actually more than one household when visited, then a) if the selected household contained two households, both were interviewed, or b) if the selected household contained 3 or more households, then only the household of the person named as the head was interviewed.
Deviations from sample design
No major deviations from the original sample design were made. All sample enumeration areas were accessed and successfully interviewed with good response rates.
Of the 7,000 households selected for the sample, 100% were found to be occupied. Of these, 6,707 were successfully interviewed for a household response rate of 95.8% percent. In the interviewed households, 5,906 women (age 15-49) were identified. Of these, 5,895 were successfully interviewed, yielding a response rate of 99.8 percent. In addition, 3,051 children under age five were listed in the household questionnaire. Of these, questionnaires were completed for 3,051 which corresponds to a response rate of 100 percent. Overall response rates of 95.6% and 95.8% are calculated for the women's and under-5's interviews respectively.
Differentials in household response rates by regions were from 94.4 % in Mogilev region to 96.7% in Gomel region.
Sample weights were calculated for each of the datafiles.
Sample weights for the household data were computed as the inverse of the probability of selection of the household, computed at the sampling domain level (urban/rural within each region). The household weights were adjusted for non-response at the domain level, and were then normalized by a constant factor so that the total weighted number of households equals the total unweighted number of households. The household weight variable is called HHWEIGHT and is used with the HH data and the HL data.
Sample weights for the women's data used the un-normalized household weights, adjusted for non-response for the women's questionnaire, and were then normalized by a constant factor so that the total weighted number of women's cases equals the total unweighted number of women's cases.
Sample weights for the children's data followed the same approach as the women's and used the un-normalized household weights, adjusted for non-response for the children's questionnaire, and were then normalized by a constant factor so that the total weighted number of children's cases equals the total unweighted number of children's cases.
Dates of collection
Mode of data collection
Face-to-face [f2f]
Data collection supervision
Interviewing was conducted by teams of interviewers. Each interviewing team comprised of 4-5 interviewers, one driver, one editor/measurer and a supervisor. Each teams used a 4 wheel dirve vehicle to travel from cluster to cluster (and where necessary within cluster).
The role of the supervisor was to coordinate field data collection activities, including management of the field teams, supplies and equipment, finances, maps and listings, coordinate with local authorities concerning the survey plan and make arrangements for accomodation and travel. Additionally, the field supervisor assigned the work to the interviewers, spot checked work, maintained field control documents, and sent completed questionnaires and progress reports to the central office.
The field editor was responsible for reviewing each questionnaire at the end of the day, checking for missed questions, skip errors, fields incorrectly completed, and checking for inconsistencies in the data. The field editor also observed interviews and conducted review sessions with interviewers.
Responsibilities of the supervisors and field editors are described in the Instructions for Supervisors and Field Editors, together with the different field controls that were in place to control the quality of the fieldwork.
The questionnaires for the Belarus MICS were structured questionnaires based on the MICS3 Model Questionnaire. A household questionnaire was administered in each household, which collected various information on household members including sex, age, relationship, and orphanhood status. The household questionnaire includes household listing, education, water and sanitation, household characteristics, child labour, and child discipline.
In addition to a household questionnaire, questionnaires were administered in each household for women age 15-49 and children under age five. For children, the questionnaire was administered to the mother or caretaker of the child.
The women's questionnaire include women's characteristics, child mortality, maternal and newborn health, marriage/union, contraception, and HIV/AIDS.
The children's questionnaire includes children's characteristics, early learning, breastfeeding, care of Illness, immunization and anthropometry.
The questionnaires were developed in English from the MICS3 Model Questionnaires, and were translated into Russian. After an initial review the questionnaires were translated back into English by an independent translator with no prior knowledge of the survey. The back translation from the Russian version was independently reviewed and compared to the English original. Differences in translation were reviewed and resolved in collaboration with the original translators.
The Russian questionnaires were both piloted as part of the survey pretest.
All questionnaires and modules are provided as external resources.
Data collector(s)
Ministry of Statistics and Analysis Republic of Belarus Ministry of Statistics and Analysis Republic of Belarus Ministry of Statistics and Analysis Republic of Belarus The Ministry of Statistics and Analysis of the Republic of Belarus MINSTAT
Research Institute of Statistics Ministry of Statistics and Analysis Republic of Belarus Ministry of Statistics and Analysis Republic of Belarus Ministry of Statistics and Analysis Republic of Belarus The Ministry of Statistics and Analysis of the Republic of Belarus
Data editing took place at a number of stages throughout the processing (see Other processing), including:
a) Office editing and coding
b) During data entry
c) Structure checking and completeness
d) Secondary editing
e) Structural checking of SPSS data files
Detailed documentation of the editing of data can be found in the data processing guidelines
metadata.study_desc.method.data_collection.method_notes
Data were processed in clusters, with each cluster being processed as a complete unit through each stage of data processing. Each cluster goes through the following steps:
1) Questionnaire reception
2) Office editing and coding
3) Data entry
4) Structure and completeness checking
5) Verification entry
6) Comparison of verification data
7) Back up of raw data
8) Secondary editing
9) Edited data back up After all clusters are processed, all data is concatenated together and then the following steps are completed for all data files:
10) Export to SPSS in 4 files (hh - household, hl - household members, wm - women, ch - children under 5)
11) Recoding of variables needed for analysis
12) Adding of sample weights
13) Calculation of wealth quintiles and merging into data
14) Structural checking of SPSS files
15) Data quality tabulations
16) Production of analysis tabulations
Details of each of these steps can be found in the data processing documentation, data editing guidelines, data processing programs in CSPro and SPSS, and tabulation guidelines.
The data were entered on four computers and carried out by 11 data entry operators and 5 data entry supervisors. All data entry was conducted at the MINSTAT head office using manual data entry. Data processing began simultaneously with data collection in December 2005 and was completed in January 2006. For data entry, CSPro version 2.6.007 was used with a highly structured data entry program, using system controlled approach, that controlled entry of each variable. All range checks and skips were controlled by the program and operators could not override these. A limited set of consistency checks were also included inthe data entry program. In addition, the calculation of anthropometric Z-scores was also included in the data entry programs for use during analysis. Open-ended responses ("Other" answers) were not entered or coded, except in rare circumstances where the response matched an existing code in the questionnaire.
Structure and completeness checking ensured that all questionnaires for the cluster had been entered, were structurally sound, and that women's and children's questionnaires existed for each eligible woman and child.
100% verification of all variables was performed using independent verification, i.e. double entry of data, with separate comparison of data followed by modification of one or both datasets to correct keying errors by original operators who first keyed the files.
After completion of all processing in CSPro, all individual cluster files were backed up before concatenating data together using the CSPro file concatenate utility.
For tabulation and analysis SPSS version14.0 were used. Version 10.0 was originally used for all tabulation programs, except for child mortality. Later version 14.0 was used for child mortality, data quality tabulations and other analysis activities.
After transferring all files to SPSS, certain variables were recoded for use as background characteristics in the tabulation of the data, including grouping age, education, geographic areas as needed for analysis. In the process of recoding ages and dates some random imputation of dates (within calculated constraints) was performed to handle missing or "don't know" ages or dates. Additionally, a wealth (asset) index of household members was calculated using principal components analysis, based on household assets, and both the score and quintiles were included in the datasets for use in tabulations.
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Estimates from a sample survey are affected by two types of errors: 1) non-sampling errors and 2) sampling errors. Non-sampling errors are the results of mistakes made in the implementation of data collection and data processing. Numerous efforts were made during implementation of the 2005 MICS to minimize this type of error, however, non-sampling errors are impossible to avoid and difficult to evaluate statistically.
Sampling errors can be evaluated statistically. The sample of respondents to the 2005 MICS is only one of many possible samples that could have been selected from the same population, using the same design and expected size. Each of these samples would yield results that differe somewhat from the results of the actual sample selected. Sampling errors are a measure of the variability in the results of the survey between all possible samples, and, although, the degree of variability is not known exactly, it can be estimated from the survey results.
The sampling erros are measured in terms of the standard error for a particular statistic (mean or percentage), which is the square root of the variance. Confidence intervals are calculated for each statistic within which the true value for the population can be assumed to fall. Plus or minus two standard errors of the statistic is used for key statistics presented in MICS, equivalent to a 95 percent confidence interval.
If the sample of respondents had been a simple random sample, it would have been possible to use straightforward formulae for calculating sampling errors. However, the 2005 MICS sample is the result of a multi-stage stratified design, and consequently needs to use more complex formulae. The SPSS complex samples module has been used to calculate sampling errors for the 2005 MICS. This module uses the Taylor linearization method of variance estimation for survey estimates that are means or proportions. This method is documented in the SPSS file CSDescriptives.pdf found under the Help, Algorithms options in SPSS.
Sampling errors have been calculated for a select set of statistics (all of which are proportions due to the limitations of the Taylor linearization method) for the national sample, urban and rural areas, and for each of the five regions. For each statistic, the estimate, its standard error, the coefficient of variation (or relative error -- the ratio between the standard error and the estimate), the design effect, and the square root design effect (DEFT -- the ratio between the standard error using the given sample design and the standard error that would result if a simple random sample had been used), as well as the 95 percent confidence intervals (+/-2 standard errors).
Details of the sampling errors are presented in the sampling errors appendix to the report and in the sampling errors table presented in te external resources.
Other forms of data appraisal
A series of data quality tables and graphs are available to review the quality of the data and include the following:
Age distribution of the household population
Age distribution of eligible women and interviewed women
Age distribution of eligible children and children for whom the mother or caretaker was interviewed
Age distribution of children under age 5 by 3 month groups
Age and period ratios at boundaries of eligibility
Percent of observations with missing information on selected variables
Presence of mother inthe household and person interviewed for the under 5 questionnaire
School attendance by single year age
Sex ratio at birth among children ever born, surviving and dead by age of respondent
Distribution of women by time since last birth
The results of each of these data quality tables is shown in the appendix of the final report and is also given in the external resources section.
The general rule for presentation of missing data in the final report tabulations is that a column is presented for missing data if the percentage of cases with missing data is 1% or more. Cases with missing data on the background characteristics (e.g. education) are included in the tables, but the missing data rows are suppressed and noted at the bottom of the tables in the report (not in the SPSS output, however).
Access authorities
Ministry of Statistics and Analysis Republic of Belarus Ministry of Statistics and Analysis Republic of Belarus Ministry of Statistics and Analysis Republic of Belarus The Ministry of Statistics and Analysis of the Republic of Belarus minstat@mail.belpak.by www.belstat.gov.by
metadata.study_desc.data_access.dataset_use.conf_dec
Users of the data agree to keep confidential all data contained in these datasets and to make no attempt to identify, trace or contact any individual whose data is included in these datasets.
Survey datasets are distributed at no cost for legitimate research, with the condition that we receive a description of the objectives of any research project that will be using the data prior to authorizing their distribution. Copies of all reports and publications based on the requested data must be sent to MINSTAT (housewife1@mail.ru) and UNICEF Belarus (nmufel@unicef.org) .
Requests for access to the datasets may be made through the website www.childinfo.org.
Citation requirements
The Ministry of Statistics and Analysis of the Republic of Belarus, Belrus. Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey: Household , household listing, women and children's files, 2005 [Computer file]. Minsk, Belarus: The Ministry of Statistics and Analysis of the Republic of Belarus [producer], 2005. Minsk, Belarus: The Ministry of Statistics and Analysis of the Republic of Belarus and New York: Strategic Information Section, Division of Policy and Planning, UNICEF [distributors], 2007.
MINSTAT and UNICEF provides these data to external users without any warranty or responsibility implied. MINSTAT and UNICEF accepts no responsibility for the results and/or implications of any actions resulting from the use of these data.
2007, The Ministry of Statistics and Analysis of the Republic of Belarus
Bulgakova, Irina The Ministry of Statistics and Analysis of the Republic of Belarus housewife1@mail.ru www.belstat.gov.by
Novoselova, Svetlana The Ministry of Statistics and Analysis of the Republic of Belarus housewife1@mail.ru www.belstat.gov.by
Mufel, Natalia UNICEF Belarus nmufel@unicef.org www.unicef.org
Hancioglu, Attila UNICEF ahancioglu@unicef.org www.childinfo.org
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Konoshonok, Inna MINSTAT Ministry of Statistics and Analysis of the Republic of Belarus Producer of MICS3 Belarus Archive
Mufel, Natalia UNICEF UNICEF, Belarus Coodination of data archiving proccess
Croft, Trevor TNC Blancroft Research International Producer of generic MICS example archive
Bjelic, Ivana SMMRI Strategic Marketing Data archiving consultant
James, Rhiannon SMMRI UNICEF Adaption od MICS3 Belaris Archive for www.childinfo.org
Belarus MICS UNICEF 2005 v0.6
Slightly edited version of UNICEF's DDI ref. DDI-BLR-UNICEF-MICS2005/1.0-v0.1
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Migraineur Gwyneth Paltrow Latest Target of Migraine Stigma
By Diana-Lee · May 16, 2013
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow appears to be the latest celebrity Migraineur lambasted by a public and media that tend to completely misunderstand the nature of Migraine Disease.
Paltrow recently released her second cookbook, It’s All Good, which features sugar-free, gluten-free and dairy-free recipes. The book’s recipes were developed during an elimination diet she followed at her doctor’s recommendation after experiencing a scary episode she thought was a stroke.
Paltrow was actually experiencing a Migraine attack, not a stroke. As a result, her doctor recommended she try an elimination diet, which is a common tool for trying to prevent Migraine attacks.
Paltrow cut out coffee, alcohol, dairy, eggs, sugar, shellfish, deep-water fish, wheat, meat, soy and processed foods during her elimination diet. While this list varies somewhat from the list of foods typically recommended for a migraine elimination diet, there is definitely much overlap. As many of us who’ve contemplated or tried elimination diets can relate to, Paltrow feared her diet would be boring and bland. So she started developing recipes to combat those challenges.
As a result of the elimination diet and testing, Paltrow discovered she is gluten sensitive. Gluten sensitivity has been associated with headache disorders in research studies. In one recently published study researchers found that 56% of gluten sensitive patients lived with chronic headaches, while 48% lived with Migraine attacks, the majority of which were categorized as “Very Severe.” She also learned she was anemic and Vitamin D deficient.
Lots of nasty articles and comments have floated around online, but the worst I saw was from the New York Post, which said:
“The book reads like the manifesto to some sort of creepy healthy-girl sorority with members who use beet juice rather than permanent marker to circle the ‘problem areas’ on each other’s bodies.”
How ignorant is that? Any attempt to research Migraine Disease and elimination diets would have informed this writer and her editors that this is a completely mainstream approach to management of Migraine. I am aware the New York Post’s tone tends toward the snarky, but the quoted passage is stigmatizing and disgusting.
As my friend so wisely said on Facebook (a non-Migraineur, by the way), no one would be criticizing this at all if the actress in question was curvy or full figured. They’d be thrilled she finally decided to make herself socially acceptable. But then it’s not exactly a surprise that our society has ridiculous body image issues. We hate the large girl because she doesn’t fit our standards and the thin girl because she does. And sadly, Migraine isn’t considered a serious enough condition to warrant a specialized diet.
This article represents the opinions, thoughts, and experiences of the author; none of this content has been paid for by any advertiser. The Migraine.com team does not recommend or endorse any products or treatments discussed herein. Learn more about how we maintain editorial integrity here.
View References
1. Kristene Quan, "Why Don’t People Like Gwyneth Paltrow’s New Cookbook?", Time Magazine, March 14, 2013, http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/03/14/why-dont-people-like-gwyneth-paltrows-new-cookbook/#ixzz2PH7Hr0hx, accessed April 1, 2013. 2. 3. Zayda Rivera, "Gwyneth Paltrow’s new cookbook reveals her kids’ low-carb diet that leaves them with ‘that specific hunger’," New York Daily News, March 13, 2013, http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/gwyneth-paltrow-new-book-cooks-carb-controversy-article-1.1287713#ixzz2PHCxtZHw, accessed April 1, 2013. 3. Haley Eber, "Paltrow’s new dairy-, gluten- and sugar-free cookbook is a recipe for ridicule," New York Post, March 12, 2013, http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/food/starved_for_attention_CkQoljEkRWx1rnIQ6ObG7J, accessed April 1, 2013. 4. Gwyneth Paltrow, "It's All Good," (Grand Central Life & Style, 2013).
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Jackie DeCesaris
I think the issue is her lack of transparency. She clearly has migraine and yet she doesn’t come clear with this message. In stead, she takes the dies and extrapolates it into something for every person for every reason which comes off as nutty….who would restrict their lives so seriously unless the consequences where being struck with a lightening bolt? I am actually a bit disappointed she has never discussed the obvious: her bout with hemiplegic migraines of which I too, suffer. If she were more clear that migraines, not some vague “being unwell” led her to great discoveries that might have further reaching benefits, her claims might ring more true. But as long as she is vague, her claims seem odd. I get what she is doing, you here get what she is doing, but the average person is clueless. She should explain clearly to all.
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Wisconsin farmers hopeful USMCA passes Congress as window of opportunity closes according to Mexico's consul general
STEVENS POINT - Wisconsin farmers hurt by President Trump's trade wars could see some relief soon.
Mexico's representative to the Badger State believes the vicious cycle of tariffs and retaliation will end if Congress passes the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), replacing NAFTA in the process.
Trade with Mexico supports more than 97,000 jobs in Wisconsin. What's more, Mexico imports $3.4 billion worth of goods from America's Dairyland as one of the state's top export destinations, second only to Canada.
Under USMCA, Julian Adem, the Mexican Consul General to Milwaukee says exports from Wisconsin to Mexico are expected to increase.
"The window of opportunity is September, maybe October," said Julian Adem.
Adem imparted that message of urgency to Wisconsin farmers and manufacturers Tuesday in talks touting the expected benefits of USMCA following Mexico's ratification of the trade deal on June 19. Central Wisconsin economic development group Centergy hosted the presentation at Mid-State Technical College in Stevens Point.
"The economic success of North America depends on a strong regional trade partnership," said Adem.
During his rermarks, Adem dedicated the most time to USMCA provisions that would raise wages for 40% to 45% of automobile workers to $16. American car makers would also be required to use 75% domestic parts, up from 62.5% under NAFTA, or face a 2.5% tariff.
"We admit that we're going to a be a trade zone and we're going to work together," said Adem.
Adem acknowledged that the $16 pay increase would not likely affect Mexican workers as the country's low cost of production could not support the economic influx. However, Adem was confident that USMCA's rigorous manufacturing requirements would not encourage car makers to move their factories out of his country.
"The risk exists, but I think after 25 years of developing an experienced workforce in Mexico and all the plants which are fully stocked and have the latest technology, it's still going to be more convenient than setting up shop from scratch in a country where the workers are untrained," said Adem.
On impacts to food production, farmers like Brian Wysocki with central Wisconsin potato and vegetable producer Heartland Farms feel the deal is long overdue.
"It can't happen fast enough. I wish Congress and the legislation would pass it sooner and not keep stalling," said Wyoscki. "I think we could benefit right away if it was enacted."
Farmer's like Doug Rebout with the Wisconsin Corn Growers Association hope the new agreement will quell the president's constant threat of tariffs, like those he almost imposed in May against Mexico over illegal immigration.
"Anytime tariff is [sic] mentioned it affects our prices and what we're getting paid on the farm," said Rebout.
In a series of tweets on June 7, the president announced that the previously announced 5% tariff on all Mexican imports was "indefinitely suspended."
"Mexico, in turn, has agreed to take strong measures to stem the tide of Migration through Mexico, and to our Southern Border," the President tweeted.
"We're hoping once this trade deal gets done, that all the tariffs with Mexico are also done," said Rebout.
Adem is also hopeful the tariff threats will cease under the new trade deal.
"We don't want the tariffs in anyway, this trade is the most important thing for us and we just proved it," said Adem.
He believes new labor laws adopted on May 1 in connection with USMCA that strengthen collective bargaining in Mexico will encourage Democrats in the House to ratify the trade deal even though it would give the president a political win.
"For political reasons, it's not so easy to give the President of the United States what would look like a victory," said Adem. "As the say, a feather in his cap."
Adem added that a recent trade deal with the European Union that restricts the use of common cheese names like "Asiago" and "Parmesan" would not affect American dairy producers.
He went on to say Mexico would be happy to move forward on a deal with the United States, even if Canada was no longer interested following October elections.
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Leah (לֵאָה) was the first wife of the prophet Jacob and the mother of Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah. She was the daughter of Rebekah's brother Laban and the older sister of Rachel.
1.1 Jacob meets Rachel
1.2 Gaining a husband
1.4 Mandrakes for Rachel
1.5 Jacob earns his flock
1.6 Flight
1.7 Jocab's reunion with Esau
Biography[edit]
Jacob meets Rachel[edit]
Due to the will of God and Jacob's mother Rebekah, the prophet Isaac gave his blessing to his second son Jacob instead of his first son Esau. Esau was enraged and vowed retribution against Jacob. In order to protect Jacob, Rebekah had Jacob sent to her homeland, to live under the protection of her brother Laban. Isaac also tasked Jacob with finding a proper wife from among Rebekah's people.
Leah's sister Rebekah served as a shepherd for her father's flock of sheep. As she was leading her sheep to a well, she and Jacob met. Jacob had earlier learned from the other shepherds that Rachel was Laban's daughter. Jacob rolled away the stone that was covering the well in order to allow Rachel's sheep to drink. He then greeted and introduced himself to Rachel. Jacob was both excited and happy. Rebekah alerted her father, and her father came, welcomed Jacob, and brought him into his house.
Gaining a husband[edit]
Within a month, Jacob fell in love with Rachel. Laban offered to pay Jacob for working for him and asked for a price. Jacob sought Rachel's hand in marriage, so he offered seven years of labor as the bride price for Rachel. Laban agreed to this arrangement.
After seven years of labor, Jacob asked Laban for the marriage that he had rightfully earned, per their deal. Laban agreed to have Jacob marry a daughter of his, but Laban sought to have his eldest daughter Leah become married first. Laban gave Jacob a lavish feast. A footnote within the Amplified Bible suggests that Laban had Jacob impaired by intoxication.[1] Laban brought Leah out to marry Jacob instead of Rachel, and Jacob married Leah. Jacob and Leah then consummated the marriage in bed, making the marriage irreversible without offending Leah's honor.
Jacob woke up the next morning and found that he married and had intercourse with Leah instead of Rachel. Jacob chided Laban for tricking him, but Laban said that tradition dictates that an older daughter is to be wed before a younger one. Laban then said that Jacob may marry Rachel after Leah's week-long wedding feast is over but would then have to work for Laban for another seven years in order to paid off the price of the additional bride. Thus, Jacob finally married Rachel, but he was now attached to Laban for another seven years.
Children[edit]
God saw that Jacob loved Leah less than Rachel, so God blessed Leah by increasing their fertility. Leah gave birth to four sons. She acknowledged each birth as a blessing from God and as a means to earn her husband's favor.
Now when the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, He made her able to bear children, but Rachel was barren. Leah conceived and gave birth to a son and named him Reuben (See, a son!), for she said, Because the Lord has seen my humiliation and suffering; now my husband will love me [since I have given him a son]. Then she conceived again and gave birth to a son and said, Because the Lord heard that I am unloved, He has given me this son also. So she named him Simeon (God hears). She conceived again and gave birth to a son and said, Now this time my husband will become attached to me [as a companion], for I have given him three sons. Therefore he was named Levi. Again she conceived and gave birth to a [fourth] son, and she said, Now I will praise the Lord. So she named him Judah; then [for a time] she stopped bearing [children].
— Genesis 29:31–29:35 (AMP)
Rachel, meanwhile, remained childless and became jealous of Leah. She begged Jacob for children: Give me children, or else I will die. Jacob responded by saying that only God can permit children to be born. Rachel then devised a way for her maid Bilhah in have children in her stead. At Rachel's urging, Jacob took Bilhah as an additional wife an conceived a child with her. Jacob and Bilhah later conceived another child together.
Leah then copied Rachel's strategy and had Jacob take her maid Zilpah as an additional wife as well. Jacob and Zilpah conceived, and considering the birth fortunate, Leah named the child Gad ("good fortune"). Jacob and Zilpah conceived again, and Leah named this child Asher ("happy"): I am happy! For women will call me happy.
Mandrakes for Rachel[edit]
One day, Leah's son Reuben gathered mandrakes from the field and gave them to Leah. Rachel asked Leah for some of her mandrakes, which she believed would increase her fertility. Leah was reluctant to depart with the mandrakes since Rachel had Jacob for most nights. Rachel then promised that Leah would have Jacob for the night in exchange for the mandrakes. Leah agreed, turned over some of the mandrakes to Rachel, and spent the night with Jacob. Jacob and Leah conceived a fifth son, then a sixth son, and finally, a daughter.
God listened and answered [the prayer of] Leah, and she conceived and gave birth to a fifth son for Jacob. Then Leah said, God has given me my reward because I have given my maid to my husband. So she named him Issachar. Leah conceived again and gave birth to a sixth son for Jacob. Then Leah said, God has endowed me with a good [marriage] gift [for my husband]; now he will live with me [regarding me with honor as his wife], because I have given birth to six sons. So she named him Zebulun. Afterward she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.
— Genesis 30:17–21 (AMP)
After this was done, God allowed Rachel to conceive children with Jacob. Rachel thanked God and the child Joseph ("may He add") in hopes that God would bless her with more children.
Jacob earns his flock[edit]
After Joseph's birth, Jacob made his desire to return to the Promised Land known to Laban. However, Laban understood the benefits of having a prophet in his household and offered to pay Jacob to continue working for him. Jacob said that he would take Laban's spotted, speckled, dark, and black sheep and goats as his wages in order to start his own flock. Laban agreed but removed the spotted, speckled, dark, and black sheep from his flock in order to force Joseph to stay.
Jacob then began to work miracles with God's help. He took tree branches and peeled off some of their white bark in order to create stripped branches. Sheep and goats mating by these branches would produce streaked, speckled, and spotted offspring. Jacob only displayed the branches in front of the sheep when they were strong and healthy in order to produce strong, healthy non-pure coat offspring. Since Jacob did not display the branches in times of illnesses, all of the pure coat offspring were sickly.
Flight[edit]
Laban and his sons became upset with this outcome and blamed Jacob. God then commanded Jacob to return to Canaan. Jacob explained to his wives what was happening, and they agreed to leave with him and advised him to do as God commanded. Rachel, however, stole her father's household idols before they left, possibly to secure a share of her father's inheritance for her and her offspring.
Laban learned about what happened three days later and pursued Jacob. After seven days of pursuit, Laban overtook Jacob. God appeared to Laban in a dream and warned him not to speak with Jacob, but Laban spoke to Jacob nonetheless. Laban complained to Jacob about how Jacob snuck away, denying him the opportunity to say good-bye to his daughters and grandchildren. Then he asked Jacob to explain why Laban's idols were stolen.
Jacob told Laban that he snuck away because they was afraid that Laban would not allow Leah and Rachel to leave with him. Jacob did not know that Rachel stole the idol and promised Laban that whoever stole the idols would die.
Rachel placed the idols on her camel and sat on top of them in order to hide them from her father. Laban could not find the idols, and Jacob chided Laban for disrespecting him after twenty years of labor.
Laban and Jacob then made a pact with each other. Laban stated that God bears witness to all events, so Laban and Jacob should no longer act behind each other's back. They pledged to not do harm to each other. Laban swore by multiple gods, while Jacob swore only the God of his family, the one true God. Jacob then prepared a sacrifice to God.
The next morning, Laban said good-bye to his daughters and grandchildren, asked for God to bless the family members he is leaving behind, and left in peace.
Jocab's reunion with Esau[edit]
Jacob then send humble messages to his brother Esau. When the messengers returned, they told Jacob that Esau was coming with four hundred men. Jacob was worried about Esau's intentions and divided his camp in two so that if Esau attacks, at least half of them can escape to safety.
Jacob prayed to God, and God reassured Jacob, promising that Jacob's seed would be as numerous as grains of sand. Jacob then sent out a large number and variety of livestock ahead of him to offer to Esau as a gift. Jacob then sent Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, Bilhah, and their children across a brook for safety.
While Jacob was alone, God appeared to Jacob in human form and wrestled with him. Jacob sought to extract a blessing from God. When Jacob refused to quit the struggle, God dislocated Jacob's hip with a mere touch of His finger, yet Jacob continued to refuse to give up until he had secured a blessing.
God asked for Jacob's name, and Jacob told him "Jacob", but God said that Jacob earned a new name: Israel ("he who strives with God"). God blessed Jacob, and Jacob was thankful to be alive.
Esau arrived, and Jacob crossed the brook to greet him. Jacob bowed to the ground seven times while approaching Esau. Esau then hugged his brother; this reunion was to be a happy one. Jacob then had his family met Esau. After that, the two brother went their separate ways.
Legacy[edit]
Leah is the mother of Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun; thus, she is the progenitor of the Israelite tribes that correspond to those names.
Feminist author Margaret Atwood would use the natalist story of Leah and Rachel their handmaids Zilpah and Bilhah as the basis of the fictional dystopian, zealous Christian society featured in the anti-patriarchy novella The Handmaid's Tale.
↑ The Lockman Foundation (2015). Amplified Bible. La Habra, CA: Zondervan. ISBN 0310443903. Laban must have made sure that Jacob was thoroughly intoxicated before he attempted to switch the daughters.
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What it’s like to stand on top of Rio de Janeiro
Katka Lapelosová
Photo: The Flash Pack / SWNS.com
THERE ARE PEOPLE who are satisfied with ticking off, “Hanging out at Rio’s Christ The Redeemer statue” from there bucket lists, and then there is Lee Thompson, who wants to take your bucket list, crumple it up, and toss it in the garbage. After getting special permission from the Brazilian tourism board, Thompson scaled over 124 feet to stand on the top of one of Rio’s most famous landmarks. Pretty much no one is allowed to do that.
I don’t really know how I feel about Thompson’s accomplishment. On the one hand, it is definitely cool to see the photos and views from the top of the statue, and he must feel pretty badass to be one of the only people who can lay claim to such an achievement. On the other hand however, I’m kind of like, “So what? This guy won’t be a big deal in a few hours, when the internet has moved on to something else to fuel their short attention spans.”
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Oh what a lucky man
A few weeks ago I was having dinner with David Cameron. Well, almost - we were at the same restaurant but on tables at the opposite side of the room. He was taking a break from campaigning. I remember thinking he must be one of the luckiest Prime Ministers the UK has ever had. Two strokes of luck in particular stand out: the economy and Scotland. They stand out because between them they enabled him to win an election that he really should have lost.
I’ve talked at length about mediamacro: a network of myths which enable failure to be turned into success. I’ve not come across a single non-City, non-partisan economist who does not concur with the view that the performance of the coalition has been pretty poor (or simply terrible), yet polls repeatedly show that people believe managing the economy is the Conservatives’ strength. This trick has been accomplished by equating the government’s budget with the household, and elevating reducing the deficit as the be all and end all of economic policy.
This allowed Cameron to pass off the impact of bad macro management in delaying the recovery as inevitable pain because they had to ‘clear up the mess’ left by their predecessor. In a recent poll a third of people blamed Labour for austerity. Yet for that story to work well, the economy had to improve towards the end of the coalition’s term in office. The coalition understood this, which was why austerity was put on hold, and everything was thrown at the economy to get a recovery, including pumping up the housing market. In the end the recovery was pretty minimal (no more than average growth), and far from secure (as the 2015Q1 growth figures showed), but it was enough for mediamacro to pretend that earlier austerity had been vindicated. (And, to give them their due, they are very good at pretending.)
So why do I say Cameron is lucky? First, largely by chance (but also because other countries had been undertaking fiscal austerity), UK growth in 2014 was the highest among major economies. This statistic was played for all it was worth. Second, although (in reality) modest growth was not enough to raise real incomes, just in the nick of time oil prices fell, so real wages have now begun to rise. Third, playing the game of shutting down part of the economy so that you can boast when it starts up again is a dangerous game, and you need a bit of fortune to get it right. (Of course if there really was no plan, and the recovery was delayed through incompetence, then he is luckier still.)
The Scottish independence referendum in September last year was close. 45% of Scots voted in September to leave the UK. One of the major push factors was the Conservative led government. If Scotland had voted for independence in 2014, it would have been a disaster for Cameron: after all, the full title of his party is the Conservative and Unionist Party. That was his first piece of Scottish fortune. The second was that the referendum dealt a huge blow to Labour in Scotland. Labour are far from blameless here, and their support had been gradually declining, but there can be no doubt that the aftermath of the referendum lost them many Scottish seats, and therefore reduced their seat total in the UK.
Yet that led to a third piece of luck. The SNP tidal wave in Scotland gave him one additional card he could play to his advantage: English nationalism. The wall of sound coming from the right wing press about how the SNP would hold Miliband to ransom was enough to get potential UKIP supporters to vote Conservative in sufficient numbers for him to win the election.
With the economy you could perhaps argue that there was some judgement as well as luck involved. That is very difficult to believe with Scotland. The man who almost presided over the break-up of the United Kingdom, and had to rely on Labour efforts (including his predecessor as PM) to avoid that outcome, will continue as Prime Minister as an indirect result. That is why, as I watched David Cameron eat supper at a nearby table, I thought something to the effect of you lucky person.
Labels: 2015 election, Cameron, Scotland
Asclepius 8 May 2015 at 01:00
Good analysis.
I do feel that the fate of the Union is now at risk more than ever. The Conservatives need to take responsibility for their lack of appeal to the Scottish electorate. Having unleashed the nationalist djinn, this will be an uphill task, particularly as Nicola Sturgeon is an accomplished MP with a progressive and inclusive agenda (which will appeal to many English as well). I suspect Cameron will HAVE to keep playing the nationalist card - which will erode the union further.
I also suspect civil unrest will again unfold on the streets of England this parliament. Inequality has a habit of fomenting unrest.
I could be wrong but.......
The Conservatives can win-over Scottish voters: they won Corby.
MrSauce.
Bob Jones 8 May 2015 at 01:02
I realise that your piece is casting a backward look at the situation and I believe your analysis is correct.
However, looking forward, and like you, I cannot see the sunny uplands that were portrayed by the Conservatives. We face quite substantial economic challenges ahead and personally I think we are in no fit state to meet those challenges and this inconvenient truth will assert itself with a vengeance over the next two or three years. I suspect that the quiet triumphalism that the Conservatives must now feel may be distinctly less triumphalist in five years time.
And this is on top of the profound constitutional issues that will inevitably rise to the surface in the form of a resurgent Scottish demand for independence and the potential exit from the EU.
Let's face it this election has really settled very little.
I agree that there are no sunny uplands as portrayed. A likely Grexit would lead to chaos in the Eurozone with a serious impact in the UK, a Brexit looks a real possibility and would lead to further chaos in our economy. Additionally, I really can't see how the Union can be saved following the anti-Scots propaganda employed by the Conservatives and their press to help secure their narrow victory.
However, in 5 years time I wouldn't put it past 'mediamacro' to somehow manage to blame the previous Labour government for everything which will go wrong in the interim!
I'd imagine there are several non-dom/foreign billionaires raising their glasses this morning to toast the propaganda success of their media mouthpieces which no doubt stands to reward their investment very handsomely indeed.
Depressingly, I'm inclined to agree.
Unemployment is low, inflation is low, the economy is growing.
Productivity low, BOP horrendous; PSBR still high; inflation (temporarily)low; growth, low and decreasing. What's to be smug about?
5%+ unemployment low?? well, only if you compare it with Greece…plus that number doesn't include underemployment and those who have exited the job market altogether; then there's lowflation/deflation, that will be good for salary increases and standard of living of course; and the real GDP per cap flat for years to continue…I can't wait.
Bob, you're right.
What we will see now could be quite horrific as the Tories withdraw minimal stimulus and reapply their austerian death-grip. Now they have a guaranteed 5 more years, probably with no need for any support or any need in the meantime to bribe the electorate for votes with help-to-buy etc, they can set about cutting that £12bn.
As Mr Anonymous says: What's not to like?
With a stronger position in a coalition (as was originally forecast), I'd imagine Osborne would have been a bit more strident with his focus on austerity.
With an unexpected majority, I can only imagine what will occur. Wouldn't surprise me if he doubled-down even further on austerity with the view that the election victory provides him a mandate to do so.
It will be interesting to see what happens to the employment/productivity statistics longer-term. Nothing good, I'd imagine.
Simon, I agree that Cameron should have lost, in particular on the merits of his disastrous economic program. And I don't see upside coming out of this result, especially with Cameron having tossed some rocks under his mattress.
I think, however, that this election was less about substance than about personalities (although the Tories will claim a true mandate for their program, wrong as it is). Lord Ashcroft's poll may be worth something on that front as it is reinforced by other polls regarding the public view of the two men.
People didn't like Milliband and viewed Cameron more positively even among a considerable number of Labor voters. I'm not saying that it's fair. But even while Cameron was playing a duplicitous economic shell game by relieving austerity for the campaign leadup, he was able to project a strong image.
While Blair and his ideas are generally in shambles now, I think it worth remembering that while he had a strong pitch, his was for voters a more appealing image than that of John Major. That personality allowed him to dominate politics until his disasters wrecked his name.
Milliband did not project the image of a crisp sharp leadership despite having substance. Cameron did, although his rule is mostly based on hot air and incompetence economically.
Cameron ultimately will rely on good luck on the economics front, i.e. if he's lucky he won't be embarrassed as much as he deserves. Assuming that he leaves, much will depend on his successors ability to project competence while pushing foward bad economic programs.
If Labor/Left is to succeed, they will need a strong personality with a concise strong economic program that doesn't wander and a campaign that focuses on the many failures of the Conservatives.
The city should be happy with the absurd tax cuts they've gotten while ordinary people don't quite grasp how deeply into their pockets the Conservatives have reached, e.g. VAT, and a weaker economy.
If the Conservatives were intelligent (an oxymoron if ever there was) they will eventually do what the Reagan proto neo-cons did having sold the farcical "Supply Side Economics."
Keynesian economics is what they did, spend a lot more, borrow a lot more, hire more federal employees, expand the military, etc. And while it wasn't well managed and built on a series of lies, it worked - SORT OF.
Because the U.S. Economy began recovering from the Joe Volcker Recession in mid 1980, only six months in length, but very sharp and imposed to break the back of stag-flation created during the Nixon period. The recovery was not early enough to swing the election back to the Democrats in that fall's election.
In fact, Reagan's initial adoption of crackpot economics pitched the US economy back into a recession that ran for a full 16 months, from July of 1981 (in his first year) through November of 1982. Like most politicians he wanted to be re-elected so the economics were shifted as I said. Paul Krugman has written about this (in his own inimitable way).
A classical Keynesian recovery has since been repackaged as "the Reagan Revolution" and a triumph for supply-side as well as for crackpot Laffler.
That is essentially what we have seen Cameron and the Tories do. They squeezed the hell out of things and then loosened the strings enough to make it look like a recovery was happening as the election neared.
Having created a triple dip economy, they won't learn anything from their misguided policies, but are much more likely to return to trying to devastate the social welfare system, not from good economies but raw ideology. They believe it so it must be right.
The recession dates are from http://www.nber.org/cycles.html which is the arbiter of recession cycles in the US.
rob sol 9 May 2015 at 10:35
Brits; you gave the lunatics the keys to the asylum for the next 5 years, and you will have to deal with the consequences. Cameron got a majority of the seats; why should he not act as if he has a mandate; I certainly see his win as a mandate. Good luck with all of that.
Lionel Barber, editor of the FT, came on the radio this morning to say how much Business was pleased with a certain outcome of the election, as the City hates uncertainty.
Funny, I thought world trade fell quicker in 2008 than in 1929 and the City was then bailed out by the state.
I hope the BBC is glad it suppressed the term 'liquidity trap', as it can now negotiate with a much better government than if they had stood up for principles like honesty or decency.
It's more important to be lucky than good.
James in London 8 May 2015 at 01:47
Bad luck. Better luck next time.
And when you've had more time to reflect I think you should also blog about wealth creation a bit more, aka supply side economics, rather than just macroeconomics, and wealth redistribution and these Marxist-like "macromedia" conspiracies.
The fact that business so strongly backed the Conservatives this time tells you something about business people's view of Miliband's ideas on wealth creation, or lack of them. The fact that Labour could find virtually no business people to back them, or worse, weren't even interested in trying, unlike in times gone by, is poor by any measure. There aren't many business leaders and entrepreneurs, but they are vital cogs in the wheel of an economy.
The Derby North result sums it up a bit, thoughtful left wing labourite Keynesian macroeconomics loses to "get something done about it" tory woman supply side microeconomics. Theory vs practice.
That the election was close is partly a testament to the weak recovery, I'd agree. George Osborne and the Treasury should have listened to you back in 2012 when NGDP Targeting was being discussed. The next Labour leadership should back it too, as way to get the RGDP growth the country still desperately needs. It neatly sidesteps the tired debate over fiscal policy, too. Of course, Labour need to move to the centre on the supply side economics, too.
Sam 8 May 2015 at 04:49
What are you crowing about? Was the election a vindication of your blog comment strategy? Does SWL have to do some soul searching now?
A 70 seat majority in EW&NI (excluding random foreign countries). Thanks for calling it a strategy. And, yes.
If Labour had won I would be attacking the Conservatives for not adopting NGDP targeting, or not kicking out Mervyn King earlier. I wouldn't be blaming the unions or the largely socialist BBC or the cognitive delusions of the voters. And maybe having to accept that the public were happy being that much poorer, with higher taxes and a larger inefficient state, than they otherwise would be. All because they only "know what they see" (as Alexander Seb Schulz argues).
Metatone 9 May 2015 at 09:43
Few business leaders vote for supply side reforms, rather they vote for maintaining the status quo. Tory supply side policy favours larger firms and oligopolies over new entrants. The sad reality is that Labour would have done more for the real supply side than the Tories will - even though Labour don't have a supply side strategy.
The depressing thing about this election is the lesson learnt around the world will be that austerity works. Not for the economy or the people, but for the politicians, and to them that is all that matters
Blissex 9 May 2015 at 04:39
The lesson learned by governments around the world is that voters long property will always vote for extremely loose credit policy even if it is coupled with tigh fiscal policy.
What voters long property want is tax-free effort-free capital gains at the expense of everybody who is poorer than them, and delivering that matters the most.
Random 9 May 2015 at 10:30
Property is more than 'land and buildings.' Why is your income not seen as property?
As a Labour member, I am furious at the way the Labour leadership has failed to debate the macroeconomic situation effectively over the last five years. This result is down to weak leadership, inward looking social media, the power of the Murdoch press and lack of expertise in economic journalism.
I can only imagine that the two Eds decided they couldn't easily explain the actual truth of the causes of the recession and how they weren't profligate. How does the old Reagan quote go? "If you're explaining you're losing".
Obviously, their preferred tactics allowing the Tories (and LibDem lackeys) didn't work out very well either. Poor decision making from the both of them and they (and we) will now pay the price.
Edit: Should have read, "allowing the Tories (and LibDem lackeys) to claim everything bad which occurred was entirely the fault of Labour government spending didn't work out very well either."
theambler 8 May 2015 at 05:30
Whether or not one agrees with austerity, the failure of Ed Milliband to argue against it (and do so effectively) was a major misstep. There are no excuses for him and he deserves to lose his job.
"If you explaining you are losing" is true and it is important for political parties to remember.
People are not convinced by complicated explanations, they need everything explained in simple stories that they can understand. The Conservatives have spent five years not explaining anything, but telling a story about a spendthrift Labour party that wrecked the economy; and about a mess that they have cleared up.
Labour should not have tried to explain - they should have spent the last five years giving the public a different narrative, a believable story, a more accurate version of history, which contained the simple truth of a government before 2008 that was not overspending at all, but was improving their lives - when it was hit by a global crash that nobody expected.
Miliband and Balls did not give the people this story, instead they allowed the Conservative story to go unanswered, until virtually everyone accepted it as the truth.
Alexander Sebastian Schulz 8 May 2015 at 01:59
So, what does this tell us about people? First, they are unable to perfectly compare their actual welfare with a potential welfare. The almost-triple-dip recession caused by the government doesn't count, the one moment of relatively (compared to other countries) strong growth does.
Second, the direction of the economy at the time of the election is more important that the development of the past years. So people put a much higher weight on current growth than on accumulated growth.
Third, people buy into the "government is like a household" story, meaning they have the view of money as a finite quantity essentially unaffected by monetary policy. A worldview where money is apparently backed by something limited like gold, and a view which is also dominant even at the german or swiss central bank.
THeoretically, I can imagine a strategy to counter point three, but it means that debt needs to be re-defined as something not implicitly immoral. The heavier problem is that, macroeconomically, money is a tool to keep the economy going. But the poorer 90% of people do not regard money as this kind of tool but as their means to survive. Essnetially, this attitude needs to be changed, but it's really, really hard (impossible?). One way to do that is to make everyone so rich, that the single pound loses importance. The poorer people are, the more they depend on the value of a single pound.
Point two is just another confirmation of Kahneman's decision theory.
Point one puts classic economic decision theory in doubt.
Are you saying government shouldn't have budgets? And stick to them? And monitor the value they get for their purchases? It's foolish to dismiss "government as household" theory in such a carefree way. Narrowly, scholastically defined, sure, government is not household, they can print money too. But there is a bigger picture that everyday experience of government tells us they can do a lot better with the money they have.
Haha, where did I say that governments shouldn't have budgets?
And having a budget, or even sticking by it, does not imply no new debt anyway. The ability to print money does make a huge difference, doesn't it? A household cannot do that.
What is the real immorality, not having a balanced budget or an aggregate demand deficit? Also, was there a point where the demand of UK government debt was completely supplied?
Governments and govenrment departments do work like households and have budgets. What doesn't work like households are economies for which see the last 8 years of debate (my spending is your income etc.) not least on this blog.
To assume existing government expenditure is well spent or that any extra, fiscal expansion, government expenditure is well spent is the question up which he election was partly run. And the electorate said ... they couldn't trust Labour to spend it wisely. Macroeconomic chatter about "economies or governments as households myths" misses this point. It's what's seen on the ground by the customers of the NHS and state schools that decides people. Mediamacro is a beside the point. And the unemployment rate.
"It's what's seen on the ground by the customers of the NHS and state schools that decides people. Mediamacro is a beside the point. And the unemployment rate."
And that's what I said, it's a situation where reality and economic decision theory diverge. People give more credibility to what they see than to what might have been. But that's not how economic theory sees it.
Maybe, just maybe, people don't believe that printing more money makes everyone richer.
most of the time the people are right; sometimes they are wrong.
Bad luck Mr Wren Lewis. Cameron is lucky, but Labour are also incompetent.
The electorate does not forget the way largesse was sprayed at the public sector. Leave aside the macro for a second and consider the micro. Incompetent childrens' services heads on £100ks, GPs salaries doubled for less cover (my dad was one, unfortunately retired just before the boom!), total lack of care for the wages of the working man that were suppressed by mass immigration, common fisheries policy etc.
If Labour really had spent the money on infrastructure, lifting educational standards, and if they had had a credible leader with real experience, maybe they could have won this time.
I have no love for Mr Cameron in particular. He is indeed lucky. Just saying, behold the beam in your own eye!
I think your macro analysis misses the impact on the private sector of lifting public sector wages; and the circular impact on GDP growth of public spending which once a crisis hits exposes that in layman's jargon "we were living beyond our means" even if the debt / GDP stats looked ok...
Nick 8 May 2015 at 02:37
Of course, now the question is 'What next?'
By the way, what do you think will happen next?
There were actually many who thought that the media was obsessed with the 'inevitability' of a hung parliament' and subsequent deal making and that this was all speculative nonsense (seemingly nothing about the issues - including the economy and immigration in the last week) and that an outright Tory victory was a very likely outcome - I thought so, so did quite a few others. Further, without any substantial discussion of the issues, Cameron was looking very strong and the natural choice in the last week.
The only way to stop this is proportional representation. Too much of the population is not being represented. And this is not good enough when the major parties are so similar.
Labour is the party of the public sector employee only (including Oxford dons!)
You can blame the media all you like on this blog, you are missing the point and assuming people are dumb animals influenced only by propaganda.
Give people some credit. 50% voted Tory and UKIP despite an amazingly negative anti-UKIP BBC campaign. So you can claim we need proportional representation. If you see UKIP as partly the populist / nationalist / pro worker wing of the Tory party, we just got the same result as PR would drive.
Andrew 8 May 2015 at 04:09
Ummm.. even if assigning all the UKIP vote to the tories was correct, you'd have a block of MPs with very different views in many areas to mainstream conservatives.
But anyway.. I'm a private sector employee and the conservatives are offering nothing as far as I can tell. The last 5 years saw my marginal tax rate shoved up over 50% and made a joke of my setting aside money for university tuition fees for the kids. Another 5 years and I'll probably be forking out for private healthcare. But hey, perhaps the Tories will also help by making it easier for me to be fired.
Actually Farage was right - much of the UKIP support came from Labour. This was ignored during the campaign, and still ignored now. This would matter in a proportionally represented voting system. On immigration UKIP are a long way from the Tories who are very neo-classical/neo-liberal - ie they are actually pro-globalisation. UKIP are not a big-business party by any means. They represent a large section, but not a majority, who have been the losers from globalisation and the promotion of an open economy over many decades. UKIP, though, demonstrated they are not up to the task. Farage is actually more moderate than the media makes out. Not true for the party as a whole, and people suspect this. Having lost their only talent in Farage and Reckless, a large number of people in Kent and Essex (many people here are those forced out of London - people who cannot rent or buy homes as their parents did or get a job with a decent wage that makes getting off welfare worthwhile) are now unrepresented.
The backbone of Tory support is big business and a capital owning middle class who have benefited from house and asset price inflation.
That does fit the description of a UKIP voter. The two cannot be put together.
Bill Dodds 8 May 2015 at 03:32
The question I returned to time and time again was what did Labour offer?
A little more honesty about economic matters, if nothing else.
I wonder if there will be any post-poll polling, so to speak, to find out why people voted the way they did?
I'd imagine a lot of the Tory vote came from people who believed the mediamacro myths that previous Labour profligacy causing the recession (utter nonsense) and Conservative economic competency over the past 5 years (untrue from what we've read on this blog).
Let's face it, if you got your news exclusively from the majority of the press or even the BBC, you'd have no reason to think that these two myths weren't factual.
From talking to friends, I know a lot have bought into the "Striver vs Skiver" narrative of the right-wing press as well.
Try this. Lord A is still wasting his money.
http://lordashcroftpolls.com/2015/05/why-did-people-vote-as-they-did-my-post-vote-poll/
Please if you have any economic experience we badly need you in the party now.
https://join.labour.org.uk/
This blog has not proved that Labour was not profligate. As far as I am aware it fixates on one number - debt / GDP. Anyone who saw the enormous boom in hospital building, govt spending etc has a different view.
More important, if our wealth and standard of living simply depended on govt spending more, Cuba would be the place to be. I've been, and it is sunny, but not sure the average voter wants that level of income.
Thanks for the link to the Ashcroft polls. Interesting reading, to say the least!
Pretty clear that part of the 'mediamacro' narrative that further austerity is required has taken a firm hold among many, especially amongst Conservative voters.
Unfortunately, one of the options for important issues offered in the poll wasn't the fear that the SNP would 'control' a potential Labour government.
When a third of voters in that poll admitted they didn't decide which way to vote until the last week of the election (!), it makes me wonder just how much the fierce anti-SNP rhetoric in the right-wing media of late has had an effect.
Labour offering "A little more honesty about economic matters, if nothing else."
Are you nuts?
Labour to this day won’t acknowledge any responsibility for the state of nation's finances in 2010.
Having actively encouraged the housing bubble (by leaving interest rates too Low, when the bubble was at full speed) they then taxed all the way to the froth of the bubble and spent £50Bn a year on top. They also pronounced "we have ended boom and bust"
They weren't responsible for the bust - that's down to the Community Reinvestment Act that Clinton signed and mortgage securitisation.
But they ensured that when the bust came, whatever the source, the nation’s finances were in no position to mitigate it.
And before anyone brings up Keynesian stimulation, he based his theory on spending savings, not borrowing more. (I won’t go into the multiplier effect but there is plenty of material to review on that topic)
So honesty from Labour? More likely to start farting unicorns.
The Tories on the other hand should have got a grip of the deficit and actually cut spending. There has been zero austerity as cash spending has risen every year since 2010. But that's for another day...
it is not so clear that low interest rates are enough for a bubble; the US had very low interest rates in the early 50s with no bubble. We had high interest rates under Reagan with a significant bubble. Our current interest rates have been near 0 for 5 years with no bubble in sight.
But maybe, the deregulation of the banking system that occurred under Labour, Reagan, and Bush might have something to do with the housing bubble?
and may i add that Canada had interest rates that paralleled those of the US - as you would expect from the Mundell-Fleming model - without a housing crisis.
And i would guess that the community reinvestment act caused the Reagan crisis, retrospectively, of course.
To define the results of an austerity policy purely by the bottom line is to set a standard that says it can't fail, because if it did fail, it wasn't austerity.
In reality, if public sector pay is frozen or cut, public sector jobs are cut, and welfare payments are frozen or cut, then that is austerity, whether the budgetary consequence of trashing the economy is an increase in government spending or not.
Lucky. Cameron is lucky in the same way that a man faced with a wild Tiger somehow ends up riding on it's back instead of being eaten.
He is in for the ride of his life. I feel sorry for Samantha.
Watch the Tory party split like a rotten log over Europe in 2017.
It's time to stop reading blogs dust of that Labour Party membership card and get involved. WIth Ed Balls unfortunate decision to spend more time getting up to concert standard in the piano, we badly need some people with good GCSEs in Maths.
With Danny Alexander's departure there is now no one in the HM Treasury who owns a pocket calculator. This bodes badly for the UK economy.
There is a difference between luck and probability. What has happend is just like a 6/1 shot coming home at Towcester. When this happens at Towcester the trainer knows she has been lucky and carries on as normal. The Tories, on the other hand, will think they have a mandate for all kinds of right wing nonsense.
This outcome will have been just off the far end of the error bars of the polling and models. ie about a 6/1 outcome. Certainly there was something missing in the models, as ever, underestimating the shy tory factor and the effects of poor voter registration and turnout in certain areas.
Simon, isn't it mostly the district-based first-past-the-post system that shapes British general election results? This system always f*cks things up for all but the largest/most spread out party. For this reason it's really hard for me to take British democracy seriously as someone from a country that has the popular vote (perhaps first-past-the-post has some legitimacy in a country as large and diverse as the US, but Britain?) . Even though the result of the popular vote hasn't been announced yet you can be virtually sure that the conservatives were crushed by the more progressive parties, yet they'll still be ruling the next five years (labour was in the reverse position in 2005).
You didn't fail in your preaching Simon: a majority will have voted for parties to the left of the conservatives, but that just doesn't matter in British "democracy".
er no. A majority voted Cons + UKIP.
Labour+LibDem+SNP+Greens = 46.9% (30.5% for Labour alone)
Conservatives = 36.9%
UKIP = 12.7%
Even if only a quarter of UKIP is economically to the left of the conservatives then the economical left has a popular majority.
Anyway, with a popular vote a leftist coalition would have meant that the only way the Conservatives could govern was through a coalition with UKIP. The conservatives alone could be overruled by just Labour and the LibDems toegether, but under the current system the conservatives have an absolute majority all on their own.
Shocking statistic of the day: the LibDems received 62% more votes than SNP but SNP gets 7 times more seats. Huray for British democracy!
Funny now you are claiming UKIP as a left wing party when the BBC and most commentators label it "far right" and a horror, while the SNP is "progressive" and cuddly.
The SNP is also not necessarily a left wing party. It is primarily a "pay me more" party, which is not the same thing. It never used to be this left wing, it has become so for strategic reasons to differentiate itself from its main competitor for power.
UKIP's economic policy does have a whiff of the left, the "old left" that is. Labour's economic policy is more "new left", a heritage of the neo-liberal 90s. Labour parties globally probably made an electoral mistake to abandon old left policies, i.e. populism, protectionism, regional economic policy, the welfare state. In the USA, it's the difference between being "progessive" and being "liberal". The Democratic Party is more progressive than liberal, pro free-trade, pro-immigration. The decline of the working classes and the forces of capitalism and globalisation lead to a realignment.
For that reason, it's still inconsistent to claim a left majority on economics.
The media macro theory puts the onus on the media to portray macroeconomics correctly. Expecting the media to do this is far fetched.
Consider the following thought experiment. The Professor invites Rupert Murdoch, Viscount Rothermere and Richard Desmond to dine at the High Table in Oggsford. The very finest claret is brought up from the cellar. By sheer force of argument the three moguls are converted to the cause and finally see sense. What happens?
The next day there is a sea change in the British Media. The Professor's phone rings off the hook as confused jurno's try to find out what the boss wants published. With the papers turned around the rest of the media falls into line. Job done.
The rich and powerful control the media, thats why they buy it.
Mediamacro should be renamed Super High Income Theory.
What we need is more people involved on the ground. We can only turn this around from the bottom up.
why should wealthy people not be well enough educated about the economy to want a slow economy; they own a disproportionate share?
Maurits Pino 8 May 2015 at 04:30
Tireless crusader (not lonely), that was a nice analysis and a great series of articles.
What's next? Will the great business interests keep the UK inside the EU or is it content to leave rather than to have Labour in power.
Hugo Evans 8 May 2015 at 05:08
This result makes it likely we'll see the EU referendum bill straight out of the gates, set for mid 2016. That way he'll keep his back benchers sweet and hold the party together as they attack the stabilisers (supply side reform). If Grexit comes early, we go down with Europe, the vote will be on a knife edge, and we might lose Scotland. This election is nothing short of a tragedy.
Listen to yourselves. The election is a tragedy because people might get to vote on Europe. How horrific it would be if we had an executive that we elect.
Ah, the democratic deficit! We can all muse on that while we watch 100 Tory backbenchers limber up. No more watching lib dens drive by in Limos. It's their turn now.
There was a time when Tony Benn et al recognised that Europe is deeply undemocratic and capitalist. Perhaps if the Labour party had recognised this they might have done better. But the Kinnocks et al were too comfy getting their €100-200k pay packets and pensions...
I'm in agreement regarding the state of EU institutions, but the likely result of the UK leaving the EU is the UK having to accept EU decisions with regard to trade policy etc., but having no input into the decision making process.
Amen. They have the luck of the devil - the crash itself was the fault of Tory policies and the bankers were the conservative party in the Casino also the media stuff is all true, but there is also a question (and perhaps the beginings of a solution) in the collapse of the main parties as popular movements. This is worse for Labour because, well, capital still has lots of allies even if people no longer go to the Conservative club dinner dance, not so for (small l) labour. The SNP built up an old style party with real members and it spoke in the language of the people. Labour or whatever comes next need to learn from them.
Demetrius 8 May 2015 at 06:10
Remember 1959, I posted today on that subject.
All very comforting to believe this tripe. In reality Margaret Thatcher knew a thing or two about credit creation and how to control it. It was the Labour party that didn't. How come the Swedes didn't have to bail out their banks (this time around anyway!). Because they had some sensible people in power.
You all love to believe in your superior morality and that the poor people are controlled by Tory bankers and the media. Wake up or you will lose again in 2020. Especially if Labour elects Andy Burnham!
SpinningHugo 8 May 2015 at 07:33
The leader of the opposition was Ed Miliband.
Lucky indeed.
I'm definitely going to get the Guardian tomorrow.
It'll be brilliant.
A left wing party must be more than the part of state employees. Labour offered nothing on producer capture of the NHS and education.
I laughed when a colleague told me the entire school was shut because one room was being used as a polling station. Of course! The teachers wanted a day off.
UKIP understood this. The conservatives understand it. People want public services to be free, but they also want them to be accountable.
I think probably Blair, that most disastrous of all prime ministers, also understood it.
Peter 8 May 2015 at 08:31
Krugman:
"What nonsense am I talking about? Simon Wren-Lewis of the University of Oxford, who has been a tireless but lonely crusader for economic sense, calls it “mediamacro.” It’s a story about Britain that runs like this: First, the Labour government that ruled Britain until 2010 was wildly irresponsible, spending far beyond its means. Second, this fiscal profligacy caused the economic crisis of 2008-2009. Third, this in turn left the coalition that took power in 2010 with no choice except to impose austerity policies despite the depressed state of the economy. Finally, Britain’s return to economic growth in 2013 vindicated austerity and proved its critics wrong.
Now, every piece of this story is demonstrably, ludicrously wrong. Pre-crisis Britain wasn’t fiscally profligate. Debt and deficits were low, and at the time everyone expected them to stay that way; big deficits only arose as a result of the crisis. The crisis, which was a global phenomenon, was driven by runaway banks and private debt, not government deficits. There was no urgency about austerity: financial markets never showed any concern about British solvency. And Britain, which returned to growth only after a pause in the austerity drive, has made up none of the ground it lost during the coalition’s first two years.
Yet this nonsense narrative completely dominates news reporting, where it is treated as a fact rather than a hypothesis. And Labour hasn’t tried to push back, probably because they considered this a political fight they couldn’t win. But why?
Mr. Wren-Lewis suggests that it has a lot to do with the power of misleading analogies between governments and households, and also with the malign influence of economists working for the financial industry, who in Britain as in America constantly peddle scare stories about deficits and pay no price for being consistently wrong. If U.S. experience is any guide, my guess is that Britain also suffers from the desire of public figures to sound serious, a pose which they associate with stern talk about the need to make hard choices (at other people’s expense, of course.)
Still, it’s quite amazing. The fact is that Britain and America didn’t need to make hard choices in the aftermath of crisis. What they needed, instead, was hard thinking — a willingness to understand that this was a special environment, that the usual rules don’t apply in a persistently depressed economy, one in which government borrowing doesn’t compete with private investment and costs next to nothing.
But hard thinking has been virtually excluded from British public discourse. As a result, we just have to hope that whoever ends up running Britain’s economy isn’t as foolish as he pretends to be."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/opinion/paul-krugman-triumph-of-the-unthinking.html?smid=tw-share
«Debt and deficits were low, and at the time everyone expected them to stay that way; big deficits only arose as a result of the crisis. The crisis, which was a global phenomenon, was driven by runaway banks and private debt, not government deficits.»
Sure, but "the "runaway banks" were created by governments and that "private debt" crisis was also created by governments: various "anglo-american" governments chose (to sidestep punishment by the "bond markets") what Colin Crouch calls "privatized keynesianism" and adopted very loose credit policies based on every increasing leverage ratios in the financial sector.
Because without ballooning leverage ratios ("runaway banks") it takes every more capital to have ballooning credit pushing up asset prices ("private debt").
What so many governments have done was PFI (Private Finance Initiative) on a macro scale, where demand was boosted by private debt which was conveniently however in practice government originated even if the public accounts did not show that.
The "big deficits only arose as a result of the crisis" happened because the macro-level PFI spiral suddenly stopped working and what were "technically" private losses became in significant part public losses.
That's the pretty huge flaw in SimonWL's argument that Labour was not fiscally profligate: sure Labour weren't, in official accounting terms, but Labour just like the Conservatives before and after them was running an extremely profligate credit policy that was all about creating "private debt" and "runaway banks" and then bailing them out.
Usual quote:
www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/oliver-huitson/thatcher-black-gold-or-red-bricks
«Under Thatcher, this exploded to over £250bn across her premiership – a staggering 104% of GDP growth. ... But Blair did his homework and let loose – as did Thatcher – a wave of cheap credit, financial deregulation, house price inflation and an equity withdrawal-led consumption boom. Withdrawals under Blair’s leadership totalled around £365bn, that’s a full 103% of GDP growth over the same period,»
That is a policy of private yet government sponsored borrow-and-spend, instead of a more honest opebnly public borrow-and-spend.
The big long term problem is that for the past several decades borrow-and-spend, whether overtly public or disguised as private, seems to have been utterly indispensable to maintain public demand at a sufficient level. JK Galbraith would have pointed out at the cause as ever higher inequality I guess.
But whatever the cause some commenters have pointed out that the rate between growth of debt (private plus public) and growth of GDP has become very high indeed...
Bollocks to the pre Krugman posts. A huge class of rentiers have inserted themselves into the gap between the producers and the public and if anyone has captured the system it is them. It is hugely inefficient, like the tax farmers of pre-revolutionary france, but it is nice work if you can get it Cameron represents their interests.
«A huge class of rentiers»
The problem with that huge class of rentiers is that they are the most precious swing voters in marginals in UK politics, because they are more or less whoever bought property in the South East in the 1970s-1990s on 5-10% deposit, plus their heirs, plus nearly the the entire finance sector.
For the "conservatory building classes" who have just given the laurels of victory to George Osborne (the real winner of the election, not lucky David Cameron) the story is the usual: "blow you Jack, I am allright",
Richard H. Serlin 8 May 2015 at 11:17
You have my sympathy, but really, you do have the NIH. And this shows that as destructive and aggravating as mediamacro, and public asymmetric information on economics, is; as horrible a problem it is that so much of the public bases their vote just on the change in the economy leading up to the election, try-and-see is still incredibly powerful; and that's why the NIH, an incredible force for good, is more or less permanent.
And that really shows a great strategy. When you have the power you use it to do big step forward try-and-see's, even if it means losing power in the short run. It's hard to maintain power that long anyway with so many people voting just on the change in the economy leading up to the election. But if you can get an NIH, or free universal pre-school, or college, that's, to a large extent, permanent, and a huge step forward.
I had a post on this that was in Mark Thoma's links, Try-and-See is the Key, at:
http://richardhserlin.blogspot.com/2012/08/try-and-see-is-key.html
"I thought something to the effect of you lucky person."
Heheh, so "you lucky bastard"? Something stronger?
Of course one cannot ignore the role of luck in any success in life, but I think it dangerous to underestimate Cameron's abilities if you ever want to beat him. He seem to understand the formula quite well.
First of all, from being elected party leader he worked on being accepted as an "OK guy" at the time when being Green was all the rage. Cue photoshoots with Huskies and lots of snow, pics of "Dave on a Bike" and so on. At the same time he kept on going on and on about Labour spending too much. A simple argument for simple minds (aka readers of the Daily Mail).
Next step, after getting elected he put caveats on those things the LibDems wanted in order to join forces (eg "you can have a PR referendum, but only on AV and only with my wording") and didn't let them have the things Clegg had promised the electorate (eg to break the tuition fees pledge, clearly the biggest LibDem political error ever). At the same time, whenever there was financial bad news to be announced, it was invariably a LibDem who announced it, when there was good news, a Tory was on TV making the announcement. And of course, neutralising Vince Cable, one of the few LibDem voices with any great gravitas by making him follow the cabinet line - he was trundled out in front of the cameras to really underline how serious things were financially - was not luck either, but political genius, damn him!
Then there was the Scottish referendum. i feel pretty sure the SNP wanted DevoMax to be one of the choices, but no, Cameron again insisted on a simple "In, Out" choice. This moved all those in Scotland who hated control from Whitehall but did not want to leave the Union from a mild rejection of London to an acceptance of the status quo. He must have known that all the parties with large English stakes would have to set themselves against the SNP, meaning they would all be seen to be supporting Cameron's position and telling Scottish voters "We three are all the same". This could not hurt Tory aspirations in Scotland because they had hardly anything to lose, but if he could undermine Labour's Scottish credentials in any way that would erode Labour's hold on one of their core heartlands, and hit the LibDems too.
All the while he had to fight off his own right wing Eurosceptic back benchers, and to buy himself time he offered the EU referendum. Having won one and not lost another through the framing of the text of the questions asked, I am sure he felt confident he could also handle the EU vote after all these other things had been dealt with first.
/cont....
....cont/
In the run up to the General Election Cameron tried every method he could to undermine support for his main opponents until he saw that one of them worked. When his earlier ruse of framing the Scottish referendum as a simple Yes-No choice had positioned his opponents where he wanted them (vulnerable) he could then use the polling arithmetic to galvanise English nationalists to vote with him for fear of Scottish Nationalists, while at the same time weakening support for UKIP where most of his own lost supporters had been deserting to.
Now, having sucked out some UKIP support because of his EU In-Out referendum promise and having weakened his back benchers at the same time, his use of the SNP threat weakened UKIP even further. Now we know the results of the GE and UKIP only got one seat, and only 3.5 million votes, his need for big concessions from the EU has reduced in order to win a "Stay in the EU" vote since he knows the support for UKIP is much less than the noise and publicity they get suggests. This will also reduce the temptation for his back benchers to defect (the Reckless effect) while at the same time weakening their arguments about leaving the EU (which will seem more of a political wasteland to them now).
So, what next? Well, following his pattern so far, he will want to quickly undermine his main opposition. Since this is possibly the SNP you can expect him to offer something to them that will make them look like they are a) breaking their electoral promises and b) working with the Tories. However, he won't want them too weakened or else Labour will gain strength. He won't want them to remain so strong either though, and with Scottish Elections in 2016 there is a year for him to mess their reputation up. After that he will only have to focus in 2017 and a referendum, the wording of which he will choose. And all the time he will be releasing story after story to the press to distract and deflect their attention from his mistakes.
Whatever happens next, I don't think you will be able to say it is entirely due to luck. Any good chess player will understand this. I don't agree with his policies, and I absolutely dislike his bullying, haranguing style and barefaced lies - but you do have to admire his political nous.
David Blum 9 May 2015 at 00:04
First off, as an American, when I saw the results of the British election on the front page of the NY times, I thought of this blog, I was saddened.
But know I'm scared. This is because Mark Thoma - whom I call LinkLord- asked a simple question as a header for a Krugman column:
Why do bad economic ideas resonate with voters?
Oddly enough, I believe this is the most important political economic question.
There several theories that I've seen floating around the blogs of the pros:
Economists is a morality play (it's not that, ask Goldman Sachs). A good family shouldn't run debts so governments shouldn't (they usually do, throughout history, and have often benefited from this. Corporations also maintain debt as do homeowners).
They have no idea what the ZLB is. If you have internet you go to LinkLord and you will so understand this simple concept.
They have short memories: if there is an uptick in the economy right before the election they vote incumbents.
The media/mediamacro.
They have internalized the the meme that the poor are black, brown, dirty and rich people are white and quite polite.
Economics can be counter-intuitive to them and they can't get that my spending is your earnings and your spending is my earnings and that saving during depressed demand hurts yourself.
I don't think people are stupid. They just don't have time to read all these econ blogs. In America, I would have macro be taught for a minimum of one year in high school.
The last thing is silly: both progressive parties in the UK don't have great leaders - I mean leaders with courage to speak the truth. When they calculate it's transparent to voters. I hope Hillary surprises me.
I don't want this to happen in my country as given the lunacy of the Republicans it would be far worse.
As Simon says academic opinion is divided over these issues so the rhetorical term "bad economic policy" begs a rather large question - what is bad economic policy?
With respect to such ideas as the ZLB it is surely one job of politicians to communicate ideas simply in a way that resonates with the electorate and, in a way to intuit the counterintuitive!
Another thing I'd mention is that this blog is concerned with macro and, in a sense, more with the dynamics of macro. To my mind the "stock" aspect is also vitally important, to wit the incubus of an ever increasing debt stock, both private and public. Who understands this?
Also to my mind even more germane to our situation is the position of banks and their ability to create money ex nihilo; bank leverage; the policies of central banks and the existence of a derivatives market that is almost surreal in its size. These are risk elements that, arguably, dwarf any economic pecadilloes with fiscal policy. In other words we are living with a number of huge elephants in the room apart from fiscal policy. These are issues that are beyond the stratosphere of most of the electorate, I'm sorry to say, and most people don't read blogs like this - I'm retired I have the time.
BTW I wouldn't put too much hope on Hillary; she is the consummate supporter of crony capitalism and would change nothing; now Elizabeth Warren..... but of course she would never get elected.
" it is surely one job of politicians to communicate ideas simply in a way that resonates with the electorate"
Well, that might be a laudable theoretical aim, but surely we have just seen that the sole job of politicians is to get elected, and to keep on getting elected. Being elected means they can push the ideology of their party onto an electorate pacified once every 5 years by the opportunity to say 'no'. Being elected means they can look after the special interests who funded their campaign. Being elected does NOT mean explaining anything clearly, I mean the worst thing for a politician is surely a voter who knows what he is talking about.
(Apologies for the double posting, please delete the other copy of this comment, below)
Actually I don't think it's a laudable aim at all but a core skill. After all when you dig into a lot of issues such as changes to the welfare state these are quite difficult ideas to communicate. Getting elected and "simplifying" the message - if I may be excused a little patronising - are not, to my mind mutually exclusive but essential con commitants.
This election was won not by explanation, but by scare stories. The late swing in voting was based on fear of an SNP dependent Labour Government, and fear of the pain of the recession returning. If they had explained that their "long term financial plan" was based on a bad economics and had lengthened the painful period of recession do you really think they would have been elected?
Bob Jones 10 May 2015 at 06:56
Well I think some things have to be explained clearly whilst they have to be disingenuous about others; the fact that the election may have been won on scare stories does not mean that the ability to explain things is not a core skill.
In any case you assume that the economic question you mention was a clincher; it may have been but "It's the economy stupid" has never struck me as a completely convincing explanation of everything and that would go for this election as well as the majority of others.
Ron Waller 11 May 2015 at 17:46
Bad economic ideas may or may not resonate with voters. In case you are unaware, Cameron won a "majority" on less than 37% of the vote. So the 63% super-majority supported different, less-right-wing, economic platforms.
The only reliable information that can be gleaned from an analysis of this election outcome, is that it is utterly foolish to have an arbitrary election system that does not ensure an actual majority of voters are represented in government -- which is how democracy is done in the developed world.
The UK and Canada are really anti-democracies: they dole out absolute power to MINORITY parties, excluding the actual majority from government. People who favor an upside-down voting system have no right to complain when the randomness does not favor their party. They make their bed. Lie in it.
Oh I quite agree, but you make an assumption when you say that 63% supported less right wing economic platforms; they supported parties with such a platform but you seem to assume that that aspect was uppermost in their decision; it may have been but I don't know that.
I agree with the voting system but, let's face it, almost any voting system is the last point of wresting power from TPTB; the history of these matters is a long one starting with slavery, through feudalism et al to the present.
Great post. I have disagreements with you in the past (for example I believe micro should be kept out of macro) - but in this I am totally in agreement, and have not seen it better put.
XYZ 10 May 2015 at 07:31
"I’ve not come across a single non-City, non-partisan economist who does not concur with the view that the performance of the coalition has been pretty poor (or simply terrible), yet polls repeatedly show that people believe managing the economy is the Conservatives’ strength."
This reminds me of many of the posts I've seen on facebook to the effect that: "I can't believe the Tories won. All my friends voted Labour or Green". Firstly, why should City economists' views simply be dismissed as irrelevant? Is it not just possible that people who work for a living in the private sector might know more about the economy and economic management than those in Oxbridge ivory towers? Secondly, just because somebody is partisan does not mean they are wrong. Thirdly, Labour has hardly come across as competent or coherent on economic matters (energy price freeze? Miliband on Question Time?).
Imho Labour failed to present a coherent or even slightly credible alternative and got exactly what they deserved.
Andrew 11 May 2015 at 02:40
XYZ -
Well, if you look at the age profile of voters - the only age group where there is a solid Tory majority is in the over-60s. And given that these people turn out it's even more exaggerated; so it's perfectly possible for a group of under-45s to barely know anyone who actually went out and voted Tory, because only something like 15% of the 18-45 age group do - and then they would, I suspect, move in different social circles.
For all the talk of competence, policies, SNP scaremongering, etc.. the real story is that a bloc of pensioners, the only large group to have had consistent above-inflation income growth in the last 5 years, went out and voted themselves a pay rise.
"They spurned the huge lie at the heart of Labour policy — that a government can spend its way out of bankruptcy."
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3074158/I-feared-worst-Thank-God-good-sense-British-people-writes-MAX-HASTINGS.html#ixzz3ZpR2JiU8
That is from a very respected commentator - FT columnist and former Telegraph Editor. Can't you or someone with even basic economics (EC110 will do) give these guys a few lessons or sort them out on the media before an election?
I love this blog. It makes me feel Labour will be out of power for another 10 years.
You claim you know that in 2010 the government continuing to spend more would have led to a larger economy today. Fine. But you claim you also know this is the case today, 7 years after the financial crash. In other words our deficit of 4% of GDP or whatever it is is still not big enough.
You claim that the nature of government spending doesn't matter. More benefits, more wasteful infrastructure projects (cf the lovely new roads in Spain!). Centralised Labour style spending good, personal spending using e.g. school vouchers bad.
The sad thing is there are real issues out there. QE is indeed shameful; print money and send it to people or use it for a specific project like fibre to all (maybe); the asset owners of England probably did indeed determine the election but you won't get them to vote for you by promising to borrow, tax and spend. How do we fund a smaller higher education sector free of charge again as a social good? (clue - get rid of rubbish courses).
Noone is saying the Conservatives have these answers. But they had more answers than Labour and people voted. They are not controlled by anybody, otherwise 15% would not have voted by UKIP which was not supported by any media or newspaper (except the Express, if you count that one).
The UK and Canada are aristocracies that look down on democracy. When conservative elitists win absolute corrupt power on 37% of the vote, liberal elitists cry in their beer wishing they had been that lucky.
Democratic countries don't have to worry about luck. Their election results are not arbitrary. They ensure the various branches of elected government represent an actual majority of voters.
So keep suppressing democracy. The randomness will favor your right-of-center "Labor" party eventually.
Max Hastings is a superb military historian.
Are you serious. That is pop - history.
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National estimates of the lifetime prevalence and correlates of suicide ideation, planning, and attempts among blacks of African American and Caribbean ethnicity in the United States are reported herein for the first time using the recently collected National Survey of American Life (NSAL).<br/><br/>Age of Onset of Lifetime Suicide Ideation, Plan, and Attempt Among Blacks (n=5002) Conditional, Cumulative Speed of Onset From Ideation to Suicide Plan, Impulsive and Planned Attempt Onset (n=542) Based on the prevalence estimates, which suggested an interaction between ethnicity and sex, we examine the hazard curves for first attempts separately for each of 4 ethnicity-sex groups ().<br/><br/>Prevalence of Lifetime Use of Services by Service Sector Among NSAL Respondents With and Without Reported Suicide-Related BehaviorsThe 4.1% lifetime prevalence of attempted suicide among blacks is well above previous reports for this population, such as the 2.8% prevalence found in community surveys, but is near the 4.6% reported by the National Comorbidity Survey for the general population.<br/><br/>Thus, we report for the first time important ethnic differences among blacks in the lifetime prevalence of suicide ideation, planning, and attempts and the prevalence of mental health service use among black attempters and ideators.<br/><br/>
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“An Englishman's home is his bouncy castle”
~ Noel Coward on Bouncy Castles
“On second thought, let's not go to Bouncy Camelot, it is a silly place.”
~ Oscar Wilde on bouncy castles
A popular defensive measure during the Medieval period, the bouncy castle dissuaded attack by bouncing. Bouncy castles look exactly like static castles, except for the enormous springs concealed in the cellar. As an enemy, such as Goths, Vandals or rabbits approached, castle staff would release the springs causing the entire castle to shoot up into the air, thus saving it from plunder.
A bouncy castle on the loose over Wiltshire
1.1 The great Italian pig dispute of 1462
1.2 Guiseppe Punto
2.1 Static Castle
2.2 Bouncy Castle
3 Techniques and uses
3.1 The Springman's Haddock.
3.2 Old Watchbeard's Ironing Board.
3.3 Chasing the Pope.
4 Where to spot one
5 Literary references
The first recorded idea for the bouncy castle comes from the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. Forward thinking as ever, da Vinci rendered his castle complete with springs, airbags, CD player and machine guns to deal with helicopter attacks. Like so many of da Vinci's ideas, however, it was hundreds of hours before anyone put it into practice.
The great Italian pig dispute of 1462[edit]
The first practical implementation of bouncy castles arose out of a dispute between the Duke of Burgandy and the Duke of Milan concerning the number of pigs that could fit inside Jesus' hat. The Duke of Burgandy, influenced by the rationalist thinking of Spinoza, asserted that the answer was around one fifteenth of a pig, or in layman's terms, an ear. The Duke of Milan denied this, claiming that since it was Jesus they were talking about, he would have a special magic hat, so the number would be at least three thousand pigs and maybe more. That way, he would always have a pig spare if the apostles got hungry. The Duke of Wales insisted the Jesus, being jewish, would not touch a pig. He was immediately stoned
The resulting argument gripped all of Italy and peasants began throwing dung at each other, then rocks and finally chairs. It was civil war on a scale that had never been seen before, since or even at the time. At the height of it, the two Dukes were losing a castle an hour. A large hole appeared in the castle layer. To counter this, the dukes ordered huge trenches to be dug and the remaining castles put inside them. It was an uneasy stand off. Fifty seven castles faced each other over a strip of mud just ten meters wide. Men were dying by the thousands - mostly of boredom.
Guiseppe Punto[edit]
Far away, in sunny Genoa, the birds were singing and children were laughing and a kindly old springsmith named Giuseppe Punto was busy making a hundred foot spring for a private party hosted by Princess Eliza of The Notorious Reputation. Though he was kind, he was also prone to extreme violence and the singing birds and laughing children drove him mad with distraction, so he would shut himself up in his house all day and devote himself to springs, castle theory and the works of Leonardo da Vinci. It was while toying with his hundred foot spring that everything fused in Guiseppe's brain and he suddenly thought:
Hey, why not make a castle that bounces?
How it works[edit]
Static Castle[edit]
A standard static castle is largely springless. They depend for their defense on not being attacked relentlessly by a huge suicidal horde of war-crazed bandits or pterodactyls that just keep on coming and coming, hurling themselves at the walls until finally something gives and there's a breach and in they pour, waving their swords about and yelling, shouting, kicking over tables, and performing well choreographed dance numbers. The fatal weakness in this strategy is that castles tend to really stick out in a sort of obvious, castley way. If a wandering suicidal horde of war crazed bandits or pterodactyls has spotted yours, then there's not a lot you can do about it, except to run away, build another castle somewhere else and hope that they don't follow you.
Spring winders at work
Bouncy Castle[edit]
The bouncy castle uses a scientific property of bounce to avoid this problem. The castle basement is filled with large springs that are wound up to a tension determined by the springman or bouncemaster. All of the tension is collected, by means of wires and pulleys, into one coil of rope that is held in place with a special peg called the springman's bung. If an enemy attacks, the king orders the springman to wollop his bung. This releases all the tension in the springs which respond by firing into the ground. The entire castle will shoot up into the air leaving the enemy targetless and worried.
As the guild of bungmen always used to say, to anyone who would listen: "It's all in the springs". If the springs are too small, the castle will only raise up about a centimeter and then just land with a thump and get attacked as normal. If the springs are too big, it can enter the outer atmosphere and go into permanent orbit. With the right sized spring, a controlled bounce can be set in motion, and it is with the controlled bounce that an enemy can be defeated.
There is a degree of skill involved in maintaining correct spring alignment, which interestingly must not be too accurate. If springs are arranged perfectly perpendicular to the ground, the castle will be shot straight into the air and land exactly where it was, and presumably would rather not be, as this leaves it vulnerable to attack during the several week long spring rewinding process.
Techniques and uses[edit]
A suicidal horde of idiots unwittingly surges under a bouncy castle and risks being flattened.
The Springman's Haddock.[edit]
This is perhaps the most popular defensive technique. As an enemy approaches, wait until they are at a distance and speed that is in exact proportion to the size and weight of your castle. If they are running fast enough, they will be caught by surprise and run right under the castle, only to be flattened in the landing.
Old Watchbeard's Ironing Board.[edit]
This is a good alternative to the Springman's Haddock if you can't be arsed to work out the exact proportion of enemy distance and speed to the size and weight of your castle. Simply bounce at any time you choose. The enemy will run right under the castle and then be forced to turn around and attack all over again. After about twenty seven attempts, they will get really tired and just go home.
Owing to the lengthy spring rewinding process, it is recommended that adherents to the Watchbeard Doctrine should fit their castles with crude drags and parachutes, in order to delay the inevitable landing whilst the springmen begin a rapid rewind. A well-drilled springteam can store enough energy for an immediate rebound in mere days, which is a sustainable flight-time for only the most spongy and ill-fortified of castles. The property of being able to rebound infinitely in this way is scientifically known as Simple Harmonic Bounding.
Chasing the Pope.[edit]
If, pre-bounce, all the furniture is moved to just one side of the castle, this will give the upward thrust an angle of attack which means that, as well as going up, the castle will go forward. Thus, warfare can be combined with tourism as you wander the countryside looking for interesting sights and peoples to crush mercilessly beneath your castle.
Where to spot one[edit]
Having read thus far, you're probably all fired up and raring to go out and bag a photo of a great big bouncy castle all for yourself. Sure, we've all been there, but the problem is that bouncy castles, by their very nature, are incredibly difficult to find. In a recent press statement, the British pop wonder, Cliff Richard claimed that he'd spotted one in the suburbs of Tokyo and that he was off to visit it with a team of mules. Mr. Richard has invited anyone who wants to come to join him and maybe sing some songs, but honestly, he says this every week and he never goes so people have long stopped believing him.
Warwick Castle, in England, used to be a bouncy castle but the springs were removed by Victorian doctors to prevent over-emotionalism in passing females.
Bouncy Castles can also be spotted anywhere near Wormholes of Knowledge, mostly opened upon the earth by misusers of The Unknowable Theory.
Literary references[edit]
The Bouncy Castle is a novel by Franz Kafka, who was inspired to write it when he saw one bounce past Prague. A rollicking comedy that extends to over 6000 pages, it concerns the exploits of B, an unemployed postman. B wanders all over the Thuringian countryside in search a mysterious long lost bouncy castle. On the way, B meets lots of people, such as the dancing janitor and the keeper of the bells. At first he's happy, but then he realises that all of the people he meets are not real people at all, but just metaphors. This makes him quite dizzy and he has to sit down and have a cup of tea. The bouncy castle itself proves elusive, thus operating simultaneously as a ridiculous narrative device and a symbol of the encroaching fuzziness of Western Kleptocraticism.
Hayao Miyazaki later remade the novel as a movie titled Bouncy Castle Versus Godzilla. Litigation between Miyazaki and Kafka over ownership of merchandizing rights is ongoing, because a trial with Kafka just never seems to end. Boing boing!
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Paris nightclub Concrete is at risk of closure
The party barge on the river Seine has created a petition to fight eviction
Cameron Holbrook
The famous Paris nightclub Concrete has been threatened with eviction after the owners of the barge that keeps the venue afloat on the banks of the Seine refused to renew the club's license.
The venue is actually a three-floor boat that plays host to the best house and techno acts from the world over since 2012. The club acquired a late-night license in 2017, meaning the special Samedimanche events take place over 28 hours from Saturday to Monday, going on well after the sun comes up. You can expect acts like Robert Hood, Hunee & Antal and Avalon Emerson play alongside their now, renowned residents such as Leo Pol, Cabanne and Francois X. For years, Concrete has been herald as the future and new beating heart of Parisian nightlife. Now, it is at risk of shutting down forever.
According to the venue, the barge owners are "suffocating" the club with "an irrational rent increase in recent months" and refusing them "the possibility of buying the place" for reasons that still remain unknown.
In order to combat the risk of closure, Concrete has created a Change.org petition to help their cause. "The battle is now beginning to keep Concrete on the scene of Parisian nightlife and to ensure that the musical culture that we share with all of you can continue to be expressed in full," writes the club on their petition page. Since launching today, over 4,000 people have signed the petition to support Concrete and help preserve the future of Paris's nightlife.
Sign the petition and support Concrete by going here.
Cameron is Mixmag's Jr. Editor. Follow him on Twitter
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As “Clayton Kershaw can’t pitch in the playoffs” narrative resurfaces, a reminder
By Bill BaerOct 30, 2017, 12:12 AM EDT
Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw couldn’t make it through the fifth inning of Sunday night’s start against the Astros in Game 5 of the World Series. He gave up six runs on four hits and three walks with two strikeouts on 94 pitches. That sent his career playoff ERA, now across 23 appearances and 118 innings, up to 4.50.
Prior to Sunday’s start, Kershaw had pitched well this postseason, carrying a 2.96 ERA in four starts. And most of the damage came in his Game 1 start in the NLDS against the Diamondbacks, when he surrendered four solo home runs. His World Series Game 5 start, however, resurfaced the old “Kershaw can’t pitch in the playoffs” narrative.
It’s true: Kershaw’s stats in the postseason aren’t good. But there’s a bit of context that’s often left out of the conversation, which is that relievers that have come in after Kershaw have also not done a great job. Following Jose Altuve‘s three-run home run off of Kenta Maeda in the fourth inning, on which two of Kershaw’s runners scored, Dodgers relievers had allowed 10 of 16 of runners inherited from Kershaw to score. That’s a 62.5 percent rate of failure, or a 37.5 percent success rate. Since Kershaw debuted in 2008, the major league average strand rate (success) for relievers has ranged between 72.8 percent and 75.2 percent. In other words, Dodgers’ relievers — when relieving Kershaw — have been half as effective as a major league average reliever.
Here’s the full list:
Year Series Game IR Scored IR Scored% Reliever(s)
2008 NLCS 2 1 0 0.0% Cory Wade
4 2 1 50.0% Chan Ho Park
2009 NLDS 2 1 0 0.0% Ronald Belisario
NLCS 1 1 0 0.0% Ramon Troncoso
2013 NLDS 1 0 0 –
NLCS 2 0 0 –
6 2 1 50.0% Ronald Belisario
2014 NLDS 1 1 1 100.0% Pedro Baez
2015 NLDS 1 3 2 66.7% Pedro Baez
4 3 3 100.0% Pedro Baez, Luis Avilan
WS 1 0 0 –
5 2 2 100.0% Kenta Maeda
TOTAL 16 10 62.5%
If the Dodgers’ relievers had done their jobs perfectly, stranding all 16 of runners inherited from Kershaw instead of six, Kershaw’s postseason ERA would be 3.28. Kershaw’s mental fortitude wouldn’t even be a topic of discussion. Of course, one would argue that Kershaw shouldn’t have allowed those runners to get on base to begin with, but the purpose of a bullpen is to sometimes bail out a starter once he gets into a pickle — especially in the postseason. Dodger relievers — notably Pedro Baez — have done an absolutely terrible job of backing up Kershaw over his career and that needs to be remembered when people bring up Kershaw’s perceived postseason issues.
Tags: Clayton Kershaw, Cory Wade, Jose Altuve, Kenta Maeda, Luis Avilan, Pedro Baez
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Hear Tame Impala’s New Song, ‘Disciples’
Written by Nastassia Baroni on April 30, 2015
Tame Impala frontman Kevin Parker is almost about to wrap up a lengthy Reddit AMA and just a few minutes ago surprised Redditors by causally dropping a new Tame Impala song Disciples into the conversation.
The spacey new track will feature on Tame Impala’s highly anticipated third album Currents and follows previous singles, ‘Cause I’m a Man and Let It Happen. The album follow’s Tame Impala’s worldwide critically acclaimed Lonerism, which they released in 2012.
Parker dropped a link to the short track, which runs for just 1 minute and 48 seconds, after telling fans he was waiting for them to ask for a new song. They obliged and so did he. Have a listen below.
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The title of the track is an apt one, given that during the AMA Parker was asked what he thought about being “Australia’s answer to Jesus” with his “disciples” being the likes of Pond, King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, Peter Bibby, D.D Dumbo, Gum and Shiny Joe Ryan.
While that scenario would make for a killer “Last Supper” parody image, Parker’s response was a little more humbling. “I hope you don’t actually think that,” he said, probably as Jesus would.
Parker recently revealed he recorded over a thousand vocal takes for Tame Impala’s ‘Cause I’m a Man. The lyrics of the track are intended to be a tongue-in-cheek portrayal of how “pathetic” men are, and in delivering those lyrics Parker says he is pushed beyond his comfort zone.
“I’m really putting myself out there vocally more than I have before. I usually bury my vocals and sing quite ethereally and stick in a laser beam melody washed in reverb,” he said.
Tame Impala will return to Australia soon as part of the massive Splendour in the Grass 2015 lineup.
Listen: Tame Impala – Disciples
Gallery: Tame Impala @ Big Day Out 2014, Melbourne / Photos by Anwar Rizk
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Singer Demi Lovato Hospitalized Over Drug Over Dose
Singer Demi Lovato has been hospitalized after suffering an apparent drug overdose, a source close to her family tells CNN.
The Los Angeles Fire Department confirmed to CNN it received a call at 11:22 am for a medical emergency, and transported a 25-year-old woman to a local hospital.
Jeff Lee, spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department, said the emergency was in the 8000 block of Laurel View Drive in the Laurel Canyon area.
A representative for Lovato did not immediately return a request for comment.
Lovato’s hospitalization on Tuesday comes just weeks after the singer, who has struggled with substance abuse, revealed she had recently suffered a relapse.
The pop star made the revelation about the setback in a single, “Sober,” released late last month.
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Ricky John Best And Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche Were Killed On A Train In Portland While Trying To Defend A Muslim Teen From Being Stabbed Two men were stabbed to death and one injured Friday on a light-rail train in Portland, Ore., after they tried to intervene when another passenger began “ranting and raving” and shouting anti-Muslim hate speech at two young women, police said. Portland police on Saturday identified the two slain victims as 53-year-old Ricky John Best and 23-year-old Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche. A third victim, 21-year-old Micah David-Cole Fletcher, is being treated for non-life-threatening injuries, police said. According to witnesses, a white male passenger riding an eastbound MAX train early Friday afternoon began yelling what “would best be characterized as hate speech toward a variety of ethnicities and religions,” police said. Some of the slurs were directed at two female passengers, one of whom was wearing a hijab, according to police. “This suspect was on the train and he was yelling and ranting and raving a lot of different things, including what we characterized at hate speech or biased language,” Portland police spokesman Pete Simpson said at a news conference Friday evening. At least two men tried to calm the ranting passenger down, but “they were attacked viciously by the suspect” when they did, Simpson said. “It appears preliminarily that the victims — at least a couple of them — were trying to intervene in his behavior, deescalate him and protect some other people on the train when [the suspect] viciously attacked them,” Simpson said. Police identified the suspect early Saturday morning as 35-year-old Jeremy Joseph Christian, of north Portland. Christian is being held without bail on two counts of aggravated murder, one count of attempted murder, two counts of intimidation in the second degree and one count of possession of a restricted weapon as a felon. #portland #rickyjohnbest #myrddinnamkai #jeremyjoseph
Chaplain Sacked And Evicted By Governor Ambode Gets 5 Free Furnished Apartment Less than 48 hours after Venerable Femi Taiwo, Chaplain evicted by the Lagos State Governor, Akinwumi Ambode , from his official quarters, the cleric has been blessed with a fully furnished apartment. Taiwo, who was sacked without any query or official reason, was ordered to exit his official quarters where he lived with his wife and two children within 24 hours after he allegedly angered the governor’s wife, Bolanle Ambode. The PUNCH, on Friday, had reported that Venerable Femi Taiwo was sacked and ordered to vacate his official residence within 24 hours, a day after the wife of the governor, Bolanle Ambode, stormed out of the church during an anointing service. Mrs. Ambode was said to have been unhappy that the priest did not accord her due recognition by anointing her before the other congregants. Members of the church were said to have filed out to receive anointing oil during the service without any preference given to Bolanle, who reportedly waited endlessly with her entourage. Chapel of Christ the Light is under the control of the Lagos State Ministry of Home Affairs but the Office of the Lagos State First Lady supervises the church. Pleas from church leaders and elders had failed to save the cleric, who still had two years to spend as the presiding chaplain. New reports in say Taiwo has now settled into a new and furnished accommodation provided by members of his congregation. Taiwo told Punch that he got five offers of apartment from different members of the African church congregation. A source disclosed that church members who were angered and touched by the way the priest was treated decided to help the cleric and his family. “Apart from the apartment he moved to, he got four offers of apartment from different members of the African church congregation,” the source said. #bolanleambode #femitaiwo
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Performer: Jean-Luc Guionnet
Album: Plugged Inclinations
Style: Musique Concrète, Experimental, Drone
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Jean-Luc Guionnet – Plugged Inclinations. Label: Circum-Disc – LX007, Be Coq – 23. Series: HeliX (3) –. Format: CD, Album. Organ – Jean-Luc Guionnet. Recorded live on the 9th of october 2013 at the Malterie, Lille (Muzzix).
Plugged Inclinations. Plugged Inclinations. Independent 5638646375.
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Live is a live album by French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty, recorded in December 1978 and released in April 18, 1979. It was reissued on Atlantic Records on CD in 1990 and 1992. All songs by Jean-Luc Ponty. Aurora, Pt. 1" – 2:53. 2" – 6:18. Imaginary Voyage, Pt. 3" – 4:25. 4" – 7:09. No Strings Attached" – 5:59. Egocentric Molecules" – 7:26. Jean-Luc Ponty – violin, piano, keyboards.
Jean Luc Guionnet – deux vieux orgues électriques (Bontempi Tempest & Farfisa Matador), trois petits harmoniums, une table de mixage bouclée et quelques micros contacts et magnétiques, un petit trumpet speaker mobile, trompette de poche, saxophone soprano. There are no tracklisting associated with this item. Extended Play 1 (LP).
Plugged Inclinations focuses on the bare basics of playing different electric keyboards, reducing the sonic output to mere electric current. Somehow it is an extensions of his approach to playing the church organ which he began to develop since 1993. Guionnet compares the electric keyboards, mainly organs, to a ship, a barque, a boat, a building within building. The third album of TOC - following their debut, a soundtrack to a wildlife documentary, Le Gorille (2009) and the sophomore work for a dance company, You Can Dance If You Want To (2012) - is focused on different forms and levels of energy.
Storytelling (Jean-Luc Ponty album). Storytelling is an album by French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty, released in 1989. It is his second album on the Columbia label.
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Organ [Hammond C3] – Jean-Luc Guionnet
Recorded live on the 9th of october 2013 at the Malterie, Lille (Muzzix)
Instrumentarium : Hammond organ C3 and cabin leslie, bontempi pop 5 tempest, harmonium bontempi 13, Dx7, harmonium topodis, clavier elka, bontempi HF 222
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The five hottest skill sets outside of the front office that will get you a job or promotion in 2015
by Beecher Tuttle 10 December 2014
Which banking jobs are hot now?
Without a doubt, compliance and reporting are the hottest areas of hiring in the US, and will likely remain so in the coming year. Banks facing new regulations and those reeling from scandals, like J.P. Morgan, Citi and BNP, are adding thousands of compliance and risk staffers.
But, as most know, it’s not the easiest job to land. You need a particular background and, with banks fearing more negative headlines, most are emphasizing hiring seniors over juniors. For the coming year, here are the key middle office skills that banks are looking for. Being an expert in any one can help earn you a new job, promotion or raise.
A key growth area within compliance over the past year has been the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) space, says Robert Mundy, senior risk and compliance recruiter at Selby Jennings. “Many companies are expanding in this space to help protect themselves from potential fines and socio-political backlash,” he said.
US authorities in particular have been cracking down on illegal money laundering and banks that deal with sanctioned countries. Just look at what happened to Credit Suisse and BNP this year. Multi-billion dollar fines, criminal charges and huge reputation hits.
“These firms are dedicating entire departments within the institutions to cover KYC (know your customer) and AML activities and those with this skill set have many different options including compliance, audit, risk management, and technology,” said Lisa Mogilner, head of financial institution recruiting at Dynamics Associates.
Mundy said that banks have gone so far as to create “centers of excellence,” typically outside of the main financial hubs, where firms are developing teams that handle the bulk of their compliance needs all under one roof, whilst saving costs. Locations include Jersey City, multiple areas in Florida, as well as the Bay Area, he said.
Those who find work as an anti-money laundering specialist tend to have a legal background. Earning a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) credential can also go a long way to opening doors.
CCAR
Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review, or CCAR, is the Federal Reserve's supervisory program for assessing the capital plans. If you’ve been following the news, you know the Fed continues to tweak its expectations for what is a highly complex reporting mechanism.
With the importance of passing capital review tests and with their constant evolution, banks are on the lookout for CCAR specialists.
“In addition, the Federal Reserve recognizes the challenges firms are facing being new to CCAR,” added Angel Batra, director of financial institution recruiting at Dynamics Associates. “They will continue to develop and enhance their capital planning systems and processes to meet supervisory expectations. Many firms are just now implementing CCAR frameworks and many jobs are now being focused on this area.”
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More than three-quarters of all financial institutions experienced an increase in their total information security budget, said Mogilner, thus creating a slew of new jobs for people in this skill set.
1940 Act
Though updated as part of Dodd-Frank, the 1940 Act has quite obviously been around for a while. But knowledge of how it regulates mutual funds, private equity firms and hedge funds is no less important.
As the alternative investment industry becomes more regulated, as has been the want of many politicians this year, a strong understanding of an updated 1940 will provide some leverage in the job market.
Being on the other side of the wall
The revolving door, where banks poach from regulators and vice versa, is as active as ever. “Often, the most sought after candidates have come from governmental agencies, law enforcement or the military,” Mundy said.
Skillsets that come with that experience include knowledge of Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR), the OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control), the BSA (Bank Secrecy Act) and the Patriot Act, he said.
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CREATIVE Dewi Heald
Me, I'm Like Legend, I Am
'Stop! Where do you go?’ shouted Tom at the sound.
A woman came into view, pacing up the hillside with a large backpack strapped behind her. She wore a brown, wide-rimmed hat that meant that they could not see her face clearly, but her clothes were walking boots, strong jeans and a brown leather waistcoat, suggesting that she had been walking for a while and that she was intending to walk further.
‘I’ll shoot!’ shouted Bob, pointing the rifle vaguely in her direction.
The woman stopped and removed her hat. She gave a sigh as if being challenged like this was nothing new to her.
‘Why did you go to the dentist?’ shouted Bob, thinking back to one of the agreed passwords for people travelling in Wales.
The woman shook her head again as though she was the ageing cop in an old American film about to deliver the line ‘I am too old for this’. She looked no more than forty, so this world-weariness might have seemed out of place before the Unpleasantness. Now everyone was weary of the world and looked older than they were. No electricity, no internet and no moisturiser – it was a new world indeed.
‘To get my tooth fixed!’ she shouted back, but pronounced ‘tooth’ in the south Wales way as ‘toth’. It had been an early way to establish identity when you never knew who was living among you and there had been tales of Bristolians streaming over the border daily.
After a pause, she started walking towards the two men, prompting Tom to shout ‘You may proceed!’ once she had already taken a few steps. Her boots crunched on the uneven ground beneath her.
‘Eluned,’ she said as she reached the old stone tomb, ‘I’m a scribe.’ To prove her identity, she produced a notebook from a tattered waistcoat pocket and then swung her backpack off in front of them. ‘Waistcoats,’ she said, patting the one that hung loosely from her shoulders. ‘Who would have thought that they were so useful?’
Her joviality put Tom on edge, and he eyed her suspiciously. Eluned was well aware of this but she had long since decided that making men uneasy was the least of her problems. She pushed some stray brown hairs off her sweaty forehead and reached into her bag for a water bottle. Normally she would offer to share, but she was not in a sharing or – for that matter – a normal mood.
Dewi Heald was born in 1972 and went to university in Aberystwyth before settling in the Vale of Glamorgan. He has worked in youth work and education for most of his life, while also writing short stories, comic essays and political blogs. He also masquerades as Dai Bongos, singing comedy songs locally. His entry, from which this is an extract, was highly commended at Hay Festival this summer in the New Welsh Writing Awards 2019: Aberystwyth University Prize for a Dystopian Novella.
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It’s Vegas Golden Knights Day at PHT
By Scott BilleckAug 29, 2019, 9:23 AM EDT
Each day in the month of August we’ll be examining a different NHL team — from looking back at last season to discussing a player under pressure to identifying X-factors to asking questions about the future. Today we look at the Vegas Golden Knights.
43-32-7, 93 points (3rd in the Pacific Division, 7th in the Western Conference)
Playoffs: Lost in Game 7 of Round 1 against the San Jose Sharks.
Jaycob Megna
Garrett Sparks
Nikita Gusev
Erik Haula
Maxime Legace
RE-SIGNED:
Deryk Engelland
Tomas Nosek
William Karlsson
2018-19 Summary
Could they have done it all over again, or even one-upped their magical inaugural season with a Stanley Cup banner in just their second season in the NHL?
Ultimately, the answer to both of those questions was no. It wasn’t because they didn’t put themselves in position to take another run at Lord Stanley. Despite putting up 16 fewer points than they did when they won the Pacific Divison crown in 2017-18 the Golden Knights, plagued by injuries at times, still managed a third-place showing to secure a second playoff spot in as many years.
And in Round 1, they seemed to be cruising with a 3-1 series lead against the San Jose Sharks.
Seemed.
After dropping Games 5 and 6, the Golden Knights appeared to regroup. They held a 3-0 lead in the third period, and barring disaster, would be heading off to face the Colorado Avalanche in Round 2.
Instead, disaster ensured.
A five-minute major to Cody Eakin for a phantom who-knows-still-to-this-day roughing call handed the Sharks a lifeline. And it would be used to maximum effect as the Sharks rattled off four goals in four minutes during the extended power play to lead the game.
The Golden Knights forced overtime but it only delayed the inevitable as Barclay Goodrow completed one of the zaniest comebacks in NHL history.
Heartbreak in Year 1. Hearts torn out in Year 2.
It was always going to be a tough act to follow for the Golden Knights.
Vegas set the bar for expansion teams so high in their inaugural season in 2017-18 and were tasked with following up a Stanley Cup Final appearance in just their second year.
They certainly looked well on their way prior to the season kicking off, having added Paul Stastny in free agency and Max Pacioretty via trade.
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But both players battled injuries at different points during the season, including Stastny’s, which limited him to 50 games.
Vegas wasn’t the same 109-point team from the year prior, but they announced their ‘win-now’ intentions at the trade deadline to not only acquire Mark Stone from Ottawa, but also agree to a big-money, multi-year extension.
The pieces were in place until their epic collapse watched it all go out the window.
It’s been a much quieter offseason in Vegas this time around, and the biggest news has been the players who have left the club, including Nikita Gusev, Colin Miller and Erik Haula.
Gusev is considered by some to be the best player outside of the NHL. The Golden Knights signed him this past spring but couldn’t work out a deal.
Other subtractions have come with the reality of the salary cap setting in on The Strip. The scrap bin was only available for a limited time. Guys need to be paid and you can’t keep everyone.
A healthy start to the season for Stastny should improve their early-season prospects. Having Stone in the mix for a full training camp with his new club can only be a good thing, too.
And there’s no reason to suggest that the Golden Knights won’t be a playoff team for a third consecutive season.
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Tags: Vegas Golden Knights, Barclay Goodrow, Brandon Pirri, Cody Eakin, Colin Miller, Deryk Engelland, Erik Haula, Malcolm Subban, Mark Stone, Max Pacioretty, Nikita Gusev, Paul Stastny, Pierre-Edouard Bellemare, Ryan Carpenter, Tomas Nosek, William Karlsson
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Vibram was founded by Vitale Bramani in 1937 when he developed the first ever rubber climbing boot sole and the iconic “Carrarmato” grip pattern.
67 years later in 2004 his grandson, Marco Bramani, started production of Vibram FiveFingers which he developed with designer, inventor and barefoot enthusiast Robert Flirie. Flirie was determined to develop a shoe that felt quite simply like a glove, he said at the time:
“We have five toes; when they can move and grasp the ground independently, and when you can really sense the surface under your feet, your body is able to do what it is designed for by nature. That is a powerful feeling.”
From those early beginnings the range has evolved into a highly technical selection of styles specifically designed to deliver high levels of performance across a range of speciality sports and training – though always preserving the “barefoot feel”.
As always with Vibram, it starts with the sole. Every sole is made from a specific compound and moulded in a carefully designed pattern to deliver the best possible results in terms of grip, stability and wear.
KSO EVO the universal minimalist shoe remains the best selling style, but the V-RUN (especially for road running) and V-TRAIL (for trail and mud runs), launched in 2017, are proving to be immensely popular.
The Charles Birch Group was appointed distributors for the UK in April 2017 and MD Chris Wilson explained “We were delighted to be made Vibram distributors for the UK and we are also delighted by the high demand for Vibram FiveFingers and Furoshiki. The National Running Show is an ideal opportunity for us to demonstrate the benefits of Vibram to a whole new audience as well as looking after our long term, loyal customers”.
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You searched for +publisher:"University of Southern California" +contributor:("Forsburg, Susan L."). Showing records 1 – 5 of 5 total matches.
1. Nugent, Rebecca Lynn. The S. pombe Mst1 histone acetyltransferase is required for genome stability.
Degree: PhD, Molecular Biology, 2010, University of Southern California
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/380147/rec/7279
► Within the cell DNA exists as chromatin, a complex mass of nucleic acids and proteins. Chromatin is highly structured and is compacted through the interaction… (more)
▼ Within the cell DNA exists as chromatin, a complex mass of nucleic acids and proteins. Chromatin is highly structured and is compacted through the interaction of double stranded DNA with histone proteins, to form a nucleosome. Histones are post- translationally modified on the amino acids of their N-terminal tails to create a heritable epigenetic code. Histone acetylation regulates the interaction between DNA and histones in nucleosomes. Histone acetyltransferases are the enzymes that transfer acetyl groups on to histones.; S. pombe (Sp) Mst1 is a member of the MYST family of histone acetyltransferases (HATs) and is the likely orthologue of human TIP60 and S. cerevisiae Esa1 (KAT5). The MYST family of HATs has roles in transcriptional regulation and DNA damage repair. I show SpMst1 is necessary for response to DNA damage. Mst1 was found to interact with a wide-variety of proteins through a yeast 2-hybrid experiment: I confirmed the interaction of Mst1 and Rad22. I also found evidence for increased endogenous DNA damage in mst1 mutant cells. I show Mst1 functions within DNA damage checkpoint pathway.; I found that MYST and GNAT family HATs have significant functional overlap in regards to induced cellular stress, transcription and acetylation targets. Specifically the MYST family HAT SpMst2 and GNAT family HAT SpGcn5 each acetylate histone H3 lysine 14.; Finally I show that histone acetylation is necessary for proper centromere architecture. Mst1 is genetically placed to function at the central core of the centromere. In the absence of Mst1 the kinetochore, localization is disrupted. The kinetochore is a complex of proteins that link the chromosomes and microtubules during cytokinesis. Data suggest this is related to histone H4 acetylation. Advisors/Committee Members: Forsburg, Susan L. (Committee Chair), Aparicio, Oscar Martin (Committee Member), Rice, Judd C. (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: Mst1; MYST; fission yeast; genome stability; histone acetyltransferase; chromatin; centromere; DNA damage repair; transcription
Nugent, R. L. (2010). The S. pombe Mst1 histone acetyltransferase is required for genome stability . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/380147/rec/7279
Nugent, Rebecca Lynn. “The S. pombe Mst1 histone acetyltransferase is required for genome stability.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/380147/rec/7279.
Nugent, Rebecca Lynn. “The S. pombe Mst1 histone acetyltransferase is required for genome stability.” 2010. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Nugent RL. The S. pombe Mst1 histone acetyltransferase is required for genome stability. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2010. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/380147/rec/7279.
Nugent RL. The S. pombe Mst1 histone acetyltransferase is required for genome stability. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2010. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/380147/rec/7279
2. Mastro, Tara. Response to alkylation damage linked to meiotic progression.
URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/535465/rec/5564
► Mechanisms that maintain genome stability are essential for human health. Loss of genome stability is associated with cancer and birth defects. This dissertation uses a… (more)
▼ Mechanisms that maintain genome stability are essential for human health. Loss of genome stability is associated with cancer and birth defects. This dissertation uses a model fission yeast system to investigate how cells preserve chromosome integrity during the specialized differentiation process of meiosis. In this work mutants sensitive to alkylation damage were examined for their ability to proceed through meiosis. It was found that these genes contribute to meiotic progression. However, their contribution is not isolated to a single process or mechanism. Rather it was seen that these mutants that are sensitive to meiotic alkylation damage have a diverse role in meiotic progression. Advisors/Committee Members: Forsburg, Susan L. (Committee Chair), Goodman, Myron F. (Committee Member), Michael, Matthew (Committee Member), Craft, Cheryl M. (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: meiosis; S. pombe; DNA damage; checkpoint; chromosomes; genetics
Mastro, T. (2015). Response to alkylation damage linked to meiotic progression . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/535465/rec/5564
Mastro, Tara. “Response to alkylation damage linked to meiotic progression.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/535465/rec/5564.
Mastro, Tara. “Response to alkylation damage linked to meiotic progression.” 2015. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Mastro T. Response to alkylation damage linked to meiotic progression. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2015. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/535465/rec/5564.
Mastro T. Response to alkylation damage linked to meiotic progression. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2015. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/535465/rec/5564
3. Le, Anh-Huy Phan. The importance of Dfp1 in alkylation damage response and meiosis.
► In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the DDK complex is a conserved, essential kinase complex consisting of a catalytic subunit, Hsk1 (Cdc7), and its regulatory subunit Dfp1 (Dbf4).… (more)
▼ In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the DDK complex is a conserved, essential kinase complex consisting of a catalytic subunit, Hsk1 (Cdc7), and its regulatory subunit Dfp1 (Dbf4). Over the years, it has become apparent that the DDK complex has additional roles that go beyond its function in initiation of DNA replication that now include damage checkpoint response and fork stabilization, promotion of centromeric cohesion and chromosome segregation, and induction of prDSBs. ❧ The focus of my research has been to dissect the different roles the DDK complex has outside of DNA replication. Chapter Two describes the role of the DDK complex in maintaining genome stability. We found that the DDK complex has overlapping roles with components of the fork protection complex in stabilizing the fork, but also unique contributions in response to alkylation damage that place it in the translesion synthesis repair pathway. ❧ Chapter Three describes a functional dissection of the importance of the C-terminus in meiosis. I show that the C-terminus of Dfp1 is important for a regulated meiotic program, induction of prDSBs, and proper chromosome segregation by affecting Rec8 cohesin stability. ❧ Chapter Four concludes with a search for new protein-protein interaction partners that suggest a future research path in elucidating further mechanisms the DDK complex may be involved in. Advisors/Committee Members: Forsburg, Susan L. (Committee Chair), Aparicio, Oscar Martin (Committee Member), Zandi, Ebrahim (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: alkylation damage; DDK; Dfp1; Hsk1; meiosis; S. Pombe
Le, A. P. (2011). The importance of Dfp1 in alkylation damage response and meiosis . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/666811/rec/6856
Le, Anh-Huy Phan. “The importance of Dfp1 in alkylation damage response and meiosis.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/666811/rec/6856.
Le, Anh-Huy Phan. “The importance of Dfp1 in alkylation damage response and meiosis.” 2011. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Le AP. The importance of Dfp1 in alkylation damage response and meiosis. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2011. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/666811/rec/6856.
Le AP. The importance of Dfp1 in alkylation damage response and meiosis. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2011. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll127/id/666811/rec/6856
4. Ding, Lin. Essential and non-essential helicases maintain genome stability in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
► A healthy cell needs to accurately duplicate its genome and pass one copy to each of its daughter cells. The DNA double helix is accessed… (more)
▼ A healthy cell needs to accurately duplicate its genome and pass one copy to each of its daughter cells. The DNA double helix is accessed by replication machinery once per cell cycle during S phase and regulated unwinding of this molecule is essential for replication. However, unwinding can make the DNA vulnerable to damage or breakage. Therefore, the process of unwinding must be carefully regulated. ❧ The conserved proteins Mcm2-7 form the MCM complex, which is the replicative helicase responsible for unwinding the DNA duplex during replication. The MCM complex also plays an important role in replication fork establishment. During S phase, replication fork stability is challenged by many natural impediments or environmental stresses, and control of the unwinding is essential to prevent fork collapse and DNA damage. The focus of my thesis is to gain deeper understanding of how helicase activities are regulated to preserve replication fork integrity. ❧ In chapter 2, I investigate a new factor that regulates the essential replicative helicase, MCM complex. Mcb1 is the ortholog of human MCM binding protein in S. pombe, and I found that Mcb1 antagonizes MCM helicase function by disrupting the association of Mcm2 with other MCM proteins. ❧ In chapter 3, I examined another conserved but non-essential helicase, Rad8. I investigated whether Rad8’s fork regression helicase domain is involved in replication fork restart during HU treatment. Using a genetic approach, I demonstrated that the ubiquitin ligase domain instead of helicase domain is required for Rad8 to promote fork recovery. Advisors/Committee Members: Forsburg, Susan L. (Committee Chair), Aparicio, Oscar M. (Committee Member), Finkel, Steven E. (Committee Member), Thompson, Mark E. (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: replication fork; helicases; MCM; S. pombe; ubiquitin ligase; fork regression; fork recovery; homologous recombination
Ding, L. (2014). Essential and non-essential helicases maintain genome stability in Schizosaccharomyces pombe . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/360582/rec/2492
Ding, Lin. “Essential and non-essential helicases maintain genome stability in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/360582/rec/2492.
Ding, Lin. “Essential and non-essential helicases maintain genome stability in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.” 2014. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Ding L. Essential and non-essential helicases maintain genome stability in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2014. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/360582/rec/2492.
Ding L. Essential and non-essential helicases maintain genome stability in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2014. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/360582/rec/2492
5. Li, Pao-Chen. The centromere: replication, recombination, reassembly.
► Normal cell division requires faithful DNA replication and proper DNA segregation in order to generate two identical daughter cells. Within cells DNA is always assembled… (more)
▼ Normal cell division requires faithful DNA replication and proper DNA segregation in order to generate two identical daughter cells. Within cells DNA is always assembled with positively charged histones to form protein-DNA packaging structures called chromatin. The order of chromatin packaging regulates cellular functions including replication, gene expression and chromosome segregation. The compact chromatin region is called heterochromatin. The centromere is a rigid, gene-silent heterochromatin region and is essential for faithful chromosome segregation. To duplicate a cell, this region needs to be unpacked for replication and further be reassembled to maintain its function. I tackled how cells maintain faithful replication and reassembly at this region in S. pombe. ❧ I found that a replication protein Cdc18/Cdc6 associates with heterochromatin protein Swi6/HP1. A mutation cdc18-I43A that reduces Cdc18 association with Swi6 has no silencing defect at the centromere, but changes Swi6 distribution and accelerates the timing of centromere replication. This interaction is important for replication timing at the centromere through region-specific regulation of Swi6 loading. ❧ Transcription at the centromere at S phase is also crucial for centromere reassembly. The coordination of replication and transcription machineries is important to prevent genome instability generated by collision of these two machineries. I found that the loading of RNA Polymerase II at the centromere is independent from DNA replication. ❧ I also found that the centromere is prone to recombination while unprotected by heterochromatin factors. Also, this region is very sensitive to replication fork stalled. The repetitive sequences at the centromere require fork protector Mrc1/Claspin, S phase checkpoint kinase Cds1 and recombinase Rhp51/Rad51 to insure proper centromere reassembly. Advisors/Committee Members: Forsburg, Susan L. (Committee Chair), Aparicio, Oscar M. (Committee Member), Chen, Lin (Committee Member), Rice, Judd C. (Committee Member).
Subjects/Keywords: centromere; replication; heterochromatin; recombination; chromosome segregation; hp1; swi6; cdc6; rad51
Li, P. (2012). The centromere: replication, recombination, reassembly . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Southern California. Retrieved from http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/213298/rec/6487
Li, Pao-Chen. “The centromere: replication, recombination, reassembly.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/213298/rec/6487.
Li, Pao-Chen. “The centromere: replication, recombination, reassembly.” 2012. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Li P. The centromere: replication, recombination, reassembly. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2012. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/213298/rec/6487.
Li P. The centromere: replication, recombination, reassembly. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Southern California; 2012. Available from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll3/id/213298/rec/6487
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Lockheed lands $49M sensor upgrade deal for Apache helicopters
Night vision equipment for pilots will feature new laser and near-infrared imaging technologies.
Full-color cockpit display
The US Army will spend $49.3 million on its latest batch of upgrades to sensor and night vision equipment for helicopter pilots provided by defense contractor Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed said that the deal to provide AH-64E Apache pilots with more advanced target acquisition designation sights and better night vision capability would run through March 2019, with production at the firm’s facilities in Orlando and Ocala, Florida.
Engineers there will make 42 Modernized Day Sensor Assembly (M-DSA) upgrade kits and spares as part of the “Lot 1” production run.
The M-DSA kit, also known as “Arrowhead”, comprises a turret with a targeting system and night-vision capability, incorporating a laser rangefinder designator, and laser spot tracker components.
Arrowhead was first deployed in 2005, and used in both Iraq and Afghanistan, with the latest upgrade said to improve image resolution in the near-infrared spectrum, and provide full-color displays.
“Pilots can identify targets at further distances through an additional field of view and extended range picture-in-picture capability,” said Lockheed previously. “They also now have the ability to view high-resolution, near infrared and color imagery on cockpit displays. Phase 2 upgrades [to M-DSA] also include a new laser pointer marker and a multi-mode laser with eye-safe lasing capability.”
Rapid target identification
Tom Eldredge, director of the relevant sensor equipment production program at Lockheed’s missiles and fire control division, added: “M-DSA gives Apache aircrews the ability to more rapidly identify targets and coordinate with troops on the ground, which improves mission success.
“M-DSA’s modular design reduces operation and support costs, and will be supported by our award-winning Performance-Based Logistics sustainment program.”
As well as the better ranging and higher-resolution imagery on cockpit displays, M-DSA also provides a new laser pointer marker. It is said to improve coordination with ground troops, while an updated multi-mode laser with eye-safe lasing capability supports flight in urban environments and home-station training.
The $49.3 million deal is the latest in a long line of similar contracts won by Lockheed over the past few years, during which time it has delivered more than 1350 pilot vision and targeting systems to the US Army and forces from 15 other countries.
M-DSA overview
$54M for Lockheed Apache helicopter upgrade
Lockheed Martin Awarded $65 Million M-TADS/PNVS Modernization Contract
US Army Awards Lockheed Martin Contract to Upgrade Apache Helicopter Targeting and Pilotage System
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Honorez votre amour, protégez vos relations sexuelles (Série Renseignez-vous pour Jeunes Autochtones) [Postcard] This postcard is part of the CAAN – CATIE Indigenous Youth Get the Facts Campaign, a vibrant HIV awareness campaign by and for Indigenous Youth. The campaign aims to empower Indigenous youth in making well-informed decisions and improving their health by way of three postcards and posters which give youth-friendly and culturally-appropriate messages about safer […] https://orders.catie.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/26166.jpg
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Honorez votre amour, protégez vos relations sexuelles (Série Renseignez-vous pour Jeunes Autochtones) [Postcard]
This postcard is part of the CAAN – CATIE Indigenous Youth Get the Facts Campaign, a vibrant HIV awareness campaign by and for Indigenous Youth. The campaign aims to empower Indigenous youth in making well-informed decisions and improving their health by way of three postcards and posters which give youth-friendly and culturally-appropriate messages about safer sex, HIV testing and treatment. Indigenous youth were responsible for creating the messages and images for this campaign.
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Sarah Lucas was born in Holloway, London, in 1962 and studied at Goldsmith's College. One of the leading figures in the generation of Young British Artists who emerged during the 1990s, she has gai...
Sarah Lucas was born in Holloway, London, in 1962 and studied at Goldsmith's College. One of the leading figures in the generation of Young British Artists who emerged during the 1990s, she has gained an international reputation for provocative works that frequently employ coarse visual puns and a defiant, bawdy humour. Her works span the media of photography, collage and found objects. She lives in Suffolk and works in London and is represented by Sadie Coles HQ, London, Gladstone Gallery, New York, and CFA Berlin.
July 6, 2016 Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick
Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA
6 July – 24 August 2016
May 9, 2015 The British Pavilion
Sarah Lucas has been selected by the British Council to represent Britain at the 56th Venice International Art Biennale. Lucas will present a major solo show in the British Pavilion running from 9 May to 22 November 2015.
May 7, 2015 Sarah Lucas at Other Criteria London
In celebration of Sarah Lucas’ solo exhibition in the British Pavilion for the 56th Venice Biennale (9 May - 22 November 2015), Other Criteria are proud to present a selection of works created in collaboration with the artist. This exhibition, installed on May 7th, will be running until June 30th, 2015, at Other Criteria London, 14 Hinde Street.
November 11, 2013 Invitation to a Beheading
Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to present Invitation to a Beheading, a group exhibition curated by Rachel Howard, featuring works by Fiona Banner, Eloise Fornieles, Sarah Lucas, and Joyce Pensato, in addition to works by Howard. Invitation to a Beheading will be on view from November 7, 2013 through December 20, 2013 in the gallery’s location at 118 East 64th Street.
August 14, 2013 SITUATION at Whitechapel Gallery
2nd October - 15th December 2013
The Whitechapel Gallery are presenting Sarah Lucas first major solo show in London. Bringing together over two decades of sculpture, installation and photography SITUATION explores Lucas’s career and her role in British art.
October 17, 2012 Plus Art Projects
10th October – 10th November
Mayor’s Parlour, 1st Floor, 153-159 Bow House, London E3 2SE
Artists include Mat Collishaw, Adam Dix, Tracey Emin, Mustafa Hulusi & Sarah Lucas.
August 21, 2012 Screening of Energy Dairies in honour of Franz West
ICA Quickfire: Screening of Energy Dairies
, Free, booking required
An impromptu and informal screening of Energy Dairies in honour of Franz West, introduced by Sarah Lucas and Julian Simmons. Energy Dairies is a film of a conversation between Sarah Lucas, Philipp Quehenberger, Andreas Reiter Raabe, and Franz West.
For more information, please visit the ICA website.
March 10, 2012 SITUATION at Sadie Coles
Until December 2012
Sadie Coles, First Floor, 4 New Burlington Place, London W1
In February 2012, Situation, a new gallery at 4 New Burlington Place, will open. Devoted to the work of Sarah Lucas, Situation will present new installations in February, May, August and November 2012, alongside an organic programme of events directed by the artist. The extended displays will include works both new and historical, mainly by Sarah Lucas and occasionally involving other artists.
June 22, 2010 The Royal Institutions Artist's Talk
On 21 June 2010, at The Royal Institution, London, artists Sarah Lucas, Andreas Reiter Raabe and Franz West discussed art, music and literature, with musical interventions by Phillip Quehenberger, followed by a private view of the ‘RA Schools Show 2010’. See our blog for photos of the evening.
A Royal Academy Schools event generously supported by the David Lean Foundation
June 7, 2010 The Surreal House, Barbican
Step inside a labyrinth of chambers, designed by acclaimed young architects Carmody Groarke, and experience The Surreal House - its haunted rooms, delirious forms, blasted architecture and cinematic dreamscapes – featuring a host of artists, architects and film makers including Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti, Rene Magritte, Man Ray, Joseph Cornell and Maya Deren, through to more contemporary figures, among them; Rebecca Horn, Edward Kienholz, Sarah Lucas and Rem Koolhaas.
For more information and images, visit our blog entry on The Surreal House.
June 1, 2010 Keeping it Real - Whitechapel Gallery
Sarah Lucas joins numerous artists in Keeping it Real at the Whitechapel Gallery exhibiting between 10 June – 5 September 2010
Visit our blog for more information and to see an image of Sarah Lucas piece Bunny Gets Snookered #10.
Athens Insider: June 2010
To read Athens Insider's review of Sarah Lucas' exhibition, Nuds, at the Cycladic Musuem of Art, click here.
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Wilson Cup Playoffs
Ontario Basketball
M-BASKETBALL ROUNDUP: Badgers fall to No. 3 Rams 93-64 in first annual President's Game
Waterloo 85 @ Laurier 93
WATERLOO, Ont. (January 28, 2015) - Playing in front of a large crowd at their first School Day Game, the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks men's basketball team snapped their five game losing streak with a 93-85 victory over the Waterloo Warriors on Thursday morning at the Athletic Complex.
With over 1500 people in attendance cheering them on, including children from 12 different schools across the Waterloo Region, the purple and gold put on a shooting clinic for the fans. Laurier shot 54.8 percent from the floor and over 55 percent from three point range to pick up their fifth win of the season.
The Hawks did most of their damage in the post as Kyrie Coleman of Washington, D.C., and Aiddian Walters of Vaughn, Ont., combined to hit 16 of the 24 shots they attempted to pace the offensive effort. Coleman would finish the game with 18 points and 10 rebounds for his second consecutive double-double while Walters had 17 points in his most productive game of the season.
Will Coulthard of Oakville, Ont., ended up leading the way for Laurier as the fourth year guard had his second 20-plus point performance in the last three games. He finished the day with a team-high 21 points while adding five rebounds and three steals.
For Waterloo, they had two main weapons firing on this day but got little else from the rest of the team. Myles Charvis of Mississauga, Ont., and Jaspreet Gill of Oliver, B.C., combined for 60 of the Warriors 85 points with Charvis finishing with 37 while Gill had 23.
Looking to put on a show for the crowd, both teams came out shooting the ball well in the first quarter. Both the Hawks and Warriors traded buckets early on but a late run by the purple and gold gave them a 10 point lead after one.
Following an even second quarter, Laurier pulled away in the third as they managed to increase their lead to 20, giving them a comfortable cushion heading into the final quarter.
The Warriors turned up their defensive intensity in the final frame and managed to cut into the Hawks lead but they couldn't get close enough to make the game interesting as Laurier earned their fifth consecutive win against their crosstown rivals.
The Hawks will look to carry the momentum earned from this victory on to the road this weekend when they make the long trip up north to face the Lakehead Thunderwolves. Tipoff is set for 8 p.m. and the game can be seen live on OUA.tv.
Source: Laurier Golden Hawks
(Photo: Colin Dewar)
Ryerson 93 @ Brock 64
ST. CATHARINES, Ont. - The Brock University men's basketball team (5-8 OUA) dropped a 93-64 decision to the No. 3 ranked Ryerson Rams (10-3 OUA) in front of a sold out crowd at the Bob Davis Gymnasium Wednesday night.
Prior to the ceremonial tip-off, Brock University President Dr. Jack Lightstone thanked all the sponsors and supporters that were in attendance for this special home event. He also acknowledged the committment, dedication and generous support to the university and athletics by David S. Howes, who will always be remembered.
"I am very proud of our guys for playing a solid three quarters against one of the top teams in the country," said head coach Charles Kissi. We have to learn how to work harder to close out games, but this was a great learning experience for our young squad. The future is very bright for the Brock men's basketball program."
The Badgers found themselves down 11-2 early on and continued to claw back into the game the entire first half, trailing by just four, 42-38, at the break.
The sellout crowd was rocking tonight at the Bob Davis Gymnasium. Right from the starting lineup introductions and light show, celebrity in game host Drew Ebanks kept the energy up and the crowd electric the entire 40 minutes. This is what CIS Basketball and sports are all about. Taking pride in what you stand for and cheering on your school and showing your colours.
The Badgers continued to battle and brought the score within one point, 57-56 with 1:59 left in the third quarter. Ryerson's offense then came alive putting togther a 14-1 run, over a two minute span, to take a 71-57 lead at the end of thirty minutes. The high-scoring Rams, continued their run in the fourth quarter, scoring 18 of the next 20 points, to take a commanding 89-59 lead, on route to their seventh straight victory.
Dani Elgadi (Waterloo, Ont.) led the Badgers offense registering 23 points and 16 rebounds for the double-double. Rookie Johneil Simpson (Toronto, Ont.) added 16 points while Yusuf Ali (Toronto, Ont.) chipped in with eight points off the bench.
Ryerson had five players in double figures led by Adika Peter-McNeilly who recorded a game-high 24 points, highlighted by six three-pointers (6-for-12). Jean-Victor Mukama contributed with 17 points and five rebounds, while Aaron Best (14 pts, 5 reb), Bjorn Michaelsen (13 pts, 5 reb) and Kadeem Green (11 pts, 10 reb, double-double) rounded out the Ram leaders. Senior Jahmal Jones chipped in with eight points and six assists in the victory.
For the game, Brock shot just 29.0% (18-for-62) including 22.2% (4-for-18) from beyond the arc. They were also 24-for-28 (85.7%) from the charity stripe. The Rams went 34-for-65 (52.3%) from the floor, 13-for-26 (50.0%) from three-point land and 12-for-18 (66.7%) from the free throw line. Ryerson also won the battle on the boards, outrebounding Brock by a 43-33 margin.
Source: Brock Badgers
McMaster 86 @ Guelph 74
Guelph, ON – After playing with the No. 4 team in the country for most of the night, the Gryphons would fall short in the end as the Marauders would pull away in the fourth to win 86-74. With the loss, the Gryphons fall to 6-6. McMaster improves to 11-3 on the season. Trevor Thompson led the Gryphons with 19 points. Aaron Redpath was the leading scorer for the Marauders with 23 points.
The first quarter would get underway with some high-paced action with a lot of emotion. The Gryphons would make their first five shots, marking a 10-4 run to start the game. Moments later Andrew Grant (Toronto, ON) would steal the ball and break away down the court to finish with an emphatic dunk. The Gryphons would end the quarter down two however, with a score of 20-18.
The second quarter emotions would get the best of both teams, as McMaster forward Connor Gilmore (Etobicoke, ON) would receive a technical foul early in the quarter that set the tone for what was to come. Later on Gryphons guard Jonathan Wallace (Toronto, ON) and McMaster guard Aaron Redpath (Ajax, ON) would get into a scuffle, igniting both benches. The Marauders would get into foul trouble during the frame, which kept the Gryphons in the game. The half would end with the Marauders leading the Gryphons 39-33.
The intensity to the game was not forgotten over the half time break as the jawing and the technical fouls continued to pour in. Scoring wise, the third quarter was a back-and-forth affair as McMaster would score 24 in the period, while the Gryphons managed 22 points. The Marauders took a 63-55 lead into the final quarter.
That is where the Marauders would start to expand the lead and separate themselves from the Gryphons. Aaron Redpath caught fire from beyond the arc, knocking down several clutch three pointers. He finished as the games high scorer with 23 points as the Marauders improve to 11-3 thanks to an 86-74 victory. McMaster shot 52% in the second half compared to the Gryphons 38%. Trevor Thompson (Burlington, ON) led the Gryphons with 19 points while Daniel Dooley had 12 points, five rebounds and five assists.
The Gryphons (6-6) remain in second place in the Central Division behind Mac (Lakehead is also 6-6, but Guelph owns the head-to-head with the Thunderwolves). The Gryphons will host another divisional opponent on Saturday (Jan. 31) at 3pm when they welcome the Brock Badgers (5-8) to the W.F. Mitchell Athletics Centre.
Source: Guelph Gryphons
July 16, 2015 Rana guest coach with Spurs in NBA Summer League
July 13, 2015 2015 Summer Universiade: Berhanemeskel’s big game fuels win over Estonia, Canada finishes 7th
July 9, 2015 2015 Summer Universiade: Canada ends pool play with a loss
July 8, 2015 2015 Summer Universiade: Canadians dismantle Mongolia 106-41
July 6, 2015 2015 Summer Universiade: Last minute free throws give Canada the edge over Montenegro
July 6, 2015 Rams head coach Rana, Canadian juniors have best finish at FIBAU19
July 5, 2015 2015 Summer Universiade: Canada moves to 2-0 with win over Mexico
July 4, 2015 2015 Summer Universiade: Canada opens men’s basketball action with win over Sweden
June 22, 2015 Road to the NBA runs through OUA for the Scrubb brothers
June 22, 2015 Gee-Gees men’s basketball team travelling to South Korea
June 11, 2015 Thomas and Phil Scrubb invited to Toronto Raptors free agent mini-camp
June 4, 2015 Six OUA all-stars named to FISU Team Canada roster for Gwangju
April 23, 2015 Greg Francis leaving Warriors for new position with Canada Basketball
April 15, 2015 Former Lakehead Head Coach Scott Morrison named NBA D-League Coach of the Year
April 13, 2015 Khoury and Berhanemeskel named uOttawa Athletes of the Year
April 10, 2015 Jones, Pingue-Giles named Ryerson Athletes of the Year
March 22, 2015 Doroodian and Clendinning Named Algoma Student-Athletes of the Year
March 20, 2015 Thomas Scrubb named Carleton Male Student-Athlete of the Year
March 18, 2015 Western’s Campbell, Carleton’s Scrubb honoured as ArcelorMittal Dofasco CIS athletes of the week
March 15, 2015 Host Rams claim bronze, best result in program history
March 15, 2015 Gee-Gees get by host Rams, meet crosstown rivals in CIS championship rematch
March 15, 2015 Top-seeded Ravens five-peat, Scrubb brothers enter record books
March 14, 2015 Ravens advance to ArcelorMittal Dofasco CIS championship game aiming for 5th straight title
March 14, 2015 Lancers fall to Huskies in the consolation final at the 2015 ArcelorMittal Dofasco CIS Men’s Basketball Championship
March 13, 2015 Tourney host Rams off to first-ever national semifinal
March 13, 2015 Lancers advance to Consolation Finals against Huskies
March 13, 2015 Gee-Gees survive scare, off to third straight national semifinal
March 11, 2015 Ottawa’s Berhanemeskel named CIS player of the year
March 10, 2015 Ravens, Scrubb brothers aim for fifth straight McGee Trophy at 2015 ArcelorMittal Dofasco CIS men’s basketball championship
March 9, 2015 Reigning champ Ravens seeded No. 1, Ottawa earns wildcard at 2015 ArcelorMittal Dofasco CIS men’s basketball championship
March 7, 2015 Monster third quarter by Berhanemeskel leads Gee-Gees past Rams in OUA bronze medal
March 7, 2015 Ravens defeat Lancers to capture ninth Wilson Cup title in 13 seasons
March 6, 2015 Lancers upset Gee-Gees 85-80, advance to Wilson Cup final
March 6, 2015 Ravens come back to down Rams and advance to ninth straight Wilson Cup Final
March 5, 2015 OUA Announces 2015 Men's Basketball Major Awards and All-Stars
March 1, 2015 No. 1-ranked Ravens trail Rams at half; catch the 3rd quarter on OUA.tv
March 1, 2015 Rams heading back to Wilson Cup Final Four
March 1, 2015 Ravens beat Thunderwolves to advance to OUA Final Four
February 28, 2015 Windsor defeats McMaster 85-70, advances to third straight OUA Final Four
February 28, 2015 Gee-Gees drop Voyageurs, set to host OUA Wilson Cup Final Four, presented by Recharge with Milk
February 25, 2015 M-BASKETBALL PLAYOFF ROUNDUP: 11th seed Golden Hawks stun Mustangs 90-82
February 22, 2015 Quest for the Wilson Cup continues Saturday on OUA.tv
February 21, 2015 M-BASKETBALL WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Toronto wins OUA East battle with Queens, claim final playoff spot
February 19, 2015 OUA Announces 2015 Men's and Women's Basketball Playoff Scenarios
February 19, 2015 M-BASKETBALL ROUNDUP: Marauders end Badgers postseason hopes with 87-73 victory
February 14, 2015 M-BASKETBALL WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Gaels hang tough in loss to Gee-Gees
February 12, 2015 M-BASKETBALL ROUNDUP: No. 3 Rams score season-high 104 points in win over Varsity Blues
February 7, 2015 Ravens get revenge on Gee-Gees at Capital Hoops Classic
February 7, 2015 M-BASKETBALL WEEKEND ROUNDUP: No. 3 Rams down Lakehead at home
February 5, 2015 M-BASKETBALL ROUNDUP: Badgers use 20-4 fourth quarter run to sneak past Warriors
February 4, 2015 OUA.tv Marquee Matchup: No. 1 Gee-Gees go for season sweep of No. 2 Ravens in MBNA Capital Hoops Classic
February 4, 2015 York's Tufegdzich name ArcelorMittal Dofasco CIS Male Athlete of the Week
January 31, 2015 M-BASKETBALL WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Lions upset No. 5 Lancers on the road
January 29, 2015 M-BASKETBALL ROUNDUP: Badgers fall to No. 3 Rams 93-64 in first annual President's Game
January 24, 2015 M-BASKETBALL WEEKEND ROUNDUP: No. 5 Lancers stun No. 2 Ravens
January 22, 2015 Gryphons win 92-60 over Warriors
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Rich nations 'ganged up' in Copenhagen
Oh China.. this is written by John Garnaut, I'm sure some people will be familiar with him.
This seemed to be a national pissing contest, and those who lose out because of these games will be EVERYONE.
CHINA has no regrets over its abrasive negotiating tactics at Copenhagen, saying the ''key lesson'' rich countries should take from the conference is that China cannot be pushed around.
In the first detailed, post-Copenhagen interview with the Western media by a Chinese official, climate change ambassador Yu Qingtai told The Age that the summit was ''a step in the right direction''.
But he repeatedly accused rich countries of ganging up on China.
''During and before Copenhagen there was a concerted effort by a small group of developed countries who believed that by joining hands [they could] force us to go beyond what we are responsible for or capable of,'' Mr Yu said.
''Copenhagen proved that those attempts will not be successful. In fact they should have known better. So what the developed countries need to learn from this whole process is to make up their minds whether they want to pursue confrontation or co-operation with China.''
Mr Yu said the underlying fissure at Copenhagen was whether rich countries would honour pledges made at Kyoto and Bali, particularly the principle of ''common but differentiated responsibilities'' and an American commitment to make cuts comparable with other rich countries by 2050.
Greenpeace spokeswoman Yang Ailun said China's objections were directed mainly at the US but also Canada, Japan and Australia.
Mr Yu would not comment on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's efforts at Copenhagen, but said the two countries had previously worked constructively on climate change and he hoped they would do so again.
China has made a series of policy steps to reduce pollution and energy consumption and in November made its first ''voluntary'' carbon pledge: to reduce the carbon intensity of its economic output by 40-45 per cent between 2005 and 2020.
Mr Yu said this target was ''not negotiable'' while other officials over the weekend said China would not permit international verification of its carbon performance.
Mr Yu said Beijing's objective this year was to press developed countries to detail deep carbon reduction commitments as well as their financial assistance pledges to poorer nations, rather than for the world to sign a new, legally binding global agreement.
Chinese negotiators were at the centre of several angry flare-ups at the climate change summit and were accused of stonewalling efforts to forge an ambitious binding agreement.
Last week a Hong Kong newspaper said Beijing was so embarrassed about wearing the blame for Copenhagen that it had punished one of its key negotiators, He Yafei.
But Mr Yu said such reports were ''absurd''.
''The Deputy Foreign Minister He Yafei worked outstandingly during the Copenhagen conference and his performance is … fully acknowledged and commended by his colleagues and his superiors,'' Mr Yu said.
He said he could not recall witnessing an alleged outburst by one of his colleagues at US President Barack Obama but said a decision by China's Premier Wen Jiabao not to attend a key leadership meeting was a proportionate response to China not being invited to the meeting.
He said the country responsible had later assured China an invitation had been issued, and Mr Yu conceded that this and other skirmishes may have been generated by ''confusion''.
China's uncompromising bargaining position at Copenhagen and elsewhere in recent months appear to be working.
''It's a new game,'' said one Western diplomat. ''Don't even bother addressing any global issue unless you first have China on side.''
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Bracket Play
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Akron (6) 1 - 2
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Penn State (5) 3 - 0
West Chester (2) 2 - 1
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Sat 4/29 12:40 PM 6 Ohio State (1) Akron (6) 15 - 5 Final Match Report Report Score
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1st Place Semis
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11 West Chester (2)
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Did Angela do good or bad?
This paper applies a number of ethical concepts to Angela’s actions in the documentary Catfish.
This paper addresses the question ‘what is your ethical evaluation of Angela’s deception of Nev in the film Catfish?’ Catfish is a documentary created by Nev Schulman, Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost in 2010 that follows Nev Schulman as he begins an online friendship with a girl named Abby and culminates in a visit to Abby’s home in Michigan (Catfish 2010). Angela Wesselman-Pierce is Abby’s mother and this much was established by the documentary to be true. However, practically every other disclosure made by Angela prior to her meeting with Nev and sometimes during the meeting is an admitted fabrication on her part. This paper will examine Angela’s reasons for doing this from an ethical point of view.
Ethics is the philosophical branch that deals with the moral questions of right and wrong (Dupré 2013, p. 9). Dupré also states on that same page that ethics are by what we guide ourselves by, the principles that govern our lives and compel us to do right or wrong. So what principles guided Angela as she fabricated a welter of lies and misrepresentations to Nev? Using several of the numerous branches of ethics, there will be a step-by-step analysis of Angela’s deceptions and come to the conclusion that she has done net harm to herself.
Utilitarianism is the principle of providing the greatest amount of pleasure to the greatest amount of people (Bentham, as cited in Dupré 2013, p. 78), so how does this ethical theory apply to Catfish? Angela sees a photograph made by Nev, and paints a rendition of it, alleging it is the work of her daughter Abby. This is the initial contact made by Angela to Nev, then with Nev seemingly showing a greater interest in Abby, Angela creates a plethora of Facebook contacts including a fictitious older sister in Megan. At this stage, Angela and Nev are pleased by proceedings; both have benefitted from Angela’s burgeoning fantasy, with no harm yet to come. Angela has benefitted from knowing her respondent has developed an interest in the personae she has created, and Nev’s interest has been piqued by the introduction of Megan, an apparently young and attractive woman.
When Nev and Angela finally meet, it is clear that Angela was taken by surprise. Their pleasure has ended, and a new pain has begun. Nev has the pain of disappointment and a failed deceitful romance, and Angela has the pain of a destroyed fantasy and confabulation. Using utilitarian principles devised by Jeremy Bentham, we can readily ascertain that the resultant pain outweighs the pleasure both initially felt (Bentham 1907). The good tendencies of Angela’s fantasy have unravelled and she is forced into creating more lies – she has uterine cancer – (Catfish 2010) and extending the lie of the Megan persona. Further, this pain is pre-existing as her child Abby is of the belief that Megan exists, so was the transient pleasure she derived from concocting personae and snaring Nev is a web of deceit worth it?
There is also the issue of her husband, who she has also deceived into believing she is deriving an income from the paintings and was unaware of the personae and staged romance. There was no net pleasure for him at any stage, only potential pain, in which the likelihood of that trickling down to Angela would be strong. In conclusion and in summing the component parts of her actions, Angela’s net result to herself using utilitarian principles is harm.
Deontology is the field of ethics that considers whether acts are intrinsically good or bad regardless of the consequences (Dupré 2013, p. 324). There is little doubt from evidence in the documentary that Angela was acting in nobody’s interests other than her own. The consequences of her actions became clear to her when Nev came to her place. Her lies and concoctions were unravelled and her involvement of unwitting family members (viz. Abby) in her fantasy is further evidence that she was heedless of where her actions led. Although she admits to Nev that she had considered ending the fantasy, she felt she had invested too much emotionally to quit (Catfish 2010). After Nev’s arrival, she confesses her sorrow for involving him but there is doubt as to the sincerity of this. This comes across as the guilt of the caught rather than the guilt of the remorseful.
Iain King in his 2008 book How to make good decisions and be right all the time suggests that people ultimately derive their choices from what they want to do and what other people want to do (p. 220). This is to say, that Angela, if she was acting from deontological principles, should have considered Nev’s needs and feelings when she was concocting her fantasy. While it could be readily argued she was catering to his baser desires, his other emotions and feelings were not taken into consideration. In this way, Angela has acted the same way as Plato’s Gyges (Dorbolo 2010). Substituting the social power Facebook has for the invisibility ring, Angela was able to enter Nev’s world, practically sight unseen, and involve him wholly in a realm of deceit.
Facebook was the ring and Angela used its power for fabrication, dishonesty and emotional deceit. Therefore, Angela has taken a path where she thinks she is doing good for all concerned, but in reality, is behaving in a self-serving and selfish manner which ultimately leads to hurt, disappointment and shame for her and it is wrong conduct.
Consequentialism is defined in one book as “do whatever has the best consequences” (Gensler 1998, p. 242). Probably without ever knowing of this ethical belief, Angela has certainly acted in this manner. Once she had Nev “hooked” into the Facebook personae she had created, the consequences for her actions were increasingly positive for her – until Nev caught up with her in person. As the fictitious world she had made for herself crumbled, Angela realised that the consequences were more serious and less playful than she imagined. People were hurt because of her actions, primarily herself. Nev’s attitude toward Angela (or her personae) shifted from love and desire to disappointment then pity. At the cessation of Catfish Nev states that he feels sorry for Angela.
Although consequentialism is considered the opposite of deontology (Alexander & Moore 2012) it is interesting to note that Angela applied both concepts positively throughout her charade, combined or in tandem. She genuinely thought she was benefitting herself and Nev by perpetuating the fantasy and at the same time she was oblivious of the teleological results of her actions. Did she take in the consequences of involving her true daughter Abby in her schemes? Or the consequences of being deceitful to her husband, her disabled step-children or anyone else in her life? Not before or during the fantasy, only post facto. Once Nev arrived at her house, it was over. The consequences of her deceitful behaviour were made clear and she felt remorseful, though as mentioned earlier, this was most likely as a result of being found out, rather than an assault of her conscience – especially in light of her further falsehoods with regards to cancer and the persona of Megan. So, it can be stated that Angela created her personae and her fantasy with little regard for the consequences.
To summarise, Angela deemed she was doing herself and Nev a net ethical benefit by instigating then perpetuating the personae and the fantasies. The reasons for her doing so go beyond philosophy into the realm of psychology and so will only be briefed upon. From deduction of her actions and words, it is clear Angela lives with a good deal of regret for what she considers a wasted or unfulfilled life. There are clear indications that she is inhabiting a “go-nowhere” existence and her own life has been put on hold to care for her husband’s disabled children. Perhaps then, this is what has driven her to concoct the elaborate fantasy of extended family and friend circles. Despite the pleasure she and Nev initially derived from this, when the reality became known, this same pleasure vanished and was replaced by at first more lies and contrivances, then a pitying remorse. Her ethical choices were shown to be injurious ones, to both herself and those around her.
With utilitarianism, there was pleasure and happiness granted by her actions to all the players until the truth was discovered then net unhappiness outweighed all else, to be replaced by remorse and pity. Therefore, from a utilitarian perspective, Angela has acted unethically. By deontological principles, Angela had only ever her feelings and pleasure needs foremost in her mind, and minimal emotional consideration for anyone else. While she may have considered what she was doing as a “good act”, her deceit and lies in the end provided no net benefit for anybody. Her actions were not overall “good acts” as they led to pain, therefore they were unethical from a deontological viewpoint. From a consequentialism view, her deeds were also unethical as the final consequences were not positive ones and left her in a more negative state than when she started, and left Nev in a likewise final negative state. In conclusion, Angela has behaved in an unethical manner.
Alexander, L & Moore, M 2012, ‘Deontological Ethics’, viewed 12 September 2015, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-deontological/
Bentham, J 1907, ‘An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation,’ viewed 12 September 2015, http://www.econlib.org/library/Bentham/bnthPML4.html
Catfish 2010, DVD, motion picture, Supermarché/Hit the Ground, New York
Dorbolo, J 2010, ‘Plato: Ethics – The Ring of Gyges’, viewed 12 September 2015, http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl201/modules/Philosophers/Plato/plato_dialogue_the_ring_of_gyges.html
Dupré, B 2013, 50 ethics ideas you really need to know, Quercus, London
Gensler, H 1998, Ethics: A contemporary introduction, Routledge, New York
King, I 2008, How to make good decisions and be right all the time, Continuum, New York
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Cao says he put his district's needs over his party's wishes
Washington (CNN) - Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao said Sunday he put the needs of his district over the desire of his party in being the lone House Republican to vote for a sweeping overhaul of the nation's health care system.
Related: Lone GOP vote came after call from Obama
Cao's "yes" vote ended up being unnecessary for House Democrats in the 220-215 tally, but as the only GOP member to support the bill, he gave House Speaker Nancy Pelosi license to tout bipartisan support for the controversial measure.
"I felt last night's decision was the proper decision for my district even though it was not the popular decision for my party," Cao, a first-term representative from Louisiana's traditionally Democratic 2nd District, told CNN.
"A lot of my constituents are uninsured, a lot of them are poor," Cao said. "It was the right decision for the people of my district."
The first Vietnamese-American to serve in the House, Cao defeated nine-term Democratic incumbent William Jefferson in last year's election. Jefferson was under indictment on money laundering and bribery charges at the time, and has since been convicted.
Cao, a devout Catholic, said Sunday that an amendment to strengthen anti-abortion language in the House bill cleared the way for his support.
"When that was worked out … I called the White House and said I could possibly support the bill," said Cao, adding he discussed getting continued help for his district as it seeks to fully recover from the impact of Hurricane Katrina.
Asked about the reaction of fellow Republicans to his vote, Cao said the party's leaders "respect my decision, and I respect theirs."
"To tell you the truth, neither one of us really knows what is the right decision," he said of the complex health care bill, citing differing reports and differing studies on its impact. "Ultimately, we have to make that leap of faith."
The bill's approval by the House late Saturday night marked a major step for Obama's top domestic priority. If the Senate now passes its own version, the two bills would be merged, and the final version would require approval from each chamber before being sent to the president for his signature.
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kylindy
Thank you Mr. Cao, you have courage and integrity.
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Liberal4Obama
Joseph Cao showed TRUE leadership, Boehner and Cantor? NOt so much
Cost? Higher Taxes? Come on...let's just take a look at this...
First, the taxes being taken from the wealthy is not even half of the wealth redistribution tax breaks that Bush gave to the wealthy...plus, people don't realize that people who sign up for the public option will be paying the Public Option organization premium. Therefore, it is not an increased tax but a person deciding to pay their premium to another organization – not a tax! Now, those of you that think the poor, who will be subsidized by the increased tax (a re-redistribution from the wealthy) should not have healthcare – raise your hand – who do you think picks up the cost of the uninsured hurt and sick when the bill comes in within the existing system...the government does...because the healthcare companies cherry pick...and, don't get me started on pre-existing conditions for deny policies (or charging $6,000 a month) or denying care in a dire situation...
Secondly, healthcare premium costs from the "great" private sector increased over 20% this year...that is the result of segmented private sector monopolies...people don't realize the private companies stay out of each others backyard so they can increase premiums as they wish...
Third, the great leverage of healthcare insurance is having masses of people within the plan, therefore lowering expense and increasing buying power...thus, the natural leverage of a public option is created.
Hey, with a public option people can choose...what is un-American about that...
ThinkForYourselves
It had little to do with him doing what his constituents wanted. I doubt he has any idea what they want, or if any representatives know/care.
I have not had health insurance for nearly a decade and I STILL say this "healthcare reform" is a horrendous leap in the wrong direction. What is really making me sick is the floods of people that want to run their mouths about bills and resolutions that they themselves have NEVER READ, much less understand. On the other hand I HAVE read the bill, all of them that came across the table in fact, and I can tell you that our nation is now in a world of hurt... at a price tag of over a trillion dollars WE DO NOT HAVE. Understand? DO NOT HAVE. Not "well, we're strapped for cash so we don't have it" I mean we literally do not have the money. It's going to get BORROWED. Guess who pays it back with interest? US TAXPAYERS.
Marie Laveaux
OK... I said something positve in my previous post, but now I'm going to tell it like it is. I am loving all of the outrage by the right wing on here. You are all wrong, and on top of that you are still acting like the biggest ninnybabies I have ever known. You need to stop the trantrums, period. Lead, follow or get out the way! Have nice day.
What is really sad is the a lot of the people who post blogs on this site, have not even read the bill for themselves as well as a lot of the republican idiots! Citizens are going by and trusting what their representative are telling them. If you are going to criticize at least know what you are criticizing and trying to block. There are a lot of GOOD things in this bill that will be a benefit to many, especially the middle and poor working. I will give it to the republicans that they have been successful in once again using scare tactics to create the illusion of they are trying to save the American people from financial ruin and from President Obama socialist government take-over of healthcare. It can't be the furthest thing from the truth. You people better wise up, the repubs are not interest in the American people, they are interested in their own political ambitions and they are pissed that they won't get credit for the most historical movement in 100 years. The really sad part about this is half of the people who are complaining are dead as broke and if a healthcare crisis were to hit their lives, they would be near financial ruins. Wise up people, Washington already has great healthcare coverage with a public option and they LOVE IT!
At least one Republican willing to put the people ahead of party. Well done.
Those opposed to healthcare reform are the minority right-wing fringe. All of the polls show that the majority of Americans support reform, as do 75% of doctors.
The lunatics such as the Tea-Baggers, Birthers, Tenthers, Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, and Bachman just can't get it through their heads that most Americans are turned off by their extremism - that is why only 20% of the people now claim to be Republicans, and that is why Obama carried red states in 2008.
The Republican Party has been hijacked by extreme wing-nuts, and as long as it keeps catering to them, it will continue to lose power.
The moderates in the party need to break away and form a third party, one more sensible and attuned to the needs of the people instead of the special interests. That would be a party I could support and take seriously.
Thank you, Rep. Cao!
William Komp
It is good that people will get help out of this bill (if it becomes law). However it does nothing to solve the problem that is occurring in health care. The insurance companies get a lot of the blame for the problems in health care. They contribute no doubt about it, but they are not the driver of the problem. The driver of the problem is increased utilization. This increased utilization is coming from a change in the membership mix. The entire system is based on young non-sick people shouldering most a great share of the burden for the sick. Thus, the costs are spread around to all of those in the system. However, the young (historically not very sick) are becoming more and more sick. The rates of type II diabetes in under 40 year olds is going thru the roof. This is just one example. You have cancer rates in that age group going up etc. SO what is happening is that the historically healthy group is becoming an ever more sick group. This means that the non-sick youthful people (a shrinking population) are shouldering a greater burden of the costs. The financial calculation becomes for them: Why pay so much for something that they really wont use until they are passed 40? SO they are dropping it which only exacerbates the problem.
AS I see it this bill does nothing to deal with this utlization problem but rather changes the membership mix to include more of the no condition people so that they are shouldering more of the burden. This is fine but it is a band aid. It does not solve the overall utlization-membership mix problem. I think we need an aggressive healthy campaign. One example, all transfatty products should be taken out of the schools. Healthy alternatives along with education about what the healthy alternatives mean in those schools would be a great start. We spend so much time on reading, writing and math. Why not on diet and health? If we begin to educate people then perhaps we can begin to reverse this membership mix change which we are currently experiencing.
Free healthcare, one more reason not to work.
lieNoMore
Only proves there are Taliban and Mullahs even in the Democratic party. These kind of "devotees" will only be happy when women are back in the fashionable Chador and rape is a "crime of passion". Welcome back to Saudi Arabia....
mroth
Sometimes I wonder what planet these rethugs live on? Price thinks the Dem's bill will interfere between a patient & doctor? What the hell does he think the insurance companies have been doing for so long? Can't wait until the GOP spin this as a *victory.*
carlos, THAT one
to all of you rotten putrid republicans....you are the true traitors in this country......Rep Cao: honesty, character, intelligence, caring and most of all HUMAN......and you repugnants, what do you have to show for????treason, ignorance, amoral, vile, evil.........
I definitely admire you for doing what ALL politicians should do. Represent their constituents, not their party. A lesson both Democrats and Republicans need to learn.
Pam from Louisiana
HOORAY for CAO!!! A rep from my state to vote his conscience instead of the controlling GOP's stranglehold on the rest of their spineless sheep. The GOOD of the country transcended the insatiable insurance industry's powerful lobbyist and bountiful donations. That is the only time anyone will see the insurance companies be generous, when its $uit$ their own greedy, grubby, grinding, gluttonous homogeneous agenda.
Well done monsieur Cao; merci beaucoup.
Thank you for your support of this bill. Very brave to put the American people before your party!!
Mr Inclusion
This is exactly why the democrats were overwhelmingly voted into office........now they must follow thru finish the Health Care bill in the Senate and move on to passage of the Employee Free Choice Act......the race to the bottom MUST stop....bring the bottom up....empower the middle class
Wow. No wonder why the American people vote the way they do:
"They haven't yet realized that in free market capitalism small businesses get crushed."
>Absurd. Big businesses have weaknesses – particularly as their reach gets larger and larger. Small businesses are thriving in this country.
>>What we have isn't free market capitalism by a long shot. Laws get passed to favor those who can afford lobbyists. And small businesses are thriving in this country? You are obviously on crack.
"When the uninsured go to the emergency room, who pays for their care? "
> That will be the same people that will pay under the healthcare bill.
>> Actually, we pay for all of it NOW. Obama's plan is to get people onto the tax rolls and get them insured as soon as they go in for care. The Republican plan is to let anyone who isn't carrying their insurance card bleed out in the parking lot.
"When people can't pay their bills because they are under-insured and file for bankruptcy, who picks up the tab"
> If they can't pay for insurance now, they are going to afford it when the government forces them to?
>> "Under-insured" can mean a lot of things. My mom was a PhD chemist, had a great plan she always paid into, but by the end of her cancer she had wrung it dry. Is it lucky that she didn't last that long? 10% of bankruptcies in this country are because of cancer, and 95% of them have "full" health care coverage. There should be REAL insurance out there in the US that guarantees that if you hold up your side of the deal that you'll get carried in full to the finish line. Every other developed country does this. We don't.
"want to complain about govt. spending and deficits, direct your outrage at the former administration"
Actually, that was a democratic congress – and this current administration along with the current congress made their spending look like lunch money. Want to see spending stop, set congress republican and the president democrat (i.e. Clinton).
>>The last two years of the W administration were Democratically controlled houses (barely) – but the real corporate giveaways were before that. Halliburton getting no-bid multi-billion contracts in Iraq for
services they had no experience in, the fake oil crisis (created by legislation lobbied for by Enron but utilized by the banks that allowed you to sell stock in Petro company subsidiaries you owned without disclosing the relationship – every bank on Wall Street bought an oil company and started basically doing the junk bond shuffle).
If this bill uses medicaid as a standard, get ready people. You are about to have LESS doctors, LESS choice – and MORE expensive healthcare. Ask anyone who runs a healthcare facility if they could survive on medicare alone.
>> Well, they are restructuring Medicare too so you don't really have to worry about that – you can use the old "they're taking $500 million out" argument, but that's already been proven to be restructured funding as opposed to a real cut so that's a load. Did I mention that the AMA and the AARP support this plan? Is that because these organizations hate America too? Perhaps doctors and old people are all terrorists now?
We Won Get Over It
OK...to the republican posters. WHO WON A DISTRICT that had been republican for 152 years. A DEMOCRAT. This just goes to show what party will sink even lower. The republicans. Bachmann's own district in Minnesota is recruiting OVER REPUBLICANS to run against her. They don't like the type of extremism that this group of republicans is showing. Win...maybe a governorship in a red state..but in congress heck no..we won both vacant ones.
Virginia votes half and half republican one time and democrat another. But New Jersey since the early 1900's has voted for republicans 17 times as opposed to 4 times for democrats. So a republican won what so hot about that.
Health Care costs to much, covers to little and its getting worse......it is like wearing a hospital gown....the minute you think you have it all covered there is something exposed somewhere......and for too many Americans Health Care...today.... is a choice between death or financial ruin......
I commend the House of Reps getting it done
Hey, ZimaAdler @ 9:49 am:
You have exposed yourself as a genuine racist and bigot in thanking "Chairman Cao".
m jeff
This is good, most Republicans only support war and guns.
So now the Democrats won't run anyone against him?
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY LADY GAGA!! 8 reasons you are my inspiration!!
TODAY IS THE ONE, THE ONLY LADY GAGA’S BIRTHDAY!!!!!! The Queen of Pop, the Mother of Monsters, the ArtPop Innovator herself is turning the big 3-0!! First let me start by wishing my artistic muse and inspiration a happy happy and blessed birthday today!!
As many of you know, I am a huge Lady Gaga fan, follower, lover, advocate, and all around stan…. like a big one!!! I own so many t-shirts with her face on it, my students and coworkers think I’m a walking cliche!! I go off on tangents with family, friends, coworkers, students, and strangers on just how wonderful she is and what she means to me. I cant help myself!! I’m a Little Monster to the core (the name of her fans) and I AM PROUD OF IT!!! So in honor of her birthday today…. I want to list 8 reasons why I love her so much. This will certainly answer the question “Why do you like her so much?”
Getting technical training in your art form is necessary….. Gaga studied voice and piano at NYU and continues to use her training to confound the foolish…. As a dance
r, some people don’t see the validity to traditional training… it builds our foundation as artists!!
Family support for your artistic decisions are necessary…. I am very close with my family and as much headache and confusion I’m sure I’ve put them through pursuing dance in college and refusing to find a career path that did not involve it (even to this day), I appreciate them so much for supporting my artistic journey.
Using yourself as motivation is enough…. She was quoted in Rolling Stone magazine in 2010 as saying “When I wake up in the morning, I feel like any other insecure 24-year-old girl. Then I say,’Bitch, you’re Lady Gaga, you get up and walk the walk today.” If a super star like her can look within herself to draw motivation for the day. then surely I am good enough to draw motivation from myself too.
She uses her passion and calling to help others…. As a teacher, I know I am called to help the younger generation, to expose them new experiences, ways of thinking, perspective, challenges, and triumphs. As a dance teacher, I use my passion and art to make that happen. I may not have a foundation like the Born This Way Foundation, but I definitely know that my art and calling is not just for me.
Lady Gaga is not afraid to take risks…. I was the spontaneous child who would do anything for the thrill of it. I lived life like I did not have any limitations or restrictions. The more structured I became, the more confined I felt. I need to take risks to feel free… to feel like me.
She’s not afraid to show the world another side of her… Many people, especially in the past year, have felt Gaga is “moving away from” or “shedding” her old self to be more refined and classy. But that’s not true! She’s simply showing the world another side of herself that they refused to see before… I want to keep the world guessing… I want to keep revealing new levels, aspects, and depths to who I am… There is more to me than what you see.
Lady Gaga speaks her truth, whether it’s accepted and or not…. One thing I admire the most about her is that she speaks from her experiences and her experiences only. She does not try to emulate others or claim others’ stories… she uses her own feelings, stories, memories, experiences, etc to tell her story. I admire her vulnerability to be that open and free so th at others may hear her truth.
She’s unapologetically secure in the fact that she is supposed to be her EXACTLY THE WAY SHE IS!!! Many times I think to myself “I’m awesome” and I mean it. I am!! My parents raised me to feel confident and secure and instilled in me a mindset that I can do ANYTHING that I believe I can or should do. To see someone else live out that persona of being “Unapologetically Me” is inspirational, motivated, and confirms that I too should continue to be no one else than Ashlee!
There is plenty more I could write but it would turn into a book. HAHA So until next time…. keep it #PopStyle. AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY LADY GAGA!!!!
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Kanye-isms for Positive Purpose- My Birthday Post!!
I celebrated my Birthday last weekend (shout out to the Pisces!!) It was a fabulous week long celebration with my family and friends from music to dinner to surprise parties and a vacation to Miami!! Now that I’m a year older, I want to make sure I begin it with positivity, purpose, and of course pop culture…. so I looked for some affirmations from the most confident pop culture character ever….. Mr. Kanye West!!!
With all his pearls of wisdom, diamonds of knowledge, and rubies of wonderings, I’m guaranteed to live this new year with positive purpose. Enjoy my new mantras and til next time.. keep it #PopStyle #Kanye
1) “I always feel like I can do anything. That’s the main thing people are controlled by. They’re slow down by the perception themselves. I was taught I could do everything.” (2013)
2) You won’t always agree with me but I’m gon always be me. I’m woke! (2016)
3) I promise I’m going to make the world dope…. all I do is make shit dope #facts (2016)
4) (2013)
5) There is so much positive energy right now … Let’s stay on this Ultra Light Beam (2016)
7) I’m happy and free and proud and confident. I’m not crazy. I’m free (2016)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RIHANNA- ANTI REVIEW!!!
TODAY IS RIHANNA’S BIRTHDAY!!!! The Barbados princess is kicking off Pisces Season in the world Of Pop Culture (may I add that I too am a Pisces…. Feb. 27th!!!) Anyways, in honor of the Queen of Ratchet Sophistication and the Leader of the “Free of F*cks” world, I am posting my album review of “ANTI” the latest musical endeavor that dropped a few weeks ago.
Let me start by saying…… CONGRATULATIONS RIRI!!! YOU MADE US WAIT FOR AN ETERNITY TO GET NEW MUSIC AND WHEN IT DROPPED, WE WERE NOT DISAPPOINTED!!! Seriously!! After the months of rumors and supposed leaks and waiting for those rooms to unlock in her app, we FINALLY hear “ANTI” and it is not everything…. But instead MORE than what we expected!! Here’s why it has become my daily #Earworm for choreographing, cooking, planning lessons for school, eating, and late night romps.
My 5 Favorite songs of the album are:
“Woo”– HANDS DOWN!!!! Favorite favorite favorite!! This ish is on RPEAT!! I imagine myself in a dark room with some lava lamps, with some dark liquid in a glass, sitting in an oversized black chair, surrounded by a cloud of hazy smoke and incense… I have so many feels with this song I cant contain in all in writing!
“Love on the Brain”– RiRi got some voice lessons ya’ll and it’s showing on this song! She has a doo-wop, Prince-esque, old school love song feeling to it with the guitar strings being more melodic and her voice being less sultry and more palpable (soft/vulnerable). I’ve actually choreographed a dance to this already and it is a heart wrencher!!
“Needed Me”– When I hear this, I can’t tell if you I’m singing this song to someone in particular or if I am the subject matter of this song (I hope not). Either way I am pointing my index finger strongly in front of me during the whole chorus!! IM TALKING TO YOU PUNK!! (sorry I had a moment)
“Kiss It Better”– Rihanna perfectly mixes vulnerability, heartache, humanity, and sexual energy in this song. If I had an ex who I wanted to take a 2nd chance with, I would play this song right before we met up to “talk.”
“Work”– Well hello there start of summer!! It’s snowy and chilly and cold here on the east coast but I can imagine the pool parties already! And I’m ready for them! This song is even CLEAN, so it can be played for all ages and at backyard barbecues. The clip shown is exactly how I plan to dance at these events too!
RIHANNA IS SINGING MOST OF THIS ALBUM– and she sounds like she’s grown! I’m happy to hear her push through her range, develop better control of her chords, and use more breathe to carry her through high notes in the main 3 ballads of the album… Never Ending, Love on The Brain, and Close to You showcase this artistry growth well.
Choreographically, I can develop an entire production around the themes of her songs on this album. And as a dance teacher of high school students, I am appreciative of this creativity expression that provides such visually captivating and inspiring ideas.
NO SKIPS ON THIS ALBUM!! EVERY SINGLE SONG IS WORTH LISTENING TO!! Her ½ singing, ¼ rapping, ¼ talking at someone specific lyrics, catchy beats, and story telling skills keep you intrigued. I can listen to “ANTI” all the way through without any skips (expect Higher- I don’t necessarily wanna hear that song, but I could listen to it). You can play this in the background while you do just about any activity….. cooking dinner, getting ready for bed, doing work, cleaning the house, stretching, meeting up with a DM, late night rendezvous, etc. THIS ALBUM HAS NO SKIPS!
And lastly, the reason you should listen to this album is because it clearly shows Rihanna’s growth as an artist and the power she has to get and captivate an audience with very little fanfare and over the top entertainment. The only real “banger” she has is “Work” and the rest have a dark, sultry, steamy, chill vibe to them. Nothing overly in your face, but definitely enough to get your attention, make you want more, and keep feigning for it long after she’s move on the next project. ANTI will keep you coming back for more!
So once again, HAPPY BIRTHDAY RIHANNA!!! Thank you for taking bold, courageous, non-f*ck giving, creative, and expressive risks in fashion, female empowerment, sexuality, and of course music. PopStyleBlog salutes you as an honored member of your #Navy.
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An Ode to Artistry: Grammy Night Recap- 2016
This year’s Grammys were alot less fanfare than usual. Granted there were twice as many performances as there were awards actually handed out…. but the level of artistry was so on point this year, rather than the hype of entertainment which plagues and runs the music industry nowadays.
As a self proclaimed lover of pop music and pop culture, I am not above a good time! I love being entertained and hate when I dont get that “YYYAAAAASSSSS” feeling when something is going on. But as an artist (#dancerlife), I love to see art do its magic. Art is its most beautiful, pure, and poignant self when it just speaks from within. Langston Hughes said “An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.” This quote sums up the many different performances and tributes that were done on the Grammy Stage last night. My top 5 are….
Alabama Shakes “Don’t Wanna Fight” A bluesy, soulful, southern Rock group.
They won Best Rock Performance, Best Rock Song, and Best Alternative Music Album…. Check out “Sound and Color” please!!
Kendrick Lamar’s performance- Africa is Compton!!
K Dot ripped into the ear drums and retinas of America with his passionately charged rendition of Blacker the Berry, Alright, and To Pimp a Bu tterfly. He visually captivated the audience in the room and at home with his unapologetically Black references (Prison pipeline, African Dance). He also took home Best Rap Song, Best Rap Performance, Best Music Video with Taylor Swift, and Best Rap Album
Lady Gaga’s tribute to the legendary David Bowie
She didn’t present and she lost the 1 category she was nominated in… but she really only came to the Grammy’s tonight to honor one of her musical icons Mr. David Bowie. She was the ONLY person who would able to pull off such a tribute with such honesty, authenticity, and integrity. Infusing fashion, dance, technology, graphics, and more, Lady Gaga seared the memory of David Bowie into all of our minds. Gaga, Bowie would be proud- We Salute You.
Tori Kelly and James Bay– Two Best New Artists Nominees with Timeless Talent. These 2 nominees sang together in their performance- 2 microphones, 2 acoustic guitars, 2 voices….1 soon to be (fingers crossed) duet album!! Take a listen below and prepared to be amazed…
Andra Day- The Voice of an Angel
Andra shared the stage with Ellie Golding, which honestly she should not have had to do. Andra outshined Ellie in every way…. presence, range, power, passion, ability to touch the heart and inspire. Andra Day is a voice not to fall on deaf ears. Listen to the performance as it will pierce your eardrum and run straight to your heart.
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That’s it for this year’s Grammy Awards! Hope you enjoyed the artistry, messages, and return to musicianship. And til next time, keep it #PopStyle!!!
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58th Annual Grammy Awards Tonight!!!
*THE ONES I GOT RIGHT ARE BOLDED! I got 12 out of 20 correct!!! I know my music!!
Hey PopStylers!!! Tonight is the 58th Grammy Award Show!! If you know me, then you know that the Grammys are my show!! I LIVE for the MUSIC and the PERFORMERS and the ACTION of this show!! And of course my #1 artistic muse and boo thang Lady Gaga is performing and nominated so I am excited!!
Here are my predictions for some of the bigger categories winners and should be winners….. Granted I dont know some of the nominees in the categories (like Country, music for film) but that’s not gonna stop me from predicting a winner haha
1. RECORD OF THE YEAR: Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson ft Bruno Mars
2. ALBUM OF THE YEAR: This is a tough one because Ive recently gotten into “Sound and Color” by Alabama Shakes. But Im gonna say the winner is “1989” by Taylor Swift
3. SONG OF THE YEAR: “Alright” by Kendrick Lamar HANDS DOWN!! This was the anthem of the summer and the anthem of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. FTW!! I even posted about this back in June 2015….MusicCrushMonday- Kendrick Lamar June 2015
4. BEST NEW ARTIST: Tori Kelly…. a sincere, genuine, authentic artist with real talent… This what I wrote about her back in June 2015
5. BEST POP SOLO PERFORMANCE: “Thinking Out Loud” Ed Sheeran. This video is gorgeous!!
6. BEST POP DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE: It comes down to 3 nominees in this category… I think Kendrick Lamar should be recognized for his duo with Taylor Swift, but it’ll probably go to Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth for “See You Again”…. can we say heart strings?? (MISS YOU Paul Walker!!)
7. BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM: 1989 by Taylor Swift
8. BEST DANCE RECORDING: Where Are Ü Now by Skrillex And Diplo With Justin Bieber
9. BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE: Don’t Wanna Fight by Alabama Shakes…. this group is growing on me strong
10. BEST ROCK ALBUM: I like the sound of Muse… I’ll give it to Muse
11. BEST R&B PERFORMANCE: Rise Up by Andra Day is the epitome of what real R&B should sound like!! Dear God please let her win this and reclaim R&B!!!
12. BEST URBAN CONTEMPORARY ALBUM: I love me some Canadian Weeknd…. so I choose Beauty Behind The Madness by The Weeknd He was my Music Crush Monday post in July 2015
13. BEST R&B ALBUM: Jazmine Sullivan came back with a strong alum after years of being gone from music scene….
14. BEST RAP PERFORMANCE: Even President Obama referenced these lyrics with his “pop off” comment….Back To Back by Drake FTW!
15. BEST RAP/SUNG COLLABORATION: I feel like I should say Glory, but Im gonna say “These Walls” instead… it’s a nice sound for Kendrick Lamar
16. BEST RAP SONG: Once again…. Alright by Kendrick Lamar FTW!! Even though Trap Queen will never get old….
17. BEST RAP ALBUM: THIS IS TOUGH!!! 3 way tie between Drake, J. Cole, and Kendrick Lamar… sorry I cant choose! (We sort of)
18. BEST COUNTRY DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE: I dont know country music like that anymore… but I LOVE the song “Girl Crush” by Little Big Town… FTW!!!
HOLLYWOOD, CA – FEBRUARY 22: Lady Gaga performs onstage during the 87th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on February 22, 2015 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
19. BEST SONG WRITTEN FOR VISUAL MEDIA: Ummm… this is my boo’s category…. so clearly Im voting for Lady Gaga because well…. she deserves it and she’s amazing and this song is about rape…. talent and an activist… visually captivating message and lyrically informing… FTW!!! Til It Happens To You by Lady Gaga & Diane Warren, songwriters (Lady Gaga)
20. BEST MUSIC VIDEO: “Alright” by Kendrick Lamar Watch it!
Hope to see you on social media tonight… 8pm on CBS!! And til next time…. Keep it #Popstyle!!!
Viral Video- Superfruit “Hip Hop Goes Broadway”
I love these 2 dudes videos!! They are 2 of the 5 members of the group Pentatonix (an acapella group who got it’s initial fame from the show the Sing Off). Pentatonix seriously has talent and their rendition os classic pop, hip hop, Star Wars scores, Christmas music, and original songs are uncontested!! Check them out!!
Back to Superfruit…. they made Broadway versions of some of the most popular hip hop tracks of 2015 and they are super catchy!! Im listing part 1 and part 2 of their videos because they are best when watched back to back! My faves include:
Hip Hop Goes Broadway Part 1
“Pills and Potions” sounds like a real Broadway song!
Bobby Shrmurda- Lion King rendition on fleek!
“Blessed”- it’s now a ballad!!
“Energy”- better than the original version
I Dont Do Valentine’s Day- Feb. 2016
Hey PopStylers!!! In the spirit of this day, I should say Happy Valentine’s Day…. but I don’t actually celebrate the holiday. (But I would if Channing Tatum asked me… whew yes LAWD!!) Ever since I was little I was never really into the whole idea of Valentine’s Day. Yes I cut out the heart shapes and gave my friends valentine cards from the dollar store. And YES my father gave me a dozen roses EVERY single year and a stuffed animal (He still does actually and Im a grown woman!!) My older brother is always the first one to call me and wish my Happy Valentine’s Day (now along with my nephew who called me this morning) and he even sent me flowers every year til I was out of graduate school. So it’s not because I haven’t experienced “love” on this day before. I just dont do Valentine’s Day so some reason. What I usually do on this day is….
Buy myself something I want (perfume, new shoes,a bra)
Wear a nice outfit that is NOT red, pink, purple, or white (too commercial)
Cook a nice meal I’ve been wanting for a while (usually a pasta dish like Lasagna, Baked Ziti, or this year’s Shrimp and Spinach Fettuccine Alfredo)
Listen to my “I Don’t Do V-Day” music playlist. Some of the tracks are:
“What’s Love Got to Do With It” by Tina Turner
“Happy Valentine’s Day” by OutKast
“Damaged” by Danity Kane
“You Give Love a Bad Name” by Bon Jovi
“So Sick” by Ne-Yo
“Somebody to Love” by Queen
“Love Yourself” by Justin Beiber
Celebrate love however and with whomever you would like. As for myself… I Don’t Do V-Day. Enjoy the tracks, listen, sing along, and save them for next year. And til next time keep it #PopStyle!!
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The Youth of IABD- Dance On!!!
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** Featured Image from Ballet Afrique Contemporary Dance company in Austin, Texas**
This past week I attended the International Association of Blacks in Dance conference (IABD). It’s 4 days of taking master classes, listening to panel discussions about various topics by lege nds and greats in the dance world, seeing performances by professionals and youth companies, and being saturated with the essence of dance and movement from your peers, colleagues, mentors, teachers, and legends.
Thursday night was the first performance of the event by various youth ensembles around the country. Some of these ensembles are the academies or schools to professional dance companies like Lula Washington Dance Theater, Dallas Black Dance Theater, Divine Dance Institute, and Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theater. Others were middle and high schools that concentrated on the arts or had a major in dance such as Duke Ellington School of the Arts and Lewis Cass Technical High School. As someone who has been dancing since the age of 3, AND someone who currently teaches dance in a DC charter high school, AND dances professionally with a modern dance company, AND someone who cannot identify myself separate from the art of dance, I was more than overwhelmed, inspired, and hopeful to see the youth of dance on that stage.
All of the performances were executed impeccably. Young dancers of today are stronger, more technically sound, more experiential, more willing, and more hungry to challenge, test, and prove themselves than ever before. Students were performing movement that I only learned to do within the past 3 years!! Their flexibility made my hips begin to hurt just watching it! As much as I wanted to be jealous of their technique, or reminisce about my own dance training as a child, I had to stop myself and look at not only what they were bringing to the table currently, but also what their technical and performing skills would bring to the world of dance in the future. These kids are the future of dance… and it is promising!
What struck me most about their performance was not their high jumps; not their multiple turning sequences; not their amazing athleticism (which I thrive on as a dancer); and not their physical stamina to complete such feats with grace and ease. Instead, it was their commitment and dedication to be so immersed in this art form that I love so much that they would dedicate hours of training, make sacrifices from their social life, travel across the country to be apart of this conference, and meld it with their academic journey in middle and high school. Dance does not have to be done within a vacuum. Dance should not be done within a vacuum. It should be learned, experienced, and witnessed by everyone! And most importantly, all youth should have the opportunity to be exposed to it at its purest form. When young people are exposed to the art of dance, then the future of dance not only is guaranteed to continue, but it is guaranteed to evolve and grow. This is what makes it so exciting to witness youth perform dance. The youth of dance make it possible for dance to continue and reinvent itself so it will always live on!!
For this reason I believe that the youth ensemble performance at the International Association of Blacks in Dance was the most uplifting and inspiring moment of the conference for me. Sure I got to sit in on panels and listen to speakers, and see professionals perform, and take master classes myself, and learn from legends and master teachers, and audition for professional companies….. but NOTHING will beat seeing the future of dance right before my very eyes. Nothing will overshadow the feeling of hope I have for the art of dance by seeing these young people perform it with such rigor, dedication, skill, and passion.
To know that even when I am done with my work in dance, that the art of dance will still live on……. That is enough for me to continue to dance on. To dance on in my training… To dance on in my teaching… To dance on with my students…. To dance on in life. Thank you IABD youth for inspiring me to dance on!! #IABD #PopStyle #DanceisLife #Dance
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My Golden Globe Choice Nominees
The 73rd Golden Globe’s will airs tonight!! As an avid award show fan I will most definitely be watching. But as a seldom movie-goer I really don’t know the nominees very well. So I can’t actually react and comment on the winners and losers as much as I would for a music award show. 😦 BUT I can send my good luck wishes to certain nominees whom I just personally like….
1) To Lady Gaga for her nomination of Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture made for television (American Horror Story: Hotel).
Gaga has captivated my attention this season…. Immersing herself in the Countess character and truly making me wish I was a flawlessly aging vampire who can scare, seduce, and entrance you all with the same look.
2) To Leonardo DiCaprio for anything he is nominated for.
I have been rooting for Leo since Titanic so I just want him to win!! From Great Gatsby, Wolf of Wall Street, Gilbert Grape… He deserves a win!!!
To the movie Creed… Sylvester Stallone is nominated for best supporting actor.. but really I just want the film to get its due of credit for being brilliant.
4) To the TV show American Crime.
Gosh!! What I can say about this show? It’s captivating, intriguing, makes you think as a viewer, makes you question your own thoughts, and speak enormous amounts of truth about our society. And with outstanding acting, writing, and depth!!! Its nominated for Best Limited Series for TV, Best Supporting actress (Regina King), And best actress (Felicity Huffman). This show deserves all the publicity!!
Good luck to all my choice nominees!! And join me tomorrow at 8pm on NBC to watch the 73rd Golden Globe Award show. Til next time .. Keep it #PopStyle!
~ Ashlee Dawne
The Year in Review- #PopStyle 2015
Well folks the New Year is upon us here in America. HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of those around the world who have already celebrated!! It’s been a great year in the world of #PopStyleBlog.com and I am very thankful for all the views, visits, shares, retweets, mentions, and likes. As 2016 is on the near horizon, I want to review the top 10 #PopStyleMoments of 2015 that stuck out to me. So without further ado…..
Top 10 #PopStyleMoments of 2015:
Taylor Swift ruled the world…. literally… a world tour, video premieres, and all of her envious #SquadGoal pics on stage and at award shows. #SwiftiesRiseUp
Adele sang her way back into our ears even though she never left our hearts. Her album #25 broke every record known the man and music… nobody can deny that
Beyonce was silent…. and I was thankful for that…
2015 was not the year for Romance. From Gwen/Gavin to Piggy/Kermit to Miranda/Blake, everlasting love just not in the cards for 2015.
Kendrick Lamar brought back the essence of hip hop with “Alright”. Finally a message with the music.. the way it was meant to be!
Got Beef?? Drake/Meek Mills… Nicki/Miley… gotta love a good twitter smack down
Black Twitter… if you don’t get it, you don’t get it.
One Direction is no more.… its the end of an error ladies and gentlemen… Boy Bands are official on the decline.
Celebrity kids.… How many times can we see a pic, video, vine, or meme of Riley Curry and North West?? They’re cute but come on….
Highly anticipated video premieres. Rihanna, Madonna, Nicki/Beyonce, Drake, etc all released videos that kept us teetering with the idea of paying $20 a month just to be the first to see them… no thanks
Til Next Year….. Keep it #PopStyle and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! #2016
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“Founded in Portage County, the National Wellness Institute is the oldest nonprofit with wellness as its mission. The University of Wisconsin Stevens Point launched the first degree program in health and wellness management (now there are nearly 300 such programs). This area is truly the birthplace of the wellness movement and we see that play out in our strong community every day.”
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Executive Director, National Wellness Institute
We’re in the news, over and over again. And that’s good because Portage County and Stevens Point are continually being recognized as great places to live, wonderful places to retire, and an exceptional place to receive an education. We enjoy a high quality of life because we place a high emphasis on recreation, the arts, family participation and a healthy life style.
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Canadian Mainstream Media's Continuing Destruction...
IN MEMORIAM: Joseph B. McLeod (1928-2017)
Celebrating Saul Williams' 64th Birthday
>>> Norval Morrisseau Declarations Are A Hoax /Mic...
Will Justice Prevail?
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"Ancestral Spirit with Evil Serpent," © 1977 Norval Morrisseau
• How is it possible for the above painting titled "Ancestral Spirit with Evil Serpent" supposedly labeled fake by Norval Morrisseau in May 2001 in the National Post's "Morrisseau fakes alleged" to be excluded from the 'fakes and imitations' list of the Norval Morrisseau's sworn affidavit only two years later? (click HERE & HERE)
BLOG MASTER'S COMMENT:
After seventeen years since National Post article: "Morrisseau fakes alleged" /National Post, May 18th, 2001/, after three years of investigation by Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Thunder Bay Police Service and after six court cases over the period of ten years (see reference posts listed below) nobody has ever been successful in pointing out one case where it was proven that someone made, sold, distributed or even marketed one "fake" Norval Morrisseau painting. --
>>> Reference posts:
1.1 - Otavnik vs. Vadas SC 07-51428-00,
2.1 - Michael Moniz vs. CTV Globemedia Publishing Inc.,
3.1 - Drs. Browne and Witmer vs. Bearclaw Gallery,
4.1 - Otavnik vs. Sinclair SC 09-00082782-0000,
4.2 - CASE SUMMARY: Otavnik vs. Sinclair SC 09-00082782-0000,
5.1 - Hatfield vs. Child SC-09-087264-0000 &
6.1.- Kinsman Robinson Galleries vs. Ugo Matulic CV-10-417123.
>>> In a court judgement "Hatfield vs. Artworld of Sherway" /Court File No. SC-09-087264-0000/ Judge Paul J. Martial stated the following:
"The Court received the statutory declarations of Norval Morrisseau and letters filed by the Plaintiff in support of the allegation of forgery. This evidence was relevant and although hearsay was admitted since it was relevant to the central issue - Was the painting a forgery?
"In assessing the reliability of that evidence however, the Court notes that since this evidence was not subject to cross-examination it had to be carefully weighed in light of the testimony of all of the witnesses.
"The Plaintiff's own witness Donald Robinson provided viva voce testimony of Norval Morrisseau's inconsistency and difficulty in identifying his own work, and of his unpredictability.
"He agreed that Morrisseau could have memory problems from 2003 to 2006, and of his decline in health due to his illness.
Robinson's admission that he was not surprised that Morrisseau would sign a certificate of authenticity to please also cast doubt on the reliability of the statutory declarations signed by Morrisseau.
"His testimony coupled with the testimony of other witnesses of Morrisseau's Parkinson's disease raises a significant doubt of the reliability of the statutory declarations.
"Although a letter from a lawyer who was present at the signing of the statutory declaration and a doctor's letter were filed at trial, no expert testimony of capacity was proffered by the Plaintiff on such a key issue.
(Judgment by Judge Paul J Martial: March 25th, 2013 - Page 37)
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Weekly news round up – 20 November 2019
Welcome to your weekly round-up of the latest news, studies and views for professionals working in health and patient information.
Patient empowerment is vital
To mark Self Care Week Dr Pete Smith, president of the Self Care Forum, has written this blog on why patient empowerment is so important.
As well as promoting an e-learning package to help pharmacists, nurses, GPs and other professionals include self care messages in all their contacts, he also says 'self care is better care'.
He argues, as confidence in self care improves, ‘people’ are less likely to become patients.
Charities come together to demand better debate on health
Ahead of the general election, more than 60 charities have come together to demand a better debate on health.
The collective statement, led by National Voices and signed by PIF, argues the next government needs to work across parties and departments to focus on people’s health – not only support the NHS.
It says: "As important as hospitals are, they are rarely where good health is created.
"Health is made good or bad within the neighbourhoods and communities we live."
Should medical schools test applicants for empathy?
This article discusses calls to include empathy testing as a component of applications to medical schools.
It cites research showing that doctors who are more empathetic are more trusted and therefore have better patient outcomes.
We still pay far too little attention to patient feedback
In this opinion piece Alf Collins, clinical director for personalised care for NHS England and NHS Improvement, talks about the importance of patient involvement.
He urges health care professionals to read The Patient Revolution by David Gilbert.
Alf says, with notable exceptions, the NHS still pays far too little attention to patient feedback, patient experience, patient involvement and patient leadership.
BMJOpinion
The Measurement Maze
This report from the Health Foundation looks at quality measurement, including patient experience, across breast cancer care, children and young people's mental health care and renal care.
It says measurement in the NHS should contribute to driving improvement but analysis suggests little insight from these measures makes its way to clinical teams leading to 'untapped potential'.
The report also argues that, given the volume of national indicators, there is a case for reviewing national quality measurements to make them more simple and streamlined.
The Health Foundation
Survey recommends improving information for children in hospital
The Children in Hospital Survey 2018-19, which examines the provision of parental visiting, family facilities and ward procedures in Scottish hospitals, has been released by Children’s Health Scotland.
It found there has been a small increase (5%) in provision of information about ward procedures in adult wards that admit children.
However, there was a general decline in the information given at the time of admission on ward procedures in paediatric wards (down 39%) and, for young people, on confidentiality, consent and complaints/feedback on both paediatric wards and adult wards.
The proportion of wards allowing children to access their own records on request fell from 47% in 2012/13 to 31% in 2018/19.
The report makes a number of recommendations, including that information is understood by parents and carers – not just made available.
Alliance Scotland
Webinar: Co-production with children and families
This online webinar looked at how an individual or an organisation can start to develop partnership working with families and young people using co-production.
Led by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) it looked at how an individual or organisation might look at introducing co-production into their work.
Stars' voices could answer healthcare questions
This article discusses how patients could soon routinely be interacting with a digital human designed to answer their questions in an easy-to-understand way, without fear of judgement or stigma.
The report from the Cucalorus Connect Conference says health illiteracy affects millions of people globally.
While spoken advice can help address this, the voice needs to be someone patients trust – which is where well-known celebrity voices could play a role.
WRAL TechWire
Improving medicines adherence with VR
A pilot programme is aiming to educate patients on medical adherence through the power of virtual reality (VR).
The collaboration between Cognitant Group and Addenbrooke’s Hospital provides health information in the form of 'visual and immersive experiences'.
Its main aims are to improve compliance with medication and ensure better outcomes for patients by prescribing interactive health information.
pharmaphorum
Personal health budgets: Helen and Karl’s story
In the latest of a series of patient stories about personal health budgets, NHS England shares Helen and Karl's story.
Karl, 23, has Spina Bifida, Hydrocephalus and epilepsy.
As a child he received 'wonderful' specialist care but Karl’s transition from children’s to adults’ services was a challenge.
Since having access to a personal health budget and feeling more in control, his mum Helen says he is much happier, busier and has discovered a new appreciation for life.
Weekly news round up – 15 January 2020
Improving care using patient feedbackThe National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has published a themed review of its research into patient feedback.Improving…
Healthwatch launches #SpeakUp2020 campaign
Healthwatch has launched its #SpeakUp2020 campaign.The campaign encourages everybody to speak up about what would make health and social care services…
Weekly news round up – 8 January 2020
NHS App users more than double in three monthsThe number of patients using the NHS App has more than doubled since Chief Nurse Ruth May announced the…
Detecting and diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease
An investigation by Alzheimer's Research UK and MSD has examined public attitudes to early detection and diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.Alzheimer's…
Weekly news round up – 18 December 2019
Shared decision making: why the slow progress?In this essay, Neal Maskrey discusses why, after more than 40 years of research and policy endorsement,…
Marie Curie publishes managing breathlessness booklet
Marie Curie has created a new booklet to help people living with breathlessness. It covers information on how the lungs work, medicines to help breathlessness…
Four design principles for digital healthThe Digital Healthcare Council has set out four key design principles it believes are essential to create a vibrant…
Nutrition and Diet Resources UK launches NDR Prescribe
Nutrition and Diet Resources UK has launched a digital resource delivery system.NDR Prescribe allows health professionals to prescribe personalised resources…
Weekly news round up – 3 December 2019
Self Care Week surveyOrganisations and individuals who took part in Self Care Week 2019 are being asked to take part in a short survey.This year, more…
Anthony Nolan launches first audiobook
Anthony Nolan has launched its first audiobook to help more people access its support and advice.'Managing fatigue after transplant' is narrated by actor…
Taskforce on Multiple Conditions to hold webinarThe Taskforce on Multiple Conditions is planning a ‘learn and share’ webinar in January 2020.It will be…
Crohn's & Colitis UK launches In My Shoes app
A new app allows people to experience first-hand how Crohn's or Colitis can affect every part of someone's body and every aspect of their lives.Last week…
Epilepsy Action resource is Just for kids
Epilepsy Action has produced a series of resources specifically for children with the condition.Just for kids includes animated films, an activity pack…
Self Care Week 2019Self Care Week, an annual national awareness week focusing on providing support for self care, is back from 18-24 November.This year's…
New video highlights REACH service at Evelina London
A new video highlights the REACH service at Evelina London.REACH provides intensive, play-based therapy to children with weakness on one side.As part…
Weekly news round-up – 6 November 2019
Survey: LGBT Patients’ Experiences of Primary CareThe LGBT Foundation Patients’ Experiences of Primary Care Annual Survey is now live.Running until 19…
Macmillan launches new tool for people with cancer-related fatigue
Macmillan and the University of Southampton have developed a new online resource to support people with cancer-related fatigue. This new resource…
Job: Writer/Editor – Independent Age
Job role: Writer/Editor, Independent AgeLocation: London OfficeSalary: £28,000Closing Date: Sunday 10 November 2019Reference: …
Job: Health Information Coordinator, Prostate Cancer UK
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Survey: LGBT Patients’ Experiences of Primary Care
Running until 19 November, the survey asks about people’s experiences of accessing healthcare services from their GP, dentist, pharmacist and optometrist.It…
Pancreatic Cancer UK publishes Demand Survival Now
Demand Survival Now calls upon the government to commit to a series of changes.It says pancreatic cancer has been absent from cancer strategies and plans…
Weekly news round-up – 30 October 2019
Artificial Intelligence: How to get it rightNHSX has published a new report on putting policies into practice for safe, data-driven innovation in…
How patient stories can improve health services around the world
It contains a number of papers which look at expectations and experiences of health services from the perspective of service users, their carers…
Why we need a sector-wide emphasis on accessible health information
In this article for PharmaPhorum, our projects and partnerships manager Sophie Randall spoke to Amanda Barrell about the need to balance evidence-based…
Using patient experience data to improve inpatient mental health care
It examines how patient experience and feedback is obtained in inpatient mental health care settings and how it can be used to create…
Call for search engines to crack down on counterfeit medications
Brand protection provider Incopro found six out of ten results for Bactrim led to locations ‘very likely to be operating unlawfully’.It also claims…
Helping organisations support older people with digital
The toolkit was published to mark Get Online Week – the UK’s largest digital inclusion campaign.It aims to help organisations support older…
National roll-out of electronic prescription service
Primary care minister Jo Churchill announced the move on Saturday (19 October) saying it would make staff and patients’ lives easier.The electronic prescription…
Understanding medical information is harder than you think
Non-profit patient-empowerment organisation Zaggo says struggling to understand and use health information can negatively affect health status, outcomes…
Can patient-centred care plus shared decision making lower costs?
Bernhoven is famous among hospitals around the globe for its hospital-wide, patient centred approach.In 2014, Bernhoven began its five year strategy Better…
The medical illiteracy epidemic
He discusses how an encounter with a young couple whose baby needed to be delivered early made him realise that, even if he empathises with a patient…
‘We could learn a lot from patients about integrated care’
In this podcast, she discusses how patient experiences tell us almost everything we need to know about healthcare services.Lesley says trusts are…
Tools to increase health literacy
The article includes data supporting the importance of health literacy, discusses the role of shared decision making and shares some key resources which…
‘Please don’t call me mum’
Stephanie’s daughter Daisy was born with a rare genetic condition in 2004.She says being referred to as ‘mum’ immediately created a power-based relationship…
Knowvember19 – how to get involved
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Improving health literacy in immigrant communities
Anchorage, Alaska, has a large immigrant and refugee population.Many speak limited English and most are unfamiliar with where, or how, to obtain health…
CQC publishes State of Care report
The Care Quality Commission’s annual assessment of health and social care in England shows quality ratings have been maintained overall – but people’s…
Self care before surgery
She discusses how patients can improve their physical and mental health prior to surgery, including using the Fitter, Better, Sooner toolkit produced…
New guide for young people with autism
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New platform launched to support mental health
Every Mind Matters was launched by Public Health England and the NHS at the start of Mental Health Awareness Week.The platform includes everything from…
Pharmacist-led intervention for patients using long-term opioids
Researchers from the University of Keele will develop the intervention based on patients’ own experiences with long-term pain as well as advice from pharmacists…
NHS Bill recommendations published
The Long Term Plan included several proposed changes to the law which the organisation believed would help meet its 10-year goals.Earlier this year, staff,…
Asking: A way to know if others understand
She offers ways to do this without simply saying ‘Do you understand?’ including teach-back, feedback and advisory boards.You can read the full blog here.
How people travel to and from NHS services
The organisation will be working with NHS England to support its new national review of the links between the NHS and local transport.Between March…
New tool for local health literacy figures
Ruth Carlyle, Strategic Lead NHS library and knowledge services – East of England and Midlands, worked with the Universities of Newcastle and Southampton…
Reviewing work conversations in healthcare
PHE’s ‘work as a health outcome’ programme seeks to encourage healthcare professionals to have supportive conversations about work and health with…
Versus Arthritis launches #PainNoFilter campaign
#PainNoFilter aims to show the reality of living with the pain of arthritis and related conditions – no airbrushing, no filters, just a single image of…
Get Online Week 2019
Get Online Week, run by the Good Things Foundation, runs 14-20 October.Around 5.3 million people in the UK have never been online according to the Good…
Trialling tailored web-based information for older patients
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Is social prescribing the future?
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Fifteen years’ use of patient-reported outcomes
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Still time to get involved in Self Care Week
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Text reminders increase attendance at NHS health checks
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Technology enables deaf people to access NHS 111
Technology is enabling the deaf community to access NHS 111 when they need urgent medical help.Using a computer and webcam, or the InterpreterNow…
Addressing health literacy in schools
Addressing health literacy in schools in the WHO European Region argues the education system as a whole, and schools in particular, are important settings…
Using health communication to improve population health
The ongoing American Healthy People 2020 campaign sets a 10-year agenda for improving the nation’s health.One of the key objectives is to use health…
Health Literacy Month begins
The annual, worldwide awareness event runs until 31 October and aims to shine a spotlight on innovators in the field of health literacy.Throughout…
NHS hospitals go back to the future for dementia care
It is hoped the changes will create a calming, familiar environment which can help jog memories, reduce anxiety and distress.Innovations range from a ‘memories…
Human experience matters most
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Push for improved health literacy definition
Salud America! aims to inspire people to drive community change for the health of Latino and all children.Earlier this year, the Department of Health…
PIF Quality Mark pilot announced
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The impact of a no-deal Brexit on health and care
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Updated advice on accessible meetings and events
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Study: Impact of virtual reality on children’s pain during procedures
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Digital diabetes prevention rolled out as part of Long Term Plan
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Study: Sources of information used by patients prior to elective surgery
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Strong bones after 50: fracture liaison services explained
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Navigating the patient feedback maze
A new paper reviews what types of patient experience feedback are currently available, categorising them by their characteristics in order to better understand…
Improvement Fundamentals in a Day toolkit published
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NHS England publishes online elective care handbooks
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New directory showcases innovative community-centred models
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Applications open for NHS Community Grants 2019
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Patient experience is the weakest of the three arms of quality
In this new series Jeremy Taylor, former chief executive of National Voices, talks to people undertaking work with patients, families and carers.In…
Using online patient feedback to improve care
A new guide has been launched supporting clinical, patient experience and quality teams to understand how to use online feedback to improve healthcare.Available…
How to survive fake news about cancer
In this article David Robert Grimes discusses the prevalence of cancer myths and ‘bogus treatments’ online.He outlines the concerns of many organisations…
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Research Article| January 01 1972
The Proteinases of Human Gastric Adenocarcinomata: Their Identification, Separation and Sites of Action on the B-Chain of Oxidized Insulin
D. J. Etherington
Department of Chemical Pathology, United Liverpool Hospitals, Liverpool
W. H. Taylor
Clin Sci (1972) 42 (1): 79–90.
https://doi.org/10.1042/cs0420079
D. J. Etherington, W. H. Taylor; The Proteinases of Human Gastric Adenocarcinomata: Their Identification, Separation and Sites of Action on the B-Chain of Oxidized Insulin. Clin Sci 1 January 1972; 42 (1): 79–90. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/cs0420079
1. Because of the possibility that the proteinases of gastric adenocarcinomata may differ from those of healthy gastric mucosa, an investigation of these enzymes by means of pH-activity studies, agar-gel electrophoresis, column chromatography and the mode of action on the B-chain of oxidized insulin has been undertaken.
2. Agar-gel electrophoresis of extracts at pH 5 revealed a single zone of proteinase activity situated at the equivalent position to the zone 7 of normal gastric mucosal extracts and not activated at pH 2. The typical pepsins of normal mucosal extracts were not present.
3. Agar-gel electrophoresis at pH 8·2 resolved this single zone into three zones. One was located slightly cathodally (proteinase 1) and the other two anodally (a slower proteinase 2A and a faster 2B).
4. Proteinases 2A and 2B were separated by column chromatography and shown to have identical asymmetrical broad pH-activity curves with the maximum at pH 3·3–3·4.
5. Proteinase 1 had a symmetrical narrow pH-activity curve with the maximum at pH 3·7–3·9. Proteinase 1 was purified and resolved into two highly active major components, 1A and 1B, by column chromatography, first on DEAE-cellulose and then on CM-cellulose.
6. The sites of cleavage of the B-chain of oxidized insulin were determined for proteinases 1A and 1B. The same bonds were split by each, with one exception, but several were split at differing rates indicating that the two enzymes had related, but different, modes of action.
7. The tumour proteinases 1 resemble the cathepsins D in certain respects and the pepsins in others. They may represent an enzyme structure of an intermediate form. There is insufficient evidence to indicate whether they are elaborated by partially differentiated cells or whether they are derived from cells which have become dedifferentiated. No enzymes exactly like them have yet been found in normal tissues.
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US8699998B2 - Controlling text messages on a mobile device - Google Patents
Controlling text messages on a mobile device Download PDF
Stephen A. Sprigg
Hugo SWART
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Methods, systems and devices for controlling access to messaging (SMS, MMS, email, etc.) on mobile devices (e.g., cell phones) during times or in locations in which such activity is prohibited or inhibited by the parental control settings. Parental control settings limit messaging features available to mobile devices to certain times and/or locations. Messages received at restricted times/locations are stored in temporary memory without notifying the mobile device user (i.e., messages are not placed in the inbox), unless the message is received from a pre-approved source (e.g., parent, teachers, etc.). Once the context for restricting access to messaging (e.g., time, location, etc.) no longer applies, the stored messages may be transferred from the temporary memory to the inbox and the user may be alerted regarding the new message.
Cellular and wireless communication technologies have seen explosive growth over the past several years. This growth has been fueled by better communications hardware, larger networks and more reliable protocols. Wireless service providers are now able to offer their customers an ever-expanding array of features and services, and provide users with unprecedented levels of access to information, resources and communications. Today's cell phones include cameras, GPS receivers, MP3 players, and provide access to web content, data sharing, application downloading, and many other features.
As cell phones and wireless devices continue to grow in popularity, many parents have begun providing cell phones to their young children. Cell phones provide these children with a degree of safety and protection, as they are now able to immediately contact the parents in case of an emergency. However, by carrying a personal cell phone/wireless device, children are now more susceptible to certain dangers (e.g., calls and messages from strangers, access to certain websites) and present more opportunities to access age-inappropriate content and participate in inappropriate or unproductive activities (e.g., texting in class). As more children have access to feature-rich cell phones, parents need better controls over their children's phones.
The various embodiments provide systems, devices, and methods encompassing an enterprise-based parental control settings server that allows parents to set and control parental control restrictions on their children's cell phones and other mobile computing devices. Various embodiments enable controlling cell-phone access to messaging services during times or in locations in which such activity is prohibited or inhibited by parental control settings. Parents set control settings that limit messaging features available to their children's phones and other mobile computing devices to certain times and/or locations. Messages received at restricted times/locations are stored in temporary memory without notifying the cell phone or other mobile computing device user (i.e., messages are not placed in the inbox), unless the message is received from a pre-approved source (e.g., parent, teachers, etc.). Once the context for restricting access to messaging (e.g., time, location, etc.) no longer applies, the stored messages may be transferred from the temporary memory to the inbox such that the message is accessible to the user.
The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated herein and constitute part of this specification, illustrate exemplary embodiments of the invention, and together with the general description given above and the detailed description given below, serve to explain the features of the invention.
FIGS. 1A and 1B are a communication system block diagrams illustrating network components of two alternative embodiment architectures suitable for use in the various embodiments.
FIG. 2 is a process flow diagram of a method for setting parental controls in accordance with various embodiments.
FIG. 3 is component diagram of a parental control settings server module that may be implemented in a parental control server in accordance with various embodiments.
FIG. 4 is a component diagram illustrating functional components that may be implemented within a receiver device suitable for implementing various embodiments.
FIGS. 5A and B are a process flow diagrams of two embodiment methods of automatically generating new general community-based configurations based on common configurations.
FIGS. 6A-6D are process flow diagrams of embodiment methods for allowing third party parental controls to overlay master parental controls in accordance with various embodiments.
FIG. 7 is a process flow diagram illustrating an embodiment deferred delivery method for controlling a cell phone's capabilities.
FIG. 8 is a process flow diagram of an embodiment method for applying the parental control settings to third party communication sites.
FIG. 9 is a process flow diagram of an embodiment method for implementing parental controls so that certain actions are only allowed upon intermediate authorization.
FIG. 10 is a component block diagram of a receiver device suitable for use in an embodiment.
FIG. 11 is a component block diagram of a server device suitable for use in an embodiment.
The various embodiments will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Wherever possible, the same reference numbers will be used throughout the drawings to refer to the same or like parts. References made to particular examples and implementations are for illustrative purposes, and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention or the claims.
The word “exemplary” is used herein to mean “serving as an example, instance, or illustration.” Any implementation described herein as “exemplary” is not necessarily to be construed as preferred or advantageous over other implementations.
The terms “cell phone,” “wireless device” and “mobile device” are used interchangeably herein to refer to any one or all of cellular telephones, smart-phones (e.g., iPhone), web-pads, tablets, Internet enabled cellular telephones, WiFi enabled electronic devices, personal data assistants (PDA's), laptop computers, personal computers, computers sending and receiving short message service (SMS) messages, multimedia message service (MMS) messages, and/or electronic mail (email) and similar electronic devices. However, the terms “cell phone,” “wireless device” and “mobile device” should not be limited to the enumerated list of devices.
The various embodiments provide methods, devices and systems for enterprise-based parental controls that allow parents to remotely enable, disable and/or limit the many features and services available on their children's mobile devices, such as cell phones. Modern mobile devices, including cell phones, tablet computers, gaming devices, etc., offer their users an unprecedented degree of connectivity, access, convenience and safety. As mobile devices like cell phones and tablet computing devices continue to grow in popularity, they are quickly becoming an indispensible tool for navigating modern society, interacting with one another, and quickly and efficiently accomplishing many everyday tasks. As a result, many of today's activities (such as those sponsored by schools) are being designed with an expectation that participants have access to the various technologies, features and services provided by modern cell phones and mobile computing devices. For these and other reasons, it is now more common for parents to allow their children to have their own personal cell phones and other mobile devices starting at a very young age and extending throughout adolescence.
Parents take comfort in knowing that their children and teenagers (herein children) may contact them at any time and in cases of emergency. Parents also take comfort in knowing that their children have access to the countless services and resources provided by modern cell phones and mobile computing devices (e.g., tablet computers), and may use these resources for productive activities. Children now use cell phones and mobile computing devices to assist them in completing many of their daily tasks, which may include checking reading assignments, interacting with their teachers, asking questions, updating their activity schedules, participating in pop quizzes, researching class topics, receiving help with homework and many other daily tasks. For these and other reasons, more children have access to cell phones and mobile computing devices than ever before, and many of these children have nearly continuous—and sometimes unfettered—access to the numerous resources and services provided by these mobile devices.
While there are many benefits to allowing children to have access to cell phones and mobile computing devices, it is dangerous to allow children to have unlimited access to many of the services (GPS, text, web, applications, etc.) provided by modern mobile devices. Children who have unrestricted access to such mobile devices are more vulnerable to contact with strangers, and may use the numerous features available on their devices for unproductive or inappropriate activities. While parents desire that their children have some access to certain cell phone and mobile computing device features, parents also need to manage and control the features available on their children's mobile devices. These parents may also desire to extend such restrictions to other media access devices (e.g., televisions, gaming systems, audio and video players, etc.) so their children have consistent access and usage restrictions across all of their media access platforms.
Existing solutions for controlling children's cell phone and mobile computing device usage only allow parents to enable/disable the various device features, and do not provide parents with the ability to control exactly how, when or where each feature is used. Current solutions are not effective because children need the ability to use their cell phone and mobile computing device features for approved activities (e.g., texting their teachers, accessing online databases, etc.). The various embodiments enable children to user their cell phone and mobile computing device features for parent-approved activities while also restricting unapproved and/or unproductive activities (e.g., texting and/or surf the web when they should be paying attention to a lecture or doing homework). The various embodiments provide a centralized parental control settings server that enables parents to finely control how each individual feature is used on their children's cell phones and other mobile computing devices. The parental control settings server may restrict each cell phone feature based on time, location and/or the individual demographics of each child.
The various embodiments provide systems for implementing a comprehensive set of parental controls that allow parents to control their children's cell phones and mobile computing devices in a manner that allows children to use their mobile devices for approved and/or productive activities, and at the same time, restrict them from using their mobile devices for improper and/or unproductive activities. The various embodiments provide a server-based parental control settings server that enables parents to create dynamic and context-specific controls for limiting their children's mobile devices. Context-sensitive controls may be configured to automatically limit mobile device functionality based on time, location, age and/or any definable context. Dynamic controls place adaptive restrictions (which may be context-sensitive) on mobile devices. The embodiments enable parents to create multiple parental control profiles for a single device or a particular child (e.g., providing separate profiles for home, school, night time, etc.). One example of a dynamic control is an age-based control or restriction that progressively enables additional features as the child ages. In an embodiment, such comprehensive restrictions may be applied to all network-enabled media access devices used by their children so usage restrictions can be implemented consistently across all devices. For example, restrictions on times and hours of use may be extended to televisions, gaming terminals and media players through the same system.
A single online interface hosted on the parental control settings server provides parents with a centralized system for managing each individual child's access permissions. This single interface allows parents to control all their children's mobile phones and mobile computing devices quickly and efficiently, without requiring any physical access to the children's devices. Access permissions may be granted, denied and/or limited using a single setting for multiple children based on each child's demographics (e.g., age, sex, etc.), as well as time and location. For example, a parent may use this single interface to set a single context-based setting that allows her thirteen year old son's mobile phone or mobile computing device to access a certain website and/or application (e.g., twitter) during lunch hours, and at the same time, prevents her eight year old daughter's mobile phone or mobile computing device from accessing that same website and/or application while on school property. To achieve this flexibility, parents may define general boundaries for their children (either collectively or each child individually) and allow other approved sources of authority (e.g., teachers, police, the community, volunteer organizations, etc.) to have some control over what/when/how the various cell phone and mobile computing device features are to be used. A parent may set these restrictions through a website interface hosted by the parental control settings server without having to know any of the details of the restricted website and/or application, its age-appropriateness, the school policies regarding its use, or even of the website's existence. The parental control settings server may format an appropriate configuration message that is transmitted (e.g., pushed) to the child's cell phone and/or mobile computing device to cause the cell phone to implement the desired feature restrictions and/or permissions. Thus, the parent also does not need to understand how to program the child's cell phone and mobile computing devices. In a further embodiment, the parental control settings may also be sent to other types of media access devices that have access to a communication network, such as the Internet, a cellular network, a satellite television network, or a cable television network, so those other devices can implement the restrictions in a manner consistent with their children's mobile devices.
As discussed above, various embodiments allow parents to authorize other sources of authority (e.g., teachers, police, community and volunteer organizations, etc.) to have some control over what/when/how the various cell phone features are used. Allowing other trusted sources of authority to have a say in parental control configurations can be beneficial. Many parents find it difficult to anticipate every way their children may use the various services/features available on modern cell phones and mobile computing devices, and require some assistance in distinguishing the appropriate uses from the inappropriate ones. For example, a teacher may request that her students use a cell phone or and mobile computing device during class to text answers to a pop quiz, participate in online polls, or access online resources. That same teacher may discipline students who access unauthorized websites and/or text other students in class. Thus, parents may need to be able to allow their children to use their mobile devices to participate in some encouraged or required activities (e.g., texting answers to a pop quiz), while at the same time restricting them from using the mobile devices for unauthorized or inappropriate activities (e.g., surfing the Internet) without having to actively monitor or manage all appropriate/inappropriate activities available to the child.
As mentioned above, current solutions for controlling cell phone and mobile computing device usage only allow parents to enable/disable the various features. In the above example, parents using current solutions have to disable internet/texting capabilities on their child's phone and mobile computing devices to prevent that child from misusing these features during school. Teachers could contact parents and request certain features be enabled on days they are required for a school activity. In such cases, the parents must remember to enable those features for that day. To further complicate matters, once the features are enabled, parents cannot control exactly how those features are used in other classes, at other times and/or in other locations.
The various embodiments overcome these and other problems with current mobile devices by allowing parents to set general guidelines for their children's mobile device usage and allow other approved sources of authority (e.g., principals, teachers, community, etc.) to automatically control the available features in certain specified conditions (e.g., during school hours and/or on school grounds).
The various embodiments also allow busy parents to defer to or elect rules and/or standards of one or more communities (e.g., school, church, city, organizations, etc.), which are referred to herein as community-based settings, when setting the parental controls for their children's cell phones and mobile computing devices. In an embodiment, the parental control settings server may periodically examine the parental control settings of all or a select group of users to generate community-based configuration settings that reflect the most popular parental control configurations. The server may generate community-based configuration settings based on select communities, such as neighborhoods, cities, counties, states, age-groups, organizations, schools, locations and other groups or social units. Parents may elect one or more of these community-based parental control settings, or define/modify each setting individually. For example, a parent may select a parental control mobile device configuration that is automatically updated to include the most common settings used by parents who live in Oklahoma City and whose children are in the boy scouts. In this manner, busy parents may rely on the collective judgment of others in their selected communities (e.g., boy scouts, Oklahoma City) and trust that their children are restricted from, and have access to, the same features as other children in the selected communities. The parent may modify the community based settings individually, such as to specifically permit or restrict access to a particular website, while leaving the remaining settings the same as the selected community.
The various embodiments also allow each parent to fine tune the settings based on their individual preferences, their circumstances and the maturity of their kids. For example, a parent may wish to discipline a child by disabling the child's mobile device Internet capabilities during school hours even though that child's teacher allows the use of Internet in class. In this example, the parent may access the parental control server to fine tune the parental control settings such that the teacher's settings cannot override the disabling of mobile device's Internet capabilities. Thus, the various embodiments allow parents, teachers and others with the proper permissions to collaborate in controlling the features available on children's mobile devices, with each parent having master control over the features available to each individual child.
Various embodiments may notify the parent (e.g., text, email, etc.) on each occurrence of a parent-definable condition related to the child's activities on the mobile device. For example, the parent may set the parental control settings such that the child's mobile device automatically sends the parent a text message whenever the child attempts to create a new contact, download a new application, make an online purchase, or access a new website. The parental controls may prevent the child from completing such activities until the parent responds to the notification to approve the activity.
As an example of mobile device features that may be controlled, the various embodiments provide systems, devices, and methods for controlling access to messaging (SMS, MMS, email, etc.) on mobile devices (e.g., cell phones) during times or in locations in which such activity is prohibited or inhibited by the parental control settings. As discussed above, parents take comfort in knowing that their children can contact them (or teachers, classmates, police, etc.) at any time and in cases of emergency. For this and other reasons, many children are allowed nearly continuous access to the messaging functions provided by their cell phones and/or mobile computing devices. While allowing children to have continuous access to a cell phone or other mobile computing device has benefits (e.g., the child can text the parent if a stranger breaks in so as to inform the parent and not alert the intruder), it is also has many downsides. For example, the child may receive late night messages from strangers and/or otherwise misuse the device (e.g., texting friends after bedtime). The various embodiments allow some messaging functionality to remain active on the children's cell phones and mobile computing devices while disabling other aspects of the messaging functionality in a manner that allows messages to be received once the restrictions no longer apply. Restricted messages are still received by the cell phone and/or mobile computing device, but are stored in memory and not placed in the inbox when the context (e.g., time of day, day of week, location, etc.) and message sender (e.g., not the parent) are restricted by parental control settings. Once the context for restricting access to messaging no longer applies, the stored messages may be transferred to the messaging inbox and the child may be alerted to the message's receipt.
As discussed above, the embodiments may be implemented with a variety of mobile computing devices. Two types of mobile computing devices for which the embodiments are particularly applicable are cellular telephones (which are also referred to herein as “mobile phones”) and tablet computers (e.g., the Apple iPad® and similar products made by other manufactures). Being portable and configured with significant computing capabilities, near-continuous cellular and WiFi network access, numerous applications and intuitive user interfaces, such mobile devices are ideal for providing children access to educational and entertainment resources while enabling them to communicate with their parents at any time. In terms of functionality and operation, the differences between mobile phones and other types of mobile computing devices are diminishing and are expected to become less significant over time. Therefore, in order to simplify the descriptions of the various embodiments, the drawings and the following embodiment descriptions refer only to mobile phones (or cell phones or just phones) instead of referring to all types of applicable devices. Thus, the following references to mobile or cell phones and to cellular telephone networks are not intended to limit the scope of the claims.
The various embodiments may be implemented within a variety of communication systems, such as a cell telephone network, an example of which is illustrated in FIG. 1A. A typical cell telephone network 11 includes a plurality of cell base stations 12 coupled to a network operations center 14, which operates to connect voice calls and data between mobile devices 10 (e.g., cell phones) and other network destinations, such as via telephone land lines (e.g., a POTS network, not shown) and the Internet 7. The mobile devices 10 may each include a deeply embedded parental control settings (ACS) implementing module that allows parental control settings to be enforced on the mobile device and that is resistant to unauthorized modification/tampering. The mobile devices 10 may also support public web and content ratings mechanisms (MPAA, etc.) and may be configured to filter advertisements by category and ratings. Communications between the mobile devices 10 and the network 11 may be accomplished via two-way wireless communication links 13, such as 4G, 3G, CDMA, TDMA, LTE and/or other cell telephone communication technologies. The network 11 may also include one or more servers 16 coupled to or within the network operations center 14 that provide a connection to the Internet 7.
FIG. 1A also illustrates that the communication system may include one or more parental control settings servers 18 connected to the telephone network 11 and to the Internet 7. The connection between the parental control settings server 18 and the telephone network 11 may be through the Internet 7 or through a private network (as illustrated by the dashed arrows), or the parental control settings server 18 may be implemented as a server within the network infrastructure of the telephone network 11. The parental control settings servers 18 may include a parental control enterprise system module and a web-interface accessible to computing devices 9 (e.g., smartphones, laptops, PCs, etc.) via the Internet 7, such as a user interface webpage. The parental control web-interface allows parents to set, update and/or maintain parental control settings on the control servers 18. The parental control settings servers 18 communicate updated parental control settings to the mobile devices 10 via the telephone network 11. The mobile devices 10 use these settings to update, create and/or maintain parental control settings profiles that identify the conditions under which each mobile device 10 feature should be enabled, disabled, restricted and/or otherwise controlled.
FIG. 1B illustrates an alternative embodiment architecture in which the parental control settings servers 18 are managed by an individual or groups of parents instead of a central server. In this embodiment, each parental control settings server 18 may be under the management and control of a parent or a group of parents who may determine whether the server communicates with other parental control settings servers 18, such as via the Internet. Such a local parental control settings server 18 may be implemented in a computer within the household, such as a server application hosted on the parent's home computer coupled to the network. Alternatively, the local parental control settings server 18 may be implemented in “the cloud,” i.e., in one or more servers on the Internet that are under the software control of a parent or group of parents. In this embodiment, the parental control settings functions would not be provided by a central service, but by a server application. Parents may then decide whether to “share” the settings and functionality of their respective local parental control settings servers 18 with others to provide the overview perspective and analysis afforded by the centralized local parental control settings server 18 of the embodiment described above with reference to FIG. 1A.
FIG. 2 illustrates an example method 200 for setting parental controls in accordance with the various embodiments. In step 202, a parent may log onto a parental control website hosted by the parental control settings server enterprise server 18 to access her family account such as by entering account information (e.g., phone number, user ID, password, etc.). As part of step 202, the parental control settings server enterprise server may retrieve information regarding the parent's account. In determination step 204, the server may determine if this is the first time that the parent has logged on to the parental control website. If this is a first time log-in (i.e., determination step 204=“Yes”), in step 206, the parental control website may prompt the parent to input optional demographic information about the parent (e.g., number of children, memberships in various organizations, etc.) and/or for each child (e.g., age, sex, schools, activities, classes, etc.).
In step 208, the server may prompt the parent to determine whether she wants to input parental control parameters individually or select a pre-compiled set of parameters (e.g., a community-based setting) for her children/family. In determination step 210, the server may determine if the parent chose to input the settings individually. If the parent chose not to input the settings individually (i.e., determination step 210=“No”), in step 212, the server may prompt the parent to select, either for all her children collectively or for each child individually, one or more community-based settings (e.g., pre-compiled set of parameters). For example, the parent may select a community-based setting that grants all her children age-appropriate permissions or may select an age-based setting for her daughter and a time-based setting for her son. The parent may choose the settings from a list and may select from among multiple community-based settings for each child. In step 214, the server may prompt the parent to fine tune the settings to enable, disable or limit each feature for each child based on the parent's individual preferences, circumstances and/or each child's maturity level. The parent may apply the parental control settings to her children collectively (e.g., none of the children may access Facebook®) or each child individually (e.g., son cannot access Facebook® during the day but daughter can). Once the parent is has made her selections, she may submit her inputs/selections (e.g., by pressing a submit button or hitting enter) to the parental control settings server. In step 218, the parental control settings server pushes the restrictions to each child's phone over the telephone network.
Returning to determination step 210, if the server determines that parent wants to input the settings individually (i.e., determination step 210=“Yes”), in step 216 the parental control parameters input by the parent may be received by the parental control settings server. These inputs may be received as signals generated in response to the parent clicking on hyperlinked selections (e.g., buttons, check boxes, or setting descriptions), so that the parent can configure parental controls through a series of selections in a menu interface. In step 218, the parental control settings server generates a message suitable for communicating the settings to the corresponding cell phone, and pushes the restrictions message to the child's phone via the cellular telephone network.
FIG. 3 illustrates a parental control module 300 of a parental control settings server in accordance with the various embodiments. As mentioned above, users may access the parental control settings server via the parental control web-interface from any computer having internet access. The parental control settings server maintains various parameters that may be used to set parental control profiles that identify sets of features and capabilities that are to be enabled, disabled and/or limited on each child's cell phone. The parental control settings server may also manage master accounts (e.g., a family account, parent's account, etc.) through which users can establish and manage the parental control parameters/profiles. Users log onto the parental control settings server to create, modify, select, enable and/or override parental control parameters/profiles maintained by the server. Parental control parameters/profiles may be managed on the parental control settings server such that a child-user cannot circumvent the parameters/profiles without having access to the master account. The parental control parameters may be maintained in a central location (e.g., the parental control settings server) so that the parental control settings may be applied to each child, even as their cell phones are replaced and/or updated, by periodically pushing the parental controls to the controlled phone. The parental control parameters may be context-sensitive. Context-sensitive parental control parameters may be used to monitor a user-definable context condition and enable, disable or limit cellular phone features based on the presence or absence of the context condition. The context condition may be monitored by the controlled phone. In some embodiments, the parental control settings server may also participate in monitoring context conditions.
FIG. 3 also illustrates that the control system module 300 may include one or more centralized databases containing user, demographic and/or restriction information for establishing parental controls on the children's phones, as well as on third party applications and websites. Specifically, the control system module 300 may include a user database 302 and a demographic database 304. The user database 302 may contain information regarding each registered user (e.g., username, family, age, sex, address, etc.). The demographic database 304 may contain demographic information (e.g., age, sex, location) for all members in a manner that enables generation of community based parental control settings without revealing any user's personal information. These databases may be interconnected and each database may cross reference information contained in the other databases.
Each database may also contain a data link to various control parameters 320, which may include parental controls 304, audit controls 306, advertisement controls 308, authorization controls 310, and configurations controls 312. The control parameters 320 may be automatically updated, either periodically or based on one or more triggering events (e.g., change in data, etc.). The control system module 200 may also include embedded software/interfaces for interacting with application-management systems (e.g., an App Store 330) and education based systems or other third party modules or websites 334. In some embodiments, the control system module 300 may further include one or more tracking systems 332 for monitoring the physical location of each phone, the phone's movement history and/or the phone's usage history. The control system module 300 may include an interface for interacting with third party/external tracking systems (e.g., tracking), which may or may not have a component pre-installed on the child's phone.
In an embodiment, the control system module 300 may interact with third party applications and/or websites to inform third party applications and websites of the parental controls. In an embodiment, the parental control profiles may be configured to permit the phone to interact directly with the third party applications/websites and allow third party applications/websites to enforce their own set of parental control settings that are commensurate with the parental control profiles associated with the child's phone. In an embodiment, the third party websites/applications may access the parental control settings server databases (e.g., demographic database 304) directly. In this embodiment, the third party websites/applications may connect to the parental control settings server and check the system's databases for non-personal identification information (e.g., username, phone number, a generated control number, etc.) associated with the user and enforce any relevant restrictions if the user is identified as being subject to the parental control settings server's parental controls.
In one embodiment, the control system module 300 may require all interactions between the child's phone 10 and the third party applications/websites to be funneled through the parental control server, which can filter content transmitted to the child's cell phone based on the parental control settings/profiles.
In another embodiment, third party websites/applications may maintain a separate enterprise database that is populated with data from the parental control settings server. For example, whenever a child uses their cell phone to access a third-party website, the control system module 300 may send one or more parental control setting parameters associated with the child's phone to the third-party website's parental control server, which may store the parental control settings in an enterprise database (herein “third party database”) along with the non-personal identification information (e.g., username, phone number, a generated control number, etc.) for the child user/child phone. This communication of parental control settings from the parental control settings server may be accomplished in response to a request for such information from the third-party website, or in response to the child's cell phone informing the parental control settings server of the attempt to access the third-party website. The third-party website may access the third party database each time the child user accesses that website and cross-check the identification information (user name, login, control number, etc.) to the parental control settings in the third-party database. In this manner, parental controls established on the control system module 300 may also follow each child, even when the child borrows a phone from another child or accesses the Internet from a new computer, subject to ordinary user identification and authorization methods. The various embodiments may employ the use of control numbers as identification information, allowing the parental control settings server to provide third-party websites with applicable parental control setting without disclosing personal information (e.g., child's name) that the parent may not wish to share.
The parental control settings server 300 may include a world wide web (Web) module 314 for sending and receiving information over the Internet and an over-the-air application programming interface (OTA API) 316 module for transmitting information over the air via a wireless cellular network. In an embodiment, the Web 314 and OTA API 316 modules may be used to control access to third party websites/applications. As mentioned above, the control system module 200 may require all interactions between the child's phone 10 and the third party applications/websites to be funneled through the parental control server, which may filter content based on the parental control settings/profiles.
FIG. 4 illustrates functional components that may be implemented within a receiver device (e.g., a child's phone) in the various embodiments. Software modules of a receiver device may be organized in a software architecture 400 similar to that illustrated in FIG. 4. The software architecture 400 may include a parental control profile implementing module 404 embedded inside the operating system 402. The parental control profile implementing module 404 may also be implemented in a software layer between the application layer and the operating system layer. The parental control profile implementing module 404 may also be implemented within or encompass a portion of the user interface 406. The parental control profile implementing module 404 may be configured to enable, disable, or restrict each of the various features available on the phone based on the parental control profile settings received from the parental control settings server. Some examples of the mobile phone functions and features which may be restricted on receiver device include: use of hardware components (e.g., camera, GPS receiver, WiFi transceiver, etc.), normal telephone (i.e., voice calls), simple messing service (SMS) messaging and multimedia messaging service (MMS) messaging. The parental control profile implementing module 404 may also manage/update the parental control profiles by receiving updated parental control parameters from the parental control server and using the updated parameter to update parental control profiles on the receiver device. A parental control interface 410 may prevent a request for access to content (e.g., on the web, music, advertisements, apps, MP3 player, etc.) from being accepted and/or processed by the operating system 402. In this manner, blocked functions or content may not be presented to the user through the user interface 406 or used by one or more applications 408 on the device based on the parental control profiles.
FIG. 5A illustrates a method 500 for analyzing the information in databases to automatically create community-based configurations selectable by other users of the parental control settings server. Community-based configurations may be generated based on any definable parameter accessible to the system, such as child's age and sex, location, community affiliations, school, etc. The parental control settings server may maintain a database of parental control profiles for each child registered with the system and may be informed of the child's demographics and residence. The parental control settings server may use the parental control settings of multiple users to develop an averaged or community-based standard or set of parental controls and make such configuration available to other parents/users. In an embodiment, the parental control settings server may establish community based set of controls by analyzing the parental control parameter sets across an aggregated pool of accounts in a particular community. For example, a parent configuring a parental control profile for a ten year-old child could merely select an age/gender based profile and allow the system to apply the restrictions and context criteria of the selected community-based settings for the child's age and gender. The parent may also further customize individual parameters according to their preferences without having to specify every parameter in the control settings. For example, if the community-based parameter for text messages inhibits messaging between 9:00 PM and 7:00 AM, a parent may customize this restriction to expand or reduce these restrictions.
Returning to FIG. 5A, in step 502 of method 500, the parental control settings server may populate the user and demographic databases by receiving user settings and demographic information (e.g., child's age, sex, school, etc.). In step 504, the server may receive the selected parental control parameters and store the information in a database. In an embodiment, as part of step 504, the parental control settings server may prompt the user to select one or more general community-based configurations and to fine tune the selected community-based configurations by modifying the parental control parameters and receive, in the parental control server, a set of parental control parameters associated with the user's selections and modifications. In determination step 506, the parental control settings server may prompt the user to indicate whether the user authorizes the use of that user's non-personal information (e.g., user information, demographic information, parental control settings, etc.) to generate community-based configurations selectable by other users. If the parental control settings server receives authorization to use the non-personal information (i.e., determination step 506=“Yes”), in step 508 the parental control settings server may strip out all personal/identifying information, add the user's anonymous information to a community database and identify other users having similar user and demographic information. In step 510, the parental control settings server may analyze all parental control settings of members authorizing such user of their information to identify the most popular settings by age, sex, and other parameters. This analysis may employ any of a variety of known statistical analysis techniques, including for example, averaging, determining a standard deviation of the distribution of settings in the sample, and determining settings selected by a majority or super majority in the sample. In step 512, the parental control server may generate one or more community-based parental control setting configurations based on the most common settings, such as by age, sex, etc. In step 514, the parental control settings server may insert the generated community-based configurations in a master list of common configuration settings to be included with the other community-based parental control configurations (i.e., eight-year-old girl in Oklahoma City).
In another embodiment illustrated in FIG. 5B, the parental control server may simply scan the accounts that parents have authorized for sharing to generate the community based standards. For example, the method may include the same or similar operations as described above with respect to FIG. 5A for like numbered steps with the exception that in step 520 the parental control server may store an indication (e.g., a flag) with each user record entry regarding whether the user has authorized information sharing. When the parental control server analyzes account data to develop community based standard, in step 522 it may scan those accounts indicated for sharing and analyze the settings, user and child demographics and user information to generate community based configurations in step 512.
In an embodiment, the parental control server may periodically re-analyze the parental control settings in a community, or analyze the most common modifications to the community-based configurations and update the community-based settings accordingly. In this manner, the parental control server may generate “evolving settings” that change over time, enabling the parental control settings server to continuously fine tune the community-based system configurations to more accurately meet the preferences of users. In an embodiment, the parental control server may present parents with the option to either always retain the parameters of the originally selected configuration (i.e., exactly as they were when the parent set up the account) by opting out of the “evolving setting” configurations, or choose to have the parental control settings on their children's cell phone updated automatically as the elected community-based settings are updated (e.g., opt in to the evolving settings).
In an embodiment, the parental control settings server may create various user-categories based on information provided by users (e.g., income, occupation, organizational memberships of parents/children, city of residence) and create various demographic groups (e.g., single parents living in Oklahoma City with incomes above $80,000/year) of users having similar information. The parental control settings server may analyze each user's information in view of their associated demographic groups and child demographics to generate new community-based configurations and/or templates based on the most common settings selected by members of those demographic groups. For example, the parental control settings server may create a new general community-based configuration based on the selections of parents who live in a particular city (e.g., Oklahoma City) and/or are associated with a particular organization (e.g., have at least one child in the Boy Scouts). In this manner, other parents may select a community-based general setting that affords their children the same privileges and restrictions as other children of parents with similar backgrounds, interests, and/or activities.
In various embodiments, communities may establish sponsored profiles that may be authorized or endorsed by a variety of organizations, such as religious bodies, the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America, a local school district, a political party, etc. In this manner, parents may select a parental control profile they believe will be in sync with their values and beliefs, or with the child's specific interests. As mentioned above, community-based settings may be recalculated periodically in order to keep pace with changing standards of the selected community. Community based settings may also automatically adjust as the child ages, with the parental control profile remaining consistent with restrictions imposed by the selected community for children of various ages. For example, if a parent configures a ten-year-old child's mobile phone by applying the parameters for ten-year-olds in a community, after one year the device may automatically update the child's parental control profile by applying the community-based parameters for eleven-year-olds in that community (which presumably contain slightly less restriction).
As mentioned above, the parental control settings server may host a website providing a user interface for creating, updating and/or otherwise configuring more than one parental control profile. Each parental control profile may identify a set of parental control parameters/restrictions that are to be applied to the child's phone. The parental control settings server may enable parents to create multiple parental control profiles for each child. For example, a parent may establish a “Normal Profile” identifying what the child can do under normal circumstances, and a “Restricted Profile” identifying what the child can do when he/she is on restriction (e.g., “grounded”). Parental control profiles may be dynamic and/or context-sensitive. For example, the parental control profiles may include dynamic restrictions that vary for each individual feature (e.g., by time of day, day of week, date, location, etc.) and context-sensitive restrictions that are only activated in a defined context such as to limit certain individuals from calling/messaging after 9 PM, or turn off the camera in school, etc. In an embodiment, the restrictions may be configured to limit all calling/messaging except for contacting certain individuals/entities, such as the parent, 911, and authorized contacts (e.g., those people known to, and authorized by, the parents).
The user interface may also include an option for authorizing third party parameters and/or restrictions to be layered on top of the parent's selected settings. For example, the parental control settings server may prompt a parent-user to identify one or more trusted authorities (e.g., teachers, principals, etc.) that are authorized to temporarily modify the parent-user's selected parental control settings. The parental control settings server may maintain an account for each trusted authority, allowing the trusted authority to create parental control parameters and/or restrictions that are pushed to the child's phone to override parental control parameters defined by a parent-user under certain specified conditions (e.g., time and day of week, phone location, etc.). For example, a parent may restrict the controlled phone's capabilities such that when the child is in school (or in a particular class in that school), only the features indicated as allowable by both the parent and a teacher for that location (e.g., accessing the Internet in history class) or for that time (i.e., text messaging from 11:00 AM to 11:50 AM) are enabled. In this manner, a child's cell phone may be configured to automatically enable certain features (e.g., sending/receiving texts), without requiring the parent to know any of the details of the school's cell phone usage policies. The parental control settings server enables the parent to simply select a trusted authority (e.g., school) to overlay the authority's parameters on top of the parents' parameters such that the child's cell phone is restricted to uses that are in accordance with the rules and policies of both the parent and the authority.
FIG. 6A illustrates an embodiment method 600 a that may be implemented in the parental control server for allowing third party parental controls to overlay master parental controls. In step 602, a parent-user logs on to the parental control settings server and sets the parental controls (e.g., selects a configuration and fine tunes the configuration). In step 604, a third party may log onto their own account (maintained by the parental control settings server) and set parental control settings enabling, disabling, and/or restricting various cell phone features/uses under defined conditions (e.g., time, day of week, location, etc). In step 606, the parent may log on to the parental control settings server and authorize one or more third parties to apply the third party parental control profiles or third party parental control parameters to a child's mobile phone. In step 606, the parent may also specify the authorized contexts, (e.g., based on time, location, etc.) in which the third party controls may override and/or overlay each of the cell phone features. In step 608, the parental control settings server may receive a list of the features, restriction and/or parental control settings that the parent does not want modified by the third party controls. In step 610, the parental control settings server may generate or update parental control settings. In step 612, the parental control settings server transmits the generated/updated parental control settings to the child's cell phone.
The child's cell phone may check to determine if the context identified by the parent applies (e.g., phone is in identified location, time of day, day of week, etc.) to the child. If the specified context authorized by the parent does not apply, the phone is not restricted by the third party control settings and only the parent's parental controls are applied to the phone. However, if the specified context authorized by the parent does apply, the third party's parental control profile may override and/or overlay the parental control profile configured by the child's parent. For example, a teacher who wishes all her students be able to submit questions via text message during the class may configure a parental control profile blocking all outgoing text messages except for those sent to the teacher's own device (as well as the parent if so set by the parent). The teacher may establish a third party parental control profile that specifies the context in which the teacher's settings are to be applied, such as the time or location of the class and/or other demographic information (e.g., the school, grades, etc.) A parent who has enabled/disabled text messaging features on her child's phone may authorize an override of the parent's control profile on a child's device by any authorized individual (e.g., the child's teacher) or organization (e.g., school, church, etc.) and tie this authorization to a variety of context settings, such as time of day (i.e., during school hours) or location (GPS coordinates of the school or classroom). In this manner, when the phone is within a context authorized by both the parent and the authorized individual (e.g., the child is in school) both the third party parameters and the parent's parameters may be applied to the phone (e.g., outgoing text messages to the teacher are enabled and all other outgoing text messaging is disabled).
With the parental control settings and override settings pushed down to the child's phone, implementation of those settings may be accomplished by the phone's processor. An embodiment method 620 a for implementing such settings in the phone's setting is illustrated in FIG. 6B. In method 620 a in step 622, the child's phone may receive the parental control settings and the third-party overlay and/or override settings from the parental control server. In step 624, the processor may store the received settings in the phone memory. In step 626, the processor may implement the received parental control settings by changing the phone settings accordingly. In step 628, as part of normal operations, the processor may monitor the current time and/or geographic location to determine whether those parameters match the context specified for the override configuration. In determination step 630, the processor may determine whether the override context be satisfied. If not (i.e., determination step 630=“No”), the processor may continue to monitor the time and location while continuing to implement the parental control settings. Once the time and/or location matches a context specified for the override configuration (i.e., determination step 630=“Yes”), the processor may enable override by the designated authority in step 632. This may involve changing phone settings and listening for new configuration settings received from an authorized authority, such as may be identified in the third-party overlay settings received in step 622 and stored in memory in step 624. When override control settings are received they may be implemented in step 634. In determination step 636, the processor may then monitor the current time and/or location to determine whether the context for the override configuration remains satisfied. So long as the override context remains satisfied (i.e., determination step 636=“Yes”), the processor may continue to implement override settings received from an authorized authority. Once the override context is no longer satisfied (i.e., determination step 636=“No”), the phone processor may return to step 626 to implement the parental control settings on the phone.
FIG. 6C illustrates another embodiment method 620 b for implementing override controls within authorize context. This embodiment method is similar to that described above with reference to FIG. 6B with the exception that the override controls are downloaded directly from the parental control server in step 622. In this embodiment, an authorized authority requesting parents permission to change their parental control settings in certain defined circumstances specify to the parents or the parental control server the override settings they would like to implement. These override settings are then pushed to the child's phone along with the parents parental control settings. In step 624, the parental control settings and the override settings are stored in memory. When the phone processor determines that the current time and/or will location of the phone satisfies the context for the override settings, in step 633 the phone processor implements the override settings that were stored in memory in step 624. The processor then continues to monitor the current time and/or location to detect when the override context is no longer satisfied in determination step 636. Once the override context is no longer satisfied (i.e., determination step 636=“no”), the phone processor returns to said 626 to implement the parental control settings as described above. This embodiment requires storing both the parental control settings and the override settings in the phone memory. However, current and future cellular phones have more than enough memory to store both sets of settings. This embodiment reduces the amount of data that must be transmitted over the air and also defeats any effort to avoid receiving changes in control settings such as by entering a place of poor cellular reception or turning off the device when a control setting transmission is anticipated.
FIG. 6D illustrates another embodiment method 600 b which enables third party parental controls to overlay master parental controls by transmitting new parental control settings to the phone. Steps 602-608 are the same as that of method 600 a discussed above with reference to FIG. 6A. However, in step 650 of method 600 b, the parental control settings server may monitor the time to determine if the current time is defined as an identified context in which the third party controls are to be applied to the child's phone. In determination step 652, the parental control settings server may determine if the current time is within identified context. If the current time is within the identified context (i.e., determination step 652=“Yes”), the parental settings control server may, in step 654, generate an updated profile setting that includes the parental control parameters defined by both the parent and the third party. In step 656, the server may push the generated profile setting parameters to the child's phone. In determination step 658, the parental control settings server may check to determine if the current time is still within the identified context. If not (i.e., determination step 658=“No”), the parental control settings server may push the normal parental settings to the phone in step 660 so that the third party parameters will no longer control the child's phone.
The various embodiments enabling override controls by authorized individuals may also be implemented to enable children's phones to be used as extensions of a teacher's electronic equipment. For example, the same mechanism used to transmit override settings could also be used to transmit media control commands, such as to display different menus or content on the device displays. In this manner, the embodiments may enable the electronic classroom in which each child's phone becomes an extension of the teacher's computer or display equipment. For example, when leaving a classroom through a lesson, a teacher may use a personal computer to send messages via the cellular network that causes the text or graphics content displayed on each phone to shift to the next page. In this manner, student phones may be used to guide children through a lesson without relying on the children to follow instructions for turning a page, selecting a different media file or otherwise following instructions on their phone interfaces.
Restrictions on use in school based on time periods and geographic boundaries is just one example of a context-sensitive controls that automatically limit cell phone functionality based on any definable context (e.g., time, location, academic performance, etc.). The parental control server may generate many different types of context condition profiles (e.g., child is in school, child has maintained a B average, etc.) based on the context-sensitive control settings specified by the parent. The parental control server may interact with one or more external databases containing information relevant to a controlled phone/user and automatically determine if the context condition has been met. For example, in an embodiment, the parental control server may connect to a school's grade notification system to obtain the child's current grades, and then automatically select a parental control profile based on the child's grades. In this example, the parental control server may push out a first profile with less restrictive parameters when the child's grade point average exceeds one threshold and a second profile with more restrictive settings when the child's grade point average falls below a certain threshold. Similarly, the parental control server may maintain punishment or restrictive parental control settings profiles (e.g., a “grounded” profile) which might block all outgoing and incoming phone calls or text messages, except for calls/messages from/to parents or “911,” for example. The parental control settings server may be configured to automatically push out to the cell phone a punishment profile (e.g., “grounded” profile) based on context conditions (e.g., child has below a B average, etc.). The punishment profile may be configured by the parent to expire after a fixed period of time (i.e., the time the child is grounded), after which the server pushes out a normal parental control profile to the controlled cell phone. In an embodiment, the expiration date for each profile restriction may be set individually by the parent through the parental control website interface and the parental control settings server may automatically push out to the cell phone less restrictive parameters as time passes. In this manner, parents can set the restrictions settings such that the child's continued good behavior is rewarded by slowly enabling more cell phone features and/or tying the enablement of features to the child's performance (e.g., maintained a certain grade point average).
As an example of feature restrictions that may be implemented in an embodiment, the parental controls may be used to control a cell phone's messaging (SMS, MMS, email, etc.) capabilities during times and/or in locations where such activity is prohibited or discouraged. For example, parents, teachers, or any authority with the proper privileges may restrict a child from text messaging while in class, after a designated bed time, or in movie theaters (as may be determined by comparing GPS coordinates to locations of theaters). As discussed above, such restrictions on messaging may be combined so that during restricted times text messages are received by the phone but not made accessible to the child. For example, a parent may disable her child's phone's texting capabilities during school hours such that all texts received while the child is physically on school property (or during school hours) are stored in a temporary memory inaccessible to the child. When the child's phone leaves school property after the school day ends, the text messages are moved from the temporary memory to the child's inbox such that they are accessible to the child. The storing of messages in a temporary memory is important because many such messages are transient and cannot be retrieved if they are not delivered. By storing these messages in a temporary memory inaccessible to the child, the parental control settings server preserves the messaging functionality while limiting its use to the identified context conditions.
FIG. 7 illustrates an embodiment deferred delivery method 700 for controlling a cell phone's messaging capabilities (e.g., SMS, MMS, email, etc.) during times and/or in locations where such activity is prohibited or discouraged. In step 702, an incoming message is received at a child's mobile phone. Prior to outputting any alert that the message was received, the mobile phone processor checks the parental control restriction conditions to determine if the message should be made available to the cell phone. For example, in determination step 704 the parental control settings server may check the location of the cell phone to determine if it is in a restricted location. If the phone is not in a restricted location (i.e., determination step 704=“No”), in determination step 706, the phone may compare the current time to time restrictions to determine if messages are currently restricted during this time. If the incoming message is not restricted at the current time (i.e., determination step 706=“No”), in step 708 the processor may add the incoming message to the inbox and output an alert, notifying the user that a new message is available.
If either of the location or time restriction conditions are not met (i.e., determination step 704=“Yes” or determination step 706=“Yes”), in determination step 710 the processor may determine if the message sender is listed in an “allowed sender” list. If the sender is allowed (i.e., determination step 710=“Yes”), in step 708, the parental control settings server may add the incoming message to the inbox and output an alert to notify the user that a new message is available. If, however, the sender is not in the allowed list (i.e., determination step 710=“No”), in step 712 the incoming message may be added to a “Deferred In-Box” memory storage with no display or sounding of an alert. The deferred inbox may thus queue received messages until the processor determines that the restricted condition has expired. In determination step 714, the processor may periodically check whether the restriction conditions no longer apply, such as the restricted time has expired or the phone has moved to an unrestricted location. In an embodiment, this is determined by the processor comparing the current time and location to the pre-established restriction criteria similar to determination steps 704 and 706. If the restriction conditions are no longer met (i.e., determination step 714=“Yes”), in step 716 the parental control settings server may transfer the incoming message from the Deferred In-Box to the message system (e.g., SMS, MMS, email, etc.) inbox memory storage (step 708) and flush the “Deferred In-Box” by deleting the incoming message. In step 708, processor may add the extracted message to the In-Box and notify the user of the message's availability.
In the embodiment illustrated in FIG. 7, once all the restriction criteria are met, the contents of the deferred inbox may be released to the inbox of the mobile phone and the user may be alerted of the new message in the ordinary manner. This deferred delivery method 700 allows children to continue to receive text messages even when restricted but restricts the ability to view and respond to those messages to times and/or locations that the parent has specified in a parental control profile. The method also allows children to receive incoming messages from particular exempt individuals, such the parents, regardless of the time and location of the cell phone. In all cases, the messages are delivered to the phone and stored in the phone's memory, but access to the message is restricted (and notification is deferred) until the restriction conditions are removed (e.g., blackout period ends).
In various embodiments, the parental control settings specified for children's cell phones may be communicated to other communication sites. For example, the parental control settings server may be an open-access gateway to which third party applications (e.g., Facebook®) may be permitted to access and use the restriction parameters set by parents. In this manner, parental control profiles established by the parent may be enforced by any web site or application that is registered with the parental control settings server and/or has access to the open gateway.
FIG. 8 illustrates an embodiment method 800 for applying the parental control settings to third party communication sites. In step 802, the parental control settings server may store parental control parameters for a child account based on the parent-user's selected configurations. In step 804, the parental control settings server may generate a unique randomized identification number for the child that is devoid of any personal information and associate the generated number with the child's parental control settings. In step 806, a third party website or application (e.g., Facebook®) may receive a request from a user to log onto the third's party application or website. In step 808, the third party website/application may interface with a parental control gateway of the parental control settings server and request parental control restrictions information on the user. For example, the third party website may send the parental control gateway the username or email address of the user attempting to log onto the system. In determination step 810, the parental control settings server may query its databases to determine if the information provided by the third party website/application matches any of the information maintained for any of the parental control settings server users. If there is a match (i.e., determination step 810=“Yes”), in step 812 the parental control settings server may publish a generated identification number associated with the identified parental control settings server user to the gateway, which relays the information to the third party website/application. In step 814, the website/application may receive the identification number and link the number to the user's account. In step 816, the website/application may interface with the gateway to receive parental control parameters using only the identification number. In this manner, none of the child's identification information is made available to the third party website and the parental controls established for the child's phone may be enforced by any application/website, regardless of whether or not the child uses a controlled phone to access the site/application.
In various embodiments, the parental control profiles may permit or require intermediate authorization by a parent for certain actions (e.g., adding a new friend on Facebook®). When a child attempts certain specified activities on the mobile phone (e.g., purchasing applications, in-game purchases, adding a new friend, etc.), the restriction parameters may require the child's mobile phone (or the server) to contact the parent with an authorization request. The request may be via a short message service (SMS) text, email message, or any messaging service available to the parent's own mobile phone to which the parent may respond by either authorizing or disallowing the requested activity.
FIG. 9 illustrates an embodiment method 900 for implementing parental controls that require certain actions to be allowed on a controlled phone only upon intermediate authorization. In step 902, the parental control settings server may set parental controls for a user account by using one or more of the methods described above. In step 904, the parent may identify to the system the child cell phone features and/or child-user actions that are to be enabled/allow only upon the parent's specific authorization. For example, in step 904, the parental control settings server may prompt the parent to select one or more parental control parameters that identify certain features/actions (or categories of features/actions) that are to be allowed only upon parent's authorization of each use/action. In an embodiment, the control access system may also prompt the parent-user to select authorized users that may authorize such actions. In step 906, the parental control settings server may prompt the parent-user to identify the context (e.g., time, location, etc.) in which such actions/uses require parental authorization, receive the parent's input and store the received context in a memory. In step 908, the parental control settings server may push the requirements to the child's cell phone. The cell phone processor may receive and store those settings, and then monitor the child's phone usage for identified use/actions requiring intermediate authorization in step 909. In determination step 910, the cell phone processor may determine if any of the identified actions/uses is being initiated on the child's phone. If any of the identified actions/uses is being initiated (i.e., determination step 910=“Yes”), in determination step 912, the cell phone processor may determine if any of the identified context-conditions for that action/use is present. If the context-conditions are not present (i.e., determination step 910=“No”) the action/use may be allowed in step 922.
If one or more of the context-conditions are present (i.e., determination step 910=“Yes”), in step 914 the processor may send a message (e.g., SMS, email, etc.) notifying the parent or designated authority of the initiation of actions/uses requiring intermediate authorization. For example, the processor may send the designated authority a SMS text message informing the authority of the action (e.g., “George has requested to add Nick as a facebook friend”). As another example, the processor may send a message to the parental control settings server indicating that it should send such a message to informing the authority of the action. In the message sent step 916, the processor (or the parental control settings server) may request authorization for the use/action. The authority may respond to such a message with an approval or disapproval reply message that is delivered. For example, the message to the designated authority may request a reply authorization SMS or email message (e.g., “Do you wish to allow Nick to be added as a facebook friend?”). In determination step 918, the processor may wait for the authority to respond to the messages to determine if the use/action is authorized. If the processor receives a message indicating that the authority denies the action/use (e.g., the authority responds “No”) or if no response is received within a predetermined amount of time (i.e., determination step 918=“No”), the processor denies the action/use in step 920. If the processor receives a reply message indicating that the authority authorizes the action/use within the allocated time (i.e., determination step 918=“Yes”), the processor may allow the action/user in step 922.
In various embodiments, the cell phone processor may be configured to limit voice calls under some parental control configurations by blocking incoming/outbound calls to everyone except to and from specifically identified individuals/entities and/or by blocking calls during specific date/time periods except to/from the specifically identified individuals/entities (parent, police, etc.).
In various embodiments, the parental control profiles may be configured to limit outgoing text messages by: blocking the sending of SMS texts to unknown/unapproved numbers; blocking the sending of SMS texts during date/time periods except to specifically identified individuals/entities; auto-forwarding outgoing messages to parent/authorized user; and/or requiring parental authorization to send messages to new recipients.
In various embodiments, the parental control profiles may be configured to limit data calls by blocking data call activity during specified date/time periods.
In an embodiment, the parental control profiles may be configured to include any combination of the above-mentioned limitations, restrictions and/or access features.
In various embodiments, the cell phone process implementing parental controls may limit content available on a controlled phone by: requiring parental authentication to grant access to web sites; enforce web site ratings; filtering content based on ratings (MPAA, etc.); and/or filtering advertisements based on categorization and rating.
In various embodiments, the cell phone process implementing parental controls may control a cell phone camera by: restricting access to a cell phone camera and/or each individual camera feature (e.g., sending, receiving, storing, etc.); restricting the locations in memory where pictures may stored; restricting access during date/time periods; and/or restricting the camera in certain locations.
In various embodiments, the cell phone process implementing parental controls may restrict access to BlueTooth, WLANs, connected devices and/or supported profiles.
In various embodiments, the cell phone process implementing parental controls may restrict data connections (e.g., TCP/IP), restrict connections to specific sites, restrict connection types (e.g., HTTP, HTTPS, email, etc.) and/or restrict connections by date/time periods.
In various embodiments, the cell phone process implementing parental controls may restrict access to a media player during designated time periods and/or in identified locations.
In various embodiments, the cell phone process implementing parental controls may restrict access to voice over internet protocol (VOIP) or other interact voice communication technologies (e.g., QChat).
In various embodiments, the cell phone process implementing parental controls may: disable multimedia messaging service (MMS) and/or email functionality; limit outgoing emails/MMS; block the sending of emails/MMS to unknown/unapproved numbers; block the sending of emails/MMS during certain date/time periods except to those specifically permitted; auto-forward outgoing emails/MMS to parent/authorized user; and/or require parental authorization to send emails/MMS to new recipients.
In various embodiments, the cell phone process implementing parental controls may impose restrictions on sending/receiving pictures and from/to identified individuals and/or may restrict sending/receiving pictures to everyone except identified individuals.
In various embodiments, the cell phone process implementing parental controls may require the receipt of parental authentication before sending messages to a new MMS recipient.
In various embodiments, the cell phone process implementing parental controls may auto-forward incoming/outgoing MMS messages to parents.
In various embodiments, the cell phone process implementing parental controls may limit application (games, etc.) usage by restricting application use to designated time periods.
In various embodiments, the cell phone process implementing parental controls may limit application downloads by enforcing ratings, limiting downloads to certain dates/time periods and/or requiring parental authentication prior to downloading the applications.
In various embodiments, the cell phone process implementing parental controls may control a cell phone's global positioning satellite (GPS) features by disabling the GPS, limiting application that use the GPS and/or restricting the times/locations in which the GPS feature may be used.
In an embodiment, the cell phone process implementing parental controls may implement any combination of the above-mentioned limitations, restrictions and/or access features.
It should be noted that the above-mentioned limitations, restrictions and/or access features are provided only as examples, and the claims should not be limited to the above mentioned limitations, restrictions and/or access features unless they are expressly recited in the claims.
As mentioned above, in an embodiment, the parental control server may be further configured to transmit or otherwise implement the parental control settings established for cell phones and mobile computing devices on any other network-accessible media access or computing device designated by parents. In this manner, parents can use the parental control server user interface (or web portal) as a single site for implementing comprehensive parental controls that are implemented consistently among all devices identified by the parent. Examples of other types of media-access and computing devices which may receive such parental control settings from the parental control server include, without limitation, televisions, personal computers, gaming systems, audio and video player systems, and similar devices that will be developed in the future.
In this embodiment, the parent may identify the other devices that should implement the parental control settings as part of setting up the user account and identifying each child's cell phone. This additional information may be provided as part of the operations performed in any of steps 206, 504, 602, 622 and/or 902 described above. This may involve the parent identifying the URL, network address or network controller that the parental control server can use or contact to push out parental control settings. So configured, the parental control server may also send the appropriate parental control settings or feature restrictions to the other identified devices as part of the operations performed in any of steps 218, 612, 656, 660 and/or 908 described above. For devices which include processors configured to implement parental controls, such operations may involve transmitting the corresponding settings data using a suitable messaging protocol over whatever network by which the server can access the device. For devices which are not equipped with processors configured to implement parental controls, such operations may involve communicating with other devices (e.g., a local network router or set top box) or network controllers (e.g., a cable or satellite network operator) which can implement at least some or similar restrictions.
FIG. 10 is a system block diagram of a cell-phone suitable for use with any of the embodiments. A cell phone 1000 may include a processor 1001 coupled to internal memory 1002, a display 1003, and to a speaker 1054. Additionally, the cell phone 1000 may include an antenna 1004 for sending and receiving electromagnetic radiation that may be connected to a wireless data link and/or cell telephone transceiver 1005 coupled to the processor 1001. Cell phones 1000 typically also include menu selection buttons or rocker switches 1008 for receiving user inputs.
The various embodiments may be implemented on any of a variety of commercially available server devices, such as the server 1100 illustrated in FIG. 11. Such a server 1100 typically includes a processor 1101 coupled to volatile memory 1102 and a large capacity nonvolatile memory, such as a disk drive 1103. The server 1100 may also include a floppy disc drive, compact disc (CD) or DVD disc drive 1106 coupled to the processor 1101. The server 1100 may also include network access ports 1104 coupled to the processor 1101 for establishing data connections with a network 1105, such as a local area network coupled to other broadcast system computers and servers.
The processors 1001, 1101 may be any programmable microprocessor, microcomputer or multiple processor chip or chips that can be configured by software instructions (applications) to perform a variety of functions, including the functions of the various embodiments described below. In some mobile receiver devices, multiple processors 1101 may be provided, such as one processor dedicated to wireless communication functions and one processor dedicated to running other applications. Typically, software applications may be stored in the internal memory 1002, 1102, 1103 before they are accessed and loaded into the processor 1001, 1101. The processor 1001, 1101 may include internal memory sufficient to store the application software instructions.
The foregoing method descriptions and the process flow diagrams are provided merely as illustrative examples and are not intended to require or imply that the steps of the various embodiments must be performed in the order presented. As will be appreciated by one of skill in the art the order of steps in the foregoing embodiments may be performed in any order. Words such as “thereafter,” “then,” “next,” etc. are not intended to limit the order of the steps; these words are simply used to guide the reader through the description of the methods. Further, any reference to claim elements in the singular, for example, using the articles “a,” “an” or “the” is not to be construed as limiting the element to the singular.
The various illustrative logical blocks, modules, circuits, and algorithm steps described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as electronic hardware, computer software, or combinations of both. To clearly illustrate this interchangeability of hardware and software, various illustrative components, blocks, modules, circuits, and steps have been described above generally in terms of their functionality. Whether such functionality is implemented as hardware or software depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the overall system. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the present invention.
The hardware used to implement the various illustrative logics, logical blocks, modules, and circuits described in connection with the aspects disclosed herein may be implemented or performed with a general purpose processor, a digital signal processor (DSP), an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic, discrete hardware components, or any combination thereof designed to perform the functions described herein. A general-purpose processor may be a microprocessor, but, in the alternative, the processor may be any conventional processor, controller, microcontroller, or state machine. A processor may also be implemented as a combination of computing devices, e.g., a combination of a DSP and a microprocessor, a plurality of microprocessors, one or more microprocessors in conjunction with a DSP core, or any other such configuration. Alternatively, some steps or methods may be performed by circuitry that is specific to a given function.
In one or more exemplary aspects, the functions described may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, or any combination thereof. If implemented in software, the functions may be stored on or transmitted over as one or more instructions or code on a computer-readable medium. The steps of a method or algorithm disclosed herein may be embodied in a processor-executable software module which may reside on a tangible, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. Tangible, non-transitory computer-readable storage media may be any available media that may be accessed by a computer. By way of example, and not limitation, such non-transitory computer-readable media may comprise RAM, ROM, EEPROM, CD-ROM or other optical disk storage, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium that may be used to store desired program code in the form of instructions or data structures and that may be accessed by a computer. Disk and disc, as used herein, includes compact disc (CD), laser disc, optical disc, digital versatile disc (DVD), floppy disk, and blu-ray disc where disks usually reproduce data magnetically, while discs reproduce data optically with lasers. Combinations of the above should also be included within the scope of non-transitory computer-readable media. Additionally, the operations of a method or algorithm may reside as one or any combination or set of codes and/or instructions on a tangible, non-transitory machine readable medium and/or computer-readable medium, which may be incorporated into a computer program product.
The preceding description of the disclosed embodiments is provided to enable any person skilled in the art to make or use the present invention. Various modifications to these embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to other embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. Thus, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown herein but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the following claims and the principles and novel features disclosed herein.
1. A method for restricting delivery of incoming messages at a mobile device, comprising:
receiving an incoming message on the mobile device;
determining whether one or more restriction conditions match at least one restriction criteria specified in a community-based parental control profile based on demographic information;
storing the received message in memory and not passing it to a message application inbox when it is determined that at least one restriction condition matches at least one restriction criteria;
modifying the at least one restriction criteria of the community-based parental control profile with at least one of a third party parental control profile and a non-community based parental control profile;
checking the restriction conditions to determine whether the at least one restriction condition still matches the modified at least one restriction criteria; and
passing stored received messages to the message application inbox when the restriction conditions no longer match any of the restriction criteria.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
passing the received incoming message to an inbox of the mobile device when the restriction criteria of the community-based parental control profile is no longer satisfied.
3. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining whether a sender of the received message is an exempted sender specified in the community-based parental control profile, wherein storing the received message in memory and not passing it to a message application inbox comprises storing the received message in memory and not passing it to a message application inbox when it is determined that both the sender of the message is not an exempted sender and that at least one restriction condition matches at least one restriction criteria.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one restriction condition includes a time period.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one restriction condition includes a current location of the mobile device.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the restriction conditions include both a time and a current location of the mobile device.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the restriction conditions are set on an external server using a remote computer, the method further comprising:
sending the restriction conditions to the mobile device through a wireless communication network; and
storing the restriction conditions in a deeply embedded parental control module implemented in an operating system of the mobile device.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is a mobile phone.
9. The method of claim 7, wherein the wireless communication network is a cellular telephone network.
10. A system for restricting delivery of incoming messages to a mobile device, comprising:
a parental control server;
a wireless communication network; and
a mobile device interconnected to the parental control server through the cellular telephone network,
wherein the parental control server is configured to send at least one restriction criteria to the mobile device; and
wherein the mobile device comprises:
a display;
an internal memory; and
a processor coupled to the display and the internal memory, wherein the processor is configured with processor-executable instructions to perform operations comprising:
11. The system of claim 10, wherein the mobile device is a mobile phone.
12. The system of claim 10, wherein the wireless communication network is a cellular telephone network.
means for sending restriction conditions to mobile devices; and
a mobile device comprising:
means for receiving an incoming message on a mobile device;
means for determining whether one or more restriction conditions match at least one restriction criteria specified in a community-based parental control profile based on demographic information;
means for storing the received message in memory and not passing it to a message application inbox when it is determined that the at least one restriction condition matches the at least one restriction criteria;
means for modifying the at least one restriction criteria of the community-based parental control profile with at least one of a third party parental control profile and a non-community based parental control profile;
means for checking the restriction conditions to determine whether the at least one restriction condition still matches the modified at least one restriction criteria; and
means for passing stored received messages to the message application inbox when the restriction conditions no longer match any of the restriction criteria.
15. A mobile device, comprising:
a wireless communication transceiver;
a processor coupled to the wireless communication transceiver; the display and the internal memory, wherein the processor is configured with processor-executable instructions to perform operations comprising:
receiving a community-based parental control profile based on demographic information comprising at least one restriction criteria;
storing the received community-based parental control profile in the internal memory;
receiving an incoming message via the wireless communication transceiver;
determining whether one or more restriction conditions match the at least one restriction criteria of the community-based parental control profile stored in the internal memory;
storing the received message in the internal memory and not passing it to a message application inbox when it is determined that the at least one restriction condition matches the at least one restriction criteria;
modifying the at least one restriction criteria of the community-based parental control profile stored in the internal memory with at least one of a third party parental control profile and a non-community based parental control profile;
checking the restriction conditions to determine whether the at least one restriction condition still matches the modified at least one restriction criteria in the internal memory; and
passing stored received messages to the message application inbox when the restriction conditions no longer match any of the restriction criteria stored in the internal memory.
16. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the processor is configured with processor-executable instructions to perform operations further comprising:
determining whether a sender of the received message is an exempted sender specified in the community-based parental control profile, wherein storing the received message in the internal memory and not passing it to a message application inbox comprises storing the received message in the internal memory and not passing it to a message application inbox when it is determined that both the sender of the message is not an exempted sender and that at least one restriction condition matches at least one restriction criteria.
18. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the at least one restriction condition includes a time period.
19. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the at least one restriction condition includes a current location of the mobile device.
20. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the restriction conditions include both a time and a current location of the mobile device.
22. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the mobile device is a mobile phone.
23. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the wireless communication transceiver is a cellular telephone network transceiver.
24. A non-transitory processor-readable storage medium having stored thereon processor executable instructions configured to cause a processor of a mobile device to perform operations comprising:
storing the received community-based parental control profile in an internal memory;
receiving an incoming message on the mobile device via a wireless communication network;
determining whether one or more restriction conditions match the at least one restriction criteria specified in the community-based parental control profile stored in the internal memory;
storing the received message in the internal memory and not passing it to a message application inbox when it is determined that at least one restriction condition matches the at least one restriction criteria;
checking the restriction conditions to determine whether the at least one restriction condition still matches the modified at least one restriction criteria stored in the internal memory; and
passing stored received messages to the message application inbox when the restriction conditions no longer match any of the restriction criteria in the internal memory.
25. The non-transitory processor-readable storage medium of claim 24, wherein the stored processor executable instructions are configured to cause a processor of a mobile device to perform operations further comprising:
27. The non-transitory processor-readable storage medium of claim 24, wherein the stored processor executable instructions are configured to cause a processor of a mobile device to perform operations such that the at least one restriction condition includes a time period.
28. The non-transitory processor-readable storage medium of claim 24, wherein the stored processor executable instructions are configured to cause a processor of a mobile device to perform operations such that the at least one restriction condition includes a current location of the mobile device.
29. The non-transitory processor-readable storage medium of claim 24, wherein the stored processor executable instructions are configured to cause a processor of a mobile device to perform operations such that the restriction conditions include both a time and a current location of the mobile device.
31. The non-transitory processor-readable storage medium of claim 24, wherein the stored processor executable instructions are configured to be executed by a processor of a mobile phone.
32. The non-transitory processor-readable storage medium of claim 24, wherein the stored processor executable instructions are configured to cause a processor of a mobile device to perform operations such that receiving an incoming message on the mobile device via a wireless communication network comprises receiving an incoming message on the mobile device via a cellular telephone network.
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Detained Pakistani Christian Released – But Two Others Held
Christian falsely accused of ‘blasphemy’ taken into custody, released – and detained again.
LAHORE, Pakistan, April 18 (CDN) — A Christian illegally detained in Faisalabad on false blasphemy charges was freed last night, while two other Christians in Gujranwala arrested on similar charges on Friday (April 15) were also released – until pressure from irate mullahs led police to detain them anew, sources said.
Masih and his family have relocated to a safe area, but just 10 days after he was falsely accused of desecrating the Quran in Faisalabad district of Punjab Province on April 5, in Gujranwala Mushtaq Gill and his son Farrukh Mushtaq were taken into “protective custody” on charges that the younger man had desecrated Islam’s holy book and blasphemed the religion’s prophet, Muhammad. A police official told Compass the charges were false.
Gill, an administrative employee of the Christian Technical Training Centre (CTTC) in Gujranwala in his late 60s, was resting when a Muslim mob gathered outside his home in Aziz Colony, Jinnah Road, Gujranwala, and began shouting slogans against the family. They accused his son, a business graduate working in the National Bank of Pakistan as a welfare officer and father of a little girl, of desecrating the Quran and blaspheming Muhammad.
The purported evidence against Farrukh were some burnt pages of the Quran and a handwritten note, allegedly in Farrukh’s handwriting, claiming that he had desecrated Islam’s holy book and used derogatory language against Muhammad. A Muslim youth allegedly found the pages and note outside the Gills’ residence.
Inspector Muhammad Nadeem Maalik, station house officer of the Jinnah Road police station, admitted that the charges against the accused were baseless.
“The initial investigation of the incident shows Mr. Gill and his son Farrukh are innocent,” he told Compass.
The two were kept at a safe-house, instead of the police station, out of fear that Islamist extremists might attack them; their subsequent release led to Islamic protests that compelled police to detain them anew today, sources said.
Despite police admitting that the two Christians were not guilty, a First Information Report (No. 171/2011) was registered against them under Sections 295-B and C in Jinnah Road Police Station early on Saturday (April 16).
“Yes, we have registered an FIR of the incident, yet we have sealed it until the completion of the investigation,” Inspector Maalik said, adding that the police had yet to formally arrest Gill and his son. “We registered the FIR for their own safety, otherwise the mob would have become extremely violent and things could have gone out of control.”
The police official said that after the Muslim youth made the accusation, he gathered area Muslims together.
“It seems to be a well thought-out scheme, because the perpetrators chose the time of the Friday prayers for carrying out their plan,” Maalik said. “They were sure that this news would spread quickly, and within no time people would come out of the mosques and react to the situation.”
He added that police were now inquiring of the Gills why they might suspect anyone of wanting to harm them.
“We are also looking for any signs of jealousy or old enmity,” Maalik said.
Soon after the Muslim youth found the alleged pages, announcements blared from the area’s mosques informing Muslims about the incident and asking them to gather at the “crime scene,” sources said.
There are about 300 Christian families residing in Aziz Colony, and news of the alleged desecration spread like jungle fire. Announcements from mosques sparked fear in the already shaken Christian families, and they started packing their things to leave the area, fearing the kind of carnage that ravaged Gojra on Aug. 1, 2009, killing at least seven Christians.
“It’s true…the news of the accusations against Gill and his son and the announcements being made from the mosque calling on Muslims to avenge the desecration sent shivers down our spines,” said Pastor Philip Dutt, who has known the Gill family for several years and lives in the same neighborhood. “The charges are completely baseless. I’m sure no person in his right frame of mind would even think of committing such a vile act. Someone has clearly conspired against the Gill family.”
He added that most of the area’s Christians had left their homes overnight, fearing an attack by Muslims.
Dutt said that a large police contingent arrived in time and took Gill and his son into custody after assuring the enraged mob that a case under the blasphemy laws would be registered against the two men. Police remained stationed in the area to provide protection to area Christians, but the atmosphere was tense.
According to some reports, a group of angry Muslims wanted to torch Gill’s house, but timely police intervention thwarted their plan.
At the same time, a group of Muslim extremists stormed into the house of Anwar Masih, a Christian factory owner in Aziz Colony, and started beating him and his son, sources said. The family managed to save themselves by calling the police and now they too are in “protective custody.”
The Rev. Arif Siraj, moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Pakistan, which also oversees the functioning of the Christian Technical Training Centre in Gujranwala, said the accusations against Farrukh were yet another example of how the country’s blasphemy laws are misused against innocent people.
“We have been engaged with the police and local Muslim leaders throughout the day to resolve this issue amicably,” Siraj said. “An eight-member committee comprising six Muslims and two Christian pastors has been formed to probe the incident, and they will make a report on Friday.”
The names of the Christians of the eight-member committee are Pastor Sharif Alam of Presbyterian Church Ghakarmandi and the Rev. Joseph Julius.
A large number of Muslims, including members of religious parties and banned outfits, came out to the roads of Gujranwala on Saturday (April 16) to protest the alleged desecration of the Quran and pressure police to take action against Gill and his son. The protestors reportedly gelled into one large demonstration on Church Road and headed towards the CTTC. Siraj said that some participants threw stones at a church on the road, but that Muslim elders immediately halted the stone-throwing.
“The district administration and Muslim leaders have now assured us that no one will target Christian churches and institutions,” he said, adding that both communities were now waiting for the committee’s report.
Sohail Johnson of Sharing Life Ministry expressed concern over the accusations.
“This case is a classic example of how Christians and Muslims continue to be charged with blasphemy on false accusations,” he said. “Isn’t it ridiculous that the accuser is claiming that Farrukh has confessed to burning the Quran in his note and thrown the burnt pages in front of his house – what sane person would even think of saying anything against prophet Muhammad in a country where passions run so deep?”
Arif Masih, the falsely accused Christian released last night, has reportedly been relocated along with this family to a safe location.
The original blasphemy law, introduced in British India in 1860, imposed a prison term of up to two years for any damage to a place of worship or sacred object carried out “with the intention of thereby insulting the religion of any class of persons or with the knowledge that any class of persons is likely to consider such destruction, damage or defilement as an insult to their religion…”
The current provision in the Pakistan Penal Code, as amended in 1986, introduces both the death penalty for insulting Muhammad and drops the concept of intent. According to Section 295-C of the Penal Code, “Whoever by words, either spoken or written, or by visible representation, or by any imputation, innuendo, or insinuation, directly or indirectly defiles the sacred name of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) shall be punished with death, or imprisonment for life and shall also
be liable to fine.”
The laws have drawn condemnation across the world, and two senior government officials – Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer, a liberal Muslim, and Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti, a Christian, have been assassinated this year for demanding a review of the legislation.
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Routine Sucrose Analgesia During the First Week of Life in Neonates Younger Than 31 Weeks’ Postconceptional Age
C. Celeste Johnston, Francoise Filion, Laurie Snider, Annette Majnemer, Catherine Limperopoulos, Claire-Dominique Walker, Annie Veilleux, Ermelinda Pelausa, Heather Cake, Sharon Stone, Adam Sherrard and Kristina Boyer
Pediatrics September 2002, 110 (3) 523-528; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.110.3.523
C. Celeste Johnston
Francoise Filion
Laurie Snider
Annette Majnemer
Catherine Limperopoulos
Claire-Dominique Walker
Annie Veilleux
Ermelinda Pelausa
Heather Cake
Adam Sherrard
Kristina Boyer
Objective. To determine the efficacy of sucrose analgesia for procedural pain during the first week of life in preterm neonates in neonatal intensive care units on enhancing later clinical outcomes.
Methods. A total of 107 preterm neonates who were born at <31 weeks’ postconceptional age (PCA) entered this double-blind, randomized, controlled trial within 48 hours of birth at 3 level III university-affiliated neonatal intensive care units in Canada, and 103 completed the study. Sucrose (0.1 mL of 24%) or sterile water was administered orally up to 3 times, 2 minutes apart, for every invasive procedure during a 7-day period. Motor development and vigor, and alertness and orientation components of the Neurobehavioral Assessment of the Preterm Infant were measured at 32, 36, and 40 weeks’ PCA; Score for Neonatal Acute Physiology was measured on the last day of intervention; and Neuro-Biological Risk Score (NBRS) was measured at 2 weeks of age and at discharge. Primary analyses of covariance were applied for each outcome to compare group differences followed by secondary analyses using standard linear regression within each group to determine predictors of outcomes.
Results. Although there were no differences between the groups on any outcomes, there were significant dose-related effects within each group. In the sucrose group only, higher number of doses of sucrose predicted lower scores on motor development and vigor, and alertness and orientation at 36 weeks’, lower motor development and vigor at 40 weeks’, and higher NBRS at 2 weeks’ postnatal age. Higher number of invasive procedures was predictive of higher NBRS both times in the water group.
Conclusions. Repeated use of sucrose analgesia in infants <31 weeks’ PCA may put infants at risk for poorer neurobehavioral development and physiologic outcomes. Additional study is needed to determine the most appropriate age and duration of sucrose analgesia in preterm infants.
Sucrose has been reported to have analgesic properties in newborns, both animal and human.1–4 In a systematic review of sucrose analgesia, doses from 0.05 to 2 mL of 12% to 50% sucrose were reported to have analgesic effects in preterm or full-term neonates.5 The mechanism for the analgesic effect is thought to be via the release of endogenous opiates triggered by sweet taste,1, 2, 6 although the salience of a taste is immediately calming and distracting.7 Studies in which other saccharides were tested for analgesic properties provide support for the sweet taste hypothesis. 8–10 Lactose and human milk seem not to have analgesic properties, but they are relatively less sweet than the other sugars studied.11,12 The data supporting the use of sucrose as an analgesic for “minor” painful procedures are sufficiently strong that the American and Canadian Pediatric Societies have recommended the use of sucrose for such procedures as heel lances, injections, and intravenous line insertions.13 This is particularly important for preterm or ill infants in the neonatal intensive care units (NICU) environment, where they undergo multiple invasive, tissue-damaging, and presumably painful procedures daily.14–16 Typically, more of these procedures occur during the first week of life with stabilization and diagnosis of the newborn. There is mounting evidence that untreated procedural pain in newborn preterm infants can alter subsequent behavior, specifically leading to less robust behavioral responses.17, 18
Although the data on the effect of sucrose for a single painful procedure are strongly supportive of the use of sucrose for management of minor procedural pain, the effects of routine use of sucrose analgesia in preterm infants have not been evaluated. Given emerging data on negative behavioral sequelae to untreated procedural pain in preterm neonates, it would be reasonable to hypothesize that if procedural pain were adequately managed in the first week of life in preterm neonates, then there might be positive long-term developmental effects. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of routine sucrose analgesia for procedural pain in the first week of life in preterm infants born at <31 weeks’ postconceptional age (PCA).
Three level III university-affiliated NICUs in Canada were the sites for the study, and each site provided ethics approval by a constituted review board. The sites were similar in level of acuity of the infants and teaching programs. There were differences in level of developmental care: 1 site had completely implemented it, and the other 2 had some components (eg, unit darkened except for morning rounds). One unit treated with indomethacin more than the other units. Infants who were born between 25 and 31 completed weeks’ PCA, were expected to live according to the opinion of the attending neonatologist, were above the fifth percentile weight for gestational age, had intraventricular hemorrhage less than grade 3 and no periventricular leukomalacia, were free of major congenital anomalies, and did not require surgery and whose parents consented within 48 hours of birth were included in the study. Sample size estimates based on the primary outcomes of Neurobehavioral Assessment of the Preterm Infant (NAPI19; see below) were 35 per group for a power of 0.8 with statistical significance set at .05.
Enrolled infants were randomly assigned to the sucrose or water group from a computer-generated schedule for each site. Only the project nurses in each site knew the group assignment; treating clinicians were blind to group assignment. Solutions of 0.1 mL of 24% sucrose or water were drawn up into sterile syringes and placed in the unit medicine refrigerator. Every time the infant was to undergo an invasive (eg, heel lance, intravenous cannulation, arterial puncture, injection) or noninvasive but presumably uncomfortable procedure (eg, endotracheal tube suctioning, tape/lead removal, gavage insertion for feeding), the solution in the syringe was administered into the infant’s mouth, at the beginning of the procedure, 2 minutes into the procedure, and another 2 minutes into the procedure. If the procedure was to last >15 minutes, up to another 3 0.1 doses were to be given 2 minutes apart.
In 1 site, there was videotaping of 1 infant at any point in time for the duration of the study week. A small wide-angle lens camera rested on top of the isolette and was connected to a mat on the floor next to the isolette such that stepping on the mat triggered 5-minute recording. The person who approached the infant was to identify his or her role (eg, nurse, mother) and the purpose of his or her approach (eg, suctioning, visiting). In this way, facial actions could be recorded during painful procedures to verify whether there was an immediate analgesic effect of the sucrose. Coding of faces was conducted in the laboratory according to the upper facial components of the Neonatal Facial Coding System.20 Only the upper facial components were coded because many of the infants were intubated and these components have been shown to be specific to pain response in preterm infants.21
The primary outcome was neurobehavioral development assessed by the subscales of alertness and orientation (AO) and motor development and vigor (MDV) of the NAPI developed by Korner and colleagues.19, 22–24 The NAPI is appropriate for infants between 32 weeks’ PCA and term. It assesses the relative maturity of functioning of preterm infants, with higher scores reflecting higher maturity, and can differentiate 2 weeks’ PCA. Much of the examination consists of observational items, and the remainder rates the infant’s response to stimuli. This assessment takes approximately 30 minutes to administer and includes 7 clusters of single-item neurobehavioral dimensions: MDV, scarf sign, popliteal angle, AO, irritability, vigor of crying, and percentage asleep ratings. Test-retest reliability over 2 consecutive days ranged from 0.59 to 0.90. Original interobserver reliability ranged from 0.64 to 0.93.23 The observers in this study were either occupational therapists (L.S., C.L.) or a psychologist (H.C.) with doctoral training and experience with this population. After the viewing of a detailed training tape provided with the NAPI kit, the interrater reliability using the intraclass correlation coefficient was >0.9. The clinical validity and sensitivity of the NAPI were established using an index of medical complications based on a 1 to 5 classification range of degrees of complications.25 Functions that required strength and vigor were significantly related to medical complications, whereas items that assessed AO were not.25, 26 Assessments were conducted at 32, 36, and 40 weeks’ PCA if respirations were unassisted and the infant was available for assessment.
The secondary outcomes were measures of severity of illness during the course of the intervention and at discharge. These were assessed during the week of study by the Score for Neonatal Acute Physiology (SNAP)27, 28 for each 24-hour period and by the Neuro-Biological Risk Score (NBRS)29 at 2 weeks’ postnatal age and at discharge. Background information, including PCA at birth (determined by ultrasound), birth weight, and Apgar, was obtained from the medical record, and the Clinical Risk Index for Infants (CRIB),30–32 an index of severity of illness at birth, was calculated from information in the medical record. Serum glucose levels during the study time were obtained from the medical record when ordered clinically (not for purposes of the study).
Over the course of 27 months, 281 infants were admitted within the age category. Eighty-one (29.2%) were not evaluated for eligibility for the following reasons: mother too ill to consent within 48 hours, compassionate reasons (twin or triplet sibling had died), or unit difficulties when recruitment was temporarily stopped (Y2K problems, understaffing during holidays or ice storm). Thirty-two (16.3%) did not meet the selection criteria (died within 48 hours, deemed too ill by staff). Of the 168 remaining infants, 107 (63.7%) parents gave consent for the infant to participate. The reasons for the 63 refusals were as follows: the parents thought that the infant was too ill (5), were too stressed to consider study (4), did not want their infant to be in any research (10) or to receive sugar (4), or gave no reason (38). There were no significant differences between excluded infants, infants whose parents refused, and participating infants in the distribution of PCA or weight (Table 1).
Demographic Characteristics of Final Sample
Two infants were withdrawn from the study during the week of intervention. Two other infants died: 1 of grade 4 intraventricular hemorrhage and periventricular leukomalacia on the first day of the study after receiving 1 dose of water and the other infant of cardiac failure associated with patent ductus arteriosus at age 29 days. One infant was withdrawn on study day 4 for hyperglycemia after receiving 10, 6, and 12 doses of sucrose and serum glucose levels of 3.5, 16, and 12 on the respective study days. The infant became septic 48 hours after withdrawal from the study, which may be an alternative explanation for the glucose instability. The second infant was withdrawn from the study for suspected necrotizing enterocolitis. The infant did not develop necrotizing enterocolitis but did have Escherichia coli sepsis. At baseline, there were no group differences in birth PCA, birth weight, or CRIB score (see Table 1), and there were no differences between sites on age, CRIB score, or birth weight (see Table 1). There were differences in amount of indomethacin given to infants at 1 site.
The total number of study doses given per infant during the week ranged from 24 to 125 with a mean of 58 in the water group and 63 in the sucrose group. An estimate of compliance in administering solutions was determined by dividing the number of procedures by the number of doses, which was an underestimate because an infant could potentially receive up to 3 doses per intervention. Overall, this estimate was only 69%, ranging widely between 27% and 185%, and was the same for both groups. One site accounted for the lack of compliance that became evident after the first 6 months of study, and this noncompliance persisted despite holding sessions with the nursing staff on the importance of adhering to the protocol. Serum glucose levels ranged from 1.8 to 13.5, but there were no group differences and there was no relationship between the number of solutions and the serum glucose level in either group.
The number of infants whose videotapes were able to be coded throughout the week was small (14) but indicated that the sucrose was effective as an analgesic during the immediate 60 seconds of initiation of the painful procedure, even on day 7.
The NAPI was administered to infants who no longer required ventilatory assistance and were not discharged back to distant referring centers. At 32 weeks, 75 infants could be tested, 87 at 36 weeks, and 67 at 40 weeks, with only 53 infants having data at all 3 times. There were, however, at least 35 infants/group at each time, thus meeting the original sample size estimates. Multivariate analysis of covariance was therefore conducted at each age, to maintain the sample size estimates that would not have been met with repeated measures analyses, with covariates of PCA and number of invasive procedures on the 2 components of the NAPI that were tested, MDV and AO. No significant differences were found between the sucrose and water groups (MDV: sucrose at 32, 36, 40 weeks = 20.4, 48.6, 66.1; water at 32, 36, 40 weeks = 21.7, 49.7, 63.9; F(1,52) = 0.223, P = .64; AO: sucrose at 32, 36, 40 weeks = 16.0, 40.7, 54.3; water at weeks 32, 36, 40 = 19.5, 42.2, 55.5; F(1,52) = 2.016, P = .162).
Because compliance with administering solutions was generally low and there was a wide range of compliance, we were interested in determining whether number of doses of sucrose was related to outcomes while accounting for other factors that might be correlated with number of doses. Secondary analyses using standard multiple regressions were conducted by group on each of the NAPI components at each age to determine whether there were background factors, specifically age at birth, CRIB, or other factors related to the NICU experience, such as days on certain medications (sedatives, analgesics, caffeine, indomethacin), number of invasive procedures, or number of doses of sucrose that might have had an effect on the NAPI scores. So few infants received sedatives (4) or analgesics (3) that these medications were not able to be included in the analysis. After analyses of Pearson correlation coefficients, which fell below 0.5, thus satisfying lack of multicollinearity, the predictor variables for the 2 sets of standard regression analyses (ie, a set for sucrose group and a set for water group) on each NAPI outcome, were 1) age at birth, 2) CRIB, 3) days on caffeine, 4) days on indomethacin, 5) number of painful procedures, and 6) number of doses of sucrose or water. At 32 weeks, there were no significant predictive factors on the NAPI. Significant predictors were identified for only the sucrose group, with no factors reaching significance in the water group (Table 2). At 36 weeks, more developed MDV and more developed AO were predicted for the sucrose group by fewer days on indomethacin and fewer doses of sucrose. At 40 weeks, fewer doses of sucrose predicted more developed MDV and fewer days on indomethacin predicted more AO (Table 2). The only site differences were accounted for by days on indomethacin.
Significant Results of Standardized Multiple Regression by Group on Primary Neurobehavioral Development Outcomes
SNAP and NBRS
There were no group differences or factors associated with SNAP over each day, with day 7 being of interest because it was calculated on the final 24 hours of the intervention and would be most reflective of cumulative physiologic effects of the intervention (sucrose = 3.72 [3.33], water = 4.10 [3.18]; F(1,101) = 0.093, P = .761). On the basis of analysis of covariance with PCA at birth and number of invasive procedures as covariates, there were no group differences on any of the secondary outcomes of NBRS scores at 2 weeks’ postnatal age (sucrose = 1.42 [1.32], water = 1.68 [1.58]; F(1,101) = 0.640, P = .426) or at discharge (sucrose = 2.29 [2.68], water = 2.31 [2.47]; F(1,100) = 0.002, P = .965).
In the regression analysis to determine background and clinical factors that might have predicted higher (worse) physiologically based illness scores, multiple factors were identified (Table 3). Younger age was predictive of higher SNAP scores on study day 7 for the water group only. At 2 weeks’ postnatal age, younger PCA, fewer days on caffeine, and greater number of invasive procedures were predictive of higher NBRS for the water group, and fewer days on caffeine and greater number of doses of sucrose were predictive of higher NBRS for the sucrose group. For the NBRS at discharge, younger age, fewer days on caffeine, and greater number of invasive procedures were predictive of higher NBRS for the water group. However, fewer days on caffeine was predictive of higher NBRS at discharge for the sucrose group.
Significant Results of Standardized Multiple Regression by Group on Secondary Physiologically Based Illness Outcomes
There were no differences on either neurobehavioral developmental outcomes or severity of illness outcomes between infants who received sucrose for painful procedures in the first week of life and those who received water. Because compliance was often low, number of doses of study solution that the infants received was examined for influencing outcomes.
Surprisingly, the effect of number of doses of sucrose was related in the opposite direction than predicted on the neurobehavioral outcomes at 2 of the 3 test ages and on 1 severity of illness outcome before discharge. The number of doses was significant only in the sucrose group. Because the number of study solution doses was not different between the sucrose and water groups, the effect of the procedure to administer a solution in the infant’s mouth in association with a painful procedure can be dismissed.
Tolerance to the sucrose was considered as a possible explanation for the relationship between total doses of sucrose and the outcomes. In this study, the few infants for whom facial expressions of pain could be coded showed a decrease in facial actions for those in the sucrose group compared with those in the water group late in the intervention (days 6–7), as well as in the initial period of the intervention, so sucrose seemed to be analgesic even after several days of receiving it. Thus, sucrose seemed to remain effective in decreasing pain during the study period and there were no signs of tolerance to its analgesic effect. A methodological explanation is that the sample size was inadequate. Sample size was calculated on univariate analyses for each outcome. Thus, when some factors appear as significant for some outcomes but not for others, this could be a result of a sample size that was inadequate in terms of the relative colinearity of the variables of interest. There may be other factors that did not seem to be significant because the sample size was inadequate to detect them.
Nevertheless, the results of this study should not be ignored. The number of doses of sucrose, as opposed to water, was related to several outcome variables in a way that suggests that for infants <32 weeks’ PCA, receiving more doses of sucrose during the first week of life may have questionable long-term effects, despite immediate beneficial effects. The underlying mechanism for sucrose analgesia is understood to be attributable to the release of endogenous opiates as a result of sweet taste.1, 2, 33 By giving the sucrose analgesia for 1 week only and then withdrawing it, we may have increased the sensitivity to subsequent pain. This is based on an animal study in which it was found that exposure to morphine at birth resulted in increased morphine threshold in adulthood.34 Related to this possibility is that the infants may have failed to adopt appropriate self-modulating behaviors, relying instead on external mediators (sucrose). When this external mediating resource was removed, they were slower in developing self-modulating behaviors, which resulted in neurobehavioral and physiologic consequences in the subsequent few weeks. The outcome measures, with the exception of the SNAP on day 7, were at least 1 week beyond the cessation of the intervention, so they may have had heightened pain experience in the intervening time.
Although there is not a clear age delineation, there are indications from animal models that the endogenous opiate system does not become functional until the third trimester or 32 weeks’ PCA.35 The infants in this study were born at <31 weeks’ PCA and received sucrose analgesia (or water) at <32 weeks 2 days. Although we and others have shown an analgesic effect of sucrose in infants <32 weeks for a single painful event,36–39 other studies on preterm infants were with infants 32 weeks or older. 40, 41 Perhaps in infants <32 weeks’ PCA, the repeated stimulation of an immature endogenous opiate system by routine use of sucrose “stresses” the system or interferes with the normal developmental functioning and maturation of this system. For example, a possible explanation for the negative neurobehavioral outcomes could be cross-sensitization between dopamine and endogenous opiates. It is possible that chronic opioid release (as activated by routine sucrose administration) would repeatedly stimulate dopaminergic neurons that are implicated in locomotor activity and arousal.42–45 The projecting areas of these neurons may not be mature enough to demonstrate motor sensitization and in fact could even be inhibitory at this age. This may then explain the higher alertness scores as well as higher motor development scores being predicted by fewer sucrose doses.
The first week of life was selected for this study because that is typically the time of the highest number of invasive procedures14, 15 and, as well, the younger the infant, the greater the number of interventions because the infant requires more external support for stabilization.46 Replication of this study is strongly urged but with a larger sample or a less varied sample, with assurance of greater compliance, and inclusion of ongoing physiologic data for all infants. We did have physiologic data on some infants, but there were no group differences and there were too few infants with complete physiologic monitoring to conduct the same regression analyses as in this report.
Other significant results have not been reported. Although Grunau et al17 reported that dexamethasone exposure may have detrimental long-term outcomes despite its immediate benefit, this was not found for indomethacin. The administration of caffeine seems to be associated with long-term beneficial effects in this study. This has not been reported previously, although a Cochrane review on caffeine for the treatment of apnea of prematurity suggested that it is the preferred treatment for apnea of prematurity and recommended additional study on later effects.47
Although it could be argued that the clinical magnitude of our findings were not worrisome, we cannot recommend that sucrose analgesia be used routinely for every painful event in infants <32 weeks’ PCA despite much evidence of its immediate beneficial effect. It could be that older infants, >32 weeks, would benefit from the routine use of sucrose analgesia or that it should be continued beyond 1 week. Because of the recent recommendation of the use of sucrose routinely13 and the increasing numbers of NICUs that are recommending its use routinely, it is particularly important that selection criteria for the appropriate population be established.
Funding for this study came from the Fonds de la Recherche en Sante du Quebec (961297-104), the IWK Foundation, and Health Canada (career award to C.C.J.; 6605-4286-48).
We thank the families who participated in the study, as well as the staffs in the participating NICUs.
NICU, neonatal intensive care unit • PCA, postconceptional age • NAPI, Neurobehavioral Assessment of the Preterm Infant • AO, alertness and orientation • MDV, motor development and vigor • SNAP, Score for Neonatal Acute Physiology • NBRS, Neuro-Biological Risk Score • CRIB, Clinical Risk Index for Infants
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The Pegasus Mission
Dare Mighty Things
Window Missed, Try Again
January 20, 2015 February 13, 2015 wmattlong2015 Uncategorized
We missed our Tuesday 1/20/2015 window for the Pegasus-1 launch at Koerner Aviation’s airfield in Kankakee, IL. An antenna that did not arrive in time was the issue that postponed the flight. A new launch window has opened and we will take advantage of it. The bad news is that our new window is very tight and our location moves to the West coast, 2000 miles away. The new window is 11:00AM PST on Wednesday January 28th on the eastern side of Washington State, in the proximity of Quincy, WA. We leave for Seattle later this week to attend meetings and a conference. Wednesday, the 28th, is our only opportunity to make the 3 hour trek across the Cascade mountain range to the launch location. The eastern “desert” of Washington provides us a near treeless environment, which helps to remediate potential recovery issues. The weather and high-level wind forecast for 1/28/2015 is beyond the forecast range at this point, which means we are chancing a grounding due to weather. We will pack up the equipment, which is considerable, and ship to the hotel in Seattle today.
January 17, 2015 February 10, 2015 wmattlong2015 High Altitude Balloon, IOT, Near Space, Real-Time IOT High Altitude Balloon, IOT, Mark Nichols, Matt Long, Near Space, Pegasus, Pegasus Mission, Pegasus-1, Real-Time IOT, Telemetry
The Pegasus mission is all about experimentation and innovation and involves both a high altitude balloon (HAB) scientific payload and the “Internet of Things”, aka IOT. The following are the mission goals and technical objectives.
(1) In-flight telemetry
(2) A photo of the curvature of earth, edge of atmosphere, and blackness of space.
Technical Objectives
(1) Real-time telemetry
(2) Broadcast of telemetry
(3) Telemetry capture
(4) Real-time command and control
The idea behind Pegasus is to perform real-time IOT in the hostile environment of near space. The definition of “real-time” requires a deadline and for this mission we set the bar at < 100ms from the edge of near space to an observer, e.g., a phone or Web site. We will capture the telemetry in cloud storage accounts for later analysis, but allow the observers to participant in the experiment in anywhere in the world as it is happening.
(1) Ground speed in knots
(2) Heading – compass point of the direction the payload is traveling
(3) Camera Angle – compass point of the direction of the camera
(4) GPS – latitude and longitude of the payload
(5) Pressure – Barometric pressure of the atmosphere
(6) Internal Temp – Internal temperature of the payload
(7) External Temp – External temperature of the atmosphere
(8) Humidity – Atmospheric humidity
(9) Altitude – Altitude of the payload
(10) Signal Strength – Strength of transmitters
(11) Battery – The charge remaining in the battery
(12) Accelerometer – 3D force on the payload (x,y,z)
This is a total of 17 data points streaming every second from the payload.
Commands are used to communicate back to the payload to perform functions associated with cut-down (releasing the balloon tether from the payload to begin the descent stage) as well as parachute deployment commands.
The ascent stage is slightly over 1 hour for Pegasus-1, which should get to about 22,000 meters, which is enough to meet Pegasus-1 mission objectives. During ascent we will be busy checking the systems for nominal condition. More on this later.
The descent stage is all the drama Pegasus-1 makes a controlled HALO descent to 1,000 meters before deploying its main parachute. The entire descent should take only 10-12 minutes. It’s really “Fly or Die” time and the onboard and controls systems must work perfectly.
That is the summary for Pegasus-1 with more to follow on the aeronautics, payload, and operational technology that enables the real-time aspects of the mission. Launch in 3 days from Koerner Aviation’s airfield in Kankakee, IL 01/19/2015.
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Erratum: Electron correlation effects in resonant inelastic x-ray scattering of NaV2O5 (Physical Review Letters (2002) 88 (077401))
G. P. Zhang, T. A. Callcott, G. T. Woods, L. Lin, B. Sales, D. Mandrus, J. He
Published - 2002 May 6
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Zhang, G. P., Callcott, T. A., Woods, G. T., Lin, L., Sales, B., Mandrus, D., & He, J. (2002). Erratum: Electron correlation effects in resonant inelastic x-ray scattering of NaV2O5 (Physical Review Letters (2002) 88 (077401)). Physical Review Letters, 88(18).
Zhang, G. P. ; Callcott, T. A. ; Woods, G. T. ; Lin, L. ; Sales, B. ; Mandrus, D. ; He, J. / Erratum : Electron correlation effects in resonant inelastic x-ray scattering of NaV2O5 (Physical Review Letters (2002) 88 (077401)). In: Physical Review Letters. 2002 ; Vol. 88, No. 18.
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Genome-wide linkage analyses for age at diagnosis of hypertension and early-onset hypertension in the HyperGEN study
Jemma B. Wilk, Luc Djousse, Donna K. Arnett, Steven Hunt, Michael A. Province, Gerardo Heiss, Richard H. Myers
A genome-wide scan was performed to identify chromosomal regions related to age at diagnosis of hypertension and to early-onset hypertension in white and African American families from the Hypertension Genetic Epidemiology Network (HyperGEN). Age at diagnosis of hypertension was reported by participants at recruitment and standardized residuals adjusted for sex, study center, and body mass index were created. Participants were classified as having early-onset hypertension if their reported age at diagnosis was before 45 years in whites or before 35 years in African Americans. Variance component linkage analysis was performed for age at diagnosis and an affected sibpair linkage analysis was performed for early-onset hypertension, both implemented in GENEHUNTER. In whites, the heritability of diagnosis age was estimated to be 35% and the maximum LOD score was found on chromosome 1 at 123 cM (LOD = 1.48). The maximum LOD score for early-onset hypertension was located on chromosome 18 at 69 cM (LOD = 1.21). In African Americans, the heritability of age of diagnosis was estimated to be 42% and the maximum LOD scores were found on chromosome 4 at 120 cM (LOD = 2.44) and on chromosome 15 at 60 cM (LOD = 2.31). The maximum LOD for early-onset hypertension in African Americans was also on chromosome 4 at 153 cM (LOD = 2.05) and overlies the mineralocorticoid receptor. Although these results report modest LOD scores, several of these loci have been previously reported to be linked to hypertension and blood pressure, lending further support that genes related to the risk of hypertension may be at these loci.
American Journal of Hypertension
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjhyper.2004.06.003
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Wilk, J. B., Djousse, L., Arnett, D. K., Hunt, S., Province, M. A., Heiss, G., & Myers, R. H. (2004). Genome-wide linkage analyses for age at diagnosis of hypertension and early-onset hypertension in the HyperGEN study. American Journal of Hypertension, 17(9), 839-844. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjhyper.2004.06.003
Genome-wide linkage analyses for age at diagnosis of hypertension and early-onset hypertension in the HyperGEN study. / Wilk, Jemma B.; Djousse, Luc; Arnett, Donna K.; Hunt, Steven; Province, Michael A.; Heiss, Gerardo; Myers, Richard H.
In: American Journal of Hypertension, Vol. 17, No. 9, 09.2004, p. 839-844.
Wilk, JB, Djousse, L, Arnett, DK, Hunt, S, Province, MA, Heiss, G & Myers, RH 2004, 'Genome-wide linkage analyses for age at diagnosis of hypertension and early-onset hypertension in the HyperGEN study', American Journal of Hypertension, vol. 17, no. 9, pp. 839-844. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjhyper.2004.06.003
Wilk JB, Djousse L, Arnett DK, Hunt S, Province MA, Heiss G et al. Genome-wide linkage analyses for age at diagnosis of hypertension and early-onset hypertension in the HyperGEN study. American Journal of Hypertension. 2004 Sep;17(9):839-844. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjhyper.2004.06.003
Wilk, Jemma B. ; Djousse, Luc ; Arnett, Donna K. ; Hunt, Steven ; Province, Michael A. ; Heiss, Gerardo ; Myers, Richard H. / Genome-wide linkage analyses for age at diagnosis of hypertension and early-onset hypertension in the HyperGEN study. In: American Journal of Hypertension. 2004 ; Vol. 17, No. 9. pp. 839-844.
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Home Articles Imagine If It Were Normal To Say: If You Don’t Work, Don’t...
Imagine If It Were Normal To Say: If You Don’t Work, Don’t Eat
Gabriel Crouse
In 1973, a teenager named Jong-Dae Park landed in Nairobi, one of a family retinue moving up in the world. Jong-Dae’s father was a South Korean diplomat who had just been posted to Kampala; Kenya was an alluring visit en route.
On their brief holiday, the Park family was ‘struck by the orderliness, cleanliness and level of development of Nairobi compared to Seoul’.
Uganda exhibited more of the same excellence at a street level and the young Park received a quality high school education there, including remarkable English and French training that he would come to depend upon. For young Park grew to follow his father’s footsteps, working his way up to be an esteemed diplomat for South Korea, serving in East Asia, West Asia, and Washington DC. In 2010, J. D. Park, now a father himself, would apply from Rome to return to Uganda after 36 years away from ‘the pearl of Africa’. He got the post. ‘It was a dream come true’.
Then the plane landed and Park took a ride from Kampala airport. The traffic jammed 10 kilometres from the capital. Taxis, on two wheels and four, broke rules, swamping all intersections. ‘I have not seen such chaos in my life.’ He had a lot of time to look through the window at what it had become. ‘I sensed that something must have been going wrong for a long time…’
The feeling never left him. He would keep up the diplomacy – he is now the South Korean ambassador to South Africa – and come to feel that he knew the answer. Approaching retirement, he has put that answer down, word for word. The sum is contained his his book, Re-Inventing Africa’s Development: Linking Africa to the Korean Development Model.
The title is as dry as much of the text, which is mostly written in the formal style of a career diplomat who remains honour-bound to keep the juicy secrets to himself. Imagine a sketch-artist searching for the balance between hard realism and a persuasive soft touch who ends up drawing one jawline three ways and leaving them all on the page. This is something like Park’s modus operandi, repeating himself on key points now and then to varying degrees of courtesy. If nothing else, it gives one a sense of the life of a diplomat.
And yet, despite the restraint of his sometimes repetitive textbook-style, there is an evocative power to this analysis that is defiantly focused on ‘something’ which is neither ‘politically’ nor ‘diplomatically correct’, the problem that he will not obfuscate or excuse.
This is the first table in Re-Inventing; it is Park’s problem statement, a kind of open secret. I find it hard to look at for more than a glimpse without finding it impossible to look away.
Park has spent his life hobnobbing lobbyists, journalists, magnates, and politicians and is extremely well read. Thus equipped, he soberly analyses arguments to the effect, for instance, that donors are to blame (over $1 trillion has been injected), carefully finding the merits and demerits in several sub-points among the head wonks who push the blame out of Africa before dropping into the first person. ‘But the way I see this issue is that aid is only as good as the recipients’ ability to make use of it…The correct assessment would be that Sub-Saharan African countries are experiencing problems in spite of aid, not because of it.’
Park then repeats the exercise, meticulously addressing each node along the gamut of orthodox explanations for Africa’s failure, by and large, to produce at tempo – geographic determinism, ethnic determinism, and colonial (legacy or reincarnated) determinism. Patiently and gently he analyses these explanations into pieces. In short, Park spends the first hundred-plus pages convincing the reader that it is worse than you think. The ‘winds of change’ started to blow across Africa where the above graph starts and most of the continent was liberated by the 1960s. And then the promise broke. Development arrested. The insult to injury – with the usual excuses debunked – is this: no one knows why.
Park then turns inward, at the level of nation, to tell a story you think you already know. It starts with colonialism, this time Japan’s subjugation of Korea. The allied victory in WWII brought liberation, and, with it, strife. Korea was split in twain by a line so arbitrary it is called ‘the 38th parallel’, along the divide of the Cold War.
Then, behold, a miracle. From the ashes, South Korea’s GDP would catch up with Africa’s domineering powerhouse, South Africa, by the mid-1980s. Today South Korea has a GDP five times the size of ours. It is, Park argues, the most concentrated and egalitarian economic boom anywhere, ever. In addition, you can see the difference it made from space … from a satellite made in South Korea and launched from its spaceport, Naro.
It is a story worth telling well, coldly and quite as thoroughly as he does. One way that Park’s story diverges from the regular rags-to-riches Cinderella fantasy is that he respects the slog – walking the reader through a ‘miserly’ journey from raw agrarian desperation through light manufacturing, wigs, fabrics and shoes, to heavier manufacturing and big bets made on steel, nonferrous metal, machinery, shipbuilding, electronics and chemical engineering, pausing along the way to dig into key moments.
The ‘unique and unmatched’ growth in manufacturing – averaging a 17% annual increase in value added through the 1960s and 16% annual growth in the 1970s – fuelled the world’s most radical economic transformation. After the hard work came more hard work. Even after more than a decade of manufacturing radical economic transformation on a world-beating scale, Koreans were living harsh and basic lives. In the 1970s, 80% of homes had simple thatched roofs, while only 20% had electricity. ‘The situation in Korea back then is comparable to or even worse than what most Sub-Saharan African countries face today.’ Toil, sweat and tears brought scant reward beyond the reward of more of the same.
There was blood, too – 5 million souls lost in the postcolonial Korean war. The South’s first leader, a despot of sorts, would be deposed in 1960 in a deadly student-led revolution. The next government was knocked out a year later by military coup. The coup’s leader took over until he was assassinated in 1980 by his aide, the chief of intelligence. Then came the ‘Seoul Spring’ and another military coup, states of emergency, martial law, union mass actions, cascading uprisings. Finally, in 1993, Korea became a credible democracy.
Then, the Cinderella ball? No. More pain. In 1997, the government went bankrupt and had to turn to the IMF for a bailout, a humiliation which required temporarily sacrificing sovereignty. In 2008, it was hit by the global financial crisis like the rest of us. Only South Korea recovered faster from crisis, a knack to remember.
Big business and big government had got too close and cozy, however, and in October 2016, the first woman president, Park Geun-Hye, was accused of corrupt dealings on credible evidence. Protests started. After that came more protests, by candle light, in a freezing winter deep into the night. By December, two million people were marching in the streets. President Park was impeached, tried and convicted in a transparent rational process, and sentenced to 25 years. She is already in detention. Former president Lee was tried and convicted, too, and given a fifteen-year sentence.
The Rise of South Korea is not a fairytale. It takes place in a harsh mountainy place where vegetables grow only under artificial covers produced in the ‘White [plastic] Revolution’. There is a barrel pointed at its head, really megatons of regular artillery arched at the capital – which goes unmentioned, like the nuclear arsenal that puts all those souls a button-push away from annihilation.
Park loves his country. It has liars and crooks and gladhands like everywhere else. There, some good ideas have turned out to be bad, like everywhere else. There was destruction, the 1950s war knocked out an annual GDP’s worth of infrastructure, schools, hospitals, sewerage, so it started with next to nothing. In the 1950s, illiteracy among adults was ‘a staggering 77%’, so in terms of human capital it started flat, too.
So what is there to love? Change. Try as he might to write in the style of a dispassionate diplomat, Park makes the impression that his nation’s tale of bearing relentless hard knocks is itself a knockout.
It knocks out self-pity and complacency and scapegoating. Re-Inventing is mainstream heresy because Park thinks people matter more than anything else. ‘If people were to ask what the single most important root cause is of underdevelopment of Sub-Saharan Africa, the best answer I can think of is the “mindset”’. Not the past, not others, not technology, not institutions or ‘systems’ that are often so vaguely defined as to be meaningless – Park thinks the things that matter most are minds. He wants to change them.
‘[A] strong government initiative bringing on board various political, social and regional leaders and groups could foster a sense of nation and development-mindedness. This could be done by national campaigns spearheaded by political leaders’. There is a trite veneer to this but Park scratches it back to show the mettle he means to evoke.
He cites Sung-Hee Jwa, for example, an economist who reckons the secret to Korean success was ‘sangpilbhur, a Korean axiom meaning ‘reward good deeds and punish wrongdoings’, which he termed ‘economic discrimination’. Park argues for ‘economic discrimination’, a key to incentivising innovation and excellence.
Park goes further, arguing that ‘Africa’s ills can no longer be blamed on its colonial legacy’, and celebrating others willing to make this radical claim like (former) Kenyan prime minister, Raila Odinga. ‘Transformation’ and ‘empowerment’ are conventional ideas that Park supports forcefully but not in a conventional way. ‘Empowerment’ to Park means investing your own resources. ‘Transformation’ means increasing productivity. ‘Land reclamation’ means replanting forests wiped out by war. 21 million people planted over ten billion trees in South Korea with their hands to ‘reclaim the land’.
A major contributor to the ‘mindset’ shift that drove ‘transformation’ in South Korea was the Saemaul Undong [tse-mowl oondong] movement that started in 1970, also known as the New Village Movement. It was a ‘national campaign spearheaded by political leaders’ which involved talking up economic discrimination, diligence and hard work. It meant ‘learning that “nothing is free”’.
It also meant stoking competition. Rather than have government build things for villages, raw materials were put to the locals to make infrastructure themselves in their spare time. A year later, officials would come back and reward the villages that made the most of it, also giving points for hygiene and cleanliness, with prestige and more quality raw materials of their liking. Many villages failed but some succeeded. And then next year again, with former slackers given opportunities to catch up and shamed and encouraged into doing, trying, with hard-won winners given prized extras. And so the competitions went.
The incentives were right, but so too were the attitudes of the preponderance of people. To this day, according to Park, it is common practice at slick Seoul office parties for bosses to say, have fun, ‘push it to the limit’ and don’t worry about coming in late tomorrow. Then, tomorrow everyone shows up on time and no excuse for tardiness is allowed and the people slog.
South Korea proves that people can volunteer to go the extra mile as a norm and this is not mere anecdote. When the government went broke and had to call in the IMF, 3.5 million ordinary Koreans voluntarily donated a collective 227 tons of gold to help pay back the money. Ten billion trees. What changes everything? People.
Park’s central claim that social forces apart from governance and economics are hugely underrated in general and in particular by outsiders who try to understand or emulate Korea’s success chimes in with some of the most exciting work to come from the US academe this millennium.
Leading US political theorist Philip Pettit’s work on The Economy of Esteem finds that no social science rigorously analyses what Park calls popular ‘mindset’. Curiously both he and Park find it helpful to draw people’s attention to the point that there is more to society than money and power through scatology. Pettit frequently notes that hidden cameras in public bathrooms (the experiment was first done in New York) show that men and women are much more likely to wash their hands if someone else is in the facility even if it is a stranger who cannot see them from behind the stall. The background norm programmes for hygiene. Park tells the story of a UN conference whose moral was to ask the locals what they want, rather than impose.
‘Another story was about young women shunning newly built pit latrines in or around their homes. It is said that women do not feel comfortable either sharing or being seen using the same latrine with other family members or relatives…’
The background norm at work here programmes either against hygiene or efficiency or both and the UN presenters implicitly upheld the norm, criticizing “Westerners” who came in with their own ideas of where to put latrines. Park thought it was very enlightening until later in the day he realized he was being asked to be an agent for the ‘status quo’. But Park wants to be an agent for change and he wants us Africans to be agents for change, too.
His confidence that these social forces can have drastic, national and even continental impact is in line with the world’s leading philosopher on race, Kwame Anthony Appiah. Appiah argues that a mindset shift like those Park describes in Korea also brought about, among others, the end to footbinding in China and slavery in the UK empire in a period as rapid as South Korea’s manufacturing eruption.
Re-Inventing Africa’s Development is the most radical invitation to rethink SA’s orthodoxy since Ramaphosa’s election. Park seems geared to bet his retirement on ramifying Saemaul Undong movements from Uganda and Rwanda to South Africa and beyond. His critical appraisal of the pilot programmes indicate room to grow. But can it really work?
That will be up to you to consider. Park notes the ‘can-do’ spirit was partly developed in the hinterland under 1930s colonial oppression through the Canaan Farmers School which inspired Seamuel Undong and ‘specializes in mindset change and agricultural programmes’ to this day. This is hard core.
‘It tries to instill the “I work first, I serve first, I sacrifice first” mentality in people, with the motto of “let’s learn until we know, let’s devote ourselves to work, let’s serve in humility”. It has an eye-catching slogan that is emblematic of its ethos: “do not eat to eat, but eat to work. If you don’t like to work, do not eat. Work at least four hours for each meal”.’
Can you imagine a South Africa in which that is a normal, likeable, lit thing to say in public, on TV, on radio, on social media, in print? ‘If you don’t like to work do not eat. Work at least four hours for each meal.’
Gabriel Crouse is the George F D Palmer Financial Journalist Trust Fellow at the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), a liberal think tank that promotes political and economic freedom. Readers are invited to take a stand with the IRR by sending an SMS to 32823 (SMSes cost R1, Ts and Cs apply).
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Imagine if a group of Christians wanted to build a church.
The church is going to built in backwoods Mississippi adjacent to a plantation slave cemetery. The church, largely attended by white folks, would worship God in the traditional way.
Would that be wrong?
How about if there was a plan to build a church in a black ghetto? Would that church, again populated by white folks, be out of place, or insensitive? Would it be a slap in the face to black people?
After all, Christianity was used to justify slavery. Slave owners and their apologists used the Bible to prove that God supported slavery, and wanted slaves to be meek, docile and obedient. Later, during Jim Crow, the white church defended segregation and discrimination as the will of God; the human manifestation of the genetic segregation God ordained when he gave some folks more melanin than others.
Was not slavery a grave and terrible injustice done in the name of religion? Was not Jim Crow the same? Were these injustices less terrible and deadly than the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center? How about the horrors suffered by Native Americans in the name of God and Manifest Destiny? Do they count?
Why do some religions have to respect their surroundings, while others get to act with impunity? Have Christians opened churches and missions and organizations in areas where they are not welcome, or where the church has failed to do its mission in the past? How is opening a mosque, which practices Islam as it was meant to be practiced, disrespectful? Isn't it only disrespectful if you assume that being a Muslim means you support terrorism practiced by other Muslims? If that's your mindset, do you apply the same logic to Christians as a whole?
Are you willing to have your rights restricted based on the actions of others who claim the mantle of Christianity, but do very little to practice its tenets? Do you deserve to be lumped in with the hate groups that wrap themselves in the Christian flag and quote extensively from the Bible? How about the prosperity preacher pimps who use God to fleece the flocks and enrich their lives? Is this who people should compare you to, and the examples they should be use when making decisions?
It's funny that people can't see this very obvious comparison. It's hilarious, in a very sad way, that people are so blind to the ways they would restrict the freedoms of others, all while clamoring for their own "rights." Hypocrisy is ugly in all its shapes and forms, and so is discrimination.
People are funny that way.
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CNu said...
there you go...,
trying to limit the mans' supremacy by the manipulative exercise of radical autonomy...,
i have been saying the same thing!! "The Bible", the SO CALLED "Word of God" has been used to justify more death, destruction and oppression that ANYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD!!! Even the KKK claims to be a "Christian" organization!
By the way, there is a great book, edited by Christian Leedom about so called "Christianity" and what impact organized religion has had on the world. It is called "The book your church doesnt want you to read"
Thordaddy said...
Yeah Joanna,
And people like you think that stud in your face is "progressive." But where the heck are you "progressives" leading us? I'd say right to where a Christian can morally destroy you. Self-annihilators deserve no tolerance especially when they spread their evil.
Wonder if the two "Christians" will take offense to your ignorance of Christianity? Prolly not cuz you're a good lil white girl that doesn't like white men.
Thor - It is possible to be a Christian and NOT believe in the concept of "organized religion" Organized religion often perverts the tenets of faith.
I do not have a problem with Christians. Rather, I have a problem with "Christians", those who shout from the rooftops that they are "Christians" and use their faith to justify all sorts of oppression. I have a problem with people who believe that it is their job to use "Christianity" to guide public policy. I have a problem with people who live in a country founded with the value of freedom of religion yet protest against anyone who does not live their life by "Biblical" law.
And how on earth do my piercings have ANYTHING to do with my political leanings?
Jihad Punk 77 said...
it amazes me how racist, ignorant, and xenophobic some White American Christians are. they think their faith is right and everyone else wrong.
First of all, the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" is not even a mosque-- it's a community center that's about 2 blocks away from Ground Zero and it would include a gym and swimming pool and workshop that promote interfaith dialogue between all major religions. Ooops, I guess these fake "Christians" are threatened by interfaith dialogue... LMAO!!!
Tit for Tat said...
I think your post makes a point of why we should limit the outreach of ALL religions. Afterall, at their core its all about limiting freedom not embracing it. The challenge with Islam presently is that it hasnt grown far enough past the 13th century. Another unfortunate fact is that most "Moderate, peaceful" Muslims dont speak out against RADICAL Islam and SHARIAH law. I understand that its a little intimidating when you do, especially if they issue a Fatwa concerning death against the ones who do. Dont worry though, Im sure once most americans figure out that their constitution is being used to support such things, they may rise up against it. Lets hope at that point its not too late.
Only a true, literalist bibtard could be moronic and myopic enough to describe another fairy-tale, afterlife-believing, Abrahamic religion as medieval.
Talk about a knuckle-dragging pot casting aspersions on a knuckle-dragging kettle.....,
LMAO, nice comment. Who is the literalist?
Tit for Tat- YOu claim that most moderate Muslims do not speak out against the extremist. Many do. Most Catholics do not speak out about pedophiles in the ranks of priests. They do not speak out about the oppression of women within the church. But many do. Most Jews do not speak out against the daily acts of violence perpetuated by Right wing Israelis upon the Palestinians. Many do. So, EVERY religion has people within it who accept the fringe. What is your point?
echoing Joanna, Dalrymple gets it just about right;
The problem with such claims goes far beyond the fate of a mosque in downtown Manhattan. They show a dangerously inadequate understanding of the many divisions, complexities and nuances within the Islamic world — a failure that hugely hampers Western efforts to fight violent Islamic extremism and to reconcile Americans with peaceful adherents of the world’s second-largest religion.
Most of us are perfectly capable of making distinctions within the Christian world. The fact that someone is a Boston Roman Catholic doesn’t mean he’s in league with Irish Republican Army bomb makers, just as not all Orthodox Christians have ties to Serbian war criminals or Southern Baptists to the murderers of abortion doctors.
Yet many of our leaders have a tendency to see the Islamic world as a single, terrifying monolith. Had the George W. Bush administration been more aware of the irreconcilable differences between the Salafist jihadists of Al Qaeda and the secular Baathists of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, the United States might never have blundered into a disastrous war, and instead kept its focus on rebuilding post-Taliban Afghanistan while the hearts and minds of the Afghans were still open to persuasion.
Big Man said...
I have no problem with organized religion. The "organization" isn't the problem, it's the people within it.
All problems in the world are the result of people. It's not about "religion" or "class" or politics or any of the other buzzwords people like to throw around. It's about People. We screw things up, regardless of how noble the ideals may sound. We are human, and thus we behave like humans. Religion is a scapegoat for many of the problems that would exist no matter what.
That said, CNu is right in that the thinking exposed in the current attitude towards the mosque is a serious problem. I didn't dwell on this in the piece, but what this is an example of is the human tendency to "other" people and decide they don't deserve the same rights that other humans enjoy. It's the tendency to assume all "others" think the same, believe the same things and want the same things, that causes so many problems.
All Muslims do not believe that violence against innocents is an accepted way to solve problems any more than all Americans believe that bombing children in Afghanistan is an acceptable side effect of this country's war there.
Some agree, some disgree. Some don't think about it at all.
Saying that the September 11th attacks were done in the name of "Islam" ignores the various sects within the religion and ignores that only a very small minority of Muslims supported what happened in New York.
Not only is this rampant hypocrisy because most Christians would not care to be held accountable for all the actions done by even the most fringe "Christians" it also makes it impossible to have an intelligent conversation about Islam and what it means to other people.
I am a Christian, I believe in Jesus Christ as the risen son of God, yet I can respect and care about others who do not. Just because they don't agree with me doesn't mean they lack value, or are worthy of death and destruction. It doesn't make them a threat to my well-being.
The fact that the people driving this policy debate think that way is very, VERY problematic because it only encourages those folks with different religions to feel the same way about so-called "Christian" nations like the United States and that invites more violence. If we blame all of them for the actions of a few and see them all as a threat, then they will be perfectly justified in doing the same thing to us and we will never, ever reach a peaceful outcome, which should be the goal, in my opinion.
lifelearner said...
very nice RBL! You know how to break it down at a moments notice!
LisaMJ said...
Testify, Big Man. Everything you say is 100% spot-on. Frankly, this whole thing and all of these crazy flare-ups we keep having in this country are giving me a serious headache. I was on vacation last week and on a minimum news diet and it was so nice. I might need to do that b/c my headache is coming back full force quick and in a hurry.
T.A.N. Man said...
Nice post, better comment.
Deacon Blue said...
Too many folks in the U.S. believe that every Muslim institutional structure...whether mosque or community center...is there for no other purpose than to promote terrorism.
I've actually seen people advocate that no new mosques should be allowed anywhere in the country because of that "fact."
I seem to recall that there is also a church a couple blocks from Ground Zero and a couple strip clubs...though I've only heard that and don't have any geographical personal knowledge to back that up. But I'm sure there are a lot of things antithetical to "traditional American values" (whatever the right-wing thinks those are) that are very close to where the towers went down.
Ok, if the funding came from the Saudis, who follow Sharia Law, would that make a difference?
Which Sharia law? There are apparently four different kinds with very different aims.
And are you saying groups that receive funding from organizations with viewpoints that differ from the American norm should be prevented from building in certain areas?
Yep, you betcha. Especially if they support stoning and cutting off hands.
And you don't see the inevitable problem with that scenario?
If you don't, that's a shame.
Mammyman said...
Its not a question about christianity but rather one of race. You see when a White Christian decides to take matters in his own hands and kills a abortion Dr. or sets off a bomb in Olympic Park, or decides to shoot it out at Waco, White amurikkka demands that white people are judged individually. But when something happens from a person of color (being non-white) then get ready to get all lumped in together.
All Muslims are automatically branded as terrorists. We all know that people of our community are all drug dealers and prostitutes. And all hispanics snuck over the border, at least that what white amurikkka keep telling us.
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N. W. Thomas’s photograph of Eliminya masquerade costumes as published and captioned in Peoples of All Nations in 1922, and The Secret Museum of Mankind in 1935.
This is the first in an occasional series of guest blogs for the [Re:]Entanglements project by Jean Borgatti. Jean received a PhD in Art History from UCLA in 1976. She has carried out research in Nigeria among Edo-speaking people north of Benin for over 40 years, beginning in the 1970s, returning in 2003-04 and 2014-16 on Fulbright-Hays teaching/research fellowships with a base at the University of Benin, Benin City. She has carried out research among a number of small ethnic groups with which N. W. Thomas interacted, notably the Okpella (Ukpila), Ekperi, Weppa-Wano, Avianwu, Uzairue, Otuo (Otwa), Ogbe and Ibillo, publishing on the Okpella, Ekperi and Otuo masquerade complexes in the journal African Arts. In this blog, Jean recalls her encounter with a photograph by Northcote Thomas reproduced uncredited in a 1935 publication entitled The Secret Museum of Mankind, and how this led to her own documentation of the same remarkable Otuo masquerade in the early 1970s.
‘Awe-inspiring ceremonial attends the most important event in tribal life — the admission of the young men into the full rights of manhood. In South Kukuruku the initiation is performed once every three years by members of the Eliminya Society. They wear uncanny, somewhat insect-like masks with pendant tassels — always jealously concealed from the uninitiated and from women — a kind of tunic of loose cords, and crested helmets of palm-fibre.’
So reads the caption to this heavily modified photograph, published in 1935 in The Secret Museum of Mankind – a work described on the website at which it has been digitized, as a ‘mystery book’, with ‘no author or credits, no copyright, no date, no page numbers, [and] no index’ (http://ian.macky.net/secretmuseum/). Advertised as ‘World’s Greatest Collection of Strange & Secret Photographs’, its accompanying texts ‘read like the patter of a carnival sideshow barker’, racist and sensational (ibid.).
N. W. Thomas’s original photograph of the Eliminya masquerade costumes, taken in Otuo in July 1909 (NWT 840). Scanned from glass plate negative in the Royal Anthropological Institute’s collections (RAI 400.19717).
Like other images in the book, the photograph is not attributed in The Secret Museum of Mankind. We know, however, that it is one of Northcote W. Thomas’s photographs taken in Otuo (Otwa) in July 1909, in the north of Nigeria’s Edo State, of a festival he records as being called ‘Eliminya’. The photograph and the caption had previously been published in 1922 in a serialized illustrated encyclopaedia entitled Peoples of All Nations edited by J. A. Hammerton. N. W. Thomas provided numerous photographs to sections on the ‘British Empire in Africa’ and contributed an article on the ‘manners and customs of its native races’.
Both Peoples of All Nations and The Secret Museum of Mankind were published at a time described by Annie Coombes in her book Reinventing Africa (1997) when Africa was a concept as much as a geographical destination. She notes that the Africa that existed in the popular European imagination was an ideological space, at once savage, threatening, exotic and productive. These ideas are reinforced by the images and captions published in popular works such as Peoples of All Nations and The Secret Museum of Mankind.
At this time two particular cultural arenas effectively disseminated knowledge of Africa to the European public: the displayed classification of material culture from Africa in ethnographic collections in local and national museums (such as the collections made by Northcote Thomas and now in the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology), and the spectacle of Africans themselves in a variety of large-scale national and regional exhibitions. The popular illustrated press and serialized encyclopaedias such as Peoples of All Nations were also part of this dissemination, and, as mentioned above, this material was later republished in works such as The Secret Museum of Mankind.
I recognized the photographs when I obtained a second-hand copy of The Secret Museum of Mankind in the early 1970s, having earlier seen copies of some of Northcote Thomas’s photographs. These had been made from the album lodged in the National Museum in Lagos and provided by a colleague, since at that time I was considering whether to make an art historical field study in the Edo North area (known in Thomas’s time as Kukuruku). I spent some time in the UK at the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, where I was given access to Thomas’s collection – although it was not well catalogued, stored or described at that time. I pursued a field enquiry in Edo North between 1971 and 1974, witnessing the festival described by Thomas as Eliminya in Otuo (Otwa) in 1973. (When I visited the festival was called Igugu.) Although this was not my primary research, after witnessing this extraordinary masquerade spectacle I did some follow up work and wrote an article on Otuo’s age grade masquerades, published in African Arts (Borgatti 1982).
Otuoyema group masqueraders in fibre costumes, Otuo, 1973. Photograph by Jean Borgatti.
I had been fortunate in 1973 to document a particularly important group of men who served as sponsors for the masquerades as they moved into what was described as the lower levels of leadership. They were men between 40 and 50 years of age in the Otuoyema age group. Otuo requires that its citizens participate in the age-grade system, even if that participation is by proxy, moving up systematically through the ranks. If a man does not participate, he may never become a chief in Otuo – no matter how successful he has been in the outside world. This seems to have provided considerable incentive for people to support the age-grade institution.
Otuoyema group masqueraders wearing headdresses of raffia velvet, Otuo, 1973. Photograph by Jean Borgatti.
I returned to Nigeria in 2002-03 on a Fulbright-Hays Research and Teaching fellowship that enabled me to follow up on the Otuo (and neigbouring Ikao) festival. During the festival, I was the guest of the paramount chief of Otuo, Ovie Julius Elugbe, who had been one of the initiates in 1973. 2003 was a year during which age sets moved up, so new masquerades had to be made and the displays were elaborate, though not as elaborate as in 1973.
Large masquerade (Ugbokpa), sometimes called ‘umbrella’, followed by a smaller, flat ‘whipping’ masquerade (Olu) moving from playing ground to playing ground at the beginning of the festival. Igugu/Eliminya Festival, Imakhize Village, Otuo, January 12, 2003.
Ugbokpa and Olu masquerades in Uzawa Village playing ground with age company member. Igugu/Eliminya Festival, Otuo, January 12, 2003.
Subsequently, in 2016, I photographed the festival again, this time in the company of the linguist, Professor Ben Elugbe, the late Ovie’s nephew. 2016 was not a year for age-grade formation, since this occurs only once every five years when the new masquerades are introduced (in contrast to Thomas’s assertion that it occurred every three years). In between times, the fibre masquerades, if not those with carved wooden headdresses, come out annually in their respective quarters, going to each village square or playing ground to dance. According to Professor Elugbe, there are eighteen distinct playing grounds today. If no one is there to beat the drums for the masquerades when the arrive, they may just walk around and go on to the next playing ground.
Large masquerade (Ugbokpa) arriving at playing ground in Oluma Village. Igugu/Eliminya festival, Otuo, January 1, 2016.
Small masquerade (Olu) performing to the beat of the drum (odoka) in Oluma Village. Igugu/Eliminya festival, Otuo, January 1, 2016.
Even though Thomas’s photographs provide an important visual baseline for Otuo’s cultural practices, much work remains to be done in these northern Edo communities that are struggling to conserve their remarkable heritage.
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One thought on “The Eliminya Festival, Otuo, Guest blog by Jean Borgatti”
Awoist Raphael OKHAI imoriafe
Your work is wonderful and really appreciated. I would like to know more and see how we can exchange ideas to promote the otuo heritage. our
growing NGO is interested in the propagation of our culture.
Regards sir.
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Sun columnist Barbara Yaffe tackles a topic that’s gaining increasing traction as the civic election approaches: the loss of Vancouver’s pre-1940s stock of character homes:
… the wrecking ball these days takes out 70 a month …
These older homes, with their pitched roofs and leaded glass windows, French doors and narrow-slat oak floors, often are architecturally charming, part of the city’s history, a positive for tourism, deserving of refurbishment.
Of course, it’s personal too.
The beautifully appointed and lovingly tended 80-year old character home I once owned in Dunbar now awaits the wrecker’s ball.
Last December I moved to Kitsilano, only to find the diminutive house next to mine was headed for the dump; it got demolished this week. A big new duplex is taking its place.
And she’s not alone:
That’s certainly the view of Caroline Adderson (interviewed here) … The writer, who lives in Mackenzie Heights, on Vancouver’s west side between Kerrisdale and Dunbar, says: “Delay action for a year, and we will be down another 850 (homes), by which time city staff may be hard pressed to find a concentration of character homes.”
Adderson launched her “Vancouver Vanishes” Facebook page in February, featuring photos of homes that once were, along with a petition urging the city to take fast action to stop the demolitions.
More than 2,500 signatures have been gathered and Adderson told me she aims to make her cause an election issue in November’s municipal vote.
There’s also “Disappearing Dunbar” that maps the loss of character homes in just this one small part of the city.
Unfortunately, few address (other than to bemoan) the underlying issue: land values so high they cannot be realized without the demolition of the smaller, older house, combined with the cost, regulation and complications of upgrading a character home to contemporary standards. Or the even more difficult issue of ‘offshore’ money (whether from Asia or Alberta) sustaining a real-estate market that does not or cannot incorporate intangible values.
So let’s blame the politicians.
Having been there, let me articulate the challenge:
Who is willing to take a loss on the sale of their property – if the City could indeed come up with a way to lower land values?
Who will take less than the market would pay by constraining a subsequent owner to ensure the preservation of the existing home?
Or to say it another way, who is willing to be taxed on the unearned increment (the difference between what they bought the property for and the escalation of value separate from improvements) – if, for instance, that could create a fund to purchase the character homes of the City ?
Or yet another way: Who is willing to have their property taxes raised sufficiently to allow the City to compensate the difference between what the character home is worth on the market and the value if it were designated and protected as a heritage property? Which is what the law requires.
Or yet another way: Who is willing to rezone neighbourhoods or other parts of the city so drastically that it would flood the market with housing sufficient to make the character homes competitive?
Or, especially in Dunbar, who is willing to support the scale of density bonusing or infill required to make retention of the existing house sufficiently attractive?
Who, in fact, is willing to run for office on a platform of lowering property values or increasing taxes enough to protect homes almost a century old? Or to put in place regulations so onerous it effectively prohibits demolition? Or do anything that would negatively affect the current owners before they can cash out?
Ironically, Yaffe’s column is on the business pages, and yet is devoid of any hard-nosed analysis or alternatives.
If we can’t take on the big questions, we’ll only be left with small answers.
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Scot B says:
Great viewpoints Gord. I still don’t understand why the new home shown in the photo cannot be built in the same style as the heritage homes around it. The rich person building the home can have the increased size and all the mod coms they are after but they have to fake it by building in a sympathetic architectural style. It works really well in Mount Pleasant, the new builds are hard to tell apart from a renovated house.
Scott, there is no accounting for taste; in order to keep a neighbourhood looking in the same general “character,” the City would need to have design constraints, which I approve of, but many owners do not. For some, it is not about the aesthetic appeal outside; it is about the size and amenities inside. This is particularly true for owners who have not connection or interest in connecting with other members of the neighbourhood.
neil21 (@neil21) says:
Great questions Gord. It’s a horrible dilemma.
I like Scot’s point about faking it as a less-bad solution. Where’s Vancouver’s form-based code?
Maybe Yaffe and Adderson should make it known they’ll be happy to sell their own land at 75% of market rate to any non-demolisher.
Spank says:
This is why I’m always so frustrated when groups protest developments in other parts of the city, maybe next to the skytrain, maybe even in Burnaby. The Rize Development is a perfect example.
If you don’t provide housing there, housing will have to appear elsewhere in a less suitable place, maybe destroying heritage stock, or the pressure will be relieved through higher prices.
Does no one get this? It’s like talking to children. “If you eat snacks now, you won’t be hungry for dinner!”
This is false, a misleading and unfair characterization. Very few oppose density, but there are smart and there are counterproductive ways to go about this. Rize was not appropriate for the site, does not foster affordability or neighborhood character. Vision Vancouver is running a game of deception that to be “greenest city” we need the tallest towers possible, but these large towers are in fact not the densest form of development, only the most profitable.
Long blocks of low rise mixed residential would provide greater density and a more livable environment, but not absurd profit margins primarily derived from the value of up-zoning a smaller piece of land (most of the value is in the land cost). The out of place towers that have popped up all over the east side require long and wasteful podiums, and ultimately reduce available density in that area.
Jonathan, the development boom, densification and full-speed ahead pro-development mentality was fostered in Vancouver decades ago when off-shore investment took interest in our city, and our then Mayor Gordon Campbell (developer) for far too long got in bed with Royal Lepage Real Estate for his campaign contributions; development in the city spiralled out of control at all costs to satisfy extremely wealthy investors. Quality of design, quality of construction and attention to neighbourhood “character” went out the window.
“Rize was not appropriate for the site, does not foster affordability or neighborhood character.”
Can someone explain to me when a building is appropriate and when it’s not? Or why people find tallish buildings so ghastly? Or why “absurd” profit margins are a bad thing? Or how increasing the housing supply in the city is supposed to decrease housing affordability? Or why slight changes like a new condo tower is supposed to ruin a neighborhood?
I really don’t belong in Vancouver. I don’t understand the basic axioms of the public debate or the outrage development generates. I fundamentally don’t understand.
There’s all this popular wisdom floating around that runs contrary to econ 101. Like the idea that it’s the building of condominiums that makes vancouver an expensive city. Or that we could /ever/ find a developer who isn’t “greedy”. Or that the city should be dictating to people what the /right/ way to live is. People like dense, tall condos with views near transit. “Greedy developers” are desperate to provide that for them. But the public channels their outrage about aesthetics through the legislative apparatus of the government to stop these mutually beneficial (not to mention socially beneficial) transactions. We turn down millions in tax dollars, shrink our economy, hurt the environment, drive up housing prices, and deprive people and something that would improve their lives.
It’s not just that I think you are wrong. Or that I think you are wrong about your basic underlying assumptions. It’s that I don’t *understand* you.
Incredibly, way too little concern way too late. When the “monster houses” started to appear in Vancouver in the ’80’s, subsequent to tearing down the character homes and rental housing for seniors on fixed income, the international media was fascinated by Vancouver’s “tolerance” and “ho-hum” attitude. Guess thousands of them have to disappear before anyone takes notice locally. Unfortunately, this apathy means those beautiful, one-of-a-kind homes are long gone and irreplaceable. Shame on the apathetic.
We renovated our little post-war bungalow 2 years ago. All our neighbours, every single one, could not understand why we would renovate rather than tear down and max out everything.
Gulley says:
My grandparents used to live in the Dunbar region, and I have fond memories of hanging out there when I was a kid. But our family couldn’t afford to live there, even in the smaller type houses that are being torn down. It’s become a much different place even though many of the houses from ~20-30 years ago still remain. Should I really care about what happens to those houses now? The essence of the neighbourhood has already changed completely. So what if bigger newer houses are replacing the smaller ones. It’s just reflecting the wholesale change in the socio-economic makeup of that area.
Watching home renovation shows based in Toronto is such a mind blowing thing for someone living in “knock-it-downville”. I’ve seen houses where the plumbing is over 100 years old, the electrical hopelessly inadequate, the stairs unsafe, the layout inefficient, the rooms tiny and the basement floor nothing more than dirt and yet there’s never any hint that it shouldn’t be fixed up and used for another 100 years.
Can anyone explain why entire neighbourhoods in Toronto still feature the original houses while anything over 40 years old in Vancouver is considered landfill? They have excessive land values and high rates of immigration just like we do.
scotbathgate says:
Bingo. Great point, I have wondered myself. My guess is their culture has been surrounded by large tracks of historic architecture for years (Toronto’s 1940 population was 3 times as large as Vancouver) and they appreciate it. Also price pressures haven’t really gone too crazy until the last decade?
David, yes, I can explalin. Culturally, some newcomers to Vancouver will not buy a house unless it is brand new as the “ghosts” of the previous inhabitants are considered bad luck.
We don’t need more zoning regulations protecting the existing housing stock. We need less regulation on new housing stock.
Ultimately the value of something is what someone is willing to pay for it. We’ve skewed the market through restrictive zoning so that these character homes are more valuable in a landfill than as they are.
There’s nothing wrong with people’s preferences for “monster houses”. What’s wrong is using the government to enforce your preferences for low rises on other people, which restricts the housing supply, and causes people to tear down heritage homes and build monster houses. People are responding to incentives – not enough housing, so build the biggest possible house on the lot that zoning will allow, then cram 10 people into the house.
If we allowed higher, denser buildings along, say, Cambie street, the desire to bulldoze these character homes would be substantially diminished.
The concern over the loss of heritage and character homes is found mostly on the west side and that’s where you’ll hear the term “monster house”. Such a dwelling is far more likely to be housing only 3 people than 10. The key features are high land value and, preferably, a brand new structure. Such buyers have no interest whatsoever in townhouses on Oak or condos on Cambie. Building another 20,000 units would do nothing to halt the destruction of character homes.
Older homes where all the value is in the land are natural targets for local builders and speculators hoping to sell to wealthy foreign and domestic investors. I’ve watched older houses purchased, demolished and the vacant lots resold for 10-15% more. Why would anyone preserve a character property when it’s worth less than the land it sits on?
Over on the east side things are different. Houses are built to the maximum there too and you may indeed find 10 people living under one roof. Most new houses have a single dwelling on the upper floor and two suites on the lower. But you’ll probably never hear the term “monster house” and the older housing stock already features clumsy additions and suite conversions. When I was looking to buy a house on the east side it was frightfully difficult to find anything more than 25 years old that hadn’t been subjected to shoddy renovation work. The contractor who toured houses with me vetoed nearly every one of them in the first five minutes. We eventually bought a house with a few honest mistakes and quirks that had been lovingly maintained by the original builder for 50 years. When we sold that house it was demolished to make way for a 21st century Vancouver Special.
Partly because East Van homes were often more basic, smaller and utlitarian. Therefore less concern over preservation. In the areas where they were grander you find the same push for preservation.
Now we are just binning the more architecturally interesting homes in favour of beasts like this: http://tinyurl.com/m4f4ndb
15 years ago the bungalow on this lot would have sold for around $400k, a nice starter home. Now its a $3.4 million lot filling eyesore designed for a prospective offshore buyer.
I disagree Spank; I think there is a lot wrong with “monster houses”: firstly, they are usually ugly; secondly, they are often left vacant and unmaintained; thirdly, they are often not of good quality construction; fourthly, they occupy most if not all of the lot, so there is not yard to speak of; and finally, they do not suit the character of a neighbourhood as they often lack character and dwarf adjacent homes.
It is ironic our supposedly green Council majority does not bat an eye as thousands of tonnes of demolition material is dumped in our own backyards, while making much ado about reducing vehicle emissions, where their efforts are less than a drop in a worldwide bucket.
Nobody who bought before 2005 is going to take a loss on their home if some air is let out of this frothy market. What percentage of homeowners is that? As a former council member, do you think it is council’s job to ensure resident’s real estate holdings always increase in value, even if it is at the expense of the environment and liveability?
And why is it so many posters automatically leap into attack mode on single family homes? Only a tiny percentage of these demolitions are about increasing density. The vast majority are about providing offshore owners a gaudy bauble.
Good points. I would support such a candidate but I’m probably in the minority. But maybe there’s another creative solution, such as allowing heritage house owners to build a larger laneway house on the condition that they accept heritage designation on the older, main house.
If nothing official, then we really need to start shaming people. It has to simply become culturally unacceptable to tear down an older house. There’s a lot we can do without regulations, but with good old fashioned peer pressure.
I have to say, a lot of these complaints seem like privileged, baby-boomer nostalgia. I’m a young person who rents in Mt. Pleasant, and I like a lot of the new modernist houses in the neighbourhood. I don’t see any reason why we should prevent new styles from being introduced, and I actually prefer neighbourhoods with different styles of housing.
Just because boomers grew up with the bungalow style doesn’t mean it is the only appropriate or interesting style.
JD, nobody here is advocating only for the bungalow; like you, we have a reverence for different styles of houses, that is houses with character and one-of-a-kind, often hand-crafted styles. The problems with some new houses is that they are cookie-cutter, pre-fabricated, and lacking in original features, essentially squared-off on all floors to maximize floor space at the expense of character. Other new houses are problematic because they are so different that they do not fit into the style, flavour, of a neighbourhood, standing out like sore thumbs. And, many today are thrown up so fast that they are not of good quality. I assure you that the concern is not one of “privileged baby boomer nostalgia”; rather, taste is at issue, and that varies greatly. As a self-professed “young” person, you like “new” and “modernist” regardless of placement or degree in a neighbourhood. You may, however, being “young” know little about, or have little appreciation for, the quality and originality of older products, and the importance of aesthetics on a neighbourhood street. You might find that your taste changes as you mature.
I would agree that any new house on an existing street ought to have a minimum yard size, minimum setbacks and pass a basic “uglyness” test say by a “heritage design panel” that has to review and approve new construction or major alterations.
However, in an in-migration society like Canada one person’s view of “ugly” is different than another person’s view as people from India, China, Russia, UK, France or Iran might differ on their view or preference of house style.
re housing on Cambie, the city ought to expropriate some houses and start preparing high-rise sites. It can’t be that bungalows are within 20 meters of subway stations. Alternatively y the property taxes could be raised 20 to 50 fold over its current single family house status. That would curb the value increase substantially and motivate a bungalow owner to sell for reasonable prices to allow for development. The city of course ought also not to approve high-rises on Granville or Arbutus, for example, until Cambie has reached a certain development state.
An then there is high rises construction at UBC with 15,000 new residents with no subway in sight nor even a second subway stop near these highrises even in a planning document anywhere.
Indeed much misguided urban planning in Vancouver and area that could be improved substantially.
Adam Fitch says:
Hmm, nice planning ideas there. Might work in a totalitarian state.
democracy to totalitarian state is a continuum as in essence only every 4 years voters have a say .. in between elections there is much room for exercising control over finances, land, laws, .. and every democratic government makes use of this right of control to some degree, some more, some less ..
How about we stop allowing foreigners to come and buy up all the properties at an exorbitant rate which makes the average Canadian now unable to buy a home. I hope the bubble bursts and home values drop below $200,00.
Ron S says:
All Governments will not do a thing about this because, a.) they have backroom free trade agreements with the Chinese to allow them to buy up anything in BC to encourage them to buy our oil and natural resources. b.) Americans have owned property in Canada for years, shutting them out means that wealthy New Englanders that have been owning property in the Maritimes for years are now subject to policy due to events in Vancouver. Also just so you know, British Columbia is the only Province that does not restrict foreign ownership of farmland and guess who’s buying that in record numbers? Hint, it ain’t young farmers from here. We are screwed.
Many a Dunbar or Point Grey retiree doesn’t mind selling their shack for $3.0M and retire in a condo at UBC, in the Okanagon or V Island. For every (foreign)buyer there is a seller who also benefits.
We should rather monetize foreigners’ desire to invest/buy here; for example by raising land transfer and/or property taxes for all, and reduce income taxes in parallel. Vancouver has one of the lowest property taxes in the country per $100,000 assessed value and other countries, like UK, are now introducing higher land transfer taxes.
I know plenty of young kids in East Van that have great start up ideas that have no access to capital. You want to invest in B.C. start here, community venture capitalism, actually do something to enrich this city instead of using it as your safety deposit box with no interest in being here. Shelter is a necessity not a means for rabid speculation. As for the people so called benefiting, that money will be quickly absorbed and depleted with kids and grandchildren that need to survive because of soaring tuition costs, no jobs due to automation/robotics and a horrible Vancouver job market, and raising healthcare costs due to the diabetes and obesity epidemic.
Thomas, pick up the latest Vancouver magazine and there is a great article about Sprawl in Vancouver’s West side and a great quote from Michael Kluckner, “Here’s my scenario for the West Side in 2025: its all rooming houses.” he says. “These houses are purpose built to be converted into rooming houses, with big bedrooms, good ceiling heights, bathrooms every four feet. It will be like what happened in the West End 100 years ago, when houses were too big for families after the first World War: everything got converted into rooming houses, and then later redeveloped more formally into apartments. It seems to me this is what will happen, and its not necessarily a bad thing.”
Racism in writing: traces of this exist even today, but now in the shadows, and somewhat disguised.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/05/16/b-c-property-titles-bear-reminders-of-a-time-when-race-based-covenants-kept-neighbourhoods-white/
Here you are Ken,
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/home-and-garden/real-estate/in-vancouver-race-undercuts-the-discussion-on-affordability/article19873510/
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This Black Children’s Magazine Started Nearly 100 Years Ago
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Because all children deserve to think of themselves as “great, heroic or beautiful.”
By Sean Braswell
The Daily Dose DEC 13 2018
Every revolutionary magazine needs a striking cover, and in January 1920, one appeared. It was a photograph of an African-American girl donning a fairy costume and crown. The title page of that issue contained an even bolder statement: “This is The Brownies’ Book,” it proclaimed in large font, “A Monthly Magazine For the Children of the Sun. Designed for All Children, But Especially For Ours.”
When The Brownies’ Book first hit presses in 1920, stories for or about Black children were largely missing from the landscape of children’s literature. And what did exist, from The Story of Little Black Sambo to poems like Ten Little Niggers that could be found in popular children’s magazines like St. Nicholas, was riddled with grotesque caricatures and stereotypes. As the creators of The Brownies’ Book, including the scholar and visionary W.E.B. Du Bois, put it: “All of the Negro child’s idealism, all his sense of the good, the great and the beautiful is associated with White people … He unconsciously gets the impression that the Negro has little chance to be great, heroic or beautiful.”
Brownies’ Book covers from 1920.
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The Brownies’ Book, which cost 15 cents per copy, set out to do just that: to give the “Children of the Sun” the chance to see positive, heroic and beautiful impressions of themselves — and to help build up an armor of pride to protect them from the racism they were sure to encounter in their lives. And in doing that, the magazine not only helped alter the perspectives of its young readers but also lay the foundation for a century of Black children’s literature to follow.
Du Bois and author Jessie Redmon Fauset, who served as the magazine’s literary editor, were the driving forces behind the project, which was a spinoff of The Crisis, the official magazine of the NAACP. They wanted to promote self-esteem, racial identity and leadership skills in Black children. It was part of the broader flowering of the Harlem Renaissance, Black culture and DuBois’ own efforts to cultivate the “Talented Tenth” — those who he felt were destined to be exceptional leaders — in the African-American community.
The Brownies’ Book ran from just January 1920 to December 1921 … but it helped foster a much longer lasting sense of pride and self-identity in its young readers.
The magazine featured stories, fairy tales, poems, games, songs, African folktales, and illustrated images of all types of Black girls and boys. It featured letters from the young readers themselves and a section entitled “As the Crow Flies,” which reported significant news and events from all over the world. The features were both entertaining and instructive. In “Dolly’s Dream,” for example, a 6-year-old girl wishes to have blonde curls just like her favorite doll, and she is given them by a fairy godmother in a dream, only to realize that nobody recognizes her as a result. When she awakens, she is happy to discover that she still has her black curls.
The Brownies’ Book also provided a forum for showcasing the art of aspiring Black writers and illustrators, including works from a 19-year-old Langston Hughes. Message books that are not also good literature do not work nearly as well, argues Dianne Johnson-Feelings, a professor of African-American literature at the University of South Carolina and editor of The Best of The Brownies’ Book. “It did start focusing people at creating literature aimed primarily at a Black audience,” says Johnson-Feelings, “but it was not only for Black readers. Good literature is for everybody.”
Page spread from The Brownies’ Book.
The Brownies’ Book ran from just January 1920 to December 1921 before encountering financial difficulties and ceasing to publish, but it helped foster a much longer lasting sense of pride and self-identity in its young readers and played a key part in sparking the development of African-American children’s literature. Du Bois claimed in his autobiography that The Brownies’ Book was one of the most satisfying efforts of his life.
The magazine was in many ways ahead of its time — and even our own, in which stories for Black children and by Black authors and illustrators continue to be underrepresented in children’s literature. But it was nonetheless an important and impactful effort. “If you wait until you think society is ready, then strides would never be taken,” says Johnson-Feelings. “If you wait for everyone’s hearts to change, then nothing ever changes on a big scale. So big thinkers do their thing and hope that everyone else catches up.”
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Connectivity — Part 2
Posted on April 30, 2011 by Professor Taboo
Albert Einstein tried to join the fundamental forces of nature to the accepted laws of elemental particles under one simplified framework called the Unified Field. Between the 1940’s and the 1970’s several scientific fields were successfully joined into one single model: James Maxwell’s electromagnetism was translated into mathematical terms called quantum mechanics; Niels Bohr and Richard Feynman, along with Einstein consolidated the behavior of matter and energy on molecular, atomic and sub-atomic levels into Quantum Physics. It was an age of great scientific discovery and newer challenges, primarily how to incorporate gravity into Quantum Mechanics and Physics.
Generational macro-to-micro perspective of a quark — click on the diagram for a grade school level explanation.
Experiments in particle acceleration, i.e. breaking down atoms into smaller sub-atomic particles by literally crashing them together, revealed seemingly more unqualifyable mechanics. Yet after decades of watching these experiments, physicists began seeing patterns or family groups of sub-atomic particles. In our science classes we learned that elements were made up of various atomic combinations. Within the individual atoms we learned they in turn were made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons. By 1968 physicists discovered yet another generation of particles: the Quarks. These sub-parts of protons and neutrons, six types exactly, exist within the nuclei of atoms. Therefore, with the spinning electrons, neutrinos (created via radioactivity), the six different quarks, and photons (the basic unit of light), scientists and physicists have found a “new” 4-Part Standard Model joining quantum mechanics, quantum physics, and yes, gravity. Mr. Einstein would be at the edge of his seat, right? Has the Unified Field finally moved from theory to Universal law? Not so fast.
For the last half century our most powerful sub-atomic microscopes and particle accelerators found the quarks. Now the questions are what hold these four basic components together? How are things solid or grouped together? What intelligence is behind the behavior of everything inside us, everything on our planet, our moon, our solar system and everything between and beyond? Well, modern physicists are pretty sure it’s a unique energy organizer. What can’t be explained yet is why there are vast weight-ranges, or mass from these seemingly infinite random forms of energy or intelligent interaction when protons and neutrons smash together.
Theoretical physicist Peter Higgs of Edinburgh University
Enter the Higgs Phenomena (Peter Higgs). Higgs postulates that there is a sub/sub-atomic field throughout everything and touching everything. When certain particles interact with this field, that interaction determines the mass of those particles, like our own bodies or other objects of form. More specifically, Higgs predicts that a matching particle will produce a constant-connector or force carrier (like light given off from photons), termed the Higgs Boson. Physicists think this Higgs Boson will be discovered and measured in a larger particle accelerator than previously constructed at Fermilab near Chicago, IL; which is 3.9 miles in circumference and capable of pushing particles of protons near the speed of light. But their accelerator is neither long enough nor powerful enough to crack-open the Universe’s last common denominator.
Near Geneva, Switzerland the European Organization for Nuclear Research (known as CERN) has built just such a mega-mammoth. The Large Hadron Collider is 17 miles in circumference and in 2009 and 2010 accelerated protons almost four times faster than Fermilab, but is designed to smash particles over 7-times faster or with 7-trillion electron volts. However, due to the enormous amounts of artificial energy required to push particles upwards to the speed of light and greater distances, the CERN’S LHC will not be ready for full-power colliding until 2014.
FermiLab Particle Accelerator outside of Chicago, IL
Detailed explanation of these future experiments and the plethora of scientific terms, theoretical experiments, laws, and their formulas goes beyond the scope of this already bloating two-part article. However, if you get a wild hair to exercise your brain and expand your knowledge in quantum physics, I urge you to do so, beginning with a few of these mentioned theories and scientists. But physicists now know that we must move beyond classical Empedoclesian and Newtonian laws of nature which have governed our understanding of matter, gravity, time and space for 2 or 3,000 centuries. At the scale of the Unified Field (or Higgs Boson) there is no other choice but to go outside classical intuitions.
Here is where things get abstractly bizarre, at least for me. Conceptually or theoretically this is where scientists are at today: macroscopic bodies/entities are in multiple positions simultaneously (around thousands or more) on the nuclear scale of the Unified Field called Quantum Superposition. They may also be connected over unbelievable distances called Entanglement. And more intriguingly, they can be congealed into one quantum state (e.g. our own bodies) governed by one wave function called, interestingly enough: Bose-Einstein Condensates, slightly touched on in Part 1 of this article with Dr. Emoto’s findings via waveforms.
The 17-mile CERN Particle Accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland. The synchrotron sits 574 ft beneath the surface.
Due to the depth of this subject and need to do it justice while not sacrificing meaning, I will continue this pseudo-brief topic in the third article: Connectivity – Back to Physics Class.
Meanwhile, for an excellent in-depth elaboration of the topics and terms covered in these two articles/blogs, watch the 8-part series: Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman. Another such resource is the two-part series: What the Bleep Do We Know!? Then the second: What the Bleep Do We Know!? Down the Rabbit Hole!
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Irish Food Finds and Other Adventures
Besides the scenery, history, and its hospitality to tourists, Ireland is known for high quality food. I was not surprised to find a diversity of eating establishments in the larger cities of Cork, Galway, and Dublin. Everything from McDonalds to Thai to swanky English restaurants abound. What did surprise me was the lack of options in the smaller towns. One Sunday, for example, I had hoped to procure a picnic lunch for my tour of Scattery Island but was unable to find an open café. In fact, not much of anything opens on Sundays in the more rural areas. The only pub in Kilrush offered breakfast meat with eggs when I would have happily settled for porridge. A premade deli salad from a nearby grocery store had to do, but that was one of only two disappointments in 11 days of culinary delights.
My first full day in Ireland almost ended with nothing to eat, since the majority of the restaurants in New Ross were closed by late afternoon. Thankfully, The Captain’s Table managed to rustle me up one last bowl of vegetable soup and a couple of slices of dark brown bread. Mmm! I enjoyed hot tea and homemade raspberry cheesecake at a corner table overlooking the Dunbrody Famine Ship until my waitress asked me to leave. She had to unlock the front door to let me out. It was barely six o’clock!
On day 2 I tried my luck at a pub. In the cramped parking lot of The Strand Tavern in Duncannon, I met with a trio visiting from England. Once they found out that I was traveling alone, the man, his wife, and their friend insisted that I join them inside for dinner. The three did their best to convince me to order a Guinness, but instead I chose a flight of local IPA’s (the first beer I’d had in almost four years). I was not disappointed. The Strand’s fish tacos were delicious! One of the perks of living on an island – you can bet that the seafood is always fresh.
Day 3 found me at The Old Thatch Pub & Restaurant in Killeagh, County Cork. I had my one and only Guinness over a lunch of carrot soup, a lamb sandwich, and homestyle chips. After that, it was ginger beer and Jameson for me. Following my historic tour of Kinsale, I stopped in at the Lemon Leaf Café where I enjoyed a late breakfast of oatmeal with fruit and hot tea.
Foley’s Guesthouse & Gastropub served up an enormous and unforgettable pot of mussels – straight from Kenmare bay – in a superb white wine sauce.
I could not help wondering if I’ll ever be able to eat mussels again after this!
My second night in Kenmare, I opted for an Irish favorite, potato and leek soup. The Wander Inn was crowded, but somehow I managed to meet four people from the U.S. Two of them were from Philly, visiting Ireland on their honeymoon. The other pair had just finished a two or three week hike along the west coast and were enjoying a final night of live music over drinks.
In Oranmore I had my first seafood chowder before splurging on a dessert of homemade pie and ice cream. I enjoyed a take-out meal of shepherd’s pie and muffins from a little café called Food for Thought in Galway the next day. The spot is well-known for its coffee, and the food was great too.
Malachy Quinn treated me to my only steak dinner in Ireland. He had come up to Trim to trade rental cars. We spent the evening talking about how our diverse spiritual paths had somehow led us both to appreciate the work of Anthony De Mello. Life really can be strange at times.
Somewhere between County Meath and Dublin, I enjoyed a breakfast of sauteed greens, tomatoes, and feta cheese, while watching Hurricane Ali blow away my plans for the day.
Later on after my tour of the Teeling Whiskey Distillery, I took the only open seat inside The Hairy Lemon – at the bar – and ordered a bowl of Irish Lamb stew. I spent the rest of the evening talking with a brand copyright lawyer on holiday from San Francisco.
This traditional Irish meal was truly outstanding!
The seafood chowder from Arthur’s Pub looked delicious, but it really was not.
I was sadly disappointed by the food my last night in Ireland. Arthur’s chowder tasted old, and even the brown bread was stale! 😦 Not the best way to end my journey. Surprisingly, breakfast in the Dublin airport was phenomenal, right down to the specialty coffee, so I certainly did not leave Ireland with a bad taste in my mouth!
No two pubs in Ireland are alike, except that the food is almost always handcrafted (read: scrumptious) and accompanied by live music and a friendly atmosphere. I fear I may miss the pubs of Ireland nearly as much as the breathtaking scenery and painted sheep.
Newgrange, County Wicklow, New Ross, & County Wexford
My journey began in the Dublin Airport where I rediscovered my dependence on my cell phone. In this case, I needed it to locate Malachy Quinn of My Irish Cousin who was meeting me with my vehicle. He also had my SIM card sorted, but without it I was unable to call or text him. Thankfully … the Internet. We used email to connect up, and after a rather funny series of missed interactions, we were at last sitting across from one another in an airport cafe. Over coffee we discussed my itinerary. Malachy sent me on my way at approximately half past six in the morning, with little to no driving instruction. Let the adventure begin!
Newgrange Memorial
Co. Meath Countryside
I drove north first to Newgrange, but arrived too early to take the tour. Eerily enough, Hurricane Ali prevented my attempt to revisit the prehistoric monument nine days later. I took this failure as a sign: “Not this time.” I suppose that could be interpreted as a promise to one day return. #Ireland2020
Wicklow Forest National Park
From Newgrange, I took a southwesterly route to Blessington, where I stopped in for breakfast. My Irish oatmeal came with fresh berries at Crafternoon Tea. The shop also sold handmade items – everything from knitted coasters to woolen hats, all as delightful as the food and drink. A narrow less-traveled road led me through County Wicklow. When I reached the National Park, however, the landscape bore little resemblance to a forest. I can only describe it as my idea of an English moor or heath.
Beautiful ground covers in lavender, bright green, and pale yellow swept across the rolling hills. When trees finally did appear, they struck me as an afterthought rather than a theme. I wondered at the culture that would call this stark land a forest. Random sheep grazed along the hillsides, but contrary to the many warnings I received, I never experienced a crossing.
The color on the sheep means nothing … the location of the paint identifies its owner.
The Ruins of Glendalough
I could not have imagined, much less predicted, the mesmerizing effect that Glendalough would have on me. Its charms left no wonder as to why St. Kevin chose this particular area as his place of solitude. The peaceful, majestic woods gave reason enough for the existence of the ruins of the monastic settlement, but I found the remains of the ancient stone structures as compelling as the natural beauty of the Valley of Two Lakes.
Glendalough’s monastic city grew out of the settlement founded by St. Kevin in the 6th century. Surviving structures today date back to the 10th and 12th centuries.
“Despite attacks by Vikings over the years, Glendalough thrived as one of Ireland’s great ecclesiastical foundations and schools of learning until the Normans destroyed the monastery in 1214 A.D. and the dioceses of Glendalough and Dublin were united.”
~ www.VisitWicklow.ie
I strolled the Green Road Walk all that drizzly afternoon, taking time to wander into the shops surrounding the visitor’s center. My favorite photo would have to be the house I spied sitting up on a hill across a little stream.
One of my more insightful friends asked if this is where the Faeries live. Indeed.
From Glendalough, I made my way to New Ross where I enjoyed a meal of vegetable soup and Irish brown bread overlooking a replica of the Dunbrody Famine Ship.
According to Wikipedia, “The Great Famine of Ireland during the 1840s saw a significant number of people flee from the island to all over the world. Between 1841 and 1851, as a result of death and mass emigration (mainly to Great Britain and North America), Ireland’s population fell by over 2 million. Robert E. Kennedy explains, however, that the common argument of the mass emigration from Ireland being a ‘flight from famine’ is not entirely correct: firstly, the Irish had been coming to build canals in Great Britain since the 18th century, and once conditions were better, emigration did not slow down. After the famine was over, the four following years produced more emigrants than during the four years of the blight. Kennedy argues that the famine was considered the final straw to convince people to move and that there were several other factors in the decision making.”
Winding country lanes led me to my first AirBnB – a dairy farm in Ramsgrange, near the border between County Kilkenny and County Wexford. Somehow I never spotted Phil and Shirley’s cows, but that did not stop me enjoying their (raw) milk in my morning tea. Phil and I shared breakfast the next morning, and he sent me off with a couple of apples picked fresh from the trees you see in the photo above (left). Irish hospitality at its best!
Wexford Town
I spent the morning of Day 2 walking the streets of Wexford Town. There I found an embroidery shop where I had my grand daughter’s name etched into the belly of a lamb. I spent a good hour or more in a Birkenstock store conversing with the shop owner about everything from divorce to the rewards and difficulties of running a small business in Ireland. It might have been uncanny how easily she and I got on, except I’ve gotten used to meeting kindred spirits along my path. Happens to me all the time.
Street performers were pretty common in the shopping districts.
Kilmore Quay
A visit to the Ballyteigue Burrow Nature Reserve made for an excellent afternoon. The green tract in the photo on the left follows the coastline, then makes a loop back to the harbor for about a 4 kilometer hike.
The views along the way were stunning.
Hook Head
Shirley had recommended I visit Hook Lighthouse and Loftus Hall, so those were my final destinations for day 2. The lighthouse was amazing, but I missed the tour of the most haunted house in all of Ireland by about 30 minutes.
A Templar monastic ruin in Templetown on the Hook Peninsula:
During the first few days of my journey, I delighted in traveling the back roads for scenery such as this. But as I neared the end of week one, the stress of driving on the left, along roads almost too narrow for two vehicles to pass, finally lured me back onto Ireland’s main thoroughfares, but already the breathtaking beauty and variety that is Ireland’s southeast had stolen my heart.
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Last Bugatti Veyron Hypercar Has Been Sold
The 16-cylinder, quad-turbo Bugatti Veyron shocked the sports car world upon its production debut a decade ago, instantly breaking a long-standing land speed record to earn the title of “World’s Fastest Street-Legal Production Car.” When Volkswagen acquired the historic sports car brand in the late 1990s and set its top engineers to work, the new company had four targets: more than 1,000 horsepower, a 240-mph top speed, 0-to-62-mph acceleration in under 3 seconds, and daily drivability on the street.
From the get-go, the new Bugatti made clear that only 450 Veyron units would be produced before the world-beating hypercar would be retired for good. Ten years later, they have made good on that promise, with the last example bought by an unnamed customer in the Middle East. The final car, a Veyron Grand Sport roadster, bears a special “La Finale” designation and will be shown at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show. The cars have sold for an average price of $2.6 million.
First-run Veyron models packed an 8.0-liter, 16-cylinder engine packing four turbochargers and the most complicated cooling system ever fitted to a production car for a cool 1,001 horsepower. The two-door coupe was capable of 253 mph. Then, as other hypercars caught up to Bugatti’s fine machine, the company upped the ante with the Veyron Super Sport, which raised output to 1,200 horsepower for a Guinness World Record-verified 267-mph top speed. The lineup expanded to include the targa-top convertible Veyron Grand Sport and numerous special editions.
All in all, Bugatti sold 300 hardtops and 150 Grand Sports, around half of those cars finding owners in Europe while a quarter of all units reached the United States. The car still holds the record for the world’s fastest street-legal production car, depending on who you ask, as American company Hennessey Performance and European outfit Koenigsegg both claim their top-spec supercars are faster.
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Category: No. 6
No. 6 11 (Fin)
Citizens of No. 6 start dying from the parasitic wasps within them. Shion and Rat have found Safu, but she’s become a medium for Elyurias, and while part of her remains to tell Shion she loves him, she isn’t quite Safu anymore. Rat sets a bomb on the main computer core and escapes with Shion, but Safu stays put. When the bomb blows, the prison begins to crumble, and is hastily evacuated. Both Nezumi and Rat are seriously wounded by gunfire from guards. Elyurias transforms into a giant wasp and spreads her power throughout No. 6, removing the infestation of wasps, tearing down the walls, and healing the guys. With eveything Shion hoped for accomplished, he and Nezumi go their separate ways, with Shion returning to a changed No. 6.
Eleven-episode runs can be killer for series with Really Big Ideas like No. 6. As the series progressed, it seemed unsure of how large a story to tell, and unsure how exactly to tell it. Episodes were spent with Nezumi and Rat just sitting around philosophizing. There’s a lot of exposition and lengthly explanation here, too. This was not a perfect ending, and I don’t think it was a great one, either. But it was pretty good.
I was disappointed that the guys came all that way to rescue Safu (though Rats primary goal was destroying the prison) only for her to say a few word and then basically die; she almost feels like a McGuffin. She’s obviously the kind of girl who knows who she loves no matter how little of him she actually sees, and Shion is a mess after Rat carries him off without her, having lost someone he had so much more to say to. But his pipe dream came true – in a deus ex machina, neat-little-package way kinda way. It had a definite ending, which is more than can be said of some 11-episode series.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Thu, 15 Sep 2011 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 Categories Anime Reviews, No. 6, Summer 2011Tags 11, city, dreams, elyurias, fin, love, nezumi, No. 6, parasites, peace, prison, rat, safu, shion, walls, wasps3 Comments on No. 6 11 (Fin)
No. 6 10
Having gained access to the prison via capture, Shion and Nezumi must climb a mountain of dead and dying bodies in order to reach their ultimate destination. As they progress through the prison, Shion starts to hear Safu, and he becomes virtually possessed by a force that drives him towards her, making him calm, cold, and merciless to the security guards. He snaps out of the trance and the two meet up with Safu, as was planned by Elyurias.
Nezumi hopes beyond hope that the Shion he entered the prison will be the same one who leaves, but that grows less and less likely as he’s exposed to its visceral horrors. I can’t imagine why such unspeakably horrible measures need to be taken to preserve No. 6, and the systems in place seem to dwarf any possible human effort to oppose them. Of course, the power of Elyurias seems to be beyond the power of those who run No. 6. One would hope, that is.
This episode is full of quick, kinetic action sequences, as we finally get to see Nezumi do what he does best. But for all their efforts and good intentions, I can’t help but feel that Elyurias – whomever she/it is – may not be altogether benevolent herself, and that Shion and Safu are merely her instruments, carrying out her will without a shred of their own. If they were themselves, they certainly wouldn’t kill, and yet, here they are, killin’!
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Thu, 8 Sep 2011 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 Categories Anime Reviews, No. 6, Summer 2011Tags 10, action, dead bodies, elyurias, horror, killing, nezumi, No. 6, prison, rat, safu, shion, violence3 Comments on No. 6 10
No. 6 9
Those who run No.6 show just how evil they can be as they plow through the western district, indiscriminately killing and destroying. Nezumi begins enacting the plan to save Safu / bring No. 6 down, including luring a No. 6 official with Dogkeeper for info, then getting captured and sent to the correctional facility where Safu is. They and the others who survived and surrendered may soon wish they’d been killed back in town, from the looks of it.
Just in case you didn’t know: No. 6 is a bad, bad place run by bad, bad people. They massacre people outside the walls, scoop up whoever survived, then dump them into a big black void like garbagemen dumping trash into a landfill. It’s bleak, and it’s a scale of evil we haven’t yet seen, but here it is, with Nezumi and Shion right in the middle of it. I’d ask how they’re going to survive what seemed like a fall of, conservatively, several hundred feet, but oh well.
Between Rikiga’s side job as a pimp, dogkeeper’s ambiguous gender, Shion’s “serious” dreams for the perfect happy ending we know we’re not going to get, Safu waking up and attacking the lab techs, and the aforementioned dumping into a big cubist prison, it would seem like the buildup is just about complete. Which is good, because there are only two episodes left to wrap up all this loveliness. Oh yeah, Nezumi also sings, but I felt like it would have been more impactful without the reverb and accompaniment.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Fri, 2 Sep 2011 Sat, 3 Sep 2011 Categories Anime Reviews, No. 6, Summer 2011Tags 9, correctional facility, dogkeeper, evil, massacre, murder, nezumi, No. 6, rat, rikiga, safu, shion, singing, sion, western district1 Comment on No. 6 9
The hall is rented. The orchestra engaged. It’s now time to see if Sion and Nezumi can dance. This week is an overture to the big prison infiltration and Safu rescuing – if Safu is still alive by the time they get there. Men in medical masks keep talking about how excellent her “synch rate” is and how many elites died to get this result. She needs to get out of that tube, pronto.
Nezumi apparently thinks Safu can wait a bit longer…at least with their current level of information and preparedness. He leads Sion down a canyon and into a massive cathedralic cavern full of blue water like the kind Safu’s suspended in. It’s a colony for No. 6 exiles, led by a scientist who, along with Karan, helped build No. 6 (I didn’t catch his name). Like Sion, he survived being host to a parasite bee, and was rewarded with the same white hair and pink scars.
He proves to be a font of information, telling him the song Nezumi, Sion and Safu can hear is in fact the voice of Elyurias, a god-like being who watches over the world and only talks to those who listen. The song turns blue water amber (we don’t know why yet). He also reveal’s Nezumi’s past: he’s the last survivor of a tribe of “forest people” slaughtered by No. 6 with fire. His scars are from burns. He hands a Computer Chip Full ‘O’ Answers to Sion for later perusal and sends them on their way. Rikiga and Dogkeeper are waiting for them when they return home, ready to lay out a plan to save Safu.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Fri, 26 Aug 2011 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 Categories Anime Reviews, No. 6, Summer 2011Tags 8, answers, cave, chip, colony, dogkeeper, elyurias, exile, forest people, massacre, nezumi, No. 6, prison, rescue, rikiga, safu, scientist, shion, sion
Ah, now this is more like it! Instead of characters, relationships and motivations all essentially milling around in a holding pattern as they seem to have done the past couple episodes, Shion finally has a reason to do something, Nezumi finally takes up a position, and, with four episodes left, we may be starting to see sunshine at the end of the pseudo-utopian corridor.
As I’ve said, I really like Safu. She’s pretty, she’s very bright, and she’s very forward and to-the-point where sex is concerned. Unfortunately, last week she was captured by DHS right when she was about to go after Shion. While bright, she underestimated the level of surveillance in No.6, as Shion’s mom’s house was bugged. Safu only has one brief scene this week, but that’s all we need to see that she’s in peril and in dire need of rescue. Whenever you wake up naked and suspended in liquid-filled glass tube in a lab, things are not going well (Just ask Bill Clinton).
Nezumi keeps the knowledge that Safu is imprisoned from Shion, at least initially. But despite his outward mocking and loathing of the white-haired mother hen, he starts scheming behind his back to save Safu himself, using the dogkeeper’s prison connections. I love his interaction with the dogkeeper here: we’ve never known why the two hate each other so much they’d wish each other dead, but they seem to have reached a truce here. Meanwhile, Shion finds out anyway, when he find’s Safu’s coat in a thrift store of all places. So he’s off to save her…alone.
After exchanging a “goodnight kiss” (on the lips?) that’s really a goodbye kiss, Shion is off. But Nezumi follows, and the two exchange punches, thankfully no more kisses, and Nezumi finally voices exactly what Shion means to him, going all the way back to when he saw him screaming from his balcony in a rainstorm. Shion is his savior, the reason he draws breath today. These two clearly have feelings for each other, and they have for a long time. But Safu still needs saving. They’ll save her together.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Fri, 19 Aug 2011 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 Categories Anime Reviews, No. 6, Summer 2011Tags 7, dogkeeper, lab, life, nezumi, No. 6, plan, prison, projector, rat, rescue, safu, save, savior, shion, surveillance, tube
I like how Safu is walking around a cold, windless No. 6 with a look of contempt on her place. If it weren’t for her grandmother dying, Safu would never have returned to No. 6, and learned that Shion’s no longer there, but out in the West Block. When she learns this, she immediately declares her undying love for him and vows to track him down. But the security bureau have other ideas, and promptly detain her after she leaves Shion’s mom’s bakery.
I can safely say Safu is my favorite character in this series, and so it’s good to see more of her. The black-and-white-haired lovebirds have just gotten boring. They repeat the same arguments over and over; Nezumi is a totally static dickweed, and Shion is as plain and dull as his hair color, going on about developing a serum and breaking down the wall. It would be nice to see exciting stuff like that, but instead we get more odd couple bickering.
Great things have been done in eleven episodes before. AnoHana most recently. FLCL was only six episodes; Blue Submarine No. 6 only four. All of them did an infinitely better job telling a story in a limited time than this. The main characters are totally unlikable and they’re either too waffling or too weak to do anything. The only person who tries to take action – Safu – is immediately arrested. And when Nezumi gets word of this, does he tell Shion? ‘Course not. Give me a break, No. 6!
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Fri, 12 Aug 2011 Sat, 13 Aug 2011 Categories Anime Reviews, No. 6, Summer 2011Tags 6, love, nezumi, No. 6, odd couple, rat, reunion, safu, security, serum, shion, wall, west block, wind
Okay, so Nezumi’s an actor, but because he’s so pretty, he plays female roles, of course. Against his wishes, Shion goes to see him perform Shakespeare. Meanwhile, in No. 5, Safu is visiting a museum with her classmates when both she and Nezumi are hit by a strange “wind”, start to hear singing, and then pass out into a dream state.
Safu wakes up in hospital, while Nezumi is carried home by Shion, who then tells him about the parasite bee attacks. Nezumi teaches him how to dance for some reason, the lovebirds kill some time dancing, and then Shion touches Nezumi’s neck, surprising him, as he didn’t have time to dodge. Perhaps Shion’s new hair and tats lent him some powers?
The Safu and Nezumi connection threw me off a bit, especially when he said it had nothing to do with bees. What exactly is going on is still something that mostly escapes me, and aside from the shared dizzy spell and the suspicion next week Nezumi and Shion may be eskimo kissing, this episode felt too much like a holding pattern, even stalling.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Tue, 9 Aug 2011 Tue, 9 Aug 2011 Categories Anime Reviews, No. 6, Summer 2011Tags 5, acting, bee, dancing, dizzy spell, female, museum, nezumi, No. 5, No. 6, parasite, safu, shakespeare, shion
I have to say, I just wasn’t impressed with this week’s No. 6 outing. Essentially, Nezumi sends word to Shion’s mom (via rat) that he’s alive, and she sends word back of a friend of hers who also lives in the West District. He also happens to be a pimp who dresses like Pee Wee Herman.
Shion is certainly a fish out of water here, as everyone runs their mouth in a foul, inpolite manner, which mortifies him. But even after his appearance-changing ordeal last week, he’s still a rather listless, directionless, weak kid. If this place is so horrible – and we haven’t seen anything to prove otherwise – why the hell would he want to stay?
In a word, Nezumi. But Nezumi was just one-note this week, acting like an asshole most of the time. He clearly likes/loves Shion, or else he wouldn’t have done everything he has for him to this point; saving his life for the umpteenth time. These two seme very close, both in a brotherly way, but also with undertones of romance. But that, and everyone’s motivations and goals, still seem distant and vague, despite this series being more than a third complete.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Sat, 30 Jul 2011 Sat, 30 Jul 2011 Categories Anime Reviews, No. 6, Summer 2011Tags 4, herman, mom, nezumi, No. 6, pee wee, romance, shion, western district
Shion starts reacting unfavorably to his strange dark bruises, and Nezumi must operate to remove a pupa. In the process, Shion’s hair changes color and he gets strange pink strips all around his face and body. His friend aged rapidly before dying from the bee, but Shion survives, thanks to Nezumi, who saves his life for the second time.
Now Shion must come to grips with his new reality: he’s outside No.6, looking in. He can’t have the same mentality he had before. Nezumi doesn’t like the city one bit, and will gladly laugh heartily as it burns to the ground. Furthermore, he threatens Shion not to go crawling back there, or they’ll be enemies. While Nezumi has every right to be bitter considering how he was treated, Shion can’t quite be okay with him wishing for the city where his mom and friends live meeting a horrific fate.
In the meantime, we meet another resident of the real world, the “dogkeeper.” She politely stands by in amusement while Shion lays out his plan to warn the city about the killer parasitic bees. But his plan is full of holes. He won’t be warmly recieved if he goes back, especially looking the way he does. Heck, he may have blown it with Safu, too, what with his exile and new, punkish look.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Thu, 21 Jul 2011 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 Categories Anime Reviews, No. 6, Summer 2011Tags 3, bee, dogkeeper, enemy, exile, loyalty, nezumi, No. 6, parasite, rat, safu, shion
First of all, yowza, this episode contained (courtesy of Safu) probably the most forward proposal for sex I’ve heard in an anime since Mezzo Forte, which was at least part-porn. Second of all, good grief, four frikkin’ years have gone by! We never see the consequences of Shion harboring Nezumi in realtime, only his recollection of it. Basically, his life is ruined; he and his mom are kicked out of No.6 and he’s reduced to working as a park supervisor in “lost town”, far from glittering Chronos.
It was definitely gutsy to let so much time pass. Safu’s role still seems unclear to me, as Shion only sees her as a friend, and she’s leaving for No.5 to study abroad for still another two years. Meanwhile, Lost Town is just as authoritarian as No.6, and when Shion speaks out of turn regarding a mysterious and gruesome death, the government locks him up for malcontentedness.
Fortunately, Nezumi has been watching him from afar, and rescues him in the nick of time. They run into the woods and eventually make it outside the walls of the city to “the real world”, a bleak, sickly, dystopian urban growth sticking to the outside of the wall. It would seem Shion’s journey has just begun. Oh yeah, and what the heck was up with those neck bees? Rating: 3.5
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Thu, 14 Jul 2011 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 Categories Anime Reviews, No. 6, Summer 2011Tags 2, chronos, lost town, nezumi, No. 5, No. 6, rat, real world, safu, sex, shion, wall, years
No. 6 1 – First Impressions
As the first scene involves the chase of an escaped prisoner, I automatically assumed that No. 6 was the name of the grey-haired kid the guys with guns were chasing. Turns out No.6 is a place; specifically, a city-state in which our protagonist Shion lives. This futuristic, semi-utopian society has a few quirks to it, including the mysterious “Moondrop”, something that sounds like a whale when it cries, and which Shion seems to feels a special connection with.
A few things about Shion: he’s a very girly-looking guy, but then again he’s supposed to be twelve, so that’s okay. He’s a genius, about to enter a ‘special course’, with a high IQ and a kind heart. He also tends to remain calm and measured in his reactions to sudden events. When his friend Safu kissses him, he doesn’t wig out; when the escaped convict – who calls himself Nezumi (“rat”) – invades his house and chokes him, he barely flinches. The only time he loses his composure is when Nezumi tells him he saw him screaming at the Moondrop. For some reason, that turns him beet-red.
So this is a bit of a ‘prince meets the pauper’ kinda deal so far. Nezumi is wanted by the “safety bureau” for some reason, and it looks like he’s led a rough life so far, and he ain’t that old. Meanwhile, Shion isn’t used to expressing fear or doubt; his wealth and status preclude him from despair, if not boredom. But for all his intelligence and kindness, the reality is he’s harboring a fugitive, and that could get him, and his mom, in deep doo-doo if he’s not careful.
I liked this first episode, because it set up a lot of things while leaving a lot left to be answered in the forthcoming episodes. Despite a core cast of kids, it seems pretty mature and temperant so far. I haven’t really be interested in watching anything from Studio Bones for a while, but this definitely shows promise. Production values are decent, if not extraordinary. Rating: 3.5
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Fri, 8 Jul 2011 Fri, 8 Jul 2011 Categories Anime Reviews, No. 6, Summer 2011Tags Bones, chronos, city-state, escaped, moondrop, nezumi, No. 6, prisoner, rat, safu, shion, utopia, whale
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As Iroha finds herself witnessing a friendship of three girls strain against deep-seated resentment, she has another dream about Ui, this time with her two friends Toka and Nemu. The three are very smart and build amazing things together (which also make amazing messes) but Ui is constantly the glue holding Toka and Nemu together; the Momoko to Kaede and Rena.
Before Iroha can investigate the lead her new dream has provided, her new Kamihama friends Momoko and Rena have a more pressing problem: Kaede is trapped in a Staircase!
The three visit Coordinator Yakumo Mitama, who offers to “adjust” Iroha’s Soul Gem to possibly awaken more power, and also connects them with Nanami Yachiyo, the unfriendly magical girl who already warned Iroha not to return.
Yachiyo puts aside her animosity for Iroha (whom she believes to be so weak as to be a nuisance) and agrees to help the others rescue Kaede. The four have their Magical Girl transformations, all of which are very cool and very stylish. Yachiyo’s sandals and Iroha’s sheer top are particular fashion standouts.
Yachiyo and Momoko attempt to draw out the Witch by writing their names on the steps and then apologizing, and when that doesn’t work, Rena tries to apologize to Kaede, but it’s insincere. Finally she goes off on a rant about how she actually hates Kaede, and she’s sorry for “making” Kaede her friend.
That brings for the Witch and an elaborate Labyrinth of branching staircases. They find Kaede, and she and Rena eventually reconcile, promising to compromise in their relationship so that Rena isn’t always made out to be the villain.
Momoko and Yachiyo detach the Witch’s core (in the form of a bell) from the Labyrinth’s summit, and Rena and Kaede combine their powers to eradicate it. But oddly, there’s no Grief Seed, which means the entity they just defeated might not be a Witch.
Rena disguises herself to gain access to the medical center, and learns that while no one remembers Ui, they do remember her friends Toka and Nemu. They were eventually discharged, though they don’t remember where. It’s the first concrete proof Iroha’s dreams aren’t just dreams. They contain truths about the past.
That brings us to a post-credit sequence in which a Magical Girl from the original Madoka series makes an appearance: Madoka’s mentor and friend, Tomoe Mami. Kyuubey has summoned her to investigate the strange goings-on Kamihama City—including the phenomenon that renders him unconscious whenever he tries to enter.
We know that Iroha interacts with a “Baby” Kyuubey in Kamihama of whom “Adult” Kyuubey isn’t aware. It seems inevitable that Iroha will cross paths with Mami at some point. As mysteries continue to be revealed and twist together, my enthusiasm for this new series grows.
Author magicalchurlsukuiPosted on Sat, 18 Jan 2020 Categories Anime Reviews, Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica Gaiden, Winter 2020Tags akino kaede, マギアレコード, battle, branches, chain monster, dreams, erased, fighting, friendship, friendships, hanazawa kana, kamihama, kuroe, Kyuubey, magical girls, minami rena, mystery, reconciliation, staircase, tamaki iroha, togame momoko, Tomoe Mami, trains, witchLeave a comment on Magia Record – 03 – My Friend Whom I Hate
Magia Record – 02 – With Friends Like These…
Iroha keeps dreaming of her little sister, Ui. Kyuubey questions if Ui is or was even a real person, wondering why anyone would bother erasing her. But let’s not forget: Kyuubey is a trickster and can’t be trusted! Iroha’s apparent wish was to cure Ui, a wish that might result in Ui being cured, but doesn’t preclude her from disappearing, both from Iroha’s physical world and her memory.
There’s a medical center in her dream that’s a real place in Kamihama, so she sets off in the off-chance Ui is still a patient there. Her bus ride is interrupted by a Witch, who charms all of the passengers and lures them into a Labyrinth. Iroha transforms and follows, but again she is outmatched, as is a red-haired magical girl Akino Kaede. Fortunately Kaede has friends in Togame Momoko and Minami Rena.
Momoko, ostensibly the Mama Bear of their Kamihama trio, offers to help Iroha find her sister. Iroha supports Momoko, but Rena is opposed to any activities that deviate from their mission to investigate and stop the Chain Witch.
Iroha inadvertently serves as the catalyst for a huge dust-up between Rena and Kaede that leads to the latter saying their friendship is over, and Momoko only makes things worse trying to smooth things over. It’s clear that it’s hard in any universe for magical girls to get along, let alone maintain amicable friendships.
The thing about Rena is, she can shift her form to someone else, making a search for her the next day difficult. Momoko and Kaede want reconciliation, and so does Rena, but she’s held back, be it from pride, shame, or regret.
That’s when the infamous “Chain Monster” arrives, fulfilling the urban legend about writing your name and the name of a friend on a certain staircase to formally end your friendship. Just two episodes in and things get dark in a hurry, as the most cheerful and innocent of the magical girls is swallowed up by chains and dragged into the staircase. Rena and Momoko can do nothing to stop it.
The question is, is the Chain Monster the same as the Chain Witch, is the staircase a Labyrinth? If so, perhaps they can go in, rescue Kaede, and defeat the witch in one stroke. Or maybe Kaede is gone, forever. You just don’t know with this show!
Author magicalchurlsukuiPosted on Sat, 11 Jan 2020 Categories Anime Reviews, Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica Gaiden, Winter 2020Tags akino kaede, マギアレコード, battle, chain monster, dreams, erased, fighting, friendships, hanazawa kana, kamihama, kuroe, Kyuubey, magical girls, minami rena, mystery, shaft, staircase, tamaki iroha, togame momoko, trains, witchesLeave a comment on Magia Record – 02 – With Friends Like These…
Magia Record – 01 (First Impressions) – Changing of the Guard
Same system, new universe. Magia Record’s English subtitle is quite clear: this is a side story, starring a new pink-haired protagonist in Tamaki Iroha (Asakura Momo). She’s an independent, reliable, somewhat lonely low-level magical girl whose school friends are unaware of her double life. Once in a while a Witch will interrupt her elevated train commute and force her into a trippy Labyrinth where she must do battle.
Lately Iroha has been trying to determine what her Wish was—the one Wish granted by Kyuubey in exchange for becoming a Magical Girl—but she’s forgotten, possibly due to part of the wish itself being for her to forget. Meanwhile, a number of Magical Girls are having the same dream about a mysterious girl telling them they’ll be “saved” if they go to Kamihama City.
Iroha’s comrade Kuroe (Hanazawa Kana) intends to visit the city to see for herself. Iroha misses her stop and accompanies her, but on the way they’re enveloped by another Labyrinth and attacked by another Witch, this one too powerful for either of them. In the ensuing fracas, Iroha encounters a tiny, apparently younger version of Kyuubey.
Madoka Magica’s trademark radical shifting of visual styles carries over into this series, and I can say with confidence that whether inside or outside of a Witch’s Labyrinth, this first episode looks like a million bucks. Iroha’s hometown of Takarazaki with its skinny, towering apartment blocks and hanging gardens are among the standout vistas to which we’re treated. The Labyrinth also blasts the girls high above the clouds at dusk. Gorgeous.
Iroha and Kuroe eventually come down to earth, crashing into a huge arcology-like skyscraper in none other than Kamihama City. Their savior is a dark blue-haired witch whose powers vastly surpass theirs, but more than anything she’s miffed to find two interlopers operating in her territory. She tells them that contrary to the dream, Kamihama is no haven for Magical Girls. There are more of them, and they’re more powerful because they have to battle tougher Witches.
Iroha and Kuroe return home with a warning from the third girl not to return, and to discourage any other girls from attempting to visiting; they’ll be considered enemies. Iroha ends up having another elaborate dream as she watches scores of seemingly brainwashed girls headed to Kamihama, luggage in hand, assured of their salvation. Then she remembers her Wish to Kyuubey: to save Ui, an ill girl who may be her sister.
With a stylish presentation, super-cool wardrobe, stirring soundtrack, and cloudy mysteries waiting to be tackled, Magia Record looks to pick up where Madoka Magica left off, showing us the darker sides of Magical Girldom in a new setting with new players. I for one am full steam ahead on this one!
Author magicalchurlsukuiPosted on Sat, 4 Jan 2020 Categories Anime Reviews, Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica Gaiden, Winter 2020Tags alternate universe, マギアレコード, battle, dreams, hanazawa kana, kamihama, kuroe, Kyuubey, magical girls, mystery, psychological, shaft, tamaki iroha, territory, trains, witchesLeave a comment on Magia Record – 01 (First Impressions) – Changing of the Guard
Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld – 09 – Slash & Flash
Getting impatient, Vecta orders his main force of Pugilists and Dark Mages to advance with orders to capture Alice unscathed at all costs. Now that his prey/soul-snack is in sight, it won’t be long before he takes a more active role in the battle.
Another new Integrity Knight in Sheyta Synthesis Twelve volunteers to meet the Pugs and slow them down. Her specialty is impossibly fast slashes from an elegant and flexible épée-like sword skinnier than she is (the Pugs mock her lack of muscle tone on several occasions).
Sheyta has no problem carving up the Pug leader Champion’s forces with brutal efficiency, but Champion himself is literally made of harder stuff, which intrigues her. She draws the battle out longer for two reasons—she’s buying time for Bercouli, Alice, and the others, but once all of her armor has been sheared away and Champ is at full power, she’s actually having fun.
She’s about to finish things when Champ’s lieutenants snatches him away. The match ends in a draw, but put a rare smile on Sheyta’s face. She and Champion gained a mutual warrior respect, the kind of two-sided badass brawl I prefer to simply obliterating the masses of boring evil monsters.
Vecta sends Vassago to harass the Humans’ supply corps, and ends up crossing swords with Ronie (never any luck, that girl). However, she’s able to sound the alarm, and Alice and Bercouli are also there, having anticipated their supplies would be targeted. Even so, Ronie is in big trouble against the far stronger Vassago…until a miracle occurs.
At least, Ronie considers it a miracle, because the God of Creation Stacia appears above her and rends great fissures in the earth that swallow up Vassago and his minions. Stacia, of course, is merely an Underworld avatar being inhabited by our good friend Yuuki Asuna, who makes one hell of a divine entrance that simply gave me goosebumps.
On his way down his own personal size abyss, Vassago recognizes “Lightning Flash” from Knights of the Blood in SAO. The hero(ine) is finally, finally on the scene, in a powerful avatar poised to rescue the damsel-in-distress—in this case Kirito in a welcome inversion of SAO II. I can’t wait to see her fighting beside Alice.
Author braveradePosted on Sat, 7 Dec 2019 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2019, Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of UnderworldTags alice, Asuna, ソードアート・オンライン アリシゼーション, battle, bercouli, blood, champion, dark territory, goblins, goddess of light, having fun, Kirito, mages, orcs, pugilists, rapier, renly, ronie arabel, sacrifice, SAO, sheyta, slasher, souls, stacia3 Comments on Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld – 09 – Slash & Flash
Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld – 08 – Sacrifice on Both Sides
Alice just continues to be the biggest badass in SAOA, as it should be, since her name’s in the title. Fresh off of obliterating a sizable chunk of the enemy’s forces, Alice comes down to earth exhausted, but there’s no rest for the weary as she gets right back up.
When the chief of the Ogres emerges from the carnage, Alice learns that she’s the primary target of Emperor Vecta before sending him to the grasslands to where he wants his people to return.
Meanwhile, Eldrie comes before her consumed with shame and self-pity for not being able to live up to the standards of her disciple, but she’s just happy he’s still alive.
After a brief war council, Alice proposes and Bercouli agrees to split up their forces. Being the “Goddess of Light” the Dark Emperor seeks, she’ll gain the attention of a sizable chunk of his remaining forces, evening the odds for the Human Empire. She’s essentially bait.
On the other side, a discouraged Dee Eye Ell gets her second wind when Vecta offers her the lives of the 3,000 orcs in order to provide the energy necessary for a large-scale counterattack.
Like the Ogre Chief who simply wanted his people to return home, the orcs are painted in a sympathetic light, and the show is unblinking in their suffering as they give up their lives for a larger cause than themselves.
Alice doesn’t see the attack coming until it’s too late, but Eldrie is there to divert and absorb it with his Recollection, resulting in severe injuries that ultimately claim his life. While Alice is beside herself and orders/begs him not to die and leave her, promising to do anything for him, Eldrie couldn’t ask for a happier death, in the arms of the mentor he protected, valued and loved above all else.
Thanks to Eldrie, Alice can fight on, decimating the Dark Mages to the point Dee Eye Ell just starts sacrificing her own underlings in order to stay alive. Dee dreams of becoming Empress, meaning at some point she’d have to betray Vecta.
But Alice intends to skip over her entirely and go after Vecta directly. She knows at some point she must reach the World’s End Altar, she just has more immediate matters to attend to—not to mention a full head of steam after losing Eldrie.
Author braveradePosted on Sat, 30 Nov 2019 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2019, Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of UnderworldTags alice, ソードアート・オンライン アリシゼーション, bait, battle, bercouli, blood, dark territory, diversion, eldrie, goblins, goddess of light, in love, Kirito, mages, orcs, ravine, sacrifice, SAO, souls, worlds end altarLeave a comment on Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld – 08 – Sacrifice on Both Sides
Fate/Grand Order: Absolute Demonic Front – Babylonia – 08 – A Dark Day for Humanity
Tiamat is by far the toughest boss Ritsuka and Mash have had to face, and they don’t even try to fight her themselves. Ushiwakamaru manages to make it in time and delivers one hell of a fight—with nary a wardrobe malfunction—in the most exciting, best-looking and sounding sustained battles in a show that’s been packed with them. Ushiwaka is utterly devoted not just to protecting humanity, but her friend—not master—Ritsuka, a boy who remembers her tale a thousand years after she left the mortal plane.
Her own history and legacy is also at stake, so she fights like there’s no tomorrow, giving absolutely everything she has, including her Noble Phantasm. It isn’t enough. Tiamat regenerates all of the severed snake heads and holes Ushiwaka’s attacks made, and she ends up in a heap, spent and exhausted.
King Leonidas sallies forth with his 300 Spartan warriors to spell Ushiwaka, but despite more impressive fireworks and hyper-masculine posturing, he lasts an even briefer time than her, as all of his defenses gradually fall and he is turned to stone by Tiamat’s Mystic Eyes, eventually crumbling to dust.
Ushiwaka gets her second wind after Leonidas, but it’s to no avail. Ultimately it’s “Enkidu”, who reveals himself to actually be Kingu, who stops his mother and gets her to withdraw. If she were to take Uruk, the alliance with the other two goddesses would fall, and she’d have to fight them, draining valuable time and effort. Instead, Kingu is content to leave Ritsuka, Mash, and Merlin alone for the time being.
His big-picture plans include the release of the second generation of Demonic Beasts, which we learn are being grown in Tiamat’s lair. It is where a beaten Ushiwaikamaru finds herself, and because she cannot hold her “cheeky tongue”, Kingu decides to bestow upon her a fate worse than becoming just another run-of-the-mill beast, but a monster born in the primoridal “mud of the holy grail.”
Needless to say, this is awful news for humanity. Leonidas is beaten, Ushiwaka is in the hands of the enemy (and her friends believe her to be gone), and Benkei peaces out. As Lord Elrond once said: “our list of allies grows thin.” How in Babylon are the good guys going to turn this around?
Author braveradePosted on Sun, 24 Nov 2019 Sun, 24 Nov 2019 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2019, Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen BabyloniaTags ana, battle, benkei, fate grand order, fou, friends, fujimaru ritsuka, gilgamesh, holy grail, humanity, kingu, leonidas, mash kyrielight, merlin, mission, nippur, noble phantasm, sacrifice, seeds, tiamat, true identity, ugallu, uruk, ushiwakamaru1 Comment on Fate/Grand Order: Absolute Demonic Front – Babylonia – 08 – A Dark Day for Humanity
Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld – 07 – The Broken Knight Repaired
Last week we saw Renly had run and hidden in a supply tent behind the lines, but as luck would have it that’s the very tent to which Ronie and Tiese take Kirito in order to keep him safe. Before they arrive, Renly is haunted by Administrator saying he’s always been “broken” due to his inability to master Perfect Weapon Control.
We learn the reason for that is that when sparring with a friend, he accidentally dealt a lethal blow to him after shattering his sword. But when a goblin too big for the girls to take on bursts into the tent, and he sees how strongly Kirito wants to protect them, Renly snaps out of his funk and kills the goblin with his sparrow blades.
He then makes his way back to the lines, killing every goblin he sees. until he’s faced with their chief, for whom his standard attacks won’t work. Again he remembers Kirito’s determination and uses Recollection to bind his two blades into one, cleaving the charging chief straight in half. Linel and Fizel, who fell back to rescue him, return to their unit, learning he’d managed to found his courage without them.
Elsewhere, the Dark Mages and Ogres are on the march, but 800 aerial minions are launched as air support. They all fly straight into a dense lattice of Bercouli’s time slashes, which he activates simultaneously, taking them all out. If last week was the Dark Territory making some inroads, this week was clearly the Human Empire pushing back.
That trend continues when Alice finally makes her move. She had generated a giant mirror filled with luminous elements harvested from the souls of the dead below. She’s saddened to learn that both human and dark territory forces have the exact same souls, rendering their entire conflict pointless in her mind. Nevertheless, this is a battle that has to be one.
To that end, she compresses the mirror sphere into a much smaller size, until the elements within reflect infinitely. Having scooped up all the souls, the charging dark mages aren’t able to fire off a single attack, and along with the ogres, are obliterated when Alice finally unleashes the destructive power built up within the sphere in a terrifying beam.
Alice gathered the spent lives of thousands in order to craft an attack to destroy still more thousands, all for the sake of one. To her, protecting Kirito is paramount, but as we know, it is she who is most important and in need of protecting, as she is Gabriel’s primary target.
Author braveradePosted on Sun, 24 Nov 2019 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2019, Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of UnderworldTags alice, ソードアート・オンライン アリシゼーション, battle, bercouli, blood, dark territory, emotional, fizel, goblins, Kirito, linel, mages, mirror, powerful, ravine, renly, ronie arabel, sacrifice, SAO, souls, tiese schtoleinenLeave a comment on Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld – 07 – The Broken Knight Repaired
Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld – 06 – Spitting in the Wind
After a comprehensive layout of the order of battle on both sides, the flatland goblins, giants, and mountain goblins advance on the three sides of the first unit, led by Deusolbert, Fanatio, and Eldrie, respectively. Eldrie falls victim to his inexperience and lets the goblins get too close, and their smoke bombs turn his flank into confusing chaos.
But Sir Deusolbert has a big ol’ quiver of giant arrows, each one of which is capable of blasting away dozens of foes in an instant. It’s impressive firepower…but there’s a limit to it, and when he runs out of arrows, he’s badly exposed and must rely on his men to protect him by essentially throwing their lives away—lives the Human forces cannot afford to lose.
Fanatio also looks poised to make quick work of the charging giants, until their chief starts to glitch and enters a kind of savage berserk mode that catches Fanatio off balance. Fortunately, her loyal lieutenant Dakira steps in and blocks the giant’s attack. Unfortunately, Dakira dies of her injuries, and Fanatio uses up a lot of time and energy eliminating the chief.
The episode ends with the front lines just barely holding together after just the first wave of Dark Territory forces, with Eldrie’s unit in particularly bad way. And that wave is nothing but cannon fodder; it felt like the knights were throwing their best weapons at this enemy without much thought to preserving some of that power for the tougher waves.
Then again, they don’t have a choice. Their regular soldiers are under-trained and untested, and even one of the younger Integrity Knights demonstrates he has no integrity by fleeing the battle to hide in a storage shed. The battle has barely begun, and the forces of the Human Empire have already taken a serious hit in manpower, energy, and morale.
Alice glides over all of this, holding her powder for the next waves to come, and summons a massive ball of…something. Destructive energy, I guess? Hopefully she can slow the enemy’s advance at least somewhat to allow the units to regroup, but it still feels like the Humans are going to need a lot more help, either from Kirito finally waking up (or at least instinctively contributing somehow) or the timely arrival of Asuna.
Author braveradePosted on Sat, 16 Nov 2019 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2019, Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of UnderworldTags alice, arrows, ソードアート・オンライン アリシゼーション, battle, blood, dark territory, deusolbert, eldrie, emotional, emperor vector, fanatio, giants, goblins, outnumbered, powerful, ravine, sacrifice, SAO, setback, vassago, yuuki asuna2 Comments on Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld – 06 – Spitting in the Wind
Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld – 05 – The Eve of Reckoning
With a title like “The Night Before Battle”, it was clear there would be one more calm-before-the-storm episode before that battle took place, but in this case, it was not only earned, but welcome. After all, there a lot of reunions that need to happen before battle is joined. That starts with Alice’s protege Eldrie and her “uncle” Bercouli.
Eldrie is concerned about the dead weight that is Kirito, but Bercouli demonstrates that he’s still capable of defending himself through sheer willpower. That means he may yet come back to them, hopefully in their hour of greatest need. That’s coming soon, by the way—their forces are outnumbered more than 16-to-1.
Alice considers that perhaps Kirito can’t hear or react to her voice because she’s still suppressing her feelings, and that maybe a gesture of those feelings may finally wake him up. She comes close, but is interrupted by Tiese and Ronie, who heard Kirito was at the camp. I suppose kissing him wouldn’t have mattered; the conditions haven’t been met for him to come back yet.
The pages are beside themselves upon learning of Kirito and Eugeo’s fates, and Alice can’t help but notice they act as if they loved the boys. They rebut that assertion by saying they don’t deserve the right to say they love him, citing their traumatic experience that led the boys to break Axiom law to save them. Alice rejects their position, transforming to “peacetime” Alice Zuberg that would have been had she not been kidnapped.
Her lesson to the two is that bodies are unimportant compared to the hearts and their souls. If they feel they love someone, or that they can and should do something, they need not be ashamed to carry those feelings with pride. It’s something she learned from Kirito and Eugeo and is happy to pass on.
Alice is less enthused by Lady Fanatio carrying such feelings with pride, especially when she asks to see Kirito so she can “try various things” in an attempt to revive him. Alice betrays her own personal feelings for Kirito by barring Fanatio from seeing him. But such bickering has to wait; it’s time for the war council.
Administrator truly screwed the Human Empire in her management of their military forces. The remaining Integrity Knights must make do with what little they have and pursue a strategy of bottle-necking the enemy’s superior numbers in a narrow, barren ravine, hoping that location will also prove challenging to dark mages, who require material in order to cast their arts.
After saying what could be her final goodbyes to Kirito (leaving him in the pages’ care) and Eldrie, Alice mounts her dragon and the forces move into the ravine. The gate resolves, heralding the “Final Load Test.” The good guys are at a huge disadvantage against Miller’s massive forces.
I don’t doubt they’ll need to rely on a last-minute intervention from…someone; maybe Kirito answering the call in their greatest need, maybe Asuna, finally arrived in Underworld and ready to fight to save her fiancee. As for Alice…we just saw a lot of death flags… :(
Author braveradePosted on Sat, 9 Nov 2019 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2019, Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of UnderworldTags alice, ソードアート・オンライン アリシゼーション, battle, calm before the storm, dark territory, feelings, gun gale online, ishida akira, kikuoka seijirou, Kirigaya Kazuto, Kirito, outnumbered, power, ravine, reunions, ronie arabel, SAO, tiese schtoleinen, transforming, willpower1 Comment on Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld – 05 – The Eve of Reckoning
Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld – 02 – A Knight of the Human Empire
In the first half of an episode split right down the middle between Underworld and the real world (still a rarity in isekai anime), Alice leaves Kirito at the cottage to deal with the goblin and orc raid on Rulid. While I feared the raid was merely a diversion meant to separate the helpless Kirito from his protector, it’s much simpler than that: the goblins and orcs just want to mess shit up.
The village’s chief man-at-arms, whom Alice’s father must obey, almost lets that happen, since the richer villagers want to protect their possessions at the cost of the lives of the poor. Alice arrives in time, and with Selka’s support and by revealing her identity as an Integrity Knight of the Axiom Church, she convinces the villagers to follow her retreat plan.
While the villagers fall back, Alice stands alone between them and the massive horde, but does not falter. Naming herself a Knight of the Human Empire, she orders an air attack from her dragon, then uncovers her right eye and unleashes the power of the Fragrant Olive Sword, decimating the monsters.
After watching her uneasily live a much simpler life, Alice rises to the occasion when the stakes are raised, and watching her act as a one-woman army without a moment of uncertainty is extremely satisfying. It gives me hope that other former Integrity Knights can shrug off Admin’s residual chains of control and stand up as fellow Knights not of the Axiom Church, but of humanity itself.
She allows the remaining goblins and orcs to flee, with the warning that she won’t hesitate to finish wiping them out if they return. Confident they won’t soon bother Rulid again, she takes Kirito and leaves, until such a time that her self-appointed mandate is realized.
She hopes one day she can hang up her sword for good and return as plain old Alice Zuberg, daughter and sister. In addition to being damned fun to watch kicking ass, Alice has emerged as one of the most motivated and compelling characters in SAO. I just hope she’s not killed off needlessly.
That first half on its own scores a solid 9 in my book, as in concert with last week’s episode completes the arc of Alice returning to her role as knight for her world rather than mere caretaker to Kirito. The second half, entirely set in the real world, isn’t quite as strong due to all the exposition, but is just as necessary to watch play out, as adds an extra layer of peril and challenge.
The way SAO works is that we gradually get lost in the fantasy of the virtual worlds, thus that they feel as real as the worlds from which their “players” originate. With the added dimension of severe time disparity between the worlds, and the fact that in our own world about two years have passed, the events aboard Rath’s Ocean Turtle have felt frozen in amber.
But as soon as Asuna grabs Kikuoka by the scuff and all but promises he’ll be a dead man if he loses Kirito, I’m immediately reinvested with what’s going on here, and how it will affect life in the Underworld.
Asuna, Kikuoka, Higa and Rinko are safe for the time being in the sub control room, but a mysterious black ops outfit has successfully taken control of the main control room, STL room, and most of the lower section, and whoever sent them may have enough official sway to keep the SDF escort ship Asahi from intervening.
Whoever they are, it’s clear they’re after A.L.I.C.E., but neither side is able to extract her Fluctlight externally; it must be done within the Underworld simulation itself. Assuming they’re on their own, the mission it to retrieve Alice before the men in black. Kirito, their man on the inside, would seem to be their only hope…or would be, were it not for his present condition.
Higa learns that Kirigaya Kazuto emerged in the Underworld with his memories intact, and has been living the equivalent of two years, training, fighting, gaining and losing friends along the way. When the men in black cut main power, it fried his “self-image circuit”—the virtual equivalent of his ego—which explains his condition. Kirito can’t talk, doesn’t know who he is, what he needs to do, and only responds reflexively to “deeply ingrained memories” (which explains why he reacted to the goblin raid).
That means someone will have to head in there and either help him recover or execute the mission in his stead. Asuna is closely eyeing the spare terminal beside Kirito, so surely she’s that someone. But so are the men in black. As the combatants prepare to enter the battlefield, the true War of Underworld is about to begin, and I couldn’t be more pumped.
Author braveradePosted on Sat, 19 Oct 2019 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2019, Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of UnderworldTags AI, alice, ソードアート・オンライン アリシゼーション, battle, black ops, catching up, dragon, ego, father, fluctlight, goblins, integrity knight, kikuoka seijirou, Kirigaya Kazuto, Kirito, mission, ocean turtle, raid, rulid village, SAO, selka, yuuki asuna4 Comments on Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld – 02 – A Knight of the Human Empire
Fate/Grand Order: Absolute Demonic Front – Babylonia – 02 – He’s Not That Bad?
With the placid Enkidu as their guide, Ritsuka and Mash would seem to be on easy street, but even after several previous excursions to singularities across time, the duo isn’t above someone getting one over on them. Fortunately for them, you can’t kid a kidder—in this case, Grand Caster Merlin, whom they meet in a forest.
Merlin tells Ritsuka and Mash that King Gilgamesh just returned from a quest to attain the herb of immortality—a quest he didn’t begin until after Enkidu died. Exposed as an impostor working against Chaldea, “Enkidu” attacks Ritsuka and Mash, but Merlin’s companion Ana protects them while Merlin creates an illusion to force him to withdraw for the time being.
Like last week’s tilt with the demonic beasts, Ana and Mash’s fight with Enkidu provides the action highlight of an otherwise talky episode, with the dense forest providing a new venue for the lightning-fast kinetic combat.
While back at Chaldea Romani is perplexed to find Merlin in Mesopotamia considering he’s supposed to still be alive in Avalon, the fact that the current time period precedes his birth meant he could be summoned there.
Merlin also sports almost zero offensive power, so even Fou—who apparently hates his guts—can fight him on even footing. Merlin claims to have a Master, while Ana is a rogue Servant. They’re there to assist Chaldea in saving humanity.
Merlin and Ana escort Ritsuka and Mash to Uruk without further incident. Ana has a cute human moment with one of the sentries, and they pass through the gates with ease and head to the massive central ziggurat. The size and grandeur of the city surprise the pair from Chaldea, which is saying something considering all the places they’ve seen.
Once in Gilgamesh’s throne room, Ritsuka is equally impressed by how level-headed, detail-oriented, and downright on top of things the king seems to be; far cry from the arrogant tyrant of legend. However, when Merlin interrupts normal business to introduce Ritsuka and Mash, Gilgamesh is done talking, and immediately challenges them to a duel.
It’s just as well. If the two are going to easily fall to the king right then and there, they weren’t going to be of any use to him in the first place—nor could they ever be the true saviors of humanity.
Author braveradePosted on Sat, 12 Oct 2019 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2019, Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen BabyloniaTags ana, battle, caster, chaldea, demonic beasts, fate grand order, fou, fujimaru ritsuka, gilgamesh, holy grail, humanity, impostor, mash kyrielight, merlin, mesopotamia, romani archaman, saving the world, servants, singularity, uruk, ziggurat
DanMachi II – 11 – Godstage Situation
As one could have predicted with reasonable certainty, the episode immediately following DanMachi’s biggest battle to date was a much lighter weight affair. You wouldn’t immediately know it from the cold open, which features huge armies of the Kingdom of Rakia approaching Orario.
Then entire companies of soldiers are “blown away” by solo adventurers. Turns out they’re not tough…at all. Aries is a buffoon of a commander of a vast army of weaklings, and his buffoonery annoys the hell of of his top lieutenant Marius.
Meanwhile we learn something new about Haruhime from Aisha as she bids farewell: whenever she saw a naked man she’d pass out, meaning she remains as chaste as the virgin goddess of the hearth. Aisha doesn’t tell her that, but she’s right that it didn’t matter to her hero, Bell.
Still, Haruhime’s wonderful chemistry with Bell causes a jealous Hestia to ban all contact between the sexes, which Lili makes a big stink about. When Hestia all but asks if Bell would be her lover, he refuses, honestly but also flatly and rudely, not taking into consideration just how much Hestia loves him.
She runs off, and Bell chases after her, realizing he erred. A chance meeting with Hephaistos and Miach has them confirming that he erred by not showing his goddess proper respect. They discuss how even though the lifetime of a mortal is but a moment, the love gods feel for their mortal lovers is not any less powerful or real.
Unfortunately these two gods hold Bell up long enough that Hestia manages to sneak out of the Orario on an errand to gather ingredients for the potato snacks so popular in the city. Ganesha lets her through due to the importance of her mission, but she’s quickly snatched up by Ares in disguise, executing a “brilliant plan” to get Orario to surrender by taking a god hostage…or…sigh….godstage.
Bell ends up bumping into Ais, who takes him to where Hestia was last. There, Loki is coordinating a rescue op; she may not be besties with the shrimp but they can’t go letting Ares kidnap gods whenever he likes. She agrees to let Bell accompany Ais outside the walls to track Ares down.
Fueled by awesome Celtic-style overworld music, and with help from Hermes’ child Asfi, they locate Ares in the gray gloom, and it isn’t long before Ais is crossing swords with Ares, and just as quickly snapping his sword. Like his armies, he’s not as strong as he looks.
Still, he has enough numbers to surround and isolate Ais, while Bell manages to sneak around and reunite with Hestia, who freed herself but promptly stumbles and falls down a huge canyon. Bell jumps in after her, then Ais jumps in after him, setting up a cliffhanger for the finale next week. Chances are they’ll all be fine!
Author magicalchurlsukuiPosted on Fri, 20 Sep 2019 Sat, 21 Sep 2019 Categories Anime Reviews, DanMachi II, Summer 2019Tags ais wallenstein, aisha belka, ares, army, battle, cranel bell, Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka, ganesha, goddess, haruhime, hephaistos, hestia, hurt feelings, kidnapped, lightweight, loki, miach, rescue, weaklings, yamato mikoto1 Comment on DanMachi II – 11 – Godstage Situation
DanMachi II – 10 – For Whom the Bell Tolls
I loved how many challenges and formidable warriors stood between Bell and freeing a single prostitute, because it just meant he’d have to beat every last one of them, on top of convincing Haruhime that yes, she actually is worth saving, stop saying you’re filthy and a burden! He’s there, and he’s going to finish what he started!
He may not be one of the heroes she loved growing up, who would never sully themselves with her ilk, but he was the hero she needed. Meanwhile, Freya’s forces have already set to work burning the pleasure district, while the goddess herself will seek out Ishtar for a goddess-to-goddess, woman-to-woman “chat”.
Bell’s next opponent is Phryne, who orders Haruhime to boost her level with Uchide no Kozuchi. Instead, Haruhime uses it on Bell, allowing him to fight on more-or-less equal footing with the giant Amazoness. After watching Phryne easily win every match she’s fought so far, it’s immensely satisfying to see Bell give her fits, until she falls through a hole in the floor her own substantial mass has created.
On a lower level, Phryne encounters Freya’s right-hand beastman Ottarl, who easily overpowers her. She pleads for mercy by offering her body, but ends up blaspheming his goddess’ name, so he pummels her. As awful a character as Phryne was, I kinda felt sorry for her in the end. After all, like Ishtar herself, she didn’t expect this battle to go so badly for their Familia, and so wasn’t sufficiently prepared to lose everything.
Aisha is Bell’s next opponent, and the fight is made fairer when Haruhime’s spell wears off. Still, Bell has a full head of steam and stays with Aisha, dodging her kicks and countering her Hippolyte spell with his own Firebolt, the bells tolling as he charges it up. It’s yet another glorious, fluid kinetic attack between two very different fighters who both know what they’re doing.
Unlike Phryne, I always liked Aisha, who after all had suffered a lot more than Bell, Phryne, or even Haruhime in Ishtar’s clutches. She also didn’t go mad with fury, but actually respected Bell’s transformation into a real man, someone who could impress and best her. I hope she lands on her feet somewhere after her Familia disperses.
That’s right: almost as soon as Isthar’s ridiculously rich, seemingly invincible empire showed up on the DanMachi scene, it crumbles to dust before Freya’s calm, elegant figure. She charms and strides right past Ishtar’s last lines of defense and delivers a divine bitch slap, sending her back to Heaven, never to return.
On the roof of the hanging gardens, Bell removes Haruhime’s collar and they bask in victory (and the morning sun) as Hestia and the others arrive. Turns out he didn’t need the cavalry at all. Just like that, Bell Cranel has played a pivotal role in toppling another great divine power. Now it’s time to head home and relax!
Author magicalchurlsukuiPosted on Fri, 13 Sep 2019 Categories Anime Reviews, DanMachi II, Summer 2019Tags aisha belka, allen fromel, amazons, battle, cranel bell, duel, Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka, firebolt, freya, goddess, haruhime, hestia, ishtar, level boost, ottarl, phryne, prostitute, rescue, sacrifice, samira, slap, victory, war, yamato mikoto1 Comment on DanMachi II – 10 – For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Blind Spot 18: Paths of Glory
June 17, 2017 June 17, 2017 | Rachel's Reviews
It’s interesting that this month’s blind spot pick, Paths of Glory, just happens to be the second movie I’ve watched this month featuring World War 1 and a No Man’s Land scene. Of course the other film, Wonder Woman, is completely different but it is still a random coincidence as there are not that many World War 1 films made.
Paths of Glory is directed by the great Stanley Kubrick and is a very interesting war movie. In some ways it feels like Hacksaw Ridge combined with Catch 22. I hated the book Catch 22 because it was so cynical. I get the point of the book is to be cynical, but I needed something to latch on to and bond with. It was a very unpleasant experience that was supposed to be funny.
Anyway, I feel Paths of Glory takes this cynical attitude and also give us intriguing characters that we like spending time with. It’s not a satire like Doctor Strangelove but it does have a cynical sad tone to the events of war.
Starring Kirk Douglas, Paths of Glory, is set in World War 1 and tells the story of a division of French soldiers who are commanded to go on a suicide mission to attack the German stronghold called the ‘Anthill’.
Colonel Dax (Douglas) tries to convince the superiors to hold off the attack because of the heavy casualties and lack of benefit but they insist upon it. The attack goes forward and a group of soldiers refuses to leave the trench. The men are then ordered to fire upon their fellow soldiers, which they refuse without a written order.
The leader, General Mireau, is enraged at the men and blames them for the attack not working. At first he wants to court martial 100 men but 3 are eventually chosen to face trial and execution.
It is this section that Paths of Glory moves from being a war film to a courtroom drama and it is also where you get some of that Catch 22 type of cynicism. It makes sense, after all, when what they are doing to these 3 men is extremely cynical. Taking 3 men’s lives because they wouldn’t turn on their own men shows how twisted war can get.
Paths of Glory is a great film. Somehow Stanley Kubrick manages to mix these two sides together so well. The war scenes are as captivating and disturbing as anything we get in modern war films. And the scenes with the 3 soldiers are sad with a hint of social commentary. It all works.
The cinematography by Georg Krause is a master class using shadows and light in a way only possible with black and white. This is not a film that takes war lightly- the way say Michael Bay might today. Paths 0f Glory manages to get emotion in every shot even amidst the chaos of Ant-Hill.
The acting is also really strong throughout led by Kirk Douglas. He’s fantastic as Dax who is a hardened soldier with an unsentimental love for his men. He’s basically a good person and a good military man at the same time- a tough balance to pull off.
All the other performances are unknowns to me but they did a great job. I particularly liked a scene where a minister comes to take the men’s last confession. The dialogue and acting was superbly executed.
I only really have one nitpick with Paths of Glory. It’s just that it is hard to get fully immersed in a story about the French army when everyone speaks English without French accents (at least most of them). I wish they had spoken in French with subtitles or at least had an accent.
Other than that, Paths of Glory is a classic for a reason. It gives the viewer a lot to think about without beating you over the head with its cynicism. It’s very well made and acted and over all a great film that I highly recommend.
Overall Grade- A
Blind Spot 17: Duck Soup
May 9, 2017 May 14, 2017 | Rachel's Reviews
Ah how great it is to see terrific comedy! It’s the best to sit back, relax and heartily laugh at a good movie. Unfortunately it’s an experience that doesn’t happen too often these days. Now most comedies are so raunchy that I either chose to not watch them or they aren’t my style of humor. So, you can imagine my enjoyment when I put on this month’s blind spot pick, Duck Soup, and laughed good and hard! Duck Soup is a classic comedy and with good cause. Especially if you like physical comedy it doesn’t get better than this.
Duck Soup stars the Marx Brothers- Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo and evidently this is their crowning achievement. I read dictator Benito Mussolini took the movie as a personal insult and banned it from Italy! You know you are doing something right if a dictator bans your movie!
The plot for Duck Soup is pretty basic. Groucho plays a man who is put in charge of a small country named Freedonia. They are a nation of great pomp and circumstance and much is made about their need for decorum. Meanwhile Chico and Harpo are sent as spies to look into the situation and see what Freedonia is up to. Zeppo plays Groucho’s secretary and kind of the straight man role in the story. Quickly all kinds of mayhem erupts involving war, love and politics.
You don’t see a movie like Duck Soup for the plot. It’s about the hilarious gags. What’s impressive here is they manage to be funny with both physical comedy and political commentary. I love how expressive each of the brothers are and how you can read so much through their eyes and facial expressions.
This scene with a lemonade vendor is hilarious:
I particularly like Harpo and how innocent and sweet he is. Don’t you just want to hug him? What he is able to do with a simple hat to get laughs is remarkable.
But Duck Soup can also be very funny in the political commentary especially if you think about its release date in the 1933 when trouble was brewing in Europe. The insanity of such political negotiations and the egos involved is skewered so well in scenes like this one-
It’s so funny when he goes in seconds from welcoming the idea of diplomacy to ‘who does he think he is? That he come here and make a sap out of me in front of my people’. I have a feeling it might not be that far off of actual diplomacy (I try to not think about that too hard these days! Politicians and the egos involved is a scary thought).
Duck Soup is only an 69 minutes so it’s not much of an investment of time but boy is it rewarding. I laughed from start to finish and it wasn’t the kind of mean spirited raunchy comedy you get today. It can be a little bawdy but all in good fun. I have seen one other Marx Brothers movie Monkey Business and I think Duck Soup is much funnier than that.
I know some children might be intimidated by black and white but comedies can often be good ways to introduce them. Duck Soup would be great for that. I think they will love it especially Chico and Harpo as the 2 spies. Hilarious.
I just loved this movie! The only flaw I suppose is maybe 2 of the musical numbers go on a little long. Other than that one of the great comedies without question.
Overall Grade- A+
BLIND SPOT 16: FROM UP ON POPPY HILL
April 2, 2017 | Rachel's Reviews
Sometimes people think I have seen every animated film but in truth there are many I haven’t seen. Particularly in anime I have many holes. Well, this month for my monthly blind spot series I am checking a Studio Ghibli film off of my bucket list. Today we look at the 2011 film From Up on Poppy Hill.
This movie was directed by Gorō Miyazaki, who I still think was treated way too harshly for Tales from Earthsea which I enjoyed. However, this film is a definite step up for him as a director. It was written by his father Hayao Miyazaki but it reminded me the most of Isao Takahata’s film Only Yesterday. Both are films about the simple stories of every day people.
From Up on Poppy Hill will not be for everyone. Some will find it’s rather mundane story to be boring. I like slice of life films that let you walk in others shoes so I found it quite charming. It does not have supernatural characters or exciting events like many of the more popular Studio Ghibli films but sometimes I like gentler more calming films.
This tells the story of Umi and Shun. They are teenagers going to a boarding school who begin a sweet little relationship only to find out they are connected in unexpected ways. They are both children of single mothers and Uni’s mother is gone abroad most of the time. It is easy to see why these two are drawn to each other and have a connection.
At the same time there is an old building on campus where various clubs and organizations meet. The school wants to tear down the building and redevelop it into something new. The students meet and voice various ways to stop this from happening. Some are anarchists, some are more democratic and some want to protest. The girls suggest they fix up the building so that there is less reason to tear it down, which is what they do.
The animation From Up on Poppy Hill is gorgeous. I loved the watercolor feel to everything and the way the characters were designed in such approachable ways. There was nothing acerbic or strange like other Studio Ghibli films. This is just an extremely gentle, peaceful film.
There are some flaws with From Up on Poppy Hill. The music is a little too ever-present and a bit overbearing at times. Also the story does fall into melodrama on occasion but I didn’t mind that. It worked for the kind of story it was. After all, life can get melodramatic at times! Especially when you are dealing with love and romance!
So I would definitely recommend you watch From Up on Poppy Hill. It’s a sweet, simple movie about likable people growing up and figuring out who they are. I enjoyed it very much and it is beautifully animated to boot.
Overall Grade- B+
Blind Spot 15: 8 1/2
March 12, 2017 March 12, 2017 | Rachel's Reviews
I am going to start off this blind spot review with a bit of a controversial statement:
You can be a film fan and dislike classic films
Just because something is on the Criterion collection and heralded as a masterpiece doesn’t mean you have to like it. Some film snobs may disrespect such a view but honestly to heck with them. No film should be so sacred it is immune from criticism.
Such an introduction may give you a hint of what I thought about Federico Fellini’s masterpiece 8 1/2. I respect it but I didn’t really care for it. Shocking, I know but let me try and explain.
Let’s start out with the positives. It cannot be denied how great this movie looks. The cinematography is inventive and beautiful and I enjoyed watching it on that level. Often the shots feel like they were taken by a little person with the camera looking up at the character.
There are also many dream sequences that are effectively surreal and feel like dreams.
The critic Alan Stone said about 8 1/2 ” I celebrate it. A filmmaker who prefers ideas to images will never advance above the second rank because he is fighting the nature of his art. The printed word is ideal for ideas; film is made for images, and images are best when they are free to evoke many associations and are not linked to narrowly defined purposes” It’s an interesting philosophy about film, which I often use to defend Terrence Malick and his image-over-plot films.
So with all that said why did 8 1/2 not really work for me? I think the main problem is Fellini isn’t making an image over story film. I think he not only wants to tell a story, he wants you to sympathize with the narcissistic womanizer he has created as his anti-hero.
8 1/2 is about a man named Guido (Marcello Mastroianni) who is a famous Italian director. He is being pressured by the studio to make a sci-fi film but he is artistically stymied and frustrated. As he suffers from “filmmaking block” we get an endless parade of women in his life. There’s his wife Luisa, mistress Carla, an ideal woman, a prostitute from his childhood, nuns, friends, an actress named Claudia, the list goes on.
The film just assumes a man like Guido could get so many women in his life but it never gives any reason why. Is he just good in the sack? Is he a charmer? He certainly doesn’t seem to be. He treats them horribly and even in his fantasies wants to do nothing but whip them. What on earth?
I have a feeling Alejandro Inarritu loves this movie because Birdman has so much of 8 1/2 in it. I didn’t like Birdman, and I didn’t really like this. I found both pretty misogynistic and self-indulgent and not in ways that interested me despite how pretty they looked.
The overall message of the film is I guess about the creative thinker and how sometimes inspiration just doesn’t come. Such a narrative can be quite compelling like when Karen Eiffel deals with writers block in Stranger than Fiction. But at least there I felt something for her but in 8 1/2 I really didn’t care for Guido.
Plus, the creative output he gives in the dream sequences, while beautifully shot, were never really that inspirational or stunning that on their own merits I wanted him to create the art. So I wasn’t really rooting for the man or his art.
Terrence Malick in Knight of Cups has a frustrated artist depressed by the depravity of Los Angeles and Hollywood but I felt for him because the art he imagined in the surrealist sequences was gorgeous. Plus, the female characters who come into that film felt like real, genuine women, not stereotypes.
Frankly, I finished 8 1/2 and said to myself “did I miss something?”. Despite looking nice it didn’t seem that special or interesting or compelling, and yet I’ve heard all these praises. Maybe it is a film that will grown on me over time? I’m not sure but it didn’t do much for me on this watch.
When it comes down to it I didn’t enjoy the experience of following Guido on his fantasies and narcissistic delusions and I found no compelling reason why any of these women were attracted to him or involved with him. It just didn’t quite work for me. Oh well.
Still, it does look great so I will give it that.
Overall Grade- C+
Blind Spot Choices 2017
December 27, 2016 | Rachel's Reviews
I hope you all were entertained by my Blind Spot series in 2016 here on the blog. I certainly enjoyed watching the 12 films and checking them off of my film bucket list! If you are unfamiliar with the series it’s where we watch and review a classic or well-loved film each month that we haven’t seen (nobody can see everything after all!).
In 2016 I saw- Blade Runner, Tron, Dark Knight Rises, Tales from Earthsea, Yentl, 400 Blows, The Jerk, Talk to Her, Porco Rosso, Unbreakable, Looper and The Ref. You can find links to reviews of all these films here.
My favorite of 2016 was either Porco Rosso or The 400 Blows. My least favorite was definitely Yentl; although it does have some so bad it’s good appeal. It was a great unintentional comedy!
I liked the experience in 2016 so much I intend to continue doing it in 2017. So here is my list:
January- Moonrise Kingdom- Somehow I skipped this Wes Anderson film and it seems like a good fit for the month of my first trip to Sundance!
February- THX- George Lucas’ debut sci-fi film has always intrigued me but I’ve never seen it
March- 8 1/2- My first Federico Fellini film and I look forward to it!
April- From Up on Poppy Hill- Another Studio Ghibli to cross off the list
May-Duck Soup- it’s perhaps scandalous I’ve never seen this Marx Brothers classic
June- Paths to Glory- Director Stanley Kubrick’s World War 1 movie looks amazing and I can’t wait to see it
July-The Boxer- This year I discovered Jim Sheridan’s amazing film In America and so I want to give his boxing film with Daniel Day Lewis a shot.
August-Metropolitan- I fell in love with Whit Stillman’s Love and Friendship this year and have heard nothing but great things about his debut Metropolitan
September- Manhattan- I actually like Woody Allen’s more serious films like Blue Jasmine best but I like Annie Hall so hopefully will enjoy Manhattan.
October- Donnie Darko- Richard Kelly’s demonic take on Harvey intrigues me. I know it is out there but I look forward to seeing it.
November-Giovanni’s Island- this World War 2 anime reminds me of Grave of the Fireflies. It looks beautiful and inspiring.
December-We’re No Angels- a lesser known Christmas movie about 2 burglars who end up helping a family get the Christmas spirit sounds like a lot of fun.
I feel like this is a good mixture of styles, themes, eras and should make for a great series in 2017. Let me know what you think of my list and selections! I look forward to 2017!
Blind Spot 11: Looper
November 11, 2016 November 11, 2016 | Rachel's Reviews
This month for my blind spot pick I took a look at the 2012 sci-fi film Looper. To see the rest of my blind spot picks go here. I wanted to pick this movie because I’ve heard good things and director Rian Johnson is doing Star Wars: Episode VIII. I was curious to see if I’d get anything for his style of what was coming to Star Wars and I don’t know that I actually got that but it’s still a decent sci-fi film. It’s really more like Terminator than Star Wars.
Looper is a time travel story about a futuristic society where time travel hasn’t been invented yet but it will be invented in the future. The creative twist is the future uses time travel to send criminals to the past and loopers kill said criminals. They do this until they are forced to kill their future selves and their careers are over.
Joseph Gorden Levitt plays Joe a looper who has stashed his silver so he can live a good life when his days as a looper are over. Then one day he meets his future self (Bruce Willis) but is beaten up and old Joe flees. He then begins a cat and mouse chase with the crime syndicate that runs the loopers and his future self.
I don’t want to give any more away but trust me there is a lot more going on. It is a very original story that flows nicely without any obnoxious twists or trickery. On the whole I enjoyed it very much.
However, at first I had a few issues. It was leaving me kind of cold and I think the best sci-fi should stir emotion. It shouldn’t feel rote and mechanical. The violence felt impersonal and strong and I wasn’t bonding emotionally with young Joe. There is a moment where we bond with old Joe but I was still feeling kind of cold and distant.
And then we meet Emily Blunt’s character Sara and I think that really turned it around for me. She is carrying for a little boy and she really brought the emotion I had been looking for. She was so good in the role and I finally felt like young Joe wasn’t a robot any more, but a real person with feelings.
It’s also a really grounded, normal looking scifi movie. There are hovering bikes but that’s about it as far as world-building. I know this only had a $30 million budget but I kind of wish they had done a few more creative touches to change the world- make it a little more inventive and different from our own.
Also Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s nose prosthesis to make him look more like Bruce Willis didn’t really work for me. It always looked like make-up and I didn’t think he looked anything like Bruce Willis.
But aside from those flaws you have a very original sci-film with a creative premise and story. Particularly in the last act it has something to say about the paths we can go on in life. How one action can take us on a completely different trajectory than another. The acting is good throughout and the brutal violence is well staged if you like that kind of thing.
So, yes I had a few little issues but I’d definitely recommend Looper if it sounds like your kind of film and you can handle the R rated material.
What do you think of Looper? Is it a favorite of yours?
Blind Spot 9: 400 Blows
September 13, 2016 September 13, 2016 | Rachel's Reviews
This month for my blind spot series I finally watched the seminal french new wave film The 400 Blows. Directed by the great Francouis Truffaut I had long heard about this movie but had never seen it. Now that I have I can see why it is such a classic.
The 400 Blows is about a little boy named Antoine who is growing up in the 1950s Paris. His parents don’t care for him and at best placate and put up with him. His teacher at school is constantly scolding him and he is out of place in the world.
In many ways Antoine reminds me of Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye, which was published in 1951. The 400 Blows came out in 1959. However, I prefer Antoine to Holden because his observations are mostly made through quiet staring at those around him where Holden’s dialogue becomes obnoxious.
Some people will hate the 400 Blows because not a ton happens in the story. It’s really about this character and how the world seems to not be made for him. No matter what he does the world seems to scold him.
The cinematography by Henri Decaë is gorgeous and 400 Blows is great to watch just on a technical level. Each shot gives you a piercing look at Antoine’s loneliness. Most of the shots are made beneath Antoine and look up to him again showcasing his isolation both mentally and physically. There are many other unique shots and perspectives Truffaut uses to create tone and tell the story.
We also see Antoine escaping (literally one time from a fire) to the movies, which for movie lovers has significance. It’s really the only positive thing in his life for most of the film.
There is definitely a feeling that Antoine never has been allowed to be a child. His parents are harsh including his Mother expecting him to hide her secrets from everyone. His teacher openly hates him and even with his friend they are basically adults not children.
Evidently Truffaut was commenting on the state of the juvenile treatment centers of the era, which is interesting because they are a footnote to the movie. But in a way it makes sense because the whole movie leads up to his placement there and how Antoine never really was given a fair shake. The movie does not manipulate the viewer with sentimentality or emotional sequences. It merely shows Antoine’s life and how the world has failed him.
In some ways I feel a little outside my skill-set to review a film like 400 Blows. The film-making techniques used are clearly masterful in ways only a cinematographer or technician could articulate, but I certainly can tell it is a beautiful and striking film. I recommend reading Roger Ebert’s ‘Great Movies’ review where he talks about Truffaut’s back story, the freeze frames and other camera work used in the film. http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-400-blows-1959
If you like Catcher in the Rye and those types of stories or love to watch beautiful camera-work I think you’ve got to see The 400 Blows. It’s a classic for a reason!
Blind Spot 8: Porco Rosso
August 23, 2016 August 23, 2016 | Rachel's Reviews
We are at the 8th in my monthly Blind Spot series and this month I check another anime classic off of my list, Hayao Miyazaki’s comedy-adventure Porco Rosso. This is a completely charming, delightful and a little strange comedy!
The main appeal to this movie is the stunning animation, funny dialogue and quirky weird characters. The lead is named Porco Rosso and he has been cursed to look like a pig. The movie treats this with a refreshing candor. He’s just a pig and that’s that!
The setting is post WWI and Porco is a bounty hunter who relaxes on the beach and likes doing things his own way. One day he gets a call to face off some pirate gangs. This leads to his plane being damaged by a man named Curtis and him landing in Milan to get it fixed.
In Milan there is a girl named Fio who Porco reluctantly hires to fix his plane (all the men have left Milan to find work elsewhere during the Depression). Fio is a great character who won’t take any crap from Porco but who also is vulnerable in moments.
There is also Gina who is love with Porco and yes they play it completely straight that she is in love with a pig man. He’s such a rogue and so confident it kind of makes sense! Unfortunately Curtis is also in love with Gina and it brings the two into conflict.
Curtis and Porco end up in a bet, that ends up in a race, that ends up in a fight. Fio makes the deal that if Porco wins than Curtis must pay off all of Porco’s repair bills and if he loses than Curtis can marry her. They don’t really explain why Fio wants to marry Curtis but it works. The race and then fight go on for perhaps a bit too long but I thought they were very funny.
The animation throughout is either adorable or breathtaking.
Adorable-
Breathtaking-
I really enjoyed Porco Rosso. I liked how different it was and how it made me laugh. I liked the way nobody thought twice about a man with a pig face and they made it work because he was such a grumbling funny character. You could see why he was charismatic enough for people to forget the nose.
I also loved the female characters, Fio and Gina. They thought for themselves but they weren’t cliched warrior women. Just like Porco, I couldn’t help but like both of them.
There also is some heart to the story when you finally get to hear Porco’s backstory and a little bit of a subtle Beauty and the Beast moment that is handled perfectly.
But mostly it will make you laugh and you will smile at these great characters!
They had a terrific dubbing cast as well with Michael Keaton, Cary Elwes, Susan Egan, Brad Garrett, David Ogden Stiers and Kimberly Williams-Paisley in the leads. The music by Joe Hisaishi is of course great as well.
I guess Porco Rosso may not be for everyone but I would think of it as Hayao’s Wes Anderson movie. It totally has that same quirky weirdness about it. It’s great!
What do you think of Porco Rosso?
Blind Spot 7: Talk to Her
July 18, 2016 July 18, 2016 | Rachel's Reviews
This month for my Blind Spot series I happened to pick a Spanish film without knowing I would be visiting Spain in July. Isn’t that a crazy coincidence? Anyway, I decided to look at Pedro Almodovar’s 2002 Academy Award winning film Talk to Her. It’s a moving, intriguing, weird film that definitely won’t be for everyone, but I’m glad I saw it.
It’s a pretty simple story about 2 men, Marco and Benigno who fall in love with strong women who end up in comas. They then care for the comatose women but it’s what Almodovar does with that basic story that makes it interesting.
On the surface what these men are doing is really quite lovely. They are caring selflessly for women in a coma. How can that be anything but good? Well, that’s where the line between love and obsession come in. Especially Benigno begins to fantasize what his life with Alicia is like and that she is responding to his advances. He imagines this fantasy existence and even says at one point that his relationship is better than most other married couples.
There is something decidedly creepy about the way he cares for Alicia which is an intriguing element to the story.
Marco has more of a backstory with his love Lydia who was a bullfighter and is injured in the rink. He is a very emotional man and often takes what others are feeling upon himself. This makes his responses to Alicia, Benigno and Lydia very interesting. Dario Grandinetti as Marco is the standout of the film. He’s a type of man you don’t often see in the movies- sensitive to a fault.
The cool thing that Almodovar does is he never really judges either men. You can tell he feels sorry for all involved. They are all weak- whether it is a weak mind or body, and human weakness is sad for Almodovar. Benigno takes his obsession to a disturbing place and it just shows how the human brain can create false narratives to justify our own poor choices.
Talk to Her is definitely not for everyone. There is nudity in the film but most of it is non-sensual while the women’s bodies are being cared for. However, there is a fantasy sequence involving a silent movie that is truly bizarre. I can’t really explain it but just know it is out there and is explicit! It was too much for me to be honest but it was brief.
If you want to watch a film showing a unique side of masculinity and can handle something that is different I recommend watching Talk to Her. It earns its R rating but it is a thoughtful unique depiction of that line between love and obsession.
I feel like a movie such as this would never win best screenplay now. What do you think?
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Banker Alleges Brutality by LAPD
The LAPD says police only used force when the Deutsche Bank executive became violent, but the prosecutor's office declined to press related charges. The executive is now suing for $50 million in damages
Reason Staff | 8.27.2012 10:07 AM
There's no doubt … Brian Mulligan—an international banking honcho—was beaten to a pulp by the LAPD—based on photos obtained by TMZ.
Mulligan—the Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Media for Deutsche Bank—is unrecognizable in the pics—with severe nasal fractures and lacerations, a concussion, a fractured right scapula, and numerous contusions and abrasions.
Although the LAPD claims officers beat and arrested Mulligan after he became violent and threatening … prosecutors declined to file charges. Our sources say prosecutors believe the photos are "clear evidence of excessive force." Indeed, Mulligan already filed a $50 million claim against the City of L.A.
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The Complete An Unabriged History Of Flint: Well, Almost! Essay, Research Paper The History of Flint The history of Flint is perhaps as long and complex as the federal bureaucracy. OK, maybe not. The first white man to visit Flint was the famous fur trader Jacob Smith. He was the first to settle in the area and established his lucrative trade here. His trading post was the cornerstone of the city, that is until it was torn down to make room for a parking ramp. The social life of this time was not great. In fact, the husky, rugged guy to girl ratio was about 10-1. This does not include the women who could have been men. These numbers are not good in anyone’s book. Then, out of the utter despair came a beacon of hope…the first tavern in the Flint area was established.
Contrary to popular belief this oasis in the desert was not Paddy McGee’s, but Todd’s Tavern, founded in 1830’s. Although the settlers still had no women, at least they now had a place to go where everyone knew their name. Things ran pretty smoothly, but the city didn’t boom until the entrepreneur William Durant came to town and established Flint as the vehicle city, with his production of carriages. “Carriage town” as the area was termed still stands today. It is one of few remaining historic areas left in the city. The others being Todd’s Tavern. Oops, that was done away with when women came to town. But we still have “the hole” where the first sit down strike in the nation occurred…Oh, wait, they just tore that down didn’t they? Well at least there’ s
still AutoWorld…I forgot, that’s going down, too, isn’t it? Thanks to the Irish folk we still have one historic place left…Italia Gardens. (Just Kidding). 3. Around this time William Durant began to notice a new up and coming gizmo, known as the automobile. Along with Charles Stewart Mott, Dallas Dort, who was himself very fond of the Vu, Louis Chevrolet, David Buick, Charles Nash, Walter Chrysler, and Henry Ford, William Durant turned the carriage town into the horseless carriage town. When Flint boomed, the social life went right with it. Dort highway sprung up and there were now “hussies” on every street corner, not silver bells, as the carol leads you to believe. There were now a whopping three watering stations in the city, but nothing prepare the townsfolk for
what was to come next. A young desperado strolled into town, some hotshot who just graduated from some Irish school in the midwest. He bought, and converted an old, run down place into a location that was to be treasured and revered for several generations to come. This was not your average Cheers. This was a full-fledged, beer battered, deep-fried, big juicy hamburger, green beer drinking Irish pub. This was Paddy McGees. This was the good life. Today, the passion and the glory of Flint may have faded, but two landmarks still remain, Dort Highway and Italia Gardens. And some other Irish place on Flushing Road. 4. The City Government The Mayor Woodrow Stanley The City Council The Judicial Branch Budget Office The Ombudsman Friend of the Court Treasury Department City Clerk Zoning
Committee Internal Revenue Service Public Works and Utilities Water Supply and Pollution Controls Building and Safety Inspection Committee Waste Distribution Center City Engineers Parks and Recreation Community Development Office Traffic Engineers Street Maintenance Fire Department Police Department 5. The Flint City Government has many parts and divisions, as you can see. Each has its own set of goals and duties to perform. The Mayor, Woodrow Stanley, is the head of the operation. He has a lot of power over the committees and departments in the city. He gets to appoint several key figures. The Ombudsman, Daryl Baker, acts as the mayor’s voice to the people and the departments when the mayor can not be present. Along with these duties, the ombudsman also conducts investigations
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Estranged affections: Literary writing and the public sphere in Poe, Emerson, and Melville
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Journal of Medical Sciences
Year: 2004 | Volume: 4 | Issue: 1 | Page No.: 30-35
DOI: 10.3923/jms.2004.30.35
Hypertension in Relation to Obesity, Smoking, Stress, Family history, Age and Marital Status among Human Population of Multan, Pakistan
Kamran Tassaduqe, Muhammad Ali, Abdus Salam, Muhammad Latif, Nazish Afroze, Samra Masood and Soban Umar
Abstract: The present study was carried out to assess hypertension in relation to obesity, smoking stress, family history, age and marital status among human population of Multan, Pakistan. The present data was collected randomly from the male population aging from 16 to 85 years. The male population was divided into three age groups i.e old male (age above 50 years), mature male (age 31 to 50 years) and young male (age 16 to 30 years). The study revealed that there was a strong relationship between hypertension and obesity in all age groups. Hypertensive patients had association with age, smoking, stress, family history and marital status. When comparison was made between mild, moderate and severe hypertensive patients, it was found that old married males were suffering from severe hypertension. Family history of hypertension and myocardial infarction also had a strong association with hypertension. The prevalence of hypertension was found to be maximum (17.08%) in males of age group >50 as compared to mature males (14.16%) and young males (13.48%) in observed sample population. The results from the observed population suggested that prevalence of obesity was (11.49%). The obesity was maximum (12.19%) in males of age group >50 as compared to mature males (11.51%) and young males (10.64%). In the normotensive individuals the prevalence of obesity was (8.74%) as compared to (26.99%) in hypertensive individuals.
• Smoking Cessation Efforts in Special Population: A Review of Research on Muslim Countries and Communities
• Better Anthropometric Indicators to Predict Elevated Blood Pressure in North Indian Punjabi Adolescents
• Heritability of Certain Anthropometric and Physiometric Phenotypes among Three Predominant Caste Population in Punjab, India
• Factor Analysis of Anthropometric, Physiometric and Metabolic Risk Traits Associated with Cardiovascular Diseases in North Indian Punjabi Adults
Kamran Tassaduqe, Muhammad Ali, Abdus Salam, Muhammad Latif, Nazish Afroze, Samra Masood and Soban Umar, 2004. Hypertension in Relation to Obesity, Smoking, Stress, Family history, Age and Marital Status among Human Population of Multan, Pakistan. Journal of Medical Sciences, 4: 30-35.
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jms.2004.30.35
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GenotypexEnvironment Interaction for Resistance to Purple Blotch (Alternaria porri L. (Ellis) Cif.) in Onion (Allium cepa L.) in Nigeria
L. Abubakar and S.G. Ado
Five onion cultivars were crossed in a diallel and their progenies evaluated at Sokoto and Talata Mafara, during the 2004/2005 and 2005/2006 seasons. Thirty milliliter of 10-1 cfu of spore suspension of Alternaria porri was poured into each plot. Combined analysis indicated that location, recorded highly significant mean squares (p<0.01) for disease incidence, fresh and cured bulb yields. Genotype recorded highly significant (p<0.01) mean squares for all characters. Genotypexlocation interactions recorded highly significant (p<0.01) mean squares for disease incidence and severity and fresh and cured bulb yields.
L. Abubakar and S.G. Ado, 2009. GenotypexEnvironment Interaction for Resistance to Purple Blotch (Alternaria porri L. (Ellis) Cif.) in Onion (Allium cepa L.) in Nigeria. Asian Journal of Crop Science, 1: 15-25.
DOI: 10.3923/ajcs.2009.15.25
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=ajcs.2009.15.25
Onion (Allium cepa L.) belongs to the genus Allium (Messiaen, 1994). In comparison with other fresh vegetables, onions are relatively high in food value (Hussaini et al., 2000). They contain a phytochemical quercetin, which is effective in reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, an anticancer and has promise as an antioxidant (Smith, 2003). On a worldwide basis, onion ranks as one of the five most important fresh market vegetable crops (Cramer, 2000). In Nigeria the crop is second only to tomatoes in importance among the vegetables and is mainly grown for its bulbs (Hussaini et al., 2000). Onion is produced world wide, in 2004, 56.80, 4.26 and 1.06 million metric tonnes were produced of dry bulb for the world, Africa and West Africa and 615,000 metric tonnes for Nigeria (FAOSTAT, 2004). Similarly, in 2004, 3.09 million hectares were cultivated with onion the world over. In Africa, West Africa and Nigeria 280,059 ha, 61,160 ha and 41,000 ha, respectively were cultivated with onions in 2004 (FAOSTAT, 2004). Global average yield of onion in 2004 has been estimated at 18.3 t ha-1, with 15.21 t ha-1 for Africa, 15.187 t ha-1 for West Africa and 15 t ha-1 for Nigeria (FAOSTAT, 2004).
According to Green (1969, 1972) low onion production in Nigeria is as a result of pests and disease infestation and of the traditional methods employed in onion production by the local farmers (Kadams, 1983). Wet season trials at the Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR), Samaru, Zaria, found that low yields were associated with attack by leaf pathogens especially Alternaria porri.
Purple blotch of onion caused by A. porri is an important disease of onion worldwide except in very cool production areas (Awad et al., 1978; Everts and Lacy, 1990a; Brar et al., 1990; Aveling et al., 1993, 1994; Chaput, 1995, Cramer, 2000; Schwartz et al., 2005). It is especially troublesome in warm and humid environments (Suheri and Price, 2000). The fungus attacks both leaves and flower stalks (Bock, 1964), reducing foliar production by 62-92% (Suheri and Price, 2001). The disease can cause a yield loss of 30% (Everts and Lacy, 1990b) and 100% of the seed crop when the weather favours it (Daljeet et al., 1992; Schwartz, 2004). Purple blotch disease of onion is so important as a disease complex that nutrition (Awad et al., 1978), cultural practices (Arboleya et al., 2003), environmental conditions (Everts and Lacy, 1990a; Suheri and Price, 2000, 2001) and prevalence of other disease factors (Brar et al., 1990) all contribute to resistance or susceptibility to the disease, thereby making it more difficult to control. The most reliable measure of control of the disease so far is through crop rotation and use of resistant varieties (Delahaut and Stevenson, 2004; Latin and Helms, 2001) or good cultural practices (Schwartz, 2004; Allen, 2005). The use of resistant varieties is not only suitable to low input farming, but also reduces the consequence of chemical sprays on non target organisms and on the environment (Thomas and Waage, 1996).
Genotypexenvironment interaction (GxE) is of notable importance in the development and evaluation of new varieties and an ideal variety is one that combines high yield with stability of performance (Ado and Ishiyaku, 1999). Russell and Stuber (1985) studied genotypexphotoperiod and genotypextemperature interactions in maize using a six parent diallel mating design. They recorded significant differences between the genotypes with respect to environmental variation. McCallum et al. (2001) in New Zealand reported that firm storage onion types produced from areas in higher latitudes (intermediate to long-day) are highly pungent and have high dry matter with soluble sugars, in contrast to onions selected from lower altitude (short-day varieties) which generally have lower pungency, lower dry matter and relatively more simple sugars that impart sweetness (fructose and sucrose). They also reported that both genotype and environment affected days to 50% tops down, days to maturity, pungency and soluble solids under New Zealand conditions. They also indicated that pyruvic acid content is strongly influenced by environmental variation and the method of extraction.
The objective of our study was to determine the genotypexenvironment interactions of resistance to purple blotch disease in onion under northern Nigerian conditions. Our aim was to obtain information, which will serve as a guide in the breeding of resistant cultivars for this region, where onion is an economically important crop. For this purpose we conducted a diallel cross between five shortday cultivars choosen for their diverse responses to purple blotch and then assessed their performance in field trials at two locations over two seasons.
Seeds of five onion varieties Red Creole (H), Kaharda (I), Koumassa (A), Sokoto Local (G) and Ori (E) were crossed in a complete diallel mating to generate diversity for resistance to purple blotch disease (Table 1) during the 2003/2004 onion growing season (October 2003-May 2004). Sokoto local was also chosen because it is the local standard cultivar. Seeds of the varieties were raised in a nursery where the soil was thoroughly mixed with farmyard manure at the rate of 5.5 t ha-1 (NAERLS, 1993). The seedlings were allowed to grow for a period of forty- nine days and later transplanted into plastic pots of 1458 cm3. The seedlings were allowed to grow to form bulbs. Bulbs generated were then cut across to encourage flowering and planted into plastic pots of the same dimension for growth up to flowering. At flowering diallel cross was made among the five varieties in all possible combinations giving rise to twenty-five progenies, including the crosses, selfs and the reciprocals.
The twenty five progenies and their parents were evaluated over two onion growing seasons (2004/2005 and 2005/2006) at two locations: Sokoto (Kwalkwalwa village; latitude 13°06′ 28 N and longitude 05°12′ 46 E) in Sokoto State and T/Mafara (latitude 12° 13′ 18 N and longitude 06°05′ 05 E and altitude 1150 m) in Zamfara State of Nigeria. In each field trial the genotypes were laid out in a Randomised Complete Block Design (RCBD) and replicated three times at each location and growing season. The total farm area was 333 m2 per season, with a plot size of 1.8x1.5 m of sunken beds.
Table 1: Description of the five onion varieties used in the study
The genotypes were:
1 = A, 2 = E, 3 = G, 4 = I, 5 = H, 6 = AxE, 7 = AxG, 8 = AxI, 9 = AxH, 10 = AxA, 11 = ExA, 12 = ExG, 13 = ExI, 14 = ExH, 15 = ExE, 16 = GxA, 17 = GxE, 18 = GxI, 19 = GxH, 20 = GxG, 21 = IxA, 22 = IxE, 23 = IxG, 24 = IxH, 25 = IxI, 26 = HxA, 27 = HxE, 28 = HxG, 29 = HxI and 30 = HxH
Seeds for all the experiments were sown on 15th of October of each year in a nursery. Farmyard manure at the rate of 5.5 t ha-1 (NAERLS, 1993) was thoroughly incorporated into the soil of the nursery beds, thereafter sunken beds of 2x1 m dimensions were made. The soil was made into fine tilth after removing large stones and stumps and watered then left for two days. Seeds of the genotypes for evaluation were separately broadcast into the sunken beds and mulched with millet stalks and irrigated. One week after germination the mulch materials were removed from the beds. The seedlings were thereafter watered (irrigated) in the evenings at two days interval initially and later at five days interval until the time of transplanting.
Transplanting of the seedlings was carried out forty nine days after sowing (7 WAS). The seedlings were removed from the seedbeds after watering to moisten the soil. At the field sites the seedlings were transplanted at a spacing of 30 cm between rows and 15 cm within rows. Each plot consisted of six rows of ten plants per row, the genotypes being evaluated were planted in the two middle rows of each plot and the other four rows were planted with a guard row onion variety (Aleiro).
No fertilizer was applied to the fields because according to Awad et al. (1978) application of nitrogen to onion plants increases susceptibility to purple blotch disease due to the production of succulent leaves, while addition of potassium and calcium super phosphate improves resistance to purple blotch.
Soil tests were conducted at both locations and for both seasons. The results of the soil analysis indicate that the soil at Sokoto is sandy loam while at Talata Mafara the soil is loamy sand.
The inoculation of the field was carried out at two weeks after transplanting allowing the seedlings to overcome the transplanting shock and also close enough to 10 WAS when the varieties used in the study were at the 5-7 leaf stage. This is in accordance with Arboleya et al. (2003) who reported that plants should be inoculated at 5-7 leaf stage. Thirty milliliters of 10-1 cfu of the spore suspension of Alternaria porri was poured in the centre of each plot immediately after irrigation.
The first three irrigations of the fields after transplanting were carried out every four days. Thereafter irrigations were maintained at 5 day interval up to harvest. At Sokoto irrigation was by flooding method using water pump, while at Talata Mafara irrigation was by flooding using the gravity method, using water from canals constructed by the Bakolori irrigation project.
No sprays of any kind were carried out since the genotypes were being evaluated for fungal infection. Three weeding regimes were carried out during each season at each location. The first weeding was carried at 10 WAS, the second at 14 WAS and the last at 19 WAS. Weeding was done manually by hoeing.
Harvesting was carried out when more than 50% of the tops were down for all the materials. The crops were carefully harvested using hoes to bring the bulbs to the surface of the soil, while the upper parts of the plants were cut with knives and sickles to separate the bulbs from the tops level with the neck. The harvested bulbs were spread on the floor in a ventilated room and allowed to dry for 10 days.
Data on fresh bulb yield (kg ha-1), cured bulb yield (kg ha-1), average bulb weight (g) were determined by weighing ten bulbs. Bulb diameter was determined using a vernier calliper for ten bulbs and days to maturity was recorded when 50% tops were down for each plot. Number of leaves/plant were counted at maturity. Disease incidence (%) and disease severity were assessed fortnightly. Disease incidence was determined according to Tarr (1981):
Diseased plants were plants that had sunken spots on leaves, which later enlarged to become purple with a yellow halo and elongated destroying the leaf tissue and eventually causing the bulb to rot. Disease severity was determined for each plot on the basis of standard procedures recommended by the International Plant Genetic Resource Institute, Rome, Italy. The rating was in the following order: 1 = Highly resistant, 2 = Resistant, 3 = Moderately resistant, 4 = Susceptible and 5 = Highly susceptible (IPGRI et al., 2001).
Data of the experiments were statistically analysed using the Statistical Analysis Systems (SAS, 1996) computer package. The statistical model used for the combined analysis over seasons and locations was a mixed model given by Obi (1986) as:
Yijkl = μ + Gi + Lj + Sk + RL + (GL)ij + (GS)ik + (LS)jk + (GLS)ijk + eijkl
Yijkl = The observation on ith genotype in jth environment in kth replication
μ = The general mean
Gi = The effect of genotypes
Lj = The effect of location
Sk = The effect of season
RL = The effect of replication within season and location
(GL)ij = The effect of genotypexlocation interaction
(GS)ik = The effect of genotypexseason interaction
(LS)jk = The effect of locationxseason interaction
(GLS)ijk = The effect of genotypexlocationxseason interaction
eijkl = The error effect associated with ijklth observation
The components of variance were estimated from the mean squares for each character by using the observed mean squares, thus with reference to Table 2 and 3.
Table 2: Form of Analysis of variance (ANOVA) table for single experiment (one season one location)
r = No. of replications, g = No. of genotypes, δ2e = Error variance, δ2g = Total genetic variances among the genotypes MS subscript: The observed mean squares of the subscript effect
Combined analysis of variance for the two seasons at Sokoto indicated highly significant genotypic mean squares for all the characters (Table 4). The season and genotype x season interaction were not significant for all the characters. At Talata Mafara, the genotypic variances were highly significant for all the characters while the genotype x season interaction indicated significant mean squares for bulb weight only (Table 5).
Highly significant mean squares were observed for the genotypes for all the traits during the 2004/2005 season across the locations (Table 6). The analysis also indicated highly significant mean squares for replications within location for disease incidence and disease severity and significant mean squares for fresh bulb yield. Fresh and cured bulb yields recorded highly significant mean squares for location, while disease incidence recorded significant mean squares for location during the season.
During the 2005/2006 season, however, the combined analysis across locations indicated highly significant genotypic mean squares for all the traits. Location effect was highly significant for fresh and cured bulb yields, while disease incidence recorded significant mean squares (Table 7). The genotypexlocation interactions were not significant for all the traits measured.
The performance of the genotypes and their parents across seasons and locations (Table 8), indicated cultivars Koumassa, Kaharda and Red Creole having lower mean disease incidence and higher mean fresh and cured bulb yields than their respective grand means. Crosses AxH, AxI, HxA, HxI, IxA and IxH recorded lower mean disease incidence than their grand mean, while crosses AxH, AxI, HxA, HxI, IxA and IxH recorded greater mean fresh and cured bulb yields than their grand mean.
Combined analysis across seasons and locations indicated highly significant (p = 0.01) mean squares for the genotypes for all the characters (Table 9). Highly significant mean squares were also recorded for the genotypexlocation for disease incidence and disease severity and fresh and cured bulb yields. Similarly, highly significant location effects were recorded for disease incidence and fresh and cured bulb yields. The genotypexseasonxlocation interactions were, however, not significant for all the traits. Similarly the seasonal effects, the season by location and the genotype by season interactions were not significant for all the traits.
According to Lamkey (2006), plant breeders evaluate germplasm in environments to identify genotypes that exhibit optimal adaptation to the needs of society, the demands of nature and the desires of the market place. The combined analysis of the experiments indicated significant variation among the parents and the crosses evaluated for all the traits under study (Table 9). Both superior and inferior genotypes exist in the population, with respect to the characters under consideration. This therefore suggests that selection for these traits during breeding programmes is possible.
The combined analysis of variance across seasons and locations also indicate that location, genotypes and genotypexlocation interaction were the sources of variation that accounted for the variability observed with respect to disease incidence (Table 9).
Table 3: Form of combined Analysis of variance (ANOVA) across seasons and locations
Table 4: Combined analysis of variance for eight onion characters grown at Sokoto during the 2004/2005 and 2005/2006 seasons
*: Significant at 5%, **: Significant at 1% levels of significance
Table 5: Combined analysis of variance for eight onion characters grown at Talata Mafara during the 2004/2005 and 2005/2006 seasons
Table 6: Combined analysis of variance for eight onion characters grown at Sokoto and Talata Mafara during 2004/2005 season
Table 8: Mean performance of onion crosses and parents inoculated with A. porri grown at Sokoto and Talata Mafara during 2004/2005 and 2005/2006 seasons
Table 9: Combined analysis of variance of onion genotypes inoculated with A. porri at Sokoto and Talata Mafara for two seasons
This suggests that the two locations differed in disease incidence score for the genotypes. The differences between the locations in environmental conditions most especially during the harvest months of March and April (Table 10) are the likely reason for the location effect. The highly significant genotypexlocation interaction for disease incidence indicate disease incidence among the genotypes vary with location. In other words, the ranking of the genotypes for the character vary with location.
Table 10: Meteorological data for harvest period at Sokoto and Talata Mafara during 2004/2005 and 2005/2006 seasons
Source: Sokoto Energy Research Center, Sokoto and Institute for Agricultural Research meteorological station Talata Mafara
According to Everts and Lacy (1990b) the disease can cause a yield loss of 30%, while Daljeet et al. (1992) and Schwartz (2004) reported yield loss of 100% of the seed crop when the weather favours the disease. The severity of purple blotch disease is greatly influenced by location (environment), nutrition (Awad et al., 1978), cultural practices (Arboleya et al., 2003), environmental conditions (Everts and Lacy, 1990a; Suheri and Price, 2000, 2001) and prevalence of other disease factors (Brar et al., 1990), all of which contribute to resistance or susceptibility to the disease. The influence of the environment on the development of purple blotch has been reported by several authors. Green (1972), reported that wet season trials of onions at IAR Samaru, Nigeria were associated with low yields which was attributed to attack by leaf pathogens especially Alternaria porri (Ell). In our trials disease severity was significant for genotype and genotypexlocation interactions suggesting that the pattern of location effect on disease severity was similar to that of disease incidence as expected. For both traits, the magnitude of the genotypic variance is higher than the first order interaction variance. The second order interactions were not significant for any of the measured traits. Breeders and farmers have long known that the best variety in one season in a sample of ten similar locations might not be the best in another season or when averaged across several seasons at the same locations (Lamkey, 2006). Unless therefore GxE is dealt with effectively, the potential genetic gains of plant breeding programmes will not be realized and delivered to the market place. According to Van Eeuwijk (2006), while experimental error can complicate characterization of genotypic performance, it can be reduced by experimental design and/or analytical methodologies. Within - location replication is also useful, since it allows separation of GxE from experimental error, thereby enabling better characterization of GxE. Unfortunately, GxE interaction can not be reduced or mitigated by design or analysis methods because GxE is an inherent attribute of the given genotypes in the given environment.
The combined analysis also indicated that fresh and cured bulb yields were highly significantly influenced by location, genotypes and genotypexlocation interaction. Breeding for resistance to purple blotch and for fresh and cured bulb yields should take cognizance of these factors. Breeding for fresh and cured bulb yields in onions should therefore be location specific. Similar conclusions were reported by other workers (Jones and Mann, 1963; Purseglove, 1972; Bednarz and Olarewaju, 1986). According to Van Eeuwijk (2006), in the absence of GxE and with experimental error at reasonably low levels, average phenotypic performance across environments provides a good representation of genotypic performance. Consequently, relative performance of genotypes can be determined from differences in these phenotypic performances. However, in the presence of significant GxE interaction, relative genotypic performance can only be characterized for specific environments.
Location effects were also significant for bulb weight and number of leaves/plant while genotypic differences for the traits were highly significant. The result therefore suggests that location and genotypes are two important factors to consider when selecting for bulb weight and number of leaves/plant in onions. The results indicate a need for location specificity when breeding for fresh and cured bulb yields in onion. Bulb diameter and days to maturity did not show any significant differences for seasons, locations and their interactions suggesting that the determining factor when selecting for these traits is the genotype. McCallum et al. (2001), however, in New Zealand, working on locally- adapted longer-day onions, reported that both genotypes and environment affect days to 50% tops down (days to maturity), pungency and soluble solids. Differences between their findings and ours may be connected with the fact that all of our onion cultivars were short-day and relatively well-adapted to our locations. Also, the cultural practices for the two sets of experiments may not have been the same during the cultivation of the crop.
The variations observed between different research groups may be connected with environmental variations. GxE interaction can be used to describe differential genotypic response to various geographic locations in a given year. There is also a temporal component to GxE, since the same geographic location will have a different environment in different years and at different times of the year (e.g., effects of planting date and growing season). In order to deal explicitly with both the spatial and the temporal aspects of environment, the GxE is separated into genotypexlocation, genotypexseason and genotypexseasonxlocation (Van Eeuwijk, 2006).
From our research we conclude that genetic diversity in short-day onions with respect to resistance to purple blotch disease exists and that breeding for resistant cultivars is therefore possible. Location, genotype and genotypelocation interactions were shown to influence disease incidence, fresh and cured bulb yields all of which are characters important in resistance to the disease. In future West African breeding programmes for resistance to purple blotch disease therefore these factors should be considered.
We wish to acknowledge the contributions of Dr. Lesley Currah, who assisted in obtaining the seeds of Red Creole from Seminis Vegetable Seeds and also for her scientific contribution to this work. We also wish to acknowledge the authorities of ICRISAT, Sadore, Niger Republic, INRAN and ONAHA all in Niger, Republic for the seeds of their cultivars.
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Jessica L. Deichmann1,2,*,
Steven W. J. Canty1,3,
Thomas S. B. Akre1,2,
Melanie McField1,3
1Working Land and Seascapes, Conservation Commons, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013, USA.
2Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, DC 20560, USA.
3Smithsonian Marine Station, Fort Pierce, FL 34949, USA.
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For correspondence: deichmannj@si.edu
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The ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Get A New Featurette And TV Spot!
Posted June 27th, 2014 by Stuart Conover
We have two new clips to share with you today for Marvel’s upcoming ‘Guardians of the Galaxy‘ and it looks like they are really going to be pushing the humor in this movie. Of course with the entire concept being so ridiculous you almost need to rely on the comic relief to have it work. That isn’t anything to worry about, though, as with every preview I’ve seen they haven’t just made it work, they’ve made it shine!
First up there is a fun new featurette to check out today and in it you see each of the main actors briefly talk about characters in the film. Not only that, but the clips provided really put an emphasis on the humor which will be fully fitting from the mess that Star-Lord’s crew finds themselves in!
Next up is the latest extended TV spot for the film and you just know anytime ‘Cherry Bomb’ is playing in the background things are just going to be awesome! I seriously cannot wait to watch this movie but even more, I can’t wait to see how they set the soundtrack to the action sequences in it!
Marvel’s marketing machine is in full force and I don’t mind! Unlike certain films who over market and give us most of the movie in the previews I still feel that we have most of the movie to see with everything they’ve shown us so far.
Are you looking forward to the upcoming ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ release? Did you enjoy hearing the cast talk about their characters? What was your favorite part of the new TV spot? Share your thoughts below true believers!
From Marvel, the studio that brought you the global blockbuster franchises of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers, comes a new team — the Guardians of the Galaxy. An action-packed, epic space adventure, Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” expands the Marvel Cinematic Universe into the cosmos, where brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade the ever-persistent Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits — Rocket, a gun-toting raccoon, Groot, a tree-like humanoid, the deadly and enigmatic Gamora and the revenge-driven Drax the Destroyer. But when Peter discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate stand — with the galaxy’s fate in the balance.
‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ starring Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Lee Pace, Karen Gillan, Benicio Del Toro, and Michael Rooker blasts off on August 1st, 2014.
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Our upcoming Lecture Programme has recently been published and kicks off on Thursday 13th September. Details of the lectures can be found by clicking on the ‘Programme’ tab in the main menu.
Post Office Engineers inspecting Marconi’s telegraph equipment on Flat Holm in 1897 (Wiki)
Some of you who picked up an early print edition of our programme may notice a change. Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, our original speaker for February 2019 is unable to make it. Instead we welcome Peter Sampson who will talk on ‘The Story and History of Flat Holm Island’. Peter’s talk will be especially welcome given that we had in fact been hoping to visit Flat Holm island in June as part of our Summer Visit programme but had to change plans following problems relating to a damaged landing jetty.
Apart from that little glitch our Summer programme of visits ran very well indeed, helped of course by the dry weather we are still experiencing. We had six trips in total, all of a varied nature.
St Saviour’s Church and war memorial in Splott (Wiki)
We started at St Saviour’s Church in Splott where the parish priest, Father Phelim O’Hare, kindly gave us a guided tour and pointed out some of the changes made to the church over time. The church was consecrated in October 1888 and was originally a daughter church of St German’s church in Star Street. St Saviour’s has been remodeled over the years and the nave cleverly converted into a church hall.
The 1:10 scale model of the Newport Ship with the recovered timbers depicted in solid form at the bottom.
One of the highlight’s of the Summer programme was an afternoon trip to both Newport and Caerleon. In Newport we visited the ‘Newport Ship’, the remains of this 35m long medieval vessel were discovered in 2002. The ship was built in northern Spain and traded mainly between Spain and Portugal and southern Britain carrying cargoes as varied as iron and wine. It is believed that the ship came to Newport in 1486 for repairs but it toppled over into the mud where it lay for over 500 years. We were treated to a detailed description of the painstaking work involved in restoring and preserving the ship’s timbers. We look forward to visiting again when the restoration work is complete.
Cathays Branch and Heritage Library (Wiki)
Closer to home, the Society visited Cathays Branch and Heritage Library. The library contains a host of resources for anyone interested in local studies in Cardiff. Enthusiastic library manager Katherine Whittington talked us through their collections and resources including their on-line catalogue that can be searched at home. I’ve since revisited the library in an attempt to answer that elusive question, ‘Where exactly is Roath?’ More on that in the future may be.
Highfields Church before and after restoration (Hisotorypoints)
A week after a hastily arranged visit to St Fagans National Museum of History it was time to visit another church, this time Highfields Church in Monthermer Road, Cathays. There, Tony Cort gave us a tour and detailed talk on the history of the church buildings. The church was originally Crwys Hall Methodist chapel built in the fashionable Arts and Crafts style and opened in 1900. In 1906 the Pierce Hall, on the corner of Robert Street, was opened, named after Charles Pierce, a wealthy bachelor and retired magistrate from Bangor, who had donated a lot of the money for the church building. In 1995 Highfields Church took over the building from what was then Cathays Presbyterian Church of Wales and began an extensive series of refurbishments but maintaining much of the original fabric.
Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery
For the last trip of the summer we went to Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery in Merthyr Tydfil. This isn’t a castle at all but the former grand home of the Crawshay ironmaster family. Chris, our eloquent guide for the day, gave us a fascinating and entertaining talk on the history of the Crawshay family, the ironworks and the house as well as the museum collection. The view from the house today is green and picturesque and no doubt looks very different to the Crawshay days when he overlooked his iron works which were one of the largest in the world making him in turn one of the most wealthy industrialists in the world. Entrance to the museum and art gallery is just £2 whist entrance to the extensive grounds is free of charge.
Looking forward to seeing you at our upcoming lectures. In the meantime, enjoy the Summer!
Ted Richards
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The complexities of legalizing cannabis
By WILL ASTOR | January 24, 2019
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With Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s blessing and Democrats in control of the Assembly and Senate, legislation to legalize adult recreational use of marijuana in New York looks to be on a glide path. But there could be bumps in the road.
Questions that must be answered before recreational pot is sold legally in the state include who will be allowed to sell it, how it will be taxed and regulated, and how the state will square its legalization with a federal government that classes marijuana as more dangerous than some prescription opioids.
In a turnabout that made him one of only 10 U.S. governors to score a B grade in the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws’ recent gubernatorial scorecard, Cuomo pivoted 180 degrees away from the position he had taken as recently as 2014 when he questioned the wisdom of legalizing marijuana even for medical use, calling the substance “too dangerous” and “a gateway drug.” The same year, Cuomo agreed to start a medical cannabis program. New York was one of the most restrictive among the 23 states that had such programs at the time.
Only four tightly regulated outlets for the entire state were allowed to dispense product that could be used to treat only a short list of conditions and could not be smoked. The state has since upped the number of legal medical marijuana dispensers to 10. There are currently some two dozen medical marijuana dispensaries and another dozen are on the way.The Rochester area currently houses a medical cannabis manufacturing facility and a dispensary, both run by Columbia Care. Another medical marijuana supplier, Fiorello Pharmaceuticals, which does business as FP Wellness, plans a second Monroe County dispensary.
Last month, Cuomo enthusiastically touted advancing to recreational marijuana use in the state, calling on New Yorkers to “legalize the adult use of recreational marijuana once and for all.” He framed the move as needed to address an inequitable criminal justice system that has “for too long targeted the African-American and minority communities.”
A few weeks later, in his Jan. 15 State of the State and state budget address Cuomo answered his own call, proposing that the state legalize pot this year. Adding financial incentive to justice, he cited a state study estimating that marijuana sales could add $300 million to $435 million to state coffers.
Paving the way for the governor’s legalization drive, was a state Department of Health assessment released last July that, among other observations and predictions, noted if New York does not allow and regulate adult recreational marijuana use, it would see an estimated $100 million a year flow to neighboring states where New York pot smokers can legally buy the drug.
Cuomo did not dwell long on his legalization proposal in his State of the State message, but he did outline a few key details of a cannabis bill he plans to soon transmit to the Legislature. Among them:
Regulation of the state’s marijuana market would be under a new agency that would oversee the state’s medical and recreational programs, the Office of Cannabis Management;
Sales to persons under 21 would not be allowed;
As with so-called dry counties in some states that ban alcoholic beverages, counties and large cities that don’t want pot sold in their precincts would be allowed to opt out;
Records of people convicted of past criminal marijuana offenses would sealed; and
Minority communities that have been disproportionately affected by marijuana-related criminal convictions would be given a leg up in profiting from the legal cannabis market.
Further details are in a bill that had yet to be transmitted to the Legislature, when I spoke with Assemblymember Richard Gottfried last week. Gottfried, a Manhattan Democrat, is the longtime Health Committee chair and an advocate of full legalization.
Cuomo consulted with him and other key legislators often as the governor was working up the cannabis proposal, Gottfried says, so he believes he has a fair picture of how the state’s establishment of a recreational marijuana program promises to play out.
Still Gottfried concedes, “it’s 900 pages long and I haven’t read it.”
The mostly positive Health Department assessment could have some clues to what the governor’s bill might contain. Citing moves made by states like Colorado, Washington and Oregon to walk back taxes they initially priced too high, it suggests, for example, taxing marijuana at a 7 percent to 10 percent rate.
“Price point is crucial, because if it is too high, consumers will not transition from the unregulated market to the regulated market,” the assessment states.
Waiting to see
Whatever the specifics of the governor’s bill, expect there to be debate in the Legislature that could alter key features, Gottfried warns. He for one opposes the municipal opt-out provision and plans to argue for striking it.
I asked City Hall whether it would look to go along with legal pot or opt out.
“Until legislation is formally introduced at the state level,” wrote the city’s director of communications Justin Roj in an email, “it is premature to speculate on the impacts of recreational marijuana on the city. We will certainly review any legislation that is introduced, research its impacts and respond accordingly.”
Jesse Sleezer, Monroe County’s director of communications, did not respond to my request for comment.
Cuomo predicted in his State of the State speech that full Democratic control of all the levers of New York’s government would presage easy passage of his agenda including full legalization of recreational marijuana.
Still, Republican lawmakers, many of whom previously voted it down, can be expected to argue against legalization and some Democrats could join them.
In a poll of the local state delegation taken by WHEC-TV10 last June, area Republican Assembly representatives Brian Kolb of Ontario County, Stephen Hawley of Orleans County and Peter Lawrence of Greece all said they would vote against recreational legalization. GOP senators vowing to vote no included Michael Razenhofer, a Buffalo lawmaker whose district stretches to Monroe County; Patrick Gallivan, whose district covers parts of Erie, Wyoming, Livingston and Monroe counties; and Pamela Helming, who represents parts of Wayne, Monroe, Schuyler, Cayuga and Tompkins counties.
Legalization opponents cite studies that have linked marijuana use to increased crime, schizophrenia and higher instances of motor vehicle accidents. Supporters note that any studies linking marijuana use to such ills are observational and thus do not definitively establish that marijuana use caused the problem.
The Health Department assessment takes the position that if there are causative links between pot and such ills, a regulated market will give authorities more ability to address those problems.
In the case of motor vehicle accidents, “subject matter experts noted that the dangers of driving under the influence of alcohol are worse than the dangers of driving under the influence of marijuana,”the Health Department report concludes. However, it also notes that unlike blood alcohol tests, tests that show a driver to have used marijuana cannot determine whether that driver was high when the test was administered.
Keeping a close eye on the push for recreational marijuana legalization are the state’s authorized medical marijuana sellers.
Members of the New York Medical Cannabis Industry Association, a trade group that represents seven of the state’s 10 medical marijuana sellers, strongly recommend that recreational pot be sold in stores attached to medical dispensaries, spokesman John Schiumo says.
While Schiumo concedes that setting up the state’s retail market in such a way would financially benefit existing New York medical sellers. But a more important point, he argues, is that buyers like his own mother, a woman in her 80s with arthritis who has never used marijuana but might be tempted to if it were legally available, would be able to easily seek advice from professionals on staff at the co-located retail store’s attached medical dispensary.
An association position paper predicts that separating sales of medicinal and recreational marijuana would mean higher prices for medical cannabis patients and would tempt many to self-medicate with possible ill effects.
The bottom line for the state’s medical marijuana sellers could be the bottom line. If recreational sales are allowed at non-medical sites, competition could drive medical sellers out of business, Schiumo says.
A boon for some
Alcoholic beverage distributors are also eying a market that the state estimates would reach annual gross sales of somewhere $1.7 billion to $3.5 billion.
Florida-based Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is New York’s largest liquor distributor. Asked what its interest in the New York recreational cannabis market might be, Barkley Stuart, the company’s executive vice president for government affairs, responded with this statement:
“We support a state’s right to establish a legal, well-regulated, adult-use cannabis marketplace. We believe the federal government should respect the right of states to legalize cannabis if they adopt cannabis market regulations that meet a framework similar to that governing beverage alcohol, including regulations that set age restrictions on buyers, taxation, and separation of three-tiers similar to the beverage alcohol distribution model, as well as license and regulate the supply chain of cannabis, including growers, distributors, retailers and testing laboratories.”
Victor-based Constellation Brands Inc., a producer and international distributor of a number of well-known alcoholic beverage brands, spent $4 billion last fall to acquire a 37 percent stake the Canada-based cannabis firm, Canopy Growth Corp. Constellation officials did not respond to my query as to what the firm’s interest might be.
A cannabis oil thought to have medical uses can be extracted from hemp and Canopy has considerable expertise in the extraction process. (Photo credit: Canopy Growth)
Last week, Canopy announced plans to build a $100 million to $150 million hemp-processing industrial park in the Southern Tier. But until the U.S. government reverses its Schedule I classification of cannabis as a dangerous drug, Canopy plans only to produce products like hemp cloth at the Southern Tier facility, abstaining from manufacture of any medical or recreational drug.
Hemp and marijuana are varieties of the same plant, cannabis sativa. But hemp contains only trace amounts of the chemical that produces pot’s psychoactive effects. A cannabis oil thought to have medical uses can be extracted from hemp and Canopy has considerable expertise in the extraction process. Canopy’s decision to enter the U.S. market came shortly after the enactment of the most recent U.S. farm bill, which for the first time since it was criminalized in 1970 made hemp a legal crop for U.S. farmers, Still, full federal decriminalization of cannabis does not seem to be likely to occur soon.
Before his recent ouster, former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions had vowed to start rigorously enforcing the federal ban, reversing the Obama administration’s policy of non-interference with 31 states that have so far legalized medical cannabis and the 10 that now allow recreational marijuana.
The Trump administration’s nominee to replace Sessions, William Barr, has indicated that he would return to the Obama era don’t ask, don’t tell policy, but would not be inclined to favor full federal legalization.
The federal government’s insistence on keeping the Schedule I classification for cannabis will be the single biggest bugaboo for the state, predicts William Easton, a Rochester criminal defense attorney whom NORML lists as the go-to lawyer for defendants accused of marijuana violations in the Rochester area.
For states that legalize cannabis, says Easton, the DEA’s Schedule I classification creates a catch-22: Because the designation decrees as a matter of law that marijuana has no valid use, it cannot be tested in controlled experiments that would determine its medical usefulness or lack of it and pro-or-con arguments as to its positive or ill effects cannot be settled.
Easton, who says his primary focus in criminal defense is on constitutional questions, is currently pursuing a casein federal court in Rochester that he hopes will take marijuana off the DEA’s Schedule I list. After two years of arguments the case, U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Wolford in 2016 handed down a ruling against him, but Easton says he is still weighing a possible appeal.
The federal government’s insistence on classifying marijuana as one of the most dangerous drugs “is like prohibition but it’s worse,” maintains Easton, referring to the country’s ill-starred 14-year ban on alcohol nearly a century ago.
While the U.S. was able to end the country’s nationwide alcohol ban with a 1933 constitutional amendment that simultaneously made drinking legal in every state, the piecemeal legalization of cannabis by individual states leaves key questions unanswered and unanswerable.
Gottfried agrees on at least one score: Federally chartered banks cannot take deposits or process credit card transactions from cannabis industry firms. That feature makes dealing with receipts unwieldy for such businesses.
“I guess they have to have really big safes,” Gottfried says.
Some members of the medical cannabis industry association have possibly devised a way around that dilemma, says spokesman Schiumo, who declined to elaborate.
State-chartered banks might be able to legally deal in cannabis cash, Gottfried speculates, but says he has no firsthand knowledge of the situation.
A perhaps more serious effect of the federal ban is that marijuana sellers make less money and that as a result the state would realize substantially less revenue. The reason? Cannabis-related enterprises’ business expenses are not deductible on federal tax returns.
“You can’t count an illegal activity as a legitimate expense,” Gottfried notes.
Still, such problems will be resolved in the end, he believes. A tipping point has been reached and further debate will eventually come down to not if but when and how to fully legalize cannabis.
“I think the debate is over,” Gottfried asserts. “Cannabis is now not about hippies. It’s about capitalism and that changes everything.”
A question of classification
To Bill Easton, it seems like a straightforward proposition in logic:
Federal law classes marijuana as an illegal drug. Not just any illegal drug, but as a Schedule I substance, a category that supposedly includes only the most highly addictive drugs and specifies that drugs so classed must have no accepted medical use.
At last count, Easton reasons, 31 states including New York have instituted medical marijuana programs. So, since marijuana has accepted medical uses, its Schedule I classification must be thrown out.
Unfortunately for Easton, a Rochester criminal defense attorney and partner of Easton Thompson Kaseperek Schiffren LLP, legal and common sense logic do not necessarily move on the same track. That may be more unfortunate for his clients, a pair of California brothers facing possible long prison terms on money laundering and marijuana distribution charges.
Easton, turned down in a bid to get the brothers off of the marijuana beef by striking pot’s Schedule I status in a June 2016 ruling by federal Magistrate Judge Jonathan Feldman and again six months later by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Wolford, says he is still weighing an appeal to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
The case dates to 2014. The siblings, Alexander and Charles Green, were charged along with a group of Rochester-area residents—Michael Amalfi Jr., Michael Marciano, Peter Wilk and Christopher Alvino—with being members of a drug-trafficking ring.
Because Amalfi at the time ran a well-known Brighton restaurant, the case drew some local attention. Amalfi and the other local defendants entered guilty pleas. Only the Green bothers are still fighting the marijuana distribution charge.
There is no dispute over the facts of the case. The Green brothers don’t claim that they were not distributing marijuana and have not disputed the amount that federal officials charge them with selling.
While not disputing the facts, the defense Easton offers attacks marijuana’s Schedule I classification, arguing that because marijuana is misclassified, the Greens are deprived of equal protection under the law as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution’s 10th Amendment.
Easton’s continued frustration with the case stems largely from the fact that he believes he so far has not had a chance to fully argue what seems to him to be the heart of the matter: that the federal government’s and Drug Enforcement Administration’s insistence on maintaining marijuana’s Schedule I status defies common sense.
Schedule I is one several categories created under the Controlled Substances Act, a 1970 federal law setting out a basis for regulating dangerous drugs. The drug schedules list—compiled by the DEA—goes in ascending order with Schedule V, including drugs the DEA and Food and Drug Administration rate as least harmful drugs. Schedule I including those the agencies sees as most harmful. To make the Schedule I list, drugs are supposed to have high potential for abuse, have no accepted medical use and be unsafe to take even under supervision by a physician.
Joining marijuana on the Schedule I list are heroin; MDMA, the popular club drug known as ecstasy; LSD; and a number of other drugs. Drugs on the Schedule II list of supposedly less dangerous drugs include the opioids OxyContin and fentanyl, which are widely blamed for tens of thousands of deaths in what officials and others are calling a nationwide epidemic of opioid abuse,
In pretrial maneuvering before Feldman, Easton filed briefs stating his theory and argued the case in a court. At the time, 23 states had medical marijuana programs. In the pretrial filings and oral argument, Easton was asking that Feldman hold a further hearing at which he could consider more detailed arguments for and against the premise that marijuana should not be classed as a Schedule I drug.
Feldman said no.
His decision in part was based on the DEA’s then recently announced plan to reschedule marijuana.
In the intervening two years, Easton notes, the DEA has made no such move. To the contrary, within weeks of Feldman’s ruling, the agency issued a statement saying that it would not reschedule marijuana.
Turned down by Feldman, Easton appealed to Wolford, the judge, who if a full trial were to be held, would ultimately preside.
“Judge Feldman’s report and recommendation was clearly erroneous and contrary to law in denying the Greens an evidentiary hearing,” Easton and co-counsel Buffalo attorney James Harrington wrote in a brief presented to Wolford.
Though they had laid out “a fact-specific challenge to the constitutionality of the DEA’s scheduling of marijuana … Judge Feldman has deprived (the Greens) of the opportunity to develop a record to support their claim,” the Green brothers’ attorneys added.
Wolford also said no.
Citing previous court decisions, she concluded that the Green brothers’ case had not met the standard for a 10th Amendment challenge.
Neither the growing number of states choosing to legalize medical marijuana nor the medical and scientific evidence supporting such moves that Easton and Harrington presented matter, Wolford concluded.
“Even if there is a legitimate medical purpose associated with marijuana … there are numerous conceivable health and public safety grounds that could justify Congress’s and the DEA’s continued regulation of marijuana as a Schedule I substance. Under no reasonable view of the facts could it be concluded that it is irrational for Congress to continue to regulate marijuana as it has or for the DEA to continue to adhere to a Schedule I classification for marijuana,” she wrote.
Perhaps not.
Still, wrote Feldman, quoting his own observation at an earlier court session, the current disjunction between federal and state marijuana laws poses “a troubling question … why isn’t the federal government prosecuting the Governor of New York for a marijuana distribution conspiracy?”
—Will Astor
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“Misconduct” | Movie Review
Anthony Digioia / February 12, 2016
Grade (D+)
A crime-thriller that has its moments but fails to deliver the intended intrigue with weak characters and a slow pace.
“MISCONDUCT” stars Josh Duhamel as Ben, a young, driven attorney that takes on a case against a massive pharmaceutical corporation headed by Denning played by Anthony Hopkins. Soon after he takes the case Ben’s life is turned upside-down in a web of lies, deceit, black-mail and corruption.
First I will say this movie was not a good as it should have been for having both Anthony Hopkins and Al Pacino in it. While this movie failed to fully compel there were some good aspects that make it pass the time and not completely disappoint. There were sections of the story that did build some intrigue and early on it did engage the audience in the building of the plot. But as it went on the pace seemed to falter too much and the multiple twists and turns were not quite fleshed out enough to give the story a good flow. It did have moments of suspense but it also had moments of predictability, plot-line convenience and unrealistic characters.
Josh Duhamel was the lead in this one and he was pretty good. He felt the part of the young up-and-coming lawyer and you could see enough energy in his performance to connect with his character, and to some extent find interest in how the story-line will play out for him. It was also nice to see this film not simply use Hopkins and Pacino as mere cameos to sell their faces on some movie posters and promo material. Both of these legends were able to add their talents to the film, although only to an extent, given their impact on the story and their development in the writing stages.
While Duhamel was able to carry this film, the scenes with Pacino and Hopkins undoubtedly are the best and command your attention each time they effortlessly deliver their lines. The rest of the cast was decent as well and none hindered the film with their performances. It was just the lack of development in characters that I think hindered the cast from truly connecting with their roles. There were some moments of over-acting, others of odd character decision making and some of it seemed to result in moments that felt a little too convenient.
The story as it progressed also seemed to lose some focus and it was visible in a messy late second-act where there story veered off into many sub-plots to begin developing the intended twists. The frequency of the moving from angle to angle cost the script some of its impact but in the end it was still a decent story-line that passes the time, more than holding you up in your seat as you watch. The film looked very polished, the wardrobes and locations were well selected and add something to a film that was lacking in other areas.
Overall “Misconduct” had some glimmers of intrigue but in the end tells a rather interesting story but failed to fully deliver the intended suspense and despite the cast of familiar faces, the film is surprisingly forgettable.
– Starring –
Josh Duhamel, Malin Akerman, Alice Eve, Al Pacino, Anthony Hopkins, Julia Stiles, Glen Powell, Byung-hun Lee
– Directed By –
Shintaro Shimosawa
MPAA Rating: R (For language, violence and some sexuality/nudity)
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I thought this movie was excellent movie. It requires total concentration. It has a lot of twists and you don’t know until the very end what the outcome is.
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Digital, Booking Sites
Booking.com Sues U.S. Patent Office Over Trademark Rejection
Dennis Schaal, Skift
- Apr 22, 2016 6:30 am
We pause our argument for the moment that the Priceline Group should be rebranded as the Booking.com Group because of the latter’s wider brand recognition. The Priceline Group, which actually has no plans under way to rebrand, needs to get this messy Booking.com trademark issue cleared up first. It seems like such a stretch that one of the largest travel companies in the world can’t get its trademark approved.
After getting its trademark applications rejected, a decision affirmed upon appeal, Booking.com has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office demanding that it approve Booking.com’s trademark.
The patent office initially published Booking.com’s trademark on October 13, 2012 and then reversed its own decision and withdrew the trademark about five weeks later.
Booking.com appealed the decision, which was based on the term supposedly being merely descriptive and too generic, with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board on October 13, 2014.
The appeals board on February 18, 2016 upheld the patent office’s rejection of Booking.com’s trademark applications on the grounds “that BOOKING.COM is merely descriptive and Plaintiff had failed to prove the mark had acquired secondary meaning.”
Given that Booking.com filed the trademark application as a “travel agency service,” Booking.com’s lawsuit, filed April 15 in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, states “there is no evidence in the entire history of Booking.com’s use of its trademark that any consumers or users of travel agency services refer to such sites as ‘Booking.com’s.'”
A Booking.com-commissioned survey found that 75 percent of its users “recognize BOOKING.COM as a trademark, not a common name,” the suit states.
Booking.com stated that it has invested enormous resources in advertising, for example, to spread its brand, which it has used since 2006. The Amsterdam-based Booking.com also stated that it has used the similar mark, Booking.NL, since 1997.
“There is no factual or logical basis on which to infer from a lengthy character string such as ‘instantworldbooking.com,’ that consumers ascribe to a small subset of the entire character string a primary meaning independent of that entire character string,” the lawsuit states.
Booking.com further chided the appeals panel for finding that BOOKING.COM had not become a distinctive brand among consumers. Booking.com’s lawsuit states that more than 2 million U.S. consumers signed up for its newsletter; it has more than 2.7 million Facebook “likes,” and almost “58,000 members of the relevant public were already ‘talking about’ Plaintiff’s brand on Facebook.com, higher than other accommodations and travel companies such as TRAVELOCITY, HOTELS.COM, TRAVELZOO AND ORBITZ.”
Booking.com demands that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office publish the company’s trademark based on it being a travel agency service and having “acquired distinctiveness.”
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Rose-Colored Glasses Off: ISIL Kills European Jihadists - Escaped Prisoner
Violence Erupts as Islamic State Rises (1881)
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When European jihadists get disappointed with ISIL and refuse to fight, the terrorist group instantly kills them.
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Mathematics of Basketball Defenses
squared2020 / December 20, 2017
When we measure the defensive impact of a player, typically the first arguments we make are the number of blocks and steals that player has obtained. We celebrate players like Dikembe Mutombo and Maurice Cheeks for their prowess in obtaining blocks (2nd all time) and steals (5th all time), respectively. In the latter case, a steal has total meaning: a player has forcefully taken away a possession from the opponent through a turnover.
On the other hand a block, while erasing a field goal attempt from a team, does not necessarily terminate the team’s possession. Instead, blocks serve more as an intimidation factor; with the possibility of terminating a possession. Blocks may serve as a valuable tool in controlling the paint on defense, but it still gives the opposition hope in scoring a basket. For instance, a team with a dominant rim-protecting shot blocker in the paint may be nearly ineffective against a long-range team such as Golden State or Houston. And if that shot blocker aims to get more “Oohs” and “aahs” from the crowd by sending field goal attempts into the stands; all that happens is the offense gets a designed out-of-bounds play. A second life if you will.
In this installment, we take a look at the blocked shot and how to make blocked shots count in the league.
Distribution By Team: Golden State… holy cow…
First, we take a look at the distribution of blocked shots for each team. Let’s start simple. First we consider the number of field goal attempts taken against each team and count the number of blocks obtained. This in turn gives us a block percentage.
The first thing that jumps out is that effectively every team is at about 4-6% when it comes to blocking their opponents attempts. There are two primary exceptions: San Antonio Spurs (7.00%) and Golden State Warriors (9.46%). The Golden State Warriors rate is incredibly high as most teams tend to settle about 5% over the course of the season.
In fact the top five blocking teams, with respect to rate, are (in order) Golden State (9.46), San Antonio (7.00), Milwaukee (6.76), Toronto (6.51), and Utah (6.39). It should be noted that blocks do not necessarily translate to wins as we see Memphis (6th) and Los Angeles Lakers (7th) creep into the top.
Yeah, there’s pretty much no correlation between blocks and wins.
So why don’t blocks translate to wins? One simple answer is that blocks happen so rarely as it is, roughly one out of every 15-20 field goal attempts for almost every team that the net difference in blocks between teams is typically 0-2 blocks a game. This translates to effectively 0 – 2 points a game in difference; as most teams score roughly 1.1 points per possession. Note that we don’t state 2.2 points a possession; and this is because many blocks do not terminate possessions.
However, how are blocks distributed on the court?
Spatial Distribution of Blocks
As blocks are considered missed field goal attempts, we are able to identify the location of every block on the court, thanks to shot charts. Let’s consider the leader: Golden State against their rival Houston Rockets.
Distribution of Golden State Warriors blocks through December 19th, 2017.
We see a healthy dose of blocks around the rim, but also an excessively healthy amount of blocks in the mid-range and the along the perimeter. For example, we note that there are 25 three point attempts blocked, along with another 20 in the mid-range. Combined, this is 45 blocks outside of the paint, for an estimated erasing or 115 points. Compare this to Houston…
Distribution of Houston Rockets blocks through December 19th, 2017.
…and we get a completely different story. Don’t let the image fool you, there’s four blocks beyond the perimeter. It just so happens two blocks were recorded in the exact same position. We find that Houston picks up another 13 blocks in the mid-range; which is slightly on par with Golden State. We see the force of Clint Capela in the post with his 51 blocks so far this season.
But what these comparisons show is that Houston is more willing to let three point field goals go unblocked. In fact, Golden State’s opponents have attempted 884 three point attempts against Houston’s opponents with 825 attempts. What this shows is that teams are willing to shoot at roughly the same rate and Houston is leaving these attempts less contested than their Warrior counter-parts.
This difference may be of two reasons:
1. Fouling is Not Worth It
The first is that, the team may run the risk of fouling more often and therefore tread lightly on contesting three point attempts. Foul trouble plus, giving up 3+ points on a field goal attempt is one of the worst policies to have as a team on defense.
2. DEF 3PFG% Is Random
Second, Houston acknowledges that three point field goal percentage is roughly random. Every team defense gives up between 9-12 threes a game. While the difference is nine points, the 3FG% ranges between 34% and 40%. Which means there’s maybe one lost attempt a game; and the other couple attempts turn into two-point field goal attempts. Ultimately, why gamble on blocking three’s when unblocked three’s could lead to only a 1-2 points discrepancy overall. Instead, hard contests that force the player to put the ball on the floor possibly lead to a two-point FGA instead, and shave that 1-2 points over three possessions.
Whatever the reason, Houston is not taking away the points by blocking long range shots; while Golden State is. And this may become a difference maker should these two teams meet later on in the playoffs.
Splitting Blocks: 2FGA and 3FGA
Let’s take a moment to look into the distribution of blocks across two-point and three-point FGA.
And this is where Golden State really starts to separate themselves; if they haven’t already. Notice that every 8 two-point attempts against the Warriors results in a blocked shot. Similarly, every 35 three-point attempts results in a blocked shot.
For two-point FGA, the San Antonio Spurs come in second with a relatively meager one block per 10 two-point attempts. For three-point FGA, the Portland Trail Blazers clock in second with one block for every 84 attempts!
So how are the Warriors doing this? Two primary reasons:
1. The Warriors have Length
The very same reason why San Antonio is second, and Milwaukee creeps up in the list. These teams are armed with Stretch Armstrong-like reaches and give shooters the false sense of security when they see their defender 6+ feet away. Due to their reaches, the close-out requires less time; thus allowing the probability of a block to go up.
2. The Warriors Rotate Well
One of the best attributes of the Warriors is their ability to guard almost all positions at all times. The main (but not only) exception is when Stephen Curry is forced to guard a skilled post player. However, players such as Draymond Green, Kevin Durant, Andre Iguodala, Shaun Livingston, Klay Thompson, and the emerging rookie Jordan Bell can guard every position on the court. This allows them to make screen-and-rolls ineffective as they can merely switch with pre-switch, hedge capability.
The question is, do they really make their blocks count?
Making the Block Count
In order to “make a block count,” the result should not only take away a potential FGM; but also eliminate the team’s possession. In this case, we are interested more in what happens immediately after a block.
So let’s say first things first: we must find the block. Trawling through play-by-play logs, we can extract out every block in every game. Directory walking through the files, we take each game as a csv dump and extract out our blocks, tossing a block token down, called blockHappened. Clever name, I know!
Python code to extract blocks and begin a counting regimen.
Notice I split out every block into a dictionary that identifies the player, their team, and a sequence of six counters. The first counter is two-point FGA blocked. The second counter is three-point FGA blocked. The remainder? That’s what happens next…
Python code to count results after the block. ReverseDict checks a description box to look for Jump Balls and Team Rebounds.
The next step is to identify the action after a block. Typically, a block results in a rebound as it is a missed FGA. However, this is not always the case. It also happens that the shot clock expires before a player is able to obtain the rebound. This actually happens very rarely: only 6 times so far this season (out of 450 games).
Pop Quiz, Hot Shot:
Fun fact… some blocked shots result in jump balls. In this case, the possession terminates if the offense loses the jump. The result of the jump ball? It’s labeled a team rebound. These are lumped back into rebounds lost and won.
This means the third counter is the number of possessions terminated due to rebound. The fourth counter is the number of blocks that return to the hands of the offense. And the fifth counter is the number of blocks that turn into shot clock violations.
Finally, the last counter? That’s the other bin. With play-by-play data, we tend to get a handful of awkward recordings. No data is perfect, and watching blocks illustrates this mantra well. Out out the 4305 blocks, a total of 48 blocks resulted in random, nonsensical responses. For instance, some blocks resulted in substitutions. Some blocks resulted in a secondary missed three point attempt by Trevor Ariza; or an Enes Kanter put-back (without a rebound recorded). Some blockes resulted in steals for Larry Nance Jr. Oddities. This chalks up to missing play-by-play actions. So in this case, we assume these 48 instances are noise and just deal with it.
Who Makes Them Count?
As we walked through how to make blocks count, we now present the results for the Golden State Warriors.
Kills: Number of Possessions Terminated due to Defensive Rebound off a Block.
Here we see the team’s breakdown of blocks. Draymond Green is the beast of the team, recording seven blocks from beyond the arc. Similarly, David West and Kevin Durant have picked up four blocks from the perimeter. These numbers, while seeming low, are staggeringly high; seeing as multiple teams have only one block at the perimeter.
However, do they make the blocks count? Notice that half of Green’s blocks return to the hands of the offense. It’s actually one of the worst rates in the league for players with 20 or more blocks in the season. Breaking this down there are only 10 players with worse kill rates than Draymond Green. On the flip side, there are 58 players with better kill rates than Draymond Green. Note that there are four players tied with Green for kill rate. This places Draymond Green in the 15th percentile for making blocks count.
What this indicates is that while Green is skilled at obtaining blocks, he is not making them count as much as he should. Compare this to Jordan Bell, who has a possession kill rate of 74.07% on blocks, and we see that not only does Bell pick up blocks; but he makes them count.
Which Team Has the Best Kill Rates?
By taking a look a the kill rates for each team, we find that the Chicago Bulls actually have the best rates of converting blocks into offensive possessions. While they are the tops, they do not get many blocks. Therefore, this suggests their kill rate is ineffective. Think of this as a free throw shooter who has a .875 FT% because they are 7-for-8. Sure, they have a great percentage, but they aren’t scoring points. The same phenomenon applies here.
Instead, we look for teams with high kill rates and high total blocks. These teams are now making blocks look like steals and getting the desired return: points-less possessions for opponents. So how do we determine such teams? We look at the blocks versus kills plot.
We can start drawing contours on this plot to start sectioning teams off. Ideally, rates stay high as the blocks go up, so teams in the upper right corner of this plot are ideal. Well… there’s no teams there.
So instead, we start cutting the region with diagonal lines. Doing this, we find that the Golden State Warriors are still the top team; even when adjusting for possession counts (Note: block totals are impacted by possessions). After this, the San Antonio Spurs are a close second.
The third best team? Miami, who is in close contention with Washington.
Using the kill rates, we start to see the impact of blocks on the game and start to understand the player’s impact on the game. So while a player may accumulate many blocks, they may not be getting the same return as a steal; which, in the end, is what defenses are after: terminating possessions.
Below, feel free to scroll through all players in the league; distinguished by team.
December 20, 2017 in Advanced Methods, NBA. Tags: Analysis, Analytics, Basketball, Coding, Data, Data Science, Golden State Warriors, NBA, Python, Sports, Sports Analytics
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this blog is incredible, who are you??
squared2020 says:
Thanks! I’m Justin. 🙂
Great analysis, thanks!
There is also probably a degree of intimidation when shooting in front of teams/players that have a blocker reputation. I wouldn’t be surprised if some teams would shoot more rapidly, less efficiently or further away than usually when facing GSW or SAS.
shakiramer says:
this is amazing analysis. I was thinking that players who are considered shot blockers are very over valued commodities; mainly because the variance between elite shotblockers (2 plus blocks per game) and mediocre shot blockers (1 block per game) is so low. There are so many people on the “Mo Bamba hype train”. I think they are severely over estimating his value.
Thank you so much for breaking these numbers down. I will use them to respond to the Mo Bamba fan club.
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London, UK: Changsha Huanghua International Airport has been certified as a global 4-Star Airport by SKYTRAX, the international air transport rating organisation.
Mr Yu Hui (right) GM of Changsha Huanghua International Airport receives the 4-Star Airport Award
This follows the latest Audit of standards that took place in December 2018, examining all customer experience areas across both Terminal 1 and Terminal 2.
This 4-Star Airport rating is a global award that recognises good standards of Product and Staff service throughout the Changsha Airport environment. More importantly, this award recognizes the many improvements and changes that Hunan Airport Management Group have made during the past few years to upgrade quality and meet the 4-Star Airport requirements.
Whilst predominantly a domestic airport, Changsha Huanghua International Airport is growing the number of international routes across Asia, as well as long haul routes to London, Melbourne and other destinations. Changsha Huanghua International Airport is currently handling over 25 million passengers annually.
To be successful, an airport must operate as a team, and this 4-Star Airport award recognises that the Changsha Huanghua International Airport rating is based upon that team performance – the airport management, front line staff, customs and immigration, food and beverages and the many other staff working at the airport who contribute to achieve this award.
Commenting on the 4-Star Airport Rating, Edward Plaisted of Skytrax said: “we first audited Changsha Huanghua International Airport five years ago, and it was meeting a 3-Star Rating standard. Since that time the airport has undergone major improvements, Terminal 1 has been refurbished and Terminal 2 brought up to a much more international standard across the airport facilities, shopping, food and beverages and front-line service staff. The improvements are most impressive, and we now watch with interest as the airport sets out to bring further changes that could elevate it to a 5-Star standard.”
Looking ahead, Changsha Huanghua International Airport, under the control of Hunan Airport Management Group, plan to continue their quest for further quality improvement, with a long term target of achieving the 5-Star Airport rating.
Aerial view, Changsha Huanghua International Airport
The Airport Management announce quest for 5-Star Airport rating
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AM Racing brings partners front and center for upcoming Texas Truck Series race
14 Mar 2019 Speedway Digest Staff
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Off to a solid start in the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series (NGOTS) this season, AM Racing has shifted much of their concentration during the recent off weeks to the fifth race of the season at Texas Motor Speedway on Fri., Mar. 29.
Alongside his full-time team with connected roots deep within the Texas landscape, Austin, Texas native Austin Wayne Self will see his No. 22 Chevrolet carry primary support from the United Sorghum Checkoff Program, while also commemorating GO TEXAN and their 20th year celebration.
The Sorghum Checkoff returns to the team after supporting Self during the last three NGOTS races at the 1.5-mile speedway elevating awareness of the benefits of American ethanol.
Sorghum is the world’s fifth-most important grain crop and is grown on approximately 100 million acres worldwide, including approximately six million acres in the U.S. Currently, Texas and Kansas account for 80 percent of U.S. sorghum production.
The Sorghum Checkoff focuses on developing direct awareness of the benefits of using sorghum as a fuel and feedstock in the ethanol industry. This serves as the foundation of demand for the sorghum industry, as ethanol producers typically use about one-third of the sorghum crop to produce clean-burning, high octane fuel.
The Sorghum Checkoff program was introduced to AM Racing through GO TEXAN who is celebrating its third year of partnership with the team and serving as the primary partner on Self’s truck for a majority of the 2019 season.
AM Racing partners Flying Circle and CForce are also proud GO TEXAN products.
GO TEXAN was established in 1999 to promote Texas agriculture products under one easily recognized trademark- an iconic brand in the shape of Texas. Fast forward 20 years and TDA’s award-winning campaign continues to thrive as a powerful marketing catalyst; envied by competitors yet admired and respected on a worldwide stage.
This year, AM Racing has started a rocker panel program where GO TEXAN members can ride alongside the famous mark with their own branded logo being featured on the truck.
Joining Self, Texas entrepreneur and team owner Tim Self and the remainder of the AM Racing team is Ag Commissioner Sid Miller.
Since taking office, Miller and his staff have visited every continent on the globe to promote Texas products. His historic visit to China led the way to opening the Chinese market to Texas beef for the first time in decades. With his relentless efforts Miller is putting Texas producers on the world stage.
On Mar. 29, he will attend the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series race to support Self and the team alongside Sorghum Checkoff Renewables Director John Duff.
With Texas being one of the top producers of Sorghum, the Texas Department of Agriculture and the Sorghum Checkoff have a deep-rooted relationship.
“I always look forward to going back home and competing at Texas Motor Speedway,” said Self. “It’s one of my favorite tracks on the circuit, plus I have the opportunity to spend a lot of time with family, friends and our partners.
“My relationship with GO TEXAN and the Sorghum Checkoff is very important to me. Their mission is not only something I believe in – but makes me even prouder to be a Texan. We’ve had a lot of success together and continue to build our partnership with the Sorghum Checkoff, so I’m looking forward to a strong result.
“To have Ag Commissioner Sid Miller join us for the race is a huge plus for us,” added Self. “He is a very busy individual, but he is familiar with what we’re trying to do with AM Racing and wants to show his support. I’d like nothing more than bring home a strong finish for not only him, but all of our Texas partners.”
Show your GO TEXAN pride: find Texas products, restaurants or enroll your business in GO TEXAN.
To learn about the United Sorghum Checkoff Program and sorghum’s benefits, please visit sorghumcheckoff.com.
For additional information on CForce premium artesian water, please visit cforce.com.
For more on Flying Circle, please visit flyingcirclegear.com, like them on Facebook (FlyingCircleGear) and follow them on Instagram (@flyingcirclegear) and Twitter (@flyingcircle_). Also connect with Flying Circle on Pinterest and YouTube.
For more on AM Racing, please like their Facebook page (AM Racing) or follow them on Twitter @AMRacingNASCAR and stay tuned for a brand new website.
For more on Austin Wayne Self and AM Racing, please visit awsracing.com, like his Facebook page (Austin Wayne Self) or follow him on Twitter @AustinWSelf.
The Vankor 350k (147 laps| 220.5 miles) is the fifth of 23 NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series races on the 2019 schedule. Practice begins on Thurs., March 28 from 3:05 p.m. – 3:55 p.m. A final practice session is set for 5:05 p.m. – 5:55 p.m. Qualifying is set for race day, Fri., Mar. 29 beginning at 4:10 p.m. The 32-truck field will take the green flag shortly after 8:00 p.m. with live coverage on FOX Sports 1 (FS1), the Motor Racing Network (Radio) and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio (Satellite Radio, Channel 90). All times are local (Central).
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Advance America Hits the Road with NASCAR Driver Danica Patrick
24 Feb 2017 Speedway Digest Staff
Advance America, one of the nation's leading providers of short-term loans and other financial services, announced today its new partnership with NASCAR star Danica Patrick. The relationship bolsters Advance America's presence in new and current markets, and showcases the many ways Advance America helps consumers to "power on" when times get tough.
Patrick took the world by storm when she entered the male-dominated sport of professional racing. Named as one of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people, the professional race car driver and entrepreneur will be featured in a new integrated marketing campaign across TV, print and social channels. In addition, Patrick will sport Advance America's logo on her racing helmet throughout the 2017 NASCAR season.
"Danica's admirable reputation, welcoming personality and can-do attitude fully align with our company's mission and values," said Trudy Boyles, senior vice president of customer experience at Advance America. "Danica is the perfect person to share our story."
"We all face obstacles from time to time and struggle to make ends meet," said Patrick. "I'm proud to partner with a company that offers reliable and trusted solutions to help Americans get back on track during tough financial times."
The short-term lending industry helps approximately 19 million households manage financial challenges annually. Advance America— with approximately 2,000 centers nationwide and online services in select markets— provides a suite of convenient, cost-competitive financial services to meet consumers' ever-changing needs and expectations, including cash advances, title loans and installment loans. The company also offers prepaid debit cards and tax preparation services.
"We all need a pit crew in life," said Boyles. "Advance America wants consumers to know that they can count on us wherever the road of life leads them. And, now Danica knows that our team around the country will be cheering her on every race!"
For more information on Advance America's partnership with Danica Patrick, along with Danica's message to consumers, please visit www.advanceamerica.net/Danica.
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Novel approach to medical care? Docs trained in storytelling
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Lindsay Lohan Upset By Pics Of Sam Ronson Kissing Unknown Woman
Oooooh!!! Someone’s gonna get it!!
Although, if she’s smart (ha!), Lindsay Lohan will stay home and far away from the airport when Samantha Ronson lands in New York later today.
Rumor has it, Lindsay wants to confront her ex-girlfriend about pictures that have surfaced of Sam making out with a random chick in Los Angeles Thursday afternoon.
According to sources close to Lindsay, even though she and Sam are not officially dating, Lohan was under the impression that Ronson wasn’t seeing anyone else. Now Lindsay is butt hurt and feels betrayed.
Sources also claim this blow is extra hard on Lindsay because Samantha recently told Lindsay those three special little words – even her telling her “I love you” as recently as Friday morning.
I’m just going to throw this out there, but I think Lindsay has a couple other things she needs to be worrying about other than who her ex-girlfriend, who she’s not even back together with, is kissing. You know, like the numerous court battles Lindsay is facing over the next couple of months and the very real possibility that she could spend a significant amount of time behind bars.
Maybe it’s just me, but I’m thinking it would be best for Lindsay Lohan to let this whole kissing pictures thing go and focus on what’s really important right now.
Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson were all smiles a month ago…..
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Does 1 pixel have a standard size?
I'm confused about the term "pixels per inch"
iPhone 6 has 326 ppi
there's 25.4 millimeter in 1 inch which I can barely see... how much more of 326 pixels inside 1 inch....
So does Pixel have a standard size?
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Does 10% have a size? – blankip Jul 22 '16 at 16:50
Lol, I'm guessing you've never seen many screens in your life. Contrast an old 17" VGA monitor to a new 10" Retina display or whatever. Clearly all pixels are not the same size. – underscore_d Jul 22 '16 at 16:53
that question makes little sense. "pixels per inch" means just that. That's the number of pixels in a linear inch in both directions. 326 ppi means the pixel on the iphone screen is 0.078 mm wide. – njzk2 Jul 22 '16 at 17:33
My phone's display is 1080x1920 pixels. So is my monitor's. – user218544 Jul 23 '16 at 0:49
All three of these have 1920x1080 px screens. – gronostaj Jul 23 '16 at 20:14
The size of a pixel varies by device. For example a 24" monitor running 1024x768 has bigger pixels than a 20" monitor running the same resolution.
The pixel is the smallest dot that can be turned on or off (or given a colour). The higher the resolution (more pixels) for a given display size, the smaller the dots (pixels) and the finer the detail that can be displayed.
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Not quite correct. A subpixel is the smallest element that can be turned on or off. On a LCD, there are 3 subpixels: red, green, and blue that make up a pixel. These 3 subpixels get turned on and off to create a pixel color. Fix the answer and Ill upvote. – Keltari Jul 22 '16 at 16:52
@Keltari Well if we're nitpicking that's also not entirely correct, since you don't have to have 3 subpixels per pixel. PenTile uses RGBG for example, so you only get 2 subpixel per pixel. Nothing as simple as it used to be, not sure how you'd sensibly measure these non standard layouts. – Voo Jul 22 '16 at 18:08
@Voo Not correct: RGBG is four pixels which all contribute to one image pixel. Further, there are plenty of algorithms which "share" the G-pixel info across adjacent 2-by-2 subimage elements. The MTF of digital color image sensors is a tricky thing indeed. – Carl Witthoft Jul 22 '16 at 18:30
But, how many atoms does a pixel have? – Matthew Jul 22 '16 at 20:11
@Carl A single colored (say red) dot is a subpixel, with RGBG having 4 subpixels (2 green, red, blue). But those are addressed as 2 pixels, not one - thereby magically increasing pixel density by a third as cynics would argue. In the end that's more arguing about nomenclature than anything else though. – Voo Jul 22 '16 at 23:05
Pixels per inch is essentially the digital equivalent of dots per inch - it's an arbitrary measurement that lets you know how sharp an image is. A pixel itself isn't 'standard' on a modern LCD screens - there's different arrangements of 'subpixels' that make up colours, like rgb LCDs, which consist of equal red, green and blue sub pixels; rgbw, which adds a white subpixel to that; or pentile.
For reference, here's an rgb layout
Each 'trio' of red, green and blue is a pixel, and the pixels are vaguely rectangular here.
Compare that to pentile.
Here, each pixel is one blue, 2 reds and 2 greens - it's not even a quadrilateral!
A third point of reference would be black and white screens - like e-ink or high resolution medical displays. Here, each pixel would be a single colour, black.
As such, there's no such thing as a standard pixel, or a standard size for said pixels. PPI is a measure of how small pixels in terms of pixels per square inch but these pixels need not be a standard size, or even shape or arrangement. PPI also doesn't really mean anything unless it's the same display layout. An rgb screen would have higher effective resolution/sharpness than a pentile screen in many situations.
Personally, I consider pixel pitch a complimentary measure since it also takes into account the spaces between subpixels and the fact that there are subpixels. Gaps between pixels affect the perceived quality of a display a fair bit. Two displays with the same DPI and different pixel pitch will have very different qualities.
tldr: There's nothing standard about the size or shape of a pixel or even the elements that make up a pixel.
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It so trippy squinting your eyes and watching the first image turn white with colored letters. +1\ – ApproachingDarknessFish Jul 24 '16 at 21:52
I think the shadow mask picture you included is a bit confusing because those are different ways of constructing a CRT screen, and there's no 1:1 correspondence between phosphor dots on a CRT screen and displayed pixels. The distance shown by the white arrow would be described as the dot pitch of the screen, and you would want it to be a bit smaller than the distance between displayed pixels. – nekomatic Jul 25 '16 at 11:51
At this point that first RGB layout is more myth than reality. While the positional ordering is still true, it's more like comparing telescopic binary stars (pixels) to spectroscopic binary stars (individual LCD elements) than what that diagram shows on every monitor I have examined with a glass. I got here trying to figure out why cleartype always fails with color fringes no matter what settings I try so it's based in reality not an educated guess. – Joshua Jul 25 '16 at 15:43
The other answers are missing the point here. To quote from Wikipedia,
In digital imaging, a pixel, pel, dots or picture element is a physical point in a raster image, or the smallest addressable element in an all points addressable display device.
There is no a priori restriction on the physical size of a pixel. I've used devices with 500 µm2 pixels; you could justifiably claim that a 5-mm diameter photodiode is a single-pixel device.
There's a "sensible" lower limit on pixel size which is on the order of a wavelength, only because it's physically impossible to produce an image of higher resolving power than that. Even there, you could imagine a ultra-high-energy gamma-ray sensor whose pixels are a few femtometers in size.
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@Mooing I think the point is that it's a practical, not physical, limit. If the pixel size is smaller than about one wavelength, diffraction will make the image from the individual pixel spread out and overlap adjacent pixels. There's nothing conceptually preventing a single pixel from outputting several wavelengths simultaneously (pixels on most real devices probably do). An earbud is essentially a single "sound pixel" that outputs multiple wavelengths at once. Given an array of earbuds outputting different wavelengths, diffraction prevents distinguishing the sound from individual earbuds. – j_foster Jul 22 '16 at 23:24
You mean LED, right? Photodiode is quite an opposite device, it does not emit light. – n0rd Jul 23 '16 at 1:45
@n0rd: Cameras have pixels too. A thing can have an imaging resolution without being a thing that emits light. – Lightness Races with Monica Jul 23 '16 at 12:59
@mooingDuck: first of all, those earbuds are putting out longitudinal, not transverse, waves, so the bud size is irrelevant. Second, Sound production is not a quantum operation. Photon absorption is a quantum operation, so you can't go by wavelength alone. – Carl Witthoft Jul 23 '16 at 13:16
This is the correct answer a pixel is a sample and there is nothing that says how large your element needs to be. In fact some old stadium displays had lightbulb sized pixels. – joojaa Jul 23 '16 at 14:52
In this case [*] is the inch that has a fixed size of 2,54 cm. The dimension of the pixels can vary.
The PPI is the number of pixel that you can count in one inch of your device.
I think that sometimes a picture is more effective of 100 words. Read more from the source of this figure.
In the picture above the left one has a number of PPI less (10) then the right one (20).
More it is high the number of PPI, more realistic it will appear the image you are looking at.
[*] O.T. Trivial note: it should be fixed at least after the last modification of the 1983. Nowadays the inch is the unit of length in the Imperial and in the United States customary systems of measurement. In past the inch was used by many different systems. One of the earliest legal definition of the inch was set out in a statute of Edward II of England in the 1324, it was used before and it was fixed only in the 1959 when the yard (36 inches) was fixed to to 0.9144 metres. The meter instead belong to the International System of Units, it was originally defined in 1793 thanks to Louis XVI, and it was (1983) correlated to the speed of the light in vacuum. The speed of the light in vacuum is the real physical constant, but until your mobile will not be able to travel at relativistic speed, you will not notice. :-)
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0.9144 metres may be a yard (36 inches) but it sure ain't an inch. In several languages, the word for inch is the same as for thumb, which was the lay definition of an inch (the width of a man's thumb). – Adrien Jul 23 '16 at 4:05
The meter is now based on speed of light, but in 1793 it was based on the size of the Earth, nominally one quadrant of the meridian from the equator to the North pole through Paris. – dave_thompson_085 Jul 23 '16 at 9:24
Despite having signed the preliminary decrees predating the metre definition, Louis XIV was likely instead supporting the old system using the six feet toise. In any case he was beheaded before the new metric system mètre étalon was built, equal to the ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole. – jlliagre Jul 23 '16 at 9:36
@Adrien thanks for the spot. Yesterday, continuing to correct to reduce the length, I ate the important part... better to go to sleep earlier sometimes ;-) To Dave, of course the Speed of the Light was postulated by Einstein centuries after, in the 1905, in natural unit it is 1. To jilliagre, right and proper, but it was over the extent of an OT note to write all the information about it... I find interesting the link between inches and this case, and the link between kings and science... – Hastur Jul 23 '16 at 9:38
There are two different but linked concepts of pixel:
The classic (physical) one, which is the basic unit of a display, the smallest dot that a screen can turn off and on, generally composed by three colors (RGB).
But as it vary a lot from one device to other, when you want to show anything of a certain size in different devices ti becomes complicated: 500 pixels in a desktop are about 15cm, but only 3cm in a smartphone. So for web developers there is another concept: 1px = 1/96th of one inch, so if you want to create a button of half an inch, you define its width as 48px and delegate the "real" size calculations to the browser. But even in this case it is just a rough approximation, because the given proportion between both concepts (named devicePixelRatio in browsers) is usually just an integer value and it depends on the system giving the right value to the browser.
For instance: the iPhone 6/7 Plus has a display FullHD (1080 x 1920 "real" pixels), but for a web developer it has 414 x 736 "logical" pixels)
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The browser might not know the size of the screen. So there is no way to reliably render something to be a specified number of cm in size. – kasperd Jul 22 '16 at 17:33
The 1px = 1/96 inch is true when the output is for the printed page. For screens, it's more complicated, and it has to do with the device resolution and the typical distance from the eye to the screen. But the idea was that a px would subtend the same angle of your field of vision as a traditional pixel would on a typical monitor (often 96 pixels per inch) at a typical viewing distance. – Adrian McCarthy Jul 22 '16 at 18:32
Way back in the (multisync CRT) day, we had monitors of the same size and resolution with different dot pitches (pixel sizes). Dot pitches (sizes) were sometimes so large that they overlapped and made for slightly fuzzy looking pictures, so smaller pixels (even at the same resolution) were generally preferred.
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Yes, the size of a pixel is 0x0. Note that this definition works for all units of distance: 0cm x 0cm, 0 inches x 0 inches, 0 miles x 0 miles, etc.
I assume you're asking whether there is a standard separation between pixels. The other answers deal with that question quite well, so I'll use this space to belabour my pedantic point instead ;)
A pixel is a point sample; it specifies the colour value at that point; the surrounding points (those between pixels) have no associated colour value. If we want to assign a colour value to points in between pixels (because, say, our device has several display elements between each pixel), we must interpolate the surrounding pixels somehow.
One very crude method is the "nearest neighbour" approach. This creates a Voronoi diagram by taking the value of each intermediate point to be equal to that of its nearest pixel. This ignores all gradient information, resulting in jagged, aliased displays. Unfortunately it's also a very common method of interpolation; so widespread that it has lead to a common confusion/conflation between pixels (which can't be seen, as they have no size) and the Voronoi cells rendered around them (which can be seen).
The results of various interpolation methods, including nearest neighbour, can be seen here. That page discusses "scaling up an image to 4x the area"; that's equivalent to using a display with a display unit density 4x higher than the pixel density; or, more generally, resampling the image.
For a friendly explanation, see http://graphics.cs.wisc.edu/WP/cs559-fall2014/2014/08/29/what-is-a-pixel-and-what-is-a-point-sample
For a less friendly explanation, see http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf
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whilst we may refer to a point, it's not a point of infinitesimal width. 0 x 0 is invisible, and not useful for any kind of display not even theoretically. Pixels in real and virtual devices have non-zero width and height – Adrien Jul 25 '16 at 10:20
@Adrien you are wrong. In signals theory they are infinitesimal in size. Their emittance behavior is that of a 2D Dirac distribution (infinitesimal size, infinite value, finite integral). Of course real devices need some surface are to create visible light, but that doesn't change the fact that a theoretical pixel is a point sample and the real device is an approximation of that point sample filtered with an ideal lowpass filter. – Joe Jul 25 '16 at 12:09
well it's a bit of a leap to go from that to claim that pixels have 0 width and height. They don't in reality, and I don't really buy the theory either when it comes to pixels. Yes for points, but pixels aren't necessarily points (singularities). – Adrien Jul 25 '16 at 12:15
@Adrien Pixels are not physical objects, in the same way that "42" isn't a physical object. I used the term "display units" to refer to things like LEDs, spots of ink, etc. since they are not pixels; although the input signal driving them can be specified using pixels. Likewise, the devices at the other end (CCD elements, rod/cone cells, photomultiplier tubes, etc.) aren't pixels either, but their output signal can be represented as pixels. – Warbo Jul 25 '16 at 12:25
I guess then that the term "pixel" is widely abused. When you zoom in on an image using a paint app, until you see the big coloured squares, are they not pixels? Those are squares, not points. – Adrien Jul 25 '16 at 12:27
The other answers have already covered the fact that there might be different sizes of pixels.
However, the question was (emphasis mine):
There is, in a way, a "standard" of 96 pixels per inch in Windows. This is what led to the creation of DIP which "assumes" 96 DPI (as mentioned in the link).
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Taking an ECG with the ECG app on Apple Watch Series 4 or later
You can take an electrocardiogram (ECG) with the ECG app.
What is an ECG
An electrocardiogram (also called an ECG or EKG) is a test that records the timing and strength of the electrical signals that make the heart beat. By looking at an ECG, a doctor can gain insights about your heart rhythm and look for irregularities.
How to use the ECG app
The ECG app can record your heartbeat and rhythm using the electrical heart sensor on Apple Watch Series 4 or later and then check the recording for atrial fibrillation (AFib), a form of irregular rhythm.
The ECG app records an electrocardiogram which represents the electrical pulses that make your heart beat. The ECG app checks these pulses to get your heart rate and see if the upper and lower chambers of your heart are in rhythm. If they’re out of rhythm, that could be AFib.
The ECG app is currently available only in certain countries and regions. Learn where the ECG app is available.
Here's what you need
Make sure that the ECG app is available in your country or region and that you're in the country or region where your device was purchased. Learn where the ECG app is available.
Update your iPhone to the latest version of iOS and Apple Watch to the latest version of watchOS.
The ECG app is not intended for use by people under 22 years old.
Set up the ECG app
Open the Health app on your iPhone.
Follow the onscreen steps. If you don't see a prompt to set up, tap Browse > Heart > Electrocardiograms (ECG) > Set Up ECG App.
After you complete set up, open the ECG app to take an ECG.
Take an ECG
You can take an ECG at any time, when you’re feeling symptoms such as a rapid or skipped heartbeat, when you have other general concerns about your heart health, or when you receive an irregular rhythm notification.
Make sure that your Apple Watch is snug and on the wrist that you selected in the Apple Watch app. To check, open the Apple Watch app, tap the My Watch tab, then go to General > Watch Orientation.
Open the ECG app on your Apple Watch.
Rest your arms on a table or in your lap.
With the hand opposite your watch, hold your finger on the Digital Crown. You don't need to press the Digital Crown during the session.
Wait. The recording takes 30 seconds. At the end of the recording, you will receive a classification, then you can tap Add Symptoms and choose your symptoms.
Tap Save to note any symptoms, then tap Done.
How to read results
After a successful reading, you will receive one of the following results on your ECG app. Regardless of the result, if you aren't feeling well or are experiencing any symptoms, you should talk to your doctor.
A sinus rhythm result means the heart is beating in a uniform pattern between 50 and 100 BPM. This happens when the upper and lower chambers of the heart are beating in sync. A sinus rhythm result only applies to that particular recording and doesn’t mean your heart beats with a consistent pattern all the time. It also does not mean that you're healthy. If you're not feeling well or are feeling any symptoms, you should talk to your doctor.
An AFib result means the heart is beating in an irregular pattern between 50 and 120 BPM. AFib is the most common form of serious arrhythmia, or irregular heart rhythm. If you receive an AFib classification and you have not been diagnosed with AFib, you should talk to your doctor.
Low or high heart rate
A heart rate under 50 BPM or over 120 BPM affects the ECG app’s ability to check for AFib, and the recording is considered inconclusive.
A heart rate can be low because of certain medications or if electrical signals are not properly conducted through the heart. Training to be an elite athlete can also lead to a low heart rate. Learn more about low heart rates from the American Heart Association.
A high heart rate could be due to exercise, stress, nervousness, alcohol, dehydration, infection, AFib, or other arrhythmia. Learn more about high heart rates from the American Heart Association.
An inconclusive result means the recording can’t be classified. This can happen for many reasons, such as not resting your arms on a table during a recording, or wearing your Apple Watch too loose. Learn how to get the best results.
If you consistently receive an inconclusive result
If you consistently receive an inconclusive result, even after trying the steps above, it could be due to one of the following situations:
Your heart rate is between 100 and 120 BPM.
You have a pacemaker or implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD).
The recording may show signs of other arrhythmias or heart conditions that the app is not designed to recognize.
Certain physiological conditions may prevent a small percentage of users from creating enough signal to produce a good recording.
If you need help, contact Apple Support.
View and share your Health information
The ECG waveform, its associated classifications, and any noted symptoms will be saved in the Health app on your iPhone. You can also share a PDF with your doctor.
Open the Health app.
Tap the Browse tab, then tap Heart > Electrocardiograms (ECG).
Tap the chart for your ECG result.
Tap Export a PDF for Your Doctor.
Tap the Share button to print or share the PDF.
How to get the best results
Rest your arms on a table or in your lap while you take a recording. Try to relax and not move too much.
Make sure that your Apple Watch isn’t loose on your wrist. The band should be snug, and the back of your Apple Watch needs to be touching your wrist.
Make sure that your wrist and your Apple Watch are clean and dry.
Make sure that your Apple Watch is on the wrist that you selected in the Apple Watch app. To check, open the Apple Watch app, tap the My Watch tab, then go to General > Watch Orientation.
Move away from any electronics that are plugged into an outlet to avoid electrical interference.
A small percentage of people may have certain physiological conditions preventing the creation of enough signal to produce a good recording — for example, the positioning of the heart in the chest can change the electrical signal levels, which could impact the ECG app’s ability to obtain a measurement.
Liquid-free contact is required for the ECG app to work properly. Use of the ECG app may be impacted if the Apple Watch and/or skin aren't entirely dry. Make sure that your wrist and hands are thoroughly dry before attempting a reading. To ensure the best reading after swimming, showering, heavy perspiration, or washing your hands, clean and dry your Apple Watch. It may take up to one hour for your Apple Watch to completely dry.
The ECG app cannot detect a heart attack. If you ever experience chest pain, pressure, tightness, or what you think is a heart attack, call emergency services immediately.
The ECG app cannot detect blood clots or a stroke.
The ECG app cannot detect other heart-related conditions. These include high blood pressure, congestive heart failure, high cholesterol, or other forms of arrhythmia.
If you’re not feeling well or are feeling any symptoms, talk to your doctor or seek immediate medical attention.
How the ECG app works
The ECG app on Apple Watch Series 4 or later generates an ECG that is similar to a single-lead (or Lead I) ECG. In a doctor’s office, a standard 12-lead ECG is usually taken. This 12-lead ECG records electrical signals from different angles in the heart to produce twelve different waveforms. The ECG app on Apple Watch measures a waveform similar to one of those twelve waveforms. A single-lead ECG is able to provide information about heart rate and heart rhythm and enables classification of AFib. However, a single-lead ECG cannot be used to identify some other conditions, like heart attacks. Single-lead ECGs are often prescribed by doctors for people to wear at home or within the hospital so that the doctor can get a better look at the underlying rate and rhythm of the heart. However, the ECG app on Apple Watch Series 4 or later allows you to generate an ECG similar to a single-lead ECG without a prescription from your doctor.
In studies comparing the ECG app on Apple Watch to a standard 12-lead ECG taken at the same time, there was agreement between the ECG app classification of the rhythm as sinus or AFib compared to the standard 12-lead ECG.
The ability of the ECG app to accurately classify an ECG recording into AFib and sinus rhythm was tested in a clinical trial of approximately 600 subjects, and demonstrated 99.6% specificity with respect to sinus rhythm classification and 98.3% sensitivity for AFib classification for the classifiable results.
The clinical validation results reflect use in a controlled environment. Real world use of the ECG app may result in a greater number of strips being deemed inconclusive and not classifiable.
How to install the ECG app
The ECG app is available by default on your Apple Watch Series 4 or later. If you deleted the ECG app, you can install it again.
The ECG app isn't available in every country or region. Learn where the ECG app is available.
ECG app Instructions for Use (IFU)
Set up heart rate notifications on your Apple Watch
Learn about the accuracy and limitations of the heart sensors
Learn more about Apple Watch in Healthcare
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About Peer Messaging
Over the last year and a half, Handshake has made a significant investment in democratizing access to information. With the varied backgrounds of students and alumni on Handshake, we recognized that there was a lot of valuable experience that could be shared. To tap into this source of information, we identified the need to remove several barriers - we not only needed to make it easy for users to share, but we also needed to highlight the most valuable details and make it easy to find. Our first major foray into peer-to-peer learning was the launch of two features - Reviews and Q&A.
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Comparative Literature, World Literature, and Asia
Karen Thornber
For most of its history the field of comparative literature as practiced in much of the world has focused largely on certain privileged European literatures. In recent years, there has been a blossoming of interest in Western-language writings not only from previously marginalized European literatures but also from former European colonies in Africa, the Americas, the Middle East, Oceania, and South and Southeast Asia. Yet even today, scholars working on non-Western-language literatures – the creative texts of billions of people with thousands of years of literary heritage – remain a disproportionate minority in most comparative literature departments.
Toward an Ecocritical Approach to Translation: A Conceptual Framework
Daniela Kato & Bruce Allen
Translation's recent growth stems in part from many critics’ efforts to widen the scope of ecocritical research beyond its hitherto disproportionate focus on Anglophone literatures. It also is related to an increased commitment to an environmental world literature canon comprising works “currently being translated and circulated through a variety of languages and cultures as texts whose principal – if not always exclusive – focus is on the ecological crises of the last half-century,” as Ursula Heise has noted. The lack of critical attention paid to translation in ecocriticism comes somewhat as a surprise at this juncture, given that translation is the transnational practice par excellence, embodying intercultural exchange that is vital to the interpenetration of the local and the global.
Creative Reception: Reviving a Comparative Method
Brigitte Le Juez
The language used by writers to discuss the question of their reception of others tends to indicate an emotional response. Their own understanding of what moves them into creative action can be vague or at least difficult to articulate, as countless other examples could show. It is therefore the role of the comparatist to attempt a critical appraisal of such a fundamental, artistic phenomenon as the continuously innovative meeting of artistic minds.
Jauss
World Famous, Locally: Insights From the Study of International Canonization
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
Following decades of focus on the impact of globalization, the wave of big data flooding all subjects could be put to good use to acquire a better understanding of the difference between local and international canonization of literature.
Digital Humanties
Institutional Inertia and the State of the Discipline
Eric Hayot
Do we think that ideas only come in a limited number of sizes? Obviously not. And yet… it would be perfectly reasonable for someone from the outside to accuse us of so thinking. These are the constraints of the institution, and we reinforce them constantly: in, for instance, our evaluations of journal articles, including the ways we count them for tenure; but also, say, in the normal length of the normal end-of-term graduate seminar paper, which is merely a proxy for its potential future as a journal article. And so for historical periods, the graduate curriculum,and reports on the state of disciplines: we think very badly about institutions, when we do at all.
Archive of the Now
Jacob Edmond
The practice of comparative literature today is increasingly shaped by the contested archive of the now that is the Internet. Contemporary works of poetry increasingly assume web searching as a precondition of reading. Though massive and massively larger than a decade ago, the Internet is a highly skewed and partial archive, subject to corporate and state control, as Anonymous’s hacktivist actions and Edward Snowden’s revelations about the National Security Agency remind us. The NSA and its partners are also busy compiling an archive of the now, one that would have been the envy of twentieth-century totalitarian states such as the Soviet Union and which at the same time may well be the most extensive archive ever complied for the comparative study of everyday life. To speak, then, of the archive of the now is also to acknowledge the now of the archive: the pervasiveness of archiving in our present moment, including in the theory and practice of comparative literature.
Syllabus: An Anthropology of Literary Culture
Bernard Bate and Rebecca Gould
Syllabus Yale-NUS College, Spring 2014 Instructors: Bernard Bate (Anthropology) and Rebecca Gould (Literature)
Persian literature
literary theory
Comparative Literature and the Public Sphere
Doris Sommer
Interpreting art, appreciating its power to shape the world, can spur and support urgently needed change. This is not a deviation from humanistic attention to the mechanisms of art production and reception. It is a corollary and a homecoming to civic education. Acknowledging art’s work makes us cultural agents: those who make, comment, buy, sell, reflect, allocate, decorate, vote, don’t vote, or otherwise lead social, culturally constructed lives. Social change begins with incremental work to change hearts and mind, what the Enlightenment called taste or aesthetic judgment.
Public Humanities
The Politics of the Archive in Semi-Peripheries
Adam F. Kola
Although the first world, as seen through the lens of academia, seems to be prospering, and the third world has found its own place in the postcolonial intellectual order, the post-cold war world of semi-peripheries in East and Central Europe has largely disappeared from the discourse of Comparative Literature. It sometimes appears as a convenient intellectual counterpoint or is included in postmodernist or postcolonial narratives; in both cases, however, it doesn’t convey regional specificity or allow local voices to speak. Both strategies – core and postcolonial – expropriate the semi-peripheral realm of second-world non-places. Second-world memory has been blurred and occluded within academic neocolonialism and the politics of the archive.
Translingualism
New Philology
East and Central Europe
Semi-Peripheries
Comparing Structures of Knowledge
Michael Swacha
If the titles of the two most recent State of the Discipline reports (Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism, 1994; Comparative Literature in the Age of Globalization, 2006) function as a signature of anything, it is certainly that the field of Comparative Literature has now come to encompass an exponentially wider breadth than was institutionally legible only a few decades ago. This radical expansion has opened up the possibilities of comparison dramatically, and yet, the push Comparative Literature has made to expand method at a scope resembling anything close to its expansion in content has been, at best, minimal. Comparative work is still largely practiced as a traditional mode of setting one text or author in relation to another, where variation is found along the lines of critical perspective, and such perspective is itself usually varied according to the contextual emphasis of the texts at hand. Yet Comparative Literature should be part of the larger project of the humanities: to study and wrestle with the experience of being human across the multiple contexts and scales of existence.
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Forum Index ‹ Archive ‹ Snooker Season 2013/14 ‹ 2014 World Championship
Mark Selby 2014 World Champion
Re: Mark Selby 2014 World Champion
by Roland » 07 May 2014 Read
Skullman wrote: I think that neck injury really set him back (more so than we thought).
At the Welsh Open I think he really started to feel comfortable win his WN1 position. Then he got into the latter stages more and started the China Open like a train, smashing his opponent.
After the injury, he obviously had that loss to Hawkins, but I think he lost confidence in his game and with the exception of his matches against Mavis in the UK, Robbo in the Masters and Ding and Un-Nooh in Berlin, didn't look that great throughout the season, despite winning more.
Same with this season, with some good matches (Murphy in the Masters, Antwerp PTC, Mags in the Coc) but generally getting by on pure grit.
Luckily something just clicked this fortnight.
Yes he was really coming into form when that neck injury struck. I remember at the time there was talk of it being career ending. I had gone on about him so much and I would have been completely and utterly gutted if it had ended his career because I knew I was right about him, and thankfully he recovered and finally I've been vindicated.
Location: Cannonbridge, Snooker Island
Snooker Idol: Selby Ding Kyren Luca
Walk-On: Bal Sagoth
by NNear » 07 May 2014 Read
Sonny wrote: I know I like to rattle on about Selby but hell, if today isn't the day to do that then I don't know what is.
Keep going, it's a forum after all. This is Selby's time and it's great you're still buzzing off the win and want to talk about Mark Selby the player and the man. Please can you choose Selby for your next player analysis? His tactics are absolutely superb and it's the right time, I think.
Key areas:
-Safety tactics
-Overarching tactics/patience -- use frames from the final to show how he shut Ronnie out and forced errors through his own brilliant vision of the table.
-Break building
-Temperament
-Inventiveness
-Weaknesses
-Compare to other players... why/how is Selby's break building or safety different to Ding's, other players, the norm, etc.
Also his nuances.. how he ties balls up, how he's so good at spotting pots or tricks and then puts his opponents in trouble.. how he spots shots with elements of safety that other players miss.. how his pool background filters over into his snooker background and offers him a field of vision that is currently unique on the tour regarding tactical nuance.
NNear
Snooker Idol: OSullivan SDavis
by Wildey » 07 May 2014 Read
Sonny wrote: He's going to take some stopping next season.
yea Mark has now had the monkey off his back the one thing that was burdening him for the last 7 years a bit like Ding winning in shanghai this season it just took some of the pressure off his shoulders.
by gallantrabbit » 07 May 2014 Read
Mark's win is such a good thing for him obviously, but also for snooker. You can't keep having a part-timer popping up and taking home all the Money even if that part-timer is Ronnie.
It is also good that Mark showed that there is more than one way to skin a cat. Three breaks over 70 in the final?
His safety is wonderfully creative and his atitude was 'whatever it takes' which really is what professional sport is all about. Too many top top players have collapsed against Ronnie in recente years and he really needed standing up to. Mark has done that superbly.
He's a good ambassador for the game too, a superb professional, not at all precious and willingt to promote the game.
I am very disappointed however with the WSA press office that in most newspapers has managed just a few lines on Ronnie's accident and very little on the match itself. Shame on you. Work harder.
Finally a little credit to Ronnie for growing up. Nice speech at the end and a stop to his headlines for headlines sake.
All in all a great finish to a championship that for a while looked like being a procession and huge let down. Selby's semi with Robbo was superb as was the final.
Game in good shape.
gallantrabbit
Snooker Idol: forever jimmy
I Loved the way at last the commentators pin pointing the creative and attacking way he plays safety shots.
Yea he takes his time thinking about them but thats because he is trying to put the ball in the right place for maximum effect.
by webcat86 » 11 May 2014 Read
You can't take away how well he played tactically in that match, but I must admit I'm also surprised no one has mentioned how incredibly lucky Selby got in that match.
This has nothing to do with his opponent being Ronnie i.e. it wasn't "He was lucky because Ronnie wasn't on fire" - Ronnie played a very good game himself. But there was one frame in particular, in the Monday morning session I believe, where Selby missed 6 consecutive shots by some distance, and each of them put Ronnie in unintended snookers or with no option but to play safe. If memory serves, Ronnie had enough points and the balls were nicely placed for only one chance to be needed.
Someone on Twitter summed it up - "they need a luck stat for Selby" in that match. I'm fully aware, as we all are, that a nice run of the balls is part of the game, but for me it was just ridiculous. And simultaneously, Ronnie was getting the opposite - the opening frames of the final sessions he came out all guns blazing, well on the way to a one-visit win and the pack didn't split well, and the second time the cue ball nestled just behind a red, blocking his shot. Again, this happens, it's part of the game, but I do get frustrated when in any match - with any players - one gets all the good luck and the other gets all the bad luck.
I honestly think that match would have had a different outcome. It's a psychology as much as anything else - even the commentators acknowledged that a) Selby wasn't playing very well, and b) he was getting repeated good fortune that allowed him to win frames. On any other day, if the cue ball had stopped where it would have 99.9% of the time, I have no doubt at all he would have lost that match. But clawing back a deficit by playing far from your best and getting extraordinary luck puts your opponent on the back foot - not least when they get the opposite fortune when it's their turn.
Of course, I'm not claiming that it was all out of Ronnie's hands - that missed pink I think was far more vital than he let on in the post-match interview; after all, it would have then been Ronnie and not Selby entering the final session with a lead, and I'm sure that would have had some impact on it.
tl;dr: fair play to Selby, he eventually played well and there's no doubt his safety was top notch and he played how he had to play in order to win. But, he also had more good luck than I think I've ever seen (including Mr Lucky himself, Trump), and without it, I am confident he would have lost. His playing throughout, especially long pots, was not brilliant - he was missing pots by a country mile. The good fortune eventually seemed to pick up his confidence enough to actually play properly, and go on to win.
webcat86
in a 35 frame match luck even itself out and there was times Ronnie missed a pot and got it safe it happens always have and always will.
You dont win 26 ranking titles without a bit of luck on the way.
ill be honest here when Ronnie loses this luck talk happens all the time like a broken record from one person or another its as if getting luck vs Ronnie is seen as sacrilegious.
Wildey wrote: in a 35 frame match luck even itself out and there was times Ronnie missed a pot and got it safe it happens always have and always will.
Well you totally overlooked the parts where I said it had nothing to do with Ronnie being the opponent, Ronnie making mistakes, and how it annoys me regardless of who is playing.
And no, I don't think luck does always even itself out. I think it often does, but there are times when luck is far more important - six consecutive flukes to win a frame you have no right to win can make a tremendous difference on a match.
Wildey wrote: ill be honest here when Ronnie loses this luck talk happens all the time like a broken record from one person or another its as if getting luck vs Ronnie is seen as sacrilegious.
The counter to this is any time it's said something happened against Ronnie's favour, people like yourself are quick to state it's only being said because of Ronnie fans. Why is it every player can have some element of luck work against them, but not Ronnie?
everyone gets luck against them but it does become a bigger deal when Ronnie has it against him by the way its generally speaking and not particularly you.
i do concede there was an element of luck selby had but it was a small percentage in the grand scheme of a best of 35 frame match..there was other eliments why Ronnie lost but the focus is on how lucky he got or Ronnie missed pots its not all about Ronnie.
Wildey wrote: everyone gets luck against them but it does become a bigger deal when Ronnie has it against him by the way its generally speaking and not particularly you.
Your point of "generally speaking" - I agree. I've noticed it plenty of times, which is why I tried to distance myself from it immediately in my first post today.
It's not all about Ronnie, no, and I've not said it was. Frankly I think Selby had much more than "a small percentage" of luck in the match, it was beyond ridiculous. Ronnie had a small percentage of luck - can't deny that he got a couple of unintended snookers behind the baulk colours after overhitting a safety. He certainly had nowhere near the level of luck Selby had though - I lost count of how many times he missed a shot by a long way, and ended up leaving the table totally safe. Without leaving those tables safe, I could easily see Ronnie winning 3 frames more, at least. Which would have impeded Selby's slow journey to decent form in the match.
Obviously it's also entirely possible it wouldn't have made any difference and Selby would have won anyway. We can't predict what would or could have happened - but we also can't deny the impact good fortune had on Selby's win that day. Until the final session, his playing was not World Champion standard. His safety was near perfect, but his potting wasn't, he wasn't making chances either. Nothing wrong with that, but I don't think it's representative to say he actually outplayed Ronnie - Selby had one part of his game really working for 3/4 of that match, and a hell of a lot of luck. Both things that were repeated by each of the commentators throughout the match, and I think a much more balanced view than the rabid "Ronnie can't do anything wrong" camp would admit. Ronnie made mistakes and missed balls that again could have altered the match's outcome.
Lets agree to disagree because as someone who wanted Selby to win i lost count how many times i called Ronnie a lucky bastard.
by vodkadiet » 11 May 2014 Read
In any match one player will be luckier than the other. Snooker players know that and accept it. Was Selby luckier than O'Sullivan? I had never really thought about it until now, so it wasn't strikingly obvious. A fan of any particular player can always find instances where their favourite was 'unlucky' or 'hard done by'. I am sure If O'Sullivan had won, Selby fans could have pointed to incidents in the match where O'Sullivan was lucky.
Snooker, more than most other sports has luck playing a big part of a result. Bill Werbeniuk lost 13-3 to Cliff Thorburn once and claimed if the luck had been even he would have won the match!
O'Sullivan was very lucky to beat Joe Perry in the 2nd round. For those who are in doubt, take a look at the final session of that match. In one frame, O'Sullivan fluked an initial red and made a century from it, and even more importantly when Perry was on the verge of going 12-10 up O'Sullivan had some enormous luck in the rest of that frame. Perry went in to the pack and knocked another ball in(or the cue ball went in). O'Sullivan then missed a long red, which fractionally ran safe, where Perry would have certainly cleared up, at the same time O'Sullivan had missed his intended cue ball position which again would have left Perry in for a 12-10 kill. O'Sullivan then got in for a clearance off of an initial red that rattled 5 or 6 times in the jaws, before gravity took hold. Without all that luck O'Sullivan would have probably not seen the quarters and beyond.
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vodkadiet wrote: In any match one player will be luckier than the other. Snooker players know that and accept it. Was Selby luckier than O'Sullivan? I had never really thought about it until now, so it wasn't strikingly obvious. A fan of any particular player can always find instances where their favourite was 'unlucky' or 'hard done by'. I am sure If O'Sullivan had won, Selby fans could have pointed to incidents in the match where O'Sullivan was lucky.
Absolutely. Ronnie was lucky in that match - and I've always maintained Selby has enjoyed a lot of luck to win as many deciders as he has.
It would be wrong for anyone to say Ronnie wasn't at all lucky in his final - he was. We could argue he was "lucky" that Selby wasn't potting great at the beginning.
But my argument on this topic is the extent of the luck Selby had - 6 *consecutive* flukes resulting in snookers or no option other than safety is not usual. If we can all accept and agree that Ronnie was lucky to beat Perry, I think we should be able to accept Selby had a better than average run of the balls in his final.
webcat86 wrote:
Now I think about it, Selby got a very lucky positional shot early in the 30th frame. O'Sullivan went in off, Selby played a green off the initial red, and got a very fortuitous kiss which led to him making a frame winning break. Without that kiss who knows what would have happened?
I watched the final again and Selby certainly didn't get more luck than Ronnie, if anything Ronnie had a kinder rub overall and certainly on the first day. When Selby had those consecutive lucky snookers at 11-11 it still came down to O'Sullivan missing that dolly pink to middle so you could argue those fluked snookers counted for nothing. The most unlucky shot in the final was probably from O'Sullivan when he potted a red to green pocket and cannoned the green into the yellow pocket leaving a free ball and an easy out at a point when Selby had pretty much thrown an important frame away by allowing him the chance to pot the red to green pocket. I can't remember the frame, it was something like the frame to go 8-5 from 8-4 but it was a significant one.
By watching the match for the second time knowing the result and nerves and tension not as high you do look at the match differently
That's why I watched it again. I could watch it with an open mind without getting nervous because I knew what happened. Selby was poor on day 1 but dug in and was much better on day 2, saving his best for the final session. Ronnie was way off the standard he played in 2012 and 2013, Selby played a lot of poor positional shots but each time took his medicine and stuck the white in the most awkward place he could think of.
When I was watching it I was trying to work out how anyone could complain about the way he played as boring or negative. There were one or two occasions and not many more than that when he could have played a more attacking shot but overall it came down sharp potting, he hardly missed an easy ball, but a few careless positional errors forcing the run to safety meaning Ronnie came to the table several times in most frames but each time with a tough table in front of him. That's the reason Selby hardly made any big breaks until later on when he had better control of the white.
What a last session though. Ronnie threw everything at him but he kept getting stronger and in the end it was Ronnie who was missing the pressure balls because he was frozen out for so much of the match. And that last clearance was sensational to win the world title.
Sonny wrote: That's why I watched it again. I could watch it with an open mind without getting nervous because I knew what happened. Selby was poor on day 1 but dug in and was much better on day 2, saving his best for the final session. Ronnie was way off the standard he played in 2012 and 2013, Selby played a lot of poor positional shots but each time took his medicine and stuck the white in the most awkward place he could think of.
Yes, you need to watch it again in the cold light of day to appreciate it more. When you are watching it live you can easily lose the thread of what happened.
Certainly an enjoyable watch. A week on already now. Time flies!
by SnookerFan » 14 May 2014 Read
TWITTER ATTACK!
Mark Selby @markjesterselby
As if things could not get any better! Me and vikki are expecting are first child!
Congratulations to both.
by Holden Chinaski » 14 May 2014 Read
Congrats to Mark and Vikki!
Holden Chinaski
SnookerFan wrote: TWITTER ATTACK!
He/she will be named 'Ronnie Bunny Selby'.
by Andre147 » 16 May 2014 Read
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrtqTqsXL4U
Did any of you guys already knew about this?
His show is just... disgusting... arrrrhhhh... and he's so so Ronnie biased (like also a few of Ronnie fanboys out there) that he manages to say things like this.
Anyway......
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by Jester82 » 16 May 2014 Read
vodkadiet wrote:
Ronald Antonio Selby...works out for me...
So, World title winner and a baby. A time to remember for Selby, as everything goes his way.
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Walk-On: Zadok the Priest
by JDM375 » 16 May 2014 Read
Andre147 wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrtqTqsXL4U
Is that Burke?
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O'Sullivan and Keiser follow each other on Twitter. They love each other. Unfortunately Keiser doesn't understand snooker.
by mantorok » 16 May 2014 Read
Haha that is quite funny, but yeah not everyone in snooker is a break-building magician there are different contrasts and playing styles and TBF to Mark he had the hunger to win and he did what he needed to do to beat somone.
That's snooker and it's always been that way, like any sport you play to win not to look good. I also don't think this train of thought is limited to Ronnie fans, had it been Trump or Robertson playing Mark there would've still been bitter words because of how he won, you'll never escape that, every player has their fans and you'll always have some speak out against the victor.
The point is it doesn't take anything away from Mark who right now has that trophy on his mantelpiece and thoroughly deserves it, he's WC and that is all that really counts not rabid fanboy accusations.
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Snooker Idol: Ronnie
vodkadiet wrote: O'Sullivan and Keiser follow each other on Twitter. They love each other. Unfortunately Keiser doesn't understand snooker.
Have you ever heard of O'Sullivan?
Is he a queer?...he certainly looks like a queer, he talks like a queer, so he is probably a queer...
Is Keiser a queer?...he certainly looks like Gilbert Gottfried, so probably he is a queer...
Jester82 wrote:
I am not one for political correctness, but that shows signs of homophobia. There is no need for that. The woman he presents the show with is his fiancée.
It is actually an excellent show, but he was way out of his league on this occasion.
More Keiser with O'Sullivan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P4UZxhOJ8o
by Sickpotter » 18 May 2014 Read
Clueless lump, what a joke
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Skriven av MayImilae, JMC47 den 26 november 2019
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One of the most enjoyable parts about being a part of emulation is seeing the classic gaming community use the tools we provide to find hidden bits of joy that would be impossible to reach otherwise. Freelook has found secret after secret hidden away just off-screen, and there's even a youtube series that focuses entirely on them! Savestates basically made speedrunning and TASing possible, allowing for quick testing of routes and sequence breaks to push games to their limits. But communities can go far beyond that, with tools now allowing us to look directly into game files and expose unreleased and rare relics. In the past couple of months, we've had two incredibly interesting leaks: A TGC file ripped from a store preview disc containing a pre-release version of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and a very early prototype of the never released Spider-Man 4.
Released versions of the game show this intro screen during the day, but this pre-release version is at night!
We can't say for sure that the Spider-Man 3 film doomed the Spider-Man 4 game, but, well, it probably did.
Each of these games give a very specific look into their development. Wind Waker's prerelease demo is very close to the retail product and fully playable beginning to end without the imposed timer. Those that have looked into it have found a plethora of minor differences and glitches between this build and the one Japan would see a few weeks later. Spider-Man 4 on the other hand, never saw release and this was just about everyone's first look at the game. While it emulates just fine in the latest development builds, it does not run in Dolphin 5.0, due to broken support for unencrypted Wii discs. If you do run it, you get to see an incredibly early preview of the game with many non-existent textures, placeholder graphics, and incomplete collision detection. Still, we're happy that Dolphin was chosen as a platform to test out this unique prototype and the game worked without needing modification. With that bit of interesting news out of the way, let's get back to our regularly scheduled Progress Report.
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Dolphin Progress Report: October 2019
Skriven av MayImilae, JMC47 den 28 oktober 2019
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We apologize for the late Progress Report, but at this point it's partially by design. There's been an ongoing issue with Dolphin's updater being recognized as a trojan by Window's Defender Cloud AI scanning. The good news is that Microsoft has acknowledged that Dolphin's updater isn't a trojan, however for now they have to manually whitelist our executables. In order to ensure that the monthly builds distributed through our update track aren't deleted by Window's antivirus, we've been verifying that the build we've chosen is whitelisted. If you're interested in learning more about how something like this happens, MayImilae researched the issue and wrote up a detailed report below on what is happening and where we stand on the problem for now.
Until further notice, please keep reporting these erroneous detections so our builds can be whitelisted by Microsoft until they get their AI sorted. Thank you. Without further ado, let's jump into a smattering of significant changes that hit this month, including a way motion features in some of your favorite controllers.
Dolphin Progress Report: August and September 2019
Skriven av MayImilae, JMC47 den 25 augusti 2019
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Earlier this month, an interesting development within the Wii reverse engineering scene was announced as Fullmetal5 revealed that they had hacked the Wii Mini via a Bluetooth exploit. This bookends a flurry of a Wii Mini hacking, including rigorous hardware modding by DeadlyFoez. You may be wondering, "Wait, wasn't the Wii hacked over a decade ago?". That's true, but the Wii Mini stubbornly remained unhacked all the way into 2019.
This resiliency came from the Wii Mini's cut down nature: it physically lacks the attack vectors that were used against the original Wii. In total, the Wii Mini was missing GameCube support, with no GameCube controller ports or Memory Card slots, lacked internet and browser support, and they completely removed the SD card slot. With so few attack surfaces, hackers have had to get inventive. DeadlyFoez created "FrankenWiis", mixing Wii Mini hardware and standard Wii hardware, to create exploit options and dump the Wii Mini firmware. This was as far as anyone could go, until Fullmetal5 found the holy grail: an exploit in the standard Wii Mini configuration, through the Bluetooth stack! This exploit completely opens the Wii Mini, allowing for arbitrary code execution to dump and/or load data over the Wii Mini's USB ports. The exploit is currently not public, but when it is released, users will be able to run homebrew on the Wii Mini just like any other Wii console, without any hardware mods. If you're interested at all in the Wii Mini and its many differences, feel free to checkout some of DeadlyFoez's videos of their efforts. It's a very strange little machine.
Update: During the writing of this article, the exploit was released!.
With the Wii Mini Menu dumped, the main question for us was... does it run in Dolphin?
The Wii Mini Wii Menu running in Dolphin!
Here is a normal Wii Menu for comparison. The Wii Mini lacks the Wii Shop, all internet channels, and the SD Card.
The answer is yes! In addition to that, Fullmetal5 also adjusted Dolphin to correctly detect Mini Wii Menu versions. While there isn't much practical use for running this cut down Wii Menu in Dolphin, it was exciting to finally see one of the last unhacked pieces of Wii hardware fall. We'd like to wholeheartedly thank everyone involved for their efforts toward Wii hacking and preservation.
With that out of the way, we have a few changes of our own to go through. While the end of the summer was a bit slow, there are still some essential fixes for several popular games and finally EFB Access is working correctly on Adreno devices... at least in Vulkan. Let's jump into August and September's Notable Changes without further delay!
Dolphin Progress Report: June and July 2019
Skriven av MayImilae, JMC47 den 15 juli 2019
As seems to be happening annually, due to a short summer lull, we decided to combine the June and July Progress Reports. As you may have noticed, we're a few days into August at this point and things ended up running a bit late. That's actually a consequence of how we do these Progress Reports - we sometimes will go through big changes, test them, and get developer input on how they work in order to better explain them. In late July, a mixture of late changes, unexpected behaviors, and an extremely subtle game bug forced us to delay things while we sorted everything out. In this case, the end result didn't actually affect Dolphin, but does make for a better read as everything finally came full circle.
While we apologize for things being late, we do have a rather wide variety of changes that hit over the last two months to make this Progress Report extremely well-rounded. Whether you're looking for GUI updates, Android, fixes to ancient bugs, and even one feature inspired by a developer who saw Dolphin being used during Summer Game's Done Quick!
Mini Update: libusb Hotfix
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While we usually wait for a Progress Report to write about bug fixes and other features, a regression was causing so many issues that we've decided to roll out an early monthly build and detail what happened and why right now. If you're a heavy user of Dolphin's passthrough features, this is a rather important update.
libusb Thread Safety Problems¶
libusb is an incredibly powerful library that facilitates direct communication to USB devices without needing to develop a kernel level driver. It also has the benefit …
Dolphin Progress Report: May 2019
Skriven av MayImilae, JMC47 den 12 maj 2019
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The past few months have been quite hectic with a slew of gigantic changes requiring lengthy articles alongside them. These big features all hitting together seems to have brought up a talking point in the community would be irresponsible to ignore. Everyone wants to know when Dolphin 6.0 is coming. After all, Dolphin 5.0 launched nearly three years ago and lacks features like Ubershaders, Bluetooth Passthrough, Hybrid XFB, Emulated Motion Plus... the list goes on. Unfortunately, we have to announce that we aren't especially close to a release right now.
A release build is about more than just having exciting features, it's meant to be stable, reliable, and highly compatible. Since Dolphin 5.0, there have been a lot of minor and major regressions that haven't been fully worked out yet. Whether it's a game like Ed, Edd, & Eddy: The Mis-Edventures hanging on a loading screen or audio being broken in Resident Evil 2. There are dozens, if not over a hundred of these little issues that just take time and effort to address. Some of these issues are close to being resolved while others haven't even been investigated yet.
All we can ask of users is to continue using the latest development builds, continue reporting bugs, and be patient with the next release. With that out of the way, it's time to get to this May's Notable Changes. As always, users who want to try these features can download the latest development builds on the download page or use the auto-updater to get a new dev build every month automatically. Enjoy.
Mastering Motion: The Journey to Emulate MotionPlus
Skriven av MayImilae, JMC47 den 28 mars 2019
Your eyes are not deceiving you, MotionPlus emulation is finally here. In a dramatic return to the project after a long hiatus, Billiard returned to the project with the goal of cleaning up emulated Wii Remotes and implementing emulated MotionPlus correctly once and for all. These efforts have greatly improved Dolphin's ability to create motions that games can recognize without the need for real Wii Remotes. The key behind these improvements was thinking about motions differently, by treating an emulated Wii Remote as a virtual object acting out these motions, …
Introducing the Netplay Server Browser
Skriven av JMC47 den 4 april 2019
Over the past few years, Dolphin Netplay has seen a ton of work that we've kept track of in the blog. The main goal of much of this work was to make it so that users could just play games together without having to worry about synchronization. Thanks to some of these recent efforts, it's fully possible to go on netplay and enjoy a game with others without having to do any specialized setup. While things aren't bulletproof, Dolphin does its best to synchronize saves, cheats, settings, and more to make …
The New Era of Video Backends: The Unification of VideoCommon
Skriven av MayImilae, JMC47 den 26 februari 2019
It's not common for a rewrite to be something that warrants an article, but, this is one of the exceptions. Over the past few years, parts of Dolphin's video core have seen renovations to make way for new features, but a fundamental problem remained. Dolphin's video backends suffered from both having too many unique features while also duplicating tons of code from the other backends, making it difficult to add new features and maintain old ones.
Those that have followed Dolphin from the very beginning may remember that its video backends …
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Skee-Ball Nintendo Switch Review
Posted by Lachlan Bruce | May 4, 2018 | Reviews | 0
Skee-Ball Switch Review by SwitchWatch
Developer: Ocean Media
Publisher: Ocean Media
Price as of Article: $19.99 USD, £17.99 GBP
Game code provided by Ocean Media for review
Skee-Ball is a staple in many arcades. Most people will know the thrill of rolling a ball towards holes with point values in the hopes to win enough tickets for some tacky prize at the front counter. Is it fun? Well that’s debatable. Does it make a good video game? Let’s find out.
The sound effects evoke the sounds of a Skee-Ball cabinet well. The roll of the ball down the cabinet, how it sinks into the holes, the small jingle that plays when you score points, it’s all there.
As for the music, it is unfortunately repetitive and a bit bland. The soundtrack isn’t something I would associate with an arcade, which is the only place I would imagine most people have even seen a Skee-Ball cabinet.
Visuals & Performance
Have you seen Skee-Ball in the arcade before? Do you like staring down that alley before you roll the ball towards the holes? Well good news, that is exactly what you see here. This game will not blow you away with its visuals, but it does the job. There is only so much you can do with a Skee-Ball table.
As far as performance goes, the game runs very well. There isn’t much happening here so that is to be expected, but it is always good to see a game running well.
The gameplay here is extremely simple with little nuance. You launch a ball down an alley that launches the ball up towards holes that have different points values. The goal is to get the most points possible with the allotted balls you’ve been given. When you are done you are awarded tickets based on the amount of points you got.
To launch the ball, you first choose what position you want to roll it from. Then, you decide the angle to roll it at. Finally, you hold down the shoot button which begins to fill a power meter, and you release the button once the power meter reaches the amount of power you want to launch the ball at. Rinse and repeat until you run out of balls.
There are other game modes, but you will have to love the base mode to unlock them all. To unlock them you need to win enough tickets. A perfect game will net you around 20 tickets, but on average you will likely get about 6 to 12 tickets per attempt. To unlock a new game mode, you need 750 tickets! If you are bad at this game, it could take you over 100 games just to unlock a new way to play. Also, it takes just under 40 perfect games. To unlock all the game modes, you will need 5250 tickets! That will take 263 perfect games.
New game modes aren’t all you can unlock with tickets. You can also open up new Skee-Ball cabinets to play on. There are 3 unlocked from the start, but to unlock the other 4 tables you will need 2000 tickets a piece. That’s 8000 tickets total, which will take 400 perfect games. That means, if you are a wizard at this game from the first moment you play it, you will need to play 663 perfect point games just to unlock everything this game has to offer. No thank you.
That said, there are ways to alleviate this. Occasionally a challenge will appear, asking you to finish with a certain amount of points, sink the balls in hole order, put a certain amount of balls in a particular point hole etcetera. These will unlock certain rewards. Sometimes it will be a significant stack of tickets, or unlock new balls you can buy from the shop. Buying balls from the shop costs tickets though, and you have a finite amount of them, so it seems like a bit of a waste to throw your tickets into new balls until you have unlocked everything, which is a real bummer.
*This review was written by Lachlan Bruce for SwitchWatch.co.uk
Is this Skee-Ball experience worth your hard earned cash? I don’t believe so. For the money they are asking I could think of multiple games more deserving of your money. Even if you are a huge Skee-Ball fan, this game won’t capture the thrill of actually tossing the balls down that alley and into those holes. At the very least, you won’t need 2000 tickets to play on a different cabinet. Not only that, the game is available on ios and Android for less than a quarter of the price, and feels like it belongs much more on those platforms.
Runs well
Sounds fairly authentic
Terrible unlock system
Gameplay is shallow
Gets old quick
Music is repetitive, bland and annoying
Summary Skee-Ball is a basic game sold at a much higher price than I feel it should be. The gameplay is shallow, music uninspired, and game modes locked behind a ticket system that is rather atrocious. There is little here that I can recommend to people, especially considering the price of entry.
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Our goal is to provide an environment that is equitable and supportive for all staff and students, free of conscious and unconscious bias, with access to facilities, learning and work open to all.
Teaching at the School of Physics
Our 120 staff and 160 postgraduate students conduct research across a vast range of interests. The School of Physics is the premier environment for physics education and research.
Facilities at the School of Physics
Our research expertise and our facilities offer a wide range of expertise to industry in diverse areas such as:
projects involving mathematical analysis of a system
optical system evaluation and design
microscopic imaging
image processing and visualisation
environmental testing, such as levels of electromagnetic radiation
energy efficiency and solar energy usage
evacuated glazing
Explore our industry partnerships and how we can help.
The School of Physics, like the University of Sydney as a whole, aims to provide an environment for learning and working where our students, staff and visitors feel comfortable and included. Learn more about our equity, access and diversity initiatives.
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Clara Spencer
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Associate Head of Research
Professor Mike Wheatland
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Associate Professor Helen Johnston
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Associate Professor Joseph Khachan
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Associate Professor Boris Kuhlmey
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Associate Professor Bruce Yabsley
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Dr Svetlana Postnova
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Professor Kevin Varvell
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