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Karamba Security Survey: Consumers Hold Vendors Accountable for Their Devices’ Cybersecurity
By BN Staff 1 month ago
A 1,000-User Poll Exhibits Public Pressure on Vendors of Connected Devices
Karamba Security will unveil at CES 2020 a product and service portfolio that enables vendors to seamlessly cyber-protect their connected devices throughout the device lifecycle
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. & HOD HASHARON, Israel–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Karamba Security, a world-leading provider of embedded cybersecurity for connected devices, today released a report revealing that nearly three quarters of consumers expect manufacturers of connected IoT devices to protect their devices from hacks. This view is in sharp contrast to today’s datacenter best practices, which require users to deploy their own measures of cyber protection, such as antivirus software.
The report, “Consumer Attitude Towards IoT Security,” surveyed 1,000 consumers in the United States on connected device security ahead of the CES 2020 conference, which in an average year reveals hundreds to thousands of new connected devices. The survey results show consumers are increasingly concerned about hacks of such connected devices and demand manufacturers embed high-level security in their connected products.
In the survey, 87% of respondents said they believe connected device manufacturers should be responsible for securing products from hacks. Nearly three-quarters of the respondents went a step further: 72% said they would refuse to use a connected IoT device if they found out it wasn’t equipped with embedded security.
“The survey results clearly show that consumers aren’t willing to compromise when it comes to securing connected devices,” said Ami Dotan, Karamba Security CEO and Co-founder. “As connected devices like Amazon Alexa, smart homes, and connected cars become more popular, hackers grow more and more sophisticated, finding ways to exploit vulnerabilities and infiltrate their targets for economic gains. Manufacturers need to step up to the challenge and provide their customers with the protection they deserve.”
The Karamba Security survey showed most consumers are concerned about the future of IoT security. A total of 81% think IoT devices will become more of a target for hackers in the next five years. When asked whether they were more concerned about a thief breaking into their home or a hacker breaching one of their connected devices, responses were even – 50% for each.
Karamba Security will unveil at CES 2020 a portfolio of products and services that enables vendors to seamlessly protect their connected devices. The portfolio covers the entire device lifecycle, from design to post-production. The portfolio does not require changes to R&D processes and has a feather-light footprint on the device itself, in order to not derail the device performance.
“Device manufacturers need to be armed with powerful tools to meet connected device security threats to consumers head-on,” Dotan said. “Customers are demanding security that is embedded into the connected device itself. Our research reflects this sentiment, and to help both the device manufacturers and consumers, we plan to announce new products at CES that provide a comprehensive solution that seamlessly and automatically embeds tamper-proof cybersecurity from the design through the post-production stage for connected devices. It’s a win-win for manufacturers and consumers of their products.”
Karamba Security will present this portfolio of security solutions at CES 2020, North Hall, Booth #5931, January 7-10, in Las Vegas. Joining Karamba’s portfolio of runtime integrity in production, the new product suite will arm manufacturers with the security validation they need to ensure that their connected devices are secured during the design development phase. Another part of the offering will communicate with the cloud and will continuously detect threat indicators. This intelligence alerts the security operations center of suspicious behavior on the device and fleet level.
About Karamba Security
Karamba Security is the embedded security powerhouse, providing industry-leading embedded cybersecurity solutions for connected systems. Connected device manufacturers in automotive, Industry 4.0, enterprise edge, and IoT rely on Karamba’s portfolio and experts to protect their connected devices against Remote Code Execution (RCE) and Command Injection. After over 50 successful engagements with Fortune 100 companies, automotive OEMs, tier-1 providers and other device manufacturers, connected device providers worldwide trust Karamba’s award-winning solutions for compliance and brand competitiveness when protecting their customers against cyberthreats.
More information is available at www.karambasecurity.com and follow us on Twitter @KarambaSecurity.
Karamba Security Business Contact:
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Kyle Tildsley
Karamba@pancomm.com
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Caltech-Armed Forces meteorology training course
Students inflating pilot balloon. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
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Students inflating pilot balloon and leveling theodolite. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Observer and recorder waiting for buzzer signal to release pilot balloon. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Beginning of pilot balloon run. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Students observing and recording pilot balloon. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Practice in keeping theodolite cross-hair centered on pilot balloon. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Practice of following and reading of vertical and horizontal angles of theodolite. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Observing pilot balloon. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Practice in use of clinometer for measuring ceiling of clouds. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Demonstration in principles of ceiling projector. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Equipment for cloud observations and recording. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Gimbal nephoscope for cloud observations. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Polarus and topographical chart used for determining local points for visibility check. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Sunshine duration electrical transmitter. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Student measuring amount of precipitation in eight inch rain gauge. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Reading of sling psychrometer by student. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Venturi tube aspirated psychrometer used by student. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Top deck of Caltech meteorological station. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Interior of Caltech meteorological station. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
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Review Date: Monday, July 30, 2012
Since our good readers have been coping as best they can with the recent heatwave, Good King Leonardo has decreed that we try to beat this never-ending summer heat with some refreshing new comic books. So let's check-out some of the latest cool offerings from the new comic book shelves:
Scott Snyder: Writer
Greg Capullo: Pencils
Jonathan Glapion: Inks
Fco Plascencia: Colors
The multi-issue "Night Of The Owls" storyline that's been unfolding in The New 52 reboot of Batman concludes in this month's issue #11. I reviewed an earlier installment in the saga, which introduces to the Batman storyverse a seemingly omnipotent evil organization called The Court Of Owls, which has been secretly operating in Gotham for several generations, using costumed operatives known as "Talons," as a kind of anti-Batman group of costumed evildoers. The storyline is the creation of A-list writer Scott Snyder with pencils by Greg Capullo, inks by Jonathan Glapion and colors by Fco Plascencia.
The issue #11 wrap-up story segment unfolds in two parts. Part One presents a final battle confrontation between Batman and a powerful Talon who is revealed as Gotham politician Lincoln March. March is under the belief that he's actually Thomas Wayne, Jr. the long-lost brother of Bruce Wayne who Bruce believes died in a childhood accident. Part two of the tale takes place in the aftermath of the big battle; as Bruce recuperates from major injuries, he and Dick Grayson/Robin hold an extended dialogue regarding the vagueness of Lincoln's claim as well as the mystery of Lincoln disappearing at the end of the mega-fight. The discussion concludes with the dynamic duo making peace regarding some lingering issues between the pair, as well as leaving the threat of the Court Of Owls and the mystery of Lincoln March's true identity open for consideration in future issues of Batman.
Since I've only read one previous Court of Owls story, I was concerned that issue #11 wouldn't hold-up as a stand-alone issue to read. Happily, the issue works very well both on its own and as a satisfying conclusion to the ongoing saga. During the past few years, writer Scott Snyder has contributed some major new lore to the Batman storyverse and he's hit another homerun here with the concept of "The Owls." I loved the twist of a potential evil Wayne brother confronting Bruce Wayne/Batman, and enjoyed very much the ambiguity of the situation; there's a nice emphasis here that the lost brother story could be true or false, and it will be up to future Batman issues to either put Lincoln's belief to rest as a grand allusion or alternately welcome him to the extended Batman family as the latest bad sheep of the family (maybe he can be roommates with the bratty Damian version of Robin!).
Its important to also acknowledge a second story in this issue, scripted by the writing partnership of Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV. Entitled "The Fall Of The House Of Wayne," its an elequent and emotional tale alternating present-day and flashback scenes that connect Batman's faithful butler Alfred as well as Alfred's father Jarvis to the multi-generational struggle between the Batman family and The Owls. So a definite thumbs-up positive review recommendation for The Good DC Reader to enjoy this high quality issue #11 of Batman both as a satisfying conclusion to the current Owls storyarc and as an entertaining standalone Batman comic tale.
Batman Annual #1
Scott Snyder & James Tynion IV
Jason Fabok: Art
Peter Steigerwald: Colors
DC's latest Batman Annual features a story in which Batman fights his well-known supervillain foe Mister Freeze. The plot also connects somewhat with the ongoing Night Of The Owls event that concludes in the regular monthly issue #11 reviewed above. Scott Snyder writes this story in partnership with James Tynion IV, with art by Jason Fabok and colors by Peter Steigerwald.
The story in this Annual issue, entitled "Night Of The Owls-First Snow," is bracketed front and end with flashbacks to an event in Mr. Freeze's childhood during a snowy winter in Lincoln, Nebraska. The bulk of the tale consists of a traditional-style confrontation between Freeze and The Caped Crusader. After an extended thriller scene in which our villain escapes from the infamous Arkham Asylum, Freeze has an even lengthier confrontation with Batman, Nightwing and the bratty Damien version of Robin. The goal of Freeze's effort is to seize from control from Bruce Wayne of the frozen body of Freeze's terminally ill wife Nora so she can be thawed, cured and restored to life with an antidote that Freeze initially developed for The Court of Owls. I don't want to be a story spoiler and reveal how this plan concludes, beyond mentioning that there's a very interesting surprise plot twist that concludes the storyline. The Annual plotline wraps-up with a two-page return to the childhood flashback that began the story, also providing an unexpected plot twist to the backstory segment of the tale.
The creative team does an excellent job of providing us with a feature-length annual story that works well on three counts. First, we're treated to a solid story addition to the long-running set of tales featuring Batman's battles with one of his more traditional foes. There's even a brief appearance by The Penguin in the midst of this situation that adds an additional nice retro flair to the story. Secondly, the art team's style and coloring is pitch perfect for portraying the impact of Batman's cold warrior foe. I actually felt cold reading some of the more visually frosty scenes in this issue. And third but hardly least, the writing team's surprise plot twist is both unexpected and among the best story surprises that I've read in any comic book over the past few years. I actually fell for the deliberate writer's trap of sympathizing for Freeze's longing for his lost wife while wondering why Bruce Wayne was seemingly in the wrong in this scenario, until the plot twist revealed the true meaning of the storyline.
So another worthy thumbs-up recommendation is due for this new issue comic book that succeeds on three counts: providing an entertaining Batman tale, presenting top-notch graphic visuals and perhaps most importantly, giving us all a chilled Mr. Freeze feel that we could all use in the middle of The Great Heatwave of 2012!
Sunset: First Look
Publisher: Image Comics/Top Cow Productions, Inc.
Christos Gage: Writer
Jorge Lucas: Art
Image Comics and Top Cow Productions have just published a comic issue offering a first look at a portion of a new graphic novel entitled "Sunset." The creator-owned production is written by Christos Gage with art by Jorge Lucas. For the affordable price of $1.00, the comic book apparently presents the first 22 pages of a book-length tale that is also currently available in original hardcover format.
The plot centers on Nick Bellamy, a California retiree who, together with his housekeeper, cares for his apparently Altzeimer-afflicted aged wife. The stoic Nick clearly sees society as having declined in civility, as on a trip to the local supermarket he encounters several crass and extremely rude younger folk. Nick's errand is interrupted by three mobsters who confront him to collect money that he supposedly took from their boss decades earlier. The story explodes into a slaughterfest, as Nick kills his attackers in an unexpected display of sharp reflexes and visciousness, then returns home to slaughter more bad guys who had killed his wife and the housekeeper while waiting for Nick's return. The preview issue concludes with Nick torching his house and setting-off to confront the mobster responsible for the attack.
I was not entertained by this comic book, for a few reasons. First, in characterization and story concept, Sunset is a carbon copy of the acclaimed 2008 movie "Grand Torino," which starred Clint Eastwood as an aged loner in a very similar life circumstance, i.e., American society has declined to sucky incivility and only one senior citizen continues to comport himself with personal grace and dignity. Secondly, after viewing the high quality of the Eastwood film, its jarring to see the same tale painted-over with heavy layers of blood and gore. And third, the black-and-white art combined with Jorge Lucas's particular graphic style is a very uncomfortable viewing experience. It didn't take long for me to dread turning the page to continue squinting at this difficult visual presentation.
I'm a huge fan of Worcester native Chris Gage's prolific and high quality comic book scripting, particularly his excellent work at Marvel. But while Gage's scripting here is professional and strong, the negatives outlined above tip the balance in this instance into a negative review recommendation. If you're a fan of Gage's work in general, feel free to add this comic book and/or the accompanying graphic novel to your collection as another example of his body of work. But if you're just looking for a stand-alone, summertime thriller or noir-style comic book read, I'd recommend searching further along the new issues shelves for another title.
The Massive #2
Brian Wood: Writer
Kristian Donaldson: Art
Dave Stewart: Colors
Dark Horse Comics is in the middle of publishing a three-issue premier story arc for a new science fiction series entitled The Massive. The series follows the dramatic struggles of a band of seafaring environmentalists struggling to survive in a post-crash world. Issue #1 kicks-off the three-part story entitled "Landfall," establishing the concept that the global environment and world social order has collapsed following a series of unexplained environmental mega-disasters. The Ninth Wave oceanic activist group is patrolling the Bering Strait searching for their lost sister ship called The Massive when they're attacked by Siberian pirates. Sub-plots established in issue #1 included the pirate attack and mysteries surrounding both the fate of The Massive and the cause of the world-wide collapse. The series is scripted by Brian Wood with art by Kristian Donaldson and colors by Dave Stewart.
Issue #2 advances the plot in three alternating storythreads. A new subplot focuses on the struggles of The Ninth Wave activists one year ago at the start of the world-wide collapse. Group leader Israel Callum leads the battered team into Hong Kong harbor in search of fuel and supplies within the partly-submerged city. Action ensues as the team has a deadly confrontation with local residents struggling to establish a new social order. The additional two subplots continue story elements from issue #1, further progressing the Siberian pirate confrontation and the slow revealing of the details of the world-wide collapse. By issue's end, the crew has discovered a bit more about the origins of the pirate attack, while a few of the environmentalists begin crossing the Bering Strait to seek help in what's left of Alaska.
This is a suspenseful and entertaining sci-fi adventure series that works well for several reasons. The best thing that this series has going for it is the strong writing skills of A-list scripter Brian Woods. Woods avoids the easy trap of environmental preachiness, using the main event of worldwide collapse as an always close backdrop while he focuses on unfolding a traditional thriller adventure tale. His cast of characters are diverse and well-rounded, from group leader Israel Callum through the main and supporting cast members. I particularly enjoyed the air of mystery saturating this tale; at every twist and turn there are one or more mysteries thrown at the reader, from the origins of the world disaster to the mystery of the missing ship, all the way down to the vague personal backgrounds and hidden secrets of just about every crew member.
There's a lot of engrossing entertainment in the first two issues of this series, so much so that I'm wondering how the creative team is going to give us any sense of story arc completeness with only one more monthly issue remaining in this brief kick-off three-part story arc. But in the hands of this skilled creative team, I'm confident that the initial story conclusion in next month's issue #3 will establish enough goings-on to carry this title into worthwhile additional monthly story adventures. So get on down to That's Entertainment and add this very enjoyable science fiction adventure series to your always-growing summertime new issues reading pile!
Our latest contest challenged you to correctly identify the few players in Major League Baseball history who have actually played all nine (9) field positions in only one game. And our contest winner is (drumroll, please)...Ray Loughlin III, who correctly identified the five following players who have achieved the rare feat: Bert Campaneris (A's, 1965), Cesar Tovar (Twins, 1968), Jose Oquendo (Cardinals, 1988), Scott Shelden (Rangers, 2000) and Shane Halter (Tigers, 2000). Congratulations to Ray, who wins our first prize $10.00 gift certificate to That's Entertainment!!!
Since we're in the middle of the baseball season, let's stick with baseball for our new contest. Our latest contest challenge is an off-beat Red Sox trivia question suggested by Ray Loughlin, Jr., father of our contest winner above. Your new challenge is to e-mail us at Gordon_A@msn.com no later than Wednesday, August 8 listing as many Red Sox players as you can find in the history of the team whose last name is the same as a Massachusetts city or town. Whoever correctly lists the most players in this category will win our first prize $10.00 gift certificate to That's Entertainment. In the event of multiple entries of lists with the same number of correct players, the winner will be selected from among those entries via a roll of the dice. Please note that our first prize $10.00 gift certificate to That's Entertainment is redeemable for regular retail merchandise or in-store ongoing specials, only.
That's all for now, so have two great 2012 London Olympics-watching and comic book reading weeks and see you again on Friday, August 10 Here In Bongo Congo!
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Biff's Mystery Theatre Ep 6 - Suspense - Hitchhike Poker, 3 Skeleton Key & Evening Primose
Gregory Peck stars in Hitchhike Poker, where he hitches a ride but it's more then he bargained for when the driver wants to play games.
3 Skeleton Key has master suspense actor Vincent Price fends off a hoard of vicious rats while trapped in a lighthouse.
Evening Primrose is about a young writer who seeks to live in the...
Biff's Mystery Theatre Ep 5 - Escape - Earth Abides
This week we explore what it would be like to live in a post-apocalyptic 1950's United States. A terrible virus has killed off the majority of the planet and one man tries to make a new way of life in this strange new world. This is the only 2 part story Escape ever produced and is one of their most exciting and...
Biff's Mystery Theatre Ep 4 - Escape - Elementals, Second Class Passenger, The Abominable Snowman
Episode 4 has 3 stories from the radio series Escape. Elementals is a story that tests whether or not true love can withstand anything. Second Class Passenger puts a beta male on a cruise into an alpha male murder mystery. The Abominable Snowman deals with a hunt for a deadly mythological creature high in the snowy...
90 - Two If By Pond w @BiffsWerd
This is a lost episode I recorded a few months ago by Alexandra Palace in a swan shaped pedal boat with my wife. We talk some shit and it ends abruptly.
Biff's Mystery Theatre Ep 3 - Suspense - ABC Murders, The Most Dangerous Game, August Heat
This week on Biff's Mystery Theatre I'm bringing you 3 more tales from one of my favourite shows, Suspense. First up is the story from Agatha Christie called The ABC Murders. A killer is riding the rails around the outskirts of London killing. Next is a classic that has been adapted a thousand times over entitled The...
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Hawks Nest State Park, located along the rim of the New River Gorge in central West Virginia, features breathtaking overlooks, strenuous hiking trails, an aerial tramway, jet boat rides, and a lodge with spectacular views. The park also offers a museum and a rail-to-trail.
Before the advent of the state park, Hawks Nest was the site of a trail used by Native Americans. Later, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway was completed through the New River Gorge below the Hawks Nest overlook, followed by the completion of the Hawks Nest Dam and Tunnel to generate hydroelectricity and prevent downstream flooding. It was not until 1935 that the state acquired land for what became Hawks Nest, and a lodge and other amenities were added in 1963.
There are over 4½ miles of trails at Hawks Nest, ranging from strenuous single track paths to paved walkways. Three of the best trails at the park include:
The rugged 1.7-mile Cliff Side Trail starts at the Midland Trail Shelter near the lodge and ends near the Hawks Nest Overlook. It traces alongside Nutall sandstone cliffs and connects to a waterfall along Turkey Creek and views of the Hawks Nest Dam and Tunnel.
The steep ¾-mile GSYP Trail begins at the lodge and descends through hardwoods, ferns, and rock outcroppings as it winds is way down to the New River.
Beginning on Hawks Nest Road in Ansted, the 1.8-mile Hawks Nest Rail Trail follows the path of a former Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad branch. It passes by several waterfalls along Mill Creek and the remains of a coal mine.
Overview Trail Map (PDF)
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49 Hawks Nest Park Rd, Ansted, WV, 25812
A view of the New River gorge from Hawk’s Nest at sunrise.
A view of a railroad bridge over the New River at the base of Hawk’s Nest.
A view of the Upper Mill Creek Falls at Hawk’s Nest State Park.
A view of cascades along Mill Creek at Hawk’s Nest State Park.
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BMW Eyes Tesla As It Launches Electric Car
posted 30 Jul 2013, 11:34 by Mpelembe [ updated 30 Jul 2013, 11:35 ]
Reuters Business Video Report - The electric car market is showing some spark.
The latest entry: BMW which has been promoting its new i3 electric vehicle in a massive global marketing push. CEO Norbert Reithofer:
NORBERT REITHOFER, CEO, BMW :
"It's really fun to drive and its a true BMW. That means its a real ultimate driving machine."
BMW is going where many have stalled out.
Ford recently cut the price of its Ford Focus Electric by 10 percent- in the first half of this year it sold just 900 cars.
GM is now offering incentives of up to $5,000 on its Chevy Volt- and Nissan cut its Leaf price by $6,000.
REPORTER BRIDGE: BOBBI REBELL, REUTERS REPORTER:
"BMW has the advantage of learning from the mistakes of their rivals- that being practical is not enough when it comes to getting people to buy an electric vehicle. So they focused on style and design and of course their luxury brand name. "
That luxury is key for BMW- because rather than target buyers of mainstream electric cars- who don't want to pay up for electric- BMW says it wants to emulate Tesla- which is selling about 20,000 of its $70,000 electric sports cars a year.
"Tesla is very important for us as a competitor but as well as an example that electric mobility will be important in the future. "
Sales of electric and plug in cars more than doubled during the first half of the year- but they still represent less than one percent of overall U.S auto sales according to hybridcars.com.
BMW's i3 will be out in November and will start at $41,350- plus a few thousand more for an optional range extender. That's a small premium that Bill Visnic from Edmunds.com thinks will appeal to the luxury minded buyer with a mainstream budget:
BILL VISNIC, SENIOR EDITOR, EDMUNDS.COM:
"If you are going to try to convince someone in the US to buy an electric car and it needs to have certain attributes that those buyers think line up with the price that they are paying- I'd much rather be a BMW trying to make that proposition than maybe a Ford or a Toyota or a mainstream sort of a car company."
He adds that BMW's well established network of dealerships and its offer to lend buyers SUV's when they need to take long trips- could also appeal to buyers considering a Tesla. And for those who do want a sports car- BMW will release the i8 early next year.
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The Lady and the Lingcod
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The Lady and the Lingcod is an informative and entertaining cookbook by first-time author, Beverly Seltzer, retired commercial fisherman and life-long sportfishing enthusiast. She cleverly weaves short stories of her fishing adventures, along with fishing techniques, tips and humor, among her collection of recipes for Pacific saltwater fish that she’s targeted over the years.
“I’ve come to realize there are still a lot of people who know relatively little about fish,” Beverly says. “The average person can correctly name a fraction of the many species of fish served, and many restaurant patrons cannot even point out the fish they are eating when shown a pictorial lineup of the different species.”
This book presents recipes for albacore, bluefin tuna, blue marlin, cabrilla, Chilean seabass, dorado, halibut, lingcod, mako shark, petrale sole, rockfish, salmon, sand dab, sierra, wahoo, white seabass, yellowfin tuna, and yellowtail; citing substitutions for about 30 others. Some of these are familiar species that are widely fished commercially, while others you’d only get by going out and fishing them for sport. Besides the recipes, the book is chock full of anecdotes and useful facts to help you catch them, pick them, or just get to know a bit more about the fish. Readers will not only learn how to prepare the fish they’ve bought — or caught — but will also have some fascinating stories and facts about the fish they’re serving up.
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Mythology Competition
So, the Mythology Competition has moved to the new Primary Latin Course website. I'll be keeping the results pages and archived work on this site for the time being. Daedalus and Icarus/Herakles and the Hydra are the next subjects!
Primary Latin Project website
The Project now has its own website, distinct from the Minimus website. This is where you'll find grant information and other teaching resources. At the moment, there's a lot of overlap, but eventually the Minimus website will have a much-needed tidy up and trim!
Click here to visit the PLP site
Mythology competition results
The results from the 2019 Mythology competition are posted! Click through from the report to see winning artwork, creative writing and animation.
http://www.minimus-etc.co.uk/MiniMyth/MinimusMythComp.htm
Minimus weekend at Vindolanda!
euge! The first ever Minimus weekend at Vindolanda is on 25th and 26th May 2019
Join us at both Roman Vindolanda and the Roman Army Museum for a weekend celebrating the little mouse that made Latin cool again!
Minimus and the gang have lots of adventures at Vindolanda. Come and learn about what they get up to on our Minimus tours- find Minimus' favourite spots! Create your own mouse character with Minimus artist Helen Forte! Have a family Latin Lesson with Minimus author Barbara Bell. At the Roman Army Museum get dressed up and stand in front of our Green Screen and be transported into Minimus' world!
This event and all the activities will be free to attend with admission to the site!
Minimus Secundus workbook!
The new Workbook is out! It’s full of exercises and activities to accompany Minimus Secundus, and it costs £1.50.
There will be an updated order form soon: meanwhile, please email Nick to find out how to order.
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Mrs Jayne Treasure, Director
The Primary Latin Project
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@minimus_Latin
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Newsletter 64 – September 2018
Dear supporter,
Message from the Director of the Primary Latin Project
A warm welcome to my first Newsletter. I shall start with a news update: I am delighted that the Primary Latin Project has its first Patron, Lindsey Davis; without doubt a familiar name to all who receive the PLP Newsletter. Lindsey writes:
"We didn’t have Minimus in my day – but I have known of him for a long time now and he sounds such fun! I am delighted to be a Patron of this gallant mouse."
(Lindsey Davis - photograph by Fergus Noone)
I am also really delighted that Dr Catharine Edwards has agreed to become a trustee of PLP.
As you will have read in the last Newsletter and seen on the website, after many years of tireless work Barbara Bell and Jeremy Paterson have stepped down as the Director and Chair (respectively) of the Primary Latin Project. On behalf of everyone involved in the Project, I want to acknowledge the huge debt of thanks we owe them both. As the new Director, I certainly have big shoes to fill. However, as you will see below, I am very glad to say that Barbara is not going far and will remain as PLP’s Honorary President. As I add the final contributions to this Newsletter, Barbara and Helen Forte are hard at work writing a workbook to accompany Minimus Secundus. You will be alerted when it is ready.
My first half year as Director has gone in a flash. As well as the day-to-day running of the project, I have been involved in a number of events. It was a great privilege to represent PLP at the memorial service for Lady Belinda Morse in March – a beautiful service in a beautiful setting (St Stephen Walbrook, London). I also spent a very enjoyable afternoon at Bristol Grammar School in June; Sally Knights and I adjudicated the plays at Bristol’s 27th Annual Festival of Latin Drama, organised by the Bristol Classical Association, in partnership with the Bristol Classics Hub and Bristol Grammar School. Congratulations to all who took part and, in particular, to St Augustine’s Primary School, Bristol, on their success in the Junior section and to the Royal High School, Bath, in the Senior section.
You will see from the reports below that our Minimus trainers have been busy. I have also been involved in training in Cardiff (Primary PGCE students), Bristol (English, History and MFL PGCE students) and the Cotswolds (Chipping Campden School). We have trainers throughout the country and, thanks to the generous support of Classics for All, training can usually be offered freely to any maintained school. The demand for training is high. Please contact me if you would like more information on becoming a trainer.
Finally, my thanks to the PLP committee, the trainers and to Rachael Jones, PLP Administrator, for all their hard work and enthusiasm.
We are always keen to hear your news. Any items for the next Newsletter should reach me by December 1st, 2018.
Jayne Treasure
Message from the new Chair of the Primary Latin Project
At the November meeting of the PLP board, I was delighted and honoured to be welcomed as the new chair of the board. In my work with Classics For All for the past few years I have seen for myself the enormous difference that Minimus can make to primary school children’s literacy and vocabulary- and I have also seen the sheer enjoyment that the little mouse is able to generate in classrooms. While it will not be easy to follow in Jeremy Paterson’s footsteps, I am very much looking forward to working with Jayne Treasure, the new Director of the project, and with the wonderful team of dedicated members, to support the study of Latin in our primary schools. The board of trustees has also acquired a new member, Professor Catharine Edwards of Birkbeck College, University of London, who is the president of the Roman Society. We are very lucky to have Barbara Bell’s continued support, now in her new role as the Honorary President, and we are delighted that the historical novelist Lindsey Davis has agreed to be our patron. (Her new novel, Pandora’s Boy, is just out and you can catch her talking about at the Salisbury Festival of Archaeology in July or at Fishbourne Roman Palace on 6 October.
That’s it from your new chair for now! Do follow Helen Forte on twitter for news from Minimus himself (@minimus_latin), and stay in touch with us.
Dr Elena Theodorakopoulos, Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Birmingham
Report from the Honorary President of the Primary Latin Project
After 20 years of working at the heart of the Primary Latin Project, life with a much smaller mouse felt very odd indeed. Nevertheless, my decision to step down was definitely the right one. I have very much enjoyed hearing news of Minimus activities - whether from the PLP committee under the new leadership of Jayne Treasure (Director of the Project) and Elena Theodorakopoulos (Chair of the PLP committee) or from the terrific group of Minimus trainers who are doing splendid work across the country. I feel very honoured to be the Honorary President of PLP.
Vindolanda has also clearly had a marvellous year in terms of excavations and we are very much looking forward to a visit in September to see the new finds, including the new room of wooden artefacts. We will be staying with Catherine and Nigel Jarvis at their excellent B & B ‘Four Wynds’ which is only 10 minutes from Vindolanda! Catherine is a trained guide as well as a Minimus trainer and member of the PLP committee; she also runs her own ‘Hands-on Latin’ courses. The newly refurbished B & B could not be better in terms of comfort or location and the food is simply delicious. If you are looking for a good base from which to explore Hadrian's Wall, look no further!
I am still doing a little training, particularly for individuals who have been unable to access training events in their own areas. I very much enjoyed speaking at Assembly recently at Elmlea Junior School in Bristol - nearly 400 pupils and staff. They will be starting to use Minimus on the timetable for Year 4 in September but are already offering it as an after-school club for Year 3. A parent kindly emailed to say how excited her young daughter is at the prospect of learning Latin.
That's what it's all about- and has been throughout my 40 year career!
This term I am again training PGCE students at Bristol University to teach Minimus. As usual these are not Classicists, but MFL and English graduates and this year we have been joined for the first time by a small group of Historians. I am sharing the teaching with Jayne. She is teaching those who have already studied some Latin and I have the Beginners' group. It is a rewarding experience to be training teachers for the future. Again, I was so pleased when one of my group spoke of the fantastic opportunity to learn a subject which had never been on offer to him at school.
Minimus - Future Writing
I am very much looking forward to spending a few days in Bury St. Edmunds in July where Helen Forte and I plan to collaborate on a new Minimus workbook. This will be targeted to accompany Minimus Secundus. We hope it will provide valuable further practice in the grammar covered in the Book 2. We hope to create a useful addition to the Minimus resources.
Barbara Bell
bmbellmini@aol.com
Minimus in Africa!
Collaboration at Stellenbosch University
News from the Minimus Trainers
Dr Masters and Dr Holmes-Henderson
Minimus trainer Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson (Oxford) and Dr Samantha Masters (Stellenbosch) have begun a research collaboration which seeks to explore opportunities to extend the learning and teaching of Classics in South African schools. There are significant barriers to literacy development for children in South Africa. Concerned by this, Dr Holmes-Henderson and Dr Masters are working together to investigate whether Latin could help bridge the literacy attainment gap. With a travel grant from the Africa-Oxford fund , Dr Masters visited the UK in March 2018 and Dr Holmes-Henderson made a reciprocal visit to the Western Cape in April 2018. Many fruitful relationships have been made and follow-up plans include an application for funding to run a pilot programme of Latin for Literacy in the Western Cape, together with Latin-specific pedagogical training for teachers in elementary schools. Minimus will be the textbook used.
Dr Arlene Holmes- Henderson
I am still working with Hexham Middle School/Minimus/Classics for All. They introduced a Latin Minimus club very soon after I trained six teachers to teach Minimus at the end of April. More details for Latin enrichment activities are to follow in the next newsletter.
Blackpool, Leeds, Liverpool and Sheffield
Blackpool: Following the training I gave in 2016 and 2017, Peter Wright from Blackpool Sixth Form College reports that there are now five primary schools in his area in which teachers are delivering Latin as part of the curriculum. Three of those schools have started to deliver the Minimus course through from Year 3 to Year 6. There are also five high schools involved where staff are either delivering Ancient History / Classical Literature as part of the curriculum and/or offering Latin lunch clubs.
Latin training for Leeds: Classics for All has agreed to fund training for Brighouse School in Leeds. Maria Haley, Leeds Classics Hub coordinator, and I have been trying to set up Latin training for the school where they plan to use Minimus and the Cambridge Latin Course. Hopefully, we can arrange training before the end of term so that the school can begin to teach Latin in the new academic year.
Minimus in Liverpool: I have continued to support the work of Alice Case, Liverpool Classics Hub coordinator. Schools that received training last summer have begun to teach Latin with Minimus. At one school, a HLTA is teaching Year 4 and Year 6 classes for 35 minutes per week.
Alongside Charlie Andrew, who has developed the Maximum Classics materials for CfA, I delivered Minimus training to teachers from 5 more primary schools in Liverpool on May 18th. Veronica Poulter, Primary English Coordinator at Hope University, joined us and we have arranged to schedule Minimus training for PGCE students in October 2018. Similar sessions in 2016 were very well received.
CfA has agreed funding for Sandbrook Primary School on the Wirral, where the Headteacher aims to adopt Latin as the Key Stage 2 language across the school. We are trying to arrange training dates for her staff before the end of the summer term so that the teachers can start in September.
On June 12th I trained two teachers from Liverpool College. They wish to start a Minimus club for all year groups in KS2 as part of a timetabled weekly enrichment slot (60 minutes per week).
Sheffield training: Teachers from Sheffield who participated in Minimus training last summer are teaching Latin to all year groups (35 minutes per week).
Classics Hubs: Classics for All kindly invited me to attend a meeting of the Regional Classics Hubs in November. It was helpful to gain a picture of how the hubs are progressing and data regarding pupil access to the Classics. Although we have Vindolanda on our doorstep, very few state schools in the northeast of England offer Latin or Classical subjects. That is disappointing so I am working with Justine Wolfenden, Assistant Professor (Teaching) in Classics at Durham University, to initiate a plan of action. We are enlisting the support of museum staff and local teachers who offer Latin. We have a meeting with Hilary Hodgson from CfA on June 18th.
Sue Balmer
On Tuesday 27th February, I was invited to do some Minimus training at St Mary’s Church of England Junior School, Baldock, Hertfordshire. A very enthusiastic class teacher, Virginia Di Noia, was keen to start up a Minimus after-school club (or 2!), with 18 interested pupils. As she speaks Italian, I’m sure the Latin will sound wonderful!
Shona Shahryar
London, Suffolk and Norfolk
This year I have done two return visits to follow up on initial training. They were very different, one being William Tyndale Primary School in Islington and the other the Consortium Multi Academy Trust, a group of rural primary schools in Suffolk.
My other training session was also interesting as it was for a school which had originally declined to take part in the initial Norfolk project. They now wish to introduce Latin into their curriculum. They were joined by teachers from three other local schools which had taken part in the first project but who had lost the original teachers we trained.
In the same small Norfolk town (Aylsham) there is an exciting dig going on at a Garden Centre. Roman kilns and numerous pieces of pottery have been found and it is thought to be the site of a major settlement. At their summer fayre in August we are going to have a session on learning Latin, designed to possibly attract enough adults to establish introductory classes in the autumn.
Norfolk is losing a staunch supporter of Minimus as Colly Mudie, Learning Manager at Norwich Castle Museum, is retiring. Colly has been enormously helpful in establishing Latin as an integral part of their Roman Days for schools and facilitated a Latin Celebration Evening as well as hosting a PLP meeting in the castle. We are hoping her successor will continue the links.
Jane Maguire
Grant Report
Since the last Newsletter, I am delighted to report that twenty-two schools have received grants from PLP. They are: Lady Boswell’s Church of England VA Primary, Sevenoaks; Lynsted and Norton Primary, Faversham; Kelmscott School, London; Sudbury Primary, Middlesex; All Saints Church of England Primary, Fulham; Miles Coverdale Primary, Shepherd’s Bush; Rose Hill Primary, Oxford; Harris Academy Chafford Hundred Primary, Essex; Rooks Heath College, Harrow; St Michael’s Church of England Primary, Abingdon; Hele’s School, Plymouth; Gateway Academy, London; Kennall Vale, Truro; St Just Primary, Penzance; William Tyndale Primary, London; Hexham Middle School, Northumberland; Aldborough Primary, Norwich; Leicester Prep School, Leicester; Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary, Bristol; Chipping Campden School, Gloucestershire; Bullwell St Mary’s Church of England Primary, Nottingham; Lincoln Manor Leas Junior Academy, Lincoln.
My grateful thanks to Diana Sparkes and Bob Bass for their speedy decisions and eye for detail, and to Rachael Jones for dealing with all matters so swiftly.
Mythology Competition and Results 2018
It’s been another very successful year for the competition. The stories of Pyramus and Thisbe and the Marriage of Peleus and Thetis have been beautifully drawn and painted, skilfully modelled in clay, cake and lego, enthusiastically dramatised and imaginatively described in poetry and prose. It was very satisfying to welcome new schools to the competition this year, and to continue to receive entries from America and Australia. Good news, too, that there were more entries overall this year, particularly for the drama category and for the Level Two topic. Animations have also become very popular and accomplished. As ever, the PLP is hugely grateful to the Jowett Trust for generously funding the costs of running the competition. Well done to all the children who have risen to the creative challenge again this year and to the teachers for encouraging their students and making time in their busy schedules to submit the entries. As the newsletter goes to press, the judges have finished their task and the results, which have been sent to schools, are listed on the website, look out for the winners work - and details of the 2019 competition!
Linda Soames
My thanks to Linda and all the judges and to all the schools for participating (JT).
Minimus et cetera
Our best sellers in recent months have undoubtedly been the Minimus Workbook (grammar practice) and the three sets of Minibooks (extra readers). This is especially true of orders from the USA. It is as if there has been a piece of national publicity recommending the Minibooks! Whatever the source, the word is spreading, and it is lovely to think of children in Virginia, Florida, Texas etc. enjoying the little books.
Minibooks for Sale
The three sets of Minibooks used to be sold either individually (£2 each) or in sets of ten for £18 + P & P. Nowadays, we only sell them in complete sets of ten for £18, plus P & P. Please note there are 3 different sets.
We have a large number of incomplete sets and are proposing to sell individual books at half price - i.e. £1 per book, in order to clear them. You may have some gaps in your own collection which need filling, or you could use them as prizes etc.
If you would like to buy some please email Nick Bell (bmbellmini@aol.com) stating clearly which books you would like and how many. Nick will add the appropriate P & P & send you an invoice. If you live outside the UK we can send a Paypal invoice and you can pay in your own currency. First come first served!
Here are the numbers of the books we still have (I-XXX) and the quantity which are available:
Please note the following points about our business and how we operate:
We do not sell the main Minimus textbooks (Starting out in Latin and Moving on in Latin). Best to contact the Hellenic Bookservice in London who will post them anywhere in the world (info@hellenicbookservice.com) or your regular bookseller.
There are three sets of Minibooks. Set 1 works best with Starting out in Latin and Set 3 with Moving on in Latin. Set 2 can be used with either. They are a useful source of extra reading for the classroom but do not advance the grammar at all. They can also be used for drama or as special prizes in competitions.
We can also post our Minimus items anywhere in the world.
Those of you who live outside the UK can request a Paypal invoice so as to pay in your own currency.
We don’t have facilities for card payment so please pay by BACS transfer or send a cheque.
If you have any queries about our products or payment, including postage, please contact Nick Bell at: bmbellmini@aol.com
Thanks very much for your custom.
Nick & Barbara Bell
With many thanks for your support,
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Mythology Competition 2018
Here are the results for this year's Mythology Competition. Congratulations to the winners, and well done everyone who took part!
LEVEL 1 – Pyramus and Thisbe
Zachariyah Babar
Manchester Grammar School
SPECIAL PRIZE
Alexander Chakraborty
Keble Prep
INDIVIDUAL PRIZES
Loucas Louca
Sahansa Udawatta
St Michael’s Collegiate Hobart
Samia Karalan
RUNNER UP PRIZES
None Awarded
CLASS DRAMA – Pyramus and Thisbe
Hollymount School with King’s College, Wimbledon
JOINT RUNNERS-UP
North Ealing Primary with Notting Hill and Ealing High School
Ealing Primary with Notting Hill and Ealing High School
SPECIAL PRIZE for ANIMATION
Moreton Hall
HIGHLY COMMENDED PRIZE for ANIMATION
Lucas Page
Thomas Brough-Byatt
Terra Nova Prep
LEVEL TWO – Marriage of Peleus and Thisbe
Alexandra Balog
Abbotsleigh NSW
Camille Murray
Rosie Dymock
Heath Mount
RUNNER-UP PRIZES
Sophia Chi
Sally Liu
Phoebe Lim
Annelise Cormack
Indra Catolico
Chicago Grammar
Niara deWit
Sanya Sujdak
Isla Harrison
Millfield Primary North Walsham
Kushi Rao
Northwood College
Daniela Paminello
St Augustine’s, Bristol
Nikhel Mandalia
St Hugh’s Prep
Georgiana Back
Roxy Davies
Nehemiah Hill
Alicia To
INDIVIDUAL PRIZE
Tegan Hicks
Millfield Primary, North Walsham
Clara Thomson
Amelie Hotton
Katherine Ly
Jasmine Hing
Grace Fisher
Isha Patel
Neeti Sinha
Ashleigh Serle
DRAMA – Marriage of Peleus and Thetis
NO PRIZE AWARDED
WHOLE SCHOOL PRIZE for Best Set of Entries: Abbotsleigh
WHOLE SCHOOL PRIZE for Creative Writing: St Augustine’s Bristol
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FamilySearch Indexing Find for Saturday Soldier: Charles Stevenson
On Sunday, 12 September 2010, more than one million records were indexed by over fourteen thousand volunteers for FamilySearch. That's pretty amazing. While I was indexing this morning, I came across a sad story. It was the about the death of Charles E. Stevenson.
Charles Stevenson was born 14 February 1900 in Washington, DC to William and Emily Stevenson. At some point in young adulthood he joined the United States military. By the time of his death on 22 June 1930 in Los Angeles, California, Charles was occupied as a musician.
On his death certificate, Charles's death was described as Carbon Monoxide Poison, Suicide. More details were found on his body removal and burial permit. His death there was described as violent... "Carbon monoxide poisoning - Suicidal - Automobile motor operating with tube connected to muffler and placed into car." I wonder if his parents were alive at the time of his death, as the informant for his biographical information was the Welfare American Legion.
Charles was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. He is located in Section W ENL, Site 21680. His military service is given as "HQ 3rd DC INF." I hope he is at peace.
Nurses Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery about 1995.
© S. Lincecum
FamilySearch Memorials Military Saturday Soldier Stevenson
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MUS = Musician
Cheryl's Grave Radiates Love (Tombstone Tuesday)
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Black Granite Art (Wordless Wednesday)
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Korchnoi's Career 1946-1977, Long Events
Continuing with Viktor Korchnoi's Tournament, Match, and Exhibition Record (TMER; 1946-2015), in my previous post, Korchnoi's Career 1946-1977, Major Events, I wrote
The 'On Paper' post (also used in 'Three Views') would appear to be the most promising area for further analysis.
That post was Korchnoi's Career 1945-1977 on Paper (January 2017). In that post I started to analyze the content of 'Korchnoi's Chess Games' by Levy & O'Connell by scanning the index of opponents.
According to a preliminary analysis, the book has 1663 games played against 486 opponents. I'll delve further into this record for my next post.
Delving further, I counted 215 events, of which 111 (about half) had more than five games. Of these events, 33 had more than 15 games. These events are shown in the following table.
The second column ('Venue') is the code used by Levy & O'Connell (L&O). The third column ('Ct') is the number of games I identified from their book's index. The last column is the name of the event used in the TMER, which also lists Korchnoi's final score in W-L-D format. That final score allows a quick calculation of the number of games played by Korchnoi. In events where that doesn't match the 'Ct' column, I've flagged the discrepancy in square brackets ('[]'). For example, in the 1954 Bucharest tournament I counted 16 games in the L&O book, but the TMER gives Korchnoi a final score of +10-1=6.
Since a discrepancy can arise from a number of situations -- an error in the book, an error in my manipulation of the data, or an error in the TMER index -- each discrepancy needs to be examined further. I looked at the last one, the 1977 match vs Spassky and discovered that one game in the book used a different code to identify the venue. This little exercise gave me some additional confidence to continue with the data.
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Korchnoi's Career 1946-1977, More of the Same
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Follow-up Closure
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Korchnoi's Career 1946-1977, More Discrepancies
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Hijab Wrapup
A Short History of CCL
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Branching Investigations
Kitchen Sicilian
Blog Search Tool
March 1967 'On the Cover'
Korchnoi's Career 1946-1977, Major Events
Paved with Questions
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Amherst Runs Fourth at Branwen Smith-King Invitational
MEDFORD, Mass. – Amherst College was one of fourteen men's indoor track and field teams to compete at the inaugural Branwen Smith-King Invitational at Tufts University, and the Mammoths placed fourth overall on Saturday afternoon at Gantcher Center.
Amherst scored 76 points, finishing behind overall winners Stonehill, host Tufts University and third-placed MIT.
Cosmo Brossy '19 won the 5,000 meters, topping two runners from UConn with a final time of 14:36.84
Theo Bates '20 was the overall champion in the 60 meter hurdles. Bates completed the dash in 8.48
The Amherst 4x400 team of Harisson Haigood '18, Vernon Espinoza '19, David Ingraham '18 and Ryan Prenosil '21 won the relay finals in 3:22.68
Espinoza took third in the 400 meter dash with a time of 51.41
Jacob Silverman '19 and Andrew Swenson '21 went 3-4 in the 600 meters
Spencer Ferguson-Dryden '18 placed fourth in the mile run, finishing in 4:23.44
Field Results
Sam Amaka '19 placed fifth in the weight throw, tossing a finals score of 15.86 meters
Amaka also took 12th place in the shotput with a throw of 13.06 meters
The Mammoths will return to Medford next weekend to participate in Saturday's Tufts Invitational.
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Studies of organizational culture are almost always based on two assumptions: (1) senior leaders are the prime determinant of the culture, and (2) culture is related to consequential organizational outcomes. Although intuitively reasonable, the evidence for these remains mixed, and almost no research has jointly investigated these assumptions and how they are linked. Using data from more than 1,000 respondents from 32 high technology companies, we examine the effects of CEO personality on organizational culture and the subsequent effects of culture on organizational performance. Results show that CEO personality affects a firm’s culture and that culture is subsequently related to a broad set of organizational outcomes including a firm’s financial performance (revenue growth, net income, Tobin’s Q), reputation, and employee attitudes. We discuss the implications of these findings for future research on organizational culture. CEO Personality 3 In the late 1970s and early 1980s the topic of “organizational culture ” captured managers and scholars interest. A series of poplar books (e.g., Davis, 1984; Deal & Kennedy, 1982; Ouchi, 1981; Peters & Waterman, 1982), academic conferences, and special issues of scholarly journals
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GRSM Becomes First National Park to Install Public Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Equipment
Gatlinburg, TN – On September 30, 2015, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GRSM) held not one but two ribbon-cutting ceremonies to unveil over 10 new pieces of alternative fuel equipment. The events were held at Oconaluftee Visitor Center near Cherokee in North Carolina and at Sugarlands Visitor Center near Gatlinburg in Tennessee.
GRSM has completed the implementation of three new facets of the Park’s Climate Friendly Parks program, with funding from a joint U.S. Departments of Interior (DOI) and Energy (DOE) initiative called the “Clean Cities National Park Initiative.” And in this case the new equipment does not just help the Park leave a smaller footprint – it allows the public to join in the effort.
In partnership with its two neighboring DOE “Clean Cities” coalitions—the East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition (ETCleanFuels) and the Land-of-Sky Clean Vehicles Coalition—GRSM has put in use these new pieces of equipment to improve air quality in the Smokies:
1. Five gasoline mowers were converted to run on propane autogas – These mowers operate near visitors on a regular basis as they mow diverse areas from along roadways to fields in Cades Cove. Additionally, the new mowers performed so well over the summer that the Park has already purchased two additional propane mowers. All of these mowers now run exclusively on propane.
2. Three new low-speed electric vehicles for localized use – These vehicles replaced larger gasoline vehicles and emit no pollution at the tailpipe in the Park. The vehicles are mostly providing service in campground areas like Smokemont and Elkmont, as well as in Cades Cove. These vehicles’ fuel economy goes from around 20 MPG to over 100 MPGe (equivalent).
3. Two kinds of electric vehicle (EV) recharging equipment were installed on both sides of the Smokies – Both 220V “Level 2” charging and 208V “DC Fast Charging” (DCFC) equipment have been added at Sugarlands and Oconaluftee Visitor Centers to allow visitors with EVs to enjoy more mobility within the Park while creating zero tailpipe emissions. Future Park EVs will also be able to utilize this equipment for their own recharging needs.
GRSM Superintendant Cassius Cash said during the event, “Putting this equipment in use will help us meet our goal of reducing our greenhouse gas emissions from 2006 levels by 20% by 2020, and you will hear more from us in 2016—the 100th anniversary of the National Park System—on our continued efforts towards this goal.”
ETCleanFuels Director Jonathan Overly noted, “We really enjoy doing anything we can to help the Smokies. We are even more proud of this partnership now that we have enabled Smokies’ visitors to get in the game by using the EV charging equipment, or even reducing their idling time.” Overly is referring to the addition of some signage in certain parking areas requesting that visitors not idle their personal vehicles unless necessary.
Bill Eaker, Coordinator of the Land of Sky Clean Vehicles Coalition said “Air quality has greatly improved in the park and region due to emission reductions from power plants, industries and motor vehicles. The Park is a clean transportation leader within the National Park Service and is setting a great example for other parks and fleets across the nation. We are thrilled to be a part of this partnership.”
The joint DOI/DOE funding is helping multiple national parks across the country advance their goals towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions from park operations and maintenance vehicles and improving air quality overall in and around the parks. Learn more here: http://www1.eere.energy.gov/cleancities/national_parks.html
Captions: ABOVE – Great Smoky Mountains Association, Nissan and DOE and Clean Cities partners join Superintendant Cash for the ribbon cutting; the new DCFC (l) and Level 2 (r) equipment are in photo. BELOW – The new idle reduction signs in the Park; Park staff and others join Cash with one of the new propane mowers; Park staff and others help show off the new low-speed EVs in use in the Park.
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Club Josh
Quality-ish since 1995
The Club House at Club Josh
Josh in 2012
Josh Catalfo was born and raised in California and has produced Club Josh since 1995. He attended UC Davis where he received his BA in Physical Geography. A thirst to learn more about the cultures and the people of the world, has sent Josh around the world with his Gorn action figure taking photos.
Josh has been a cartographer, surveyor, web designer, site developer, project manager, ride operator, and guest service manager. He has many hobbies and passions including photography, movies, popular culture, hazards geography, and cars. Josh basically tries to keep up with the goings on in the world, especially when there is a natural disaster.
Mr. Catalfo currently is driving a 2018 Subaru Crosstrek and hopes to once again get a BMW Z3 in the future.
Josh has been featured in the following publications:
The Albuquerque Journal’s AlbuQuirky News
The Las Vegas Sun (Jan. 8, 1998, “Boldly going… and going… and going…”)
Animation World Magazine (Issue 2.8, Nov 1997, “The Life Cycle of DVD”)
Josh has written for the following web sites:
Ahwatukee Life
Josh has received several awards from the following organizations:
Themed Entertainment Association(TEA)
The Story of Club Josh
I started Club Josh the web site back in 1995, quite simply, because I was egged on by people at work and I really wanted to have my own page on the then brand-new world wide web. It was really taking off, despite the fact that most people had just a 14.4 or 28.8 modem (56k didn’t hit until a few years later – weren’t we lucky??).
I started with just a simple text page with some backgrounds and then over time added more and more content. As the years progressed, my interest and time available to keep up the site has waxed and waned. I think the peak in terms of diversity of pages was in 1998 or so and it was in 1999 when I moved to clubjosh.com that content started dropping off the site (mostly as a necessity as upkeep became burdensome).
The advent of a “Daily Update” in 2000 pre-dated most blogs, but sadly I was never prolific enough to make it more than just a hobby. One thing that has remained constant: My Gorn Page, which started in 1995, still receives new pictures whenever I travel. I also still write a travel diary whenever I travel. It’s usually posted on my regular Daily Update blog, and is now in it’s own Trip Diaries blog. One day, I will integrate photos into the travel blog completing a vision I have had for over 15 years. In 2014, I committed to an entry a day and with the exception of a week in October was successful. I managed to keep it up until March 2015. I hold out hope I can do it again..
What does the future hold? I don’t really know. It is my dream that Club Josh will outlive me, and I just hope that when it does, certain pages of the site won’t still be showing a last updated date back in the 1990’s!!
–Josh 5/28/2015
Current Sections of Club Josh
Index: Most Recent Daily Updates and Twitter Entries and Links to Sub Pages
The Gorn Page: World Travels of an Action Figure (a 1995 original)
Trip Diaries: Later addition – Trip Diaries from the Late ’90s to today as well as links to my travel photos. This site swallowed the separate Disneyland Paris site when I moved to the new server and still causes a bunch of 404 errors from sites that have not updated since the 1990’s. Today it is missing my Disney photos, and I still haven’t decided if I will bring them back or not.
Jarrepalooza: Small Corner of the site that contains my Jean Michel Jarre collection – dates from the mid ’90s and recently updated
Doingworld: A place holder site. Used to have a mapping project from College here, but now its a landing page.
Club House: Basically the About page, but fancier. Launched in 2002 and not much was done with it until 2011. Used to link to old party photos and such.
What’s New Archive: All of the changes to the site dating back to 1995 for all the different versions (Mobile, Lite, PDA, Web)
Evolution: What the home page has looked like through the years. I only wish I still had the code for the older versions!!
External Sites with my content:
Weibo – In case I travel to China I can post here..
Charo.info
Archive Sections of Club Josh
Long gone, but not forgotten sections of the site
Movie Czar Reel Reviews: I used to write Movie Reviews and send them via email to my friends. I actually won awards for them.
Charo’s Party Pics: The forerunner of Charo.info, a small section that had photos from Cuchi-Cuchi Hawaiian Style
Friends and Family Photos: This section was the first to have my party photos in it and eventually led to the Club House after years of not being online. Now, most of these photos are not online, but a select few were revived on my Flickr site.
SeaGranite Video Archive: Back in the 1990s, I had my complete video collection listed with my notes for each movie. Seemed like a good idea at the time
Guestbook: Remember when web sites had Guestbooks??
Statistics: Remember when web sites had Hit Counters??
Resume: Remember when people just put their Resume online with all their contact information?
Cyber Surfin’ Safari: A list of web links when bookmarks where a thing.
I love new cars! It’s part of the reason I used to work for Edmunds.com, so here are pictures of the vehicles that I have driven.
1987 Toyota Corolla FX I wrote a blog about this car..
1996 Honda Accord LX
2000 Nissan Xterra SE 4×4
2012 Toyota Prius v Level 2
The views and opinions expressed on this web site are mine and do not necessarily represent or reflect those of The Walt Disney Company, Edmunds.com, or any other employer not specifically named here. Basically, this site is about Josh and Josh’s opinions and no one else. Any sites linked to do not count as an endorsement of any kind and should not be taken seriously under any circumstances.
We don’t store or track anything you do on this website. I do use Google Analytics and the Charo site does have some Amazon ads for Charo merchandise. Those sites have their own separate privacy policies and I recommend you read their own policies.
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Margaret Chardiet was born and raised in New York City. She has been making power electronics / death industrial music under the name Pharmakon for five years. As a founding member of the Red Light District collective in Far Rockaway, NY she has been a figurehead in the underground experimental scene since the age of seventeen. Several projects emerged from the Red Light home/ venue during the four years Chardiet lived there including Yellow Tears, and Halflings amongst others. She points out that the environment there amongst so many other experimental artists inspired her to keep pushing herself and making increasingly challenging work. She describes her drive to make noise music as something akin to an exorcism where she is able to express, her “deep-seated need/drive/urge/possession to reach other people and make them FEEL something [specifically] in uncomfortable/ confrontational ways.” The project is also an opportunity to exorcise her own demons and examine her own wild thoughts by pushing them outside of her head. Engineered by Sean Ragon of Cult of Youth at his self-built recording studio Heaven Street, Abandon is Pharmakon’s 1st proper studio album and also her first widely distributed release.
Unlike other experimental projects, Pharmakon does not improvise when performing or recording. She is concise and exact and each song/ movement is linear with a clear trajectory. Perhaps more than any other style of music, noise is a genre almost exclusively dominated by male performers. Spin Magazine is apt to point out that her, “perfectionism might explain why her recordings are few and far between — a rarity in a scene where noise bros are want to puke out hour after endless hour of stoned basement jams into a limitless stream of limited-edition tapes. Her music may be as cuddly as a trepanning drill, but it’s also just as precise: She glowers in measured silence as often as she shrieks, and every serrated tone cuts straight to the bone, a carefully calibrated interplay between frequency and resistance.” The songs on this album were all written and recorded during a turbulent three month time period during which several fundamental life changes forced her to begin living in a completely new way and in a new space. She describes the lyrical themes of this album as being about, “Loss. Losing everything. Relinquishing control. Complete psychic abandon. Blind leaps of faith into the fire, walking out unscathed. Crawling out of the pit.”
More from Pharmakon
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Akko to Tel Aviv distance, location, road map and direction
Akko is located in Israel at the longitude of 35.08 and latitude of 32.93. Tel Aviv is located in Israel at the longitude of 34.78 and latitude of 32.09 .
Driving Distance : 114 KM and 452 meters / 71.1 miles.
Straight Line Distance : 98 KM and 400 meters / 61.1 miles.
Direction and bearing : South side, 196 degree.
Distance between Akko and Tel Aviv
The total straight line distance between Akko and Tel Aviv is 98 KM (kilometers) and 400 meters. The miles based distance from Akko to Tel Aviv is 61.1 miles. This is a straight line distance and so most of the time the actual travel distance between Akko and Tel Aviv may be higher or vary due to curvature of the road .
The driving distance or the travel distance between Akko to Tel Aviv is 114 KM and 452 meters. The mile based, road distance between these two travel point is 71.1 miles.
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The sun rise time difference or the actual time difference between Akko and Tel Aviv is 0 hours , 1 minutes and 12 seconds. Note: Akko and Tel Aviv time calculation is based on UTC time of the particular city. It may vary from country standard time , local time etc.
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Akko is located around 98 KM away from Tel Aviv so if you travel at the consistent speed of 50 KM per hour you can reach Tel Aviv in 2 hours and 14 minutes. Your Tel Aviv travel time may vary due to your bus speed, train speed or depending upon the vehicle you use.
Midway point between Akko To Tel Aviv
Mid way point or halfway place is a center point between source and destination location. The mid way point between Akko and Tel Aviv is situated at the latitude of 32.509199762923 and the longitude of 34.931708964027. If you need refreshment you can stop around this midway place, after checking the safety,feasibility, etc.
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Tel Aviv is located nearly South side to Akko. The bearing degree from Akko To Tel Aviv is 196 ° degree. The given South direction from Akko is only approximate. The given google map shows the direction in which the blue color line indicates road connectivity to Tel Aviv . In the travel map towards Tel Aviv you may find en route hotels, tourist spots, picnic spots, petrol pumps and various religious places. The given google map is not comfortable to view all the places as per your expectation then to view street maps, local places see our detailed map here.
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JAGUAR F-TYPE TO DEBUT IN PARIS
August 10, 2012 Tony Dewhurst Leave a comment
The F-TYPE, Jaguar’s all-new aluminium two-seater sports car, will make its global debut in production form at the Paris Motor Show on 27th September.
Adrian Hallmark, Global Brand Director, Jaguar Cars, said: “The unveiling of the F-TYPE in Paris will be a truly significant day in Jaguar’s history as it will mark the company’s return to the sports car market, a market it originally helped to create.
“As its sporting forebears did in their era, the F-TYPE will break new ground by delivering stunning sports car performance while vividly demonstrating Jaguar’s cutting-edge engineering technologies and world-class design excellence. The next step in Jaguar’s sporting bloodline is about to become reality.”
The F-TYPE will be launched as a convertible with a choice of three petrol engines: 340PS and 380PS versions of Jaguar’s all-new 3.0-litre supercharged V6, and a new derivative of its existing supercharged 5.0-litre V8. All will drive the rear wheels through an eight-speed transmission and will be equipped with Stop/Start technology.
Prototype test programme
After we spotted all three variants of the F-Type testing around Gaydon in UK.
Following the F-TYPE’s ‘camouflaged’ public drive at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in June of this year, testing of the final verification prototypes has continued in some of the harshest environments in the world.
As its name suggests, this test programme is designed to verify the staggering amount of design work that was carried out by Jaguar’s engineers in the ‘virtual world’, a process in which the company is an industry leader.
More than half-a-million separate F-TYPE design analyses were carried out comprising 10-million CPU hours of processing, creating more than 300TB of data. Had that same amount of initial design analysis been completed on physical cars, the number of prototype F-TYPEs built would have filled the majority of the UK’s motorway network bumper-to-bumper.
The result of all that ‘virtual’ design work is that Jaguar’s engineers are currently concentrating on honing the performance of the physical verification prototypes, to ensure the production F-TYPE delivers truly focused sports car driving reward.
Said Ian Hoban, Jaguar’s Vehicle Line Director: “When you are working on a Jaguar sports car the expectations of the world are huge. We’re really pleased how the attributes have translated from the virtual simulation work we’ve done into the physical world.
“Now, we’re refining and adding those last few percentage points – that true element of honing which the Jaguar test team are delivering – which will turn a great sports car into an exceptional one.”
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Jaguar, Spy Shots
Jaguar’s F-Type R Spyshots
June 29, 2012 Tony Dewhurst Leave a comment
Here are the latest spyshots of not one but two different specifications of the rumoured Jaguar’s F-Type R which can be distinguished by the quad exhaust layout compared with the center mounted twin pipes on the lesser powered model.
Also spotted was one of the earlier mules of the F-Type which can be identified by the enlarged wheel arches.
Jaguar have confirmed the roadster will be available with a 3.0-liter V6 supercharged engine in two different power outputs one with 380HP with 460Nm and 340HP with 450Nm.
This car seems to be housing something slightly more powerfull from its V8 ForceFed Growl so rumour is a foot that this car could be housing the “R” family engine the supercharged 5.0-liter V8.
Jaguar F-Type R + Mule
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Liberty Baptist vs. Lenoir-Rhyne
Ktoyi
THE NCCAA IS ALIVE AND WELL
The NCCAA is alive and well in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It is a
miracle organization. In ten brief years an idea has become a reality,
providing Christian athletes in Christian colleges across America the
opportunity to become national champions.
With its purpose to provide national competition among Christian
colleges, the National Christian College Athletic Association was
born in Canton, Ohio, in 1966. Emanating from that meeting were
plans to conduct a national basketball tournament. Detroit, Michi
gan, became the site of that first NCCAA National Basketball Tour
nament.
At the initial tournament, the NCCAA adopted a constitution and
voted to move the tournament to Chattanooga, Tennessee. During
the ensuing years an eight team tournament format has been insti
tuted.
In 1973, the NCCAA launched into other national sports competi
tion. Cross-country, track, and soccer were sanctioned for national
honors.
In 1974, the Kenneth and Clara Murchison Foundation e.stab-lished
an award to the outstanding Christian basketball player in the
nation. The purpose of the NCCAA Murchison Award is to enhance
the Christian purpose of athletics and to perpetuate the Christian
philosophy and faith in the evangelical colleges and universities
across the nation.
The Brainerd Optimist Club of Chattanooga voted in 1974 to
sponsor the National Basketball Tournament. This highly successful
civic group has enhanced the stability of NCCAA.
Bible colleges, which had competed well against the liberal arts
Christian colleges, submitted a plan to add a second division to the
NCCAA for basketball competition. The NCCAA coaches adopted
their proposal in 1975 and thus Division II was born. Division II
sponsors Its own national basketball tournament and awards.
Under the direction of President Howard Nourse of John Wesley
College (Michigan) and Executive Secretary E. C. Haskell, Jr., the
NCCAA is moving forward. It is very much alive and well. Christian
colleges across America can rejoice in the strides being taken to
provide an outlet for athletic competition on a national scope.
AIAW
The Association for intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW)
provides a governing body and leadership for initiating and main
taining standards of excellence in women's intercollegiate athletic
programs. In addition the AIAW conducts seventeen national
championships in twelve sports, for junior/community colleges,
small colleges and large colleges.
Active AIAW membership and membership in the appropriate
Region are required for an institution to be elegible to participate in
AIAW national championships and regional qualifying events for
AIAW national championships.
To qualify for active membership an institution must meet certain
requirements. First, the institution must be an accredited, or in the
process of becoming accredited, college or university of higher
education in the United States or its territories. Second, the institu
tion must provide an intercollegiate athletic program for women.
Third, the institution must be willing to abide by the policies of the
AIAW. Fourth, the institution is required to join the appropriate
regional organization.
Liberty Baptist College is an active member of the AIAW, Region 2
of the AIAW; which includes Kentucky, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia; and the Virginia AIAW. The
women's athletic program at LBC has a competitive schedule
basketball, Softball, and volleyball.
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Title Liberty Baptist vs. Lenoir-Rhyne
Subject Liberty Baptist College
Tom Dowling
Jerry Falwell Sr. Sr.
A. A. Pierre Guillermin
Description Media guide for the October 28, 1978 football game Liberty Baptist played against Lenoir-Rhyne.
Creator Liberty Baptist College
Publisher Liberty Baptist College
Source Liberty Baptist vs. Lenoir-Rhyne.pdf
Relation LU 32-12-3 Folder 1A; LU 32:12 Box 1
Folder LU Record Group 32 Subgroup 12 Series 3 Folder 1A
Description Media guide for the October 28, 1978 football game Liberty Baptist played against Lenoir-Rhyne
Transcript Ktoyi THE NCCAA IS ALIVE AND WELL The NCCAA is alive and well in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It is a miracle organization. In ten brief years an idea has become a reality, providing Christian athletes in Christian colleges across America the opportunity to become national champions. With its purpose to provide national competition among Christian colleges, the National Christian College Athletic Association was born in Canton, Ohio, in 1966. Emanating from that meeting were plans to conduct a national basketball tournament. Detroit, Michi gan, became the site of that first NCCAA National Basketball Tour nament. At the initial tournament, the NCCAA adopted a constitution and voted to move the tournament to Chattanooga, Tennessee. During the ensuing years an eight team tournament format has been insti tuted. In 1973, the NCCAA launched into other national sports competi tion. Cross-country, track, and soccer were sanctioned for national honors. In 1974, the Kenneth and Clara Murchison Foundation e.stab-lished an award to the outstanding Christian basketball player in the nation. The purpose of the NCCAA Murchison Award is to enhance the Christian purpose of athletics and to perpetuate the Christian philosophy and faith in the evangelical colleges and universities across the nation. The Brainerd Optimist Club of Chattanooga voted in 1974 to sponsor the National Basketball Tournament. This highly successful civic group has enhanced the stability of NCCAA. Bible colleges, which had competed well against the liberal arts Christian colleges, submitted a plan to add a second division to the NCCAA for basketball competition. The NCCAA coaches adopted their proposal in 1975 and thus Division II was born. Division II sponsors Its own national basketball tournament and awards. Under the direction of President Howard Nourse of John Wesley College (Michigan) and Executive Secretary E. C. Haskell, Jr., the NCCAA is moving forward. It is very much alive and well. Christian colleges across America can rejoice in the strides being taken to provide an outlet for athletic competition on a national scope. AIAW The Association for intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) provides a governing body and leadership for initiating and main taining standards of excellence in women's intercollegiate athletic programs. In addition the AIAW conducts seventeen national championships in twelve sports, for junior/community colleges, small colleges and large colleges. Active AIAW membership and membership in the appropriate Region are required for an institution to be elegible to participate in AIAW national championships and regional qualifying events for AIAW national championships. To qualify for active membership an institution must meet certain requirements. First, the institution must be an accredited, or in the process of becoming accredited, college or university of higher education in the United States or its territories. Second, the institu tion must provide an intercollegiate athletic program for women. Third, the institution must be willing to abide by the policies of the AIAW. Fourth, the institution is required to join the appropriate regional organization. Liberty Baptist College is an active member of the AIAW, Region 2 of the AIAW; which includes Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia; and the Virginia AIAW. The women's athletic program at LBC has a competitive schedule basketball, Softball, and volleyball. 'Bmiiiu. C]R.HUDGINSPLATIKGlfC WISHES FOR A GREAT SEASON-LBC! sBoriuerfcley ,o f cuosftfoemr eorusr r saenrgveic fers ofomr n matainonya tly cpoensc oefrn mse ttaol t fhien lioschailn gm ,a eclheicntrec svnhloatpin^n' ^- Our presen^t industrial Finishes • Chromate Finishes • Anodizing Electro Still — Barrel Plating Cadmium, Chrome, Copper, Nickel, Silver, Gold, Zinc Tin 4510 MAYFLOWER DRIVE J LLYYNNCCHHBBLURG, V TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE PLATING BUSINESS IRGINIA 24506 DIAL 847-6647 P. O, BOX 1 1 286
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Do you live in a city, or in the country?
by Shelby 3 hours ago
Da Azian Boi
I live in the suburbs!
Zibbys Mind Is In the Gutter Today
Almost dead center of Tampa. So City for me, although I prefer the country.
Brian I
In a village of about 200 houses.
idne
I live in a small town that is connected to other small towns and cities. There is also a lot of country very near here. It's the best of all world's really.
I live in a town.
In a residential area in the city.
natzter the bionic has a broken hand
in the country.
Out in the country about 4 miles from a small village. There are 3 families that live up here on this hill. There are woods and streams and ponds all around. I grew up in the suburbs and lived at the beach but nothing beats the country for us.
tomsims
We used to call it Rurbia - the suburban/urban/rural fringe of a large city. City is encroaching, but we still have ranches, vinyard, fruit groves, lakes, and large lots surrounded by a growing number of subdivisions. I can be in downtown Fresno in about 20-25 minutes.
I live in a small village just on the edge of a City, it is surrounded by countryside , so I have the best of both worlds.
BrokeDog
I live in the city, now, but I miss the country so bad it hurts.
SonicSand
We live on what we like to call a "City-farm", two acres just outside the suburbs of a City of 600,000.
I live in a city in a country. lol
Ed the Jetpacking Headbanger
Nothing like a city. Considered a suburb, just over 5,000 people on the countryside.
Indielauper
MG1942 Has a Life Penguin
Being from NYC originally, I wouldn't exactly call Harrisburg a city, but it is a rather large burg.
PerfectlyFlawed.
In the city http://www.visitmexico.com/wb/Visitmexico/Visi_Guadalajara
kitten is smiling...
I live in the biggest little city in the world.
asweetguy4u2know says R.I.P Nelson
busy city one thanks
sawdustissexy
busy city... and then maybe a quiet country life when I'm old.
I love the bustle of the city and weekends in the country.
TheMan---
Busy city...at least your busy!
Blueclay
I would get bored in the country, the city is the place for me!
City life, all the way. I'm never more than a mile from the action.
i live in the city, but i would love a quiet country life.
If i had the moola, i'd move straight to the country.
city but not busy...I live a quiet existence in the middle of a large city.
buxtonite ..back from the brink
had both ...grew up in Australias biggest city and had a rage ...partied hard for quite a few years , now in the country ...still party and rage but slower and this suits me now
AnonymousGirl
I live in a city.
I don't live in either - in common with a lot of other people who contribute to this site I don't live in the United States or indeed any part of the continents of North and South America.
Lovehearts
I don't live in either. I'm British.
A seaside community of about 15,000 people.
DeeBabii
I live in a rural area in Louisiana. Country Girl. lol
Talimze wins the prize
I technically live in a city, but my house is right across the street from three farms, soooo....
I live in upstate New York 5 miles from a small village up in the woods. There are only 3 other houses up here.
Do you live in the country, city or town?
What country, state, province, or city do you live in?
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What city do you live in?
In what country do you live?
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Velo Birmingham is set to return in Spring 2019 after a successful inaugural event, on 12th May 2019
Birmingham’s Premier Closed Road Cycle Event 2019
Birmingham is the UK’s second largest city with a population of over one million, expanding to almost three million across the wider West Midlands area.
It is therefore surprising to learn that there are so few sportives available for cyclists in Birmingham. A quick look on the British Cycling website shows just six sportives within a 30km radius of Birmingham. These include; Bike for St Basils, The Swan Cycle Worcestershire Sportive, Tommy Godwin Challenge, Mad March Hare Sportive, The Lapierre Tour of the Black Country and Round the Wrekin.
In addition to these sportives, Bloodwise hold their annual Birmingham Bikeathon in Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham. Unlike the Wirral Bikeathon, the Birmingham event is more akin to a sportive, with a choice of three routes; 26m, 52m or 100m.
It was this tremendous gap for a good sportive in the Birmingham area that led to the first Velo Birmingham event in 2017, giving not only cyclists in the West Midlands area a great cycling event but also those further afield across the UK.
The event organisers aimed to attract 15,000 cyclists on a 100 mile closed road sportive and they achieved this within 4 days of tickets going on sale, despite the higher than normal cost for a sportive. The 2019 Sportive has availability for 17,000 cyclists – let’s hope they get the feed stations right this time!
Velo Birmingham Key Facts 2019
Name: Velo Birmingham & Midlands Sportive Organiser: CSM Active Sport
Location: Birmingham, West Midlands Event Website: link to event website
Date: 12 May 2019 Cost: £75 or £115
Event Type: Sportive Start Time: 06:00am onwards
Distance: 42m / 100m Feed Stations: 25m, 50m, 65m, 85m
Climbing: 4,260ft Ride Profile: Closed Roads, flat urban
GPS Route: view and download route Map: see map below
It is unclear what has caused the organisers to not repeat the event in 2018, instead favouring a return in 2019, but their announcement of a new route and a date move from September to May may give clues.
Following the initial pre-registration period in 2017, around 45,000 cyclists expressed an initial interest, although this was prior to the cost of the event being known. Whilst some cyclists expressed disgust at the high cost of the Sportive, Velo Birmingham sold out it’s full 15,000 capacity within just 4 days. They are also stating that 2019 has sold out to 17,000 cyclists so there is clearly demand.
Pre-Registration for Velo Birmingham 2020 isn’t open yet but keep your eyes on the official Velo Birmingham website for further information on sign-up for 2020
Velo Birmingham Route Map 2019
If your looking to download the official route map in GPX or TCX file format, just head back up to the link in the table above.
The 2019 Birmingham Velo route sets off from behind the Bull Ring and after some early morning well-wishers cheering us on, the route travels East towards Chelmsley Wood and Coleshill. As we pass the 25km mark, we reach Nether Whitacre and the first of the day, although an incline of 110m over the next 7km should be too much of a demand. The gradient averages 5% with a tiny 6% kick at the end.
The route then goes towards Bentley Park Wood, Arley Wood, Fillongley and New Park Wood in Astley for what should be a scenic section. From here there is a gentle 20km descent into Coventry and a pleasant meandour through the closed streets of the City. Once riders leave Coventry and pass through Coundon Hall Park and Brownshill Green, we encounter the second climb. The ascent is just 80m over 9km so nothing to worry about on this one either and most riders should be comfortable at this halfway stage.
The second half of the route starts around Corley Moor and passes Meriden, Balsall Common, Kingswood and Cheswick Green to take us up to the 120km marker and on to the final 40km.
The section from just south of Shirley to Rubery covers around 16km and is a steady rise of 70m, with a few 4% gradients to stretch the legs. From here it’s onto Halesowen and the rapturous applause of the Birmingham City Centre folk who don’t mind their roads being closed for the day!
Velo Birmingham Feed Stations 2019
For those that rode the inaugural Birmingham Velo, the feed stations are likely to be the least favourite part, with the majority of cyclists receiving no food whatsoever as the organisers ran out of food, which is pretty poor for a £75 entry fee. Let’s hope they learned their lesson and have resolved this for this year’s event.
There are 3 feed stations on the 100-mile route, and they are placed at the following intervals; 30-miles (Fillongley), 65-miles (Kingswood) and 85-miles (Rubery). The first one makes sense but be warned, it’s likely to be a very busy one coming after less than two hours cycling. It might be worth skipping this and heading straight for the second pit stop at Kingswood.
In what appears to be a new introduction based on the previous Velo, are the five water stations, which are evenly spaced out through the course.
Velo Birmingham FAQs
What Date is Velo Birmingham 2019?
Velo Birmingham 2019 will be held on 12th May 2019.
What is Velo Birmingham?
Velo Birmingham is a 100-mile closed road cycling sportive that is due to take place on May 12, 2019. The event sees 17,000 cyclists ride across four counties on closed roads, something rarely seen for non-professional sporting events.
How much does Velo Birmingham cost?
There are two ticket types, General Entry and Fast Track Entry. The primary difference is that with the Fast Track ticket, you are guaranteed to set off with your friends in the first three waves, especially useful if you don’t want to get stuck behind 17,000 other cyclists. The Rider Packs will also be sent out in advance, meaning you won’t have to collect it in-person, the day before the event. Fast Track entry also gives you access to the car parks near the start, which is pretty useful.
What you have to decide, is if this is worth the extra cost. General Entry tickets are £75 and Fast Track tickets are £115, both are subject to a £3.75 booking fee.
Can I still enter Velo Birmingham 2019?
Yes. Whilst General Entry and Fast Track tickets sold out within days of going on-sale, there are some charity places still available.
What’s the Velo Birmingham route?
The route starts & finishes in Birmingham City Centre and passes through several counties. See the above map and route for full details.
What time does the event start?
Velo Birmingham starts at 7:00am but given that there are 17,000 cyclists, starting times are likely to be staggered over one or two hours. Cyclists paying for the Fast Track Entry should be allocated an earlier starting time.
Where does Velo Birmingham start from?
Velo Birmingham will start from Bordesley Street, Birmingham, which can be found in the heart of Birmingham City Centre.
Are the roads closed?
Yes, absolutely. The key feature of this sportive is that the roads are closed, all 100-miles of them!
Does Velo Birmingham have any climbs?
The overall elevation gain is 4,290 feet over the 100 mile route, which equates to a pretty flat circuit.
Velo Birmingham on Social Media
Backed by CSM Active, Velo Birmingham is well represented on the primary social networks, so keeping up to date with news shouldn’t be difficult – just choose your preferred social media.
Facebook – VeloBirmingham
Twitter – @velobirmingham
YouTube – velobirmingham
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Ron Stuart on September 20, 2016 at 1:02 pm
I wouldn’t buy a car without knowing the spec would you?
Douglas Waddell on September 20, 2016 at 5:34 pm
Would like to register my interest in the event.
Mark Taylor on September 21, 2016 at 9:20 pm
@Ron. We do know some key elements; 100 mile route, all of which are closed roads, in Birmingham and the wider West Midlands, and up to 15,000 cyclists. However, we don’t know the actual route yet. There’s no harm in pre-registering as there’s no commitment required at this stage.
@Douglas. You can pre-register on velobirmingham.com
Entry opens on Sept 29, 2016 for cyclists who have pre-registered.
Simon Potter on September 28, 2016 at 10:20 am
A small cycling group are wanting to take part in the event but we are concerned we may not all get in. Is there a way to enter a number of riders to ensure all of us have a place. Thanks
Mark Taylor on September 29, 2016 at 7:53 am
@Simon. There’s no way to guarantee it but there are a couple of things you can do. Register a Team Name and ensure each person enters using this name. Tickets go on sale at 8:00am today (29/09) but British Cycling are offering priority access to members.
Mark Taylor on October 4, 2016 at 8:02 pm
Velo Birmingham has officially sold out, after just 4 days on-sale.
Mark Taylor on March 7, 2017 at 10:56 pm
The Velo Birmingham official route map, GPX files, gradients and elevations are now available to download.
Andy on March 26, 2017 at 3:30 pm
Why have you not said about charity rides?
Mark Taylor on March 30, 2017 at 8:38 pm
@Andy, really good point. We are aware that there are some places available for cyclists who are willing to ride for a charity. We will amend our article shortly with news and information on this. Thanks for the heads-up.
Derek Treen on April 12, 2017 at 4:53 pm
Is there a cut off time?
Mark Taylor on April 12, 2017 at 5:14 pm
@Derek, yes there is. As you know, riders will be given staggered start times and the last rider to cross the start line will have to average 12mph (19kph) to cover the 100 miles in 8.5hrs. However, this time includes all stops, whether at the feed stations or simply for a quick rest.
Velo Birmingham will be using a Pace Car to follow behind cyclists who are at the rear of the pack. Riders who are caught by the Pace Car and where the driver feels that you won’t be able to maintain the average speed for the remainder of the ride, will be asked to get into the Pace Car, which will take you back to the Start / Finish venue.
There will be a number of official Domestiques doing all they can to help riders stay in front of the Pace Car. For those without a Garmin or GPS device to pace them, you will need to have left each Feed Station by the following times:
Pit Stop 1 – 10:40am
Pit Stop 2 – 1:00pm
Richard Banks on June 28, 2017 at 4:00 pm
Some of us are doing the ride purely to raise charity funds. That might mean we’re not super-human, so will need to get away from the start early to stay ahead of the broom wagon! How will things be organised so that charity riders who may not be elite cyclists will be able to get away good and early so as to be able to finish the course?
Mark Taylor on June 29, 2017 at 8:09 am
@Richard, when you completed the entry form, you will have given an indication of your expected time to complete the course. The organisers will use this to set your start time, the idea being that those that expect to take longer, will need an earlier start time. There will be many cyclists doing Velo Birmingham for Charity so you will be in good company. Good Luck.
Richard Banks on June 30, 2017 at 11:09 am
Thanks for that Mark, very helpful. I hear that the route has changed, will now no longer enter Herefordshire. Reading the comments on the website of the Hereford Times, it’s clear that some people in some of the places through which the race would have passed warned of (i.e. were inciting) violence towards the participants. Some of the comments are simply anti-cyclist, some moan about the part-day road closures, some exaggerate the ‘disruption’, just a very few welcome the excitement and opportunity. Such a shame that Herefordshire has, on the collective, been so negative. There is similar negativity from some people in Worcestershire. Thanks to Staffordshire for making the race welcome.
Mark Taylor on July 9, 2017 at 2:31 pm
@Richard, as cyclists, we do face anti-cycling sentiments frequently but the thought of ‘some’ people prepared to take actions, is concerning. If this is behind the route change, then we are indeed to be thankful to everyone involved for making this happen.
david on August 22, 2017 at 8:38 pm
Are there any special trains from london which we can bring our bikes?
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Tyneside Story
Published in Fiction
They were gathered together in the rehearsal room - actors, directors, backstage workers for an out of the ordinary meeting.
Alf Simpson was there, in his 40s now, not leading man material, but he had been with the People's Theatre for ten years or more. He had a moustache - not so fashionable at that time, but it suited him, and he had a strong handsome face. He had played many roles and contributed in many ways to the company. Because of this he was someone whose opinion mattered. Like many others, Alf had married because it seemed what was expected after a courtship, and only later found th at his wife and he had little in common. There was a son, and people made the best of things, but the camaraderie and shared efforts in the theatre were highlights in his life.
There was also Mary, also part of the theatre company, she was now such an important part of his life. Mary was an educated woman, a teacher and with her he could share ideas and discuss things. Jean, his wife, hadn't had the benefit of higher education . Mary was unmarried, more or less the same age, and they made the most of what they had, knowing that Jean would never agree to divorce, at that time just as shameful for the "wronged" party.
The People's Theatre amateur company was already by 1940 an established part of the Newcastle arts scene, and having moved away from the overtly political focus of its early years, provided a home to a variety of Tyneside folk, many of whom continued to embrace a socialist philosophy. Several were involved in other enterprises, such as the Bensham Settlement in Gateshead, over the river, where talents for drawing, painting and sculpture were developed. Though some were middle class professionals, many were working people who had had to leave formal education in their teens.
It was now the second year of the war, but many men were in reserved occupations, and of course some were too old for active service. Morale at home was important, so the company did not see as frivolous the continuation of their performances.
Some months earlier their Director had broken the news which lay behind the suppressed excitement which they all felt. The Ministry of Information had commissioned them to produce a short film aiming to convince ex-shipyard workers of the need to return to their trade, as vessels of all types were needed for the war. Tyneside had long been shorthand for shipbuilding, but a downturn five years earlier meant layoffs and men had either picked up new work or remained on the dole.
Filmmaking was a new venture, but they had discussed how they could plot a simple story with some of them taking acting roles, and combine this with documentary footage of shipyards at work.
The story was to begin with two lads weeding some waste ground with scythes . Their work is interrupted by a smartly dressed man - they have just turned over a rectangular board about a yard long with the numbers 1066 on it. He explains that this has nothing to do with William the Conqueror. He is the shipyard manager, and tells them the board is the number of the last ship to be built in the yard. When it re-opens, they'll start again with number 1. The next scene he is in his office bemoaning the difficulty of getting workers back into the shipyards. One of his clerks who is listening, immediately volunteers. Next, other brief scenes show a window cleaner, a mechanic, a driver, all former ship builders working in their new trades, and then film sections showing the yard back at work with the men seen earlier back at their old trades.
Not any outstanding parts, but this would be a new challenge. Luckily, one of the directors was friendly with Jack Common, a writer who had published a series of essays about the lives of everyday workers - not to outstanding success, but his CV would impress the Ministry of Information, and more to the point, he was an ordinary Geordie from a similar background to many of the company members. Most were also familiar with the name of George Orwell, a friend of Jack's. And he was interested in going into film script writing - he needed to, as his other writing wasn't making any money.
Jack was a slight figure - his right forefingers already yellowed with constant cigarettes, one lit seemingly before the previous one's expiry. Alf had heard him talking to the director before the meeting started.
"He just looks like an y one of us " whispered Alf to Mary. " And talks the same way, not posh by a long shot"
"Well, Jack", the director asked, " Can you tell us how the script's coming along?"
"I've got a draft here - ah've got to say it deviates a bit from what you suggested, not the basic outline mind, that's there, but ah've taken the liberty of putting a bit of a message in."
"What d'you mean, Jack - the Ministry want a propaganda film, that's what we have to deliver".
"Ah just think it'd be a shame to waste the opportunity to spell out what a working life on Tyneside can be like- not exactly a bed of roses."
There was some muttering as the company tried to fathom what he was on about.
"Let me explain", said Jack," and I can read through the script so you can hear what it's like and mebbe see yourselves in a part."
He pulled the draft out of a faded briefcase and started reading the typed lines.
The first pages stuck to the brief they all were familiar with:- the boys weeding, the shipyard manager, the window cleaner, driver and mechanic answering the patriotic call. But then:
"Now we have something different", said Jack," the scenes up to now show the former workers from the yards wanting to return and do their bit, but the next scene is a man beside a cement mixer, obviously now a builder, and he's being told by his employer that he'll have to go along with the call to return to shipbuilding:- these are his lines:-
"To hell with the shipyards. They've no right to play fast and loose with men like us. Not so long ago they threw us out of the yards to starve or scrounge. Skilled men, mind you, brought up to a trade, and nobody cared. Now they want us back - there's a war on - next thing you know, the war'll be over and out again you go, you mugs. Ah well, not for me, ah've got a good job here and the missus has got a nice little home together. What - go back to the shipyards? Ah'll see them in hell first!"
" Why, those are sentiments we all agree with" Alf called out to chuckles and nods of agreement.
"Right, good, well like your outline, next there's film of back to work, men riveting, cranes lifting heavy ship sections and so on, all just what the Government wants, back in full production."
"The End?!" a voice suggested,
"Why no, ah've got another good bit. The same chap from earlier speaking direct to camera:
"Tyneside's busy enough today,auld and young uns making good ships. But just remember what the yards were like 5 years ago; idle , empty, some derelict,and the skilled men who worked in them forgotten..........Will it be the same for them 5 years from now? that's what we on Tyneside want to know."
" Now that's the end." Jack said.
The men in the group could all see themselves in this plum role.The director knew he would have only one satisfied actor - the one declaiming this plea to camera for the ord nary working man .
" D'y think that last speech 'll be allowed in? The film's supposed to be persuading men to do their bit for the war effort, not a recruitment ad for the Communist Party" asked Alf.
"Well, the main message is clear enough," replied the director, " and y'know, the Ministry might not be that bothered, after all the film's just being shown up here, in News theatres."
Some weeks later the cast list went up - Alf was to be the shipyard manager! Not exactly contributing to his working class credentials, still, he looked the part in his smart overcoat and trilby.
The film was made, it is called Tyneside Story. Jack Common wrote two book about Tyneside, semi autobiographical, but never achieved much success. However, sculptor Lawrence Bradshaw used Common's brow as a model for his bust of Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery, saying that he found there a similar patience and understanding. Mary went to teach at a college in Durham where women were doing teacher training. When Jean died, Alf and Mary married. The People's Theatre, lauded in its heyday by George Bernard Shaw continues to entertain. To view the 13 minute film, search for Tyneside Story in the North East Film Archive:- Film number 19637
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The Children of the Nation: An Anthology of Working People’s Poetry from Contemporary Ireland
John Storey
John Storey is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland, UK. He has published extensively in cultural studies, including twelve books. He is currently working on a thirteenth book, Refusing to be Realistic: Cultural Studies and Utopian Desire, to be published with Routledge.
A common treasury for all: Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers
Mark Perryman
Mark Perryman is a writer and the co-founder of Philosophy Football.
London is drowning – but keep the faith
Christine Lindey
Until she recently retired Christine Lindey was an Associate Lecturer in art history at the University of the Arts, London and at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is a visual arts critic for the Morning Star and her fifth book, Art for All: British Socially Committed Art c.1939 - c.1962, will be published in the near future.
'The future of art hangs on the future of civilisation': The Artists' International and the Spanish Civil War
Derek Wall
Derek Wall is International Coordinator of the Green Party of England and Wales and writes for the Morning Star. His latest book, Economics After Capitalism, was published by Pluto in 2015.
Culture is ordinary: the politics and letters of Raymond Williams
Salena Godden
Salena Godden has been described as ‘The doyenne of the spoken word scene’ (Ian McMillan, BBC Radio 3’s The Verb); ‘The Mae West madam of the salon’ (The Sunday Times) and as ‘everything the Daily Mail is terrified of’ (Kerrang! Magazine). She is also the lead singer and lyricist of SaltPeter, alongside composer Peter Coyte.
Megan Behrent
Education, literacy, and the Russian Revolution
Chris Rowland
Christopher Rowland is the Dean Ireland professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture Emeritus at the University of Oxford.
Building Jerusalem
Roland Boer is a distinguished professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, Renmin University of China, Beijing.
Capitalism, Communism, Christianity - and Christmas
Phil Brett
Phil Brett is a primary school teacher, who has written two novels (Comrades Come Rally and Gone Underground) set in a revolutionary Britain of the near future. In between planning lessons and marking, he is writing the third.
Gone Underground: imagining revolution in Britain
David Betteridge
David Betteridge is the author of a collection of poems celebrating Glasgow and its radical traditions, 'Granny Albyn's Complaint', published by Smokestack Books in 2008. He is also the editor of a compilation of poems, songs, prose memoirs, photographs and cartoons celebrating the 1971-2 UCS work-in on Clydeside. This book, called 'A Rose Loupt Oot', was published by Smokestack Books in 2011.
After the Latest Defeat
Jean Turner
Jean Turner studied at Kingston School of Art and worked for thirty-five years as a local authority housing and schools architect. She was General Secretary, then Honorary Secretary, of the SCR/SCRSS from 1985–2013 and is currently Honorary Treasurer.
Pic: Vaughan Melzer
The Russian Revolution and Avant-Garde Architecture
Lynn Mally
Lynn Mally is Professor Emerita of History at the University of California, Irvine. She has published on Soviet cultural history, US/Soviet cultural exchange, and American culture in the 1930s. See www.americanagefashion.com
'Culture is not a luxury!': the Proletkult in revolutionary Russia
Jenny Farrell
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A deep and compassionate humanism: the 150th anniversary of Ernest Barlach
John Green is a journalist and broadcaster. He has authored and edited several books and anthologies on a wide range of subjects including political biographies, labour history, poetry, natural history and environmental affairs.
Socially engaged, internationalist and critical: the destruction of GDR culture since reunification
Gareth Edwards is a socialist based in Portsmouth. He teaches on the Sports Journalism degree course at the University of the Arts in London. He blogs infrequently at https://inside-left.blogspot.co.uk
Sport and the Russian Revolution
Sabby Sagall
Sabby Sagall is a former senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of East London.
A wave of creativity: music and the Russian Revolution
Sophie Coudray
Sophie Coudray is a PhD student in drama studies at Lyon University, a member of the External Editorial Board of Période, and an activist.
The Theatre of the Oppressed
Amy Skinner
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Spotlights and Searchlights: Theatre and the Russian Revolution
Andy Byford
Andy Byford is Professor of Russian at Durham University in the United Kingdom. He has published on the history of the human sciences in Russia across the late tsarist and early Soviet periods.
Revolution and Science under the Bolsheviks
Carolyn Pouncy
Carolyn Pouncy, a historian specialising in Muscovite Russia, writes fiction under the pen name C. P. Lesley. Two of her novels—Desert Flower and Kingdom of the Shades—explore themes from the classical ballets Giselle and La Bayadère. See http://www.cplesley.com.
Dancing Up a Storm: the 1917 Revolution and Russian ballet
Dennis Broe
Dennis Broe is a culture critic whose latest work is Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and The End of Leisure. His art and architecture criticism appear on Arts Express on the Pacifica Network in the US, on Breaking Glass on Art District Radio in Paris and at Culture Matters and People’s World.
Red Vienna: the architecture of socialist hope
Andrew Warburton
Andrew Warburton is a writer and editor in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a member of Labour International (the international section of the British Labour Party) and Momentum.
Defending the freedom of artists
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Andy Byford, Anoush Ehteshami, Abir Hamdar, Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián & Dušan Radunović.
What’s Left? A Century in Revolution
Alain Badiou is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-François Lyotard.
Communism by way of the poem
James Crossley
James Crossley is Professor of Bible, Society and Politics at St Mary's University, Twickenham. He writes mainly on religion and politics in the twentieth and twenty-first century and the historical Jesus in the first century.
Jeremy Corbyn’s Good Samaritan
Nick Grant
Nick Grant recently retired from school teaching and a place on the national executive of the NUT. He's the drummer in his own band, Public Sector.
Snarky Puppy: a temporary utopia of deeply humanist music
John Ellison
John Ellison is a writer and a retired solicitor.
Dreaming of communism: News from Nowhere by William Morris
Keith Flett
Keith Flett is convenor of the socialist history seminar at the Institute of Historical Research and has been a member of CAMRA since 1975.
The election: brewing, pubs and beer in Labour's Manifesto
Andrew Brown is a religious naturalist, Unitarian minister in Cambridge, hermeneutic communist, jazz bass player, photographer, cyclist and Thoreauvian walker.
Jesus, tribune of the people, ascends to heaven
Alan Morrison
Alan Morrison is a Brighton-based poet and editor of The Recusant, and Militant Thistles.
The election: Statement by 117 poets in support of the Labour Party
Jeremy Dibble
Jeremy Dibble is Professor of Musicology at Durham University.
Jerusalem: A Hymn To Women's Suffrage
Mark Abel
Mark Abel is a musician and a trade union activist. He teaches history and philosophy at University of Brighton.
Music and Marxism: Part Two
Peter Frost is a journalist for the Morning Star.
Lenin didn't have Facebook and never watched the telly
Nick Wright
Nick Wright is an editor at Manifesto Press, blogs at 21centurymanifesto and is responsible for the Communist Party’s media work.
Art, politics, anti-semitism and anti-Corbynism
Mike Sanders
Mike Sanders is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Writing at the University of Manchester.
The Song of the Low: The Chartist Ernest Jones advises the Labour Party
Will Stone is news editor for the Morning Star and freelances for various other national newspapers. He has written for online theatre review site What's On Stage, music magazines and has produced and presented several series on post-punk/industrial for ResonanceFM, an arts radio station in London.
Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain
Chris Jury
Chris Jury is an award winning actor, writer and director. A regular contributor to the Morning Star, he is also the cofounder of the Tolpuddle Radical Film Festival and a member of the TV Committee of the Writers Guild Of Great Britain.
The cult of Shakespeare: a provocation
Melissa Oldham
Melissa Oldham is a PhD student and tutor in the department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Liverpool.
How the media shapes our cultural ideals of body shape
Henry Giroux
Henry A. Giroux currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department.
We are called to speak for the weak: A manifesto for critical pedagogy
Gabriel Egan
Gabriel Egan is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at de Montfort University, Leicester. He is the author of Shakespeare and Marx, Oxford University Press 2004.
Is Shakespeare Universal?
Catherine Graham's work has appeared in magazines and anthologies in the UK, USA and Ireland. Her first full collection, Things I Will Put In My Mother's Pocket, is published by Indigo Dreams Publishing (2013.
A protest march
Sarah Clancy
Sarah Clancy is a poet from Galway, Ireland. Her last two collections of poetry are ‘Thanks for Nothing, Hippies' and ‘The Truth and Other Stories’ published by Salmon Poetry. In 2015 she was named the Bogman's Cannon People's Poet.
What a Bomb Hits
Anne Duggan
Anne E. Duggan is a Professor of French and Chair of Classical & Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Wayne State University, Michigan. She is also Co-Editor of Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies.
Reactionaries and Revolutionaries: Classical Fairy Tales and Class
Alex Simpson
Dr. Alex Simpson is a Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Applied Social Science at the University of Brighton.
Steve Griffiths
Steve Griffiths spent his working life in welfare rights, community work and researching and campaigning on health and social policy, from neighbourhood to national scale.
National Poetry Day: Futures in Finance
PL Henderson
PL Henderson is a writer, reviewer, art historian/researcher, feminist activist and artist. She is creator/curator of #WOMENSART, see https://womensartblog.wordpress.com.
'Marxism will heal the sick': Frida Kahlo and Karl Marx
Walter Wolfgang
Adrian Chan-Wyles
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When Karl Marx Practised Buddhism
Andy Summers is a writer based in Birmingham.
The Responsible Bomb
Sheree Mack
Dr. Sheree Mack is a writer and artist, with expertise in Black British Women's Poetry. She's currently working on a creative non-fiction novel as well as a poetry collection about Rewilding.
We'll show you you're a woman
Vicky Sparrow
Vicky Sparrow is a Ph.D student working on the poetry of Anna Mendelssohn, at Birkbeck College, London.
'A poem of objects that live by magic': the poetry of Anna Mendelssohn
Paul Victor Tims
Paul Victor Tims is a writer and a magician.
Culture Punch: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and righteous anti-capitalist violence
Kevin Higgins is a Galway-based poet, essayist and reviewer, and satirist-in-residence at the alternative literature site The Bogman's Cannon, www.bogmanscannon.com.
What They Don’t Know Is
Rita Ann Higgins
Rita Ann Higgins is a Galway-based poet and playwright. She has published ten books of poetry.
It Suits a Narrative
Lisa Kelly is a freelance journalist and Chair of Magma Poetry. Her first collection, 'A Map Towards Fluency' is forthcoming from Carcanet this summer.
This poem has a title
Chris Guiton
Chris Guiton is a copywriter, and founding member and Associate Editor of Culture Matters. He can be contacted at Wealden Wordsmith.
The Good Soldier Svejk: or How to Stay Sane in an Insane World
Gerald Horne
Gerald Horne is an African-American historian who currently holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston.
Paul Robeson: The Artist As Revolutionary
William Rowe
William Rowe is Anniversary Professor of Poetics at Birkbeck College, London. His most recent book is nation (Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2016).
Two Poems by William Rowe
Deborah Price
Deborah Price lives in Deri. She has written four books for children and collaborated on and published another ten. They include poetry anthologies/collections and a 30th anniversary commemoration of the 1984 Miners' Strike.
Aberfan and the Free Wales Army
Martin Brown is a retired teacher, a member of the National Education Union and Unify (a cross-union body campaigning for one union for all education professionals) and former editor of 'Education for Tomorrow'.
Is There a Marxist Perspective on Education?
Kimberley Reynolds is the Professor of Children’s Literature in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University in the UK. Recent publications include Children’s Literature in the Oxford University series of Very Short Introductions (2012) and Left Out: The Forgotten Tradition of Radical Publishing for Children in Britain, 1910-1949 (Oxford University Press, 2016).
'Heed the truth/Spoken by the youth!' Stories of political activism by young people at the Battle of Cable Street
Steve Johnson is London District Secretary of the Communist Party and a social worker by profession. He has a keen interest in music, politics and real ale and is a regular festival attender
Dylan Goes Electric
Steve Pottinger
Steve Pottinger is a performance poet who's passionate about the power of poetry to create connections between people. He believes in making an audience laugh and think and decide that poetry isn't so bad after all.
Jim Aitken
Jim Aitken is a poet and dramatist living and working in Edinburgh. He is a tutor in Scottish Cultural Studies with Adult Education and he organises literary walks around the city.
The election: Voices of The Dispossessed
Gordon Parsons
Gordon Parsons is an arts reviewer for the Morning Star.
Theatre and Politics: Book Review
Mary Vincent
Animal Farm: a powerfully written allegory but an untruthful, gender-blind analysis
Helena Sheehan
Helena Sheehan is an author and activist. She is emeritus professor at Dublin City University where she taught history of ideas, science studies and media studies. Her books include: Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History, Irish Television Drama : A Society and Its Stories, Has the Red Flag Fallen? and The Syriza Wave. She is an active contributor to mainstream, alternative and social media.
A brief and breathtakingly brilliant life: Christopher Caudwell, activist and intellectual
Keith Armstrong
Keith Armstrong has worked as a community worker, librarian, publisher and poet, and has performed his poetry throughout the world.
The Divided Self: a poem for Burns Night
Paul Foley
Paul Foley is a trade union activist and arts reviewer for the Morning Star.
A Terrible Beauty: The Cultural Impact of the 1916 Easter Rising
Richard King
Richard King is Professor of Buddhist & Asian Studies, Head of Religious Studies and Programme Convenor for Asian Studies, Kent University.
Marxism, Buddhism and socialism
Sandy Grant
Sandy Grant is a philosopher at the University of Cambridge and tweets at @TheSandyGrant
The Power of Poetry in Dark Times
Graham Stevenson
Graham Stevenson is a political and trade union activist, and has held many senior posts in the labour movement.
Peaky Blinders and the Real Jessie Eden
Michael Flynn and Julian Germain
The Pitmen Painters and the Ashington District Star
Fran Lock
Fran Lock is a poet, illustrator, and political activist. She has written several collections of poetry, the most recent being 'Muses and Bruises', published by Culture Matters.
Marc James Leger
Marc James Léger is an independent scholar living in Montreal. He is editor of The Idea of the Avant Garde – And What It Means Today (2014) and author of Brave New Avant Garde (2012), The Neoliberal Undead (2013) and Drive in Cinema: Essays on Film, Theory and Politics (2015).
Unknown Knowledge: Richard Hamilton's Last Works
Lucy Pearson
Dr. Lucy Pearson is Lecturer in Children's Literature at Newcastle University.
The child colonisers: fanfiction and young people’s reading power
Dr Anthony Sullivan lectures in Cultural and Historical Studies at the London College of Fashion.
Why Fashion Matters
Robert Minto
Robert Minto is a writer and philosopher. He blogs and tweets.
A smuggling operation: John Berger's theory of art
Mike Jenkins is an award-winning Welsh poet and author and unofficial poet for Cardiff City FC. His new book of political poetry, Nobody's Subject, is published in Summer 2016.
To A Different Country
Dave Rogers
Dave Rogers works for Banner Theatre and is a political activist and campaigner.
Banner Theatre: Building Communities of Dramatic Resistance
Esther Leslie is Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London.
'The murderous, meaningless caprices of fashion': Marx on capital, clothing and fashion
Steve Redhead
Steve Redhead is Professor of Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia.
When Pep Met Jose: From Northern Powerhouse to Northern Bauhaus
Bruce Wilkinson is an occasional contributor to the football magazine When Saturday Comes, generally writing about social issues affecting fans, and his team, Blackburn Rovers.
Hidden Culture, Forgotten History
Ian Birchall
Ian Birchall is a writer and translator; see his website at http://grimanddim.org.
Book Review: Comrades Come Rally
Paul Donovan
Paul Donovan is a freelance journalist, who reports on football for the Morning Star. He has also contributed across the British media on a variety of issues across the political and cultural sphere over a number of years.
Is football still the game of ordinary working people?
Heathcote Williams
It Ain't Me, Bob
Mark Stephens
I, Daniel Blake demands a political response
Mohja Kahf was born in Syria. She is a widely published poet and author.
Little Mosque Poems
Daniel Rosenberg
Dan Rosenberg teaches history at Adelphi University, just outside New York City.
Jazz and Justice
Dr Peter Doran is a lecturer at the School of Law at Queens University Belfast and a life-long activist on issues ranging from the arms trade to the circular economy.
Towards a mindful cultural commons
Jane Kallir is co-director of the Galerie St. Etienne, New York.
A weapon in the class struggle: American artists and the Communist Party
Tony Collins is a professor of history at De Montfort University. His books include 'Sport in Capitalist Society' and 'The Oval World'.
What's Happened to Sport?
David Cromwell and David Edwards
David Cromwell and David Edwards are co-editors of Media Lens, medialens.org.
Distortion and groupthink
Joanne Entwistle
Dr Joanne Entwistle is Reader in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College, London. She has written extensively on fashion, dress and the body.
The everyday creative activity of clothing ourselves
Haydn Greenway
Haydn Greenway is a recently retired nuclear medicine technologist, having worked for the NHS for over 30 years.
The Music of Imperialism: Berlioz's The Trojans
Emma Boyland
Dr Emma Boyland is a lecturer in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Liverpool since 2012.
A Culture of Overconsumption: Portion Control
Peggy Deamer
Peggy Deamer is a professor of architecture at Yale University and a practicing architect. She is the founding member of the Architecture Lobby, an activist organisation that argues for the value of architectural work within and without the profession.
The architect as activist
Tayo Aluko
Tayo Aluko is the writer and performer of the multi-award-winning CALL MR ROBESON which he has been touring worldwide since 2008. His new play JUST AN ORDINARY LAWYER has also started being performed internationally since February 2017.
Art as a weapon to defend the oppressed
Paul Simon is a reviewer for the Morning Star.
The Handsworth Times
Norrie Paton
Norrie Paton is a writer and Burns scholar. He grew up in the shipbuilding town of Port Glasgow and served a five-year apprenticeship as a draughtsman.
Robert Burns the Democrat
Sarah Alderton
Sarah Alderton is an Assistant Nutritionist at Consensus Action on Salt, Sugar & Health.
Fast Food Fury: time to overhaul our takeaway culture
Geoff Bright
Dr Geoff Bright is a Research Fellow in the Education and Social Research Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University. With a background as a rail union activist and community educator in the UK coalfields, his research focuses on the intersection of class, place, gender and affect as it impacts on the political imagination of working class communities.
Social haunting in the Brexit coalfields
Doug Nicholls
Doug Nicholls is General Secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions, and the author of numerous books on history, politics, poetry and culture.
Burning Books
Greg Godels
Greg Godels wrote cultural commentary for the US Communist publication, The Daily/Weekly World. Today, he writes political and economic commentary from a Marxist-Leninist perspective.
Coltrane's revolutionary musical journey
Andy Croft
Andy Croft has written and edited over 80 books, including poetry, biography, teenage non-fiction and novels for children. He writes a regular poetry column for the Morning Star, curates the T-junction international poetry festival on Teesside and runs Smokestack Books. He lives in North Yorkshire.
Mobilise the books! A review of Shabbigentile
Sean Ledwith
Sean Ledwith is a Counterfire member and Lecturer in History and Politics at York College, where he is also UCU branch secretary.
Finnegans Wake, fascism, and the essential unity of the human race
Martin Cloake
Martin Cloake is a journalist, award-winning author, editor, trainer and project manager.
Killing the FA Cup by the pound
Daniel Clarkson Fisher
Danny is an essay filmmaker whose work has been featured in numerous outlets. See danielclarksonfisher.com.
Dunkirk: Keep Calm and Carry On?
Gerry Cordon
Gerry Cordon is a retired FE college lecturer, blogging at gerryco23.wordpress.com.
Blood and Roses: The concert marking the centennial of Ewan MacColl
Dr Rebecca Hillman
Rebecca Hillman is a writer, theatre maker and activist. Her teaching and research at the University of Exeter, where she works as a Drama lecturer, are informed by her involvement in trade union and community campaigns. Her research explores the role of art in social and industrial movements past and present, and the way in which the history of political art and creative protest has been documented. Please contact Rebecca if you are interested in helping build a cultural wing of the labour movement at r.a.hillman@exeter.ac.uk
Rebuilding Culture in the Labour Movement: collaborations for the future and celebrations of the past.
Matt Bruce
Matt Bruce is an architect who moved to Lewis in 1987 and worked in both public and private sectors and then on housing development in the islands' council. He is now retired but active in a number of community organisations.
Cuimhneachain nan Gaisgeach - Remembering the Heroes
Marc Nash is a novelist and short story writer, and works for the freedom of expression charity Index on
Censorship.
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Peter Schlemihl
Susan Jones
Susan Jones is a published writer, researcher and consultant on contemporary visual arts matters, at www.padwickjonesarts.co.uk. She is a specialist in artists’ livelihoods, professional development and employment patterns, and was Director of a-n The Artists Information Company 1999-2014.
Art, activism and the cultural food chain
Gerry Rowe
Gerry Rowe is a writer, disgruntled minor functionary, and a Labour councillor in Chepstow.
John Smith is an award-winning avant garde film-maker, based in London.
Steve Presence
‘Bomb the river’: space, class, and masculinity in Shane Meadows' films
Rab Wilson
Rab Wilson is a Scottish poet who writes mainly in the Scots language. His works include a Scots translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. His latest collection is Zero Hours.
Burnsiana
Steve Willey
Steve Willey is a poet, researcher and critic. He is lecturer in Creative and Critical Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London. Elegy, his most recent book of poetry, was published by Veer in 2013.
A Poetics of Struggle: An Introduction to the Poetry of William Rowe
Monique Charles
Monique Charles is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Warwick.
Grime helps launch a revolution in youth politics
Stuart Cartland
Dr. Stuart Cartland is a teaching Fellow at Sussex uni.
The Tory election victory: control of the national narrative through culture
Peter Branson is a full time poet, songwriter, traditional-style singer and socialist whose poetry has been published around the world. His latest collection, ‘Hawk Rising’, is due out early 2016.
Believe!
Paul Dovey
Paul Dovey is a trade unionist who sometimes gets angry and writes things. He strongly believes that the act of creativity itself is empowering and that working class culture should make its own space and use its own voice.
On the Up
Tony McKenna
Tony McKenna is a writer, his latest book is 'Angels and Demons: A Radical Anthology of Political Lives' (Zero Books).
Lively, incisive and erudite: Marxist Literary Criticism Today, by Barbara Foley
Fred Voss
Fred Voss, a machinist for 32 years, has had three collections of poetry published by the UK’s Bloodaxe Books. His latest booklet is The Earth and the Stars in the Palm of Our Hand, published by Culture Matters.
National Poetry Day: Hammer Blow and Heartbeat
Zita Holbourne
Zita is a poet, artist, national vice president of PCS Union, and National Chair and co-founder of Black Activists Rising Against Cuts (BARAC) UK.
The election: we need equality at the heart of politics
Muhanned Mohamed Khorshid
Muhanned Mohamed Khorshid is an Iraqi born artist and writer, living and working in Helsinki.
Short Story: Ark of Salvation
Julia Mickenberg
Julia Mickenberg is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States and co-editor (with Philip Nel) of Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature.
Radical Children's Literature
Matt Abbott is a spoken word poet from West Yorkshire. Having started a few weeks before his 18th birthday, his career has so far ranged from a major record deal with the band Skint & Demoralised, through to political activism, education work and forming spoken word record label Nymphs & Thugs. He is an ambassador for Trinity Homeless Projects and CRIBS International, as well as Poet-in-Residence at the National Coal Mining Museum for England.
Pick up a pen and speak out
Amir Darwish
Amir Darwish is a poet, born in Syria and now living on Teeside. His poetry has been published in the USA, Pakistan, Finland, Morocco and Mexico, and he is a graduate of Teesside University and the University of Durham.
Cultural beheading: art from Syrian refugees
Martin Hayes
Martin Hayes has worked in the courier industry for 30 years. His latest collection is The Things Our Hands Once Stood For, published by Culture Matters.
The election: the intern
Niall McDevitt
Niall McDevitt is an Irish poet and activist. He leads epic psycho-geographical walks through London, about Shakespeare, Blake, Rimbaud, and Yeats.
The Western Wall Plaza
Jon Tait
Jon Tait is a postal worker and writer from Northumberland who lives in Carlisle.
Measure Twice, Cut Once
Fran Lock and Jane Burn
Fran Lock and Jane Burn are poets and Associate Editors of Culture Matters.
IWD 2019: Eighteen working women poets
Trish Lavelle
Trish Lavelle is the Head of Education and Training at the CWU.
Refreshing the culture of working class education
Michael Lavalette
Dr Michael Lavalette is Professor of Social Work and Social Policy,
and Head of School of Social Sciences, Liverpool Hope University
Hillsborough and the policing of working class sport
Len Phelan
Art of Solidarity
Prue Chamberlain
Prudence Chamberlain is a Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing. Her first collection is forthcoming with Knives, Forks and Spoons Press, while her collaborative work with SJ Fowler, on Disney, will be released later this year. She is currently writing a book on affect and the fourth wave of feminism for Palgrave Macmillan.
The Argonauts: Book Review
Peter Raynard
Peter Raynard is a writer and editor of Proletarian Poetry: poems of working class lives. He has been widely published and his debut collection Precarious will be published by Smokestack Books in April 2018. His poetic coupling of the Communist Manifesto will be published by Culture Matters in May, 2018.
The election: Violence Decides
Sanjiv Sachdev
Sanjiv Sachdev is a Senior Lecturer at the University of West London. Formerly a trade union research officer, one of his interests is political art.
Photos of a divided society
Boff Whalley
Boff Whalley is a songwriter, fellrunner and former postman, previously in the troublesome pop group Chumbawamba. He has worked extensively in theatre and arts projects, collaborating on choral pieces at Manchester Museum, Tate Britain and Somerset House, London.
A Manifesto for a Choir
Amarjit Chandan
Amarjit Chandan is a noted Punjabi poet and essayist.
Thank you John; thank you
Stephen Pritchard
Dr. Stephen Pritchard is an artist and academic, researching and practising activist art projects in community settings in order to create spaces for community empowerment, resistance and liberation.
Caught Doing Social Work? - socially engaged art and the dangers of becoming social workers
Mollie Brown
Mollie Brown is an activist, student and mother, and an Associate Editor of Culture Matters.
The Bread and Roses Songwriting and Spoken Word Award 2020
Rebecca researched and drafted the report on Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing, 2017 for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing,
Promoting creativity: towards a socialist cultural policy
Alan Dunnett
Alan Dunnett is a poet, active union member and former theatre director who now works at Central Saint Martins, London. His poems have appeared in magazines and ezines including Dead Ink, The Recusant, Militant Thistles and Communist Review.
At service or brexit
Emma Carboni
Emma Carboni works for Accumulate.
Alfredo Jaar's Garden of Good and Evil
Dermot Foster
Dermot Foster lives in Oldham and recently retired from teaching in Further Education, in colleges, communities, mental health facilities, and HMP Manchester.
Trouble In Store
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee is a poet, writer, occasional translator and political science scholar. He teaches poetry at Ambedkar University, New Delhi.
Staring Back
Rip Bulkeley
Rip Bulkeley is a semi-retired research historian and non-retired poet.
Grenfell Day
Luke Callinan
Luke Callinan is a Left Republican from south County Roscommon, Ireland. His main interests are Irish literature and history.
Jonathan Edwards's first collection, My Family and Other Superheroes (Seren, 2014) received the Costa Poetry Award and the Wales Book of the Year People's Choice Award.
From Aberfan t Grenfell
Michael Roberts is Festival Producer of the Cornwall Film Festival.
Dunkirk - a visceral account of the Allied retreat
Mike Templeton
Mike Templeton is a freelance writer and independent writer from Cincinnati.
Public Art and Public Image in the World of the Spectacle
Linda Hirst
Dr Linda Hirst is Head of Vocal Studies at Trinity Laban Conservertoire of Music and Dance in Greenwich, London.
IWD 2016: Women of the World
Robb Johnson
Stop consuming and do it yourself
Michael Rosen is a freelance writer, teacher, journalist, performer and broadcaster. He supports Arsenal Football Club.
Ross Bradshaw
Ross Bradshaw runs the radical Five Leaves Bookshop in Nottingham.
Nathan Akehurst
Nathan Akehurst is a socialist activist and freelance writer, working in campaigns and communications.
Take back control: inspiring revolutionary architecture from 1917 Russia.....and 2017 London
Stephanie McMillan is an artist, cartoonist, communist organiser and cultural activist. See http://stephaniemcmillan.org
The American Ruling Class
Scott McLemee
Scott McLemee is a critic and essayist living in the United States who writes for a variety of cultural and political journals.
200 years young
Glenn Bradford
Glenn Bradford is a poet and short story writer based in Sutton-in-Ashfield. He works for Royal Mail, and takes inspiration from the people and places he sees whilst out delivering the post. In some ways he genuinely is a man of letters.
The Miner
Robert Farrell
Robert Farrell lives and works in the Bronx, New York, as a librarian.
Aftersong
Darren Pih
Tracey Emin meets William Blake
Nadia Drews
Nadia Drews is a playwright, director, poet and performer. Thirty years of repressed rhymes mean she writes long poems - but she reads them fast.
National Poetry Day: Fingered
Tony Walsh
Tony Walsh, also known as Longfella, is an English poet, performer and writer.
This is the place
Owen Gallagher
National Poetry Day: The Truth about the Arms Trade
Luna Williams
Luna Williams is a theatre graduate and political correspondent at the Immigration Advice Service.
One Night in Miami
Sam DeLeo
Sam DeLeo is a widely published writer of poetry, fiction, plays and cultural commentary. He lives in Denver, Colorado.
Culture's Nice Try
Tom Walker is Production Editor at Red Pepper.
A people's algorithm? Facebook and the rise of surveillance capitalism
Jack Newsinger
Jack Newsinger is Assistant Professor in Cultural Industries and Media at Notts. Uni.
‘Dreams to live on’: The Acting Class and working-class diversity in the arts
Mina Boromand & Chris Bird
Mina Boromand and Chris Bird create art and cartoons for 'The Morning Star' newspaper and trade union pubIications, hoping to connect political action to creativity and imagination. They have organised exhibitions and displays at the Marx Memorial Library and other events such as the annual Red Star conference.
Kathryn Keane
A student of English and history, Kathryn Keane's poetry has appeared in in 'Silver Apples Magazine', the 'NY Literary Magazine', 'Bitterzoet Magazine', and the 'Stanzas: An Evening of Words' chapbook.
An Irish Politician Speaks
Owain Holland
Owain Holland is an environmental worker in Cornwall, a shop steward and trade union activist and a member of the Cornish language community.
The Profit Motive
Phil Mellows
Phil Mellows is a freelance journalist who has been writing about pubs and brewing for more than 30 years.
Healthy drinking behaviour vs. neoliberal capitalism
Susan Millar DuMars
Susan Millar DuMars is the author of four poetry collections, all published by Salmon Poetry. The most recent, Bone Fire, appeared in 2016.
Dirty word
Alexis Lykiard
Alexis Lykiard was born in Athens. His books include 9 novels, translations from French, 2 memoirs of Jean Rhys, and numerous poetry collections – most recently Schooled For Life (Shoestring 2016). His website is www. alexislykiard.com
Ballad of Credulity: a Brechtian poem
Ed Edwards
Ed Edwards is a playwright based in Manchester, has written extensively for TV and Radio and currently lectures in Theatre and Creative Writing at a small northern university.
The theatre, the working class and the need for revolution
Harry Giles
Harry Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney who lives in Leith; their latest book is Tonguit (Freight 2016). www.harrygiles.org
Provocations for a Culture Strategy
Jane Rosen
Jane Rosen is a librarian and has worked in a number of specialist historical and cultural libraries including the Society for Co-operation in Russian and Soviet Studies and the Marx Memorial Library.
Thou Shalt Teach Revolution
Mike Wayne
Mike Wayne is a Professor in Screen Media at Brunel University.
Sorry We Missed You: how capitalism is destroying working-class families
S O Fasrus
S. O. Fasrus is a published poet and has written articles for national newspapers and magazines. She's a social research interviewer and a social justice activist.
A Double Act
Eoin Ó Murchú
Eoin Ó Murchú is a communist journalist, now retired. He was a senior member of the Official Republican Movement in Ireland and then the Irish Communist Party.
Cré na Cille: a comedy and a bald statement of unacceptable class rule
Jane Burn
Look at me, lingering outside this murdered church
Helen Pheby
Helen Pheby is Senior Curator of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Cultural Fellow at York St. John University, and was an advisor to the Arts Council Collection 2016-17.
Yes we can! The role of artists and art galleries in changing the world
Adam Shehada
Adam Shehada is a hyperrealistic pencil artist based in Gaza.
Al Nakba: Disaster
Phill Jupitus
Phill Jupitus is an English stand-up and improv comedian, actor, performance poet, cartoonist and podcaster.
Poetry on the Picket Line
Anthony Squiers
Anthony Squiers is a political philosopher and poet. He is the author of An Introduction to the Social and Political Philosophy of Bertolt Brecht: Revolution and Aesthetics and co-editor of Philosophizing Brecht: Critical Readings on Art, Consciousness, Social Theory and Performance.
Who is Bertolt Brecht? and Why We Should Care in our Dark Times
James Martyn Joyce
James Martyn Joyce is a poet from Galway, where he is a member of The Talking Stick Workshop.
Dilemma of Politeness
Chip Grim
Chip Grim is a poet on the picket line.
Poetry on the Picket Line: real people and real poetry in the real world
Deirdre ONeill and Mike Wayne
Deirdre O'Neill and Mike Wayne are film educators and writers.
Tackling class-based discrimination in British culture
Reuben Bard-Rosenberg
Reuben spent four years putting on radical folk gigs up and down the country, and likes socialism.
Badass Jewish women: Chanukah Lewinsky, 120 Years from Grodno
Len McCluskey
Len McCluskey is General Secretary of Unite.
We Will Be Free! Bread and Roses Poetry Anthology 2018
Elizabeth Gibson is a poet from Wigan. She was announced as a New North Poet at the 2017 Northern Writers’ Awards.
Things that can fly
Martin Gollan
Martin Gollan paints but also works with print and video. He recently has been working with local charities and their beneficiaries to dynamically illustrate the impacts of austerity and welfare reform.
The election: Childcare
Alejandro is an instructor at Carleton University, Canada, a PhD candidate in sociology, and a Vanier Scholar.
Robert J. Gallagher
Robert Gallagher is a radio playwright and former soul music journalist for Melody Maker and Black Music magazine.
Aretha Franklin: the sound of vulnerable, hopeful, defiant, precious humanity
Ira Lightman
Ira Lightman occasionally appears on BBC Radio 3's The Verb and is a professional proofreader and copyeditor who makes public art now and then.
Helen Burke
Helen Burke is a poet and artist from Yorkshire.
Craig Campbell is a freelance writer from Hartlepool.
Saints Not Servants
Friedrich Farshaad Razmjouie
Friedrich Farshaad Razmjouie is a refugee from Iran, currently a student and living in Liverpool.
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, 25 November
Jan Woolf
Jan Woolf is a playwright, writer and reviewer. Pic: Roelof Bakker.
Shrinking Brexit
Alan Dent
Alan Dent is the founder and editor of The Penniless Press and its successor MQB.
The Things Our Hands Once Stood For: Introduction and Review
Nicholas Tucker
Nicholas Tucker was formerly Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. Before that he was first a teacher and then an educational psychologist. He is the author of nine books about children, childhood and reading, and has also written six books for children.
Secrets, crimes and the schooling of the ruling class: how British boarding school stories betrayed their audience
Deirdre ONeill
Deirdre O'Neill is a film educator and writer.
Culture by and for the working class – Inside Film and cultural democracy
Edward Mackinnon
Edward Mackinnon's fourth collection is "The Storm Called Progress", published by Shoestring Press.
National Poetry Day: Symptomatic
Jim Mainland
Jim Mainland is a graduate of Aberdeen University and until his recent retirement was Principal Teacher of English at Brae High School, Shetland.
The election: A Slip of the Tongue
Dave Russell
David Russell is a writer of poetry, literary criticism, speculative fiction and romance.
Shabbigentile: a radical challenge to poetry, politics and economics
Martin Hayes and Jamie Thrasivoulu
Martin Hayes is a poet and works in the courier industry. Jamie Thrasivoulu is a lyricist, educator and official poet for Derby F.C.
Pigeon problem
Peter Knaggs
Peter Knaggs is the author of two poetry collections. 'Sunburnt Bollock,' is forthcoming.
Doc Ritchie
Doc Ritchie is the founding editor of Comedy Studies Journal and the author of The Idler & Dandy In Stage Comedy and Performing Live Comedy.
Don't just spectate, agitate! Bury, Bolton, and the capitalist takeover of football
Jowonder
Jowonder is a visual artist and performer.
The Giant's Mirror
Carl Joyce
Carl Joyce is a photographer from Co. Durham.
Durham Miners' Gala 2019
Ian C Smith
Ian C Smith is a poet who writes in the Gippsland Lakes area of Victoria, and on Flinders Island, Tasmania.
National Poetry Day: Suffer the Wretched
Rita Di Santo
Rita di Santo is a film critic and reviewer.
Blow It to Bits
Kate Potts
Kate Potts is website and marketing manager for radical independent publisher Lawrence and Wishart.
'I am a human and I will be seen': the anti-imperialist power of the photographic image
David Susswein
David Susswein writes from the bottom of England, in a town called Eastbourne.
Capitalism Aggressive, At Its Best
Sam Swann
Sam Swann is an actor and sits on Equity's Young Members Committee.
Theatre for the many, not the few
Paul Summers
Paul Summers is a Northumbrian poet, performer and literary activist.
National Poetry Day: Re-union
Peter Clive
Peter lives on the southside of Glasgow with his wife and three children. He is a scientist working in renewable energy, and in addition to writing poetry, he enjoys writing and performing piano music.
Marilyn Francis
Marilyn Francis lives and writes poems in Radstock, which was once a mining town in the Somerset coalfield.
Joan Jobe Smith Voss
Joan Jobe Smith's poetry was recently published in SCHIZZO; she last read in UK in 2017 at the Hull Literature Festival.
IWD 2019: My Mother Margie & Rosie the Riveter
Kevin N Jelf
Kevin N Jelf is 54 and works preparing parts for painting in the aerospace industry. He has
previously been published in The Cannon's Mouth Quarterly, Here Comes Everyone and The Angry Manifesto.
Trump's Creed
Bianca Idelson
Bianca Idelson's main fields of interest are medical theories and contemporary art.
Absurd colours for absurd people: an exhibition ridiculing the right wing, by Heidrun Thate
Narbi Price
Narbi Price is a painter. He was the Journal Culture Awards Visual Artist of the Year 2018, and the winner of the Contemporary British Painting Prize 2017.
Against the day
wendy young
Northerner/Londoner: Cut teeth at Survivors Poetry. Performs London and beyond. Part-time NHS Worker.
Entrailpreneur
Chad Norman
Chad Norman's poems have appeared for the past 35 years in literary publications around the world.
Messiah for the Misled: to Trump
Sally Flint
Sally Flint lectures in creative writing and co-edits Riptide Journal at the University of Exeter, and is a tutor with The Poetry School.
The election: Free for All
Becky Bone
Becky Bone is a mature student, studying a Creative Writing and English BA at Birkbeck University. She works part-time with children as a creative arts facilitator.
Moya Roddy
Moya Roddy is a working-class writer from Dublin, who has written novels, short stories and poetry.
Philip Bounds
Philip Bounds is a historian, journalist and critic. He is the author of a number of books, including Orwell and Marxism (2009), British Communism and the Politics of Literature (2012) and Notes from the End of History (2014).
The Beatles and British culture: chippy class warriors to eternal spiritual explorers
William Hershaw
William Hershaw is a poet, playwright and folk musician. He is the founder and leader of the Bowhill Players, a group who perform the poems and songs of Cardenden miner writer Joe Corrie (1894 - 1968).
Green Shadows
Ray Miller
Ray Miller is a socialist, Aston Villa supporter and faithful husband. Life's been a disappointment.
Sutputra Radheye
Sutputra Radheye is a young Indian poet for whom poetry is a medium of protest against authority.
My Blood
Michael Jarvie
Michael Jarvie is a working-class writer from Darlington in County Durham. He is the author of The Prison, a collection of short stories, and Black Art, a novel.
The election: Stockholm Syndrome
Tom Hubbard
Tom Hubbard is a novelist, poet, and literary historian.
By the folk, of the folk and for the folk: Joe Corrie and the Bowhill Players
Josiah Mortimer
Josiah Mortimer is a political writer from Cornwall and now based in London. He has written for the Poetry Society, Creative Countryside and Culture Matters.
In a Failing State
Linda Burnett
Linda Burnett, born in West Yorkshire and a former teacher in Nottinghamshire, is a recent poet, who has had several of her poems published in anthologies.
A Very Northern Inheritance
Michal Boncza
A History of the Many, not the Few
Mair De-Gare Pitt
Mair De-Gare Pitt worked in Community Education for many years and is now semi-retired, running Creative Writing classes. She attends a poetry group at The Capel in Bargoed and is one of the Red Poets.
The election: Irises along the canal
Mike Bryson and Colin Gardner
The election: A map of Tory Britain, 2019
Chris Nash
Chris Nash writes international ‘poetry without borders’ and is now working on a collection of ‘songs’ for species threatened by extinction called ‘Is this Goodbye?’. See www.chrisnashpoetry.com.
Jack Brindelli
Jack Brindelli is a journalist and critic living and working in Amsterdam.
Rob Walton
The Buttering of the Bread
Robert Phoenix
Robert Phoenix is a spoken word artist/front person of performance group Anarchy Dada, based in Hull.
The Tory Cake
Roaa Ali
Roaa Ali is Research Associate (Cultural Production and Consumption), University of Manchester.
You’re great, just don’t get too big for your boots
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Synergistic adsorption of Cd(II) with sulfate/phosphate on ferrihydrite: An in situ ATR-FTIR/2D-COS study
Liu, Jing, Zhu, Runliang, Liang, Xiaoliang, Ma, Lingya, Lin, Xiaoju, Zhu, Jianxi, He, Hongping, Parker, Stephen C. and Molinari, Marco (2018) Synergistic adsorption of Cd(II) with sulfate/phosphate on ferrihydrite: An in situ ATR-FTIR/2D-COS study. Chemical Geology, 477. pp. 12-21. ISSN 1872-6836
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.12.004
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.12.004
Elucidation of the co-adsorption characteristics of heavy metal cations and oxyanions on (oxyhydr)oxides can help to better understand their distribution and transformation in many geological settings. In this work, batch adsorption experiments in combination with in situ attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) were applied to explore the interaction mechanisms of Cd(II) with sulfate or phosphate at the ferrihydrite (Fh)–water interface, and the two-dimensional correlation spectroscopic analysis (2D–COS) was used to enhance the resolution of ATR-FTIR bands and the accuracy of analysis. The batch adsorption experiments showed enhanced adsorption of both sulfate (S) and phosphate (P) on Fh when co-adsorbed with Cd(II); additionally, the desorbed percentages of Cd(II) were much lower in the P + Cd adsorption systems than those in the S + Cd adsorption systems. The spectroscopic results suggested that in the single adsorption systems, sulfate primarily adsorbed as outer-sphere complexes with a small amount of bidentate inner-sphere complexes, while the dominant adsorbed species of phosphate were largely the bidentate nonprotonated inner-sphere complexes, although there was significant pH-dependence. In the co-adsorption systems, the synergistic adsorption of Cd(II) and sulfate was dominantly attributed to the electrostatic interaction, as well as the formation of Fe–Cd–S (i.e., Cd-bridged) ternary complexes. In contrast, Fe–P–Cd (i.e., phosphate-bridged) ternary complexes were found in all of the co-adsorption systems of phosphate and Cd(II); furthermore, electrostatic interaction should also contribute to the co-adsorption process. Our results show that in situ ATR-FTIR in combination with 2D–COS can be an efficient tool in analyzing the co-adsorption mechanisms of anions and heavy metal cations on iron (oxyhydr)oxides in ternary adsorption systems. The co-existence of Cd(II) with sulfate or phosphate can be beneficial for their accumulations on Fh, and phosphate is more efficient than sulfate for the long-term immobilization of Cd(II).
Cadmium; Phosphate; Sulfate; Ferrihydrite; Synergistic adsorption; ATR-FTIR; 2D-COS
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Engineer (00137758);2/7/2003, Vol. 291 Issue 7620, p20
Reports that victims of accidents and sudden illness could be given a better chance of survival with a communications system linking hospitals to emergency call center workers and paramedics. Development of the technology by Qinetiq and Australian company HAS Solutions; Ability to view personal information and treatment records for ambulance patients.
Who you gonna call? // Australia's Parents;Apr/May98, Issue 104, p37
Presents information on the kids health info line, an interative infoline which was launched by the Royal Children's Hospital in December 1997, which gives information on common topics relating to the health of young children and adolescent. Cost of calls; Contact information; Information on...
NHS England announces inquiry into ailing 111 service. Iacobucci, Gareth // BMJ: British Medical Journal;5/11/2013, Vol. 346 Issue 7907, p1
The article reports that National Health Services (NHS) England has launched an inquiry into the management and implementation of the new 111 urgent care telephone service, which has faced several problems since its launch on 1 April 2013. Barbara Hakin, deputy chief executive of NHS England,...
'Nurses and paramedics should be the only call handlers at NHS 111'. Kendall-Raynor, Petra // Nursing Standard;2/3/2016, Vol. 30 Issue 23, p8
A mother whose baby son died of sepsis following 'missed opportunities' in the NHS has called for the 111 hotline to be staffed solely by clinicians.
24 Hour Emergency Hotline available. // Edgewood Enterprise (TX);7/16/2009, Vol. 102 Issue 28, p1
The article announces the availability of the 24-hour emergency hotline in Texas.
Canadian Transport Emergency Centre. // Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary (2009);2009, Issue 21, p343
An encyclopedia entry for the telephone hotline Canadian Transport Emergency Centre is presented.
National Clinicians' Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Hotline. // Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary (2009);2009, Issue 21, p1543
An encyclopedia entry for "National Clinicians' Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Hotline" is presented.
STUCK IN THE MUD. MCGINNIS, KEVIN; Jackson, Donny // Urgent Communications;Aug2008, Vol. 26 Issue 8, p68
A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience on the development of emergency medical services (EMS) system.
Dial Up Free Health Advice. L. S. // Prevention;Mar2011, Vol. 63 Issue 3, p16
The article relates the use of 24-hour nurses hotlines for non-urgent medical questions.
Treatment help for those on the frontlines. Rose, Joan R. // Medical Economics;02/23/98, Vol. 75 Issue 4, p36
States that the United States federal government launched a medical hotline, to assist doctors with the treatment of health care workers who have been exposed to infected blood. Name of hotline; Information on the operation of hotline; Reference to the sponsors of the hotline.
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