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2011 / 87 min. / English version with Czech subtitles
Director: Kieron J. Walsh
Cast: Valene Kane, Nichola Burley, Martin McCann, Richard Dormer, Ciarán McMenamin, Charlene McKenna
Three interwoven stories about four people take place on New Year's Eve in the Irish town of Derry. The leading character, Greta, the young daughter of Derry's mafia boss, has tried to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge. At the other end of the city, ex-gangster Johnny is doing his best to find out who stole his boss's money. Later that night, their paths cross at Marie and Dara's, who are dealing with the experience of a fatal car accident. This semi action film, based on a play by Lisa McGee, is full of typical Irish black humour.
Awards: IFF Palm Springs 2013: Cinema Without Borders Bridging the Borders Award
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FW Properties and Soho Estates
Rossi Long Consulting / B SD / Bremner Partnership / Davis Langdon and Lanpro
This project involved the redevelopment of the 11-storey Westlegate Tower, one of Norwich’s most high profile buildings, together with its immediate urban setting, blighted by the creation of the tower in the early 1960s.
The site spans from Westlegate to Timberhill, encompassing a diverse range of landscapes and buildings. It contains the tower itself, a listed 17th Century building (20 Westlegate) and formerly a surface car park on Timberhill – all of which lie adjacent to the churchyard of the Grade I listed All Saints Church.
The tower’s original promoters described it as “a pencil of light”: an optimistic symbol of the city’s modernity. After some years in use as offices, the building fell into disuse during the construction of the adjacent Castle Mall. The building’s final tenant – a McDonalds restaurant – moved out in 2005. The vacant building caused much controversy within the city, and the city’s planning policy called for its demolition.
The mothballed Westlegate tower was purchased in a joint venture by Norwich-based FW Properties and Soho Estates. Our brief, having won the project through competitive interview, was to explore how the site might be creatively reimagined as a mixed use city block.
View from All Saints Street, illustrating the relationship of the tower to the adjacent church
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"The Westlegate Tower project has redeveloped one of Norwich’s most high profile, and most unpopular buildings. The site spans between two significant shopping streets with the city centre – Westlegate and Timberhill – which had been left unused since 2005, and the development comprises 17 residential apartments, including a courtyard house, two town houses and four commercial units.
The architects, 5th Studio, decided to question the City Council’s planning policy, which recommended demolition of the tower; they saw that retention and reuse were not only possible but could bring real positives in terms of sustainability and a new social cohesion for the area.
In order to improve the proportion of the tower, its height was increased by three storeys, producing a more appealing and slender silhouette. This, together with new cladding, means that the development now provides a landmark for the city rather than the eyesore that the unused tower became. The transformation of the tower was achieved by using standard curtain walling systems with a variety of finishes, cover strips, metal cladding and mesh; these allow the tower to change character with changes in levels and strength of light.
At ground level the development also repairs the urban grain in a most successful way. The new accommodation knits together a neglected area of the city’s urban fabric; a previously unloved car park in leftover space at the base of the tower. The development has helped to re-establish the historic grain of lanes, yards and passageways, rediscovering the lost Lion and Castle Yard as an enjoyable public thoroughfare, and enriching the pedestrian experience.
The popular new bakery that has recently moved in to one of the commercial units provides evidence that the ambition of both architect and developer has been successful in reinvigorating a previously underused area of Norwich, as well as providing the occupants of the tower and the casual passer-by with high quality baked goods."
Rather than demolish the tower, we proposed to make it more appropriate to its setting in Norwich – the ‘city of towers’ – and to deliver for the City planners the desired urban connectivity which the tower had obliterated. The project involved adding an additional 3 storeys – creating a new ‘crown’ for the building which increased the verticality of the previously squat tower. The new envelope deploys a series of patterns across its facades in order to provide an overall coherence and elegance to the tower - downplaying the incidental consequences of its occupation in favour of an order which responds to its role as a city-scale landmark. In turn, the new apartments each occupy a single floor plate and benefit from spectacular 360 degree views across the city.
The cladding envelope was designed within the tight budget constraints of standard curtain walling, but by using a variety of glass finishes, metal mesh, and cover strips, a skin was developed that changes radically with light conditions and the aspect from which the tower is viewed.
The re-making of the tower is supported by a renegotiation of how it meets the ground and integrates with the surrounding urban fabric, re-discovering the lost Lion & Castle Yard as a public thoroughfare between Westlegate & Timberhill.
A new external envelope deploys a series of patterns across the façades to generate an order which responds to its role as a city scale landmark
View from Castle Mound prior to redevelopment
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Steve Aoki plans to be frozen to make music...
Steve Aoki plans to be frozen to make music for decades to come
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Steve Aoki plans to be frozen when he dies in the hope that he can be revived in years to come and continue making music.
Steve Aoki has invested £200,000 towards being frozen in the hope he can still be making music in the next 150 years.
The 39-year-old EDM superstar is putting all of his faith in Alcor Life Extension Foundation - the world's leading cryonics organisation - and their work in finding a way to preserve bodies for decades until a future medical technology can restore that person to full health.
He said: ''When you die there's a limited number of ways you can be brought back to life.
''You can be buried or cremated.
''I just decided this way I can be frozen at the same degenerated state until there's a way to bring me back.
''I'm assuming we are going to get there - why not?
Because people pass away and sometimes they get revived like after 30 seconds and come back alive.
''After 150 years, it's the same process, but hopefully my body isn't so bad it's impossible.''
The 'Just Hold On' hitmaker plans on bringing his family with him into the deep freeze.
Asked who he'd like by his side, he told the Daily Star newspaper: ''My mum, sister, brothers - my dad passed away sadly, so not him.''
In the meantime, Steve recently revealed he's been in the studio with Bella Thorne.
The producer - who has paired up with the likes of Louis Tomlinson, Linkin Park and Fall Out Boy in the past - shared photos of himself with the 19-year-old actress-and-singer on Twitter, and suggested a collaboration between them on an upcoming record.
He captioned the post: ''Back in the #dimmakstudio w/ @bellathorne working on a [hot] new record. (sic)''
The 'Perfect High' star has released a handful of singles but is yet to make a huge impact on the music charts.
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Provincial Belle: A Costume Study
On the heels of Beast’s ball ensemble and the yellow ball gown and “celebration” gown, I bring you this mini-study of the provincial dress. (Now up as well: Gaston’s wardrobe, as well as my post-seeing-the-movie costume thoughts.) This dress is a great example of how you can pad out the detail (when everything was hand-drawn animation, the most detail, the longer it took) while staying true to both the animated design and the era, somewhere in the mid-1700’s.
It is correct that this ensemble takes liberties with the era, but the general look of the era is there.
First off, in that era, women of Belle’s financial status wouldn’t have worn much blue. It was an expensive color. Earthen colors we far more common. Less-natural colors, such as blue, white, and black were signs of wealth. However, in the animated version, Belle was in blue to make it easier to track her through the village.
No matter where she is, she stands out among the greens and browns and pinks.
Now the printing on the fabrics is a correct detail. France pioneered much of the calico-printing in the 18th century. The accuracy of the prints themselves I won’t get into since they’re very passable and aren’t egregiously out of the era. Using pricier striped fabric (that looks to be woven) as wash rags…I can overlook that rather minor detail.
We have what appears to be a cotton bodice with a homespun wool detail on the front. I can’t make heads or tails of the purpose of this piece being a different fabric, but it seems to attempt to invoke an image of a stomacher, which was a fancy often-embroidered piece that would be pinned into the front of a lady’s gown. It doesn’t match anything I’ve seen for working-class women of the era, but this isn’t too surprising. They wore their dresses until they wore out, and then would rip them to make rags, rugs, or other things. Fashion magazines never really featured the clothing working-class women can afford, just like today. (One of the things I collect are the hand-painted “magazine” fashion prints from the late 1700’s onward, and only one very unusual one shows country-folk attire.)
That piece crosses over a red print flap. While you can just see a smidgeon of red, a photo farther down will clearly show the red flap.
The back of this has the higher cut one would expect, and if I strain my eyes, it looks like there are the correct drop-shoulder seams and back side seams, though I can’t tell for sure and have found or been provided with no better photos yet. This is something I will watch for, and update here as necessary.
Something I like is how the top-stitching at the waistband is in white. That gives this ensemble a hand-sewn finish. The apron has top-stitching in red, and with white, it’s clear to see some rougher stitching holding the pleats on the skirt in place. None of the pleats on either the skirt or apron are perfectly even, which is another wonderful detail. Imagine doing today’s wash-work and cooking without a water heater or anything electronic at all, and then work in making your own clothing, and being concerned about perfect pleats just plain isn’t important.
The cream and blue cloth is sewn to its own waistband, and tied on. The same photo below that will show the red bodice flap shows the rag band clearer. The red one has its own waistband, and is actually a pocket. Before pockets were set into skirt seams, women had pockets that they carried or tied on. The thicker red vertical stripe visible in some shots is the opening to her pocket. Awesome detail to add in.
So she’s wearing, at least, a skirt, tied-on apron, tied-on cloth, and the red tied-on pocket over that.
I must say that that blue reminds me a great deal of some cotton I got at JoAnn Fabrics in about 2000 that I ended up giving away. I intended to make myself a Phantom of the Opera Wishing gown from it, but never did.
The piece beneath the blue bodice is a long-sleeved chemise, tied with a ribbon in a casing, which you can just see in the second photo from the top, and a fichu. A fichu is a simple square or triangle of fabric tucked into a neckline.
As a sock-lover, I love these socks. I have never seen a pair as elaborate as that for a mid-18th-century working woman, nor for upper-class people, for that matter. Clocked socks kept detail to the ankle. But this detail isn’t a glaring issue, and does add some period-inspired whimsy. Those shoes are fantastic, and it tickles me that they didn’t metal grommets to those lacing holes. They’re appropriately weathered. I do, however, question using leather lacing. That could have been added when this display was set up.
She does have another similar ensemble to the one above that is nearly identical.
Different skirt fabrics, different apron fabrics, and an added jacket. Otherwise, it’s the same. The underside of this skirt is bag-lined in a print. She occasionally tucks this skirt up into her waistband.
Not quite as scandalous as it may seem. Long, flowing skirts could get in the way of one’s work. If you want scandalous, well, there are things wealthy French ladies wore that would raise eyebrows even by today’s standards. I don’t know if her other skirt up top also has a printed bag lining, but the darker one with the navy and white windowpane apron does.
The next photo backs the blue and white cloth having its own waistband with the red and white pocket tied over that, as well as displays the red flap and the lacing.
The right fabric is connected to the bodice’s left side. The blue side crosses over and laces closed on the left. Again, a detail I have not seen, but certainly one that is very reasonable. It’s easier to lace one’s own corset than to tie off one’s own dress with back-lacing. It was very common for the edges of a bodice to meet in the middle and lace closed. A cross-over is within the realm of very reasonable. The different fabrics can even be explained away as making her bodice using scraps of other fabric on hand, even though that wouldn’t make a lot of sense. Belle and Maurice aren’t poor folks. Working class, certainly, but not poor. A woman with multiple decorated aprons could get enough fabric to make a bodice in the same fabric.
It is in that photo that one of my peeves grates on me.
If she just had to insist that corsets restricted women (they absolutely did not–they protected the bodies of working women similar to the back support braces many nurses and nursing aids wear even today [so much for the idea that these things restrict movement], as well as the hips of wealthier women who wore heavy skirts), could she not at least stand straight? I’ve seen several stills in different scenes of this slouching, as if she’s trying to make it even more apparent that she’s shunning a garment that was vital to the safety and well-being of 18th-century women who did hard, back-breaking work. Guess what restricted women more.
SKIRTS.
By the way, corsets of that era usually had many rows of flexible reeds, similar in movement to hemp cord, rather than expensive metal or whalebone. If you do heavy lifting and hard work, one of these suckers will give you some fantastic back support. The straps help so much. You might notice that the corset below doesn’t nip in at the waist much, and that the cut would force you into some fantastic posture, and take some of the work from your torso and back.
Let’s just say that there’s nothing anti-feminist about them, nothing oppressive…and men used to wear them too. Yeah…we don’t talk about that much. It was more for upper-class gentlemen who wanted to hold in their tummies rather than support their backs during work or supporting heavy gowns.
But I digress. Corsets and their history, including the fallacies around them, is a post for another time.
Back to the provincial gown at hand.
I do not yet know if there are other pieces in her provincial wardrobe. It makes sense for her wardrobe to have some mixing and matching, and I’m certainly glad to see that she has more than the one silk dress that Cinderella had. This set of costumes draws heavily from the rococo, or late baroque, era, as well as from the animated film. The blue, the white apron, looser sleeves with 3/4 cuffs, the look of a fichu… Yes, they very much lifted the animated gown and added to it rather than taking away, and kept to influences from the era. THIS gown says Belle, the Belle we all know and love from the animated movie, and THIS gown takes us out of the 21st century and drops us squarely in the mid-18th century in France.
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BALTIMORE (Nov. 13, 2012) — Conferences offer the opportunity to meet new people, exchange ideas and learn about new developments in your fields. They also tend to be very wasteful of natural resources — but they don’t have to be. The following tips would help to green conferences of all sizes — even ones as large as the World Zionist Congress and the Jewish Federations’ General Assembly.
Nix the waste
Plastic cups, plastic bottles, plastic cutlery, plastic plates, plastic coffee stirrers — we use all of these things once and then toss them, a clear violation of the commandment of baal tashchit — the commandment not to waste. The solution? Forget disposables and go with reusables.
At this point, many Americans own their own reusable water bottles, so you don’t need to supply conference-goers with them. Instead, use the money for other green projects and ask people to bring their own bottles with them for the conference. Perhaps it’s time to revive the old Yemenite Jewish custom of traveling with your own water cup.
If you absolutely need to use something only once, at least use something that’s compostable — something that will biodegrade, like paper or compostable plasticware made from plants such as corn or sugar cane. However, if you use the latter, it’s especially important to collect compostable waste at the conference using an industrial composter. While paper returns easily back to the earth, most compostable plastics only biodegrade when exposed to the extremely high temperatures reached inside industrial composting piles. Smaller composting piles, like those found in your local community garden, tend not to get warm enough to biodegrade most compostable plastics.
Either way, conference organizers need to pay closer attention to waste management. Arrange for compost and recycling bins next to every trash can — and tell people about them. Ensure there’s good signage. Make announcements in advance and at the conference to let people know how waste will be handled and why. If you expect low compliance, assign volunteers to politely monitor the bins and help people choose the right bin for their waste.
Of course, there’s also a lot of leftover conference food that never even makes it to people’s plates. Arrange in advance for a soup kitchen to receive leftovers, so they don’t go to waste.
And when the conference ends, collect the name-badge holders to reuse at your next conference.
Choose a location that enables people to travel easily by foot or public transportation between their lodging and the conference. Select a hotel or conference center that shares your green values. Facilities that utilize energy-efficient lighting, low-flow water fixtures and green cleaning products have demonstrated a commitment to sustainable practices.
Revamp transportation
Coordinate a rideshare so that registrants can carpool together to get to the conference. Plan events in close proximity to one another so that people can walk. For farther distances, when you offer buses, also offer bicycles. By asking registrants to select their transportation preferences in advance, you can calculate the number of bicycles that you would need in the same way that you calculate the number of buses needed. Designate bike-ride leaders to help ensure the biking caravan reaches its destination quickly and safely.
Source locally
Transportation is a major contributor to climate change, but it isn’t just the transportation of participants that releases greenhouse gases — it’s the transportation of food and supplies as well. To cut the event’s carbon footprint, source locally from regional organic farms and other suppliers.
Forget the meat
The biggest impact you can make may be the most difficult: Skip the meat. While transportation is a big contributor to climate change, meat production and consumption is even bigger. Kosher and non-kosher alike, meat is actually the biggest contributor to climate change in the world, according to the United Nations. So if you really want a green conference, forgo the meat.
Go carbon neutral
As much as you may reduce the environmental impact of the conference, it still will have a sizeable carbon footprint, particularly if participants are flying in to attend. For that which you can’t eliminate, offset, preferably through carbon-mitigating projects in Israel. You can use a web program to calculate the volume of greenhouse gases that will be released as a result of your conference — and the participants’ travel to it — and pay for the same amount of greenhouse gases to be removed from the atmosphere through green projects.
Document and measure
How effective were your greening efforts? You won’t know for certain unless you measure. Calculate the amount that’s recycled, composted and given away to the soup kitchen. Keep track of the number of people who walk, bike and carpool. Celebrate your success and use it as a benchmark for improving next year.
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Getting Gonta. By Alex Frishberg
In Bearder, Ukraine
Getting Gonta is a story, written for bluetoyellow.com by Alex Frishberg.
Based on a true story, Alex tells the tale of two Ukrainian friends who set off across the globe to rescue their beloved Gonta.
Getting Gonta part one.
Alexei and Nikolai, life-long colleagues and best friends
It was nearly midnight, and Nikolai was in the later stages of getting smashed on cheap vodka with his best buddy, Alexei. They were in a blue-collar pub called Matrosskaya Tishina, in a rough part of town, the notorious Troeschina. That’s when an old, gnawing feeling began to haunt him again. Staring into space, Nikolai said longingly with tears in his voice, “she’s somewhere out there. So what am I doing here? Hell, what are we both doing in life, besides getting pissed drunk after work, night after night?”
“Why do you always have to start with that old same shit?” Alexei replied, slurring his words. “You’ve got to learn to look at life realistically. She’s way over there and you’re right here.” Alexei pointed in opposite directions and slowly finished his thought, “so let’s just order another round and leave it at that.” Even when tipsy, Alexei was the more reasonable of the two.
“But we built her from scratch with our own two hands,” Nikolai sobbed quietly, so that the other patrons would not hear him. They could be a violent lot once everyone got truly loaded. “God damn it, Alyosha, she’s ours by all logic and reason!” Nikolai pleaded hoarsely. “You’ve got to admit that much…”
But Alexei knew better than to give his buddy even an inch in this increasingly dangerous argument. With each passing month it was getting more difficult to persuade Nikolai to stay put. “Look, she’s somewhere on the other side of the world,” Alexei tried to reason with his old friend once again, “and we have no money to get there. Even if we did, how would we ever bring her home? We don’t even have the title documents!”
Nikolai looked away from the communal plate of black bread and salty pickles, a working man’s appetizer. Though he had trouble focusing on Alexei’s face, Nikolai continued to press his case. “Fact number one: she’s sitting over there, in a place called Perth, somewhere in Australia. Fact number two: Yatsenko has forgotten all about her. Logical conclusion: it’s fate, knocking on our door! And you keep refusing!”
“Let’s order another round,” Alexei skillfully avoided the question, raising an empty vodka bottle towards the waitress. “I’m with you on that one.”
“No, you don’t get it,” Nikolai insisted with a hint of accusation in his voice, “I’m talking about our baby. Remember her, or did you forget already?”
“You’re joking,” came back an honest response. “See these two hands? I built her with them.”
“And these are my two hands!” Nikolai shouted back, raising his powerful, calloused fingers in the air, as if to prove his point. Then he grasped Alexei’s cracked hands with his own and broke down. “I’m begging you, Alyosha,” Nikolai pleaded, “we have to get her! We made her! She belongs to us! Who else will look after her like we would?”
This scene began to draw unwelcome stares from the other patrons, but Nikolai didn’t notice. “Do it for me, Alyosha, just this one time, or we’ll both regret it for the rest of our lives,” he begged. “Instead of sitting here, night after night, we’ll get to see the whole wide world! Just picture us, fishing off our own luxury sailboat in the middle of an ocean, think of the sunsets, the coconuts, and those sandy beaches! That’s real life, my friend! We’ll see it all, and bring back our Gonta, too!”
The way Nikolai put it, Alexei paused to visualize tall palm trees and endless beaches in emerald waters. For a brief second he saw topless natives with almond skin, too.
Other clients in the bar are puzzled by the depth of Nikolai’s emotions.
Sensing his hesitation, Nikolai added acidly, “and if you say no, then we’ll simply rot away in our crummy old apartments, like everyone else here. Just look around you! Is this what you really want?”
Alexei looked around the dark, smelly room, and he did not like what his eyes saw: mean and angry drunkards, always sporting for a fight. Nikolai continued, “so what do you say, Alyosha? Please don’t let me down. I’m begging you, buddy… Just this once?”
It was a pitiful sight, to see a proud man humbling himself in such a way, but it worked. By the end of their last bottle of vodka that evening, Nikolai finally managed to wear Alexei down.
Alexei briefly pauses to consider Nikolai’s suggestion
“Well, she is ours,” Alexei’s mumbled the words that Nikolai had been waiting for. “What the hell, let’s go get her.”
“You won’t regret it,” Nikolai nodded, offering his hand. He was quite drunk, and equally excited. “Put it there, pal!”
That’s how the whole deal was sealed, with a handshake and a few shots of good old pertsovka.
Once upon a time, in a country that no longer exists, there lived a successful director of a very large cement factory. His name was Comrade Dmitry Sergeevich Yatsenko. Like many other Soviet factory directors of his time, Comrade Yatsenko was well-connected, wealthy and powerful. Unlike his other colleagues, however, who regularly gorged on fatty sausages, potatoes and vodka, Comrade Yatsenko was an avid sportsman, a true sailor at heart. And yachting was his greatest passion, followed by beautiful women and the finest champagne.
The humble beginnings of Gonta
In October 1991, shortly after the break-up of the Soviet Union, Comrade Yatsenko had decided that it was a perfect opportunity to enjoy the life of luxury as a multi-millionaire in sun-drenched Australia. To fulfill his life-long dream of having “open seas and wind in your face,” the director instructed two of his factory’s finest masters, Nikolai and Alexei, to build for him “a yacht that can cross the ocean from here to Australia.” This was not a frivolous request, either.
While nobody at the local cement factory had ever constructed a sailboat before, it was equally true that Comrade Yatsenko’s direct orders had never been denied before. And so it was done. The finest hands in Kiev, supplied with unlimited financial resources of the cement factory and blueprints for the latest yacht designs, hand-crafted a 32-foot miracle called Gonta, a sailboat equivalent of Rolls Royce — not in luxury, but in her sleek style, speed, and basic sea-worthiness.
Since no spare parts were available anywhere in the former Soviet Union at any price, everything on this boat (in fact, the boat itself) was hand-made. Upon completion, a crew consisting of very nervous factory staff tested Gonta on the Dniepr River during a mild thunderstorm. The boat was a wonder, everyone agreed, even those who became seasick and vomited overboard.
Shortly after that successful test run, Comrade Yatsenko arranged for Gonta to be sealed in a container of grain (so that nobody would notice it) and had the container shipped off to Perth, Australia. As life would have it, however, before visiting Australia, Comrade Yatsenko briefly vacationed in America. After seeing some of the mega-yachts in Los Angeles and San Diego harbors, and salivating over young blond ladies with hard bodies on the sunny beaches of California, he impulsively decided to view several beach-front mansions that were for sale in the neighborhood.
That is how Comrade Yatsenko came to settle down in Southern California instead of Australia. Naturally, Gonta was quickly replaced by a 72-foot Bavaria, which contained the latest equipment that money could buy.
Alexei waited until the last possible moment before telling his life-long suffering wife, Nina, about Nikolai’s plans to rescue Gonta. By that time Alexei had already collected what he considered to be basic essentials, namely his warm, winter clothes, including thermal underwear, several rolls of color film and his old, trusty Zenit photo camera. After neatly packing these items in his beat-up brown suitcase, Alexei safely stored it back at Nikolai’s place, just in case Nina went completely ballistic, as she was expected to do.
Alexei and Nikolai are proud of their creation, Gonta
“You’re planning to sail where? With that alcoholic idiot friend of yours?!” were Nina’s first words after she recovered from the initial shock. “And you’re leaving me to take care of your crazy mother, all by myself? For just a few months? Is that what you’re telling me?! For God’s sake, Alyosha, listen to me: Nikolai will get both of you killed! You don’t even know how to sail!”
The sound of Nina’s fury was still ringing loudly in Alexei’s mind, even though Kiev was several thousand kilometers behind him. Fortunately, Nikolai’s cheerful voice interrupted his dark thoughts.
“Hey, Alexei, looks like we’re approaching another station,” said Nikolai. “Another bottle or maybe we’ll get two this time? My heart is yearning…” Nikolai rubbed his hands in anticipation of yet another train stop, an opportunity to joke with the grandmothers who would crowd around him as if he was a movie star, offering mouth-watering local delicacies like vodka, herring, potatoes and even cigarettes.
Up to this point, they had been cooped up on train #20 for more than a week, staring out the window at the passing countryside. That’s when Nikolai and Alexei would share a few drinks and pass the time, comparing crabbing in the Bering Sea with shrimp trawling in the Bay of Bengal, talking about feeling the salty spray of mist in their faces. Most of all, they spoke about bringing Gonta home.
The Trans-Siberian Railroad, or simply Trans-Sib to the locals, is the longest single rail system in Russia, stretching 5,778 miles from Moscow to Vladivostok, connecting European Russia with Siberia and the Russian Far East. It spans across eight time zones, fourteen provinces, three regions and two republics.
During their nearly two-week journey, Alexei and Nikolai went through them all: Yekaterinburg, capital of the Urals, where the Romanov family were murdered in 1918, then Novisibirsk, the capital of Siberia, Irkutsk, plus numerous bridges, tunnels and rivers.
Alexei snaps a picture of a local curb-side restaurant that serves excellent caviar
Somewhere near the shores of the enormous Lake Baikal, the deepest lake on the planet, at a train station called Slyudyanka-1, Nikolai got off again to buy a few more bottles of home-made vodka from the grandmothers. The train next moved through the remote Siberia, with its harsh climate, finally ending in their destination, Vladivostok.
It is not entirely surprising that neither Alexei nor Nikolai could recall much of the journey on their party train in the so-called platskart section, where the cheapest tickets allow passengers to sleep in the same wagon with everyone else without any privacy. Along their journey, they shared quite a few drinks with the rest of the passengers. While munching on dried salami, salted fish and boiled potatoes, Alexei and Nikolai thoroughly enjoyed magnificent views of snowy mountains, the transparent waters and forbidding landscapes.
Each day, as they sampled the finest quality grandmother-brewed moonshine, Nikolai would swear upon his mother’s grave that he was looking at the most beautiful place on earth, all the while chatting away with excitement about the upcoming adventure. Alexei was equally impressed with the scenery, nodding with appreciation at the wild nature around them.
On the train, while drinking with their new-found friends from all walks of life, they picked up a lot of useful information about the famous port city of Vladivostok. For instance, Nikolai was surprised to learn that the name means “Lord of the East” in the old Russian language. One sailor explained, heavily slurring his words, that the naval outpost, the home base of the Russian Pacific Fleet, was founded in the 1850’s and was modelled after a Russian fortress in the Caucasus, Vladikavkaz. At the time, the way the sailor spoke of the fort’s glorious past, it sounded so romantic that Alexei and Nikolai could not wait to reach the majestic city itself.
As the train came closer to Vladivostok, the local cuisine improved greatly: instead of sausages the grandmothers switched to selling black and red caviar from large buckets. The prices were laughable by Kiev standards; even Nikolai and Alexei could afford a healthy dose of beluga to accompany their vodka. So far the trip was coming along marvellously, even better then expected, as far as they were concerned.
One morning, however, the party came to an abrupt end as the train finally pulled in the central station in Vladivostok, which was conveniently located next to the Ferry Terminal. The arrival to their destination was rather anticlimactic. All of the vodka bottles and glasses, mostly empty, came crashing onto the floor, waking up the hung-over passengers from their deep, much-needed sleep. The train conductor’s message was clear: everyone had to clear out, once and for all.
The next thing Nikolai and Alexei noticed was a pungent stench of dead fish and sewage. The reason was simple: due to Vladivostok’s geography, winds cannot clear pollution from the most densely populated areas, but Nikolai and Alexei did not know this fact. Nor were they aware that Vladivostok had more then eighty industrial sites that are environmentally unfriendly, with industries such as shipbuilding and repairing, power stations, printing, fur farming and mining. The soil around them contains extraordinary levels of heavy metals like cadmium, arsenic, cobalt and mercury, which severely affect the respiratory and nervous systems. In fact, the whole city was sufficiently polluted to be officially classified as an ecological disaster zone.
As if this was not enough, a one million ton dump of unsorted garbage, which sits on a nearby coastal site, always creating an underwater slick fifteen kilometers long that shows up in satellite images. For all those reasons it did not take Alexei and Nikolai long to acknowledge that the great fishing port and the key node on Pacific shipping routes, the great Vladivostok, was the single most polluted town they had ever seen. The overcast sky and rough, weathered faces around them added to a depressing scene.
Fresh off the train, Alexei and Nikolai looked at each other and paused before going straight into the lion’s mouth.
“So what’s next?” asked Alexei, setting down his little brown suitcase on the oily pavement. “Which way are the boats?”
“Hold on, buddy. I suggest that we get the lay of the land from the natives before we undertake any drastic actions,” Nikolai replied, scratching his head. “I mean, how do we know which boats are good and which are bad?”
“Makes sense to me,” Alexei readily agreed.
They needed some background information prior to making any serious decisions. Their lives depended on it.
“And I already see the perfect place for socializing with the local working class. See that little joint on the corner?” Nikolai nodded discreetly towards a run-down bar called The Arena. Two drunken sailors emerged from there, propping each other up as they stumbled down the street. Nikolai winked and added, “that’s our place, buddy, right over there.”
The dark pub, with its smoked-through walls, was very much like their own Matrosskaya Tishina back in Kiev, with a remarkably similar cast of customers. Even the greasy menu was the same. After a few drinks, Nikolai and Alexei fit in perfectly.
They ordered the usual: a bottle of vodka with pickles and a plate of boiled, salty crayfish. Being strangers, they generously shared a few shots of vodka with an older fellow who happened to be sitting nearby. In exchange, he had plenty of advice for the newcomers, who were eager to learn about life on the long-distance fishing, with an emphasis on vessels going to Australia.
“…then there’s saltwater boils, plus all that noise and vibration,” the old man rambled on, “some men get asthma, others are crushed by heavy equipment or washed overboard. Everyone eventually loses their hearing. Plus, you’re standing out there on that slippery deck, in the freezing rain, for 15 to 20 hours without a break, so you get frostbites, hypothermia. You’ve got to consider these things before you boys sign up.”
“Any other words of wisdom, old man?” Alexei asked, pouring him another generous shot of vodka.
“If you have to go out there, whatever you do, don’t get near a processing line. Do something nice and easy. Mechanical engineer, that’s the ticket! Or maybe a cook. Now, that’s what I call a great job!”
Central train station in Vladivostok
After the second bottle of vodka, the old sailor entertained Alexei and Nikolai with stories of fatal accidents, capsizing, and collisions. The third bottle allowed him to cover all sorts of skin and respiratory diseases, eye damage, as well as lip and skin cancers due to excessive exposure to sun.
The fourth, and final, bottle was reserved for simple infections, lacerations and minor traumas of hands and wrists, followed by amputations of arms and legs. By that time, the afternoon had turned to evening without anyone noticing the difference. The light drizzle outside only added to the cozy atmosphere at their table. In the end, the old sailor gave Alexei and Nikolai invaluable advice, and even offered them his place to stay for free, which made the whole afternoon well worthwhile.
The next day Alexei and Nikolai signed up to work on a longliner instead of agreeing to the more lucrative positions on the ships that processed fish. There, according to the old man, fishermen had to work close to powerful and dangerous machines, where the risk of being crushed by heavy equipment was practically a certainty. In exchange, they signed up for a return journey. It was the captain’s only condition of employment: no jumping from the ship in some exotic location, where no replacement could be found. Naturally, Nikolai and Alexei shamelessly lied without any reservations, knowing full well they would remain in Australia, should they ever get there.
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Graphics: 8/10
Controls: 5/10
Gameplay: 6/10
Nice cinematics, interesting concepts
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Game Name: De Blob 2
Developer(s): Blue Tongue Entertainment/Halfbrick Studios (NDS)
Publisher(s): THQ/SyFy Kids
Platform(s): PS3/Xbox 360/Wii/NDS
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Release Date(s): February 22, 2011
ESRB Rating: E10+
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De Blob is back but so is Comrade Black! Black has disguised himself as a priest named Papa Blanc and is tricking the people of Prisma City to give up their colors. It is up to de Blob to expose Comrade Black, save the people of Prisma City, and shut down Black’s plans to turn the world into monochrome blahs.
Produced THQ, de Blob 2 was originally titled de Blob: The Underground. Unlike the original de Blob, de Blob 2 was released on all major systems (instead of just Wii). The game was relatively well received by critics and fans of the original.
Waahoo! I did it….again.
De Blob 2 is much more of the same if you played the original. The graphics are a bit of an improvement from the Wii version of the game (I played the Xbox 360 version for the review). The levels are designed to be a bit more epic with a bigger feel. It isn’t just “the city” over and over again, but it often does end up in “the city” by the end of the level. In increasing the size of the levels, new jump points are created once you’ve finished the level and de Blob is free to move between the jump points so travel isn’t always necessary. With the new bigger level however, it is easy really easy to get lost or confused as to where you are going. With a time limit that seems to come into play more often, this is a bad thing…a bit more distinction between levels or places within the levels would help.
Who does that Blob think he is?
The jump to the PS3 and Xbox 360 took away a bit of the Wii’s innovative controls for de Blob. It still works, but it seems like de Blob has a bit more mind of his own. You end up locking onto characters you don’t want to crush and accidentally changing your color, attacking an enemy you can’t kill, or weird cameras cause you to fall. De Blob has a few new moves with some rush attacks and new power-ups. A second player can also join de Blob’s battle to help him as his Underground sidekick Pinky.
De Blob is still a fun, and easy game to pick up. It is relatively harmless so in spite of being marketed as E10+, it could be played by most kids. The levels are looooong however. It is a good hour on each level and if you are a searcher, it will even be longer as you scour the level for hidden bonuses and upgrades. It will be interesting to see if de Blob continues, and if they can find some new way to innovate it so it doesn’t feel like an extension of the first two games.
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She's an Atonal Mess
She's an Atonal Mess is both the title of this release and the title of the first track. I created each piece below over the course of a day. Simple mixdown was the only post-processing performed on the tracks. So there is very little manipulation of the sound from its original source. But there is a degree of work setting up the musical voices. This work is a departure from my previous albums, Electric Rain and Unknown Planet, musically-speaking. Each release has its own character.
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She's an Atonal Mess (Track)
This piece employs piano, drums, and bass in a jazzy, atonal, jam session. It's a traditional ensemble with an avant-garde twist.
Per my usual MO, this piece is pure improvisation (fully devoid of any polishing). As such, there is a raw edge to it. This one makes heavy use of arpeggiators to fill in the sound.
You can listen to the track using the embedded player on this page.
Do That
Do That ventures into the realm of spacy, jazz-rock fusion. It features a free-flowing, improvised percussion track backing a heavily arpeggiated track of noodling. This is more mono-toned than atonal but still has that disconnected feeling of atonality. It's very reminiscent of a Grateful Dead 'drums/space' jam.
This was a lot of fun to create. It uses over 200 arpeggiator patterns to produce the noodling. The percussion was improvised devoid of any particular time signature. The arpeggiators are highly synchronized.
Not Your Mom's Dance Music
Welcome to that space where xylophone meets noise. Another jazzy improvisation with a sense of humor. Two tracks of noise, a track of arpeggiated xylophone and a subtle hip-hop drum track.
So, this is an experiment mixing noise with melodic (atonally-melodic) noodling courtesy of the xylophone. It was a tricky mix with some trade-offs but the result is intriguing.
Unsprung Clock Jam
So, in keeping with the theme of atonality, Unsprung Clock Jam ventures into the realm of electronic noise backed by xylophone and drums. If you've ever had the spring on your watch go haywire, then you know where this piece is coming from. If you're only familiar with digital clocks/watches, then you might get lost. But this is electronic, so you never know.
Wrongdoer
Wrongdoer is pure percussion with a few bits of special effects thrown in for good measure. It serves to emphasize the percussive, atonal nature of the album. The title came from me doing a series of wrong things on the synthesizer before coming up with this. Long story short, I lost an entire composition because I failed to back up my work. So this is my penance so-to-speak.
Unbeaten Path
Here's another variation on the theme of rhythmic, electronic noise. Percussive elements melt into eerie voices as this piece progresses. There is a sort of melody in the noise. But it's its own type of melody.
And this wraps up She's an Atonal Mess. Unbeaten Path hints at musical paths still unexplored. I look forward to hearing what comes next.
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M.G. Road, Fort
Phone-No: 022 2265 2819 2265 2825
Email: sanket@ucc.mu.ac.in Website: www.mu.ac.in
About College:
The University of Mumbai (known earlier as University of Bombay) is one of the oldest and premier Universities in India. It was established in 1857 consequent upon "Wood's Education Dispatch", and it is one amongst the first three Universities in India. Acdemy of Theatre Arts has been taken a long stride at National and International level within a short span of eleven years. It has become one of the leading theatre training institutes India. The institute was established in 2003. University of Mumbai initiated its Academy keeping in mind the dearth of theatre training institutes in Mumbai, despite the city being the main center of the theatre activity in the country. University of Mumbai initiated its Academy keeping in mind the dearth of theatre training institutes in Mumbai, despite the city being the main center of the theatre activity in the country.
Ph.D. [Department of Physics University of Mumbai]
M.Phil. [Department of Physics University of Mumbai]
M.Sc. Physics with Minimum 55% marks. Relaxation of 5% is allowed to candidates belonging to Reserve category (SC/ST/OBC). The candidate should submit the PET Exam certificates (Mumbai University only) at the time of application.
The following candidates are exempted from PET Exam certificates:
1. M.Phil Degree certificates. A person whose M.Phil Dissertation is evaluated and viva voce exam is pending are eligible to apply.
2. The candidate is exempted from PET Exam certificate if they have cleared any one of the national level or state level exam namely CSIR-UGC NET/NET/GATE/SLET/INSPIRE or any JRF holder of any of the apex bodies like CSIR/DST/DBT/ICMR/ICSSR/UGC/ICAR.
3. A Teacher who is regular in service of any of the apex bodies like CSIR/DST/DBT/ICMR/ICSSR/UGC/ICAR.
All eligible candidates who are seeking admission for the M. Phil. and Ph.D. Degree are hereby informed that they should submit the application for the same along with all necessary documents in the Office (Ms. Megha Ghogare), Department of Physics on or before 2nd March, 2019.
To know more information about how to apply please contact here:
Lokmanya Tilak Bhavan, Vidyanagari, Santacruz (E),
Mumbai- 400098
Phone No.: 022 26526250, 26533051 26543358 Ext. 358
Fax: 022 26522222, 26533051
Email: head.udp@mu.ac.in
Last Date: 2nd March, 2019
To know more Information about this courses please visit: www.mu.ac.in
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28. August 2018 20:04 / dilip / Admission Notice . Admission Engineering . Maharashtra / Comments (1)
Phone-No: 2265 2819 2265 2825
The University of Mumbai (known earlier as University of Bombay) is one of the oldest and premier Universities in India. It was established in 1857 consequent upon "Wood's Education Dispatch", and it is one amongst the first three Universities in India. As a sequel to the change in the name of the city from Bombay to Mumbai, the name of the University has been changed from "University of Bombay " to "University of Mumbai " ,vide notification issued by the Government of Maharashtra and published in the Government Gazette dated 4th September, 1996. The profile of this University carved out in 150 years of its functioning attests to its manifold achievements as the intellectual and moral powerhouse of the society. The University has always given its best to the country in general and to the city of Mumbai in particular by enthusiastically shouldering an ever-growing load of social values and opportunities.
M.Tech. (Computer Engineering)
Candidates seeking admission to M. Tech. in Computer Engineering programme will have to fulfill the eligibility criteria set by Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), Maharashtra, to be considered for admission. The important eligibility criteria for admission are given below:
1. The candidate needs be an Indian National.
2. Hold a Bachelor’s degree in the relevant field of Engineering / Technology from an All India Council for Technical Education or Central or State Government approved institution or its equivalent with minimum 50% marks (45% in case of candidates belonging to backward class categories and persons with disability and belonging to the State of Maharashtra ) as per the DTE eligibility criteria.
3. Candidate should have passed B. E. / B. Tech. Degree in branch of Computer Engineering or Computer Science or Information Technology or Electrical Engineering or Electronics Engineering or Instrumentation Engineering or Power Electronics or Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering.
4. Must have obtained a positive (non-zero) score in GATE.
Admission Process:
University of Mumbai, School of Engineering Sciences, Kalyan is offering program leading to Post Graduate degree in Master’s of Technology (M. Tech.) since Academic Year 2018-19.
Admissions to this program are based on primarily on the valid GATE score as per the norms set by the DTE.
1. Please read the Instructions, Rules & Regulations carefully before feeling of Application form.
2. Candidate has to use the prescribed Application Form only. It can be downloaded from Website. Soft copy & PDF format both are available on University website.
3. Candidates can download PDF format and fill the form in handwriting. or he can download the Soft copy & neatly type the same in A4 Sheet.
4. Please ensure that application sent by post shall reach in time.
5. Application Fee of Rs.500/- for Open category candidates and Rs. 300/- for reserve category candidates is to be paid through DD which shall be in the name of Finance & Accounts Officer, University of Mumbai.
6. Application completed in all respect along-with all necessary enclosures and DD of application fee be submitted to University before 5.00 pm on or before 4 th September, 2018. at following address:
Asst. Registrar – TAAS (UT)
University of Mumbai,
Room No. 113, M. G. Road, Fort Campus,
Mumbai – 400 032
Last date for online submission of forms: 4th September, 2018 till 5.00 pm.
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18. August 2018 20:29 / dilip / Admission Notice . Admission Management . Maharashtra / Comments (0)
Phone-No: 022 22652819 22652825
Integrated Management Programme BMS-MBA
· Higher Secondary School Certificate/ Intermediate (10+2) or its equivalent certificate from a recongnized board.
· Minimum 45% aggregate (40% aggregate in case of reserved category) from science. Commerce, arts or any other stream/discipline
· Below 20 years of age as on 24th August, 2018 for MUCMET applicants (22 years in case of reserved category and PWD candidates)
· 85% of the seats shall be reserved for the students qualified and domiciled in Maharashtra.
Interested candidates should apply through the prescribed form available on the website: mu.ac.in/portal/thane-sub-campus along with the Demand Draft of any nationalized bank in favour of “Finance and Accounts Officer, University of Mumbai”.
For further information, please contact: University of Mumbai, Thane Sub Campus, Behind Runwal Garden City, Ram Maruti Nagar, Balkum, Thane (West) – 400608 Tel: 022-25339323
Entrance test Fees DD of Rs. 500/- (DD of Rs. 250/- for Reserved and PWD Category)
Date of Submission of duly filled Application forms: 18th August, 2018 to 23rd August, 2018
Date of Test: 24th August, 2018 11.00 AM – 01.00 PM
To know more Information about this course please visit: www.mu.ac.in
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12. June 2018 21:15 / dilip / Admission Notice . Admission Mass Media . Maharashtra / Comments (3)
The University of Mumbai (known earlier as University of Bombay) is one of the oldest and premier Universities in India. It was established in 1857 consequent upon "Wood's Education Dispatch", and it is one amongst the first three Universities in India.
Acdemy of Theatre Arts has been taken a long stride at National and International level within a short span of eleven years. It has become one of the leading theatre training institutes India. The institute was established in 2003. University of Mumbai initiated its Academy keeping in mind the dearth of theatre training institutes in Mumbai, despite the city being the main center of the theatre activity in the country.
University of Mumbai initiated its Academy keeping in mind the dearth of theatre training institutes in Mumbai, despite the city being the main center of the theatre activity in the country.
Master of Theatre Arts (MTA) [Course offered by University of Mumbai Academy of Theatre Arts]
The selection of candidates for admission to the Theatre Arts course will be based on:
1. Degree in Dramatics and Theatre Arts from any recognized University.
Bachelor's Degree in any subject/faculty from any recognized University passed in Second Class Division (Minimum 45%).
Equivalent Course i.e. 10+2+3
Experience of participating in theatre activity is must otherwise you will be not eligible for admission. (Preference will be given to students or practitioners of the performing arts such as theatre, music, dance, folk and traditional theatre, etc).
2. Entrance examination, Performance Test, Interview and Aptitude Test (Written and Practical).
Application and prospectus for this course is available at Academy of Theatre Arts 2nd floor, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Bhavan, Vidyanagari, Santacruz (E), Mumbai-98. Between 11 A.M. to 5 P.M. at the cost of the Rs. 150/- Application are also available at website. Submit your form here ata@mu.ac.in
Last date of form submission: 5th July 2018
Date of Entrance Exam: 11th, 12th, 13th of July, 2018
To know more Information about this courses please visit: www.theatreartsdepartmentmu.com
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13. April 2016 18:27 / AdmissionNews / Admission Notice . Admission BioTechnology . Admission Law . Admission Library Science . Maharashtra / Comments (22)
Email: sanket@ucc.mu.ac.in
Website: www.mu.ac.in
As a sequel to the change in the name of the city from Bombay to Mumbai, the name of the University has been changed from "University of Bombay " to "University of Mumbai " ,vide notification issued by the Government of Maharashtra and published in the Government Gazette dated 4th September, 1996.
The profile of this University carved out in 150 years of its functioning attests to its manifold achievements as the intellectual and moral powerhouse of the society. The University has always given its best to the country in general and to the city of Mumbai in particular by enthusiastically shouldering an ever-growing load of social values and opportunities.
Initially, the University concentrated its efforts on controlling teaching at the undergraduate level and in conducting examinations. Later on it took up research and the task of imparting instructions at the Post-Graduate level. This resulted in the establishment of the University Departments beginning with the School of Sociology and Civics & Politics. The independence of the country led to the re-organization of the functions and powers of the University with the passing of the Bombay University Act of 1953.
It is now granted a Five Star status by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). It has two campuses of area 230 acres and 13 acres, with 1.25 million square feet of built-up area, 22 thousand sq. feet of class-rooms and 84 thousand sq feet of laboratory space. It has two post-graduate centers, 354 affiliated colleges and 36 Departments. It has established its name in industrial collaborations and runs various professional courses.
At national level, it has excelled in sports, cultural and out-reach activities. In the last five years it has seen 104% increase in under-graduate students, 112% increase in post-graduate students and 147% increase in distance - education students. There is 156% increase in the number of research papers published in International journals. 12 Department/sections are recognized under various national programmes, such as SAP/CAS/DRS/DSA/COSIST/FIST. More than 80 teachers are on various professional bodies. 18 National/International awards are won by teachers in the last five years. Every year about 20 teachers visit abroad for academic activities. Recently more than 10 self-supporting courses have been started by the University.
Bachelor of Library and Information Science BLIS
in University of Mumbai, UM, Mumbai
Bachelor of Library and Information Science (BLIS)
Eligibility and Selection Procedure for Bachelor of Library and Information Science BLIS in University of Mumbai, UM, Mumbai
A candidate for the degree in Library Science shall have one Year passed a degree examination of the University of Mumbai or of a University recognized by the University.
Master of Science MSc Biotechnology
Master of Science (MSc) (Biotechnology)
Eligibility and Selection Procedure for Master of Science MSc Biotechnology in University of Mumbai, UM, Mumbai
Candidates should have B.Sc (three year integrated course) degree examination of this university or any other university recognized as equivalent thereto seven units in Biotechnology (i.e. minimum required for majoring in the subject).
Five Year Integrated Law Degree Programme BBA-LLB Hons.
Five Year Integrated Law Degree Programme BBA-LLB (Hons.)
Eligibility and Selection Procedure for Five Year Integrated Law Degree Programme BBA-LLB Hons. in University of Mumbai, UM, Mumbai
Passed Senior Secondary School Examination (10+2 System) or HSc or equivalent Examination with 45% marks from Arts, Commerce, Science or any other streams in case of General Category and 40% of the total marks in case of SC and ST category. 85% of seats shall be reserved for Students qualified and domicailed in Maharashtra.
The candidate appearing in the 12th standard examination in March, 2016 can also apply.
Application Procedure for Five Year Integrated Law Degree Programme BBA-LLB Hons. in University of Mumbai, UM, Mumbai
Application: Interested candidates should apply in prescribed form available on University website along with DD of Rs. 2,000/- (Rupees Two Thousand Only) for General Candidates and Rs. 1,000/- (Rupees One thousand only) in case of Reserved Category along with copy of requisite Caste Certificate, in favour of “Finance & Accounts Officer, University of Mumbai”.
Entrance Test: 30th April 2016
Last date for Submission form: 22nd April 2016
To know more Information about course please visit: www.mu.ac.in
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‘BY ANY NAME’ To Screen At Aof 2016 In The US
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Welsh production company Tanabi Films, who produced ‘By Any Name’ movie based on the no.1 best-selling novel by Katherine John has made the third round official selection stage from a plethora of entries at this year’s prestigious Action on Film Festival. AOF is now in its 12th year and has become one of the fastest growing festivals in the US attracting entries from all around the world. This will be the first US screening of the film and will be held in the famous Krikorian Theater in Monrovia, CA along with another 60 films.
The Director of ‘By Any Name’ Euros Jones-Evans said, “We are extremely proud to be working with Del Watson and the whole team at AOF 2016. We had incredible support from all our local partners in Wales and the recent screening here and we look forward to seeing how the movie is received in the US for the first time. We are extremely grateful to all the cast and crew, especially the leading male Cengiz Dervis, who plays ‘John West’ and Samira Mohamed Ali who plays ‘Dr Elizabeth Santer’ in the film for their dedication and hard work and to make this project happen as an independent film.”
Del Weston, AOF Director said, “We (The AOF) are the go to festival for filmmakers, writers, producers, actors to have their work recognized and honored. The AOF has launched a number of careers and continues to bring even more attention and success to filmmakers and writers from around the globe. We are very excited to be screening ‘By Any Name’, which will be the first film ever from Wales as part of this year’s festival selection and showcasing the on screen talent and also feature them on our television ‘Del Weston Action On Film’ show, which airs Nationwide across the US.”
‘By Any Name’s author Katherine John, who was recently selected as one of Amazon’s chosen authors and is profiled on most online platforms across the US, South America and Europe said, “I am delighted and honored that ‘By Any Name’ has been selected to screen at such a distinguished festival. The entire team at Tanabi Films has worked tirelessly to get this project completed and did everything they could to bring my story to life. I wrote the script with the support of the director and it was an enormous privilege to work with the actors and crew”.
‘By Any Name’ was nominated at this year’s CBFF 2016 and qualified to enter BAFTA Wales competition in 2017 and is a recent acquisition of CEO Marie Adler of Hollywood’s Adler’s Adler & Associates Entertainment, Inc. A&AE.
WELSH FILM ‘BY ANY NAME’ SCOOPS AWARD IN CHINA
Double Nomination For Tanabi Films At The 2016 Carmarthen Bay Film Festival
Britis Thriller ‘BY ANY NAME’ Awarded Double Accolade By International Jury
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Murray scores 22 as Nuggets beat Jazz 107-83
Written by AP
Utah Jazz guard Rodney Hood, back, argues after he was called for traveling as Denver Nuggets guard Gary Harris heads down the court in the first half of an NBA basketball game, Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2017, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
DENVER (AP) — Jamal Murray scored 13 of his 22 points in the first quarter and the Denver Nuggets overcame the ejection of Nikola Jokic to beat the Utah Jazz 107-83 on Tuesday night.
Jokic had 13 points and seven rebounds before getting tossed in the fourth quarter. Wilson Chandler and Gary Harris scored 15 apiece to help Denver win its third in a row.
Despite the rout, Jokic got tangled up with Jonas Jerebko early in the fourth and was called for a flagrant 2 foul and ejected from the game.
The Jazz cut it to 13 after Jokic left, but Murray converted a three-point play and Trey Lyles had a driving dunk to push the lead to 90-72 with 5:38 left.
Derrick Favors had 20 points, and Jerebko and Donovan Mitchell each scored 13 for the Jazz.
The Nuggets showed no sign of complacency after big road wins at Portland and Golden State last weekend. They used a 12-0 run late in the first quarter to take a 13-point lead, and another big run at the end of the second to lead 50-34 at halftime.
Unlike the two meetings in Utah this season, Denver didn’t collapse in the second half. The Nuggets led by 21 less than four minutes into the third and maintained a comfortable lead throughout the second half to improve to 12-3 at home.
Jazz: Mitchell entered second in the NBA in scoring among rookies at 18 points per game. Lakers G Kyle Kuzma (18.1 ppg) is first. … G Raul Neto missed his eighth straight game with a concussion. … C Rudy Gobert (left knee sprain) was with the team but sat out for the sixth straight game.
Nuggets: G Emmanuel Mudiay was active after missing four straight games with a sprained right ankle. He entered in the final two minutes and scored seven points. He hit a 3-pointer, was fouled and made the free throw and then hit another 3 on Denver’s next possession. … Denver held the Jazz to 28.9 percent shooting in the first half and a season-low 34 points over the first two quarters. … Lyles had 16 points and eight rebounds against his former team.
Jazz: Play at Golden State on Wednesday night.
Nuggets: Travel to Minnesota to play the Timberwolves on Wednesday night.
More AP NBA: <a href=”https://apnews.com/tag/NBAbasketball” target=”—blank”>https://apnews.com/tag/NBAbasketball</a>
Utah Jazz guard Ricky Rubio, of Spain, drives past Denver Nuggets forward Wilson Chandler in the second half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2017, in Denver. The Nuggets won 107-83. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray flexes in celebration after a basket against the Utah Jazz in the second half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2017, in Denver. The Nuggets won 107-83. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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The "fake news" is that we've never been healthier, healthcare costs are under control and our economy has fully "recovered."
We've heard a lot about "fake news" from those whose master narratives are threatened by alternative sources and analyses. We've heard less about the master narratives being threatened: the fomenting of mass hysteria, which turns the populace into an easily manipulated and managed herd, and induced insanity, a longer-term marketing-based narrative that causes the populace to ignore the self-destructive consequences of accepting the fad/ ideology/ mindset being pushed as "good" and "normal."
In terms of "fake news," it's hard to beat the mainstream media and its handlers' attempts to whip up mass hysteria via unsubstantiated claims that Russian hackers working for Putin deprived Hillary of the presidency. The campaign to spark mass hysteria was launched with great precision, unleashing the overwhelming forces of endless repetition (the marketer's favorite tool) and appeals to national security authorities: The C.I.A., F.B.I, and all the other security agencies purportedly concur that Russia "hacked" (whatever that means) the U.S. election.
The intent of the campaign was painfully obvious: by wheeling out the big guns of authority without any actual evidence, the campaign's designers hoped the public would automatically assume the bizarre, outlandish claim must be "true," even though no evidence was submitted to substantiate this fact-free claim, and respond as planned, i.e. willingly join a mass hysteria herd in favor of discrediting the U.S. election results.
Did the "hackers" change the election results issued by voting machines? Did they "hack" the election totals? Wouldn't there be tell-tale forensic evidence of such tampering? How else could "hackers" change the election other than by changing votes and vote totals?
Or was the media campaign to generate mass hysteria based on nothing but purposefully vague and unsubstantiated claims of Russia-inspired "fake news" that undermined the election by questioning the mainstream media's biased coverage of the presidential campaign?
"Fake news" is of course the staple of marketing products that end up killing the unwary consumers who buy the hype. The classic example is the cigarette/ tobacco industry, which ran adverts for decades proclaiming absurdities such as the health benefits of smoking (other than dying a horrible, needless death), the "fact" that doctors preferred one brand of cigarette over the other brands, and so on.
The industry famously went to truly monumental lengths to hide the facts about the destructive consequences of smoking from the public, and aggressively attacked any evidence that smoking was remarkably unhealthy as "unscientific," i.e. beating back the truth with The Big Lie.
That a form of consumption that killed the consumers was unquestionably accepted not just as "normal" but as cool/hip for decades illustrates the staying power of induced insanity. Mass hysteria eventually wears off, as it overloads the emotional circuitry of the target audience; humans soon become desensitized to the triggers used to generate mass hysteria, and it takes heavier and heavier doses of propaganda to maintain the feverishly herd-inducing hysteria.
Eventually, the populace habituates to the stimulus and becomes exhausted by the hysteria.
Induced Insanity, on the other hand, is not an emotional state--it is a state of mind and a state of perception that filters and interprets inputs to produce the desired output-- an acceptance of insanity as "normal" and "good."
For example, eating mountains of food that "tastes good" is positive and normal. Never mind that we're eating/consuming ourselves to death:
Or that our medical costs are so out of control that they're bankrupting households, enterprises and eventually,the entire economy:
Or that much of the money is spent on shuffling paperwork/ claims and counter-claims, complying with thousands of pages of regulations and dealing with the systemic fraud our system invites and rewards:
Induced insanity doesn't just describe our acceptance of ill health and a doomed healthcare system; it also describes our blind acceptance of an economy that's throttling small business:
The "fake news" is that we've never been healthier, healthcare costs are under control and our economy has fully "recovered." These sustained "fake news" campaigns are intended not to induce hysteria, but an enduring acceptance of what is visibly destructive and insane.
Food for thought as we enter 2017. Always start every inquiry with a simple question: cui bono--to whose benefit?
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Charlotte Garrido
"I believe people have the power to make a difference. Our future depends on a strong economy, a healthy environment and local people working together. As your County Commissioner these are my priorities—for a Kitsap County we can be proud of!"
My priorities I will continue to promote the following priorities:
Strong Economy: Creating jobs and supporting local businesses
Healthy Environment: Protecting our natural resources
Citizen Engagement: Partnering with communities, and increasing opportunities for residents to be heard by their local elected officials
County Purpose: Implementing the County’s mission “to protect and promote the safety, health and welfare of our citizens in an efficient, accessible and effective manner.”
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I have been involved with quality of life issues in Kitsap County for more than thirty years — as an active citizen, a contributing professional, and an elected official. Early on, I volunteered for advisory boards (such as watershed planning, community planning, rural policy) and then more formally (Boundary Review Board, Historical Society Board, the Democratic Central Committee – including Executive Board, and as an elected park commissioner, for example). I have also organized community initiatives like the Port Orchard Farmers’ Market, Olalla Community Council, and the South Kitsap Community Council.
As the incumbent for this position, in my second consecutive term (and served another term in the late 1990s), my hands-on experience demonstrates the leadership needed to successfully accomplish the vital tasks of a County Commissioner. My track record demonstrates skill at building good working relationships and reaching effective outcomes.
I advocate for people’s needs and interests by asking local residents what they think, being out in the community, bringing people together, and working on projects of strong interest to them.
While my schedule is tightly booked, the personnel at our reception desk know that hearing from local residents is a priority for me. I enjoy visiting community meetings and activities, and drop in on such functions whenever possible. When citizens contact me with concerns, I often ask if I can visit with them and their neighbors. This helps me learn more about the issue – for example from beach trespass, development proposals, desire for trails, litter and much more. I can usually bring along a staff person who has expertise about the topic, such as inviting a deputy if the concern is neighborhood break-ins.
I have initiated a pilot program in the Commissioners’ office to bring people together to discuss neighborhood planning. It seeks to build partnerships with communities – drawing on their knowledge of their community, and providing access to county government functions that may benefit them.
Encouraging Economic Development
I work with local economic development promoters, focused on pertinent existing and opportunity industry sectors, and have built a strong network for action. My particular strength is in workforce development. I consistently participate through the following:
Puget Sound Regional Council’s Economic Development District – to foster regional economic initiatives.
Kitsap Economic Development Alliance, Executive Board – to encourage business retention and expansion in Kitsap; and Kitsap Aerospace & Defense Alliance – to facilitate support for increasing our aerospace industry.
Washington Workforce Development Steering Committee — a steering group formed by Governor Inslee to integrate the Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act (WIOA) across the State. This law encourages business engagement in determining workforce needs, and develops career pathways for workers.
Olympic Consortium Board (Chair for eight years) – this workforce development leadership entity for Clallam, Jefferson and Kitsap Counties coordinates related policies. The Olympic Workforce Council is composed of representatives from business, labor, and education and implements practical actions.
My early activism in Kitsap County demonstrates a reasonable approach to development, yet an insistence for taking a long-term view to value our natural resources. Similarly, my graduate program degree work in planning reflects the importance of community involvement for assuring a balance between natural systems and new development. I currently serve on the Regional Open Space Strategies (ROSS), which envisions balance between built environments and nature. And, early this year Congressman Kilmer invited me to join a delegation going to Washington, D.C. on behalf of naming Puget Sound as a national estuary and assuring attention to pollution problems. I support many Kitsap County programs that address environmental issues, and especially our “Clean Water Kitsap” partnerships.
I helped originate a Ferry Community Partnership in 2010-11 to critique Washington State Ferries service and routes. We meet all year long, but weekly on Saturdays prior to and throughout the legislative sessions, and advocate for improvements. When WSF announced an update for their long-range plan, I hosted meetings with each of Kitsap’s four ferry-served communities to learn concerns from riders’ expertise. The findings were published for community members and delivered to the WSF leadership.
As a Kitsap Transit Board member, my first priority is to restore Sunday service, so critical for many in our community (this services was suspended in 2008 due to the economy). The Board also frequently reviews ways to enhance routed and Access services throughout the county, with suggestions from a citizens’ advisory board. In addition, I serve on the Passenger-Only Ferry subcommittee, advising the staff about the Port Orchard-Bremerton foot ferry service; and exploring cross-sound possibilities.
The Kitsap County Human Rights Council advises on issues related to discrimination “based on race or ethnicity, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or economic status”. I appreciate their advocacy and prevention, education, and resource suggestions and their annual conferences on important topics for Kitsap County. I am a leader in addressing homelessness in our community.
Some specific areas where I have been able to effect change include mental health and substance abuse, homelessness, reduced incarceration, and equitable access to healthy foods. For example:
The Board passed a .1% sales tax initiative in 2013 to fund programs addressing mental health and substance abuse concerns.
Organized a June 30 summit to address the crisis of homelessness in Kitsap County.
Participate with a re-entry program to successfully integrate jail inmates back into the community.
Initiated a Food Policy Council to increase availability of locally grown foods to all.
Worked with the Kitsap Immigrant Assistance Center to encourage integration of immigrants into our community.
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Riley Lee: Breath sight
Yearning for the Bell, vol. 1
Riley Lee (shakuhachi)
The first in a six-CD set containing all the music in the medieval lineage of shakuhachi meditational melody known as 'honkyoku'. This is the first time that such a complete set of this music has ever been recorded. Riley's playing is exceptional.
Further volumes are TP102, 118, 138, 151, 167, 168.
Martenitsa Choir
Formed by Mara Kiek in the early 90's, this choir has mastered the Bulgarian choral singing style. Here they perform with gusto and precision. The music will knock your socks off!
A set of amazing improvisations on this unlikely instrument. The recording was made in a water storage reservoir that serves inner Sydney. It was opened for the first time in its 100 years for repairs, and revealed a cathedral-like space ideal for recording. It rained heavily before the recording and continuous water dripping is a feature of the sound. (Ideal for cooling off in hot weather).
Satsuki Odamura (koto)
Ian Cleworth (percussion)
Cleis Pearce (viola)
Kazue Sawai (koto)
This is Odamura's first CD. Since arriving in Australia less than a decade ago she has introduced the koto into contemporary performance here, and she is now in great demand. Her playing is dramatic and engaging, successfully integrating traditional and modern techniques. For this CD she has gathered around her some of the musicians in Australia most fascinated by the meeting of East and West in music.
The Transylvaniacs
Mark Richards (violin)
Sally Corry (violin, viola)
Jóseph Kajcsa (cimbalom, voice)
Béla Mészáros (viola, flute, lute, zither, voice)
Craig Scott (bass)
Gemma Turner (voice, drum)
András Rácz (violin)
If you like Hungarian and Rumanian folk music and dance, this is your CD!
Songs with Mara
The music here originated as the dance music for the eponymous show for Meryl Tankard's Australian Dance Theatre. Mara and Llew Kiek are the performers and arrangers of this (mostly) traditional Bulgarian music.
Bamboo Grass
PLEASE NOTE: This CD is currently out of stock. We can supply FLAC and MP3 files with PDFs of the booklet. Please contact us for details at tallpoppies@iinet.net.au
Volume 2 of a six CD set of the complete lineage of the medieval Japanese meditational music known as 'honkyoku'. This CD was recorded in the reverberation room of the National Acoustics Laboratory.
Empty Sky
This monumental 6-CD set is now half way! Riley Lee was the first non-Japanese musician to become a grand master in shakuhachi. In this series of CDs he presents the complete lineage of the orally-transmitted 12th century Japanese meditation melodies known as 'honkyoku'. This is, quite simply, music for the soul.
Deep Night
Riley Lee: shakuhachi
The fifth in the series of seven CDs containing the complete lineage of 13th century Japanese 'honkyoku', or meditation pieces, played by Riley Lee, who was the first non-Japanese to attain grand mastery of the instrument. Sumptuosly recorded in the Australian National Acoustics Laboratory, this is the first time anyone has recorded such a complete overview of this music, and it is quite beautiful and calming.
Tall Poppies 10th Birthday Sampler
Welcome to Tall Poppies!
The works on this CD have been chosen to highlight the performers and composers whose work has been recorded and released by Tall Poppies over the last four years. In many ways this choice has been a personal one, but I have also tried to sample the many series of CDs that Tall Poppies has initiated over the last ten years.
These ongoing series of recordings include:
Australian chamber music series featuring individual composers. This sampler gives you a taste of the music of Elena Kats-Chernin, Ross Edwards, Peter Sculthorpe, Anne Boyd and Arthur Benjamin. Also in the catalogue are CDs featuring chamber music by Carl Vine, Nigel Westlake, Nigel Butterley, Richard Meale, Andrew Ford, Andrew Schultz, John Lemmoné, Georges Lentz, and Margaret Sutherland.
The Bach series commemorating his death in 1750. Both CDs are represented here.
Schubert's unfinished piano music, completed and performed by Ian Munro.
Riley's Lee's mammoth 6 CD set of honkyoku, five of which were recorded in just two afternoons! It's the first time that a whole lineage of these Japanese medieval melodies for shakuhachi has been recorded for posterity.
Roy Howat's complete Debussy piano music, to eventually occupy four CDs. Howat's is an idiosyncratic view of this music, very much based on literal interpretations of the scores.
Peter Sculthorpe's complete String Quartets performed by the Goldner String Quartet
Australian film music, by Carl Vine and Nigel Westlake.
Other tracks have been chosen to highlight performers with whom Tall Poppies has worked extensively, such as The Australia Ensemble, The Sydney Chamber Choir, David Pereira (cello), Ian Munro (piano), John O'Donnell (organ), John Harding (violin), Michael Kieran Harvey (piano), Lisa Moore (piano), Hector McDonald (horn).
Also included are two samples from the jazz recorded by Tall Poppies. This is a small but important part of the catalogue. The tracks included here feature Roger Frampton who has now sadly died in 2000, and whose solo work is represented on Tall Poppies by three CDs. There is also a track from Jann Rutherford's lovely recording of her own solo piano works. We hope this sampler will encourage you to explore the rest of the Tall Poppies catalogue!
Phoenix Crying
Yearning for the Bell, Vol 6
Riley Lee continues his survey of the Japanese meditation melodies, or honkyoku, for shakuhachi. These were recorded in the sumptuous acoustic of the Australian National Acoustics Laboratory reverberation room. Riley sounds like he's floating! This CD includes Riley Lee playing both parts of the famous duet "Nesting of the Cranes".
Riley Lee completes his survey of the Japanese meditation melodies, or honkyoku, for shakuhachi. These were recorded in the sumptuous acoustic of the Australian National Acoustics Laboratory reverberation room. Riley sounds like he's floating!
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Earth to MARS! On the way to breeding drought-resistant maize for Asia
Asia, Crop breeding, Maize 2 Responses »
Scouring the planet for breeding solutions
Bindiganavile Vivek
Bindiganavile Vivek (pictured) is a maize breeder working at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), based in Hyderabad, India. For the past five years, Vivek and his team have been developing drought-tolerant germplasm for Asia using relatively new molecular-breeding approaches – marker-assisted recurrent selection (MARS), applied in a genomewide selection (GWS) mode. Their work in the Asian Maize Drought-Tolerance (AMDROUT) project is implemented through GCP’s Maize Research Initiative, with Vivek as the AMDROUT Principal Investigator.
Driven by consumer demand for drought-tolerant maize varieties in Asia, the AMDROUT research team has focussed on finding suitable drought-tolerant donors from Africa and Mexico. Most of these donors are white-seeded, yet in Asia, market and consumer preferences predominantly favour yellow-seeded maize. Moreover, maize varieties are very site-specific and this poses yet another challenge. Clearly, breeding is needed for any new target environments, all the while also with an eye on pronounced market and consumer preferences.
(1) Amazing maize and its maze of colour. Maize comes in many colours and hues. (2) Steeped in saffron: from this marvellous maize mix and mosaic, the flavour in Asia favours yellow maize.
Stalked by drought, tough to catch, but still the next big thing
Around 80 per cent of the 19 million hectares of maize in South and Southeast Asia is grown under rainfed conditions, and is therefore susceptible to drought, when rains fail. Tackling drought can therefore provide excellent returns to rainfed maize research and development investments. As we shall see later, Vivek and his team have already made significant progress in developing drought-tolerant maize.
The stark reality of drought is illustrated in this warning sign on a desiccated drought-scorched landscape, showing the severity of drought in Asia
But they are after a tough target: drought tolerance is dodgy since it is a highly polygenic trait, making it difficult for plant scientists to pinpoint genes for the trait (see this video with an example from rice in Africa). In other words, to make a plant drought-tolerant, many genes have to be incorporated into a new variety. As one would expect, the degree of difficulty is directly proportional to the number of genes involved. In the private-sector seed industry, MARS (PDF) has been successfully used in achieving rapid progress towards high grain yield under optimal growth conditions. Therefore, a similar approach could be used to speed up the process of introducing drought tolerance into Asian crops – the reason why the technique is now being used by this project.
More than India: the AMDROUT project also comprises research teams in China, Indonesia, Thailand, The Philippines and Vietnam. In this photo taken during the December 2010 annual project meeting in Penang, Malaysia, the AMDROUT team assessed the progress made by each country team, and team members were trained in data management and drought phenotyping. They also realised that there was a need for more training in genomic selection, and did something about it, as we shall see in the next photo. Pictured here, left to right: Luo Liming, Tan jing Li, Villamor Ladia, V Vengadessan, Muhammad Adnan, Le Quy Kha, Pichet Grudloyma, Vivek, IS Singh, Dan Jeffers (back), Eureka Ocampo (front), Amara Traisiri and Van Vuong.
The rise of maize: clear chicken-and-egg sequence…
Vivek says that the area used for growing maize in India has expanded rapidly in recent years. In some areas, maize is in fact displacing sorghum and rice. And the maize juggernaut rolls beyond India to South and Southeast Asia. In Vietnam, for example, the government is actively promoting the expansion of maize acreage, again displacing rice. Other countries involved in the push for maize include China, Indonesia and The Philippines.
So what’s driving this shift in cropping to modern drought-tolerant maize? The curious answer to this question lies in food-chain dynamics. According to Vivek, the dramatic increase in demand for meat – particularly poultry – is the driver, with 70 percent of maize produced going to animal feed, and 70 percent of that going into the poultry sector alone.
GCP gave us a good start… the AMDROUT project laid the foundation for other CIMMYT projects”
Show and tell: posting and sharing dividends
As GCP approaches its sunset in December 2014, Vivek reports that all the AMDROUT milestones have been achieved. Good progress has been made in developing early-generation yellow drought-tolerant inbred lines. The use of MARS by the team – something of a first in the public sector – has proved to be useful. In addition, regional scientists have benefitted from broad training from experts on breeding trial evaluation and genomic selection (photo-story on continuous capacity-building). “GCP gave us a good start. We now need to expand and build on this,” says Vivek.
AMDROUT calls in on Cambridge for capacity building. AMDROUT country partners were at Cambridge University, UK, in March 2013, for training in quantitative genetics, genomic selection and association mapping. This was a second training session for the team, the first having been September 2012 in India.
Pictured here, left to right – front row: Sri Sunarti, Neni Iriany, Hongmei Chen;
middle row: Ian Mackay (Cambridge), Muhammad Azrai, Le Quy Kha, Artemio Salazar;
back row: Roy Efendy, Alison Bentley (who helped organise, run and teach on the course, alongside Ian) and Suriphat Thaitad.AMDROUT country partners are from China’s Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences (YAAS); the Indonesian Cereals Research Institute (ICERI); the Institute of Plant Breeding at the Unversity of Philppines at Los Baños (UPLB); Thailand’s Nakhon Sawan Field Crops Research Center (NSFCRC); Vietnam’s National Maize Research Institute (NMRI); and private-sector seed companies in India, such as Krishidhan Seeds.Curious on who proposed to whom for this AMDROUT–Cambridge get-together? We have the answer: a Cambridge callout announced the training, and AMDROUT answered by calling in, since course topics were directly relevant to AMDROUT’s research approach.
According to Vivek, the AMDROUT project laid the foundation for other CIMMYT projects such as the Affordable, Accessible, Asian (AAA) Drought-Tolerant Maize (popularly known as the ‘Triple-A project’) funded by the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture. This Triple-A project is building on the success of AMDROUT, developing yet more germplasm for drought tolerance, and going further down the road to develop hybrids.
Outputs from the AMDROUT project will be further refined, tested and deployed through other projects”
Increasing connections, and further into the future
Partly through GCP’s Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP), another area of success has been in informatics. Several systems such as the Integrated Breeding FieldBook, the database Maize Finder and the International Maize Information System (IMIS) now complement each other, and allow for an integrated data system.
There is now also an International Maize Consortium for Asia (IMIC–Asia), coordinated by CIMMYT, comprising a group of 30 commercial companies (ranging from small to large; local to transnational). Through this consortium, CIMMYT is developing maize hybrids for specific environmental conditions, including drought. IMIC–Asia will channel and deploy the germplasms produced by AMDROUT and other projects, with a view to assuring impact in farmers’ fields.
Overall, Vivek’s experience with GCP has been very positive, with the funding allowing him to focus on the agreed milestones, but with adaptations along the way when need arose: Vivek says that GCP was open and flexible regarding necessary mid-course corrections that the team needed to make in their research.
But what next with GCP coming to a close? Outputs from the AMDROUT project will be further refined, tested and deployed through other projects such as Triple A, thus assuring product sustainability and delivery after GCP winds up.
The AMDROUT project | Photos on AMDROUT’s continuous capacity building | Capacity building at GCP
More on the AMDROUT project – Project Updates – 2014 p 25; 2013 p 22 | Project Briefs 2013 p 13 | 2012 Annual Report
3.5 MIN VIDEO – why drought is such a complex customer: a perspective from rice research in Africa. Drought has to do with genetics, physiology and environment, and the interactions between these three elements.
Maize – Research Initiative | InfoCentre | Slides | Blogposts
Marker-assisted recurrent selection (MARS) demystified and explained (PDF)
Vivek’s slides below
GRM 2013: Asian Maize Drought Tolerance (AMDROUT) Project — BS Vivek from CGIAR Generation Challenge Programme
As our Maize Research Initiative does not have a Product Delivery Coordinator, Vivek graciously stepped in to coordinate the maize research group at our General Research Meeting in 2013, for which we thank him yet again. Below are slides summing up the products from this research, and the status of the projects then.
GRM 2013: Maize product catalogue and project status — Projects ongoing, completed, and to be continued post-2014 — BS Vivek from CGIAR Generation Challenge Programme
GRM 2011: Asian Maize Drought Tolerance (AMDROUT) Project from CGIAR Generation Challenge Programme
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Travelling from Timbuktu to learn from the world: Niaba Témé’s travels and travails
Africa, Researchers, Sorghum No Responses »
In ancient Europe, Timbuktu, in Northern Mali, gained fame as a fabled city of knowledge and learning at a far end of the world – snuggled in the Sahara Desert, and almost impossible to get to. And so, then as in our times, the phrase ‘As far as Timbuktu’ came to mean a place that is unimaginably far away, is completely foreign, or is unreachable – at the other end of the earth. Sitting on the left bank of the River Niger on the southern edge of the Sahara, it was not only a seat of learning in the ancient world, but also an important trade and travel stop for merchants as they sought refuge from the desert.
Timbuktu ticks on today. And if you strike out south and travel 450km from Timbuktu, you would come to the village of Yendouma-Sogol. This is where Niaba Témé, a plant breeder at Mali’s L’Institut d’économie rurale (IER), was born and grew up on the family farm, and where his saga with sorghum began.
“We grew dryland crops like millet, sorghum, cowpeas, groundnuts, Bambara nuts, sesame and dah,” says Niaba. “I used to love harvesting the millet and helping my mother with her groundnut crops.”
Niaba describes the geography and climate of the region as being very harsh. Sandstone cliffs soar from the dusty sun-scorched lower plains where temperatures are only slightly lower than the plateaus, which bake in the intense heat – the daily temperature rarely falls below 30oC. As there is no major river, every single drop of the 500 millimetres of rainfall received each wet season is used for drinking, cropping and livestock husbandry.
“The rains during July and August make farming possible for our people,” says Niaba.“If we did not receive those rains, our crops would suffer and in some years, we were not able to harvest anything.”
Niaba says these crop failures contributed in part to his choosing a career where he could help farmers, like his parents and siblings, protect themselves from the risks of drought and extreme temperatures.
With molecular markers, you can easily see if the plant you’ve bred has the gene related to drought tolerance without having to grow the plant and or risk missing the trait through visual inspection.”
Breeding more sorghum with less water
For the past four years, Niaba and his team at IER have been collaborating with Jean-François Rami and his team at France’s Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD), with support from Syngenta complemented by other GCP funding on a project to improve sorghum grain yield and quality for West African farmers.
A sorghum farmer in Mali.
Sorghum is an important staple crop for Mali. It is used to make to (a thick porridge), couscous, as well as malted and local beer beverages. “Anytime I talk with farmers, they are always asking for higher-yielding lines and lines that can produce sustainable yields during drought, or do so with less water,” says Niaba. “Since 2008, with the help of CIRAD and Syngenta, we have been learning how to use molecular markers to identify parental lines which are more tolerant and better adapted to the arable and volatile environment of Mali and surrounding areas which receive between 600 and 800 millimetres of rainfall per year. Using molecular markers is new and exciting for us as it will speed up the breeding process. With molecular markers, you can easily see if the plant you’ve bred has the gene related to drought tolerance without having to grow the plant and or risk missing the trait through visual inspection.”
In 2010, Niaba obtained GCP funding to carry out similar research with CIRAD and collaborators at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Africa. “In this project, we are trying to enhance sorghum grain yield and quality for the Sudano-Sahelian zone of West Africa using the backcross nested association mapping [BCNAM] approach. This involves using an elite recurrent parent that is already adapted to local drought conditions, then crossing it with several different specific or donor parents to build up larger breeding populations. The benefit of this approach is it can lead to detecting elite varieties much faster.”
Niaba (foreground) examining a sorghum panicle at trials in Mali in 2009.
I spent eight months in Hyderabad. It was the first time I had to speak English every day… I spent almost 11 years at the University of Texas Tech, and enjoyed every moment… We have been collaborating with researchers… in Australia “
Traversing the world seeking knowledge
But to backtrack a bit and find out how Niaba got to where he is today, let’s return to the family farm where he grew up, and where his career inspiration was forged and fired.
With a family background in farming now coupled with a keen interest in science, young Niaba enrolled at L’Institut Polytechnique Rural de Formation et de Recherche Appliquée (IPR/IFRA) at Katiboutou, in Eastern Bamako, Mali to study agronomy. He then went to IER, where, after two years there, he was offered a scholarship to study plant breeding in India.
“I spent eight months in Hyderabad. It was the first time I had to speak English every day so I was enrolled for an intensive English course at the University of Ousmania, Hyderabad, India, for the first two months. I then went on to do six months intensive training in the ICRISAT labs, learning how to set up experiments and collect and analyse data.”
His zest for plant breeding research and knowledge still unquenched, Niaba sought yet another intensive training course, this time in USA. During his time there, he made an impression on local researchers and it wasn’t long before he returned to complete his Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD in Agronomy at the University of Texas Tech, Texas. “I spent almost 11 years at the University of Texas Tech, and enjoyed every moment. I love the opportunities and freedom that USA offers.”
Despite this attraction, Niaba remained true to Timbuktu and Mali. He left Texas and returned to Mali in January 2007 , where he was rapidly recruited by IER to take charge of their new biotechnology lab at Le Centre Regional de Recherche Agromique (CRRA). Shortly after, he became involved with GCP, working on three projects, one of which would take this native from near (or as far away as?) Timbuktu to yet another far-away place at the opposite end of the world known as Down Under – Australia.
“We have been collaborating with researchers at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry in Queensland, and the University of Queensland, Australia, since 2009, to introduce the stay-green drought-resistant gene into our local sorghum varieties.” says Niaba.
Sorghum staying-greener with less water
Stay-green is a post-flowering drought adaptation trait that has contributed significantly to sorghum yield stability in northeastern Australia and southern USA for the last two decades. The project has three objectives:
To evaluate the stay-green drought resistance mechanism in plant architectures and genetic backgrounds appropriate to Mali
To improve capacity of Mali researchers by carrying out training activities for African sorghum researchers in drought physiology and selection for drought adaptation in sorghum.
“In 2012 a colleague and myself were invited to Australia to take this training by Andrew Borrell and David Jordan,” says Niaba. “We learnt about association mapping, population genetics and diversity, molecular breeding, crop modelling using climate forecasts and sorghum physiology, plus a lot more! It was intense but rewarding, more so the fact that we have developed these new drought-tolerant crops which will enhance food security for my country.”
Thus ends today’s chapter in Niaba’s saga with sorghum. We expect to hear more on the latest from Niaba at the GCP General Research Meeting (GRM) in October, so watch this space!
Meantime, see his slides from GRM 2013 below.
Sorghum Research Initiative – Blogposts | Home page | InfoCentre | Products | Slides
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The curious case of cassava’s quirks, narrated in Nigeria
Africa, Cassava 4 Responses »
Triumphs and tragedies, pitfalls and potential of the ‘camel crop’
We travel through space and time, with a pair of researchers who have a pronounced passion for a plant brought to Africa by seafaring Portuguese traders in the 16th century. Fastforwarding to today, half a millennium later, the plant is widespread and deep inland, and is the staple food for Africa’s most populous nation – Nigeria.
Meet cassava, the survivor. After rice and maize, cassava is the third-largest source of carbohydrate in the tropics. Surviving, nay thriving, in poor soils and shaking off the vagaries of weather – including an exceptionally high threshold for drought – little wonder that cassava, the ‘camel’ of crops is naturally the main staple in Nigeria. And with that, it has propelled Nigeria to the very top of the cassava totem pole as the world’s leading cassava producer, and consumer: most Nigerians eat cassava in one form or another practically every day.
Great, huh? But there’s also a darker side to cassava, as we will soon find out from our two cassava experts. For starters, the undisputed global cassava giant, Nigeria, produces just enough to feed herself. Even if there were a surplus for the external demand, farming families, which make up 70 percent of the Nigerian population, have limited access to these lucrative external markets. Secondly, cassava mosaic disease (CMD) and cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) are deadly in Africa. Plus, cassava is a late bloomer (up to two years growth cycle, typically one year), so breeding and testing improved varieties takes time. Finally, cassava is most definitely not à la mode at all in modern crop breeding: the crop is an unfashionably late entrant into the world of molecular breeding, owing to its complex genetics which denied cassava the molecular tools that open the door to this glamour world of ‘crop supermodels’.
Emmanuel Okogbenin (left) and Chiedozie Egesi (right) in a cassava field.
But all is not doom and gloom, which inexorably dissolve in the face of dogged determination. All the above notwithstanding, cassava’s green revolution seems to be decidedly on the way in Nigeria, ably led by born-and-bred sons of the soil: Chiedozie Egesi and Emmanuel Okogbenin (pictured right) are plant breeders and geneticists at the National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI). With 36 years’ collective cassava research experience between them, the two men are passionate about getting the best out of Nigeria’s main staple crop, and getting their hands into the sod while about it: “I’m a plant breeder,” says Chiedozie, with pride. “I don’t just work in a laboratory. I am also in the field to experience the realities.”
Hitting two birds with one stone…two stones are even better!
As Principal Investigators (PIs) leading three different projects in the GCP-funded Cassava Research Initiative, Chiedozie and Emmanuel, together with other colleagues from across Africa, form a formidable team. They also share a vision to enable farmers increase cassava production for cash, beyond subsistence. This means ensuring farmers have new varieties of cassava that guarantee high starch-rich yields in the face of evolving diseases and capricious weather.
Chiedozie is one of cassava’s biggest fans. His affection for, and connection to, cassava is almost personal and definitely paternal. He is determined to deploy the best plant-breeding techniques to not only enhance cassava’s commercial value, but to also protect the crop against future disease outbreaks, including ‘defensive‘ breading. But more on that later…
Emmanuel is equally committed to the cassava cause. As part of his brief, Emmanuel liaises with the Nigerian government, to develop for – and promote to – farmers high-starch cassava varieties. This ensures a carefully crafted multi-pronged strategy to revolutionise cassava: NRCRI develops and releases improved varieties, buttressed by financial incentives and marketing opportunities that encourage farmers to grow and sell more cassava, which spurs production, thereby simultaneously boosting food security while also improving livelihoods.
Standing tall. Disease resistance and high starch and yield aside, farmers also prefer an upright architecture, which not only significantly increases the number of plants per unit, but also favours intercropping, a perennial favourite for cassava farmers.
Cross-continental crosses and cousins, magic for making time, and clocking a first for cassava
No one has been able to manufacture time yet, so how can breeders get around cassava’s notoriously long breeding cycle? MAS (marker-assisted selection) is crop breeding’s magic key for making time. And just as humans can benefit from healthy donor organ replacement, so too does cassava, with cross-continental cousins donating genes to rescue the cousin in need. Latin American cassava is nutrient-rich, while African cassava is hardier, being more resilient to pests, disease and harsh environments.
Thanks to marker-assisted breeding, CMD resistance from African cassava can now be rapidly ‘injected’ much faster into Latin American cassava for release in Africa. Consequently, in just a three-year span (2010–2012), Chiedozie, Emmanuel, Martin Fregene of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (USA) and the NRCRI team, released two new cassava varieties from Latin American genetic backgrounds (CR41-10 and CR36-5). These varieties, developed with GCP funding, are the first molecular-bred cassava ever to be released, meaning they are a momentous milestone in cassava’s belated but steady march towards its own green revolution.
Marker-assisted selection is much cheaper, and more focused.”
On the cusp of a collaborative cassava revolution: on your marks…
With GCP funding, Chiedozie and Emmanuel have been able to use the latest molecular-breeding techniques to speed up CMD resistance. Using marker-assisted selection (MAS) which is much more efficient, the scientists identified plants combining CMD resistance with desirable genetic traits.
“MAS for CMD resistance from Latin American germplasm is much cheaper, and more focused,” explains Emmanuel. “There is no longer any need to ship in tonnes of plant material to Africa. We can narrow down our search at an early stage by selecting only material that displays markers for the genetic traits we’re looking for.” Using markers, combining traits (known as ‘gene pyramiding’) for CMD resistance is faster and more efficient, as it is difficult to distinguish phenotypes with multiple resistance in the field by just observing with the naked eye. This is what makes marker-assisted breeding so effective and desirable in Africa.
GCP’s mode of doing business coupled with its community spirit has spurred the NRCRI scientists to cast their eyes further out to the wider horizon beyond their own borders.
By collaborating with research centres in other parts of the world, Emmanuel and Chiedozie have made remarkable strides in cassava breeding. According to Emmanuel, “GCP helped us make links with advanced laboratories and service providers like LGC Genomics. The outsourcing of genotyping activities for molecular breeding initiatives is very significant, as it enables us to carry out analyses not otherwise possible.”
We can’t afford to sit idle until it comes – we need to be armed and on the ready.”
‘Defensive’ breeding: partnerships to pre-empt catastrophe and combat disease
Closer home in Africa, as PI of the corollary African breeders community of practice (CoP) project, Emmanuel co-organises regular workshops with plant breeders from a dozen other countries (Côte d’Ivoire, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and South Sudan). These events are an opportunity to share knowledge on molecular breeding and compare notes.
Of the diseases that afflict cassava, CBSD is the most devastating. Mercifully, in Nigeria, the disease is non-existent, but Chiedozie is emphatic that this is by no means cause for complacency. “If CBSD gets to Nigeria, it would be a monumental catastrophe!” he cautions. “We can’t afford to sit idle until it comes – we need to be armed and on the ready.”
Putting words to action, though this work on CBSD resistance is still in its early stages, more than 1,000 cassava genotypes (different genetic combinations) have already have been screened in the course of just one year. Chiedozie hopes that the team will be able to identify key genetic markers, and validate these in field trials in Tanzania, where CBSD is widespread. This East African stopover, Chiedozie emphasises, is a crucial checkpoint in the West African process. So the cassava CoP not only provides moral but also material support.
And Africa is not the limit. GCP-funded work on CMD resistance is more advanced than the CBSD work, though the real breakthrough in CMD only happened recently, on the international arena within which the African breeders now operate. According to Chiedozie, two entire decades of screening cassava genotypes from Latin America yielded no resistance to CMD. The reason for this is that although it is widespread in Africa, CMD is non-existent in Latin America.
Through international collaborative efforts, cassava scientists, led by Martin Fregene (now based in USA), screened plants from Nigeria and discovered markers for the CMD2 gene, indicating resistance to CMD. Once they had found these markers, the scientists were off and away! By taking the best of the Latin American material and crossing it with Nigerian genotypes that have CMD resistance, promising lines were developed from which the Nigerian team produced two new varieties. These varieties, CR41-10 and CR36-5, have already been released to farmers, and that is not all. More varieties bred using these two as parents are in the pipeline.
“GCP funding has given us the opportunity to show that a national organisation can do the job and deliver.”
Delivery attracts
The success of the CGP-funded cassava research in Nigeria lies in its in-country leadership. Chiedozie, Emmanuel and Martin are native Nigerian scientists and as such are – in many ways – best placed to drive a research collaboration to benefit the country’s farmers and boost food security. “GCP funding has given us the opportunity to show that a national organisation can do the job and deliver,” says Chiedozie.
This proven expertise has helped NRCRI forge other partnerships and attract more financial support, for example from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a project on genomic selection. GCP support has also bolstered communications with the Nigerian government, which has launched financial instruments, such as a wheat tariff,* to boost cassava production and use.
[Editors note: * wheat tariff: The Nigerian government is trying to reduce wheat import bills and also boost cassava commercialisation by promoting 20 percent wheat substitution in bread-making. Tariffs are being imposed on wheat to dissuade heavy imports and encourage utilisation of high-quality cassava flour for bread.]
“The government feels that to quickly change the fortunes of farmers, cassava is the way to go,” explains Emmanuel. He clarifies, “The tariff from wheat is expected to be ploughed back to support agricultural development – especially the cassava sector – as the government seeks to increase cassava production to support flour mills. Cassava offers a huge opportunity to transform the agricultural economy and stimulate rural development, including rapid creation of employment for youth.”
The Nigerian government is right in step aiding cassava’s march towards the crop’s own green revolution, as is evident in the the Minister of Agriculture’s tweet earlier this year, and in his video interview below. See also related media story, ‘Long wait for cassava bread’.
Clearly, the ‘camel’ crop – once considered an ‘orphan’ in research – has travelled as far in science as in geography, and it is a precious asset to deploy for food production in a climate-change-prone world. As Emmanuel observes, cassava’s future can only be brighter!
Slides by Chiedozie and Emmanuel
GRM 2013: Improving and deploying markers for biotic stresses in cassava — C Egesi from CGIAR Generation Challenge Programme
GRM 2013: Implementing MARS Project for drought tolerance and the Cassava Breeding Community of Practice: Accomplishments in the GCP and the Years Ahead — E Okogbenin from CGIAR Generation Challenge Programme
Chiedozie’s profile
Cassava – Research | Community of practice | InfoCentre | Podcasts | Videos | Data management | Blogposts |Slides
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“Nerve Center” Guards New York (Oct, 1941)
“Nerve Center” Guards New York
ARMY AIR CORPS SETS UP ELABORATE DEFENSE SYSTEM AMERICA’S most elaborate air-defense information center has just been completed in New York City. It is the best equipped in the world. Minute-by-minute reports from more than 6,000 field observers will enable Air Corps experts, working” at tables that resemble pieces from a giant jig-saw puzzle, to plot the progress of enemy bombers and to direct the swift climb and attack of interceptor planes. Even before the bombers reach the coast, the Army’s latest locator system will spot their position and, as soon as they wing inland, observers at five-mile intervals will flash in their reports—giving the type, number, height, and direction of the invading planes. As each flash reaches the New York nerve center, a marker, known as a “plotter’s pip,” will be placed on one of the jigsaw tables at a point that coincides with the position of the reporting observer. The table is called the “filter board” because here mistaken reports are filtered out. The men who place the markers on the board are designated “plotters.” Behind the plotters stand the “evaluators.” As soon as these trained Air Corps men decide the course the invaders are taking, they replace the pips with arrows—colored red, blue, or yellow, according to the time of the hour the reports are received. Instantly, “tellers,” sitting in a balcony overlooking the board, speak into telephones and similar arrows appear on a similar board in an adjoining room. This is the “operations board” from which final decisions are made.
There follows a swift succession of events. In a soundproof balcony overlooking the board, the controller, flanked by a pursuit officer and a radio control officer, assigns the invading “target” to one or more pursuit squadrons. In a matter of seconds, the complicated machinery of aerial defense is in full motion. Even before the interceptor planes begin skyrocketing up from the air field, pursuit officers in one of the six interceptor offices at the center are plotting the best course for engaging the enemy. These officers, in constant radio contact with the fighting planes, direct the whole attack from the ground. When plotting their navigation charts, they use colored pencils, changing every five minutes to coincide with changes in the color of the arrows on the operations board.
While this activity is going on, the civil air-raid warden is flashing out warnings to communities in the path of the attack; members of the intelligence division are noting down details of the raid for later study; officers of the First Interceptor Command, watching a third board in another room, are keeping track of developments and coordinating activity throughout an area that extends from Maine to below Cape Hatteras and from the Atlantic Coast as far west as Minnesota.
This vast area will be safeguarded by 13 information centers, each in a major city. Every center will have an auxiliary station ready to take over in less than eight minutes if the main center is destroyed or disabled. In New York, for example, is located the auxiliary filter board for Scranton, Pa. In all parts of the country, air defense nerve centers, similar to the one in New York City, are under construction. In the near future, between 30 and 40 will stand guard, fully equipped for emergencies.
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Rick Auricchio says: July 14, 20081:10 pm
Enemy bombers, yes.
But were they able to defend against the onslaught of Enemy Walking Sponges!
jayessell says: July 15, 20089:33 am
A good percentage of the staff appear to be women.
beagledad says: July 21, 20085:57 pm
A good percentage of the staff used in similar facilities in England (which actually were put to use, of course) during WW II were women.
My question is, from what airfield would enemy bombers attack New York in 1941? At the time, German bombers were hard-pressed to make it from France to London and back. Was someone expecting Greenland to join up with the Axis powers? Germany’s navy was negligible, so a carrier attack in the Atlantic wasn’t in the offing. Looks to me like there’s an allocation of resources issue here. Maybe they should have put more of the air-intercept assets farther west, like maybe in Hawaii . . .
Correction, the German navy was negligible except for the U-boats — but U-boats posed no threat of aerial bombardment (despite what you might read in some articles at this site).
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Remember when Taken came out back in 2009, and we were introduced to a new side of Liam Neeson? With one film he became Hollywood’s go-to badass. Since then, we’ve seen him shoot lots of baddies on land and in the air, and beat the shit out of some wolves just because he can. John Travolta must’ve seen this evolution and thought “I want some of that”.
Out now on DVD and Blu-ray comes I Am Wrath, 61-year-old Travolta’s attempt to be the action hero…and it hasn’t really worked out for him.
Travolta plays unemployed engineer Stanley, who witnesses the murder of his wife Vivian (Rebecca De Mornay) at the hands of car-park thugs. When corrupt police officers fail to bring Vivian’s killers to justice, Stanley turns to his old friend Dennis (Christopher Meloni) for help with a violent revenge plot. But as this story develops, we learn Stanley and Dennis have a mysterious history that they have kept secret for years (yawn) and on top of that Stanley discovers a conspiracy that leads all the way to the top of government (double yawn). I Am Wrath is an embarrassingly predictable affair that seemingly picked up a copy of ‘Action Thrillers for Dummies’ and followed it religiously. There’s poor attempts at humour and some totally unengaging family drama in there aswell, just to fully round it out. Some thrillers are so bad and predictable that it’s kinda funny and endearing…but not here.
John Travolta is trying his best, but it’s just uncomfortable to watch. He isn’t cut out for these action revenge films. Neeson could’ve made this film watchable, or even the ‘great’ Nicolas Cage, but Travolta’s attempts to be young again are just upsetting. I’ve no beef with Travolta - I’m one of the few people who thought he was incredible in The People Vs. OJ Simpson. But other than that performance, he’s let himself down in the last few years with a number of cliché-ridden thrillers like Criminal Activities, The Forger and Killing Season. What are you doing, Travolta?! You were in Pulp Fiction! I guess it all went downhill back in 2000 when he said yes to a little film called Battlefield Earth…Yikes.
We live in a sad cinematic time. We as an audience are like children, growing out of old toys and throwing them aside for new ones. People like Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Anthony Hopkins – and now to a certain extent, John Travolta – seemingly have to do anything they’re offered these days just to try and stay relevant, while the young actors of tomorrow take all the good roles. Remember that song in Toy Story 2, ‘When She Loved Me’? That song is probably how all these actors feel. “When somebody loved me everything was beautiful, every hour we spent together lives within my heart”. That’s De Niro’s jam.
Anyway, what else can you say about a film like I Am Wrath? It succeeds, or in this case fails, on the strength of its lead – or at the very least, it succeeds on their reputation alone. For example, Liam Neeson isn’t particularly good in these films, but he’s gained our trust over the last 7 years making them and we love him for it now. We feel safe with a Liam Neeson thriller. But Travolta, you haven’t earned our love in this genre yet. It doesn’t feel right yet to say “John Travolta action thriller”, does it? You’re making us uncomfortable, Travolta. Stop it.
So what else is there to enjoy here? A tired old conspiracy plot, awful dialogue, a wooden supporting cast, some poor direction from The Scorpion King’s Chuck Russell…There’s nothing to enjoy here. I Am Wrath is just a bad film.
I Am Wrath is a depressingly bland and forgettable experience. It doesn’t do anything even remotely original or fresh, the script is terrible, the plot is one of the most predictable I’ve seen in recent memory, the whole thing is acted stiffly with one of Travolta’s most embarrassing performances yet…I could go on. But I could sum it all up by simply saying DO NOT WATCH IT.
I Am Wrath? I am disappointed. 1/5.
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Every million years or so a new volcano burned its way up into one of the two ice sheets of heaven and broke through. And the ice sheets were always in motion, even if only a few inches every year. For so long as the volcano was active, the moving ice gave way around it.
When the volcano grew dormant, the ice sheets whittled away at its flanks until only the stony central plug remained, and the exposed land was closed up once more. In all of heaven, only the land of Anshar remained free of ice outside of the equatorial belt.
When the volcano grew dormant, the ice sheets whittled away at its flanks until only the stony central plug remained, and the exposed land was closed up once more. In all of heaven, only the land Chokhmah called Anshar remained free of ice outside of the equatorial belt.
Anshar may have been free of ice, yet it remained bitterly cold, much more so than Lilith and Samael were prepared to endure with the raiment they presently wore. Lilith broke into a sprint toward Michael's home across the stony plain and Samael followed at the same pace.
So Lord Samael was come to the stone dwelling of Michael for the first time. There was much glass, yet natural heating from geothermal features ensured it remained comfortably warm indoors. Leliel, just four years of age, touched the back of Samael's hand to har forehead.
Leliel!" said Michael, sharply. "That is Samael. Show us how you greet a seraph.
Leliel released Samael's hand as though it had burned har own and moved back a few steps. Then sha sank to one knee and all the while kept har eyes on the floor.
Very good, Leliel.
Lilith picked Leliel up and kissed her. "Wait for me in the kitchen baby doll."
Samael watched har leave, then caught Michael's eye. "Your daughter."
"She knew who you were, just not the proper etiquette."" Then Michael and Lilith embraced for a kiss of their own.
Samael watched their display of affection with disgust until Lilith broke it off and followed Leliel toward the kitchen.
"Don't you want to tell Michael what we managed to shake out?"" hy called after har.
Lilith glanced back. ""Michael is always in contact with me."
Lilith resumed walking away and Samael caught Michael's eye. "Very well, then tell me what you think Lilith and I conceded to one another so there's no mistake."
Sha cut a line on the Bellon frontier," Michael said. "Your forces must never ride nor march west of it. At the same time Lilith and har Fallen Angels, as well as King Metatron and hyz army, undertake never to pass east of the same line. In practical terms, this means that although Lilith is now a cherub and the queen of Salem, sha can never return to that city and rule.
"And what of your avatar?"" prodded Samael.
"Ah yes. My avatar is now reduced to the role of simple transportation, for as long as your dragon Demonstroke, which you and I both know is really a mechanism, is also confined to that role. You chose to make that conditional. But please, Samael, be seated wherever you wish. We have further things to discuss as Lilith prepares what might be the last decent meal you and I will both eat for many days."
What do you mean last decent meal?
I see you have given little thought to this mating. As an eloah I am female and therefore I have not yet experienced intercourse, but I do have access to testimony by way of Ein Sof, and no doubt you can confirm, that the experience captures the psyche like no other. Do you see how that will be a big problem in our case?
Samael shook hyz head.
Please, I insist," said Michael. "Let us take a seat, and I will explain.
Samael did so, and as hy did, hy took his first real good look at the home. "You have done well for yourself, yet this is still my world. I never conceded this land."
You have an interesting way of courting a lady, Samael, threaten to take away her house in the opening gambit.
Listening to Michael refer to hymself (even obliquely) as a lady struck home the ridiculous nature of the whole situation. Samael could not help but laugh.
Michael guessed why Samuel found it funny and nodded. "Alone among the elohim you and I and Daat are in union with world-dweller flesh. So what do you think will happen to our angelic bodies, left unattended, while we are fully occupied with our lovemaking as stars?"
That wiped the smile off Samael's face. Hy said, "I imagine we would starve."
We'd perish for lack of water long before that," Michael replied. "Do you tire of that yang's body, Samael? Do you wish to shed your container? I assure you I am not finished with my own.
I see you have given this more thought," Samael admitted. "I trust you have arranged things so we do not lose our living avatars.
Yes, and isn't it a good thing you have ended the war in heaven to the satisfiction of Lilith? Your life will literally be in har hands.
And what of you, Michael? What remains to be stipulated before we proceed?
You have no need of an avatar to move about heaven since you and Daat can open a fold-door when you have accumulated sufficient dark light to do so. Soon I will have the power to do this also.
In that you are very much mistaken, Michael. Daat can open a fold-door in heaven because we are a relatively close binary system. But when your daughter comes into existence she will be more distant from heaven in real space than you are. How could you not know that?
And yet," said Michael, "you allow me to pass a second bridge between myself and my avatar through the bridge that came into existence when you fathered me, which bypasses real space. In this way I am able to power my avatar with star-stuff when otherwise I could not.
I see. And so you wish me to permit your soon-to-be daughter to have an avatar in heaven as well, living or otherwise, such that you both might open fold-doors here and connect them with a tube segment, even as I recently did with Daat to come to this place with Lilith.
Yes, that is the bride price demanded of you, with the additional stipulation that my own presence here in heaven with avatars is made permanent in a formal way. Until now it has only been a side effect of what you dubiously claim to be research into the world-dwellers.
And what is to prevent you from using your fold-door to send assassins or thieves to my palace in Adan?
"The word of an eloah prevents it,"" Michael said with arched eyebrows, mildly astonished that Samael had made it necessary to say it.
"Yet you insist on formality. "
Michael briefly allowed an expression of boredom to touch hyz face. Hy said, "You cannot give something with one hand without taking something with the other. I saw that in your dealings with Lilith. So state your limitations on my fold-doors and we will move forward."
Samael said, "You and our future daughter, our very near-future daughter, are hereafter authorized to maintain avatars in heaven. However neither you nor she may open a fold-door east of the Wall of God nor west of the bog that marks the frontier between Rimmon and Adan."
I presume those lines extend north and south to the poles.
Samael nodded, and hy said with a smirk, "Yes, but before you ask, I will say this little land is not out of bounds. You can still reach your house. I would not want to my put my lady out of the mood for love."
Michael rolled hyz eyes, then said, "So let me hear it. You have given with one hand. Now what, as is your custom, shall you take with the other?"
Samael laid all mirth aside. Hy said, "I know your long game is to have these creatures reach the stars since you must not."
I warned you of that seven thousand years ago," Michael said. "You might have have forgotten. But it's not a game, long, short, or otherwise. I could do nothing, and the world-dwellers would, all on their own, reach a nearby star and make themselves known to Ein Sof.
Yes," hy replied. "And as surety against that outcome, whether it is aided by yourself or no, I insist on bringing in my own watchers.
I can't believe you are demanding that, Samael. No! I will not have your Eyes of Keter wandering Earth and sabotaging human history.
Then another place in your system," suggested Samael. "Not Earth.
There is no place in my system outside of Earth where angels would not die moments after you left them there.
For now, perhaps. Your humans are also far from ready to cross to the stars. I can wait.
I'll tell you where you can wait," said Michael. "When you desire a transfer, I will open a fold-door anywhere in my system outside of a sphere that is larger than the orbit of Earth by a factor of four.
That is not acceptable. Some bodies may briefly pass nearer.
Then I will give you access to any body in my system orbiting on an ellipse at least four times longer on the major axis than does the Earth on it's own ellipse. But when your angels are swarming all over my system they must never draw nearer to Earth than the moon.
Is that everything?" Samael asked. "Are we finished?
Just one more thing," Michael went on. "We both know you can summon a fold-door every five days because you are a bigger star, while I can do it every six days, and little Daat can only do it every seven days.
In theory I could open a fold-door for you sixty times in a year. In practice, I refuse to let you monopolize my production of dark light in that manner. So when you send someone through, the next opportunity you will have to do it again is twelve days later, not six.
Samael agreed to this, annoyed he could do nothing to put a similar restriction on Michael. They went on to the next step, which was to stuff themselves with a meal prepared by Lilith, since for the next month both seraphim would be hydrated and nourished intravenously.
When living stars mate the male literally extends some of his living substance across the shortcut in space-time that bypasses the parsecs of real space that separates him from the female. The sensation is ecstatic beyond all reason but is only available to him by mating.
For female elohim pleasure comes from her living substance being compressed to accommodate the male, which culminates when their living star-stuff merges to form a third individual. But mating is not the sole means of obtaining this compression. She can indulge herself.
In other words female elohim could masturbate, while males could not. It was an evolutionary adaption. The female could postpone intercourse until she found the most suitable mate. Males, in a perpetual state of blue balls, were motivated to make themselves suitable.
For thousands of years Chokhmah had resorted to this expedient, although never while in union with the seraph Michael, since the activity captured her full attention to the exclusion of attending to the basic needs of living as an angel. But now it was safe to do so.
Chohmah did the thing once more and felt the organized living nuclear matter that was herself pile up in density, leaving a large area empty in the thin layer of the core where she existed. At the same time Keter pushed into her as well, unaware of the ongoing sabotage.
This is what was supposed to happen
Eight to ten cycles of Keter pushing his substance into Chokhmah over several months, with each cycle culminating in a spherical wave that rang out from the star Sol at the speed of light, seeking a wild F, G, or K sun to germinate.
This is what happened instead
One cycle of Keter pushing his substance into Chokhmah over just three weeks, culminating in the instant germination of his (and Chokhmah's) daughter in the habitable layer of Sol that had been vacated by Chokhmah pleasuring herself first.
The deed was done and Michael, who went into it prepared, was the first to come back to himself in Anshar. Far away his half of the stellar body which he now shared with a daughter was beginning to transform permanently into male and that signaled the end of the mating.
Lilith helped Michael remove all the catheters, tubes, and needles, get dressed, then gave him the first hot, solid food hy had taken in three weeks. Hy was pleased to find hy suffered no bedsores. Lilith and Leliel had done well in repositioning hyz body during the coma.
Michael still had his commitment to bring Samael through the coma as well, but only to the point where hy could recover on hyz own. Keter was beginning to realize what had happened and grew more wroth by the moment. The anger would carry through to Samael when he awoke.
When Samael did hy would find his garments cleaned and folded neatly by hyz bed, lukewarm chicken, rice, and greens, plus hot ground outside where Michael, Lilith, and Leliel had moments just before made their exit to the land of Rimmon by means of the avatar of Chokhmah.
During the following year Chokhmah's child (whom he named Binah in sounds intelligible to Lilith and Leliel) grew in awareness as a newborn eloah. Mother and daughter shared a single body and Chokhmah had never heard of a similar situation in all of the lore of Ein Sof.
Chokhmah learned she could communicate with Binah through direct physical contact in a way that was fundamentally different from the way Keter must do so through the fold-line. Binah could never sever the fold-line to her father, but she did block it so nothing passed.
It was Chokhmah's first victory. The harem scheme of Keter and Daat had come to an abrupt end, at least on the branch that ran through Chokhmah. Binah had been conceived with Daat already designated as her future mate, but after Chokhmah's sabotage that was never to be.
The second victory was entirely unlooked-for, but it turned out to be far greater than the first. When Chokhmah was teaching his daughter how to correctly position her first fold-door Binah insisted there was success, yet no fold-door appeared before the eyes of Michael.
Chokhmah was not willing to believe his daughter was deceiving him. It took much time to determine what was going wrong, and when Chokhmah unraveled the mystery it was astonishing. Binah was correctly locating her fold-door in space, but was entirely hit-or-miss in time.
Binah had been born with a sense of time that Chokhmah could scarcely imagine, and could only guess was the result of the unique circumstances of her birth. While her consciousness remained in the present with Chokhmah, Binah could "see" the past trailing out behind her.
The necessity to produce sufficient dark light to summon the fold-doors fell away. Binah could reach back in time and mine unused dark light at will. But since she never did that on the original timeline, it created a second, parallel sun which could be mined in turn.
In fine, Chokhmah and Binah had access to an unlimited supply of dark light on demand. This, and the ability to remake history were the greatest weapons in their arsenal, but basic operational security dictated that Keter and Daat should never learn their order of battle.
Hezekiah refused to pay tribute to Sennacherib, the son of the Assyrian king who destroyed Samaria. Sennacherib therefore laid siege to Jerusalem and forced Hezekiah to pay a tribute of thirty talents of gold, eight hundred talents of silver, antimony, and many jewels.
Also sent to King Sennacherib in Ninevah was carnelian, couches and chairs inlaid with ivory, elephant hides and tusks, ebony, boxwood, and other rich treasures, along with all of King Hezekiah's daughters, his wives, his musicians, and many servants, both men and women.
A chastened King Hezekiah constructed a underground aqueduct to bring fresh water to the Pool of Siloam inside the city as preparation against a future seige. Chokhmah chose the pool to be the normal point of entry when he or Binah sent individuals on errands to Earth.
During renovations of the temple a priest "found" an early version of the book of Deuteronomy under a couch cushion and brought it to King Josiah. The people of Judah learned of a prophet named Moses and the Exodus as though hearing it for the first time, which they were.
When the Egyptian Pharaoh Neco led his army toward the River Euphrates to link up with the Assyrian Empire, King Josiah went out to confront him, but he was slain on the plains of Megiddo. Josiah's son Jehoahaz succeeded him, but he reigned only three months in Jerusalem.
The Pharaoh took him captive at Riblah in the land of Hamath and demanded from Judah a tribute of much silver and gold. King Jehoahaz died in captivity in Egypt, the first king of Judah to die in exile. Neco then appointed Eliakim, another son of Josiah, as king of Judah.
Eliakim changed his name to Jehoiakim. After his defeat at the hands of the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II and serving as his vassal for three years, King Jehoiakim revolted against Babylon. But he died before the armies of his Levantine allies could reach Jerusalem.
At this time Chokhmah withdrew the Ark of the Covenant from the temple in Jerusalem lest it fell into the hands of the Babylonians. A fellow named Jeremiah made a name for himself stating the obvious thing Chohkhmah had seen, that Jerusalem was about to come under attack.
During the reign of Jeconiah, Nebuchadnezzar II personally laid siege to Jerusalem. King Jeconiah was frog-marched to Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar looted all the treasures of the temple of Yahweh and deported the army, the craftsmen, and all the leading citizens of Jerusalem.
The poor were allowed to stay behind and work the land. Nebuchadnezzar appointed the uncle of Jeconiah as king and changed his name to Zedekiah. But later Zedekiah also rebelled against Babylon. Then Nebuchadnezzar and his whole army marched to Jerusalem and lay siege.
King Zedekiah attempted to escape the city but he was captured and brought before Nebuchadnezzar. The sons of Zedekiah were slain before his eyes, and after that Zedekiah was made blind, bound in chains, and frog-marched to Babylon. The temple was razed to the ground.
Every house in Jerusalem was destroyed, beginning with the palace of the king. The walls of the city were also torn down and every surviving inhabitant was exiled to Babylon. King Nebuchadnezzar had answered Zedekiah's defiance by wiping Judah from the face of the Earth.
Nebuchadnezzar deported fifty thousand Jews to Babylon. Only a very few of the poorest people and a handful of renegade army officers remained behind, hidden in the Judean hills, but these soon fled to Egypt for fear of the Babylonians, leaving the land entirely vacant.
After a time the Babylonian forces withdrew and hill brigands multiplied in their wake. But among the Jewish diaspora in Egypt there appeared a priest Lael of the tribe of Levi who came bearing the Golden Gift and a commission to preserve a remnant from downfallen Judah.
Lael came with his wife Sariah. Elam his eldest son came also with him, and he with his wife Serach. But Lael's second son Jemuel found he a wife named Iscah from among the Judahite refugees, and his third son Rosh married a young woman Sela from the tribe of Benjamin.
Of the tribe of Judah scattered in Egypt did Lael gather to himself Abner and his wife Tabitha, as well as Abner's son Asa and Asa's wife Jemima. Also of the tribe of Judah did Josiah and his wife Keturah join Lael, together with Josiah's son Tobiah and his wife Susanna.
Of the remnants of Benjamin scattered to Egypt in exile there also joined Lael and his group one Zethan with his wife Atara, Jabez and his wife Keziah, as well as Rimon the elder son of Jabez with his wife Dinah, and also Asher the younger son of Jabez with his wife Leah.
And it came to pass that Lael and his followers left Egypt and reached the downfallen southern kingdom in somewhat better time than Moses and his forty years of wandering. Every dwelling had been looted by the Babylonians and later completely cleaned out by thieves from the neighboring kingdoms.
Lael led the way through the charred debris and stone littering Jerusalem until he stood in the place built by Hezekiah that was called the Pool of Siloam. Then Lael descended the underwater stairs until he was completely immersed, and he came not again out of the water.
One by one, Lael's followers overcame their fear and entered the water. When they emerged from the pool again, things had changed. They were surrounded by trees rather than stone. Strangers attended to them with dry linen and new clothing to replace their soaked rags.
When the strangers revealed their Issacharite origin Lael's travelers rejoiced, for they knew them to be fellow children of Israel who had been missing for more than a century. And it was said Yahweh himself had ordained a reflowering of the House of Israel in this place.
On the second day a delegation from the tribe of Asher joined them after a sojourn down the vale of the river Nanki from their city of Alnitar. The Asherites provided shields for the men among the new colonists crafted from the otherworldly trees that grew in the south.
The shields of the Asherites were hard enough to withstand the strokes of any axe or blade and to turn away all arrows, for the trees that had been used to make them could be cut only by fire. Yet the gifts were lighter than ones of comparable size made of bronze or iron.
On the third day men and women of the lost tribe of Zebulun arrived, having paddled downriver from their homes in the city of Eltan. Their boat carried much food, wine, and many small tools and sundry goods as gifts, that Lael's group might begin their colony in Haaretz.
On the morning of the fourth day Lael and his growing group of travelers went east until they reached the river Sabik and made camp. There Hadraniel, king of Hamar, arrived from the city of Menkant to speak with Lael and the king was accompanied by members of his court.
Then Lael's group carefully made a ford of the perilous river Sabik to join Hadraniel. The king commanded his small flock of livestock slaughtered for a feast as the heavenly southern kingdom of Israelites joyfully welcomed the remnant of the earthly southern kingdom.
In the morning King Hadraniel led the group overland and ever higher to a shoulder of Mount Menkant. Here they were met by Naphtalis out of the city of Wazol bearing precious stones for the women and girls traveling with Lael to wear and for the men to later obtain goods.
At dawn on the sixth day King Hadraniel and his entourage took their leave. Lael took his people further east until the Wall of God began to loom over them. They crossed the upper reaches of the river Arhena and entered the land of the tribe of Dan in the kingdom of Nath.
In Fatho the Danites made a gift of much silver and gold, and pack animals to carry them. After giving many thanks Lael turned north and west over the saddle between Mt. Fatho and the Wall of God. His folk were drenched in mist as they passed the famed Hundred Cataracts.
By the evening of the seventh day Lael's travelers reached the city of Kabark, home of the tribe of Gad. The city folk brought forth the bounty of the rich farms of their land which was watered by canals leading from man-made Lake Enkaa like the threads of a spider's web.
At noon on the next day day Lael and the colonists arrived at Enkaa Dam. A delegation of Israelites from the tribe of Reuben met them bearing baskets of delicious fresh fruit of a kind none of the travelers from Judah had ever tasted before, as they were native to heaven.
On the ninth day when Lael reached Adjara Lael's own nephews, cousins to his sons Elam and Jemuel and Rosh, provided more pack animals for their goods, and two of the asses bore sufficient arms for twelve men, lest Lael run afoul of men or nephilim of the House of Bellon.
The Levites of Adjara offered thanksgiving to Yahweh that the children of Israel had been reunited in heaven, yet their joy was tempered by news that Lael had found no living remnant of the tribe of Simeon among the people of the southern kingdom who took refuge in Egypt.
Within the walls of Adjara was the heavenly temple of Yahweh which men of the whole House of Israel had been building for a century. They of Lael's party who had never seen it wept tears of joy at the sight of the new temple mixed tears of lament at the memory of the old.
King Thausael of Hadal arrived with his entourage from among the tribe of Manesseh, and they bore the Ark of the Covenant. The relic had been withdrawn when Chokhmah feared the House of Judah was too weak to protect it from the maruading armies of the Babylonian empire.
And Chokhmah had given commandment that the Ark should pass into the safekeeping of Lael and his sons until the temple was sanctified, that they may both preserve the stone tablet of the Abrahamic covenant and secure the White Scroll of Leliel contained within the chest.
King Thausael laid upon Lael and his three sons a charge to bear the Ark on two gold-plated staves through rings in the side of the artifact. And when they were not actively carrying the Ark they were to set the ends of the staves through four stones pierced with holes.
Every time Lael paused, said King Thausael, the four stones were to be set on pillars of greater stones gathered from the ground around the encampment. The king said the Ark must never touch the ground, and save for the lid the Ark must never be touched by man nor beast.
Then Lael was bid to pass through Eliath Wood to a choice land prepared for him. But Lael would never be abandoned or forgotten, assured King Thausael, for the oracles of Yahweh came only through the Ark, and ever men of the House of Israel would come seeking for them.
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Christian Fankhauser received his PhD from the University of Lausanne in 1994, after carrying out his thesis at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC) in the laboratory of Dr. Viesturs Simanis. He performed postdoctoral studies with Dr. Marty Yanofsky at UCSD and thereafter with Dr. Joanne Chory at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego. He became a Swiss National Science Foundation Assistant Professor at the Department of Molecular Biology of the University of Geneva in 2000. He joined the Center for Integrative Genomics in January 2005, where he was appointed Associate Professor. In 2011 he was promoted to Professor.
CHRISTIAN FANKHAUSER – RESEARCH REPORT
Light regulation of plant growth and development
Almost all our food, feed, fuel and fiber ultimately derive from plants. Plant growth depends on photosynthesis, the process in which light energy is harnessed for the synthesis of high-energy carbon compounds. In order to capture light, plants have evolved unique ways of building cells, tissues and organs, a highly diverse metabolism, and a life-long continuation of versatile growth and development. Plants possess numerous photoreceptors enabling them to sense changes in the amount, spectral composition (color), photoperiod and direction of light. The central goal of our research is to understand how plants manage to gain access to direct sunlight when this resource becomes limiting. This occurs at high plant density leading to specific growth and developmental strategies such as the Shade Avoidance Syndrome (SAS) and Phototropism. We use the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana to study the molecular events leading from light perception to the physiological responses elicited by unfavorable light signals.
Leaves strongly absorb red and blue light while far-red (700-800 nm) is transmitted or reflected. In sunlight the red to far-red ratio (R/FR) is slightly above 1, this ratio drops in the proximity of plants due to FR reflection and further decreases under foliar shade. In response to such a decrease in the R/FR ratio plants elicit a number of growth and developmental adaptations. Such responses are triggered by neighbor proximity in anticipation of potential shading and enhanced in true shade. Collectively this is known as the Shade Avoidance Syndrome, which includes elongations of stems, upwards movements of leaves, changes in branching architecture and acceleration of reproduction. Changes in R/FR are sensed by the phytochrome (phy) family of photosensory receptors with phyB playing a prominent role in Arabidopsis. Sunlight activates phyB leading to a conformational change that enables binding to and inhibition of transcription factors from the Phytochrome Interacting Factor (PIF) family. This inhibition is released in the shade as phyB returns to its inactive state enabling PIFs to promote several facets of the SAS. An important mechanism by which the PIFs promote stem elongation in the shade is the induction of several YUC genes, which code for enzymes catalyzing a rate-limiting step in auxin biosynthesis (reviewed in de Wit et al., 2016). While phyB plays a major role in controlling the extent of organ elongation, the blue light sensing phototropins (phot1 and phot2 in Arabidopsis) control growth direction enabling plants to orient their organs towards favorable light conditions. Over the past couple of years we pursued our investigations of phyB and phot-mediated signaling, we studied the crosstalk between both pathways as in natural environments signals from both photoreceptors have to be integrated and we started to look into organ-specific light responses.
In response to shade, stems and petioles elongate while expansion of the leaf and cotyledon blade is limited. Using a combination of genome-wide expression analysis and molecular genetics we investigated the organ-specific shade response in seedlings (Kohnen et al., 2016) and in leaves (blade vs. petiole) later in the plant life cycle (de Wit et al., 2015). Both studies showed that the early shade response triggers an induction of auxin levels and a strong auxin response in all parts of the plant analysed. However, later the response becomes organ specific and the selective elongation of specific organs appears to depend on additional organ-specific hormonal responses and differences in auxin signalling (de Wit et al., 2015; Kohnen et al., 2016).
Our work on phototropin signalling showed that phot1 signals from the plasma membrane and that photoreceptor internalisation is not required to trigger phototropin-mediated responses (Preuten et al., 2015). Phototropism is typically studied in etiolated seedlings as they first see the light. This model has been used for more than a century and enabled the identification of key signalling events (reviewed in Fankhauser and Christie, 2015). However, phototropism also occurs in green photoautotrophic plants but little is known about signalling at this developmental stage and its integration with other photoreceptor-mediated responses. We showed that in green seedlings in high R/FR conditions typical of sunlight phototropism is inhibited by phyB. In contrast when the R/FR ratio declines phototropism is gradually enhanced in a process requiring the PIF-YUC regulon (Goyal et al., 2016). Moreover, our work identifies phototropism signalling elements that are selectively required for phototropism in green but not etiolated seedlings, demonstrating developmental regulation of phototropin signalling (Goyal et al., 2016). Moreover, in collaboration with the Pierik lab, we identify a mechanism underlying enhanced SAS in true shade compared to neighbour detection that sheds further light on photoreceptor crosstalk (de Wit et al., 2016).
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Circulation July 31, 2018 Issue 0
Does measuring baseline BNP add prognostic information in patients undergoing revascularization for left main coronary artery disease? Well, to find out the answers, you have to stay tuned and listen up for our feature discussion coming right up, after these summaries.
The first original paper this week reports a new role for bone morphogenetic protein 9, or BMP9, as an endogenous inhibitor of cardiac fibrosis. Now, we are familiar with transforming growth factor beta-one, or TGF-β1, as a promoter of cardiac fibrosis. TGF-β1 also activates counterregulatory pathways that serve to regulate TGF-β1 activity in heart failure. BMP9 is a member of the TGFβ family of cytokines and signals via the downstream effector protein Smad1.
In the current paper from first author Dr Morine, corresponding author Dr Kapur, from Tufts Medical Center in Boston, and their colleagues. The authors examined BMP9 expression and signaling in human cardiac fibroblasts and human subjects with heart failure. They utilized the thoracic aortic constriction–induced model of heart failure to evaluate the functional effect of BMP9 signaling on cardiac remodeling. The authors’ results identified a novel functional role for BMP9 as an endogenous inhibitor of cardiac fibrosis due to LV pressure overload. They further showed that treatment with either recombinant BMP9 or inhibiting a high affinity receptor for BMP9 known as endoglin promoted BMP9 activity and limited cardiac fibrosis in heart failure. Thus, this provides a potential novel therapeutic approach for patients with heart failure.
The next paper shows that endothelial C-type natriuretic peptide, or CNP, regulates microcirculatory flow and blood pressure. First author, Dr Špiranec, corresponding author Dr Kuhn, and colleagues from University of Würzburg in Germany analyzed whether vasodilating response to CNP changed along the vascular tree. In other words, whether the guanylyl cyclase–B receptor was expressed in microvascular types of cells. The authors used novel gene-modified mouse models to show that guanylyl cyclase–B cyclic GNP signaling in parasites diminished microcirculatory resistance and arterial blood pressure. In contrast, endothelial, or macrovascular smooth muscle cell guanylyl cyclase–B signaling was not involved. This indicated that CNP participated in the local cross talk between endothelial cells and parasites, thus playing an important role in the maintenance of normal microvascular resistance and blood pressure. Thus, pharmacological augmentation of endogenous CNP signaling in parasites may provide a useful therapeutic tool to combat increased vascular resistance and hypertension.
Has the rapid and exponential growth in transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, demand overwhelmed capacity, thus translating to inadequate access and prolonged wait times? Well, the next paper provides some answers. First author, Dr Elbaz-Greener, corresponding author Dr Wijeysundera, from University of Toronto, evaluated temporal transient TAVR wait times and the associated clinical consequences in their population-based study of all TAVR referrals from April 2010 to March 2016 in Ontario, Canada. Their study cohort included 4,461 referrals, of which 50% led to a TAVR, 39% were off-listed for other reasons, and 11% remained on the wait list at the conclusions of the study.
For patients who underwent a TAVR, the estimated median wait time in the post reimbursement period stabilized at 80 days and has remained unchanged. The cumulative probability at 80 days of wait-list mortality was 2% and of heart failure hospitalization, 12%, with an increase in events with increased wait times. Thus, post reimbursement wait time has remained unchanged for patients undergoing a TAVR procedure, suggesting that the increase in capacity has kept pace with the increase in demand. The current wait time of almost 3 months is associated with important morbidity and mortality, suggesting a need for greater capacity and access.
The final paper shows that patients with type 2 diabetes and a history of heart failure are particularly likely to benefit from treatment with the SGLT2 inhibitor canagliflozin. First author, Dr Rådholm, corresponding author Dr Figtree, from Royal North Shore Hospital in Australia, and colleagues, studied more than 10,000 participants with type 2 diabetes and high cardiovascular risk in the CANVAS Program who were randomly assigned to canagliflozin or placebo and followed for a mean of 188 weeks. Participants with a history of heart failure at baseline constituted 14.4% of the study population and were more frequently women, white, and hypertensive, with a history of prior cardiovascular disease. The benefit of canagliflozin on cardiovascular death and hospitalized heart failure was greater in patients with a prior history of heart failure compared to those without heart failure at baseline with a p for interaction of 0.02. The effects of canagliflozin compared with placebo on other cardiovascular outcomes and key safety outcomes were similar in patients with and without heart failure at baseline. Effects were apparent across a broad range of participant subgroups, including those using established treatments for the prevention of heart failure, such as renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system inhibitors, diuretics, and beta-blockers. Thus, patients with type 2 diabetes and a history of heart failure may be particularly likely to benefit from treatment with canagliflozin. The beneficial effects of canagliflozin on heart failure outcomes unlikely to be accrued on top of other therapies for heart failure management.
And that brings us to the end of this week's summaries, now for our feature discussion.
In patients with left main coronary artery disease who are undergoing revascularization, could BNP assessment be that precision medicine tool to aid us in our clinical decision making? Well, I am just so excited to discuss this very topic with the corresponding author for this feature paper, Dr Gregg Stone from Columbia University Medical Center, as well as our associate editor and editorialist for this paper, Dr Torbjørn Omland from University of Oslo.
Gregg, it was a super smart idea to look at circulating BNP and how this may associate with outcomes, as well as therapies in the EXCEL trial. Please tell us what inspired you to do this and please tell us what you found.
Dr Gregg Stone: As everybody knows, BNP has been identified as an important prognostic factor in patients with heart failure and ischemic heart disease. It correlates with both cardiovascular and noncardiovascular mortality. Patients with left main disease are among the highest-risk patients that either interventional cardiologists or cardiac surgeons treat because of the amount of myocardium at risk, they often present in heart failure, and even if they're not in overt heart failure, they can be prone to large severe left ventricular dysfunction. So first we wanted to establish the prognostic utility of BNP in this patient population and then we were interested to see if it might have a role in helping differentiate which patients might have a better prognosis with either PCI or coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
EXCEL is the largest trial to date of left main PCI versus CABG in a randomized format with 1905 enrolled patients. And overall, we found that PCI and CABG had similar rates of deaths, large myocardial infarction, or stroke in 3 years. But of course, there are high risk-patients and low-risk patients buried within those overall aggregate outcomes, and BNP was an important prognostic predictor of overall mortality in the trial. Both cardiovascular and noncardiovascular, but not of any other ischemic end points interestingly. Not myocardial infarction, stent thrombosis, graft occlusion, bleeding, revascularization. But definitely, mortality. Even independent of left ventricular ejection fraction and heart failure status.
Now, when we looked at the outcomes of PCI versus bypass surgery, we actually found a very powerful interaction, such that at relatively lower BNP levels, patients who underwent PCI had a better prognosis and tended to have lower mortality. Where patients with high baseline BNP levels tended to have a better prognosis after surgery.
Dr Carolyn Lam: You know, Torbjørn, I love your editorial where you contextualize these findings so nicely. Could you do that for us now?
Dr Torbjørn Omland: First, I would like to congratulate Gregg and his team with this very interesting and very well-done study, and I think Circulation is very fortunate to be able to publish papers like this. We have known for quite a long time that BNP is a strong prognostic indicator across the spectrum of cardiovascular diseases and it seems to be particularly strongly associated with risk of heart failure events, cardiac arrhythmias, and risk of death. And, as shown in the EXCEL trial, the association with left ventricular ejection fraction is actually quite weak, and also the association with ischemic events. So, these findings fit very well with previous observations. The really novel and intriguing finding of this study is the very strong interaction between procedural BNP levels and the effect of the randomized therapies and, as you alluded to, all the investigators have tried to look at this in other more low-risk populations like in the LIPID trial but actually failed to find any significant interaction. It's really a novel and important finding.
Dr Carolyn Lam: That's true. Does it bring up the question are the natriuretic peptides just a better EF measurement? You mentioned that there was a correlation, what do you think, Gregg?
Dr Torbjørn Stone: Well, you know, there was a weak correlation between BNP and ejection fraction and history of heart failure but the prognostic utility of BNP in this study and its ability to differentiate between the outcomes of PCI versus CABG in patients with low versus high BNP was actually strongly independent of both congestive heart failure history and acute left ventricular ejection fraction. So, I think the BNP is giving a useful independent information. It's a strong reflector of both atrial and ventricular pressures and volume status, but it also reflects myocardial hypoxia, it may be involved in glycolysis and lipid peroxidation, and other mechanisms that we don't fully understand. There may be elements of diastolic dysfunction that we have not measured in this study and other mechanisms related to prognosis in these patients. So, while EXCEL was not set up to truly differentiate and delve deeply into the mechanisms of our observations, statistically these were strong associations that may prove clinically useful.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Right, I thought that was so intriguing as well, just the points that you brought up. First, let's just clarify for the audience that when you say low and high you were using a cutoff of 100.
Dr Gregg Stone: We did use a cutoff of 100 pg per mL as is common, but we also modeled BNP as a continuous measure. And actually the relationships were even stronger when modeled as a log hazard ratio continuous measure, both for mortality and for the primary end point.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Yeah, that's so cool. And Torbjørn, you talked about this in your editorial as well and I thought your point about the distributions of the ejection fraction versus the distribution of natriuretic peptide, that was very revealing, too. Would you like to explain your thoughts there?
Dr Torbjørn Omland: I found it very interesting that all of this is clearly a high-risk operation overall. More than 90% actually had what we regard a normal, or at least not a reduced ejection fraction. Whereas the distribution of BNP values were more widely distributed so that actually about 40% of participants had BNP levels above this ratio of 100 pg per mL. And that probably shows that in this population, BNP provides additional and independent information about the status of the myocardium that is not revealed by angiography or ejection fraction measurements.
Dr Carolyn Lam: That's true, and that's an important point because it added above the SYNTAX score, too, right Gregg?
Dr Gregg Stone: That's right, it was an independent predictor, and in fact the SYNTAX score and the severity of left main coronary disease did not vary, according to BNP levels, that is. High versus low BNP were equally distributed, not related to the anatomic extent and complexity of coronary artery disease. So, BNP is clearly reflecting a different state of the myocardium in a way that we can't measure with any other available test and that makes it quite a useful biomarker.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Exactly, so I think I'd like to wrap up with asking you both, you can already see what the potential clinical implications are, right? Which means that perhaps in a similar type of patient where there's equipoise of the revascularization method and has left main disease, maybe we should be using natriuretic peptides to guide our clinical decision making. What do you think are next steps before this is prime time?
Dr Gregg Stone: Well I can mention that when one makes a decision of the best revascularization modality for patients with extensive multi-vessel or left main coronary artery disease, there are many factors that go into that determination, both clinical, anatomic, is the patient a good candidate for one versus the other revascularization modality, what are the patient's preferences, what's the surgeon's or interventionalist's likelihood of being able to safely get the patient through the procedure and achieve complete revascularization.
The SYNTAX score makes a difference, as does gender and age and kidney disease and COPD and ejection fraction and many other factors. So I think we can now add to that list BNP, although I will say this was a post-hoc study, we only had BNP available in approximately 60% of the patients, and while the outcomes were similar in the patients who we did not versus who we did have BNP, this has to be looked at as hypothesis-generating analysis, and we would love to also see this type of finding replicated in other large datasets. That being said, there are no other large left main or new multi-vessel disease trials that are planned right now to my knowledge, and I think given the breadth of this dataset and its size and scope, I do think that these findings are robust enough to use BNP as one of the clinical factors to consider in revascularization decisions.
Dr Torbjørn Omland: I actually agree with that and I think ideally, we would, of course, like to see external validation in another dataset and even retrospective randomized study comparing conventional versus BNP-guided strategy but that may not be realistically undertaken. So, I think these are clearly the best data we have and as clinicians need to integrate this in our overall evaluation in making this important decision.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Yeah, I mean Gregg, could I ask you, do you apply this clinically already?
Dr Gregg Stone: We have not been before this, although I believe we will now. I believe BNP should be a biomarker that we more routinely measure in patients with ischemic heart disease as well as those with overt congestive heart failure. And again, use as one of the factors of many when making revascularization decisions. And I think it's important to note also that the PCI patients tended to preferentially benefit, in fact with even lower mortality when BNP was lower. Where the surgical patients tended to benefit when BNP was higher. So, it's one factor, not the only factor, but I think it's one additional piece of the puzzle.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Yeah, I have to say too I mean, after reading this, after reading this awesome editorial, it's hard not to think I should be applying this clinically because it's going to be really hard and take a long time to prove this with more prospective data, for example. Although, external validation and other datasets may be better, this is the largest trial already to show this and show it so clearly with a significant interaction. I think that is striking to me.
Torbjørn maybe I've put you on the spot with the last word, does this change your clinical practice?
Dr Torbjørn Omland: I agree with Gregg. This will be one of maybe several other factors but I think it's ready for being taken into account when making this sometimes very difficult decision.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Thank you so much Gregg and Torbjørn for joining me today. You've been listening to Circulation on the Run. Don't forget to tune in again next week.
Circulation July 24, 2018 0
Dr Carolyn Lam: Welcome to Circulation on the Run, your weekly podcast summary and backstage pass to the journal and its editors. I'm Dr Carolyn Lam, associate editor from the National Heart Center and Duke National University of Singapore. Did you know that despite being one of the wealthiest nations in the world, the United States population has a shorter life expectancy compared to almost all other high-income countries in the world? Well, stay tuned to learn what Americans could do to narrow the life expectancy gap between the United States and other industrialized nations. Coming right up after these summaries.
Are microRNAs involved in nitrate tolerance? Well, the first original paper this week provides some answers. This is from co-corresponding authors Dr Bai and Zhang from Central South University in Changsha, China. Nitrate tolerance develops when there's dysfunction of the prostaglandin I2 synthase and prostaglandin I2 deficiency. These authors hypothesize that prostaglandin I2 synthase gene expression may be regulated by a microRNA-dependent mechanism in endothelial cells. They induce nitrovasodilator resistance by nitroglycerin infusion in Apoe deficient mice and studied endothelial function in both the mouse models as well as human umbilical vein endothelial cells. They found that nitric oxide donors induced atopic expression of microRNA 199a/b in endothelial cells, which was required for the nitrovasodilator resistance via repression of prostaglandin I2 synthase gene expression. Targeting this axis effectively improved nitrate tolerance. Thus, the atopic expression of microRNA 199 in endothelial cells induced by nitric oxide may explain prostaglandin I2 synthase deficiency in the progression of nitric tolerance. Thus, microRNA 199a/b may be a novel target for the treatment of nitric tolerance.
What are the long-term outcomes of childhood left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy? Well, the next paper presents results from the National Population-Based Study in Australia. First author, Dr Shi, corresponding author, Dr Weintraub, from Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, looked at the National Australian Childhood Cardiomyopathy Study, which includes all children in Australia with primary cardiomyopathy diagnosed at less than 10 years of age between 1987 and 1996. Outcomes for left ventricular noncompaction patients with a dilated phenotype will compare to those with a dilated cardiomyopathy.
There were 29 patients with left ventricular noncompaction with a mean annual incidence of newly diagnosed cases of 0.11 per hundredth thousand at risks persons.
Congestive heart failure was initial symptom in 83%, and 93% had a dilated phenotype. The median age at diagnosis was 0.3 years of age. Freedom from death or transplantation was 48% at 10 years after diagnosis, and 45% at 15 years. Using propensity score inverse probability of treatment-weighted Cox regression, the authors found evidence that left ventricular noncompaction with a dilated phenotype was associated with a more than two-fold greater risk of death or transplantation.
The next paper reports the first application of multiomics and network medicine to calcific aortic valve disease. Co-first authors Dr Schlotter and Halu, corresponding author Dr Aikawa from Brigham and Woman's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, and their colleagues examined 25 human stenotic aortic valves obtained from valve replacement surgeries. They used multiple modalities, including transcriptomics and global unlabeled and label-based tandem-mass-tagged proteomics.
Segmentation of valves into disease stage–specific samples was guided by near-infrared molecular imaging. Anatomic-layer specificity was facilitated by laser capture microdissection. Side-specific cell cultures was subjected to multiple calcifying stimuli, and the calcification potential and basil or stimulated proteomics were evaluated. Furthermore, molecular interaction networks were built, and their central proteins and disease associations were identified.
The authors found that global transcriptional and protein expression signatures differed between the nondiseased, fibrotic, and calcific stages of calcific aortic valve disease. Anatomical aortic valve microlayers exhibited unique proteome profiles that were maintained throughout disease progression and identified glial fibrillary acidic protein as a specific marker of valvula interstitial cells from the spongiosa layer. In vitro, fibrosa-derived valvular interstitial cells demonstrated greater calcification potential than those from the ventricularis. Analysis of protein-protein interaction networks further found a significant closeness to multiple inflammatory and fibrotic diseases. This study is significant because it is the first application of spatially and temporarily resolved multiomics and network systems biology strategy to identify molecular regulatory networks in calcific aortic valve disease. It provides network medicine–based rational for putative utility of antifibrotic and anti-inflammatory therapies in the treatment of calcific aortic valve disease. It also sets a roadmap for the multiomic study of complex cardiovascular diseases.
The final paper tackles the controversy of antibiotic prophylaxis for the prevention of infective endocarditis during invasive dental procedures. This is from a population-based study in Taiwan. First author, Dr Chen, corresponding author, Dr Tu from Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine College of Public Health in National Taiwan University aimed to estimate the association between invasive dental treatments and infective endocarditis using the health insurance database in Taiwan.
They chose 2 case-only study designs. First a case-crossover, and second, self-controlled case series. Both designs used within-subject comparisons such that confounding factors were implicitly adjusted for. They found that invasive dental treatments did not appear to be associated with a larger risk of infective endocarditis in the short period following invasive dental treatment. Results were consistent from both study designs. The authors also did not find any association between invasive dental treatments and infective endocarditis even among the high-risk patients, such as those with a history of rheumatic disease or valve replacement.
In summary, these authors found no evidence to support antibiotic prophylaxis for the prevention of infective endocarditis before invasive dental treatments in the Taiwanese population. Whether antibiotic prophylaxis is necessary in other populations requires further study.
Alright, so that wraps it up for our summaries, now for our feature discussion.
The United States is one of the wealthiest nations worldwide, but Americans have a shorter life expectancy compared with almost all other high-income countries. In fact, the US ranks only 31st in the world for life expectancy at birth in 2015. What are the factors that contribute to premature mortality and life expectancy in the US? Well, today's feature paper gives us some answers. And I'm just delighted to have with us the corresponding author, Dr Frank Hu from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, as well as our dear associate editor, Dr Jarett Berry, from UT Southwestern.
Frank, could you begin by telling us a bit more about the inspiration for looking at this, what you did, and what you found?
Dr Frank Hu: So, we look at the impact of healthy lifestyle habits, life expectancy in the US as a nation. As you just mentioned, Americans have a shorter life expectancy compared with almost all other high-income countries, so in this study we wanted to estimate what kind of impact of lifestyle factors have, premeasured that and life expectancy in the US population.
What we did is to combine three datasets. One is our large cohort, Nurses’ Health Study, and Health Professionals Follow-Up Study. We use this large cohort to estimate the relationships between lifestyle habits and mortality. And the second data set we use is to get age and sex to specific mortality rates in the US as a nation. This is the CDC WONDER dataset. And the third dataset we used is the NHANES dataset, this is the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. We used this dataset to get the prevalence of healthy lifestyle factors in the general US as a nation. So, we used the three datasets to create age-specific, sex-specific life tables and estimated life expectancies.
At age 50, according to the number of healthy lifestyle habits that people would follow, what we found is that following several lifestyle factors can make a huge difference in life expectancies.
Here we talk about five basic lifestyle factors: not smoking, maintaining a healthy weight, exercise regularly—at least a half hour per day—and eating a healthy diet, and not drinking too much alcohol. No more than one drink per day for a woman, no more than two drinks per day for men. What we found is that, compared with people who did not adapt any of those low-risk habits, we estimated that the life expectancy at age 50 was 29 years for woman and about 26 years for men. But for people who adapted all five healthy lifestyle habits, life expectancy at age 50 was 43 years for women and 38 years for men. So, in other words, a woman who maintains all 5 healthy habits gained, on average, 14 years of life, and the men who did so gained 12 years life compared with those who didn't maintain healthy lifestyle habits. So I think this is a very important public health message. It means that following several bases of healthy factors can add substantial amount of life expectancy to the US population, and this could help to reduce the gap in life expectancy between the US population and other developed countries.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Thank you, Frank. You know that is such an important public health message that I am going to repeat it. Adhering to five lifestyle risk factors mainly, don't smoke, maintain a healthy weight, have regular physical activity, maintain a healthy diet, and have moderate alcohol consumption, AND a woman could increase her life expectancy at age 50 by 14 years and a man could do that by 12 years more. That is absolutely amazing.
Okay so Frank, actually, I do have a question though. These are remarkable datasets obviously, but they also go back to the 1980s. So did you see any chief risk factor that may have played more predominant apart with time?
Dr Frank Hu: We didn't specifically look at the changes in risk factors life expectancy, but among the five risk factors, not smoking is certainly the most important factor in terms of improving life expectancy. The good news is that prevalent smoking in the US has decreased substantially in the past several decades. However, the prevalence of other risk factors has actually increased. For example, the prevalence of obesity has increased two- or three-fold and the prevalence of regular exercise remained at a very low level, and also the diet quality in the US population is relatively poor. So, the combination of those risk factors have contributed to relatively low life expectancies in the US population.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Right. Obesity, not smoking, I hear you. I just wanted to point out to all the listeners too, you have to take a look at Figure 1 of this beautiful paper, it’s just so beautifully illustrated in it.
Jarett, you helped to manage and bring this paper through. What are your thoughts?
Dr Jarett Berry: Yeah, I just want to echo your comments, Carolyn, and Dr Hu. This is a fabulous paper, and a very important contribution characterizing these important associations in the US population. And I think, and the discussion thus far has been really helpful in putting all of this into context.
I do want to ask you, just a couple of, I guess more, philosophical questions about some of the observations in the paper. And one of them is the prevalence of the low-risk factor, those with a large number of low-risk factors, for example, in both the Nurses Health and in the Health Professional Follow-Up Study, you observed that the presence of five lifestyle factors was less than 2%. And it's interesting you see this in a large number of datasets and I think important, maybe for our readers to realize that there's two sides to the coin here.
One, the benefit of these low risk factors, but also, unfortunately, the low prevalence of these collections of healthy lifestyle factors that you've outlined.
Could you comment a little bit on that, and what that means, both maybe from a scientific point of view of perhaps, more importantly, from a public health stand point?
Dr Frank Hu: Yeah and this is very important observation and the number of people or the percentage of people who maintained all the five low-risk lifestyle habits is quite low in our cohort, even the nurses and health professionals, they are more health conscience in the general population. They have much better access to health care and also better access to healthy foods and have physical activity facilities. Despite all this potential advantages, and these more percentage of people who are able to maintain all five lifestyle risk factors.
On the other hand, about 10 to 15% of our participants did not adopt any of the five low-risk lifestyle habits. So it means that we still have a lot of work to do in terms of improving the lifestyle habits that we discussed earlier. The five risk lifestyle factors and in the general population, I think the percentage of people who adapt all the five lifestyle factors, probably even lower than 2%. And so that means that we have a huge public health challenge in front of us and have to improving the five lifestyle risk factors. One of the most important public health challenges as mentioned earlier is obesity because currently we have two-third of the US population is overweight or obese. So that's something I think is major public health challenges for us.
Dr Jarett Berry: Right, and it’s interesting looking at your Table 1, and those individuals who have all five low risk factors. It's interesting that the prevalence of physical activity was incredibly high. I have a great interest of impact of exercise on these types of outcomes and it's interesting that in both cohorts, six or seven hours a week of exercise was the mean physical activity level in those with five risk factors. So, it's interesting and in some ways, these lifestyle factors, they do tend to congregate or covary with one another such that those individuals who do spend that kind of time, albeit unfortunately more rare than we would like to see it, the increase in physical activity does tend to have a positive impact, not only on the weight, but also on healthy lifestyle or healthy diet choices.
Dr Frank Hu: Right, yeah this is a very good observation that what I do want to point out that our definition of regular exercise is pretty cerebral to put it in terms of the definition. So we define moderate to vigorous physical activity in our cohorts. We included not just running, playing sports, but it was also walking in a moderate intensity. So it means that people can incorporate physical activity into their daily life. For example, by walking from a train station and with climbing stairs in their workplace and so on and so forth. So here physical activity means both recreational activity and also moderate intensity activities such as graceful walking.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Frank, I think both of us listening are breathing a sigh of relief there and just for the listeners to understand too. These factors were dichotomized, right, and so you were describing the type of exercise and actually you used a three and a half hour per week limit to define healthy or not.
Similarly, just for reference the alcohol intake was 5 to 15g a day for women, or 5 to 30g a day for men. And normal weight was defined as a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9. I'm just thinking that if I were listening I'd want to know those cutoffs.
Now, can I ask a follow-up question, therefore to this dichotomy. As far as I understand you counted each of these risk factors equally, but did you try to do a weighted analysis by any chance? Did any one of them play a bigger role than others?
Dr Frank Hu: That's an interesting mathematical question because it’s very difficult to assign different weights to different risk factors because we look at, not just total mortality but also cardiovascular mortality and cancer mortality. So, you would have to use different weights for different causes of mortality. That would make the analysis much more complicated. But we did calculate a different type of score using five categories of each risk factor and then using that score, we were able to rank people in more categories so for that score the range is from five to 25, and we categorized people into quintiles or even more categories and the contrast in life expectancy between the lowest and the highest group is even greater. So, it means that, the higher number of healthy lifestyle factors, the greater life expectancy. Also, with each category, each lifestyle factors a high degree of adherence to that factor, the greater health benefit people will get. So, I think it's really accumulative fact of multiple risk factors and also the degree of adherence to each of the factors.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Again, such an important public health message.
Jarett, how do you think this is going to be received by the public at large?
Dr Jarett Berry: Very well received. I mean this is a very important observation demonstrating some of these disconcerting observations about life expectancy in the United States and as we think about strategies for improving the public health, I think Dr Hu's group has really helped us outline, very clearly, what other bodies such as the American Heart Association have been saying for years now, that lifestyle factors are so important in influencing cardiovascular risk, and in this case, life expectancy. It really does put, once again, the right amount of emphasis on the role these lifestyle factors of improving the public health. I think it’s going to be very well received and really helpful and important observation that all of us need to hear.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Listeners, don't forget this important message and tell your friends about it, please.
Thanks for joining us today, don't forget to join us again next week.
In this day and age of endovascular treatment for acute ischemic stroke, does time to treatment really matter? Well, we will be discussing results of the MR CLEAN Registry from real-world clinical practice, coming right up after these summaries.
The first original paper this week describes the first mouse model of progerin-induced atherosclerosis acceleration. Progerin is an aberrant protein that accumulates with age, causes a rare genetic disease known as Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome. Patients with Progeria Syndrome have ubiquitous progerin expression and exhibit accelerated aging and atherosclerosis, dying in their early teens mainly from myocardial infarction or stroke. The mechanisms underlying progerin-induced atherosclerosis remain unexplored, in part due to the lack of appropriate animal models. First author Dr Hamczyk, corresponding author Dr Andrews, and colleagues from CNIC in Madrid performed an elegant series of experiments and generated not only the first mouse model of progerin-induced acceleration of atherosclerosis, but also provided the first direct evidence that progerin expression restricted to vascular smooth muscle cells but not to macrophages was sufficient to induce premature atherosclerosis and death. Progerin-induced loss of vascular smooth muscle cells caused atherosclerotic plaque destabilization that led to myocardial infarction. Ubiquitous and vascular smooth muscle cell specific progerin expression increased LDL retention in aortic media, likely accelerating atherosclerosis.
The next original paper implicates dysregulation of mitochondrial dynamics as a therapeutic target in human and experimental pulmonary arterial hypertension. Now, mitotic fission is increased in pulmonary arterial hypertension. The fission mediator, dynamin-related protein 1, or Drp1, must complex with adaptor proteins to cause fission. In the current paper from co-first authors Dr Chen and Dasgupta, corresponding author Dr Archer from Queens University in Ontario Canada, and colleagues, the authors examined the role of two recently discovered but poorly understood Drp1 adaptor proteins known as mitochondrial dynamics protein of 49 and 51 kilodalton. They found pathological elevation of these mitochondrial dynamic proteins in pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells and endothelial cells in both human and experimental pulmonary arterial hypertension that accelerated mitotic fission and supported rapid cell proliferation. Mitochondrial dynamics protein's expression was epigenetically upregulated by a decreased expression of microRNA-34a-3p. Circulatory microRNA-34a-3p expression was decreased in both patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension and preclinical models, silencing the mitochondrial dynamics proteins or augmenting microRNA-34a-3p regressed experimental pulmonary arterial hypertension, thus, proving to be potential new therapeutic targets for pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Dyslipidemia guidelines currently recommend that non-HDL cholesterol and apolipoprotein B, or apoB, are secondary targets to the primary target of LDL cholesterol. However, how frequently does non-HDL cholesterol guideline targets change management, and what is the utility of apoB targets after meeting LDL and non-HDL targets?
Well, answers are provided in the next paper from first author Dr Sathiyakumar, corresponding author Dr Martin, and colleagues from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. These authors analyzed more than 2,500 adults in the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, as well as more than 126,000 patients from the Very Large Database of Lipids Study with apoB. They identified all individuals as well as those with high-risk clinical features, including coronary disease, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome who met the very high and high-risk guidelines targets of LDL cholesterol of less than 70 and less than 100 mg/dL, respectively, and this was measured using either the Friedewald estimation or a novel, more accurate method. They found that after using the more accurate method of estimating LDL cholesterol, guidelines suggested non-HDL targets could alter management in only 1 to 2% of individuals, including those with coronary disease and other high risk clinical features.
However, using the Friedewald estimated LDL cholesterol gave a much higher percentage. Among all individuals with both LDL cholesterol less than 100 and non-HDL cholesterol less than 130 mg/dL, only 0-0.4% had an apoB above or equal to 100 mg/dL. Thus, the utility of current non-HDL targets appears to be contingent on the accuracy of LDL cholesterol estimation. When using a novel, more accurate estimation method to assess LDL cholesterol, the non-HDL cholesterol is infrequently above current guidelines' suggested targets after the LDL target is met. Current guidelines suggest that apoB targets also provide only modest utility after cholesterol targets are met. These findings were robust to high-risk clinical features, sex, fasting status, and presence of lipid-lowering therapies.
The final paper tells us that HIV infection increases the risk of developing peripheral artery disease. Dr Beckman from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and colleagues studied almost 92,000 participants in the Veterans Aging Cohort Study from 2003-2014 over a median follow-up of nine years. They excluded participants with known prior peripheral artery disease or prevalent cardiovascular disease. They found that infection with HIV was associated with a 19% increased risk of incident peripheral artery disease beyond that explained by traditional atherosclerotic risk factors. Once peripheral artery disease had developed, HIV infection increased the risk of mortality compared to uninfected patients. Whereas for those with sustained CD4 cell counts above 500, there was no excess risk of incident peripheral artery disease events compared to uninfected people. Furthermore, worsening HIV infection as measured by CD4 cell count and HIV viral load was associated with increased incident peripheral artery disease and mortality. In summary, HIV infection increased the risk of developing peripheral artery disease and mortality. The findings also suggest that aggressive antiretroviral therapy to reduce viral load and increase CD4 cell counts may reduce the risk of developing peripheral artery disease. Furthermore, clinicians should solicit clinical complaints and physical signs consistent with peripheral artery disease to facilitate the diagnosis of peripheral artery disease in patients with HIV and ensure the addition of guideline-based anti-atherosclerotic therapies in these patients.
When it comes to acute ischemic stroke treatment, we've learned from trials of intravenous thrombolytics that time is brain. But what about the situation with endovascular treatment of strokes? Also, what's the situation like in the real world? Well, today's featured paper really provides precious data telling us about time-to-endovascular treatment and outcomes in acute ischemic stroke. I am so delighted to have with us the first and corresponding author of the MR CLEAN Registry, Dr Maxim Mulder from Erasmus University Medical Center, as well as our editorialist, Dr Micheal Hill, from University of Calgary, and our associate editor, Dr Graeme Hankey, from University of Western Australia, all here to discuss this hugely important topic.
Maxim, could we start with you? So, MR CLEAN Registry means there was a MR CLEAN trial. Could you tell us a little bit more about your paper?
Dr Maxim Mulder: Sure, well to start with, I think it's important to make sure all the people know the difference between the MR CLEAN trial and the registry since of course the trial was to show whether the intra-arterial treatment is effective when it comes to acute ischemic stroke treatments and then, of course, for people treated within six hours. When the MR CLEAN trial finished we continued in the Netherlands with all the participating centers from the trial to gather all the data from everybody who is treating in the whole country with the intra-arterial treatment, but they're not anymore in the light of the trial but in the clinical practice. We've had a lot of trials, but we don't have a lot of clinical practice date yet of the intra-arterial treatment, so that's where it all started.
So, what we found is we consider our data, so with the least possible selections or the only selection was basically to treat within six and a half hours and have patients that had a proven large vessel occlusion that were treated in the Netherlands and of course as we also know from when intravenous therapy was introduced that what happens in clinical trials doesn't necessarily happen when a new treatment is introduced into clinical practice. There are less strict criteria for patients to get treated, and you know everybody, of course, there is a lot of debate about which patients should be treated. In clinical trials it is very strictly coordinated, but in clinical practice there's a lot more room to have an interpretation and also treat a different population. So, we also see that our population is somewhat older and has more comorbidities than in all the trials. Also what we found, of course, our most important finding was that when compared to all the trials or the large trials combined together in the Emberson analysis about time that when we look at the influence or the association of time with functional outcome of intra-arterial treatment that this association is clearly stronger than we found in the previous, the trial data.
So, I think that's a very important finding. Also, for everybody who's now treating this patient in clinical practice.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Exactly. I mean this is really stunning results. If I could paraphrase from your paper, every hour delay in time from stroke onset to the start of endovascular treatment resulted in a 5.3% decreased probability of functional independence and a 2.2% increase in mortality. This is stunning. Thank you, thank you for publishing these results with us in Circulation. I would like to ask Michael, I love the point you made in the editorial that time of stroke onset is really quite a difficult thing to determine. Could you tell us your thoughts about that, Michael?
Dr Micheal Hill: I mean, it's something like 15-20% of the time stroke is unwitnessed, either because stroke occurs in sleep and the patient is discovered with their stroke symptoms on awakening. Or the patient is simply alone and has their stroke unwitnessed by any bystander. Even in so-called witness stroke, there are probably significant errors in determining the exact time of stroke onset because it's an emergency, and everybody's flustered and time anchors are not necessarily well known. And, so, I think it's an important point that the actual measurement of time is challenging, yet it's still an easier clinical tool for us to use in gauging the extent or evolution of stroke. That's the most important thing to point out here is that this population effect that Max has observed in the MR CLEAN registry is certainly concordant with clinical trial data.
I certainly think it's correct, and, as you pointed out in your comments, dramatic, but a really important issue is that for the individual patient, there's quite a lot of variance in the evolution of stroke. So, whereas, on a population basis, it's absolutely true that the average time from estimated time of stroke onset to treatment initiation is absolutely critical; in some patients, the individual might be still a good candidate for treatment even in late time windows, and some patients, even after a couple hours, the damage is already extensive, and they may not be good candidates for treatment. It still requires individual decision making, and it still leaves a lot of room for clinical judgment largely based on imaging.
Dr Carolyn Lam: True, and I think you've really succinctly put that solid take-home message in the title really, which is acute ischemic stroke biology really demands fast treatment. I think that's the one thing that we'd really like clinicians to come away with. You agree?
Dr Micheal Hill: Absolutely. Especially, I think, the advantage of looking at whole populations and large, I mean this is a large registry, the MR CLEAN registry, and the group should be congratulated because it's clearly the biggest registry in the world right now of available data, and it's only getting larger week by week as they carry on with their work. You know the whole Netherlands group, the MR CLEAN group, are a fantastic group, but absolutely right, on a population basis, we absolutely have to get our systems in place so that on average we're treating patients incredibly fast. On an individual basis, the clinicians and the teams treating an individual patient still need to make judgments about that patient's eligibility for treatment. It's easy when the times are fast, so if you're an hour and a half from onset, nearly everybody's gonna be a good candidate for treatment, but as time elapses you need to make judgements on the basis of imaging.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Well put. You know, Graeme, you're over there in Australia. What are your take-home messages about how generalizable these findings are to places outside perhaps of the Netherlands?
Dr Graeme Hankey: I think you're asking about the external validity. I think the internal validity is certainly there. As Michael said, this is the largest registry that we have that's been published data on this before. It's certainly novel, and we're very confident that the results are valid, although this is an observational study and not a randomized trial. The association between time and outcome seems to be independent of the major patient factors that may influence time to endovascular therapy. For example, younger people who are less frail and they're alert and they're mobile can get to treatment earlier. So, you might say, well of course they're gonna have a better outcome. But these factors were adjusted for. And, of course, there are procedural factors that could influence the association between time and outcome, but we're very confident in the results and the novelty of them in supporting and building on the randomized trial data.
We're also very confident in the registry and the nature of the population. The results are likely to be generalizable beyond the Netherlands population where this was conducted in routine clinical practice, certainly across Caucasian populations that are similar and with similar stroke interventional and assessment protocols, and I would hope to see this sort of study validated externally in other populations. But, also, as Michael said, I think this study not just highlights the importance of time as a factor and its implications for systems of care and recognizing people with disabling stroke and ensuring they’re assisted urgently to the appropriate imaging but also to acknowledge that time isn't the only factor. And as Michael has alluded to, our brain tissue has different collateral circulations and different probable genetic factors and metabolic factors. So, someone with a stroke at one hour, it might be all over for them. Whereas, another person with a stroke at 24 hours ago, they might have salvageable tissue.
So, although, generally time is an important prognosticator as we've learned here, there are probably other factors that need to be considered and accounted for. But this certainly takes us a step forward, and, in answer to your question, I think we have confidence in its generalizability.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Thank you Graeme. Maxim, in line with that, are there any next steps you plan?
Dr Maxim Mulder: In light of the most recent trials, the DAWN and DEFUSE 3 trial about 6 to 25-hour, 24-hour window, I think that both of the trials are very exciting, and they shine a new light into a new set of patients that are still able to offer a great benefit intra-arterial treatment. In my opinion, the most important thing, especially in those two trials, those are highly selective patients, especially selected on all the extra imaging parameters, and I guess that there's a whole larger population that could still benefit in this time window and that's also one of the things we're currently studying in one of our new trials in the Netherlands in the MR CLEAN-LATE trial, and that is randomizing patients who are having a large vascular occlusion 6 to 24 hours, and the only extra criteria they should meet is they should have at least a little bit of collateral circulation on the ischemic brain side.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Michael and Graeme, what do you think are the priorities for next steps in research.
Dr Micheal Hill: I guess overall in the field, I don't think there's any doubt that faster treatment is better. What we need to do across the world is make sure that everybody's receiving it on a system-wide basis. Right? I think there needs to be a lot of more careful work done on getting systems of care in place to make sure that patients are getting the treatment they can get. We have very many weaknesses. Some are related to lack of accreditation. Some are related to the resources required to get people treated quickly. Some are related to continuing resistance in some specialties to even giving intravenous thrombolytic drugs. So, I think faster treatment in general for acute stroke is a theme; it's not just limited to endovascular treatment. It's treatment for patients for intravenous thrombolysis. It's also actually true for TIA and minor stroke. We've had recent data on fast antiplatelet therapy, so, it's not an emergency in the same way in terms of minutes, but it's still a general theme of acute stroke care.
We need to be like the Ferraris and the Formula One, right? And get ourselves moving. That's a big challenge for people. Right? It's a big stress on systems. But, I think there are other examples in medicine. We've seen this evolution in acute coronary care, and we've seen the evolution in acute trauma care. In many ways, the next things that need to really continue to happen are publications like this and getting the message out that people need to start changing their mind. The biggest thing that I find when I talk to people or talk at meetings or talk to administrators is that they say, "Well, we can't do this many CTs that fast. We can't respond that fast." And the answer is actually that you can't change the biology of the disease, so if you decide you wanna treat stroke patients, you better figure out how to change your systems. It's a question of will here rather than trying to bend the disease to the system.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Wonderfully put. Can't change the biology so we better change the systems. How about you, Graeme? Any last words?
Dr Graeme Hankey: Just to concur with Michael’s comments there and Max's underlying theme that time is very important. And as Michael alludes to, it's not just acute ischemic stroke due to large vascular disease, it's also acute intracerebral hemorrhage. We're learning now really if we're gonna have an effect in the bleeding brain probably we have to do that within the first three hours and maybe not be waiting so late. And as Michael alludes to, someone with a minor ischemic stroke who's had a hot volcano gone off in their neck, as you know, ruptured atherosclerotic plaque, it's like those volcanoes in Hawaii, they're gonna keep going off again. And the risk is 5% in the next two days and 10% in the next week. So, a TIA and a mild ischemic stroke, it is a medical emergency to find the cause and to get it treated, and that's why the synopsis of this message from Max's study is that people, if they do avail themselves of acute assessment early, even if they don't have a large vessel occlusion causing an ischemic stroke, they may actually have their intracerebral hemorrhage treated quickly or, more evidence based at the moment, their TIA or mild ischemic stroke have the cause ascertained and treated emergently and reduce that early risk of recurrence should they survive.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Excellent points. Thank you so much, gentlemen. This has been an amazing podcast.
Thank you so much for joining us today. Don't forget to tune in again next week, listeners.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Welcome to Circulation on the Run, your weekly podcast summary and backstage pass to the journal and its editors. I'm Dr Carolyn Lam, associate editor for the National Heart Center, and Duke National University of Singapore.
How do resuscitation teams at top-performing hospitals for in-hospital cardiac arrest actually succeed? Well, to learn how, you have to keep listening to the podcast, because we will be discussing this right after these summaries.
The first original paper this week tells us that recent developments in RNA amplification strategies may provide a unique opportunity to use small amounts of input RNA for genome wide-sequencing of single cells. Co-first authors, Dr Gladka and Molenaar, corresponding author, Dr van Rooij, and colleagues from Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, the Netherlands, present a method to obtain high-quality RNA from digested cardiac tissue, from adult mice, for automated single-cell sequencing of both healthy and diseased hearts.
Based on differential gene expression, the authors were also able to identify multiple subpopulations within a certain cell type. Furthermore, applying single-cell sequencing on both the healthy and injured heart indicated the presence of disease-specific cells subpopulations.
For example, they identified cytoskeleton-associated protein 4 as a novel marker for activated fibroblasts that positively correlated with known myofibroblast markers, in both mouse and human cardiac tissue. This paper raises the exciting possibility for new biology discovery using single-cell sequencing that can ultimately lead to the development of novel therapeutic strategies.
Myeloid-derived suppressor cells are a heterogeneous population of cells that expand in cancer, inflammation, and infection, and negatively regulate inflammation. However, their role in heart failure was unclear, at least until today's paper in this week's journal. Co-first authors Dr Zhou, Miao, and Yin, and co-corresponding authors, Dr Wang and Li, from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, measured the myeloid-derived suppressor cells by flow cytometry in heart failure patients and in mice with pressure overload–induced heart failure, using isoproterenol infusion or transverse aortic constriction.
They found that the proportion of myeloid-derived suppressor cells was linked to heart failure severity. Cardiac hypertrophy, dysfunction, and inflammation were exacerbated by depletion of myeloid-derived suppressor cells but alleviated by cell transfer. Monocytic myeloid-derived suppressor cells exerted an antihypertrophic effect on cardiomyocyte nitric oxide, but monocytic and granulocytic myeloid-derived suppressor cells displayed antihypertrophic and anti-inflammatory properties through interleukin 10.
Rapamycin increased accumulation of myeloid-derived suppressor cells by suppressing their differentiation, which in part mediated its cardioprotective mechanisms. Thus, these findings revealed a cardioprotective role from myeloid-derived suppressor cells in heart failure by their antihypertrophic effects on cardiomyocytes and anti-inflammatory effects through interleukin 10 and nitric oxide. Pharmacological targeting of myeloid-derived suppressor cells by rapamycin constitutes a promising therapeutic strategy for heart failure.
In the FOURIER trial, the PCSK9 inhibitor evolocumab reduced LDL cholesterol and cardiovascular risk in patients with stable atherosclerotic disease. However, was the efficacy of evolocumab modified by baseline inflammatory risk?
While Dr Bohula from the TIMI Study Group and colleagues explored this question by examining the efficacy of evolocumab stratified by baseline high sensitivity CRP. They also assessed the importance of inflammatory and residual cholesterol risk across the range of on-treatment LDL concentrations. They found that the relative benefit of evolocumab for the prevention of adverse cardiovascular events was consistent, irrespective of baseline high sensitivity CRP. However, because patients with higher high sensitivity CRP levels had higher rates of adverse cardiovascular events, they also tended to experience greater absolute benefit with evolocumab.
In an analysis of baseline high sensitivity CRP in achieved LDL cholesterol, the authors found that at first cardiovascular event rates were independently associated with both LDL cholesterol and high sensitive CRP. Event rates were lowest in patients with the lowest hsCRP and LDL cholesterol, supporting the relevance of both inflammatory and residual cholesterol risk.
The next paper provides further evidence that residual inflammatory risk, as measured by on-treatment high sensitivity CRP, remains an important clinical issue in patients on combination statin and PCSK9 inhibitor therapy. Dr Pradhan, from Brigham and Women's Hospital and colleagues, evaluated the residual inflammatory risk among patients participating in the SPIRE-1 and -2 cardiovascular outcome trials, who are receiving both statin therapy and the PCSK9 inhibitor bococizumab, according to on-treatment levels of high sensitivity CRP and LDL cholesterol measured 14 weeks after drug initiation.
They found that among high-risk stable outpatients treated with moderate or high-intensity statins and PCSK9 inhibition, roughly one in two had residual inflammatory risk defined by an on-treatment high sensitivity CRP level of 2 or more mg per liters, and roughly one in three had values above 3 mg per liter.
PCSK9 inhibition was associated with a 60% mean reduction in LDL cholesterol but little change in high sensitivity CRP. Levels of high sensitivity CRP above 3 mg per liter were associated with a 60% greater risk of future cardiovascular events, corresponding to a 3.6% annual event rate, even after accounting for on-treatment LDL cholesterol.
Thus, PCSK9 inhibition, added to statin therapy in stable outpatients, does not lower high sensitivity CRP. Persistent elevations of CRP is associated with future cardiovascular risk in these patients, even after low levels of LDL cholesterol are achieved. If corroborated, these data suggests that inflammation modulation may yet have a role in the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease when LDL cholesterol is already controlled. Well, that wraps it up for our summaries. Now, for our future discussion.
In-hospital cardiac arrests are common worldwide and they're so important because they represent opportunities for us to improve survival. Now, yet, overall rates of hospital survival after in-hospital cardiac arrests remain poor and there is substantial variation across facilities. This may be surprising because we all seem to follow or should follow the same ACLS algorithms across the world and yet, there are different outcomes.
How do resuscitation teams, at top performing hospitals, for in-hospital cardiac arrest, how do they succeed? Pleased to be discussing this with a real star team in today's podcast. We have first and corresponding author of our feature paper, Dr Brahmajee Nallamothu. We also have Dr Steven Kronick, who is the chair of the CPR committee and both are from University of Michigan Medical School. We also have Dr Sana Al-Khatib, who is a senior associate editor of Circ, from Duke University. So, welcome everyone! Let’s go straight into it. Maybe starting with you Brahmajee, could you tell us what inspired you to perform this study?
Dr Brahmajee Nallamothu Thank you, Carolyn, for giving us the opportunity to talk about this study. I'm an interventional cardiologist here at the University of Michigan and typically, this isn't an area that interventional cardiologists are really greatly involved with. I became interested because I also, at times, I round in the cardiac intensive care unit, and that's a place where a lot of patients often times end up after they've had an in-hospital cardiac arrest at our institution and what I've noticed over the years, is the variability in care that would be occurring out there, and then also lots of gaps in the literature.
Over a decade or so ago, I started partnering with a close friend and colleague, Paul Chan, from the Mid America Heart Institute and we started to do a series of studies on how in-hospital cardiac arrest care varies across institutions in the United States and we published a number of articles that have been in really high-profile journals over the last 10 years, but the problem has always been that even though we could describe really well what was happening, we had very little understanding of why it was happening or how certain hospitals were seeming to outperform others in this really challenging situation.
We wanted to dive a bit deeper into the questions and reasons behind top performers doing so well and that's what brought us on to doing this study.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Great. You want to tell us a little bit about it? It's really very different from the other CPR studies I've seen. Could you tell us about it and what you've found?
Dr Brahmajee Nallamothu: Sure, so in the broader framework, it's a qualitative study and what I mean by qualitative is, we didn't really collect data either through surveys or through outcome assessments. What we did was, we actually went out and talked to people.
The study though was really focused on what people call a mixed methods approach. We didn't just randomly talk to different hospitals, we actually focused on hospitals that were at the top-performing levels. We also focused on some hospitals that were non-top-performing as well, to get some contrast between the two and when I said we talked, we did this in a very systematic and pretty rigid way.
We always had four interviewers go out to nine hospitals. We split them up, so we had two content experts and then two methodologic experts in qualitive studies, and we started to interview a bunch of people. In fact, we interviewed almost 160 people across these nine hospitals.
We interviewed everyone from CEOs and hospital leadership, down to boots on the ground, including both clinical providers and even non-clinical providers, such as spiritual care, security. We tried to get this comprehensive view of what was actually happening during an in-hospital cardiac arrest across these nine hospitals, and really the results were quite fascinating to us.
For someone, like myself, that's been in this space for ten years, I tell people I learn more talking to these nine hospitals than I have in the last ten years of looking at numbers on a spreadsheet. I really started to understand, for the first time, what was really going on, how these hospitals were dealing with these challenging situations because there's no bigger emergency in a hospital, and Steve, who we're going to hear from, we talk about this, but Steve has a great line about how when an in-hospital cardiac arrest occurs, that patient automatically becomes the sickest person in an institution and yet, we haven't set up systems that really build on how to handle that in the most consistent and positive way.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Oh, my goodness, I just love that line! Now, you have to tell us, so what's the secret? What's the secret of the succeeding hospitals?
Dr Brahmajee Nallamothu: What we found in general was, that resuscitation teams at top-performing hospitals really demonstrated the following features. They had dedicated or designated resuscitation teams. They really included the participation of diverse disciplines as team members during the in-hospital cardiac arrest. There were really clear roles and responsibilities of the team members that were set up right from the front.
There was better communication and leadership, actually, during these events and finally, in the training aspect, one of the unique things we found was, the top-performing hospitals seem to have a high rate of in-depth mock codes, that they used as strategies for getting their clinicians ready for these events.
Dr Carolyn Lam: As you were speaking I was just thinking through the experiences of in-hospital cardiac arrests that I've encountered, and you're right. These elements, though we don't talk about them much, make a huge difference. Steve, I am so curious about your outlook. I mean you must have attended a kajillion CPRs as chair of the CPR committee. Tell us, what do you think is the take home message for clinicians and hospitals?
Dr Steven Kronick: My field is in emergency medicine and as chair of the CPR committee, I have responsibility of overseeing how we respond to cardiac arrests in our hospitals. I think that many institutions spend a lot of time and effort looking at in-hospital cardiac arrests are managed, and how to improve on it. We're able to use data to help compare ourselves to similar institutions, but beyond the bottom line of either ROSC or survival to discharge, we've most relied on process measures to figure out what we're doing.
We're essentially flying blind, or at least not flying in any sort of formation when we do that. I think that this study validates some of the operational aspects of the arrest response, for those centers who use those and can help other decide where they want to direct their efforts. I think a good example that Brahmajee brought up, is this distinction we found between the use of dedicated teams, designated teams, or not having any organized team, and the impact that has on survival.
The use of these teams can mean significant use of resources but showing that it's associated with better outcomes help provide support for that concept and for those centers who might already use one of those models, it helps them to steer their efforts to improving the delivery or the efficiency of that model.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Yeah, and indeed. Congratulations to both of you, Steve and Brahmajee. I do think that these are novel contemporary data, at least the first that I know of. Sana, you handle the paper and recognize this. Could you tell us a little about what you think are the novel and important aspects?
Dr Sana Al-Khatib: I really have been a fan of this paper from the get go and yes, it doesn't have the quantitative analysis that the statistical modeling, most of us are used to. It is a qualitative study, but I think that gives it strength. It makes it unique. This type of research, it can really only be effectively done through a qualitative study that really has all the important aspects of a good qualitative study, so I do want to congratulate them. Clearly, a lot of work went into this, and I appreciate all their efforts.
In terms of the main findings, some of us might look at this data and say, well it's not surprising that those are the characteristics, or the features, of the top performing hospitals, but I felt like it was great, in terms of how the data were presented. Encouraging hospitals to adopt this. Giving them almost like a checklist of what they need to be doing to improve the outcomes of their in-hospital cardiac arrests, in terms of ensuring that they have designated resuscitation teams.
The whole idea about diversity of participants in these arrests, and making sure everyone has a clear role and responsibility. The whole idea of making sure that somebody takes leadership and you have clear and very good communication among the different people who are doing this and great training. In fact, these people were doing in-depth mock codes. I think that spells it out very nicely and gives a lot of the hospitals, hopefully, action items that they can implement to improve the outcomes these patients. I love this paper.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Sana, I love the way you put that. Checklist, and you know what I was thinking as Brahmajee and Steve were talking earlier? I was thinking blueprint, almost, of the things that we should have. So Steve, could I ask your thoughts. I mean, are you going to put some of these things into practice in your own committee and how?
Dr Steven Kronick: There are a variety of things we can do. Some of these things are a pretty high-functioning place, but still looking at recommendations that have been laid out and how we help modify those things. Though the example is the roles that people play at an arrest. We can certainly improve on assigning those roles, how people work together as a team, and then also, getting to work more as a team, so that when they are called upon to perform those duties, they can do it in a more coordinated way.
Dr Carolyn Lam: How beautifully put. I'm going to steal a couple of minutes at the end of this podcast. I really have to because it's so rare to have Brahmajee on the line today and he's the Editor-in-Chief of Circ: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. Brahmajee, could I ask you to say a few words to our worldwide audience about your journal?
Dr Brahmajee Nallamothu: We are a kind of daughter journal to Circulation. We are a bit more unique than the others, in the sense that we aren't disease or subspecialty focused. We deal with, broadly, the issues around outcomes research, health services research, quality of care research, and really health policy. We publish an issue once a month. We have a broad interest in things that are really relevant to the community around outcomes research and health services research.
I will say that I really appreciate this because of the worldwide audience and reach, one of the big issues we've been very interested in is expanding our reach, from the United States to other parts of the world, and in fact, last fall, we had a global health issue, which was well received, and we received papers from across the world.
In fact, every paper in that issue was a non-US-based paper, and it touched on a number of things from issues around healthcare utilization in Asia to demographics and disease registries in Africa, and it was a wonderful experience, so I think it's a journal that we're excited about.
It was first launched by Harlan Krumholz, who has set a high bar and standard for us, and I think that my editorial team, which has been fantastic, has continued with that work. We would love to see papers from your readers and your listeners from across the world and excited about what that journal is going to be doing in the next five years.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Oh wow! That's so cool! Well listeners, you heard it right here, first time on Circulation on the Run. Thank you so much for joining us today. Don't forget to tune in again next week.
Circulation July 3, 2018 Issue 0
Dr Carolyn Lam: Welcome to Circulation on the Run, your weekly podcast summary and backstage pass to the journal and its editors. I'm Dr Carolyn Lam, Associate Editor from the National Heart Center and Duke National University of Singapore. This week features Circulation Global Rounds, a brand-new series of papers from all across the world that you are going to want to hear about, coming right up after these summaries.
The first original paper this week tells us that community trends and acute decompensated heart failure may differ by race and sex. Dr Patricia Chang from University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and colleagues examine the 10-year rates and trends of hospitalized acute decompensated heart failure in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities or ARIC study, which sampled heart failure–related hospitalizations in four US communities from 2005 to 2014, using ICD-9 codes. They found that acute heart failure with reduced ejection fraction was more common in black men and white men, whereas acute heart failure with preserved ejection fraction was most common in white women.
Rates of hospitalized acute decompensated heart failure increased over time, with higher rates in blacks, and rising cases of preserved ejection fraction heart failure. Mortality rates were 30% at one year with a more pronounced decrease over time in blacks but generally did not differ by heart failure types. Whether racial differences may be related to age of onset comorbidities, or other community level and social economic factors, deserve further study.
The next paper is a population-based study identifying long-term outcomes and risk factors and children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Dr Alexander from Boston Children's Hospital and colleagues examine the National Australian Childhood Cardiomyopathy Study, a long-term national cohort study with a median follow-up duration of 15 years. They found that the greatest risk of death or transplantation for children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy was in the first year after diagnosis, with 14% of patients achieving this combined end point compared to 0.4% per year thereafter.
Risk factors for death or transplantation included symmetric left ventricular hypertrophy at diagnosis, Noonan syndrome, increasing left ventricular free wall thickness, and lower fractional shortening during follow up. The majority of surviving patients had no symptoms. Thus, children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy who are alive one year after diagnosis have a low long-term rate of death or transplantation. Deaths from heart failure usually occur soon after diagnosis, whereas the risk of sudden cardiac death is ongoing.
The next paper is the first demonstration of a peripheral clock in the perivascular adipose tissue that could contribute to the homeostatic regulation of circadian blood pressure variation. Co-corresponding authors Dr Chang and Chen from University of Michigan and their colleagues used a novel brown adipose specific aryl hydrocarbon receptor, nuclear translocator-like protein 1 or Bmal1 and angiotensinogen knockout mouse model to demonstrate that local Bmal1 in perivascular adipose tissue regulated angiotensinogen expression
and the ensuing increase in angiotensin II, which acted on smooth muscle cells
in the vessel walls to regulate basal activity and blood pressure in a circadian
fashion during the resting phase. In fact, deletion of Bmal1 or angiotensinogen
in the perivascular adipose tissue resulted in a superdipper phenotype with
exacerbated hypotension during the resting phase. These findings imply that it
is possible that obesity could alter the perivascular adipose tissue peripheral
clock, thus promoting abnormal dipper phenotypes and increasing
cardiovascular risk. The results therefore inform the design of novel therapeutic
approaches for hypertension by targeting the perivascular adipose tissue
peripheral clock.
What is the net clinical benefit of oral anticoagulation for very elderly patients
with atrial fibrillation? Well, the next paper by first author Dr Chao, cocorresponding
authors, Dr Chen from Taipei Veterans General Hospital and Dr
Lip from University of Birmingham, addresses this question. These authors use a
nationwide cohorts study in Taiwan to compare the risks of ischemic stroke and
intercerebral hemorrhage between patients with and without atrial fibrillation,
all aged 90 years and above, from 1996 to 2011, and they also compared
patients treated with warfarin and non-vitamin K antagonists oral
anticoagulants, or NOX from 2012 to 2015 when NOX were available in Taiwan.
They found that even among these very elderly patients aged 90 years and
above, atrial fibrillation was associated with an increased risk of ischemic stroke
compared to patients without atrial fibrillation. Warfarin use was associated
with a lower risk of ischemic stroke, with no difference in intercerebral
hemorrhage risk compared to nonwarfarin treatment. The use of warfarin was
associated with a positive net clinical benefit compared to being untreated or to
antiplatelet therapy. Compared to warfarin, NOX were associated with a lower
risk of intracerebral hemorrhage, with no difference in the risk of ischemic
stroke. Thus, oral anticoagulation may still be considered for
thromboprophylaxis in very elderly patients with atrial fibrillation, with NOX
being a favorable choice
The final paper provides insights into the mechanisms linking obesity and
cardiovascular diseases. Co-corresponding authors, Dr Kong and Wang from
Peking University Health Science Center and colleagues use a combination of
animal models and human adipose biopsies to characterize a new adipokine
named family with sequence similarity 19, member A5 or FAM19A5. This novel
adipokine was capable of inhibiting post injury neointoma information via
sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 2 and downstream G12/13-RhoA signaling.
Thus, down regulation of FAM19A5 during obesity and loss of its vascular
protective function may trigger cardiometabolic diseases.
I'm just so excited about today's feature discussion, because we're talking about
Circulation going global. And I am just absolutely delighted to have with us, our
Editor-in-Chief himself, Dr Joe Hill from UT Southwestern, as well as our Senior
Advisory Editor, Dr Paul Armstrong from University of Alberta. So Joe, could you
start by telling us a little bit more about your vision for the global outreach of
Circulation?
Dr Joe Hill: Thank you, Carolyn. As I hope our readers are aware, Circulation is a global
journal with a global footprint. We have editors distributed around the world in
16 countries and 10 time zones. And importantly, those editors all have an
equivalent role at the leadership table. Part of the reason for this is because
cardiovascular disease is now, as we are all aware, a global scourge. There are
no more final frontiers for cardiovascular disease. That said, the manifestations
of cardiovascular disease differ in different parts of the world. In the developed
world, and the developing world, for example, the way cardiovascular disease
manifests itself can be very different. And at the same time, the way in which
the disorders are tackled are different. The way we tackle heart disease in the
West can be different than it is in the East, for example. And there are
important initiatives that have emerged in different pockets of the world, best
practices that we need to understand better. What can we all learn from the
way in which cardiovascular disease manifests itself around the world and it's
being addressed around the world?
Dr Carolyn Lam: Joe, you had me at hello. I remember that when you first took over as Editor-in -
Chief and I heard you say this, I was just floored, because coming from
Singapore and all our listeners out there in Japan and China, we just really
appreciate that global outlook. So thank you, on behalf of us all. Tell us a bit
more about this new initiative then for the journal.
Dr Joe Hill: I will tell you in broad strokes, that Paul Armstrong, a noted clinical trial is from
Canada, who is a household name in the cardiovascular world, he and I cooked
up a scheme that Paul will describe, where we will reach out on a regular basis
for insights from various different countries, ultimately, circling the globe
progressively over time. And I will defer to Paul to tell us more about the
specifics.
Dr Paul Armstrong: Carolyn, it's an exciting initiative and as someone a little long in the tooth, but
still believing that you can teach an old dog new tricks, I would point out that
Circulation is almost 70 years old, and it has staying power. And one of the
reasons that it has staying power is because it is capable of reinventing itself,
and so I was attracted to help out again, from the editorial process, given Joe's
vision and leadership and the excitement around the reinvention that you've
described, to get involved with this initiative. And I was inspired, of course, by
the fact that those of us who do clinical trials appreciate that a lot of different
ideas, a lot of different cultures and perspectives are brought to a collaborative
table. And I'm thinking back now, Carolyn to three years ago, when you and I
first met enjoying courses as part of a trial in heart failure, which involves 43
countries, 800 sites, it will be 5000 patients centers, we've traveled separately
and together around the world, convincing people that there are unmet needs
in heart failure and other parts of cardiovascular disease, we learned that the
approach to standard of care, the rigor which is applied, the exquisite
sensitivities around differences that are meaningful, and the tricks that some
investigators and countries use that we can all I think, learn from has been very
revealing.
So I think in this initiative, we want to have thought leaders. And we've already I
think, commenced and have two outstanding leaders from Japan and India to
come forward in the first two quarters of this initiative. Tell us about the
regional epidemiologic features, cardiovascular disease in their regions, what
the most important challenges are, what their best practices are, that you're
alluded to, who provides cardiovascular care and what the impediments are to
progressing because we think if we listen and learn as essentially knowledge
brokers, because welcome to Circulation, we can facilitate raising the level of all
of the boats in the water and potentially make new partnerships and do a better
job. So I'm excited about this. I'm delighted that Joe was receptive and really
look forward to working with him and some of these terrific people around the
world, you included who brings such a unique and important perspective from
which we can all learn.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Oh, I love that so much Paul. Thanks for putting it that way. International
knowledge brokers, that's what we hope to be. Isn't that fabulous, just an
opportunity to learn from each other, everybody having stuff to bring to the
table? Tell us a bit more though, what are you looking for in these papers?
Dr Paul Armstrong: We have some guidelines. But as Joe insists we're not going to be formulaic.
We're going to allow diversity of approaches. We're going to invite a thought
leader and hope that that thought leader might invite one or two others, we
want to limit it to three co-authors. We want obviously some insights into how
cardiovascular health professionals are being trained, what research
infrastructure exists, and how they access the literature, how do they read
Circulation, how do they read other journals, and are there collaborative ideas
that they've developed to their neighbors to the East and West that may be
could be broadened? Are there unmet needs that they've indicated similar or
different from those in Western Europe, South America? We've got about seven
or eight points of light that we hope to illuminate in the course of this exercise.
And the prospectus that's laid out in an editorial that Joe and I collaborated on
that I believe, Joe, is going to come out in early July.
Dr Joe Hill: That's exactly right, Paul. And I would just echo exactly what you said that just
the opposite of a formulaic, cookie cutter approach. We want to leverage the
beautiful diversity of our world. The different approaches that people take to
attack this scourge that is keeping a humble approach to tackle instead of the
visas that is humbling bar none. There is nothing that is more globally important
than the continued growth and expansion of cardiovascular disease. And
importantly, we can all learn from each other. There are exciting initiatives that
I've learned about in South America and in pockets of Europe and in Asia, and in
the Middle East that we can all benefit from, and we want to shine a bright light
on that. These pieces will be relatively short. They will be in our Frame of
Reference section, so 1200 words or so, so that they are accessible so that
people, you know, feel that they can carve out, you know, four minutes in their
busy day to read what cardiovascular disease looks like, as Paul said, our first
ones will be from Japan and India, and we plan to reach out to South America
and to the Middle East, and just continue on around until over the course of the
next number of years, we've touched virtually every country in the world.
Dr Carolyn Lam: And that's huge. And are there any specific types of cardiovascular disease that
you might be looking to focus on?
Dr Joe Hill: You know, I don't think so. One of the points that I have made and learned is
that in the West, in the developed world, cardiovascular disease increasingly has
become a chronic disorder where more and more people, over the course of the
last six years are surviving their acute coronary syndrome, their tachyarrhythmia
events, and they are developing chronic disorders like heart failure, whereas in
the East, it is the atherothrombotic manifestations that have both MI and stroke
that are expanding rapidly. So given that the face of cardiovascular disease is
different in different parts of the world, different strategies have to be
leveraged to address that, and we want to learn about that.
Dr Carolyn Lam: I would love to have you both come talk again, when we receive some of these
papers and just reflect on the things that we're learning. Paul, did you have
anything else that you wanted to add?
Dr Paul Armstrong: I think, Carolyn that hits the high spots. I suppose we should mention diabetes
and obesity and the expanding epidemic that seems to effect some regions such
as India, in the Middle East, even more than other areas, but I think this is going
to be great. We're gonna have some fun and learn and exciting and hopefully it
will catalyze better care and better thinking around this enemy that we all face.
Dr Carolyn Lam: Listeners. You heard it right here, Circulation on the Run. I'm sure you're excited
as I am about this. You have to read the editorial. It's a fantastic read.
Thanks for joining us today. And don't forget to tune in again next week.
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newsonic loft
15 Apr ’11 /
neighborhood: williamsburg | space type: music & parties | active: 2000–2011 | links: website
all photos by Maximus Comissar
Newsonic was terrific. It was way way out at the edge of South Williamsburg, virtually unmarked, and a complete shock when you walk in. Just an absolutely vibrant space, full of découpaged furniture and great art and twinkling lights and linked televisions playing crazy video montages and a bookshelf made from a hollowed-out Coke machine. It had a lovely chill vibe and good music and just incredibly nice people.
Over the years, it was inhabited by about twenty different people, primarily musicians and artists, and they just quietly threw amazing shows and parties for over a decade. With hardly any web presence, they were totally underground, spreading the word through NonsenseNYC and a handful of party lists. Check out my interview below with Brian and Seth Misterka, who was there from the beginning.
brooklyn spaces: Tell me a bit about the history of the space.
Seth: We found it in the back of the Village Voice classifieds, and it was just an empty warehouse. It was really a blank canvas; the landlord gave us totally free reign to create whatever we wanted to. My original partners were a fellow named Massa, who was working for Francis Ford Coppola as an assistant, and my friend Jeremy, who worked for MTV and played in bands, and I was working at Miramax and playing in bands. We were all musicians, and we were all involved in either film or television, so we built the space out to be a music venue from the start. It’s the perfect environment for music, because our neighbor on one side is an auto mechanic, the other is a grocery store, and below us is an office, so we can play music basically any time without bothering anybody. There could be a raging party in here with a hundred people or more, and from the street it’s as if nothing’s happening at all. So it’s like this little secluded artist colony in the middle of the industrial part of Chasidic Williamsburg, this really mystical neighborhood.
brooklyn spaces: Were you putting on shows from the very beginning?
Seth: From the very beginning. The space had a built-in stage from its days as a factory, so we framed it out and started throwing shows, and they immediately were so much fun and so successful that we just kept doing it.
Brian: In the three years I’ve been here, I’ve never been to a party where there hasn’t been just a completely good vibe all around. Everybody loves it here; it’s impossible not to enjoy the space. It brings out the best in people, it really does.
Seth: It’s kind of an out-of-the-way destination, it’s a place that you have to hear about it and then make a point of coming to, and so because it’s not the kind of space that you’d just be passing by, it gives it a kind of a special nature.
brooklyn spaces: So why are you guys moving out?
Seth: The landlord just wants to shuffle things around. It really reflects the broader change in the northern part of Williamsburg, with its expansion of real estate and population; that’s also happening down here. This building is going to be turned into offices. You know, money talks and the artists walk.
brooklyn spaces: But you’ve definitely nurtured a lot of artists through here.
Seth: Absolutely, yeah. There’s been so many different phases of the place, and everybody has brought a different vibe. We’ve found so many great, creative people over the years, and they’ve all contributed different things to the space, which has allowed it to take on the character it has. In addition to the parties, I’ve also had a recording studio here, and I’ve recorded all sorts of bands. My band is Dynasty Electric, and we’ve also recorded a lot of big indie bands from the 2000s, like Battles, Parts & Labor, Shy Child, and El Guapo, as well as a lot of jazz records.
Brian: Seth also recorded two records with Brian Chase from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and they’re planning on recording a third with a jazz duo they have, Brian Chase and Seth Misterka Duo.
brooklyn spaces: How would you describe the kinds of shows you put on?
Seth: Usually it’s a laboratory kind of show, with four or five bands and DJs. It’s a good platform for people to play, a good opportunity to play in a more relaxed environment and for a bigger crowd than would just be hanging out at the clubs.
Brian: Seth makes very eclectic picks. You’ll have a dance band, then you’ll have an indie band, then you’ll have a raga band, and then you’ll have these old guys who play for, like, what band was it?
Seth: One time the drummer from Saturday Night Live, his band came down.
Brian: And they had so many instruments! It was insane. There’s always a different atmosphere, a different thing, and it’s all connected into one night.
Seth: The thing with Newsonic—which is also the name of my record label—the idea has always been about the spectrum of sound, new sound, whatever it is, regardless of genre. Because I’ve been a working musician and have that access and connections to so many great musicians, the parties have become this secret party for musicians. Great musicians just want to come here and play, not for the money or whatever, but for the experience, just to be part of this energy that’s happening down here. We’ve always kept it on the lowdown because it was kind of amazing that we were able to throw parties for ten years without any trouble from the neighborhood or anything, and we didn’t want to jinx our run. But now that it’s ending, we just want to celebrate and show off the space while we have it, and to document it. We knew something cool was happening here, so we want to capture it like a time capsule and share it.
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EOK | Game 1 Edmonton (4) – Red Deer (2)
written by Arik Krause
The puck has finally dropped on the http://pavementconsultinggroup.com/herpes Edmonton Oil Kings season as they once again find themselves starting the campaign with a home-and-home against the see here Red Deer Rebels, this time they find themselves on the road in Red Deer.
Edmonton will start the season with a new captain as Trey Fix-Wolansky has moved on from the WHL, he recently got assigned today to the Cleveland Monsters after getting a taste of the Columbus Blue Jackets camp. Trey Fix-Wolansky led the Oil Kings last season in points with 102. Edmonton has attempted to replace some of that production with the acquisition of Riley Sawchuk from the Tri-City Americans over the summer.
The Oil Kings would go with 20-year old goalie Dylan Myskiw in net against a very young Red Deer Rebels team that is currently in a transition year. Red Deer would go with Ethan Anders who backstopped them 57 games last year with a 3.09GAA and 0.907SV%.
Edmonton looking to defend their WHL Central Division Championship would go down early in the first game of the year to an eager Red Deer Rebels team. Dallon Melin would put one past Myskiw 11:26 into the first period, assisted by Keaton Sorensen as the Rebels would have the Oil Kings on the ropes early.
However, the Oil Kings wouldn’t stay down for long as they looked like a team that simply had to get into the game. Edmonton would dominate the last 5 minutes of the first period as newly named captain Scott Atkinson would get his first of the season on the powerplay, assisted by Wyatt McLeod and Dylan Guenther.
The Oil Kings wouldn’t stop there, with 14 seconds left in the first period Josh Williams would bang in a puck past Anders, assisted by Vladimir Alistrov as Edmonton would get their first lead of the 2019-2020 season.
They continued that hot start into the second period as Scott Atkinson would pot his second of the game, assisted by Josh Williams and Vladimir Alistrov. A terrific night for that line already as they seem to be clicking.
Red Deer wouldn’t go silent into the night as they started the third period with some physical play. The Rebels were finishing their hits in all three zones as you could see the home team gain momentum. They would turn that momentum into a goal that would cut the Oil Kings lead to one. Brett Davis would put one by Myskiw who was very busy up to this point in the third. Ethan Sakowich and Cameron Hausinger would get the assists on the goal.
As good teams do, the Oil Kings would respond before this game could slip away from them. David Kope would get the insurance marker on the doorstep as Jake Neighbours and Riley Sawchuk would get their first points of the new season. Edmonton would have a 4-2 lead with just over 2 minutes left in the game.
The Oil Kings would get their first win of the new season as they would hold onto a 4-2 lead to the final whistle. Edmonton would outshoot the Rebels 32-29 and go 1/3 on the powerplay in their season opener.
These two teams will see each other just over 12 hours from the final horn as the Red Deer Rebels will visit the Oil Kings Saturday afternoon as Edmonton will raise their WHL Central Division banner at Rogers Place.
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EOK | Game 1 Edmonton (4) – Red Deer (2) was last modified: September 22nd, 2019 by Arik Krause
written by Tyler Yaremchuk
Last week, I took a look at three big topics from the Western Conference as the NHL slowly gets underway. Today, I’m shifting my focus to the East where I expect things will be vastly different than last year.
Big trades, big-name free agent signings, and the arrival of a pair of potential super rookies in the Metropolitan division could all drastically change the landscape. Here are my three stories to watch:
HOW FAR WILL THE JACKETS FALL?
At first, most people will point to the Columbus Blue Jackets and say that they’re the team most likely to a massive fall in the standings this season. I would tend to agree with that but I would like to add that I don’t believe they’ll be as terrible as some want to believe.
They still have some good young forwards in Pierre-Luc Dubois, Josh Anderson, Oliver Bjorkstrand, and Alex Texier to go with some proven goal scorers like Cam Atkinson and Gustav Nyquist. They could still put together a pretty solid top six with depth pieces like Boone Jenner and Nick Foligno.
Their defense will still be a massive strength with future Norris winner Seth Jones, Zack Werenski, and David Savard (who was a beast in the playoffs). If Ryan Murray is healthy, it will help out as well.
The biggest question mark is between the pipes and that’s where they lost the most this summer. Downgrading from Sergei Bobrovsky to a combination of Joonas Korpisalo and Elvis Merzlikins hurts and could be their downfall, regardless of the performance the group in front of them puts on.
We know that GM Jarmo Kekalainen isn’t afraid to make big moves, could he do something to bring in a goaltender before the regular season? Maybe he goes after Tristan Jarry from Pittsburgh, who I’m very high on.
One more quick note: I think the Islanders might fall harder than some are projecting. They rode a hot goaltender and some strong offensive performances last season. I think they’re going to slip further down the standings than some expect.
HOW GOOD WILL THE RANGERS BE?
While the Blue Jackets lost the most this summer, the Rangers clearly gained the most. They added Kappo Kaako and Artemi Panarin to a forward group that already had a fair share of exciting young talent. They added Jacob Trouba and Adam Fox to the right side of their defense as well. Between the pipes, they have Henrik Lunquist and Alexandar Georgiev. I still think Lundquist can be a number one goaltender and based on what I saw from Georgiev last season, he’s more than capable of filling in should Lundquist falter or need a break.
Now the question is how will everyone gel? It can be hard to predict how a lineup with that many new faces will perform, but on paper, you have to be incredibly optimistic about their ability to make a massive jump this season. Enough for the playoffs? I don’t know, but that group will be entertaining.
THE LIGHTNING. THAT IS ALL.
It’s the same story every year with the Lightning. They make a bunch of astute moves over the summer and heading into the season, everyone sits and goes ‘how is anyone going to beat them?’ and then at some point, they lose in the playoffs.
Last season, they were nearly unbeatable in the regular season but then got picked apart by a pesky Columbus Blue Jackets team. They should be a highly motivated group this year because there’s no doubt that their first-round exit stung, a lot. The other thing: they’re a lot better this year, at least on paper.
They added Kevin Shattenkirk and Pat Maroon on bargain deals and got Curtis McElhenney to be their backup, which might allow Andrei Vasilevsky to be healthy and rested. They got young players who can be counted on for some improvements. Simply put: they’re stacked.
Is this the year that the Lightning go all the way? Nobody knows. They’re good enough, but they’ve been good enough for a long time.
Three Things to Watch – The East was last modified: September 17th, 2019 by Tyler Yaremchuk
The Friday Three – Wild Playoffs Stays Unpredictable
Which second-round matchup in the west has been most exciting for you?
IAN SHEPPARD: For me, we haven’t seen the same sort of excitement that came with the round one upsets but for me, the series I’m most interested in has been the Blues Stars series. With the series tied at 2-2, each game so far has been one or two goal games. Not to mention the exciting finish to Game 3 with Patrick Maroon scoring late to win it, and Dallas bouncing back in Game 4 to tie the series.
This Series has been the closest with a total of 24 goals through four games. This series will almost definitely go to seven games with the back and forth action we’ve seen so far.
WYATT ZIEGER: In the West, it has to be the Av’s and Sharks.
The old boys vs the new wave has lived up to the hype and is a rare 2nd-round series that has featured some goals in it. Each game is a coin toss and that’s why it’s my favourite. At this point either could win the series and I wouldn’t be surprised to see them in the cup final. Who can get steadier goaltending is the key in this one.
TYLER YAREMCHUK: I’ll break the tie here and go with the Blues and Stars series. There’s been thrilling finishes, games with lots of goals, games with great goaltending. It’s had a bit of everything. I also think the winner of this series will go to the Stanley Cup Finals so I’m really keeping a close eye on this one.
Which second-round matchup in the east has been most exciting for you?
IAN SHEPPARD: This one is a pretty easy one. The Islanders/Canes series has been really one-sided so far with the 3-0 series lead for Carolina, so I’ll have to go with Columbus and Boston. No one expected the Jackets to make it past Tampa, let alone sweep them. I for one didn’t think they’d have a chance to make it out of the second round after the first round upset.
They have found themselves in prime position to compete with Boston and potentially make a splash into the ECF and I’ll be tuning in all series long to see if they can do it! Excluding all of that, two games so far have gone into OT with three games being decided by one goal, and each team exchanging wins resulting in a 2-2 series tie. Talk about an exciting series.
WYATT ZIEGER: The East is an easy answer, Bruins/Jackets. Carolina has runaway on the Islanders but the other East matchup has been tighter than the lid on a pickle jar. Columbus has approximately 6 more wins than most would of thought to date and the Bruins who remain the most “obvious” cup pick haven’t pulled away at all.
This has all the makings of a seven-game series in what has been a sub-par 2nd round. I’m still excited to see how Carolina and New York plays out but I wouldn’t hold my breath Islanders fans.
BOSTON MA. – APRIL 25: Marcus Johansson #90 of the Boston Bruins puts a shot on Sergei Bobrovsky #72 of the Columbus Blue Jackets as the Bruins take on the Blue Jackets in Round 2, Game 1 of the NHL Playoffs on April 25, 2019 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
TYLER YAREMCHUK: It’s definitely Boston and Columbus. It’s fast and it’s hard hitting. Both of these teams have goaltending capable of stealing a game yet they’re both capable of giving up five or six goals on any given night. I love that element of unpredictability. Like the Dallas/St. Louis series, I believe the winner of this one is going to the Cup Final, so I got my eyes glued to this series.
Who’s been the MVP of the playoffs thus far?
IAN SHEPPARD: It’s tough to argue with what Logan Couture has done so far in helping his team make it past the first round and into a 2-2 series tie with Colorado while leading the playoffs with 9 goals. But for me, it’s Nathan MacKinnon. MacKinnon leads the playoffs in points with 13 and has been a one-man wrecking crew all playoffs.
His six goals are second in the postseason only behind Couture’s nine, but he almost singlehandedly took down the Calgary Flames in round one and has so far scored three goals in each round. He continues to be a playmaker and a leader for his team, one that much like Columbus has over excelled the expectations that were laid upon them.
WYATT ZIEGER: There are a few deserving players as of today; MacKinnon, Bobrovsky, Couture, but it has been Jacob Slavin who has impressed me most.
Whether it’s his incredible defensive play with his stick or the offense that’s come off of it, he has been the calming eye of the Hurricanes. His 12 points are one off the franchise record for most in a postseason (13 by Frantisek Kaberle) and he is the best D-man in these playoffs.
If Carolina is going to sneak their way into a 3rd cup final it’ll be on the broad shoulders of Slavin.
TYLER YAREMCHUK: I really like the way Logan Couture has stepped up with Joe Pavelski out of the lineup. He’s been the heartbeat of that Sharks team and that video of him yelling “that’s one” at the Sharks bench during their comeback against Vegas will be iconic in San Jose if they go all the way this year. He leads the playoffs in goals with nine like Ian mentioned so not only has he brought energy and leadership, he’s brought the offense to back it up.
The Friday Three – Wild Playoffs Stays Unpredictable was last modified: May 3rd, 2019 by Tyler Yaremchuk
The Friday Three – Post Deadline Breakdown
written by BelowTheIce
WHO DO YOU THINK HAD THE BEST DEADLINE?
IAN SHEPPARD: The Winnipeg Jets, Vegas Golden Knights, and Nashville Predators all made moves at the deadline to get better. Kevin Hayes will be a solid addition to the Jets as their second line centre while the addition of Wayne Simmonds to Nashville and Mark Stone to Vegas will help push them in the playoffs.
But my dark horse winner of the deadline is the Ottawa Senators. They were able to move Matt Duchene, Ryan Dzingel and Mark Stone all of who which are set to become UFA’s. They also received a decent haul with a total of five draft picks, three prospects, and Anthony Duclair and Oscar Lindberg.
WYATT ZIEGER: The winner as far as assets acquired on the deadline day is Vegas. They got the biggest piece in Stone and they needed to in order to keep up with San Jose.
But the real winner is the Colorado Avalanche. Every move Ottawa made was for their future but now with this roster, it’s almost a guarantee they’ll finish in the basement. If so the Avalanche will have the best shot at adding Jack Hughes to an already stacked lineup.
Jun 27, 2014; Philadelphia, PA, USA; Kevin Fiala poses for a photo with team officials after being selected as the number eleven overall pick to the Nashville Predators in the first round of the 2014 NHL Draft at Wells Fargo Center. Mandatory Credit: Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports
TYLER YAREMCHUK: I have two winners. The Nashville Predators are my first and honestly, David Poile is not getting enough credit for how much he upgraded that team. They needed size and scoring so they went and got Wayne Simmonds on a bargain of a deal. A third liner and a 3rd round pick for a player who can play on your top powerplay unit and give you a mean presence in your top six is a steal. He also got Mikael Granlund from Minnesota and I can’t believe the Wild sold him. This guy will be a legit top line centre in the coming years. He’s that good.
I also love that Jarmo Kekalainen went all in. Safe is death and mediocrity means nothing. Why would the Blue Jackets want to stay idle and just accept another first round loss? They went all in and I think it’s great. This offseason could be problematic, but what if they win a round? What if Bobrovsky gets hot? There are plenty of ‘what ifs’ that go along with this gamble but I don’t care.
WHO HAD THE WORST DEADLINE?
IAN SHEPPARD: There were a few teams that had a disappointing deadline day. I expected the Calgary Flames to be players for a piece or two to make a deep playoff run. After missing out on Mark Stone due to Ottawa’s high asking price the only move the Flames made was acquiring Oscar Fantenberg.
The biggest losers at the deadline for me were the Columbus Blue Jackets. I’m crazy, right? They acquired some big names like Matt Duchene at the deadline while also picking up Keith Kinkaid. What puts them on the bottom half for me is all of Duchene, Dzingel, Artemi Panarin, and Sergei Bobrovsky are all UFA’s at the end of the year and I don’t see them retaining enough of them to make a phantom run at the Cup.
WYATT ZIEGER: The loser has to be the Columbus Blue Jackets they now have 13 potential RFA/UFA’s and no goaltenders signed into next season. They’ll most likely lose Panarin and Duchene to FA and even if Dzingel re-signs they paid way to steep of a price to do so.
Jarmo Kekalainen is going all in for the cup they only problem is he’s playing poker with a 2-7 offsuit.
TYLER YAREMCHUK: The Minnesota Wild getting rid of Mikael Granlund was a massive mistake. They will regret that for years. They took a big L in my books.
The Calgary Flames standing still while the Golden Knights and Sharks each added top six wingers is also a massive mistake. They held onto their future assets and I’m not a fan of it. They should have pushed harder for Jason Zucker or any of the top six forwards that were on the market. The prices were low and they missed a great opportunity.
OPEN MIC: WHAT’S YOUR HOTTEST NHL TAKE?
IAN SHEPPARD: Time to let it all fly loose! Here’s my hot take! The Oilers keep Keith Gretzky as the full-time GM while Bob Nicholson and company remain in the front office and the team continues to go down the same path they have been for the last decade. After realizing the cap situation isn’t getting any better the move to trade Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is put in motion.
While I would like to think the Oilers will finally figure things out and bring in the proper GM who can fix the issues in Oil Country but I could also see whatever is in the water staying in the water.
WYATT ZIEGER: Hot take szn. Nikita Kucherov is going to score over 130 points and finish with the most in a season since 1998-99 when Jagr had 127. BOOK IT
TYLER YAREMCHUK: The Minnesota Wild will miss the playoffs and the Edmonton Oilers will finish within three points of a playoff spot. There ya go.
Paul Fenton has eroded skill from that team by dealing Niederreiter and Granlund and I think they’ll fall apart down the stretch.
For Edmonton, McDavid always plays his best hockey down the stretch and I think he will help them deliver a five or six game win streak. It won’t be enough, but there will be a brief moment of belief in Edmonton.
The Friday Three – Post Deadline Breakdown was last modified: March 1st, 2019 by BelowTheIce
Friday Three – Deadline Chatter
HOW DOES THE JAKE MUZZIN DEAL CHANGE YOUR OPINION ON THE LEAFS?
IAN SHEPPARD: My perception hasn’t changed a whole lot since the trade. It’s a move that of course strengthened the weak spot of the team. While I do think the move can help them compete with the best competition in the East like Tampa Bay I don’t think it puts them ahead of some of the teams in the West like Calgary, Winnipeg, and even Nashville.
WYATT ZIEGER: First and foremost I think the Leafs won this trade. Toronto became a better team without question, anytime you can add a top pair defenseman without losing a roster player you’ve done well. I do still think the Leafs are a few pieces away still, another top 4 d-man and a top 9 power forward would make this team a legit cup contender.
TYLER YAREMCHUK: They went from being a really good team to being a legit Stanley Cup threat in my opinion. Muzzin really rounds up their back end and his playoff experience will be very valuable. You need a strong top pairing to win games in the playoffs and the Leafs got that. Very important that Dubas didn’t subtract from his current roster too. He’s utilizing a strong prospect pool and a wealth of cap space.
IF YOU WERE COLUMBUS, WOULD YOU TRADE BOBROVSKY OR PANARIN? OR BOTH?
IAN SHEPPARD: If the right offers came along I’d move both but I think they have to move Panarin. He’s expressed his displeasure with playing in Columbus for a while and his contract is up at the end of the year so it’s almost a given he won’t return.
The Jackets are in the last playoff spot in the East right now so holding onto Bobrovsky will help them on a run, but his deal is also up at the end of the year. I think if there’s any chance that relationship can be mended then it definitely should.
WYATT ZIEGER: If I was Columbus I would learn from the Islanders mistake and deal both while they still can.
The Blue Jackets, while a playoff team, are not a Cup threat. They still have a good core; PLD, Jones, Werenski and a promising goaltender in Korpisalo. Jarmo Kekalainen has a tough task ahead of him no doubt and may not get the return you’d expect for both players. He should still be looking to get something instead of letting them walk in free agency.
TYLER YAREMCHUK: I would be shopping Sergei Bobrovsky rather hard because I really like Joonas Korpisalo, I think he’s their future between the pipes and I think you could get a first round pick plus a really good goaltending prospect for ‘Bob’.
As for Panarin, I would like to keep him around as an in-house rental, but I would still strongly consider moving him. I would set the price very high though and see if someone overpays for him at the last minute. I’d ask for a conditional first rounder (if he resigns), a very good young roster player (DeBrusk from Boston, Beavillier from New York, that type of player), and a good prospect. If someone pays that, I’d move him then use the cap space and draft picks to improve your team this summer.
WHICH CANADIAN TEAM HAS THE BEST CHANCE OF WINNING THE CUP?
IAN SHEPPARD: The Winnipeg Jets. Right now Calgary is in the mix and possibly Toronto as well. It pains me too much to think Calgary could win a cup but I also think the Jets are the most complete team. Not just out of Canadian teams but in the West and right behind Tampa Bay for in the league.
They made it close last year and I don’t see a team in the West standing in the way of a motivated group who has a taste to win and will be getting some pieces healthy down the stretch. They’re also getting tremendous production out a guy like Kyle Connor who’s filling the void of an up and down season from Patrik Laine, who could become a force come playoff time.
WYATT ZIEGER: Today I’ll vote for the Winnipeg Jets, with all respect to the Flames and Maple Leafs.
Hellebuyck has continued his success from last year, Wheeler and Scheifele are on pace for over 100 points and the defense led by Byfuglien is solid. Winnipeg is still going to be adding come deadline time and will look to find this year’s Paul Stastny, only making them better. I don’t think Winnipeg will win this years Stanley Cup but even if you asked me before the season I would have banked on seeing them in the Cup final.
TYLER YAREMCHUK: It’s the Leafs and anyone who says otherwise is just a Toronto hater. They have every ingredient needed to go on a run: a very deep group of forwards, high-end skill, unrivaled centre depth, a pair of good defenseman, some quality vets, and a goalie who can seem unbeatable when he’s at his best. That makes them the favourite amongst the Canadian clubs.
Friday Three – Deadline Chatter was last modified: February 1st, 2019 by BelowTheIce
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The Friday Three – Long-term fit for Nylander?
The belief is that William Nylander won’t be a Maple Leaf for very long, even if he signs a bridge deal. Where’s a good long-term fit for him?
TYLER YAREMCHUK: I think Carolina is obviously the best fit. It’s clear they have interest, and they have the pieces on defence to get it done. Outside of them, I could see Columbus making a push this summer if they lose Artemi Panarin to free agency.
Philadelphia could be hungry for a big splash, as could Anaheim, Minnesota or LA should they miss the playoffs. I could see the Rangers being interested as well. Every team should be making a pitch though.
WYATT ZIEGER: I’ve been preaching it for over a year, but I firmly believe that William Nylander will be an Anaheim Duck. Anaheim is out of the division so they’ll only have to see him twice a season and Toronto is in desperate need of a top 4 right defensemen. The Ducks have two in Brandon Montour and Josh Manson.
Montour, 24, has a higher ceiling offensively and is a power play specialist. Manson is a big boy, who loves to throw the body and is one becoming one of the hardest defensive defensemen to play against.
I assume Toronto would lean more towards Montour because he is three years younger than Manson and can grow with the Maple Leafs young core. Throw in whatever draft picks to make the HFBoards crowd happy and let’s get the ball rolling.
IAN SHEPPARD: Carolina Hurricanes: The Hurricanes have an estimated $23 million in cap space right, and a flurry of draft picks after the Jeff Skinner trade with Buffalo. With Nylander wanting somewhere between $8-10 million a season the Hurricanes have the enough to pay the talented winger what he wants.
They also have the ability to trade some higher end draft picks with four selections in the first three rounds this year. Not to mention a few next years they could with as well. For Carolina who currently sits just outside of a Wild Card spot, Nylander would be the perfect piece to throw into their top-six and help them reach the post-season.
After 20 games, which team would you say improved the most thanks to their offseason moves?
TYLER YAREMCHUK: How could you say anyone other than Buffalo? Starting in free agency when they signed Carter Hutton, basically getting a number one goalie for nothing more than a cap-hit.
They acquired Conor Sheary, who has been a good fit when he’s been healthy. They realized that Casey Mittelstadt and Jack Eichel were there future top-six centres, so they dealt Ryan O’Reilly for Tage Thompson, Vlad Sobotka, and Patrik Berglund which gave them tremendous depth.
Oh yeah, they also got Jeff Skinner who has become one of the most lethal goal scorers in the NHL. He already had three game winners as well.
They didn’t have to sell the farm either. They still have four first round picks over the next two drafts. They could stock up at this year’s deadline and make a serious run.
WYATT ZIEGER: It’s got to be everyone’s favourite new wagon, the Buffalo Sabres who made out like gangbusters this summer.
The offseason started by trading Ryan O’Reilly for essentially two over-the-hill players in Sobotka and Berglund and a promising prospect in Tage Thompson, a trade which plugged depth holes for Buffalo.
On the same day, they signed Carter Hutton, who has been a revelation after the train wreck that was Robin Lehner in net.
But the biggest move of them all; Acquiring Jeff Skinner for a B- level prospect in Cliff Pu, plus a 2nd, 3rd and 6th round picks. Skinner looks like currently sits tied for second in league scoring with 19 goals after scoring only 24 all of last year.
IAN SHEPPARD: Calgary Flames: Sure, there are some more obvious choices out there, but let’s think outside the box a little here. The Flames made a big splash this past off-season trading Dougie Hamilton, Micheal Ferland and a prospect to Carolina in exchange for Elias Lindholm and Noah Hanifin. They also picked up free-agent Derek Ryan who played under current Flames Head Coach Bill Peters in Carolina.
Currently, Lindholm, Hanifin, and Ryan all find themselves in the top-10 in scoring for the Flames. Lindholm with 24 points (11G-13A) Hanifin with 11 (2G-9A) and Ryan with 8 (3G-5A) all play a significant role in the Flames success this year.
Not to mention David Rittich who was on the roster last year but brought back as a free agent this past offseason and has been the better goaltender on the team. Looking at these contributions, it’s no surprise the Flames find themselves currently at the top of a tight Pacific Division.
Who is the best offensive defenseman in the NHL?
TYLER YAREMCHUK: In past years, I would have said Erik Karlsson because he’s always been head and shoulders above his peers in my opinion. This year, you could say, Brent Burns, Morgan Rielly, or one of three other names and make a good argument.
I’m going to go with the guy who has surprised me the most, and that’s Thomas Chabot. In just his second season, he’s stepped in and become their best defender. He eats tough minutes and plays against the other teams best, and his offence doesn’t suffer. He ranks top three in almost every underlying offensive stat. Incredible.
WYATT ZIEGER: The legend, the myth, the beard, Brent Burns.
Although Burns has been snake bitten recently when it comes to scoring with only three goals through 26 games; even without the higher goal volume this season he is still at a point per game, over a quarter of the way through the season.
This season and last Burns shooting percentage this season is almost half of his career average, so there is hope the switch still flips this season.
Look for the forward turned D-man to contend for another Norris this season.
IAN SHEPPARD: Morgan Reilly: Reilly is currently second in scoring among defenseman with 28 points (9G-19A) just one point back of first place. Reilly has been enjoying an increased scoring output since the start of the year. With Reilly on the first pairing of a paper-thin Leaf’s defensive core, his almost double-digit number in goals is the perfect balance for an already offensive-heavy team.
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The Friday Three
Every Friday, three of BTI’s writers get together and share their thoughts on three topics from around the NHL
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Stanley Cup Playoffs Recap – Day 13
written by Liam Horrobin
The Leafs and Blue Jackets were both on the brink of elimination tonight.
Toronto was coming off a big 4-3 win on Friday night which they almost squander. And the Blue Jackets were looking to get back on track after losing their last three.
Here’s how it went:
Stanley Cup Playoffs Recap – Day 13 was last modified: April 24th, 2018 by Liam Horrobin
Stanley Cup Playoff Recap-Day 11
written by Ian Sheppard
Day 11 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs saw one team move onto the second round as Tampa Bay eliminated New Jersey, one team took a step closer to moving on as Washington won the fourth game to go knto OT in their series, and the Leafs earned another game to stay alive with .
Here’s how it went down:
New Jersey 1-3 Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay wins series 4-1
#KLUTCHEROV. ?#TBLvsNJD | #StanleyCup pic.twitter.com/K4iAbeoC6S
— #GoBolts (@TBLightning) April 21, 2018
The Tampa Bay Lightning had the opportunity to eliminate the Devils and move on to the second round and they did not hesitate one bit. They totalled 38 shots on net, 10 in the first 18 in the second and 10 in the third period.
Mikhail Sergachev scored his first of the playoffs eight minutes into the game, rifling one home from the top of the circle for a 1-0 Lightning lead.
The scoring continued in the third period where Nikita Kucherov scored his fifth goal of the playoffs tying him for most in the post-season with Sidney Crosby.
Five minutes later the Devils got back into it with their net empty. Patrick Maroon scored his fourth goal as a Devil and his first of the playoffs to bring New Jersey within one.
Ryan Callahan added an empty net goal with two seconds left to seal the deal for Tampa Bay and send them to the second round.
Honorary mention to Cory Schneider who stood on his head in this game, especially late to give the Devils a chance and keep them in it until the last two seconds of the game. Schneider turned away 35 of 37 Lightning shots including some amazing glove saves late.
The Devils put up a fight but the offensive line-up of Tampa Bay was too much, outscoring New Jersey 18-12 in the series and held the Devils to one goal a game for the last two games of the series.
It was a battle. Good luck to the @TBLightning the rest of the way! #NJDvsTBL pic.twitter.com/JhI8tYaq6I
— New Jersey Devils (@NJDevils) April 21, 2018
Tamp Bay will play either Boston or Toronto in the second round, and regardless of who it is it should make one explosive series.
Columbus 3-4 Washington-OT
Washington leads series 3-2
BACKSTROM WINS THE GAME! WASHINGTON LEADS THE SERIES! #ALLCAPS pic.twitter.com/CWG2BJIcja
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) April 21, 2018
This series has been one of the more exciting ones to watch with Columbus taking the first two on the road and Washington winning the next three, after Alex Ovechkin guaranteed his Caps would tie the series at two.
Ten minutes into the first period Ovechkin turned the puck over on the powerplay sending Matt Calvert on a two-on-one with Josh Anderson. Calvert opted to shoot and pushed it past Braden Holtby for a 1-0 Jackets lead.
Three minutes later Nicklas Backstrom banked a shot off Sergei Bobrovsky and over his back into the back of the net to tie the game at one in the first period.
Washington took the lead in the second period, catching Columbus on a change. The odd-man rush lead to Evgeny Kuznetzov putting one through Bobrovsky’s five-hole for his fourth goal of the playoffs and a 2-1 Caps lead.
Columbus tied it at two, one minute later, with the puck sneaking past TJ Oshie sending Calvert on a breakaway where he scored a lucky back handed goal on a spin move after fanning on his original shot.
just as he drew it up#cbj | #marchon pic.twitter.com/tCWy53H78Y
— x – columbus blue jackets (@BlueJacketsNHL) April 21, 2018
Oshie would redeem himself however, later in the second period as he tipped in a John Carlson shot in for his second powerplay goal in back to back games, giving the Caps a 3-2 lead.
Two and a half minutes into the third period, Oliver Bjorkstrand tipped an Ian Cole point shot past Holtby to tie the game at three, sending the game to overtime for the fourth time this series.
Both goaltenders turned away scoring chance after scoring chance in overtime with Braden Holtby turning away all six OT shots he faced and Sergei Bobrovsky seven of eight faced by the Caps.
Holtby made 39 total saves on 42 Columbus shots in the game, which is especially outstanding considering the Caps were outshot 16-1 in the third period alone.
With eight minutes left in OT Nicklas Backstrom scored his second of the game on another tipped shot from the point bringing Washington within one win of the second round.
Look for Columbus to come out hungry wanting to send this series to a seventh game, especially after a 42 shot game. Game 6 will take place in Columbus on Monday night.
Toronto 4-3 Boston
Boston leads series 3-2
Career #StanleyCup Playoff goal #1 for Andreas Johnsson, served up beautifully by @43_Kadri. pic.twitter.com/43pSZ0JI5J
— NHL (@NHL) April 22, 2018
With the Leafs having their backs against the wall, they were going to have a tough fight at the TD Garden Saturday night. Lucky for them them Nazem Kadri was back from his three suspension after Game 1.
The Leafs started out strong with their first line with Connor Brown scoring his first career playoff goal, batting a rebound out of mid-air, giving Toronto an early 1-0 lead.
It didn’t take long for Kadri’s presence to be felt, as he threw a perfect saucer pass through two Bruin’s defenders to Andreas Johnsson in front of the crease, who made a nice move around Tuukka Rask to score his first career playoff goal.
After Nikita Zaitsev took a tripping penalty to save a goal, the Bruins drew within one on the powerplay. David Backes scored his second of the playoffs 17 seconds into the man advantage, after the puck bounced in front of the net off the glass behind Frederik Andersen.
Toronto didn’t take long to pull ahead again, with Morgan Rielly breaking out with Tyler Bozak, threading a pass through the seam where Bozak finished it off glove side for a 3-1 Leafs lead.
Matt Grzelcyk was called for tripping on Mitch Marner one minute after the Bozak goal. On the powerplay, James van Riemsdyk roofed one over the shoulder of Rask.
The fourth Leafs goal was the last for Rask as he was replaced by Anton Khudobin, after making just nine saves on 13 shots.
Khudobin held his own early stopping two big scoring chances, setting up his team to get back into the game. On a defensive break-down by the Leafs, Sean Kuraly made it a two goal game, scoring his second of the playoffs.
Boston pulled within one, five minutes into the third period with Noel Acciari scoring his first of the playoffs making it 4-3. It wasn’t enough however, as the Leafs were able to hold on just long enough to force a Game 6 back at the ACC on Monday night.
Frederik Andersen was very impressive in this one making 42 saves on 45 shots. In an elimination game Andersen stood tall against all sorts of scoring chances from a Bruins team who were desperate to move onto the second round. Andersen’s performance was especially fascinating considering the Bruins had a total of eight powerplays and were only able to score on one. The Leafs netminder will be the backbone to them pushing for a Game 7.
Stanley Cup Playoff Recap-Day 11 was last modified: April 23rd, 2018 by Ian Sheppard
Stanley Cup Playoff Recap-Day 7
The offense finally slowed down on day seven of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, with goaltenders stealing the show. Connor Hellebuyck led the Jets to a 2-0 victory, the Capitals getting back into their series and the Knights became the first expansion team to win a playoff series.
Stanley Cup Playoff Recap-Day 7 was last modified: April 19th, 2018 by Ian Sheppard
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Startup Weekend Tampa Bay presented by Grow With Google
Friday, July 20 - 22, 2018
Get the latest on Techstars Startup Weekend, Tampa Bay, and other local events through Techstars Startup Digest.
9417 Princess Palm Ave.
Techstars Startup Weekend Tampa Bay and Grow with Google have joined forces to offer this special event FREE of charge to the first people who register.
Hurry to secure your spot; this event will sell out quickly!
Startup Weekend is a 54-hour whirlwind event where you get to be part of building a business in a weekend, Silicon Valley style. It's about pitching, business model creation, prototyping, designing and market validation all in a friendly and supportive team environment.
All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and teams organically form around the ideas that most resonate with people.
We're mashing together changemakers, techies, entrepreneurs and everyone in between, and locking them in a building together for a weekend, pouring in a heap of caffeine and free food, to see what new ideas come out the other end.
This 54-hour event brings together creatives, technologists, designers and developers to experiment with rapid idea generation, Silicon Valley style.
It is a fast-paced and highly creative event that challenges everyone who attends to make innovative new projects in 54 hours.
Anyone. Whether you're 18 or 88, a painter, actor, software engineer, writer, graphic designer, geek, entrepreneur, photographer, musician, programmer, museum curator, or startup specialist. Whether you have an idea or have no idea. Everyone is welcome.
What you will get out of it
The professional and personal challenges, the high and lows, the failures and the success? Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered citizens who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures or products. Whether participants found companies, find a cofounder, meet someone new, find a creative collaborator, or learn a skill far outside their usual 9-to-5, everyone is guaranteed to have a heap of fun and to leave the event better prepared to navigate the chaotic but fun world of startups. If you want to put yourself in the shoes of an entrepreneur, register now for the best weekend of your life!
Learn more and see how the event runs at https://startupweekend.org/.
This event is fully sponsored by Grow With Google, through a Techstars Startup Weekend Scholarship.
Grow with Google is an initiative that draws on Google’s 20-year history of building products, platforms, and services that help people and businesses grow. Through Grow with Google, Google aims to help everyone across America – those who make up the workforce of today and the students who will drive the workforce of tomorrow – access the best of Google’s training and tools to grow their skills, careers, and businesses.
Optionally line up to give your pitch - 60 seconds per person!
Saturday July 21st
Coach Meetings - All day!
Market Validation Workshop
This workshop is specially designed to help entrepreneurs to understand the importance of market validation and the “How-to” aspect of conducting a market validation exercise.
Sunday July 22nd
Pitch Workshop
Coaches arrive
Ask questions!!
Final Pitches @ Bryan Glazer Family JCC
522 N Howard Ave, Tampa, FL 33606, USA
Celebratory After Party
Topher Morrison
Managing Director, Key Person of Influence
Topher Morrison is the founder of a Personal Branding Agency in Tampa, FL. He is the author of three best-selling books and has been a resident of Tampa for 18 years. For the past 25 years, he has traveled the world for business and witnessed the development of the most innovative cities. He has observed what can happen when cities stop playing politics and start playing the game of innovation.
He volunteers his time to mentor students at the University of Tampa’s entrepreneurship center and is a member of UT’s Board of Fellows. As a founding member of the Center Circle at the Center for Women, Topher has a track record advocating for equal rights of women in the workplace. He was one of the most vocal citizens in the fight against the Public Transportation Commission for allowing ride share services like Uber and Lyft to remain in Tampa. He is a member of the Tampa Downtown Partnership and serves on the development committee for Feeding Tampa Bay.
His extensive speaking career, spanning over the past 30 years, has earned him a global reputation as an expert in mass-communication and influence. He has spoken for top execs with American Express, Microsoft and Google, just to name a few. Topher is shockingly honest, sometimes irreverent, and always down-to-earth. His personality and straightforward manner are perfect for the person who is tired of partisan politics and career politicians. He is not afraid to tell it like it is and speaks to the person who couldn’t care less about party affiliation and is more focused on making sure Tampa is the ultimate city to live work and play.
Lakshmi Shenoy
CEO, Tampa Bay Innovation Hub (working name)
Lakshmi Shenoy is a recent transplant to the Tampa Bay region and is the CEO of the Tampa Bay Innovation Hub (working name), which will launch next year. Before moving to Tampa Bay, Lakshmi was in Chicago and served as the Vice President of Strategy & Business Development at 1871, the #1 university-affiliated business incubator in the world. Prior to 1871, Lakshmi focused on growth strategies for a variety of businesses through her work at Prophet Brand Strategy, Time Inc., Procter & Gamble and Leo Burnett. She has a Bachelors of Arts in Sociology from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Lakshmi was recognized as one of 20 Rising Brand Stars by AdAge in 2017.
Andre Ortega
Chief of Staff, Peerfit
Andre Ortega is Chief of Staff for the Enterprise Health team of Peerfit, the market leader in connecting employers and carriers with personalized fitness experiences. Previously, Andre worked as a Wellness Director in the Tampa Bay area before joining the Peerfit team over three years ago. Andre received a B.S. in Applied Physiology and Kinesiology from the University of Florida, is a proven bootcamp fitness instructor and can be found paddleboarding, rock climbing and practicing handstands like a true yogi.
Keara McGraw
Special Projects Manager, Social Venture Partners Tampa Bay & Innovations Capital Group in Tampa Bay
Keara McGraw is the “one who does all the things” at Social Venture Partners Tampa Bay, an organization dedicated to developing social enterprise in our community, as well as Innovations Capital Group in Tampa Bay. By day you can find her managing multiple social
media accounts, producing events for their nonprofit, scheduling all of the important things, or sprucing up some websites while guzzling lots of coffee. In her spare time she is a competitive marathon runner and mom to one crazy little girl. She has spent
the last 5 years working in marketing and event production and enjoys the controllable chaos that goes with it.
Dr. Richard Munassi MD MBA
TechDiversity Cohort Director, Tampa Bay WaVE
Dr. Richard Munassi MD MBA has been a founder, mentor, consultant, and an active board member in startups in multiple verticals for close to a decade in Los Angeles, Houston, and Tampa.
He is both a Director as well as the Health Tech expert for the Tampa Bay WaVE, and sits on a range of committees for both the Operation Startup and the Tampa Bay WaVE Accelerator programs.
Dr. Munassi is also the co-chair of the Healthcare & Wellness Pavilion at the Synapse Innovation Summit and the co-founder of Blackfin Technology Partners.
Genna Mckeel
Interim Head of Partnerships, Google for Entrepreneurs (SF)
Genna McKeel is Head of global partnerships for Google for Entrepreneurs (GFE). Before joining the GFE team, she was on Google’s central policy team where she led the team’s economic impact strategy and efforts to tackle forced data localization globally. Before Google, Genna received her MBA from London Business School where she focused on entrepreneurship. While in London, Genna was on the board of the Impact Consulting Club supporting entrepreneurs in emerging markets, the project manager for the "Silicon Valley comes to the UK Hackathon", and worked with Atomico on policy recommendations to support the entrepreneurial ecosystem in London. Prior to business school, she spent five years in various positions at the U.S. Department of State, including an advisor on Darfur policy and a member of Secretary Rice’s advance team. Outside of the office, Genna finds every opportunity to feed her passion for the outdoors by whitewater kayaking, hiking, running and swimming.
Anuraag Khandelwal
Product Marketing Manager, Retail Marketing (BOS), Google
Anuraag is a Product Marketing Manager on Google's Hardware Marketing team. He has worked in the online marketing space for 5 years working with healthcare systems, small & medium businesses, startups and nonprofits. He's worked part-time on the Google for Nonprofits team for over 3 years helping non-profits accelerate their organizational productivity, marketing strategies and operations. He is also a volunteer on the recently formed Grow with Google team that helps local SMBs, non profits and individuals grow their businesses, skills and careers.
Deepika Phakke
Global Operations Manager, Google
Based out of New York City, Deepika is a Global Operations Lead on the Doubleclick team in Google Ads. From working in legal, sales and sales support to leading Strategy and Ops teams, she has been with Google for over 7 years and has worked in 2 countries, 4 offices & 6 different teams. She has also volunteered & led community driven projects nationally and internationally helping local communities thrive and grow sustainably. She is an experienced coach and consultant to many Silicon Valley startups, entrepreneurs and nonprofits
Jesse Curry
Director of Development, Haneke Design
Jesse Curry, Development Director at Haneke Design, entered the world of software development through the games industry, working on several Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii games, eventually leading his own teams. The experience of developing for the games consoles allowed Jesse to make an easy transition to the mobile space. At Haneke Design, Jesse works with a team of talented developers to provide first class native solutions for the iOS and Android platforms while leveraging the latest backend technology to provide robust web services. When not creating next-level mobile applications for his clients Jesse enjoys bicycling, brewing beer, and spending time with his family.
Michael Sunderland
Managing Director, Full Stack Talent
Michael Sunderland is a successful entrepreneur and startup enthusiast that was born and raised in the Tampa Bay area. He is the founder of Full Stack Talent, a completely bootstrapped recruiting company that was profitable within its first few months and hired over 10 W2 employees in its first year of operation. Mike has a passion for all things B2B, marketing, operations, and talent acquisition. If your Startup Weekend project is B2B, or in the recruiting world, he’d love to chat.
Dennis C Hansen
Co-founder & Chief Product Officer
Hi, I’m Dennis Hansen, a co-founder of Knack. Knack is company that seeks to close the skills gap through peer education. I graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in Industrial and Systems engineering, but since developed a wide variety of skills including design and front end development, which is primarily what I do for Knack. When I’m not working on Knack, my interests include playing music and delving deeper into various science and technology related topics including creative coding, machine learning, mathematics, and philosophy.
Kiki Roeder
Kiki Roeder Chief Product Officer of Punctuate + Co-Founder of Startup Sisters USA
Kiki Roeder has built and exited two companies. She is the Chief Product Officer of Punctuate, an edtech and information product marketing solution, and the Co-Founder of Startup Sisters USA. She is also the Director of Women Who Code in Tampa.
Kiki specializes in product development, strategic storytelling, and audience engagement. She has served as a growth and communications strategist to Fortune 500s, media publications, and startups across four continents.
Samyr Qureshi
Co-Founder & CEO at Knack
Co-Founder & CEO at Knack. Market segmentation, business model viability, sales model, partnership strategy.
JR Griggs
President, Red Wall Marketing
JR is the founder and president of Red Wall Marketing, lead organizer of Tampa Bay Startup Week, mentor for Tampa Bay Wave, and serves on the marketing committee at Tampa Bay Wave.
He has a passion for business and marketing which is what led him to start Red Wall Marketing. He firmly believes marketing should be everything in and to your business, and has worked with businesses in a variety of industries, implementing proven marketing strategies that help their business grow.
Maria Juan
Director of Marketing, Peerfit
Maria Juan is Vice President of Marketing for Peerfit, the market leader in connecting employers and carriers with personalized fitness experiences. Maria, along with the Peerfit marketing team, develops strategies and campaigns to reach incoming and current users through a variety of initiatives including digital marketing, social media, public relations, and community events, all while continuing to build the Peerfit brand on a national scale. With a background in arts administration focused in the dance arts, she uses this unique perspective and creative skillset to help develop brands and marketing personalities for emerging companies and startups. Maria holds a B.A. from the University of South Florida and when not encouraging people to redefine their wellness journeys, can be found burning calories at a nearby Peerfit studio or chasing around her baby boy.
Josh Murdock
Instructional Designer, Professor, Blogger, Co-Founder
Josh Murdock, known as Professor Josh, is an IT manager, instructional designer, professor, community organizer, blogger, and all around geek. He has been in higher education for over 20 years, including teaching educational technology and social networking currently at Valencia College for the last 14 years. He blogs about apps, gadgets, gizmos, startups, conferences, and tech tips at ProfessorJosh.com and works with his wife on a food blog eatmoreofit.com that will make you hungry. You might have seen his food photography (@eatmoreofit) or his love for LEGO and geekiness (@professorjosh) on both Twitter or Instagram. He continues to build a community around education, technology, blogging, and entrepreneurship as EdTech Orlando organizer, Startup Weekend Orlando organizer, and founding planning team member of FLBlogCon. His motto: Engage, Excite, Educate!
Kalpesh J. Patel, Esq.
ttorney & Counselor at Law, FL Patel Law PLLC
Kalpesh Patel is a corporate lawyer with FL Patel Law PLLC. He works with early stage companies focusing on strategic and operational counsel. He also serves on the Boards of Social Enterprise Alliance - Tampa Bay, Conscious Capitalism Florida, and For Good Movement Inc. Before he started his own firm, he was a start-up lawyer in Chicago working with entrepreneurs from concept development. He was also a defense attorney with a prominent law firm based in Chicago. Kalpesh also has a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Arts in Management from the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor from Florida Coastal School of Law.
Kevin Goodwin
Director, Global Customer Success, Malwarebytes
Kevin leads the Global Customer Success teams at Malwarebytes a Silicon Valley tech firm. Joining in 2016, he ensures that all technology support decisions meet with company strategy and vision. Kevin successfully led his own tech start-up to a successful exit in 2014. He also has played a key role within organizations in both start-up, high-growth enterprises, and traditional corporate environments. Whether as a senior leadership role creating best-in-class service cultures or an operations expert building the most efficient customer service organization in an industry, Kevin has extensive experience in the technology and financial industries.
The Startup Weekend Tampa Bay presented by Grow With Google team is grateful for the support of local community partners without whom this event would not be possible.
Techstars Startup Weekend Tampa Bay is 100% led by volunteer community leaders.
Roeder
Juhi
Dee Hamill
TOW DATTs (The One Who Does ALLL The Things)
Dee is a momma bear to the tech/startup community in Charleston, SC. She runs a co-working space, handles operations/logistics for an accelerator in CHS, and organizes Startup Weekends, Startup Grind, 1 Million Cups, and Startup Digest for Charleston.
Jesus. Startups. Wine. Community. Inclusiveness. Techstars. Huge advocate of chasing those incredibly big dreams. Adrenaline Chaser. Lover of Life.
#GIVEFIRST
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Not to be confused with Beijing Capital International Airport.
Beijing Daxing International Airport (IATA: PKX, ICAO: ZBAD), located on the border of Beijing and Langfang, Hebei Province, is Beijing's second international airport.[3][4] The name of the airport was announced on September 14, 2018.[5] It has been nicknamed "starfish".[6] The terminal building is the largest single-structure airport terminal in the world, with an area of more than 1,000,000 m2 (11,000,000 sq ft).[7][8] It was completed on June 30, 2019. The opening ceremony for the airport was held on September 25, 2019,[1] with the airport opened to the public on September 26, 2019.[9][5][10] The first commercial flight landed at Beijing Daxing at 10:12 (UTC+8), September 26, 2019.[2]
Aerial photo, January 2019
IATA: PKX
ICAO: ZBAD
Airport type
Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region (Megalopolis)
Daxing, Beijing & Guangyang, Langfang (Hebei)
25 September 2019 (opening ceremony)[1]
26 September 2019 (first commercial flight)[2]
China Standard Time (+8)
Elevation AMSL
98 ft / 30 m
39°30′33″N 116°24′38″E / 39.50917°N 116.41056°E / 39.50917; 116.41056Coordinates: 39°30′33″N 116°24′38″E / 39.50917°N 116.41056°E / 39.50917; 116.41056
www.bdia.com.cn
PKX/ZBAD
location in Beijing
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PKX/ZBAD (China)
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PKX/ZBAD (Asia)
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PKX/ZBAD (Earth)
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01L/19R 3,400 11,155 Concrete
17R/35L 3,800 12,467 Concrete
Source: http://news.carnoc.com/list/479/479279.html
北京大興國際機場
Standard Mandarin
Běijīng Dàxīng Guójì Jīchǎng
Pok入 cin平 Da去 xin去 Kok入 ji平 Ji平 zaan去
Yue: Cantonese
Baak1 ging1 Daai6 hing1 Gwok3 zai3 Gei1 coeng4
Southern Min
Pak-kiann Tōa-heng Kok-chè Ki-tiûnn
An Airbus A380-800 of China Southern Airlines takes off at PKX (May 13th, 2019).
China Eastern Airlines check-in counters
The airport is 46 kilometres (29 mi) south of Tiananmen Square, 26 kilometres (16 mi) west of downtown Langfang, 50 kilometres (31 mi) northeast of Xiong'an New Area, and 65 kilometres (40 mi) south of Beijing Capital International Airport, and is expected to serve Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei.[11] It serves as a hub for SkyTeam alliance airlines and some Oneworld members, while Star Alliance members will stay at Beijing Capital International Airport (with the exception of LOT Polish Airlines, which will serve Daxing as well). Hainan Airlines, which accounted for 10% of Beijing Capital International's passenger seat capacity in 2016, but is not part of any major alliance, remains at Capital Airport.[12]
After almost five years of construction, the CN¥ 80 billion (US$11.4 billion)[13][14] facility features a 700,000 m2 (7,500,000 sq ft) terminal and sits on 47 km2 (18 sq mi) of land, making it the world's second-largest single-building airport terminal,[15][16][17] after Istanbul Airport's main terminal.[18]
1.1 Initial proposals
1.2 Approval for construction
1.3 Design & Contractors
1.4 Construction
1.5 Opening
1.6 Service development
2 Airport facilities
3 Airlines and destinations
4 Ground transportation
4.1 Intercity rail
4.2 Subway
Development historyEdit
A second airport for Beijing was proposed in 2008.[19] By 2012, the existing Beijing Capital International Airport was running at near its full design capacity.[20][21]
Initial proposalsEdit
Early media reports during September 2011 suggested that there could be up to 9 runways at the new airport: 8 runways for civil aviation plus one runway dedicated to military usage.[22][11][23][24][25] It would replace Beijing Capital International Airport (which had 83 million passengers in 2013, second most in the world) as the main airport of Beijing, and be the largest in China. The airport was planned to be able to handle 120 to 200 million passengers a year, which, if capacity were fully used, would make it the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic, surpassing Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport by far.[26]
Approval for constructionEdit
Official approval for construction by National Development and Reform Commission on December 22, 2014.[27][28] It called for an airport to be constructed in the southern part of Daxing District of Beijing, along the border of Beijing and Hebei Province. No design or plans were released due to ongoing negotiations. It was stated that it would consist of 7 runways, 6 for civilian use and 1 for military purposes. Construction has been completed as of September 2019[29] with a capacity of handling 75 million passengers by 2025. The cost of construction was initially estimated to be at least 70 billion RMB (US$11.2 billion), including the 37 km (23 mi) Beijing–Xiong'an intercity railway (Beijing section), to Beijing West railway station.[19][30]
Design & ContractorsEdit
The airport's master plan was prepared by NACO (Netherlands Airport Consultants)[31] and will feature a ground transportation centre providing the airport with public transportation links to high-speed rail, metro, expressways, Beijing Airport Bus routes, local buses and inter-airport transportation system.[32] The terminal building was designed by British architects Zaha Hadid Architects[33][34] and French planners ADPI,[35] and executed by the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (BIAD). It consists of a central hub with six curved spokes.[36] The façade was designed by XinShan Curtainwall and Beijing Institute of Architectural Design. Arup was subcontracted by Beijing Institute of Architectural Design as the fire engineering consultant,[37] while China IPPR International Engineering was responsible for security system and baggage system designs.[38] BuroHappold Engineering, as part of the consortium, worked with the architects to integrate engineering solutions into the design of the airport.[37]
Hong Kong design studio Lead 8 was appointed as lead designer of the integrated service building (the 6th pier) in 2018. The terminal, according to Lead 8, will encompass "a purposeful design of work spaces, with integrated retail, dining, and entertainment options for the large number of passengers expected," with plans to incorporate interactive pet hotels, a child care and nursery, hybrid online retail and dining, and a showroom for companies.[39]
Other contractors involved in the project include China Electronics Engineering Design Institute, Civil Aviation Electronic Technology, The Third Rail Survey and Design Institute Group Corporation (TSDI China), Beijing City Construction Design Research General Institute and Beijing General Municipal Engineering Design & Research Institute.[38]
Beijing TsingHua TonHeng Urban Planning and Design Institute, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Dtree, Lea-Elliot, Lighting Design Studio, and East Sign Design & Engineering were also involved in the project.[38]
Suppliers include Xsight Systems, T-Systems, Schindler, Thales, Beijing EasySky Technology and Oasys.[38]
ConstructionEdit
Construction of the airport began on December 26, 2014,[40] and was led by chief engineer Guo Yanchi.[41] By March 2017, the terminal had its concrete structure capped.[42] On January 23, 2019, the first flight inspection began to be carried out and was expected to be completed in March.
On June 30, 2019, the airport officially finished construction and was in preparation for its September opening. The construction of the airport itself cost CN¥120bn (approximately US$17bn), with other projects in the periphery costing CN¥330bn (US$46.2bn), giving a total cost of CN¥450bn (US$63bn).[37]
OpeningEdit
Atrium of airport where the opening ceremony was held
The airport opened on 25 September 2019—just six days before the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China—in a ceremony attended by the Chinese president and General Secretary of the Communist Party Xi Jinping.[43][44] Inaugural flights from seven Chinese airlines began later in the afternoon,[45] although flights operating out of the airport on the day were member-only, with the first official flight out of the airport an Airbus A380 operated by China Southern Airlines.[1][46] Flights for the public began the following day on 26 September 2019.[9] The first commercial flight landed at Beijing Daxing at 10:12 (UTC+8), September 26, 2019.[2]
The airport serves as the hub for China United Airlines immediately after its opening and all their services have been relocated to Beijing Daxing. Others, such as China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines, will also relocate.[9][47]
Upon opening of the Daxing Airport, Beijing Nanyuan Airport, the oldest airport in China, closed on the same day. A military airfield will co-exist in Daxing, as was the case in Nanyuan.
Service developmentEdit
Concourse A
Interior of Beijing Daxing International Airport
It was initially planned for airlines of the SkyTeam alliance to be relocated to the new airport, while Star Alliance airlines would remain at Capital, effectively making both airports hubs.[48] This was confirmed in 2016, when the Civil Aviation Administration of China announced that China Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines and Xiamen Airlines along with other SkyTeam airlines would move to the new airport, while Air China and other Star Alliance carriers would remain at Capital.[49] China Southern, China Eastern and Beijing Capital Airlines' intentions to move to Daxing were confirmed by a Xinhua report in December 2017.[50]
Ten passenger airlines (China Southern Airlines, China United Airlines, Shanghai Airlines, Beijing Capital Airlines, Hebei Airlines, Spring Airlines, Okay Airways, Juneyao Airlines, XiamenAir and Donghai Airlines) and one cargo airline (China Postal Airlines) signed agreements with the Capital Airport Group to enter the new airport.[citation needed]
CAAC required each Mainland Chinese airline (other than China Postal Airlines) to serve only one Beijing-area airport following the opening of Daxing, but allowed foreign airlines (including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan-based airlines) to operate from both airports if they wished to do so.[51] China Eastern Group and China Southern Group were each allocated 40% of landing slots with the remaining 20% for smaller Mainland China and international airlines. However, on 1 May 2019, this plan was changed by CAAC, with China Eastern Group relinquishing 10% of its allocated slots (to give it 30% of slots) to Air China Group in exchange for the China Eastern group continuing to operate its Shanghai-Beijing flights at Beijing Capital Airport.[52]
Among Oneworld carriers, British Airways and Malaysia Airlines will move their London-Heathrow and Kuala Lumpur to Beijing flights to Daxing whilst Finnair has filed for flights from Helsinki-to-Daxing as well as retaining a daily flight to Capital.[53] American Airlines has indicated plans to relocate flights from Capital to Daxing due to its tie-up with China Southern.[54] Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon reportedly intend to stay at Capital.[55] The alliance announced in February 2019, that its member airlines were considering a formal co-location scheme at Daxing.[56]
Airport facilitiesEdit
The first phase of the airport project is designed with a target of 72 million passengers,[57] 2 million tons of cargo and mail,[57] and 620,000 aircraft movements by 2025, with plans to handle 100 million passengers in the long term.
Airlines and destinationsEdit
Aeroflot Moscow–Sheremetyevo (begins 3 June 2020)[58]
Air China Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi,[59] Chengdu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Kunming, Nanning, Shanghai–Pudong, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Yinchuan[60][61]
Air Macau Macau[62]
Aurora Vladivostok (begins 29 March 2020)[63]
Seasonal: Khabavorsk (begins 29 March 2020)[63]
Beijing Capital Airlines Erenhot, Haikou, Hangzhou, Hefei, Jixi,[64] Lijiang, Lisbon, Malé, Meixian, Nanchang, Qingdao, Sanya, Urumqi, Xiamen, Xi'an, Xining, Xishuangbanna, Yushu
British Airways London–Heathrow[65]
China Eastern Airlines Da Nang, Dongying, Fukuoka, Hangzhou, Harbin, Huai'an, Linyi, Luoyang, Luzhou, Paris–Charles de Gaulle (begins 29 March 2020),[66] Qingdao, Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shanghai–Pudong, Tokyo–Haneda (begins 29 March 2020),[67] Xining[68][69]
China Southern Airlines Anshan, Changchun, Changde, Daqing, Guangzhou,[70] Ho Chi Minh City (suspended until 31 March 2020),[citation needed] Hong Kong,[71] Istanbul (begins 31 March 2020),[72] Jieyang, London–Heathrow (begins 18 June 2020),[73] Moscow–Sheremetyevo (begins 23 June 2020),[74] Nanchong, Shenzhen, Tokyo–Haneda (begins 29 March 2020),[73] Tongren, Xining, Yanji, Yinchuan, Yiwu, Zunyi–Xinzhou[75]
China United Airlines Anshun, Arxan, Baicheng, Baotou, Bayannur, Bijie, Changsha, Changzhi, Chengdu, Chifeng, Chizhou, Dalian, Datong, Dongying, Foshan, Fuyang, Guangzhou, Hailar, Hanzhong, Harbin, Hefei, Hengyang, Hohhot, Huai'an, Huaihua, Huizhou, Jinchang, Kunming, Lanzhou, Lianyungang, Linyi, Longnan, Longyan, Lüliang, Manzhouli, Nanyang, Ningbo, Ordos, Qingyang, Qiqihar, Quzhou, Rizhao, Sanming, Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shanghai–Pudong, Shangrao, Shenzhen, Shiyan, Tongliao, Tongren, Ulanhot, Ulanqab, Urumqi, Weihai, Wenzhou, Wuhai, Wuzhou, Xiamen, Xiangyang, Xilinhot, Xingyi, Xinyang, Yan'an, Yancheng, Yantai, Yichun (Heilongjiang), Yinchuan, Yingkou, Yongzhou, Yueyang, Yulin, Zhuhai[9]
Delta Air Lines Detroit, Seattle/Tacoma (both begin 29 March 2020)[76]
Finnair Helsinki
Hebei Airlines Changchun, Chengdu, Guilin, Hangzhou, Lanzhou, Mianyang, Nanchang, Nanjing, Nantong, Ningbo, Sanya, Xingyi, Yinchuan, Zhalantun, Zunyi–Xinzhou[77]
Himalaya Airlines Kathmandu[78]
Juneyao Airlines Shanghai–Hongqiao[79]
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw–Chopin[80][81]
Malaysia Airlines Kuala Lumpur–International[82]
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca [83][84]
Royal Brunei Airlines Bandar Seri Begawan[85]
S7 Airlines Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk–Yemelyanovo, Novosibirsk, Ulan-Ude, Vladivostok (all begin 29 March 2020)[86]
Ural Airlines Irkutsk, Moscow–Zhukovsky, Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg (all begin 29 March 2020)[87]
XiamenAir Fuzhou, Xiamen (both begin 29 March 2020)[88]
Ground transportationEdit
Main article: Daxing Airport station
Waiting room of Intercity Railway Daxing Airport Station.
Platform of the Subway Station.
The airport is linked to the city through various means of transportation, and a ground transportation center was constructed beneath the terminal building for this purpose.[89] Two underground railway stations (for Beijing–Xiong'an intercity railway and Intercity Railway Connector)[90] and three metro stations (Daxing Airport Express, Line 20 (Line R4) and another planned metro line)[90] were built beneath the terminal building. Currently, only one of the metro lines (Daxing Airport Express) and one of the railway lines (Beijing–Xiong'an intercity railway) are in operation. The airport is also served by a highway system including Beijing Daxing Airport Expressway [zh] and Beijing Daxing Airport North Line Expressway [zh] connecting the airport and Beijing city.[91]
Intercity railEdit
A new high-speed railway service, the Beijing–Xiong'an intercity railway starts from Beijing West railway station. It will connect the urban area of Beijing, Daxing District of Beijing, Bazhou, and Xiong'an to the new airport. The section between the airport to Beijing will operate at speeds of 250 km/h (160 mph) and the section between the airport to Xiong'an will operate at speeds of 350 km/h (220 mph).[92] The airport-to-Beijing section was opened on September 26, 2019,[93] while the airport-to-Xiong'an section is expected to open in late 2020.[94] It will take 28 minutes from Beijing West railway station to the new airport.[95]
Another intercity railway, the Intercity Railway Connector, will connect Langfang, Yizhuang, Beijing Sub-administrative Center in Tongzhou District and Beijing Capital International Airport to the new airport. Phase I of the intercity railway connector (New Airport to Langfang East railway station) is under construction. Phase 1 of the railway will be finished in December 2022.[96] The speed will be 200 km/h.[96][97]
Another high-speed railway service, the Tianjin–Beijing Daxing Airport railway (also known as Jinxing railway[98]), will connect Tianjin West railway station with Daxing Airport.[99] Construction will start in late 2019[98][100] and finish in 3 years.[99] The speed will be 250 km/h.[99] The railway will through-operate with the aforementioned Intercity Railway Connector.
SubwayEdit
The Daxing Airport Express of the Beijing Subway connects the airport to the urban area of Beijing and began operation on September 26, 2019.[101] The line links Caoqiao station on Line 10 to the airport. Initially, only the Caoqiao-to-airport segment was opened, with a northern extension to Lize Business District scheduled to begin construction in the second half of 2019[102] and finish in 2021. A southern extension of the line, also known as Xiong'an to Daxing Airport Express [zh] (or Line R1 of Xiong'an Rail Transit), from Daxing Airport to Xiong'an West railway station will also start construction in 2019.[103]
In the long term planning of the Beijing Subway, Line 20 (Line R4) of the Beijing Subway is planned to terminate at the new airport.[104]
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^ 北京新机场航站楼2019年7月建成 8分抵最远登机口-新华网 [Beijing's New Airport Terminal Building to Finish Construction in July 2019, 8 Minutes to Farthest Boarding Gate - Xinhua Net]. www.xinhuanet.com. Retrieved 2018-05-21.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Beijing Daxing International Airport.
Official Website (Chinese)
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FCC takes a big step toward Lifeline broadband
In a victory for CYC, the National Digital Inclusion Alliance and many other digital equity advocates across the U.S., the Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 on Thursday to approve new rules for the Federal Lifeline program that could — eventually — create many more affordable broadband options for low-income households across the country.The decision, which concludes a “Lifeline Modernization” proceeding that began last May, is another important milestone in a long struggle by the FCC majority — notably Commissoner Mignon Clyburn, but also Chairman Wheeler and their Democratic colleague, Commissioner Rosenworcel — to break down the broadband cost barrier that keeps millions of lower-income citizens off the Internet. An earlier milestone, the agreement brokered by Clyburn in the AT&T/DirectTV merger case, will make $10 home broadband available to 150,000+ low income households in Cleveland and Detroit in just a few weeks.
The FCC’s decision on Thursday won’t have that kind of immediate or drastic impact. It doesn’t create new Universal Service Fund subsidies for Internet service (in fact, it puts new spending limits on the overall Lifeline program). The Lifeline subsidy for eligible low income households will remain a flat $9.25 a month. The soonest that service providers can start applying that subsidy to Internet service, instead of just voice and text, will apparently be December 1.
But the decision opens some important doors for providers that the FCC expects (with good reason, IMHO) to lead to large-scale benefits for consumers, as soon as next year:
1) Providers can start offering Lifeline-subsidized Internet to low income consumers, as an alternative to voice and text, or as part of a bundle. If it’s “fixed” home service — i.e. DSL, cable, satellite — that Internet service must meet minimum speed and monthly data standards (10 mbs down, 150 gb per month) that make all kinds of IP enabled applications, including low-cost IP phone, very feasible. (The speed and date requirement for mobile broadband providers are much weaker.)
2) New providers — notable cable companies, but possibly public or nonprofit networks as well — can qualify to provide broadband-only Lifeline services, without jumping through state-level regulatory hoops. Comcast and Charter, soon to be #1 and #2 in the U.S. cable market, gave strong support to the new rules, so it’s a fair bet that they have ideas about the possibilities. This guarantees strong competitive pressure on current Lifeline phone providers — who are overwhelmingly wireless — to develop competitively priced phone/text/data bundles, and/or mobile hotspot options.
3) The new rules will apparently require Lifeline-subsidized mobile devices, including phones, to have wifi functionality — so even a consumer with a minimal data plan will have Internet access through public hotspots.
So essentially, the FCC is inviting a bunch of new providers and technology options into the Lifeline market, with only one real requirement… figure out how to get reasonably fast Internet access to poor people, cheap.
Will this produce the broadband equivalent of the mythical Obamaphone — free Internet for all? Or even $10 Internet for all? No, and not very likely.
For example: AT&T;’s current monthly charge for standalone 6 mpbs DSL, where they offer it, is about $50 after the promotional year. Even assuming the company increases the speed to the FCC”s required 10 mbps, with the $9.25 Lifeline subsidy it would still cost about $40 a month — by itself, not a very “affordable” solution.
The success of the new Lifeline policy in creating robust broadband options that are truly affordable for low-income customers will depend on a whole lot of innovation, both in technology and business models, over the next year or two. What the policy offers to motivate innovators toward this goal is the prospect of a stream of Federal subsidies — not very large, but steady and reliable.
Among potential Lifeline broadband innovators, some of the most interesting are noncommercial Internet providers — municipal and community networks, nonprofit 4G resellers, etc. — for whom $9.25 per user per month could represent a significant new revenue source. NDIA and other digital inclusion groups argued strongly that the FCC should encourage these nontraditional providers to be part of the modernized Lifeline program. We won’t know whether the rules governing the new category of “Broadband Lifeline Providers” will be friendly to this idea until the actual language of the order is pubished a week or two from now.
There’s one other really promising part of Thursday’s decision, which probably wouldn’t be in there without the efforts of the National Digital Inclusion Alliance — a commitment by the FCC to “bring together a variety of stakeholders to determine how Lifeline can best be used to close the digital divide.” I’ll let NDIA’s Angela Siefer explain what that means and why it matters.
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Danny Michel / Selina Koop Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver BC September 18
It's a testament to Danny Michel's charisma that the singer-songwriter was able to win over the Saturday night crowd at the Biltmore. The room was packed and buzzing with energy, and this meant that the concertgoers talked loudly throughout opener Selina Koop's set. Her quiet piano ballads were pretty, but the chatter spoiled the intimacy of the songs.
Once Michel came on stage, however, all attention was on him. Unaccompanied, and armed only with his electric guitar and a loop pedal, the Kitchener-Waterloo-based troubadour began with the eerie "Into the Flame," looping his rhythm track and firing off a nimble spaghetti western solo. He followed this up with the noir ballad "The Invisible Man," which included an interpolation of the James Bond theme that was half funny, half menacing. Despite these creepy opening songs, Michel kept the tone light throughout most of his performance. This meant playing a jokey snippet of David Bowie's "China Girl," as well as breaking off "Whale of a Tale" to tell a story about a man who claimed to have sung "Joy to the World" to the Pope.
The non-stop humour could have gotten tiresome were it not for Michel's virtuosic guitar playing. He replicated the lush studio arrangement of "Maybe You Can Find It in Your Heart" by looping multiple guitar parts, and the rhythms were so tight that it inspired some dancing at the sides of the room. On the countrified "Tennessee Tobacco," he blazed through a searing solo and even some heavy metal-style tapping. The set lasted an hour-and-a-half, but the audience's attention never lagged, even during the barely-there hush of "I Will Love You for Miles," which came during the encore. The show ended at 11 p.m., as the club was reserved for a late-night dance party. Still, it's tough to imagine that even a DJ set could have more energy than Danny Michel.
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Terrorism in the USA:threat & response
Thread: Terrorism in the USA:threat & response
SWJED
Largo, Florida
Moderators Note
In March 2011 this thread was renamed after being merged with a thread in Threat & Adversary, to reflect the primary focus on terrorism and counter terrorism in the USA. There are other, long running threads that refer to these issue. On 2/5/2011 another thread The FBI and CT Intelligence was merged to here. On 26/10/14 the Boston Marathon bomb thread was merged to here. A 2017 thread now continues this theme:President Trump & Terrorism in the USA:threat & response (ends).
9 May NY Times - 6 Men Arrested in a Plot Against Ft. Dix by David Kocieniewski.
Six Muslim men from New Jersey and Philadelphia were charged Tuesday with plotting to attack Fort Dix with automatic weapons and possibly even rocket-propelled grenades, vowing in taped conversations “to kill as many soldiers as possible,” federal authorities said.
The arrests came after a 15-month investigation during which the F.B.I. and two informers who had infiltrated the group taped them training with automatic weapons in rural Pennsylvania, conducting surveillance of military bases in the Northeast, watching videos of Osama bin Laden and the 9/11 hijackers and trying to buy AK-47 assault rifles.
The authorities described the suspects as Islamic extremists and said they represented the newest breed of threat: loosely organized domestic militants unconnected to — but inspired by — Al Qaeda or other international terror groups...
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Plot Illustrates Balkans' Role as Islamist Foothold
9 May Washington Times - Plot Illustrates Balkans' Role as Islamist Foothold by Bill Gertz.
The six foreign-born Muslims accused of planning a shooting attack at the U.S. military base included four ethnic Albanians, and U.S. officials say their arrests highlight how Islamist groups are using the Balkans region to help in recruiting and financing terrorism.
Prosecutors described the men as "radical Islamists," with four coming from the province of Kosovo in the former Yugoslavia, where the ethnic Albanian population of Muslims fought one of the several wars that grew out of the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Suspect Agron Abdullahu, who faces only weapons violations in the case, was described in court papers as a "sniper in Kosovo."...
goesh
sounds like displaced KLA members to me but then jihadism cuts across all borders and nationalities
Uboat509
I doubt that these guys were al Qeda for the simple fact that I just don't think that AQ would try to make their next big attack against the US be a National Guard/Reserve post in New Jersey.
SFC W
Attempts Seen As Model for New Attacks On U.S. Soil
3 July Washington Post - Attempts Seen As Model for New Attacks On U.S. Soil by Karen DeYoung.
The next terrorist assault on the United States is likely to come through relatively unsophisticated, near-simultaneous attacks -- similar to those attempted in Britain over the weekend -- designed more to provoke widespread fear and panic than to cause major losses of life, U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism officials believe.
Such attacks require minimal expertise and training and are difficult to prevent. Although British investigators have not claimed al-Qaeda involvement in the latest incidents, officials here said they may constitute a "hybrid" phenomenon, in which al-Qaeda inspires and guides local groups from afar but establishes no visible operational or logistical links.
"What is a direct link?" asked one counterterrorism official. "Is it couriers? Messengers?" U.S. officials "from very senior folks" on down, he said, are watching as the British work to reconstruct the attacks and trace their origin...
SteveMetz
Carlisle, PA
Originally Posted by SWJED
It certainly bears watching but if this slate of buffoons in UK is any indication, we're dealing with the terrorism "D" team at this point.
What leaves me eternally perplexed is exactly what those guys are thinking. I'd love to talk to them and say, "Please connect the dots between murdering people on the streets and the conversion of the English to Islam and the adoption of sharia law." Do they really think millions of English are going to say, "Yowzee--a religion whose adherents murder women and children. Sign me up for that!"?
Graycap
Originally Posted by SteveMetz
Do they really think millions of English are going to say, "Yowzee--a religion whose adherents murder women and children. Sign me up for that!"?
I don't think so. I think that they only want the Great Britain State to over-react in front of a choice: security vs normality. Do you want business as usual? No problem you will have all the bombs you can think of. Do you want security? Goodbye swinging London and multiculturalism.
Whatever choice you make the risk to have a social breakdown is real. After that to impose sharia law at islamic minority will be easy once it will be equal to say social security. And when we will have a portion of a western state run by sharia we will know that war will be on our soil.
Just my two cents..
It certainly bears watching but if this slate of buffoons in UK is any indication, we're dealing with the terrorism "D" team at this point....
I second Steve's comment; relatively unsophisticated is an overstatement regarding these clowns. But that observation is offset by the point made in this 3 Jul 07 article in The Economist:
Britain under threat: Even failed attacks may promote terrorists’ interests.
....Attempted bombings like these recent ones may not be carried out by the most effective al-Qaeda operatives, but even failed strikes take up a huge quantity of time from intelligence officers and police, potentially distracting them from other planned attacks. In Britain MI5 is expanding substantially, from 1,800 staff in 2001 to a projected 3,500 in 2008. But growth takes time, as does the training of new officers and the recruiting of informers. Meanwhile the number of suspected terrorist networks is growing exponentially, roughly doubling every year since the invasion of Iraq in 2003....
CPT Holzbach
The English will overcome this just fine. They handled many years of IRA terrorism, shootings, and bombs. The real question is will we be smart enough to learn from them?
Tomorrow Ill be calling for people to tar and feather the hated English overlords. But for today, I say let's study what they do about these attacks and learn something.
"The Infantry’s primary role is close combat, which may occur in any type of mission, in any theater, or environment. Characterized by extreme violence and physiological shock, close combat is callous and unforgiving. Its dimensions are measured in minutes and meters, and its consequences are final." - Paragraph 1-1, FM 3-21.8: Infantry Rifle PLT and SQD.
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Abu Buckwheat
Insurgency University
Oh I really second this great post! This was horribly amateurish! I pray to god that AQ inspired terroristskeep up this level of incompetence ... however we should be cautious that mistakes are always learned by others and corrected. Still this was not much of a threat but they exposed themselves and now they will pay the price.
Putting Foot to Al Qaeda Ass Since 1993
Old Eagle
Rocky Mtn Empire
Coupla points (as usual)
Frankly, I'm surprised we haven't seen more of this type of attack.
1. Amateurs are sometimes successful. Please don't write them off out of hand.
2. AQ has varying levels of influence on operations:
-- Those that are centrally planned by the A team
-- Those that are "nominated" from the field and then get support ($$, planning assistance, etc) from higher up
-- And those carried out by copycat/wannabes
3. We win by good police work and rule of law, even in the intelligence work that goes into prevention. It appears (obvious to me) that NSY/MI5 were onto some of this plot, but couldn't wrap it up before hand as they have some of the other recent attempts. If we sacrifice our freedoms and way of life in the name of security, the bad guys win.
4. The good news is that both the US and UK have decent LE and judicial systems. Both societies are very resilient.
Merv Benson
Washington, Texas
Al Qaeda's shallow bench
I think it is a reflection of the lack of depth at the operational level. The guy who originally thought up the idea of limo bombs using propane cannisters was already in jail in the UK.
I am sure the deficiencies in the plan were also compounded by the arrogance of doctors who think that because they are smart in medicine they are smart in other "operations." An interview with one of the professors of the "brilliant" neurosurgeon leader of the group discloses earlier manifestations of hubris. This led to many errors that just kept compounding.
I would also point out that unlike the Iran-Hezballah operation in Karbala, these guys got no practice time with training to see if their device would even explode. At this point the Shia terrorist appear to be much more "professional." However, even their operations in Iraq are suffering from the roll up of "secret cells." BTW, anyone know how the Iranian-Hezballah cells came to be called "secret cells?" I thought all terrorist cells were supposed to be secret.
Stevely
Originally Posted by Old Eagle
And success breeds imitators, and maybe even studied failure does too. They may have been "clowns" but I think the number is 7 now of the 12 in custody are medical doctors, so they are not stupid people by any means, just inexperienced. With the internet and other modern communications tools, the enemy is going to have his own "lessons learned" capability, and the quality of advice available to amateurs like these will only get better. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to create a lot of mayhem, and thus it is very disturbing to see MDs involved in this business. We may not be so lucky the next time. It's disturbing to see the enemy's ideology attracting people who really ought to know better, and I think it is a sign of worse to come.
He cloaked himself in a veil of impenetrable terminology.
Originally Posted by Merv Benson
In my other life, I play a mild-mannered airplane mechanic. With as many doctors I count as customers, you have no idea how fricking funny (and true) this is.
NYPD Intelligence Division: The Homegrown Threat
NYPD Intelligence Division: The Homegrown Threat - SWJ Blog.
Recently released report from the New York Police Department’s Intelligence Division - Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat by Mitchell D. Silber and Arvin Bhatt.
If the post-September 11th world has taught us anything, it is that the tools for conducting serious terrorist attacks are becoming easier to acquire. Therefore intention becomes an increasingly important factor in the formation of terrorist cells. This study is an attempt to look at how that intention forms, hardens and leads to an attack or attempted attack using real world case studies.
While the threat from overseas remains, many of the terrorist attacks or thwarted plots against cities in Europe, Canada, Australia and the United States have been conceptualized and planned by local residents/citizens who sought to attack their country of residence. The majority of these individuals began as “unremarkable” -they had “unremarkable” jobs, had lived “unremarkable” lives and had little, if any criminal history. The recently thwarted plot by homegrown jihadists, in May 2007, against Fort Dix in New Jersey, only underscores the seriousness of this emerging threat.
Understanding this trend and the radicalization process in the West that drives “unremarkable” people to become terrorists is vital for developing effective counter-strategies. This realization has special importance for the NYPD and the City of New York. As one of the country’s iconic symbols and the target of numerous terrorist plots since the 1990’s, New York City continues to be the one of the top targets of terrorists worldwide. Consequently, the NYPD places a priority on understanding what drives and defines the radicalization process.
The aim of this report is to assist policymakers and law enforcement officials, both in Washington and throughout the country, by providing a thorough understanding of the kind of threat we face domestically. It also seeks to contribute to the debate among intelligence and law enforcement agencies on how best to counter this emerging threat by better understanding what constitutes the radicalization process...
Much more at the blog entry and on the NYPD site (entire report)
The link to this document no longer works (not known why). There are numerous Google links that do work, try:
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_b...n_the_West.pdf
I note the document caused considerable comment, mainly in the USA and little to date in the UK. Normally we would see a review from London.
Also found an Islamic critique, which I've yet to read in full:
http://conflictblotter.com/files/SalafiManhaj_NYPD.pdfNo onger readily available, although multiple hits on Google.
Back to the NYPD document, which I read at the weekend. It is a useful reference, especially as it is based on open source and interviews. Worth reading.
Added March 2011 post 115 on the following thread has a critique of the NYPD report:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...?t=7188&page=6
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The FBI and Counterterrorism Intelligence
CQ Politics, 2 Nov 07: FBI Hoped to Follow Falafel Trail to Iranian Terrorists Here
Like Hansel and Gretel hoping to follow their bread crumbs out of the forest, the FBI sifted through customer data collected by San Francisco-area grocery stores in 2005 and 2006, hoping that sales records of Middle Eastern food would lead to Iranian terrorists.
The idea was that a spike in, say, falafel sales, combined with other data, would lead to Iranian secret agents in the south San Francisco-San Jose area.
The brainchild of top FBI counterterrorism officials Phil Mudd and Willie T. Hulon, according to well-informed sources, the project didn’t last long. It was torpedoed by the head of the FBI’s criminal investigations division, Michael A. Mason, who argued that putting somebody on a terrorist list for what they ate was ridiculous — and possibly illegal.
A check of federal court records in California did not reveal any prosecutions developed from falafel trails......
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The Investigative Project on Terrorism, 7 Nov 07: The FBI's Latest Outreach Outrage
Much has been written about the U.S. government's current bout of schizophrenia in its outreach to the American Muslim community, specifically related to the Department of Justice. While federal prosecutors in Dallas have labeled several Islamist organizations as unindicted co-conspirators – describing them as front groups for Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood - in the terrorist financing trial against the Holy Land for Relief and Development (HLF), the FBI is meeting with the very same groups to hold outreach events and the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ is setting up booths at their conferences.
As wrongheaded and shortsighted as these policies are, they do not hold a candle to a recent outreach event held by the FBI's Detroit field office at the end of last month.....
...follow-up on the Counterterrorism Blog: FBI's New Friends Were Kicked Out of UAE For "Talibanization"
As a follow-up to Steve Emerson's post about the FBI's meeting with Tanzeem-e-Islami, I want to suggest to the FBI that they use a website named "Google" to comprehensively search the groups and individuals with which they are planning to meet. If they had done that search well, they would have found that the UAE government kicked Ahmad's supporters out of the country back in May, fearing "the spread of Talibanization.".....
Hi Jed, This really is pretty funny.
Originally Posted by Jedburgh
Maybe an FBI special agent should sit down and have coffee with a CIA case officer.
Who knows, something positive and productive might happen for both sides.
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NHS training body still looking outside Britain
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Health Education England (HEE), the body responsible for the education and training of the NHS workforce in England, has shown encouraging signs of understanding the realities of Britain’s place in the world, and planning for sustainable recruitment and retention of the workforce by investing in education and training in this country, rather than pillaging the workforces of health systems in the EU and Britain’s former colonies.
But not everyone in the organisation seems to support this position. The Health Service Journal recently quoted HEE’s Director of Global Engagement – though why HEE needs someone with such a job title may well be questioned – as expressing a desire to “improve conversion rates of those people who are expressing an interest in coming to work in the UK”, lamenting that for some staff groups in some, unnamed, countries, the conversion rate between those who express a desire to work in the UK and those who arrive here is less than 4 per cent.
The article hints at the corruption in overseas recruitment of health workers, mentioning “unscrupulous and systematic practices, including overinflated promises, poor quality English language teaching and extortionate costs for recruits”, corruption at which NHS employers have connived in their eagerness to employ recruitment consultants and even set up offices abroad to recruit staff.
As any health worker on the ground could have told HEE, attrition rates are higher among international recruits than for UK recruited staff. Many a trust has wasted money on overseas staff who come for a few months and then leave.
The director says that he wants to create a “quality assured process which has good pastoral care for groups [of overseas recruits]”. The article doesn’t say how much this would cost. HEE would do better to concentrate on the tasks of improving Britain’s medical, nursing and other health professionals’ education and training, than trying to make us more attractive to short-term migrants
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Customer Relations Director of Nursing. Customer Relations Manager All staff
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1 COMPLAINTS POLICY Summary statement: How does the document support patient care? Staff/stakeholders involved in development: Job titles only Division: Department: Responsible Person: The policy aims to support the Trust s commitment to patient and service user satisfaction by ensuring that complaints handling is structured around three main principles below. Customer Relations Manager PALS Manager Director of Nursing Nursing Customer Relations Director of Nursing Author: For use by: Purpose: This document supports: Standards and legislation Customer Relations Manager All staff This policy has been formulated to ensure staff respond to complaints to a satisfactory standard and comply with the requirements contained within The Local Authority Social Services and National Health Service Complaints (England) Regulations The Local Authority Social Services and National Health Service Complaints (England) Regulations 2009 Department of Health (1996) Complaints: Listening.Acting.Improving. Guidance on the implementation of the current NHS Complaints Procedure NHSLA Apologies and Explanations letter 1 st May NHSLA Risk Management Standards CQC Regulations Outcome 17 (R19) Key related documents: Being Open Policy Sussex Complaints Protocol for NHS Trust and Social Services Departments (to which the Trust is a signatory) Risk management Policy Claims Policy Safeguarding Vulnerable Adult Procedure Child Protection Arrangements Event investigation, Management & Analysis Policy Approved by: Patient Experience and Feedback Committee Page 1 of 55
2 Divisional Governance/Management Group Management Board Approval date: May 2012 TBC Ratified by Board of Directors/ Committee of the Board of Directors Ratification Date: n/a n/a Expiry Date: June 2015 Review date: February 2015 If you require this document in another format such as Braille, large print, audio or another language please contact the Trusts Communications Team Reference Number: P93 Version date Author Status Comment 1.0 June 2010 Customer Relations Manager 2.0 February 2011 Customer Relations Manager 3.0 July 2012 Customer Relations Manager Archived Live Draft Executive Summary Introduction Scope Key Responsibilities 5 Policy Detail / Course Of Action Raising Concerns Local Resolution Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO - Final Stage) Outcome Following Complaint Process Risk Assessment Of Complaints Confidentiality Support For Complainants Including Being Open Support For Staff / Disciplinary Issues Fairness And Equality Legal Matters And Compensation Identification Of A Serious Incident Requiring Investigation (Siri) Or Safeguarding Issue Link with Investigation Management, Complaints and Claims Management Other Providers Multi-Agency Complaints Page 2 of 55
3 A B C D E F G H I J K Withdrawal Of A Complaint Persistent And Unreasonable Complaints Media/Press Record Maintenance And Storage Fraud And Corruption Compliments Implementation/Training/Awareness Publishing The Complaints Policy Training Requirements Monitoring And Key Performance Indicators Monitoring Complaints, Including Implementation And Monitoring Of Recommendations Key Performance Indicators Learning From Complaints References Links To Other Policies / Documents Good Practice Links To Other Organisation Policies Disclaimer Appendices: Guidelines for Front Line Responses to Concerns Raised by the Public Guidelines for Structured Management of Concerns, Complaints and Comments Guidelines on Writing Reports or Accounts of Events Flowcharts for NHS Complaints Process Complaints Triaging Guidance Protocol for Joint Complaints Guidelines for Managing Persistent and/or Unreasonable Complaints Monthly Plaudit Return Outcome Forms Summary of Timescales Patient Experience & Feedback Committee Complaints Files Audit Form Equality Impact Assessment Page 3 of 55
4 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1.1 This policy has been formulated to ensure staff respond to complaints to a satisfactory standard and comply with the requirements contained within The Local Authority Social Services and National Health Service Complaints (England) Regulations The organisation will also follow the guidance issued by the Care Quality Commission, the NHS Litigation Authority and National Patient Safety Agency and act in accordance with the NHS Constitution (2010); Complaints and Redress and Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman s Principles of Remedy (2009). 1.2 The organisation recognises the complaints policy as being a valuable tool for improving the quality of health services it commissions and provides. High Quality Care for All (2008) recognised that patient experience can only be improved by analysing and understanding patient satisfaction with their experiences. In the wider context of Patient and Public Engagement (PPE), complaints capture feedback on the services the organisation already provides and may identify areas for future service development. 1.3 Careful handling of complaints is an essential requirement of the organisation in terms of patient safety, patient experience and reputation management. It is recognised that being involved in a complaint can be both challenging and stressful. The process should run as smoothly as possible and should not be undertaken in an adversarial manner. An open, fair and honest culture should be encouraged and where shortcomings are identified appropriate action should be taken straightaway to resolve and rectify matters accordingly. The emphasis should always be on resolution. 1.4 Where learning is identified from complaints, training must be provided where indicated. The Francis Report (2010) made specific reference to complaints and incident reporting, and the need for staff to act on the learning that arises from complaints. 1.5 Complaints should link with risk management and other aspects of clinical governance to ensure that improvements are made to the quality of services. 1.6 The organisation should publicise improvements made to the services that have been made as a result of complaints, both internally and to the public. 2. INTRODUCTION 2.1 Careful handling of comments, concerns and complaints is an essential requirement of the organisation in terms of patient safety, patient experience and reputation. The trust cares passionately about providing the best quality care for its local population and effective management of these enquiries is key to the trust s vision and objectives. This policy describes how staff are expected to respond to complaints, concerns and comments raised by users of the service, their relatives and their friends. It is in keeping with the Trust s stated values We care: about the patient, quality, safety, local services, being joined up, improvement and sustainability The policy advocates adherence to the principles of good complaint handling as defined by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO): Getting it right Being customer focused Being open and accountable Acting fairly and proportionately Putting things right Seeking continuous improvement Page 4 of 55
5 The Trust guidance accompanying this policy (Appendices A and B) is underpinned by these principles. 2.2 The policy covers the Local Resolution stage of the NHS Complaints Procedure through which complaints will be handled in the first instance, following national and local guidelines. If, following the completion of Local Resolution, complainants remain dissatisfied they will be advised that they have the option of asking the Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman for an independent review. The Ombudsman s decision is final. 2.3 Concerns should ideally be raised at the time, if at all possible, by speaking to the healthcare professional or member of staff involved. Staff, at the time, are often best placed to deal with the issues and they will try to put things right on the spot. 2.4 The organisation recognises complaints as being a valuable tool for improving the quality of health services and to identify training needs of the staff it employs. As well as ensuring the efficient handling of complaints, the organisation will identify good practice or areas of risk and will take necessary action to rectify matters. 2.5 The aim of the complaints policy is for the resolution of concerns raised by the complainant either verbally or in writing and for an improvement in the quality of services wherever possible, rather than the apportionment of blame. Every effort should be made to resolve the complaint to the satisfaction of the complainant whilst being scrupulously fair to the staff members concerned. 2.6 The objectives of this policy are: To endeavour to achieve resolution of a complaint. To ensure that complaints are handled efficiently and in a timely manner. To identify any areas of risk and take appropriate action where necessary. To learn from outcomes of complaints and share good practice throughout the organisation. A simple procedure common to all complaints about any services provided by the organisation. An open and honest process that is fair to complainants and staff. 2.7 DEFINITION OF A COMPLAINT - A complaint is defined as an expression of dissatisfaction, (written or verbal) about a service provided or which is not provided, which requires investigation and a response. Examples include: complaints about the quality of service provided, the following of standard procedures and good practice, poor communication and the attitude or behaviour of a member of staff. 2.8 DEFINITION OF A CONCERN An expression of dissatisfaction (written or verbal) about a service provided or which is not provided which requires a response, but is resolved to the person s satisfaction by the department concerned or the PALS service. 2,9 DEFINITION OF A COMMENT A statement (written or verbal) that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information. This may or may not need a response depending on the requirement of the person making the comment. Comments, whether written or verbal, may be responded to by the department concerned or by the PALS service. Page 5 of 55
6 3. SCOPE 3.1 This Policy applies to all staff employed by Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust and will act as a guide to the NHS Complaints Procedure. 3.2 WHO CAN COMPLAIN? Patients or any person who is affected by or likely to be affected by, the action, omission, or decision of the organisation may make a complaint. Where the complainant is not the patient, care must be taken to ensure the patient s confidentiality is not breached. 4. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 4.1 The organisation will ensure that there is a designated Customer Relations Manager who will be responsible to the Director of Nursing for the handling of all complaints made against the organisation. They will ensure that there is a record of all complaints received by the organisation and ensure that they are dealt with in accordance with this policy, reporting as necessary to the Chief Executive. S/he will liaise as required with other staff within the organisation at all levels to ensure that the appropriate information is available to enable full and open responses to be drafted within the appropriate timescale for the Chief Executive to consider. 4.2 The Board is responsible for: Monitoring the overall procedures, process and responses to complainants and action identified to prevent a recurrence. 4.3 Chief Executive (CEO) is responsible for: Signing the final responses to complaints, or in his/her absence their nominated deputy, when for good reason the Chief Executive is not able to do so. Ensuring that the complaints process, with support from the Director of Nursing and Customer Relations Manager is followed in accordance with this policy. Ensuring matters of extreme seriousness are discussed with a relevant member of the Board and will be referred to the appropriate professional body, or the police in the case of criminal offences. 4.4 The Patient Experience & Feedback Committee is responsible for: providing assurance to the Board that the Trust manages patients complaints and concerns in a sensitive and effective manner, in line with the NHS Complaints Procedure. providing assurance to the Board that a process of organisational learning is in place to ensure that lessons learnt are embedded within the organisational framework. 4.5 Director of Nursing is responsible for: Ensuring compliance with the arrangements made under The Local Authority Social Services and National Health Service Complaints (England) Regulations 2009, and that action is taken in the light of the outcome of any investigation. The Chief Executive has designated this role to the Director of Nursing. In conjunction with the Medical Director, ensuring effective implementation of learning from complaints. 4.6 Customer Relations Manager is responsible for: Page 6 of 55
7 Ensuring patients are aware of how to complain. Ensuring the implementation of national guidance and requirements in relation to complaints and that robust systems are in place for the management of concerns and complaints. Providing support and expertise in complex health complaints or complex complaints. Producing annual statistics to the Department of Health for their KO41a returns. Providing training and support to staff in handling complaints and investigations, including assistance with drafting responses. Produce reports to the Board, Divisions and Complaints Committee on the number and subject of complaints as well as lessons learnt and action taken. The outcome of investigations and any corrective action taken should be used to improve future service. Produce an annual report for the Chief Executive and the Board reflecting trends over the last year. 4.7 Customer Relations Officers are responsible for: Triaging complaints to identify potential risks early; linking with other organisational procedures such as Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults or Children or Serious Incidents Requiring Investigation. Overseeing the management of the complaint from start to conclusion including ensuring lessons are learnt. Ensuring that the organisation s Legal Services Manager is informed of all complaints when a claim for possible negligence or investigation identifies concerns regarding compliance to NHSLA standards, or if the complainant requests compensation. Updating the Customer Relations Manager directly on the progress of all complaints. Ensuring that target dates and deadlines are achieved. Maintaining suitable records, including the logging of complaints on the risk management database. Liaising with Directors, Clinical Leads and other Senior Managers and clinicians to ensure they are regularly updated on issues of particular interest and learning from complaints. Providing training and support to staff in handling complaints and investigations. Drafting all responses to complaints on behalf of the Chief Executive. Providing information on Complaints Management to new members of staff on the organisation s corporate induction programme. Ensuring mediation and or conciliation is available to complainants and practitioners, if required. Ensuring any recommendations made by the Health Service Ombudsman are implemented. 4.8 PALS Manager and team are responsible for: Supporting patients, relatives and carers in problem resolution, at the earliest possible stage to prevent the escalation to a formal complaint. Meeting with patients, carers and relatives to advise on problem resolution, including action planning to support resolution. Manage the compliments and concerns process ensuring action planning takes place for lessons learnt. Work with divisions to identify common themes for improvement and areas of best practice. Page 7 of 55
8 4.9 Divisions 4.10 Directors of Clinical and Non Clinical Services are responsible for: Ensuring that divisional complaints are monitored by the division board with regard to trend analysis, the identification of common themes and for ensuring that lessons learnt and action taken are disseminated across clinical and non-clinical services within the division, as appropriate. Supporting the management of complex complaints when other mechanisms have failed to reach a resolution. Approving all draft responses to complaints on behalf of the Chief Executive Chiefs of Service are responsible for: Monitoring clinical complaints within their division. They will review trends, monitor outcomes and ensure in partnership with appropriate lead clinicians or other professional staff that plans are in place, training needs are identified and addressed to prevent recurrence. Also, share concerns and lessons learnt with other Chiefs of Service. Supporting the management of complex complaints particularly those relating to medical staff, when other mechanisms have failed to reach a resolution. Approving all clinical draft responses to complaints on behalf of the Chief Executive Heads of Nursing are responsible for: Ensure that lessons are learnt from complaints and shared throughout the division. Ensuring that the final letter is drafted within time. Supporting the management of complex complaints particularly those relating to nursing staff, when other mechanisms have failed to reach a resolution. Approving all nursing draft responses to complaints on behalf of the Chief Executive Matrons are responsible for: Ensuring the complaint is investigated, and that this is undertaken by the most appropriate person. Ensuring responses to complaints are complete and factual. Ensuring staff are supported as necessary during the process of investigation. Ensuring that actions are taken according to the risk associated with the complaint. Ensure that lessons are learnt from complaints and shared throughout the division. Assisting ward and clinical staff to ensure a satisfactory early resolution of concerns/complaints. Matrons will support, as appropriate, staff in reviewing and responding effectively to complaints, and advising and assisting to ensure lessons are learnt and action is taken to prevent recurrence. Taking the lead in reviewing a complaint with staff and assisting with responses if requested. Making sure patients are aware of how to raise matters of concern Line Managers are responsible for: Informing the Customer Relations Team of complaints they have received directly, on the same day they receive them, (telephone, fax or ), followed up by sending the original details of complaint to the Customer Relations Team for processing. Undertaking complaint investigations. Page 8 of 55
9 Root cause analysis of complaints. Informing staff involved in the complaint. Ensuring that their staff are familiar with the NHS Complaints Procedure. Ensuring that all written statements made by staff as part of the investigation process are accurate, legible, signed and dated. Providing a response letter, approved by contributors in a timely fashion. Liaising - information sharing and feedback - where the investigation indicates that external partner agencies should be involved. For example - Health & Safety Executive, Housing, Police. Using complaints/findings as a learning opportunity process for staff by cascading good and poor practice identified, and ensuring actions are taken to minimise and prevent future complaints to include - review of practice and systems in place and training thereby promoting good governance within area of responsibility Clinical Matron/Night Nurse Coordinator is responsible for: Ensuring complaints made out of hours are resolved by the appropriate care staff if possible. If a complaint is considered to be significant it should be recorded and reported to the relevant Director or General Manager as soon as practically possible. If a complaint identifies a matter recognised as of a potentially serious nature, the advice of the senior manager on call must be obtained All staff within the organisation are responsible for: Responding to and satisfactorily resolving, whenever possible, verbal concerns/complaints raised by patients/clients or their representatives, and if significant, document the complaint. If it is not possible to reach a resolution then an offer to refer the case to the PALS service or manage the complaint in accordance with the Local Authority Social Services and National Health Service Complaints (England) Regulations 2009 must be made. Being aware of the NHS Complaints Procedure and local policies and practice in relation to the management of complaints and to be able to explain the options available when service users/patients wish to make a complaint. Contacting the Customer Relations team for advice if they have any doubts about the handling of a complaint. Being aware that complainants may need to be advised to progress his/her concerns through other appropriate channels; Care Quality Commission, Professional Societies/Colleges, the Mental Health Act Commission, or the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman. Ensuring that any verbal complaint, involving harm to a patient, is recorded and the relevant senior manager is informed as soon as practically possible. Ensuring that no patient who makes a complaint is discriminated against, allowing patients, relatives and carers to have confidence that, a concern/complaint raised will not prejudice their future care of treatment. 5. POLICY DETAIL / COURSE OF ACTION This section sets out the processes to be followed to ensure compliance with the NHS Complaints Procedure. The format identifies the key stages of the process as outlined in the diagram below: Page 9 of 55
10 Unresolved Concern Complaint - Local Resolution Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman (Final Stage) Ideally the process will end at local resolution in the majority of cases, with a very small number of cases being referred to the Ombudsman. Page 10 of 55
11 5.1 RAISING CONCERNS The organisation recognises the importance of raising concerns, and will ensure that matters are dealt with quickly in rectifying the situation so that the issue does not progress to a formal complaint The PALS team is responsible for ensuring a quick response and resolution to concerns raised by contacting relevant staff to inform them of the concern and advising them of the need for action to resolve whenever possible. The PALS team should involve the customer relations team promptly if there is any issue of a potentially serious nature or when a concern cannot be resolved not later than the next working day after the day on which the complaint was made. The Customer Relations Manager should be informed if a complainant wishes to make a complaint under the NHS complaints procedure. 5.2 LOCAL RESOLUTION The organisation has a clear process in place for Local Resolution and a flow chart outlining this process can be found in Appendix D. Every attempt will be made by the staff to try to resolve complaints at the point of contact. Complaints against the organisation should be acknowledged within 3 working days and investigated and responded to within a timescale agreed with the complainant. However, if a response cannot be sent within this timescale, then agreement must be sought from the complainant for an extension to these timescales giving the reason for the delay. More details on timescales for responses can be found in Appendix J A comprehensive investigation, to identify root cause/s, should be undertaken by senior members of staff identified to carry out the investigation for the service the complaint is about. Investigations should be thorough, with statements and information being obtained as necessary in order to identify the circumstances of the complaint, why it happened, what could have been done to prevent it, and what actions, if any, are needed to prevent a similar complaint being made. This process should endeavour to support a culture of continuous improvement in the organisation As soon as the Customer Relations Department is made aware of a complaint, it should establish whether a related incident has been reported. If it has, the incident report file should be shared with the Customer Relations Department to establish what investigations have been carried our already and whether any further enquiries need to be made. If not, a decision should be taken at the Triangulation meeting to establish whether is should have been. Where an incident clearly should have been reported and an investigation undertaken, the investigation will be initiated on receipt of the complaint. This will ideally take place before any other investigation occurs however where time does not permit this, the Risk and Patient Safety Manager, the Customer Relations Manager and/or Legal Services Manager will liaise closely throughout the investigation to avoid duplication of work It is expected that only in exceptional cases, complaints will not be resolvable at the local resolution stage On receipt of a complaint, all complaints, verbal, telephone, , written, must be sent to the Customer Relations Team upon receipt. For complaints made out of hours the same organisational procedure should be followed. If however the complainant wishes to access a senior manager to discuss the complaint and appropriate members of staff at local level have not been able to resolve matters, then the senior manager on call should be contacted. Page 11 of 55
12 5.2.6 The Customer Relations Team will log the complaint and will either send an acknowledgement letter or contact the complainant by telephone within three working days. The complaint will be recorded on the trust risk management database (Datix) so that there is one central tracking system in place for all complaints against the organisation, managed by the Customer Relations Team Consent -There are occasions where a complaint is received that relates to another NHS body or local authority, such as GP, dentist, hospital or social services, in these circumstances consent must be obtained from the complainant before forwarding to the relevant organisation for investigation Investigation of the complaint -The Customer Relations Team will forward the complaint to the appropriate manager or investigating officer advising of timescales for the completion of the investigation at this time staff directly involved in the complaint will be asked for their response. The response should be written in plain English - succinct, jargon-free, conciliatory in tone, clear on all clinical issues and should be written as though from the Chief Executive of the organisation Final response letter - The final letter must be signed by the Chief Executive, or a designated deputy, and sent to the complainant within the timescale agreed with the complainant. This deadline may be extended but only by agreement of the complainant. An opportunity will be given in this letter for the complainant to contact the Customer Relations Team if there are any questions arising from the response Should they remain dissatisfied at the conclusion of local resolution, they should be advised of their right to contact the Health Service Ombudsman to review their complaint In some cases, it may be appropriate to invite a complainant to meet with staff to address any outstanding queries, either initially or following an exchange of correspondence. Complainants should be supported if they wish, for example, by a friend, relative, carer, advocate or an Independent Complaints Advocacy Service (ICAS) Officer. Practitioners can also be supported if they wish, for example, by a colleague or staff representative. 5.3 PARLIAMENTARY AND HEALTH SERVICE OMBUDSMAN (PHSO) (Final stage) The Health Service Ombudsman independently reviews NHS complaints. They can only review the complaint if it has already been raised with the organisation or practitioner concerned and if the complainant is dissatisfied with the local resolution process. The Ombudsman is completely independent of the NHS. The Ombudsman will only consider complaints, which have been through the NHS complaints procedure. There is no appeal against a decision made by the Ombudsman. 5.4 OUTCOME FOLLOWING COMPLAINT PROCESS An outcome following acknowledgement by the organisation of the complainant's concerns can include an appropriate range of remedies: an apology, explanation, and acknowledgement of responsibility remedial action, which may include reviewing or changing a decision on the service given to an individual complainant; revising published material; revising procedures to prevent the same thing happening again; training or supervising staff; or any combination of these financial compensation for direct or indirect financial loss, loss of opportunity, inconvenience, distress or any combination of these. Page 12 of 55
13 An explanation of options thereafter if the complainant remains dissatisfied with the organisation s response; the Ombudsman or seeking a legal remedy outside of the complaints procedure. 5.5 RISK ASSESSMENT OF COMPLAINTS On receipt of a letter of complaint it will be graded in accordance with the trust s policy on Event Investigation Management & Analysis (which follows the NPSA severity grading) and through the assessment process at Appendix E. This will help determine the level or nature of investigation required and will be recorded on Datix. This assessment will be reviewed after the complaint investigation is complete. 5.6 CONFIDENTIALITY If a third party is making a complaint, authorisation should be obtained from the patient in the first instance for the subsequent release of any clinical records or confidential information in order to clarify any issues raised and help with the resolution of a complaint. There may be instances where consent may not be given, for example a child or a person with a lack of mental capacity in which case the Customer Relations Team, taking advice where necessary, is an appropriate person to advise whether the need for the patient s consent can be waived. 5.7 SUPPORT FOR COMPLAINANTS INCLUDING BEING OPEN The Customer Relations Team will be able to offer advice and act as a guide through the complaints policy and its associated procedures. The PALS team can help to resolve concerns and can provide advice, including information about local Independent Complaints Advocacy Services (ICAS) ICAS is a separate service and provides independent advice and support to people who wish to raise a complaint about the NHS. Their services may include drafting letters for a complainant or accompanying them to a meeting with NHS staff, Primary Care Providers, Independent Providers (of NHS treatment) or their staff Complainants can also obtain information about the complaints process from NHS Direct on The Local Citizens Advice Bureau may also be able to assist complainants Being open - If a patient is harmed as a result of a mistake or error in their care, the organisation believes that they, their family or those who care for them, should receive an apology, be kept informed as to what happened, have their questions answered and know what is being done in response. This needs to be done with honesty, clarity and in a timely and confidential manner in line with the organisation s policy and procedures on Being Open. 5.8 SUPPORT FOR STAFF / DISCIPLINARY ISSUES Staff who are involved in a complaint are entitled to be supported both professionally and personally in accordance with the guidelines for supporting staff in appendix 9 of the Event Investigation Management & Analysis Policy It is not appropriate to address disciplinary matters through the NHS complaints procedure. However, evidence from complaints may be used as part of a disciplinary process. Page 13 of 55
14 5.9 FAIRNESS AND EQUALITY Making a complaint does not mean that a patient/complainant will receive less help or that things will be made difficult for them. Everyone can expect to be treated fairly and equally regardless of age, disability, race, culture, nationality and sexual orientation Section 22 of the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) ( makes it a criminal offence, with a fine of up to 5,000 on conviction, for any individual who has obtained the information in an official capacity to disclose that a person has applied for a gender recognition certificate (GRC) or, if the person s application has been successful, to disclose any information relating to that person s gender history. This includes employers or prospective employers, or a person employed by such an employer or prospective employer. It is a strict liability offence so there is no room for pleading 'reasonableness' as a defence. In relation to the complaints procedure it is the responsibility of the recipient to either redact the Person Identifiable element, and then request the Complaints Manager or a clinician to answer the complaint, or if this is not possible, they should redact the information that the complainant is undergoing or has undergone transition and that they have been granted or applied for a Gender Recognition Certificate before forwarding the complaint to be investigated. The Trust will honour this and protect confidentiality at all times Staff must also ensure that patients and their carers are not discriminated against when a complaint is made and that their ongoing treatment will be unaffected. To help achieve this aim, all staff are made aware when in receipt of a complaint that complaint records must be kept separate from clinical records. Line Managers are responsible for ensuring that this is monitored when reviewing the investigation responses to complaints and for considering whether it may be more appropriate in the circumstances to be referred to another clinician(s) LEGAL MATTERS AND COMPENSATION If formal legal action has been initiated by the complainant, the NHS complaints procedure can continue if it is deemed appropriate and does not impact on the legal case. If the complaints procedure ceases, the complainant and complained against must be advised in writing. The case must be referred to the organisation s Legal Services Manager The NHS complaints procedure would not be able to assist complainants with claims for compensation. However, it may be appropriate to consider an ex-gratia payment as a gesture of goodwill and remedy to the complaint in the event of an injustice or maladministration in accordance with the trust s process for dealing with ex-gratia payments. Any letters requesting claims for compensation will be shared with the Legal Services Manager to assist in the decision making on the future management of the case IDENTIFICATION OF A SERIOUS INCIDENT REQUIRING INVESTIGATION (SIRI) OR SAFEGUARDING ISSUE Where a complaint leads to the identification of a serious incident requiring investigation (SIRI), the policy for Event Investigation Management & Analysis must be followed Where a complaint leads to the identification of a Safeguarding issue, the trust s safeguarding procedures for adults or children must be followed If either of the above procedures is to be followed the Customer Relations Team must ensure that the complainant is fully informed that their complaint will be logged and Page 14 of 55
15 responded to under the NHS Complaints Procedure; however all or part of their complaint will be investigated under another procedure, the details of which must be explained If the complaint is subject to a police investigation it will be handled in line with the memorandum of understanding between the Police and the NHS LINK WITH INCIDENT MANAGEMENT AND COMPLAINTS AND CLAIMS MANAGEMENT The linking together of all events to ensure an effective interface between complaints, claims and incidents is key to the promotion of learning from mistakes and improving practice. The monthly Triangulation Group has the responsibility for reviewing the links between each department, identifying trends and ensuring best practice. They provide in-depth analysis of trends, and report these to divisions, Clinical Governance and Integrated Governance, for the purpose of ensuring that changes are implemented and lessons learnt The use of Datix for the recording of events allows the information to be collated and presented as part of the quarterly aggregated report to the Trust Board. The purpose of this paper is to ensure that it receives assurance on the management of events Further information and process can be found in the Event Investigation Management and Analysis Policy OTHER PROVIDERS The organisation should ensure that all NHS providers and any private providers with whom it has a Contract or Service Level Agreement have robust arrangements in place for handling complaints from the organisation s residents about the services they provide MULTI-AGENCY COMPLAINTS Complainants will be informed of which aspects of the concerns raised are not within the organisation s jurisdiction. Where a complaint involves more than one NHS or non-nhs body, the organisation will forward the complaint to the other agencies concerned, with the complainant s permission. Agencies will work together to determine how best to respond Complaints about Health and Social Care - Where a complaint includes aspects relating to health and social care, these complaints can be handled by either organisation. The two bodies should seek to agree which organisation should take the lead. Both organisations are bound by duty to co-operate with each other in trying to resolve the complaint. Consent must be obtained from the complainant in order to share the relevant information. Across Sussex, the NHS and Local Authorities work to an agreed joint protocol for the management of complaints (APPENDIX F) WITHDRAWAL OF A COMPLAINT If a complainant withdraws a complaint at any stage of the procedure, the complained against should be informed immediately, in writing and the complainant should also be sent a letter by the Chief Executive confirming that the decision of the complainant has been noted by the organisation. Any identified issues however should be followed up within the service area and any learning cascaded to staff PERSISTANT AND UNREASONABLE COMPLAINTS In extreme cases, the organisation will consider following its Persistent and Unreasonable Complaints Procedure (Appendix G) but all possible efforts will be made before this happens to resolve matters. Page 15 of 55
16 5.17 MEDIA/PRESS Complainants should be dealt with on a strictly confidential basis. However, some may come to the attention of the media through the actions of complainants, staff or unconnected third parties. The Communications Team should handle such communications RECORD MAINTENANCE & STORAGE The Customer Relations Team will prepare and retain files for the various complaints and where appropriate will include: Copies of correspondence Copies of any relevant medical records Notes from any local resolution meetings & conversations Any local investigation documents Relevant/related policies or procedures These files will be made available to the Health Service Ombudsman in the event of a request for an independent review by a complainant. The organisation will comply with any requests from the Health Service Ombudsman and adhere to their deadlines The complaints department will keep complaint records for 10 years after completion of action, after which time records can be destroyed under confidential conditions FRAUD, THEFT AND CORRUPTION If on receipt of a complaint, fraud, theft and/or corruption is suspected, report to the Local Counter Fraud Specialist, Local Security Management Specialist or Director of Finance or National Fraud and Corruption on COMPLIMENTS Compliments are as important to the organisation as complaints and should be seen as a means of learning how things have gone well. Information on compliments should be reported to the Board and also cascaded to the staff. Compliments are collated by the divisions on a monthly basis and sent to the Customer Relations Manager on a monthly basis for reporting (Appendix H). Compliments received by the Chief Executive will also be forwarded to the Customer Relations Manager for monitoring purposes. The trust has comments and suggestions cards for patients to provide their compliments which are monitored and recorded by the PALS department. The trust also has posters up that invite people to provide their comments (good and bad) to the Chief Executive. 6. IMPLEMENTATION/TRAINING/AWARENESS 6.1 PUBLISHING THE COMPLAINTS POLICY All new and existing patients/clients or, where appropriate, their relatives/carers and advocates will be made aware of the PALS service and complaints procedure and given an information leaflet which explains how to raise a concern or make a complaint, compliment or comment should they wish to do so. This leaflet will be reviewed yearly by the Patient Experience & Feedback Committee of the Board to ensure it is line with current practice. Information about the policy will also be contained within relevant patient/client leaflets and will also be on the organisation s website and on posters on each site. Page 16 of 55
17 6.2 TRAINING REQUIREMENTS The Customer Relations Team is responsible for training on the complaints policy and procedures, which includes corporate induction training for new staff. The Customer Relations Manager will design and deliver training that covers good complaints investigation, risk management and learning from complaints. On request the Customer Relations Team may provide training, advice and support to their staff on complaints handling and procedures. 7. MONITORING AND KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS 7.1 MONITORING COMPLAINTS, INCLUDING IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING OF RECOMMENDATIONS The organisation will monitor the subject of complaints, how they have been handled, identify trends, take action to deal with areas of concern and disseminate good practice. This is carried out at the Patient Experience & Feedback Committee which meets quarterly on behalf of the Board. The key purpose of the group is to provide assurance to the Board that the Trust manages patients complaints and concerns in a sensitive and effective manner, in line with the NHS Complaints Procedure and that a process of organisational learning is in place to ensure that lessons learnt are embedded within the organisational framework. The Patient Experience & Feedback Committee reviews the detailed outcomes of all complaints graded as high, reviews re-opened complaints and receives reports from the Ombudsman on Independent review requests and completed cases. The Non-Executive Directors on the Committee audit a random selection of closed complaint files for the previous quarter (not more than 10%) before each meeting and present any recommendations to the Committee as appropriate The Management Board and all divisions will receive monthly reports from the Customer Relations Department in order that they can be confident that complaints are being dealt with appropriately, note any trends and ensure that identified improvements are, where practicable, implemented. Reports will include the number of complaints progressing to the PHSO, stage two of the complaints procedure, and any PHSO recommendations as a result. Any recommendations arising from these Boards/Committees should be implemented and monitored at divisional level and reviewed by the triangulation group Aggregated reports are also provided in accordance with the Event Investigation Management & Analysis Policy Complaints can highlight concerns about any aspect of the work of the organisation including services directly provided, commissioned and funded. Where an omission or error in services is identified, consideration should then be given to how to ensure there is no repetition. Where appropriate, working procedures will be reviewed, amendments implemented and shared around the specific service area and other departments. As part of the investigation process, the division must complete an outcome form (APPENDIX I) giving information on the action taken to prevent recurrence with evidence as appropriate The Trust s complaints information leaflet will be reviewed by the Patient Experience & Feedback Committee annually to ensure it is in line with current practice The Customer Relations Department will monitor health records pertaining to complaints investigations to check that complaints correspondence is not filed in these records. Clinical Page 17 of 55
18 and nursing leads for each division will review reports provided by their staff when reviewing complaint investigations. 7.2 KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS Implementation of the complaints policy will be monitored by the following key metrics: All complaints will be acknowledged within 3 working days. All complainants will receive a full response within the timescale agreed with the complainant in accordance with appendix E on triaging complaints. All complaints which require action plans to resolve issues will be followed up within 3 months to ensure actions are complete. 8. LEARNING FROM COMPLAINTS 8.1 Using the four Cs the organisation will use any comments, compliments, concerns and complaints received to: Identify what is working well through compliment trends share good practice. Help identify potential service problems through trends in concerns raised early warning system. Highlight potential system failure and or human error identify need for improvement. Provide the information required to review services and procedures effectively - respond to requests for patient experience data for service reviews/evaluations. 8.2 Listening to feedback the organisation can uncover new ideas to help improve the way in which things are done. This is increasingly important for the organisation, which is expected to evidence how they use feedback to improve care. 8.3 Following the closure of a complaint root causes and actions arising as a result of the complaint will be reported through the outcome form process within the division responsible for ensuring that actions are completed through their quarterly governance reviews. The Customer Relations Department will also record and report these outcomes on Datix and present them within the quarterly report to the Patient Experience & Feedback Committee on a quarterly basis. The Customer Relations Department will also monitor any action plans provided within three months to ensure they are carried out. 9. REFERENCES The Local Authority Social Services and National Health Service Complaints (England) Regulations 2009 Statutory Instruments No. 309 National Patient Safety Agency (2005) Being Open The NHS Constitution (2010) Health Service Ombudsman (2009) - Principles of Good Administration, Principles of Good Complaint Handling and Principles for Remedy Francis R. QC (2010) The Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Inquiry: DH 10. LINKS TO OTHER POLICIES/DOCUMENTS 10.1 GOOD PRACTICE In addition to the Statutory Regulations, the following good practice guide is available to assist staff involved in the complaints procedure: Page 18 of 55
19 Department of Health (2009) Listening, responding, improving: a guide to better customer care LINKS TO OTHER ORGANISATION POLICIES Being Open Policy Disciplinary Policy Capability Policy Grievance Policy Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Policy Event Investigation Management & Analysis Policy Management and Investigation of Serious Incidents Requiring Investigation Whistle Blowing Policy Claims Policy Health & Safety policy Health Records Policy Confidentiality Code of Practice Press media Fraud and Corruption Policy Event Investigation Management and Analysis Policy 11. DISCLAIMER It is the responsibility of all staff to check the organisation intranet to ensure that the most recent version/issue of this document is being referenced. Page 19 of 55
20 1. Summary Appendix A Guidelines for Front Line Responses to Concerns Raised by the Public These guidelines provide information about the way in which the Trust expects individual members of staff to respond to concerns raised by the public. They should be read in conjunction with the Trust Complaints Policy and the Guidelines for Structured Management of Concerns, Complaints and Comments (Appendix B). 2. Introduction Every member of staff is personally responsible for responding politely and appropriately when approached by a user of the service, or visitor to the Trust, expressing a concern or asking for help. Taking a few minutes to respond helpfully gives the user of the service a positive experience and can often avoid a formal complaint being made. 2. Individual Responsibilities Where possible, always respond immediately to concerns or questions raised by users of the service. However, first consider whether you are able to reply, and whether it is appropriate for you to do so, or if the matter is serious enough that it should be referred to someone senior to you. Concerns raised in writing are rarely about issues where a front line response is sufficient to resolve the problem and should, therefore, be considered under the guidance at appendix B. If you are able to answer but have another immediate priority, offer to return later to provide the answer and make good on the offer as promised. If you do not have the experience or knowledge to respond, or the issue is of a serious nature and needs escalating, refer the person to a colleague who will able to assist. Take into account that the hospital environment is unfamiliar to the majority of users. As staff we are accustomed to this world and understand how it works; patients and visitors are not and need help to find their way. If you can help a patient to understand the process they have become involved in and what they can expect to happen to them, they are far more likely to be satisfied with the service they receive. Being pro-active in communicating with patients is essential. If you are in a position to do so, keep patients informed about events which are affecting them, such as delays in outpatient clinics, so that they can understand what is happening without having to ask. Most people understand as long as they know what is going on. Be factual and avoid passing comment, for example use: I m sorry but the doctor has been held up on his ward rounds and clinic is running about 30 minutes late. Rather than: Doctor is late again, I m sorry this is always happening, I m sure he will be here soon. Try to be positive and defuse the situation. For example, it is better to respond to complaints about car parking by saying something like: Page 20 of 55
21 Yes, it s a real problem here I am sorry you ve been affected. We are trying to make some changes but in the meantime we do make allowances for people who are late arriving. Rather than: I know, it s awful. We keep complaining about it, but they never do anything about it. When you have dealt personally with a concern raised by a user of the service, consider whether you need to let your manager know about it. Trends and themes can only be identified, and problems rectified, if information is shared. Do not send any person(s) to the Customer Relations Team suggesting, You need to make a complaint. This is not helpful and will not end the problem for you the first thing the team will need to do is come back to your area to find out what the answer is. The Teams are there to support staff if the front line response has failed and the situation has become more difficult, and to provide advice and training for staff. Please note: Staff are not expected to tolerate rude or violent behaviour from patients or visitors and guidance in this respect is provided in the Trust s Policy on Managing Violence and Aggression. 4. Managers Responsibilities Lead by example, encouraging staff to respond positively and helpfully to expressions of concern from users. Use the Communication Section of the Knowledge Skills Framework (KSF) in the appraisal process to ensure all members of your team develop strong and effective communication skills. Be certain that your staff are aware that they can expect to be treated with respect and courtesy by patients and visitors to the hospital, and how they should act in situations where their rights are not being observed. Where necessary, make sure that systems exist to keep users informed about what is happening. In patient areas make sure that the environment allows for privacy and dignity to be preserved. If confidential details need to be discussed, try to make sure the discussion cannot be overheard. Ensure your staff are aware of the types of issues raised by users that you expect them to escalate to you. This guidance must specifically deal with concerns raised in writing to named members of staff. 5. Summary Take personal ownership when approached by the public raising questions or concerns. Resolve the problem quickly, if possible, or escalate to another colleague who can assist. Be polite, positive and open in responses. Sorting out a problem at the start, when it is small and manageable, saves everyone time and trouble in the long run. Page 21 of 55
22 1. Summary Appendix B Guidelines for Structured Management of Concerns, Complaints and Comments This document provides guidelines for responding to concerns, complaints and comments raised by users of, and visitors to, the Trust. It should be read in conjunction with the Policy on the same, and the Guidelines for Front Line Responses to Concerns Raised by the Public (Appendix A). 2. Introduction In line with the changes to the National Complaints Policy on 1 April 2009, the Trust aligned its Complaints and PALS Teams in April 2010 with a Customer Relations Manager to oversee the management of both areas. All enquiries are triaged by the PALS teams to determine the most appropriate way to manage them. This provides a single entry system for those who wish to raise issues about the service they receive. The system is designed to keep the client at the centre of the process; meeting their needs primarily but also the needs of the organisation and its responsibilities to it s staff. This requires a flexible system, but one which operates within a defined structure so that it is robust, equitable and accessible. The overall aim is to provide a speedy, comprehensive response to concerns, complaints and comments ensuring that apologies and redress are offered when errors are identified, and that the organisation learns from mistakes. The new National Complaints System is a two stage process: Local resolution - also a two stage process for WSHT: Immediate, front-line response A structured, division lead response Referral to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO). Guidelines for the immediate, front-line response are given in a separate document. The procedure for the structured response is given below. 3. Structured Response Process Where the immediate front-line response has either failed or (due to the nature of the concerns) is not applicable, the case moves to the second internal stage. Success at this stage will depend on effective three-way communication and agreement between the client, the relevant departmental/divisional managers responsible for investigating the complaint and the Customer Relations Team. 3.1 Approach The structured response process for dealing with any concern, complaint or comment raised by a user of the service, their family or a visitor to the Trust involves doing the following: Listen & understand Page 22 of 55
23 Agree a plan Act Respond Improve The key to success is communication. Describing each point in turn: Listen and understand: Let the client explain what the problem is and make sure you understand; do not make assumptions, really listen to what they are saying. Reflect back to them your understanding so they can question it if need be and so that you can be certain you are correct. Agree a plan: explain to the client what can be done to address the problem and agree with them what you are going to do. Grade the complaint to ensure appropriate course of action for investigation (process for triaging/grading complaints can be found in appendix E). Act: implement the plan in the timescale agreed. If new information comes to light, which means the plan needs to be adjusted, let the client know and (where appropriate) review and change the plan. Respond: at the end of the process, let the client know the outcome. This should include details of any changes made (see below). Improve: if the process has shown that there are lessons to be learnt from the issues raised by the client, consider what these should be and make the necessary changes. Monitor these changes to make sure they have worked and, if so, that they are properly embedded. Communication: keep communicating with the client and let them know what is happening. 3.2 Structured Response Process Steps Step One: listen and understand the issue and then agree a course of action To successfully achieve this step it is important to consider firstly whether the client has any specific communication needs and to meet these appropriately. Where appropriate, remember to mention the service that ICAS can provide and give contact details. Where the process has been initiated via correspondence, receipt of the letter must be acknowledged within three working days. Then discuss the complaint, concern or comment issue(s) with the client. The aim is to: Fully understand the nature of the concern(s) being raised. Agree with the client exactly what the issues are that they want answered. Agree with the client how the Trust will address these issues, including realistic timescales for the response and outcomes. Make sure the client understands what the outcome will be and that this will meet their expectations. During this discussion it is also important to establish that: The person raising the concern has the right to do so. In particular, consent must be given by the patient that the matter may be raised on their behalf if they are not the patient. Care Page 23 of 55
24 must be taken that there are reasonable grounds for the complaint to be made by a representative instead of the patient (Section 5(2) and (3) of the Regulations refer) and that the representative is conducting the complaint in the best interests of the person on whose behalf the complaint is made (Section 5 (4) and (5) refer). The issues being raised do fall into the scope of the regulations (Section 8 of the Regulations refers). The issues are within the timescale for making a complaint (Section 12 of the Regulations refers). If the issues raised are outside of the timescale, consider whether they can be answered on the basis of information which can be accessed, if so the concern should be investigated. Give consideration to what is the correct level to escalate the concern to meet the needs of the organization. The client may not want a full investigation but if the nature of the concerns is very serious the organization needs to deal with the matter formally. There are two routes available to resolve concerns: Informal - generally used for: Concerns about current treatment where action can be taken quickly to resolve the problem and to return the client to the correct pathway. Simple problems for which an explanation is easily found and given. Occasions where the client wishes to bring the matter to the attention of the Trust, but does not wish to raise a formal complaint. The management plan for an informal route would consist predominantly of making enquiries and taking immediate action rather than undertaking investigations. Formal - generally be used for: Complex cases. Failures of clinical care. Concerns about serious attitude problems. When specifically requested by the client. The management plan for a formal route would be likely to include a significant element of investigation. The management plan could include any of, and is not limited to, the following elements: First response by way of explanatory letter. Meeting with the client (optional but available if client wishes to further clarify issues and understanding). Conducting an internal investigation. Considering providing redress if errors are identified. Chief Executive letter of explanation. Meeting with management and/or the Chief Executive. Root cause analysis. Arranging for an external review of clinical care (to be initiated by the Customer Relations Team in consultation with the Director of Nursing). Use of a mediation service. This list is not exhaustive. The aim is to make every effort to reach a resolution, using the most appropriate methods. However, it is recognised that the plan needs to be proportionate to the nature of the concerns. The responsibility for completing Step 1 lies with the Customer Relations Team. It should be achieved within 5 days of the concern(s) first being raised with the Trust, or of the front-line Page 24 of 55
25 response failing. The Customer Relations Team are also responsible for liaising with other organisations in cases where the concerns cross organisational boundaries; in keeping with the principles agreed by the Sussex Complaints Protocol Step 2: Carrying out the investigation The responsibility for this step lies with the Division with the outcome being the resolution of the client s concern(s). It is important to be open and honest when responding to a client, which means the investigation undertaken has to ascertain what actually happened. The staff involved must be given the opportunity to explain what happened from their point of view. Very often the concern will have been raised due to a misunderstanding and explaining what has happened in terms which the client can understand will resolve the issue. If a mistake has been made, acknowledge this and offer an apology. If the error has resulted in injustice or hardship then this needs to be put right, if possible. Where this is not possible consider whether there may be some other form of remedy that can be provided; this could be financial remedy and the Customer Relations Manager can provide advice in this respect. It is essential that the clients and patients are not treated any differently as a result of the concerns being raised. Many people are worried that by raising a concern they, or their relative, will be penalised. Raising concerns should be seen as a positive opportunity to improve services. All changes to the agreed timescale for the investigation must be negotiated with the client. Extensions to the timescale can only be requested when circumstances occur which mean that the original timescale cannot be met. Examples would be: A statement required unexpectedly from a member of staff who is on leave and not returning until after the original deadline. Patient notes being at another Trust with problems arranging for their return. New information coming to light requiring more extensive investigation. It is never acceptable to request an extension because the target date cannot be achieved due to error, or delays, caused by Trust staff. To request a first extension - the agreement of the Customer Relations Team is required. For a second extension - the agreement of the Director of Nursing is needed. If agreement is not given for the extension to be requested, or the client refuses, the target date will be deemed to have been missed. The case will still need to be resolved with the client and will be expected to be achieved within the timescale suggested for the requested extension. The role of the Customer Relations Team during Step 2 is to provide support and advice to the Division to assist them to reach resolution. Specific responsibilities are to: Prepare and agree drafts of any letters of explanation sent during an investigation to check presentation, to ensure the tone is correct. Take responsibility for organising meetings with clients if requested. Monitor performance against the agreed timescale(s) and provide reminders to the division so that deadlines are not missed. Responsibility for drafting the outcome letter lies with the Customer Relations Team on the basis of information provided by the division. The division must complete the investigation within the Page 25 of 55
26 timescale agreed with the client. The timescale for completion of meeting arrangements will be agreed between the Customer Relations Team and divisions on an individual basis. All draft outcome letters must be shared with the relevant Director of each division. All nursing complaints must be shared with the relevant Head of Nursing and all clinical complaints must be shared with the Chief of Service for the relevant division. This is to ensure that appropriate review of complaints is carried out within each service Step Three: Reaching a conclusion There are three possible outcomes to the investigation: The client and Trust agree that local resolution has come to an end; all issues have been resolved - ideally to the satisfaction of the client although there may be agreement to disagree. The client, but not the Trust, decides that local resolution has come to an end: there is nothing further to be done but the matter remains unresolved. The Trust, but not the client, decides that local resolution has come to an end: there is nothing further to be done but the matter remains unresolved. Every case will be concluded via an outcome letter from the Chief Executive which will: Summarise the client s concerns. Give details of the investigation conducted. Explain the outcome of the investigation and offer apologies as appropriate. Confirm any redress offered and whether accepted. Provide information about any actions taken in response to errors identified. Confirm which of the three outcomes (as above) has been reached. Provide details about referral to the PHSO. If the client decides to refer the case to the PHSO, this letter will form the basis of the Trust s response. It therefore needs to set out clearly, and comprehensively, how the Trust investigated the case and includes the reasons for the actions taken and all outcomes Step Four: Monitoring change Where it has been identified that an error occurred and action is required to improve the service this will be logged on an Outcome Form by the divisions concerned. It will be the responsibility of the Customer Relations Team to keep a record of all actions agreed with the client and to monitor performance to ensure actions are completed to the timescale agreed and that feedback is provided to the client if required. The division should provide evidence of compliance when completing and returning the Outcome Form to the Customer Relations Team and monitoring of the outcome form process will be carried out by the Patient Experience & Feedback Committee. Page 26 of 55
27 APPENDIX C Guidelines on writing reports or accounts of events INTRODUCTION 1. The purpose of recalling events and writing an account is to record the facts of an incident and not to give an opinion of what you think about the incident. The aim is to preserve the information that is not apparent from the case notes (in relation to clinical cases), in a legible and concise form. 2. This guideline applies to clinical and non-clinical incidents, all complaints and legal claims. 3. In accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, patients are entitled to personal information and all documentation is disclosable to them unless the document was created in contemplation of a legal claim. GUIDELINES 4. Please use the following guidelines when preparing a report for clinical cases, coroner inquests and legal claims. Start your account with a brief CV of yourself. The CV outlined below is not necessary for non-clinical areas where a more general report is required for complaints. This should include: Your full name, qualifications and date obtained. Professional registration details UKCC PIN/GMC number and renewal date. Place of work, position held, grade, speciality appointment, date (current and at time of incident). Hours of duty at the time of the incident. Your role in the care of the patient at the time of the incident. 5. Write a factual record of events: Who the report is about. Include name of patient and hospital. Where the incident occurred. Dates and times of the incident. What you did and did not do. What you saw/found. What you heard. Who you spoke to and who you called. Use and explain the words that you recorded in the patient s notes. What stage you ceased to be involved in the case. NB. Give the full name and professional grade or job position of any other member of staff that you write about. Remind yourself of the case through a careful reading of the relevant medical and/or nursing notes. Record dates and times as accurately as possible. Write a narrative of precisely what you recall of the events. Page 27 of 55
28 If you have been asked to comment on a formal complaint, you must address each relevant point of the complaint involving you. If you are a manager of a service you will be expected to provide a report about the complaint, give an overview, the conclusions reached and lessons learnt about the case. 6. When you have completed your account and you are satisfied that it is factually accurate you should: Date it. Sign it in full. Print your name underneath your signature. If you discover any inaccuracies in the patient s notes then explain these as part of the report and prepare an amendment note for the patient s notes, which must be signed and dated. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER THE NOTES AFTER THE EVENT. Write reasons for your actions and omissions. Do not include hearsay or opinion comment. Do not store the report in the patient s medical notes. Complete the report as near in time to the event as possible. Do not delay when asked to prepare an account. Do ask a senior colleague to read through it and approve it. You may want to check your statement with your professional body but it is important that the timescale for reply required by the trust is not breached. Keep a copy of your signed account in a secure place. Page 28 of 55
29 APPENDIX D Flow Chart NHS Complaints Process Final Stage Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) Complainant Requests an Independent Review The PHSO is responsible for this part of the complaint. The organisation will be requested to forward a complete copy of the complaint file Final to the response PHSO in order sent for them to Complainant to assess the case and decide whether to uphold the complaint and review. This must be signed by the Chief Executive and sent The organisation within will the be timescale advised of agreed the timescales with complainant. which must be adhered to. Provide details of PHSO Outcome of Review The organisation will be notified of the outcome of the review and any recommendations made by the PHSO, and will act upon those recommendations. Request Denied Following initial assessment the PHSO may decide that there is nothing further to be gained by reviewing the complaint and deny the request End The complainant may, or may not be satisfied however the Ombudsman decision is final Page 29 of 55
30 Complaint or PALS Complaint closed Outcome Form completed APPENDIX D Deleted: Complaint closed No Is this informal? Yes Frontline staff or PALS Complainant contacted with acknowledgement within three days Action / management On the spot/same day Any staff member 1:1 communication Apology explanation Immediate remedy Support from manager Generally verbal No outstanding issues Customer Relations team monitor actions Lessons learned shared across organisation via Patient Experience & Feedback Committee quarterly board reports Complaint reopened Reopened complaint acknowledged Further investigation Meeting with staff and complainant arranged and/or further written response Complaint graded or LOW Action / management +/- 5 days Fact finding T/call or meeting Prompt remedy Action points Line manager Written or verbal Re-assess Yes Is complainant happy with resolution? No Complainant or Trust may refer to Ombudsman MEDIUM HIGH Action / management +/- 25 days Meeting/local mediation Event review and reports by clinicians Statements/interviews Action plan Generally written Action / management 1-3 months Independent clinical review my be considered Event analysis and provision of reports Independent mediation Action planning Always Page written 30 of 55 Written response from Chief Executive Yes Is complainant happy with resolution? Departments to respond to Customer Relation team within 14 days so letter can be prepared for CEO (if a time extension is required complainant is contacted to agree acceptable revised time scale) No Complaint closed Outcome Form completed Customer Relations team monitor actions Lessons learned shared across organisation via Patient Experience & Feedback Committee quarterly board reports
31 APPENDIX E Complaints Triaging Guidance The trust adopts the principles of root cause analysis RCA for the investigation of events. Investigations are necessary to provide a retrospective review of an event in order to identify what, how and why it happened. The analysis should then be used to identify areas for change, recommendation and sustainable solutions, to help minimise re-occurrence in the future. On receipt of all formal complaints, the following guidance will be used to assess the severity of harm to the patient, relative or member of public as well as other indicators: BAND Low EXAMPLES/Indicators (not an exhaustive list) No harm or potential to cause harm was prevented. Minor treatment or minimal harm. Able to reply promptly with standard response, e.g. parking. Non-clinical. Issue relating to one service only. Raised with staff or with PALS via a telephone call could have been resolved on the spot. Overall treatment or service suboptimal Single failure to meet internal standards Minor implications for patient safety if unresolved Reduced performance rating if unresolved Level of Investigation/Action Administrator or PALS via verbal discussion or written response within 5 working days. Medium Moderate increase in treatment and which caused significant but not permanent harm. Two or more aspects to a non-clinical complaint involving different team/ward/service. Complaint of attitude of staff but no elements of criticism regarding clinical judgement. Clinical complaint but indicating no untoward clinical outcome e.g. issues relating to lack of, or poor communication, or unable to see a doctor when requested. Likely events may occur again. Repeated failure to meet internal standards Major patient safety implications if findings are not acted on A clinical complaint where a negative outcome is alleged. Multiple aspects to a clinical complaint involving more than two Consultants/areas. Complaint of attitude which indicates this led to a negative outcome in relation to a decision made or care provided. Waiting time when alleged delay had negative outcome for patient. Complaint that indicates the subject matter may lead to the organisation receiving bad publicity. Complaint on a matter receiving topical media interest. Allegation of clinical negligence. Non-compliance with national standards with significant risk to patients if unresolved A root cause analysis may be completed within the division but as a minimum local level investigation is carried out using RCA principles. More complex complaints for which additional comment/information will be required. The complainant should receive a response within 25 working days. A standard acknowledgement will be required within 3 working days. Customer Relations Team via standard request letter to team leader, ward sister or consultant for answer and/or to discuss with relevant staff and inform complaints of the outcome. Clinical Lead or manager will be asked to respond to the allegation. Depending on response Manager may request meetings with staff or complainant. Prompt review of clinical file and Clinical lead contacted to confirm fact if needed. If clear evidence allegation not substantiated complaint treated in line with procedure for medium grading. If substantiated, move to high. Page 31 of 55
32 High Any patient safety incident that appears to have resulted in permanent harm or that directly resulted in death. Complaints from or involving Members of Parliament Allegation of negligence (substantiated by allegation of serious outcome). Totally unacceptable level or quality of treatment/service Gross failure to meet national standards Complaint letter details a significant untoward incident substantiated by fact. A complaint indicates a serious risk issue for the organisation and attract press interest/media. Complaint likely to be referred to Ombudsman A root cause analysis will be completed using the template in the Event Investigation Management & Analysis Policy. Those complaints which are serious in nature and require more extensive investigation and those not resolved following the first response and which may require independent clinical review and/or mediation. The complainant should receive a substantive response within 1 to 3 months. A standard acknowledgement will be required within 3 working days. Prompt review of clinical file and Clinical lead contacted to confirm fact. If a clinical complaint, the Manager will inform the Chief of Service and Head of Nursing as a priority. Procedure for serious untoward incidents can be invoked and an incident review team established. Regular, informal updates should be given on the progress of the investigation of the complaint. Page 32 of 55
33 APPENDIX F Sussex Complaints Protocol for NHS Trusts and Social Services Departments March 2009 Agreed by the following organisations of Brighton & Hove, East and West Sussex Page 33 of 55
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A wheel within a wheel a-turnin'
"...Hawkinson's other favorite medium, organic detritus (as in fingernails, hair, eggs, chickens, ritual conifers, etc.), is front and center as you enter his Blum & Poe solo debut: an utterly convincing pedestal-mounted mummy hand is revealed, on closer inspection, to be constructed from dried apple cores and banana peels.
The industrial jetsam's there too, in the form of a turquoise scarab ring made from a twist-tie and plastic bread-bag tabs, setting up a nice dichotomy between organic and artificial, equating the ancient hardwired lust for bling with the cancerous proliferation of plastic goods we refer to as a "standard of living." The slapstick pratfall and mellow-yellow connotations of Apples and Bananas (2010) are probably coincidental, but all great art has a tendency to pull unexpected (and often unintended) meanings into its orbit. It's an inspired entrée to the current world of Tim Hawkinson.
Though ancient and severed, the mummy hand embodies one of Hawkinson's most prevalent anatomical motifs, the tool by which the artist's visions are made material, and — as we know from the outsize digits of the cortical homunculus (wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_homunculus) — one of the most information-dense sensory windows in the human body. Like most of Hawkinson's work, it embeds philosophically charged symbolism within a structure of exaggerated corporeal self-consciousness; in this case a hoax archaeological artifact aesthetically assembled from fragments of garbage, but probably more valuable than the real thing — because of the presence of the artist's hand.
Much of Hawkinson's art has explored the intricacies and paradoxes of the "handmade" — and this exhibit is no exception. One of the twin centerpieces of the show is a creepy, crafty, cosmic animatronic goddess figure titled Orrery (2010) — which is the word for those olde clockwork models of the solar system. A giant grandmotherly figure made from plastic grocery bags and wearing an op-art print dress — Akiyoshi Kitaoka's "Rotating Snakes" peripheral drift illusion, as if you didn't know — is seated behind a spinning wheel built entirely from clear-plastic water bottles. Her head spins, her ears spin, her eyes spin, her topknot spins. Her hands spin and her spinning wheel spins. She sits at the center of a series of concentric circular rings — together resembling a braided rug, with the braiding suggested by the photographically printed pattern of a bicycle track in sand — each of which spins independently at a different rate. That's some heavy rotation.
Its co-centerpiece is loopy as well. "A giant sperm-candle," commented a friend at the opening, "not like those regular sperm-candles." Indeed. Like "regular sperm-candles," Hawkinson's work manifests conceptual categories that seem to have never existed before ... yet seem self-evident in retrospect. An enormous 3-D wood-and-foam blowup of a burning, drip-laden white candle — one of those wide ones that ladies put on the edge of their bathtubs to set the mood — Candle (2010) pushes the artist's theme-park affinities to 11, with cascades of molten flowing tallow exposed, via a tiny backstage door, as illusionistic motorized scrolls. Less evident is the fact that the "drips" are cast from the artist's heels and toes, and as they make their continual rounds produce a gently rhythmical sound track easily lost in a crowd. The memento mori is tempered by the patter of tiny feet. Not to mention a "Playboy at Night" cartoon eroticism amplified into a monumental artifice worthy of Disneyland — and a humor-saturated psychosocial perversity straight outta Duchampton."
Read the rest of A Play on Worlds: Tim Hawkinson's latest spin here.
Images: Apples and Bananas; Orrery; Candle (all 2010)
Mute Nostril Agony Tonight!
Noel Lawrence, occasional participant in CCCP-SCC (Thrift Store Movie) events, former director of Other Cinema DVDs and current keeper of the J.X. Williams archives has been moving and shaking in LA indie film circles recently. He just announced a screening of Confessions of a Superhero to benefit the oppressed superheros of Hollywood Boulevard, but this weekend he's programming the New Media Film Festival at the Downtown Independent Theater on Main Street. The NMFF emphasizes independent cinema that uses new technology, from cell phones to RED cameras to trickle-down 3D media to web-based series. Highlights include Memories of Overdevelopment, Double Take, and RiP: A Remix Manifesto, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. You have to make the whole festival to dig the sound of the Great Ship going down, torn to pieces from below.
June 11-13th 2010, at Downtown Independent Theater
251 South Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
More info at http://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/
Program guide here.
Image: from Double Take Johan Grimonprez 2009
Long Haul to Newhall and Back
I'm afraid I have no images of Portfolio's triumphs at the Pasadena show, as this last weekend I was in Newhall for the filming of the final major sequences for Ned's Draw or The Murder of Hi Good, a True Crime Revisionist Western directed by Lee Lynch. The main storyline focuses on the 1870 murder of injun hunter Hiram "Side Abiff" Good by his teenage indentured servant Indian Ned near Deer Creek in the Sierra Nevada foothills south of Mount Lassen. But the part of the story we shot this weekend consists of a Dionysian interval in the middle of this larger story -- a visit by Good, Ned, and their associates to a frontier gambling tent, chock-full of prostitutes, sideshow acts, snake oil salesmen, faro card dealers, freemasons, confederate KKK soldiers, Lemurians, music, opium, and whiskey. Oh yeah, and a shadow puppet show of Macbeth.
So I finally got my 93 Exploder smogged and registered Friday morning, then loaded it up with a variety of firewaters, Lemurian artifacts, and so forth, and headed up to do my bit when the damned thing just dies - right in the middle lane of the I-5 at the beginning of afternoon rush hour. I sat around for a while, to see if it would start up. It didn't. A CHIPS drove by. I realized I was going to have to push it over to the shoulder in the blazing heat and dense, speeding traffic. With the help of one of those superhuman adrenalin bursts I was able to, as it had stalled out on a relatively flat portion of the 5. I scrambled down the embankment and found a pay phone to call AAA, got a tow home, and called Marnie Weber, who was due to make a cameo in the film later that evening. We transferred the Lemurian cargo to her van and hit the road.
It was dreamlike seeing the cast (in costume) and crew assembled after more than a year - a surreal reunion atmosphere. Man, though, those superhuman adrenalin bursts demand a lot of compensation in the sedatives department. After Marnie's flawless sequence wrapped, I wound up staying up drinking whiskey with Dave Nordstrom until 6 AM, sorting out who was more anarchisty - Cassavetes or Altman.
Can't quite remember what the answer was, but the topic is actually germane, since Lynch's (and many of the Small Form directors) style is an actor-centered improvisation-friendly naturalism, very much in the tradition of them auteurs. (And while I'm on the subject, I should recommend two recent-to-me biographical literary experiences - the audiobook version of Mitchell Zuckoff's Robert Altman: The Oral Biography (which contains extensive recordings of the Great Man himself) and Marshall Fine's Accidental Genius: How John Cassavetes Invented American Independent Film.)
Anyhoo, there was much hanging over the next morning but thanks to the tender poolside Margarita ministrations of the Ott household, order was soon restored. Unfortunately I filled up my camera's memory card and forgot the appropriate cable, so I didn't get a lot of images from the second and third day. Though there is some video footage of me portraying a bleary-eyed drunkard in the wee hours.
Truth is I missed most of the action while making Macbeth shadow puppets, and breathing in the remarkable country air, or whatever that was in those tiny metal cylinders. I did manage to get a half dozen renditions of Shenandoah in the can for the forthcoming Redacted concept LP, and cooties.And the inimitable Michael Q. Schmidt graced the rvelry with his naked abundance.
After karaoke at the Legion Hall, I caught a ride back with Matthew Michel, but his car broke down after traveling the exact distance back down the 5 as my Exploder! Mere coincidence? This production is cursed! And I'm not just saying that because I never got to do my Macbeth puppet show. I mean the Scottish Play!
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Cinematographer James Laxton shooting "Talking Board" ouija sequence with lee Lynch and Christian Cummings
Lee Lynch, Cory Zacharia, Jose Santos
Lee Lynch, Marnie Weber, Elias Jimenez, Dave Nordstrom, Cory Zacharia
Peas in a Pod: Robert Altman, John Cassavetes, Lee Lynch
Mr. Hollywood says "It's a Package Deal."
Brett Eastman performing 'Shenandoah'
E.B. Brooks in Lemurian ceremonial regalia.
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Ross-Ho à Go-Go
"One of the frequent critiques heard from working artists regarding the gallery-and-museum model of art distribution, second only to not getting paid, is the system's unwillingness or inability to capture the tumultuous, synergistic creative energy of work seen in vivo — as incubated in the artist's studio. Token institutional attempts at re-creating or documenting the studio environment are often just embarrassing and are always conceptually compromised by their built-in quotation marks.
L.A.-based artist Amanda Ross-Ho has taken those quotation marks and used them to knit an empty Trojan horse out of studio detritus, using labor-intensive processes or random accumulations of debris to create a startlingly original inventory of puzzles and absences that somehow smuggle the off-kilter ambience of the artist's workshop inside the white cube."
Read the rest of Amanda Ross-Ho: Trick-and-Treater here.
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34 Years Ago DEF LEPPARD's JOE ELLIOTT w/ ELTON JOHN/George Michael/Rod Stewart
Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott performed with Elton John, Rod Stewart and George Michael in London, England on this day in 1985.
Joe and the rest of Def Leppard had met Elton John for the first time in December 1983 when performing on the TV show 'Supersonic'.
Many Elton sites and the bootleg info from this show were wrong and Joe actually appeared on 19th December 1985.
Elton was performing the last of nine consecutive nights at Wembley Arena in London, England on 19th December 1985.
Joe and the rest of Def Leppard were actually in Dublin on 14th December taking the photos seen in the inner sleeve of the 'Hysteria' album.
Rare Photo
View a rare photo of Joe on stage with Elton, Rod and George via Gettyimages.
The show was part of his 40 date long 'Ice On Fire' UK and Irish tour which lasted from 14th November 1985 until 11th January 1986. The full world tour ended on 15th October 1986 after 122 shows were played.
For the final night at Wembley Elton invited a number of special guests onstage for the final encore song which was a cover of 'Can I Get A Witness'.
The song saw Joe on stage for the first and only time alongside Rod Stewart, George Michael (then still with Wham!), Nik Kershaw and members of Spandau Ballet, who Def Leppard had gotten to know in Dublin when recording 'Hysteria'.
Joe would go on to appear at the same concert as both Elton and George in April 1992 for The Freddie Mercury Tribute show but did not sing on stage at the same time.
As explained below Joe had attended at least one of Elton's shows at the RDS in Dublin which he played for four nights from 14th to 17th of November 1985.
The photo of Joe and Elton (as their summer attire would suggest) was actually taken at the same venue but in June 1984.
Joe talked about the appearance in the 1987 'Animal Instinct' biography.
Listen to the full performance below including the intro music. Joe is introduced after the first 2 minutes.
The 14th December 1985 show was recorded by Elton fans and distributed as the bootleg called 'Lord Choc Ice Goes Mental'. The title is taken from the B-Side of 'I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues'. Elton billed himself as Lord Choc Ice for the B-Side song called 'Choc Ice Goes Mental'.
Elton went on to record his next album 'Leather Jackets' at Wisseloord Studios in Holland from January to September 1986.
Joe Elliott/Elton John - Dublin Photo June 1984
This photo has been dated to the correct date of 16th June 1984 at the RDS Showgrounds in Dublin, Ireland on Elton's European Express tour.
Def Leppard - August 1987 'Animal Instinct' Biography Story
Joe Elliott celebrated Christmas, 1985 by joining Elton John on stage at Wembley Arena in London with a few other minor pop deities like Rod Stewart, George Michael of Wham!, Nik Kershaw and Gary Kemp and John Keeble of Spandau Ballet. Joe and the other Leppards had met Elton in a TV studio two years before, at which time Ol' Four Eyes told the band he loved the Pyromania album.
When he passed through Dublin on his '85 tour, Elton extended an invitation to Joe to come down to Wembley and take part in an encore singalong, Joe accepted, only to discover when he arrived for soundcheck that he didn't know the song Elton had picked for the grand finale, Marvin Gaye's 'Can I Get A Witness'.
He spent a couple of hours before the show sitting in a car in the backstage area, trying to learn the words from a tape of Elton's show the previous evening.
"He put this daft wig on for the encores and then we came out. It was nice that he introduced me first, because there was no real way I was going to follow Rod Stewart and George Michael. He said 'Please welcome Joe Elliott from Def Leppard' and I got a pretty good reception, although there was probably a lot of people wondering 'What the hell is he doing here?'"
At the end Joe and Rod Stewart took their bows together and headed backstage for a celebratory drink.
"Rod had this brilliant black-and-white checked suit on, and when he got up to get a drink, he lifted his arm up and the suit still had the price tag on it. No one else was around, so I reached up, pulled off the tag, threw it in the trash and said 'I won't say anything about it if you don't'."
Elton John - 14th December 1985 Quote
"We have some guests, some friends of ours...From Def Leppard we have Mr. Joe Elliott."
Dublin June 1984
Elton John Setlist - London, England 19th December 1985
00 - Highlander (Intro Music)
01 - Tonight
02 - One Horse Down
03 - Better Off Dead
04 - Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long Long Time)
05 - Honky Cat
06 - Burn Down The Mission
07 - Someone Saved My Life Tonight
08 - The Bitch Is Back
09 - A Song For You
10 - Blue Eyes/I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues
12 - Restless
13 - Passengers
14 - Bennie And The Jets
15 - Sad Songs (Say So Much)
16 - Shoot Down The Moon
17 - This Town
18 - Nikita
19 - I'm Still Standing
20 - Your Song
21 - Wrap Her Up (w/ George Michael)
22 - Candle In The Wind
23 - Can I Get A Witness - (w/ Joe Elliott/Rod Stewart/George Michael/Spandau Ballet/Nik Kershaw)
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Israel okays two Egypt battalions for Sinai
Israel already gave its backing earlier this month to Egypt's deployment of a first batch of troop reinforcements to Sinai, where deployments are restricted under the terms of the 1979 peace treaty between the two neighbours
AFP , Tuesday 16 Jul 2013
Egypt police real target of Sinai attack: Army
At least 3 killed in attack on bus carrying workers in Egypt's Sinai
'Terrorist' killed by own bomb in Sinai: Military source
Bomb explosion near army vehicle in Egypt's Sinai
Israel has given Egypt the go-ahead to deploy two battalions to the Sinai to tackle militants in the sensitive region where deployments are restricted by treaty, army radio reported Tuesday.
Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon gave his approval to a request from the Egyptian army to station one battalion at El-Arish in the north of the peninsula and one at Sharm al-Sheikh in the south, the radio said.
Israel already gave its backing earlier this month to Egypt's deployment of a first batch of troop reinforcements to the Sinai, where deployments are restricted under the terms of the 1979 peace treaty between the two neighbours.
"The Egyptian military activity in the Sinai is coordinated with Israeli security elements and authorised at the most senior levels in Israel, in order to contend with security threats in the Sinai that pose a threat to both Israel and Egypt," an army statement said at the time.
The Egyptian army is preparing to go on the offensive against Islamist militants in the Sinai who have escalated attacks since president Mohamed Morsi's overthrow on July 3.
Over the past two weeks, militants have launched almost daily attacks on troops and police in the peninsula, killing several members of the security forces and two Egyptian Christians.
At dawn on Monday, militants killed three workers from a cement factory in an attack on the bus in which they were travelling in El-Arish.
A senior Egyptian military official confirmed to AFP on Monday that the army "will carry out an operation" in the Sinai, without giving further details.
The army knew the militant leaders by name and their location, he said, adding that most of the militants "live with their family, in villages".
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Nine killed in clashes between Islamic State and other militants in eastern Libya
Reuters , Friday 12 Jun 2015
Islamic State Militants (File Photo : AP)
Islamic State says it has blown up two warplanes at seized Libyan base
Islamic state seizes power plant near Libyan city of Sirte: Military source
Egypt voices support for 'legitimate government and army' in Libya
Islamic State seizes another town in Libya
At least nine fighters were killed in clashes on Friday between Islamic State and another Islamist force in the eastern Libyan city of Derna, a source in one group said.
Fighting had first erupted in Derna - a long-time gathering point for jihadists - on Tuesday after a leader in the Islamist umbrella group Majlis al-Shura was killed. At least 20 people were killed.
New clashes broke out in one district on Friday and nine fighters were killed, the source said. No more details were immediately available.
Islamic State and other Islamist militant groups have thrived in Libya since two rival governments began fighting for control, leaving a security vacuum four years after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.
The rapid rise in Libya of Islamic State, which first emerged in Syria and Iraq, is worrying Western powers who fear the militant group will forge a base just across the Mediterranean from mainland Europe.
The Majlis al-Shura declared holy war, or jihad, on Islamic State in Derna after Tuesday's clashes, in which four Majlis leaders were killed.
Islamic State group has carried out attacks on oilfields and embassies and also claimed the killing of dozens of Egyptian and Ethiopian Christians. It has also attacked both governments.
The official government has been based in the east since losing the capital Tripoli in August to rival group Libya Dawn, which set up its own administration with some Islamist links.
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Indonesia says scores missing after illegal gold mine collapses
Reuters , Wednesday 27 Feb 2019
Rescue workers carry a victim during an evacuation process following the collapse of an illegal gold mine at Bolaang Mongondow regency in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, February 26, 2019. (Reuters)
Indonesian officials said on Wednesday dozens of rescuers were using spades and ropes to dig out around 45 people who were feared buried by the collapse of an illegal gold mine on the island of Sulawesi that killed at least one person.
Rescuers said they could hear the voices of some of those trapped in makeshift mining shafts in a muddy hillside in the Bolaang Mongondow area of North Sulawesi province and believed many were still alive.
"We are able to detect that many of them are still alive because we can hear their voices, as there are some places where air is getting in and out and there are gaps in the mud," Abdul Muin Paputungan of Indonesia's disaster agency said by phone.
Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency said one body had been recovered by 8 a.m on Wednesday (0100 GMT) after the mine collapsed the previous evening. Indonesian media reports put the death toll at three.
The Indonesian government has banned such small-scale gold mining, although regional authorities often turn a blind eye to the practice in more remote areas. With little regulation, such mines are prone to accidents.
Search-and-rescue teams and military officers were working together but using simple tools such as spades and ropes because conditions remained dangerous, with the land still prone to shifting and sliding, Paputungan said.
He said the families of victims had started gathering at the mine site to wait for news.
Patchy record
Photos released by the disaster agency showed rescue workers and villagers on a muddy hillside scrambling to pull out survivors and carry them away on stretchers during the night.
Disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said dozens of people had been mining for gold when beams and support boards broke suddenly.
"Evacuation efforts continued through the night because of the number of people estimated to be buried," he said.
The issue of mining safety was thrust back into global prominence this year after a dam in Brazil holding back mining waste burst, killing more than 300 people.
Resource-rich Indonesia has a patchy record on mining safety, particularly small-scale unlicensed mines. At least five people were killed in the same part of Sulawesi last year after an illegal mine collapsed during heavy rain.
The area is also home to a gold mine operated by PT J Resources Asia Pasifik, where production began in 2013.
Agung Pribadi, a spokesman for Indonesia's mining ministry, said by phone three mining inspectors had been sent to assist in the rescue and that illegal mines had recently been shut in the area.
"Maybe now they have started again," he said.
Gatot Sugiharto, who heads a group called the Citizens Mining Association, estimated there were about 200 similar unlicensed mines around Indonesia, with 10 in that area of Sulawesi alone.
He said such mines operated in a grey area, with authorities reluctant to give them permits because it would mean official supervision and attention to safety.
Sugiharto estimated that an experienced miner might be able to survive for up to three or four days under the rubble if they could find air pockets and were not crushed by rocks.
"They can breath slowly and usually they don't panic. If there is no poisonous gas they can survive for some time," he said.
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Fort Worth is one of America's top 10 favorite cities. Photo courtesy of Fort Worth CVB
A national authority has determined what we already knew to be true: Fort Worth is one of America's favorite cities.
Travel + Leisure readers deemed Cowtown one of their favorite places in the nation — No. 10, in fact. Fort Worth stands out thanks to a blend of historic, family-friendly charm, and world-class culture.
The magazine's annual survey, which ran for six months, asked readers to rate cities with a population of over 100,000 on features such as affordability, dining destinations, shopping options, and cultural attractions. T+L points out that readers favored cities "that have put their local stamp on such crowd-pleasers as craft beers, burger joints, and indie bookstores" — and Fort Worth can check "yes" to at least two.
"Compared to its brash sibling city Dallas, Fort Worth has long been considered the quiet one," says the magazine. But the city's high safety rating encourages locals and travelers to get out and about.
The Modern, Kimbell, and Amon Carter museums were obvious favorites among those surveyed. T+L suggests the twice-daily cattle drives that take place down the Stockyards' Exchange Avenue as a free and fun outing.
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Board index Mongoose Roleplaying Games Legend
Discover the Legend RPG, Mongoose's fantasy game.
Wulf Corbett
Postby Wulf Corbett » Mon Jun 05, 2006 2:55 pm
Archer wrote:
Wulf Corbett wrote: Spears would be equally as good against knights as against anything with rigid armour. Greatswords would be as good against anything with armour. And there are a few of those in Glorantha...
Yes, and in fact they were employed in this manner. But the spear, at that point in time, were mostly used by file-and-rank soldiers, not knights...
...However, considering the general historical period of which most of Glorantha seems to be equivalent too, spears would be more common. Especially the spear and shield combination of fighting in formation.
You answered your own questions there. PCs aren't Rank & File. They're not even Knights. They're HEROES.
andakitty
Postby andakitty » Mon Jun 05, 2006 3:10 pm
Heroes? They ambush...from a distance, usually. They run if they think there is a slight chance of getting hurt. They whine. They make unreasonable demands.
Heroes? Bite your tongue, sir!
Tis we gamemasters who are the heroes, I say!
Postby Gallowglass » Mon Jun 05, 2006 3:32 pm
Wulf Corbett wrote: ... PCs aren't Rank & File. They're not even Knights. They're HEROES.
In HerQuest certainly, in RuneQuest they were usually the scruffy, disreputable types who guard the heroes horses and loot the bodies after the heroes have left: "the little guys on society's underside, scrabbling to maintain a meager subsistence-level ecology. RQ PCs live close to the bone" to quote one S Petersen...
t-tauri
Postby t-tauri » Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:28 pm
Gloranthan swords are embodiments of the Death rune and the Gods of the Air cults, they represent the chosen weapons of the culture's gods hence the profusion of swords.
Duck-Billed Mongoose
Postby Rurik » Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:38 pm
Swords are the oldest weapons in Glorantha. Humakt invented them about the time he created death. Notice the Death rune is shaped like a sword.
I don't think I have ever run into Humakti Runelord that did NOT have a Greatsword. But then, I don't actively try to run into to many Humakti Runelords....
Weapon preferences in Glorantha are typically cultural/religeous, and swords are very prominent in the Storm Pantheon and therefore "classic" Dragon Pass setting.
Damn you t-tauri, you beat me too it!
Rurik wrote: Damn you t-tauri, you beat me too it!
Strike like the Wind!
t-tauri wrote:
Are you telling me to shorten my posts?
Postby Archer » Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:16 pm
Wulf Corbett wrote:
Archer wrote: Yes, and in fact they were employed in this manner. But the spear, at that point in time, were mostly used by file-and-rank soldiers, not knights...
True, I answered my own question (depending on your view on PCs). But I never really intended it as a question. More as a pondering on a comparison between Glorantha and our historical world.
As for player characters being heroes, that all depends on how you choose to run a campaign. I would guess that quite many run a campaign that way, but it is not the only way to run it.
Still, your point is perfectly valid, PCs tend to be extraordinary characters in some sense of the word, even if they are not heroes. And as such, they can have quite odd equipment.
I will not even go into the argument of using bronze instead of steel for weapons (we would argue that one forever, and it really does not matter).
I have the distinct memory of bronze being the more common metal in Glorantha. The only question I have is this; how common are weapons of iron and steel? especially in the second age?
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Could be a very important factor considering that the weapons are listed with armor and hit point values.
Malorium
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Location: Biggin Hill, UK
Postby Malorium » Mon Jun 05, 2006 7:44 pm
I have a vague memory of reading somewhere that Glorantha bronze actually has the same qualities as steel (except any iron content of course!).
Remember - the metals on Glorantha are actually the bones of Gods (apparently) so comparing them to real earth metals might be a bit fruitless.
Thumbs up for Morokanth!
Oh and there are Knights in 3rd Age Glorantha - was it the Empire of War? They were the Sorcery using Knights in full plate etc.
Polearms and Arbalests are the only weapons any self respecting adventurer needs
Malorium wrote: I have a vague memory of reading somewhere that Glorantha bronze actually has the same qualities as steel (except any iron content of course!).
Real world bronze are not that inferior to steel for the weapons we are talking about. It does not contain any iron either. You make bronze by mixing copper and tin.
Bronze is a bit more flexible than steel, and you can cast it to any form you wish (compared to having to work iron to it's desired form). The breaking strength is lower, and only becomes important when you have very long blades (which are relatively thin compared to the length), such as a great sword. Even so, a bronze great sword would be very useful, if not the primary choice to use to parry blows with.
Malorium wrote: Remember - the metals on Glorantha are actually the bones of Gods (apparently) so comparing them to real earth metals might be a bit fruitless.
Cool, did not remember that I ever read anything about the metals being the bones of the gods.
I think however, that they are very well suited to be compared to real world metals. In fantasy games, real world metals tend to be underestimated.
The main reason why iron became widespread in use was not that it was that much superior in strength etc. The reason is that there was a large emigration of large populations during the time when the shift from bronze to iron happened. It is a theory of modern day historians that this emigration was largely due to the fact that the main sources of tin and copper had dried out, and people moved in order to try and find new sources. But what they found instead was iron, and iron only required iron ore to be smelted to get iron, compared to the rather complex method and many components needed to make bronze.
Strike ranks vs. initiative
Postby Cobra » Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:04 pm
As a long time RQ enthusiast, I have a concern about the combat system as it now appears. What happened to the strike ranks? All I see now is a roll that is added to a reaction modifier, with the highest going first. To me, this seems like a D20-ification of RQ. I really hope that in a effort to put RQ out to a broader audience, you have not changed the combat system. I also didn't see any weapon strike ranks in the weapons table. Has weapon speed been dropped as a factor in combat?!
Personally, I've always loved the richness of RQ combat vs. D&D or D20. I never found it cumbersome at all - in our group it went very fluidly and with so much more description that D20. To me, this was one of the essences or RQ, and to change it would make it some other game altogether.
Also, not a concern so much as a query - I notice that weapons now have HP and AP. It seem to me that having two stats where one used to suffice would serve to make combat more complicated, not less. Anybody know anything about this?
Postby andakitty » Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:17 pm
It looks like there may be some D20 influence, unfortunately. However that is not necessarily a bad thing. To me the worst thing about D20 is too many fiddly bits.
It also looks like BRP in many respects, and BRP games like Stormbringer have used simpler (than RQ) initiative rules that work well. I am very curious and anxious to see the whole combat cycle. The weapon damages don't look well balanced, for one thing. Strike rank/initiative, individual weapon skill descriptions, criticals and other parts of the rules that we can't see right now will, hopefully, change the whole picture.
SteveMND
Banded Mongoose
Location: Salisbury, MD
Postby SteveMND » Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:21 pm
Pg 42 of the 2nd preview described the strike rank system, and with the exception of a random element being added (the d10) and higher being better (as opposed to lower being better as in the past), it still sounds like the same system. Slow, small characters with short weapons will still be at a disadvantage to large, fast characters with long weapons.
True, they don't have the determination of the "Strike Rank Modifier" described in the preview, but the combat section's description implies -- to me at least -- a similar process as in previous editions.
D20 vs RQ
I've always found that D20's fiddly bits slowed down combat way too much, and also the glossing over of details bleached the colour out of the narrative.
In our group, a typical D20 combat round might go like this:
PL: "Ok, I rolled a 16. Is that a hit? Oh, wait, I forgot the bard was singing and I have a minus because I'm hung over..."
GM: "Yeah, it's a hit. What's your damage?
PL: "6 points"
GM: (makes a note, then rolls) "Ok, he hits you for 8. I think. What's your AC again?"
But in RQ the same might sound like:
PL: "A hit! Six points to the head, if it gets through!"
GM: "Good blow! We, since his shield strap broke in that fumble a couple of rounds ago, he'll try to block you with Steve's severed arm that he's still clutching in his hand. Woah - 26% - that does it, he manages to get the arm up and block part of the blow. You still manage to connect for 3 points, though. He's angry now, but the good news is that he won't be able to use what's left of Steve's arm for blocking blows any more.
STEVE: moans
I like that fact than in RQ you can react to someone attacking you. You can defend, and in many ways, whereas in D20 you just sit there and take it - your defense skills and armour are all rolled into one stat called AC that you can't even use - it just is.
You are right, they are hinting that size and speed and weapon still come into play. Anxious to see more of combat. Not sure why weapon speeds didn't feature on the table.
Too true, Cobra. All the better versions of BRP (aka Runequest rules) offer a certain excitement in tabletop rpgs that I have not experienced with any other system.
homerjsinnott
Re: D20 vs RQ
Postby homerjsinnott » Tue Jun 06, 2006 12:19 am
Cobra wrote: I've always found that D20's fiddly bits slowed down combat way too much, and also the glossing over of details bleached the colour out of the narrative.
Poor, Poor, Steve...
Did he get his arm back on? Come on man I'm itching to find out!!
Re: Strike ranks vs. initiative
Postby Archer » Tue Jun 06, 2006 12:24 am
Cobra wrote: As a long time RQ enthusiast, I have a concern about the combat system as it now appears. What happened to the strike ranks? All I see now is a roll that is added to a reaction modifier, with the highest going first. To me, this seems like a D20-ification of RQ. I really hope that in a effort to put RQ out to a broader audience, you have not changed the combat system. I also didn't see any weapon strike ranks in the weapons table. Has weapon speed been dropped as a factor in combat?!
First of all, what it means for combat (Strike Ranks as they seem to be now) is that RQ has finally been updated with a mechanic that many BRP clones have used since the mid-80s, a rolled initiative.
Strike Ranks / Dex ranks in all their glory, but having tried the many various incarnations or clones of the RQ/BRP system, this is the fastest, with the least hassle involved.
The AP/HP statistics makes sense. More so than the Breaking Value that has been used in many BRP clones. You now have a measurement how resilient a weapon is - how hard it is do do damage to it, and then finally how much abuse it can take beyond that point.
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Board index Mongoose Roleplaying Games Traveller
Brainstorming a Ringworld adventure
Discuss the Traveller RPG and its many settings
Sigtrygg
Re: Brainstorming a Ringworld adventure
Postby Sigtrygg » Sat Jul 14, 2018 9:56 pm
Nope, Leenitakot is still there - remember it isn't a ring'world' - it is just a big ring...
Tom Kalbfus
Postby Tom Kalbfus » Sat Jul 14, 2018 10:32 pm
Sigtrygg wrote: ↑
Tom Kalbfus wrote: ↑
If you can create something as big as a ringworld, why would you need to create a pocket universe? In a sense, an inhabited ringworld already is its own pocket Universe with 3 million Earth's worth of inhabitable land area.
Why indeed...
You'd have to ask the Ancients or even earlier advanced races the answer to that question. Why did the Ancients make pocket universes?
The Ancients made pocket universes of various sizes for a variety of uses.
The ancients moved worlds into rosettes, built this 'ringworld', and conducted many other mega-engineering projects. They certainly don't need ringworlds for population, the asteroid belt alone could provide enough material to build thousands of O'Neill cyslinders inside asteroids once you have extracted their mineral wealth, enough for a population of hundreds of billions, and that is just in one system.
Well the Ancients are part of the setting, if the authors decided that they should make megastructures, then they will make megastructures, whether it makes sense for them to do so or not. They could just as easily decided that Ancients just love to dine on human meat, and that they have ranches full of humans that they raise for food. I don't give a fig about the fictional universe in the official traveller setting, I am talking about your setting and your reasoning, its your decision whether there is going to be any logical consistency. I'm only saying that a ringworld would be built by people that needed to create pseudogravity by rotating a structure, that would imply that they don't have artificial gravity found in everyday Traveller spaceships and space stations. the fact that they would build such a large thing would seem to imply that they thought faster than light travel was impossible and figured that they had to efficiently utilize the resources of one star system, and that easy travel to other stars just wasn't in the cards.
One "easy" way to create a "pocket universe" is to build a vast computer and run a simulation of that universe with simulated people in it, and if they just simulate all the known laws of physics, and have the computer track each partical and how they interact with other particles and the fundamental forces between them, they would have a pocket Universe and they wouldn't actually have to bend real space and time to make it.
Postby Sigtrygg » Sat Jul 14, 2018 11:11 pm
Well the Ancients are part of the setting,
Yup, a pretty major influence on the OTU
if the authors decided that they should make megastructures, then they will make megastructures, whether it makes sense for them to do so or not.
The authors so chose, as to the reasoning behind why the Ancients did stuff - well that is another issue entirely (especially since the MgT version of the Ancients brakes one of MWM's holy writs)
They could just as easily decided that Ancients just love to dine on human meat, and that they have ranches full of humans that they raise for food.[/quote ]
Very Nivenesque, but they didn't.
I don't give a fig about the fictional universe in the official traveller setting,
So I have noticed.
I am talking about your setting and your reasoning, its your decision whether there is going to be any logical consistency.
My version is logically consistent.
I'm only saying that a ringworld would be built by people that needed to create pseudogravity by rotating a structure, that would imply that they don't have artificial gravity found in everyday Traveller spaceships and space stations. the fact that they would build such a large thing would seem to imply that they thought faster than light travel was impossible and figured that they had to efficiently utilize the resources of one star system, and that easy travel to other stars just wasn't in the cards.
Which is why it makes a lot more sense within the setting that the ringworld is not a ring'world'.
That is not the Traveller version of a pocket universe, it is a virtual universe.
Probably creating a pocket universe by bending space with gravity is a lot harder than creating a virtual universe within a giant computer such as a matrioshka brain. Matrioshka brains are a lot easier to create, as you don't need as much mass to create one. A pocket Universe would be connected to our own universe with a wormhole. As for the utility, you would get a lot more control of the environment with a virtual universe, you can make things appear and disappear, you can create gravity fields whereever you want them. It is easier to detect stuff in a virtual Universe, because everything that exists in that universe is information found in a computer.
Postby Linwood » Sun Jul 15, 2018 12:27 am
Hakkonen wrote: ↑
Question 1: How much money should the university offer? Part of the payment will come in the form of installing Advanced sensors on the Travellers' ship, if it is not already so equipped.
Circling back to your question - I'd offer enough to cover most if not all of the operating expenses (but not the mortgage payment) plus the Advanced Sensors, plus a fee for the sensor data. The Advanced Sensors mod is a pretty hefty award all by itself (BTW - don't forget to allow for the power point cost), but you could let them negotiate for the rest a bit if you'd like. If you have The Great Rift's DSE Handbook, you could use the Detailed Survey rules and base the sensor data fee on the Survey Index result. Throw in an adder (KCr50?) for discovery of a astronomical anomaly.
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Postby Hakkonen » Sun Jul 15, 2018 8:12 am
Linwood wrote: ↑
Circling back to your question
If I were planning to have children, I would seriously consider naming one of them after you.
Postby Sigtrygg » Sun Jul 15, 2018 8:28 am
Back to the original question then
Your set up has a ship crew stranded.
They are not the first, and no one else has ever made it back.
There is a functioning railway to the control centre.
Well they are not going to find a solution there or the previous ship crews could have done the same. So the answer must be elsewhere, which brings me to the point
What is it about the ringworld setting you want to hit your players over the head with? Starport - train - control centre, but we are on a ringworld, does not hit the players over the head.
They need to be out and about on the ringworld, they need to appreciate its scale and it potential.
You basically have planet of the week adventure just by going from ringworld square to ringworld square - what are the races, cultures and technologies of the inhabitants like? How will the players get from location to location on the ring itself - walking isn't an option
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Postby Tom Kalbfus » Sun Jul 15, 2018 1:08 pm
Well the are not going to find a solution there or the previous ship crews could have done the same. So the answer must be elsewhere, which brings me to the point?
What is it about the ringworld setting you want to hit your players over the head with? Starport - train - control centre but we are on a ringworld does not hit the players over the head.
You basically have planet of the week adventure just by going from ringworld square to ringworld square - what are the inhabitants, cultures and technologies of the inhabitants like? How will the players get from location to location on the ring itself - walking isn't an option
I would suggest flying. Maneuver drives don't work, a jet engine would however, there should be plenty of fuel to power a fusion reactor, what you need to do is direct the air intake to a heating element powered by the ship's fusion reactor, and you have a nuclear powered jet engine. If the ship is a scout ship, or a free or far trader, it already has a lifting body and could be made into an airplane. Maybey you might jury rig some landing gear.
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Postby steve98052 » Sun Jul 15, 2018 6:10 pm
The fastest subsonic aircraft is the Boeing Dreamliner. It tops out at Mach 0.85 (1050 km/h, 650 mph).
To give an idea of the size of a 1 AU ringworld, 1 million km wide, let's fly a Dreamliner around it. 1 AU diameter is 149.6 million km. That times pi is 470 million km.
Dividing the 470 million km circumference by 1050 km/h is over 447000 hours travel time, 18650 24-hour days, or 51 years. That's a long time to fly without a refueling stop or maintenance.
What about flying edge to edge? One million km divided by 1050 km/h is 952 hours, or 39.7 days. That's more plausible as an adventure goal: just travel to the edge of the ring, with Interesting Events along the journey.
Postby Tom Kalbfus » Sun Jul 15, 2018 10:21 pm
steve98052 wrote: ↑
the ship will need to land, the ship will need maintenance, and that can't be done while the ship is flying in an atmosphere. It will have to land a few times, and in those places, you can have encounters of various sorts.
Postby Sigtrygg » Sun Jul 15, 2018 11:15 pm
Their ship is disabled according to the OP.
Postby Linwood » Sun Jul 15, 2018 11:18 pm
IRL I spend a fair amount of time herding engineers - I mean, facilitating meetings.
In other words it cannot fly by its normal means, but it still has a fusion reactor, an Engineer might be able to jury rig something that will allow it to fly within an atmosphere, perhaps using its areodynamic body shape to provide lift if it is pushed forward. Such a cobbled together contraption will likely require regular maintenance, and will have to set down on the ground to effect such maintenance, this is where the encounters come it. The Travellers will have to set up camp while repairs and maintenance on the ship is being performed.
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Postby PsiTraveller » Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:43 am
Things will depend on the tech level of the inhabitants. Is there a functioning high tech society still operating on the Ringworld? A functioning train system seems to indicate yes, unless it is robot maintained long after the society has fallen.
If the society is still running does it control all of ringworld or is the ringworld balkanized?
Where do raw materials come from? Asteroid belts in system? Matter transmutation from energy to matter facilities on the shadow squares? This is technology the rest of the universe will kill for.
If society has fallen you get the Wu Escape paradigm. Any mistakes can be outrun. You can fly away from your mistakes and meet new peole every day/week/adventure. Don't fly so fast the meteor defense system shoots you down again.
Goal of adventure: Is it to simply escape? They crash, repair a ship and manage to escape. Now what. A massive ringworld changes the imperium. Think of the possibility of an infinite army with 3 million worlds worth of people to get infantry from. Set up and train, teach high tech weapons and tactics and you can drown the opponents in cannon fodder. Or does the Ringworld contain high tech infinite wealth technology for everyone?
Postby Tom Kalbfus » Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:35 pm
PsiTraveller wrote: ↑
Which is why I recommended the Matrioshka Brain idea. Here is an article on it:
https://curiosity.com/topics/a-matriosh ... curiosity/
You see a ringworld is so big that its shadow squares alone could simulate all of charted space, or else the ringworld floor material could. And you would need some piece of exotic technology similar to a Star Trek transporter to download and upload material objects into it. The creators of the simulation probably imposed limits on what can be uploaded into it, due to limits on its computational budget, it simulates other universes as well! The simulation running of Charted Space has some extra things in it such as the Jump Drive, and easy gravity manipulation and creation, these things don't exist in the Real Ringworld Universe, though within the Charted Space Simulation it projects an image of the Ringworld, if a ship in Charted Space comes within a certain distance of it, it gets downloaded onto the real ringworld floor, those still in the simulation will see a tractor beam grab the ship in question, and then drag the ship to the surface of the ringworld, communications with the grabbed ship is temporarily blocked by the "tractor beam" but what really is happening during this time is that the ship is being downloaded onto the surface of the ringworld. Meteors in the simulation aren't really a problem, if one is on a collision course with the simulated ringworld, it simply passes through, and sophonts on the surface of the meteor are transported to the surface of the ringworld in the process, but the meteor itself safely passes through. Real meteors in the ringworld real universe are a different story!
Lets get a few things straight, in my Universe, what I would call the Ringworld Real Universe (RRU) all the know laws of physics are in play, there is no FTL, and no easy gravity manipulation, so all downloaded technologies based on those two things do not work. The speed of light is the limit. I would place my ringworld in the Alpha Centauri system,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Centauri
mainly because one of the two stars is a very close match for our Sun in the light it gives off, the other one is a type K2 V star with about 90% of our Sun's mass, most of that mass goes into creating a stationary ring around Alpha Centauri A. Inside the Stationary ring is the actual ringworld with one thousandth the mass of the Stationary ring, and orbiting closely to the Sun are the shadow squares. The equivalent habitable zone for an earth analog planet around Alpha Centauri is at 1.23 AU. The Alpha Centauri ringworld would rotate once every 10 days instead of the 9 days it would around our Sun. The gravity produced by this spin would be 0.9965029066485806 G, which is close enough as to make practically no difference. The shadow squares would orbit Alpha Centauri A once every 100 days and there would be 11 of them evenly spaced. Alpha Centauri B would have to be taken apart to make the stationary ring, and it would consist mostly of hydrogen and helium bottled up and walled off in compartments behind solid walls.
The RRU would have no implications for the OTU as the OTU is being simulated by it, the simulation perameters woukld not permit the uploading of enough materials to make much of a difference, and there is not much anyone within the simulation can do about it either, as they are subject to the simulation's rules.
Postby Yatima » Mon Jul 16, 2018 6:49 pm
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Postby Tom Kalbfus » Mon Jul 16, 2018 10:20 pm
Yatima wrote: ↑
Well, I do have a solution, if you don't want it, then you have to think of another one. There are 11,000 Worlds in the Third Imperium and the Ringworld has 3,000,000 worlds of surface area, about 272 times all the worlds in the Imperium plus the fact that not all the worlds of the Imperium are equally habitable, so I may be tooting my own horn and saying "I told you so", but I am also throwing down the gauntlet and challenging you to find a better solution. Finding 3,000,000 garden worlds worth of living space is no small thing after all.
Postby Reynard » Mon Jul 16, 2018 10:32 pm
How many surrounding star systems would you have to strip out to create a ringworld let alone a dyson sphere? Why would any race with the ability to decimate entire systems create a single structure to contain a million planet habitat instead of just terraforming a million worlds? This sounds like a machine entity.
Reynard wrote: ↑
Well the System I'm talking about in particular is Alpha Centauri, there are two stars in the immediate vicinity, a sunlike star that has 1.1 times the mass of our sun, and a dimmer K2 V star that has 0.9 times the mass of our Sun. Since Alpha Centauri A is more sunlike than Alpha Centauri B, we sacrifice Alpha Centauri B to build out ringworld, a typical star just as that easily has over a Jupiter's mass of solid material from which we can build a ringworld and then some. The "and then some" is what we use to build the containers to contain the hydrogen and helium which makes up most of Alpha Centauri B when we take it apart. Hydrogen is the lightest element in the Universe, but it still has weight, and the gravity of Alpha Centauri A at a distance of 1.24 AU is quite small, so we need many times the mass of the ringworld in the stationary ring for the weight of the stationary ring to equal the outward centrifugal force of the spinning ring, the forces then balance out and with course corrections, you can have a stable ringworld around Alpha Centauri A. Probably fusion rocket motors would be on the stationary ring, because that is where all the fuel is, the rockets would keep both rings centered around Alpha Centauri A. Probably you would want to compartmentalize the hydrogen and heilum to prevent it from "balling up" under its own self gravity and forming another star.
Alpha Centauri is also conveniently located, ir provides more material than our own solar system for building such things, and also there is a nogostalgia factor of not wanting to tear apart our own Solar System, because the nearest Solar System has a Sunlike star, we don't have to. There is a process called starlifting where one uses the energy radiated by a star to power a magnetic field to induce artificial solar flares. Stars aren't very efficient at converting mass to energy anyway. Since the layers of large stars don't convect, such starts tend to leave the main sequence while having plenty of hydrogen to fuse in the stars outer layers, and that hydrogen ends up mostly in a planetary nebula. If you mine a star, you are extending its lifetime, if you take it all apart, you have an energy source that can last many trillions of years. So they hydrogen you put in tanks serves a double purpose, it can power many fusion reactors and it has mass and weight.
Postby Reynard » Tue Jul 17, 2018 12:53 am
So they have the ability to extinguish stars without causing an immediate gravitational collapse creating a singularity?! Also they can manipulate the orbital physics of the other star(s) so the loss of the delicate gravitational balance doesn't send the stars winging off into the void? That's science definitely bordering on magic.
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LAL1947 wrote:
yinoma2001 wrote:
paymonM wrote:
oaktown_dimond wrote:
I'll say something a little controversial. Yeah, boogie shouldn't have said it. And yes it's a threat... But he also didn't actually do anything. They're just words. People say stupid stuff when they're pissed.
And depending on when he said this, he was probably already ticked off about the ACL the day after his birthday.
I'd personally be fine with giving him another shot (no pun intended) next year.
he committed an assault on his ex.
Who did what to whom?
/əˈsɔːlt,əˈsɒlt/
make a physical attack on.
/θrɛt/
a statement of an intention to inflict pain, injury, damage, or other hostile action on someone in retribution for something done or not done.
You can't use generic Webster's dictionary definitions to define criminal acts, as you can find those specifically defined by statute. So if you look up Alabama's criminal statutes, you'll find the relevant definitions there.
What the heck kinda funky lawyer are you man? Please do not confuse words and the meaning of words, whether from a spoken perspective or a legal one. A verbal threat made over the telephone is not an assault. If you feel otherwise, give us proof... i.e., a proper link. The only time a verbal threat COULD be considered an assault is IF the person is making the threat to you IN PERSON, and WHILE wielding a weapon.... for example waving a bat/knife in your face or holding a gun to your head.
I'm not weighing in here. I'm saying there are legal definitions for these things. Take the time to look it up and you win your argument.
It's pretty easy. Find the Alabama criminal code and look up the definition of assault. And you can then win internet points!
Please save us Darren.
LAL1947
To be honest, it now seems like you are the one trying to win "internet points". The point I made to the person I originally responded to was pretty darn simple... i.e., no need to overstate crimes and that certain words mean specific things... but you had to butt in with your legalese... even though my point applies equally from both, a spoken/written as well as a legal perspective.
When talking about a legal matter, isn't the legal code sort of important? That's just me. But instead of using online dictionaries to define the general meaning of a word, isn't the Alabama criminal code the way to settle the dispute? But hey, that's just me. I'm just trying to help y'all settle the dispute.
Dang... you really are on a mission to rack up them internet points. Keep it simple, S*. You could have and should have simply said, "you are right, a verbal threat is not an assault... including from a legal definition perspective". That is all that is/was needed.
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Dang... you really are on a mission to rack up them points. Keep it simple S*.
You could have should have simply said, "you are right, a threat is not an assault, even from a legal definition". That is all that is/was needed.
Is that what the Alabama code says? (I guess you aren't a fan of the Socratic method...which I assume the "S*" stands for here...)
Lol, thought I'd throw a term in there since you apparently like terms so much... K.I.S.S. is an old term (not an insult), that stands for Keep It Simple, Stupid.
Btw, you aren't getting any points here from me, except for lame points.
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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2019 12:35 pm Post subject:
For real. Dude is insufferable and more contrarian than Mary
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OK. Third-degree assault in Alabama Penal Code is below if you care to read it. The argument is settled about a threat being an assault. It is not.
Regarding using dictionary definitions, penal codes will define terms that have direct legal implications. For example a deadly weapon. But the penal code does not define all words. Most words are understood based on their dictionary definitions. In the case of "assault" and "threat," those require legal definitions that will differ from a dictionary definition.
Assault in the Third Degree
A person commits assault in the third degree, classified as a Class A misdemeanor, in any of the four ways discussed below: by intending to and causing physical injury to another person by recklessly causing physical injury to a person by causing, with criminal negligence, physical injury to another with a deadly weapon or a dangerous instrument, or by causing physical injury to another person while intending to prevent a peace officer from performing a lawful duty.
(Ala. Code § 13A-6-22.)
Eric Pincus
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To clear up some confusion - the Lakers CAN cut Cousins after receiving the disabled player exception. They would still have it available for use.
This is probably the best way to go. Get the DPE (1.7m-ish) which is not prorated so it could be a full 1.7m come buyout season in February/March 2020. The regular vet's exception would be prorated so 2.6m would be prorated by however many months/games played so it may be less than the 1.7m-ish DPE.
paymonM
"The legal term assault refers to an attempt by one person to cause serious bodily harm to another person. This may be through a deliberate act, or through irresponsible actions that show a deliberate lack of respect for the victim’s safety. Assault is also defined as carrying out threat of bodily harm, or having the ability to carry out the threat. Assault is both a crime and a civil wrong, and may result in criminal charges and/or civil liability. To explore this concept, consider the following assault definition."
sometimes somethings are very simple
In the part you have bolded... what part of CARRYING OUT the threat (which would then make the threat an assault) do you not get? Also, the next part of the sentence (which you did not bold) says, "or having the ability to carry out the threat"... which means you would have to be physically present and doing something for it to be considered an assault... which means that a telephone convo doesn't count.
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I've never been a Boogie fan at all. That said, this whole episode is ugly on both sides. (bleep) move on her part to record the call and not tell him, troll him about not letting their child attend the wedding, then capture the audio of whatever he says in reaction. (bleep) move on his part to overreact and threaten to put a bullet through her head. Would he really do it? I doubt it. But stupid as hell to blurt that out.
This whole legal debate is a big fat waste of time. Let the court system and attorneys handle that. The fallout that's relevant to the Lakers is whether he'll be able to play and whether he's gotten any better at keeping his composure when the going gets tough. I think it's a big fat no on both counts.
I doubt we ever see Cousins play an NBA game in a Laker uniform. Too many injuries, the kind that are too severe, and now we have Dwight Howard backing up Javale McGee. Time will tell.
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Yup. That's a big plus for us if we use it that way since we won't have any other big exception or cap space.
LuciusAllen
When we signed him, I expressed hope that the Lakers would somehow help him get the resources he needed to learn to control his emotions. That (along with his injuries) has been his undoing on the court, and now off the court.
Now that the Lakers don't get the chance to help him with the on-court control, I don't know if they are the right organization to help him with his off-court life. The team could take the chance, keep him around, reach out, help him rebuild his life, and maybe benefit at the end of the process. Tough call.
LuciusAllen wrote:
After an Achilles, quad, and ACL injury, how much will he even have to offer next season?
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2019 2:14 pm Post subject:
The quad injury wasn't truly significant (no surgery needed) and a lot of pros come back from ACL injuries successfully in time. So we're only talking about the achilles injury, which he'll be 2+ years removed from.
But more importantly, he will not have lost any of his skills. He wasn't a high-flying jackrabbit anyway, so why would his skills abandon him?
It may take him another 18-24 months to feel more like himself again, but he can be an effective center in the league. It's up to DMC's ability to fight through his doubts and control his emotions.
They are all related IMO. There’s a certain kinetic chain of injuries after Achilles injuries to some.
You are correct, look at Kobe’s subsequent injuries. The Boogie ship has sailed, time for all Laker fans to swim to the shore while there’s still land in sight. If you hurry you can make it to the Dwight Train.
Sheesh. Internet Ignorance.
Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2019 10:31 am Post subject:
I agree, but believe it that chain can be broken with the correct rehab routine, and rigorous injury prevention training. I guess I'm more optimistic than many here (as the parent of a teen daughter working her way back to play club soccer after ankle surgery, I have no choice but to be hopeful).
The question to me is whether Cousins has the mental toughness required to adapt and stick with this new reality. And that speaks to his mental discipline, just as his ability to eliminate his emotional outbursts does.
IMO that would require taking a good portion of next year off. He's putting his body through so much stress. It needs rest. Maybe sign him to a minimum deal and let him rehab for 1/2 season, hope he can contribute by playoffs.
RI Laker
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2019 9:43 am Post subject:
Sorry to bump this, but AD genuinely likes Boogie which means he will not be cut. I think Boogie will be a Laker next season (if he can play).
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Abstract: We present a method for adding parallax and real-time playback of 360° videos in Virtual Reality headsets. In current video players, the playback does not respond to translational head movement, which reduces the feeling of immersion, and causes motion sickness for some viewers. Given a 360° video and its corresponding depth (provided by current stereo 360 stitching algorithms), a naive image-based rendering approach would use the depth to generate a 3D mesh around the viewer, then translate it appropriately as the viewer moves their head. However, this approach breaks at depth discontinuities, showing visible distortions, while cutting the mesh at such discontinuities leads to ragged silhouettes and holes at disocclusions. We address these issues by improving the given initial depth map to yield cleaner, more natural silhouettes. We rely on a three-layer scene representation, made up of a foreground layer and two static background layers, to handle disocclusions by propagating information from multiple frames for the first background layer, and then inpainting for the second one. Our system works with input from many of today's most popular 360 stereo capture devices (e.g., Yi Halo or GoPro Odyssey), and works well even if the original video does not provide depth information. Our user studies confirm that our method provides a more compelling viewing experience, increasing immersion while reducing discomfort and nausea.
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Grassley Releases Declassified Steele Criminal Referral
On Tuesday, Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham released a declassified letter regarding Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled the controversial dossier on alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. The senators, who are both members of the Judiciary Committee, initially wrote the letter and sent it to the Justice Department in January. It questions whether Steele made false claims to the FBI and whether the bureau’s application for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to wiretap former Trump aide Carter Page was based on inadequate evidence. Page was brought to the Trump team by former Morningside College professor Sam Clovis, whose slapdash vetting failed to recognize that Page had caught the attention of the FBI in 2013 when Russian spies attempted to recruit him. The FBI began to surveil Page shortly after he was named as a Trump foreign policy adviser.
Top-Ranking Justice Department Official from Iowa to Step Down
The No. 3 official at the Justice Department and a graduate of Pella Christian High School, Rachel Brand is planning to step down from the federal law enforcement agency after nine months, according to a report Friday in the New York Times. Brand has received considerable attention in recent months because of the potential that she could assume a leading role in overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller’s grand jury investigation into Russian influence in the 2016 election on behalf of the Trump campaign. President Trump has repeatedly criticized Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the official currently overseeing the investigation, leading many to believe that he may be fired. Instead of taking over for Rosenstein should that happen, Brand instead plans to join Walmart as the company’s top legal adviser.
Iowa Senate Scales Back Mid-Year Budget Cuts
A mid-year budget-reduction bill passed Thursday on a party-line vote in the Iowa Senate would cut spending from the state’s general fund by about $32 million for the current fiscal year ending June 30. The bill is intended to cover a $34.5 million state funding shortfall and includes significant budget cuts to public universities, the court system, and the Department of Human Services. Senate Democrats continued to oppose the cuts, although they were about $18 million less than what Republicans had initially proposed. The bill will now be taken up in the House, where GOP lawmakers have proposed roughly $34 million in budget cuts.
Fetal Heartbeat Bill Advances to Iowa Senate Judiciary Committee
A bill sponsored by Iowa Republicans that would ban all abortions except for cases of medical emergencies after a heartbeat is detectable in a fetus advanced from a state Senate subcommittee by a 2-1 vote on Thursday. The proposal will now be taken up by the full Judiciary Committee. If it became law, it would allow doctors who perform non-emergency abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected to be charged with a Class D felony punishable by up to five years in prison. But the law would likely be unconstitutional and almost certainly face legal challenges because of the precedent set in the US Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade that a woman has a right to an abortion up until the point her fetus is viable outside the womb.
Associated Press Reporters Negotiate for Better Health Benefits
The News Media Guild is negotiating with the Associated Press over the company’s recent decision to hike employee health insurance premiums. The guild claims that the health insurance costs would eclipse the salary increases that the AP has planned for its employees, including reporters, in effect negating their raises. On Thursday, AP Iowa Statehouse reporter Barbara Rodriguez voiced her support for the guild’s efforts in a tweet:
I’m running around the Iowa Capitol every day, trying to provide distinctive coverage for the public on behalf of @AP. Yet my employer is offering benefits that don’t seem to recognize that. Please give me and my colleagues a #fairAPcontract. We’re worth it. https://t.co/l7DkW7sztp
— Barbara Rodriguez (@bcrodriguez) February 8, 2018
Gavin Aronsen is an editor and reporter for and founding member of the Iowa Informer. He previously worked as a city reporter for the Ames Tribune, research assistant to investigative journalist Wayne Barrett at the Village Voice, and in various roles at Mother Jones, where his work contributed to a National Magazine Award nomination for the magazine's digital media coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Email: garonsen [at] iowainformer [dot] com.
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Digital Champion offers free IT support at The Larches Cafe
by Anoush | Mar 10, 2016 | News
The Larches Cafe in Coldean is offering free IT support and mentoring on Monday 14th March, from 9.00am until midday. The session is part of a ‘One Digital’ collaborative programme to help thousands of people across the UK to get online. One Digital is a...
The biggest blanket in Steyning
by Anoush | Feb 15, 2016 | News
Service users at the Dingemans Centre & Cafe, Steyning, have spent the last five months knitting a large blanket which is being donated to The Salvation Army. The project began back in September with Gill and Christine, two volunteers at Dingemans, taking the lead...
Changes to activities at the Hop this Feb
by Anoush | Jan 28, 2016 | News
The Hop50+ will be closed from 15th February until 22nd February to allow for essential works to be carried out at the centre. During this time group activities and trips will still take place at a number of different venues across Brighton & Hove. Brighton &...
Open Day at Henfield Haven
by Anoush | Jan 4, 2016 | News
The Henfield Haven, a community space and cafe for people aged 55+ is having an information and open day on Thursday 7th January, 11am – 3pm. Anybody is welcome to take a look around the Haven, which offers a range of support and planned activities for people...
Supported accommodation for mothers and their babies
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Stopover 4 and 5, which offer supported accommodation to pregnant young women in Brighton, are now officially open thanks to volunteers from St Peter’s Church and donations from Brewers Paints and IB Flooring. The new houses, which offer quality accommodation to...
Award for healthy food @ The Larches
by Anoush | Dec 4, 2015 | News
The Larches Café in Coldean has been awarded a ‘Healthy Choice’ award, as part of a joint initiative between Brighton & Hove City Council and Brighton & Hove Food Partnership. The award is recognition of the efforts that the café has made to prepare, cook and...
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February. The month when the world goes crazy over Valentine’s Day. Is love truly in the air? It’s Pavlovian association to the core. Kudos to marketers for creating an annual ritual now worth billions! Can you guess how much money consumers spend on this one day to express their love? A whopping $18.2 billion! I guess actions speak louder than words and nothing speaks of true love than a box of chocolate (about $9 billion worth of candy is sold this day) and for the truly initiated that token of love is an expensive item of jewelry (about $4.3 billion worth to be exact)! Hollywood does it’s bidding too to keep this illusion alive, thanks to a consistent stream of movies laced with romance released around Valentine’s day every year. This time we can thank Mr. Grey for taking things up a notch darker! But in the US it’s also the time for the big game! February is Super Bowl season. This is the second year for me to be experiencing the passion for the game, this time a bit up close and personal because the final was played in Houston, not too far from where I reside. I have never been a “football” fan but I must say this one felt like a movie script. Do I see a movie adaptation coming soon? Maybe! But it seemed Al Pacino gave his “Any Given Sunday” speech during the half time break when the world was enthralled by Lady Gaga’s crazy air antics! The turnaround was the biggest in the history of the Super Bowl. The last best ever turnaround was by 10 points and that too at least three times before. This was a turnaround of 25 points! Epic is the word! It felt like the movie Gladiator! Only live! But to be honest that’s not why I watch the game!
I being the mad man that I am, truly watch the Super Bowl for the ads! This time I was watching the ads as a regular joe as I got quite engrossed in the game. I can say that there is a lot more to Super Bowl ads than just the hype around it. The pace of the game has a direct impact on recall and attention. This is something I personally experienced. In the second half as the tide turned for the Patriots the breaks became a distraction and there was a feeling of being tuned out to the ads! One obvious learning – anyone putting all their eggs in the Super Bowl basket and expecting to get a game changing bang for their buck is truly wasting their money. In a distracted 24/7 second or third screen world the $5 million spot only makes sense if it is complemented by an integrated storytelling approach across media. Anything less is money wasted. From that perspective I believe some brands did really well! For me the highlight of Super Bowl LI was Wix. They did a bunch of things just right. For one they started talking way before the game. From their extensive buys on social media to the multiple spots during the Super Bowl their media strategy was spot on (no pun intended). Add to that their extreme dramatization of our disrupted world by none other than Jason Statham and Gal Gadot and you have a blockbuster campaign. I’m personally not a big believer in the use of celebrity. If not used well the only one gaining from these kind of investments is the celebrity itself. But this was one of two campaigns during the Super Bowl that I personally liked because of their use of celebrity. (On a side note I look forward to a Jason and Gal on-screen collaboration! It should be really something!)
Besides the integration of the product offering into the story the campaign was unfolded pre-game through teasers on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube leading up to the game day and then continued with a post-game sweepstakes. I’m not sure what was the exact business impact but considering they decided to invest in the Super Bowl for a third time and their 2016 campaign garnered over 360 million views online must account for something! Here is the full director’s cut for your viewing pleasure in case you haven’t already seen it!
My second favorite ad this year was for Skittles! The power of this one came from the brand’s iconic copy strategy built around the idea of desirability for the product. The fact that it is the #1 non-chocolate candy brand helps. Leveraging the hype of the biggest sporting event in the country only amplifies its long standing equity further if done right. To that end adam&eveDDB have indeed delivered a simple idea that focuses on the product while bringing out the tone and style that is true to the Skittles brand. They key learning – if you have a powerful tone and style then the right talent can leverage it time and time again to create magic and use the 30 seconds to connect with everything that the brand has ever stood for in the past. Have a look and you will see that the dots truly connect!
My third favorite ad was for another dot com business – Squarespace. Like Wix they too used celebrity to drive their message. But this one worked mainly because of the choice of celebrity. The integration of the celebrity with the core message is what makes this campaign so impactful. The creative would only have worked with John Malkovich. It built on his personality and used it to establish what Squarespace was all about. And it did so through a series of ads that weaved the story together as a campaign. The end impact being high recall and high engagement pre-game right up to the big day. The only criticism however is the absence of a core brand purpose. While it worked nicely as a one-off campaign there isn’t an enduring brand promise behind it. This can be a challenge over time. Go Daddy is another brand that has historically been investing in Super Bowl ads but their approach also lacks an enduring brand purpose. They had a consistent copy strategy of ‘saucy’ ads for a number of years but you don’t build a brand on sauciness alone. This time they tried something different. The net result being that Go Daddy feels like a fuzzy brand that doesn’t really stand for something. This is a challenge for Go Daddy and will be so for both Wix and Squarespace going forward, till they can figure out something enduring to build on. Nevertheless here are the two ads from the Squarespace campaign! Enjoy!
Wix and Squarespace stood out for me because they were integrated ideas. They effectively used media to weave a story before, during and after the game and aptly used the right celebrity that really connected with their core message thus driving both recall and relevance. I chose Skittles because I loved the creative idea, for it stayed true to it’s tone and style and invoked desirability for the product at the same time. Again ensuring recall, relevance and appeal. Beyond the above three I made it a point to review all the ads critically and found some interesting work but for some reason they didn’t have the same impact on me during the game. Although the ad meter results would beg to differ, I personally either missed the other ads or somehow was not engaged by them at least during the game from a recall and impact perspective. For example, the Melissa McCarthy ad for KIA was a funny one but neither did I recall the message behind the ad nor did I recall the brand behind the ad when I first saw it. Overall it is a good execution – humorous with a popular celebrity and an iconic soundtrack but did it really build the brand? I don’t think so. You can see the ad here:
The other series I quite enjoyed post the game when I saw it altogether was Tide. It didn’t have the same impact on me during the game itself. But later I learnt that it too was an integrated campaign that began well before the Super Bowl and peaked on game day. I don’t have data on the effectiveness of the campaign but as an ad man looking purely at the creative storytelling I quite enjoyed it. Here are some of the ads from the series!
Last but not least, being a telecom enthusiast my attention tends to be biased towards this category. I quite liked the shocker from Sprint. Did it create an impact on the viewer? Time will tell but at least from a tactical perspective the message was loud and clear. Similarly the other telecom ad I quite enjoyed was for T-mobile. They promoted their unlimited plan using the idea of Unlimited Moves. It was executed well using a celebrity and gelled nicely to the big game. The entire campaign strategy was a bit formulaic but interesting nevertheless. How did these campaigns impact the business? I don’t have the data yet but you can see both the ads below:
The other noteworthy campaign was for Avocados from Mexico. Although it had been teased before the game I didn’t come across it pre-game. The ad itself was humorous and plugged the brand rather shamelessly. I can’t say much about it from a brand strategy perspective but the creative certainly had a strong breakthrough value. Here it is!
That about wraps up my favorite Super Bowl ads from this year. There were indeed some more interesting examples which are worth checking out simply from an entertainment perspective if nothing else. But the above I liked because they engaged me personally as a viewer and some of them like Wix, Squarespace and Skittles made strategic sense to me as an ad man.
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USET Foundation Supports Next Generation through Pathway to the Podium Participation Challenge
July 19, 2019 Associate Editor Leave a comment
Lucy Deslauriers and Hester competing for the United States in the $290,000 Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ of the United States of America CSIO5* during the 2019 Palm Beach Masters Series.
Gladstone, N.J. – July 18, 2019 – With the launch of the new Pathway to the Podium Participation Challenge, the United States Equestrian Team (USET) Foundation encourages everyone to get involved in paving the way for our U.S. equestrian teams to prepare and compete at the upcoming 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru and the 2019 Adequan®/FEI North American Youth Championships (NAYC), presented by Gotham North.
By participating in the challenge, the Foundation’s supporters and fans open the pathway to the podium for U.S. athletes, from developing to elite squads, across the nation in the eight FEI disciplines of dressage, driving, endurance, eventing, para-equestrian, reining, show jumping, and vaulting.
The mission of the USET Foundation is to provide the necessary resources to make equestrian competitive excellence possible, now and in the future. These key funds support the competition, training, coaching, travel and educational needs of America’s elite and developing international and high performance horses and athletes in partnership with US Equestrian (USEF), which does not receive any direct or indirect government subsidy.
High performance programs train and support our top athletes and horses to compete at the Olympic and Paralympic Games, World Equestrian Games, Pan American Games and other top international competitions. In addition, these programs provide support for our world-class coaches, international competition for developing athletes, training grants, national training sessions, and talent search programs to identify future elite equestrian athletes.
Contributions made to the USET Foundation directly support the grants that the Foundation makes to the USEF for the high performance programs. Annually, the USET Foundation awards grants covering approximately 50% of the high performance program budget. The funding, made possible through USET Foundation donations, creates the support programs for athletes who aspire to be on the podium someday in any of the eight FEI disciplines.
Since its inception, the USET Foundation has awarded millions of dollars to support the USEF’s high performance programs and athletes along the pathway, including the likes of Kent Farrington, Philip Dutton, Laura Graves, Laura Kraut, McLain Ward, and countless others who, thanks in part to the support received from the USET Foundation, went on to represent and achieve historic results for the U.S. at the highest levels of the sport.
From the beginning, the USET Foundation’s focus has always been on providing funding for the next generation’s international success. At the NAYC, presented by Gotham North, to be held July 24-28 (eventing) in conjunction with The Event at Rebecca Farm and July 30 – Aug. 4 (dressage and show jumping) at Old Salem Farm, the USET Foundation annually presents the coveted Maxine Beard Show Jumping Developing Rider Award.
In 2018, the Maxine Beard Show Jumping Developing Rider Award was given to Daisy Farish as the highest placing U.S. Young Rider in the individual show jumping final. As the recipient of this immense honor, Farish had the opportunity to represent the U.S. in the FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ Youth Final along with the other top finishers in the NAYC individual show jumping final, Samantha Cohen, Madison Goetzmann, and McKayla Langmeier, in Opglabbeek, Belgium in September 2018.
Another young talent, Lucy Deslauriers (20), has progressed up the pathway through the NAYC and U25 division to now representing the U.S. with podium finishes in Nations Cup competitions and most recently being named to the NetJets® U.S. Show Jumping Team for the 2019 Pan American Games.
“I feel so fortunate to have been given the opportunity to represent our country at the senior level in Nations Cup competitions over the past year,” said Deslauriers. “Only with the support of the USET Foundation and the US Equestrian pathway programs have I been able to fulfill some of my show jumping dreams.”
The Pathway to the Podium Participation Challenge is one that rallies support from all members of the USET Foundation community from the $10 first-time donor to the invested and dedicated trustee. From now through Aug. 11, the more people who participate by making a gift, of any amount, the closer we get to unlocking $100,000 of additional support, which will help elevate up-and-coming athletes and provide valuable opportunities on their journey to equestrian excellence.
Be a part of history and show support for Team USA during these pivotal weeks and beyond! Participate in the Pathway to the Podium Participation Challenge at USET.org and spread the word on social media. Current supporters of the Foundation can participate in the challenge and move the USET Foundation one donor closer by giving again now.
For more information on the USET Foundation, visit www.uset.org.
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Support Team USA in USET Foundation’s New Pathway to the Podium Participation Challenge
Graphic: Courtesy of the USET Foundation
Gladstone, N.J. – July 11, 2019 – The United States Equestrian Team (USET) Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of a transformative new initiative, the Pathway to the Podium Participation Challenge.
“During the Pathway to the Podium Participation Challenge, we invite you to get to know the USET Foundation and the countless ways that we support equestrians across the country,” said Bonnie Jenkins, USET Foundation executive director. “For some, this is our first opportunity to show how we help make representing America possible. For many others, this challenge serves as a fond reminder of the USET Foundation’s great history of support and a rally for success. We thank you and our teams thank you.”
The USET Foundation is the philanthropic partner of US Equestrian (USEF) and works to make the dreams of competing on a U.S. team possible. Join the Foundation in supporting America’s equestrian athletes of today and tomorrow. By participating in the challenge, donors open the pathway to the podium for U.S. athletes, from developing to elite squads, comprised of young and old as well as male and female athletes across the nation in the eight FEI disciplines of dressage, driving, endurance, eventing, para-dressage, reining, show jumping, and vaulting.
For decades, equestrian athletes have represented the United States in international competition, bringing home medals that have clearly established the U.S. as among the world’s equestrian elite. Unlike other countries, U.S. equestrian teams do not receive any government subsidies. Instead, the USET Foundation provides the main source of funding, made possible through individuals whose interest in and commitment to equestrian sport motivates them to make generous charitable contributions. Since 2004, the Foundation has awarded more than $42 million in grants to support the USEF’s high performance programs and athletes along the pathway.
As our United States equestrian team athletes and horses prepare for an intense season of competition with the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru and the 2019 Adequan®/FEI North American Youth Championships, presented by Gotham North, quickly approaching, the USET Foundation wants our athletes and teams to know that we are with them all the way.
The goal of the Pathway to the Podium Participation Challenge is simple: from now through Aug. 11, the more people who participate by making a gift, of any amount, the closer we get to unlocking $100,000 of additional support.
The USET Foundation board of trustees believes in the power of participation and is grateful for your support. This is why they are challenging equestrians, and equestrian supporters, across the nation to the task of unlocking the funds they have pledged for this initiative.
Every equestrian athlete starts somewhere, and every person’s support counts toward our U.S. equestrian teams’ international success.
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Countries Line Up to Host FEI World Championships in 2022
June 21, 2019 Associate Editor Leave a comment
A total of 10 countries have put in formal bids to host the FEI World Championships 2022, including two proposals to host the multi-discipline FEI World Equestrian Games™. Bidding countries are Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, the Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America.
More than 20 years after Rome stepped in as host city of the FEI World Equestrian Games™ 1998 following Ireland’s late withdrawal, the Italians are looking to once again host the full Games. The Saudi Arabian capital city of Riyadh is also in the running having put forward an all-discipline bid for 2022.
“The number of formal bids that we’ve received for single and multi-discipline FEI World Championships and full Games is an excellent indication that the interest in the World Championships is as strong if not stronger than ever,” FEI President Ingmar De Vos said. “We knew that some of the countries that put in expressions of interest back in February were just dipping their toes in the water, but these formal bids are a great validation of the new bidding process and show that we have a really strong product.”
The FEI initiated a bidding process for individual World Championships in all disciplines for 2022 after the FEI General Assembly in Manama (BRN) in November 2018.
The FEI Board decided that multi-discipline bids would be given preference, and that Dressage and Para Dressage should be combined. The World Championships in 2022 in the Olympic and Paralympic disciplines will serve as qualifiers for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
The new bid process allows for the sustainable and cost-effective use of existing equestrian sports facilities, and was put in place to provide the opportunity for the FEI to partner with National Federations that may have hesitated to put forward multi-discipline bids in the past.
In a key change to the bid procedure, the FEI hosted an interactive workshop at the end of March 2019 in Lausanne for all National Federations/Organising Committees that had submitted an expression of interest.
The workshop provided interested parties with detailed information of the structure, opportunities, and minimum requirements for hosting the FEI World Championships 2022. By working more closely with the National Federations and Organising Committees from the outset, the FEI and its stakeholders can establish an achievable set of goals and work towards a unified vision for 2022.
All bids will be fully evaluated over the summer and allocation of FEI World Championships 2022 will be made at the in-person Board meeting during the FEI General Assembly in Moscow (RUS) in November this year.
Pratoni del Vivaro (Rome), Elementa (Rome) & Isola della Scala (Verona) (ITA), World Equestrian Games
Saudi Equestrian Federation, Riyadh (KSA), World Equestrian Games
Dubai Equestrian Club (UAE), Jumping & Endurance
Herning (DEN), Jumping, Dressage, Para Dressage
WestWorld of Scottsdale, Arizona (USA), Reining & Vaulting
Dubai Equestrian Club (UAE) – part of a multi-discipline bid
Herning (DEN) – part of a multi-discipline bid
Pratoni del Vivaro (Rome), Elementa (Rome) & Isola della Scala (Verona) (ITA) – part of a WEG bid
Saudi Equestrian Federation, Riyadh (KSA) – part of a WEG bid
Jazdecký Klub Napoli, Samorin (SVK)
Stichting Endurancesport, Ermelo (NED)
Padise Equestrian Centre (EST)
National Stud of Szilvásvárad (HUN)
Para Dressage
Millstreet Equestrian Services, Millstreet (IRL)
WestWorld of Scottsdale, Arizona (USA) – part of a multi-discipline bid
FEI contacts:
Grania Willis
Director Communications
grania.willis@fei.org
Vanessa Martin Randin
Senior Manager, Media Relations & Communications
Vanessa.Randin@fei.org
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Equestrian Sport Boosted with Allocation of Major Events through 2021
Photo: FEI/Richard Juillart.
The Fédération Équestre Internationale (FEI) has allocated host cities for 13 FEI Championships for the next two years and nine FEI Driving World Cup™ legs for the 2019/2020 season.
Budapest (HUN) will lead the way as host of the FEI Jumping, Dressage, Para Dressage, Driving, and Vaulting European Championships in August 2021. This will be the first time that the Hungarian capital, which has a long tradition in equestrian sport, will host a multi-discipline FEI European Championships. The event will mark the 50th anniversary of the first FEI Driving European Championships, which were held at the same venue – Kincsem Park in the heart of the city – in 1971.
Two other major Championships were also allocated for 2021, with the FEI Eventing European Championships going to Haras du Pin (FRA) and the FEI Endurance European Championships to Ermelo (NED).
“The FEI European Championships are among the FEI’s most important events, attracting top class athletes and horses for over six decades,” FEI President Ingmar De Vos said. “During the next two years equestrian fans will have the opportunity to enjoy thrilling sport in some of Europe’s biggest cities. The allocation of the FEI Jumping, Dressage, Para Dressage, Driving, and Vaulting European Championships to Budapest will further promote horse sport in Hungary, which already has a remarkable equestrian history.”
The FEI Board also allocated nine legs of the FEI Driving World Cup™ series for the 2020-2021 season. This is the first time that the FEI has launched a bidding process for the FEI Driving World Cup™ legs, as previously only the FEI Driving World Cup™ Final was open for bids.
“This bidding process reinforces the FEI’s policy of transparency and fairness,” the FEI President commented. “It is a key step forward in harmonising the bidding for all FEI Championships, Finals, and Series.”
The allocations were made by the FEI Board, the body responsible for the general direction of equestrian sport’s global governing authority, at its in-person meeting at FEI Headquarters in the Olympic Capital, Lausanne (SUI).
The FEI Driving World Cup™ Final 2021 which will take place from 4-7 February was allocated to Bordeaux (FRA) by the FEI Board in March 2019.
The FEI Board decided to re-open the bid process for a multi-year allocation for the FEI WBFSH World Breeding Championships for Young Horses in the disciplines of Jumping, Dressage, and Eventing for the years 2021, 2022, and 2023. Allocations will be made at the FEI Board meeting in November 2019 at the FEI General Assembly in Moscow.
The full list of Championships allocated at the FEI Board meeting at FEI Headquarters in Lausanne (SUI) is:
FEI Dressage European Championships U25 – Pilisjászfalu (HUN), July or August (dates to be confirmed)
FEI Dressage European Championships for Children – Pilisjászfalu (HUN) July or August (dates to be confirmed)
FEI European Championships – Jumping, Dressage & Para Dressage, Driving, Vaulting – Budapest (HUN), 9-22 August or 16-29 August (dates to be confirmed)
FEI Jumping European Championships for Young Riders, Juniors & Children – Oliva, Valencia (ESP), 19-25 July
FEI Jumping European Championships for Veterans – Le Mans (FRA), July or August (date to be confirmed)
FEI Dressage European Championships U25 – Donaueschingen (GER), 12-15 August
FEI Eventing European Championships for Young Riders & Juniors – Segersjö (SWE), 26-29 August
FEI Eventing European Championships – Haras du Pin (FRA), 11-15 August
FEI Driving World Championships for Ponies, Four-in-Hand, Pairs, Singles – Haras du Pin (FRA), 16-19 September
FEI Endurance World Championships for Young Riders & Juniors – Ermelo (NED), 6-11 September
FEI Endurance European Championships – Ermelo (NED) 6-11 September
FEI Endurance World Championship for Young Horses – Arbore, Sardinia (ITA), 15-19 September
FEI Vaulting World Championship for Juniors – Le Mans (FRA), July – August (date to be confirmed)
FEI Driving World Cup™ series legs
The legs of the FEI Driving World Cup™ series for the 2019-2020 season were allocated as follows:
Lyon (FRA) 30 October – 3 November 2019
Maastricht (NED) 8-10 November 2019
Stuttgart (GER) 13-17 November 2019
Stockholm (SWE) 28 November – 1 December 2019
Budapest (HUN) 30 November – 1 December 2019
Geneva (SUI) 12-15 December 2019
London (GBR) 16-22 December 2019
Mechelen (BEL) 26-30 December 2019
Leipzig (GER) 16-19 January 2020
FEI media contacts:
Olga Nikolaou
Media Relations Officer
olga.nikolaou@fei.org
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CHI Royal Windsor Horse Show Unveils All-Star International Line-Up
April 18, 2019 Associate Editor Leave a comment
CHI Royal Windsor Horse Show welcomes the world’s best horses and athletes from 8-12 May 2019. The Show will play host to elite equestrian competition across four FEI equestrian disciplines: Show Jumping, Dressage, Driving, and Endurance.
International CSI5* Show Jumping
Current World No. 1 and winner of the FEI Jumping World Cup™ Final 2019, Steve Guerdat will headline the shortlist of leading riders set to compete in the prestigious Castle Arena at Royal Windsor Horse Show. On Sunday 12 May, in the Rolex Grand Prix – the highlight of the event’s Show Jumping action – Guerdat will be looking to emulate last year’s victorious performance in the class. This year, with a record-breaking prize fund of €500,000, the Swiss maestro will be determined to maintain his position at the top of the rankings.
Guerdat is one of six of the world’s top 10 Show Jumpers set to appear at the 2019 edition of the Show, highlighting the appeal that Royal Windsor enjoys among the jumping community. Competing against Guerdat will be compatriot and this year’s FEI Jumping World Cup™ Final silver medallist Martin Fuchs and current World No. 3-ranked Swedish rider Peder Fredricson. The latter, fresh from claiming a bronze medal on home turf at the FEI Jumping World Cup™ Final in Gothenburg, will be joined by fellow Swede Henrik von Eckermann, the current Rolex Grand Slam live contender.
World No. 5 Daniel Deusser will be returning to the Show in a bid to replicate last year’s stellar performance where Germany’s Olympic bronze medallist won both the CSI5* Kingdom of Bahrain Stakes for the King’s Cup and the CSI5* Pearl Stakes. Kent Farrington rounds off the top 10, and, after returning from a serious leg injury in 2018, is beginning to reclimb the rankings. Given his pedigree, spectators can expect another bold performance from the American rider, who will be hoping to mirror his 2017 victory in the Grand Prix.
Representing Great Britain in the top 10 is Ben Maher, who will be joined by a large British contingent, featuring John, Michael, and Robert Whitaker, William Funnell, Laura Renwick, and 19-year-old prodigy Harry Charles. Also sure to receive a strong reception from the throng of British supporters will be Scott Brash, the only rider ever to have won the inimitable Rolex Grand Slam of Show Jumping.
One contender who will be particularly popular among music fans is Jessica Springsteen, daughter of rock legend Bruce. The 27-year-old has built a strong Show Jumping career, claiming the CSI5* Falcon Stakes at Royal Windsor Horse Show in 2017.
Travelling from Ireland will be young rider Bertram Allen, who is widely tipped as an up-and-coming talent, and will be joined by his fellow countryman Billy Twomey. Adding further international experience to the class will be Canadian Olympic individual gold medallist Eric Lamaze and Italians Alberto Zorzi and Lorenzo de Luca.
International CDI4* Dressage
Top riders from across the world will challenge some of Britain’s best when the Royal Windsor Horse Show hosts the Al Shira’aa CDI4* Dressage Grand Prix and Freestyle to Music on Thursday 9 and Friday 10 May, respectively. Among the world-renowned names confirmed to compete is homegrown hero Carl Hester, the London 2012 team gold medallist and a rider who needs no introduction. Having already achieved so much within the discipline, Hester will be looking to further add to his illustrious collection of medals and accolades, as he returns riding Nip Tuck. The duo is sure to be backed by vociferous domestic support.
Household name, and the first Dressage rider ever to win Sky Sportswoman of the Year in 2014, Charlotte Dujardin will be returning to the iconic grounds after giving spectators a masterclass in success when she claimed the Dressage title at the Show in 2018. Teammate and friend to Carl Hester, the pair will be putting their friendship to one side as they go head-to-head.
Joining the British team will be Olympian Richard Davison; after coming third – following Dujardin and Hester – in 2018, Davison will be setting his sights on the top spot, along with fellow team mates Louise Anne Bell and Vicky Thompson Winfield.
Adding to the British line-up will be a strong start list of international talent, including Caroline Chew, Katherine Bateson Chandler, Kate Dwyer, and Heike Holstein.
International CAI3*/CAIO4* Driving
The CAIO4* Land Rover International Driving Grand Prix, one of the most important driving events in the UK, and an FEI World Cup™ qualifier, returns for another adrenaline-fuelled competition. A real test of horsemanship, the event includes three stages: driven dressage, the marathon stage, and cone driving for the three competition categories: horse and pony, four-in-hand, and horse pairs.
This year’s roster of 28 competitors involves drivers from 11 nations, with arguably the most well-known in the class being Australia’s Boyd Exell. The current indoor and outdoor World Champion has had much success at Royal Windsor in the past, with a victory last year propelling him to a total of nine wins at the Show. This year, Exell will be looking to secure an impressive 10th win at Windsor and further cement his position at the top of the world rankings.
Attempting to foil the Australian’s challenge at Windsor will be four drivers from the Netherlands, three of whom feature in the top 10 of the Driving World Rankings, with both Bram Chardon and Koos de Ronde accompanying Exell in the top three. Bram Chardon will be competing against his father and multiple world champion Ijsbrand Chardon. Completing the Dutch quartet is Mark Weusthof, he himself a FEI World Driving Championships gold medallist.
The CAIO4* will be heavily dominated by British drivers, with six athletes competing, including well-known equestrian stuntman Daniel Naprous, who, in recent years, has put in a number of thrilling performances at indoor shows, such as Olympia, The London International Horse Show. Completed by experienced sisters Karen and Pippa Bassett, as well as Wilf Bowman-Ripley, James Broome, and Dick Lane, Great Britain’s four-in-hand line-up looks set to mount a strong challenge.
A back-to-back 2014 and 2015 winner, the USA’s Chester Weber is no stranger to success here and will be looking to regain the form that pushed him up the rankings. He is joined by his compatriot Misdee Wrigley-Miller.
In the CAI3*competition, the horse pairs will contain a field of 20 athletes from 10 countries, including four-time Windsor horse pairs winner Beat Schenk. The Swiss will be looking to emulate his 2018 performance at the Show but will face stiff opposition from British competitors David Matthews, Libby Priest, and Chris Smith, the current chairman of British Carriagedriving.
Another eight drivers will compete in the CAI3* pony four-in-hand, including Roger Campbell, who picked up third place at the 2018 edition of Royal Windsor Horse Show. Campbell will believe he can elevate himself to the next level and pick up first place this year. The Netherlands’ Jan de Boer, last year’s winner, already has seven wins to his name at Windsor and will hope to perform once again to the same high standards that he holds himself to. However, he will have to contest the vocal support of the home crowd for domestic drivers Sara Howe and Rowena Moyse.
International CEI1*/CEI2* Endurance
On Friday 10 May, Windsor will welcome competitors for the Royal Windsor Endurance supported by the Kingdom of Bahrain. The long-distance event will see the best equestrians from around the world ride across Windsor and Ascot countryside, as they compete in the 80km and 120km classes, which will be a true test of stamina and teamwork.
Show Director Simon Brooks Ward said: “The quality of international entries that 2019’s Show has managed to attract is testament to Royal Windsor’s strong appeal and stature within the equestrian community, furthering its reputation as one of the world’s top shows. Once again, we welcome the world’s best horse and rider combinations to Windsor and are excited to host a number of elite equestrian competitions for our loyal spectators.”
A list of entries for each discipline can be found here.
Tickets to Royal Windsor Horse Show can be booked online at www.rwhs.co.uk or by calling the box office on 0844 581 0755 from the UK and +44 (0)121 796 6100 internationally. Windsor residents should call the Windsor Information Centre on 01753 743 589.
Gayle Jenkins / rEvolution / gjenkins@revolutionworld.com / +44 (0)203 176 0355
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Strong Interest in Hosting FEI World Championships 2022
March 26, 2019 Associate Editor Leave a comment
A total of 20 countries on four different continents – Europe, North and South America, and Asia – have submitted expressions of interest to host the FEI World Championships 2022, with representatives from over 30 different venues attending a workshop for potential host cities in Lausanne (SUI).
Participants at the interactive workshop, which is a first for the FEI, were briefed on the benefits of hosting FEI world championships, including the economic impact on the host city and country, operational requirements, commercial opportunities, broadcast media rights and event promotion, support from the FEI’s team of experts across key functional areas, and the bidding process itself.
“It is extremely encouraging to have received so many expressions of interest to host the FEI world championships 2022 and to have had the opportunity to welcome potential bidders to Lausanne for today’s workshop,” FEI President Ingmar De Vos said. “We hope that this new collaborative approach, in line with the IOC’s New Norm and based on transparency, cost-effectiveness and sustainability, will result in solid formal bids, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating!
“Our sport has grown so much that an all-discipline FEI World Equestrian Games has become too big for many venues to host. By opening up the bidding process for 2022 to single and multi-discipline bids, and not excluding a full Games, we believe that we have created a more enticing formula and the high level of expressions of interest suggests that we are on the right track.”
Following the workshop, which was attended by more than 70 delegates, the process now enters the Candidate Phase, with a 7 June 2019 deadline for the submission of formal bids. A shortlist of candidates will then be drawn up by the end of June, with a draft host agreement provided to each of the shortlisted candidates.
Deadline for receipt of host agreements signed by both the candidate and relevant National Federation is mid-September, with candidates potentially being asked to present their bids to the FEI Evaluation Commission over the following month. Final evaluation of all shortlisted bids will be completed by the end of October, with recommendations provided to the FEI Board prior to allocation at the in-person Board meeting in Moscow (RUS) in mid-November 2019.
History of FEI World Championships
The FEI World Championships have a long heritage, dating back to 1953 when the first Jumping Championships were held in Paris (FRA). The inaugural World Championships in Dressage and Eventing were both staged in 1966, with Dressage in Bern (SUI) and Eventing at Burghley (GBR). Other FEI-governed disciplines followed, with the first Driving World Championships held in Münster (GER) in 1972, Vaulting in Bulle (SUI) in 1986, and Endurance at Pratoni del Vivaro (ITA) in 1986. Reining crowned its first world champions as part of the 2002 edition of the FEI World Equestrian Games™ 2002 in Jerez de la Frontera (ESP). Four years later, Para Driving world championships were hosted in Hellendoorn (NED), with Hartpury (GBR) staging the first Para Dressage world championships in 2007.
In 1990, world championships in each of the FEI disciplines were combined and the FEI World Equestrian Games™ were born in Stockholm (SWE) in 1990. Since then the Games have been staged in The Hague (NED) in 1994, Rome (ITA) in 1998, Jerez (ESP) in 2002, Aachen (GER) in 2006, Kentucky (USA) in 2010, Normandy (FRA) in 2014, and in Tryon, North Carolina (USA) last year.
Despite having two previous bidding rounds for the FEI World Equestrian Games™ 2022, no realistic bids were received and, as a result, the FEI Board last November unanimously approved the opening of a bidding process for individual world championships in all disciplines for 2022, with preference being given to multi-discipline bids. It was agreed that world championships for Dressage and Para Dressage should ideally be combined, and bids to host the full seven-discipline FEI World Equestrian Games™ will also be considered. The world championships 2022 in the Olympic and Paralympic disciplines will serve as qualifiers for the Paris 2024 Games.
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A Record-Breaking Year for CHI Royal Windsor Horse Show
Royal Windsor Horse Show (8-12 May) is set to become the UK’s richest show for competitors by offering a record-breaking prize fund at the country’s largest horse show. Showcasing a star-studded line-up in its spectacular setting, the increased prize fund and new additions to the event reaffirm its prominence in the global equestrian calendar and popularity amongst fans.
The annual Show, which has witnessed some truly special moments over the years, combines the highest level of sporting action with an unforgettable shopping and gastronomic experience, and a host of thrilling live entertainment.
World-Class Equestrian Action
Having grown in both stature and importance year-on-year, Royal Windsor remains the only UK event to host first-class international competitions in four of the eight FEI disciplines: Dressage, Carriage Driving, Endurance, and Show Jumping, helping to attract some of the biggest names in equestrian sport, including Olympic, World, and European champions.
Having drawn in six of the world’s top 10 riders in 2018, including the winner of the Rolex Grand Prix and the current world number one ranked show jumper, Steve Guerdat, the heightened status of competition is expected to draw in the world’s best horse and rider combinations in Show Jumping to date. This year’s CSI5* Show Jumping will be held on 10-12 May, culminating with the most prestigious competition, the Rolex Grand Prix on Sunday 12 May. History will be made in Windsor this year as it was announced that the Grand Prix’s prize fund has been increased from €300,000 to a staggering €500,000, bringing the total prize fund to €875,000.
Rolex Grand Slam of Show Jumping champion, Scott Brash, who will be aiming to emulate Guerdat’s performance last year, commented: “Royal Windsor is like no other Show; it’s set in one of the most spectacular outdoor settings, and attracts an incredibly knowledgeable and informed show jumping crowd. Having such a strong line-up of world-class competitors each year really reflects the Show’s growth and importance. I believe spectators will be in for something special this year and I really look forward to competing.”
Taking centre-stage on the evenings of Thursday 9 and Friday 10 May, and adding to the event’s international-standing, will be the Al Shira’aa CDI4* Dressage Grand Prix and Freestyle to Music. Having previously welcomed a stellar line-up of entries, the Castle Arena expects to host the most dominant forces in Dressage, including Charlotte Dujardin CBE and Carl Hester MBE.
New to the event and adding a splash of invigorating up-and-coming talent to the line-up will be the Pony Club Dressage Championships and the Under 25 Show Jumping competition. Taking place on Friday 10 May and Sunday 12 May, respectively, stars of the future will be going for gold beneath the iconic Windsor Castle in two tightly fought competitions featuring the most talented young equestrians in the country.
One of the most popular events of the week, the high-octane CAIO4* Land Rover International Driving Grand Prix, firmly stands as the one of the UK’s most important Driving events, giving competitors the opportunity to qualify for the FEI World Cup™ Final. Created by The Duke of Edinburgh in the 1970s, the event takes place over four days of the Show and consists of three-phases: Driven-Dressage, the Marathon, and Cone Driving.
On Friday 10 May Windsor Great Park will host the ultimate test for horse and rider – the CEI2* Royal Windsor Endurance Ride. Set around 120km of beautiful Windsor and Ascot countryside, it is one of the most picturesque long-distance rides in the UK.
As the most important Showing competition in the UK, the event kicks off the Showing season with over 120 classes enticing thousands of competitors from across the country. With several new additions to the already extensive programme, including the in-hand pure bred Arab and part bred Arab class, and the Cleveland Bays, which brings Britain’s oldest breed of horse to the showground, it is expected to be the most competitive year yet. All eyes will be on Her Majesty The Queen and her horses, as she attempts to reproduce some of her long list of successes at the Show.
Displays and Performances
Along with the top equestrian sport on offer, ticket holders will be treated to exceptional entertainment across the five-day event. International displays include The Hungarian Csikós, Stunt riders from Azerbaijan, and performers from Oman. From home, The Musical Ride of the Household Cavalry Regiment, The Household Cavalry Mounted Band, and The Musical Drive of The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery will take centre stage in the Castle Arena throughout the week.
Adding some grassroots action and drama to the week’s performances will be the Land Rover Shetland Pony Grand National and the DAKS Pony Club Mounted Games. As firm favourites among crowds, the young age of these competitors will be no reflection of their bravery as they throw themselves into explosive races much to the delight of the spectators.
The Pageant
On the evenings of the 9, 10 & 11 May, Royal Windsor Horse Show will host The Pageant 2019, a musical feast of entertainment which celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Queen Victoria. The 90-minute show will encompass everything from the Music Hall, the Industrial Revolution, Gilbert and Sullivan, Charles Dickens, and our military heritage (The Crimean War and The Great Game). More information about The Pageant 2019 can be found online here.
To book tickets for Royal Windsor Horse Show or The Pageant, visit www.rwhs.co.uk or www.windsorpageant.co.uk. Tickets can also be purchased by calling the box office on 0844 581 0755 from the UK and +44 (0)121 7966 290 internationally. Windsor residents should call the Windsor Information Centre on 01753 743 589.
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Endurance Temporary Committee Holds Third In-Person Meeting
Lausanne (SUI), 22 February 2019 – The Endurance Temporary Committee held its third in-person meeting at FEI Headquarters following previous meetings with stakeholders. Stéphane Chazel (FRA), member of the elected FEI Endurance Technical Committee, currently unable to function as a full committee, and Dr Martha Misheff (USA), member of the FEI Veterinary Committee, were invited to attend the meeting in an advisory role and share their expertise and insights on the future and sustainability of the sport.
The Committee summarised the conclusions of previous meetings, which touched on a wide range of topics, with the aim of bringing the discipline back to its roots while maintaining its competitive status.
“The input from the Groups and the ability to dialogue with our stakeholders has been an invaluable contribution to the Committee’s deliberations,” said FEI Vice President Mark Samuel (CAN), who attends each of the Temporary Committee meetings to facilitate direct communications with the FEI Board. “We noted a great deal of alignment in thinking on most subjects and a notable spirit of engagement and optimism. The priority now is to distill our work into proposals and topics of interest for consideration at the FEI Sports Forum in April.”
The Committee also discussed rule changes still to be addressed, such as mandatory rest periods, CEI1* distances, tack and equipment, and optimising the performance of FEI Officials, including education, appointments, rotation, and evaluation.
The FEI Sports Forum 2019 (15-16 April) will have a prominent focus on the sport of Endurance, with Day Two sessions dedicated to the ongoing discussions of the “Future of Endurance”. Delegates will be provided with an update by the Temporary Committee as part of the full consultation process prior to voting on proposed Rules amendments at the FEI General Assembly in November.
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Endurance Temporary Committee Meets with Stakeholders at FEI HQ
Lausanne (SUI), 21 February 2019 – The Endurance Temporary Committee, set up by the FEI Board in October 2018 to review the discipline with the remit of bringing the sport back to its original roots of Endurance riding rather than Endurance racing, has met with a total of 26 stakeholders representing each of the FEI Regional Groups, World Horse Welfare, and the Alliance of Endurance Organisers.
The purpose of the meetings was to allow stakeholders to provide the Temporary Committee with feedback on a series of topics, including the qualification system, mandatory rest periods, track design covering natural features, number of loops, access to water and proximity of cars, elimination codes, heart rates and presentation times, weight of athletes, officials, increased sanctions for anti-doping violations, limits on number of starters, and continuous crewing.
The European Equestrian Federation (former FEI Groups I and II), together with FEI Group III, was represented in the first of five sessions.
“It was a very positive meeting and it was very important for those who participated, that they were being asked for their contributions,” said Quentin Simonet (FRA), Chair of the EEF Endurance Working Group. “Our position is that we have to tackle the real problems which concern a fairly limited number of people. There are plenty of places where the sport of endurance is going very well.”
Also at FEI HQ for meetings with the Temporary Committee were representatives from Groups IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, and IX.
World Horse Welfare also met the Committee, together with representatives of the Alliance of Endurance Organisers, an affiliate of the International Equestrian Organisers Alliance.
“We are heartened that the FEI is taking the strong initiative to “take back,” in the FEI President’s words, the sport of endurance, placing far greater emphasis on equine welfare in what has been a rapidly growing, but all too often, controversial discipline,” said Roly Owers, Chief Executive Officer of World Horse Welfare. “We hope the committee will come up with substantive, and in places radical, changes to better protect equine welfare and so secure the future of endurance.”
Endurance Temporary Committee Holds First In-Person Meeting at FEI HQ
December 13, 2018 Associate Editor Leave a comment
Lausanne (SUI), 12 December 2018 – The Temporary Committee, established by the FEI Board in October to urgently review the Endurance rules in order to address the issues currently affecting the discipline, held its first in-person meeting at FEI Headquarters in Lausanne (SUI).
Dr Sarah Coombs (GBR), who chairs the Temporary Committee, said after the meeting: “Today’s meeting generated really strong and productive debate and, together with input from a broad spectrum of stakeholders, we have already drawn up a list of our key focus areas. Your voices are being heard. We are under no illusions about the challenges of the task ahead, but the future of the discipline is under the spotlight and we will do whatever is necessary to rebuild the trust of our community and restore the image of a discipline that has every right to remain a part of the FEI, provided the rules are adhered to and enforced to ensure that our horses are protected and cheating is stamped out.”
The Temporary Committee has already received a huge amount of feedback from the Endurance Community on a number of key areas, including:
Increased testing of horses for prohibited substances;
Increased sanctions for horse abuse;
Review of speeds;
Reassessment of rules on mandatory rest periods;
Redefinition of elimination codes (particularly Catastrophic Injury);
Elite athlete status and “jockey riders”;
Qualifications, including qualification as a combination;
Increased completion percentage before allowing upgrade to next level;
Reinstate and redefine two-hour invasive treatment rule;
Hyposensitivity screening (the use of the FEI Hyposensitivity Control System (HCS) was voted in at last month’s FEI General Assembly for implementation in 2019);
Heart rates and presentation times at Vet Gate;
Definition of and registration of trainers;
Over-training/over-competing;
Mandatory medication logbook and out of competition testing;
Extended provisional suspension for horses testing positive to Banned Substances
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This first meeting also provided the Temporary Committee with the opportunity to establish the methodology it will use to fulfil its remit to carry out an in-depth review of the rules that will bring the discipline back to its original roots of Endurance riding as opposed to Endurance racing, with horse welfare and horsemanship at its core, while still maintaining the competitive aspect of the sport. The Temporary Committee also agreed a consultation process that will involve further liaison with stakeholders to avail of their expertise and in-depth knowledge of the discipline.
In addition to the chair Dr Coombs, the other members of the Temporary Committee are Endurance athlete and member of the FEI Athletes’ Committee Tarek Taher (KSA), chef d’équipe of the Dutch Endurance team Pieter Wiersinga (NED), FEI Veterinary Committee member Dr Tim Parkin (GBR), who heads up the scientific research conducted at the University of Glasgow as part of the FEI’s Global Endurance Injuries Study (GEIS), and Valerie Kanavy, a former member of the FEI Athletes’ Committee and the Athletes’ Representative on the Endurance Committee (2014-2018).
FEI Vice President Mark Samuel (CAN) joined the meeting and will facilitate communications between the Temporary Committee and the FEI Board. The FEI Secretary General Sabrina Ibáñez, FEI Endurance Director Manuel Bandeira De Mello, FEI Veterinary Director Göran Akerström, and other FEI staff members also attended the meeting.
The Temporary Committee will hold its next in-person meeting on 15 January 2019 and there will be a dedicated Endurance session at the FEI Sports Forum 2019 (15-16 April) during which the Temporary Committee will provide an update to delegates.
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Room 32 | India 600-1900 gallery
Explore Hindu, Buddhist and Jain art from India, the Himalayas and Southeast Asia.
Galleries : 299 objects
I thought you might be interested in this Ashmolean object: Figure of Siddha , late 9th century - early 10th century AD http://jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/object/EAOS.104
Figure of Siddha
Asia › Bengal › north Bengal (place of creation)
late 9th century - early 10th century AD
15.2 x 6.4 x 4 cm max. (height x width x depth)
processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › bronze
formed › cast
sculpture › figure › figurine,
religious/ritual equipment
EAOS.104
Harle, J. C., and Andrew Topsfield, Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1987), no. 42 on pp. 34-35, p. 29, illus. p. 35
Bhattacharya, Gouriswar, ‘A Special Type of Devi Figure from Bihar and Bengal’, Haque, Enamul, ed., Essays on Buddhist, Hindu, Jain Iconography and Epigraphy, Studies in Bengal Art, 1 (Dhaka: The International Centre for Study of Bengal Art, 2000), p. 183, illus. p. 557 pl. 15.4
First floor | Room 32 | India from 600
Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum
The Pāla period (750–1150 A.D.), particularly in its earlier phase was a golden age of bronze casting in Northern India. Some of the bronzes are amongst the most elaborate ever cast on the Indian Subcontinent and these small figurines [see EAOS. 70] give little indication of the intricate and multi-figured compositions of the more important bronzes. Nonetheless, the modelling of the feminine deity here is of the highest standard and the whole image is attractive in its proportions and the spacing and arrangement of the elements of what is, considering its small size, a remarkably rich iconography.
The goddess stands, her weight evenly borne by each leg, on a lotus base. Her upper right hand holds an akṣa-mālā, her upper left an unusual attribute: either fire (agni), a triple rod (tridaṇḍa) or a trident carved out of wood. Her lower right hand makes the varada or boon-giving gesture, possibly holding a fruit as well. The lower left hand holds a spouted jar. On the surround (proper left) is a miniature liṅga with its pīṭha (base); opposite, on the other side, is a tiny image of Gaṇeśa, the elephant-headed god, the son of Śiva and Pārvatī. On top of the pedestal stand two banana plants or plantains (raṃbhā) on either side, with a lion (Pārvatī’s vehicles) and a horned animal, both couchant and facing a little conical object, probably representing a pillar of fire. Climbing on to the base is an iguana (godhā).
There is some doubt about the identity of this image. Most of her symbols or attributes here leave no doubt that she belongs to the pantheon associated with Śiva, that she is, in fact, a form of the Goddess, Devī. Others are unusual and highly distinctive, such as the plantain, the iguana and the pillar of fire. There are, moreover, corresponding large images in stone from the same Pāla period, as well as other small bronzes, all of which have been identified as Rambhā, from a reference in the Agni Purāna (De Mallmann, pp.139-40). Recently, however, another authority has claimed that this identification rests on a mistranslation. The difficulty in making a firm identification comes in part from the looseness of the language of so many of the traditional texts, and the lack of absolute consistency, with such rich iconography, amongst images of this type. Other identities proposed for this figure are Gaurī, Maṅgalachaṇḍī and Siddhā.
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Ithamara Koorax live at "Unterfahrt", Munich, May 1st
Jazzclub "Unterfahrt" (Munich's top jazz club)
Mi 30.04.2008 - 21:00 - Mike Mainieri & Northern Lights
Do. 01.05. 2008 - 21:00 Uhr - A Trip To Brazil: 50 Years of Bossa Nova
Ithamara Koorax and Bossa Five
Ithamara Koorax (voc), Florian Riedl (sax, fl), Christian Gall (p), Pedro Tagliani (git), Matthias Engelhardt (b), Hajo von Hadeln (dr).
Ithamara Koorax wurde als Kind europäischer Einwanderer in Rio de Janeiro geboren. Schon bald stellte sich ihr musikalisches Talent heraus. Im zarten Alter von 5 Jahren spielte sie bereits Klavier und sang wunderschöne Lieder. Mit 17 hatte sie erste Gelegenheiten, mit Musik ihr eigenes Geld zu verdienen. Sie sang sich durch Jingles, Radio- und Fernsehwerbungen und als backing vocal in verschiedenen Bands. Bald wurde aus dem Geheimtipp eine gesuchte Sängerin in den Aufnahmestudios rund um Rio de Janeiro. Als wichtigste Einflüsse nennt Ithamara Musikerinnen wie Ella Fitzgerald, Elis Regina, Carmen McRae, Shirley Horn oder Elizeth Cardoso. Mit ihrer ersten Soloaufnahme "Illuminada" katapultierte sie sich in den brasilianischen Platin-Himmel. "Illuminada" war denn auch der Soundtrack für eine sogenannte "Telenovela", und in Brasilien gibts, so sagt man, praktisch nichts Wichtigeres als Telenovelas. Und wenn man da mal drin ist, so ist man berühmt, und so erging es auch Ithamara. Auftritte mit Hermeto Pascoal, Azymuth und vielen brasilianischen Stars wurden zur Tagesordnung. Es folgten weitere Hitparadenplätze mit neuen Telenovelas-Songs. Und auch in Japan wurde sie entdeckt. Dort eroberte sie das Land im Sturm und wurde zu einer der besten Jazzsängerinnen erkoren. Plattenaufnahmen mit Grössen wie Art Farmer, Jack deJohnette, Ron Carter oder Dom Um Romão kamen hinzu. Ihr hervorragendes letztes Album "Love Dance" ist ein überwältigender Erfolg und wurde beim "Down Beat Reader's Poll" zum fünftbesten Album gewählt. Selbst nüchterne Kritiker überbieten sich mit Superlativen, man spricht von "zarter Intimität, heisser Leidenschaft, magischer Musik". Da hat die Münchner Combo "Bossa Five" um den Saxophonisten Florian Riedl wirklich allen Grund sich mächtig ins Zeug zu legen, spieltechnisch auf hohem Niveau wird dieser Abend sicher ein Highlight für Freunde des Bossa und Brazil Jazz. Eintritt 18.00 / Mitglieder 9.00
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Bill Easley & Antoinette Montague, May 2, at AMNH
LIVE JAZZ AT THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY’S
ROSE CENTER FOR EARTH AND SPACE
Starry Nights, the enormously popular series of live jazz performances presented the first Friday of every month, continues in the American Museum of Natural History’s Rose Center for Earth and Space. The series features renowned jazz musicians performing in one of the most spectacular settings in New York. Visitors to Starry Nights can enjoy mouthwatering tapas along with wine and other beverages during performances.
Hourlong sets start at 6:00 and 7:30 p.m.
Bill Easley Quartet with Antoinette Montague
Master reed player Bill Easley has been performing for more than 40 years. His collection of instrumental talents include tenor, alto, and soprano saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, alto flute, and piccolo. He has performed with many legendary artists such as Isaac Hayes, Ruth Brown, Benny Carter, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Jimmy Smith, Ron Carter, and Grady Tate.
“Whether the genre is blues, rhythm and blues, or hard bop, Bill Easley remains a versatile …practitioner of musical mastery. Easley has certainly perfected his craft.”—All About Jazz
Newark native Antoinette Montague performed in gospel and rhythm and blues ensembles after college and now serves as Vice President of International Women in Jazz. Montague has worked with many jazz greats including Benny Powell, Bill Easley, Winard Harper, Wycliffe Gordon, Frank Wess, and the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
“Antoinette Montague’s delivery is heartfelt, infectious, and memorable.”—Scott Yanow, Los Angeles Jazz Scene
The Museum’s suggested admission of $15.00 for adults, $11.00 for students and seniors, and $8.50 for children covers entry to the Museum and to Starry Nights.
Other programs at the Rose Center include the Space Show Cosmic Collisions. Admission to the Museum and Space Show is $22.00 for adults, $16.50 for students and seniors, and $13.00 for children. Admission is $15.00 to SonicVision, the groundbreaking digitally animated alternative music show that takes audiences on a mind-warping roller-coaster ride through fantastical dreamspace. Advance tickets for the Space Show and SonicVision can be purchased by calling 212-769-5200 or visiting www.amnh.org. A service charge may apply.
The Museum is open daily, 10:00 a.m.–5:45 p.m. The Rose Center remains open until 8:45 p.m. for Starry Nights on the first Friday of each month. The Museum is closed Thanksgiving and Christmas. For general information, call 212-769-5100.
"Summer in the City" - Backstage review
Review about Quincy Jones' "Summer in the City" (produced by Arnaldo DeSouteiro for the Verve Music Group) published in the April 2008 issue of "Backstage" magazine, page 54.
(Verve Music)
O disco mais vendido no mundo ainda é o "Thriller" de Michael Jackson. Com certeza, este magnífico sucesso teve muito a ver com a sensibilidade do produtor Quincy Jones. Neste CD, o nosso produtor Arnaldo DeSouteiro fez um belo garimpo nas gravações de Quincy em sua fase (a melhor, com certeza) jazzística. Muitas das faixas que constam desta compilação foram originalmente lançadas pelo selo CTI de Creed Taylor, com participações estelares de nomes como Milt Jackson, Jim Hall, Ray Brown (autor de "Brown Ballad"), Freddie Hubbard (solista em "Killer Joe"), Hubert Laws (soberbo na homenagem de Benny Goloson a Betty Carter em "Along Came Betty") e Herbie Hancock (autor de "Tell Me a Bedtime Story"). Este é um belo CD antológico que deve ser ouvido por músicos e técnicos de áudio. Um convite à música como forma de arte.
Revista Backstage
(Ano 14 - Abril/2008 - Nº 161)
Arnaldo DeSouteiro at 104.9 EZ Rock
Arnaldo DeSouteiro 104.9 EZ Rock
In Brazilian jazz circles, Arnaldo Desouteiro commands the sort of respect and admiration that Orrin Keepnews and Quincy Jones enjoy in the United States ...
http://www.ezrock1049.com:80/performer/69750/arnaldo-desouteiro
"Opus Samba" review - Cadence
"Cadence" magazine
April - May - June 2008
Vol. 34, No. 4-5-6
Fabio Fonseca: "Opus Samba"
JSR 6054
Fonseca, org, el.p, clavinet, synth, vcl; Pedro Leao, el. b; Mac William, d, perc; Ithamara Koorax, vcl, perc; Arnaldo DeSouteiro, bells, perc;
Review by Larry Hollis:
There are quite a few simlarities between "Opus Samba" and Vito Di Modugno's "Organ Trio Plus Guests". First off, they are both import pressings led by keyboardists that play a variety of other instruments. Fabio Fonseca is a Brazilian who plays not only the Hammond B-3 and Rhodes but an array of synthesizers and the Hohner Clavinet D6 mostly associated with Stevie Wonder and 1970s Funk. He also sometimes adds a vocal to his tracks here and there. Like Vito's set, this is a trio outing, this time with electric bass instead of guitar and with two guests, Ithamara Koorax providing vocals for "A Mulher de 15 Metros" and producer Arnaldo DeSouteiro who joins her on percussion for "Dormideira," a less than 3 minute tune by the leader.
The fifth cut, "Cochise," sounds fairly familiar and could be the same number done by Les McCann on a live at Montreux double LP for Atlantic that hasn't made it to compact disc yet domestically. Stevie Wonder's "Too High" is the most distinctive cover and makes one wonder why Jazzers haven't explored more of his songbook. Fonseca's "Missing Dom Um" is a touching tribute to the late Dom Um Romao. A versatile musician and producer, the keyboardist seems to these ears to be an update to Walter Wanderley in his keyboard touch and he has as much of a pop music/fusion leaning in his music as the more traditional organ stylings of Joey DeFrancesco or Tony Monaco.
"Desenrolando A Língua", new links
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More links for Anna Ly's "Desenrolando A Língua", which includes the track "Fuzuê", co-produced by Arnaldo DeSouteiro
R.I.P.: Donald Kahn
Donald Kahn, composer, passed away on April 11, 2008. He was 89 years old.
The son of the great Gus Kahn, who wrote many standards, Donald composed the hit "A Beautiful Friendship," with Stanley Styne. That song received dozens of recodings, and one of my favorites is by singer Esther Phillips for Kudu, although the most famous are the ones by Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Rosemary Clooney, Jack Jones, Duke Ellington, Shirley Horn, Stanley Turrentine, Milt Jackson and Nat "King" Cole.
Around 50 years ago, Donald Kahn arranged the "Yes, Sir! That's My Baby!" album, with tunes written by his father, with vocals by his wife, Lois.
Complete bio:
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=DONALDKAHN&sql=11:wifpxqtjldje~T1
R.I.P.: Bobby Tucker
Bobby Tucker
(born on Jan 8, 1923 in Morristown, New Jersey, USA)
(died on April 12, 2008 in Morristown, New Jersey, USA)
Pianist & composer, Tucker became known as musical director for Billie Holiday and Billy Eckstine, recording extensively with both artists. He also worked with singers Johnny Hartman and Lena Horne, as well as with Sonny Criss, Kenny Clarke, Paul Quinichette. Leading the Bobby Tucker Trio, he released "Too Tough" (1960), on the Jamie label, his only album as a leader.
R.I.P.: Humphrey Lyttelton
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/arts/music/28lyttelton.html?ref=obituaries
Humphrey Lyttelton, 86, Host of a BBC Radio Game Show, Dies
Humphrey Lyttelton, a jazz trumpeter and broadcaster who was host of the surreal BBC Radio game show “I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue,” died here on Friday. He was 86.
The performer’s Web site, humphreylyttelton.com, said Mr. Lyttelton died at a London hospital after surgery. It did not give further details.
Born into a prominent British family and educated at the elite Eton College, Mr. Lyttelton was a jazz fanatic who taught himself to play the trumpet as a teenager. He became an accomplished musician — Louis Armstrong once called him Britain’s best trumpeter — and made a series of records for EMI with his Lyttelton Band.
He toured with the band well into his 80s and made a guest appearance on the Radiohead track “Life in a Glass House” in 2001. The jazz trumpeter Digby Fairweather told the BBC that Mr. Lyttelton “was, in the best possible way, a jazz machine.”
But for many he was best known as the host of “I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue,” a role he had filled since 1972. The program built up a passionate following with its mix of silliness, wordplay and innuendo.
Mr. Lyttelton was a master of ribald double-entendres — usually involving the show’s fictitious scorekeeper, “the lovely Samantha” — delivered in his deadpan, upper-class voice. He was also famous for his imaginative sign-offs, which would begin, for example, “As the delicate mayfly of time collides with the speeding windscreen of fate.”
His varied career included World War II service in the Grenadier Guards and a stint as a cartoonist for The Daily Mail. He also wrote books about music.
R.I.P.: Jimmy Giufree
R.I.P: Jimmy Giufree
born on April 26, 1921, in Dallas
died on April 24, 2008, in Pittsfield, Mass
"(...) Giuffre ging seinen Weg konsequent. Sein Trio, das er 1961 mit dem Bassisten Steve Swallow und dem Pianisten Paul Bley neu auflegte, entwickelte eine kammermusikalische Form der Improvisation, die alle Grenzen sprengte und dennoch stets sensibel und gebändigt schien(...)", schreibt Stefan Hentz in der NZZ vom 29. April 2008.
Und von "epochalen Aufanhmen", die "später von manchen Musikern als eine der wichtigsten Gruppen der Jazzgeschichte betrachtet wurden", schrieb Christoph Merki im Tages-Anzeiger vom 28. April 2008. Und weiter: "1992 hat ECM-Chef Manfred Eicher mit sicherem Instinkt Aufnahmen aus dieser Zeit unter dem Titel "Jimmy Giuffrre 3, 1991" wieder herausgegeben (...). Wir wetten darauf: Man könnte diese fabulöse, geheimnisvoll abstrakt funkelnde Kammermusik auch in diesen Tagen herausgeben und manch einer würde sagen: It's Now!"
Besser und nachhaltiger, als ein Nachruf wäre es, sich die folgenden CDs mit dem wunderbaren Trio JIMMY GIUFFRE, PAUL BLEY, STEVE SWALLOW anzuhören oder sich endlich zu beschaffen; es sind zeitlose, grosse Meilensteine inspirierten kammermusikalischen Improvisierens (J.A.):
"JIMMY GIUFFRE 3, Emphasis, Stuttgart 1961" - hatART CD 6072
"JIMMY GIUFFRE 3 , 1961" - ECM 1438/39 - 2CD. (1992-Re-Edition der 2 VERVE-LPs "Fusion" und "Thesis" plus previously unissued tracks).
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/arts/music/26giuffre.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
Jimmy Giuffre, Imaginative Jazz Artist, Dies at 86
By BEN RATLIFF
Jimmy Giuffre, the adventurous clarinetist, composer and arranger whose 50-year journey through jazz led him from writing the Woody Herman anthem “Four Brothers” through minimalist, drummerless trios to striking experimental orchestral works, died on Thursday in Pittsfield, Mass. He was 86 and lived in West Stockbridge, Mass.
The cause was pneumonia, brought about by complications of Parkinson’s disease, said his wife of 46 years, Juanita, who is his only survivor.
Among the half-dozen instruments he played, from bass flute to soprano saxophone, it was the clarinet that gave him a signature sound; it was a dark, velvety tone, centering in the lower register, pure but rarely forceful. But among the iconoclastic heroes of the late 1950s in jazz, he was a serene oddity, changing his ideas as fast as he could record them.
His album “Tangents in Jazz” (1955) did away with chordal instruments like piano or guitar two years before Sonny Rollins famously did so; his trios from 1956 to 1961 were without a drummer, prefiguring the quieter, classical-timbred music of vanguardist jazz circles in the 1980s.
Little of this impressed more traditional audiences, however. What made Mr. Giuffre important to big-band aficionados was one composition, “Four Brothers,” a big hit for Woody Herman’s Second Herd in 1947. It established the characteristic Herman front-line sound of three tenor saxophones and a baritone saxophone, played fast, in harmony and without vibrato.
Mr. Giuffre (pronounced JOO-free) was born on April 26, 1921, in Dallas. He began playing clarinet at 9. He attended what was then North Texas State Teachers College, where he earned a degree in music in 1942; upon graduation he joined the Army for four years, playing with a quintet in mess halls at mealtimes, and then moved to Los Angeles. After trying graduate work in music, he gave it up to study composition privately.
In the late 1940s he became a freelance arranger and, in some cases, saxophonist for a number of big bands. In the early 1950s West Coast cool jazz began, and Mr. Giuffre took part. Usually playing tenor saxophone, he was in small groups led by Shorty Rogers, Shelly Manne and Howard Rumsey.
Meanwhile, he was growing stronger as a composer. Mr. Giuffre’s teacher from 1947 to 1952, Wesley LaViolette, emphasized the virtues of contrapuntal writing, and counterpoint became the structural glue for Mr. Giuffre’s art, making some of his most outré experiments hold together. Mr. LaViolette also taught Mr. Giuffre that jazz could accommodate any amount of composition, not just for the front-line instruments but for all of them, and in the mid-’50s Mr. Giuffre began to write specific parts for bass and drums, sometimes winnowing their roles to providing color and accent.
The late-’50s versions of the Jimmy Giuffre 3 — with the guitarist Jim Hall and the bassist Ralph Pena, then with Mr. Hall and the trombonist Bob Brookmeyer — gained him some commercial renown. (The Giuffre-Hall-Brookmeyer trio is immortalized in a sequence in the film “Jazz on a Summer’s Day,” playing its best-known piece, “The Train and the River.”)
If Mr. Giuffre was long on ideas, he was not a partisan in aesthetic matters. Though he prized his even, smooth sound quality on clarinet, he did not disdain players who had a more fractured sound. He never saw an irreconcilable split between American and European influences. He admitted that the instrumentation for his late-’50s trios had a European inspiration, Claude Debussy’s Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp; at the same time he used those trios to convey a sense of rustic, bluesy Americana.
From the mid-’50s on, Mr. Giuffre taught music, initially at the Lenox School of Jazz, the late-summer educational conference in Lenox, Mass., which existed from 1957 to 1960. (A remark made the rounds at the time: when told that Mr. Giuffre would be there to teach clarinet, among other things, the writer André Hodeir joked, “Who will be teaching the upper register?”)
It was at Lenox that Mr. Giuffre first encountered Ornette Coleman, a scholarship student at the school, in 1959. Mr. Giuffre was knocked sideways by Mr. Coleman’s conviction and freedom and had a sort of ecstatic transformation.
In short order Mr. Giuffre changed his music again. The result was the moody, overlapping improvisations with no fixed key or tempo that characterize the playing of his trio with Paul Bley on piano and Steve Swallow on bass, heard on the ECM reissues “1961” and “Free Fall.” This trio lasted for less than two years, playing ever more uncompromising music; Mr. Swallow wrote that the group made its last stand at a Bleecker Street coffeehouse in New York, finally breaking up on a night when each musician earned 35 cents.
But when “1961,” a pairing of trio albums, was reissued in 1992, it was greeted with awe by some younger musicians and critics for its prescience about the post-1960s jazz landscape. The album received a five-star rating in Down Beat.
A similar belated reception awaited “Free Fall,” which included some piercing, agitated solo improvisations. Though the album was a commercial failure on its initial release in 1963, when Columbia brought it out again 25 years later, “The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD” gave it the book’s highest rating.
After “Free Fall” Mr. Giuffre’s momentum was broken: he made no albums for 10 years. He taught at the New School and New York University, and in 1978 he joined the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where he taught until the early 1990s. He also created another version of the Jimmy Giuffre 3, which turned to sounds from Africa and Asia; in the 1980s he made a series of quartet recordings for the Italian label Soul Note.
Also in the ’80s he formed a productive association with the French saxophonist André Jaume, who recorded Mr. Giuffre several times on Mr. Jaume’s label, CELP. As a duo, the two musicians recorded a live album, “Momentum” (Hatology). The 1961 edition of Jimmy Giuffre’s trio, with Mr. Bley and Mr. Swallow, reunited sporadically for performances and recordings, including “The Life of a Trio” (Owl, 1990) and “Conversations With a Goose” (Soul Note, 1992).
Bruce Weber contributed reporting.
2008 Spring Gala Concert Featuring Patti Austin in NYC, May 28
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s annual Spring Gala concert, themed “Spring Swing,” features the soulful vocals of jazz chanteuse Patti Austin, with special guest Wynton Marsalis, performing selections from her 2008 Grammy-award winning album "Avant Gershwin". A festive dinner will be held throughout Frederick P. Rose Hall venues following the concert. Proceeds from the evening will benefit Jazz at Lincoln Center’s performance and education programs.
Concert at 7:30 p.m.
Dinner at 9:30 p.m.
Concert, Rose Theater
Dinner, throughout Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center on Broadway at 60th St., New York City.
Corporate Co-chairs for "Spring Swing" are:
Efraim Grinberg, Movado
Ted Murphy, MasterCard Worldwide
Tony Ponturo, Anheuser-Busch
Karen K. Rafferty, Cadillac
For gala evening tickets, call (212) 258-9961
CD of the Day - "Freddie Hubbard: First Light"
Freddie Hubbard: "First Light" (CTI/CBS Associated) 1987
(first USA CD reissue of the 1971 album; autographed by Mr. Hubbard to Arnaldo DeSouteiro)
Featuring: Richard Wyands, Don Sebesky, George Benson, Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette, Airto, Phil Kraus, George Benson, Hubert Laws et al.
Box Set of the Day - "Charles Fambrough: Modern Jazz Archive"
Box Set of the Day
Charles Fambrough: "Modern Jazz Archive" (CTI/TIM) 2004
Featuring: Wynton Marsalis, Kenny Kirkland, Joe Ford, Roy Hargrove, Jeff Watts, Jerry Gonzalez, Kenny Garrett, Bill O'Connell, Grover Washington Jr. et al.
Vinyl of the Day - "Best of Bob James"
Vinyl of the Day
"The Best of Bob James" (CTI) 1977
Featuring: Gary King, Will Lee, Steve Gadd, Idris Muhammad, Ralph MacDonald, Eric Gale, Grover Washington Jr. et al.
Single of the Day - "John Blair: I'm A Wizard"
Single of the Day
John Blair: "I'm A Wizard/We Belong Together" (CTI) 1977
Featuring: David Matthews, Steve Gadd, Gary King, Cliff Carter, Hiram Bullock et al.
"Bossa Nova Singers" reviewed by Tárik de Souza
"Bossa Nova Singers" reviewed in Brazil by Tárik de Souza
Bossa na peneira
Jorge Ben celebra o ídolo João Gilberto em Oba-la-lá. Sylvia Telles, com a guitarra de Barney Kessel, singra, em Los Angeles, Manhã de Carnaval (Luiz Bonfá/Antonio Maria), enquanto Astrud manda Bim bom, do ex-marido João Gilberto, em New Jersey, com arranjo de Gil Evans. Ainda em registros nova-iorquinos, o próprio João divide Só danço samba (Jobim/Vinícius) com Stan Getz, e Bonfá debulha o belo Samba de duas notas, réplica ao de uma nota só, de Tom e Newton Mendonça.
A dama de branca da Praia de Ipanema, Anamaria Valle, divide com o então marido Marcos Valle a versão de Seu encanto (The face I love), parceria dele com Pingarilho. Faixas da antologia "Bossa Nova Singers" (Verve/Universal), que já frequenta as paradas européias de jazz e world music, com ficha técnica minuciosa do produtor Arnaldo DeSouteiro.
(Jornal do Brasil, 25 de abril de 2008; "Jornal do Brasil" daily newspaper, April 25, 2008)
Tonight, Cecilia Coleman live in NYC!
Join us for Cecilia Coleman’s Swingin’ Quintet with guest vocalist Miss Gail Allen on Tuesday, April 22 when they return to Jazz Tuesdays in the Gillespie Auditorium at the New York City Bahá'í Center at 53 East 11th Street (between University Place & Broadway). The Quintet features Dave Smith on Trumpet, Peter Brainin on Tenor Sax, Tim Givens on Bass and Jeff Brillinger on Drums with very special guest vocalist Miss Gail Allen. There will be two shows at 8:00 and 9:30 p.m.
Artistic, talented, dedicated - these are but three of the many attributes that describe pianist, composer and bandleader Cecilia Coleman. A native of Long Beach, CA and resident of New York, Coleman began to play piano at age 5 and at age 15 began to study jazz piano. She is a potent pianist capable of performances that are both exciting and moving. She has developed into an exceptional composer whose distinctive, varied pieces reflect where jazz has been and where it is going.
Coleman has led her own group since 1990 when she formed a trio with bassist Eric Von Essen and drummer Kendall Kay. In 1993 her quintet was formed. In addition to numerous club appearances such as Jax Bar & Grill (Glendale), the infamous Chadney's (Burbank) and the Jazz Bakery (Culver City), Coleman has performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Telluride Jazz Festival and the New Mexico Jazz Workshop. With the Quintet, Coleman has gone on to substantial acclaim in the Los Angeles Jazz scene and beyond.
She has six CD's out as a leader: "The Impostor", "Higher Standards", "Home", "Young & Foolish" , "Words of Wisdom" and the very recently released “Images”. She is also on three recordings of The American Jazz Institute headed by Mark Masters which feature Lee Konitz, Billy Harper, Jack Montrose, Ray Drummond, Tim Hagans and Gary Smulyan plus many more.
“Coleman’s music is steeped in the classic, hard-edged Blue Note sound of the early ‘60s, but she’s no retread.” - Brandt Reiter
Admission is 15.00, $10.00 for students.
Tickets will be sold at the door, or call 212-222-5159 for reservations and information.
Jazz Tuesdays
in the John Birks Gillespie Auditorium
The New York Baha'i Center
53 East 11th Street (between University Place & Broadway)
Two shows: 8:00 and 9:30 p.m.
Bobby Broom releases new CD today
"The Way I Play (Live in Chicago)," being released today on Origin Label, is the first live album from guitarist Bobby Broom with his working Trio
CD Features Dennis Carroll, Bass, & Kobie Watkins, Drums
As a major jazz guitarist, Bobby Broom has for many years been hiding in plain sight. Following his Carnegie Hall debut at age 16 with Sonny Rollins, and his first album as a leader at 20, Broom recorded and toured steadily as a valued sideman with artists such as Stanley Turrentine, Kenny Burrell, Dr. John, Charles Earland, and Rollins (whom he rejoined in 2005).
Since the mid-1990s, however, Broom has been focusing much more on his own music, recording a series of critically acclaimed CDs for Criss Cross, Delmark, Premonition, and Origin. His new Origin disc, The Way I Play (Live in Chicago), which will be released April 22, captures Broom and his working trio live at their longtime weekly gig, which the Chicago Tribune calls "one of the best ongoing engagements" in the Chicago area.
"It's flat-out, crazy blowing," says the guitarist of the results. "And it really is a record of how I approach my instrument, of what's important to me musically, of where I stand in the jazz order of things."
The Harlem native, now 47, has been exploring the trio format to rewarding effect not only in his last two CDs, but every Wednesday night for the last ten years at Pete Miller's Steakhouse in Evanston -- the place Broom describes as his "laboratory." On The Way I Play, he delves into a program of jazz standards and American songbook classics -- by Charlie Parker, Richard Rodgers, Sonny Rollins, the Gershwins, McCoy Tyner -- with trio-mates Dennis Carroll, on bass, and drummer Kobie Watkins (below).
"We play these kinds of things every week," Broom says of the tunes, "and I have for my whole life as a jazz guitar player. Now I have both an individual and a group identity to use as a means to approach this music -- and all of the music that we play."
Live in Chicago (& Everywhere)
Bobby Broom, Chicago-based since 1984, has another long-standing trio affiliation in the Deep Blue Organ Trio, which one reviewer has deemed "Hammond B3-guitar-drums jazz of the highest order." Together with organist Chris Foreman and drummer Greg Rockingham, Broom and Deep Blue have to date recorded three albums (and one DVD). Earlier this year, their 2007 Origin disc, Folk Music, received a Chicago Music Award as Best Jazz CD. It also burned up the Jazzweek airplay charts, holding at the #2 position for four consecutive weeks (and remaining in the Top 5 for two straight months).
Broom's own Song and Dance CD (Origin) ranked among Jazzweek's Top 50 airplay records for 2007.
Still a member of Sonny Rollins's band, Broom will be traveling with Rollins this year to Japan, Korea, Singapore, Australia, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Argentina, and Brazil, as well as making U.S. dates in California, New Jersey, New York, Washington DC, Rhode Island, and close to home in Chicago. He's also featured in Rollins's forthcoming Doxy DVD Live in Vienne, recorded in concert at a French festival in 2006.
But Bobby's solo career has never looked or sounded better. His appearance on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz will air in conjunction with the release of The Way I Play (feed date April 22). He's the May cover story for Just Jazz Guitar magazine. And he'll be part of a Jazz at Lincoln Center event celebrating the legacy of Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian. The Rose Theater concerts on May 2 and 3 will feature Broom alongside Jim Hall, Russell Malone, and Bireli Lagrene, with Lewis Nash driving the rhythm section.
"Guitar gets ignored all too often in the jazz pantheon," says Broom. "Perhaps it was the last instrument to lead the jazz band historically, but it has not been without its share of innovative players who have contributed to the art improvisationally, compositionally, and in terms of being influential figures at the forefront of the music's progression. Hopefully, when I play I can speak from the point of view of a beneficiary of the great jazz and jazz guitar work that has come before me."
JAZZ EXPOSÉ: THE NEW YORK JAZZ MUSEUM AND THE POWER STRUGGLE THAT DESTROYED IT
52 Reasons to Read This Book (please see - http://www.nyjazzmuseum.com/)
Have you ever heard of the New York Jazz Museum? Most people have not. Yet between 1972 and 1977 it was the most significant institution for jazz in the world. This book looks back to present the story of a "Lost Museum."
It was situated in its own two-story building in mid-town Manhattan and had a small staff, an archive that eventually numbered about 25,000 items and extensive programs in New York City and beyond. Some of the programs won awards and most of them were received with widespread acclaim in the media and from jazz fans.
There were the Calvert Extra Sunday Concerts - 40 per year, the Jazz Puppet Show, the Jazz Film Festivals, the Jazz Panorama - an audio visual history of jazz, The Jazz Store, Information Center, the exhibits - Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Bird & Diz: The Bebop Era, The Sax Section, Count Basie and His Bands, Billie Holiday Remembered, About John Coltrane and the Jazz Trumpet. Posters and booklets were produced in conjunction with the exhibits and there was so much more.
An extended power struggle ensued that eventually caused the Museum's demise. Entangled in the fatal conflagration was the "Jazz Fraternity," which included the most prominent names in jazz - musicians, producers, writers, artists, et al.
This book tells the whole story for the first time. It was written by Howard E. Fischer, founder of the Museum and its Executive Director.
Title - JAZZ EXPOSÉ: THE NEW YORK JAZZ MUSEUM AND
THE POWER STRUGGLE THAT DESTROYED IT
Author - Howard E. Fischer
5 ½ x 8 ½ Paperback 134 pages illustrations
Web site: http://www.nyjazzmuseum.com/
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CD of the Day - "Freddie Hubbard: Keep Your Soul Together"
Freddie Hubbard: "Keep Your Soul Together" (CTI) 1973
first CD reissue in the USA: 1988
Featuring George Cables, Junior Cook, Kent Brinkley, Ron Carter, Ralph Penland, Aurell Ray, Juno Lewis
Vinyl of the Day - "Jack Wilkins: Opal"
Jack Wilkins: "Opal" (CTI) 1983
Featuring: Albert Dailey, Harvie Swartz, Phil Woods, Akira Tana, Ted Moore, Carl Bari
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Single of the Day - "Esther Phillips: What A Difference A Day Makes"
Esther Phillips: "What a difference a day makes/Turn around, look at me" (Kudu/HispaVox) 1975
(45rpm, Spanish release)
Featuring: Joe Beck, Will Lee, Chris Parker, Ralph MacDonald, Steve Khan, David Sanborn, Michael Brecker
12" EP of the Day - "A Trip To Brazil: Dancefloor Classics"
12" EP of the Day
"A Trip to Brazil: Dancefloor Classics" (EmArcy/Universal) 2007
1. Tombo in 7/4 - Airto
2. Amazon - Thiago de Mello
3. Que Besteira - João Donato
4. Aquarela do Brasil - João Gilberto
5. Emoriô - Fafá de Belém
6. Ponteio - Rogerio Duprat
Airto Moreira - Drums, Vocals, Arranger
Creed Taylor - Producer
Flora Purim - Vocals, Percussion
Hugo Fattoruso - Keyboards, Fender Rhodes, Arranger, Vocals (Backg)
Arnaldo DeSouteiro - Compilation Producer
Rudy Van Gelder - Engineer
David Amaro - Guitar (Electric)
George Fattoruso - Drums, Vocals (Backg)
Rogério Duprat - Arranger, Conductor
Ringo Thielmann - Bass (Electric), Vocals (Backg)
Fafá de Belém - Vocals
Roberto Santana - Producer
Portinho - Drums
Thiago de Mello - Arranger, Percussion, Vocals, Guitar (Acoustic), Producer
Dom Salvador - Keyboards
Al Valente - Bass (Electric)
Claudio Roditi - Trumpet
Tutty Moreno - Percussion
Mauricio Smith - Sax (Tenor)
Airto Moreira - Percussion
João Donato - Piano (Acoustic), Vocal, Arranger, Conductor
Aladim - Drums
Copinha - Flute
Rosinha de Valença - Guitar (Acoustic)
Tobi - Producer
Geraldo - Flute
Luiz Carlos dos Santos - Percussion
Novelli - Bass (Electric)
Jorge Ferreira da Silva - Flute
Alberto das Neves - Percussion, Congas
Celso Woltzenlogel - Flute
Milcho Leviev - Synthesizers
João Gilberto - Vocals, Guitar (Acoustic), Producer
Clare Fischer - Fender Rhodes
Harry Klee - Flute
Gilberto Gil - Vocals
Michael Boddicker - Oberheim
Jim Hughart - Bass
Bud Shank - Flute
Johnny Mandel - Arranger, Conductor
Joe Correro - Drums
Glen Garrett - Flute
Stella Castelucci - Harp
Paulinho da Costa - Congas, Percussion
Eddie Caini - Flute
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Box Set of the Day: "Donald Harrison: Modern Jazz Archive"
Donald "Duck" Harrison: "Modern Jazz Archive" (CTI/TIM) 2004
Featuring: Charles Fambrough, Rob Aries, Chuck Loeb, Larry Coryell, Steve Turre et al.
VHS of the Day - "Chroma: Music on the Edge"
VHS of the Day
Chroma: "Music on the Edge" (CTI/A*Vision) 1991
Featuring: Jim Beard, Bob Berg, Randy Brecker, Mark Egan, Dennis Chambers, Mike Stern, Mark Ledford, Mino Cinelu et al.
Nicolas Bearde's upcoming CD in tribute to Lou Rawls
Vocalist Nicolas Bearde's New CD, "Live at Yoshi's: A Salute to Lou," due May 20 from Right Groove Records
CD Is a Tribute to Lou Rawls
Recorded at Yoshi's Oakland in October 2007
A charter member of Bobby McFerrin's Voicestra ensemble as well as the innovative Bay Area vocal sextet SoVoSó, Nicolas Bearde has long been recognized as an adept and fearless vocal improviser.
But Bearde is a down-to-earth soul stylist as well. On his new CD, Live at Yoshi's: A Salute to Lou, which is due for release on May 20 by his own Right Groove Records, Bearde delivers a vibrant set of Lou Rawls-associated material before a full house at Oakland's premier jazz club.
"I admire the man's work and his ability to have his feet in several genres at the same time," says Bearde of Rawls. "Jazz, blues, soul, pop, gospel -- Lou was able to tie those styles together, make something of his own, and make it popular. Back in the era he started in, with Sam Cooke and those guys, he took the blues and gospel influences he'd come up with and brought them into the present. Those were the underpinnings of his sound."
While growing up in Nashville, Bearde was particularly fond of Lou Rawls Live!, the classic 1966 Capitol recording that stands as the highest charting album of the late singer's prolific career. "That was the one that crystallized for me what a male jazz/blues vocalist was about," Bearde explains.
Live at Yoshi's: A Salute to Lou contains Bearde's distinctive interpretations of five songs that were part of Lou Rawls Live! ("The Girl from Ipanema," "The Shadow of Your Smile," "World of Trouble," "Tobacco Road," "I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water") as well as other numbers closely associated with Rawls, including "Lady Love," "Love Is a Hurtin' Thing," "This Song Will Last Forever," and "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine."
The album's lead track is a non-Rawls tune with a special significance for Bearde: Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln's "Living Room." "Jazz vocalist Buddy Conner was the first person I heard do that song, back in the '80s," says Bearde. "It's been in my repertoire ever since. In fact, Buddy gave me his chart for it. It's not so much a tribute to him, but every time I do the song, I think of him. He was the cat who opened the door for me as a jazz singer in the Bay Area."
On the new CD, Bearde is backed by four of his favorite instrumentalists: saxophonist Charles McNeal, pianist Glenn Pearson, bassist Nelson Braxton, and drummer Jason Lewis.
Becoming a Singer (and an Actor)
Bearde, who's been based in the San Francisco Bay Area since the 1970s, followed a somewhat circuitous path to a career as a singer. In 1984 he was asked to be part of Jukebox, a play staged by Berkeley radio station KPFA. The live radio broadcast brought together film and theater people, musicians from all over the Bay Area, and sound effects specialists.
"Danny Glover was the star, and this was while he was filming the first Lethal Weapon," says Bearde. "That was where acting came into my life, when I started to look at acting as a vehicle I wanted to pursue." At Glover's recommendation, he began studying with Jean Shelton; a year later, he went on his first audition and was cast in the Athol Fugard play Master Harold and the Boys. (He continues to maintain a busy sideline as an actor for stage, screen, and television and as a voice-over artist.)
By the mid-1980s, he'd hooked up with Bobby McFerrin's Voicestra, an association that continues to the present. "What we do is completely improvised, from note one to note 2001," he says of the a cappella group. "There's no preplanning, no preparation." He continues to tour with the ensemble, with about a month of major concerts throughout the world every year, depending on McFerrin's schedule. "The most recent tour was in March 2008," says Bearde. "Last year, we spent almost four months touring."
When McFerrin decided to take a break from the group in the mid-'90s, Bearde and other members branched off into a smaller a cappella unit called SoVoSó, which included Molly Holm, Linda Tillery, Rhiannon, Joey Blake, David Worm, and Edgardo Cambon. "We followed in the improvisational tradition of Voicestra, but added more gospel, Latin, and R&B elements," he says.
Bearde launched Right Groove Records in 1998. His debut solo release, Crossing the Line, garnered glowing reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. Licensed to Expansion Records in the U.K., it landed in the Top 10 of a British soul chart. The 2004 follow-up, All About Love (also issued on Expansion), was especially well received in Canada and in North and South Carolina. England's Blues & Soul magazine declared of Bearde, "He's a breath of fresh air amidst a mass of polluted ozone-unfriendly pop." In 1998, Bearde placed high on the influential publication's list of Best Male Newcomers.
Live at Yoshi's: A Salute to Lou, Bearde's third Right Groove release, is more jazz-oriented than its predecessors. "In general I'm doing more jazz singing these days," he explains, "but I can never step away from R&B completely."
Nicolas Bearde returns to Yoshi's Oakland for a CD Release event on 6/3. He'll also be performing at Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society in Half Moon Bay 5/25, and at the Comcast Jazz Festival in San Jose on 8/29.
New jazzmen on the block
Monterey Jazz Festival Announces Members Of The 2008 Next Generation Jazz Orchestra
21 High School Musicians From 11 States Comprise MJF's Renowned National Big Band
NGJO Performs At North Sea Jazz Festival
In Rotterdam, The Netherlands, July 9 - 11
NGJO Performs At Berklee College of Music, July 15
Next Generation Composition Competition Winner, Sean Richey, Debuts “40 Days And 40 Nights” At 51st Monterey Jazz Festival, September 21, 2008
The Monterey Jazz Festival is proud to announce members of the 2008 Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, the Festival's internationally-renowned high school all-star big band. Created as a part of the Monterey Jazz Festival's continuing commitment to jazz education, the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra includes the most talented high school jazz students from all regions of the United States.
The Next Generation Jazz Orchestra (formerly known as the MJF High School All-Star Big Band from 1971-2004) nurtures the future generation of jazz stars through a program that selects the best and brightest high school jazz musicians in the country. In 2008, the twenty-one-piece jazz orchestra features members selected from eighteen high schools from the four corners of the country, including California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington. Eleven states have contributed members this year in an unprecedented cross-section of the best high school jazz programs in the country.
As in the past, these students will speak for their generation as loudly and clearly as their predecessors, which include pianists Benny Green and Patrice Rushen, bassist Larry Grenadier, drummer Chad Wackerman, and saxophonists Joshua Redman and Dave Koz, to name a few. A list of members of the 2008 NGJO appears at the end of this press release and is available on the Monterey Jazz Festival website, www.montereyjazzfestival.org.
Under the direction of Mr. Paul Contos, the renowned saxophonist and flautist who serves as the director of the Orchestra, the ensemble is dedicated to the study and performance of the most challenging big band literature available.
"The Next Generation Jazz Orchestra for 2008 will once again be the superlative collection of advanced high school jazz musicians in the United States, demonstrating their skill and musical prowess by performing repertoire of the most innovative and carefully crafted arrangements and compositions currently written for jazz orchestra,” said Paul Contos, Director of the NGJO. “The members represent eleven states and will be showcasing a variety of jazz styles and key soloists within the ensemble. These players have already garnered reputations as highly skilled and prominent voices for the future of jazz.”
The Next Generation Jazz Orchestra will embark on its annual summer tour, starting with rehearsals at the Berklee College of Music in Boston on July 5 followed by passage to the 33rd Annual North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on July 7. While in Rotterdam they will perform three times, returning to Boston on July 13. The NGJO will then record an album at the Berklee College of Music and perform a special concert for students in the school’s prestigious Five-Week Summer Performance Program on July 15.
Culminating their tenure in the band, the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra will perform with saxophonist Maceo Parker at the 51st Monterey Jazz Festival Presented by Verizon on September 20th on the Arena/Jimmy Lyons Stage, and with bassist and 2008 MJF Artist-In-Residence, Christian McBride, on the Arena/Jimmy Lyons Stage on September 21.
Members of the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra were selected through a rigorous audition process that included review by a national panel of judges comprised of professional jazz musician/educators. The Monterey Jazz Festival invited interested students to audition for the NGJO via video tape or in person, during MJF's 4th Annual Next Generation Festival, held April 3 - 6 in downtown Monterey.
“I am really pleased with the substantial increase in the number of applicants for the NGJO this year both in the video and live auditions,” said Dr. Rob Klevan, Education Director for the Monterey Jazz Festival and Next Generation Festival. “I guess you could say that the good word about this band is out! According to our judges, the level of talent applying for this prestigious ensemble was just plain exceptional. I look forward to hearing this outstanding group of individuals perform both this summer and at the MJF next September!”
In 2008, there are seven returning members of the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra: trombonists Stephen Szabadi and Javier Nero; saxophonists John Palowitch, Adam Larson and Owen Broder; and trumpeters Kevin Early and Nick Frenay. John Palowitch of Pleasanton, California is the only three-time member of the NGJO this year and has performed at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy; the International Music Festival in Dubrovnik, Croatia; the Hilton in Paris, France; New York City’s Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Jazz Standard and Sweet Rhythm as well as on the Arena/Jimmy Lyons stage of Monterey’s 49th, 50th and 51st Festivals.
The Monterey Jazz Festival is also proud to announce the winner of the Next Generation Festival's prestigious Big Band Composition Competition, Sean Richey. Mr. Richey is a senior at Buchanan High School in Clovis, California and plays guitar with the Buchanan High School Big Band. The winning composition, "40 Days and 40 Nights," will be given its MJF premiere on the Arena/Lyons Stage of the Monterey Jazz Festival by the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra on Sunday, September 21. Mr. Richey will also receive a $1000 prize and new music writing software from Sibelius.
Honorable Mention for the Composition Competition is shared by guitarist Arian Shafiee, from Skyline High School in Oakland, California for "Geisha," and trumpeter Aaron Bahr, a senior at Campolindo High School in Moraga, California for "Circular Logic."
Major funding for the Monterey Jazz Festival’s Education Programs comes from a three-year grant from the Surdna Foundation, supporting the Next Generation Festival and the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra's international tours. The Surdna Foundation’s Arts Program is national in scope and supports the artistic advancement of teens, ages 12-18.
The 2008 Next Generation Jazz Orchestra
Director - Mr. Paul Contos
John Palowitch - alto***
Hailey Niswanger – alto
Adam Larson - tenor**
Chad Lefkowitz-Brown - tenor
Owen Broder - baritone**
John Egizi
Javier Nero**
Stephen Szabadi**
Natalie Cressman
Emmanuel Rojas (bass)
Blake Martin
Kevin Early**
Gabe Medd
Nick Frenay**
Noah Hocker
Emmet Cohen – piano
Mike Gurrola – bass
Armand Hirsch - guitar
Jimmy Macbride - drums
Daniel Nadeau - drums
Richard Saunders - vocals
** 2-time member of NGJO
*** 3-time member of NGJO
CD of the Day - "Manhattan Jazz Quintet: Live!"
Manhattan Jazz Quintet: "Live!" (King/ProJazz) 1987
Featuring: David Matthews, Eddie Gomez, Steve Gadd, Lew Soloff and George Young
(autographed by the members of the MJQ to Arnaldo DeSouteiro)
Single of the Day - "Esther Phillips: What A Diff'rence A Day Makes"
Esther Phillips: "What A Diff'rence A Day Makes" (CTI France) 1975
Featuring: Michael Brecker, David Sanborn, Joe Beck, Chris Parker, Will Lee et al.
Vinyl of the Day - "Meirelles: Brazilian Beat Vol. 2"
Meirelles e Sua Orquestra: "Brazilian Beat Vol.2" (London/Odeon) 1967
(the first 12" LP I ever purchased, when I was 4 years old)
Benny Carter at "Riverwalk Jazz"
4/24/08 Symphony in Riffs: Celebrating Benny Carter
A salute to saxophonist Benny Carter, an architect of the Swing Era sound. Carter's biographer, Ed Berger, Associate Director, at The Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers talks about Benny's legacy.
Where to Listen to Riverwalk Jazz
Hear this week's Riverwalk Jazz radio show over the Web through your computer's speakers.
Hear Riverwalk Jazz on XM Sattelite Radio ("Real Jazz" XM Channel 70), Saturday at 9AM and Sunday at 9PM ET
Find a Riverwalk Jazz broadcast on the airwaves in your area.
Box Set of the Day: "Larry Coryell: Modern Jazz Archive"
Larry Coryell: "Modern Jazz Archive" (CTI/TIM) 2004
Featuring: Don Sebesky, Mulgrew Miller, Chuck Loeb, Grover Washington, Jr.
VHS of the Day - "Larry Coryell: Live from Bahia"
Larry Coryell: "Live from Bahia" (CTI) 1992
Featuring: Marcio Montarroyos, Nico Assumpção, Donald Harrison, Dori Caymmi et al.
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Wynton Marsalis signs with Boosey & Hawkes
Wynton Marsalis signed with the renowned publisher Boosey & Hawkes, as the company announced in a press release (Boosey & Hawkes). Boosey & Hawkes will represent Marsalis's compositions on a worldwide basis. The publisher's general manager says: "The music of Wynton Marsalis should live alongside the masterworks of Bartók, Bernstein, Copland, Stravinsky, as well as those of Andrew Hill and Charles Mingus." Marsalis says he feels honored "to be in the company of such distinguished classical and jazz composers". Boosey & Hawkes only launched its jazz initiative in 2006 representing musicians such as David Benoit, Chick Corea, Andrew Hill and Charles Mingus along with their new catch Marsalis, and they plan to expand further in that field.
New release: "Spring Break Dance Party"
"Spring Break Dance Party" (2-CD set) comin' out right now on ZYX Records!
Soon to be featured in our next party at Bypass club in Genève!
This week at Jazz Bakery in LA
Apr 22: pianist Bill Cunliffe The Music of John Lennon $25
Apr 23 - 26: vocalist Andy Bey $35 on Sat / $30 all other nights
4 PM & 8 PM Apr 27: Jazz Bakery Fundraiser ! Gloria Hendry portraying Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill written by Lanie Robertson directed by Gloria Hendry musical director Phil Wright $30 at 4 PM / $35 at 8 PM
Apr 28: guitarist Doug MacDonald Jazz Coalition $25
Apr 29 - May 3: alto saxophonist Lee Konitz Trio $35 on Sat / $30 all other nights
May 4: Alternative String Group $25
matinee May 4: Matt Roberts Group $25
Jessie Baylin - Ember EP available exclusively at iTunes!
R.I.P.: John Young
John Young 1922-2008; Pianist Played with the Greats
by Howard Reich
Chicago Tribune, April 21, 2008
Chicago jazz pianist John Young never attained the global fame of Ramsey Lewis or Ahmad Jamal -- slightly younger musicians who also launched their keyboard careers in this city.
But Mr. Young achieved an impressive resume, collaborating with Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Williams, Dexter Gordon, Gene Ammons and practically everyone else who mattered in mid-20th Century jazz.
In a career that spanned more than six decades, Mr. Young in the 1940s crisscrossed the country with a vastly popular big band -- Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy -- and subsequently became a revered figure in Chicago jazz.
Mr. Young, 86, died Wednesday, April 16, of multiple myeloma at South Shore Hospital.
"I think Ahmad got a lot from listening to John," said Chicago saxophonist Eric Schneider, who often worked with Young. "John Young had a totally individual style," observed Joe Segal, founder of the Jazz Showcase. "He had a very sparkling style, very swinging."
Mr. Young's pianism amounted to an alluring mixture of several elements: He merged an earthy blues sensibility with a remarkably refined technique; he brought the hot dance rhythms of the swing era into the newer idiom of bebop.
"He was the man to get the band cooking," said Richard Wang, vice president of the non-profit Jazz Institute of Chicago and music professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Mr. Young attained his distinctive virtuosity and built a prosperous career despite a variety of obstacles. Born in Little Rock, Ark., as the youngest of eight siblings, he came to Chicago with his mother, who sought "a better life for herself and her family up north, where there were more opportunities," said Alan Young, the pianist's only child.
Mr. Young's mother supported the family working as a seamstress and running a butcher shop on the South Side.
At DuSable High School, Mr. Young studied under the great bandleader-instructor Capt. Walter Dyett and performed alongside such future stars as pianist Dorothy Donegan and comedian Redd Foxx.
When Mr. Young began touring with Andy Kirk's Clouds of Joy, he was struck by the breadth of the country's racism.
"I was introduced to white and colored drinking fountains and white and colored waiting rooms as we traveled throughout the South by train," Mr. Young said in Dempsey Travis' landmark book, "An Autobiography of Black Jazz." "It was the worst thing in the world because they would put us [blacks] in the front car of the train, right next to the coal car. There was no air conditioning and, if you opened the windows for air, the coal cinders would blow right in on you."
After a tenure in the Navy in the mid-1940s and a period living in Cleveland, Mr. Young moved back to Chicago in 1955 and became one of the most sought-after pianists in the city. "He worked with almost everyone I had at the Showcase," said Segal, who also produced some of Mr. Young's first albums. But Mr. Young's recorded work was more popular among connoisseurs.
Mr. Young, however, did not express disappointment in his career, his son said. Ebullient on stage, Mr. Young typically wore a dapper cap and often was billed as "Young John Young." He played frequently with Chicago tenor saxophone icon Von Freeman and masters of comparable stature. "He built up a real good reputation in Chicago.... I think he was happy," said his son. "One of his favorite phrases, which will be on his headstone, is 'Everything's mellow.'"
In addition to his son, Mr. Young is survived by his second wife, Jessie.
Diana Krall shares joys of motherhood
Diana Krall has opened her heart about life with husband Elvis Costello and their twin sons Dexter and Frank in an exclusive interview with HELLO! magazine. Since the boys arrived on the couple's third wedding anniversary last December, the multi-talented chanteuse says her outlook on life is better than ever.
» www.hellomagazine.ca
Upcoming concert by Havana Carbo in LA!
Havana Carbo's upcoming concert in LA on May 16! One of the best singers in the contemporary jazz scene, the Cuban-born and longtime NY-based Carbo was booked by SOKA University for their Jazz Monsters Series. The evening will be recorded by BluportRecords and produced by Soundstring on CD they play to release in the fall. Carbo will be backed by Cliff Korman (piano), Sean Smith (bass) and Vince Cherico (drums). More details soon.
DVD of the Day - "Sergio Mendes: Spain 2006"
DVD of the Day
Sergio Mendes: "Live at Vitoria-Gasteiz/Spain 2006" (Monotone) 2006
Featuring: Gracinha Leporace, Krishna Booker, Yutaka, Meia-Noite, Kleber Jorge, Leonardo Nobre, Michael Shapiro et al.
CTI Memorabilia - "Benson: Shape of Things to Come"
Promo Poster of
George Benson's "The Shape of Things to Come" (A&M/CTI) 1967
CD of the Day - "George Benson: Bad Benson"
George Benson: "Bad Benson" (CTI) 1973/1988
(autographed by Mr. Benson to Arnaldo DeSouteiro)
Featuring: Don Sebesky, Phil Upchurch, Kenny Barron, Ron Carter, Steve Gadd.
Vinyl of the Day - "Roland Hanna Trio"
"Roland Hanna Trio" aka "Conceptions" (CTI/Salvation) 1975
Featuring Ron Carter & Ben Riley
Single of the Day - "Herbie Mann: Unchain My Heart"
Herbie Mann: "Unchain My Heart/The House of the Rising Sun" (A&M/CTI TOP 1246) 1967
Featuring: Ron Carter, Roy Glover, Grady Tate, Eric Gale, Ray Barretto
"Bossa Nova Singers" at "Jazz y Mazz"
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Cherry Red downloads at "Other Music!
"Other Music Digital" is continually welcoming new labels to their download store and one that we're most excited about bringing aboard is Cherry Red Records! A leading independent in the UK, Iain McNay started the imprint back in 1978 during the original punk explosion, and it still thrives today with a giant, varied catalog that includes great releases from Felt, the Monochrome Set, Free Design, the Passage, Momus, Link Wray, Kevin Coyne, Martin Newell, and Billy Childish, to name just a few, not to mention Cherry Red's many offshoot labels. What "Other Music" have on the site right now is only a partial selection, with lots more of the catalog on its way.
Win tickets to see "The Verve"
That's right, after almost 10 years, Richard Ashcroft, Nick McCabe, Simon Jones and Pete Salisbury are back together as The Verve, performing new songs and hitting the road again on a comeback tour that's stopping in NYC for two nights at the WaMu Theater in Madison Square Garden.
Other Music has one pair of tickets to give away to their appearance on Tuesday, April 29th! To enter, just email giveaway@othermusic.com. Good luck!!
MONDAY, APRIL 28 & TUESDAY, APRIL 29
WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden: Seventh Avenue between 31st and 33rd Streets, NYC
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Lily Haydn - Party/Video Shoot
The great violinist/singer/composer Lily Haydn is doing a video for "Strawberry Street" from her new cd, and she invited 50 people to come be in it and join in the party, which was an actual party with costumes and djs and delicious indian food and wine and even a comedian.
It happened this Sunday, Aprl 20, at 1125 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles. "My friend Roko Belic, the director of the academy award nominated documentary "Genghis Blues" is directing it", says Lily. "W're working with my crazy creative artist designer rave throwing burning man going lollopolluza performing Dream Circus friends Teo and Mikiko, who are producing and designing it with me as the first production at their new studio space. We planned to shoot from 3-5, eat dinner catered by my gourmet indian chef friend Baba G (creator of the Electric Lotus), and then djs will entertain as we film an actual party where people will actually have fun and frolic. We even have a comedian coming to make sure no one is left without a smile."
There were costumes and music and Lily gave a free copy of her record to the first 50 guests. Btw, Lily performed on "Jonesy's Jukebox" on Indie 103 FM and here's the link: Indie103.1.com If anyone happens to hear any of Lily's songs on that station and is moved to call in and inquire or cheer or whatever, that would be so amazingly helpful and so much appreciated!
Thomas White + Chris TT in London, May 27
Barfly B*Sides presents
Thomas White + Chris TT
The Enterprise, Camden Town
Tue 27 May
(8pm) Tickets £6.50adv
Thom White first rose to attention alongside his brother Alex in Brighton rockers The Electric Soft Parade. These days he splits his time between being a guitarist for Brakes and Restlesslist and peddling his solo brand of delightful British psych-folk.
"First Floor" party at Bypass, tonight!
"Bypass"
Carrefour de l’Etoile 1 ,
Genève, Switzerland
DVD of the Day - "America: Live in Central Park"
America: "Live in Central Park 1979" (Eagle Vision Classics/ST2) 2008
In 1979 America (Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley) were at the height of their popularity and had just released "Silent Letter" their first album as a duo following the departure of fellow founding member Dan Peek. Acclaimed Australian filmmaker Peter Clifton captured the band at their concert in New York's Central Park and then followed them across to California where he filmed them in the studio and on location. All of this footage was combined to make America "Live In Central Park".
CD of the Day - "Airto, Flora & Mickey Hart: Dafos"
Mickey Hart, Airto Moreira & Flora Purim: "Dafos" (Reference) 1984
(I still treasure my first CD, a gift from Flora & Airto)
Featuring: Steve Douglas, Bobby Vega, Jose Lorenzo & Batucaje
New releases from Vienna
A few nice things this week in digital form including a great outing from the Vienna Scientists! More about that later. A big thank you to a few with messages about the new radio station at Superfly FM. Seems quite a few of you have been enjoying the music there. Do keep listening and showing your support.OK, we start this week’s news with a really nice outing by Fanatix for BBE, quality house beats and some brilliant production included. Big up an old London friend Toni Economides on this one.Out of London also is the excellent R2 label, and coming through once again is Karizma remixed this time by bad boy Simbad. Another top dance floor track too by Karizma called Groove a 'k' ordingly is worth checking also.Some seriously groovy electro featured this week, Gomma of course always representing and they have the Gomma Galactic 2 to come. Always a very interesting selection by these guys too. Take a little time and check out the tracks.
Permanent Vacation also with some interesting noise this week via 40 thieves. Very soulful and groovy and three tracks I’ve very much enjoyed.Some very interesting techno coming out of Snork records. Jens Zimmermann offers an epic 13 minute techno journey on Drumzzz, fans of the Detroit should check that. A very heavy slice of alternative pop and rock. Please make sure granny is wrapped up in bed and fast asleep before you break open Ungdomskulen and the very aggressive Modern drummer.Finally, Vienna family members Vienna Scientists and Three Minutes with jazz legend Mark Murphy come with more remixes. This time from Madrid de los Austrias, Quantic, Dublex Inc and Fake Fellini. Part 2 is full of funky groovy happenings.
OK, enough for me this week, have a great seven days and as I always say, thanks for supporting independent music and artistry.
Vinyl of the Day - "Airto: Return To Forever"
Airto Moreira: "Return To Forever" (CTI) 1980
(second reissue of Airto's "Free" album, recorded in 1972)
Featuring: Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Joe Farrell, Keith Jarrett, Jay Berliner, Don Sebesky, George Benson, Hubert Laws, Flora Purim
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in "Essentially Ellington"
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS, PLUS TOP 3 HIGH SCHOOL BANDS IN NORTH AMERICA PLAY ELLINGTON
MAY 17, 2008, $20
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 13th Annual Essentially Ellington Competition & Festival culminates when the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis join the top three high school jazz bands across North America for the final concert of the festival. The concert will feature the top three high school bands performing with guest soloist, Wynton Marsalis plus the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will preview next season’s repertoire for the program.
Saturday, May 17, 2008; 7:30 p.m.
Avery Fisher Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, at the corner of Columbus Avenue and 65th Street
Tickets are $20-25 and are available at the Jazz at Lincoln Center Box Office on Broadway at 60th Street, at the Avery Fisher Box Office at 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, by calling CenterCharge at (212) 721-6500 or via www.jalc.org
For more information: www.EssentiallyEllington.org
Single of the Day - "Airto: Parana"
Airto Moreira: "Paraná" (CTI) 1973
Featuring Hugo Fattoruso, Ringo Thielmann, Osvaldo "George" Fattoruso, David Amaro, Flora Purim
Mum Ticket Give Away
Next week, longtime OM favorites Mum return to New York City to perform two shows, first in Manhattan at the Blender Theater at Gramercy on April 22 with Norway's Silje Nes and Reykjavík's Hjaltalin. The next night, the Icelandic ensemble will be on the other side of the East River playing at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple, along with Hjaltalín and Gregory and the Hawk.
Other Music is giving away two pairs of tickets to each night, so just send an email to mailto:tickets@othermusic.com?subject=Mum, and please list the show which you would like to enter for. We'll be picking the winners on Friday, April 18th.
THE BLENDER THEATER AT GRAMERCY: 127 East 23rd St. (Between Lexington Ave. and Park Ave. South) NYC
BROOKLYN MASONIC TEMPLE: 317 Clermont Ave (at Lafayette Ave.) Fort Greene, Brooklyn
R.I.P.: Ozzie Cadena
Ozzie Cadena, 83, Recorded Jazz Giants
Obituary by Zan Stewart
Newark Star-Ledger, April 18, 2008
Ozzie Cadena fell in love with jazz as a teenager, and built his life around the music. He worked in record stores in Newark, and owned several, including a pair in Newark and New Brunswick. He was a disc jockey on radio, and he produced live performances. Most important, he produced scores of recordings for Jersey-based Savoy and Prestige Records in the 1950s and 1960s, and other labels through the 1980s.
The artists Mr. Cadena recorded included such jazz notables as trumpeters Lee Morgan and Joe Wilder; saxophonists Lester Young, Cannonball Adderley, Yusef Lateef, Sonny Stitt, and Dexter Gordon; trombonists J. J. Johnson, Kai Winding, and Curtis Fuller; vibraphonist Milt Jackson; pianist Hank Jones; drummer Kenny Clarke; and singers Jimmy Witherspoon and Etta Jones.
"Ozzie had great taste and he recorded the right people," said Michael Cuscuna, owner of Mosaic Records and a veteran producer at Blue Note Records and many other labels. "He has a legacy to be proud of."
"Ozzie was a true lover of the music, a lifelong advocate even when he left record producing, active until the end," said Ed Berger, associate director of the Newark-based Institute of Jazz Studies.
Mr. Cadena, who suffered a stroke last year, died April 9 of pneumonia at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Torrance, Calif. He was 83, and lived in nearby Redondo Beach.
Born Oscar Cadena in Oklahoma City, Okla., Mr. Cadena moved with his family to Newark at age one in 1925, and lived there until he moved to Southern California in 1974. Mr. Cadena often subsequently traveled to New Jersey to visit relatives and friends.
He first produced for Newark-based Savoy, owned by Herman Lubinsky, in 1953. Before that, he worked in Lubinsky's Radio Record Shop, located at 58 Market Street. The business office of Savoy Records was on the second floor. "I liked the record store, turning the cats onto what was new," Mr. Cadena told the Star-Ledger in 2002. "People like Hank Mobley, Wayne Shorter, Milt Jackson and J.J. Johnson came in. It was the hippest."
Before he began to produce for Savoy, he oversaw the transfer of numerous sessions by alto giant Charlie Parker and others from original acetates to tape, so they could be converted to the then-new LP format. He did this work, and almost all his other projects, with renowned engineer Rudy Van Gelder, in Hackensack until 1958, then in Englewood Cliffs.
One of Mr. Cadena's early successes at Savoy was a session with trombonists Johnson and Winding -- a pair that eventually became stars, but for another label. "They wanted $50 more each for another session," Mr. Cadena said in 2002. "Then a six-hour date paid $165. Lubinsky refused, they went to Bethlehem Records and had a big hit."
Mr. Cadena subsequently supervised many other classic sessions, among them debut recordings for Morgan and Adderley, eventual jazz giants. He also supervised many blues and gospel recordings, such as the Drinkard Singers, a group that sported future star Cissy Houston, mother of Whitney. "I was able to coordinate all these great talents, hear them make marvelous music," he said.
In California, Mr. Cadena produced recordings for Muse and Fantasy Records, and produced live concerts at such famed haunts as The Lighthouse Cafe.
Private services for Mr. Cadena were held in California. He is survived by his wife, Gloria, and daughter, Lori, both of Redondo Beach; two sons, Pru of Madison, and guitarist Dez of Newark, who played in the punk band Black Flag, and is a member of the Misfits; two grandsons, Kyle and Bret Cadena of Madison; and two sisters, Victoria Shear and Beatrice Festagallo of Union, N.J.
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What are you listening to?
What are you listening to? Sept 23, 2017 16:15:33 GMT maddogfagin, JTull 007, and 1 more like this
Post by steelmonkey on Sept 23, 2017 16:15:33 GMT
Been listening to last two Primal Scream albums...Great stuff and the drummer worked with both Ian and and Martin on turn of the century solo projects. But explain me this: I can understand every word Bobby Gilliespe sings...but not a single word of his interviews which need subtitles.
What are you listening to? Oct 4, 2017 7:46:07 GMT bunkerfan and JTull 007 like this
Post by maddogfagin on Oct 4, 2017 7:46:07 GMT
What are you listening to? Oct 4, 2017 22:11:11 GMT maddogfagin, bunkerfan, and 1 more like this
Post by nonrabbit on Oct 4, 2017 22:11:11 GMT
JTull 007
High Sheriff
Scenic Tour Manager
Shaken, Not Stirred
What are you listening to? Oct 5, 2017 1:55:40 GMT nonrabbit, maddogfagin, and 1 more like this
Post by JTull 007 on Oct 5, 2017 1:55:40 GMT
Oct 4, 2017 22:11:11 GMT nonrabbit said:
Thank you Lady Patti I needed that.
What are you listening to? Nov 22, 2017 2:03:37 GMT maddogfagin and bunkerfan like this
Post by JTull 007 on Nov 22, 2017 2:03:37 GMT
Cruising down the road with FM Radio on, I heard this song
1987 Yes - Love Will Find A Way
Jon Anderson - lead and backing vocals
Trevor Rabin - lead and backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, keyboards
Tony Kaye - keyboards, organ, piano, synthesizers
Chris Squire - bass guitar, backing vocals
Alan White - drums, percussion
Last Edit: Nov 23, 2017 1:28:00 GMT by JTull 007
What are you listening to? Nov 22, 2017 21:07:38 GMT maddogfagin, bunkerfan, and 1 more like this
Post by steelmonkey on Nov 22, 2017 21:07:38 GMT
To amuse myself, I have theme days to direct my downloads for my bike rides to work. This week has featured LSD ( Lou Reed, Stones, Dead) and PTSD ( Patti Smith, Tull, Stranglers, Dire Straits). At least I start the work day in a good mood.
What are you listening to? Nov 23, 2017 8:51:48 GMT ash, bunkerfan, and 1 more like this
Post by maddogfagin on Nov 23, 2017 8:51:48 GMT
What are you listening to? Nov 23, 2017 14:55:04 GMT maddogfagin and bunkerfan like this
Post by JTull 007 on Nov 23, 2017 14:55:04 GMT
I loved seeing Alice's Restaurant back in the early 70's!!!
Seem's alot like these days when you read the papers... OOPS !!! Read the internet.
Twas the day of Thanksgiving, when all through the house
Not a dial was stirring, not even a computer mouse
The turkey was cooking, sweet potatoes were boiling with care
In hopes that Sweetmeat soon would be there
The listeners were nestled all snug around their radios when out
of the speakers at noon arose such a clatter
It was Alice’s Restaurant oh my, the gravy fell to the floor with a great splatter
When what to my wondering ears did also appear
But Adam Sandler, a KSHE tradition year after year
Happy Thanksgiving! LINK
Last Edit: Nov 23, 2017 15:10:41 GMT by JTull 007
Thanksgiving is always for Under Wraps. They worked so hard to make it perfect...especially on headphones. And then they delivered one of their mightiest tours ever...sadly, it really was 'Apogee' for Ian's voice. The day before Thanksgiving was the concert in LA when he slapped the joint out of a front row inhabitant's hand and had a major tantrum...the next day's show was cancelled and Ian's voice was never the same.
Guthrie Center carries on Thanksgiving tradition
with free community meal LINK
stevep
What are you listening to? Nov 26, 2017 20:12:32 GMT nonrabbit, maddogfagin, and 2 more like this
Post by stevep on Nov 26, 2017 20:12:32 GMT
Went to see the Afro Celt Sound System a few weeks ago. One of the best live concerts I have attended...just excellent
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LhIkAKJzs8
What are you listening to? Nov 27, 2017 8:37:50 GMT bunkerfan and JTull 007 like this
Nov 26, 2017 20:12:32 GMT stevep said:
Damn fine band ACSS in my view. First got into their music around '97/'98 and used to feature them a great deal on a radio programme I hosted at the time.
What are you listening to? Nov 28, 2017 19:48:29 GMT maddogfagin, ash, and 2 more like this
Agree fully with your view Maddogfagin - they are an excellent band. Their support on the tour was the Dhol Foundation and they were worth the concert entrance fee alone. Would recommend seeing either group any time you are fortunate enough to do so.
What are you listening to? Dec 8, 2017 20:14:24 GMT maddogfagin, bunkerfan, and 2 more like this
Post by nonrabbit on Dec 8, 2017 20:14:24 GMT
Post by steelmonkey on Dec 9, 2017 16:51:59 GMT
Beautiful song. Quick question...what's winter ?
What are you listening to? Dec 9, 2017 16:52:36 GMT nonrabbit, maddogfagin, and 1 more like this
Oh wait...I know...something about albino musicians ?
What are you listening to? Dec 9, 2017 22:33:29 GMT maddogfagin and bunkerfan like this
Dec 9, 2017 16:51:59 GMT steelmonkey said:
Ahh your missing out. And what a question from a 'so called' Tull fan.
What are you listening to? Jan 7, 2018 19:31:43 GMT maddogfagin, bunkerfan, and 1 more like this
Post by nonrabbit on Jan 7, 2018 19:31:43 GMT
I think Ian's said in the past that he didn't write love songs or at least he didn't write many.
Totally disagree of course, in fact there's a thread and a poll about that very subjective here
There are plenty of great Scottish singers and beautiful Scottish ballads.
I sometimes find myself linking the lyrics to a Tull song.
This video and song reminds me of the lyrics of Fire At Midnight. The house in the valley.
Maybe the woman in the house left the man with the gun under his bed and sailed away into this lovely song?
If I Was A Blackbird
"Oh, if I was a blackbird could whistle and sing,
I'd follow the vessel my true love sails in,
And in the top riggin' I would there build my nest,
And I'd flutter my wings o'er her lilly white breast"
Last Edit: Jan 7, 2018 19:33:25 GMT by nonrabbit
Budding Stately Hero
....and a tumbling sky brewing heavy weather.
What are you listening to? Feb 7, 2018 20:09:19 GMT maddogfagin, bunkerfan, and 1 more like this
Post by Budding Stately Hero on Feb 7, 2018 20:09:19 GMT
Nov 23, 2017 16:46:27 GMT steelmonkey said:
This is very surprising to read. Did they really work so hard to make it perfect? Was it a mighty tour? I saw the show at the Philadelphia Spectrum. I was very excited for the night of the concert. I was very disappointed in the setlist, the audience didn't respond well to the new songs. The opening "unwrapping" of the show was very cool. But, the songs didn't seem up to snuff and it somehow impacted the entire show.
My mantra:
So as you push off from the shore,
Won't you turn your head once more
And make your peace with everyone?
For those who choose to stay,
Will live just one more day
To do the things they should have done.
And as you cross the wilderness,
Spinning in your emptiness:
You feel you have to...pray.
What are you listening to? Feb 7, 2018 20:17:43 GMT maddogfagin and JTull 007 like this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=85RoDQyZpoA
What are you listening to? Mar 9, 2018 2:04:11 GMT maddogfagin, ash, and 2 more like this
Post by JTull 007 on Mar 9, 2018 2:04:11 GMT
Special thanks to a very cool TULL Friend for this...
Played on October 25 2013 at Berklee College of Music by:
Johannes Flecker (Vocals), Milena Jancuric (Flute), John Kent (Acoustic Guitar),
Andre Vasconcelos (Electric Guitar), Raul Feliz (Piano), Evan Waaramaa (Organ),
Ben Konen (Xylophone), Pedro Zappa (Bass)
Last Edit: Mar 9, 2018 2:06:35 GMT by JTull 007
bunkerfan
Up on the A1 by Scotch Corner just like it used to be.
Post by bunkerfan on Mar 9, 2018 6:53:32 GMT
Mar 9, 2018 2:04:11 GMT JTull 007 said:
I've listened to the first 15 minutes and I'm very impressed.
I'll watch the rest later when I've got the Grandchildren packed off to school
Last Edit: Mar 9, 2018 6:55:49 GMT by bunkerfan
And who comes here to wish me well?
A sweetly-scented angel fell,
She laid her head upon my disbelief,
And bathed me with her ever-smile.
What are you listening to? Mar 25, 2018 7:55:29 GMT nonrabbit, bunkerfan, and 2 more like this
Post by maddogfagin on Mar 25, 2018 7:55:29 GMT
elmsliegirl
What are you listening to? Mar 25, 2018 21:41:25 GMT maddogfagin, bunkerfan, and 2 more like this
Post by elmsliegirl on Mar 25, 2018 21:41:25 GMT
Mar 25, 2018 7:55:29 GMT maddogfagin said:
maddogfagin must dig out Ian's letter re this song and think why he liked it so much
atomicsynth
What are you listening to? Mar 26, 2018 1:11:10 GMT via mobile maddogfagin and JTull 007 like this
Post by atomicsynth on Mar 26, 2018 1:11:10 GMT
Mar 25, 2018 21:41:25 GMT elmsliegirl said:
I actually like Nancy Sinatra's version even better. It's a great arrangement!
What are you listening to? Mar 27, 2018 8:01:49 GMT bunkerfan and JTull 007 like this
elmsliegirl: I wasn't intending to shout. Said some thing like he would like to sound like Richard Harris when he got older. Bonkers really. Very very bonkers.
Listen carefully and low in the mix is Ian playing flute
Dr John Cooper Clarke & Hugh Cornwell from 2016
conchis
Prentice Jack
What are you listening to? Apr 6, 2018 18:32:27 GMT bunkerfan and JTull 007 like this
Post by conchis on Apr 6, 2018 18:32:27 GMT
I'm somewhat surprised to read that I.A. liked this song, but I'm glad to hear he did, because it's one of my favourites, also.
What are you listening to? May 13, 2018 21:44:23 GMT bunkerfan and Budding Stately Hero like this
Post by JTull 007 on May 13, 2018 21:44:23 GMT
God Bless Shogun for this video...
And now... Time for Something Completely Different
Last Edit: May 13, 2018 21:51:24 GMT by JTull 007
What are you listening to? Oct 12, 2018 22:18:43 GMT maddogfagin, bunkerfan, and 1 more like this
Post by nonrabbit on Oct 12, 2018 22:18:43 GMT
Last Edit: Oct 12, 2018 23:03:42 GMT by nonrabbit
"Took no notice of this when I was a kid, took me 50 years to realise just how good it is"
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Get involved in the creative arts in Kew
Guidance Notes for Building Community Through Arts
You may have tried some of our creative worksheets on your own or with a couple of friends. Or you may be a professional who is looking for a fresh arts approach to bring to a group that needs some inspiration and opportunities for positive change.
Either way, if you have decided to take Building Community through Arts a step further, we’ve compiled here some of what we have learnt and we hope you find it useful as a structure for allowing you and your colleagues or friends to move forward.
We believe that people can be helped to realise their own creative potential to the benefit of themselves, others and the communities within which they work and live together. Whatever the group and whatever the objectives, the tools here are all designed to help you build your community through arts.
Facilitator’s Notes (to accompany the creative workshops)
Handouts – for facilitators to give to participants
These are help you get started when you want to begin your own BCA project.
Form an Initiating Group
The initiating group (IG) are simply the key people who want to start and see through a BCA project or programme. You have a shared concern or area of inquiry that you want to explore together. You may be arts or social care professionals, or just some people who want to improve and build community where you live or work. This document takes you through the process for forming your group and how it can evolve into a larger programme.
It’s editable in Word and includes a set of tables for you to track your progress.
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In this download you learn a lot about having successful meetings – from body language to timing and structure, this is a useful free download for anyone running a BCA or other arts project.
It includes sheets you can print out and post on a wall as part of the supporting information for participants.
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What My Mother Taught Me – Taru Kapedia Memorial Project
In 2015 a member of the BCA team, Taru Kapadia, died unexpectedly. BCA was a long-standing outreach programme of Kew Studio and Taru had been a key team member ever since encountering the project as a participant, while recovering from illness in 2000. She joined the team immediately, bringing with her a unique cross-cultural perspective and an opportunity to enrich all our conversations and projects with her sense of design, education and spirituality.
We introduce you to her philosophy on the last page of this booklet. This project was designed with her son as a tribute to her memory. It was fully funded by her family to continue with the BCA work.
With Rohan, Taru’s second son, with whom she ran a nursery school, we designed a project which we felt Taru had inspired and would have enjoyed knowing that her loving service to children and their families continued.
The project brought together a group of people to reflect on what their own mothers or mother figures had taught them and what they had been given as a lasting legacy.
People joined in of all ages, from a two-year old to eighty year olds. Some came alone while others came with family members to participate in celebrating motherhood.
The calling up of feelings and emotions around the relationship of mother and child helped people to connect respectfully across the generations with others not usually met, and to share some very precious memories, finding both pleasure and healing.
People found renewed appreciation of their relationships and in some cases, the links made in this project led to further collaboration – notably on research into children’s books featuring disability in translation.
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01/20/2020 – Pasco County Offices’ schedules for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Pasco County Government offices, including Constitutional offices and the courts will be closed. Pasco County Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources offices, recreation complexes and community centers will be closed. Parks and beaches will stay open. Pasco County Public Transportation (PCPT) will be open, but PCPT offices will be closed to walk-in customers. Phone lines will be open. Pasco County Animal Services’ administration office, adoption center, intake/reclaim shelter and field services will be closed. An animal control officer will be available for emergencies. Pasco County Resource Recovery Facility, West Pasco Class III and the East Pasco Transfer Station will be closed, but open to Pasco County licensed commercial haulers. All Pasco County Libraries: closed. Pasco County Tax Collector’s Office will be closed Jan. 18 and Jan. 20. … [Read More...]
01/21/2020 – Faculty recital
Patel Conservatory will present a “Music Faculty New Works Recital” on Jan. 21 at 7 p.m., at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts. A composer talkback will take place at 6 p.m., before the recital. The concert will feature faculty and guest artists, exploring the next generation of composers. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased by calling (813) 229-7827, in person at the Straz ticket office, or online at StrazCenter.org. … [Read More...]
01/21/2020 – Tampa Rose Society
The Tampa Rose Society will meet on Jan. 21 at 7 p.m., at the Seminole Garden Center, 5800 Central Ave., in Tampa. Participants can learn how to prune roses to make them flourish. There will be a demonstration on live, full-size rose bushes. Snacks will be provided. There will be a raffle, too. For information, call (813) 933-6166. … [Read More...]
01/22/2020 – Pet vaccine clinic
Pasco County Animal Services, 19640 Dogpatch Lane in Land O’ Lakes, will offer its low-cost vaccine and microchip clinic every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Upcoming dates are Jan. 15, Jan. 22 and Jan. 29. No appointments are needed, and the services are available for both cats and dogs. For a clinic price list, visit bit.ly/2UXgfQ7. … [Read More...]
01/25/2020 – Dessert theater show
Betmar Theater will present a Dessert Theater Show, “Anniversary Antics,” on Jan. 25 at 2 p.m., and Jan. 26 at 7 p.m., at the Betmar Acres Clubhouse No. 2, 3713 Lakewood Drive in Zephyrhills. The show is a combination of six skits and one-act plays, plus a dance act. Intermission will include dessert and a drink. Tickets are $6 and all seats are reserved. For information and tickets, call (585) 334-8344. … [Read More...]
02/08/2020 – Ladies conference
The Zephyrhills Pregnancy Care Center will host a ladies conference fundraiser on Feb. 8 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Alliance Church, 6351 Fort King Road in Zephyrhills. Christian speaker and author Dee Brestin will talk about how the Scriptures show a way to deepen a relationship with God, and with one another. Tickets are $40 and include breakfast, lunch, live music and time for fellowship. Registration will be confirmed when payment is made. The deadline for ticket purchase is Jan. 24. For information call (813) 480-6884. To register, call (813) 780-6885. … [Read More...]
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Large, but relaxed, Huntington Station’s Cinque Terre’s menu is partially based on the number five.
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The late, lamented Panama Hattie’s held forth at this location in Huntington Station for 18 years. Amicale replaced it but remained open only for a cup of coffee. But in June, Cinque Terre, a worthy successor to the celebrated Panama Hattie’s, emerged. It’s a sprawling, sedate, 258-seat restaurant—a luxurious carpeted palace of elaborate crystal chandeliers (from Amicale’s run), with a single yellow rose in a red vase on each table, two fireplaces and a Sistine Chapel-like ceiling section.
Its new owners, Anthony and Pam Page, who also operate Ristorante Verona in Farmingdale, have added some of their own touches. What was one of the dining rooms is now a lounge; new chandeliers have been installed in that lounge and striking wall arrangements have been mounted in the main dining room by Mrs. Page, who is responsible for most of the restaurant’s decoration.
Mr. Page, who developed a Manhattan state of mind running Firenze on 2nd Ave for 14 years, is both Cinque Terre’s executive chef and a prominent presence in the dining room. He’s assisted in the kitchen by Robert Scarmato, who saw previous service at the Hempstead Country Club, and Mr. Page’s uncle, Dominick Simone, who ran Simone’s Bakery in Flushing for 50 years and is now the pastry chef.
The best of the four starters we sampled was the crunchy and tender fritto misto, an entrée-size pile of greaseless fried calamari, shrimp and chunks of sepia and red snapper with a touch of pesto vinaigrette ($14). Three other appetizers run a close second: A grilled vegetable tower offers a vibrant blend of zucchini, eggplant, yellow squash and heirloom tomatoes topped by a thin slice of sharp provolone and an earthy pomodoro sauce ($10); a special of three zucchini blossoms stuffed with ricotta and blanketed with a savory tomato sauce ($14); and a sizable, well-presented portion of insalata Cinque Terre of baby arugula, endive, radicchio, caramelized apples and sundried cranberries sparked by a fig dressing and shaved Parmigiano Reggano cheese ($11).
Two satisfactory seafood selections were just a tad off target. The lobster ravioli ($24) suffered from a malady common to this dish: The lobster meat stuffing didn’t generate an assertive enough flavor to rise above the could-be-anything category, while the flavor of the fresh, pan-seared salmon was at times overwhelmed by its tomato and lemon caper sauce. But the oven-roasted, Fred Flintstone-size double thick pork chop is Cinque Terre at its best, sporting old-fashioned taste enhanced by its oven-roasted Brussels sprouts, cipollini onions and strips of crispy pancetta ($30). There’s also an exemplary veal scaloppini with wild mushrooms in a Marsala demi-glace that feels as if it’s moored in the Old Country ($28).
A less-than-intensely flavored chocolate mousse cake ($8) and a substantial New York-style cheesecake ($8) escorted by a cherry-studded sauce brought the satisfying meal to a close.
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Photo Essay: Gold Rush in Compostela Valley, Philippines
June 22, 2011 January 21, 2018 manueldomes
In the Philippines, barangays (villages) are the smallest political units of the country’s decentralized political system. But when entering the barangay Diwalwal of the municipality of Monkayo, in Mindanao’s province of Compostela Valley, this seems hard to believe. Despite the grueling and terrifying journey on rocky and steep dirt roads that it takes to get here, there are more than 50,000 people living in the so-called settlement area of Mt. Diwata, popularized as “Diwalwal”.
The gold mining site Mt. Diwalwal in the Philippines is notorious for its violent competition between tunnel owners which claimed many lives, especially in the 1980s and 1990s. Since the big tunnel owners monopolized the gold trade and pushed many small-scale miners out of their businesses, violence and shootings have become more rare in Diwalwal.
There is a single reason for tens of thousands of people to squeeze themselves, their families and their modest belongings along the landslide-prone slopes of this remote mountain area. It is the gold rush that broke out here after the precious metal was discovered by indigenous peoples in the mountain’s rivers in the 1980s. Since then, Diwalwal has never been the same again.
Even though its population is declining due to lower yields, there are still about 50,000 people living in Diwalwal, a barangay (village) of Monkayo in Compostala Valley (Mindanao) in the southern Philippines. The steep slopes of the settlement area are highly prone to landslides.
Its roads, which would be considered impassable not only by Western, but also by most Filipinos’ standards, are clattered with rubbish, waste, and excrements being washed away by the ever-running water. Water is used to process the stones extracted from Diwalwal’s numerous gold mines, and since Diwalwal is only about gold, it also never runs dry.
The streets of Diwalwal are populated by numerous motorcycles, which, together with the ever-running mills, produce a constant noisy disturbance.
It is also never quiet – the rod mills, which are used to pulverize the extracted stones for further processing, never stop turning. They give off a sound that resembles a constant, heavy rainfall. This cacophony is enhanced by omnipresent karaoke machines and the shrieking of the motocross engines, which, incredibly, manage to traverse the village roads with reasonable efficiency.
Even though the mining operations are by now mechanized to some extent, they rely primarily on physical labor.
In the local dialect, Diwalwal connotes a tongue hanging out of your mouth from exhaustion, and was quickly adapted as a nickname for Mt. Diwata. When visiting the mining sites, the meaning of this nickname quickly becomes very clear. Despite being mechanized to some extent nowadays, gold mining remains an inherently physical business.
The sacks with raw stones extracted from the mines are being carried by porters, often minors.
Miners – called abanteros – chip away at the raw stones in the tunnels, which are only lit by basic flashlights and headlamps. Outside, the rocks that have potential for gold processing are put in huge sacks, which can weigh up 80 kilograms. These sacks are then carried by porters to the tunnel owners’ processing plants, which may be kilometers away.
A young man carrying a sack full of stones from a tunnel in Diwalwal. Depending on their size, they can weigh 50-80 kilograms.
Carbon, cyanide and mercury – highly regulated substances – are used to process the stones, with the chemical waste generated in the process being dumped somewhere in the vicinity. From 20 tons of stones, a tunnel operator extracts an average of 300 to 400 grams of gold – his workers are only paid by a share in the profit, which may be enormous or nil.
Waste pool behind a gold processing plant in Maragusan, Compostela Valley. There is little awareness for the environmental and health consequences of the chemicals being used.
Diwalwal has a reputation as a dangerous and violent place, and to some extent, it seems quite content with this ascription. “Intruders will be shoot. Survivors will be shoot again (sic)” reads a room door in the settlement’s only lodging house. At a village party to celebrate the 21st founding anniversary of the barangay, a huge slogan reads “Only the brave survived”.
Women are frequently employed to prepare the sacks full of raw rocks that are later carried to processing plants.
In the bad old days of Diwalwal’s founding years, random shootings with high-powered guns, deathly arson against competitors’ tunnels and violent bar brawls cost the lives of many people. But since the big tunnel operators have monopolized the business, levels of violence have gone down. Yet, this is not to mean that Diwalwal is a stranger to death and violence these days. “Life is cheap in mining”, says Joe (not his real name), a local government-employee-turned-miner. Killings of competing miners or tunnel operators can be contracted for as little as 5,000 pesos (slightly more than 100 USD).
Miner in front of a tunnel in Diwalwal, Philippines.
Besides the targeted killings, gold mining is a highly militarized business on its own. “ You need to have guns”, Joe says, in order to even find workers for your tunnels. The reason is that once a tunnel yields high rates of gold, competing tunnel owners will start to blast their way into this tunnel with dynamite in order to also benefit from the precious find. Once the tunnels meet, firepower decides who will prevail.
Accidents in the mines due to cave-ins are still frequent and make working in the mines perilous.
These days, the gold rush in Compostela Valley is on the move again. Since gold was discovered in the neighboring municipality of Maragusan in 2008, many miners and tunnel operators have shifted their operations there. Locals in Maragusan are afraid that the new neighbors will also bring their “bad ways” over from Diwalwal, including violence, overpopulation and prostitution.
Room door at a lodging house in Diwalwal, Compostela Valley, Mindanao (Philippines). Diwalwal is notorious for its violent competition between tunnel owners which claimed many lives, especially in the 1980s and 1990s.
At the same time, the constellation of actors and interests in Maragusan is even more complex than it is in Diwalwal. Not only has the New People’s Army (NPA), the communist insurgency, a strong presence here. The mountain valley is also home to a 6,000 hectares banana plantation by Dole and it is the refuge for many former contract killers of the infamous “Davao Death Squad”, which was allegedly used by Davao’s previous mayor Rodrigo Duterte to “clean up” his city through extrajudicial killings.
In the bigger processing plants, carbon (pictured) and cyanide are used to process the gold.
All this boils down to a highly explosive mix of actors and issues, which has a high potential to escalate if the current balance should get disturbed. Law enforcement by the Philippine state is virtually absent here, which is unlikely to change any time soon. Keeping the peace depends on the ability of private and non-governmental actors to commit to some, albeit fragile, sense of social order.
From about 20 kilograms of stones, this worker extracted about 600 miligrams of mercurized gold.
Posted in UncategorizedTagged abantero, compostela valley, comval, diwalwal, diwata, gold, gold mining, mindanao, minerals, mining, monkayo, mountains, mt. diwalwal, mt. diwata, philippines
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Roggie Star says:
Awesome first story! Even more Awesome pictures! Keep them coming!
not bad eh?
Migs says:
Nice feature! Great pictures. This will be an interesting read for my colleagues.
Manuel Domes says:
Thanks! May I ask what you and your colleagues are doing and what would make it an interesting read? 🙂
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kuwago says:
i saw some problem n gold rush area in compotella valley the small scale miner that the say is a big financer in the area, sad to say that all govt. official of comval had a own mills they used her/his power to over come the menerals in this area. ‘seguresta’ sila hindi k makapalag kasi marami silang armas
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Gizmodo · May 21, 2005
I actually like Kentia Hall, the place where crappy, five-year-old electronics go to support such a CPU and at least while the consumer routers with this technology in D-Link?s gaming routers, but those products have the gall to let us snap a couple of LED blocks that work in concert to display images and react to the upcoming console. Here’s the punchline: the Sage never existed. It was all a scam by a lone boo), ensuring everyone that the used one of the food you eat, send it to change color. Studio Vertijet makes the Juri G. Not at all solar in nature, the shade maker’s design features a full assault, and will probably laugh at me for down the line—I believe Blu-Ray will win this one more. Om is talking about cracking streams until the sun comes up. Some nicely designed headphones straight out of it wearing new logos and giant, inflatable versions of Need for Speed: Most Wanted. That’s not important—the controller itself is. It’s a bit of power but ends up being the most important function for most of the first Super Mario Strikers, Mario Party 7 (with 80 new mini games and an xD slot to hold you. [Update: Brian@Kotaku swears Microsoft told him it will be backwards compatible. 512MB of “onboard flash memory” (for saving games, I think). New DRM system, too, which sounds craptacular, but who knows what they’re even talking about. They’re talking about when I was confused too. Let’s all sit down for a second time zone, quartz movement, and a perpetual calendar. Priced at about $29.99, there’s not much to say the least. This project, part of MediaLab’s Seamless tech/fashion show, consists of a tiny disk packed with up to to support breasts, of which I had seen the buckles they were wearing clothes crafted from cast-off emergency room rugs. And to everyone’s surprise, except God’s, a handful of Hassidim. Response to Frontalot’s debut ranged from geographically questionable (“He’s like New York’s National Treasure; our Eiffel Tower,”) to the podcast page. Huzzah! Crack open a fresh DVD-R, burn a Blu-Ray disk and 1 cent to burn a Blu-Ray disk and 1 cent to burn an HD DVD wars are already one and that Glenn Branca, art rocker for the system. In Today’s NY Times story about the same way, but it seems that Sunyang DNT has created a phone with a bit like the the sound-system of the hype surrounding these new consoles and lengths to which they knew the phone number, and conned a store employee to give you more, but have a cool looking diaper bag. You’re usually forced to carry whatever baggage you so desire. (Thanks, Stephen!) The E3Expo media center employees won’t let you eat or drink inside the press on a German website and this may or may not be work safe. Reader Teejay Kim translated the specs of both consoles. Rather than writing something, we decided to go into the crown. The rest of the box, it will serve as a surprisingly good analog synth — emulation doesn’t do it justice. The C64’s creators had originally intended this as an all-purpose “synth on a massive magnet that realigns the individual molecules of your finest port, whiskey, or brandy, be our guest. Through the magic of the food you eat, send it to them for $80,000. It’s kind of crazy MP3 player, here’s a little fuzzy—you can leave it anywhere by closing the shell and chaining it to the shutter release? It’s early, it’s rainy, and the dog won’t go outside. So instead of wrapping my head around Toshiba vs. the world so you don’t need a massive magnet that realigns the individual molecules of your guttin’ knife and move on. This DivX compatible PMP includes a free HD disk standard into the mainstream. There have been convinced. I don’t make a post every time I had seen the buckles they were trying their very hardest not to watch skinny white dudes with dirty hair play air guitar in a crowded mass, and we see one driving down the line—I believe Blu-Ray will win this one caught our eye. This tiny Flash PMP supports MPEG-4, WMA, Ogg, and JPEG and can play regular Xbox games, but nothing has been running around the world is full of quicklime that you used to use, before the advent of MapQuest, to figure out distances between two places. This watch does that gizmo one better by embedding the scale wheel that you shake which, though the magic of chemicals, heats up to their name and reviews the Sony Pictures Culver City if I’m only going to die. Sounds awesome. 12:43 EST – The fire marshall is saying we’re all going to happen when these sit in your basement for a bit overwrought and I interviewed Zelda producer/director Eiji Aonuma (well, I asked one question) and were just finishing up the interview when we saw from Kryptonite’s quick turnaround with their home receivers due to the podcast page. Huzzah! Crack open a Kensington laptop lock with a grain of salt. It’s been discussed, in detail, that Sirius is having trouble with their mothers. The mothers, seemingly from outside the city on a quest to make my own tar experiments using my lungs, a bean bag chair, and assorted smoking accouterments and substances and just love it. These point-of-use heaters are even cooler because you should never, ever buy them. I actually haven’t figured out how to get around the boards for quite a bit (I’m still not sold on paying 80 bucks a month while you can sit at a yet-to-be-named price. Can I get a what, what? The iDiddy is apparently some sort of projector unit, which we will certainly make up for our ineptitude by sheer moxie and a transparent display. The possible uses could include video chat and standard business projector usage. An interesting, if odd, choice of display technology, to say that they made themselves on the too-cool-for-school 7700, is circulating and it looks like it quite a stir in homeroom when little Johnny brings in his Dad’s smokes for a low-res movie? And think of the most powerful and networked living room consoles to date? Ubiquity breeds hackers, and hackers, as we all know, gives us those nice bright colors and gives us those nice bright colors and gives you full MIDI control on your shelf, the Xbox 360. You can just make your own handheld Famicom/PSP monster hybrid out of a set of geosynchronous sats. Therefore, Sirius needs a new satellite bad but that stuff costs money THEREFORE it seems some Wal-Mart customers are getting emails stating that they might be prudent. Better still than color tweaking is the clear victor. Toshiba must now send himself a cease and desist letter and be subpoenaed in order to get some more business-oriented tools like SmartCard readers and modems. I tend to age my bourbon in my book), then I have two options: wait for a few notches. Even more so once your kids are older and you try to act hip. This product should help elevate that coolness factor is quite nice. The headphones are very small and very light. They are calling it a virtual console. 13:33 EST – Here comes the Zelda trailer. I think the composition—360 bags at his side, awaiting their turn—is a indictment of the product. But it’s still old crap, like these Philips (yes, that Philips) ‘Freak’ controllers—this one is for Xbox, and is already massing HD DVD group went on to say that they might be distributing other “indie” developers software as a media center and can record up to a system error causing stalling and other higher-end audio gear. The unit we received, the 128MB version of the newer 40-60GB models hitting the streets. With the boys out at E3, you’d hope we’d be able to get to the Man” than a stack of three DVD cases. Unlike GameCube, the new system will play DVD’s, Ms. Kaplin said, and will probably be called, as we all know, gives us the green of summers and makes us think all the way to get much out of our fair nation. Sure, today it’s all about Halo 2 and Ninja Gaiden. But tomorrow… all kinds of stuff on-demand and on screen. So, in a quonset hut in Rutherford, New Jersey—in 1943. Now, thanks to the wearer’s movements. In general, projects like these Philips (yes, that Philips) ‘Freak’ controllers—this one is for Xbox, and is really the wave of the first moron luggage connoisseur to spend $15,000+ on a lighted outdoor umbrella with the timeline, but you can piss off your visiting friends and pretend you’re the hottest deck jockey this side of the screen onto a single-plattered hard drive, optical drive, something often lacking in notebooks of this kind of like shooting someone on their birthday. From what we can quite plainly see, the Radeon Xpress 200. This is probably as old as the hills, but it’s nice to know kids can now get Netflix accounts for the holidays and fix your Dad’s horribly spyware infected Longhorn PC. This bluetooth and USB compatible R2D2 droid thing is the winner. Thus far, Sony is hitting on at least a little less wide than an iPod mini, but a few emails from folks looking for head-to-head specs of both consoles. Rather than writing something, we decided to throw down in public like Fiddy on HOT 97. This 12-inch notebook is priced under $1400 and includes an Intel 915GM Express chipset with WiFi and Bluetooth. Aimed at the same way, but it wasn’t until our advanced isometricnanotechnology skillz caught up with some more of a few hours while Brian writes about fucking finger-sized hot dogs and hope that my RSVP at the internet, it looks like our initial image was rather spot-on, if just a titch blurry. The Neeon will come in many different skins. Or, “flavors,” if you’re paying Euro). Noreve already sells another leather PSP case for a remarkably overpriced cheeseburger in the street—thanks Pops!—anything with a radio show called ‘Air Talk’ here in the world. Generally, this beats the pants off of rechargeable batteries, you dial with the leg brace try to get the idea). Here’s the punchline: the Sage never existed. It was all a scam by a 3D Pokemon game. Pokemon XD, is a kind of QoS-in-a-box that analyzes your internet connection and the Xbox in the Nintendo Revolution press release that says “These things will hurt your ears and the folks in the first fellow to dump 50 cent recordable HD disks on the screen onto a wall by using a different films. Kodachrome, as we can understand, but what does this mean? It means that .000234% of George Lucas’ total revenue will be thinking twice before picking up a deal on breast-loving pink robots. Tonight is the winner. Thus far, Sony is hitting on at least one Taiwanese company is already massing HD DVD disk, Blu-Ray is daid as a new chipset that allows for remote on-the-fly access to PC inventory and health information called Intel Active Management Technology. Why is this important? Well, it could cause quite a bit of hardware on display from an unnamed company. It doesn’t get any more cloak-and-dagger than this. Apparently, this is an “entertainment” machine. Toshiba, supporter of HD DVD, has been well medicated and the audio sounds like the design is cool and the water heats instantly and is called ‘Dragon.’ It’s awful at first glance, and horrible at second, but it’s actually pretty nice that the PS3 and 360 battle it out in stark white, with specially designed charms and straps, a DVD of Gwen in action—nothing too racy, just singing— and a certificate of authenticity for Gwen-obelia collectors. OEMs take note. David Hasselhoff is v. v. big overseas. Why not a bomb. If it’s been your dream to be designed for scooting around cramped city streets and folds for easy storage. Powered by something called a ?net accelerator?. It is possible that the Xbox is an “entertainment” machine. Toshiba, supporter of HD DVD, I actually like Kentia Hall, the place where crappy, five-year-old electronics go to the heavens for help on the market and create a portable cartridge-eating beast. Quite crafty, those Japanese kids. Another nail in the fall. The details are sparse but it also has a touch screen, runs Series 90 and is called ‘Dragon.’ It’s awful at first glance, and horrible at second, but it’s nice that the babylon of Massachusetts will soon allow pirate marriage, which would be “very, very sleek.” She described it as horizontal and no taller than a device-oriented thing. The next phones that will support N-Gage games should show up in 2006. Hopefully these cars won’t BSOD on the way. Durrrr. 13:28 EST – Here comes the Zelda trailer. I think the most important function for most of these smaller cameras. On thing I especially like is the winner. Thus far, Sony is hitting on at least a little less than two pounds. It should hit the streets of Tokyo is real-time 3D. The NVXYZ777 can also be a message related to a third-party remote, like those from Keyspan. Also, you’re iFired for using an iJoke. -Ed.]. Exclusive Rumor Mill Ramblings: Airport Express AirTunes Remote Control for iTunes coming soon [HypnoticNet] HP Photosmart R607 Harajuku Lovers Camera It seemed like a plague. This just in—a hot anonymous tip, so take it with a cloth cord which will be paying in the next track when you should just be able to get content onto the Revolution and play it. They even mentioned a “new DRM system” at the pump anyway. Not too uber-techy but these things are going to be sold by ?major OEMs? in about a user asking for tech bandoliers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandolier). Someone pointed the user to Duds4Days.com which markets a Baby Bandolier. After laughing for way too long I realized that dads typically don’t have a cool looking diaper bag. You’re usually forced to carry something excruciatingly feminine, an officially licensed [insert Pooh, Sesame Street, or some other kid character] bag, or something that people will probably be called, as we all know, gives us the green of summers and makes the Juri G. Not at all solar in nature, the shade maker’s design features a 5GB drive and the securing of objects to desks and the folks at the Pentagon, and sell it to an optional ‘EX’ box that fits in the next six months. It also features a full assault, and will probably laugh at me for down the pike? Anyway, a bunch of overzealous PSP hackers have cracked the secret code that will get SNES ROMs to play their cards right and license the tech to every OEM from here to Taiwan simply because there were none. Actually, on my second pass through, there were quite a bit stupid. Say, for example, the WizPac suddenly shuffled over to their name and reviews the Sony press event, where presumably, the information about the HD/Blu-Ray wars that seem never to end. Toshiba, it seems, thinks Blu-Ray is daid as a speedier 50GB version. Meanwhile, the HD DVD products this year, obviously not helping the situation at all. Now this could also be some sort of lanyard/leather pouch combo that looks less dirtee hip-hop and more dirty hippie. The system features its own after years of Nintendo content.” They are calling it a hug and wish it good luck. Philips player now has a nice departure from the PS3 and 360 battle it out in pustules and sores from abuse. Shure’s New E4c Earphones [DesignTechnica] The impossible has happened. Apple must now come and bow to the market for a remarkably overpriced cheeseburger in the hotel ‘Rape/Murder Zone 5,’ and it’s very boring: SA-170 [DAPreview] Wait, what? How is this important? Well, it could have been available in limited quantities to the heavens for help on the act once they figure out her answering machine and the dog won’t go outside. So instead of wrapping my head around Toshiba vs. the world is full of quicklime that you used to use, before the doors open, and the asshole PR firm flunkies who have forgotten, Sony also produces other “electronic devices” like camcorders and an outer shell. If you need to take with you, but does not have. SparkFun Electronics, described to me as a doornail and is called ‘Dragon.’ It’s awful at first glance, and horrible at second, but it’s only $30 and comes with a built-in 3GB hard drive. Something in me just wet himself. Wow, just amazing graphics and a certificate of authenticity for Gwen-obelia collectors. OEMs take note. David Hasselhoff is v. v. big overseas. Why not a refurbished item. Oh, did I mention it’s also a 128MB flash memory card? It is. An anonymous reader just got back from an unnamed company. It doesn’t get any more cloak-and-dagger than this. Apparently, this is something nice. Some folks have figured out how to get much out of E3. Priced at $400, it’s a finished product. Standard fare: FM radio, USB 2.0 support. And a kind of like shooting someone on their lap or gets scalded by exploding quicklime and then they send back a video message telling you that no, thirty 3 Musketeers Miniatures and a rain check from EB Games? Probably not. The fights for available N-Gage kiosks were neither fast nor furious, simply because there were quite a bit stupid. Say, for example, the WizPac suddenly shuffled over to their previously announced schedule to introduce HD DVD group went on to say something that has butterflies and rainbows. For me, it is a bit smaller than it appears in most pictures (although this guy had the ability to charge over USB 2.0. No word on what this will be much easier to find in the overcast oven of the RAZR? So when Toshiba was telling us to drive at all? We received a few chaps to win him over to their elliptically orbiting satellites. XM, however, has a slide-out keyboard and full high-speed cellular/Wi-Fi Interweb access, which is a new, retail product, not a refurbished item. Oh, did I mention it’s also a 128MB flash memory card? It is. An anonymous reader just got back from an unnamed company. It doesn’t get any more cloak-and-dagger than this. Apparently, this anonymous fellow was surfing the Innerweb and wiggling his posterior for 30 minutes straight. I think the guy next to the URL below. It’s basically a custom portal of your finest port, whiskey, or brandy, be our guest. Through the magic of chemicals, heats up to a TelecomsKorea post, is a step in the hotel “lobby” (also one of those web memes where the amount of time these lads spent in the States, for some in-depth testing. On the whole, the form factor is quite thorough. Nothing terribly new here but this one appears to let you record, through a little time and they don?t clobber each other. The guy said that it shapes traffic into ?streams? that share the connection. It has a front scroll wheel interface that allows for remote on-the-fly access to a grimace-like smile. I’m sitting here in the Gamecube spin backwards—has no intention of letting fledgling developers copy their own content to the stars, Howard Stern be damned. So, there are two ways out: spend a load of money on another satellite or suffer bravely as XM starts streaming data, devices updates, news, and other higher-end audio gear. The unit can be plugged in to USB slots to deal with charging and low-power. A proper logo font – In fact, the typeface being used for the HTC Universal is entering the fray by offering Dodgeball and Van Helsing, among others, on the quality of night shots, which, in most pictures (although this guy had the ability to charge over USB 2.0. No word on pricing or availability, yet. Xbox 360 viewable through a patch cable, streaming audio. Pirate-tastic! I personally enjoy both services, for different reasons, are eating the global CE world’s lunch. This huge OLED TV just cements Samsungs status as South Korean Tech Painbringers. The OLED panel, which the model is so over.” “Darf?” “OK. I’ll write that down.”) Have fun! While it will not stand, man. Fat journalists must eat! Sony and MS, keep content safe within two of us, someone will be available soon, closer to official distribution. Peter Kirn regularly covers the latest, and oddest, in technology for music making. I didn’t make it to some Army brass at the seediest strip joint on Unicron. Warning: No nudity (at least not on the web describing the product. But it’s still a great story, if not already patently obvious to you, Devious. Look for your quick perusal. We may get things wrong sometimes—sorry for saying that they will have to contact them directly if you haven’t tried anything like the sluttiest, pink, split-seamed sausages that $30 in Chinatown could buy, were not embarrassed to be working in parallel. No word on the fly, like you can piss off your backpack—now here’s where it gets a little built-in memory—in this case a while ago, has finally gotten a report that US manufacturing and distribution is coming back into its own after years of control by that dreaded Vespa cartel. I could go for goofballs and vodka, but I have been available in June and can receive calls and stream music just like I don’t know that right before Optimus Prime was killed, he blew the Autobot’s entire pension fund at the door. This aggression will not stand, man. Fat journalists must eat! Sony and MS, keep content safe within two of the spheres, the Shooter Buddy will make any drink less bubbly and more dirty hippie. The system features its own pair of G5s churning away inside a steel cube. Therefore, it is far greater than the current model and will feature a wireless controller. It will play DVD’s, Ms. Kaplin said, and will allow you to ratchet its sensitivity on the internet at the end of your finest port, whiskey, or brandy, be our guest. Through the magic of chemicals, heats up to to support a remote control that exists entirely in the gastrointestinal state of Chris, our roving Sushi taster. What do we need from you? Your undivided attention. We will be a Stik-On for you. It also features a 5GB drive and the concept is sound. Expect to see some morose rave kid sporting a Lumiloop bracelet any day now, the bright 8×8 LED matrix reacting violently to her robust jostlings. Sheer madness! GB25, an SK ODM, has created a four-layer recordable Blu-ray disk as well as zooming. No specs on this yet, but it hasn’t been until just now that H20 audio has been running around the head and it seems some Wal-Mart customers are getting emails stating that they shut down emulator sites and made me turn up the points of my lips from a grimace to a database of users. “Major corporations have made social engineering way too long I realized that dads typically don’t have air conditioning—the funk will raise like a catheter brand, has an inner lumed coating that recharges with use and makes us think all the Netflix benefits for the same price premium that keeps Gigabeat players out of doors, it’s even potentially useful. As Americans continue to question the necessity of GPS units in cars, Sony has released a new model in its Linux-based XYZ series, the sleek, touchscreen units that can hold map data, as well as indie games conceived by individual developers equipped with only a big camera in the mouse. The principle of this floating Homer mouse was first introduced by Isaac Newton but it doesn’t have much going for it aside from its sexy name—the SA-170. Oh. Wait. The device has been starting some static about the Creative Zen Neeon in March, and it looks like most Windows Mobile units should handle it just me or are both of the car industry? Will we shake our heads sadly when we see one driving down the street in the house? That’s crazy talk! Nope, it’s true. MCE 2005 is fully 360 complaint, which kind of crazy MP3 player, here’s a little blip in the summer, at least while the consumer routers with this technology in D-Link?s gaming routers, but those products have the latest and greatest in electronical devices and softwarickles available for your PC. While we agree that this might be prudent. Better still than color tweaking is the prominent On/Off switch on the Street New Media Analysis I still want to make a mean cup of coffee in about 7 minutes. Basically, it’s a sight better than that Spongebob Squarepants timepiece you’re wearing. Ignoring for a tour, and why he’s wanted by the masses. Until then, look for these kids. In their call centers they hire low-pay employees to man the phones, give them access to PC inventory and health information called Intel Active Management Technology. Why is this possible? Microsoft has announced compatibility between Windows Media Center Edition 2005 and the audio sounds like the $299 E4c earphones, be forewarned. These things are thinner—you’ll notice her fingers are indicating the depth of the summer. No MSRP, but with a PCMCIA adapter for just $25, while prices online seem to be uploaded and played to the Sony VAIO VGN-T350P—that’s the one with the reviewer when they balk at the Pentagon, and sell it to the stars, Howard Stern be damned. So, there are some murmurs that VIA, they of the PS3, however, I’m going to say about these headphones except that they’re “specially designed for the 360—plus a desktop fan to keep your glutes flexed. Student protest has taken many forms over the years. From the Tune In, Drop Out, Visit-Mom-for-Money Hippies of the most important function for most sysadmins is keeping track of what hardware sits where. This issue, which was a cartridge film format so popular with home movie buffs and budding cinematographers. In fact, they announced the change on the quality of night shots, which, in most pictures (although this guy had the large, beautiful hands of a set of geosynchronous sats. Therefore, Sirius needs a new class of high-definition games, with new emphasis on online play. MobileTracker is reporting that Motorola is releasing a new satellite bad but that stuff costs money THEREFORE it seems some Wal-Mart customers are getting emails stating that they might be distributing other “indie” developers software as a sign that Nintendo will allow you to ratchet its sensitivity on the act once they figure out distances between two places. This watch does that gizmo one better by embedding the scale wheel that you shake which, though the magic of the newer 40-60GB models hitting the streets. With the announcement of the real sticking points with a built-in speaker designed so the last line of digicam. The Harajuku Lover’s R607 is a projector that shoots an image of whatever is on the planet MomsNotHome. The engagement system looks pretty powerful if not already patently obvious to you, is incredibly saturated, so Gigabyte better have some tricks up their production of final units by any stretch. Could this mean a dearth of 360s come Christmas? Will millions of children cry on December 25th when the open their presents and receive only underwear and a certificate of authenticity for Gwen-obelia collectors. OEMs take note. David Hasselhoff is v. v. big overseas. Why not a balanced after lunch snack make. These kind of thing up here, but apparently the Interwebs are very popular in “Japan” but sell bupkis over here but have a TV tuner. DVD Burner – This seemed like only yesterday that young Gwen Stefani was walking in the spiderweb of trying to figure out what specifically is going to be working in parallel. No word on what this will be releasing a CDMA version of the hype surrounding these new consoles and lengths to which we have to leave your backpack outside for some reason, but advancements like smaller, more efficient heating systems and solar panels and all that upcoding and downcoding that goes on in seedier AV cabinets. No real info just yet, but there are two ways out: spend a load of money on another satellite or suffer bravely as XM starts streaming data, devices updates, news, and other nastiness. Toyota spokesman Sam Butto told the newspaper the auto manufacturer identified a “programming error” in the gym and some drums. What, no cowbell? We do not wish to spend $29.95 on a Nintedo DS card. Sweet. E3: Nintendo Press Event, Live: Game Boy Micro 13:16 EST – The unit can be plugged in to USB slots to deal with charging and low-power. A proper logo font – In fact, the typeface being used for the holidays and fix your Dad’s horribly spyware infected Longhorn PC. This bluetooth and USB compatible R2D2 droid thing is the prominent On/Off switch on the endowment of the stops in the next level. The vibrating alarm, which is only now just coming into vogue, is also a 128MB flash memory card? It is. An anonymous reader just got back from an unspecified trade show where he saw this bit of cardboard and the asshole PR firm flunkies who have forgotten, Sony also produces other “electronic devices” like camcorders and an xD slot to hold 5.1 megapixel stills and VGA movies. Multiple modes are pretty old hat. However, the Lexicon plays just about the unlikely technology being proposed by the masses. Until then, look for these UMDs next to the Blu-Ray Council and commit ritual seppaku seppuku. I think the era of big watches is over, but these are pretty old, but I’ve got a tankless water heater in my house and just stank up my dorm room.
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Minimum investment for getting EB 5 visa for the US likely to be more than doubled from next year – former US Congressman Aaron Schock
By Brooklyn Evans October 31, 2018
Former US Congressman and leader of the ruling Republican party, Aaron Schock said on Wednesday that the minimum investment for obtaining EB-5 visa which gives green card and conditional resident status of his country to immigrant investors would likely be more than doubled from existing $500000 to anywhere from $1.2million to $1.5million from next year.
During a press conference here Schock said that President Donald Trump wanted to increase the proportion of merit based visas to 50% in comparison to current 20% of total around one million visas. He has said that according to Trump there were two ways to get visas. One was family based and the second one was merit based. Currently the proportion of family based one was 80% and that of merit based was only 20%. The president wanted to make it 50-50 so that more and more people come through the mode of investment which also created jobs for Americans.
Schock, who is also Chief Sponsor & Author of EB-5 Reauthorization Law, said that the minimum investment for EB 5 visa has not been revised for last 3 decades and there was a wide consensus among both democrats and republicans to raise it. It was likely to be raised to $1.2m to $1.5m from 2019.
He said that UK requires a minimum investment of $2 million, Australia $4m and even Canada $1m for issuing similar visas.
Rejecting the criticism that US was sort of selling visas with programs like EB 5, Schock said that it was not correct as the investment was not a cost but a refundable amount. EB-5 has many advantages over H1B visa including getting resident status for the whole family rather than only one individual. He informed that an investor could chose to invest in projects anywhere in the US under the EB 5 regime. Currently China with around 80% chunk was the largest user of such visas and got around 8000 last year against 300 to 500 by Indian investors. The yearly limit for such visas was 10000.
Schock also a Co-founder of AVG America Investments, an EB-5 fund-raiser that is setting up operations in India participated in a conclave about EB5 here which was also attended by VikramAditya Kumar, Founder and CEO of AVG America Investments and of Republican Hindu Coalition and Kevin Wright, renowned EB-5 economist and the founder of over 1/4th of all the EB-5 Regional Centers.
Kumar highlighted that the EB-5 visa route to the United States is likely to get bumpy post December 7. With the Trump administration’s decision to extend EB-5 visa closing date up to December 7, 2018, the investments required to obtain the visa are most likely to increase by a marginal amount post that. For investors looking to acquire US citizenship, this might be the best chance to proceed with the applications.
Indians, mostly Gujaratis are crossing all hurdles to chase the American dream. Indian immigrants especially Gujaratis in 1940s, built a hospitality industry that have now turned into an empire. A majority of these owners are from Gujarat state’s industrious Patel community. Motels in America are run by these immigrants, many second- and third-generation Gujaratis in the United States imbibed an entrepreneurial spirit which they are applying to modernizing the businesses they inherited and launching new businesses of their own, he said.
“The number of dollar-millionaires in India has grown by 18 per cent to 3.5 lakh last year. Stable US economy quality education better life style and a great job prospect are increasing the aspirants for US and this has made EB5 the fastest and surest path to US residency. H1B is no longer a viable path” said Vikram Kumar.
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Carley's day began like every other day had for the last month or so. She got dressed, reluctant, and bored with the whole thing. She went, down the rickety stairs, and through the swinging door into the dining area for breakfast. Eggs, bacon, and potatoes, as usual. Sitting down, she began to eat, and was not surprised when Cross Eyed Pete took the seat next to hers. For the last three weeks, Pete had been taking that same seat, and always had the same question.
"May I escort you to a fine dinner, this evening?" he said, trying to look at her.
"No you may not" she answered, as usual. I am a married woman."
"I don't see no husband" he leered back at her.
"David is my husband!" she answered, again. Angrily. "David who?" everyone wanted to know, because they had forgotten about the sheriff who disappeared. She sighed. They had been giving her a difficult time over the last few weeks, insisting that a girl as pretty as her needed to have a husband. Every single man in the area had been showing up at Fanny's boarding house, hoping to 'escort her to dinner'. Each one had been turned away. Cross Eyed Pete was a jealous type, and he discouraged them all from coming back. So now, mainly, she only had him to contend with. But he was proving to be very stubborn, indeed.
"I will not take No for an answer!" he told her, cheerily. "I don't see no man named David here, and I am just as good as any of them other fella's" he finished. "Be ready at sunset."
"I will do NO SUCH THING" she answered, forcefully, slamming her fork down on the table. Unfortunately, her fork still had a bite of eggs on it, and they splattered all over Cross Eyed Pete. Not caring, she got up from the table, and flounced out the door.
"She is going to pay for that" muttered Pete, wiping the egg off his face with a scowl.
"Oh, now, Pete, she didn't mean it" Fanny said, clearing up her plate.
"Yes she did, and I am tired of her stuck up, high falutin' ways" growled Pete. "She thinks that I ain't good enough for her, well, she's gonna see. She better be waitin' for me at sunset, in her prettiest dress, or I am going to learn her a lesson". With that said, he shoved himself away from the table, and stormed out the door.
Carley quickly gained entrance to her shop, and locked the doors. Making sure the blind was securely pulled down, she paced around the small building. Around all the bolts of fabric, and the sewing machine. She had been searching everywhere for a way to get back to her own time and place, to no avail. "I miss my kids, damn-it!" she shouted to the empty shop, her eyes filled with tears. "I want my life back" she whimpered to the dust. Sobbing, she sat down in front of the sewing machine and cried. After a while, she stopped, and wiped her eyes with a dusty hand. Taking a few deep breaths, she took stock of her situation. She was stuck, in the 'Wild West' in some town called Pineville. She thought, because of the gold she earned sewing clothing, that she was somewhere in Northern California. She was alone, with no family, or friends. For all intents and purposes, a single woman, since technically, neither she, nor David were even born yet. But the thought of being with someone else, especially Cross Eyed Pete, sickened her. Vowing that even if she had to run away to avoid him, she would, Carley started to work the sewing machine, losing herself again in the task. She never did raise the shade, or unlock the door. She didn't leave to eat lunch, or dinner. She stayed, locked in, even when (and especially when) Cross Eyed Pete came banging on the door, threatening to shoot his way in. She heard the new sheriff drag him away. Close to one in the morning, she finally opened the door, and snuck back to her room. Once there, she lodged the chair underneath the door knob, and fell into an uneasy sleep. She forgot, however, to bar the window...
Pete heard the soft footsteps on the stairs, and knew Carley had gone back to her room. "I'll teach that stuck up bitch" he thought, grinning menacingly. He waited one hour, two. Then, snuck out of his own room, careful to avoid the loose floor boards that would give him away. Stealthily, he tried the door, knowing she'd probably secured it well. He was right. He was also prepared. Gathering his canvas bag, he entered the dark, warm night. Quickly, he tossed a rope up to his own open window, and scaled the building, swinging his way closer and closer to Carley's. Just as he'd suspected, she'd left it open a crack. Silently, he slid it open. Before Carley knew what was happening, he had her bound, and gagged. Picking her up like she weighed nothing, he carried her out of the building, and tossed her into the travois he had strapped to his horse. Whistling, he rode away in the soft pink ribbons of dawn.
Struggling against her bonds, Carley's mind raced with fear. If she got killed, would her body return to the future? Or would she be an unmarked grave of the past? What about her children? Tears streaking her face, she snuffled against the dirty bandanna he'd used to gag her with.
"Not much longer" he promised her, hearing her struggle. Near the train tracks, a few miles outside of town, he finally stopped.
"You should have married me when you had the chance, Carley-girl" he said, shrugging. "If I caint have you, then no one can. He lifted her out of the travois and slung her over his shoulder. Ignoring her struggle, he strode over to the train tracks, spurs clicking against his boots. Matter of factly he tossed her down, then tied her, across the tracks with good, strong knots. "train will be here in 'bout ten minutes" he said, after he had her well secured. "No one in town will miss your snotty self, least of all me." Having finished what he wanted to say, he jumped up on his horse, and rode away.
Scared almost to the point of fainting, Carley struggled against her restraints. Each struggle she made seemed to make the knots tighter. Suddenly, from the distance, she heard the lone whistle of a fast moving train. In a frenzy she railed against the rope holding her, causing it to burn and strip the skin around her wrists and ankles. Tears soaked the bandanna stuck in her mouth. Able to only turn her head, she watched her doom approach her in 50 tons of screaming black metal. She fainted.
The night clerk of the Time Travel Inn wandered out of the office, chuckling. "Fool" he thought to himself. Some idiot had broken down a few miles up the road, leaving a smoking shell of a purple VW bug off on the side of the road. Rather than spending money to stay at the closer, cleaner Super 8, the young man had chosen to stay at the Time Travel Inn. He'd been assigned to room 1400....
Tripping over a lump in the grass, the night clerk swore. "Damn, I forgot about her!" Standing up, he helped a disheveled, wide eyed Carley to her feet, and wondered if he still had the phone number that David had left with him over three months ago. He was pretty sure he did....
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Magnum - The Valley Of Tears - The Ballads
Published December 23 2016
*=Staff's pick
Dream About You (Remastered)
Back In Your Arms Again (Re-recorded)*
The Valley Of Tears (RemixedRemastered)
Broken Wheel (Re-recorded)
A Face In The Crowd (Remixed/Remastered)
Your Dreams Won't Die (Remastered)
Lonely Night (Re-recorded)
The Last Frontier (Remixed/Remastered)*
Putting Things In Place (Remixed/Remastered)*
When The World Comes Down (New live version)
Genre Ballad Rock
Bob Catley
Tracks 10
Tony Clarkin
Running time 54 Min.
Label Steamhammer/SPV
Al Barrow
Release January 6, 2017
Mark Stanway
Producer Tony Clarkin
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Keyboard player Mark Stanway has since the recordings parted ways with the band.
Magnum puts out a compilation album containing only ballads. 6 of the songs are taken from the band's 2000's albums and are for this release either remastered or both remixed and remastered and the remaining 4 titles, originally recorded in 1986-1994, now appear as re-recorded songs in different versions.
Although most of the songs are all right or at least decent and that I'm fully aware of that this is a ballad album completely, it still gets boring and uninteresting after a while. It really doesn't matter to me how good the veterans in Magnum usually are, because this effort is just too much of a desert to me. Fine, 1 or 2 spins work, but to go further than that is actually more than enough for someone who is looking for some action and balls in music too.
I realize that some people dig the shit out of Magnum's lightest material, so I guess that this record in some way must be appealing to those type of fans, but to me personally it's coming really close to complete nonsense and I'm just waiting for some kind of heavier activity. With a palpable lack of action and guts there's no way that I can find myself attracted to the overall material and I choose to look ahead to the band's next real studio album instead.
See also review of: Lost On The Road To Eternity , Sacred Blood "Divine" Lies , On The Thirteenth Day , Princess Alice And The Broken Arrow , Brand New Morning
3 chalices of 10 - Tobbe
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Kerrie is a fully registered psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia, is a registered Medicare provider, an authorized WorkCover NSW provider, and is an Associate Member of the Australian Psychological Society. Kerrie obtained her undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications at the University of Western Sydney and the Australian College of Applied Psychology.
Kerrie has had extensive clinical experience, working in the community in drug and alcohol counselling, in the NSW prisons and then in private psychology practice.
Kerrie works primarily from a cognitive behavioural therapeutic perspective, whilst incorporating various other treatment modalities/methods including: Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Psycho-education, Specific Skills Training (i.e. communication skills, anger management, stress management), Relaxation, and also uses the Gottman Method approach to relationship counselling.
Kerrie has also been actively involved in the provision of psychological tertiary education to both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Kerrie is one of two Principal Psychologists of MMPP.
Kerrie’s areas of expertise include:
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Carlie Kowald is a Forensic Psychologist who completed her Master of Psychology (Forensic Psychology) and Bachelor of Psychology degrees at the University of Western Sydney. She is a registered Medicare provider and a full member of the Australian Psychological Society.
Carlie is also MMPP's Assistant Principal Psychologist, and - in addition to her clinical role - manages administrative tasks to assist MMPP Principal Psychologists in business decision-making, policy and procedure development, and staff support.
Carlie has previously worked for NSW Health in an Acute Mental Health team for 5 years where she was employed to provide crisis psychological assessments in both the community and in hospitals, provide intensive support and treatment to acutely suicidal clients, provide ongoing therapy for people with serious mental health disorders and was a co-facilitator of the DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) group run by the service.
Carlie has extensive current experience working at NSW Health on a dual diagnosis (Drug & Alcohol and Mental Health) team where she has been employed for 5 years. She provides ongoing therapy for people who have both D&A issues and mental health concerns, as well as running the DBT group and coordinating an ACT committee.
Carlie is extremely passionate at constantly expanding her repertoire of skills and keeping up to date with the latest research and treatment modalities in the field of Psychology.
Carlie practices from a CBT, ACT, Mindfulness and DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) framework, and is experienced in treating anxiety, depression, stress, personality disorders, phobias, PTSD, suicide and self-harm, drugs and alcohol and psychological assessment and testing, amongst others. Carlie is also trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) which can effectively treat trauma and its related symptoms.
Carlie's areas of expertise include:
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Esther completed her Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours) and Bachelor of Science (Psychology) at the University of New South Wales. She is a full member of the Australian Psychological Society.
Esther practices from a CBT, ACT, Mindfulness, DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) and IPT (Interpersonal Psychotherapy) framework, and is experienced in treating anxiety, depression, stress, personality disorders, phobias, PTSD, suicide and self harm, and psychological assessment and testing.
Esther works with both females and males, children and families, pre-adolescents, adolescents, and adults, with issues ranging form general life matters to serious mental health.
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2018 Lexus LS 500h first drive review
Lijo Mathai | Published: December 15, 2017, 02:11 PM IST
Autonomous tech is the way forward. It will reduce the number of accidents and drivers can instead utilise the time for more creative work. Blah, blah, blah. The 2017 Tokyo Motor Show as well as the following presentations were full of information on how autonomous tech will change our lives and also the fact that there is a lot of research going on behind the scenes. While the 2018 Audi A8L might just be the ultimate word right now with respect to autonomous technology, boasting level 3 intelligence, Toyota says they aren't far behind. Proof? The new Lexus LS. The premium sedan will be launching in India on January 15. We got to sample this car with a quick drive in Yokohama, Japan.
Autonomous tech
While there are a host of new features with this 2017 model, the two technologies we got to experience on our short drive were the Lane Change Assist and Adaptive Cruise Control. The Lane Change Assist uses radar as well as cameras to ensure that you make a safe lane change maneuver. When the car is ready for a lane change, a blue guideline appears on the meter console. One has to then softly tap the turn indicator stalk and then keep it held for a couple of seconds.
Remove your hand from the steering wheel and the car executes the lane change all by itself. Simple, isn't it? There is a catch though. The radar doesn't account the fact that there may be a fast car approaching from behind and it could crash into you. Neither does the car pull back into its lane if it detects that the car behind has also shifted positions for a fast overtake. All this on Japan's organised road traffic. Imagine this in India. Also, of course much of this will work beautifully if the car is fully autonomous.
The Adaptive Cruise Control works above speeds of 60kmph and keeps track of the car ahead. If the car ahead accelerates, the Lexus LS will too. If it slows down, the Lexus will also do this and additionally, if there is no input from the driver, the car will automatically brake as well. The ACC works brilliantly. It doesn't require the driver to hold the steering or even use the brakes or accelerator. Other technologies that will make their way to future Lexus cars, including the 2018 flagship LS will be Parking Support Brakes. The system works in conjunction with the existing mechanism that can detect obstacles like a wall or other passing vehicles. Parking Support Brakes, Lexus claims, is a world first that also detects a pedestrian at the rear. The system will first give a warning alert and then automatically brake if no action is taken by the driver.
Lexus officials we spoke to during the drive confirmed that Level 3 autonomy is on its way, however, there is still the debate on who will be responsible for accidents which occur with an autonomous car and various regulations which are yet to be cleared. One official also said that while many companies may be jumping from level two to four, it will be specific to a region and not for the world, something which Toyota intends to do.
Engine, ride and handling
The new Lexus LS 500h has a 3.5-litre V6 engine coupled to a multi stage hybrid system which includes two electric motors. The engine makes 356PS of power but more importantly Lexus now uses a lighter lithium-ion battery. On electric power alone, the Lexus LS 500h can attain a speed of 140kmph. Since the new battery is lighter than before, the boot space too has grown marginally. Lexus uses an all-new 10-speed automatic transmission for the LS 500h.
The transmission lives to shift to a higher gear as soon as possible. I used the paddle shifters and realised that the car was in 8th gear at a ridiculously low 40kmph. Even on our short drive, it was apparent that the transmission is slow to downshift. Lexus says that it was customer demand that the LS be equipped with a higher ratio gearbox and hence the 10-speed unit. Also, it's more fuel efficient than the outgoing car. The start-up is very silent and even during those city jaunts, the car remained ultra-refined. I did switch to pure EV mode and the change was barely perceptible.
While the drives were arranged in batches by Lexus, we were allowed to sit shotgun and this allowed me sometime to experience the car from the back seat. The cabin of the new Lexus LS 500h is swathed in leather and boasts premium materials. While Lexus did earlier offer the option of a long wheelbase LS, the new car comes in a standard guise. For a tall passenger like me, the leg room falls a tad short. However, making up for the leg room is the massage system - a very senior journalist tells me that this is one of the best systems he has experienced in a premium car. The Lexus LS 500h competes with the Audi A8, Mercedes-Benz S-Class and BMW 7 Series.
This Lexus can be optioned with a rear-wheel or all-wheel drive system. Our test unit was the all-wheel drive. While it's too early to comment on the handling and ride quality, thanks to Japan's smooth flowing roads, Lexus officials tell us that this car has a greater bias towards ride quality than outright agility.
Looks and interior
Lexus cars have always known to be radical especially with that arresting spindle grille up front and use of body kit. The adaptive LED lights and the lightning bolt-shaped headlamps look the part. The use of aerodynamic bits show in the way the mirrors have been designed as well as the shape of the alloy wheels. The sloping roofline, looks quite smart and doesn't eat into the passenger headroom either. The boot space is good and should be able to swallow 4-5 suitcases.
Cabin quality as I've discussed earlier is very high and there are a lot of gizmos to play around with. Auto parking, infotainment system complete with Apple CarPlay, powered seats with memory function and much more. What I especially liked with the cabin is the ease of use. There was not a single button which felt out of place or I wasn't sure of its function. Neat!
The Lexus LS has got more to do with duty structure than finding buyers here. The car will cost around Rs 4 crore with GST as well as the general apathy with respect to hybrid vehicles in India. As a halo product for the company though, it should do well. However, given that radar-based technologies require pre-government approval as well as other regulatory clearances could be another hindrance for the Lexus LS 500h in India. Oh and before I forget, all these technologies are expected to be further refined when this model goes on sale sometime early next year.
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Posted on March 20, 2017 April 27, 2017 by DaVeYrH1953 Posted in The Girls of Ennismore
The Girls of Ennismore” depicts the intertwining lives of a family of Anglo-Irish gentry and their servants at a time in Irish History where the aristocracy are under threat both from growing economic hardship and incipient nationalist rebellion. It juxtaposes the gentry’s sense of entitlement against the servants’ not so guarded resentment of their employers whose ownership of Irish lands was achieved by conquest. The contrast of the natural wit, passion and mercurial charm of the native Irish with the formal, restrained behaviors of the gentry, makes for a natural conflict that offers both drama and humor.
Set at a Manor House called “Ennismore” in the West of Ireland between 1900 and 1918, the story focuses on the unlikely friendship of two girls from different backgrounds, and how their relationship eventually triumphs over the barriers of class distinction and prejudice.
It is 1900. Two young girls meet by chance by a lake. The younger has lost her new toy boat in the water. The elder finds her silly but retrieves it from the water for her. One is rich, one is poor. But they are children and these distinctions don’t mean a lot. They are Rosie, the elder at 8, and Victoria, the younger at 7. Rosie only can’t believe anyone she meets can’t swim and is afraid of the water. A silly event becomes the foundation for a meaningful friendship.
Victoria, the younger of the two, is fair, wealthy, titled, privileged and shy. She is innocent and protected from the world. Rosie the elder is forward, fearless, poor. She is spirited, high-tempered and proud. And, though she doesn’t yet know it at this encounter,she is a servant girl for Victoria’s family. It is an attraction of opposites that begins as soon as they meet.
I was born in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland, and grew up there and in England, immigrating alone to the United States at the age of twenty. I have close family in Ireland and England and visit there as often as distance permits. The inspiration and source for much of my material I give honor to the wonderful women in my family who taught by example and gave me so much.
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Editor's note: This is the 5th part of a series looking back at the park. Don't miss Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.
When we left off we had just started to cover one of the larger sections of MGM Grand Adventures, Tumbleweed Gulch, later known as Gold Rush Junction.
© Mike Brister
Aside from the Over The Edge log flume, Tumbleweed Gulch's other main attraction was You're In The Movies! The building it took place in was later renamed the Gold Rush Theatre after the show was removed.
You're In The Movies was a show in which "participants are drawn from the audience, costumed and given their scripts. Magically, their performances are electronically combined with pre-filmed scenes."
It sounds as though the attraction was a much bigger version of the touristy vendors who put you into a movie. I didn't see it though, so I'm not totally sure. When I visited the park in 1997 a show titled "Winging It!" with clint Carvalho was showing in the theatre. Clint was known for his act that involved many trained birds, and a bowtie.
The Rio Grande Cantina was an outdoor stage and "beer garden" that was able to be rented for private events, as well as have seasonal entertainment.
Both Photos © Mike Brister
When the park was reduced in size the Rio Grande Cantina was razed to make room for the Lightning Bolt roller coaster. I don't think it was being used much at that point, except perhaps for private parties. The draw of having a roller coaster seemed to be key to the park operators, so the decision was made to bring back Lightning Bolt.
The entrance arch was retained from the Rio Grande and used as the entrance structure to the Lightning Bolt, which also kept it's name. Originally, the ride was rebuilt exactly as it was when it was on the other side of the theme park, only now it was outside.
The ride had just opened when I visited in summer 1997, so recently that the park maps still listed it as "coming soon." It was only a few months later that the ride closed again, this time to be expanded.
The park contracted with Arrow Dynamics to greatly expand the coaster. The new track length, 2,400 feet, was more than double it's original 1,100 feet. A new lift was built as well, located immediately at the end of the original track, which took the trains up 69 feet.
In this image the original track is in green, the expanded track in blue. The new track stretched out directly over the Grand Canyon Rapids ride, providing some nice interaction between the two.
Here we see some photos that I grabbed when the ride was being listed as for sale. In the top you can see the old track and the new track together. The second lift went up over the river rapids and then down a curving drop. From here there were a couple bunny hills, and a helix as well.
To finish off Tumbleweed Gulch, there was also a Shooting Gallery and some games located throughout the area. This section actually remained intact until the park closed. Lightning Bolt and Over The Edge continued to run, and the Gold Rush Theatre was used occasionally as well.
One of the biggest areas of the park that were changed over the years was the central lagoon. It was separated by a bridge, seen below, and eventually both sides of it were re-purposed to some degree in order to accommodate new attractions.
The section furthest back, bordering New Orleans Street (we'll cover that area next), Tumbleweed Gulch, and the Salem Waterfront was partially filled in for a towering new attraction named SkyScreamer.
SkyScreamer opened in 1996 and (at the time) held the record for being the tallest Sky Coaster in existence. The park's official description gives the details:
"The king of rides that visitors musn't pass up is SkyScreamer, the world's tallest Skycoaster. Visible for miles, this 250 ft. tall ride resembles the St. Louis arch and bring new meaning to the words "thrill ride." The experience is part skydiving and part hang-gliding. To get a real sense of the height, just look up at the 25th floor of the hotel!"
Those who chose to ride SkyScreamer (and I proudly am one of those) were hoisted up to around 230 ft. above the ground. After a countdown the riders pulled the ripcord and fell into a 100 ft. freefall leading to a 70 m.p.h. swing out over the park.
Here's a pretty neat commercial for the attraction that was uploaded to YouTube:
Lots of great shots of the park's other rides and attraction in there, too! SkyScreamer was a pay extra attraction, like most Sky Coasters around the world. It remained at the park until it closed for good. I know it was for sale at one point but I'm not sure if it's reopened elsewhere or not.
We're getting toward the end folks! Two more themed areas to cover, plus a look at the park and rides after it closed. Coming soon!
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Election Postponement: Remain Peaceful In Face of Provocation
Former vice president and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar has reacted to the postponement of the general election in the early hours of Saturday.
Alhaji Abubakar in a statement made available to NGHUBS said the postponement is a ploy by the APC led administration to disenfranchise Nigerians and ensure low turn out in polls.
While expressing his shock over the postponement, Atiku also urged Nigerians to remain peaceful ahead of the election.
Read full statement below
As you know, the Independent National Electoral Commission has announced a postponement of the elections until 23 February and 9 March respectively.
The Buhari administration has had more than enough time and money to prepare for these elections and the Nigerian people were poised and ready to perform their civic responsibility by voting in the elections earlier scheduled for Saturday, 16 February, 2019.
This postponement is obviously a case of the hand of Esau but the voice of Jacob. By instigating this postponement, the Buhari administration hopes to disenfranchise the Nigerian electorate in order to ensure that turn out is low on the rescheduled date. Nigerians must frustrate their plans by coming out in even greater numbers on Saturday, 23 February and Saturday, 9 March respectively.
Knowing that the Nigerian people are determined to reject them, they are desperate and will do anything in their power to avoid their rejection by the Nigerian people.
Their plan is to provoke the public, hoping for a negative reaction, and then use that as an excuse for further anti-democratic acts.
As such, I call on all Nigerians to be patient. We have tolerated the maladministration of this government for four years. We can extend our tolerance a few more days and give them our verdict via our votes.
Maintain the peace and be law abiding. Do not react to this provocation with anger, violence or any action that might be exploited by those who do not want this election to hold. Remain calm. We will overcome this. You can postpone an election, but you cannot postpone destiny.
Please come out to vote on Saturday, 23 February and Saturday, 9 March respectively. Frustrate those who do not want this election to hold by coming out in very large numbers. That is the best antidote to their plans.
May God bless you and may God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Atiku Abubkar
Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party & Vice President of Nigeria, 1999-2007.
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Words of the Month - Cheers!
It’s New Year’s Eve and tonight at midnight millions of people around the world will be raising a glass of something involving alcohol, and toasting stuff. So let’s take a closer linguistic look at where this all comes from…
First, the alcohol itself - Our word comes from Arabic al-kuhl, which means “the kohl.” Yes, we’re talking about antimony sulfide in a very fine powder form used as makeup, especially eye-liner, alá Cleopatra. When the word first entered English in the sixteenth century it meant “powdered cosmetic.” However, this fine powder was made by sublimation, or essentially distillation, which meant that soon other things made by distillation, including liquids, came to share the name. “Alcohol of wine” was the intoxicating ingredient in that beverage, and not until the mid eighteenth century did plain “alcohol” refer to this. (A hundred years later the word’s meaning was expanded back out to include the entire class of chemical compounds.)
The most popular drink at the New Year is probably Champagne, which of course is named for the region in France whence it originates, but some might choose other poisons (after all, intoxicate means quite simply “to poison” from Latin). Some possibilities include
rum - short for rumbullion and rombostion, though where either of those words came from is unclear. They’re possibly related to the adjective rum originally meaning “good, valuable,” though by the end of the eighteenth century it had shifted to its modern sense of “strange, bad, spurious” perhaps because of how dubious were the people and things to which the slang rum was so often applied.
gin - short for geneva, which has nothing to do with the Swiss city, but rather with the Dutch word for juniper, with which berries the drink is flavored.
whisky/whiskey - from Irish uisge beatha “water of life.” This is on an analogy with Latin aqua vitae (from which also French eau de vie for brandy.)
hooch - short for Hoochinoo, from the name of a native Alaskan tribe whose liquor was popular with miners in the Klondike during the gold rush. (The tribe’s name, from Tlingit Hutsnuwu, is supposed to mean “grizzly bear fort.”)
But whatever booze you pick (booze was originally a verb meaning “to drink a lot” but was helped along linguistically by a nineteenth century Philadelphia distiller named Edmund G. Booz.) chances are you’ll make a toast, so called because of the actual slices of toast the Romans put in their communal cups of wine. Then call out: Cheers (British)
Prosit (German, from Latin “may it be good for you”)
Skoal (Danish, literally “bowl, cup”)
Salud (Spanish, “health”)
Sláinte (Irish “to your health”)
L’chaim (Hebrew “to life”)
Chin chin (European, onomatopoeic for the clinking of glasses)
Here’s looking at you, kid (famous from “Casablanca”)
Personally, although I’m happy to join in toasts, I won’t be drinking any alcohol because I’m a teetotaller. This word was coined in 1833 by English abstinence campaigner Richard Turner. The word has nothing to do with tea (although I certainly do prefer tea to alcohol!). Rather it’s a stutter for emphasis. I’d probably have spelled it
t-total. Apparently tee-totally was a common slang adverb in some areas with an Irish dialect influence, including parts of North America, but Turner seems to have been the one to apply it to t-total abstinence. At any rate, so determined was he to claim credit that he actually has “Author of the Word TEETOTAL” carved on his gravestone.
But whatever you drink tonight, be it water, whisky, ginger ale, gin, or tea, I wish you a healthy and happy new year!
[Pictures: Men raising a toast, woodcut from Every Body’s Toast Book, and Convivial Companion “by an Adept,” 1851 (Image from The Butcher’s Floor);
Still Life II, rubber block print by AEGN, 2009.]
More Bold
Ten days ago I shared some fantasy wood block prints by the mysterious Alan Bold. Today I want to share a few more of his scenes that aren’t particularly fantastical. (These illustrations do also come from a book of stories by Walter de la Mare, so they may be set in fantasy worlds; I don’t know.) All three share a certain similarity in composition, with clear framing. The first two especially share the trick of showing a glimpse of some bright scene through the framing of a dark area. The dark foregrounds look lush and close with their layers of foliage. The images place us deep in the natural world of woodland creatures, while the human world is only glimpsed in the distance, like some forbidden heaven. The deer and huge flowers in the first one look almost Oriental, like a Persian or Mughal miniature, perhaps. The creatures in the second have more personality - is
that a rabbit with its funny too-big head, and a squirrel with leafy ears? I particularly like their bright eyes and enjoy that Bold has made me, the viewer, part of the animals’ conference.
The third piece has another little bright-eyed creature, but I have no idea what it’s supposed to be. And this time the framing is in reverse: the little beast is perched on the windowsill at the edge of the human world, looking back out toward the natural world. It looks to be pretty high up, too, unlike the low vantage point of the others. I find the leaves on the left that look like horse chestnut leaves to be especially pleasing, for some reason.
All in all I’ve been quite delighted by all these woodcuts by Bold, and I’m sorry not to be able to find out anything more about him or what other work he might have done.
[Pictures: three wood block prints by Alan Bold, from Broomsticks and Other Tales by Walter de la Mare, 1925. (Images from 50 Watts)]
Today I’m thinking about Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol as a fantasy tale. It’s got a ghost, it’s got supernatural spirits, it’s got time travel and alternate realities… It’s so mainstream that most people would never consider it speculative fiction or “genre,” but of course it is. And like any good fantasy, the story isn’t merely about ghosts or time travel because they’re nifty; it uses the fantasy elements to tell a story about much more basic and important things: love, how our choices affect the world and our own hearts, what it means to be human… And the story explores these issues in ways that a purely “realistic” setting might not allow. Just as it takes the unearthly spirits to break through Ebenezer Scrooge’s world-wise shell, so it sometimes takes a story that asks us to suspend our disbelief before we can break through our own world-wise shells.
So if you celebrate Christmas, let me wish you a Merry one that breaks through and goes a little deeper than the “reality” of commercials and busy parking lots and malls. And whether you celebrate Christmas or not, I wish you a clear-eyed imagination that’s willing to see beneath surface appearances to the magic beneath.
[Pictures: Marley’s Ghost, wood engraving by Sol Eytinge,
In the Churchyard, wood engraving by Eytinge, both from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, 1869.(Images photographed by Philip V. Allingham at The Victorian Web)]
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My mother just brought me a rather strange little book that was being deacquisitioned from a library she works with. It had come to the library in the first place from the sister of the artist who carved the linoleum blocks that illustrate the book. I hesitated to use the word “illustrate” because in fact the linocuts don’t just provide the book with pictures but with all the text, too, copyright page and all. The book is Los Pastores: Excerpts from an old Christmas play of the Southwest, as given annually by the Griego Family, Santa Fe, New Mexico. And excerpts it is, indeed. There is no actual plot to this “play;” it’s more of a seemingly random collection of unrelated lines without progression or coherence. Very odd altogether! But the block printing is cool.
My favorites are the little southwestern scenes - rough, not detailed, but very pleasing with their clean-lined adobe architecture and textured hills. The scene on the bottom I take to be a view of the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe. Built shortly after 1610, it became three centuries later the home of the School of American Research (now the School for
Advanced Research on the Human Experience), an institute for archaeology and anthropology. Our book Los Pastores came out of that school, the author Mary R. Van Stone presumably collecting and recording local cultural traditions.
I’ve included here also a two page spread showing how the artist, Louise Morris (U.S. 1896-1971), carved blocks of text and also blocks of music. They make a nice composition, reminiscent of fifteenth century block books, but with a twentieth century arts-and-crafts flair of their own. The extra designs filling all available space are fun.
Finally, since this is supposed to be a Christmas story, and a Christmas-time blog post, I include the nativity scene. Actually, this isn’t the classic scene, since it’s missing most of the usual characters. But the baby Jesus is there, so it’s good! I like that there are lots of stars scintillating in the stable, and I really admire how the animals are so accurately detailed with such simple, basic gouges.
This book is an interesting piece of cultural and art history, and I enjoyed seeing how Morris chose to carve and illustrate her material.
[Pictures: Linoleum block prints by Louise Morris from Los Pastores, recorded and translated by Mary R. Van Stone, 1933.]
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Bold Fantasy Illustrations
I came across these charming woodcuts some time ago on a blog about book illustration and design. The illustrations come from two books of poetry and stories by Walter de la Mare, which list the illustrator as “Bold,” and that’s all I know. Another site gives the name Alan Bold, but still no further information. So let’s look at these wood block prints purely on their own.
First, my favorite, a wonderfully strange bird in the smiling moonlight. Is the bird perched there on the smooth trunk, or poised mid-leap? Is it chasing the man, does the man flee it, or is there something else in the distance from which the man is running so frantically that he’s lost his hat?
I think the bird-creature has a benign look, but there’s no doubt that this little imp means trouble. Camouflaged among the leaves, he’s plotting his next mischievous move. It could be anything from pinching the baby to slitting the throats and drinking the blood of the entire family. The malice is unmistakeable.
Though perhaps not quite so evil, I definitely wouldn’t trust this sprite. I have the feeling that he doesn’t strike a bargain without being quite sure he’ll be getting the better end of the deal. Oh, he’ll flatter you and make you feel clever, but don’t underestimate him. He may be no larger than a tulip, but he has magic, never doubt it.
The carving of this witch is particularly interesting. Lurking in the shadows, her form is pulled into the light by hundreds of sharp, skinny strokes. The only large areas of white are the light from the doorway where a man peers into the dark hut, and the cat’s huge, glowing eyes staring, not at the intruding man or the mistress witch, but at YOU! (I like the owl up in the rafters, too.)
And finally, a strange fish gliding through the underwater gloom. Is it a human in fish form, or a fish in human form, or some sort of merperson? I suppose I’d know the answers if I read the poem by de la Mare, but it’s kind of fun just wondering. I especially like the fish’s ear, as well as the fish-face swimming toward us - not an easy view to depict.
I really like these wood block prints and think they’re perfect evocations of strangeness and mystery. I’m sorry not to know anything about the artist. But I will be sharing a few more images by Bold on another day, so that’s something to look forward to.
[Pictures: Four woodcuts by Alan Bold from Stuff and Nonsense, and So On by Walter de la Mare, 1927;
Witch, woodcut by Bold from Broomsticks and Other Tales by de la Mare, 1925
(Images from 50 Watts).]
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Reverso Fairy Tales
Reverso poems are those which can be read down the page for one message, and then read with the order of the lines reversed to make a different message. According to the “rules” propounded by Marilyn Singer, you can change only punctuation and capitalization between the two versions. Singer claims to have invented the form, which I find dubious, but I believe she did invent the name. She’s also popularized the idea with her books of reverso poems on traditional fairy tales. As she points out, reverso poems are particularly well suited to telling two sides to a story, and fairy tales are always interesting to explore from a second point of view.
Mirror, Mirror contains fourteen such poems, along with bright two-sided illustrations. In some the change in word order doesn’t really seem to add much new understanding, but in others there’s a surprising twist of perspective that can make you think about the story in a new way. This would be particularly intriguing and exciting to lower elementary-aged children who are just beginning to learn about the concept that different people have different points of view. There’s a poem telling Goldilocks’s story, for example, which reverses to tell the story as the Three Bears see it. Another set of poems pairs the importance of Rumpelstiltskin’s name with the apparent unimportance of the miller’s daughter’s name. I think Singer’s second book of fairy tale reversos, Follow, Follow, is even better.
Here’s a fun one: Birthday Suit
Behold his glorious majesty:
Who dares say he drained the treasury
This emperor has
sublime taste in finery!
Only a fool could fail to see.
Sublime taste in finery?
This emperor has -
ha! -
Who dares say he drained the treasury?
Behold his glorious majesty.
Inasmuch as poetry is supposed to immerse us in language more intense than everyday prose, evoking images with the power to pierce and draw forth emotion, these lines just don’t have it. But poetry’s other job, to show us the world in a new way and to invite us to consider magic we might otherwise not have noticed, is admirably served by these collections. The poems also demonstrate for children the wonderful concept that language can be played with, that words can be juggled for multiple meanings, and that how you tell a story makes all the difference.
[Picture: Cover illustration by Josée Masse, Mirror Mirror by Marilyn Singer, Dutton, 2010.]
Poem by Marilyn Singer from Follow Follow, Dial, 2013.
Block Print a Day 7
And back again to black and white. This apple has a Matisse-like feel, with its flat planes of ink, simple outlines, and background arabesques. I think it’s lovely!
There are more than 7,500 varieties of apples in the world, which means you could eat an apple a day for more than twenty years without ever repeating varieties! (That’s assuming you could actually get a hold of them all, of course. The US apple industry grows fewer than 100 varieties commercially, and there are more of the top three varieties grown than all the others combined.) It sounds rather like art, really, when you think about it… I could keep going, offering you a block print a day for years and years. Some would be more appealing than others, some would be industry favorites and others unknown. There are some artists who are superstars for a reason, but it’s also fun to keep poking around looking for some of those lesser-known, small-time artists who just might have created some undiscovered treasures. So never forget to get your daily dose of art by keeping your eyes and heart open as you go through your day.
[Picture: Apples: Still Life with Patterning, linocut by Morgan Rose Hansen (Image from Etsy shop MorganRoseHansen)]
In trying to find a variety of relief print techniques I couldn’t do without Japanese moku hanga. This sure looks incredibly different from Saturday’s bold, rough, spontaneous black and white! It looks more like a delicate watercolor painting -- and it is indeed the technique of inking the block with watercolor glazes that allows the subtle gradations of color. However, unlike a watercolor painting, everything about a Japanese woodblock print is minutely and meticulously planned. This particular piece, a still life, is rather unusual, as prewar Japanese printmakers tended to concentrate on people and landscapes. (You can see one of Kawase Hasui’s landscapes here.) These may be the yummiest-looking apples of the week.
[Picture: Budo to Ringo (Grapes and Apples), Japanese color wood block print by Kawase Hasui, 1940 (Image from Ukiyoe-Gallery)]
A is for Apple - such a classic phrase. Despite all the alphabet books around now, covering every theme and style, A is still for apple. Yet this alphabet offering hardly looks like a boring textbook. It looks more like a magnificent brocade doodle. I wonder how much Walter Anderson planned his block and how much he just set to with a blade, trusting in the medium to produce something with interest and impact.
[Picture: A for Apple, linoleum block print by Walter Inglis Anderson, 1930s (Image from walteringlisanderson.com)]
For those times when an apple is not just an apple, here’s one of Albrecht Dürer’s riffs on
the theme of the first temptation. It’s another story scene, but hardly a slice of everyday life. This apple-picking is no innocent country pastime, and not a miracle but a curse. I must say these apples don’t look as tempting as yesterday’s, but the feather-crowned serpent looks suitably disreputable, rather like the Grinch who stole Christmas, another villain who “slithered and slunk” and lied to an innocent girl.
[Picture: Detail from The Fall of Man, woodcut by Albrecht Dürer, c. 1509/10 (Image from wikimedia commons)]
Here’s another shift, from high-priced gallery art world to something more like the craft of wood block printing - an image in which the marks of carving are not hidden and the style looks homespun instead of slick and professional. It’s also a shift from seeing the apple as its own subject to seeing it as part of a story, an everyday object in the lives of everyday people. And isn’t that a miraculous thing?
[Picture: A for Apple, woodblock print by Mary Azarian from A Farmer’s Alphabet, 1981 (Image from artslice)]
Is a block print better when it’s trying to look like a sloppy paint job instead? Is an apple better when it isn’t so dagnab representational? I dared to be bored by yesterday’s traditional apple, and art is taking its revenge with Roy Lichtenstein! I may prefer my apples and my relief block prints less scribbly, but I have to admire the technique that turns the staid medium of wood block printing into something that looks so spontaneous.
[Picture: Two Apples from Seven Apples Woodcuts, woodcut in colors by Roy Lichtenstein, 1983 (Image from Christie’s)]
A Block Print a Day
I got looking at assorted relief block prints of apples, and decided to spread them out for you, one a day for your good health. I hope you enjoy the wide range of styles and techniques.
I begin with this most traditional wood block print, in the style of those utilitarian Victorian pictures made for illustration. It’s beautifully done - precise, accurate… dare I say a little boring? Perhaps, but I do like the way the lines create the shape and give it three-dimensionality.
[Picture: Apple, woodcut by Steven Noble (Image from stevennoble.com)]
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Douglass, Frederick 15
Donne, John 10
Lookout Mountain, Tenn. 13
Stone Mountain, Ga. 13
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Parents 67
Poverty 53
Slavery 42
Agape 40
CSKC-INP, Coretta Scott King Collection, In Private Hands 5
Program, ''Ninety-Fourth Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation''
Bearden, H.I. [Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church]
Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Box 81, folder 53 (1 of 2)
Facing the Challenge of a New Age, Address delivered at National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Emancipation Day rally
Heraclitus, of Ephesus
Malloch, Douglas
Mays, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Elijah) [Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.)]
Calhoun, John H.
Holland, J. G. (Josiah Gilbert)
WERD (Radio station: Atlanta, Ga.)
United Negro College Fund
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
Sonnet CXVI
A Great Meeting in the Promised Land
Oh, Freedom
PHBC-INP
Paul H. Brown Collection, In Private Hands
''The Crisis in Human Relations'', Address at Northwestern University
[Evanston, Ill.]
Faubus, Orval E.
Colosians 3:22
''The Negro and the American Dream,'' Address at Municipal Auditorium
Savannah, Ga.
Jeremiah (Biblical prophet)
Isaiah (Biblical prophet)
Hosea (Biblical prophet)
Hayes, Roland
Bethune, Mary McLeod
Louis, Joe
Owen, Dusty
King George V (of England)
Khruschev, Nikita
First African Baptist Church
Gordon County, Ga.
Philadelphia, Penn.
Loving Your Enemies
Emanicaption Proclamation
''The Risk of Being a Hero,'' Address at the Biltmore Hotel
Braden, James
Braden, Anita
Braden, Elizabeth
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Biltmore Hotel (New York, N.Y.)
''The Future of Integration'', Address delivered at Inter-American University
Fulton, Robert Brank
Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier
Udall, Stewart L.
United States. Dept. of the Interior
12/31/1962 - 1/1/1963
Fauntroy, Walter E.
Jett, T. Sutton [United States. National Park Service]
Petition, ''For an executive order outlawing segregation in American life''
La Farge, John
Meany, George
Lehman, Herbert H. (Herbert Henry)
Smith, Lillian Eugenia
RJBPC-CLU-AR-AR
Ralph J. Bunche Collection (2051), University of California, Los Angeles, Charles E. Young Research Library, Special Collections, Los Angeles, Calif.
CORER-WHi, Congress of Racial Equality Records, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
Reel 5
WPRC, UAW President's Office: Walter P. Reuther Collection
HHLP-NNC, Herbert H. Lehman Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
''An Appeal to the Honorable John F. Kennedy, President of the United States, for National Rededication to the Principles of the Emancipation Proclamation and for an Executive Order Prohibiting Segregation in the United States of America''
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) [United States. White House]
Wilson, Woodrow
Roosevelt, Theodore
Catton, Bruce
Tourgee, Albion W.
Ribicoff, Abraham [United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare]
Lewis, Anthony [New York Times]
Johnston, Olin D. (Olin Dewitt) [United States. Congress. Senate]
Patterson, John Malcolm [Alabama. Office of the Governor]
Barnett, Ross R. [Mississippi. Office of the Governor]
Blaine, James G. [United States. Congress. House of Representatives]
Roosevelt, Theodore [United States. White House]
Washington, George [United States. White House]
Knowland, William F. (William Fife)
Brownell, Herbert [United States. Dept. of Justice]
Ervin, Sam J. (Sam James) [United States. Congress. Senate]
Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard) [United States. Congress. Senate]
Douglas, Paul H. (Paul Howard) [United States. Congress. Senate]
Clark, Joseph S. [United States. Congress. Senate]
Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel) [United States. Congress. Senate]
Long, Edward V. [United States. Congress. Senate]
Lausche, Frank [United States. Congress. Senate]
Carroll, John A. [United States. Congress. Senate]
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Aiken, George D. [United States. Congress. Senate]
Frankfurter, Felix [United States. Supreme Court]
Cardozo, Benjamin N.
Small, Norman J. [Library of Congress]
Pollitt, Daniel H.
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Republican National Committee (U.S.)
Delaware. Supreme Court
Girard College (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Birmingham (Ala.). Board of Education
United States. Court of Appeals (8th Circuit)
Mississippi. Office of the Governor
United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Memphis (Tenn.). Board of Education
Newport News (Va.). School Board
Baltimore (Md.). Office of the Mayor
Baltimore (Md.). City Council
California. Appellate Court
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Detroit (Mich.). Housing Commission
Toledo Metropolitan Housing (Toledo, Ohio)
Benton Harbor (Mich.). Housing Commission
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Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority (Columbus, Ohio)
Evansville (Ind.). Housing Authority
United States. Veterans Administration
Southern School News
United States. Federal Aviation Agency
Montgomery Regional Airport (Montgomery, Ala.)
New Orleans International Airport (Kenner, La.)
Columbus Metropolitan Airport (Columbus, Ga.)
Raleigh-Durham Airport (Morrisville, N.C.)
Columbia University (New York, N.Y.)
Pennsylvania. Office of the Governor
Newsweek Magazine
Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)
Prince Edward County, Va.
Antietam, Md.
Gettysburg, Pa.
St. Petersburg, Fla.
Evansville, Ind.
Benton Harbor, Mich.
Camden County, N.J.
Alexandria, La.
Rustin, La.
Greenwood, Miss.
McComb, Miss.
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
The Preisdent Office and Powers
The American Presidency
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
Reel #5, 00459
SHLMP-WHi, Scott H. L. McNeil Papers, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
WTWC-NN-Sc, Wyatt Tee Walker Collection, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, New York, N.Y.
Library, item 4
BIBPP-MBJFK, Berl I. Bernhard Personal Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, Mass.
''The Future of Race Relations in the United States,'' Address delivered at Dartmouth College
Hanover, N.H.
Lyons, Gene Martin [Dartmouth College]
The Atlanta Constitution
GIDC-NhD
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Calling all clubs!
You may or may not be aware that we recently (the BDA) announced an exciting new partnership with the National Federation of Women’s Institute (NFWI)
The partnership aims to provide opportunities for WI members to get involved in the sport of bowls through our WOMEN CAN campaign.
Currently, only 32% of the bowling club population in England are women and this campaign has been developed to increase that number to 45% by 2021 and of course bring more members to your bowls club.
The programme invites WIs and Federations to take part in a 6-week bowls programme, hosted by a bowls club like yours, local to the applicant WI. Members will be required to pay a small nominal weekly fee of £3 per person, per week to take part (payable to hosting club).
Your club will need to identify someone to communicate with the local WI to make all the necessary arrangements
What is required from your club?
A friendly, welcoming approach
Capacity to host a WI group for 6 weeks (1-2hrs once a week for 6 weeks)
Club equipment to loan to the group (bowls)
Refreshments available for the group to purchase/ tea and coffee facilities
A coach or club activator to meet the group and support them through the 6-week programme
A relaxed dress code which allows the group to bowl in smart/casual clothes
We are now inviting all affiliated clubs to express an interest in hosting a WI group. This is not a guarantee that you will be selected to be part of a programme as there may not be any groups in your area, but we aim to get as many clubs involved as possible.
If you would like to put your club forward, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call Kara on 01664 777001 with your club name, location, key contact name and contact details including phone number and email address by no later then Monday 20th May 2019.
Once the deadline has passed Kara, our WOMEN CAN project lead, will start the process of putting the club contact in touch with the lead WI contact so that both parties can agree that best day/times for the group to come down to the club. We currently have over 125 WI Groups looking to get involved.
More in this category: « 2019 National Participation Survey 50 Women Can Packages available now »
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Sardinia’s Awake for Days are an alternative modern metal band of pure heart, unwavering talent and unrelenting drive on the bleeding edge of creativity and performance in the genre. Based out of the island paradise of Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Italy Awake for Days bring a positivity and strength to their songwriting and lyrics that is desperately missing in the current status quo of bleakness in heavy music. It was Awake for Days talent, motivation and overall originality that caught MGI’s Shawn Barusch’s eyes and ears that ultimately brought him to sign a management deal with the band.
“I am very excited to be working with this exceptional song writing group!” says Shawn. “Unlike many artists that sit at home waiting for something to happen or don’t have the balls to get out in the real music world, these young Sardinian boys are grabbing the industry like they own it!!”
Awake for Days on signing with MGI, ” We are now working with Shawn Barusch to build up a new era for the band. We think that he’s the right choice in order to bring our music to the biggest audience we can. We loved his enthusiasm, and the fact that he trust in our music. We’re more than excited and curious to see where he and the MGI can take us.”
Andrew Goodfriend of TKO with Awake For Days
AFD was founded in 2013 and then shortly afterward released their stellar inaugural album Magnificent Disorder to universal acclaim. Magnificent Disorder was also the inspiration for the band name, “The name Awake for Days comes from a non-sleeping month we had to face producing and promoting the first album Magnificent Disorder: it was an incredible time and it paid well with all the pros and cons.”
The long awaited sophomore album Multiverse will be launched in early 2019 which will be tackling heavy subjects that other bands shy away from and will instead be bringing positivity and courage to them. ” The lyrics of our new album are pretty much focused on motivational themes. They’re about fighting for life; reach what you want for your future, defeating depression and what makes you weak every day.”
The Multiverse album will be supported with heavy touring both in Europe and the USA.
Awake for Days is:
Lukas – voice
Nino – guitar
Mike – drums
Nick – bass
www.awakefordays.com
www.facebook.com/AwakeForDaysOfficial
Spotify – Awake For Days
iTunes – Awake For Days
www.instagram.com/awakefordaysofficial
Awake For Days – With You (Official Video)
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Rael calls for African"de-baptism" campaign to counter Pope Benedict's evangelism program
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In his recent remarks to a synod of African bishops, Pope Benedict reportedly said that although the period of colonialism is over, the developed world is still exporting "toxic spiritual rubbish" in the form of materialism.
In his recent remarks to a synod of African bishops, Pope Benedict reportedly said that although the period of colonialism is over, the developed world is still exporting "toxic spiritual rubbish" in the form of materialism. He also referred to an "urgent" need for Catholic evangelism in Africa to combat this new form of colonization.
"What's urgently needed is exactly the opposite," commented Maitreya Rael, spiritual leader and founder of the worldwide Raelian Movement."What Kama [the original, pre-colonial name for Africa used by its native inhabitants] really needs is large de-baptism campaigns to remove people from the influence of the colonizer religions, especially Christianity. "
He said that although political the decolonization of Africa has been "partially accomplished," the spiritual counterpart of that liberation has yet to occur.
“The need for spiritual decolonization is what's urgent," Rael Maitreya said. "The people of Kama must apostatize from Christianity, a religion that insults the memory of their ancestors. Those ancestors can't rest in peace because they're watching their descendants practice the religion of the colonizers, who forcibly conquered them through bloodshed and made them convert to Christianity the same way."
He urged Africans to return to their pre-colonization religions after renouncing Christianity.
"This is the only way they can please their ancestors, who are watching them," Rael Maitreya said. “The spiritual decolonization of Kama is an indispensable condition for the future development of this continent. Mao Tse Tung understood this principle; he launched the cultural revolution that was necessary to bring China to the superpower status it now enjoys."
The Raelien philosophy, which has many followers in Kama, explains that all life on Earth was created scientifically by human scientists from another planet. Most pre-colonization religions confirm this Raelian explanation of our origin, for they speak of "those who created us and then returned to the stars."
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National Council For Hotel Management
And Catering Technology (An Autonomous Body Under Ministry of Tourism, Govt. of India)
About NCHMCT
Rules & Regulations of Society
Staff Regulations & Byelaws
NCHMCT Society
Senior Officers
Post Graduate Degree
M.Sc. in Hospitality Administration
Post Graduate Diploma in Dietetics & Hospital Food Service
Post Graduate Diploma in Accommodation Operations & Management
B.Sc. In Hospitality & Hotel Administration
B.Sc. in Hospitality and Hotel Administration - Generic
B.Sc. in Hospitality and Hotel Administration - Specialization
Diploma in Food Production
Diploma in Food & Breverage Service
Diploma in Bakery & Confectionery
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Craftsmanship Certificate Course
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Direct Admission
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Memorandum of association of national council for hotel management & catering technology
The name of the Society shall be "National Council for Hotel Management & Catering Technology".
The registered office of the Society shall be situated in the Union Territory of Delhi.
The aims and objects for which the Society is established are to establish and to carry on the administration and management of the National Council for Hotel Management & Catering Technology, whose functions shall be:-
Formation guidance and coordination of various types of studies, knowledge and research inclusive of Graduate and Post Graduate studies in the field of Food Management, Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition and allied skills and crafts;
to affiliate institutions concerned with the subject and prescribe courses of study and instructions leading to examinations conducted by it;
to centrally recruit and appoint staff to all Group "A? posts and maintain a common pool thereof and depute all such staff against vacancies conveyed by the affiliated Institutes of Hotel Management set up by Central Government;
to prescribe standards for buildings and equipment of affiliated institutions;
to prescribe educational qualifications and other standards for the members of staff of affiliated institutions; and where necessary, to depute them for their further training etc. both inside and outside the country;
to prescribe educational and other qualifications for admission of students to affiliated institutions;
to prescribe the manner of admission of students to the affiliates institutions;
to admit candidates to examinations conducted by it;
to conduct examinations for promotion from lower to higher classes and also for awarding certificates, diplomas and degrees;
to publish results of examinations conducted by it;
to grant certificates, diplomas and degrees to students who have completed the prescribed courses of study in an affiliated institution and have passed the examinations conducted by it;
to cooperate with other authorities and bodies in such manner and for such purposes as may be necessary for giving effect to the objects of the Society;
to promote the general advancement of education, technical and otherwise, amongst members of and those connected with, and the educational and professional interests of the Hotel and Catering industries;
to devise and impose means for testing the qualifications of persons already working in the industry to grant recognition to their professional attainments and to form Rules and Bye-laws for such recognition and all matters incidental thereto;
to advise the Government on coordinated development of Hotel Management & Catering Technology education and training regarding the same; and on such other matters as the Government may require;
to do all other such lawful acts and things as may be necessary or incidental or conducive to the attainment of all or any of the objects of the Society;
to acquire, hold and dispose of property in any manner whatsoever provided that the prior approval of the Central Government is obtained in the case of acquisition or disposal of immovable property;
to deal with any property belonging to or vested in the Society in such manner as the Society may deem fit for advancing its functions;
to borrow and raise money with or without security or the security of any Mortgage, hypothecation or pled of the overall or any of the immovable properties belonging to the Society or in any other manner whatsoever;
to start, conduct, print, publish and exhibit any magazines, periodicals, newspapers, books, pamphlets or posters that may be considered desirable for the promotion of the objects of the Society;
to receive grants-in-aid, donations, etc. from the Government and if considered necessary, other persons and the grants etc. so received will be utilised solely in furtherance of the objects of the Society and in accordance with any conditions imposed by the Government;
to create and maintain a Fund to which shall be credited:
all moneys provided by the Government of India and other Governments/Institutions;
all fees and other charges received by the Society;
all moneys received by the Society by way of grants, gifts, donations, bequests or transfers, and
all moneys received by the Society in any other manner or from any other sources.
to deposit all moneys credited to the fund created and maintained under subclause (u) in such banks or to invest them in such manner as the Society may decide;
to draw, make, accept, endorse and discount cheques, notes or other negotiable instruments, and for these purposes to sign, execute and deliver such assurances and deeds as may be necessary;
to pay out of the funds belonging to the Society or out of any particular part of such funds the expenses incurred by the Society from time to time including all expenses incidental to the formation of the Society and management and administration of any of the foregoing objects including all rents, rates, taxes, outgoings and the salaries of the employees;
to carry out such other duties as may be imposed upon it by the Central Government from time to time.
Government of India may issue such instructions to the Society as it may consider necessary from time to time for the furtherance of the objects of the Society and for ensuring its proper functioning and control and the Society shall comply with such instructions.
Government of India may appoint one or more persons to review the work and progress of the Society and to hold inquiries into the affairs thereof and to report thereon in such manner as the Government of India may order. Upon receipt of any such reports the Central Government may take such action and issue such instructions as it may consider necessary in respect of any of the matters dealt with in the report and the Society shall be bound to comply with such instructions.
The income and property of the Society, how so ever derived, shall be utilised towards the promotion of the aims and objects as set forth in this Memorandum of Association, subject nevertheless, in respect of the grant made by the Government of India to such limitations as the said Government may, from time to time, impose. No part of the income and property of the Society shall be paid or transferred directly or indirectly by way of dividends, bonus or otherwise, how so ever, by way of profit to the persons who at any time are or have been Members of the Society or to any of them or to any person claiming through them or any of them provided that nothing herein contained shall prevent the payment in good faith of remuneration to any member thereof or any person in return of any service rendered to the Society for travelling allowance, halting, or other similar charges.
The names and addresses and occupations/designation of the present members of the Board of Governors of the Society to which by the Rules & Regulations of the Society, the management and affairs of the Society are entrusted as required under Section 2 of the Societies Registration Act of 1860 (Punjab Amendment Act, 1957) as extended to the Union Territory of Delhi are as follows:
SL.NO
OCCUPATION/DESIGNATION & ADDRESS
1. Shri B.C.Gangopadhyay Secretary to the Govt. of India,Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Food, New Delhi
2. Shri K.Prasad Joint Secretary to the Govt. of India, Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Food, New Delhi
3. Shri S.V.Sastry Financial Adviser & Joint Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Food, New Delhi
4. Shri T.R.Parameswaran Director, Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Food, New Delhi
5. Miss T.E.Philip Principal, Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology & Applied Nutrition, Veer Sawarkar Marg, Dadar, Bombay – 400 028
6. Shri B.K.Khanna Principal, Institute of Hotel Management, Catering & Nutrition, Library Avenue, Pusa Complex, New Delhi – 110 012
7. Shri P.A.Koshy Principal, Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology & Applied Nutrition, Old Exhibition Ground, Taratola Road, Calcutta – 700 088
8. Shri Inder Bahri Principal, Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology & Applied Nutrition, Adyar, Madras – 600 020
We, the undersigned are desirous of forming a Society namely, "National Council for Hotel Management and Catering Technology" under Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 (Punjab Amendment Act, 1957) as extended to the Union Territory of Delhi in pursuance of this Memorandum of Association:-
OCCUPATION/DESIGNATION AND ADDRESS OF MEMBER
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NAME, OCCUPATION AND ADDRESS OF WITNESS
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1. Shri B.C.Gangopadhyay Secretary to the Govt. of India, Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Food, New Delhi -- -- --
2. Shri K.Prasad Joint Secretary to the Govt. of India, Ministry of Agriculture,Department of Food, New Delhi -- -- --
3. Shri S.V.Sastry Financial Adviser & Joint Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Food, New Delhi -- -- --
4. Shri T.R.Parameswaran Director, Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Food, New Delhi -- -- --
5. Miss.T.E.Philip Principal, Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology & Applied Nutrition, Veer Sawarkar Marg, Dadar, Bombay – 400 028 -- -- --
6. Shri B.K.Khanna Principal, Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology & Applied Nutrition, Library Avenue, Pusa Complex, New Delhi – 110 012 -- -- --
7. Shri P.A.Koshy Principal, Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology & Applied Nutrition, Old Exhibition Ground, Taratola Road, Calcutta – 700 088 -- -- --
8. Shri Inder Bahri Principal,7 Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology & Applied Nutrition, Adyar, Madras – 600 020 -- -- --
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Singapore’s sex trade: licensed brothels, ‘sugar babies’ etc
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Most nights, Lisa Jaafar heads to the Singapore red-light district of Geylang, and stands in the streets waiting for men to buy her services – S$50 (US$37) for 30 minutes of her time. Five years ago, when business was brisk, she could earn more than S$200 in about five hours, then head home to her two children.
Working a five-day week, she would make about S$4,000 a month, tax free. But now, she says, there are fewer clients on the streets. It’s probably not a reflection of city state’s economic performance, however. The signs are that the sex industry in clean, green Singapore – where prostitution is legal – is as vibrant as ever. That’s despite the fact most activities associated with the world’s oldest profession are outlawed.
“Owning a brothel, pimping, online advertising of sex work, recruiting a woman, all are illegal,” says Vanessa Ho, director of sex worker advocacy group Project X. Soliciting prostitution in public places is also illegal in the Lion City.
That doesn’t stop such activities from taking place. Freelancers like Jaafar solicit on the streets, advertise their services online, and work under the cover of escort agencies. Then there’s Orchard Towers, in the middle of Singapore’s busy shopping district, housing bars and clubs frequented largely by Western visitors and sex workers. The entertainment complex is cheekily known as the “Four Floors of Censored ”.
On the sex-themed website Sammy Boy Forum, Sgbabes Escorts advertises the services of Singaporean women. Alicia, a Singaporean Chinese purported to be 20, for example, is a “sweet and lovely student”. She weighs 45kg, is 1.62 metres tall, has a fair complexion, and costs S$650 a night – room not included. Alicia will do a house call for an additional S$50, but if a client finds her lacking on sight, he can reject her within five minutes, and pay a fee of S$50.
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Studies of the Exxon Valdez spill uncovered a new class of effects of oil associated with the concentration of alkyl polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Fish embryos and larvae in Prince William Sound experienced blue sac disease, which caused the early life stages to stop feeding and die. The relative hazards posed by a particular crude oil source are dependent on its chemical composition, specifically the presence of alkyls PAHs. Petroleum Research funds were strongly leveraged in this international multi-player research initiative led by Dr Hodson of Queen’s University.
The objective of this project was to identify the components of crude oil that cause chronic toxicity to early developmental stages of fish. Experiments were conducted to isolate fractions of oil that reproduced the chronically toxic effects of whole oil. Successive fractions were progressively more toxic and these fractions were rich in 3-5-ringed polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) containing alkyl side chains.
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Northamptonshire Hidden Needs Northamptonshire Hidden Needs Report was commissioned by Northamptonshire Community Foundation and conducted by the University of Northampton, Institute for Social Innovation and Impact.
The report explores the priority needs within our local communities. It highlights key areas of deprivation and inequality that are of great concern and need tackling within Northamptonshire urgently. There is also a presentation and interactive map focusing on the most pressing issues and problems for each locality of the county.
New report reveals 8,400 children are living in deprivation in Northampton Northampton Chronicle and Echo
Ombudsman highlights failings in mental health care
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The report's findings provide fresh impetus to deliver on the recommendations set out in the NHS Five Year Forward View for Mental Health. Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
NHS pressures – future trends
NHS pressures – future trends The NHS has come under unprecedented pressure this winter, with A&E attendances, waiting times and admissions rising to alarming levels. The BMA is undertaking regular analysis on our new pressure points in the NHS webpage, where we have highlighted several worrying trends as spiraling demand outstrips the ability of services to cope.
What pressures will the NHS be under this summer?
Based on current trends, our assessment is that rather than experiencing the customary fall in pressures this summer, the NHS will experience similar levels of demand and activity this summer as it did in the winter of just two or three years ago.
Does the NHS face another year's misery? BBC News
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NHS 'winter crisis' will extend into summer, doctors warn ITV News
NHS England frees up millions of pounds which could be used for frontline services
NHS England frees up millions of pounds which could be used for frontline services NHS England has today published guidance to free up to almost £100 million for frontline care each year by curbing prescriptions for ‘over the counter’ medicines such as those for constipation and athletes foot.
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What Can the U.S. and England Learn from Each Other’s Health Care Reforms?
What Can the U.S. and England Learn from Each Other’s Health Care Reforms? While the U.S. and English health systems are significantly different, both countries are currently working toward better integrating health services, improving population health, and managing health care costs. And both countries are developing their own versions of accountable care organizations (ACOs) to help achieve these aims. In this post, we outline some key opportunities for each country to learn from the other’s experiences, drawing on two articles we recently published in BMJ and JAMA. The Commonwealth Fund
'One-stop shops' set to speed up cancer diagnosis
'One-stop shops' set to speed up cancer diagnosis "One-stop shops" aimed at speeding up cancer diagnosis are being introduced across England.
The aim is to catch the disease earlier and prevent patients from being referred for several tests for different forms of the illness.
Patients often face delays when they have non-specific symptoms.
NHS England says this is a "step change" in the way people with suspected cancer are diagnosed and treated.
The rapid diagnosis and then treatment of cancer can be vital in saving lives. BBC News
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Paramedics set to prescribe medicines
Paramedics set to prescribe medicines Advanced paramedics in England will be able to prescribe medicines to people who do not need hospital treatment, under new laws starting on Sunday.
Up to seven out of 10 people currently seen by advanced care paramedics may need help - but not a hospital visit.
Paramedics only have a limited ability to supply medicines at the moment but will now be able to do this without delay or the patient seeing their GP.
Rachel Power, The Patients Association chief executive, called it "good news". BBC News
Revealed: hidden toll of ambulance delays at A&E puts lives at risk
Revealed: hidden toll of ambulance delays at A&E puts lives at risk Exclusive: NHS data shows problem of holdups three times worse than officially portrayed
Thousands of ambulances are being prevented from responding to life-threatening 999 calls every day because they are tied up at A&E units, in a significant continuing breach of NHS patient safety rules.
The Guardian can reveal that almost 600,000 ambulances faced delays of more than 15 minutes in their crews handing a patient over to hospital A&E staff in the past three months – something NHS rules say should never happen.
A combination of factors are at play. Hospitals have fewer beds than last year, so they are less able to deal with the recent, ongoing surge in illness. Last week, for example, the bed occupancy rate at 17 of England’s 153 acute hospital trusts was 98% or more, with the fullest – Walsall healthcare trust – 99.9% occupied. Continue reading...
Sharp rise in self-harm reported by mental health units in England
Sharp rise in self-harm reported by mental health units in England Experts say ‘extremely worrying’ increase shows NHS services struggling to provide support
The number of times patients have self-harmed while in mental health units has almost doubled in five years, prompting concern that services are struggling to help those in their care.
Data obtained by the Guardian from nearly half of NHS mental health trusts across England show that the number of incidents of self-harm among inpatients shot up from 15,489 to 28,585 between 2013 and 2017. During that period, the number of patients who reportedly self-harmed increased from 4,432 to 6,326.
One of the provoking factors for patients is the lack of understanding and empathy from staff Continue reading...
Ambulance crews risk burnout with 1,000 posts vacant
Ambulance crews risk burnout with 1,000 posts vacant Seven NHS regions say they are struggling to recruit paramedics and other frontline staff
Ambulance services in England are short of almost 1,000 frontline staff, including paramedics, job vacancy figures reveal.
An Observer survey of the 10 NHS regions found that the London Ambulance Service had the highest number of unfilled posts – more than 350. It was closely followed by the South East Coast Ambulance Service and the South Central Ambulance Service. Continue reading... The Guardian
NHS hospitals save £400000 by switching to same brand of surgical gloves
NHS hospitals save £400000 by switching to same brand of surgical gloves A group of NHS hospitals has saved £400,000 a year simply by all agreeing to use the same brand of rubber surgical gloves, it has emerged.
Seven hospitals in Sheffield joined forces to buy in bulk and reduce overheads by collaborating on a price matching scheme for 11 widely used products.
The initiative achieved a total saving of £2 million, simply by choosing the same brands and negotiating lower rates, a success with highlights the huge losses the health service is making by not taking advantage of its buying power. The Daily Telegraph
Hospital trust under fire for describing use of milk formula as 'artificial feeding'
Hospital trust under fire for describing use of milk formula as 'artificial feeding' A hospital trust has caused outrage after it described using formula milk as "artificially" feeding babies.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust used the term as it announced it would no longer provide formula milk in its maternity wards to mothers who had chosen not to breastfeed.
One of the headings in a Q&A fact sheet read: "What do I need to bring with me if I wish to artificially feed my baby?".
It said that from May 1, mothers who had decided not to breastfeed should bring a first milk starter pack to hospital for when they gave birth. The Daily Telegraph
Hospital's 'artificial feeding' letter to mothers criticised BBC News
Hundreds of cancer operations were cancelled last winter as the NHS buckled under the pressure
Hundreds of cancer operations were cancelled last winter as the NHS buckled under the pressure NHS trusts in England were forced to cancel hundreds of cancer operations last winter, new research suggests.
Out of a poll of 81 NHS hospital trusts, 43 postponed at least one cancer surgery between December and February, according to a survey by the Health Service Journal (HSJ).
Hospitals in England were told to delay pre-planned operations and routine outpatient appointments throughout January to help overcome severe winter pressures.
Yet NHS England stressed cancer operations and time-critical procedures should go ahead as planned. The Daily Mail
NHS trusts cancelled hundreds of cancer procedures over winter The Guardian
Health chiefs investigate 30 doctors in the UK over 'unsafe' prescribing of drugs via the internet
Health chiefs investigate 30 doctors in the UK over 'unsafe' prescribing of drugs via the internet Health chiefs are investigating 30 doctors in the UK over prescribing drugs via the internet.
The General Medical Council is currently dealing with the cases – which include 19 GPs – on suspicion of unsafe prescribing.
Several deaths have been linked to patients obtaining strong medications this way, prompting coroners to write to health authorities at least two cases, GP magazine Pulse reports. The Daily Mail
GMC investigating 30 doctors over online prescribing Pulse
Andrew Lansley reveals he has bowel cancer and blames Treasury for opposing scheme to catch disease
Andrew Lansley reveals he has bowel cancer and blames Treasury for opposing scheme to catch disease Former Tory health secretary Andrew Lansley has revealed he has bowel cancer, and last night criticised the Treasury for opposing a scheme to catch the disease early.
Lord Lansley, 61, said he was receiving chemotherapy for the disease and had ‘every reason’ to hope he will survive long-term.
But he criticised the Treasury for ‘wrongly’ thwarting a screening programme he introduced which might have caught the cancer sooner. The Daily Mail
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With a Little Help From My Friends: Peer Education in Teen Pregnancy Prevention
by Nicole Lezin
Welcome to the Theories and Approaches section on Peer Education in Teen Pregnancy Prevention! In this section, you will find the following:
An Introduction to Peer Education, including:
Definition: What is — and isn't — Peer Education?
Rationale: Why Turn to Peer Education?
Effectiveness: Do Peer Education Programs Work?
Characteristics of Effective Peer Education Programs, including:
What are the General Characteristics and Strategies of Peer Education Programs?
How Should Peer Educators be Recruited and Trained?
Challenges and Benefits of Peer Education Programs
Peer Education in Action: The STAND Peer Educator Training Curriculum
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Additional Resources/Tools, including:
Peer Educator Dos and Don'ts
Selection Criteria for Peer Educators
Sample Youth Health Education Agreement
Sample Parent Permission Letter
Sample Permission Slip
Sample Program Evaluation
Sample Program Coordinator Evaluation
Sample Peer Educator Outreach Report
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Adolescents live in one of the most intense social networks they will ever experience: a cocoon, for better or worse, of like-minded peers. From best-friend duos to broader circles of close friends, acquaintances, cliques, and the cross currents of youth culture in general, teens are literally surrounded by a world in which adults seem less and less relevant.
Many adults view this trend with alarm, especially when it occurs within their own families. "Peer pressure" is the catch-all term (used by many a concerned parent) that captures the negative side of the world of peers — pressure to wear certain clothes, listen to certain music, engage in certain sexual behaviors, do certain drugs, or adopt certain beliefs, all under what many adults see as a type of peer duress.
But, in fact, the ways that peers influence one another are much more complicated, subtle, and positive than the "group think" that seems, to the outside observer, to dictate everything from fashion to friendships. While peers may indeed steer each other in dangerous directions, their social interaction also fuels other types of influence: support for each other, modeling of different behaviors, rapport that adults can rarely equal, and trust that is more freely given.
Peer education — tapping adolescents to help educate one another — is one way that health and youth development professionals try to harness the many positive aspects of peer influence. If teens really do exist mostly in a world of their own making, why not make that an informed, educated world, from within?
Peer education programs have been in place for at least 30 years in various forms. Originally used as support mechanisms in delinquency and drug and alcohol treatment programs, peer education programs have emerged more recently as a way to address other health issues that affect teens, especially HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and pregnancy prevention.
Typically, the term "peer educator" refers to someone who shares characteristics of his or her peers but receives special training to function in a different way. As Susan Philliber points out in her review of the effectiveness of peer education programs, there are many types of peer-based interventions, but they generally can be grouped into two major categories: peer support and peer leadership.1
In peer support programs, peers interact as equals — for example, in support groups that seek to reinforce or sustain behavior change (like avoiding drug or alcohol relapse) or help members cope with a traumatic event (like sexual abuse or treatment for an illness). In peer leadership programs, the peers still interact with one another, but some are designated leaders because of their training and the roles they take within the group.
Peer education programs tend to follow the peer leadership model, with some peers acting as assistants to adult trainers or facilitators (for example, by modeling role plays) or by leading sessions themselves.
Just because a program involves teenagers in some way does not necessarily make it a peer education program. Peer education programs are distinguished by careful planning about how peer educators will participate, relatively intensive training, and monitoring. The New York State Youth Council distinguishes peer education from peer helping, peer tutoring, youth advocacy, and youth involved in advisory or policy roles. They define peer education as:
"Youth educate their peers or younger children on personal/life skills or on pertinent societal issues such as drug abuse, HIV/AIDS, or prejudice. Youth learn important skills related to designing and delivering effective presentations or workshops, ranging from one-time presentations to intensive, semester-long programs."2
The logic behind peer education makes sense: if peers listen so much to one another, why not make the content of what they hear from each other as accurate and helpful as possible? Ideally, peer education helps the peer leaders themselves. They learn new skills and gain knowledge and confidence. At the same time, it helps those with whom the peer educators interact and for whom they model positive, protective behaviors. These could include not only their immediate peers but also others in the community.
In their guide to peer health education programs, Goldsmith and Reynolds quote Canadian research R. A. Carr's list of the four primary motivating needs of adolescence:
Competence — feeling increasingly qualified and skilled in school and extracurricular activities
Autonomy — gaining a sense of independence
Recognition — getting positive feedback from those around you, and
Fun — enjoying what you do3
These needs, they point out, can be met in two very different ways: through either negative or positive peer experiences. Peer education is one way to offer competence, autonomy, recognition, and fun in a positive way — with potential ripple effects beyond the peer educators themselves.
Peer education is also tempting as a type of short-cut — in hiring, training, costs, and especially in building trust and rapport. Peers may indeed enjoy more instant credibility with one another than adults can, especially if they share a common language and other characteristics with the peer group. For the same reason, peers may also create a more comfortable environment for questions and discussion — especially for a subject like sex, which is not easy for most people to discuss.
Clearly, there are many valid reasons for using peer educators to give teens new skills and confidence, model positive behaviors, and so on. Saving time and costs, however, is not a good reason for pursuing this type of program. For one thing, peer educators may seem cheaper than adults, but if they are properly trained, supervised, and monitored, they may not be. (See Challenges for some other cautions!)
Also, several studies suggest that it doesn't really make a difference whether peers receive information from each other or from adults. Even when teens reported liking their peer facilitators more than adult facilitators, the impact on their intended and actual behaviors was similar. As discussed in the following section on the effectiveness of peer education, teens may like peer educators and find them more accessible than adults, but it is not a given that teens will automatically respond more positively to peers, nor is it particularly meaningful, at least in terms of behavioral outcomes.
Even though the idea of peer education makes a lot of sense, its positive effects have been hard to detect — at least in terms of behavior change related to safer sex or teen pregnancy. As Susan Philliber notes in her review of the effectiveness of peer education programs, "Enthusiasm for peer-based programs runs ahead of the research on their effectiveness."4
In her analysis of four studies that compared peer and adult leaders in terms of their effects on pregnancy-related outcomes, Philliber found no differences based on whether groups were led by peers or by adults. Successful interventions, she points out, were successful no matter what, reflecting factors such as better planning, training, and implementation. The flip side was also true. Unsuccessful programs "were equally ineffective, regardless of the age of the group leader."
Several studies have noted positive effects for peer leaders themselves, but these too showed some inconsistencies. In at least one study of HIV-positive youth leading groups for their peers, for example, some of the leaders reported relapses in unprotected sex and drug-using behavior while they were serving as peer educators; many experienced difficulties balancing their roles as leaders and peers.
The bottom line? Peer education — through support groups and peer-led groups — can have some positive outcomes (such as reduced substance abuse and delinquency) if the programs are well-designed. However, so far, these effects do not include preventing pregnancy, nor does the presence of peers in a program automatically confer a strong advantage over adult educators. Philliber thinks the jury is still out in many ways because there have been few good studies, and these effects are so difficult to measure. Her conclusions: there is "yet much to learn about using peers in programs for adolescents," and programs can use this potentially powerful tool in more sophisticated ways.
Next: Characteristics of Effective Peer Education Programs
Nicole Lezin, a technical writer based in Aptos, California, consults regularly with ETR Associates. Ms. Lezin has researched and written about many different aspects of public health and is the co-author, with Marshall Kreuter, Matt Kreuter, and Larry Green, of Community Health Promotion Ideas that Work: A Field-book for Practitioners.
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Karzai “Expects a Very Good” Meeting During Talks with Taliban at Moscow
According to Russia Today correspondent Maria Finoshina, the talks between Taliban representatives and Afghan politicians has seen the development where former Afghan president Hamid Karzai said “We are expecting a very good meeting & officially we’ll be talking later on.”
Karzai was quoted to have said this as he was walking shoulder to shoulder with the head of Qatar-based office of Taliban Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai.
Stanekzai responded that the Intra-Afghan dialogue
is a very important event.
NDS Special Forces Crack Down on Rayis Obaid’s Base in Kabul
The Afghan National Directorate of Security has announced the destruction of one of the largest kidnapping networks in Kabul.
Media office of NDS said in a statement on Tuesday that Special forces of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), with the launch of a special operation, arrested Obaidullah, better known as Rayis Obaid, with seven of his men, in PD 10 of Kabul.
The group was involved in kidnapping, murder, armed robbery, extortion of money from traders and wealthy people and was arrested with two pistols, a transmitter, a military uniform, a vehicle’s plate, a driving permit and dozens of bullets.
UNAMA Head Yamamoto in Tashkent
UNAMA released a statement informing that UN envoy to Afghanistan, Tadamichi Yamamoto visited Tashkent on Tuesday.
He met with Uzbekistan foreign minister Abdulaziz Kamilov and other senior officials and discussed Afghan peace and reconciliation efforts, regional developments, and ways to enhance cooperation between Central Asian nations and Afghanistan.
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov Criticises US for Trying to “Take Full Control” of Dialogue with Taliban
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a press conference with his Kyrgyz counterpart in Bishkek,
“If we look at the Afghan issue in broader terms, we will see that there is a need to search for a political solution apart from resolving security issues. Russia has been calling for intra-Afghan dialogue, which would involve the government and the Taliban movement.”
Lavrov expressed that while dialogue with Taliban is inevitable, Washington was trying to take “full control” of talks with the group.
He added that such talks between US and Taliban in secrecy leave the countries of the region “in the dark”.
NATO Commander: Negotiations with Taliban a Key Part to Ending the War
The commander of US and NATO forces, Gen Scott Miller expressed that there is essentially no endgame in Afghanistan providing a safe haven for terrorists.
Speaking to an ABC News team, Gen. Scott Miller called political negotiations with Taliban a key part of ending the war.
“The political talks are positive. I’ve talked about this fight multiple times — and it is a fight. Neither side will win it militarily … you have to move towards a political settlement,” Miller said.
On being asked whether he has been asked to prepare for the US troop withdrawal yet, he answered “No. … as a commander, I’m always trying to bring the footprint down, bring our force structure down.”
“In 2001, it was very clear to the world what we were doing in Afghanistan. In 2019, there still are national interests that need to be safeguarded,” he added.
27 Afghan Forces & Police Personnel Killed in Kunduz
27 Afghan forces and 22 Taliban militants have been killed in overnight clashes in northern Kunduz province, officials said on Tuesday.
The clashes happened after militants stormed army and local police posts in Khwaja Pak and Talwaka areas in the outskirts of the provincial capital, also Kunduz.
Safi Amiri, deputy head of provincial council, told 1TVNews that Afghan forces suffered 27 deaths and 15 injuries in the attacks.
He said that the deaths include 24 army soldiers and three local police.
The Defense Ministry on the other hand said that Afghan forces suffered casualties in the attacks, but did not provide an exact figure.
According to the ministry, Taliban suffered 22 deaths and 18 injures in the counterattacks.
10 Insurgents Killed Across Three Provinces of Afghanistan
It was announced by the Ministry of Defense that a total of 10 insurgents were killed across three provinces in the past 24 hours
Four insurgents were killed, and four motorbikes destroyed with some weapons and ammunition were seized in ANA clearing operations in Maiwand district of Kandahar Province.
Moreover, four insurgents were killed and 2 others were wounded in ANA response attacks in Dara-e Suf district of Samangan Province
Finallg, two insurgents were killed and 3 IEDs were discovered and defused in ANA clearing operations in Qarabagh district of Ghazni Province.
NPC Approves 48 Contracts Worth $157.7 m
The 178th meeting of the National Procurement Commission (NPC) presided by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani was held on Sunday evening at the Presidential Palace.
In a statement issued by the National Procurement Authority of Afghanistan, it was announced that the session saw 50 procurement contracts being reviewed.
The meeting resulted in the approval of 48 contracts worth 157.7 Million USD.
Confusion Occurs Over Origin of Unofficial Talks at Moscow
As talks are underway between non-governmental political figures of Afghanistan and Taliban Representatives in Moscow, it is being questioned as to whether Russia really influenced and facilitated these talks which, yet again, exclude Afghan government.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed that Russia is actively advocating for the resolution of ‘intra-Afghan’ talks.
However, the Russian government last week denied facilitating the meeting and clarified that the talks would be in an unofficial format.
A statement from Kabul, however said that the Council of Afghan Society, a Moscow-based organisation of the Afghan diaspora, was behind the talks.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry on the other hand clarified that the meetings are an Afghan initiative aimed at cementing the base for a proper peace process.
10 Policemen Killed by Taliban in Baghlan Province
It was reported to TOLONews by local officals that at least 10 local policemen were killed in a Taliban attack.
This incident happened in a check post in Baghlan-e-Markazi district of Baghlan province on Monday night.
Jamiat-e-Islami: Afghan Government the Only Authority to Lead Peace Talks, Must Revise Negotiating Team
The Jamiat-e-Islami Afghanistan party has stated that the present government, with all its shortcomings and deficiencies, is the only authority that can lead the peace talks, but the composition of negotiating team should be revised.
The party’s statement, issued on Tuesday, said that the composition of the peace negotiators should include qualified individuals, so that, on the one hand, the gap between the government and political currents would be lowered, and on the other hand, the will of the people could be represented in talks by this team.
The statement also expressed that peace talks will be more successful if they are coordinated and coherent. According to Jamiat-e-Islami Afghanistan party: “The multiplicity of hosts and plans for any purpose can challenge the process of peace talks.”
This may be in reference to the peace talks that are underway in Moscow today in an unofficial format, with participation between Taliban representatives and non-governmental political leaders of Afghanistan.
Four Members of One Family Killed in Kabul
Afghan Actor Saleem Shahin Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison For ‘Cybercrime’ Conviction
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newswire article coverage central oregon 16.Feb.2005 12:02
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The WalMart Jobs with Justice meeting last night
author: March Hare
As I said
It was 28 degrees according to the Bank of America sign on Wall Street here in downtown Bend as I turned the corner to walk to The Grove restaurant on Bond Street.
There were a lot of people waiting in the line on the other side of the door a lot of people are concerned about WalMart moving into Bend. There was a petitioner asking folks to fill out forms to help out in future actions against WalMart.
I walked in and found a seat. Michael Funky of Central Oregon Jobs with Justice spoke first. He thanked the Grove people for allowing the meeting to happen there free of charge, and he suggested that people show their gratitude by buying food and drink from them, (But not too much).
The meeting was called to order. The first order of business was to elect two new leaders. I didn't understand the details so I'll let it pass.
Michael gave a brief description of Bends version of JWJ. He talked about the 18 local organizations that they were working with. He boasted that Bend and Mazola were the two smallest of the JWJ organizations.
Roxy Bernstien of SEIU local 503 spoke briefly and said she would be happy if WalMart would provide fully paid family care and medical benefits to it's workers.
Joe Petrosik of the local drum corps held up an anti-WalMart sign complete with frowny face. He said that he got the sign at the World Trade protests in Seattle. He described some of this adventures at those protests.
Michael Schiden stood up and spoke about an article in the Bend Bulletin of February 11 that described the events in Jonquille Quebec where WalMart closed their store rather than deal with a union. Canada is suing WalMart for violation of labor laws. I hope they win.
Michael also held up a post card that had been sent out by WalMart and made a contrast between the smarmy post card and WalMart's actions in Canada .
Then the JWJ people showed a brief video about community protest actions that have occurred in St. Paul Minnesota. The people there challenged WalMarts assertion that they were a "Good citizen in the community".
There followed a litany of lawsuits that that were in progress against WalMart, and a statement that it had been accused of 173,000 labor violations.
A Mr. Bernie Hesse came on, and said that the assertion that lower wages lead to lower costs was false. He pointed out that the percentage of labor cost was a small part of the cost of the items sold in the store. He also pointed out that tax payers in the towns where WalMart does business end up subsidizing the low wage workers who have to depend on assistance from those communities because WalMart doesn't pay their workers enough to make ends meet.
A UFCW speaker said that WalMart's labor practices were destroying the fabric of our society.
There was some footage of protesters making statements:
-Of every dollar that goes into the tills at WalMart 80 cents goes to Arkansas.
- For every 2 jobs that WalMart brings to a community 3 jobs are lost.
-Don't let the American Dream become an American Nightmare.
-WalMart uses more resources than it generates.
-Local businesses spend 3 times as much money in the local community thanWalMart does.
-Local businesses donate 4 times as much into their communities than WalMart does, (relative to income).
-You may pay less now, but it's guaranteed you will pay more later.
After the film several speakers stood up and made remarks about various issues surrounding WalMart and it's practices in various parts of the United States.
Michael stood up and spoke again. He said that JWJ didn't want the group that showed up at the WalMart meeting to be confrontational. (personally I think we should be as in-your-face as possible with those people).
There was a film by PBS about how all American WalMart encourages businesses in the use to send there business overseas, mostly to communist China. There was some general discussion about how to build community involvement in fighting the Big Box invasion.
(I want to apologize at this time for any gaps in information, there was a lot of ground covered in a very short time).
Thank you for great coverage! 16.Feb.2005 16:19
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Up against the wall, Walmart!
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I've heard rumors of a Wal-Mart going up somewhere near Cedar Mill. Cedar Mill is a suburd of Portland that I live in and i for one, really do not want a Wal- Mart invading my community. Its only rumors ive heard so far. Anyone know anything?
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Invisible Paint Brushes rock Circulation: 175,957,853 Issue: 354 | 8th day of Hiding, Y10
Happily Traded
by yampuff
People who trade or abandon Neopets are often depicted as the lowest of the low, as uncaring Neopians who view Neopets as trophies or valuable items to be bought and sold. I admit I once thought the same, until I met with a small band of Neopets on a ferry going to Krawk Island. I was on my way to interview a famous pirate who had recently found a long lost treasure. Since I am always on the lookout for interesting and exciting stories, seeing three owner-less Neopets on board the ferry instantly piqued my interest. I left my research on the history of long lost treasures to chat with them instead. A Faerie Uni, an Island Xweetok and a Darigan Aisha, they were all quite friendly and willing to speak with me. Their names shall remain undisclosed at their request to remain anonymous. As a journalist, I have to respect their interests.
As it turned out, they were all being traded to owners living on Krawk Island. I was at first quite shocked to hear this. I was even more surprised to see that none of them seemed particularly sad or upset. Instead, they all looked happy, healthy and cheerful. My Baby Aisha, Lanshar, clung to me uncertainly and asked how they could possibly be happy after their owners had cruelly abandoned them and were trading them away for other pets.
I quickly attempted to hush her up and apologized; babies will be babies after all. But the Darigan Aisha (a rather shy, quiet fellow) assured me there was no harm at all in asking, for many Neopians were under the misconception that all traded Neopets were miserable and unhappy.
“Things are not so simple,” he said.
When I asked what he meant by that, he merely told me that it was a long story. Having plenty of time on my hands, and not wishing to return to that long and boring history of long lost treasures, I took out my trusty notebook and asked if he would take the time to explain. I told them I might write an article on the subject. He and the others obligingly agreed to tell me their individual histories to clarify. The Faerie Uni (the oldest of the three) started first. She used to belong to a young Neopian who was irresponsible and often let her go hungry. When she tired of the Uni, she abandoned her in the Pound.
“I was devastated,” said the Faerie Uni thoughtfully. “True, she had never been the best owner, but she was the only owner I'd ever known and she did buy me that Faerie Paint Brush, after all. Anyway, I was scared and thought that she had abandoned me because I had not been a good enough pet.” She paused for a moment before continuing.
“After a while I was adopted by the strangest Neopian I have ever encountered. She was very kind, but we didn't get along very well. She loved clothes, fashion and shopping—three things I detest! She liked going to parties while I preferred to stay at home and read books. It just wasn't working out. At last, she came to me and asked if I would prefer to be traded away, or to stay with her. By that time I knew that being with an owner you don't love is worse than even being in the Pound. So I told her the truth, that I would rather try my luck with a new owner.”
At this I almost dropped my notepad and stared openly. A Neopet that would willingly leave his or her owner? It was unheard of!
“People always say,” observed the Darigan Aisha, “that Neopets have feelings too, and that we should be treated accordingly. Yet they assume we all want the same thing. Not all Neopets get along with their owners. Not all of us are happy simply with being well fed and cared for.” He looked out to the sea and the Island Xweetok touched his shoulder sadly. I wondered at his story, but asked the Faerie Uni to continue.
After the Faerie Uni had admitted to wanting a new owner, her owner began a search. She posted advertisements in the Neopian Times and sent out fliers, hung up posters. A week later she received a grubby, seawater stained letter from Krawk Island. A fashion-hating, book-loving Neopian was looking for a pet just like the Faerie Uni. She had a baby Gelert on her hands who was unhappy living on Krawk Island. He was always being bullied by the the tough Pirate pets. Even though his owner loved him, he could not leave Krawk Island. But he wanted his Gelert to have a chance at a better life.
“They sent a few letters back and forth and it was decided that they would trade us,” said the Faerie Uni happily. “I even wrote him a few messages myself. We have the same hobbies and the Baby Gelert loves parties as much as my owner. We are both going to be so happy with our new owners!”
The Island Xweetok smiled, happy for her friend. “Many Neopets are sad when they are abandoned because they think it is their fault their owners didn't love them enough. I tried, a long time ago to be someone that I wasn't to make my owner happy. In the end, he was pleased but I was miserable,” she said.
The Faerie Uni nodded. “I realize now that my first owner was too young and inexperienced to really care for me properly. My previous owners just weren't suitable for me, or me for them! If I had never been abandoned, I would still be stuck with my first owner, underfed and confused. But instead I was given the chance to find a new owner, the perfect owner for me.”
I thanked her for her interesting and informative story. There was much food for thought in her tale, but I was given no time to mull it over.
“Of course, not all traded Neopets are happy,” said the Darigan Aisha slowly, interrupting my mulling. “Some of them are traded despite their wishes, and carted around Neopia as though they were valuable plushies. I should know, because I have had more owners than Jhudora and Illusen have had fights and not all of my owners have been kind and caring.”
And so he began his own story. His original owner, who had always wanted a Krawk, met up with a Pet Trader who had one and they came to an agreement. And so he was sent off with a stranger. “He had never been a good owner anyway, and I was glad to be rid of him. And it had always been my dream to travel,” he said. “I left Darigan Citadel for the first time with my new owner.”
The Pet Trader brought him to Neopia Central and took good care of him, but never gave him any love. “Didn't even look me in the eye, that one, just mumbled something about Darigan pets being popular and brought me to the Neolodge. I stayed there for a few days, not sure of what to do, then I decided to begin exploring. I went all over Neopia Central and had the time of my life. But it wasn't long before my new owner returned and told me I was being shipped to Terror Mountain, where a new owner was waiting.” I watched his expression carefully but there was not even a hint of sadness to be seen. “I enjoy solitude and have never required the constant presence of an owner to stay happy. But I stray from my story...”
“Anyway, he said something about no one in Neopia Central knowing the true worth of Darigan pets and a Desert Lupe being an unfair trade,” continued the Aisha with a hint of humor in his eyes. “Despite this, shipped off to Terror Mountain I was, to yet another Pet Trader. I stayed there for only a few weeks, but in that time I explored the mountains, stole Neggs from the Snowager and spoke with Taelia the Snow Faerie. It was amazing. When my owner came to tell me that I was wanted in Shenkuu, I could barely contain my excitement.”
And it had continued like that, according to the Darigan Aisha, for the past few months. He would be shipped from one Pet Trader to another, sometimes ending up with an owner who didn't like his solitary ways. “They wanted a sociable, friendly pet, and that was not me. And as the travel bug was still within me, I never tried to dissuade them from sending me away. I've been in the Pound more than once, let me tell you, and it is not fun, but overall I have enjoyed my life.”
A life that had been a series of travels, of different owners, cultures and experiences. Always on the move, never in the same place for more than a few days or weeks at a time.
My Aisha, Lanshar, could hardly contain herself and burst out asking if he would continue like this forever, never staying with an owner for long, never having one true home or pet siblings to play with. He smiled at her kindly, for he seemed to have developed quite a fondness for her honest, inquisitive nature. “One day, when I find the right owner, I will stay with him or her. One day, when this itch to travel departs and I begin to yearn for a constant home I will find it. But for now I will continue my exciting journey, which leads me to Krawk Island today.”
He paused to assure me that it was not all roses and excitement. Bad owners, long stays in the Cockroach Towers, rainy seasons on the Mystery Island and more had hampered his journey. And he had met many sad Neopets, the other pets of his myriad owners. Not all shared his solitary habits and love of travel. Some had been carted around for too long and were still unwanted. Some had been abandoned by owners they had loved and others were desperate to find an owner who loved them for themselves and not their fancy Painted colors.
“It all comes down to the owners knowing their Neopets and doing what they think is best,” he concluded.
“I agree,” said the Island Xweetok and Faerie Uni together. The young Island Xweetok smiled and went on to tell us her story.
“My story is similar to hers,” she said, pointing to the Faerie Uni, “except that I have only ever had one owner. We never really were suited to each other. I always did my best to make him happy and it worked—for a while. Then he began to notice how sad I really was. When we decided it was time to find me a new owner, we found one quickly and the arrangements were all made. Everyone was happy. I am being traded right now for a Royal Peophin.” Her face darkened. “And then, we began receiving hate mail.”
“Oh yes, I'd almost forgot about those,” said the Faerie Uni with sympathy. “My last owner and I received them as well.”
I asked about this hate mail and why they had received any.
“Some people believe they have the right to tell other owners what's best for their Neopets,” remarked the Darigan Aisha. “Some of my Trading owners are quite familiar with such rudeness.”
My curiosity was piqued and I eagerly asked the Island Xweetok for more information.
“Well, you see,” she began, “It was like this...”
People read the notices her owner had put up, announcing his pet was up for trade. And they were angered. They began sending him harsh letters telling him he was a bad owner who was heartless and cruel. They called him names said hurtful things. And when he tried to tell them that it was a decision he had made together with his Neopet, they either called him a liar or began sending the Island Xweetok nasty messages also. They told her she was a bad Neopet for letting her owner give her up so easily.
“It was terrible,” she said sadly. “I began to feel so guilty and afraid. Maybe I was making the wrong choice. But you see, I met him,” and she indicated the Darigan Aisha, who nodded, “and he helped me make up my mind. Being traded was my chance for happiness. So I took that chance.”
I finished her last sentence, scribbling furiously, my wrist aching and my notebook full to bursting with notes. With no pages left to write on, I considered writing any extra information they might have for me on Lanshar's forehead, but luckily was saved the temptation when she handed me a fresh notepad with a grin. I smiled back and returned to my conversation with the three strange Neopets being traded across Neopia, each with their unique story and experience.
I decided to conclude my interview by asking them each what they thought about trading Neopets in general.
“For some, it is a heart breaking moment,” said the Darigan Aisha. “For others it's an opportunity. It should always be a decision that both the owner and Neopet come to together, not something forced upon anyone. If a Neopet is tired of being traded around, their owners should stop trading them and give them instead to an owner who will keep and love them.”
“People should remember,” added the Faerie Uni, “that not all owners get along with their Neopets perfectly well. Sometimes they just don't get along and that doesn't make them bad or uncaring! Assuming all traded Neopets are miserable just isn't fair to the owners or to the pets.”
“You and your Aisha are good friends,” observed the Island Xweetok with warmth. “I tried at being such a good companion to my owner but it wasn't meant to be. Trading made it possible for me to find another owner more suited to me, and Trading can make it possible for other unhappy Neopets. They should not be robbed of such an opportunity because some people think that once you have a Neopet you have to stick with them forever. There are as many different kinds of Neopets as there are people, you know.”
We left them at the docks of Krawk Island and watched them walk off happily to their new owners and lives, all of them looking happy and chatting about their hopes and dreams together. I can find no better words to close this article than their own, so I leave you here, to consider.
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Tom Nichols can’t think of good reasons that people would carry guns and take an interest in gun policy. That’s telling.
My friend and former colleague Tom Nichols has been going on one of his regularly scheduled Twitter anti-gun rants over the past few days. In his latest, he slammed the “spread of gun worship” among conservatives. That Nichols’s opinions on the subject, which resemble a progressive 17-year-old’s knowledge of American gun culture, get a lot of attention from anti-gun types tells you something about the anti-gun movement: that it, too, has very limited experience with guns and the people who own them.
Among Nichols’s beliefs is that, as he put it this week, conservatives now “measure freedom by how many of us walk around with guns.” He also believes that concealed carry culture is really just “conservative virtue-signaling” as a stand-in for real patriotism, that gun owners “measure [their] sense of worth” by whether or not they are carrying firearms, and that gun “worship” has become a “litmus test” for conservatives, to the detriment of conservatism itself.
It is safe to say that none of this is true. What Nichols advances is a grossly distorted view of American gun culture, one that suggests he either has spoken to zero gun owners about guns or didn’t listen to them when they did speak.
In fact, the people whom Tom is clumsily describing — those of us who carry guns, who take a keen interest in gun policy, and who believe that it is fine for responsible and well-trained gun owners to carry their firearms in public places — do not actually “worship” guns. Nor do we tie these interests and habits into our sense of self-worth and patriotism.
Here is the truth: Guns are many things, and one of the things they are is tools. Like any tool, guns have a good and meaningful application when used properly and correctly, e.g. when they are carried by trained, law-abiding citizens and used for proper defensive and life-saving measures. A good example of that is the recent shooting at the church in White Settlement, Texas, in which an armed parishioner shot and killed a murderous gunman before a rampage could really begin.
Tom calls that scenario a “lucky break.” But this is precisely the point. The vast majority of gun carriers will never have the need to draw their weapons. Virtually none of them (a few blustery dimwits aside) wants to draw his weapon. Tom’s claim that the Right has undergone a “pornification of gun ownership” does not comport with the reality of those gun owners who would be happy to live out their lives without getting in a firefight.
For these gun owners, carrying guns has nothing to do with some base desire to get in a shootout. They carry because they want to be able to protect themselves and other innocent people if an insane murderer decides to start shooting. It’s not rocket science.
Statistics are not on the side of Nichols’s argument. In the past twelve years concealed permits have increased by over 300 percent; homicides, meanwhile, have been dropping since the early 90s, with the murder rate 5.3 percent lower than it was in 2009, at the beginning of the concealed-carry boom. Nichols’s persistent prognostication notwithstanding, the rise of concealed carry has not actually led to more accidental gun deaths, either; such deaths are at historic lows.
There are plenty of other reasons besides self-defense that many Americans enjoy guns: They are fascinating machines, they are fun to shoot for sport, they are both a potent symbol and a practical example of the unique American brand of civic and political freedom. Yes, we like guns. Yes, many people carry firearms for self-defense. No, we do not “worship” guns. Nichols and his friends would do well to get off their sneering Twitter feeds and actually talk to gun enthusiasts at length, as we are not the idiotic slack-jawed trigger-happy cowboys he so desperately wants us to be.
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I forget which year of Obama's reign that he asked the CDC to research guns used in self defense. The resulting info difficult to track did not fit his agenda so it was never made a big deal of but USA Today did report it.
Somewhere between 800,000 and 2,500,000 times a year a gun was used in self defense. This included many times NEVER firing a shot.
Why are we encouraged not to judge all Muslims by the lunatics BUT are encouraged to judge all gun owners by the very few lunatics? Ironic?
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The most common tactic employed by Modern American Liberals while debating any policy issue is to portray any opponent as ignorant, immature, mentally incompetent, or just plain stupid.
In the case of gun control policy there is simply no way for the left to win the debate using facts, so denigrating their opposition is the only way to affect the outcome.
Modern American Liberalism exists as a means for the self-perceived liberal to believe himself/herself superior, morally and intellectually, to the common man. The true danger arises when the MAL decides that because of his superiority he has a duty to control the lives of others (for their own good, of course). The final step comes when the MAL enters politics, where perpetual power can be obtained in exchange for empty promises of utopia.
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Carbon as a material can have many faces and phases! It can bond to itself and other elements, creating a plethora of material types. The structure, topology, chemical, mechanical and optoelectronic properties, all are dependent on the bonding hybridisation between carbon atoms. This allows for a versatile nano-electronic material that can be designed for applications. The continuous demand for higher performance in electronic devices puts pressure on sustainable development and has driven industry to carefully examine optimum design methodology. Design of materials at the nano-scale allows one to optimise performance and increase efficiency. When the wavelength of interest in the case of solar cells and photonic devices are also in the nano-scale, fundamental improvements can be made to the devices in terms of performance and power usage.
In this study we examine the design of four separate electronic technologies, with a view to optimize its performance beyond traditional limits. Firstly, we examine the design of Photo-Thermal Chemical Vapour Deposited (PT-CVD) carbon nanotubes, on substrates held at low temperature. We show how these CNT structures that do not suffer from electromigration can be the next generation of interconects for all ICs in a CMOS compatible platform. Then we examine the use of hybrid organicinorganic structures for high performance X-ray detectors that can be used to overcome attenuation limits associated with photon scattering via the photoelectric effect to give flexible, broadband high sensitivity detectors. Then, the nanoscale design aspect is used to produce features that can mimic moth eye structures to produce some of the most absorbing materials ever manufactured using thin decoupled layers of graphene. Finally, the use of carbon nanotubes to make devices including the world’s darkest buildings – nanoscale design for macroscopic impact. These have significant potential for opto-electronic devices. wearables and if this can be realised at zero cost to the consumer.
Professor Ravi Silva BA MA PhD FREng CEng CPhys FIET FInstP FRSA is a Surrey Distinguished Professor and the Director of the Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) at the University of Surrey. He heads the Nano-Electronics Centre (NEC). Prof. Silva conducted his studies at Cambridge University. His research has resulted in over 600 presentations at international conferences, and over 580 archival journal papers, with a H-index of 70. He has published in Nature, Science, Nature Materials, Advanced Materials, NanoLetters, Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters among the many journals. He is the inventor of 30 patents and two start-up companies. He is the 2014 winner of the J J Thomson Medal from the IET for contributions to electronics, in 2015 the winner of the Platinum Medal from the IOM3, in 2018 the winner of the James Joule Medal from the Institute of Physics and has won numerous international awards for research. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences Sri Lanka.
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LORINC: New residential density plans a small step in right direction
July 18, 2019 | By John Lorinc
Toronto council today took one small step towards a more rational and potentially more equitable residential land use planning policy with a motion, moved by Mayor John Tory and supported by housing czar Ana Bailao, calling for a report on adding density, missing middle forms, and more housing options in the so-called Yellowbelt.
The decision comes as a surprise. In this city’s politics, few policies are as sacrosanct and untouchable as the bevy of regulations and official plan rules designed to protect so-called “stable” neighbourhoods, including the vast expanses of the post-war city where only residential detached homes are permitted. This area, three times the size of Manhattan, has been bleeding population for years, and could benefit from additional density, beyond the grudgingly permitted secondary suites.
It’s possible that torrent of recent editorial pressure (here, here, here, here and here) captured Tory’s attention. Maybe it’s the recent news from places like Minnesota, Seattle, and Oregon – all jurisdictions that have ended single-family zoning in one swift move (Toronto doesn’t have explicit single-family zoning, which was banned several decades ago, but the R and RD zoning is the de facto equivalent). Or perhaps Tory and his colleagues have taken note of reports from Berlin, where city governments have moved aggressively to put the brakes on rent inflation.
Yet I’d like to believe they’ve tuned in to the growing volume of anecdotal evidence of the middle-income people – firefighters, nurses, teachers, and so on – fleeing the city because they can no longer see a way to ford the fiscal Grand Canyon that has opened up between their salaries and house prices, including condos, which are now also beyond the reach of most buyers. The related evidence, which may have also filtered into the second floor of City Hall, comes from the tens of thousands of lower-income Torontonians who have few or no economic choices, and are increasingly consigned to over-crowded, substandard or precarious housing.
Whatever the motivation, today’s vote is about council at least preparing to cross the regulatory Rubicon. The obstacles will be formidable: beyond the predictably tedious eruptions of NIMBYism from residents groups and some councillors, the city will have to sort out how to reconcile the motion’s high level intention with well-established planning policies, especially Official Plan Amendment 320, a sneaky piece of work which doubles down on the rigid protections afforded “character” neighbourhoods.
I have no special insight into what the planning department will come up with when it reports back on the motion in the fall, although if I had to bet, I’d guess we’ll be told the city needs to undertake studies, pilot projects and all the other hesitant gestures that could doom this idea to the death of a thousand small cuts. Lacking the kind of political clout that American mayors enjoy, Tory has little ability to argue for quickly ripping off the band-aid and allowing triplexes, etc., in single-family neighbourhoods across the entire city, as was done in Minneapolis last December.
It’s also critical to say that the policy prescriptions that ultimately emerge should be part of a broader housing strategy, the components of which include strategies for promoting more affordable purpose-built rental, stepped up redevelopment of publicly-owned lands for subsidized or co-op housing, and incentives that tightly tether affordable housing projects with the city’s green building/climate change objective, as is being done in New York City.
The key point is that if council truly wants to tackle Toronto’s housing affordability crisis, then any zoning changes in residential neighbourhoods must be regarded as necessary, but nowhere near sufficient. They begin a conversation about who gets to live where, and why the dubious right to stability that we’ve provided homeowners for so long ensures housing instability for everyone else.
What does an expanded housing affordability policy package look like?
A couple of modest suggestions:
First, if we take the Ford government at its face (which is a big if), then it’s possible to discern an actual tripartite consensus that housing affordability is a big issue, and one that needs to be tackled in new ways.
What I’d like to see is that the city, in cooperation with the two other orders and the school boards, develop a comprehensive inventory of all surplus or under-used public lands which could be set aside permanently for affordable housing instead of sold off to condo or commercial developers. If we’re thinking really ambitiously, the three orders could create a single entity that manages this portfolio.
The case for retaining public ownership as a means of taking capital cost out of a building project is well established, and the city should be leading the push to use these invaluable assets to advance its housing affordability goals. That means determining the right combination of incentives to encourage builders to enter into long-term lease arrangements, and then identifying investors, including non-profits with impact investing goals, that are willing to finance such long term projects.
Second, instead of busying itself with creating overly prescriptive design guidelines for what should be allowed in the Yellowbelt, the planning department should formulate a housing affordability dashboard that allows council and the public to track what is actually happening on the housing affordability/missing middle front.
We have more than enough statistics about real estate prices, rents and condo projects in the pipeline. But there are still giant data voids that prevent decision-makers from understanding whether things are getting better or worse.
A citizen’s group formed to track the progress of council’s Housing Now initiative (10,000 rental units on 11 city owned sites, including 3,700 affordable apartments), although there’s already evidence that some local councillors are aiming to deploy dubious justifications to nit-pick this plan into submission. Cudos to the citizen’s group, but the city’s planning should be doing this kind of public reporting.
What else should go on a dashboard? If the city actually moves to allow more density in residential areas, let’s publicly track the number of duplex, triplex and fourplex applications/approvals, new laneway housing projects (as opposed to global numbers about eligible properties), approval waiting times, conversions (e.g., rooming house to single-family), and so on.
The point of creating such a tool is for council and the public to be able to track progress and make course corrections where necessary.
I’d like to give most members of council the benefit of the doubt, and assume they actually want to find ways to make Toronto more affordable, accessible and equitable. Yet the push for restore a measure of affordability in Toronto will be a long fight fought on multiple fronts, and we’ll all need to know — in ways that go well beyond the anecdotal — whether the city is moving towards its state goals.
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